November 2008 Cheshvan/Kislev 5769 Volume XXXIII: Number 3 FREE Author Ilana Blumberg to open the 21st Annual Jewish Book Festival Tina Gargotta, special to the WJN

lana Blumberg, author of Houses of to live well. This was the lesson of both the Ilana M. Blumberg is an assistant pro- Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books, Modern Orthodox Jewish world in which fessor of humanities, culture, and writing I will open the Jewish Community Ilana Blumberg was educated, with its com- at James Madison College, Michigan State Center of Washtenaw County’s 21st An- mitment to traditional Jewish practice and University. She is married to Ori Weisberg, nual Jewish Book Festival on Wednesday, ideas, and the modern secular world in a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at November 5 at 7:30 p.m. A dessert reception which she lives. But when the paths of Jew- the University of Michigan. Their two for audience members will take place that ish tradition and secular wisdom inevitably children, Priya and Shai, attend the Early evening at 7 p.m.. The event is sponsored by diverge, applying this lesson can become ex- Childhood Center at the JCC. n the University of Michigan Jean and Samuel traordinarily tricky, especially for a woman. Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Simply Blumberg’s memoir of negotiating these two The Jewish Book Festival runs from Novem- Scrumptious catering. worlds is the story of how a Jewish woman’s ber 5–17. To become a Book Festival Sponsor, Winner of the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize life was shaped by a passion for learning; it or for more information, contact the JCC at for Jewish Literature and runner up for is also a rare look into the life of Modern 971-0990. the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Orthodoxy, the twentieth-century move- Ilana Blumberg Women's Studies, Blumberg’s book explores ment of Judaism that tries to reconcile mo- More Book Festival what happens when the traditional Jewish dernity with tradition. from a childhood immersed in Hebrew and ideal of learning asserts itself in a woman, Set in “houses of study,” from a Jewish classical Judaic texts, as well as American nov- coverage begins directed by that same tradition toward a life grammar school and high school to a Jeru- els and biographies, to a womanhood where on page 18 of modesty, early marriage, and motherhood. salem yeshiva for women to a secular Ameri- the two literatures suddenly represent mutu- To learn was to live, and to learn well was can uni­versity, Blumberg traces her own path ally exclusive possibilities for life. Community invited Federation’s 2008 Main Event features NPR'S Mara Liasson to TBE Kristallnacht Where we go from here: the changing face of American politics commemoration Jeffrey Lazor, special to the WJN Marianne Aaron, special to the WJN n November 4 a new president of Mara Li- her current assignment, Liasson was NPR’s On the night of the November 9, and well the United States will be elected. asson is the White House correspondent for all eight into November 10, 1938, on the pretence of O American Politics will change. national po- years of the Clinton administration. She won retaliation for the killing of a German Em- What does this mean for the country? For litical cor- the White House Correspondents Associa- bassy staff person by a 17 year old Jewish the economy? For the Jewish community? respondent tion’s Merriman Smith Award for daily news Polish boy living in Paris, the German peo- For Israel? for NPR, coverage in 1994, 1995, and again in 1997. ple were incited to “rise in bloody vengeance These questions and more will be an- and a regu- The Jewish Federation Main Event once against the Jews.” While the German police swered as the Jewish Federation of Greater lar panelist again has the generous support of the Ford stood by, crowds of storm troopers, SS, and Ann Arbor welcomes National Public Radio on Special Motor Company. Michigan Public Radio is Hitler Youth beat and murdered Jews, broke political correspondent Mara Liasson to Report with the Media Partner for the event. into and wrecked Jewish homes and busi- speak at the Ypsilanti Marriott Eagle Crest Brit Hume “We are thrilled to be co-chairing the nesses, and brutalized women and children. Resort on December 11. and Fox Main Event!” said Brad and Robin Axelrod. Synagogues were especially targeted for van- The 2008 Main Event is chaired by Brad News Sun- “As a Jewish community we all have the excit- dalism and systematically burned, while local and Robin Axelrod and Jerry and Judie Lax. Mara Liasson day on the ing opportunity to join together, regardless fire departments stood by or simply prevent- This year’s Main Event bears incredible sig- Fox News of political opinions, religious observance, ed the fire from spreading to surrounding nificance as the political and economic cli- Channel. Her reports can be heard regularly or level of involvement. Please share a won- buildings. 267 synagogues were burned, with mate shifts in the wake of the presidential on NPR’s award-winning news magazines All derful evening with us by coming to what we 177 totally destroyed. election. “We are very happy to be involved Things Considered and Morning Edition. Lias- expect will be a fascinating conversation with In 1938, Marianne Aaron was a young with this event, which gives the entire Jewish son provides extensive coverage of politics and Mara Liasson.” n girl living in Mannheim, Germany, where community an opportunity to meet and to policy from Washington, DC—focusing on the her father was the head cantor at the Haupt- celebrate the Federation’s Annual Campaign, White House and Congress—and also reports synagogue. She will share her memories of which contributes significantly to meeting on political trends beyond the Beltway. To RSVP for the Main Event, visit http:// www.jewishannarbor.org/mainevent. Tick- Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, at important local and international needs. We Each election year, Liasson provides key Temple Beth Emeth’s shabbat service on No- also look forward to the insights of Mara Li- coverage of the candidates and issues in both ets for the event are $36 for adults and $18 for high school or college students. For more vember 7, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Kol Halev, asson concerning the election and its likely presidential and congressional races. During the TBE adult choir, will sing special music impact on issues of vital importance to all of her tenure she has covered three presidential information, contact Jeff Lazor at jefflazor@ jewishannarbor.org or 677.0100. for the occasion. The community is invited us,” remarked Jerry and Judie Lax. elections, in 1992, 1996, and 2000. Prior to to attend the service.

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2935 Birch Hollow Drive Desmond Tutu poor choice for Wallenberg honor Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 This year’s recipient of the Wallenberg medal and lectureship, former South African Arch- voice: 734/971-1800 bishop Desmond Tutu, was an unfortunate choice. While Tutu has been chosen for his cou- fax: 734/971-1801 rageous opposition to the apartheid regime in his native South Africa and his efforts toward e-mail: [email protected] reconciliation after the collapse of apartheid, he is also well-known internationally for his www.washtenawjewishnews.org one-sided attacks on Israel. Of course there is nothing wrong with criticism of some Israeli PAULA policies or actions. In fact, vigorous criticism comes from Israelis themselves. However, for- Editor and Publisher CHRISTENSEN mer Archbishop Tutu goes well beyond criticizing specific Israeli actions and policies. By ac- Susan Kravitz Ayer Acclaim Photography cusing the State of Israel of practicing apartheid in the South African model and advocating divestment from Israeli companies and also from non-Israeli companies engaged in trade Copy Editor Seniors • Weddings • Bar & Bat Mitzvahs • David Erik Nelson Families • Business Portraits with Israel, he has, in fact, joined forces with the Palestinians in their war against Israel. www.paulachristensenphoto.com There could have been a Palestinian state in 1948 if the Palestinians had declared indepen- Calendar Editor 734-995-8880 dence at the end of the British mandate, just as the Israelis did. However, neither the Palestinian Claire Sandler leadership at the time nor any of the Arab states were interested in a state covering only a part of the British mandate. Their goal was to drive the Jews into the sea. Since the founding of the Advertising Manager Gordon White State of Israel, the area of the West Bank of the Jordan River has become the source of terrorist attacks against Israel, even before 1967, at a time when it was a part of Jordan. Design and Layout Israel has in the past made serious efforts to come to a compromise solution of the conflict Dennis Platte TAILOR with the Palestinians. Unfortunately, even the latest offer by Israel made at the end of the Clin- ton administration in December 2000 was rejected outright by the Palestinians, and instead of Staff Writers MADE SERVICE Judy Cohen, David Erik Nelson, a counter offer they answered with an all-out war. The South African whites never made any Sandor Slomovits reasonable offer to the blacks until forced to do so by a variety of circumstances, including With Me You’re Family depressed world commodity prices, wars across the country’s borders, the impact of the divest- Contributing Writers ment movement, etc. The anti-terrorist measures taken by Israel are purely for self-defense. Marianne Aaron, Halye Aisner, Laura Berg- ILENE FRIEDLAND There is no basis for the accusation of apartheid. er, Lisa Brown, Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, The Wallenberg medal is being awarded by the University of Michigan, in memory of Raoul Eileen Freed, Tina Gargotta, Rabbi Aharon REALTOR Goldstein, Hank Greenspan, Ruth Ellen Wallenberg for his courageous actions in saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during Gruber, Ben Harris, Deborah Huerta, Sophia 734-358-7089 World War II, which tragically cost his life. 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Bob and Sophie Mordis, Irwin Pollack, Einhorn is a U-M graduate, class of 1995, and is currently a reporter for the New York Lotte Rosenbaum, Esther Rubin, Sol Daily News. She has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and For- Saginaw, Sarah Shoem, Nell Stern tune. A contributor to Chicago Public Radio’s This American Special thanks Life, Einhorn’s book was the basis for one of the show’s most Betty Hammond and Ethel Ellis popular episodes. The Pages in Between is a unique, intensely moving mem- The Washtenaw Jewish News is a free and inde- pendent newspaper. It is published monthly, oir, in which Einhorn describes finding the family in Poland with the exception of January and July. It is reg- who saved her mother from the Holocaust. Instead of a joy- istered as a Non-profit Michigan Corporation. ful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate Opinions expressed in this publication do not the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth. necessarily reflect those of its editors or staff Peeling back layer after layer, the memoir links the story of two Member of families with unanswered (perhaps unanswerable) questions American Jewish Press Association about Holocaust memory—for Jews and Poles, and for the au- thor herself. Ann Kirshner, author of Sala’s Gift, writes: “Erin Einhorn’s detective work brings her back to unlock the secrets of the Pol- ish house where her mother once lived. What a house! Teeming with conflict and history, it allures and frustrates those who try to bring it—and Polish Jewish history—into the 21st century. The Pages in Between is the story of Einhorn’s quest to discover the past and find peace.”

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Federation sponsors Night of Hilarity and Charity Federation WJN the to special Gargotta, Tina Matt Weingarden, special to the WJN the to special Weingarden, Matt U-M symposium to explore Judaism and music Judaism explore to U-M symposium A2 Symphony joined by Gemini for November concert November Gemini for joined by A2 Symphony S Night of Hilarity and Charity will feature a performance by Cory Kahaney on Tuesday, Arbor Ann at the 18 at 7:30 p.m., November Showcase. Comedy grandfather’s your not “younger, a as 2004 in Federation” way to give back to the Jewish Annu community through the Federation’s al Campaign. After the success of last year’s O phony Orchestra, Botstein is scheduled to lead the symphony’s Sunday, November 16 performance at Hill Auditorium. The symposium extends his visit and creates an academic forum for students, visit faculty, ing fellows, and the broader community to explore music within the context of Jewish culture, history, and experience. Deborah Dash Moore and Institute for the Humani ties Director Daniel Herwitz view this as a new creative collaboration between the two institutes, following last year’s cul- the of context the in Hiller and delssohn tural politics of the and period, the consider subsequent reception of their works in the 19th and early 20th centuries. late photography exhibit. photography Taken Looks Botstein will discuss the oratorios of Men stein, stein, president of Bard College; Kay Kauf man of Shelemay, Harvard University; and the University, Brown of Steinberg, P. Michael symposium is an opportunity to illuminate and demonstrate new methods for studying and music. ofthe intersection Judaism

Humanities, Humanities, and the University Musical Society are hosting a special symposium, Judaism and Music O David Erik Nelson, staff writer staff Nelson, Erik David in-song in-song in the spirit of written for orchestra, narrator, and youngwrit was music, some and story, The soloist. will join the nationally renowned music duo duo willmusic nationallyrenowned the join Gemini (Sandor and Laszlo Slomovits) to present a concert for children and families. - Michi the at be will performance p.m. 4 The the follow willimmediately and Theater, gan “Instrument annual Ann Arbor Symphony’s begins which at 3 p.m. Zoo,” Petting the symphony—will feature Gemini’s fa miliar award-winning songs, and will also premiere a new work, I ICommunity

Piano virtuosos Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman to present evening of piano duos Jim Leija, special to the WJN

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will present pianists Emanuel Ax the Juilliard School, where he won the Young o by J H enry F o by D and Yefim Bronfman on Saturday, Concert Artists Award. Ax captured public

T ari o A November 8, at 8 p.m. in Ann Arbor’s Hill attention in 1974 when, at age 25, he won the Auditorium (825 N. University Ave.). Yefim first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano c Bronfman is widely regarded as one of the Competition in Tel Aviv. Each season there- o sta most talented virtuoso pianists performing after has included appearances with major air today. Returning for the first time since his symphony orchestras worldwide, recitals in UMS debut in 1994, Bronfman is joined by the most celebrated concert halls, a variety of the great American pianist Emanuel Ax, re- chamber music collaborations, the commis- nowned not only for his poetic temperament sioning and performance of new music, and and unsurpassed virtuosity, but also for the additions to his acclaimed discography. His exceptional breadth of his performing ac- first album on the Sony Classical label was tivity. The Chicago Tribune called their 2002 released in 1983; since then, he has recorded CD of Rachmaninoff’s rarely recorded piano over 50 others. Additionally, Ax contributed duos “a marvel of digital dexterity, warmly to the 2005 International Emmy award-win- romantic sentiment, and jaw-dropping bra- ning BBC documentary commemorating the vura.” In their UMS performance, they will Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversa- Emanuel Ax Yefim Bronfman present a program of piano duos by Brahms, ry of the liberation of Auschwitz. In recent riety of eminent ensembles, from the Berlin orchestras and conductors, including the Vi- Bolcom, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff. years, Ax has turned his attention toward the Philharmonic to the Orchestre de Paris. An enna Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, the Born in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved music of 20th-century composers. He has established chamber music performer, he has Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Mariss to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when performed the world premieres of several collaborated with the Emerson, Cleveland, Jansons, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra works, many of which were composed espe- Guarneri, and Juilliard Quartets and per- with James Levine, and the Orpheus Cham- cially for him. formed alongside Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell, ber Orchestra. n will The New York Times called Yefim Bronf- among others. Also an accomplished record- A Prelude Dinner For tickets or additional information, contact be held at 5:30 p.m. prior to the concert. man “Certainly one of the greatest pianists ing artist, Bronfman won a Grammy award the University Musical Society at 764-2538, Logan Skelton, associate professor of active today.” Bronfman is known for his in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók (800) 221-1229, or online at http://www.ums. piano, U-M School of Music, Theatre commanding technique and exceptional lyri- piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and org. Tickets may also be purchased in person and Dance, will speak. The dinner will cal gifts. In 1973, at the age of 14, he immi- the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Recent career at the League Ticket Office (911 N. University take place at the U-M Alumni Center grated to Israel with his family, and made his highlights include acting as one of Carn- Ave.). UMS Ticket Office hours are Monday– (200 Fletcher St.) and costs $50 per per- international debut just two years later with egie Hall’s “Perspectives” artists during the Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.–1 son; call 764-8489 for reservations. Zubin Mehta and the Montreal Symphony. 2007–2008 season, during which Bronfman p.m., closed Sunday. Bronfman now appears regularly with a va- partnered with some of the world’s greatest Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra makes UMS debut Jim Leija, special to the WJN he University Musical Society (UMS) Centennial Award with most of the major orchestras of the will present the Jerusalem Symphony and the Cross of world, from the New York Philharmonic to T Orchestra, under the baton of Leon Honor, First Class the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Recent Botstein, on Sunday, November 16, at 4 p.m. from the Austrian highlights include appearing with the KBS in Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium (825 N. Uni- government. Symphony in Seoul, presenting the Tchaik- versity Ave.). Botstein is widely praised for his In addition ovsky Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony, creative approach to programming and in- to his musical and playing alongside the Orquesta Sinfónica spired performances. In addition to leading endeavors, Bot- de Mineria in Mexico City. The 2008/09 sea- the Jerusalem Symphony, Botstein directs the stein is active in son takes McDuffie on a 16-city U.S. tour and American Symphony Orchestra, and serves as the realm of aca- includes the premiere of The American Four Bard College president and co-artistic direc- demia. He became Seasons, a new work by Philip Glass. tor of the Bard Music Festival. This UMS de- the youngest col- Each June, McDuffie returns to Rome as but concert will feature works by three Jewish lege president in the co-founder and artistic director of the composers: Sternberg, Bernstein, and Copland. the history of the Rome Chamber Music Festival. The mayor American violinist Robert McDuffie will per- United States at of Rome recently awarded him the presti- form Bernstein’s Serenade for Violin as part of age 23 (Franconia gious Premio Simpatica in recognition of his the program. Maestro Leon Botstein College in New contribution to Roman culture. A Grammy- The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO) Hampshire), and, nominated artist, McDuffie has been profiled was founded in the 1940s as Israel’s national York Times, he recalls, “One of my friends said, in 1975, at age 28, he became president of on NBC’s Today, CBS Sunday Morning, and radio orchestra and was known then as the ‘Why don’t you conduct this concert?’ And I New York’s Bard College. During his tenure A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts. n “Kol Israel Orchestra.” In the 1970s, the or- did, and I realized that this was really my am- at Bard, Botstein co-founded the Bard Music chestra expanded to become the Jerusalem bition.” This is just one instance of Botstein’s Festival (which concentrates on a single com- For tickets or additional information, contact Symphony Orchestra, Israel Broadcasting rich and varied career. He currently serves poser each year) and has played an instru- the University Musical Society at 764-2538, Authority. The JSO’s repertoire has always as music director and principal conductor mental role in establishing New York City’s or online at http://www.ums.org. Tickets may comprised an exciting combination of the of two ensembles: the Jerusalem Symphony Bard High School Early College. He is the edi- also be purchased in person at the League Tick- masterpieces of the past and the innovative Orchestra and the American Symphony Or- tor of The Musical Quarterly and the author of et Office (911 N. University Ave.). UMS Ticket compositions of the present. The orchestra chestra in New York. In 2004, he addressed numerous articles and books. Office hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., was the first to perform in Israel the works of the United Nations on “Why Music Matters” Violinist Robert McDuffie has performed Saturday 10 a.m.–1 p.m., closed Sunday. such composers as Sofia Gubaidolina, Henry as part of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s lec- Dutilleux, and Alfred Schnittke. In addition, ture series. Several of his recordings have been November 2008 November the JSO regularly commissions new works met with critical acclaim; his recording of Classical Kids Club A from Israeli composers; its current composer- Popov’s Symphony No. 1 and Shostakovich’s The Emanuel Ax/Yefim Bronfman concert and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra con- in-residence is Betty Olivero. Theme and Variations with the London Sym- cert are both part of the Classical Kids Club series. Designed to nurture the next genera- Leon Botstein began his career as a con- phony Orchestra was nominated for a Gram- tion of musicians and music lovers, the Classical Kids Club allows parents to purchase ductor in an unconventional manner. Follow- my Award in the category of Best Orchestral up to two tickets for $10 each for students in grades 1–9 with the purchase of a $20 adult ing the death of his young daughter in 1981, Performance. For his contributions to mu- ticket. Seating is subject to availability. Tickets are available two weeks before the concert at Botstein organized a concert to benefit her sic, Botstein has received multiple awards, the League Ticket Office or by phone. Children must be present when picking up tickets.

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Dr. Lerman Dr. is a breast cancer survivor who Seniors/Women , A Jewish perspective on this week’s week’s this on perspective Jewish A Dombey, news. Bring items of interest for group dis Warschausky. $4 per session, or 3 sessions for $10. for 3 sessions or $4 per session, quhar, cussion. details) for (see below sentations, book. current 0990 for dish Reading Group Community Center. Please note change. locationCall Ray Juni for additional infor mation at 761-2765. $4 per session, or 3 sessions for $10. for 3 sessions or $4 per session, a variety of games and activities, including Mahjong, quilting, art projects, and card games. low for details) for low sational sational Group): Open to the public as well as U-M staff, and faculty, students, all ages and Café, ground levels Beanster’s welcome. Michigan floor, League. ForFree. more in call 936-2367. formation, Tuesday Special Events Tuesday Fridays JCC on closedThe be will 28. November Friday, Thursdays JCC on closedThe be will 27. November Thursday, Tuesdays sure sure Clin cancer protection November program planned for WJN the to special Mandel, Shoshana A physical, emotional, and spiritual approach to breast approach to and spiritual emotional, A physical,

*Social, Physical, Intellectual, Cultural, and Educational Adults Intellectual, Cultural, for Programs *Social, Physical, WJN the to special Poliner, Merrill 2007 SPICE* of Life 2007 SPICE* Center of 23, from November 2–4 In p.m. response to Washtenawthe popularity of their presentation “Breast at Countyconference, last Regional Hadassah year’s With Do to Got Jewish onBeing What’s Cancer, Ruth Lerman, Dr. It?” a Beaumont Hospital internist specializing in breast disease, and Whitney Ducaine, a certifiedgenetics coun- selor specializing in cancer genetics, return prevention. cancer discuss breast to has studied with several world-renowned physi cians, including Rachel Remen and Jon Kabat- to principles Zinn, who specialize in these mind/body approaches added has Lerman healing. to her repertoire of traditional medical care in the healing She process. was a founding member of a program that utilizes developedand recovery, cancer breast during ing The Temple Beth Emeth Sisterhood, Beth League, Hadassah, and ORT Israel Women’s are cosponsoring a free community-wide wellness event at the Jewish Community I IFederation

Overseas Allocations reflect greater Ann Arbor Jewish community’s values Eileen Freed, special to the WJN he Jewish Federation of Greater Ann The environment Arbor and the local Jewish community The Jewish Federation has been funding T provide important support for agencies environmental initiatives in Israel since 2004, and programs in Israel and around the world, as when an allocation was made to the Heschel recommended by the Federation’s 2008 Israel/ Center Environmental Fellows program. Most Overseas Committee (IOC). Members of the recently, funding was provided to the Society IOC, chaired by Mae Sander and Carey Sher- for the Protection of Nature, for the completion man, evaluate new and existing programs with of a trail around the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). the goal of funding those that reflect the values This year, $15,000 was allocated to Lotem: Inte- of the Greater Ann Arbor Jewish community and grated Nature Studies for the development of a can most effectively accomplish their mission. solar generator at its educational facility. Lotem For the past three years, the Israel/Overseas offers programs to help people of all abilities Committee and the Federation Board of Direc- enjoy the glories of nature in the land of Israel, tors have focused funding priorities in the fol- via field trips, extracurricular activities, and cre- lowing categories: ative workshops for people with special needs, • Aid to minority and disadvantaged popula- as well as activities for children in the regular tions in Israel state education system. Lotem’s facilities are not • Fostering Arab/Jewish understanding connected to the national infrastructure, and • The environment there is no source of electrical power; the solar • Assistance to impoverished Jewish commu- energy system will provide electricity for edu- nities outside Israel cational and practical needs. The Federation’s • Partnership 2000, with a focus on build- grant has been matched by an Israeli philan- ing a mutually beneficial relationship thropic foundation. with community-to-community partner, Jewish and Arab principals of Hand in Hand School in Wadi Ara Moshav Nahalal Assistance to Jewish communities Ann Arbor’s Israel/Overseas funding is di- centers. Federation funding for this program is ed 9 years ago by two educators—one Jewish, outside Israel vided between collective and elective funding. $10,000, and the community has been support- one Arab—the schools offer the opportunity Although the American Jewish Joint Distri- The majority (collective), $372,400, is sent via ing PACT since 2005. Additionally, generous for Jewish and Arab children to learn together in bution Committee (JDC) receives significant the United Jewish Communities (UJC) to our Ann Arbor philanthropists provide significant a bilingual, multi-cultural environment. From funding from collective contributions to the overseas partners, the Jewish Agency for Israel funding for a local enrichment center. its start with one small elementary school in UJC, the basic needs of the impoverished elder- (JAFI) and the American Jewish Joint Distribu- This year, two new projects were selected the Galilee, Hand in Hand now educates more ly in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) continue tion Committee (JDC). These partners help the for funding in this category on the strength of than 750 students in Jerusalem, Wadi Ara, Beer to increase exponentially. Additionally, the de- community achieve its mission of fostering and recommendations from committee members Sheva, and the Galilee. Each school is co-led by valuation of the dollar has made it increasingly strengthening Jewish communal life in Israel who were familiar with the programs and their Jewish and Arab principals, co-taught by Jewish difficult for the JDC to meet the tremendous and throughout the world. In 2008, an addi- work in the community. The Jaffa Institute is a and Arab teachers and evenly balanced between demand for their services. Since 2003, the Ann tional $135,000 of elective funding was allocat- far-reaching organization dedicated to support Jewish and Arab students. Arbor Jewish community has been contribut- ed, according to the recommendations of the for children at risk. The Welfare to Well Being A New Way (in Hebrew, Efshar Acheret) ing to the JDC’s programs in the FSU; programs IOC, to specific programs and projects within project, receiving $7,000 from the Greater Ann seeks to have a long-term impact in develop- that provide humanitarian care to over 240,000 the above-mentioned funding priorities. Arbor community, provides a comprehensive ing Jewish/Arab relations through education elderly Jews across 11 time zones, including “skills for work” training program for long- and shared experience, primarily through en- Aid to minority and disadvantaged food, medicine, warm clothes, and fuel to heat term unemployed women from Jaffa and south richment programs in the areas of music, art, their homes. For 2008 the allocation is $25,000. populations in Israel Tel Aviv who already receive assistance from the drama, communications, and science. The In 2003, the Jewish Federation began pro- SELAH: Israel Crisis Management Center Institute’s food distribution center. Participants program brings together students (and their viding additional funding to the JDC to help offers immediate emotional and material sup- receive training in telemarketing, computer parents), who otherwise learn in segregated the Jewish community in Argentina deal with port to new immigrants facing personal crises. skills, reception, and other marketable skills, schools, for workshops and field trips led by a catastrophic economic crisis. While the Jewish Through its network of over 500 volunteers, and are provided coaching and seminars on Jewish and Arab young adults. The multi-cul- welfare roles have decreased, they still remain SELAH aids those who have suffered from proper workplace habits. The women assume tural leadership project seeks to extend these re- high, and the JDC provides a number of basic terrorist attacks, loss of loved ones, and severe real responsibilities in the distribution center to lationships by developing leadership skills and benefits to needy Jews, including monthly su- financial crises. Among their many programs practice their workplace skills, and receive sala- fostering meaningful dialogue. The $10,000 permarket debit cards to purchase food, school and activities are support groups for grandpar- ries. The goal is to prepare local, long-term un- contributed by Jewish Federation will allow A lunches, medicines, and housing subsidies to ents raising their orphaned grandchildren, and employed women for economic independence New Way to continue its expansion to the Gali- keep people in their homes. Ann Arbor provides educational assistance for victims of domestic and self-sufficiency through job training and lee, particularly in the Partnership 2000 region additional funding to the Tinok Baby Help Pro- violence. SELAH’s mission is to provide es- placement assistance. around Nazareth. sential help for new immigrants whose already Ramla is a mixed town of Arabs and Jews continued on next page precarious lives have been shattered by tragedy. from around the world. There is a signifi- The Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor cant immigrant population, with new arriv- has been funding SELAH since 2004; this year’s als encompassing a range of close-knit ethnic funding of $15,000 is the second year of a three- communities. The Ramla Mediation Center: year commitment. Integrating Communities Project targets these Developed by the JDC, Parents and Chil- varied communities, and attempts to create a dren Together (PACT) is a multi-year, holistic framework that will operate to reduce conflicts approach to address the significant learning by fostering dialogue, using mediation instru- gaps between Ethiopian- Israeli children and ments, and utilizing internal ethnic methods their Israeli peers. Ann Arbor partners with De- for dispute mediation. Objectives for the year troit to fund PACT in Netanya where, over the include developing a protocol for referring and past seven years of the program’s existence, the handling disputes within specific immigrant language and literacy gap as measured by the communities, exposing the immigrant com- numbers of children who perform poorly were munities to new mediation concepts, and ex- November 2008 November reduced by 33 percent, and the gap in math- panding the pool of mediators from the Former A ematical thinking was reduced by 81 percent. Soviet Union (FSU) and Ethiopia. This project PACT programs include early daycare and extra was allocated $7,000 for 2008. support for day care centers in the area of liter- acy and mathematics, health and development Fostering Arab/Jewish understanding resources for children and their parents, pro- Since 2005, the Jewish Federation of Greater grams and cultural education to foster paren- Ann Arbor has been funding Hand in Hand Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw tal involvement, and community enrichment Schools; this year’s allocation is $14,000. Found- Dorit Mekler from Nahalal and Cheryl Sugerman at Celebrate Israel. 6 Washtenaw Jewish News A November 2008 7 ------n Visitors can also sign up to receive the LINK, LINK, the receive to up sign also can Visitors Suggestions and comments regarding the I have a lot of plans for the future, and I Please feel more than comfortable to call, Tomer Zur Tomer at the Apples and Honey September 2008 event, same valuable information is now organized in in organized now is information valuable same a logical making way, it even more accessible. Navigation tabs across the top of the screen in about information to visitor the direct tuitively the resource allocations, Federation’s scholar ships for Jewish summer camps and Israel ex people for opportunities involvement periences, Jewish to related articles ages, and interests ofall life, and much more. Special features include a Calendar” “Community the to button one-click directoryofresources, community Jewish a and and activities. organizations, Federation Jewish the of e-newsletter weekly the of Greater Ann Delivered everyArbor. Friday, the LINK highlights upcoming events of inter est as to well the as Jewish community, relevant Israel-related news items, and a meaningful Shabbat message from the execu Federation’s Shtulman. David director, tive web site can be directed to Laura direc Berger, tor of outreach and e-communications at the Berger Arbor. Ann of Federation Greater Jewish laura@jewishan or 677-0100, at reached be can n narbor.org. and Nahalal…and that’s just the beginning! I’ve only been here a month, but I already feel my of part large A much. so doing after welcoming home at amazing the to due is comfort quick every from received I’ve that warm-feeling and one I met. From the families that have invited asking people of the all to houses, their to me and and wishing smiling me doing, how I’m me luck, I feel that I ask couldn’t for a better all so much. Thank you be. to place will let you all know about them every month. Please look forward to my articles about hap in happening are that things Israel, in penings on in going My mine! and what’s life, Jewish and each everymain goal know get is to to one of the people in andthis amazing community, important I that think you everyone it’s gets to me as well. know send me e-mails, and ask me anything you dinner. a Shabbat to me invite just want—or ------The redesign shaliach (emissary) to the he he Jewish ofFederation Ann Greater at website their has overhauled Arbor www.jewishannarbor.org. t has been a month since I arrived to Ann Ann to I arrived since a month been t has some you with share to wanted I and Arbor, of my thoughts and some of the work I First First of all, this is not my first time inAnn I findAnn Arbor to be the perfectcombi A part little I’m about ofmyself: the educa In Israel, I was studying theater/acting, and What yourself asking probably are you Now, My first plan wasto get to knowmy new The Jewish Federation web site is a portal previously the site visited who have Those I have done until now. done have and I was Arbor, happy to get the great oppor tunity to be the first Arbor. Ann of Federation Jewish Greater nation between a small and quiet town, and a something find always will you which in place to back coming I was told I was (When do. to excited.) I was quite city, this great Israel, for Agency Jewish the at department tion and I have previous experience at a few differ amazing three spent I’ve camps. summer ent summer one and Tamarack, Camp at summers Africa. at a camp in South study to is plan main my home, back go I when special Before going education. back to school, I decided to accept the challenge to be a com Arbor. Ann to come munity and to shaliach here? done has Tomer environment and to meet with the colorful groups in It the was community. a great expe to rience, to way learn about the the different aspects of understand to try to and group each combine them all together into one big com After munity. a couple of weeks, I started the actual work. Just a few of those things include to speaking women at Hadassah their lovely opening evening, staffingmy own Israeli table at the Jewish Apples Community and Center’s Honey and fair, teaching Israeli culture in He Congregation. Israel Beth at graders 7th to brew curiouswith topics Israeli several discussed I’ve have and School, day Hebrew the at graders 5th joined the people who are doing a wonderful job with the connection between Ann Arbor took took place during the summer months and in- corporated the input of the Federation staff, as well as community members. The goal of the redesign was to present the community with a Fed Jewish accessible and inviting user-friendly, providing images more With site. web eration an attractive look on the front visitors page, are drawn in and encouraged to explore the exten the site. throughout content sive Federation’s the about only not information, for but as activities, a place Ann for online to visitors the in community Jewish the with connect Arbor area. 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), ), Ann Arbor/Na / leenfreed@jewishannar , or 677-0100. g, munities munities and the Central Galilee (Nazereth Ilit, Migdal and Ha’Emek, the Valley). Jezreel During the past Ann year, Arbor embarked on a closer community-to-community - rela a community Nahalal, Moshav with tionship thevia connection a been has there whom with Hebrew Day School and the primary school in Nahalal. This has expanded to include the broader Ann Arbor through community, the Jewish Educators Council. Projects on-going Box the and planned for the Israel, coming year include Na Celebrate in participation halal’s families (3-D pen-palinvolving project Project in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor/Naha and Nahalal), lal Family Fitness Challenge (sign up at nformationdesign.com/a2n regions in Israel. Ann Arbor collaborates in a partnership between Jewish com Michigan’s For For more information about O Israel/ funding or the Arbor Nahalal/Ann partnership, ei contact Eileen Freed, bor.or halal Reads, teen visits to Nahalal, and more. more. and visits Nahalal, teen to Reads, halal - - Through 2009, those 70 years of age or older, may make a gift of up to $100,000 to the Jew the to $100,000 to up ofgift a make may older, or age of years 70 those 2009, Through IRA charitable rollovers are available only this year and next. They cannot be made to income from excluded be will contribution direct a IRA, an from withdrawal cash a Unlike philanthropic and Rollover Charitable IRA the about more learning in interested Those Partnership 2000 was established in 1995 as1995 in established was 2000 Partnership donor donor advised funds, supporting organizations, private foundations, or split-interest trusts, charitable gift for annuities. in exchange or deduction, tax charitable a for eligible be not will It taxed. not is thus and purposes, federal for since it is not counted as federal but income, it will not count the toward annual percentage deductions. itemized other will nor deductible it reduce gifts, other limitation on Federation Jewish the at Shtulman David call should community Jewish the in opportunities 677-0100 and seek of tax advisor. the advice a professional Arbor, Ann of Greater Arbor. Ann of Greater David of is executive the Jewish Federation director Shtulman David Shtulman, special to the WJN the to special Shtulman, David As part of the recent economic recovery legislation, Congress extended the charitable IRA ofAct 2006 Protection in contained provision that the permitsto rollover Pension taxpayers goals. philanthropic their help accomplish to IRA use their ish Federation of ArborAnn Annual Campaign, or Greater create a permanent endowment fund in the Jewish Community Foundation drawn County, of from their Washtenaw IRA. impact no have will and distribution, minimum required the toward counted be willgift This administra IRA their instruct must taxpayers benefit, this obtain To taxes. income federal on first IRA the from drawn Funds Foundation. or Federation the to directly funds transfer to tor will contributed and then lose the tax benefit. Economic bailout package extends bailout package Economic charitable giving opportunity continued previous from page a method to foster greater connections between between connections greater foster to method a Diaspora Jewish communities and particular Partnership 2000: Community- to-Community Relationship with Moshav Nahalal gram, gram, which safeguards the health and devel opmental needs of Jewish infants, toddlers, and toddlers, infants, Jewish ofneeds opmental affectparticularly- were who women, pregnant ed by the Tinok economic distributescollapse. additional food (especially baby formula and vitamins), inoculates children, offers subsidies for loansdaycare, baby equipment, and offers Jewish the Argen As mothers. for workshops educational recover, to continues economy tina’s community is gradually regaining its previous of$25,000high funding a From independence. to decreased has Argentina in funding 2005, in $12,000 in 2008. It is anticipated that the need the over zero allocationthis will to for decrease of couple next years. Eva Eva Solomon and nature guide Ori Friedland fully on accessible Lotem’s nature trail Dorit Mekler from Nahalal and Cheryl Sugerman at Celebrate Israel. Dorit Mekler Nahalal and Cheryl Celebrate from Sugerman at U.S. 23 & WASHTENAW www.hillers.com I Jewish Family Services IN THE ARBORLAND MALL Shop With Us From Everyday To Gourmet For The Holidays JFS car donation keeps people employed Carol Lessure, special to the WJN hen Michele Leshan and Steve Rubenstein were ready to give up Wtheir old, trusted car they chose to give it to Jewish Family Services of Greater Ann Arbor. Since they donated their Toyota Camry two years ago, the car has been used every day for work by the local family who received it. Ann This family is lucky, but JFS has a waiting list of people in need of working vehicles. Trans- portation can be a major barrier to getting a job Arbor in an area with limited bus routes and no other Hiller’s has many wonderful public transportation options. Those people waiting for vehicles include a single mother gift ideas to choose from: facing expensive car repairs, a recently arrived gourmet foods, wines, Iraqi family of six, and an older Russian émigré JFS assisted with the paperwork and provid- gift cards, the list goes on whose vehicle is essential to his various part- ed transportation to Leshanback to her home. time jobs, as well as helping transport family The next day, JFS had a mechanic examine the and on. Our gourmet deli and friends to medical appointments. car for safety and arranged for the new owner will showcase many unique Not having a safe, reliable car prevents JFS to take possession of the car. items which are simply clients from working, poses a major financial “This is the first car I ever owned,” notes Le- hurdle, and slows their progress to achieve self- shan, “and we are both thrilled that someone irresistible for food lovers sufficiency and economic independence. else is putting it to good use.” everywhere. Choose from When they were ready to donate their car, JFS also participates in Charity Motors, a Leshan and Rubenstein contacted Jewish Fam- our many delicious deli, fruit Detroit-based organization that auctions cars ily Services and learned that a needy family for local charities. JFS and other non-profits re- and veggie trays for holiday could use their old car. They liked that their re- ceive 70 percent of the purchase price as a chari- parties and gatherings. liable vehicle would have a new life with a local table donation. JFS uses these funds to provide family. They also confirmed that their donation financial and emotional support to local families would qualify for an income-tax deduction at facing unemployment or financial crises. n WIN A $100 HILLER’S GIFT CARD its fair market value on their next tax return. register online www.hillers.com/register WE CARRY A LARGE SELECTION OF •ALLERGY FREE •GLUTEN FREE •PEANUT FREE PRODUCTS JFS volunteers help clients find jobs  Deborah Renner and Mira Sussman, special to the WJN an you imagine having to conduct a perfectly. However, his difficulty in communi- job search, apply for jobs, and con- cating clearly was impacting his performance as Cduct interviews in a country in which well as his potential to be promoted to a higher the language is not your native tongue? Having position. Levin’s supervisor came to JFS and been fortunate enough to secure a job, can you asked if JFS could find a volunteer to work with imagine the difficulty you might have commu- Levin on his English. The supervisor made it nicating effectively with your coworkers and clear that Levin’s position could be in jeopardy supervisors? if his English did not improve. Jewish Family Services (JFS) Employment JFS located a very committed volunteer Celebrate with Family, frIEnds Coordinator Mira Sussman assists non-native with previous experience in literacy tutoring. English speakers in overcoming such employ- Judy Linden has been working with Levin on & Your favorite coMfort foODS ment related barriers. For many of these clients, a weekly basis since December 2007, driving to this may be the first time they have to write a his place of employment in Dexter. She keeps resume, made more difficult by the fact that in close contact with his supervisor, and devel- Tfmfdujpot!gspn!pvs!Ipmjebz!Nfov!jodmvef; their English is often very rudimentary. They ops and conducts lessons to improve Levin’s also need to learn how to use the Internet to workplace related English skills. Knowing that ¡Da]npuDkqoai]`aLkpLeao search for job postings, fill out complicated and her volunteer efforts have helped this man to ¡Nk]opa`Omq]od@aha_]p] lengthy job applications, and become comfort- remain productively employed in his field is able in the interview situation. On the job, they extremely rewarding. Linden explained, “I’ve ¡Aii]#oNai]ng]^haL]npuPkCk need to be able to communicate effectively in found it very rewarding. I’ve also learned as both written and spoken English. Preparing much from him as I hope he’s learned from ¡Ahev]^apdÑoI]i]ÑoIa]p^]hho clients to accomplish these tasks on their own me.” For Levin, their work has been very use- ¡O]rknuOkqlo requires intensive one-on-one work, as well as a ful as well. He expressed his gratitude, saying, keen sensitivity to cultural differences. “This is helping me. I better understand people ¡Dkhe`]uLeao JFS volunteers work with Sussman to ex- and can explain to co-workers more and more. pand the employment services JFS is able to I appreciate JFS and Judy for helping me. Thank ¡=j`iq_dikna provide. Arouba Jassem is one client who has you very much.” benefited from the help of volunteers. Bob Mil- There are a number of volunteer positions stein worked with Jassem to create a resume and available to those interested in helping JFS clients conduct a job search on the Michigan Works with employment issues, including assistance in job bank website (http://www.michworks.org). creating resumes, completing job applications, Jassem said, “Thank you so much, working and practicing interview skills. A volunteer job Reaspda_kilhapaiajq]p with Bob will help me find a job.” Today Jassem developer is also needed to network with local November 2008 November understands the process of applying for a job in businesses and organizations in order to expand A sss*vejcani]jo_]panejc*_ki* the United States, and has greater confidence to job opportunities for JFS clients. n ?]hh]da]`pkkn`an]p3/0*22/*/0,,* do this on her own. For more information, or to apply, Contact Debo- Dmitriy Levin, now employed by Recellular, rah Renner, Volunteer Services and Community is another community member helped by a JFS Outreach Coordinator, Deborah@jfsannarbor. Vejcani]j#o@ahe_]paooaj¡0..@apnkepOp*¡=jj=n^kn(IE Employment Services volunteer. Levin has all org, 769-0209. Klajaranu`]u(3]i)-,li¡3/0*22/*@AHE the technical skills needed to perform his job Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw

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Programs at Beth Israel Congregation TBE November programs Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN Roinnie Simon, special to the WJN Monday Evening Torah Study in the process of converting to Judaism. Each Shabbat Service recalls Kristalnacht Ave.). Lecture tickets are $10 for those not Rabbi Robert session will be a combination of learning and Friday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m., Temple already members of the Distinguished Lec- Dobrusin pres- discussion, with time devoted to exploring Beth Emeth will remember the anniversary ture Series. Send check for tickets to Temple ents “Jewish Per- questions from members of the group. of Kristalnacht with a recounting of the Beth Emeth with a note specifying the “Os- spectives on the personal experiences of one of its members. her event.” Lunch will be on your own ac- Beginning and Shabbat Limud Everyone in the community is invited to at- count. For more information or to RSVP, End of Time” on Shabbat Limud (Sabbath Study) is offered tend. (See article, front page.) contact Judy Gourdji, jgourdji@comcast. Mondays, begin- on the first and third Saturdays of the month, net, 994-4046. ning November 3 from 9—9:50 a.m. (before the Shacharit ser- Renaissance Group discusses “What (with the exception vice) faciliated by Rabbi Robert Dobrusin. This Twenties & Thirties drop-in session will allow participants to dis- Happened Last Tuesday?” The Temple Beth Emeth Twenties and Rabbi Dobrusin of November 17) On November cuss and debate traditional texts with a focus on Thirties (TNT) group will hold a First Fri- at 8 p.m. This drop-in class will examine spec- 11 at 10:30 a.m., the critical issues faced in the world today: the day dinner on November 7 at 6:30 p.m. ulative and subjective midrashic and aggadic Michael Traugott, environment, hunger, poverty, medical ethics, TNT has monthly dinners at the homes texts (non-legal rabbinic exposition of the a nationally rec- war and peace, and others. of members, fostering a welcoming, inclu- Torah) concerning the Story of Creation and ognized professor sive Jewish community through monthly the coming of the Messiah, the end of days, of communica- Shabbat child care and youth services social and cultural activities. Non-TBE and the “world to come,” as well as contem- tion studies and Childcare for pre-schoolers aged 2–5 members are welcome. For further infor- porary authors who have based themselves on political science years-old is offered every Saturday from mation, visit their website at http://www. these texts. The texts will be studied in both at the University 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Tot Shabbat for 3–5 year- templebethemeth.org/tnt, email tnt@tem- English and Hebrew, but no knowledge of Michael Traugott of Michigan, will olds and their parents meets on Saturday plebethemeth.org, or call 665-4744. Hebrew is required. mornings, November 8 (with Peretz Hirsh- present a lecture entitled “What Happened Last Tuesday?” Lunch and Learn bein) and November 22 (with Jessica Kander) Jewish Hikers of Michigan Professor Traugott will talk about the No- Jewish Hikers of Michigan (JHOM) is Every Wednesday in November (except from 11:15 a.m.–noon. Participants enjoy vember election outcomes, including the sponsored by Temple Beth Emeth’s Caring November 26) from noon–1:15 p.m. at the stories, puppets, and songs, and join the rest campaigns, the primaries and caucuses, and Community and is open to anyone. All adult Garfunkel Schteingart Activities Center (2010 of the congregation at a special kids table dur- the pressing need for some further reforms couples, singles, and children are welcome. Washtenaw) Rabbi Dobrusin and Rabbi ing the kiddush. The Moadon program of- in the primary and caucus calendar. This The hikes take place on a monthly basis on Blumenthal provide a stimulating topic for fers a drop in gathering place for children in lecture is part of the Distinguished Lecture different local trails. All skill levels are wel- discussion. Participants are asked to bring a elementary school beginning at 10 a.m. Series of the Osher Lifelong Learning Insti- come. Participants are encouraged to bring “dairy” lunch, while the refreshments and followed by a Junior Congregation Service tute at the University of Michigan. backpacks, munchies, and drinks. Each desserts will be provided by the synagogue. at 11 a.m. Twice a month, on November 8 and November 22, children in kindergarten The Temple Beth Emeth Renaissance hike lasts approximately 1.5 to 2 hours. For through first grade are offered a separate Group has arranged for its members to be further information, or to carpool, contact Introduction to Judaism guests at this lecture, which will be held at Rabbi Kim Blumenthal offers this class learning service at 11 a.m. just for their age Eli at 883-9522 or Ronnie at 665-4744, or the Best Western (2900 Jackson Ave.) from at no charge to group called M & M (Minyan Matok, “the email [email protected]. Web site: 10–11:30 a.m.. Lunch and discussion will the general public sweet service.”) run by Jake Kander, Beth Is- http://www.templebethemeth.org/tbe/jew- follow at Carlyle Restaurant (3660 Jackson on Wednesdays, rael’s program director. ish_hikers_of_michigan. November 12— February 24 at Sushi Shabbat 7:45 p.m. This 13 Beth Israel offers a Japanese cuisine Friday Learning Services with Reconstructionist Havurah session course is night dinner on November 21 at 7:00 p.m., Aura Ahuvia, special to the WJN intended for in- preceded by the Friday night service at 6 p.m. dividuals who are at which Jewish Haiku poems will be read. A new series of educational “Learning Services” is being offered on a monthly basis by Rabbi Kim Blumenthal looking to under- There is a charge for dinner. For further de- the Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Havurah, and is open to the entire community. The stand the fundamentals of Judaism. It is also a tails, call 665-9897. streamlined,two-hour service includes plenty of music, time to discuss the weekly Torah good learning opportunity for people who are portion, and detailed explanations of prayers and other concepts. A guitar rounds out most of the music, while a drum and other percussion instruments make the occasional appearance. The service is led by Aura Ahuvia, a rabbinical student with ALEPH (the Al- liance for Jewish Renewal). New wave of congregational singing at B I C The idea for the service grew out of the group members’ realization that they wanted Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN to deepen their knowledge of specific prayers and more general theological concepts in n Sunday, November 9, at 1:30 A Program and order to facilitate their ability to find services more meaningful. There is active participa- p.m., Cantor Jeffrey Shiovitz, con- Resource Guide, tion throughout the morning. The service is appropriate for adults, or anyone studying to sidered the foremost authority was published become a bar or bat mitzvah. O Learning Services with the Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Havurah are scheduled for on congregational song in the United States by the Cantors today, will share and teach some of the new Assembly in November 8 and December 13, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Jewish Community Center of melodies used during Kabbalat Shabbat ser- 1998, the same Washtenaw County. All community members are welcome to attend. For further informa- vices at many congregations. year that Aytz tion, go to www.aarecon.org, or call 445.1910. Jeffrey Shiovitz is a native of Detroit. He is Hayim Hi, A a 1981 graduate of the Cantors Institute of the Seder for Tu Jewish Theological Seminary of America and B’Shevat was AA Recons Kabbalat Shabbat discussion November 14 past president of the Cantors Institute Alumni published by Cantor Jeffrey Shiovitz, Aura Ahuvia, special to the WJN Association. He is chairman of publications the Women’s America will select a new president on November 4. But then what? What signals will it for the Cantors Assembly and past chairman League for Conservative Judaism. He is the co- send? And what will the new president do about it? To help answer those questions, na- of its Westchester/Rockland Region. Haz- editor with Robert Kieval of Derech HaShatz: tional political journalist Jonathan Cohn will speak at the Ann Arbor Reconstructionist zan Shiovitz has served Congregation Sons The Hazzan’s Manual, published in 2001 by Havurah's monthly Kabbalat Shabbat Discussion, Friday, November 14, at 6:15 p.m. The of Israel since 1988. He is a popular lecturer the Cantors Assembly. Cantor Shiovitz is cur- discussion will be preceded by a brief Kiddush. on the subject of Jewish music and musicol- rently working on Zamru Lo: The Next Gener- Cohn is a senior editor at the New Republic, where he's been writing about politics and November 2008 November ogy. His books include B’kol Echad: In one ation, a three volume series of congregational policy for more than a decade. But he may better known as the author of Sick, an award- A Voice, the official songbook of the Conserva- melodies. The first volume, Congregational winning 2007 book on America's health care crisis—a topic sure to figure prominently in tive Movement, which has been reprinted 28 Melodies for Shabbat, was published in 2004 next year's political agenda. Jonathan's writing has also appeared in the New York Times and times; 900,000 copies are currently in print to glowing reviews. The second volume, Mel- Washington Post, among other publications, but for the last seven years he and his family worldwide. His book Roni V’Simchi: Rejoice odies for the High Holidays, was published in have called Ann Arbor home. and Sing, Holidays in Song is a collection of 2006. He is busy working on the third and fi- The monthly Kabbalat Shabbat Discussions run from 6:15–7:45 p.m. at the Jewish holiday songs published by the Jewish Theo- nal volume, Melodies of Hallel, Shalosh Regalim Community Center of Washtenaw County. All are welcome to attend; no RSVP necessary

Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw logical Seminary. His publication, Israel at 50: and Weekdays. n Fore more information or for questions, go to www.aarecon.org, or call 445.1910. 10 Washtenaw Jewish News A November 2008 11 ------n

In such circumstances it is forbidden to sit sit to forbidden is it circumstances such In Learning from the example of Noah, we that believe must we First, do? can we What in and desire strong our see will God When hidden, hidden, whereas physicality is easily perceived. that appreciate to Jew the for hard is it exile In his true function is the service of God, for the the obscure under to material conspires world great so is of exile confusion The reality. lying that the falsehood of the world is often mis truth. for taken un wait cannot We folded. arms withour back of out go til God will us to and tell exile. come must also do all in our power to determine if the misfortune has ended, and hasten our de for placidly wait than Rather exile. from parture the exile to we be must over, expend all - neces sary it immediately. to an end put efforts to Moshiach and end can exile the minute any at will come. Second, we should disseminate the belief in Moshiach and the anticipation of his coming. We must also increase our with perfor God bombard and deeds, good of mance once at us remove He that prayers and petitions Redemption. and bring the exile us to from tense longing to leave exile, most assuredly He merit the In Moshiach. our send to hasten will hearts’ our fulfill willcertainly ofHe efforts our us at once. to and bring Moshiach desire, suburban stretches of highway with American toy home stores, repair and officesupply fran the chises, occasional the synagogue, noise and the is hubbub, an example of how much Israel has grown. I’ll let someone else decide, or use just another time I’ll to think about, whether theit’s meantime, the In not. or direction right enjoy walking the taking streets in ofAviv, Tel Hebrew, of sound the enjoying atmosphere, the n and marveling at all the city offer. has to - - - mevulbal Legal experts and geriatric care managers will walk you through creating and organizing medical, legal and financial documents. (flood), for in for (flood), Aging in Place Conference. visit www.jfsannarbor.org November 10, 2008, 2-4 pm mabul Turner Senior Resource Center 2401 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor JFS - Your Family in the Community Your JFS - Questions? Call Abbie at 734-769-0209 or Do you have an aging loved one? The workshop is part of the Housing Bureau for Seniors’ bat of November 1 is the famous story story famous the is 1 November of bat ex was at the It of and the flood. Noah he Torah portion that we read on Shab on read we that portion Torah he for the Expected and the Unexpected in Later Life One-Stop Shop for Peace of Mind: How to Prepare Thus it is difficult to understand why Noah Noah why understand to difficult is it Thus In truth, by sending the birds from the ark, effortsobserved and Noah’s saw God When Exile is likened to the Sponsored by Rachel Bendit & Mark Bernstein and the Maas Foundation Israelis Israelis and those who love Israel always T into of command household enteredfirstpress God that Noah your all and you “Come ark: the It was also commandexpress at God’s the ark.” the forth from “Go told, are we as it, left he that yourand sons, your wifeand your and you ark, with wives you.” sons’ sent out the raven and the dove to determine if the flood hadended. If Noah wassupposed to wait until God told him it was time to leave, waters the if see to out birds the send he did why had he abated? wasn’t Why content to wait for command? God’s Noah was expressing his strong desire to leave Noah exit. him, to come to God his for waiting than Rather it. facilitate to power his in all did he and sent sent indeed the the out raven, dove receded. in the hope that the flood had twice, to hastened He to go out, longing his intense “Go the command fact, In command. His issue Noah’s ofmerit the on given was ark” the of out exertions. exile exile our perceptions of reality are The spiritual of(confused). nature the world is Noah teaches lessons on our exile lessons teaches Noah WJN the to special Goldstein, Aharon Rabbi ing early morning I calisthenics. watched them for a few and minutes, then been looked back in the have could which city a to direction other Miami Beach, Athens, or York, New any other contemporary city. wonder how to evaluate Israel’s history and what its future will hold. I’m not sure I know either of these answers. But somewhere be tween the elderly women doing the exercises, ------

communicate with Tel Aviv’s history is the vastly from different Aviv’s Tel Of one course, could ask, after this century, There were many ideas that inspired the in place favorite my is Aviv Tel say wouldn’t I On a visit many Aviv to years back, I Tel

outdoor market, interesting architecture, and ainteresting architecture, outdoor market, brandunique of history. history of Jerusalem. Instead of walking the streets of Jerusalem thinking about King Da vid, vid, it is the picture that I invariably think of, the one so many of us have seen: The found dune sand empty an on standing Aviv ofTel ers Jewish modern first the build to ready 1909, in the Looking mass around of the buildings, city. financial institutions, the hotels and shops and boutiques, it is hard to believe that only 100 moment. that historic passed since have years what has developed? What makes Aviv a Tel Jewish city? Is it the fact that the population is overwhelmingly Jewish? Is is it it Hebrew, Jew I store supply plumbing the (like symbols ish It passed during my pipes)? first visit, which hadcopper a Ha of out made menorah nukkah one what wonder to Jew observant an for easy is contemporary, a in with connect possibly could western-style metropolis with all of the usual unfair. that’s of But problems urban life. early For Zionists. it some, was spiritual yearn ings. For others, it was the desire to be “nor a ways, people so In in many our own land. mal” is Aviv and city, “normal” a that Tel makes it a fascinating place to visit for a Jew accustomed synagogue. in a “Jewish” feeling most to althoughYemenite the Israel, restaurants in the Quarter are among my favorite places to find deeply to come I have say I would But myself. fas noisy, congested, fast-paced, this appreciate the Sea. cinating City by of out the onto walked balcony our seaside ho- tel at dawn, looked down onto the beach, and saw some elderly women, apparently in Israel since the early days of the state or before, do - - - - - Accompany older adults Advocate on their behalf Help to doctors’ visits • • • family caregivers 7-8:30 pm Washtenaw Washtenaw Jewish Thursday, December 4 JFS - Your Family in the Community Your JFS - Jewish Community Center Questions? Contact Deborah Renner at 734-769-0209 or [email protected].

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BECOME A “PATIENT PARTNER” Learn more at a meeting for potential volunteers onLearn more at a meeting for potential volunteers I have to say that this firstAviv tripTel to Subsequent visits to Tel Aviv have been Part of the change has been in my own at My My topic for this I month first Aviv. is Tel Rabbi Rob Dobrusin, special to the WJN the to special Dobrusin, Rob Rabbi Tel Aviv, a fascinating city by the sea city by a fascinating Aviv, Tel L titude. titude. I firstAvivTelwent whileto I was still in the early stages of my developing love affair with Jerusalem; and in a self-righteous and patronizing I way, looked down on Aviv. Tel I thought that it couldn’t possibly offer this American Jew very much nourishment for the more found I though, by went years the As soul. by: moved be and enjoy cityto the in more and the beautiful beach along the Mediterranean, actuI say can’t (I music and theatre museums, but concerts, and plays many to gone have ally a great is significant), there are they knowing lem, where I lived and studied, did not have any have not did studied, and lived I where lem, ofKentucky the American chain kosher restaurants a you mighthad Aviv Tel But today. to find wait couldn’t I and restaurant Chicken Fried allmissing been had I what see to Aviv Tel to go these years. was The disappointing. bus station was impos sibly the crowded, streets were noisy and I felt overpowered by the exhaust, the weather was that Aviv Tel unseasonably hot and left humid, and I the chicken good. very not and greasy was be very back soon. I wouldn’t assuming day much different. I have found some wonderful aspects to visiting the city and I now look for time spent there. to ward to address political issues, or to presume a deep and intimate familiarity with any place in Israel. I Rather, want to share some thoughts from the perspective of an American Rabbi about some of visit. to likely are Israel to that travelers the places well-known a of invitation the at Aviv Tel visited colonel. I’m not referring to a military officer, rather Colonel Sanders. Back in 1979 Jerusa I Youth

Student newspaper club added to other Turkish Home Cooking

enrichment activities Delicious and Healthy Dina Shtull, special to the WJN he Hebrew Day School Newspaper seas and Community Relations for the Jewish

Chug (club) is the most recent ad- Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, has been Dine-in Take-out Catering dition to a number of enrichment teaching a modern Israeli dance elective at

T clubs at the Hebrew Day School (HDS). The HDS for several years. Once a week the chil- Taking Holiday Catering Orders Available for Holiday Parties club is lead by Dr. Laura Hirshbein, parent dren practice during recess; they perform for

Now with Liquor License of two HDS the school and the community a few times a students, year. Eileen is a parent of three HDS alumni.

who is an The Chess Club was started over two years (734) 662-1711 [email protected] 1703 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor assistant ago by alumni parent Richard Frey, who since professor then has helped 30 students from kindergarten of psychia- through 5th grade learn to play chess. As an try at the HDS alumni parent, Frey knew that HDS stu- University dents would appreciate and excel at the game. of Michi- Frey is a former special education teacher who gan and a taught chess to emotionally impaired children. professional In 2007, HDS supporter Carl Cohen donated writer. This funds to HDS for the purpose of hiring a chess semester, 12 master to join Frey in teaching the more ad- Avi Lessure playing chess students are vanced students. Chess master John Smalec subsequently worked with students for ap- proximately 10 weeks, and greatly improved the level of play at the school. Led by teacher Carol Gannon, the Computer Lab Club offers oppor- tunities for students to experiment with proj-

The HDS Times editors and writers participating in the club, which publishes ects of their a school newspaper, The HDS Times. The own. Stu- newspaper includes student fiction, poetry, dents have book reviews, puzzles, cartoons, school up- made Pow- dates and happenings, student opinions and erPoint pre- surveys, and a review of favorite movie stars. sentations Yotam Fisher-Pinsker All of the sections are written by the students. and movies, juggling a few balls Hirshbein decided to organize and lead this starting with club because she “loves writing and wanted script writing and adding music and special ef- to share this joy with young people.” fects. Upper grade children are trained as men- The Newspaper Club is one of several tors to help the younger grade children. after-school and lunch-time clubs that are The Klez Kids Band is a group of young offered to enrich the HDS education. Oth- students who supplement their private music ers include: chess, Israeli dancing, juggling, lessons with this school ensemble. The stu- computer lab, and a Klez Kids Band. The dents learn to blend their own musical parts clubs are either led by volunteer parents, with the music of the other players. They also community members, or teachers, and pro- gain performance experience multiple times vide additional beyond-the-classroom learn- per year, performing in the community for ing opportunities to HDS students. seniors at the Jewish Community Center of Parent Debbie Zivan started the Juggling Washtenaw County and Glacier Hills Re- Club in January of 2007 with six students in tirement Center, as well as for the school’s grades three through five. Since then it has student talent show, Chanukah festival, and grown to ten students who meet weekly dur- Graduation ceremonies. The Klez Kids Band ing recess to practice juggling and improve is led by music teacher Debra Gombert. their coordination. Zivan learned to juggle at Says Abigail Hirshbein, who participates Camp Ramah when she was a teenager, and in two chugim, “Klez Kids is a really fun band has been enjoying this special skill ever since. in which kids can play their instruments and “I love to juggle and wanted to share this love just have fun. I also really like how kids can November 2008 November with the kids,” she said. “Each child is differ- be creative with what they write in the News- A ent in his or her ability to learn how to juggle, paper chug.” n but they all show remarkable determination and willingness to learn.” Debbie brings with For more information about the Hebrew Day her a large bag of balls, pins, and scarves for School of Ann Arbor, contact [email protected] the students to use. The jugglers perform at or call 971-4633. open House for prospective the school’s student talent show in March. students will be held Monday, December 1 and Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw Eileen Freed, Director of Israel, Over- Wednesday, January 14, 7 p.m. at HDS. 12 Washtenaw Jewish News A November 2008 - - - 13 ------. deb www. Sunday, Sunday,

visit or 971-0990 for more g or callg or (847) 509-0990. Next summer Next the JCC is planning to take a The SanGames willFrancisco the offer fol For For first-hand information about OS The Snow Days program is for JCC mem JCC for is program Days Snow The Teen athletes sought for for athletes sought Teen Maccabi Games2009 JCC WJN the to special Huerta, Deborah Each summer the Jewish Community Center of County Washtenaw sends a team of ath letes ages 13–16 to the JCC Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style sporting competition that incorporates community service and social activities into an unforgettable experience for Jewish teens. This past year Ann Arbor’s team the by Games hosted JCC attended Maccabi the JCC of Metropolitan Detroit from August 17–22. JCC Francisco San the to athletes 10–12 team JCC the enhance Maccabi Games, which To will 7. be held August 2–Friday, August planning is also JCC the experience, Maccabi to bring 2–3 athletes from Ann Arbor’s Part Ann partofthe as Israel in region 2000 nership Arbor delegation. lowing sports: baseball, girlsbasketball, soccer, volleyball, co-ed flagfootball, bowling, dance, track and tennis, tennis, table swimming, golf, plan teamtentatively is Arbor’s Ann and field. ning to bring a boys’ soccer team as well as individual-sport athletes. Interested teens are at Huerta Deborah contact to encouraged [email protected] information. Ronnie Simon, special to the WJN the to special Simon, Ronnie The camp Reform in Movement’s Wiscon sin, the Olin-Sang Ruby Institute (OSRUI) is located on the shores of beautiful Lac La Belle. OSRUI offers a unique environment in and Creative 3–12. grades in campers for novative Jewish experiences are combined with all the fun of summer camp: sports, swimming, drama, dance, archery, visual arts, horseback camp riding, photography, fires, the Alpine boating, Tower, biking, adventure camping, and most important, friendships.lifelong all are invited RUI, to attend camp rallies at Beth Emeth duringTemple religious school Satur 1–2. ofNovember weekend the hours 1 ralliesNovember are at 8:35 day, and a.m. rally 12:05 is Sunday’s p.m. at 7:05 For p.m. further information about camp, OSRUI Summer camp OSRUI osrui.or rallies at TBE JCC Snow Days, students will enjoy games, gym activities, and fun in the snow under the supervision of youth director Deborah Huerta and other available staff. Students should bring a dairy nut and free, ap lunch, outside. playing for clothes propriate bers only and the program fee is $50 per student (Kids’ Konnection and Kids’ Club Regis discounts). for eligible are participants parents but required, not is advance in tration will be asked to fill out aregistration form and submit payment when they arrive. For more information, contact Deborah Huerta [email protected] at 971-0990 or ------, or g www.jc [email protected] . g The JCC Isadore The and JCC Bernstein Claire Isadore In The new and enhanced playgrounds were On Wednesdays, HDS On gymWednesdays, teacher Kim Rebekah On Gamble Thursday, will offer for class Arts Martial a Thursdays, on Also Registration for these classes is due by The Youth Department of the Jewish tunities to work on balance and coordination coordination and balance on work to tunities An friends. with structure the exploring while Elephant Play rotating net was also installed, which enables children to enjoy group play while challenging themselves to reach to the anetis This of top tree-shapedstructure. the smaller version of the rotating net installed in the new elementary playground and will help preschool students transition to new elementary as theychallenges enter school. playground was fant/Toddler also improved primarily was which sod, of addition the with funded by proceeds from the Bernstein En dowment. dowment. The JCC now boasts state-of-the- of children all for ages. art playgrounds of the hundreds by families whoenjoyed par ticipated in the Apples JCC’s and Honey cel ebration in Hebrew September. Day School students and participants in the JCC’s after school programs have also been putting the summed student One use. good to equipment up the general enthusiasm for the new play ground in “Thanka letter to you forthe JCC, the new playground. I love it! Not only is it good fun, it’s My favorite too. exercise part is the The big rotating JCC net.” looks forward and children from reactions similar hearing to come. to years families for this innovative and imaginative art education education art imaginative and innovative this or artist different a explore will students class, style each week and then produce a creative lesson. the day’s by framed inspired piece Braun will run a Fit Kids class for students The willin class grades kids an op K–2. give portunity to stretch their minds and bodies as they learn about the joys and importance ofnutrition. fitness and proper Jewelry Jazzy ofpopular session her second a students New 1–5. grades in students for class are welcome to join for more fun with bead making and jewelry creation. Rabbi in gradesstudents K–5 will be offered. Martial unique this continue will Gluck Peter Arts class, which teaches basic self-defense techniques and principles in a fun and safe New environment. students are always wel come. 6. November Class fees vary; contact Debo rah Huerta at 971-0990, for more details, or visit cannarbor.or Community Center of Washtenaw County this programs Day Snow offer again once will open to able is JCC the when days On winter. but Ann Arbor Public Schools are cancelled due to winter weather conditions, the Youth Department will run a Snow Day program from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. for JCC memberskindergarten through eighthin grades. During JCC to run programs on snow days for for days programs on snow run to JCC grades K-8 ------www.jccannarbor. The JCC’s Early Childhood Center play On Tuesday, November 4, November a Out School’s On Tuesday, The cost for each Out School’s day is $34 The Jewish Community Center of Washt of Center Community Jewish The On a Mondays, Pilo Pollow class will be an On Abrakadoodle Art Tuesdays, class or contact Deborah Huerta at deborah g ground, ground, originally a gift from the Benard L. Maas Foundation and the ECC - Com Parent mittee, was also enhanced by the addition of two innovative new pieces of playground equipment. The Kompan Shifter Triple is a spaceship-shaped structure that combines circu and challenges, climbing manipulatives, lar openings to give children multiple oppor The structure includes climbing walls, a rope other many and slide, a spaces, seating bridge, features that provide for hours of entertain ofunique pieces Three exploration. and ment spinning equipment complement the main children net allows a rotating large structure: to climb to towering heights, a circular spin ner puts a twist on the traditional and bench, dizzyinga spinning pole fun. provides program will be offered for AAPS students. On Friday, November 14, there will be a Out School’s program for HDS students. A on program will Out beoffered also School’s and AAPS both for 26 November Wednesday, each for details Programming students. HDS Stu day will be available in early November. dents should bring a nut free, dairy lunch and lunch dairy free, nut a bring should dents outside. playing for clothing appropriate for care from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. ($32 for addi tional siblings) and $8 for Extended Care from 4–6:00 Registration p.m. is due at least three days in advance. For additional infor mation or to visit register, 971-0990. [email protected], or enaw enaw County has an exciting schedule of afterschool classes planned for the Novem ber–December session. Youth Enrichment classes for elementary students 10 November willand runMonday, through the begin week of December These 15. fun and stimu open are classes enrichment afternoon lating to both JCC members and non-members, and run from 4:15–5:15 p.m. Supervision is also available. the classes and after before offered for students in grades K–2. Hebrew willleadBraun Kim gym School teacher Day students in active games of pillow polo, a version of field hockey played with padded and balls.sticks will be for students in offered gradesIn K–5. Enriching afterschool classes Enriching afterschool ------. - - - - www. Wall-E Wall-E

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An An entirely new playground was installed, barrier-free innovative, ofan addition The Youth/Teens Kids’ Kids’ Night Out events are open to JCC The Jewish Community Center of Washt of Center Community Jewish The - Cen Community Jewish the month Each Following the theme of “An Inventive JCC installs innovative new playground equipment new playground innovative installs JCC WJN the to special Huerta, Deborah The Jewish Community Center of Washt enaw County recently completed a series of major playground enhancements that have met with rave reviews from parents and - chil alike. dren additional equipment was added to the Ear ly Childhood Center playground, and im provements were made to the infant-toddler playground. Funding for the playground enhancements came from a variety of com munity Key sources. donations were received from the Benard L. Maas Foundation, He the Society, Jewish Cultural School, Day brew and Michael and Patricia Levine. Half of the money raised at the JCC’s 2005 auction was additional and playground, the for designated funds were raised at the 2007 auction. The Jewish Community Center covered all costs the money raised. that exceeded elementary playground has transformed the area behind the JCC into a vibrant space for The play and play to adults relax. to children ground features a play paved area with a bas ketball net, several picnic benches, and four pieces of unique playground equipment sur large The chips. wood cushioning by rounded Kompan Edge play structure is designed to instincts embrace to children’s play on every part of a playground by allowing children to oflimits the seek safely capabilities. own their

Deborah Huerta, special to the WJN the to special Huerta, Deborah JCC youth programs youth JCC The movie follows the futuristic adventures of adventures futuristic the follows movie The robot reconnaissance a Wall-E, named robot a and named Eve, a spaceship of humans who evacuated earthof before. hundreds years members and non-members in grades K–5. (additional $20 is members JCC for cost The siblings: $18). The cost for non-members is $25 (additional siblings: $23). Registrations are due 20. November by For Thursday, ad visit register, to or information ditional jccannarbor.or 971-0990. or [email protected], enaw enaw County will offer three Out/ School’s In JCC’s On days days this when November. Hebrew Day School or Ann Arbor Pub lic Schools are closed but the JCC is open, the JCC Youth Department offers full day School’s Out programs featuring field trips only are programs These specialactivities. or for JCC members in grades K–5. Middle school students are also welcome to partici as helpers. pate ter of Washtenaw County offers a Kids’ Night Night Kids’ a offers County Washtenaw of ter and dinner, crafts, games, featuring event Out elementarya give movie to age kids a chance to have fun with their friends and parents a chance to have a night on their own. This event willmonth’s be held at the JCC from 22. November Saturday, on 6:30–10:00 p.m. the event will Evening,” be filled withrobot- inspired games and crafts, plus and dinner, viewing of this hit summer’s movie, School’s Out in November Programs School’s

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Young adult fiction book reviews Campbell’s Labels Program Dina Shtull, special to the WJN awards free educational n honor of Jewish Book Month, the stu- venture. They meet merchandise dents of the Hebrew Day School of Ann a girl named Fri- I Arbor (HDS) have written the following day, who tells them Lisa Brown, special to the WJN book reviews of Jewish-themed or Jewish- about what they can For over 30 years, Campbell’s Labels for authored young-adult fiction. The reviewers and can’t do on the Education program has awarded over $100 are all participants in the HDS Newspaper island. After a while million in FREE merchandise to schools na- Chug (Club) that publishes The HDS Times. the leader of the is- tionwide. And this year, America’s longest land finds out they running education program of its kind just Jesse’s Star, by Ellen Schwartz have “rocked the got better with a new list of 5-point products, Victoria, Canada: Orca Book Publishers, boat,” and abandons including all V8® soups and Campbell’s® Se- 2000. them on a coastal lect Harvest™ soups. To kick-off this year’s Reviewed by Zachary Bernstein shelf. What will they collection drive, JCC Early Childhood Center Jesse’s Star, by Ellen Schwartz, is about do? Can they find a way to survive the storms? is asking a kid who has only one day to do a project Read the book to find out! parents, about his ances- teach- tors who lived in The Doll with the Yellow Star, by Yona ers, and Russia in 1890. His Zeldis McDonough friends in only hope is his New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2005. the com- great-grandfather Reviewed by Miriam Hamermesh m u n i t y Yossi’s traveling The Doll with the Yellow Star, by Yona to collect case. In the attic Zeldis McDonough, is a book about a girl he finds his great- in the Holocaust named Claudine. She has grandfather’s trav- a large selection of dolls, but on her eighth eling case. In it birthday she gets a new doll, a doll unlike the he finds a Jewish rest. She decides to name the doll Violette. Campbell product star. He holds it She makes her clothing and a house, and takes proofs of purchase that for a while, and he magically travels through her everywhere. can be redeemed for free time to 1890 in Russia. He becomes his great- Claudine and her educational merchan- grandfather and witnesses the fall harvest. When friends, Simone dise. For a complete list the Czar’s soldiers take away the harvest, and the and Odile, go to of products and point soldiers burn the siddurim, the Rebbe tells them the park and play values please visit www. to look for ways to escape. Can Yossi find a way with their dolls all labelsforeducation.com. to save the villagers, without getting himself the time. But as You can help JCC Early Childhood Cen- killed? Read to find out! the war gets more ter earn free merchandise such as computers, After that book, there is a sequel called intense, Claudine audio/visual equipment, physical education Yossi’s Goal. is forced to wear equipment, reference books, musical instru- a yellow star, and ments, toys or even a mini-van, simply by The End (A Series of Unfortunate later to move to collecting Campbell product proofs of pur- Events, Book 13), by Lemony Snicket America. Well, she chase and forwarding them to JCC Early New York: HarperCollins, 2006. loves Violette dearly; and she decides to give Childhood Center. Reviewed by Abigail Hirshbein her a star as well. When her parents tell her “This year our goal is to collect 2,500 The End is a great book by Lemony Snick- that she will have to live in America, they also points, so we’re asking the community to et. “Lemony Snicket” is Jewish writer Daniel say that she can only take a limited amount help,” said Lisa Brown, coordinator for JCC Handler’s pen name. It is number 13 in the of stuff. She decides to take Violette, rather Early Childhood Center’s Labels for Educa- Series of Unfortunate Events. In this book, Vi- than stuffing her luggage with clothing. But tion program. “If we work together, we can olet, Clause, and Sunny Baudelaire are ship- on the boat to America, something happens build better schools for our children.” wrecked on an island that they know nothing to Violette. I strongly suggest you read this It’s easy to pitch in. Simply save product about. As they try not to get in trouble with book, not only because you will find out all proofs of purchase from any of the following the leader of the island, or “rock the boat,” about their adventures, but because I thought eligible Campbell products and send them they also try to keep up their lives of ad- it was a wonderful book. n to JCC Early Childhood Center: • Campbell’s® soups • Campbell’s® Select Harvest™ soups Sunday Book Festival features children’s programs • Campbell’s Supper Bakes® meal kits Tina Gargotta, special to the WJN • SpaghettiOs® Pasta (Original and Meatball) Anne-Marie Asner, author of Klutzy Boy, Cambria Gordon, author of The Down- • Campbell’s® beans, gravies, and canned will offer an interactive program for young to-Earth Guide to Global Warming will pasta children and their families at the Jewish present an informative and fun program • Prego® pasta sauces Community Center Book Festival on Sun- for children ages 4–11 at the Book Festival • Swanson® broths and canned poultry day, November 9, at 11 a.m.. Asner is widely on Sunday, November 16 at 11 a.m. Partici- • V8® vegetable juices known for her series of picture books that pants will learn facts about the environment, • V8 Splash® juice drinks incorporate common Yiddish words and the science behind global warming, and easy • V8® soups phrases into delightful children’s stories. ways to help out at home, school, and in the • Campbell’s® tomato juice Asner has written for the Jewish Ob- community. • Pepperidge Farm® breads, cookies, server, the Jewish Family Life teen web- Gordon is an award-winning former ad- crackers, and frozen products site, MzVibe.com and the Anti-Defamation vertising copywriter who now pursues chil- • Pepperidge Farm® Goldfish® crackers League, and her work has been featured on dren’s writing full-time. Her credits include • Campbell’s Foodservice products JewishAustralia.com. Asner holds a master’s a nonfiction book, Fifty Nifty Crafts to Make For more information on how to be a part

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A versity, where she also taught Sunday school sode for the award-winning animated Dis- Education collection drive, contact the school for the Brandeis Jewish Education Program. ney Channel series Madeline. coordinator, Lisa Brown, at 971-0990. She is one of five grandchildren to her Yid- This event is sponsored by the Hebrew Day The 2008–2009 program runs until dish-speaking bubbe. School and The Benard L. Maas Foundation. June 1, 2009. This event is sponsored by The PJ Library, A free pizza lunch will be served at both The JCC Early Childhood Center, and The events. For more information, contact the Benard L. Maas Foundation. Jewish Community Center at 971-0990. Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw

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Pro-Obama ‘Schlep’ to Florida puts focus on Jewish seniors, question of race By Ben Harris BOCA RATON, Fla. (JTA) — Fred Wolff is pret- “Over the years, there’s been some slippage ty explicit in laying out the reason why he won’t in the numbers in terms of support for the support Barack Obama on November 4. Democrats,” said Ari Wallach, the co-founder of A survivor of the Dachau concentration JewsVote and its parent organization, the Jewish camp who came to the United States as a teenag- Council for Education and Research. er, Wolff told JTA he typically favors Republican The Great Schlep is “a way of ensuring that candidates. This year he would have preferred that does not continue, not only down here in former governors Mike Huckabee of Arkansas Florida but across the country,” he said. or Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. The Obama campaign, which drew a But despite his misgivings about John Mc- small army of Jewish volunteers to Florida Cain, the Republican nominee, Wolff said there’s thanks to the Silverman video, dismissed the one reason he would never consider supporting sluggish poll numbers and expressed confi- Obama. dence that Obama would top Kerry’s figure “I think that many of the blacks — I was go- of 76 percent of Jewish support. ing to say shvartzes, but I’ll say blacks — many of “We don’t have a Jewish problem, the Re- the blacks are anti-Semitic,” Wolff said. “I’m not publicans have an election problem,” Halie going to vote for the black guy. No, never. I don’t Soifer, the campaign’s Jewish vote director want him. I don’t like the crowd that surrounds in Florida, told a group of Jewish volunteers3 him. They may be quiet right now, and they may from across the country on October 10. be even hiding in the bushes. But you wait, if he Soifer said McCain’s dip in the polls is giving wins, they’re going to come out.” Republicans nightmares, prompting them to hurl While Obama has labored for months to every slur imaginable in an effort to reverse the beat back false claims that he is a Muslim and decline. And while she acknowledged that race soft on Israel, the talk as the election heads into may play a role in the minds of the Jewish vot- its final weeks has focused on the one aspect of ers she has targeted, insinuations about Obama’s the Democrat’s biography he is powerless to background are being heard less and less. change: his skin color. And with polls showing “We are seeing a surge in support,” Soifer Obama lagging in Jewish support behind earlier said. “I go to condos where I used to go a few Democratic presidential candidates, concern months1 ago. And there was skepticism at that among some of his supporters has grown that time. They didn’t know enough about Senator older Jewish voters, clustered in critical swing Obama. And now people just want to know how states and besieged by advertising stoking con- they can help.” cerns about his position on Jewish issues, could Among those former skeptics are Kenny and tip the balance to McCain. Selma Furst, lifelong Democrats and residents It was precisely this worry that led a new pro- of one of the mythic “condos” and retirement Obama group, JewsVote.org, to urge young Jews communities that dot the South Florida land- to visit Florida over Columbus Day weekend to scape. Selma Furst had heard all the rumors lobby their grandparents on Obama’s behalf. The about Obama’s religion and his stance on Israel, effort, known as “The Great Schlep,” received a but there was one thing that really made her un- huge boost last month from foul-mouthed co- comfortable. “If I may say the color wasn’t what median Sarah Silverman, who appeared in an I really wanted,” said Selma Furst. “And I just Internet video touting the Schlep that has been thought that no, I don’t think he’s going to be viewed more than 7 million times. good. And I wasn’t too crazy about his wife.” Following in the footsteps of Jon Stewart’s The Fursts’ grandchildren are fervent Obama “The Daily Show” and several coventional supporters, and through e-mails and phone calls media outlets, Silverman painted older Jew- they were eventually able to sway their grandpar- ish Floridians as balking at backing Obama ents. So much so that Furst organized a Sunday because of his race. The data suggest that such afternoon meeting at their retirement commu- concerns might be overblown. A recent survey nity in Tamarac so their grandson, schlepper by the American Jewish Committee found that Mike Bender from Los Angeles, could address Obama’s support was greater among older Jews their friends. than younger ones, a finding that some observ- By the end of Bender’s October 12 speech, ers have said is too unbelievable to be true. On the 100 or so elderly voters were chanting “Yes, the ground in Florida, many grandparents of we can,” the unofficial slogan of the Obama “schleppers” told JTA that they were leaning campaign. But even before hearing Bender’s toward the Democratic candidate anyway, even pitch, the bulk of the crowd appeared to be sol- before their grandchildren paid them an unex- idly backing Obama. Several said that if Jewish pected — if highly appreciated — visit. voters had any fears about Obama, they were “I think that elders are getting a bad rap with trumped by concerns about McCain’s choice of the assumption that they are going to allow rac- running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. ism to cloud their judgment about what really is “I wouldn’t vote for Sarah Palin if I didn’t the best choice for our country and our interest vote at all,” said Estelle Zucker, a resident of in being advocates for Israel and the Jewish peo- Kings Point in Tamarac. “I think McCain made ple,” said Rabbi Dayle Friedman, who directs a a big mistake by taking her.” center for Jewish aging at the Reconstructionist A lifelong Democrat, Zucker confessed to

November 2008 November Rabbinical College in Philadelphia and is a vice being on the fence in this election for the first chair of Rabbis for Obama. “My experience with time in her life. Obama’s “friends,” Zucker said, A elders is that they are far more open minded are anti-Semitic. She also worries about his posi- than people give them credit for.” tion on Iran and Israel. Several surveys of American Jews have “That’s why I can’t go full-heartedly into this shown Obama hovering at around 60 percent, election, but I definitely will not vote for Mc- about 10 points below where John Kerry was Cain,” Zucker said. “I don’t like Sarah Palin. She polling at a similar point in the presidential race could be very nice — I like nice ladies — but I Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw four years ago. don’t like what she stands for.” n 16 Washtenaw Jewish News A November 2008 17 9/16/08 3:53:09 PM Our high number of repeat clients speaks volumes about the care and service your we provide. Trust home improvement with us, and see how we deliver what we promise. Rochman-WJN-Ad2.indd 1 . 3 7 – Carole Rycus, Joan Lowenstein, Nancy Margolis Joan Lowenstein, Rycus, 7 – Carole Markel and Sheldon Stark-Nemon, Barbara Geri Markel, 8 – 7 1 8 Major Gifts Event by hosted Event Gifts Major 2008 the attended people 70 Over Tasting, Wine The Arbor. Ann Greater of Federation Jewish the a tremendous 23, was on September Restaurant Vinology held at Annual 2009 the for vibes positive build helped and success commence to way a unique and different was “This Campaign. of and commitment energy The Campaign. the 2009 Annual Federation Fisher, Susan said palatable,” was participants the of cache the with combined Bushey Michael Sommelier president. in which to environment an excellent provided restaurant Vinology wines available quality the true of kosher savor

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Twenty-first Annual Jewish Book Festival to host Local Author Fair and Brunch Event celebrates community’s creativity Karen Kohn, special to the WJN he Jewish Community Center of fully attuned to what’s special and strange from Oakland the lessons learned when something went Washtenaw County’s 21st Annual about this particular pool of immigrants, but University. Her differently than he expected. In his book A T Jewish Book Festival will host a local she’s careful to neither valorize where they work has been Journey Through Medicine: A Doctor’s Lessons author’s brunch on Sunday, November 16 at come from nor paint their fraught relation- widely pub- from his Patients Reflecting Medical Practice 10 a.m. The Local Author’s Fair and Brunch ships with their home and adopted countries lished in literary During the Mid and Late Twentieth Century, offers the opportunity to hear about new as entirely unique. journals and has Dr. Green takes readers on a journey through books from authors living in the Ann Arbor Danit Brown holds an MFA in fiction won numerous his medical career, introducing them to the area. Each author will discuss his or her from Indiana University. Her stories have awards. Gaines- patients whose lives he became a part of, and book and answer questions. A complimen- appeared in many literary journals, includ- Friedler works the relationships he forged that made them tary light brunch will be served. The event is ing Story, Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, with students memorable. sponsored by Huron River Press and there is and One Story. Brown lives in Ann Arbor in the Academic Robert A. Green was born in Brooklyn, no charge to attend. with her family. Literacy Pro- Joy Gaines-Friedler New York, and attended Harvard College gram at Oakland Community College and and University Rich Adler Yaron Eliav teaches creative writing workshops. She of Illinois Medi- Few baseball franchises in the dead-ball Public sculptures were the mass media is currently earning her MFA in poetry at cal School. He era, the years between the 1900 and 1919, of the Roman world. They populated urban Ashland University in Ohio. began his ca- won as consistently or often as the New centers throughout the empire communicat- reer in charge York Giants and ing political, religious, and social messages. Susie and Bill Graham of a tuberculosis Philadelphia In his book The Sculptural Environment of Alex Graham was an energetic teenager sanatorium un- Athletics. Be- the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, and epitome of health. Amazingly, she never der the US Bu- tween them, the Ideology, and Power, Yaron Eliav draws on contracted the typical childhood illnesses, reau of Indian teams claimed Talmudic, early Christian and classic litera- but in 1997 all that was to change. One early Affairs. He came 12 pennants tures, as well as on archaeology, to study the fall day Alex came home from the mall com- to the University and finished multi-faceted cultural environment of Ro- plaining of pain in her knee. Three months of Michigan in Robert A. Green, M.D. second place or man Palestine with emphasis on the encoun- later, at the age of 16, she was diagnosed Ann Arbor in higher 22 times. ter between Jews and Greco-Roman culture. with bone cancer. Her world and the world of 1958, and retired as professor emeritus in The steady suc- Utilizing the full spectrum of ancient sourc- those she loved would never be the same. Over 1995. He specialized in internal medicine cess also earned es, the book examines the multiple, at times the course of the next year, Alex did not get the with a subspecialty in pulmonary disease. Dr. managers John even contradictory, meanings and functions miracle she wanted most, but her life and her Green served as associate dean of the Medical McGraw and that statues served within the complex world selfless wish left the world a better place. School in the 1960s and 1970s. He also served Connie Mack of the Roman Near East. Moreover, it situates When One Door Closes: A Teen’s Inspir- on many university committees, including their reputations. It was history in the mak- the discussion of sculpture in the broader ing Journey and Living Legacy shows us the as chair of the Senate Advisory Committee ing, then, when the two Hall of Famers led context of antiquity in order to reevaluate powerful influence one person can unleash on University Affairs. Dr. Green and his late their clubs into the 1913 World Series, the long-held scholarly consensuses on such in the face of tragedy. A teenage girl fighting wife Lila had five children and were long- third and final time they went head-to-head ideas as the es- osteogenic sarcoma, struggling with the am- time members of Beth Israel Congregation for the world championship. In his new sence of Hellenism putation of her leg and partial loss of a lung, book, Mack, McGraw and the 1913 Baseball and the everlasting defines herself by who she is and the choices Linda Adler-Kassner Season, author Rich Adler provides a care- conflict among pa- she makes, not by her illness. In their own A professor of English and director of fully researched account of the season-long ganism, Christian- words, family, friends, medical experts, care- First-Year Writing at Eastern Michigan Uni- dominance of the Giants and As, the narra- ity, and Judaism. givers, and a rock versity, Linda Adler-Kassner’s job title in the tive building toward a dramatic collision in Yaron Eliav is a star tell us how field of composition and rhetoric is Writing the Fall Classic. Frankel Associate Alexandra (Alex) Program Administrator, or WPA. Her latest Richard Adler is a professor of microbiol- Professor of Rab- Graham opened book, The Activist WPA: Changing Stories ogy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. binic Literature doors and made a about Writers and Writing, focuses in part He and his wife Sara Jane (Sally) have raised and Late Antique difference in their on strategies for faculty like her, who run four children: Rebekah, Steven, Ruth, and Jewish Culture lives. This factual college and university writing programs, to Rose. The Adler family are members at Beth at the University account will bring shape conversations about writing and writ- Israel Congregation. Adler previously au- of Michigan. His Yaron Eliav u n d e r s t a n d i n g ers. These strategies start, she argues, with thored Baseball at the University of Michigan book God’s Mountain: The Temple Mount in and perspective to personal principles—in her case, principles and Jewish Ann Arbor with daughter Ruth as Time, Space, and Memory won the Theology those directly or drawn from Judaism, such as the concept of co-author. and Religious Studies award by the Associa- indirectly facing a tikkun olam, to help mend the world. This tion of American Publishers, and won the life-threatening ill- book explores how people can identify those Danit Brown 2006 Salo Baron Prize for the Best First Book ness, particularly in principles and then build on them toward When eleven-year-old Osnat Greenberg in Judaic Studies from the American Acad- cases where the patient is a teenager. action by adapting strategies from commu- and her parents move to Michigan from Tel emy of Jewish Research. Susie and Bill Graham were born and nity organizers and media strategists. Aviv, they arrive in a place that feels too quiet, raised in Michigan. They met while attend- Linda Adler-Kassner earned her Ph.D. too damp, and too big. Kids are taken aback Joy Gaines-Friedler ing Eastern Michigan University, and recent- from the University of Minnesota. She has by Osnat’s origins—“You lived in Israel? In her first full-length book of poetry, ly celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. been a professor of composition at both the Weren’t you scared?”—and make fun of her Like Vapor, Joy Gaines-Friedler transcends Susie and Bill have three children, David, University of Michigan at Dearborn and name: “Why are the individual and the commonplace with Robbie, and Alexandra. Bill recently retired Eastern Michi- you named after poems that are narrative and lyrical. Gaines- from his computer leasing company and Su- gan University. mucus?” Friedler’s imagery and music show her ten- sie from her stationery and card shop. Both Adler-Kassner Ask for a Con- derness and compassion. She writes truths are very active in volunteer and fundraising is author or vertible, Danit of human experience: a pheasant crossing work to benefit charitable organizations. The editor of four Brown’s absorbing the highway, the house around the corner, Grahams live in West Bloomfield. other books book of connected a friend dying of AIDS. In these experiences and many ar- November 2008 November stories, revolves readers are assured of humanity, their exis- Robert A. Green, M.D. ticles and she A around a 15-year tence and eventual extinction, with a grace Is it possible to write a memoir of your has served on period in the life of and comfort that uplifts the spirit and en- life’s mistakes and feel good about it? Well, numerous uni- lonely, restless Os- courages a consideration of life. yes and no. As Dr. Robert Green recounts his versity advisory nat and a select few Joy Gaines-Friedler lives in Farmington years in the medical care and treatment of Danit Brown committees. She Linda Adler-Kassner in her orbit, mostly Hills with her husband Moti. After twen- countless patients, he describes those times is a long-time member and former board Israelis who feel the pull of another place no ty years as a professional photographer, there was an error in his judgment in diag- member of the Jewish Cultural Society.

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- - - - 19 - - - - - the Los , Town & and . . A graduate Anna Anna Karenina, Nextbook What Happened to Anna Irina Irina Reyn’s novel has Exploring struggles of Anita Norich Anita . . is a remarkable retelling - - co-edited by Anita Norich brought vividly to life by an writer. young exciting received much critical ac claim. Her work has ap peared in rather than its destruction? andfidelity, commu identity, nity, K of Tolstoy’s Angeles Angeles Times, the San Fran cisco Chronicle, Country Travel Jewish Literatures and Cultures—Context Cultures—Context and Literatures Jewish of is professor - EnglishNorich Anita and Ju Jewish Book Festival continues 21 on page Jewish Book Festival sheltered life powerfully collides with Anna’s. Anna’s. with collides powerfully life sheltered affirmation life’s in result quest Lev’s will But of Bennington MFA program, College’s she is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Reyn was born in Moscow and now divides her time between Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. This event is sponsored by Bobbie and Myron Levine. For more information, or to RSVP, contact the JCC at 971-0990. and Intertext, is Eliav, a and Yaron collection of essays, most of which emerged from a conference held at the ofFran University Michigan’s kel Center for TheseStudies. Judaic essays examine the ways in which Jewish culture has existed in a mutually enriching, if sometimes problematic, relationship with sur rounding non-Jewish cultures. - Lead ing scholars in Judaic studies take up broad methodologi cal concerns and specificcase studies i l l u s t r Jewish a t i em n g beddedness in other cultures, and reexamining the fa mous “textuality” of the works other Jews, include to “text” ofexpanding notion the of both and spiritual. material art, An of Michigan. University the at Studies daic authority of Yiddish literature, Norich is inter ested in Jewish Michigan literature, Holocaust literature, to came She literature. American and in 1983 after receiving her from - Ph.D. Colum post- Davis Lady a servingas and University bia doctoral fellow Amoco at an the Hebrew received University she of Michigan At Jerusalem. award for excellence in teaching as well as sev and faculty awards. eral teaching recognition Anita Norich nally from New York and has calledShe years. 23 past the for home Bloomfield West clinical Lehmann, H. Michael to married is professor of internal medicine at the Uni versity of Michigan, and is the mother of children. three ------, , is a Irina Reyn author Iri The Acciden - - , , The Acciden tal Teacher: Life Lessons from my Silent Son ery, rather than illness, and uses humor and insight to weave a tale rich with kitchen- table wisdom. Le hmann offers to fellow parents the heartfelt memoir about self-discov . Lehmann is origi. - is written from the frontlines The New York The Times, Detroit New York Free and Detroit News What What Happened to Anna K In In nearby Rego Bukharian-JewishPark’s Vivacious Vivacious thirty-seven- Having severe autism does not stop An stop not does autism severe Having Annie Annie Lehmann, a freelance writer for Author Irina Reyn reimagines a Tolstoy classic a Tolstoy reimagines Author Irina Reyn WJN the to special Aisner, Halye na Reyn will discuss her Wednesday, November debut12 at novel on 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Com vurov’s boyfriend, an outsider and aspiring young writer on whom she pins her hopes for escape. As they begin a reckless affair, Anna into enters a tailspin that alienates her world. and entire family, husband, her from pharma twenty-seven-year-old community, passions: secret two harbors Gavrilov Lev cist French movies and the lovely Katia. Lev’s restless longing to test the boundaries of his munity Center of Washtenaw County, as part of the Annual Jewish Book 21stFestival. The talk is free and open to the public. year-old Anna K. is comfort older, an Alex, to married ably from businessman prominent her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community Queens. But a in longing for freedom is reignited in this bookish, overly romantic, and imperious Za Katia cousin her meets she when woman Annie Lubliner Lehmann Lubliner Annie nie Lubliner Lehmann’s nie son, Jonah, Lubliner from Lehmann’s teaching her some of most life’s valuable lessons. Her debut book the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Ju daic daic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell of University the at both History, of Professor authority leading a is Moore Dash Michigan. of American Jewish experience, American- au The history. 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With Jerusalem on the precipice, mayoral election seen as crucial By Dina Kraft JERUSALEM (JTA) — It sounds like the begin- eastern Jerusalem ensures that the capital may Aryeh Deri, who spent time in prison for taking future of Jerusalem,” he told a gathering of ning of a joke: A rabbi, a Russian oligarch, and again be divided by an international border. bribes, was disqualified from running because foreign journalists before outlining his plans, a high-tech millionaire are running for mayor Within the city’s Arab community, many warn his crimes constituted acts of moral turpitude. which include tapping international philan- of Jerusalem. that the gap in services leads to resentment Porush, who advocates holding the federal thropists and private-sector funds for support Except there’s no punch line, just each of that can be seen in the growing political and government accountable on unfulfilled pledges for Jerusalem. them offering up himself as salvation for the religious radicalization of Arab youth. Several to invest millions of dollars in Jerusalem, hopes Addressing the poverty issue, he noted hallowed capital’s many troubles. times this year, relatively young Palestinians to win the mayoralty by galvanizing the city’s that the average Jewish income in Jerusalem is Many Jerusalemites view this year’s munici- from eastern Jerusalem perpetrated terrorist at- powerful fervently Orthodox voting bloc. Or- $16,000 annually compared to $24,000 in the pal elections, scheduled for November 11, as a tacks against Jews in Jerusalem, sometimes with thodox residents make up 30 percent of the Tel Aviv area—and just $4,000 among Arab historic turning point for a city that is Israel’s deadly results. city’s Jewish population but comprised the ma- residents of eastern Jerusalem. poorest, still vulnerable to terrorist attacks, and Elias Khoury, a lawyer who represents Arab jority of voters in the city’s last municipal elec- All of the candidates are trying to woo voters wracked by economic, political and religious residents of Jerusalem on issues of property, tion, helping usher in Lupoliansky, the city’s on the issue of affordable housing. Foreign de- divisions. At stake, many say, is Jerusalem’s very building and residency rights, says the boycott first Orthodox mayor, in 2003. mand for property in Jerusalem has contributed character and future viability. of municipal elections by Jerusalem Arabs only Porush cites Jerusalem’s Arab-Jewish de- to skyrocketing housing of prices and a dearth The election is “likely to be the most crucial hurts the community. mography as the city’s greatest challenge. He of new middle-class housing. Most of the city’s local ballot ever held in the modern history of the “Today the situation in East Jerusalem is told JTA the first thing he would do as mayor current building projects are luxury housing for capital,” Calev Ben-David, a Jerusalem Post colum- tohu va’vohu,” he said, using the biblical term would be to declare “an emergency situation” to Diaspora Jewish buyers, with prices per meter nist and longtime Jerusalemite, wrote recently. for chaos. “If we don’t participate in elections, boost the city’s Jewish population, which stands ranging from $7,000 to $10,000. Among the foremost concerns for Jewish Is- we need an alternative to managing our lives.” at about 66 percent. “If this problem is not dealt The high cost of living in Jerusalem has driv- raelis is the hemorrhaging of Jerusalem’s Jewish The youngest of the three candidates is Nir with we will lose Jerusalem,” Porush said. en many residents to the suburbs. population, particularly its middle class. These Is- Barkat, 49, a City Council member who made Rounding out the field is Arcady Gaydamak, Two new parties comprised of young Jeru- raelis are being driven out of the city by high hous- his fortune developing pioneering anti-virus Israel’s flashiest political enigma, a billionaire salemites have made the issue their focus in the ing costs and scarce employment opportunities. software in the 1990s. A secular Jerusalemite, Bar- who says he speaks for the people. Gaydamak’s race for City Council seats. Aimed at trying to For secular residents, the growth of Jerusa- kat advocates reviving the city and its economy past includes an international arrest warrant stem the tide of young people fleeing the city, lem’s fervently Orthodox population is further by focusing on tourism and making Jerusalem a for allegedly illicit arms dealing in Angola and one party is made up predominately of uni- cause for concern that the Orthodox will domi- world-class center for medicine and life sciences. paying out of his own pocket to house Israelis versity students and other 20-somethings and nate the personality and priorities of the city. The Orthodox candidate is Rabbi Meir Po- fleeing the rocket fire in the North during the is called Hit’orerut—Hebrew for “wake up.” In the predominately Arab eastern half, where rush, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite and long- 2006 Lebanon war. Earlier this month it merged with the other most residents long have refused to vote in mu- time fixture on Israel’s Orthodox political scene Zuhir Hamdan, who briefly ran as Jerusa- like-minded party, Yerushalmim—Hebrew for nicipal elections in protest of Israel’s sovereignty who officially joined the race at the last minute. lem’s first Arab mayoral candidate, recently “Jerusalemites.” over the city, basic social services have been ne- The current mayor, Uri Lupolianski, who joined Gaydamak’s campaign in the hope of “We need a change, and we understood it glected for years by City Hall. Many families live is fervently Orthodox, had agreed to step aside becoming his adviser on Arab affairs if Gayda- had to come from within,” said Ofir Berkovitz, in cramped quarters because building permits for another Orthodox candidate, but it took mak is elected. 25, the head of Hit’orerut. are difficult to acquire, classroom shortages are the fervently Orthodox political establishment On a recent campaign foray to Jerusalem’s Party leaders helped organize a demonstra- so bad that at some schools different grades take until the 11th hour to settle on a final candi- open-air Mahane Yehudah market, Barkat tion several months ago in which activists piled turns using the same room, and road repair and date. Several names were floated, but Porush shook hands and smiled for the cameras in his suitcases on their cars and drove to the city’s en- garbage collection are routinely ignored. became the man of choice only after disgraced charcoal gray suit and Oxford shirt. trance with megaphones blaring, “Don’t leave Some observers argue that the neglect of ex-Shas Party chairman and Knesset member “My goal and mission in life is to build the us with no choice but to leave!” n Radical Israeli settlers break a taboo: violence against Jews By Dina Kraft JERUSALEM (JTA) — Marking the close of know that every stone thrown at us, any action The attack, in the West Bank village of Asira the deterrent doctrine sometimes used by Is- the Fast of Gedaliah, a mournful day that com- against our settlements, will not be met with as al Qibliya, followed the infiltration of a Pales- rael known as the “price tag”: Every aggressive memorates the biblical-era political assassina- if we are suckers,” Avri Ran, a prominent figure tinian into the nearby settlement of Yitzhar, in act will be met by an even more aggressive and tion of a Jew by another Jew, some 200 religious among the more hard-core settlers, told JTA. the northern West Bank, where an empty house painful response. and secular Israelis assembled outside the Jeru- “There is a price to be paid for attacks on Jews.” was set on fire and a 9-year-old Jewish boy was “This is the irony of history, that the ap- salem home of Professor Ze’ev Sternhell with a The strategy shift can be traced to the lessons stabbed. In response, Yitzhar residents tore proach of the Israeli government against the blunt message: No More Gedaliahs. settlers learned from the experience of the Gaza through the village, throwing rocks and open- Palestinians was adopted by the settlers to fight Or, bringing it into the modern age, as Strip in 2005, when opponents of the with- ing fire, leaving several Palestinians wounded. democracy,” Be’er said. Sternhell put it, “We do not want another Yit- drawal and residents of Gaza’s Jewish settlement Using unusually strong language, Olmert re- Thus, even if a single trailer is threatened zhak Rabin,” referring to the 1995 assassination bloc mostly played by the rules. They practiced sponded to the recent wave of violence, includ- with removal from a settlement, “hell will be of the prime minister. passive disobedience but eschewed violence as ing the attack on Sternhell, at a Cabinet meeting. raised,” Be’er said. That may mean fighting On September 25, the Hebrew University Israeli authorities came to remove them. “An evil wind of extremism, of hatred, of against the Israeli army — until now considered professor, Holocaust survivor, Israel Prize win- But the failure of their quest to thwart Is- malice, of violence, of running amok, of break- taboo — or fanning out to Palestinian villages ner and outspoken peace activist was the target rael’s withdrawal from Gaza, as well as the ing the law, of contempt for the institutions of to start disturbances and thereby overwhelm of a pipe bomb attack suspected to have been government’s response, left them angry and dis- the state, is blowing through certain sections of army and police personnel. carried out by right-wing Jewish extremists. illusioned, particularly the younger generation. the Israeli public and threatens Israeli democ- “In the past, only a few dozen individuals “Our society has a problem and we must Their sense of betrayal, coupled with a view racy,” he said. were implicated” in such behavior, Maj. Gen. confront it,” Sternhell said. of the Jerusalem government as corrupt, has The settlers’ actions also threaten the Israeli Gadi Shadmi, the head of the Israel Defense The attack on Sternhell appears to be part of fueled an anti-authority sentiment. This has government’s ability to carry out pledges that Forces’ Central Command, told Israel’s daily a violent shift in strategy among the more radi- been most apparent among the so-called hill- are part of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Ha’aretz in a recent interview. cal elements of the Jewish settler movement. top youth — radical young settlers who estab- including commitments made to the United While most of the estimated 250,000 Is- Jewish assaults on both Palestinians and Israeli lish and occupy illegal outposts atop hills in the States and the international community to raeli Jews living in the West Bank are law soldiers in the West Bank have seen a rise of late. West Bank and refuse to leave. freeze settlement building and remove illegal abiding, Shadmi said, the ranks of the radi- The incidents often seem more like planned op- The price radical settlers have sought to im- outposts from the West Bank. cals are growing.

November 2008 November erations than spontaneous actions, experts say. pose on those seeking to evict them includes Yizhar Be’er, the executive director of Kes- “Today we are talking about several hundred

A The settlers seem to be sending a message setting fire to Palestinian fields and orchards, hev, an organization that researches ideological people — a very significant change,” he said. to Israeli authorities: Any operation against the blocking roads and even fighting with Israeli violence in Israel, described the recent events “These people are conspiring against the settlers — specifically, any attempted evacua- soldiers. Settlers unleased a dog on one officer; as a Jewish intifada, using the Arabic word for Palestinians and against security forces,” he tion of illegal outposts in the West Bank — will another soldier had his arm broken in recent uprising. He said it borrows directly from the added, making the army’s job more difficult. elicit a new type of response that is harsh and confrontations. Most dramatically, settlers at- Israeli government’s own playbook for quash- Shadmi charged that some segments of the set- difficult to control. tacked a Palestinian village in an incident Prime ing the second Palestinian intifada. “The army and the government need to Minister Ehud Olmert described as a pogrom. Specifically, fringe settlers are employing continues on page 30 Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw

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Maestro Arie Lipsky in Poland Sandor Slomovits, staff writer n September, Arie Lipsky, the conductor of the synagogues in Lodz. I didn’t go be- Maestro Lipsky, of the Ann Arbor Symphony, was invited cause I had a rehearsal, but Rachel [Maestro his father Chaim, to conduct in Poland. He led the Lodz Lipsky’s wife] took pictures. She was crying I and his sister Philharmonic in a concert commemorat- throughout the concert. There were a few Shifra Lipsky ing the 65th anniversary of the liquidation Jews in the audience, but mostly non-Jews. Sluchin in the of the Lodz Ghetto. It was the start of a year She has a picture of four nuns up on the Lodz Jewish of events that will culminate in another cer- balcony, and the railing has a Star of David. Cemetery emony next September. For that occasion So you can see a nun’s face surrounded by a Shimon Peres, the president of Israel, and Star of David. Out of this world. many European heads of state and digni- The day before my father arrived, I taries will attend. Maestro Lipsky has been marched in the March of the Living. It invited back to conduct again. The program started a couple of years ago when survi- will include a recent piece, the Seven Gates vors started coming back to Poland with of Jerusalem, by Penderecki, Poland’s premier their kids and they march together with current composer, and dedicated to Israel’s Maestro clergy, mayors, the Israeli Ambassador, 60th Anniversary. Lipsky, his and many dignitaries. It happens in every The visit was a remarkable occasion for father Chaim, major city in Poland where there used to Maestro Lipsky because Lodz is the hometown His wife, Rivka, my grandmother, was sent his sister have a big Jewish community. We marched of his parents, both survivors of the Holocaust. to Auschwitz in 1944 and was gassed there. Shifra Lipsky from the Jewish cemetery to the train sta- You can imagine when my father came and Sluchin by tion where the Jews were taken on their Maestro Lipsky: This was my first time in Po- saw that. We said Kaddish, we cried. the grave- way to the camps. And there was a violinist land so I didn’t know what to expect. As we were leaving, there was a group of stone of their playing. It was the melody from Schindler’s about fifty Poles, in their thirties I would say, List… [Maestro Lipsky was visibly moved. WJN: Your father went also? grandfather and they were taking a tour of the Jewish Moshe Aaron His voice trailed off.] Lipsky: Yes. I came a little early because I had cemetery. The lady in charge of that group Lipsky WJN: How hard was it for you to control your six rehearsals with the orchestra and choir. had also been our tour guide earlier, but she emotions while you were working? We performed two pieces, one by a Polish- didn’t know that we would be there on this Jewish composer by the name of Mieczys- particular day. So when she saw us, she told Lipsky: At the train station, after you see how law (Moishe) Wajnberg (1919–1996). He everyone in her group, “Here is Maestro Lip- world, new friendships, the present and the the German trains used to carry Jews, a left Poland just before the war started, went sky, who has come to conduct, and his father future. To have these two elements to this hundred people crammed into a little car to the Soviet Union, and became one of who is a survivor.” So we became the center concert…[Lipsky’s voice trailed off in designed to carry cattle, and you can just Russia’s premier composers. He and Shos- of attraction and all these young Poles start- wonder and we were silent for a few min- imagine. It was the first time that I actually takovich were the two most important ed taking pictures, and this young lady came utes.] broke down completely. I couldn’t handle it. composers, and apparently every sympho- to my father and in Polish said, “Mr. Lipsky, I stood off to the side and just sobbed. You WJN: This was the first time you and your sister ny each one wrote, they used to premiere we are so ashamed. We are so sorry for what hear about it, you see movies about it, but were in Lodz, and the first time your father it playing it four hands on the piano. He’s happened. I feel guilty and ashamed and I when you see the actual thing, and the ener- was back? not well known in the West, but I think he’s ask your forgiveness.” And she started cry- gies, you can imagine the Germans shouting being performed more and more and there ing, and we were crying, and my father, he Lipsky: Yes. My father left in 1941. He played Juden, the dogs…. are recording projects underway. He sounds was.… It’s amazing. He, an 86-year-old sur- in the Ghetto’s orchestra. We saw pictures of The Germans used to tell my father—he a little bit like Shostakovich and Prokofiev. vivor, started comforting her. In Polish! that orchestra. He couldn’t stand living in the was a nice guy, very handy, always smiling, It’s modern sounding, but with a lot of pas- In the beginning of his visit, my father Ghetto anymore. He was seventeen; the Ger- joking…. His name is Chaim; they changed sion, a lot of heart. We played a symphony was very reluctant to talk in Polish because mans were advertising the labor camps… his name to Herman. They’d tell him “Du by him called The Flowers of Poland, which he hadn’t spoken it in years. My parents bist kein Juden”—You’re not Jewish. is based on poetry by Tuwim, who is one of spoke Polish whenever they didn’t want us WJN: Arbeit Mach Frei? The Poles these days, I don’t know how Poland’s national poets—also Jewish, born to understand, [laughter] but once we grew Lipsky: Arbeit Mach Frei. Work makes you free. to say it, are coming to grips with their past. and raised in Lodz’s, a survivor of the Ho- up, it was Yiddish and Hebrew, and they He got permission from his parents to leave, And some of it is not heroic, to say the least. locaust. He is one of Lodz most important forgot their Polish. But it was interesting. and of course he never saw them again. He There are not many Jews left in Poland. citizens; you see his statue all over. Another He was there for eight days and every day left with only his violin. There are 800 in Lodz, there are maybe three important Lodz citizen is Artur Rubinstein, he talked more and more, and his Polish just My father was born in what later became thousand in Warsaw, some in Cracow, but who was also born and raised there. Right came back to him. the Ghetto, and then they moved to a bet- all of Poland has a Jewish renewal. There are across from his house there is a bronze stat- So he said to this young woman in the ter part of town, to the most famous street Jewish restaurants all over. ue of him playing the piano, and you can cemetery, “Look, what happened, happened.” in Lodz, which is called Piotrkovska, which WJN: Run by non-Jews? put in a zloty and hear him play a mazurka Then he pointed to us and said, “This is the now looks and feels like Paris. Lots of young by Chopin and so on. The orchestra that I future, my kids, my grandkids.” There were people. Lodz is the second largest city in Lipsky: Yes. And many Poles are eating there, conducted, the Lodz Philharmonic, is also four grandkids, three from Paris, one from Poland, many colleges, almost 24-hour, too. Apparently the Poles discovered some- called the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic, the United States, and my sister and I. “This non-stop life there. We stayed in a hotel on thing very interesting. They told us that they in homage to him. is the victory of music over evil.” 70 Piotrkovska. Before the war, he and his learned it’s not possible to talk about Polish But, back to my father. I was able to con- My father was saved because of his violin, family lived in number 88, and it has not history without talking about Jewish history. nect with a man who is in charge of the Jew- right? [Maestro Lipsky told me a few years changed. On the outside it has changed, but And Jews know you can’t talk about Jewish ish cemetery. The Lodz Jewish cemetery is ago how his father managed to hold on to then you go into the yard and it’s all these history without talking about Polish history. the biggest Jewish graveyard in the world, his violin while he was in Auschwitz and old apartments, and we saw his old apart- It’s really intertwined. number two is Berlin, number three is War- other camps; how he formed an orchestra ment. When the Germans came and started So we went to these places like Anatevka, saw. It’s unbelievable how large it is. Before in Auschwitz that played for the Germans; the Jewish Ghetto, all the Jews had to move taken, of course, from Fiddler on the Roof, the war, Lodz had the second largest popu- how his music earned him some extra food into the Ghetto. and it’s a chain of Jewish restaurants, full of lation of Jews in the world, after Warsaw, and thus helped him to survive.] The Germans didn’t call Lodz, Lodz. They Jewish pictures and paintings of rabbis, and 350,000 Jews. Now there are eight hundred. So the whole concert had this meaning. considered it German territory. Warsaw was there is a klezmer violinist playing Jewish In the cemetery they’ve tried to put all the Before the concert, my father gave a speech, Polish territory. That’s why they destroyed music. matzevahs, the stones, on computer. There in Polish. The whole audience rose to their November 2008 November it. Lodz stayed pretty much intact, because are many Lipskys. I wanted to see them, to feet and for five minutes they gave him a WJN: I’ve heard that in Germany and in other A they considered it German. They called it parts of Europe there are now klezmer re- make sure they were the right ones, before standing ovation. That was his message. “I Litzmannstadt [“Litzmann’s city”—named vivals. These are non-Jews playing klezmer; my father came, so I could prepare him for played the violin. It saved my life. Here I am after a German general who died while at- they’re learning Yiddish, singing in Yiddish, what he was going to see. In some cases we with my kids and grandkids. This is the vic- tempting to conquer Lodz in World War I.] they’re playing the typical klezmer instru- had to clear a lot of weeds and really rub the tory of music over evil.” The Jewish Ghetto was actually called the ments, clarinet, violin… it’s amazing. stones to find out who was buried there. And The second piece on the program, after Litzmannstadt Ghetto. we found the one of his father, my grandfa- the Wajnberg, was the New World Sym- During our visit, one day, there was a Lipsky: My nephew, Naaman Sluchin, is a fan- Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw ther, Moshe Aaron Lipsky. He died in 1942. phony by Dvorak, which symbolizes the new performance by the Jerusalem choir in one tastic violinist. He’ll be the soloist in Decem- 22 Washtenaw Jewish News A November 2008 23

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Translation of Anne Frank diary resonates with Cambodians By Tibor Krausz PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (JTA) — As a — perished on Pol Pot’s “killing fields” in one of dia,” says Youk Chhang, the head of the docu- explains. “Like Anna, they never knew peace young girl in the early 1990s, Sayana Ser often the worst mass murders since the Holocaust. mentation center and Cambodia’s foremost and the warmth of a home.” spent the night cowering in fear with her fam- Sayana, who wrote her master’s thesis researcher on genocide. Inspired by Anne’s diary, she adds, some ily in an underground shelter her father had about “dark tour- A child survivor Cambodian students have begun to write their dug beneath their home on the outskirts of this ism,” or touristic himself, Chhang lost own diaries to chronicle the sorrows and joys of capital city. voyeurism at geno- siblings and numerous their daily lives. Outside, marauding bands of Khmer Rouge cide sites in Cambo- Inspired by Anne’s diary, relatives in the mass Children in Laos, too, can soon learn of guerrillas battled it out with government forces. dia and elsewhere, murders perpetrated Anne’s story and insights. Meanwhile, brutal mass murder was still fresh also visited several some Cambodian students have by Pol Pot and his fol- In the impoverished, war-torn communist on civilians’ minds. Holocaust memo- begun to write their own diaries lowers. country bordering Cambodia, almost a million A decade later, as a 19-year-old schol- rials and death “If we Cambodians people perished during the Vietnam War, while arship student in the Netherlands, Sayana camps. to chronicle the sorrows and joys had read her diary a countless landmines and a low-level insurgency chanced upon the memoirs of another girl “I couldn’t believe long time ago,” he says, continue to take lives daily. who had feared for her life in even more dire how one human be- of their daily lives “perhaps there could Yet with books for children almost non- circumstances. ing could do this to have been a way for us existent beyond simple school textbooks, Lao It was The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne another, whether they were Jews or Khmers,” to prevent the Cambodian genocide from hap- students remain largely ignorant of the world Frank, the precocious Jewish teenager who hid she says. pening.” and history. In a private initiative, an American from the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam until On returning home, she sought permission Anne Frank’s message, he adds, remains as expat publisher is now bringing them children’s her family’s hiding place was discovered and to translate the Anne Frank diary into Khmer. potent as ever. “Genocide continues to happen classics translated into Lao, including Anne she was sent to her death in the Bergen-Belsen The Holocaust classic was published by the in the world around us even today,” Youk says. Frank’s diary. concentration camp. country’s leading genocide research group, “Her diary can still play an important role in “I was describing the book to a bright col- “While reading the book I couldn’t hold the Documentation Center of Cambodia. It prevention.” lege graduate here and gave him a little context,” my tears back,” Sayana recalls. “I wondered is now available for Khmer students at high Although the story of Anne and her resil- says Sasha Alyson, the founder of Big Brother how Anna must have felt and how she could school libraries in Phnom Penh alongside lo- ient optimism in the face of murderous evil has Mouse, a small publishing house in Vientiane, bear it.” cally written books about the Khmer Rouge touched millions of readers around the world, the Lao capital, which specializes in books for Sayana now is the director of a student out- period. Such books include First They Killed it may particularly resonate with Cambodians, Lao children. He recalls the student asking, reach and educational program at a Cambodian My Father by Loung Ung, which recounts the Sayana adds. ‘World War II? Is that the same as Star Wars?” research institution that documents the Khmer harrowing experiences of a child survivor of “Under Pol Pot, many children were sepa- Anna Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl, he says, Rouge genocide. Between 1975 and 1979, up to the killing fields. rated from their families. They faced starvation will provide Lao children with a much-needed 2 million people — a fourth of the population “I have seen many Anna Franks in Cambo- and were sent to the front to fight and die,” she lesson in history. n Contemporary art meets Chabad at new exhibition in Moscow By Sophia Kishkovsky MOSCOW (JTA) — Billionaire art collectors, coordinator, opened the first London-based Although exhibitions of his work had been that in this utopian center, in Melnikov’s utopi- critics, socialites, gallery directors, and other Gagosian Gallery in 1999. Zhukova told Afisha, held in recent years at the State Hermitage Mu- an building, this time will be built not a utopia, denizens of the international art scene were a trendy cultural affairs magazine, that her mod- seum in St. Petersburg and at a gallery in Mos- but something real, a center of contemporary among the standard guests at the recent open- els for The Garage are the Museum of Modern cow, the current Moscow show, which is spread culture,” Emilia Kabakov said. ing of a vast, new nonprofit contemporary art Art in New York and London’s Tate Modern across three venues with The Garage installation Before Zhukova appeared in the picture, space in the Russian capital. and Serpentine Gallery. as the centerpiece, is the first major retrospec- the Kabakovs were already working with the But there was an unusual addition to the Guests at The Garage’s opening day, includ- tive of the Kabakovs’ work in Russia. Federation of Jewish Communities, attempt- champagne-sipping crowd at the launch of ing Abramovich and a bevy of bodyguards, Other works are being shown at the State ing to get an exhibition in the bus depot off the The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture: walked past the Federation of Jewish Com- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Contem- ground. Vladimir Shukhov, great-grandson of Chasidic Jews. munities’ Beit Shvidler Educational Center — porary Art Center Winzavod. The retrospective the engineer who built the unique girders of the The nearly 92,000 square-foot space, in named in honor of Evgeny Shvidler, an associate runs at the three venues through October 19. Bakhmetyevsky bus depot, credits the federa- a famous constructivist building called the of Abramovich’s and the billionaire who funded The project almost fell through when tion with saving the building. Bakhmetyevsky Bus Depot, designed by the the center — and Sharei Tzedek Charity Center Mikhail Prokhorov, another billionaire who “I must bow down in thanks before the Fed- legendary architect Konstantin Melnikov in the to reach the museum-within-a-museum con- had been on board to fund the show, backed eration of Jewish Communities of Russia, since 1920s, is on the grounds of facilities run by the structed for the inaugural exhibition. out. The pieces fell back into place, said Emilia it is to a large extent thanks to its efforts that the Chabad-led Federation of Jewish Communities Titled “An Alternative History of Art,” the ex- Kabakov, when Zhukova—and Abramovich — garage was saved,” he said at a news conference, of Russia. hibition is by the Soviet Jewish émigré artist Ilya stepped in. according the federation’s Web site. “You know “Who in Moscow in the 1960s, or Petersburg Kabakov and his wife and collaborator, Emilia, Abramovich, 42 was not noted for a passion there had already been talk of tearing it down in the 1970s, could have imagined that in the who are famous for their “total installations.” for art before he met Zhukova, 27, a fashion de- and putting up apartment buildings on this beginning of the 21st century a contemporary Zhukova, who was born in Moscow but edu- signer and former model, and divorced his wife site.” Many architectural landmarks have been art center would be built on the site of a bus cated in California and had been living in Lon- and mother of his five children, Irina, to be with torn down in Moscow to make way for lucrative depot next door to a Jewish center?” marveled don, told Afisha magazine that she discovered her. He is known in Russia for, among other housing projects. Mikhail Shvydkoi, a Kremlin special cultural the Bakhmetyevsky Garage when familiarizing things, his philanthropy in the impoverished Aleksandr Boroda, president of the federa- envoy, at a news conference at The Garage on herself with the federation’s programs. “I was in- Arctic region of Chukotka. As Chukotka’s tion, said at the news conference that the orga- opening day, September 16. terested in the Jewish community’s educational Kremlin-appointed governor, he was revered nization has big plans for The Garage. It was “If someone had told someone this in a programs and was walking around the various there for spending hundreds of millions of dol- granted a lease on the building in 2001 and in- kitchen in 1960, or 1970, or even in 1980, they buildings when I saw the garage, and asked them lars of his own fortune—estimated at $23.5 tends, ultimately, to turn it into a Russian Jewish would have been thought crazy,” he said. about this beautiful building,” she said. billion by Forbes magazine—on housing and Museum of Tolerance that would depict his- The Garage is the brainchild of Daria Zhu- Joseph Backstein, commissar of the Mos- social services. In July he resigned from his post torical eras from the time of the creation of the kova, a fashion designer, former model and the cow biennale of contemporary art and cura- but is now running for Chukotka’s Parliament. world and include a children’s museum, multi- girfriend of Jewish oligarch Roman Abramov- tor of the Kabakov exhibition, said the project Zhukova, whose father is an oil tycoon, re- media Hall of Tolerance, genealogical center ich, who is ranked by Forbes as the 15th richest would not have been possible without the help fuses to talk about her relationship with Abra- and exhibitions devoted to the major religions,

November 2008 November man in the world. Abramovich has become fa- of Zhukova’s IRIS Foundation, her vehicle for movich, but Emilia Kabakov indicated that including Islam.

A mous internationally in recent years in part due art-world philanthropy, and the “huge support Abramovich is writing at least some of the Boroda said the Kremlin supports the mu- to his ownership of the Chelsea Football Club in of the Federation of Jewish Communities.” checks for the new venture. seum and that Vladimir Putin even donated a London and as a buyer of extravagant yachts. Kabakov, a children’s book illustrator in his “This is an incredible center,” she said, add- month’s salary to the project in 2007, when he He is well known in the Jewish world be- everyday Soviet life, was one of the founders of ing it wouldn’t have been possible without the was still president. cause of his close ties to the Federation of Jewish the underground Moscow Conceptualists art help of the influential couple. The opening of The Garage in the space is Communities; he heads its board of trustees. movement. He left the Soviet Union in 1987 “It’s amazing that our visit to Russia coin- meant to entrench the venue on Moscow’s cul- Everything at The Garage is on a world-class and became the most famous Russian contem- cided with the opening of this wonderful new tural map in time for the museum’s opening in Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw level. 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non-UM participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s at Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plym- November 2008 Café, ground floor of UM Michigan League. Friday 7 outh Rd. For more information, contact Abbie For information, call 936-2367. Lawrence-Jacobson, MSW, PhD at 769-0209 Saturday 1 Blood Pressure Clinic: JCC Seniors. A registered Weekly Yiddish Reading Group: JCC Seniors. or email [email protected]. nurse from Care Response will take blood Meets at the JCC. (Note location change.) Hebrew with Hila: EMU Hillel. 7–8 p.m. at the 1:30–3 p.m. Call Ray Juni at 761-2765 for in- Camp Information Session: TBE. Information pressures, record them and address any ques- EMU Student Center Starbucks. For infor- formation. about Olan Sang Ruby Institute-OSRUI, Re- tions. 1 p.m. First Tuesday each month. mation, contact Ricky Kamil at program@ form Jewish Camp in Wisconsin. 8:35 a.m. Weekly Torah Portion—for Women: Chabad. Breakfast Shabbat: EMU Hillel. 6–8 p.m. at emuhillel.org. and 12:05 p.m. For details, call TBE school Reading the Bible may be easy, but under- EMU Hillel. For information, contact Ricky Text Study: BIC. “Jewish Perspectives on the office at 665-5817. Also Sunday, November 2 standing it is no simple matter. Study the Kamil at [email protected]. Beginning and End of Time,” with Rabbi Do- at 7:05 p.m. text in the original, together with the classical Shabbat Service: TBE. Service with special brusin. 8 p.m. Shabbat Limud: BIC. Shabbat Learning facilitat- commentaries. 8:30 p.m. at Chabad House. Kristalnacht readings. 7:30 p.m. ed by Rabbi Dobrusin. Discussion of weekly Every Tuesday. Friday evening services: See listing at the end of Torah portion with coffee and cakes served. Jewish Learning Institute: Fall semester class the calendar. Tuesday 11 9 a.m. “Soul Maps,” using Kabbalah to navigate your inner world. 7:30–9 p.m. at the JCC. SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Fitness Fun with Mystical Insights to the Torah–for Women: Cha- Saturday 8 Maria Farquhar, 11 a.m.; $4/session or $10/3 bad. Learn more about the mystical dimen- Topics in Jewish Law: AAOM. Rabbi Rod Gl- sessions; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet Lunch, sions of the Torah: 1 hour before sundown at ogower presents different topics each week Mystical Insights to the Torah–for Women: noon; Games and activities including mah- Chabad House. Every Saturday. using texts from Tanach, Talmud and rabbinic Chabad. 1 hour before sundown at Chabad jong, quilting, art projects and card games, 1 literature. English translations of texts pro- Teen Shabbat Schmooze: BIC. 4 p.m. at Rabbi House. Every Saturday. p.m. Every Tuesday. Blumenthal’s home. 4 p.m. vided. Discussions in areas of law, philosophy and theology. 8 p.m. at UM Hillel. For infor- Tot Shabbat: BIC. For tots aged 3–5 years old OSHER Lifelong Learning Program: TBE Re- Laws of Shabbat–Jewish Ethics: Chabad. Study and parents. 11:15 a.m. naissance Group.. “What Happened Last group code of law for Shabbat, and study of mation, call 662-5805. Minyan Matok (M & M): BIC. Special service Tuesday?” 10:30 a.m. Jewish Ethics, 1/2 hour before sundown at for children in K–2nd grade with songs, stories Yidish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): All Chabad House. Every Saturday. Wednesday 5 and active learning. 11:15 a.m. ages and levels welcome including UM and Shabbat services: See listing at the end of calendar. Laws of Shabbat–Jewish Ethics: Chabad. Study non-UM participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s Jewish Book Festival: JCC. Annual event fea- group code of law for Shabbat, and study of Café, ground floor of UM Michigan League. Sunday 2 turing best-selling authors from around the Jewish Ethics, 1/2 hour before sundown at For information, call 936-2367. country. Daily “Lunch and Learns” for $10 at Chabad House. Every Saturday. Jewish Learning Institute: Fall semester class noon on weekdays, plus varied evening events. Reading Hebrew through the Prayer Book–for Shabbat services: See listing at the end of calendar. “Soul Maps,” using Kabbalah to navigate your For information, phone 971-0990. Through inner world. 7:30–9 p.m. at the JCC. Women: Chabad. An in-depth study into the Sunday 9 November 17. Topics in Jewish Law: AAOM. Rabbi Rod Gl- prayer book, an overview of the weekly Torah Reading Hebrew through the Prayer Book–for Lunch and Learn: BIC. “Where Do We Go From ogower presents different topics each week reading, with Jewish philosophy. 9:30 a.m. at Women: Chabad. An in-depth study into the Here?” With Rabbi Dobrusin. Bring a dairy using texts from Tanach, Talmud and rabbinic Chabad House. Every Sunday. prayer book, an overview of the weekly Torah lunch, drinks and dessert provided. Noon. literature. English translations of texts pro- Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into reading, with Jewish philosophy. 9:30 a.m. at “Understanding Happiness:” JCC Seniors. Osh- vided. Discussions in areas of law, philosophy the basic text of Chassidism and open your Chabad House. Every Sunday. er Lifelong Learning Institute Series of weekly and theology. 8 p.m. at UM Hillel. For infor- eyes to the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. at Mussar Study Group: BIC. 9:45 a.m. Chabad House. Every Sunday. sessions led by Instructor Mike Murray. $20. mation, call 662-5805. 1:30–3 p.m. October 29 through November 26 Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into Weekly Torah Portion—for Women: Chabad. Volleyball: EMU Hillel. Get out of your room the basic text of Chassidism and open your and play volleyball at 1 p.m. at EMU Rec IM. Reading the Bible may be easy, but understand- eyes to the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. at ing it is no simple matter. Study the text in the For information, contact Ricky Kamil at pro- Thursday 6 Chabad House. Every Sunday. [email protected]. original, together with the classical commentar- Youth Group Event: TBE Rishonim. Chocolate- ies. 8:30 p.m. at Chabad House. Every Tuesday. Jewish Concepts–for Women: Chabad. Learning Prayer, Weekly Torah Reading and Jewish Phi- making at Schakolad and lunch at Subway.1 the deeper meanings to the Jewish way of life. losophy–for Women: Chabad. 9 a.m. at the p.m. $10. For information or to RSVP, contact 8 p.m. at Chabad House. Every Sunday. JCC. Every Thursday. Abe at [email protected] or Wednesday 12 SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Fitness Fun with call 417-0417. Monday 3 Maria Farquhar, 10 a.m., $4 or 3/$10; Cur- Schmooze and Schmere: EMU Hillel. 1–3 p.m. Lunch and Learn: BIC. “What Non-Jews Get rent Events with Heather Dombey, a Jewish Location TBA. For information, contact Ricky Right, What They Get Wrong and What They perspective on this week’s news, 11 a.m.; $3 Kamil at [email protected]. Want to Know About Judaism.” Bring a dairy English as a Second Language Daily Classes: Homemade Dairy Buffet Lunch, noon; Spe- lunch, drinks and desserts provided. Noon “The New Wave of Congregational Singing:” JFS. Ongoing class from 9:30 a.m.–noon on cial events and guest presentations (varied), Mondays–Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mon- BIC. With Cantor Jeffrey Shiovitz. 1:30 p.m. Afternoon Delight: JCC Seniors. Maestro Arie 1 p.m.; Literary Group with Sidney War- Lipsky and Friends presented by the Ann Ar- days–Thursdays at Jewish Family Services, Dinner and Lecture: TBE Renaissance Group. schausky. Contact Merrill Poliner at 971-0990 bor Symphony Orchestra. $8. Refreshments 2245 S. State St.. For more information, con- Dinner at the Macaroni Grill Restaurant fol- for current book. 2:15 p.m. at the JCC. at 1:30 p.m. Concert at 2 p.m. at the JCC. For tact JFS at 769-0209 or email info@jfsannar- lowed by attending Jewish Book Fair for the Jef- Registration Deadline: JCC Youth. A variety of information, phone 971-0990. bor.org. Ongoing. frey Zaslow book lecture at the JCC. 5:30 p.m. Youth Enrichment Classes begins November RSVP to Gale Stolzenberg by November 5 at ASB Bonding: EMU Hillel. 7 p.m. For infor- Text Study: BIC. “Jewish Perspectives on the Be- 10 and runs through the week of December ginning and End of Time.” With Rabbi Do- 477-9091 or email [email protected]. mation, contact Ricky Kamil at program@ 15. 4:15–5:15 p.m. Fees vary. Register by 11/6. emuhillel.org. brusin. 8 p.m. Jewish Concepts–for Women: Chabad. Learning For information, visit www.jccannarbor.org Men’s Torah Study: TBE. 7:30 p.m. or contact Deborah Huerta at deborahhuer- the deeper meanings to the Jewish way of life. [email protected] or phone 971-0990. 8 p.m. at Chabad House. Every Sunday. “Fixed Prayer and Unfixed Prayer and Who’s Tuesday 4 Listening Anyway?” TBE. First of two-session Book Festival Book Talk: TBE. With Evan Fall- class led by Rabbi Levy. 7:30 p.m. RSVP to School’s Out, JCC’s In: JCC. For JCC members enberg, Israeli author and translator for Meir Monday 10 665-4744. Shalev, discussing his book Light Fell which only in AAPS grades K-5 with middle school Introduction to Judaism: BIC. Taught by Rabbi students welcome to participate as helpers. deals with Judaism, homosexuality and Israel. English as a Second Language Daily Classes: Noon. Kim Blumenthal. Free twelve-session class. Full day program featuring field trip or activi- JFS. Ongoing class from 9:30 a.m.–noon on Class starts at 7:45 p.m., however students ties. $34 for care from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. ($32/ad- Birthdays and Book Festival Speaker: JCC Se- Mondays–Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays– are encouraged to join the congregation for ditional siblings.) $8 for extended care from niors. Celebration for all with birthdays in Thursdays at Jewish Family Services, 2245 S. Ma’ariv evening service at 7:30 p.m. 4–6 p.m. Registration is due at least 3 days November. Friends and family welcome to join State St.. For more information, contact JFS Concert: UM Hillel. Hadag Nachash concert. $15 in advance. For information or to register, for lunch and birthday cake at 12:30 p.m., fol- at 769-0209 or email [email protected]. discount rate for UM students at Michigan visit www.jcccannarbor.org or contact Debo- lowed by discussion of Light Fell led by book Ongoing. Union Ticket Office or $25 full rate through rah Huerta at [email protected] or author Evan Fallenberg, a writer, teacher and Workshop: JFS. “One Stop Shop for Peace of phone 971-0990. translator currently living in Israel. 1 p.m. ticketmaster.com. 8 p.m. at Blind Pig, Ashley Mind,” presented as part of the Housing Bu- Street.

November 2008 November SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Fitness Fun with Talmud Study Group–Jewish Civil Law: Cha- reau for Senior’s Aging in Place Week. Creat- Maria Farquhar, 11 a.m.; $4/session or $10/3 bad. Sharpen your wits and knowledge of the A ing and organizing your medical, legal, and sessions; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet Lunch, Jewish legal system by following the intrigu- financial documents are key components of Thursday 13 noon; games and activities including mah- ing discussions in the Talmud. The Talmud successful aging in place. Legal experts and jong, quilting, art projects and card games, 1 is a composite of practical law, logical argu- geriatric care managers will walk through the Prayer, Weekly Torah Reading and Jewish Phi- p.m. Every Tuesday. mentation and moral teachings. Study of the process of preparing for later life decisions by losophy–for Women: Chabad. 9 a.m. at the Yidish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): All original Talmud tractate Taanit chapter 2. 8 compiling crucial documents. Participants JCC. Every Thursday. ages and levels welcome including UM and p.m. Every Thursday. will leave with documents in hand. 2–4 p.m. Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw

26 Washtenaw Jewish News A November 2008 . . 27 ------. . Study plus robot-in . . Special service See listing at the end of Wall-E : “Choose “Choose Life: A Physical, grade with songs, stories stories gradewithsongs, . . Monthly event featuring nd . . An in-depth study into the See listing at end of the calendar. 1 hour before sundown at Chabad Meets at the JCC. (Note location 1:30–3 Call p.m. Ray Juni at change.)761-2765 for in formation. the calendar. 11:15 a.m. parents. K–2 in children for Chabad Women: prayer book, an overview of the weekly Torah reading, with 9:30 Jewish philosophy. a.m. at Every Sunday. House. Chabad to eyes your open and of Chassidism text basic the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. at Chabad Every Sunday. House. and Congregregation Israel Beth of Sisterhoods Beth Temple Emeth. Emotional and Spiritual Approach to Breast Cancer Beaumont Protection.” Hospital’s Dr. Ruth Lerman and Certified GeneticCounselor Whitney Ducaine will talk about breast health, plus a new way to perform a breast exam. Par ticipants should wear comfortable clothes. Re freshments provided. 2–4 p.m. at the JCC. For information, call Shoshana Mandel at 623-1044 at 302-1810. Thacker Eileen or Three-hour experiential learning- pre workshop and active learning. 11:15 a.m. learning. and active K-5, grades in kids for Evening” Inventive “An with crafts, dinner and a movie. This month will feature the film spired games and crafts. Dinner included. $20/JCC members; $18/additional siblings. $25/non-members; $23/additional siblings. Register by 11/20. 6:30–10 For p.m. informa- Deborahcontact at Huerta tion or register, to [email protected], visit www.jccan 971-0990. phone or narbor.org Chabad. Every Saturday. House. group code of law for Shabbat, and study of Jewish Ethics, 1/2 hour before sundown Every Saturday. House. Chabad at the 10 most challenging questions posed by adoptees. Q&A session follows. For adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents, school mem family adoptive other and professionals infor more For provided. childcare Free bers. mation, visit or www.jfsannarbor.org email Lisa Keefauver at [email protected]. 6–8 at the JCC. p.m. bad. Sharpen witsyour and knowledge of the Jewish legal system by following the intrigu ing discussions in the The Talmud. Talmud is a composite of practical logical law, argu and mentation, moral Study teachings. of the original tractate chapter Talmud Taanit 2. 8 Thursday. Every p.m. Weekly Yiddish Reading Weekly Group: JCC Seniors 6–8 p.m. EMU Hillel. Happens: Shabbat Friday evening services and old years 3–5 ages tots For BIC. Shabbat: Tot Minyan Matok (M & M): BIC Reading Hebrew through the Prayer Book–for 9:45 p.m. BIC. Group: Study Mussar Mysticism: . Chabad Delve Tanya–Jewish into the and Health theForum: Hadassah, ORT, Women’s “What is it Like to UM Live on Hillel Welfare?” Kids’ Night Kids’ Out: JCC Mystical Insights to the Torah–for Women: Laws of Shabbat–Jewish Ethics: Chabad servicesShabbat : Talmud Study Talmud Group–Jewish Civil Law: - Cha Friday 21 Friday 22 Saturday 23 Sunday

------. . JLI . . 7–8:30 p.m. . . 9 a.m. at the . . Rabbi Rod Gl Adult Programs Ann Ann Arbor News, . Taught by . Rabbi Taught . . Fitness Fun with . . Second of - two-ses . “Are You My You . “Are Real : : Fall semester class “Jews in the News,” with in “Jews the News,” ciliation as an alternative to Catered revenge. at UM Michigan 7–10 p.m. follows. reception Ballroom. League ogower presents different topicsrabbinic and eachTalmud weekTanach, from texts using literature. English translations of texts pro philosophy Discussions ofin areas vided. law, and 8 theology. at p.m. UM Hillel. For infor call 662-5805. mation, Reading the Bible may be easy, but under standing it is no simple matter. Study the in text the withtogether original, the classical commentaries. 8:30 p.m. at Chabad House. . Tuesday Every “Soul Maps,” using Kabbalah to navigate your your navigate to Kabbalah using Maps,” “Soul at the JCC. p.m. 7:30–9 world. inner losophy–for Women: Chabad losophy–for Women: Thursday. Every JCC. the conflict and who wishto pursuerecon Maria Farquhar, Maria 10 Farquhar, a.m., $4 or 3/$10; Cur rent Events with Heather Dombey, a Jewish perspective on this news, week’s 11 a.m.; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet noon; Lunch, Spe cial events and guest presentations (varied), 1 p.m.; Literary Group with Sidney War 971-0990 at Poliner Merrill Contact schausky. at the JCC. 2:15 p.m. book. current for lison Jewish MSW, Family Pollock, Services Geriatric willSocial Worker be available for discussion, questions and assistance at 12:30 followed p.m. at 1 by p.m. as Lynn Monson, sistant Metro editor of the who will present a talk about his recent trip with local veterans to the WWII Memorial in D.C. Washington, Answering Mommy? the Hard Questions of Community-wide event in Adoption.” hon or of National Adoption Month addressing Rabbi Rabbi Dobrusin. Bring a dairy lunch, drinks Noon. and desserts provided. TBE Listening Anyway?” sion class led by Rabbi 7:30 Levy. p.m. RSVP 665-4744. to in EMU Student Center Kiva Room. Kiva Center in EMU Student series bringing wisdom of the to the Talmud at the JCC. 7:30–9 p.m. general public. Kim Kim Blumenthal. Free twelve-session class. Class starts at 7:45 p.m., however students are encouraged to join the congregation for service evening at 7:30 p.m. Ma’ariv and When is JFS. it time to seek out in-home care for aging parents and how can they re find to way best the What’s independent? main a high trustworthy, quality home care pro vider? the What’s difference between skilled nursing and private duty care? Find answers on session this at more and questions these to In-Home Care. 6:30–8 For p.m. information, 769-0209 at Lawrence-Jacobson Abbie contact [email protected]. email or Jewish Jewish Learning Institute Chabad. Portion—for Women: Torah Weekly Topics in Topics Jewish Law: AAOM Prayer, Weekly Torah Reading Torah and Weekly Jewish Phi Prayer, SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors Lunch and Lunch Learn: BIC. . Seniors JCC Al Flight:” “TheHonor Prideand Adoption Info Event: JFS “Fixed “Fixed Prayer and UnfixedPrayer andWho’s God at the Ballot Box: EMU Hillel . 7:30 p.m. in the chapel. 7:30 p.m. . TBE Meditation: Ethics: Jewish Talmudic Learning Institute Introduction to Judaism: BIC Caregiver Conversations: Caregiver JCC Conversations: Thursday 20 Wednesday 19 Wednesday

------Cool - Encoun Learning . . Delve into . . In collabo . Blankets and Blankets . . . Sponsored by Illumination and . . Fitness Fun with Every Sunday . . Robi Demelin and . . Lisa Klug, former staff “Jewish Perspectives on the Be the on Perspectives “Jewish (Yiddish Conversational Group): All Group): Conversational (Yiddish which covers everything Hebraic from . . Ongoing class from 9:30 a.m.–noon on ngoing. JFS Mondays– on p.m. 1–3 and Mondays–Fridays Thursdays at Jewish Family Services, 2245 S. State St. For more information, contact JFS at 769-0209 or email [email protected]. In UM and Studies Judaic for Center Frankel stitute for the Humanities. demonstration of new methods for study ing the intersection of Judaism and music. Series of lectures and panel discussion with Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and Music Director for the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; Kay Harvard Kaufman Shelemay, University; and MichaelSteinberg, P. Brown Amphi Rackham at p.m. a.m.–3 9 University. Washington. 915 E. theatre, ginning and End led of by Rabbi Time,” Do 8 p.m. brusin. ration with the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, the UM Geriatric Care Re Center, sponse and Jewish Family Services, the JCC will be hosting a free memory screening. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. O bration Family Storytelling Concert for ages 4 and Cosponsored by older. the Ann Arbor District Library. 2 p.m. at Pittsfield information, For Dr. Branch Valley Oak 2359 Library, [email protected]. contact writer for the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times, discusses her new book Jew, cultural Jewish celebrates and womb to womb pride with enthusiasm, love, and irreverence. time. Call 769-0500 for ofthe deeper way meaningsthe Jewish to life. House. at Chabad 8 p.m. Temple Beth Caring Temple 1 Emeth’s Community. p.m. For details, contact TBE office at 665- 4744. Ann Arbor Storytellers’ Annual Guild. Telle the basic text of Chassidism and open your eyes to the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. at Every Sunday. House. Chabad Pumpkin Pie. 6–8 p.m. For information, con information, For 6–8 p.m. Pie. Pumpkin at [email protected]. tact Kamil Ricky Allied Students and Israel, for Movement can for Freedom & Equality featured Ali Abu in Awwad, the film speakers Both p.m. 7–10 from speak Point, ter a Forum, Families Circle the Parents from are bereavement group for Israelis and Palestin ians who have lost immediate family due to Maria Farquhar, 11 Maria Farquhar, a.m.; $4/session or $10/3 sessions; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet Lunch, noon; games and activities including mah ages and levels welcome including UM and non-UM participants. 1:30 at p.m. Beanster’s Café, ground floorof UMMichigan League. call 936-2367. information, For jong, jong, quilting, art projects and card games, 1 . Tuesday Every p.m. English as a Second Language Daily Classes: Society, Musical University and Judaism Music: Study:BIC. Text Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Tanya–Jewish Chabad National National Memory Screening: JCC SPICE SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors Book Talk: Book UM Talk: Hillel Chabad. Women: Concepts–for Jewish “Creating “Creating Community Through Storytelling:” Hike: Hike: Jewish Hikers of Michigan Forum: Forum: Union of Progressive AmeriZionists, Decorate and Donate: EMU Hillel EMU Donate: and Decorate Yidish Tish Yidish Monday 17 Monday Tuesday 18 Tuesday . ------. . Study . 1 p.m. . . . Fitness Fun with . New York-themed . York-themed New $12 includes lunch. . . Full day program for See listing at the end of . . Shabbat Learning session An in-depth study into the into study in-depth An . Aaron Cohen, former Israeli Israeli former Cohen, Aaron .

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Places and spaces: Exploring what Got rhythm? Got music? David Erik Nelson, staff writer makes up the Jewish tapestry usic and dance have been a vital vah experience. Their DJ/MCs and live vocal- By Ruth Ellen Gruber part of human leisure and ritual ists—many of whom also have backgrounds for no less than 11,000 years. While in professional dance and choreography—are ROME (JTA)—We’ve all played the “Jewish I must admit that I myself actually fulfill M our technology and techniques have certainly well-suited to pre-teen tastes. StarTrax also of- geography” game—you know, questioning some of these stereotypes. I have lived in sev- evolved in that time, our basic attachment to fers services beyond the dance floor, addressing someone we’ve only just met in order to dis- en or eight countries, and even now I spend marking occasions with song and dance has both practical concerns (e.g., professional valet cover common Jewish connections, friends, a good deal of time on the road. Yet I gener- remained unchanged. parking) and party-energizing extras, like air- or even family. ally feel comfortable wherever I am, usually For more than 95 years the Arthur Murray brushed temporary tattoos, glitzy hair-dos, and In doing so, we are mapping out our ex- wishing I could stay longer in almost every Dance Studios (5060 Jackson Rd., 995-9500, digital photos. Just in case the prospect of all of periences, delineating a sort of Jewish topog- place I visit. www.arthurmurraymichigan.com) across the this self-esteem building dance-floor social in- raphy of interlinking backgrounds, histories, Rarely do I feel “homesick,” yet I have United States have been teaching anyone who teraction is stressing out some prospective b’nai and far-flung mishpocha. deep attachments to place and certain places. can walk to dance “the Arthur Murray Way.” mitzvah-goers, StarTrax has also begun offering Somehow I feel a sense of profound sat- Despite living overseas most of my life, the Their private lessons, taught by trained and their “First Trax” pre-teen etiquette and dance isfaction when I discover an unexpected United States, in all its grandeur, remains my certified instructors, can accommodate both class, aimed at fully preparing young people for link with a stranger. It’s like a gift, an almost homeland. those simply looking to get more comfortable the arduous coming-of-age ritual of doing the magical sense of communion with the dense- And perhaps it’s a variant of the Jewish dancing in social situations, as well as folks Electric Slide while wearing hard-soled loafers. ly woven tapestry of Jewish life—or at least geography game that I do feel a special af- interested in dancing competitively (so-called For those more interested in edifying relax- with an individual or a place that helps make finity for the landscapes, climate, food, and “DanceSport,” which is on the verge of becom- ation than shaking a tail feather, the University up that tapestry. even architecture in East-Central Europe, ing a recognized Olympic event). The “Arthur Musical Society (764-2538, www.ums.org) has The idea of Jewish topography and the from where my ancestors came. Murray Way”—which guarantees students will been bringing renowned dance, music, and the- spaces and places—physical and metaphys- Jewish Topographies goes far beyond ge- be dancing, at least rudimentarily, after the very ater events to Ann Arbor for 130 seasons, making ical—in which Jews live, dream, and interact ography. Its chapters examine very different, first lesson—hinges on building up complex UMS one of the oldest performing arts present- forms the basis of a fascinating new book. and sometimes unusual, places where Jewish dances (such as the mambo, fox-trot, or salsa) ers in the nation. Two of this month’s musical Jewish Topographies: Visions of Space, Tra- experience is strongly linked, physically or from four basic, fundamental movements. performances are of special interest to the Jew- ditions of Place (Ashgate Publishing House, emotionally, to specific environments. There are five Arthur Murray Dance Studio ish community. On November 8, Emanuel Ax 2008) is a collection of essays by a score of Most deal with concrete settings: Jews locations throughout Southeaster Michigan, and Yefim Bronfman will be performing piano international scholars who participated in a defiantly (and astonishingly) cultivating gar- including one in Ann Arbor. duos by Brahms, Bolcom, Recuerdos, and Mo- six-year research project at the University of dens in the midst of World War II ghettos. Joe Cornell began giving dance lessons in zart, as well as Rachmaninoff’s final orchestral Potsdam in Germany. Jews hiking and kayaking through the pre- Metro Detroit basements in 1957, motivated suite, Symphonic Dances. Yefim Bronfman was Called Makom, or “place” in Hebrew, the war Polish countryside to gain connection by his firm belief that the road to teenage so- born in Russia, but emigrated to Israel at 14, project aimed to explore the relevance of with the land in which they live. The archi- cial confidence and self-esteem is best traversed where he blossomed into a pianist that “bucks space and place in Jewish life and culture. tectural and spatial symbolism of the eruv in in box steps. Now run by two of Joe’s original the stereotype of the Russian soloist as merely a In my own writing, I have dealt frequently contemporary Germany. The impact of what employees, Joe Cornell Entertainment ((248) technical wizard of large sound and emphatic with “Jewish space” in the way that the Paris- Jews eat, and the creation of definable Jewish 356-6000, www.joecornell.com) continues to personality.” Bronfman’s and Ax’s 2002 record- based historian Diana Pinto framed it. She “foodscapes.” A “map” of the new alternative offer a 13-week pre-teen dance program, devel- ings of Rachmaninoff’s piano duos met with coined the term in the 1990s to describe the Jewish subcultures that have emerged recent- oped much along the lines of Cornell’s origi- great critical acclaim. A week later on November place occupied by Jews, Jewish culture, and ly in Budapest. nal classes. But Joe Cornell Entertainment has 16, UMS will host the Jerusalem Symphony Or- Jewish memory within mainstream Europe- The book also includes an epilogue that also significantly expanded their offerings to chestra. For more than 60 years, Israel’s premier an society, regardless of the size or activity of expands the concept of Jewish space into include DJs, live percussionists, “party perkers” orchestra has offered a challenging repertoire of the local Jewish population. areas that only recently opened up for ex- (i.e., professional dancers brought in as ringers works by notable baroque, classical, romantic, “There is a Jewish space in Europe that ploration. Called “Virtual Jewish Topogra- to keep the dance floor moving), an impressive and contemporary composers. For their debut will exist even in the absence of Jews,” she phy,” it chronicles the creation and growth array of visual effects (e.g., concert-style intelli- with UMS, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra said. “The ‘Jewish thing’ is becoming univer- of Judaism in the online cyberworld known gent lighting, strobes, bubble machines, fog ma- will present works by three prominent Jewish sal.” as Second Life, starting with the creation of chines, black lights, projection screens, etc.), and composers: Erich Walter Sternberg, Leonard Pinto’s thesis was a spark for my own ex- Beth Israel, the first Second Life synagogue, party-support services (including help in plan- Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. In late January plorations of the often intense relationship in August 2006. ning and scheduling an event, as well as hired UMS will play host to Jewish-American pianist between non-Jews and Jewish culture in Eu- Its author, Julian Voloj, tells a fascinating runners to help manage the innumerable—and Richard Goode. Renowned for his interpreta- rope. I coined the term “virtually Jewish” to story of avatars, screen names, and self-select- often unexpected—event-day details). tion of chamber music—especially pieces com- describe how non-Jews often “fill” Europe’s ed identities as he charts the development of StarTrax Entertainment ((248) 263-6300, posed by Beethoven and Mozart—Goode will Jewish space with their own ideas and opera- synagogues, Jewish institutions, Jewish cul- www.startrax.com), on the other hand, is more be focusing on Bach, Mozart, and Chopin for tions. tural activities and Jewish neighborhoods— specifically fine-tuned to the bar or bat mitz- this performance. n Jewish Topographies takes a much differ- even anti-Semitic incidents—in a world that ent approach. in a sense is real but also quite imaginary. It regards Jewish space from within the “How does one describe a place that does Radical Israelis, from page 20 Jewish world rather than from the virtually not ‘really’ exist and that can be changed by Jewish perspective of outside interaction. It a simple mouse click?” he writes. “And how tlers’ leadership, including rabbis, are giving movement are deep divisions over what direc- sees Jewish spaces as actual environments does one describe a culture in transition?” the movement’s radical elements either tacit or tion to take. A leaflet recently distributed in that are shaped by Jews, where Jewish life I’ve known the German-born Voloj for outright support. some settlements and signed by two promi- may be rooted and where Jewish activities several years. He is a writer, photographer, While acknowleging the rise in violent nent settler leaders calls on the public to join go on. and former Jewish student leader who now tactics, the head of the council that represents in the fight against outpost evacuations by “Jewish things” happen there and often, works for the American Jewish Joint Distri- Jewish settlers in the West Bank said crit- dispersing to exhaust security forces. The leaf- in turn, define the identity of the physical bution Committee. We’re Facebook friends ics are trying to make the settler community let suggests blocking roads and building more places where they are happening. and generally stay in touch online. But in look bad. “It needs to be known that last year outposts, and exhorts youths to take hikes in One of the goals of the project, the book’s addition to his expertise in novel Jewish to- the Palestinians damaged more fields of Jews “unconventional areas”—interpreted to mean editors write, was to counteract stereotypes pographies, he’s also adept at playing classic than the other way around,” said Dani Dayan near Palestinian villages. that long have conveyed “the pervasive im- “Jewish geography.” of the Yesha Council. “Let there be no mis- Rabbi Yuval Sherlow, considered a mod- pression that the Jewish experience—except Indeed, I was pleased to learn not long understanding: Any attack on Jewish or Arab erate leader in the religious Zionist camp of the Israeli one—is one of profound displace- ago that Voloj’s grandmother turns out to be property should be condemned, but there is an which the settlers are a key part, said members

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A also a substantial spatiality or attachment to cousin once removed. Judea and Samaria,” he said, using the biblical port to those who reject violent confrontation. place.” names for the West Bank. “There is a large periphery of people,” he Ruth Ellen Gruber’s books include “National They mean stereotypes such as the de- Perhaps because of the negative image of set- said, “and we need to give them ideological and Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide scription of Jews as the “People of the Book” tlers, the council has launched a public relations religious backing so they don’t feel like they are to Eastern Europe,” “Letters from Europe (and and of the book itself as the Jews’ “portable campaign with billboards across Israel that pro- doing something wrong in obeying the law and Elsewhere),” and “Virtually Jewish: Reinvent- homeland,” not to mention the widespread claim “Judea and Samaria—every Jew’s story.” fighting violence.” n ing Jewish Culture in Europe.” cliche of the “wandering Jew.” Meanwhile, within the mainstream settler Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw

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