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VOLUME X, NUMBER 11 JUNE 1, 2017 Trump discussed Iran and more on trip to Israel BY JNS STAFF mentioned Israel during his meeting with He added, “The Arab leaders who (JNS.org) – President Donald Trump Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov you met yesterday could help change the focused on Iran during his meeting with and Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kis- atmosphere and they could help create Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at lyak on May 10 in the Oval Office, where the conditions for a realistic peace. These Jerusalem’s King David Hotel on May he reportedly divulged classified informa- are all great signs on your historic visit.” 22, while also briefly touching on the tion on the Islamic State terror group that In his statement, Trump also men- intelligence situation with Russia. “Iran was provided by Israel. “Never mentioned tioned his stop in Saudi Arabia, saying will never have nuclear weapons, that I it (Israel) during the conversation, they’re the country’s King Salman “really wants can tell you,” Trump told reporters, adding all saying I did, so you (the media) had to see great things happen for the world,” Iran should be “grateful” for the benefits another story wrong. Never mentioned including “a renewed effort at peace be- of the nuclear deal it signed with world the word Israel,” Trump said. tween the Israelis and the Palestinians.” powers in 2015. Netanyahu said he regards U.S.-Israel Referencing his business background, President Donald Trump and Prime “We gave [the Iranians] great wealth intelligence cooperation as “terrific.” He Trump said of an Israeli-Palestinian peace Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in and prosperity,” Trump said. lauded Trump’s “reassertion” of American agreement, “I’ve heard it’s one of the Jerusalem on May 22. (Photo by Amos Trump also waded into the sensitive leadership in the Middle East during joint toughest deals of all, but I have a feeling Ben-Gershom/GPO) subject of the intelligence leak to Russian remarks by the two leaders. “I want you that we’re going to get there eventually, officials earlier in May, saying he never to know how much we appreciate the I hope.” Trump’s visit came after the recent change in American policy on Iran which Trump also made a historic, yet private controversial statements by U.S. officials you enunciated so clearly just an hour visit on May 22 to Jerusalem’s Western regarding the holy site’s status. David ago,” Netanyahu told Trump, referring Wall, becoming the first sitting American Berns, political counselor at the U.S. to comments made on M ay 22, when the president to do so. Trump, who was ac- Consulate in Jerusalem, reportedly told his U.S. president vowed never to allow Iran companied by his wife Melania as well as Israeli counterparts the Western Wall “is to have nuclear weapons. his Jewish daughter Ivanka and son-in-law not in your territory.” The Trump admin- “I want you to know how much we Jared Kushner, was presented with a Book istration quickly disavowed the statement, appreciate your bold decision to act of Psalms containing the inscription of but at a subsequent White House press against the use of chemical weapons in his name by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, conference, National Security Adviser Syria. And I want to tell you also how the rabbi of the Western Wall. Afterward, H.R. McMaster declined to say whether much we appreciate the reassertion of Trump separated from the women in his the U.S. considers the Western Wall as American leadership in the Middle East,” delegation and headed to the men’s section part of Israel, commenting that the matter President Donald Trump at the Western said Netanyahu, who added he sees “a real of the Western Wall, where he stood for “sounds like a policy decision.” Wall on May 22. (Photo courtesy of hope for change” in the region that can several minutes before placing a custom- On May 23, the second day of Pres- YouTube) lead to peace. ary note inside the wall’s cracks. ident Donald Trump’s visit to Israel, a rocket was fired at the Jewish state from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The IDF SPOTLIGHT confirmed the rocket landed in Israeli territory, but in an open area, causing no casualties or damage. During 2016 and Israeli startups are driving the car the beginning of 2017, several rockets were launched at Israel from the Egyptian Sinai by Salafi jihadists affiliated with the technology revolution – here’s how Islamic State terror group. In April, a Grad BY ANDREW TOBIN company Better Place, which in spite of cars are now whirring along roads across rocket struck a greenhouse in Israel’s TEL AVIV (JTA) – Israeli startups its high-profile bankruptcy in May 2013 is the globe, consuming a third as much ener- southern community of Yuval, adjacent were revving their engines ahead of credited with putting Israel’s automotive gy as their gasoline-powered counterparts. to the Egyptian border. In February, the the country’s largest-ever “smart trans- tech scene on the map. The next month, Pulling over to recharge them, however, is Salafis claimed responsibility for firing portation” event. More than 200 local Google bought the Raanana-based map- a buzzkill. So Israeli startups are working several rockets at Israel’s southernmost companies working in transportation ping company Waze for $1 billion. And in See “Car” on page 4 city of Eilat. technology were at the EcoMotion Con- March of this year, Intel agreed to acquire ference in May at the Peres Center for the self-driving car technology power- Peace in Jaffa. The plan was to give auto house Mobileye, located in Jerusalem, for 2017 UJA $908,770 industry giants a look under the hood of a record $15 billion. BMW, Ford, General as of May 24, 2017 “Startup Nation.” Motors, Honda, Uber, Volkswagen and Campaign Update “Companies from around the world Volvo have also invested in Israeli tech- want to see what’s happening in Israel,” nology since 2016. said Lior Zeno-Zamasky, the executive di- Now that they have the world’s atten- WE MADE IT! Goal: rector of EcoMotion, a networking group tion, Israeli entrepreneurs have shifted into $896,000 for transportation technology companies overdrive. According to Zeno-Zamasky, at Our sincerest thanks in Israel that is organizing the conference. least 550 startups now work in the coun- “The idea is ultimately to make deals, and try’s transportation technology industry. to each of you for I can tell you we’ve had a lot of success Here are some of the revolutionary things making this achievement stories in the past.” those attending the fifth annual EcoMotion Israel in recent years has become an conference are trying to make cars do. possible! unlikely center for automotive innovation ‹‹ Run on electricity with little or no – it has no car manufacturing to speak of, charging and the country is notorious for its bad The era of the electric vehicle has of- drivers. It started with the electric car ficially arrived. A couple million plug-in For information or to make a donation call 570-961-2300 ext. 1 or send your gift to: Federation on Facebook Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania The Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania now has a page on Face- 601 Jefferson Ave., Scranton, PA 18510 book to let community members know about upcoming events and keep connected. (Please MEMO your pledge or gift 2017 UJA Campaign) INSIDE THIS ISSUE Candle lighting June 2...... 8:13 pm Class on Six-Day War Hipsters in Brooklyn News from Europe... June 9...... 8:17 pm The JCC and Jewish Discovery A new, progressive Jewish Czech Parliament calls for its June 16...... 8:20 pm Center will offer “Exploring Israel community is growing in Crown gov’t to recognize Jerusalem as PLUS Through the Lens of the Six-Day War.” Heights, Brooklyn. Israel’s capital; and more. Opinion...... 2 Story on page 3 Story on page 6 Story on page 5 D’var Torah...... 8 2 THE REPORTER ■ JUNE 1, 2017 A MATTER OF OPINION College doesn’t turn Jews away from Judaism BY LAURENCE KOHLER-BERKOWITZ likely to keep kosher at home, to refrain special responsibility to Jews in need, to tence of God, less observant of some (JTA) – In a recent analysis of U.S. from handling money on Shabbat, to report say it’s essential to them to be part of a rituals, and less inclined to say religion religious groups, the Pew Research Center that all or most of their close friends are Jewish community and to be emotionally and being Jewish are very important to reported that the most educated American Jewish, and to say that being Jewish is attached to Israel. In addition, they are them. It also appears to weaken Jewish Jews are also the least religious. very important to them. (Note: I analyzed just as likely to attend Jewish religious friendship networks modestly. In these In considering these findings, it’s Jews 30 and older because by that age services monthly or more, to be able to ways, then, education may contribute to tempting to think that secular education most people have either gone to college converse in Hebrew, and, among those assimilation. leads to assimilation among American or decided not to). who are married, to have a Jewish spouse. But taking a broader view of the mul- Jews (I want to be clear that Pew, a tiple connections Jews have to each other leading source of data on contemporary College-educated Jews are more likely than their non-college and Jewish life allows us to see a fuller Jews in the U.S., Israel and globally and educated counterparts to belong to synagogues and other picture. Secular education often has no a non-advocacy fact tank, did not put types of Jewish organizations, to make donations to Jewish relationship to assimilation; Jews with and without college degrees are remarkably forth this reading of the data). The reason causes, to travel to Israel, to hold or attend Passover seders, this might make sense: In a diverse, open similar to each other on numerous Jewish society, education can draw people away and to fast on Yom Kippur. Here, higher education may promote behaviors and attitudes. Meanwhile, those from their particular group and its ways increased Jewish connectivity... not assimilation. with college education are sometimes of life. Highly educated Jews, it seems, more connected to other Jews, Jewish may be more likely to distance themselves These data points may be particularly On these measures, college education and organizations and Jewish life – that is, from some traditional Jewish practices. troubling because secular education has assimilation do not go hand in hand. less assimilated – than those with less But that interpretation would be narrow been one of the prime engines of Jewish The data also show that in some secular schooling. and incomplete. It turns out that sometimes social, political and economic success in circumstances, higher education is as- Higher education, responsible for so secular education is linked to assimilation, America. Could it be that higher education, sociated with connections to other Jews much American Jewish achievement and sometimes to connectivity and sometimes that storied upside of American Jewish and especially to Jewish organizations. vitality, has no consistent, straight-line to neither. life, has a serious downside, too? College-educated Jews are more likely relationship with assimilation. Instead, Using data from its landmark 2013 Fortunately, the answer is no. than their non-college educated counter- its association with assimilation and survey of U.S. Jews, Pew showed that Jewish life is multifaceted. It encom- parts to belong to synagogues and other connectivity varies quite a bit. college-educated Jews are less likely passes religion, ethnicity and culture. It types of Jewish organizations, to make Jews have a quip that conveys the than Jews without a college degree to spans family, local community and global donations to Jewish causes, to travel to complexity of Jewish life: “Jews are just believe in God with absolute certainty and peoplehood. It has attitudinal and behav- Israel, to hold or attend Passover seders, like everyone else, only more so.” As this less likely to affirm that religion is very ioral aspects. By looking further at the and to fast on Yom Kippur. Here, higher example shows, Jews with a college edu- important to them. Partly accounting for Pew survey data, we can see that in many education may promote increased Jewish cation are no exception. The complexity of these differences, Pew noted, are Orthodox cases college education has no association connectivity (which elsewhere I have their lives demands close examination. It Jews, who are more religious and tend to with assimilation. In other cases, higher called cohesion), not assimilation. deserves a rich and nuanced understand- have lower levels of secular schooling education encourages Jewish connectivity, These patterns intensify when non-Or- ing. And it defies easy interpretation. than non-Orthodox Jews. But even when the very opposite of assimilation. thodox Jews are analyzed separately, as I Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Ph.D., is non-Orthodox Jews only are examined, the The data reveal that Jews with and (like Pew) did. Among the non-Orthodox, senior director of research and analysis more educated are less religious. without college degrees display many college education promotes connectivity and director of the Berman Jewish My own analysis of the same survey similar attitudes and behaviors. The two on even more measures and assimilation DataBank, both at the Jewish Federations data confirmed Pew’s findings and more. groups are just as likely to express pride on fewer. of North America. He served as an adviser Jews with a college degree are also less in being Jewish, to have a strong sense of So yes, higher education appears to to the Pew Research Center on its 2013 belonging to the Jewish people, to feel a make Jews less certain about the exis- survey of U.S. Jews. Can Trump’s outside-in formula work? “ The Reporter” (USPS #482) is published bi-weekly by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 601 Jefferson BY JONATHAN S. TOBIN still being raised on antisemitic incitement Saudi peace initiative is a game-changer. Ave., Scranton, PA 18510. JNS.org against Jews. They can’t formalize their In theory, that plan called for complete President: David Malinov Much of the attention being given to ties with Israel so long as the Palestinians Arab recognition for Israel in exchange Executive Director: Mark Silverberg President Donald Trump’s visit to the still seek the Jewish state’s destruction to for a complete withdrawal to the pre-1967 the cheers of the Arab street. lines. But what the Arab states are offering Executive Editor: Rabbi Rachel Esserman Middle East has focused on whether his Layout Editor: Diana Sochor first foreign trip will provide much of a That’s why many serious people believe may actually be a way for them to sideline Assistant Editor: Michael Nassberg distraction from his growing domestic the Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians can the Palestinians and avoid dead-end peace Production Coordinator: Jenn DePersis troubles. But the real substance centers supply the diplomatic muscle to finally talks rather than to jumpstart them. 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The Saudis understand that no matter how much money that depends on the editorials and opinion pieces are those The key to they give the Palestinians, any negotiation that depends on Fatah and Hamas of each author and not necessarily Trump’s foray is an the Fatah and Hamas movements being willing to recognize movements being the views of the Jewish Federation of effort to forge an the legitimacy of a Jewish state and ending the conflict will willing to recognize Northeastern Pennsylvania. “outside-in” break- the legitimacy of a LETTERS The Reporter welcomes through, in which ultimately founder. ... That’s why the Saudis are asking for a Jewish state and end- letters on subjects of interest to the bilateral talks will lot less from Israel than the peace processors thought. Like ing the conflict will Jewish community. 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How Beginning this June, the Scranton Jewish Community “How does an avid Israel-supporter respond to anti-Is- does one explain Zionism?” Center and Jewish Discovery Center will partner to offer rael criticism, where Israel is called an apartheid state, Using newly-produced video clips, the series will a four-week learning series called “Survival of a Nation: undemocratic, oppressive to the Palestinian refugees present segments of the war on the screen, prompting Exploring Israel Through the Lens of the Six-Day War.” and more?” He added, “How does one respond to discussion of the issues of the day. Commemorating 50 years since the Six-Day War, “In ‘Survival of a Nation,’ modern history meets the course invites participants to experience an account contemporary controversy,” explained Dan Cardonick, of what was at the time considered by many to be “Survival of a executive director of the JCC. “The thrilling historic “the most improbable and astonishing victory in all narrative raises questions about the prospect of peace in of military history.” Noted organizers, “One fateful the Middle East that began, or were highlighted during, week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle Nation” outline the Six-Day war and remain unresolved even today.” East; 50 years later, Israel continues to face numerous PART ONE: “LIGHTNING STRIKE” existential threats.” As Arab armies mobilized, Israel faced interna- The course will be open to the public and is designed tional pressure not to launch a preemptive strike. 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Subsequent attempts at ways Israel might protect itself against an enemy that exchanging land for peace have failed to resolve the uses human shields; and the issue of Israel returning issues surrounding these territories. Should Israel hold captured land in exchange for peace. on to them no matter the cost? Is there an authentic Rabbi Sholom Goren, head of the IDF Military Rabbi Benny Rapoport, course instructor and director way to trade land for a lasting and sustainable peace? Rabbinate, sounded the shofar at the Western Wall on of the Jewish Discovery Center, said that people who PART THREE: “ISRAEL IN PERSPECTIVE” June 7, 1967. (Photo courtesy of the Israeli Government care deeply about Israel often struggle for ways to The Six-Day War is said to have had “a profound Press Office) impact” on Diaspora Jewry. In its immediate aftermath, waves of new immigrants arrived in the Jewish state, while others are said to have experienced a spiritual reawakening. 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ÊCheck out the Federation’s new, updated website at www.jewishnepa.org or find it on Facebook 4 THE REPORTER ■ JUNE 1, 2017 BOOK REVIEW Refugees before and after the war BY RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN in the spring of 1941, focuses on three he’s carrying these details around with him he felt, that took him over as he walked Innocent Americans: that’s what Jew- outsiders living in Utica, NY: Abe Auer, all day, sealed off from the rest of him. It out of the city and into the hinterlands, ish refugees called their U.S. brethren, who emigrated from Europe years ear- was like a bag of gravel he lugged on his an act of cowardice and self-preservation at least according to two recent novels. lier and is a successful businessman; back, grinding him lower, slowing him and one he was ashamed to say he never However, while “The Houseguest” by Ana Breidler, the title character and a down. It was important to be informed, doubted. There was good to be done Kim Brooks (Counterpoint) is set before refugee from Europe who is housed by everyone agreed, but what was one to do in Utica. It was modest and small. He Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into Abe and his American-born wife, Irene; with the information – that was another thought that if he couldn’t save Jewish World War II, “Among the Living” by and Rabbi Max Hoffman, who doesn’t fit question.” Abe’s reaction is to disconnect lives, then maybe he could change them, Jonathan Rabb (Other Press) opens two into the community for reasons revealed from family life, including his daughter’s help make sense of them despite the in- years after the fighting stops. The former late in the novel. Abe is currently having upcoming wedding. decipherable heap of his own.” Yet, when novel focuses on U.S. Jews’ attempts to difficulty focusing because of the news Although Max once worked for ref- once again asked to help, Max can’t stop save those still in Europe, while the latter coming from Europe: “Just today he’d ugee organizations, he left that work to himself from working to save the Jews portrays a refugee’s adjustment to life in read about thousands of Jews from the protect himself: he sometimes thinks of of Europe, even as he realizes all action the American South. town of Jassy, Rumania – men, women and those years, of “the exhaustion and frus- may be too late. “The Houseguest,” which begins children – shot in front of a ditch. Then tration and loneliness and uselessness that See “Refugees” on page 12

Car Continued from page 1 on ways to make the pit stops faster and Audi on “smart antennae” and started less frequent – or even unnecessary. selling to car equipment manufacturers. Tel Aviv-based StoreDot claims to be In March, it raised $30 million in fund- developing an electric vehicle battery that ing, touting its chips’ compliance with a can be recharged in five minutes – that’s rule proposed by the U.S. Department of compared to the hours that are typically Transportation in December that would required today. The company says a sin- mandate the use of vehicle-to-vehicle gle charge would run a car for about 300 communication in new cars. The depart- miles – farther than almost any electric ment estimated the rule could prevent vehicle now on the market and nearly as more than half a million accidents and a much as a gasoline-powered car. StoreDot thousand U.S. deaths every year. recently demonstrated proof of the concept As cars become more connected, on a single battery cell, and previously Herzliya-based otonomo wants to bring recharged a smartphone in 30 seconds. driver and passenger services – from apps Electroad thinks its can do away with to roadside help – via its cloud-based plugs altogether. At its headquarters in marketplace. It has deals with nine auto- Caesarea, the company has developed an A simulation of cars using Autotalks’ vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. makers, but as usual, consumers will pay under-the-pavement wireless technology (Screenshot from YouTube) with their data, which otonomo allows that recharges electric vehicles while they automakers to sell. drive. With “inductive charging,” vehicles And the company is working with Intel funding. If all goes well, it anticipates While Autotalks and otonomo provide can carry lighter, less expensive batteries – and others to roll out a test fleet of 40 seeing its product on the road by 2020. By their own security, Argus Cybersecurity and never have to stop to recharge. Israel’s self-driving vehicles later this year. But then, some analysts predict, there will be designs systems to protect the electronics government is working with Electroad to car vision is still far from 20/20, and some 10 million self-driving cars in operation. that control a vehicle’s basic functions build a half-mile public bus route in Tel Israeli startups apparently think they can The Mobileye group has set the fol- from hackers. The Tel Aviv company Aviv using its technology. If the planned do better. Innoviz Technologies, located lowing year, 2021, as the target for its does this by analyzing the data that come 2018 launch goes well, there are plans in Kfar Saba, and Vayavision, from Or technology to take the wheel. in and out of a vehicle’s communications for more routes, starting with an 11-mile Yehuda, are both developing their own ‹‹ Talk to each other and the world systems, which is otherwise highly vul- shuttle between the city of Eilat and the lidar laser systems, which use light and The cars of the future will commu- nerable. Argus CEO Ofer Ben-Noon came Ramon International Airport in the south. radar to determine distance. nicate to avoid crashes and ease traffic up with the idea while serving in Israel’s ‹‹ Navigate by “sight” Meanwhile, Oryx Vision promises jams. Experts predict some cars will elite 8200 intelligence unit. Mobileye provides most of the world’s “nano antenna” sensors that perform 50 have this ability within a year or two, and For those attached to their regular old driver-assistance technology. That in- times better and cost much less than the the technology will be commonplace in car, but fed up with driving it, IVO Driver cludes the sensors – mainly cameras, technologies used by Mobileye. Last self-driving cars within a decade. Robot has a solution: a robot that can drive lidar lasers and radar – and computing October, the Petach Tikvah-based startup Headquartered in Kfar Netter, Auto- for you. So far, the robot has mostly driven power that cars need to “see” the road. raised $17 million in its first round of talks is making chip sets that can link a golf cart-style buggy around a parking vehicles not just to each other, but also lot at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, to infrastructure and people. The semi- where it is being developed. But a new and To get Federation updates via email, conductor company has collaborated with improved version is in the works. rregister on our website Jewish Federation of NEPA www.jewishnepa.org

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Send Dassy Ganz an email if you would like to join the list. [email protected] JUNE 1, 2017 ■ THE REPORTER 5 NEWS IN BRIEF FROM EUROPE Scranton Reporter 5 x 15 7/8 From JTA Wyoming Valley 5 x 15 7/8 Czech Parliament resolution calls for recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital The Czech Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution calling on the country’s gov- ernment to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. A majority of lawmakers voted for the measure on May 23 ahead of the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, the Czech news agency CTK reported. The report did not include the text of the resolution, which also did not appear in the relevant section of the website of the Czech Parliament. According to CTK, the resolution states that the Czech government should advocate a position respecting Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and impede steps that distort historical facts and are motivated by an anti-Israeli hateful approach. 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Effective immediately, please send all articles & ads to our new E-mail address, [email protected]. 6 THE REPORTER ■ JUNE 1, 2017 A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory BY BEN SALES Indian and African-American communi- amid a lower-income population that could benefit from NEW YORK (JTA) – Soon after Necha- ties, Crown Heights has been Chabad’s community service, Greenberg said. Since then, it has ma Levy moved to Brooklyn five years ago, base since the group escaped Europe in engaged in services like emergency food relief, help she opened a bicycle repair shop. The spa- 1940. According to the UJA-Federation with food stamps and afterschool tutoring. But along cious, high-ceilinged store was just down of New York’s 2011 study, some 24,000 with hosting space for community advocacy groups, the the street from a new pub with exposed Jews lived in the neighborhood – about a organization’s office has increasingly been a meeting brick walls. Like many who have moved fifth of its residents – with residents saying place for the neighborhood’s growing ecosystem of recently to the rapidly gentrifying borough, the number has since risen. independent minyans. While Chabad is known for its Levy, 33, was drawn to the area’s relatively The neighborhood is most infamously outreach to non-Orthodox Jews, its approach to obser- cheap rents – at least back then – plus its known for the 1991 riots in which black vance is traditionalist Orthodox. Independent minyans bicycling culture. demonstrators attacked Jewish residents tend to emphasize progressive ideas like gender equality Levy also ensconced herself in one of after a black child died when he was struck and LGBT rights. Kings County’s Jewish trends: a curated, by a car in the motorcade of the Chabad Though there have been some hiccups along the way artisanal type of liberal Judaism. Like much rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. – some members of the Chabad community objected of brownstone Brooklyn, her neighborhood Nechama Levy, who A visiting yeshiva student was killed and to a modern Orthodox synagogue erecting an eruv, a has a growing galaxy of independent prayer participates in a few Crown several people were injured. symbolically enclosed area that allows observant Jews groups, or minyans – one of which Levy Heights independent Today the neighborhood might be better to carry objects on Shabbat – the fracas has blown over. herself founded, the Brooklyn Women’s prayer groups, is involved known for its rapid gentrification, following Both Chabadniks and the newer Jewish arrivals say their Chavurah, a women-led service. in another Brooklyn trend: the path of nearby neighborhoods like Park communities get along, even if they mostly operate apart. But what makes her growing Jewish Her bike shop, Bicycle Slope, where rents rose nearly 50 percent “The community somehow becomes more cohesive, it community unique is that it’s on the home Roots, is also in the between 1990 and 2014, or Williamsburg, becomes more accepting,” said Dov Alpert, a co-founder turf of Chabad, perhaps the most visible neighborhood. (Photo where the increase for that period was of Kavod. “Here, everyone is trying to be more nice and friendly. That’s the M.O. – trying to be nice.” Chasidic Orthodox group in the world. courtesy of Levy) close to 80 percent, according to a study Welcome to the new progressive Jewish by New York University’s Furman Center. Sometimes the two communities cooperate. Mor- community growing in Crown Heights. The study put Crown Heights among the city’s top 15 dechai Lightstone, who runs Chabad’s social media, Less than a half-mile away from Chabad Lubavitch’s gentrifying neighborhoods. invites independent minyan goers to his home for meals global headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway, is the lo- Independent minyans are a reflection of the spirit that and, outside of his official Chabad role, sits on Repair cal office of Repair the World, a progressive Jewish has made Brooklyn home to hipster trends like matcha the World’s young leadership board. “When you speak community service group. The Brooklyn Women’s cafes and organic food markets. Crown Heights is one of young Jews, the intersectionality of Jewish identity Chavurah has met there monthly for the past year. of the latest frontiers in that process of gentrification, has shifted,” Lightstone said. “They no longer say I go Now, Levy has downscaled the group as a coed egali- with rents rising and new yuppie arrivals moving into to just this thing. They’ll go to Repair the World and tarian service, Keter, that started up recently in Crown lower-income minority neighborhoods. do social justice stuff and then they express themselves Heights. Other liberal groups in the neighborhood “The reality of Crown Heights today is that it’s a vi- Jewishly, but when they want a Shabbat meal they go to include Kavod, a quasi-egalitarian Orthodox minyan, brant, alive, Caribbean-American and African-American Ari Kirschenbaum or go to me.” Kirschenbaum heads and Grindr Shabbat, an LGBT minyan named after community,” said Cindy Greenberg, Repair the World’s Chabad Heights, a synagogue and community center the gay dating app. New York City director, noting the neighborhood’s serving Brownstone Brooklyn. “There’s a very independent spirit here,” Levy said “small-town feel.” But at the same time, she said, “I Ben Weiner, a fellow at Repair the World, welcomes about the neighborhood. “Not only were there a number think a lot of the newcomers feel uneasy about what it the Chabad teenagers who come to his office on Fridays of spaces that attracted very wonderful people, but there means to move into a predominantly African-American, asking if he wants to put on tefillin. On a Friday before was an ethos of ‘What do you have to offer, and what Caribbean-American neighborhood and know that they’re Passover, after laying the ritual leather straps on his arm, can you create?’” part of the wave of gentrification that’s caused all these Weiner invited the teenagers to volunteer at a Repair Located in central Brooklyn, Crown Heights is prices to rise.” the World event that educated local children – Jewish a tranquil yet vibrant neighborhood lined with the Repair the World opened its Crown Heights office two and non-Jewish – about the holiday. The teens agreed. borough’s iconic brownstones. Home to large West years ago precisely to recruit young Jews to volunteer See “Hipster” on page 10

Scholar-In-Residence Weekend for Temple Israel of Scranton – June 9 - 11 Friday night: Services (5:45 PM) followed by Shabbat Dinner (RSVP/charge); Open to the community (those who are not members of a synagogue) $40/person, $75/couple Lecture - "The History of the Black Jewish Movement in America" Shabbat day: Services (9:30 AM) followed by Shabbat Lunch (RSVP/no charge); Lecture - "Emerging Jewish Communities in Africa" Sunday morning: Brunch, sponsored by Temple Israel Sisterhood (RSVP/no charge), @ 10 AM; Lecture - Manhattanville Coffee, opened two years ago, merges . For the Fri. night dinner, the cost for the "My Sacred Journey to Judaism" two of Crown Heights’ communities: It’s a chic artisanal 2. For the Sun. morning Brunch, cost for the Open to the community (those who are not members of a synagogue) $10/person cafe with strict kosher certification. (Photo by Ben Sales) • Rabbi Funnye • Capers C. Funnye, Jr. is rabbi and spiritual leader of Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, located in Chicago, IL at 6601 S. Kedzie Avenue. Rabbi Funnye also serves as a Senior Research Associate for the Institute of Jewish and Community Research, located in San Francisco, CA. Rabbi Funnye earned a Bachelor of Arts in Hebrew Literature and rabbinic ordination from the Israelite Board of Rabbis, Inc., Queens, NY. Rabbi Funnye also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jewish Studies and Master of Science in Human Service Admin- istration from Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL. Rabbi Funnye has served as a consultant to several institutions, including The Du Sable Museum of African American History, The Chicago Historical Society, The Spertus Museum of Judaica, all located in Chicago, IL; The Black Holocaust Museum, located in Milwau- kee, WI; Institute for Jewish and Community Research, San Francisco, CA and the Afro-Ameri- can Museum, located in Los Angeles, CA. Rabbi Funnye has lectured at numerous universities, synagogues, churches and various com- munity organizations throughout the United States. He has appeared on several national and local television programs, and spoken on numerous radio programs both national and local. Rabbi Funnye is involved in a number of boards in the Jewish community; The Chicago Board of Rabbis, Jewish Council on Urban A airs, Akiba Schechter Jewish Day School and Vice Presi- dent of the Israelite Board of Rabbis. Rabbi Funnye is married and he and his wife Mary have four children and are the proud grandparents of eight grandsons and three granddaughters. Rabbi Funnye is available for lectures and discussion groups JUNE 1, 2017 ■ THE REPORTER 7 Save the Date!

ea Ia Pad Sunday, June 4, 2017 This year’s theme: Celebrate Israel All Together! 8 THE REPORTER ■ JUNE 1, 2017 D’VAR TORAH Sharing blessings BY RABBI PEG KERSHENBAUM, CONGREGA- more spiritual blessing and the last to a synthesis of the TION B’NAI HARIM OF THE POCONOS material and the spiritual “Yisa Adonai panav eilecha Naso, Numbers 4:21-7:89 v’yasem l’cha shalom,” “shalom” meaning wholeness, I’m sure that many of you have sent or received get not only “peace.” But we’ll leave that for another time. well cards throughout the years. Or, maybe you’ve added How are we to be blessings? By sharing what we “Drive safely!” to your good-bye hugs as your guests have: our wealth, our time, our talent and skills, our love. depart. We do it all the time. When we speak of sharing blessings, we do not speak A while ago, my aunt and I were talking about a res- only of sharing when we have a superabundance. There’s ident from her rehab facility who had been carted off to a wry story set in the time when the former Soviet Union the hospital. I suggested that one of the things that the was still the U.S.S.R.. A party worker stood in Red Square activities leader might do is have a get well card project. and asked a Muscovite, “Comrade, If you had two hous- I was stunned at her response. She asserted that she hates es, wouldn’t you share one with your poor comrades?” these canned cards ordering her to get well. If she could Muscovite: “Yes of course.” get well, doggone it, don’t you think she would? How CPW: “And if you had two cars, you would share dare people say that? She didn’t seem to care that “get one with the state?” well” or “feel better soon” or even “drive carefully” or M: “Certainly.” “have fun” are not commands, but rather good wishes CPW: “Good! And if you had two shirts, wouldn’t or even prayers. It sounded like someone was telling you share one with your neighbor?” her what to do. M: “Nyet.” This Torah portion contains the quintessential Jewish CPW: “No? Why not?” blessing Birkat Kohanim, the Kohanic blessing, because M: “I have two shirts.” it was to be invoked by the Kohanim, the priests of We speak of people who would “give you the shirt the Children of Israel. Even today, in more traditional off their back” even if they had but the one shirt. Our synagogues, those who are from Kohanic families are poor Muscovite was waiting for the day that he’d have called up to bless the congregation at a certain part of unimaginable riches and then he’d share. But in the the service in a ceremony called duchanin (getting up meantime – the “mean time” – he’d keep his treasure, on the platform). his blessings, to himself. If, like my aunt, you read this prayer literally, it is Do you remember the story of stone soup, in which quite audacious. For the Hebrew may be construed, inhabitants of a town were unwilling to share what they “Adonai will bless you and keep you; Adonai will shine had? To some extent they did not share because they felt the divine countenance on you and be gracious to you; that what they had, a limp carrot or a half blackened Adonai will lift up the divine countenance on you and potato, was just not good enough. Never good enough. grant you peace.” That is rather chutzpadik, don’t you But when you are able to share what little you do have, think? How can even the original Kohanim make such that little makes a great difference. a claim, that God will do what they say? Don’t wait until you are rich enough or skilled enough Let’s look at this a little more closely. or old enough, famous or well-dressed or strong enough. Like the English “get well” wish, the Hebrew may You are already good enough to be a blessing and good be read in two ways: as a future telling us what God enough to be cherished. will do, or as a sort of potential possibility – May Y’varechecha Adonai v’yishm’recha: May the Lord con- Adonai bless and keep you. Many actions in biblical tinue to bless you and keep you. May you share your bless- Hebrew can have one or the other of these meanings. ings with your family, your friends and your community. The context usually gives a good idea of which way of speaking should be understood. There are more ways to understand this triple – or maybe even six-fold – blessing. If we take the first verse as a model, we might understand, “May the Lord bless you so that the Lord may keep you.” May the Lord do this so that the Lord may also do the next thing. That would show a connection between one part of the sentence and the next. That would make us stop and think, “What is the “Tenement Chic on the connection between blessing and keeping? What is the Upper East Side” connection between shining a face and being gracious? The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy Or lifting a face and bringing peace or wholeness?” will hold the “Tenement Chic on the Upper Deeper than all this is the question, what does it mean East Side: An Ornamental Architecture to bless, to be blessed and to be a blessing? How does Walking Tour” on Sunday, June 11, at 10:45 am. Urban our understanding of the scope of baruch, or b’rachah, historian Barry Feldman will discuss the architecture blessed or blessing, change when we speak of God issu- of the Upper East Side, including the different types ing the blessing to us and our saying blessings to God? of ornamentation, which features botanicals, mythical We’re told in Genesis that Abraham and all his progeny beasts, garish grotesques and ornate cornices. – that is, you and I and all of Abraham’s descendants – Walkers will meet at the southwest corner of 1st Avenue are to go forth to be a blessing and a byword for blessing and 81st Street. The cost is $24. There is an additional $2 among our neighbors wherever we settle. charge the day of tour. For more information or to register, The word “bless” in Hebrew is built on the same root visit www.nycjewishtours.org/ or call 212-374-4100. as the word for “knee.” It may have something to do with symbolically representing the one who is blessed Nadine Epstein on exhibit as the one before whom you’d bend your knee, showing Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion that the blessed one is in a sense greater – since you are Museum in New York City is holding the exhibit “In a crouching with bent knee. Or it could be that the blessed Woman’s Shadow: A Visual Essay,” featuring photographs one is sitting down – a very good way to show off that by journalist Nadine Epstein, at its Jules Backman Gallery one has knees. If one is sitting, one is not working. In through June 30. On a reporting trip to Ukraine in 2008, the ancient world, and in our contemporary world, too, Epstein was inspired by her seeing her shadow on the land not working is a sign that you’ve got it made. One has that her ancestors once walked and created her iShadow a lap into which luxury has fallen! As a matter of fact, Project. “In a Woman’s Shadow: A Visual Essay,” high- some of our commentators say that the first part of the lights some of her shadow photographs set against various Birkat Kohanim refers to material possessions. If the pilgrimage sites and natural landscapes. The photographer Lord blesses us, we are both more valuable and more seeks to create a visual dialogue that includes the viewer. in need of protection. For more information, visit huc.edu/museums/ny or Those same commentators suggest that the next verse, contact the museum at [email protected] or 212- “Ya-eir adonai panav eilecha v’chuneka,” refers to a 824-2218. JUNE 1, 2017 ■ THE REPORTER 9 Deciphering the past Evidence of battle of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago unveiled BY JNS STAFF was revealed in the field in a clear and chilling manner,” (JNS.org) – Amid the celebrations making the 50th said Nahshon Szanton and Moran Hagbi, directors of the anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification the week of May IAA excavation, in a joint statement. 24, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Israel Nature “Stone ballista balls fired by catapults, used to bom- and Parks Authority unveiled evidence of the battle of bard Jerusalem during the Roman siege of the city, were Jerusalem that took place before the destruction of the discovered in the excavations. Arrowheads, used by Second Temple 2,000 years ago. the Jewish rebels in the hard-fought battles against the Arrowheads and stone ballista balls fired by catapults Roman legionnaires, were found exactly as described were uncovered on the main road that ascended from the by Josephus,” the directors added. city’s gates and the Pool of Siloam to the Jewish Temple, the IAA said on May 25. The artifacts, excavated with the financial support of the City of David Society, tell the story of the final battle between the Roman army and Jewish rebels that ended with the destruction of the At right: Stone ballista balls that were discovered in Second Temple and the rest of ancient Jerusalem, events the archaeological excavation providing evidence of that are described by historian Flavius Josephus. the battle of Jerusalem that was fought 2,000 years “Josephus’ descriptions of the battle in the lower city ago. (Photo by Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel come face-to-face for the first time with evidence that Antiquities Authority) Ancient fire-making stone discovered in Israel as Lag B’Omer bonfires flared BY JNS STAFF Age prepared these thick slabs of limestone with (JNS.org) – Coinciding with the May 14 Lag two indentations. Some thought that we might B’Omer holiday and its celebrations marked with have discovered a primitive board game, but bonfires across Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority according to researchers from the Hebrew Uni- revealed the recent discovery of an ancient stone slab versity in Jerusalem, the slabs were used to ignite used to ignite fires. fire,” Eirich-Rose said, adding, “The mechanism The stone was discovered about a week before enabled the user to rotate a tree branch in the in- the Lag B’Omer festivities in an archaeological dentations at a very high speed, which combined dig 25 miles from Jerusalem, near Ramat Beit with a flammable material inside the indentation, Shemesh. The dig was funded by Israel’s National would lead to ignition.” Transport Infrastructure Company, and was part Ten similar stones used for making fires, from the of preparations for infrastructure work on one of same era, are housed at the IAA’s National Treasures Israel’s main roads. Department. The rare 9,000-year-old stone is an “extraor- Other items discovered during the dig included dinary find,” said excavation manager Anna Ei- A 9,000-year-old stone slab, recently discovered in Israel, that flint tools, animal bones and a fragment from a rich-Rose. “The ancient people of the New Stone was used to ignite fires. (Photo by Israel Antiquities Authority) bracelet. You Lif – You Legac... Wha ’ i You Hear

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Hipster Continued from page 6 “Whenever I’m around, I like to have them wrap tefillin There’s no pressure around someone being too religious different. That’s the nature of any startup effect. I do and engage the conversation to get a little view into what or someone not being religious.” wonder about the sustainability of this community. It’s their community does and what they believe in,” said Wein- Still, the newer communities are experiencing some expensive. What’s the model? Is the model to have like er, 23, a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. growing pains. Residents recognize not all the minyans lots of different minyanim, piecemeal?” “I wasn’t sure they would come. I was really happy they can survive. Levy, the bike shop owner, wonders how The leadership of groups are in transition – Reform did, and were willing to give that additional perspective, much the Women’s Chavurah will stay active now that rabbinical student Matt Green, for example, who founded knowing that different customs would be taught that day.” a new egalitarian Saturday morning service has popped Grindr Shabbat, has shifted his focus to a new project: Young Jews who are new to Crown Heights say the up. Rising prices in Crown Heights, along with the tran- Brooklyn Jews, a service with musical instruments – pro- neighborhood’s diversity and open attitude makes them sience of prayer groups without physical infrastructure, hibited in traditional Shabbat services – and non-kosher feel free to express themselves spiritually. “It was the first make the future of all the groups tenuous, said Avishai food. “There are an extensive number of non-traditional time I experienced a Jewish community that I felt a part Gebler, one of Keter’s organizers. Jews, secular Jews, Jews that appreciate a guitar on of, that reflected my social justice values and religious Plus, he said, while the young liberal Jewish com- Shabbat,” Green said of his Brooklyn Jews, which draws values,” said Malkah Nadoff, 27, a Chicago native who munity is active, it’s not all that big. Most of the groups close to 100 people at some meetings. moved to Crown Heights in 2014. “One thing that stands draw a few dozen people. “We talk about the growth of Lightstone said the gentrification that’s come along out to me is that there are people with different levels the community – we’re talking about 30 people – but with the new arrivals has made conditions difficult for of observance that share community and share space. it’s growing,” Gebler said. “As things grow, it does feel longstanding Crown Heights families. But he added that if the newcomers engage with existing residents, and get to know their cultures, they are welcome in the neighborhood. “I don’t think anyone is doing something wrong by moving here,” he said. “If you’re moving to Legacies For Life Program Crown Heights and have a respect for people here before you, and you have the history they have, as long as you Lewis and Gerry Sare’s charitable giving in establishing a do that, you’re doing the best you can.” $100,000 Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (P.A.C.E.) 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Jack Benny. the film are Patricia Morrison, cludes multiple Emmy Award does every morning is pick up the paper Fibber McGee and Molly.” 101, who starred in the original winner Norman Lear and and read the obituary section to check The book – tentatively titled “Carl productions of “Kiss Me Kate” longtime buddy Mel Brooks. if he’s named there. “If I’m not, I’ll Reiner Alive at 95 Recalling Movies and “The King and I”; comic If not reflective about the have my breakfast,” or so he says in the He Loved” – is one of several recent- actress Betty White, 95; and Bronx, Reiner is more than charming and appropriately titled HBO ly published or in the works in his fashion icon Iris Apfel, 94. willing to talk about his 67- documentary “If You’re Not in the Obit, crowded pipeline. These include a “People ask me where I get year friendship with Brooks. Eat Breakfast.” newly released children’s book, “You my vitality,” Apfel says, “and “Mel and I go back to 1950, the Then the 95-year-old actor, writer Say God Bless You for Sneezing and to tell you the truth, I don’t first day I came to the ‘Show and director, the creator of the “Dick Farting,” and the forthcoming memoir have a clue.” of Shows,’” he says, recalling Van Dyke Show” – “my greatest “Too Busy to Die.” A funny bone is one thing the 90-minute variety show achievement,” he tells JTA – goes Staying busy is one of the bromides that almost all the people Carl Reiner in the featuring Sid Caesar and Imo- to his computer to work on his latest offered in the the heartwarming HBO interviewed had in common. HBO documentary gene Coca. “I was hired as an project, a book. In fact, that’s what he film Reiner hosts. The idea for “If You’re For example, the late Fyvush “If You’re Not actor, to be a straight man for was doing when a reporter calls to talk Not in the Obit” percolated from an Finkel – who was 92 when he in the Obit, Eat Sid. Mel was in the office. He about the film and their shared genesis obituary Reiner read for actress Polly was interviewed in 2015 – says, Breakfast.” (Photo wasn’t on the [show’s] writing in the Bronx (and not necessarily in Bergen, who died in 2014 at age 84. “It “There’s nothing more boring courtesy of HBO) staff yet. He was working for that order). scared the bejeebers out of me,’ he says than a clean old man.” Sid, giving him jokes. I came Reiner, however, is not entirely in a in the film. Kirk Douglas, 100, speaks about how in and didn’t know who he was. But reflective mood and dismisses the invita- The obit, Reiner goes on, stayed with his wife urged him to go on the road Mel was standing there doing a Jewish tion to reminisce. “You know,” he says, him. “How come we got the extra years with a one-man show to show how he pirate, saying, ‘You don’t know how “I wrote three books about growing up and we’re thriving?’ he wondered. was recovering from a stroke. “What hard it is to set sail. It’s $3.87 for a yard in the Bronx.’ So at the suggestion of his nephew, does an actor who can’t talk wait for? of sail cloth. I can’t afford to pillage Instead, he quickly brings the conver- the producer George Shapiro, Reiner Silent pictures to come back?” he asks. and plunder anymore.’ So I just started sation into the present. “It’s funny you set out to find what keeps some old They also shared a zest for life, interviewing him, and I just interviewed mention the [Loew’s] Paradise [Theater people young. For example, he visits a joie de vivre. Among those inter- him for the next 10 years.” on the Grand Concourse]. While we’re 102-year-old Ida Keeling, who does viewed were 93-year-old Harriette The pirate warped into the 2,000 Year talking, I’m working with a graphic push-ups and jogs daily. She started Thompson, the oldest woman ever to Old Man – a routine they performed at designer,” he says. “We’re putting to- running at 67 to overcome depression finish a marathon, and Jim “Pee-Wee” parties and made a private recording gether a book of posters of movies that resulting from the drug-related murders Martin, who fought in D-Day and still “for our non-antisemitic friends,” Reiner influenced me as I was growing up. of her two sons. parachutes today. quips. “Cary Grant loved it and asked The film doesn’t provide a definitive if he could have a dozen records. He answer to living a long life. “I think it’s was going to England and wanted it for partly your genes,” Reiner says. “Also, his trip. You know they speak English it’s your environment. Also, if you have there. When he got back he said, ‘She a funny bone; if you grew up in a family loved it.’ We asked, ‘Who?’ and he said, with a sense of humor.” ‘the Queen Mother,’ he says. What an For Reiner, at least, religion or spir- endorsement. The biggest shiksa in the ituality hasn’t played much of a role in world loved it.” his longevity. He didn’t attend Hebrew Reiner and Brooks became insepara- school growing up. “I got a bootleg bar ble buddies, an intense friendship that mitzvah,” he says. “An old Jew taught me continues to this day. Reiner says that just enough to sneak by.” what helped cement their relationship Reiner’s spirituality hasn’t increased was that their wives, Estelle Reiner and much with age – his belief in a higher Anne Bancroft, got along. Bancroft, an power was a casualty of World War II. “Six Academy Award-winning actress, died million people died in the Holocaust and in 2005, and Estelle Reiner passed away six million others yelling to God, ‘Please in 2008. “It was easy; it was a foursome,” stop this...,’ and He didn’t.” Reiner says. “Mel still comes over al- Reiner does, however, point to family most every night. We watched ‘Captain and friendships as an important aspect Blood’ yesterday.” of achieving old age, noting in the film, Who decides what to watch? “We talk Mel Brooks, left, and Norman Lear, center, with Carl Reiner in “If You’re Not in “The key to longevity is to interact with it over,” he explains. “We’ll see anything the Obit, Eat Breakfast.” (Photo courtesy of HBO) other people.” on that’s worth a look.”

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12 THE REPORTER ■ JUNE 1, 2017 Refugees Continued from page 4 Ana’s story, which is not that of a typical refugee, is South becomes clear to Ike after he offers his hand slowly revealed over the course of the novel. In addition to to Raymond, a black man who works for Abe. Ray- being an actress with a flair for the dramatic, Ana doesn’t mond tells him “it’s awful kind of you giving me your conform to what her hosts and others in the community hand... Mr. Ike, but maybe you shouldn’t be doing think is her appropriate role. Abe recognizes this, noting that no more.” When a black man is injured due to Summer events at Yiddish that this “was the problem with good intentions. People Abe’s actions, Ike sits with another black character Book Center expect things for their generosity: a future favor, a pat and learns the hard truth about southern life: “They had never spoken about the war, about anything be- The Yiddish Book Center announced its cal- on the back, a grateful refugee who knows how to take fore Savannah. [Ike] had told himself that there had endar of spring and summer events. All events a quick shower” when a group of synagogue members been no need. They knew each other, knew the shared will take place at the Center, 1021 West St., Amherst, MA. gather to welcome her. Yet, Ana has no interest in being silences to their core. Now [Ike] saw how naive that For more information or to purchase tickets, call 413-256- a model guest. had been. There was a ranking, even to victims, and 4900 or visit yiddishbookcenter.org/events. Events include: Abe, Max and Ana hold secrets that explain parts of their behavior, although some of what they do surpris- severity had no cause against time.” Ike must now ‹‹ Film: “The Green Park” (2015) on Sunday, June 4, at consider his role in that oppression. 2 pm. One hundred years of Jewish history told through es themselves and others. “The Houseguest” contains To complicate matters, someone Ike knew in Europe the windows of The Green Park, a kosher hotel that powerful and difficult scenes, including one between unexpectedly re-enters his life. This forces him to confront opened in 1943 on the British Riviera. Abe and Irene that is stark and moving. However, the most difficult sections focus on what Jewish groups did how much he owes the past. Should he be allowed to ‹‹ Films: “Breakfast at Ina’s” (2015) and “A Reuben by find the happiness that comes from a new beginning, or Any Other Name” (2010) on Sunday, June 18, at 2 pm. Ina and didn’t do to help Jewish refugees escape Europe. must he pay homage to his early life – a life he wants to Pinkney fed Chicagoans for 33 years, first out of a small At least one section is based on reality: the inability of leave behind? Ike recognizes that his decisions are not bakery, then from her breakfast nook in the West Loop. American Jews to help the passengers on the real-life only based on what occurred during the Holocaust. Ike When Pinkney began suffering the effects of post-polio German ocean liner, the St. Louis, that was sent back to knows “how easy life would be... to blame [the problems] syndrome, she decided to close her doors. “Breakfast at Europe after Cuba, the U.S. and other countries refused on his past.... How much more of a shock to admit that Ina’s” offers a glimpse into her life while chronicling the to let its Jewish refugees land on their soil. this reticence, his numbness, had been his long before last days of the restaurant. “A Reuben by Any Other Name” While “The Houseguest” focuses on the Jewish situ- the camp and that, perhaps, his survival was simply is a look at the differences between Orthodox and Reform ation in the North, “Among the Living” offers a look at proof that such detachment had its own worth.” Yet, Judaism, seen through the differences between the New the American South. When Holocaust survivor Yitzhak once detachment disappears, the resulting emotions can York and Los Angeles versions of the Reuben sandwich. Golden arrives in Savannah, GA, in 1947, he discovers that adjusting to American life might not be quite as be painful, joyous or a confusing mix of both. ‹‹ Exhibit: “Beyond the Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern “Among the Living” is an absorbing, moving work Europe, 2004-12,” through October 15, a photographic simple as he expected. His first inkling occurs upon that will make readers care deeply about its characters. series looking at the renewal of Jewish life in Eastern meeting his cousin Abe Jesler and his wife, Pearl, who What it shares with “The Houseguest” is a Europe- Europe by Israeli-American photographer Loli Kantor. suggest he change his name to Ike – a good American name – rather than keep his more Jewish sounding one. an’s thoughts about the innocence of American life. Greenwich Village Walking Tour Ike then discovers there are two Jewish communities in Ike can’t help but believe that life was easy for the The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold a the area – one Reform and the other Orthodox – who Jews of Savannah during the war: Did they suffer any “Greenwich Village Walking Tour” on Sunday, June 4, at not only don’t attend the same synagogue, but occupy deprivation? If not, how can they understand him? His 10:30 am. Tour leader Barry Feldman will discuss the history different social worlds. Since Ike has long abandoned cousin’s friends always have questions for him, although behind Greenwich Village – from its years as a pastoral Dutch religion, this seems irrelevant – that is until he meets what they want to know is not the same as what they retreat through its time as an English colonial neighborhood Eva, whose family doesn’t mix socially with the Jeslers. ask: “How could [the Germans] be so inhuman? But to when it became known for its “Bohemian and artsy cul- To further complicate matters, Ike is expected to work in that wasn’t the question they were really asking. What ture.” The tour will look at brownstones, historic landmarks, Abe’s store, even though he was a journalist in Europe. they really wanted to know was: How could you have and visit Congregation Darech Amuno. Walkers will meet When someone expresses interest in his writing, Ike let this happen to yourself? Surely you would have at southwest corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue must consider whether or not he will seem ungracious seen something early on, understood. We would have South, in front of United Cigars. The cost is $24 for adults if he returns to his previous career. He also discovers seen it, wouldn’t we?” This lack of understanding is and $22 for seniors and students. There is an additional $2 that Abe is involved in shady behavior that could affect painful in its totally unrealistic view of the world, but charge the day of tour. For more information or to register, the entire family. that doesn’t stop Ike from seeking a new life among visit www.nycjewishtours.org/ or call 212-374-4100. Another unexpected aspect of life in the American his more innocent brethren. JUNE 1, 2017 ■ THE REPORTER 13 NEWS IN BRIEF FROM ISRAEL From JNS.org development officer of the One Israel Fund. Although Binyamin is the largest geo- Israel’s first-ever malt whisky to go on sale in June graphical regional council in Israel, medical services for the area’s residents are said to be insufficient. Binyamin residents in need of medical care must currently travel The Tel Aviv-based Milk & Honey Distillery recently unveiled its first-ever malt to Jerusalem to receive treatment – a commute of up to 90 minutes in some cases. whisky on World Whisky Day, May 20. The new Israeli spirit officially goes on sale The BMC aims to “have a transformative impact on the Binyamin region, bringing in late June. The limited M&H single malt is the first whisky to be entirely produced life-saving medical care and peace of mind to residents who now live with the fear and bottled in the Jewish state after being aged in a cask for three years, complying and uncertainty of not knowing whether they will be able to reach a hospital in the with the Scottish definition for what classifies as a whisky. The first barrel of Israeli event of an emergency,” said Marcus. “The Center will improve the region’s security single malt began the distillation process in a kibbutz warehouse located in the northern and quality of life,” he added. Sharon region in January 2014. After the whisky was aged in a 225-liter (59-gallon) American oak cask for 31 months, it was aged for an additional seven months in an Netanyahu presented with plan to separate eastern ex-bourbon cask at M&H’s cask room in Tel Aviv. Head distiller Tomer Goren crafted Jerusalem neighborhoods the brew in collaboration with an internationally recognized master distiller, the late Member of Knesset Dr. Anat Berko (Likud) presented Prime Minister Benjamin Dr. Jim Swan. In June, a total of 391 bottles of the experimental malt whisky will be Netanyahu with a plan to separate some eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods from the city available for purchase in select stores in Israel. Bottles numbered 1 to 100, meanwhile, and place them under Palestinian municipal responsibility, The Jerusalem Post reported will be sold in an online auction for 10 days beginning July 7. on May 25. The majority of the neighborhoods discussed in Berko’s plan were never Top Palestinian Authority official denies reports of officially in Jerusalem’s jurisdiction. Berko is proposing that Palestinian residents of regional peace initiative the eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods should eventually have their Israeli citizenship revoked. The Jerusalem Post also reported that discussions between Netanyahu and Majdi al-Khalidi, a diplomatic adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud President Donald Trump on May 22 addressed the issue of potentially transferring some Abbas, on May 25 denied reports of a new U.S.-led regional peace plan to resolve the municipal authority in eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods to the Palestinian residents of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “There is no regional peace process or anything like it. those communities. In a separate and purportedly unrelated move, Israel’s National No one is talking about it with us, or with anyone,” Khalidi told the Times of Israel. Security Council is deliberating the option of separating the Shuafat refugee camp He added, “First the two-state solution must exist and be implemented. And once the and the Kfar Aqab neighborhood from Jerusalem’s municipal area, and creating an Palestinians will have their own state beside the state of Israel, then the Arab peace independent regional council for those areas, Israel’s Channel 10 reported on May 24. initiative can be implemented.” Khalidi’s denial of a new regional peace initiative comes after President Donald Trump’s trip to Israel and the disputed territories on In surprise, Israel set to host 2018 World Lacrosse May 22-23. For some Israeli officials and Mideast experts, Trump’s visit brought hope Championships of making historic gains toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in the context Miriam Feirberg-Ikar, mayor of the Israeli city of Netanya, and Israel Lacrosse Asso- of a broader regional framework. Additionally, in the days leading up to Trump’s ciation Chairman Scott Neiss announced on May 23 that Netanya would host the 2018 arrival in Israel, reports stated that Arab leaders were mulling improved ties with World Lacrosse Championships. The announcement follows Israel’s increased success Israel, conditioned on the Jewish state making various concessions to reach a peace in the lacrosse world in recent years. The Jewish state placed second in the 2016 World deal with the Palestinians. Lacrosse Championships and has rapidly expanded its athletic capabilities, becoming New Israeli medical center aims to advance coexistence a leading competitor in the sport. Since debuting in 2012, Israeli lacrosse teams have with Palestinians participated in every competition of both the Federation of International Lacrosse and the European Lacrosse Federation. After Manchester, U.K., withdrew from hosting The One Israel Fund held a groundbreaking ceremony on May 25 for its new Bin- the 2018 World Lacrosse Championships, Israel submitted its first-ever bid to host the yamin Medical Center, the first major medical facility in Samaria. When construction games. The competition will take place in Netanya July 12-July 21 next year. Netanya is finalized, the medical center will serve more than 75,000 Israelis living in 45 com- was selected for the international sporting event due to the city’s successful hosting munities in the Binyamin region of Samaria, as well as tens of thousands of nearby of numerous international athletic competitions, including the European Swimming Palestinian residents. The new BMC facility will provide state-of-the-art emergency Championships, World Surfing Championships and European Football Championships. medical care and encourage co-existence by providing treatment to “residents of the When the seaside Israeli metropolis hosts the 2018 games, as many as 50 countries are Binyamin region, Palestinian and Israeli alike,” said Rabbi David Marcus, senior expected to compete, with more than 5,000 lacrosse fans descending on the city. P A C E Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment Your gift to the Annual Campaign DOES A WORLD OF GOOD. Endowing your gift allows you to be there for the Jewish community of NEPA forever. A Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) is a permanent fund that endows your Jewish community Annual Campaign gift as a lasting legacy. A PACE fund will continue to make an annual gift in perpetuity on your behalf. To determine the amount you need to endow your entire campaign gift, multiply your current annual gift by 20. 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Feature Films (as of September 2016) NEW Dough - An old Jewish baker (Jonathan Pryce) takes on a young Muslim apprentice to save his failing kosher bakery. When TO THE his apprentice’s marijuana stash accidentally falls in the mixing dough, the challah starts flying off the shelves! DOUGH is a warmhearted and humorous story about overcoming prejudice and finding redemption in unexpected places. (Shown at the LIBRARY! 2017 UJA campaign opening event) Everything is Illuminated - “Everything is Illuminated” tells the story of a young man’s quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. What starts out as a journey to piece together one family’s story under absurd circumstances turns into a meaningful journey with a powerful series of revelations -- the importance of remembrance, the perilous nature of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the meaning of friendship. (Donated by Dr. and Mrs. David Malinov) Europa Europa - Based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, this movie recounts the severe actions a young boy must take in order to survive the Holocaust. (Donated by Dr. and Mrs. David Malinov) Hidden in Silence - Przemysl, Poland, WWII. Germany emerges victorious over the Russians and the city comes under Nazi control. The Jews are sent to the ghettos. While some stand silent, Catholic teenager, Stefania Podgorska, choose the role of a savior and sneaks 13 Jews into her attic. Inspired by real events, Munich reveals the intense story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes - and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. Music Box - In this intense courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agres to defend her Hungarian immigrant father against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. Remember - With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with demntia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family. (shown at the 2017 UJA campaign opening event) Munich - Inspired by real events, Munich reveals the intense story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes - and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. Son of Saul - October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial. (shown at the 2017 UJA campaign opening event) The Book Thief - THE BOOK THIEF tells the inspirational story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a new family in World War II Germany. The Jolson Story - THE JOLSON STORY is classic Hollywood biography at its best; a fast-paced, tune-filled extravaganza following the meteoric rise of legendary performer Al Jolson. THE JOLSON STORY was nominated for six 1946 Academy Awards , winning two, (Best Musical Scoring and Best Sound Recording). The Other Son - As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents’ biological son and that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. This revelation turns the lives of these two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, their values and beliefs. Woman in Gold - Based on the true story of Maria Altman, played by Helen Mirren, who sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis. (Donated by Dr. and Mrs. David Malinov) Non-Feature Films 2016 Above and Beyond - In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a ragtag group of skilled American pilots - both Jewish and non-Jewish, answered a call for help. In secret and at great personal risk, they smuggled planes out of the U.S., trained behind the Iron Curtain and flew for Israel in its War of Independence. This band of brothers not only turned the tide of the war, they also embarked on personal journeys of discovery and pride. (Shown at the 2016 UJA campaign opening event) Everything is a Present: The Wonder and Grace of Alice Sommer Hertz - This is the uplifting true story of the gifted pianist Alice Sommer Hertz who survived the Theresienstat concentration camp by playing classical piano concerts for Nazi dignitaries. Alice Sommer Hertz lived to the age of 106. Her story is an inspiration. Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story - Yoni Netanyahu was a complex, passionate individual thrust into defending his country in a time of war and violence. The older brother of Benjamin Natanyahu, the current Israel Prime Minister, Yoni led the miraculous raid on Entebbe in 1976. Although almost all of the Entebbe hostages were saved, Yoni was the lone military fatality. Featuring three Israeli Prime Ministers and recently released audio from the Entebbe raid itself. Hava Nagila (The Movie) - A documentary romp through the history, mystery and meaning of the great Jewish standard. Featuring interviews with Harry Belafonte, Leonard Nimoy and more, the film follows the ubiquitous party song on its fascinating journey from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the kibbutzim of Palestine to the cul-de-sacs of America. If These Knishes Could Talk tells the story of the New York accent: what it is, how it’s evolved, and the love/hate relationship New Yorkers have with it. It features writer Pete Hamill, director Penny Marshall, attorney Alan Dershowitz and screenwriter James McBride, along with a cast of characters from Canarsie to Tottenville. In between, it explores why New Yorkers eat chawclate and drink cawfee, and how the accent became the vibrant soundtrack of a charming, unforgiving and enduring city. Israel: The Royal Tour - Travel editor Peter Greenberg (CBS News) takes us on magnificent tour of the Jewish homeland, Israel. The tour guide is none other than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The viewer gets a chance to visit the land of Israel from his own home! Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (narrated by Dustin Hoffman)- This documentary portrays the contributions of Jewish major leaguers and the special meaning that baseball has had in the lives of American Jews. More than a film about sports, this is a story of immigration, assimilation, bigotry, heroism, the passing on of traditions, the shattering of stereotypes and, most of all, the greatest American pastime. Nicky’s Family - An enthralling documentary that artfully tells the story of how Sir Nicholas Winton, now 104, a British stockbroker, gave up a 1938 skiing holiday to answer a friend’s request for help in Prague and didn’t stop helping until the war’s beginning stopped him. He had saved the lives of 669 children in his own personal Kindertransport. The Case for Israel - Democracy’s Outpost - This documentary presents a vigorous case for Israel- for its basic right to exist, to protect its citizens from terrorism, and to defend its borders from hostile enemies. The Israel Course - A 7-part Israel education series that sheds light on the Holy Land through the ages. Featuring biblical scholars and Middle East experts, including Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, Emeritus Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Ambassador Dore Gold, Princeton professor Bernard Lewis and many others. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg - As baseball’s first Jewish star, Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg’s career contains all the makings of a true American success story. Unmasked: Judaophobia - the Threat to Civilization – This documentary exposes the current political assault against the State of Israel fundamentally as a war against the Jewish people and their right to self-determination. JUNE 1, 2017 ■ THE REPORTER 15 NEWS IN BRIEF From JTA and illegal. Along with New York Presbyterian Hospital, workers and paid some less than Israeli workers. Some 500 Argentine site’s analysis of Nisman the city of New York is named in the suit; its Fire Depart- Palestinian employees lost their jobs at that time. Israel ment works with the hospital on emergency response. gave the remaining 74 employees permission to enter investigation short-listed for media prize Goldfarb is suing for damages, the reinstatement of her the country and continue to work for SodaStream until An Argentine news outlet’s investigation into the death position, and an order enjoining the hospital and the city February 2016. The company now has more than 1,400 of prosecutor Alberto Nisman was short-listed for the to stop denying requests for accommodation in relation employees in the Idan Hanegev industrial park near Rahat, global Data Journalism Awards. The nominees were an- to the pants policy. The hospital did not return requests one-third of them Bedouin Arabs from the surrounding nounced on May 23 in London. La Nacion Data Argentina for comment by JTA. Goldfarb said she was surprised by area. The Palestinian employees will have to leave for analyzed 40,000 audio recordings from a tapped phone the hospital’s response to her request to wear a skirt. “I’ve work at 4:30 am in order to make the long commute and over two years, publishing the findings and developing been an EMS for a while and I haven’t had a problem – I be there on time, but at least one told the Post that he does a news app to search by topic or person. Nisman had just wasn’t expecting it to be an issue,” she told JTA. She not care. “SodaStream is our second home,” Ali Jafar, 42, accused the Argentine government of covering up Iran’s has since found a job as a paramedic for an emergency told The Jerusalem Post on May 21. “When you have the involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish telemedicine company, which does not take issue with her opportunity to return home, you return.” center, which killed 85 and injured 300. The data analysis style of dress. Her lawyer, Joseph Aron, told JTA that he Israeli spy Shulamit Cohen-Kishik dies at conducted by 120 volunteers triggered three major findings was confident in his client’s case, citing previous cases related to Iranian terrorist activities in Argentina: Iran’s in which U.S. courts ruled in favor of plaintiffs suing for 100 local community paid bail to help a local activist accused the right to wear head coverings or style their facial hair Shulamit “Shula” Cohen-Kishik, a a spy for Israel’s of being a member of the violent movement Quebracho; in ways contrary to employer dress codes. “We’re defi- Mossad intelligence agency who worked undercover in A national senator from an official government party nitely confident that the law is on our side,” said Aron, Lebanon for 14 years, has died at 100. Cohen-Kishik, who was discovered to be an active lobbyist for the Iranian who specializes in employment law and discrimination. was codenamed “The Pearl,” died on May 21 at Hadassah government in partnership with local businessmen; and SodaStream bringing 74 West Bank Medical Center in Jerusalem. The Buenos Aires, Argentina, Iran financed a local activist movement in favor of the native was raised by Zionist parents who moved the family Kirchner government for leading demonstrations and pro- Palestinians back to work at Negev plant to prestate Israel. She married Joseph Kishik, a wealthy tests against the U.S. Embassy. A federal judge requested Some 74 Palestinian employees of SodaStream, who Jewish-Lebanese businessman from Beirut, when she was that evidence from the transcribed recordings be used in lost their jobs when the company shut its West Bank plant 16 and the couple settled in Lebanon. At 27, she began the investigation against former Foreign Minister Héctor in the face of international pressure, will return to work at working for the Mossad, spending the next decade and a Timerman, who is accused of treason in Argentina in a its factory in southern Israel. The employees’ work permits, half helping to bring persecuted Jews from Arab countries lawsuit filed by fathers of two AMIA bombing victims. which allowed them to enter Israel from the West Bank, to Israel and gathering intelligence information about Arab The Argentine media company shares the shortlist for expired in February 2016. The Israeli government agreed military activities – information she was able to collect by the Investigation of the Year award with The New York to reinstate the permits after persistent requests from So- getting herself accepted into Lebanon’s high society. She Times and Der Spiegel in Germany. Launched in 2012, daStream and its CEO Daniel Birnbaum, The Jerusalem was caught smuggling in 1952 and taken to jail just three the Data Journalism Awards competition is organized by Post reported on May 21. “We are delighted to welcome weeks after giving birth, where she spent 36 days in con- the Global Editors Network with support from the Google back our 74 devoted Palestinian employees, who are able to finement. Cohen-Kishik continued her clandestine activities News Lab, Knight Foundation and Chartbeat. Nisman, a join their 1,500 friends at our Rahat facility in the Negev,” for another nine years before things became too dangerous Jewish prosecutor, was found shot to death on Jan. 18, Birnbaum told the newspaper. “The Israeli government and she moved to Rome for three months. Upon her return 2015, hours before he was to present his allegations of did the moral and honorable thing to grant work permits to Lebanon in 1961, she was arrested immediately for es- a secret deal to cover up Iranian officials’ alleged role in to our employees, who can now provide for their families pionage. While in prison during the trial, she was brutally the bombing of the AMIA center in Buenos Aires. His and also prove that coexistence is possible.” In October tortured. Sentenced to death by hanging, the verdict was allegations named then-President Cristina Fernandez de 2014, SodaStream announced it would close its factory reduced to 20 years of hard labor because she was a mother Kirchner, Timerman and the government as co-conspirators in Maale Adumim and move to southern Israel in the face of seven. In 1967, Cohen-Kishik was released in a secret in a cover-up. Whether Nisman’s shooting in his apartment of pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions prisoner exchange following the Six-Day War. She then was murder or self-inflicted has yet to be determined. movement, or BDS, which seeks to hurt Israel’s economy immigrated with her family to Jerusalem, where she spent Jerusalem celebrates 50th anniversary of over its policies toward the Palestinians. The movement the rest of her life. She is survived by her seven children, claimed that SodaStream discriminated against Palestinian and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. reunification Tens of thousands gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city’s reunification. Ceremonies and events took place throughout May 24 in the Israeli capital to mark the annual observance of Jerusalem Day. Among the events were memorials for soldiers killed in the Six-Day War in 1967. A state memorial also was held at Mount Herzl cemetery for the thousands of Ethiopians who died on the way to Israel. Thousands of young people were scheduled to participate in the flag march through Jerusalem, including in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. Hundreds of police were deployed in the city to prevent clashes. Alternative Jerusalem Day events promoting tolerance and peace also were held throughout the city. The Knesset held a special session to mark Jerusalem Day. The Temple Mount and the Each year at this time the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania calls upon members of our Western Wall “will forever remain under Israeli sovereign- community to assist in defraying the expense of issuing our regional Jewish newspaper, The Reporter. ty,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an The newspaper is delivered twice of month (except for December and July which are single issue address to the Knesset session. “Some see the Six-Day War months) to each and every identifiable Jewish home in Northeastern Pennsylvania. as a disaster for Israel. I see it as Israel’s salvation. How could we keep existing with a narrow waist and daily danger As the primary Jewish newspaper of our region, we have tried to produce a quality publication for you to our citizens?” Netanyahu said. Netanyahu also said he that offers our readership something on everythingfrom opinions and columns on controversial issues was moved to see President Donald Trump standing in front that affect our people and our times, to publicity for the events of our affiliated agencies and of the Western Wall earlier that week. The president’s visit organizations to life cycle events, teen columns, personality profiles, letters to the editor, the Jewish to the site “destroyed UNESCO’s propaganda and lies,” community calendar and other columns that cover everything from food to entertainment. Netanyahu said, referring to several resolutions passed in recent months by the United Nations body ignoring Jewish The Federation assumes the financial responsibility for funding the enterprise at a cost of $26,400 per ties to the city and its holy sites. year and asks only that we undertake a small letter writing mail campaign to our recipients in the hope Orthodox Jewish paramedic sues NYC of raising $10,000 from our readership to alleviate a share of that responsibility. hospital over its no-skirts policy We would be grateful if An Orthodox Jewish paramedic is suing a New York you would care enough hospital for discrimination for not allowing her to wear to take the time to skirts. In the civil suit filed on May 23, Hadas Goldfarb make a donation for our says she was offered a job as a paramedic at the New The York Presbyterian Hospital in 2015, but was terminated efforts in bringing amid orientation after refusing to comply with the dress Reporter to your door. code, which stipulates that paramedics wear pants. The As always, your 26-year-old Brooklyn resident alleges in a complaint that comments, opinions and her “termination was unlawful retaliation for her refusing suggestions are always to compromise her religious principles.” Goldfarb only wears skirts, a practice common among Orthodox Jewish welcome. women who follow strict rules dictating personal dress. With best wishes, She says she has done so while working as a paramedic Mark Silverberg, for other employers. Following her termination, Goldfarb Executive Director filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportu- nity Commission and in February, she received a notice Jewish Federation of of right to sue. The lawsuit, which was filed with Kings NE Pennsylvania County Supreme Court, alleges that the hospital failed 601 Jefferson Avenue to provide her with reasonable accommodation for her Scranton, PA 18510 religious observance and that doing so is discriminatory ÊCheck out the Federation’s new, updated website at www.jewishnepa.org or find it on Facebook 16 THE REPORTER ■ JUNE 1, 2017

You are cordially invited to the ANNUAL MEETING of the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania Please join us as we elect Officers and Trustees, celebrate the achievements of the past year and honor several individuals for their leadership contributions to our community and to Israel Thursday, June 8th, 2017, 7:00 PM Linder Room, Scranton Jewish Community Center, 601 Jefferson Ave., Scranton A dessert reception will follow the meeting. Dietary laws observed - RSVP to 961-2300 (ext. 4) Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania 2017 Annual Meeting Program Welcome & introductions...... David Malinov, MD, Federation President Dvar Torah...... Rabbi Moshe Saks, Temple Israel (Scranton) Federation Perspectives...... David Malinov, MD, Federation President Presentation of Presidential Award...... Mark Silverberg, Executive Director Presentation of UJA Campaign Awards...... David Malinov, MD, Federation President 2017 UJA Campaign Report...... Alan Smertz, Susan Blum Connors, Co-Chairs Nominating Committee Report...... Seth Gross, Chairman Installation of Officers and Trustees...... Rabbi Moshe Saks, Temple Israel (Scranton) Closing Remarks Douglas Fink, Incoming Federation President Dessert Reception Proposed Slate of Officers & Trustees 2017 - 2020 Officers* President...... Douglas Fink* Administrative Vice-President...... Esther Adelman* Vice-President...... Elliot Schoenberg* Vice-President...... Eric Weinberg* Treasurer...... Jerry Weinberger, Esq.* Assistant Treasurer...... Barry Tremper*

Assistant Secretary...... Donald Douglass, Esq.* *Officers to be elected at the Annual Meeting Board of Trustees Nominated to serve a 1-year term ending Nominated to serve a 3-year term ending June June 30th, 2018 30th, 2020 Michael Barber*, Patricia Taylor Bernstein*, Joe Fisch, Esq.*, Natalie Gelb*, Phyllis Malinov*, Mel Mogel*, Jay Okun* and Lewis Sare* Ed Monsky, Esq.*, Geordee Grable Pollock* and Suzanne Tremper* *Trustees to be elected at the Annual Meeting *Trustees to be elected at the Annual Meeting • Continuing Terms • 3-year term ending on June 30,2018 3-year term ending on June 30th, 2019 Susie Blum Connors, Mark Davis, Lynne Fragin, Marian Goldstein Beckhorn, Phyllis Brandes, Richard Fine, Esq., Alex Gans, Dale Miller, Larry Milliken, Gail Neldon and Molly Rutta Stan Rothman, Jay Schectman, Anne Silverman & Irwin Wolfson In addition, two positions are designated on the Federation Board of Trustees: David Fallk, Esq...... Chairman, Community Relations Committee Dr. Joel and Leah Laury...... 2018 UJA Campaign Co-Chairs

The Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania expresses its gratitude to those Trustees whose terms of office will expire on June 30th, 2017. It is hoped that each of them will continue to serve the Mission of our Federation by participating in its many committees, programs and projects. Our appreciation is extended to Sandra Alfonsi, Phyllis Barax, Rhonda Fallk, Shlomo Fink, Susan Jacobson, Paula Kane, Dan Marcus, Ann Monsky, Barbara Nivert, Filmore Rosenstein, Eugene Schneider and Ben Schnessel, Esq.