THE VOICE OF JEWISH LONG BEACH PUBLISHED SINCE 1947 MARCH – APRIL 2021 | ADAR – NISAN – IYAR 5781

Strengthening Our Community • Passover Greetings • Immersive Israel Experiences Continue During the Pandemic • Jewish Music and Memory • Because of This Community • Passover Brings Hope • Honoring Those Who Perished • Do Not Separate Yourself From the Community • Why You Should Leave Egypt Today • INSIDE

THE VOICE OF JEWISH LONG BEACH PUBLISHED SINCE 1947 Edie Brodsky Greetings Jewish Long Beach President Zachary Benjamin Jewish Long Beach for a Happy Chief Executive Officer Carol A. Beckerman Jewish Long Beach 4 & Healthy 8 Development/ Editorial Coordinator JEWISH Pesach LONG BEACH EMPOWERING GREATER LONG BEACH AND WEST ORANGE CONTY SINCE 1948 Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Jewish Long Beach Campus From the One Sommer Way 3801 E. Willow Street Chronicle Long Beach, CA 90815-1791 Phone: 562.426.7601 5 Staff 16 9 FAX: 562.424.3915 13 /jewishlongbeach INSIDE CORPORATE SPONSORS We are reimagining our corporate sponsorship program. Stay tuned for @jewishlongbeach details in the next issue of the Chronicle! 4 Honoring Those Who Perished @jewishlongbeach The Annual Yom HaShoah Community Observance for the Long Beach Jewish community will take place virtually on Sunday, April 11 at 2:00 pm. linkedin.com/company/ jewish-long-beach 5 Because of This Community I was a transplant from Yonkers, New York, where I was raised Catholic. jewishlongbeach.org 6 Strengthening Our Community Editorial & Advertising Like the Jewish people, Jewish agencies and institutions must continuously adapt to 562.426.7601 x1006 the ever-changing environments in which they operate. [email protected] 8 Passover Brings Hope The history of Passover reminds me of COVID-19. AD & COPY DEADLINE May/June 2021 deadline: Jewish Music and Memory 8 April 5, 2021 Music has always been one of the most powerful vehicles a people has to transmit its values, knowledge, beliefs, and dreams from one generation to the next. ISSN# 1525- 6847 9 Do Not Separate Yourself From the Community Long Beach Area Chamber Rabbi Jonathan Sacks taught, “Community is the human expression of Divine love.” Donald J. Kaiser of Commerce Member Investment Management 10 33rd Annual Race With A View A Registered Investment Advisor The race is virtual, the impact is real! Registration is open now. The appearance of product or establishment advertising 11 COVID Challenges: Engaged Students Produce Happy Scholars in the Jewish Community The Hebrew Academy offers on-site and distance learning synchronously. Chronicle does not constitute 12 Scaling Small for Deep Impact an endorsement of kashruth. Hillel has expanded its investment in small group learning through its popular Opinions printed in the Jewish program, the Jewish Learning Fellowship (JLF). Community Chronicle do not necessarily reflect those of 13 Community News the Jewish Long Beach. The 14 Arlene Solomon Visions Event is Coming Thursday, April 29, 2021 publication of a paid political Jewish Long Beach Women’s Philanthropy Cabinet has commited to an exciting new advertisement does not approach to this yearly event, in order to keep the Visions tradition alive. constitute endorsement of any candidate, political party 15 Why You Should Leave Egypt Today! or political position by Jewish As we sit down to the Seder of 2021, let’s think about what is holding us back. Long Beach or any employee. 16 Passover Greetings 19 Tributes/In Memoriam Photos: Cover ©2020 Maglara/iStock; pg. 2: Scott Smeltzer; ©2020 Gibleho/ Shutterstock; Candlesticks ©2020 SHABBAT CANDLELIGHTING eezy.com; pg. 4: Jessie Butler; pg. 14: March 5 5:36 pm March 19 6:47*pm April 2 6:57 pm April 16 7:08 pm Jessie Butler; ©2020 Eliyahu Yosef Parypa/Shutterstock March 12 5:41 pm March 26 6:52 pm April 9 7:03 pm April 23 7:13 pm *Daylight savings begins 3/14 April 30 7:19 pm Chronicle ©2021 Jewish Long Beach All Rights Reserved.

2 | CHRONICLE | MARCH – APRIL 2021 NEWS CONVERSATIONS JEWISH LONG BEACH From the CEO’S Desk – A Time for Action to Guide Our College Campuses Zachary Benjamin | Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Long Beach

A common thread of definition deftly and eloquently provides. However, consideration of the resolution by the board responsibility runs through Jewish students at American colleges and has been postponed indefinitely while it undergoes the varied but complimentary universities find themselves increasingly isolated, review by the Academic Senate and legal personnel. missions of all Jewish with many reporting that they would rather conceal I met in mid-February via Zoom with LBCC agencies, institutions and their Jewish identities than face demands from board president Uduak-Joe Ntuk and Long Beach congregations. Though our student groups and faculty that they renounce the City College interim superintendent-president Lou objectives as organizations Jewish state and reject the right of the Jewish people Anne Bynum to offer the support of our Jewish are diverse, we all share the to self-determination. communal institutions in helping identify and Zachary Benjamin obligation to educate our Examples abound of organized efforts to combat antisemitism on LBCC District campuses. I broader communities about intimidate Jewish students, faculty, and staff. also reiterated our belief that the IHRA definition is antisemitism, to identify and define it, and to oppose For instance, at Emory, Vassar, NYU, and other among the most effective resources available to help it with the utmost fervor and resolution. universities, vandals have repeatedly defaced stem the tide of bias against Jews, and that its adoption In 2016, the International Holocaust Jewish students’ dorm room doors with “eviction by colleges and universities is an important step in the Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) authored its official notices” designed to mimic notices that groups such process of addressing this increasingly urgent issue. definition of antisemitism, a valuable tool with as Students for Justice in Palestine falsely claim are President Ntuk and Ms. Bynum appeared which organizations such as Jewish Long Beach arbitrarily assigned by the Israel Defense Forces to thoughtful, concerned, and committed to the welfare can educate our broader communities against anti- Arab homes in Israel and the Palestinian territories. of vulnerable LBCC community members, including Jewish bias. The definition identifies various forms Meanwhile, student governments across the country, Jewish ones. Ultimately, the actions of any publicly of antisemitism, including, “making mendacious, including, most recently, at UC Irvine, have called upon elected deliberative body, including the LBCC dehumanizing, or stereotypical allegations about their college and university administrations to divest District Board of Trustees, should be informed by the Jews or the power of Jews as collective,” “holding not only from Israeli companies and organizations, needs and concerns of those they represent. Thus, it Jews collectively responsible for actions of the State but from any entity that conducts business in is imperative that our Jewish community actively of Israel,” “denying the Jewish people their right to or with Israel. These calls have, thankfully, been encourage the board to demonstrate leadership in self-determination…by claiming that the existence largely ignored or rejected by these institutions’ combating antisemitism and assuring that LBCC of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” and presidents and boards of trustees. However, no such District campuses remain safe spaces for Jewish “applying double standards [to Israel] by requiring calls to divest from arguably far more insidious students, faculty, and staff. of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other and destructive regimes are commonplace, and the We at Jewish Long Beach ask that you take a democratic nation.” Since the creation of the IHRA activities of these student governments fall squarely moment to encourage the LBCC District Board of definition, it has been adopted not only by the United within the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism. Trustees to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. States Departments of State and Education, but also by Jewish communities on campuses are under You can do so by submitting a public comment to 29 United Nations member states, as well as by various intellectual and, at times, even physical assault. [email protected], or leaving a recorded humanitarian agencies around the globe. Colleges and universities must, with purpose, statement with the board’s voice mailbox for public Colleges and universities, perhaps more urgently intentionality, and urgency, take measures to commentary, which can be reached at 562.938.4700. than any other type of institution, must seek means protect their Jewish students, faculty, and staff, as As a convener of Jewish community in our area, such as adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism well as to educate broadly against the subversive it is critically important that Jewish Long Beach to stem the tide of anti-Jewish bias on their campuses. and dangerous brand of antisemitism that has continue to engage in advocacy on behalf of the False narratives on Israel and Jews, cloaked in the permeated so many campus communities. Jewish people. Only through active promotion of language of geopolitical debate and human rights, Jewish Long Beach and other local Jewish Jewish welfare can we and our partner agencies have found fertile soil in campus environments institutions were encouraged when, late in 2020, ensure that Long Beach and West Orange County that fancy themselves intellectually enlightened, yet a resolution was proposed to the Long Beach remain environments in which Jewish life thrives challenged to draw distinctions between discourse Community College District (LBCC) Board of Trustees and advances, throughout the life cycle, l’dor v’dor: and discrimination – a distinction that the IHRA calling for the district to adopt the IHRA definition. from generation to generation.

Young Adult Immersive Israel Experiences Continue During the Pandemic Melanie Edwards | Manager of Marketing and Outreach, Jewish Long Beach

In the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak to move to Israel and volunteer in Masa programs. upended many lives across the globe, many young Founded in 2004 through a collaboration between adults volunteering abroad in Israel had to make the Jewish Agency, Keren HaYesod, the Jewish a decision. They were presented with two options: Federations of North America, and the Israeli quickly pack up all their belongings and book a government, Masa Israel Journey has become the return flight home, abruptly ending their volunteer leader in immersive Israel experiences for Jewish experience; or they could stay in Israel and endure adults between the ages of 18-30. Masa quickly pivoted their programs to ensure their doors remain open to young adults throughout the pandemic. One of the many unique aspects of the program is the depth and diversity of opportunities available. organizations in the Start-Up Nation, as Israel is known. Masa participants have the option of participating Jewish Long Beach and the Jewish Federations of in study, volunteer or career development programs North America are proud partners of Masa Israel lasting from two months to a year. Many Masa Journey. Young adults interested in joining the Masa Fellows are teaching English to Israeli children in the community are invited to visit masaisrael.org. the ambiguity of a lockdown in a foreign country. periphery of Israel, areas outside of Jerusalem and Masa is one of many Israel and overseas programs Most of the volunteers decided to remain in Israel Tel Aviv often housing disadvantaged communities, supported by donations to Jewish Long Beach. For to assist local Israelis amidst the public health crisis. in an effort to improve education inequalities. Other more information about Jewish Long Beach, please As the pandemic endures, many young Americans Masa participants are advancing their careers through visit www.jewishlongbeach.org or contact Melanie and young Jewish adults around the world continue internships with leaders at some of the most successful Edwards at [email protected].

JEWISHLONGBEACH.ORG | 5781 ADAR – NISAN – IYAR | 3 JEWISH LONG BEACH COMMUNITY EVENTS Honoring Those Who Perished Sharon Kenigsberg | Director of Community Development

remarked in a letter to all federations: As the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors who instilled in me the critical importance of Jewish community and continuity, I am strongly committed to the cause of Holocaust education. I’m proud of the advocacy work of Federations Shimon Peres once said, “ Six million people live greater Long Beach community. It is truly exciting across North America – including a grassroots on in our hearts. We are their eyes that remember.” to have the engagement of Hillel in this year’s event. effort by Holocaust survivors themselves – on It is our custom at the Annual Yom HaShoah Their participation is our insurance policy ensuring behalf of the Never Again Education Act, which Community Observance for the Long Beach Jewish that the truth will continue to be told and retold.” was signed into law in May 2020. This legislation community to join together and honor the memory will help ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust of those who perished. This important and very Helping Ensure Community Observances – Gerda are taught for generations to come. moving event will take place on Sunday, April 11 at Seifer Yom HaShoah Fund My special passion, though, is for remembering 2:00 pm. This virtual event can be accessed by Zoom The Yom HaShoah Community Observance has and caring for those survivors who are still among or Facebook Live. For details, visit www.alpertjcc.org. been part of our community life for decades, largely us. Our communities, locally and globally, work This year’s program will be created by local college due to the tireless work of Gerda Seifer and other hard to ensure that Holocaust survivors receive students from Long Beach Hillel at CSULB. Beach Holocaust survivors and their families. the care they need. JFNA’s Center on Aging and Hillel Executive Director ChayaLeah Sufrin explained, Jewish Long Beach honored Gerda by naming the Trauma, a project of our Holocaust Survivor “Getting Jewish students involved in planning the Yom HaShoah Fund in her honor. The fund makes Initiative, has served over 15,000 survivors and memorial event is a way to ensure that programs like possible the annual Community Yom HaShoah provided nearly 150 grants to agencies around this continue into the future. These young adults know Observance Program, as well as other Holocaust the U.S. to develop innovations in person- that it will soon be their responsibility to commemorate education activities and programs. centered, trauma-informed care. Through our the Shoah and to educate the world about the horrific If you wish to continue the events of the Holocaust. We are training the future important work of memorializing Jewish leaders how to create meaningful experiences the Holocaust, please consider a that make a difference.” donation to the Gerda Seifer Yom The student committee has been hard at work HaShoah Fund. Make your tax- creating an experience that will include music, a deductible donation payable to Jewish Long Beach and mail to 3801 East Willow Street, Long Beach, CA 90815, or call 562.426.7601 ext. 1314. To make your donation online, visit our website at www. jewishlongbeach.org.

A Tale of Two Days of Remembrance Many of you may have heard about International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was commemorated on January 27, and wondered how it differs from the Yom HaShoah events, which Our community home, the Weinberg Jewish Long Beach campus, take place this year on April 8 (our Gerda (in front) and Harold (standing with sunglasses) Seifer along with their family. has two memorials that allow us to reflect and remember. The community observance is on April 11). Schlesinger memorial is pictured above, the Seifer Holocaust Memorial is to the right. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, international partners The Jewish Agency for brief memorial service, interviews with survivors, when we remember those who perished and celebrate Israel and American Jewish Joint Distribution commemorative candlelighting and more. Members those who survived. In 2005, on the 60th anniversary Committee (JDC), we provide services to tens of of the Jewish Community clergy will participate of the liberation, January 27 was designated by the thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel and alongside the students in the event. There will also UN General Assembly as International Holocaust the former Soviet Union. be a special message Remembrance Day for people around the world to from Long Beach reflect on the lessons of the Holocaust. Mayor Robert Garcia. Yom HaShoah, the anniversary of the Warsaw Yom HaShoah Committee The Alpert JCC Yom Ghetto uprising which is observed after Passover, has Ken Schlesinger, Chair HaShoah Committee been a day for commemorating the Holocaust since Rosecarrie Brooks is responsible for 1951. Some countries also hold their own Holocaust Nina Rajander planning the annual commemorations on other dates. But it is nonetheless Joan Einstein observance. Committee an amazing accomplishment to have a worldwide, Harriette Ellis Chair Ken Schlesinger secular day dedicated to remembering the victims of Lee Shoag remarked, “This event the Nazis and promoting Holocaust education. Ariela Laibson is important not just Yom HaShoah Committee Chair Ken Schlesinger. Scott Newman to survivor families, The Federations’ Commitment ChayaLeah Sufrin, Long Beach Hillel but to the greater Long Beach Jewish community Locally, nationally and internationally we have Ally Levine, Long Beach Hillel as a whole. We have seen dramatic increases many agencies working tirelessly to make sure that Susan Paletz, Alpert JCC in antisemitism both locally and nationally. We Holocaust survivors receive the dignity and care they Dana Schneider-Chanzit, Alpert JCC must continue to come together as a community deserve. Mark Wilf, chair of the Jewish Federations Sharon Kenigsberg, Jewish Long Beach in remembrance for ourselves and to educate the of North America (JFNA) Board of Trustees recently

4 | CHRONICLE | MARCH – APRIL 2021 SPOTLIGHT JEWISH LONG BEACH

Because of This Community Lynne Kass | Secretary, Jewish Long Beach Board

My Jewish Long Beach ruptured cerebral aneurysm. In the moments an incredible community! story began in December after I found her, I made three phone calls. A few years ago, the Federation had a slogan 1996 when I attended a “From The first, of course, to 911. The second to my that struck a chord with me. It said “No Gift The Beginning” Mommy and husband, who was working in Laguna Hills and Touches More Lives.” But what I’ve learned in Me class at the Alpert Jewish carpools to work (so I had no idea how quickly the past year is that the slogan should say – Community Center (AJCC) with he could return to Long Beach). And the third “Your Gift Touches A Life.” It may be the life of my oldest daughter, Sara. I was to the Alpert JCC preschool. When I made that a family, like mine, that needs help through a a transplant from Yonkers, third call, I immediately knew two things. First, crisis and receives that help, thanks to services New York, where I was raised that my older daughter who was attending the made possible by our community’s Federation Catholic (including 12 years of Catholic schooling!). preschool would be safe and sound for as long campaign. It may be the life of a young child During my college years at Boston University, I met as necessary. And second, that a staff member who is able to attend the AJCC preschool, and fell in love with my husband, Jonathan, who is from the preschool was on her way to my home thanks to a scholarship made possible by our Jewish. Before marrying, we made a decision that we to pick up my two-year-old and make sure community’s Federation campaign. It may be would create a Jewish household for our children, that she, too, was safe and secure. Why that the life of a teen at risk who receives counseling and when that time came, the AJCC was our gateway kind of help? Because I am a member of this through a JFCS program, made possible by into the Long Beach Jewish Community. community. our community’s Federation campaign. It Prior to taking time off from work to raise our An hour or two later, I was joined in the may be the life of a senior who receives a family, I had been the Fund Development Director emergency room by a friend I’d met – through welcoming hug at a Wednesday lunch, the life for the Coastal Cities Unit of the American Cancer this community. She was on her cell phone of a Hillel student who has a place to celebrate Society. That experience led me to jump in “feet first” in an instant to find out the name of the best Shabbat, the life of an Ethiopian family airlifted as a volunteer in this community. Sara and I became neurosurgeon in town. By the next day, there to a “new life” in Israel, or the life of an elderly part of the Jewish Family & Children’s Service were a group of women, from this community, Russian in the former Soviet Union who receives “Friendly Visitor” program. I was asked to join the a much-needed food box – all made possible Business & Professional Women’s Network of the by our community’s Federation campaign. Jewish Federation (now Jewish Long Beach), and I quickly found myself co-chairing the Parent Support In the 20 years since that day in March 2001, Association for the AJCC’s Early Childhood Education I’ve never lost my passion for this amazing Jewish Department (ECE). The AJCC and Federation became community, and I’ve continued to volunteer my our second home – while I learned to sing Ha’Motzi, time to make sure that those here today, as well as made Purim Parade decorations and picked out generations to come, will have the opportunity to be Passover Hagaddahs. part of this very special Jewish Long Beach family. I was inspired by the Jewish values of tzedakah and All three of my children are proud graduates of tikkun olam, and by the amazing community leaders the ECE program at the AJCC, and I can’t express with whom I was privileged to work. I felt fortunate how important the warm, welcoming and inclusive to be part of the Federation Family and to have the atmosphere of the AJCC was for me – especially as opportunity to help build, nurture and enrich my the non-Jewish member of an interfaith family. I was Lynne with her mother, Rita Bruederlein. new community. But it wasn’t until a very personal honored to be part of the AJCC Board for 14 years experience in March of 2001 that I truly understood who had set up a meal schedule so my family and to serve as its President from 2009-2011. My the power of this community. I spoke about that didn’t have to worry about dinner for the next family also became active members of Temple Israel experience at the 2002 Visions Event – and thought I two weeks, and for the next several months there and it was there that I continued my personal Jewish would share that story – my Jewish Long Beach story were dozens of families, in this community, story – officially converting to Judaism in 2009 and – with you again. who offered to help with babysitting so that I then celebrating my B’nai Mitzvah (with nine other could spend time with my mom each day. When incredible women) in January 2018. I’d like to take a moment to share a very it was time to move my mom to a skilled nursing As we begin to emerge into a post-COVID world, I personal story with you. It began about a year facility, it was Jewish Family & Children’s look forward to serving on the Board of Jewish Long ago when I arrived home with my 2-year-old Service [JFCS], in this community, that guided Beach and to writing the next chapter in my Jewish daughter on a Wednesday in late March to take me in where to look and what questions to Long Beach story. And I invite all of you to join me my mother, who was visiting from New York to ask. And as I struggled with the daunting task – as we work to guide our community to a strong the hairdresser. When I walked inside, I didn’t of getting a power of attorney and handling and sustainable future, and as we continue to find my mom downstairs waiting to leave, but financial matters, there were professionals, in build our legacy as a warm and welcoming Jewish rather upstairs, in the bathroom, where she had this community, who answered my calls and community that helps to nurture and enrich the collapsed in the shower from what I thought at steered me through a maze I never dreamed I lives of others – both here in Long Beach and the time was a stroke but turned out to be a would have to navigate. All I can say is – this is throughout the world.

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JEWISHLONGBEACH.ORG | 5781 ADAR – NISAN – IYAR | 5 A LETTER TO OUR COMMUNITY JEWISH LONG BEACH ALPERT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Strengthening Our Community Zachary Benjamin | CEO Jewish Long Beach and Deborah Goldfarb | Interim Director, Alpert Jewish Community Center

Like the Jewish people, Jewish agencies and institutions must continuously community to Jewish life and culture. adapt to the ever-changing environments in which they operate. The impact on Perhaps most significantly, JCCs and federations have become increasingly Jewish communities from social, economic, and geopolitical shifts has historically symbiotic, with federations not only providing financial support, but also setting served as a bellwether for how these conditions will effect broader populations. the community priorities that, in many cases, drive JCC programming and outreach. Thus, the Jewishly-rooted organizations that serve us must also be designed to In fact, almost one-third of communities around the country that house both a evolve along with our needs, challenges, and opportunities. federation and a JCC have chosen to integrate their agencies, creating a single, Indeed, while the mission of federations and Jewish community centers (JCCs) seamless organization positioned to serve the Jewish and broader communities for has always focused on ensuring the continuity of Jewish peoplehood, their character generations to come. in 2021 has necessarily changed dramatically from their founding in the early-mid In October 2019, members of the Alpert JCC (AJCC) board established the Future 20th century. JCCs were born of the necessity to create social gathering places for Visions Committee, a working group initially comprised of Jewish Long Beach and Jews in an era during which we were unwelcome at country clubs, health clubs, and AJCC lay leaders, and later joined by the organizations’ respective chief executives, other community organizations. Meanwhile, the roots of federations such as Jewish charged with exploring the possibility of an integration between the two agencies. Long Beach lie in the effort to fund the migration of European Jewish refugees escaping The committee spoke with board leaders and senior staff from communities pogroms, and later the Holocaust, to British across the country whose federations Mandate-era Palestine, the United States, and JCCs had joined, learning how these and eventually to the State of Israel. JEWISH integrated organizations have served Today, while Jewish Long Beach and LONG BEACH their communities more effectively and EMPOWERING GREATER LONG BEACH other Jewish federations across North AND WEST ORANGE CONTY SINCE 1948 with greater impact than was possible as America continue to provide significant separate agencies. support to Israel and overseas Jewish In April 2020, the two boards voted to communities, our primary focus is local, ensuring that Jewish life can thrive here move from an exploratory process to a preparatory one, instructing the Future in our area, throughout the life cycle, from generation to generation. JCCs have Visions Committee to create integrated governance and financial models, as well also evolved as American society has become more egalitarian, still providing as new mission and vision statements reflecting the agencies’ shared goals. This social opportunities, education, and access to Jewish life for Jews of all ages, but month, after nearly a year-and-a-half of intensive exploration, due diligence, also serving largely as a bridge between the Jewish and broader communities. and deliberation, the committee will present its final recommendations to both JCCs offer a Jewishly-rooted physical space in which community members of all boards, which are expected to vote on integration at their March meetings. cultural backgrounds and faiths are welcome to engage in recreation, education, If integration is approved, it will signal the dawn of an exciting and unprecedented and socialization, demystifying and normalizing Judaism by exposing the broader new era for our Jewish community and its agencies. Jewish Long Beach and the AJCC will, for the first time, become uniquely positioned to seamlessly set and adjust community priorities while creating impact-driven programming, education, grant funding, leadership development, and advocacy opportunities designed to advance Jewish life in a manner that is not only deeply effective, but also efficient and sustainable for the long term. We realize that this news will generate significant questions and curiosity. Should the boards vote to integrate, we will hold a community town hall meeting in April to unveil the integrated structure, mission and vision, and process for carrying out the consolidation of two long-standing agencies with distinct but complimentary identities. We and our lay leadership are energized by the possibilities that lie ahead, which will undoubtedly bring the Long Beach and West Orange County Jewish and broader communities from strength to strength.

Zachary Benjamin Deborah Goldfarb

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Your distance learning commitment to her children together with hundreds of others Website: www.CongregationShirChadash.org Congregation Sholom of program is great but it does not cover their main needs of positive who have thrived under the program. As we conduct classes Leisure World, Seal Beach (C) Mail to: interaction with their friends.” I recognized that she was actually every single day it has been an inspiration to witness the hope PO Box 2901 calling out in desperation. “I will be grateful for whatever you can and cheer on the students’ faces. Seal Beach, CA 90740 1421 Northwood Road do,” she concluded. I had recognized the situation even before she There is no doubt that we will get out of this pandemic. And that Seal Beach, CA 90740 Contact: President Carol A. Stern Levine brought it to light, but this conversation accentuated the need hope, right now, will join with the actualization of the ultimate Phone: Direct - 562-505-3622 Phone: Membership - 562-430-7040 to do something for the hundreds of families in our school who hopeful message of Passover when we proclaim, in the last passage Email: [email protected] shared her sentiment. in the Haggadah; “Next year in Jerusalem!” Happy Passover to all! P’nai Or (I) And then I thought about Passover. Passover is always 3955 N. Studebaker Road Long Beach, CA 90808 Email: [email protected] Shul By The Shore (O) 3801 E. Willow Street Jewish Music and Memory Long Beach, California 90815 Contact: Rabbi Abba Perelmuter Cantor Ken Jaffe | Temple Beth Ohr Phone: 562-621-9828 Email: [email protected] Website: www.shulbytheshore.org As a new member of the our program, our congregants of Ages, or Dayenu, we too are culture/ Temple Beth Ohr (R) clergy team at Temple Beth were voicing request after immediately transported to religion/ 15721 E. Rosecrans Ave. La Mirada, CA 90638 Ohr (TBO) in La Mirada, I am request for beloved Yiddish another time and place from civilization, Contact: Rabbi Mark Goldfarb Phone: 714-521-6765 excited to begin connecting melodies they grew up hearing our past. This connection continues Email:[email protected] with my new community during their youth. I happily to that unbroken chain to animate Website: www.tbolm.org and to share with them my obliged, even if this wasn’t the of tradition ties us to our me. It impels me to teach the Temple Beth Shalom (C) 3635 Elm Avenue great love for Judaism and, intended thrust of the program. ancestors who wandered in well-loved old melodies of the Long Beach, CA 90807 Contact: Rabbi David Cantor in particular, Jewish music. This incident only reinforced the desert millennia ago. past to our youngest children, Phone: 562-426-6413 A new program I am very my belief in the great power Music has always been one to connect to our more senior Fax: 562-426-7824 Email: [email protected] enthusiastic about bringing music has in grounding us to of the most powerful vehicles members with the melodies Website: www.tbslb.org to TBO, and to the larger our faith and heritage. Along a people has to transmit its they so much identify with Temple Israel (R) 269 Loma Ave. community, is a Havdalah in with the smells from our values, knowledge, beliefs, and from their youth, yet to also Long Beach, CA 90803 Song event, occurring on the grandmothers’ kitchens of dreams from one generation to introduce them to fresh and Contact: Rabbi Scott Fox Phone: 562-434-0996 third Saturday of each month, freshly baked challah, and the the next. As a Cantor who has new melodies, as well. It is Email: [email protected] focusing on the introduction to warmth of the relationships served the Jewish community all-too-often that I feel the Website: www.tilb.org Temple Ner Tamid of Downey (I) our community, the diversity that shine brightly in our for a quarter century, I have burden and duty to uphold 10629 Lakewood Boulevard of Jewish musical composers memories, it is the melodies had the privilege to play a the great and deep heritage of Downey, CA 90241 Contact: Rabbi Daniel Mehlman and songwriters right here in from our past that evoke role in not only helping to Jewish music we have all been Phone: 562-861-9276 Email: [email protected] Southern California. such strong connections to transmit these values to new bequeathed from generations Website: www.downeytemplenertamid.org For our inaugural event, it our Jewish identity. And just generations, helping people past, as well as breathing fresh (C)=Conservative (I)=Independent was suggested by my colleague, like the period movies and to forge new memories for life into our ancient prayers, (O)=Orthodox (R)=Reform Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfarb, television shows that anchor themselves, but in building fulfilling the injunction from that I introduce myself to the us with a sense of time and up these relationships Psalm 100 to “Sing to God a congregation by presenting a place through an old Big Band between Jews, and between new song.” I, for one, feel so honor those who have paved number of melodies I penned tune or Rock and Roll hit, once Jews and our God. blessed to be given this burden the way for me, to teach those just for the synagogue. What was someone hears the familiar This sacred task, to be a – and opportunity – to serve who will follow me, and to give so interesting, was that soon into strains of the Kol Nidrei, Rock faithful transmitter of this great those in my community, to honor to the Divine.

8 | CHRONICLE | MARCH – APRIL 2021 REFLECTIONS COMMUNITY Do Not Separate Yourself From the Community Sharon Amster Brown | Educator, Temple Israel Long Beach

As we approach the one-year not separate one’s self from others when we have a or a note of encouragement to someone who may anniversary of the COVID-19 legal mandate to do just the opposite. Although there be feeling isolated. A short “thinking of you” text or Pandemic, many of us are is a hopeful sense of optimism as we look toward the a freshly baked cookies dropped-off at someone’s taking the opportunity to reflect year ahead, we realize that there will still be many door. Perhaps this is the year that you could send on this past year. What have we months of online programming, a lack of in-person mishloach accomplished? What, or who, have gatherings, and a sense of isolation for many. manot we lost? What were our priorities? As a Jewish community, we are obligated to (small Purim How did our families fare during continue to forge those connections even when at gifts) to this unprecedented time? times, it would just be easier to start another TV those in our Last Spring, we were all shocked by the sudden series or only be in conversation with our closest community nature of having to cease in-person programs, family and friends. We must seek opportunities to whom you family gatherings, and holiday celebrations. both reach out to are missing Propelled by a desire to stay connected, we set up others and accept or those that Zoom reunions, Zoom seders, and Zoom education. those invitations could use a We drew messages of support on our sidewalks, or offers when restored sense of connection. And for those of you organized drive-by caravans, and put teddy bears someone reaches who are spending many hours a week attending in our windows. At that time, it was impossible to out to us. This programs, classes, services, etc. online, you may want imagine the number of months that we would be responsibility is to try inviting someone to join you in that virtual separated from one another or the loss that we upon all of us, space. Just a personal invitation can go a long way. would feel almost a year later. as we help to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks taught, “Community is the And yet, here we are in the Spring of 2021 faced lift spirits and human expression of Divine love. It is where I am with a continued quarantine of sorts, still preventing remind one another that we are a stronger community valued simply for who I am, how I live and what I give us from returning to life as we once knew it. Having when we come together even in the smallest of ways. to others. It is the place where they know my name.” somewhat accepted this new normal, it seems that There are so many ways that we can restore that May our renewed commitment to and enthusiasm we have settled into a routine and therein, perhaps sense of urgency to connect with one another that we for that sense of communal connection buoy us up lost that sense of urgency to maintain connections felt last spring. People of all ages, in all stages of life’s and allow us to emerge with a sense of pride for with one another. diverse journey, still need to know that people care what we were able to accomplish during this unique Hillel teaches us in Pirkei Avot, “Do not separate about them, miss them, or simply crave a personal time in history. May we eventually look back upon yourself from the community.” Over this past year, outreach. The time is now to take that action. A phone this time that required us to be physically apart but we have been forced to think about what it means to call to someone that you haven’t seen in a long time inspired us to become even closer at heart.

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JEWISHLONGBEACH.ORG | 5781 ADAR – NISAN – IYAR | 9 COMMUNITY JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICE 33rd Annual Race With A View Goes Virtual Again in 2021 Pattie Davidson | JFCS Director of Development & Communications whenever they register. The popular Family Plan is back, with children 17 and under free with a paying adult. Register online at racewithaview.com. or call 562.427.7916 for more information. All participants of 2021 Virtual Race With A View are fulfilling their first step in earning a Long Beach Trifecta Series for Good medal. Participation in two additional month-long virtual events— USVETS – Long Beach “Storm the Beach” in June and Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Run/Walk/Roll in July—means that you will receive a unique Long

Due to the continued serious impact of the bike, or roller blade as far as they wish, following the coronavirus pandemic, JFCS’ 33rd Annual Race With route of their choice, whether it is walking from the A View will once again be a virtual event. “At no time house to the mailbox or taking a day-long bike ride in the 60+ years of JFCS has it been more apparent to Laguna Beach and back. Treadmill and stationary that our agency’s services are essential to our bike sessions count as well. You do not need to be community. Since the onset of COVID-19, JFCS has a local resident to support this important cause as helped our community deal with stress and other participation in Virtual Race With A View can be mental health issues, isolation, food insecurity, and done anywhere. issues of domestic violence and personal safety. We “We plan to maintain many of the traditions of served over 1900 people in 2020 and with no end in sight to this public health crisis, we are asking our loyal Race With A View participants and sponsors to support our event and to invite your friends and family to join you,” said JFCS Executive Director Kathryn Miles. JFCS Clinician Monica Mittal and her family take a break from Normally held on the first Sunday of May, the their walk in the San Bernardino Mountains. event will run the entire month of May. “May is Beach Trifecta commemorative medal. For more National Mental Health Awareness Month, and since information, visit the website at lbtrifecta.org. the event is virtual, participants have through May 31 to move with us for mental health awareness. There is more time to spread the message far and wide about the importance of access to professional, affordable counseling and support for everyone in our community,” she continued. Virtual events have become normalized since gatherings with large numbers are discouraged to help tame the spread of COVID-19. For Race With A View, participants will register as usual at racewithaview.com any time before May 31 at 11:59 p.m. On their choice of dates, they can walk, run, roll,

Team Nomad‘s Dee Abrahamse, Susan Redfield, and Barbara Shoag moving for mental health awareness at Domingues Gap. Their ace photographer: Lee Shoag. Race With A View, even in a virtual environment. Participants are invited to form teams, and each team member can choose their distance, date of participation, and means of moving for mental health awareness,” Maren Separa never misses Race With A View, and Rock the said Gael Libby, race committee co-chair. Co-chair Vets’ Katherine McIlquham joined her last year. Here is their Raymond Cervantez added, “We will also have some victory pose. new and user-friendly website features which will allow all participants to upload their finish times and photos to our site.” All participants are encouraged to observe current CDC-recommended guidelines around social distancing and the wearing of masks. Online registration opened February 15. Early Bird registration for individuals is $30 and ends on April 15. Regular individual registration is $35 The Dressner-Davis family selfie put the Virtual Race With A from April 16 – May 31. Students ages 18-22 pay View in the Long Beach Press Telegram. $20, and teams of 3 or more members pay $25

10 | CHRONICLE | MARCH – APRIL 2021 HEBREW ACADEMY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY

COVID Challenges: Engaged Students Produce Happy Scholars During Pandemic Ilene Schneider | Hebrew Academy Orange County As COVID-19 shut down California schools in welcomed back on campus for a full in-person shared, “social-emotional learning is a big part of Spring 2020, the Hebrew Academy in Huntington program, students at home were engaged and made how the challenges of this pandemic have been Beach utilized a data-driven curriculum that enabled to feel as if they were part of the action. The school mitigated. The network of support that has been remote classes with mechanisms for instruction redesigned the campus for non-contact sports and created helps overcome the interruptions and has and feedback. When the state allowed for on- added physical equipment while providing support enabled the school to persevere through difficult campus learning in September, the award-winning specialists to help teachers to cope with an increased times. Students in the classroom, or in their homes, Jewish day school continued the distance-learning workload and their child care needs. At the beginning can still interact with teachers, socialize with other option for families who preferred it while offering of each school day, an itinerant teacher calls parents students and perform mitzvot.” a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention plan. This and students learning from home to make sure While some students have suffered from the plan includes on-site classes while meeting all of that the families have access to the technology and effects of the pandemic, most of them have endured the criteria for facial coverings, physical distancing, materials, know what the assignments are, and get and continued without issues or have returned to screening, and sanitation. the additional tutoring or instruction they need. their levels of learning and participation before The Hebrew Academy asked its teachers for input Before the pandemic, the Hebrew Academy the shutdown. Most students have progressed with as the school prepared to “create a new vision had been using online data to put the curriculum no loss of momentum. The school’s enrollment has for getting back to normal while meeting state online. This enabled distance learning when needed, increased as well because families “have seen that guidelines,” said Rabbi Yitzchok Newman, Head of and how teachers can use multiple screens and we deliver excellent education and meaningful School. He emphasized that the school strives for monitors to teach concurrent classes on a daily community experiences under any circumstances,” “happy scholars.” basis. Meanwhile, parents and students can retrieve Rabbi Newman said. Principal Dr. Bryn Harari added, “Continuity has learning materials, students can take tests remotely mitigated the impact of this blip in time [glitch in or in-person, and teachers can view the pupil’s work our normal practices]. “Staying within the structure, from any location. Using this data-driven curriculum Grants from Jewish Long Beach and the Jewish being in the classroom community, and getting back allows for an uninterrupted learning and evaluation Community Foundation of Orange County have into the routine is important, but challenging, in process. In addition, parents have access to open helped defray some of the costs of retrofitting the these unprecedented times. Using the proper tools, communication to stay in the loop. school to cope with COVID-19. Jewish Long Beach has we were able to do it.” Equally important to the Hebrew Academy’s also provided a grant that enables Jewish Family & Seamlessly, the Hebrew Academy began to learning process is the concept of social-emotional Children’s Service of Long Beach and West Orange offer on-site instruction and distance learning learning, which takes the whole child into account, County to send counselors to work with Hebrew synchronously, thanks to data-driven technology. thus allowing the emotional needs of the entire Academy students assisting them with their social- While students at the Hebrew Academy were warmly community to be taken into account. Rabbi Newman emotional well-being.

JEWISHLONGBEACH.ORG | 5781 ADAR – NISAN – IYAR | 11 COMMUNITY LONG BEACH HILLEL Scaling Small for Deep Impact Rabbi Benjamin Berger | Hillel International Vice President for Jewish Education

This piece is an excerpt from an feel very local. This initiative participants, meant to send a large scale, we understand world. We know that happens article that originally appeared evolved out of the growing message of care and continued instinctively that meaning in spaces like those we’re in eJewish Philanthropy on sense that the need is to scale connection. making mostly happens in creating through Winterfest. January 6, 2021. small rather than large. Hillel Why turn to Jewish small groups. The model Winterfest seeks to find Winterfest, which has been learning in groups at a time we have is minyan – a the middle ground between While it will take a multi- launched through the support like this? It always comes gathering of 10 with a highly compelling content, pronged response to this of the Jewish Community back to Hillel. In this case, distinctive purpose. The but led by local educators in mental health crisis amongst Impact and Response Fund Hillel the Elder, whose origin mishna in Avot teaches us a way that engages people college age students, Hillel, will seed nearly 170 small story informs moments like that when ten sit together in the ways they need right from day one, and long campus-based groups in this one. The well told story and occupy themselves with now. We’re simultaneously before, has been deeply seven countries for a few of Hillel being brought in Torah, God’s divine presence scaling small – with the concerned with and attending weeks of deep and meaningful from the cold, snowy roof dwells amongst them. At this goal of creating many small to the emotional and spiritual cohort based Jewish learning. to be thawed by the hearth moment, students need to be opportunities for learning needs of their generation. To move from a model of of the Beit Midrash within held in a space where they feel while reaching high, trying to Over this period, we’ve come meeting many students with speaks to the ways the the care of mentor-educators, reach a large audience that is to an evolving understanding a large one size fits all type rabbis imagined that Torah peers facing the same seeking these types of points of the type of response that experience, we’ve built this could warm the mind, the anxieties they are, and that of connection. Gen Z’ers are will be most effective. We out so local campuses will soul, and the body. The Beit feeling of the loving presence asking us for these types of understand that despite be responsible for building Midrash, the place where of the divine that comes deep connection points and the distance we can create their own cohorts where learning happens, has always from purposeful gathering. our responsibility is to see communities of friends they can provide for long been understood as a place That mishna brings its proof them in this moment and learning together with an term connections. But we’ve that conveys warmth. With from the Psalms which says address their urgent needs as effective educator. To address provided the resources to do Hillel Winterfest, we can “God stands in the spaces growing, aspiring adults. Like this need Hillel has expanded so on a large scale. We’ve re- create cozy environments where people are witnessing the Beit Midrash that Hillel its investment in small group mixed several curricula that of learning that also bring God’s presence.” Being seen, is invited into, we hope the learning through our popular speak to the types of questions, light to a cold and dark time. and witnessed for who they invitation into a community program the Jewish Learning concerns, and interests While the moment doesn’t are, their dreams, fears, and of Torah and the warmth Fellowship (JLF). that college students have. allow students to be together desires is what moves people of friends and educators, Building on the strength of We’ve developed a centralized in the ways they need and to connection. Gen Z’ers are brings meaning and uplift that model, over the course platform for campuses and we wish, we recognize that looking to be seen by each to them throughout the long of the month of January we’ll students to register. And we’ve there are still ways to break other, by society for who they winter ahead. be running Hillel Winterfest, curated intentional learning through the isolation. are, who they strive to be, a global initiative that will kits that will be sent to all While seeking to reach a and what they can give to the Bob Baldwin Memorial Fund Grants Available for Students and Young Adults for Travel and Study Programs in Israel

Who May Apply: • Teens (ages 13 – 19) who wish to go on a mission/trip to Israel sponsored by an approved 501 (c)3. • Young adults (20 – 30) for volunteer/ graduate programs in Israel sponsored by approved organizations.

Requests not to exceed $1,000. Grant checks are issued directly to the sponsoring orgranization.

For further information or a grant application, contact Sharon Kenigsberg at 562.426.7601 ext 1008, or by email [email protected].

12 | CHRONICLE | MARCH – APRIL 2021 ORGANIZATIONS CONGREGATIONS COMMUNITY So Much to Choose From – Connect With Your Community Today!

Beth David National Council of Jewish Women of Greater Hadassah Southern California Long Beach/ Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 10:30 am Long Beach and West Orange County Orange County with the Sharon Carmel Group Tot Shabbat Passover – An engaging service for NCJW’s Linda Calderón Memorial Scholarship Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 6:00 pm the little ones. templebethdavid.org/worship/live- Fund is now accepting applications for 2021 Entebbe: The Rescue that Stunned the World featuring stream/ scholarships. The application form can be accessed Sassy Reuven, Elite Commander, Israeli Special Forces. Thursday, March 18 at 7:30 pm at www.ncjwlongbeach.org/scholarship. A veteran of the Israel Defense Forces Virtual Women’s Seder – Grab and Go Boxes of A student is eligible based on satisfaction of all elite paratrooper brigade, Commander Seder plate foods and desserts available for $10, three of the following criteria: Reuven participated in the famed pickup on Wednesday March 17, between 5:00 and 1. The applicant is a Jewish student who has already operation, Entebbe, a counter-terriorist 6:00 pm, or between 10:00 and 12 noon on Thursday, completed a minimum of 12 undergraduate units or mission considered by many to be 3/18. Participation is free without the Seder food. 8 graduate units at an accredited college, university the greatest hostage rescue in history. Email [email protected] to register. or trade school. Forty-three years later Reuven’s story 2. The student’s permanent residence is in greater Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 11:00 am is still Israel’s story – one of courage, Long Beach or West Orange County. (If in doubt, perseverance, survival and resilience. Cost is $25 for Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Jews in inquire about specific location.) Shanghai. Sponsored by Brotherhood and Adult members and $30 non-members. 3. Completed application, personal statement Register online: hadassah.org/events/ Education. Register at www.templebethdavid.org and necessary recommendations must be received Free admission. entebberescue2021. Zoom link will be sent out by May 1, 2021. Word format preferred, via email prior to the event. Contact [email protected] Friday, March 26, 2021 at 7:30 pm to [email protected] or in one envelope to: 562.430.5055 for further info. Refugee Shabbat – Chris Olsen, director of Pubic NCJW Scholarship Committee, 6216 E. Pacific Coast Policy and External Affairs, JFS of San Diego, will Highway, Long Beach, CA 90803. Orange County Jewish Genealogy Society speak to the current refugee and asylum seeker Selection of recipients will be based on financial Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 10:00 am situation at the border. need, academic standing, Jewish involvement, Todd Knowles: What’s New at FamilySearch? personal motivation and past achievements. Anyone who has researched their genealogy Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 6:00 pm Awards are dependent on the number of qualified Virtual Second Night Passover Seder with eventually found themselves submissions as well as the organization’s annual ordering microfiche and microfilms Rabbi Myers, Cantor Linder and the virtual choir. fundraising for this purpose. Recipients will be templebethdavid.org/worship/live-stream/ from the “Mormon Library” in Salt notified by June 1, 2021. Previous scholarship Lake City. Today, the Church provides Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 7:00 pm recipients are not eligible for additional awards. all of their genealogical records and Holocaust commemoration with survivor Stella tools for free at FamilySearch.org. Ungar. Stella will share her story of her life in Virtual Events for March and April Todd currently serves as a Deputy Germany as the Nazis began their persecution of Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 3:00 pm Chief Genealogical Officer at the the Jews. HIAS Refugee Shabbat panel – Welcoming The Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 9:00 am Stranger 2021: Time for a New Start. Register for this Zoom meeting at www.ocjgs.org. Free for members and $5 for non members. Body, Mind, and Spirit Shabbat 2nd Thursday: March 11 at 4:00 pm Virtual Game Day. Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 10:00 am Ellen Kowitt: Strategies for Ukraine Research 2021. 3rd Thursday: March 18, 2021 at 7:00 pm Temple Israel Online access to collections for researching Ukraine Zoom informal discussion group – Status of the continues to grow at an astonishing Friday, March 26 and Friday, April 23 at 6:00 pm ERA in the current administration; what did you do rate due to efforts by Alex Krakovsky, Join Temple Israel clergy, in partnership with in the 1970s about the ERA issue? Jewish Family and Children’s Service, for a new FamilySearch, Ukraine National monthly Healing Service. These deeply spiritual 4th Thursday: March 25, 2021 at 7:00 pm Archives, and others. This lecture experiences will include meditation, prayer, and Movie Discussion – Suffragettes (watch on Amazon explores challenges in language, music. They are designed to build a community of at your leisure and discuss on Thursday night). developing a research plan, and an healing; to bring well-being and wholeness to those Sunday, March 21, 2021 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm overview of current available sources. facing challenges, and offer others the opportunity Homelessness 411: Resources and Opportunities in Register for this Zoom meeting at www.ocjgs.org. to help those in need feel supported. Greater Long Beach and Orange County. A community Free for members and $5 for non members. Service Zoom Link: event on the topic of housing/homelessness co- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87165332931 sponsored by NCJW and League of Women Voters Long Bat Mitzvah - Michelle Alpern Beach Area. Speakers include representatives from the Michelle Alpern is a musical United Way of Long Beach and Orange County, providers theater-loving 8th grader at Congregation Shir Chadash of affordable housing and community services. Stanford Middle School who lights up any room she enters. Fridays at 7:00 pm Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 12:00 pm She has been studying for her Join us for Shabbat services with a theme: Virtual tour of the 19th Amendment exhibit Bat Mitzvah for more than a Meditation Shabbat, Kol Shira (a musical) Shabbat, honoring Women’s Right to Vote at the Constitution year, and has been a part of Shabbat with a Drash, and Contemporary Writings Center in collaboration with Beth David Sisterhood. Temple Israel’s Torah School Shabbat. Send a check for $10 per person, payable to Beth David since 3rd grade. She previously Sisterhood to: 6100 Hefley St., Westminster, CA 92683. Saturday Shabbat Services at 10:30 am. attended Hebrew School at Temple Beth Shalom. Register at https://bit.ly/3tgZ3Gh Wednesdays at 1:30 pm Michelle’s Mitzvah Project was working with Long Torah Text Studies with Rabbi Gindlin. Sunday, April 25, 2021 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm Beach Animal Care Services where she dedicated Recognizing Members for our NCJW 75th many volunteer hours during 2019 and 2020 (pre- Sunday, March 28 at 10 am and Sunday, April 4 at 10 am Anniversary: Activism is All In The Family with COVID) to be with the homeless and lonely animals Pesach services Sylvia Manheim and Family. that were residing there. Michelle celebrated her Contact for Zoom info: Carol Klein, 562.429.0715 or For more information and to register for our free COVID-delayed Bat Mitzvah on December 12, 2020, email [email protected]. events: [email protected] or call 657.235.2511. via video conferencing.

JEWISHLONGBEACH.ORG | 5781 ADAR – NISAN – IYAR | 13 JEWISH LONG BEACH EVENT Virtual Arlene Solomon Visions Event Coming to a Screen Near You – April 29, 2021 Linda Waltzman | Chair, Women’s Philanthropy, Jewish Long Beach A full year has passed since Guest Speaker Hallie Ephron grown-up Nancy Drew in a we last hugged, laughed, We are most thrilled to announce that the guest s***y car and a ponytail, as and recognized our special speaker will be New York Times bestselling author she searches for her own honorees at the 2020 Arlene Hallie Ephron. Hallie is an Edgar Award finalist and purpose while hunting Solomon Visions dinner. I can five-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award down the perpetrator of still conjure up the excitement and writes books that readers just can’t put down. the emerging crime. She and energy of that event. Shari Nemirow, Jewish Long Beach Board member is a friend we would all Ours was one of the last local, and former National Women’s Philanthropy Board want to keep – messes in-person events before the member, heard Hallie speak in October at a joint included.” pandemic shut down our world. conference of the National Women’s Philanthropy The author of 16 books,

This year will be different, as is true with many and the Jewish Book Council, and was impressed Hallie was born in Los Touger J.S. Photograph by things that we previously took for granted. As much with her presentation. Angeles to a family of Author and Visions as our entire community of Jewish women has “Hallie Ephron was the first author to participate writers (her parents guest speaker, Hallie Ephron looked forward to this annual celebration, Jewish in the Zoom conversation. She spoke about her were Hollywood screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Long Beach Women’s Philanthropy Cabinet has family and her life growing up, as well as how she Ephron, along with her sisters, Nora and Delia) and vowed to persevere with an exciting new approach came to write her newest suspense novel, “Careful currently lives near Boston. She blogs daily on Jungle and to do our utmost to keep the Visions tradition What You Wish For.” This book is an easy read with Red Writers (www.jungleredwriters.com), and offers alive. This year’s virtual event will take place on a delightful writing workshops. Thursday, April 29 at 6:30 pm. story. There will be no admission charge this year. There I thoroughly Women Make a Difference will, however, be the opportunity for each of you to enjoyed her The Arlene Solomon Visions event, organized make your pledge to Jewish Long Beach for 2021. presentation by Jewish Long Beach Through your yearly pledge you support Jewish life last October Women’s Philanthropy and those in need, locally, in Israel and around the and I’m Cabinet, draws women from globe through impact grants. looking across our community. Our In 2020, a year that created urgent and forward to her accomplishments, as noted in unprecedented needs throughout our Jewish conversation the beginning of this article, community, your investment fueled: with us at illustrate the power of women • Nearly $500,000 in Impact Grants to Jewish our Visions to make a difference. agencies, congregations, and organizations for event.” Each year, the collective collaborative programs enhancing Jewish education, With its gifts given by the women in Arlene Solomon of engagement, and expansion of access to Jewish life. echoes of our community – including blessed memory • More than $75,000 in COVID-19 Emergency Marie Kondo’s those given at this event – Relief Grants, providing food, medication, and basic life-changing account for more than half the total dollars raised in supplies to isolated seniors and the unemployed; decluttering support of our community’s needs. For many years, remote learning tools and technologies for Jewish tips, Ephron Arlene Solomon, of blessed memory, was an integral educational institutions; counseling services for explores the part of Women’s Philanthropy. She recognized the Jewish high school and college students through relationships importance of having women of all ages around the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Long Beach built by table and was inspired to endow this yearly event. and West Orange County; programming for Jewish professional The Arlene Solomon Visions Dinner is always an college students through Long Beach Hillel; lunches organizers and their clients – showing just how inspiring and uplifting time to gather with hundreds for frontline medical workers; food aid for needy easily the lines between professional and personal of women in our community who are committed to Jews in India, and more. can be blurred. The main character, Emily Harlow, is the shared values of tzedakah and tikkun olam. And In 2021, we count on you to continue your a professional organizer who helps people declutter so it shall be this year, as well. We shall do our very investment. The amount you pledge does not need their lives, yet she is married to a man who can’t best to welcome and inspire everyone who joins us to be paid all at once. You can pay in installments drive past a yard sale without stopping. Sometimes on April 29. We are Lighting the Way Forward with throughout the year via check or credit card. We she finds herself wondering if he sparks joy. our strength and dedication shining through. I look encourage donors to think in terms of what they can In a review, Publisher’s Weekly called it forward to “seeing” you soon. contribute each month. “outstanding.” Reviewing it for TIME magazine, Jamie For more information please call Yolanda Placencio Watch your email for more details on how to Lee Curtis wrote, “Careful What You Wish For” is not at 562.426.7601 ext. 1314 or by email at yplacencio@ register and receive your link. You can also visit scary–it’s thrilling and suspenseful . . . And I found jewishlongbeach.org. jewishlongbeach.org/visions2021 for more details. a compelling companion to Emily, a modern-day

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14 | CHRONICLE | MARCH – APRIL 2021 PASSOVER COMMUNITY Why You Should Leave Egypt Today! Rabbi Shmuel Marcus | Director of Chabad of Los Alamitos and founder of the Hebrew High of Orange County You can’t celebrate Passover without talking a compel us to experience Passover in a profound and someone who is stuck is a self-imposed Egypt? The whole lot about a country in the Middle East famous practical way. answer is matzah. The flat, tasteless cracker, that for pyramids and mummies. It’s not that Jews are The Hebrew word for Egypt and the Hebrew word represents humility. It will take a few doses of this fascinated with history or geography, but it is actually for limitation are very similar. As I’ve mentioned food of faith on the night of the Passover Seder to very relevant and helpful in dealing with our own the word for Egypt is Mitzrayim, sharing the same connect us to our purest self. The matzah awakens personal spiritual issues. consonants as the word meitzarim—boundaries the Divine spark within each of us that cannot be Egypt is both a place on the map and, of course, or limitations. This is by no means coincidental. imprisoned by Pharoah or our bad habits, we can a symbol for a terrible psychological condition Mitzrayim is not just a geographical region; it is be free to serve our G-d. called Mitzrayim (the Hebrew word for Egypt). As we also an idea. Mitzrayim represents any boundary So, this year, as we sit down to the Seder of 2021, approach Passover, it’s the perfect time to review this that limits our ability to be our real selves and let’s think about what is holding us back, what condition and remind ourselves why we don’t want reach our true potential. Each day, as we strive to limitations have we imposed on our Jewishness? to be there anymore. break free of our own limitations, we relive the What imaginary boundary is holding us back from Chabad philosophy, known as Chabad Chasidut, Exodus from Egypt. reaching out in love to our neighbors? And then, is a philosophy based on the deeper dimension of “Leaving Egypt” in this context means to break recite the blessing on the matzah, which allows the Torah. Its Chasidic commentary seeks to illuminate free of our natural tendencies and throw ourselves food of faith to work its magic, and just like that, we the “soul” of every aspect and tradition of your wholeheartedly into doing the right thing, whether are free to make that call, to sign up for that class, and Judaism. By shedding new light on basic words or not it comes easy to us. to forgive that aunt who hasn’t called you since this like “Egypt” and “Exodus” the Chassidic teachings How do we do this? What’s the remedy for pandemic started.

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