Temple Beth-El Arts Committee Hosting Summer Jewish Film
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July 8-14, 2016 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLV, Number 28 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK TBE windows moved to new homes By Reporter staff this effort. Many people came forward The Federation of Greater Binghamton with funds, ideas and connections. Carl has announced that all of the stained glass Levine and Herb Kline came forward windows have been removed from the for- with stories of the Endicott merchants, mer Temple Beth El of Endicott building At right: The three as well as memories of Temple Beth El, and are on the move to their new homes. windows on the front and have promised to write histories “We are thrilled with this news,” said of the Temple Beth El for the Endicott museum. Many thanks Sima Auerbach, executive director of the building in Endicott. to my hard-working committee: Neisen Federation. “It’s wonderful to see local Luks, Charles Manasse, Rabbi Rachel history being kept local. We’ve also Esserman, Hollie Levine and Harriet raised $7,983 toward the $10,000 we need Horowitz.” to pay for the removals.” Those wishing to make a donation can do so by filling building was destroyed in a fire. out the coupon on page 3 of this issue. The final placement of the windows The windows taken from the build- include: ing include three round windows from Amos Patterson Museum of Local His- front, two medium-sized side windows tory – the Anna B. and Max G. Levinson from the area outside the sanctuary and window. six windows from the sanctuary itself. Beth David Synagogue – two medium All of these windows have found homes sized side windows. either at local Jewish organizations or Jewish Community Center – the Myer with descendants of those memorialized and Fannie Solomon window. in the window. Judaic Studies Department of Bingham- “All known descendants of the families ton University – the Moses Joseph and Lena honored in the windows were contacted Perl window, and the Charles and Anna to see if they wanted their family’s win- Goldstein window. dow or where they would like to see the Kline family – the Anna Weiss Kline and window placed,” said Auerbach. “The Emanuel and Fannie Lee window. Kline family requested their window to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – the Lewis be placed in a family home. The Levinson and Sophie Cahn window. family wanted their window to be part Temple Concord – one round front of the Amos Patterson Museum of Local window. History, since that focuses on the history Temple Israel – two round front of Endicott. The Esserman family said they windows. were thrilled to have the Cahn window at “We are in the process of deciding St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Endicott how best to celebrate the saving of these due to the connection between the two windows,” Auerbach noted. “However, The Anna Weiss Kline and Emanuel and One of the side windows at the Temple Beth congregations.” St. Paul’s held services I, for one, am thrilled with the results Fannie Lee window in the sanctuary at El building in Endicott. at Temple Beth El for two years after its and am so pleased with the results of Temple Beth El in Endicott. Temple Beth-El Arts Committee hosting summer Jewish Film Festival in Ithaca The Arts Committee of Temple Beth-El of Ithaca has announced its second Jewish Film Festival will be held this summer in the social hall of the temple, located at the corner of Court and Tioga streets in Ithaca. The lineup includes “Dough,” which was screened on June 23, “Raise the Roof” on Thursday, July 21, and “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” on Thursday, August 18. Doors will open at 6:30 pm for free refreshments and socializing. The films will begin at 7 pm. Tickets cost $8 at the door. All films are appropriate for children ages 10 and older. “Raise the Roof” (U.S., 2015, 85 Above, left and right: “Raise the Roof” will be shown at Temple Beth-El in Ithaca on Thursday, July 21. minutes), to be shown on July 21, is a documentary by filmmakers Yari and countries, the film is said to “capture the “Raise the Roof” documents the as the centerpiece of the POLIN Museum Cary Wolinsky. The Trillium Studios film echoes of World War II while revealing challenges of the Browns and the of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. depicts the journey of Rick and Laura an optimistic and creative time in Jewish Handshouse Studio team as they begin For more information about the film, Brown, of Handshouse Studio, as they re- history that has been lost.” At one time, building the new Gwozdziec roof in visit www.polishsynagogue.com. constructed the roof and painted ceiling of there were some 200 wooden synagogues Poland. The crew had six weeks to hew, “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” (U.S., the Gwozdziec Synagogue, an 18th century across the Polish-Lithuanian countryside. saw and carve 200 freshly logged trees 2016, 97 minutes), to be shown on August structure that is said to rival the greatest None survived destruction during the Nazi and assemble the structure with period 18, is a “documentary portrait” of the Israeli wooden architecture in history. occupation of Poland. hand tools and paints. Working against people through their cuisine. Developed in Cary, who is also an award-winning “This film is about a remarkable dream the deadline and despite downpours the last 30 years from the contributions of National Geographic photographer, and and a journey of re-discovery. It is a story of and exhaustion, the team created the more than 100 cultures, Israel’s cuisine is Yari, the director, went behind the scenes larger-than-life characters – one that starts structure and disassembled it again for said to reflect the country’s advancement to reveal the Browns’ decade-long endeavor with tragedy and ends in triumph,” said shipping and eventual installation. “on many levels.” Israeli refreshments to recreate a nearly lost piece of Polish Yari. “It highlights the cautious optimism “The team recovers more than an ob- will be served. Jewish history. The film examines how of a new generation and a growing dialogue ject – they recover a lost world,” noted The film festival is made possible through the synagogue was built, who built it and between Jews and Poles about the past and the filmmakers. Menemsha Films and the National Center why. With the Browns leading more than the future, providing a unique and positive The hand-made, nearly full-scale replica for Jewish Film. For more information, 300 students and professionals from 16 way to connect with Jewish history.” of the Gwozdziec roof was unveiled in 2014 call 257-9924. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Elie Wiesel Perlman eyes inclusive world News in brief... Special Sections Remembering Elie Wiesel, Itzhak Perlman plans to use his A rocket hits a kindergarten in Legal Notices ................................... 4 Holocaust survivor, human rights Genesis Prize to foster greater Israel; an Israeli teen was killed in Book Review .................................... 4 activist and Nobel laureate. inclusivity for those with disabilities. her bed by a terrorist; and more. Beat the Heat ................................... 5 .............................. Pages 2 and 5 ........................................Page 3 ........................................Page 8 Classifieds ....................................... 8 Page 2 - The Reporter July 8-14, 2016 Opinion How Elie Wiesel inspired the Free Soviet Jewry movement By Glenn Richter some of us children of Holocaust survivors or veterans of critical period of my struggle for freedom in a Siberian (JTA) – On my bookshelves there are two rows of vol- the American civil rights movement. labor camp, I always remembered the great Elie Wiesel.” umes on the Soviet Jewry movement. Squeezed in among A year after “The Jews of Silence” was published, the Former refusenik Dan Roginsky: “For we who were the tomes is a small, well-worn paperback with pages no Six-Day War propelled us into a deep-rooted connection fighting for exodus from the Soviet Union, Elie Wiesel longer attached to the spine, “The Jews of Silence,” by with Israel and our own Jewish identities. And a year after was an example of a Jew who never gave up in his struggle Elie Wiesel. This slim volume is, however, a bridge. It that, Arthur Morse’s “While Six Million Died” exposed for tikkun olam (repairing the world) and for the future of crossed Wiesel and his readers over from his prior works, the relative silence of our parents’ generation during the the Jewish People.” hearing the screams of those silenced in the Holocaust, to Shoah. We vowed that this generation would not be guilty Dina Beilina, a leading Moscow refusenik: “Elie was [a] an eloquent challenge in 1966 to listen to the cry of our of the same sin. soldier. All his life he fought, in the beginning, alone. But silenced, but living, oppressed brethren in the USSR. Elie Wiesel was our moral compass. In between our he believed in his mission and became a symbol of Jewish While today one of every seven Israelis or their descen- numerous demonstrations at the Soviet U.N. Mission, SSSJ resistance to Nazism and a symbol of our victory over evil.” dants is from the former Soviet Union, when hundreds of produced a stark white-on-black lapel button challenging Former refusenik Sasha Smukler, echoing the words of thousands of FSU Jews live in the United States and the the Jewish community: “Are We ‘The Jews Of Silence’?” his friend Yuli Kosharovsky: “He inspired us to become West, when with the click of a computer button I’d just It took years, but eventually the Jewish establishment Jews again.” arranged a frequent-flyer point flight to Israel via Moscow put its considerable muscle behind the Free Soviet Jewry “Elie was a major source of inspiration for the refuseniks,” on Aeroflot Russian Airlines, it is difficult to remember how movement.