Published by the Jewish Community of Louisville, Inc. www.jewishlouisville.org JEWISH LOUISVILLE INSIDE: Ari Lesser Ari Lesser talks truths with his raps at Sunday Night Live COMMUNITY STORY ON PG. 5 FRIDAY Vol. 47, No. 2 | February 26, 2021 | 14 Adar 5781 The fi ghting rabbi AJ, LJFF, present Golden Globe Foreman’s road to title goes through Louisville nominee for fi lm By Lee Chottiner Community Editor fest interview In 2005, Yuri Foreman, a young Belar- By Lee Chottiner usian Jew from and a struggling Community Editor boxer, was living in – broke. He worked in the Garment District For Israeli actress Shira Haas, playing of by day and trained at a a teenage girl with a degenerative motor gym at night, all the while disease, as she did in the movie Asia, had dreaming of his shot at the title. a familiar ring to it. It wasn’t easy. Haas, 25, was diagnosed with kidney “You mentally, physically, subcon- cancer just shy of her third birthday. She sciously hit the bottom, so to speak,” said that early-life experience shaped Foreman said. “At that , I was this who she is today. close to going back to Israel, just quit- “It’s ting.” definitely Foreman had been raised secular and something never had much interest in or that is part any religion, but he decided he needed of me,” Haas a spiritual vaccination of sorts, to help said in a Feb. him through the tough times. 21 Zoom So, he found a free class at a nearby interview and decided to give it a try. with Adath It changed his life. Jeshurun At the fi rst session, he recalled, the Yuri Foreman jabs his opponent, Jeremy Ramos, during his Dec.5, 2020 bout at the Kentucky Cantor David rabbi, a 5-foot-5 man with a gentle Center for African American Heritage in Louisville. The fi ght, which Foreman won, was his fi rst in Lipp. “I voice – the exact opposite of the guys he nearly four years and is part of the 40-year-old Jewish fi ghter’s comeback effort to reclaim his super don’t really welterweight title. His second bout back is scheduled for March 6, also in Louisville. (photos by fought at the gym – immediately caught remember Shira Haas his attention. Jared Sher) myself as “He says that life is like two boxers in well without it. It’s kind of like I feel it’s the ring, and I’m like ‘what!’” Foreman ing with a -Lubavitch rabbi in fl ag, has amassed a 35-3 record with 10 the starting point of my life.” recalled. “He said that sometimes life is 2008 – to become a rabbi himself. knockouts. He was ordained a rabbi in Even though she brought her own too hard; you fi nd yourself staring at the All the while, the lean, determined 2014, and he remarried in 2018 -- under experiences to her role in Asia, and lights, just like a boxer on his back. Ju- fi ghter continued training and defeated a built in a boxing ring. (He has despite the character’s physical struggles, daism gives you this help, this strength, in a lopsided 12-round de- three kids from a previous marriage.) this is not a movie about illness, she said. this inner strength, to up and con- cision in 2009 in Las Vegas to claim the It hasn’t all been good. Foreman lost “The movie is about life; it’s not about tinue fi ghting.” super welter- his WBA title to Miguel Coto in 2010 death…. It’s about our connections with Foreman was hooked. Not only did he weight title. fi ght at when he tripped people.” stick with the class, but he began study- That was 10 years ago. Since then, in Coto’s corner and tore his ACL. For Asia was one of the fi lms screened at Foreman, who fi ghts under the Israeli See FOREMAN on page 19 the 2021 Louisville Jewish Film Festival which boasted unusually strong star power this year, thanks to Haas. Her interview with Lipp, which was presented by AJ, had to be moved up one Melton award ‘shocks’ but completes Deborah Slosberg week because she has been nominated By Lee Chottiner “Usually, the winners of it know in ad- for a Golden Globe Award for her role Community Editor vance and they have to write a speech; in another production, , a Netfl ix series about a Hasidic woman Deborah Slosberg had no idea what so, this year, they just decided to make it a surprise. Then I didn’t have to write fl eeing an unhappy marriage. The awards was up when she Zoomed in January for ceremony will air at 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish a speech.” After this award, added Slosberg, who 28, on NBC. Learning’s International Directors Con- Haas is the fi rst Israeli actress to be ference. plans to retire in 2023, “there’s nothing else I want to achieve.” nominated for a Golden Globe and a What was “up” was the Florence Primetime Emmy. Melton Award. Named for the founder As part of the surprise, Adath Jeshu- run, which hosts Louisville Melton, an- Not only did cancer shape Haas’ life, it of the global Jewish adult education or- also changed her identity. When she beat ganization, it’s the highest honor it can nounced that it would underwrite the curriculum for an upcoming class. De- the disease at age 5, a rabbi suggested bestow. her parents change her name from Mai And this year, in a carefully guarded veloped by scholars at the Hebrew Uni- versity in , each curriculum (Hebrew for May), sort of like a rebirth. secret, it went to Slosberg, director of “They asked me, ‘What name do you the Louisville Melton for the past eight costs up to $30,000 to sponsor. Deborah Slosberg said winning the Florence Slosberg’s honor puts Louisville want?’ And I said ‘Shira,’” Haas recalled. years. “So, basically, I changed my name.” Melton Award is the pinnacle honor of her ca- “I was so shocked,” Slosberg said. reer. (photo by Bridget Bard) See SLOSBERG on page 19 See HAAS on page 19

Faster emergency care. Nearby. 2 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 THE DASHBOARD Snapshot Word of the Month A 2021 lesson: We’ll get through this in need. This past year with COVID-19, we were D’var all somewhat like strangers. We did not meet with each other face to face. We Rabbi did not eat with each other, celebrate Avrohom with each other or even mourn with each other. Rich or poor, young or old, we Litvin were all like strangers in a strange place. If we then have become “the strangers,” In the Passover story, the were what tangible thing can we do to help faced with the sea on one side and the each other? Egyptian army on the other. I think there are many answers, but I “Let’s fight,” some cried. will focus on just two of them: “Let’s surrender,” others said. First, consider the upcoming holiday “Let’s pray,” still others advised. of Passover. There are many people in But Moses said, “Now is not the time this community who will be physically to fight or surrender or even to pray. alone for the seder this year. Will they Journey onward, and we will soon see have what they need to make a seder? the salvation of G-d.” Most everyone will probably know of at Another story is told about scientists least one or two people who may not have warning that in one month a meteor ever prepared a seder plate and could would hit the earth, causing the iceshelf benefit by receiving everything they need to shift and water to flood the entire to make their own. I am suggesting you world. help them. People around the world wondered How else can we fulfill this fundamental how best to utilize the remaining teaching of reaching out to the stranger in days until the impending crisis. Some this unprecedented time in which we all suggested spending their last days with are the strangers? Journey onward – with their families. Others thought to use compassion and caring – and lend a hand them to get their affairs in order with to those in need. It is imperative in this friends and acquaintances. Still others moment in time to recognize that lots of called for days of mass prayers. people are going through a tough time. But in Israel, the Jews gathered, and Reach out with empathy, with caring, JCC Arts & Ideas Academy rehearses The Wizard of Oz Youth Edition on CenterStage. Socially then one stood to speak. with a smile and with a kind word. To use distanced rehearsals have taken place since September 2020. Limited ticket live performances “Brothers and sisters,” he said, “we a phrase that Kentucky Governor Andy were held on Feb. 25, 27 and 28. To purchase tickets to the virtual performance visit jcclouisville. have only one month to learn how to Beshear has coined, “We’re going to get org/academy. breathe underwater.” through this; we’re going to get through Whatever happens, we need to journey this together.” onward. Passover is the holiday of our freedom. The first thing Moses taught the newly Moses taught that true freedom requires Candles freed Jewish nation after crossing the our caring for all others. Only then can Here are the candle lighting times for in March: sea was that freedom is based upon we sit with our families and pray for the coming of Moshiach and the day • March 5 @ 6:23 p.m. • March 19 @ 7:36 p.m. remembering “to care for the stranger, • March 12 @ 6:30 p.m. • March 26 @ 7:43 p.m. for you were strangers in the land of when G-d will bring healing and peace Egypt.” In fact, this lesson is repeated and goodness to the entire world with over 30 times throughout the Bible. the resounding prayer: Next year in G-d wanted us to realize a fundamental Jerusalem. imperative: We were slaves in a foreign Contacts land; be considerate and care for others (Rabbi Avrohom Litvin is the regional Got a story idea? A letter? A gripe? on hold? Development Associate Kristy director of Chabad of Kentucky.) A kudo? Benefield can handle all circulation Send it along to Community Editor questions. She can be reached at Lee Chottiner at lchottiner@jew- [email protected] or ishlouisville.org. You can also call 502-238-2770. Lee at 502-238-2783. Got an item for the Community Not getting your paper? Want to eblast? Send it to weeklyupdate@ subscribe? Putting your subscription jewishlouisville.org. Deadlines Deadlines matter, especially for by Friday, March 26. newspapers. Got a news item for Submitting an item for Community’s Community? Send it in by Wednesday, weekly eblast? Please submit it by ENRICH your entire FAMILY’S JEWISH JOURNEY March 17 (though sooner is better). Friday. The eblast is sent out every The paper should be in your mailbox Monday afternoon. with free Jewish bedtime stories sent monthly. TO LEARN MORE: JEWISHLOUISVILLE.ORG/ PJLIBRARY Corrections/Clarifications We apologize. Due to a technical issue, and safeguards have been put in Jewish Federation glitch, some local obituaries did place to prevent a reoccurrence. OF LOUISVILLE not appear in the last two issues of Have a correction? Send it to Community. They are published in this [email protected] A virtual conversation with SUZI WEISS-FISCHMANN Jewish mother, author, co-founder and national brand ambassador of OPI Nail Lacquer

Sunday, March 14, 2021 5:00pm (EST) RSVP to [email protected]. Zoom link to follow!

NEITHER SNOW, NOR ICE, NOR FREEZING RAIN! NOTHING CAN SLOW US DOWN.

To learn more about the project or ask questions about the many ways in which you can contribute, please contact: Angie Fleitz, Senior Development Director, [email protected].

TO FOLLOW OUR PROGRESS OR MAKE A GIFT ONLINE: JEWISHLOUISVILLE.ORG/JCC-CAPITAL-CAMPAIGN 4 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 NEWS Grandson to remember Ann, Sandor Klein at annual Yom HaShoah program By Lee Chottiner Kleinsmith, a Louisville native now University of Louisville convinced her LBSY and St Francis of Assisi School Community Editor living in Texas, will tell his grandpar- to record her story. will perform the narration. Ann and Sandor Klein lived lives that ents’ stories during this year’s commu- After that, Klein spoke often at The other participant are: resonate to this day. nity Yom HaShoah program at 7 p.m., schools, churches, even at Fort Knox. • Cantor David Lipp – opening and clos- Childhood sweethearts from the same Thursday, April 8. She died in 2012. Six years later, after ing niguns village in Hungary, Sandor left for It’s the second year in a row that the extensive lobbying, the Kentucky Gen- • Matt Goldberg – welcoming remarks; America in 1938, serving as an Army Air program has had to be pre-recorded due eral Assembly fi nally adopted the Ann • Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner – open- Corps sergeant during World War II. to the coronavirus pandemic. Klein and Fred Gross Holocaust Educa- ing remarks; Ann survived the Holocaust, went on Ann and her family were trapped by tion Act. • Fred Gross – Introduction of speakers; to recount her story many times and the Nazis in 1944 when the country was In addition to Kleinsmith, the student • Cantor Sharon Hordes – Anshei became the inspiration for a state law occupied. Deported to Auschwitz, where journalists from duPont Manual High Hagafrur; mandating Shoah education in Ken- she survived Dr. Josef Mengele’s deadly School who broke the news about anti- • Matt and Kathy Karr – musical ac- tucky. selection process, she worked in the Semitic symbols and quotes in State companiment to the scrolling of me- “The events of my grandparents’ lives camp kitchen, surviving the war when Police and emergency training videos morial names; depict a truly American story,” said their most of her family died. will be honored at the April 8 program, • Lipp – El Melei Rachamim. grandson, Zach Kleinsmith, “encom- Reunited after the war, she and San- along with their faculty advisor. A version of the Mourner’s passing all of the complex, loving and dor, settled in Louisville. For years, she As in past years, 11 candles will be lit adapted by Elie Wiesel will be chanted tragic circumstances that can be lived didn’t talk about her Holocaust experi- to commemorate the victims and libera- and closing remarks will be made. in two lifetimes.” ences, but in 1996, a professor at the tors of the Holocaust. The students of OC3 team dispatches help for people dealing with COVID By Lee Chottiner said; many people already have networks Community Editor of people to fall back on. Jeff Jamner, creative consultant for the Still, a segment of Louisville feels iso- arts and ideas at the Jewish Community lated and could use help. Center, now also serves as a dispatcher. For example, Jamner recently learned Jamner heads up the JCC’s Our Com- of a couple that just moved to Louisville munity Cares COVID response team with no friends other than those in their (OC3). He dispatches designated volun- retirement community, so he volunteered teers – he calls them “helpers” – to assist to be one of their helpers. people who have contracted COVID, or There are no privacy issues involved, at- are obliged to quarantine, and need non- torneys have advised Jamner, since those signing up for the program are choosing OC3 is a dispatch center of sorts for people in need of nonmedical assistance during the coronavi- medical assistance. rus pandemic. Jamner said OC3 is a response to the to share their private information with high COVID infection rates in recent people they designate. Otherwise, all in- months, and the threat posed by new formation is kept confi dential. variants of the disease. Through the pro- Sara Klein Wagner, president and CEO gram, people can make sure they have ex- of the Jewish Community of Louisville, tra help when they need it, while others said OC3 is intended to make sure every- can volunteer to help. one has a support system and stays con- “It’s a way to just kind of create a mini- nected. network for yourself ahead of time,” Jam- “The pandemic has reminded us all just ner said. how important our relationships are,” People can register for OC3 online, Wagner said. “I encourage community naming three people who have agreed to members to reach out and be part of OC3. serve as helpers should the need arise. We are stronger together.” Jamner notifi es those helpers only Jamner said the program is set to last when the person they have agreed to as- through April, but it could be extended if sist contacts him. necessary. “I also notify the clergy if they give me “It’s going to take a while for those in- their contact info and want to be included fection numbers to come down,” Jamner in prayers for healing,” he said. said. “There’s going to be precautions for The center operates like 911, but only a long time. This is just a way for people for nonmedical issues like making gro- to get ahead of the curve.” cery runs, picking up prescriptions or just calling to check in. The helpers commit Want to join? up to four weeks. To sign up for OC3, or volunteer to help Not everyone, needs helpers, Jamner others, visit bit.ly/3udnzc3.

Centrally located behind Mall St. Matthews 751 Cypress Station Drive Louisville, Kentucky 40207 502-899-5959

YOUR GATEWAY TO LOUISVILLE

• Complimentary Breakfast • Free Airport Shuttle Services

• Meeting and Event Space • Pet Friendly

• One Bedroom Suites with • Free Passes to Baptist Separate Living Room Areas Health/Milestone Wellness Center

• Indoor Pool • Free Wifi FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 5 NEWS Ari Lesser talks truths with his raps at Sunday Night Live By Lee Chottiner tions upon arrival in the camps. Its for- family in Cleveland Heights and studied Community Editor mat is graphically like Billy Joel’s We political science at the University of Or- Didn’t Start the Fire. egon, where he also connected with hip Ari Lesser has no problem telling you “Wow, I think that’s the fi rst rap I’ve hop music. what kind of Jew he is: heard about the Holocaust,” Cantor Da- He made his fi rst visit to Israel in 2012 vid Lipp observed at the end of the song. on a Taglit-Birthright trip, and stayed in “You know I’m a party Jew Lesser can keep it light, too. He can rap the country for a year, studying in Jerusa- Ashkenazi-but-I-still-love-a-Sephardi on the spot about any animal his audi- lem and Safed. While there, he became a Jew ence names. This night, he came up with Nazirite, refraining from cutting his hair a fast-rapping Jew hilarious lyrics about dogs, cats, goldfi sh, or drinking wine. He also is a vegan. the toe-tapping Jew octopuses, even pterodactyls. He has written hundreds of songs, I’m-a-gonna-get-the-whole And he can poke a little fun at his own many of which are political and well- crowd-to-start-clapping Jew people, as he did in his Shabbos rap: researched. In his song, Boycott Israel, a free-thinking Jew an indictment of the BDS movement, he l’chaim-drinking Jew “Gotta get going relied on information from Amnesty In- with-a-beard-and-hat-like-Abe-Lincoln because I like showing ternational and Human Rights Watch. Jew Rapper Ari Lesser lays down knowledge about up early for shul His rap – the lighter ones, the politi- wearing-a-suit Jew Israel and being Jewish during his Feb. 14 ap- so that can read slow cal ones, the historical ones – all touched keeping- Jew pearance on Sunday Night Live. (Community and I’m saying the Shema some listeners. Midway through the pro- HaShem’s-the-only-one-I-salute Jew photo by Lee Chottiner) do the Amidah swaying gram, Lipp told him that one woman, lis- I’m a singing Jew staying focused to keep tening from her hospital bed, had texted CD-slinging Jew Been oppressed ever since we were up with the praying. on that “this is just what she … I’m a Chabad a Jew dispossessed The chazan is cruising needs.” a loving-God Jew enslaved, arrested and put to death. so fast it’s confusing So just for her, Lesser rapped a rhym- and some might say But we persevered never disappeared and most of the Jews in the back ing version of Psalm 20, which many I’m an odd Jew.…” been in Israel for thousands of years. are just schmoozing. Jews say when praying for a refuah (re- Thank God we’ve been able to overcome But soon we’re all crunching covery): He goes on for a while like that, but still living in the land where we come on cookies and munching you get the idea. from.” that cholent and kugel “May HaShem answer you when things Lesser, 34, is a rapper, and he’s laying at the kiddush luncheon. go wrong. down some knowledge about being a Not that he is intolerant of criticism of People start pouring May the name of Yaakov’s God keep Jew. His videos have attracted as many Israel. He leaves up critical comments on l’chaims ignoring you strong. as 500,000 views. his YouTube videos if they are construc- the speech by the rabbi May he send you help from the holiest In his Feb. 14 appearance on Adath tive and generate discussion. He even because it’s so boring.” place. Jeshurun’s Sunday Night Live program, raps in one song about understanding from Zion may he support your case.” the Cleveland native rapped about Shab- the longing Palestinians feel for return- Lesser grew up in a culturally Jewish bat, Purim, giving thanks and the eshet ing to the places where their families chayil (woman of valor), to name just a once lived. few topics. But he draws the line at vicious anti- To be a Jew is to be all about gratitude, Semitism and Holocaust denial – themes Lesser said. that he targets with his razer-sharp raps. “To give thanks to HaShem is really “There’s just crazy, racist anti-Semitic the essence of Yehuda and Yehudim,” he people out there,” he said between songs. said. “If we’re not being grateful and if “People really, strongly believe things like A special kind we’re not showing gratitude, I can hon- the Holocaust never happened…. I have estly say you’re doing it wrong; you’re not gotten into intense arguments with peo- doing Judaism right.” ple…. They really believe this is a fraud of compassion. His raps also get political, touching that’s being perpetuated on the world.” on BDS, the Holocaust and double stan- So he wrote a song addressing the Ho- dards affecting Israel. locaust and the strident way so many Particularly, he rapped about Middle people deny that it happened: Eastern Jews, how the wave of Jewish refugees from Arab countries following “Now Nazi Germany had a fi xation the 1948 War for Israel’s independence on attaining racial purifi cation. receives scant attention, compared to the They wanted a white bread Aryan na- plight of the Palestinians, and how critics tion are not always aware that Jews are indig- no place for Jews in their civilization.” enous to the region: The song is a history lesson of sorts, “Jews are indigenous to the Middle East rhythmically teaching about Operation and all we’re asking is for a little peace. Reinhard, the cattle cars, the examina- IT'S YOUR JOURNEY,

WE'LL HELP YOU The earlier you reach out, the sooner we can help create more GET THERE. moments and memories. Whether that means six months or three years, let us help you or your loved one get the most out of life at every stage. Call 800-264-0521 or visit HosparusHealth.org.

Create more moments.

Our purpose is simple, to guide and empower our clients to take control of their financial journey. SMALL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS BUSINESS GROWTH + TRANSITION AUDIT AND ASSURANCE Change someone’s life, including your own. Become a volunteer! HOW CAN WE SERVE YOU? Get started today. Visit HosparusHealth.org to complete your application. www.welenken.com 502.585.3251 6 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781

COMMUNITY Community is published monthly by the Jewish FORUM Community of Louisville, Inc., 3600 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY 40205-3216. USPS #020-068 at Louisville, KY. The Jewish Community of Louisville is a nonprofit organization. $26 of your pledge is for a subscription for Community. For more information, call 502-459-0660, fax 502- 238-2724, e-mail [email protected] or check out the website www.jewishlouisville.org. POSTMASTER – Send address changes to Community, 3600 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY 40205-3216. COMMUNITY DEADLINES Deadlines for the next two issues of Community for copy and ads are: March 17 for publication on March 26 and April 21 for publication on April 30. Community publishes Newsmakers and Around Town items at no charge. Items must be submitted in writing. Please include your name and a daytime telephone number where you can be contacted in the event that questions arise. Community reserves the right to edit all submissions to conform to style and length requirements. ADVERTISING INFORMATION To advertise, please contact our sales representative at 502-418-5845 or e-mail [email protected]. The appearance of advertising in Community does not represent a kashruth endorsement. EDITORIAL POLICY Community accepts letters to the editor for publication. All letters must be of interest to the Jewish community or in response to an item published in the paper. They must be no longer than 300 words in length and signed. Name, address and daytime phone number must be included for verification purposes only. Community reserves the right to refuse to publish any letter, to edit for brevity while preserving the meaning, and to limit the number of letters published in any edition. Email your comments to: Community, Letters to the editor, Lee Chottiner, at Twerski’s toughest fi ght is also ours [email protected]. latest book for review, which I usually protection, underscoring the disdain he To submit items to Newsmakers, Around Town or Lifecycle, please email them to newspapercolumns@ did. After all, he had a built-in audience faced for writing on a “taboo” topic. jewishlouisville.org. Human in the Burgh. Why wouldn’t I review As Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Resources them? former executive vice president of the I attended some of his lectures. , later told JTA, “To this After I married Beth, and she became day, he (Twerski) is defamed in certain EDITORIAL STAFF Lee Chottiner the rabbi in Wheeling, West Virginia, circles because he dares to speak about Lee Chottiner she invited him to speak there, and it.” Editor he graciously accepted, speaking at a Twerski was nothing, if not a man of 502-238-2783, [email protected] Catholic-affi liated hospital to a largely conviction. He spoke the truth, even Larry Singer non-Jewish audience. when he knew it wasn’t popular. He Advertising Sales As a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, I was always impressed by the understood that the Jewish community 502-418-5845, [email protected] what I knew of Rabbi Dr. Abraham ease with which he moved from the was not immune from the social ails Robbyn S McClain Twerski came exclusively from the 6 Orthodox to progressive Jewish circles that existed in non-Jewish circles. He Senior Design & Content Manager 502-238-2764, [email protected] o’clock news. and to the non-Jewish world. It didn’t did not hide from such issues; he faced Shiela Steinman Wallace I knew he was a doctor, a rabbi and, matter with whom he spoke as long as them head-on. He understood better Editor Emeritus of course, a Jew. I also knew that he he was speaking the truth. than most that meaningful change helped many people, including sports My most vivid memory of Twerski, doesn’t come to a community simply BOARD OF DIRECTORS celebrities (especially sports celebrities) who died from COVID on Jan. 31, was by accentuating its positive attributes. Ralph Green battle drug and alcohol addiction. a talk he once gave at the Squirrel Hill Sometimes, you must face its secrets, Board Chair What sticks in my memory was an Bookstore, in the heart of Pittsburgh’s too. interview he once gave to a local TV Jewish neighborhood, about his then- I respected him for his courage, as JCL SENIOR STAFF station about one of his most famous latest title, The Shame Borne in Silence, do many Jews, some of whom are still Sara Klein Wagner patients, former Cleveland Indians an honest look at domestic violence in living in the shadows where this fi ne President & Chief Executive Officer pitching ace “Sudden” Sam McDowell. the Orthodox community. rabbi and physician dared to shed some Stacy Gordon-Funk Sam McDowell! Being treated by He opened his talk by describing light. It’s a never-ending struggle, but Senior Vice President & Chief Development this Orthodox rabbi-physician for in detail how much he loved to write, he didn’t desist from doing his share of Officer addiction? I was enthralled by the which was true. (He wrote some 60 the work. Thomas Wissinger interview. (The fact that he pitched books over his lifetime.) Want to honor the memory of for the Tribe and not the Pirates, I “But this one I didn’t enjoy writing,” Abraham Twerski? Speak the truth, Vice President & COO conveniently overlooked.) he said. I could see the pain on his face. even when it’s hard, even if you risk Alison Roemer The rabbi-physician described in Why would he enjoy writing about losing friends. In the end, your legacy Senior Director of Jewish Journeys detail the control McDowell had over this subject? He was shedding light will be intact, and your community will

Tax deductible contributions may be sent to his fastballs and curves over the years, on an issue that many people in the be better for the effort. Take it from Community, 3600 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY 40205 but not his illness. Orthodox and non-Orthodox worlds Twerski. Twerski came into my life on and off did not want illuminated. Many Judaica over the years. He would sometimes stores refused to carry Twerski’s book (Lee Chottiner is the editor of the Jewish call me at The Jewish Chronicle, where on domestic violence. In some cases, Louisville Community.) I was the executive editor, pitching his his public appearances required police

© 2020 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE, INC. FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 7 FORUM The Holocaust will always be a part of my heritage; here’s why Italian Jews and thousands from other I believe in G-d even when he is silent.” After a 12-months trial, Prime Guest countries were successfully hidden by When I was stationed at Fort Sill, Minister Levi Eshkol had three days to Columnist Christians. Oklahoma, I knew a devout Catholic, decide: either sentence Eichmann to Protestants and Catholics saved the a retired helicopter pilot. We became life in prison, or to death. I remember lives of many Jews, including “hidden” close friends and when his wife become listening to the news at midnight at my Rabbi Hillel Smulowitz children who were raised as Christians. ill with cancer, I sent her this poem. A aunt’s home when it was announced Isidor Grunfeld, a dayan (judge) of the year later, before she passed away, she that Eichmann had been hanged, his Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I London Bet Din, would walk among told her husband that she wanted to be body cremated and his ashes scattered knew that my parents’ families perished them at Anglican schools, singing buried with it. at sea so no Nazi followers could ever in concentration camps, but I never Shema, Dayeinu. Several responded to In the 1960s, two events attracted have a place to worship him. understood why they did not talk about the familiar chant. world attention on the same day: In the 1970s, when I attended a it. These stories are often forgotten in Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin’s workshop in Israel with 14 other rabbis, As I got older, through my own our day. The challenge of our generation flight into orbit and the trial of Adolf we met with Prime Minister experiences as a rabbi and a witness to is to overcome this amnesia. Eichmann in Jerusalem. One was a and President Ephraim Katzir. Meir history, I came to realize how painful When I was principal of the Louisville space pioneer; the other, a butcher of said something that has remained with it was for them. “Not all victims were Jewish Day School, I bought textbooks men, women and children. me ever since: “The future of Israel is Jewish,” Elie Wiesel wrote, “but all Jews and directed teachers to talk about the These two events represent the dependent on the education you give were victims.” Holocaust in grades 6-8, but one parent conflict facing humankind: light or children in the diaspora.” Here is something of what he meant: objected, saying she didn’t want her darkness. To understand this, we need For me, the Holocaust has always At the close of World War II, U.S. and child to learn about this part of Jewish only read the first pages of the Tanakh, been a part of my life, although a British servicemen described in graphic history. that man was created of the dust of the difficult part. detail what they saw as they liberated “Is it OK to teach about the different earth and was endowed with part of the We have an obligation to ourselves, to Nazi concentration camps – rows upon cultures of the world?” I asked. soul of G-d. children and to grandchildren, to teach rows of skin-covered skeletons who “Of course,” she said. All people have two conflicting them not to forget the Holocaust. Then met their eyes, people starved to death, So I said her child was learning about elements. One pulls us down to we can say never again Auschwitz! laying in their own filth. Jewish heritage. earth, perpetuating selfish, egotistical Never again Dachau! Never again The city of Assisi, Italy, home of St. One of the most beautiful poems I behavior. The other – the soul – draws Treblinka! Francis, turned itself into a place of ever read was found scratched out on a us to dedicate our life to the divine refuge, organized by Padre Rufino wall where Jews were hiding: and help others. The cosmonaut verses (Rabbi Hillel Smulowitz, past principal Niccaci. Hundreds of Jews were hidden Eichmann. of the Louisville Jewish Day School and in towns, ancient monasteries and “I believe in the sun even when it is not When I was in Israel studying for a retired Army chaplain, has lectured on convents. They were given fake identity shining, ordination, I attended the Eichmann the Holocaust in Italy, Germany, Japan, papers, sometimes rosaries, and were I believe in the love even when not trial twice. He sat in a bulletproof booth Korea and the United States.) dressed in religious habits. Some 32,000 feeling its embrace, because of the threats to his life. 8 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 FORUM American Jewish poetry teaches us plenty if only we explore it that may or may not refl ect a Jewish to turn from the old year the old self world view or psyche. My criteria is You are ready Guest blunt: Jews writing poetry about things I do not understand to turn and be healed only face Columnist that matter to Jews. the book in my hand. only begin I think we need this. Of course, I would say that. I teach poetry. I’m a But it often will be the poetry of Michael poet, I’m a Jew and a lot of my poetry Who will teach me to return? dissonance, confusion, doubt, as the Jackman meditates on “things that concern dictum of creative writing states, Jews” or at least, this Jew. Loss of custom, ruin of will, that if you’re going to bother writing But I’m not the only one who thinks something, you should bother writing it’s vital for Jews to engage with the a memory of a memory something that matters. To many Have you read any Jewish poetry modern version of this ancient Jewish thinner than a vein. American Jewish poets, what matters is lately? Would you? art. John Felstiner, a writer, translator how to make one identity out of these Those aren’t really fair questions. of Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan, Who will teach us to return? two fraught words. If you have been to synagogue, if you and himself a Jew, writes: “American Poetryfoundation.org is a good have read the Hebrew Bible, if you have Jews – not hyphenated Jewish- In the Synagogue place to start exploring. Just type recited any of the liturgy, you have read Americans any more, but Jews living Cynthia Ozick “Poems of Jewish Faith and Culture” in plenty of Jewish poetry. as such in America – dearly need what the search box to be taken to a curated But I mean aside from that. Some- poetry offers to imagine their survival.” collection that includes articles and thing recent, say published in the last What survival could Felstiner mean? That’s not to say that reading selected works of Nemerov, Allen 100 years. Something American. Some- Perhaps the next greatest threat American Jewish poetry will be solely Ginsberg, Emma Lazarus (of Statue thing like this excerpt from Debate with since the Shoah. The one that comes a dreary affair, pressing down hard of Liberty fame: “Give me your tired, the Rabbi by Howard Nemerov: from being able to live your life free on the bruises of our personal and your poor, / your huddled masses…”), from state-sponsored oppression and corporate existential questions. You Alicia Ostriker, Marge Piercy, Charles You’ve lost your religion, the Rabbi imminent threat of death. The kind might fi nd feeling and familiarity in Reznikoff, and many others. said. of survival that allows persons, but “Teshuvah,” part of Robin Becker’s Join me in reading American Jewish It wasn’t much to keep, said I. perhaps not a people, to survive, due sequence, In the Days of Awe: poetry. Explore Jewish life and identity, You should affi rm the spirit, said he, to the fading of – let’s call it Jewish and the various “clusters of events and And the communal solidarity. spirit, Jewish communal solidarity, as Turn from evil and do good the emotions” that we must navigate. I don’t feel so solid, I said. Nemerov wrote. The kind of survival Psalmist says turning that might benefi t from reading how Round the turn turn the key clock (Michael Jackman is a senior lecturer Or this bit, from Cynthia Ozick’s In poet Shirley Kaufman re-imagines the turn turn in time in writing at Indiana University the Synagogue: Sarah and Hagar today, in Déjà Vu: time to turn words into footsteps to Southeast.) lead the young colt to the fi eld I do not understand Jet planes fl y over their heads… the book in my hand. [Sarah] brings the food to the table Who will teach me to return? where he’s already seated Loss of custom, ruin of will, reading the afternoon paper a memory of a memory or listening to the news… thinner than a vein. Who will teach us to return? Hagar shops in the market. There’s a run on chickens, the grapes CAMP Do you feel the way these two speak- are fi nished and the plums are soft. ers in the poems do? Do you know peo- She fi lls her bag with warm bread CAMP FRIENDS ARE FOREVER FRIENDS! ple who do? fresh from the oven … These poems don’t avoid the sore spots of Jewish identity in America; Muriel Rukeyser, a Jew and a poet they press on them. I’m talking about who occasionally investigated the sore spots you may not even know you condition of being a Jew in her work, have until you have read the words. wrote in The Life of Poetry: “If we are Here’s how Richard Michaelson la- free people, we are also...free to choose ments the situation in The Jews That our past, at every moment to choose the We Are: tradition we will bring to the future.” But Rukeyser prescribed poetry to A generation after the Holocaust help deal with that freedom, and the and I know no Hebrew. No . “clusters of events and emotions which No Torah. require new ways of making them more I fast only on the Day of Atonement human.” She expressed those “clusters and even then I’ve been known to of events and emotions” in her Letter to cheat. the Front, a sequence of 10 poems: A generation after the Holocaust Register for the transformative Camp and I apologize for my grandfather’s To be a Jew in the twentieth century bent back and wild gestures. Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, J experience campers remember for Wishing to be invisible, you choose Michaelson’s words clang like a bell Death of the spirit, the stone insanity. the rest of their lives! for some of us who grew up at that Accepting, take full life. Full agonies: time. Reading American Jewish poetry Your evening deep in the labyrinthine Discover your camper's Camp J summer camp experience! can help us express or freshen our at- blood tention to the Jewish experiences we Of those who resist, fail, and resist; Traditional Summer Camp includes a variety of specialty areas such have. and God as sports, art, science, music, and drama. Specialty Camps offer So far, I have not tried to defi ne what Reduced to a hostage among campers a focus on Snapology, cooking, chess, theater and STEAM. American Jewish poetry is. I’m skipping hostages. over debates about what a poem needs to express to be Jewish poetry. “After You see how a good poet can fi ll register at all,” writes John Hollander in his essay, the emotional cup to the brim, can The Question of Jewish Poetry, “can cross generations and bear witness to anything a Jew experiences…not be a events and experiences, letting us re- jcclouisvillecamp.org ‘Jewish experience?’” I’m not trying to experience them, feel them, confront be subtle and excavate buried themes them. Camp J follows all CDC and Kentucky state guidelines regarding COVID-19 to keep our campers and staff safe. FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 9 GLOBE/LOCAL Garland to Lee: ‘Senator, I’m a pretty good judge of what an anti-Semite is’ By Ron Kampeas country took us in and protected us, rected the prosecution of the white JTA and I feel an obligation to the country supremacists who bombed a federal WASHINGTON – Merrick Garland to pay back – this is the highest, best building in Oklahoma City, killing at turned emotional when asked Monday use of my own set of skills to pay back. least 168 people. during his Senate confi rmation hear- I want very much to be the kind of an In 2016, then-President Barack ing why he wanted to be the U.S. at- attorney general that you are saying I Obama had nominated Garland to the torney general. could become.” U.S. Supreme Court, but the Republi- Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., wanted Garland, 68, also said that combat- can-led Senate at the time would not Garland to explain why he chose his ing white supremacists would be a allow his nomination to advance. career path, using his family history priority should he lead the Justice De- Garland would be the fi fth Jewish of- leaving Russia’s Pale of Settlement, partment, particularly in the wake of fi cial in President Joe Biden’s Cabinet. “in confronting hate and discrimina- the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the When Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, pressed tion.” Booker noted that Garland had U.S. Capitol, which included far-right him on whether he would work with been asked and answered the question extremists along with visible displays anti-Semites, alluding to conserva- when they met privately. of racism and anti-Semitism. tive media attacks on Kristen Clarke, “I come from a family where my He called the attack “heinous” and whom Biden has nominated to head grandparents fl ed anti-Semitism and “sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our the Justice Department’s civil rights persecution,” the erudite and soft-spo- democracy: the peaceful transfer of division, Garland defended Clarke ken judge said before pausing for sev- power to a newly elected government.” and said in a rare show of annoyance: Garland has said a critical point of “Senator, I’m a pretty good judge of eral seconds to gather himself. “The Merrick Garland his career was in 1995, when he di- what an anti-Semite is.”

Beshear names Gilbert to Consumers’ Advisory Council Lance Gilbert of Louisville, an Council (CAC) by Gov. Andy Beshear. executive and CEO of Net Results Gilbert replaces Jeannine Smith, Group, has been appointed to the whose term has expired. His term Kentucky Consumers’ Advisory expires on Sept. 8, 2023.

Suspected oil spill may be worst in Israel’s history Israel closed its Mediterranean ing tar off the beaches and animals, beaches to deal with what its offi cials including birds and turtles, have been say may be the worst oil spill in the found covered with tar. The Israeli country’s history. army said it would also send soldiers The Israel Nature and Parks Author- to help with the cleanup. ity on Sunday called the suspected It’s not clear what ship is responsi- spill one of the “greatest ecological di- ble for the spill, which is believed to sasters to affl ict Israel since the found- have occurred around Feb. 11 some 20 ing of the state.” It said that 170 out of miles from shore. 190 kilometers of coastline, or 105 out “We are making every effort to fi nd of 118 miles, have been affected by the those responsible for the disaster,” spill. The consequences will be felt for Gila Gamliel, Israel’s environment years, its statement said. minister, said on Twitter. Thousands of volunteers are clean-

Goose creek Diner

Of equal or greater value. Not good with any other offers or discounts. Must present coupon at time of purchase. Expires03/31/202106/30/2020 8/31/18 Dine In Only Mon.-Th. 11-9 PM Fri. 11-9:30 PM Sat. 8-9:30 PM Sun. 9-8 PM 10 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 PICTURE THIS: ARCHIVE SHOTS

1920’s 0008 ED 1930’s 0008 JCC

This is the second in a series of photo galleries made possible by the Louisville Jewish Archives Committee. The panel is seeking help from Community readers to identify photos from its collection, which depicts 100 years of Jewish life in Louisville. Many of the photos will be retained by the JCC, but some will be given to The Filson Historical Society. Email [email protected] with any IDs you can make. Members of the Archive Committee are Alan Engel, Abby Glogower, Stuart Goldberg, Jane Goldstein, Larry Magnes, Chuck O’Koon, Maxine Rouben, Mike Shaikun, Steve Shapiro, Don Stern, Shiela Wallace, David Weinberg, Ed Weinberg, Allan Weiss, and co-chairs Fred Joseph and Frank Weisberg.

1940’s 0011 1950’s 0009 JCC

1950’s 0001 JCC 1950’s 0002 JCC FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 11 PICTURE THIS: ARCHIVE SHOTS

1960’s 0086 JCC

1960’s 67 JCC

1960’s 0171 JCC

CALLING HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS! Visit www.FilsonHistorical.org to explore resources on local history and click on “events” to register for upcoming Filson zoom lectures. JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES Mailing Address • P.O. Box 32578 • Louisville, KY 40232 • 502-452-6341 • jfcslouisville.org Location • Louis & Lee Roth Family Center • 2821 Klempner Way • Louisville, KY 40205 Passover Food Drive

JFCS is excited to announce our Passover Food Drive in March! You can help ensure everyone in our Jewish community can celebrate Passover by donating these specific items. JFCS will ONLY ACCEPT the following kosher for Passover items:

• 8 oz. bags of pecans • Macaroons • Matzo • Kosher for Passover candy and dessert • Matzo Meal • Individual sized grape juice • Matzo Ball Soup Mix • Regular sized jars of applesauce No glass containers will be accepted.

Drop Off Donations Sundays, March 7 and March 14, 1- 3 pm* Questions? Contact us at 502-452-6341 x360 *Please note: As JFCS staff is still working remotely, the JFCS offices will not be open for additional drop off times.

Mental Health First Aid Virtual Course What good are banking services for Family Caregivers without great customer service? Wednesday, March 31 Mental Health First Aid is a virtual, skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance- use issues. JFCS is offering this virtual course on March 31st to family caregivers at a special discounted rate! Sure, lots of banks offer similar products and services. But Republic Bank gives you For more information, reach out to us at something more: a friendly, qualified team [email protected]. who takes the time to understand your needs – and provides easy, solutions to meet them. Visit www.RepublicBank.com Contact JFCS Today Member FDIC [email protected] • 502-452-6341

20RB1110_Jewish_Lou_Community_Print_Ad_Sept_FIN.indd 1 9/30/20 3:16 PM Powered in part by the Jewish Federation of Louisville FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 13 FILM REVIEW Asia is a great movie because it needs ‘less’ to be great By Michael Ginsberg Asia doesn’t pander in the way I just a great review. If you don’t agree, For Community did. It tears apart viewers and brings don’t see Asia and don’t ask me why I tears to viewers by avoiding those thought it was a great movie. Spoiler alert: Don’t read this if you kinds of cheap ploys. So, the tragic (A) haven’t seen the Louisville Jewish character dies a virgin, and the movie Film Festival movie Asia and still hope ends without following up an assisted to see it, (B) have seen it and are still suicide with courtroom scenes in too emotionally shaken to discuss it which the assister must justify her or (C) don’t like movies that try to be assistance. It doesn’t consummate a more than simply “good stories,” for sex scene, because some sex scenes whatever reason. (including my wife, should not be consummated and the who I’ll call “Jeri,” because that’s her character who tries to consummate a name). sex scene with good intentions doesn’t Actually, Jeri loved Asia, but she have to feel good for trying. And often scolds me when she thinks I’m viewers don’t have to see the mother too critical of movies. “Can’t you just of the tragic character come to peace watch a movie without analyzing it?” with her daughter’s death and her role she has been known to say, with a in it. touch of annoyance in her voice. Asia left me feeling emotionally raw. Back to Asia. It’s much more than It left me without consummating my simply a “good movie.” What makes it attraction toward satisfying endings more is less. that complete a cycle of hurt and It is missing scenes that explain healing. That’s not how life always everything; it is missing unfl awed works, that’s not what makes a movie characters. And it is missing scenes line in this review for the same reason more than “good,” and that’s not what where tragic characters fi nd happiness, that “just good” movies include those makes a movie review more than “OK.” like losing their virginity just before scenes.) Asia is a great movie, and this is they die too young. (I included that

OVERNIGHT CAMP & ISRAEL GRANTS Don’t miss out on an experience of a lifetime!

I’ve chosen to participate in the LIFE & LEGACY program to recognize the multiple Jewish organizations that have had such a significant impact on our lives including the JCC, Temple, JFCS and Federation. As a newcomer to Louisville in 2000, we not only met friends through these organizations, I was fortunate to become actively involved in many leadership roles. Without a doubt, the Louisville Jewish community has shaped our lives here! Make Jewish overnight camps and specialty — Susan Rudy camps or a trip to Israel a reality with You too can create an endowment to preserve financial assistance! Jewish Louisville’s programs and organizations that matter to you. Contact Jennifer Tuvlin at 502-238-2719 or apply for free! [email protected] to endow your Jewish values. JewishLouisville.org/Grants THE TEMPLE Application deadline is April 16, 2021

Jewish Federation OF LOUISVILLE 14 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 NEWS & NEWSMAKERS/AROUND TOWN

Shaps named to Chabad of Kentucky Month by Month, a class for to Israeli Society through Poetry and Lit- head KIO regional Seder-in-a-Box kits are available for Pass- kabbalistic teachings and meditations us- erature, Mondays at 6 p.m. Third semester Jenna Shaps has been over seders. Each kit includes matza, wine ing Hebrew months and holidays, meets Basic Judaism will start Monday, March 1, named regional n’siah or grape juice, and a seder plate with all of the second Thursday of each month at 6:30 at 5 p.m. On Wednesday, Temple Scholars (president) for the Ken- the traditional foods. A step-by-step guide p.m. on tinyurl.com/KICzoom. on crisis in Jewish Tradition will meet at tucky Indiana Ohio and Passover haggadah also are included. 9:30 a.m.; The Roots of Justice with Rap- (KIO) region of BBYO. Email [email protected] by March The Baking Club meets Thursdays at 11 port, 10:45 a.m. All classes are on Zoom. She will work with the 16 to order. Kits will be ready for distribu- a.m. on tinyurl.com/KICzoom. For exact Call 502-423-1818 for details. regional board to plan tion or pickup on March 24. dates and recipes, check facebook.com/ conventions and support the local chapters. kilouisville. Saturday starts at 9 a.m. on A junior at Kentucky Country Day, Shaps A model seder class will be held prior to Zoom. previously served as regional mazkirah/ Passover at 7 p.m., Monday, March 22. Zoom Gali Gali: Kabbalat Shabbat for Kids gizborit (secretary/treasurer). In Louis- Email [email protected] to register. meets the first Friday of each month at Grade 4 will lead Family Shabbat at 7 p.m., ville, she was chapter n’siah, siganit (vice 5:15 pm on tinyurl.com/KICzoom. The Friday, March 5, at thetemplelouky.org/ president of programming) and morah Chabad is offering to sell (and then buy service includes songs, stories from the streaming. (vice president of membership). back) anyone’s chometz (leavened food) Torah, lighting candles, kiddish, motzi and KIO, which includes chapters in Colum- to help them fulfill the holiday tradition of blessing the children. Sandwich Making for the Homeless will bus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Louisville and clearing these products from homes. Email start at 12:30 p.m., Sunday, March 7. Due Indianapolis, offers activities such as ice [email protected] for details. Cantor Hordes will lead the services for the to COVID, seating is limited to 10 tables, skating, overnight camping, communal second night of Passover with collabora- each with two people from one home. Shabbat celebrations and leadership train- Hand-made shmurah matza can be pur- tion of KI members from their homes. The Masks will be required and doors to the ing. In her new position, it is anticipated chased at $20 per pound or three matzas program begins at 6 p.m. on tinyurl.com/ Heideman will be open, so dress appro- that she will continue to grow as a leader for $10. The matza is made rapidly, using KICzoom. priately. RSVP at thetemplelouky.org/ and leave a lasting impact on the region. grain protected from water from the time sandwich-making/. BBYO provides Jewish teens with mean- of harvest to ensure it does not rise prior Louisville Hadassah ingful Jewish experiences, preparing them to production. Email Rabbi@Chabadky. Hadassah’s national book club – One Book, The Conversation, featuring attorney Loni- to become future Jewish leaders in their com by March 12 to order. One Hadassah – will be held at 6 p.m., ta Baker on the killing of Breonna Taylor, communities and in the world at large. Thursday, April 8. Hadassah Magazine will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 7 on Chavurat Shalom Executive Editor Lisa Hostein will inter- Zoom. March marks the first anniversary BBG announces Beth Olliges, lead singer for Two of Dia- view Kristen Harmel, author of The Book of Taylor’s death; Baker, who represents new officers slate monds, will perform a sing-along at 1 p.m., of Lost Names, a historical novel based on Taylor’s family, brings a unique perspective Here is a list of Jay Levine BBG officers Thursday, March 4, via ChavuratShalom- true accounts of World War II document to the milestone. Visit thetemplelouky. for the spring term: Zoom. forgers who helped smuggle children out org/the-conversation. of Nazi-occupied France. Nonmembers N’Siah – Nila Rothman Denine LeBlanc and Kathy Karr will per- may join by visiting hadassah.org/join. WRJ/Sisterhood Shabbat services, honor- S’ganit – Maraya Goldstein form short pieces for flute and piano by To register, visit bit.ly/3u5kf2A. ing WRJ’s dedication to The Temple, will Morah – Ada Weiss American and French composers at 1 p.m., be held at 7 p.m., Friday, March 19. Visit Sh’lichot – Katy Roemer and Miriam Thursday, March 11, via ChavuratSha- Temple Shalom thetemplelouky.org/streaming. Bird lomZoom. A Purim celebration with Rabbi Beth Ja- Mazkirah – Owen Weiss cowitz Chottiner and Student Rabbi Sa- Rising Kindergarteners or Grade 1 stu- Gizborit – Clara Weiss AARP volunteer Deborah Turner will dis- mantha Thal will be held at 6:30 p.m., dents not previously enrolled are invited In addition, Drew Corson AZA is look- cuss living longer and smarter with down- Friday, Feb. 26. The evening will include to the annual Kindergarten Open House ing for teens to plan and attend activities. sizing and de-cluttering at 1 p.m., Thursday, parodies, songs, a Megillah reading, a shpiel at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, March 21. To join, Interested teens can respond to aroemer@ March 18, via ChavuratShalomZoom. and a game of Purim Jeopardy. Email in- RSVP to Sarah Harlan at sarah@thetem- jewishlouisville.org. [email protected]. plelouky.org. BBYO registration is open to eighth- to Ann Waterman, keyboardist/vocalist and 12-graders. Membership is $149. humorist with Two of Diamonds, will lead Temple Shalom will join HIAS in present- Movie Night with Rabbi Rapport will be a sing-along, including Passover parodies, ing Refugee Shabbat at 6:30 p.m., Friday, held at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 21 on Zoom. at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 25, on Chavu- March 5. The service will include an up- An American Pickle will be screened. RSVP AROUND TOWN ratShalomZoom. date on HIAS’ efforts to support refugees at thetemplelouky.org/Jewish-Identi- Adath Jeshurun at the southern border. Ann Waterman ty-in-Jewish-Films. Sunday Night Live, a virtual series of Jewish Federation of Louisville will provide music. Email information@ speakers and entertainers, is held Sundays Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, the “First Lady of templeshalomky.org. For Passover, The Temple will celebrate the at 7 p.m. Upcoming programs: Feb. 28, Nails” and co-founder and brand ambas- holiday virtually. Passover member bags and mentalist/magician Jason Suran; March sador of OPI Nail Lacquer, will join a con- Chailands Chavurah will present ethnomu- carry-out seder meals will be provided and 7, pediatrician Dr. Karen Abrams; and versation with the Federation Women’s sicologist Rachel Adelstein for a presenta- four Zoom seder opportunities are planned: March 14, comedian Marty Pollio. Links to Philanthropy at 5 p.m., Sunday, March 14. tion of music performed in British syna- The Annual First Night Seder at 6 p.m., Sat- all programs may be found in AJ’s weekly A daughter of , Weiss- gogues at 6:45 p.m., Saturday, March 20. urday, March 27, led by Rabbi David and emailed newsletter. Subscribe at adathje- Fischmann is considered the go-to author- Email [email protected]. Jennifer Diamond; Congregational Sec- shurun.com. ity by beauty editors and fashion designers. ond Night Seder at 6 p.m., Sunday, March She will discuss her road to success and her Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner and song 28, with the confirmation class and Rabbi The Annual Music Festival will be held vir- view on tikkun olam. Shellie Benovitz, Car- leaders hold Shabbat Experiences Fridays Rapport; the Annual Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks tually at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 21. “Divas ly Geer Mason, Vycki Goldenberg-Minstein, at 6:30 p.m. Email information@temple- Women’s Seder at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 1, on the Bima,” a musical group consisting of Helen Gurewich, Betsy Prussian, Shannon shalomky.org. led by Rabbi Rooks, Mikki Adams, and Nan- four cantors, will perform traditional Jew- Rothschild, Beth Salamon and Margaret cy Gall-Clayton; and the Young Adult Seder ish music, Israeli pieces and songs from Shuster are hosting the event. The Zoom Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner leads her at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 3, led by young Broadway. Links to join may be found in link will be sent prior to the event. RSVP Introduction to Judaism for those consider- adult leaders. More information, includ- AJ’s weekly emailed newsletter. Subscribe to [email protected]. ing conversion Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. Email ing how to sign up for meal orders, can be at adathjeshurun.com. Northwestern Mutual and Heaven Hill are [email protected]. found at thetemplelouky.org/Passover. sponsoring the program. AJ holds virtual Shabbat worship services Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner will lead a UofL Jewish Studies Program via Facebook Live, YouTube and Zoom. Keneseth Israel second night community at The Sixth Annual Jewish Heritage Fund for Twice-daily minyan services are held via The Introduction to reading Hebrew class, 6 p.m., Sunday, March 28. Email informa- Excellence Annual Lecture will be held at 1 Zoom only. Links to join all services may taught by Cantor Sharon Hordes, is held [email protected]. p.m., Sunday, April 18. Asaf Angermann, be found in AJ’s weekly emailed newsletter. Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on tinyurl.com/KIC- visiting assistant professor of philosophy Subscribe at adathjeshurun.com. zoom. The Temple and Jewish thought, will address “The The Women of Reform Judaism/Sister- Sexology of Racism: Magnus Hirschfeld Anshei Sfard Coffee Shmooze, a no-agenda get-together hood Gift Shop is open by appointment. on Prejudice, Sex, and Race in the 1930s.” In-person Shabbat services are held at 9 over coffee, is held Mondays at 11a.m. on CDC guidelines are observed. Visit face- RSVP at [email protected]. a.m. Social distancing and face masks are tinyurl.com/KICzoom. Bring your own book.com/wrjgiftshop. Also, an online required. coffee. shop is coming. Contact Sheila Lynch, The 2021 Naamani Memorial Lecture will 502-896-9736, Marlene Ornstein, 502-329- be held at 1 p.m., Sunday, March 7. Miriam Rabbi Simcha Snaid leads three weekly Jews and Brews, a weekly Torah-study 2276 or Karen Waldman, 502-425-436 for Udel, associate professor of German stud- classes on Zoom or in-person: Spice of class, meets Wednesdays at 11 a.m. on ti- appointments. ies and Jewish studies at Emory University, Life, 7 p.m., Wednesday; Make a Prophet, nyurl.com/KICzoom. and an authority on Yiddish language and noon, Thursday; Trek, 9:30 a.m., Adult education courses continue at 6 p.m. culture, will address the topic, “Honey on Sunday. Contact Snaid at rabbisnaid@ Mindful Meditation with Cantor Hordes is Mondays: Advanced Hebrew with Rabbi the Page: The World of Yiddish Children’s ansheisfard.com or 912-704-2769. held Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. on tinyurl. Joe Rooks Rapport and Beginning Hebrew Literature.” RSVP for Zoom link at Kelly. com/KICzoom. Part 2 with Mark Goldstein. Rabbi David [email protected]. Ariel-Joel is teaching a new class, Windows FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 15 LIFECYCLE Milton Murray Greenbaum was a Temple Shalom founder and its fi rst president Milton Murray Greenbaum, a success- He attended lege career was interrupted with a brief Shalom, serving as its fi rst president from ful engineer and a founding member of Stuyvesant High and not especially noteworthy military 1976 to 78, built a successful business and Temple Shalom, died Tuesday, Feb. 2, School on the career, much of which was spent as a pa- became a respected pillar of his commu- 2021 in Louisville. He would have cel- Lower East Side tient at the Fitzsimmons General Hospital nity. ebrated his 91st birthday Feb. 10. of Manhattan, in Denver. His business, now well run by Sandy, Milton was a loving father and husband which required A freshly minted civil engineer, Mil- remains a monument to Milton’s vision, with one son, Sandor “Sandy” Russell a two-hour daily ton went to work for a company special- tenacity and professionalism. (Vivian); and two grandchildren, Sam and commute by sub- izing in road construction. At the time, Milton was active in engineering and Madeline. way. Stuyvesant President Eisenhower was developing civic organizations, from which he re- Milton’s wife of 59 years, Janet, preced- provided a supe- the interstate highway system and Milton ceived numerous awards, including the ed him in death on April 25, 2014. rior education, worked on the design of I-95 in Pennsyl- Daniel V. Terrell Award from the Ameri- A child of the Great Depression, Milton which he and his vania and New Jersey. It was around this can Society of Civil Engineers. was born to impecunious parents, Sam Milton Murray Greenbaum brother took for time that he met and married a charming, He was president of the American Con- and Bertha, in Washington Heights, a granted, but nevertheless required ex- young immigrant nursing student from sulting Engineers Counsel and Scout- predominantly German-Jewish New York traordinary dedication. the Netherlands training in New York master of Troop 30 of the Boy Scouts of City neighborhood near Harlem. Milton became the fi rst in his family to City. In due course, Janet gave birth to America. As a boy, his family and friends spoke be college educated, attending City Col- Sandy. Always friendly, thoughtful and happy German with greater facility than Eng- lege of New York. By this time, the family Milton’s employer ultimately trans- to help or share, Milton is remembered by lish, binding them together by language had moved to Woodside in Queens Coun- ferred him to Louisville to work on I-64, a many friends and respected by all those and religion. ty, where his father owned a butcher shop. major east-west highway. with whom he worked. Both his parents left Germany as teen- There, Milton “learned the trade,” starting Milton left his employer and launched Funeral services were held Friday, Feb. agers for economic reasons a decade be- out as a delivery boy on a bicycle and end- his own fi rm, M.M. Greenbaum and As- 5, in Cave Hill Cemetery. In lieu of fl ow- fore the Nazi Era. ing up with all-too-sharp instruments in sociates, professional engineers. He sank ers, donations may be made to Temple Milton’s father spent most of his career hand. roots in Louisville, where he spent the rest Shalom, 4615 Lowe Rd, Louisville, KY as a retail meat purveyor, a line of work Milton graduated CCNY with a bach- of his life. 40220. Arrangements were by Herman for which Milton showed little affi nity. elor’s degree in civil engineering. His col- He joined friends in founding Temple Meyer & Son, Inc.

the granddaughter of Faye and Craig Pittsburgh-based Computer Research, Louisville and has served on the boards Births Lefkoff of Atlanta and the late Miriam Inc., from 1973 through 1975. He served of Jefferson County Riverport Authority, Ryker Reas Gordon Fine and Dennis Fine; and the in the Army Reserve with the 100th Kentucky Society of CPAs, The Temple, Todd and Devie Comer Willett are de- great-granddaughter Barbara and David Division, doing two tours of active duty. Jewish Family and Career Services, lighted to announce the arrival of their Gordon, Elaine Seigel of Aventura, Sonny was chair of Jewish Hospital Spalding University (Board of Overseers), fi rst great-grandson, Ryker Reas, on Florida, and Harold Lefkoff and the late HealthCare Services, University Jewish Community Federation, American Sept. 4, 2020. He is the son of Miranda Evelyn Lefkoff of Atlanta. Medical Center, Passport Health Plan, Jewish Committee and Greater Louisville and Skyler Reas. Miranda is the oldest Community Foundation of Louisville, Health Enterprises Network. daughter of Cara Comer Willett Harp, Trustee Advisory Council of the Kentucky Sonny earned numerous honors and Ryker also is welcomed by many aunts, Obituaries Hospital Association, American Hospital awards during his lifetime including uncles, cousins, “greats,” and especially Association’ s Committee on Governance membership in Phi Kappa Phi national his great-great-grandmother, Gita Comer. Henry M. “Sonny” and the AHA Leadership Development honorary fraternity, outstanding Altman, Jr. Committee, Standard Country Club and alumnus of University of Louisville Griffi n Emmet Tasman Hathaway Henry M. “Sonny” The Temple Men’s Club. Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi national Rabbi Sarah Tasman and Kyle Ha- Altman, Jr., 84, passed In addition, he was a member of accounting fraternity, Male High School thaway of Silver Spring, Maryland, an- away on Monday, Dec. the boards of Louisville Medical Hall of Fame, the inaugural Health Care nounce the birth of their son, Griffi n 21, 2020. Center Development Corporation Governance Award from the Kentucky Emmet Tasman Hathaway, who was He was preceded in (now Nucleus), Cardiovascular Hospital Association, Jefferson County born on Sept. 15, 2020. Proud grandpar- death by his daughter, Innovation Institute, American Cancer Millennium Award, City of Louisville ents are Allan and Cathy Tasman of Lou- Laurie Altman Biorepository, Louisville Collegiate Distinguished Citizen Award, Volunteers isville, Leslie Hathaway of Schererville, Kupferman; his sister, Ann Altman School, Volunteers of America, Institute of America Tribute Dinner honoree Indiana, and Greg Hathaway of Crown Stein; his brother-in-law, Ed Stein; and for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, and the Metro United Way Community Point, Indiana. his parents, Henry M., Sr. and Anne W. American Hospital Association’s Trustee Solutions Health Leadership Award. He Altman. Alumni Leadership Network Advisory was a long-time member of the Standard Dylan Brook Lefkoff A graduate of Male High School and Committee, Louisville Orchestra Club. Meredith and Ryan Lefkoff of Atlanta, the University of Louisville, Sonny was Foundation, Jewish Heritage Fund for At the time of his death, he was a anounce the birth of their third daughter, a practicing CPA for over 44 years, Excellence, Republic Bank & Trust member of The Temple, where he was a Dylan Brooke, on Jan. 2, weighing the last 15 as Managing Partner of Company, Hilliard Lyons Trust Company chair for the Cemetery Committee. 7 pounds, 7 ounces. She is the sister Deming, Malone, Livesay & Ostroff. He and Almost Family, Inc. Sonny is survived by his wonderful also served as president and CEO of He was a founder of Actors Theatre of of Macey Rae and Evie Lynn Lefkoff; Continued on page 16 16 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 LIFECYCLE

wife of 59 years, Barbara Cassell Altman; questions. She later wrote several A longtime board member of the Wednesday, Feb. 10, his son, William “Billy” (Jan); his articles on partnership taxation, taught Kentucky Dance Council, she served as at her Louisville home daughter, Kerri Altman Dixon (Dennis); law briefly at the University of Louisville president in 1978 and was instrumental surrounded by loving his grandchildren, Jacob Kupferman, after moving from New York in 1969, in bringing Mikhail Barishnikov to family. Linkon (Courtney) and Austin Altman, and, after an extended break from the perform at the Louisville Ballet. She also She died from all in Chicago, and Andrew and Allison profession, developed a taxation and served for a time as chair of the Jefferson COVID-19 and “a Dixon, both of Louisville; and his great- estate practice at the Louisville law firm County Cable Television Commission, as broken heart,” just granddaughter, Avery Altman. Also of Tilford, Dobbins, & Buckaway from a director of Louisville’s Metro United eight weeks after her surviving is his sister-in-law, Joan Miller the late 1980s through the early 2000s. Way and as a member of the Education soulmate and husband (Nathan) of Indianapolis and numerous Carolyn had a strong commitment Committee of the Louisville Chamber of of 74 years, Lewis “Sonny” Bass passed nieces, nephews and their children. to public service. A Zionist and active Commerce. away, also from COVID. The graveside service and interment member of Americans for Democratic Carolyn was predeceased by her Born on Aug. 31, 1926, in Lexington, were held Dec. 23, 2020, in The Temple Action, she participated in many non- first husband, Paul Tenen; her second Gladys attended Morton Middle School Cemetery. profit organizations. In New York, husband, Donald H. Balleisen; and her and Henry Clay High School, where she Memorial Gifts are appreciated to: these included the American Jewish daughter Wendy Balleisen Finger. was a cheerleader. She could always be • Barbara and Henry Altman Fund Committee, the Citizens Housing She is survived by her daughter Ellen counted on to provide a helping hand at the Community Foundation of Planning Council, which worked to Margaret Balleisen; Wendy’s husband, at the family business, Lowenthal’s, in Louisville, 325 W. Main Street, Suite expand affordable housing, Citizens Michael Finger; their daughter, downtown Lexington. 1110, Louisville KY 40202; Union, a good government organization, Cassandra; her son, Edward James The youngest of eight, Gladys lost both • The Temple Cemetery Beautification the League of Women Voters, and the Balleisen (Karin Shapiro), and their of her parents soon after graduating Fund, 5101 U. S. Highway 42, American Bar Association’s Committee sons, Zachary and Aaron. high school. Her brothers and sisters Louisville KY 40241. on Partnerships. For most of her adult life, Carolyn remained close throughout their lives, In Louisville, Carolyn became active struggled with bipolar disorder. She relying on Gladys to plan annual family Carolyn Kimmelfield Balleisen in several local and state organizations. also coped with a series of neurological reunions. Carolyn Kimmelfield Balleisen died Through the local chapter of the National disorders. Throughout, she retained a After graduation, Gladys attended the in her home on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, Council of Jewish Women, she worked fierce mind, a strong sense of Jewish University of Kentucky before meeting after battling a long illness. She was 90. on issues related to social services and identity, a commitment to civic Sonny in Cincinnati while visiting her Born and raised in Brooklyn, New school desegregation. She joined the engagement and social justice, and a brother. It was love at first sight and they York, Carolyn graduated from Barnard inaugural board of the Kentucky Housing deep love of family. built a beautiful life together. College in 1950 with a degree in Corporation in 1972, working to redirect A memorial service was held virtually The matriarch of the Bass family, economics. She became one of the first subsidized loans to low-cost housing on Dec. 6, 2020. The family asks that Gladys made life easy for Sonny and women admitted to Columbia Law projects. donations in her memory be made to their three sons, effortlessly managing School, graduating in 1952. During the 1970s and 1980s, her most Jewish Family and Career Services of the household while encouraging Sonny Carolyn worked as a researcher significant community service focused Louisville (https://jfcslouisville.org/ in his many endeavors. They shared on the American Law Institute’s Tax on equitable access to childcare and donate/) or 4-C (https://www.4cforkids. love from countless friends, the joys of Law Restatement Project, where she preschool, through both Community org/about/donate/). traveling the world, the satisfaction of became a national expert on partnership Coordinated Child Care (4-C), and the their shared generosity and the love of taxation. She then joined the law firm creation of a Home Instruction Program Gladys Lowenthal Bass their three sons and their families. of Lord, Day & Lord as an associate, for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) across Gladys Lowenthal Bass, 94, of Louisville When Sonny and his partners started where she worked on corporate tax the state. and Boca Raton, Florida, passed away Heritage House Nursing Homes in 1961,

HERE FOR GOOD MEANS... BEING THERE FOR THE COMMUNITY

As the recent pandemic and economic crisis has shown, we all need a support system. For anyone who faces hard times, the Federation is there to ensure they have the resources to regain their footing when life takes a devastating turn. As COVID-19 changed our world, the Federation didn’t just continue our work. We evolved, innovated and found even more ways to provide support, which we will incorporate into our work, after this crisis has passed. Because of your investment, together, we are able to change and strengthen lives in our community and around the world. That’s why we are here for you and Here for Good.

DONATE ONLINE AT JEWISHLOUISVILLE.ORG/DONATE or contact Matthew Goldberg at 502-238-2707 or [email protected]. or call FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 17 LIFECYCLE the predecessor of Humana, Gladys formerly of Louisville Nelya never failed to radiate positive to Bobbie. She and Harry had four mopped fl oors, vacuumed or worked the died Friday, Jan. 29, energy. When she smiled, the world felt children, whom they raised in Seneca front desk to help get their fi rst nursing 2021, in Cedar Park, at ease, and the pain of everyone around Park. She especially enjoyed going out home open. Texas. her seemed to vanish. Nelya always put with her lunch bunch. The ultimate hostess, Gladys loved Born Marcia Bailen others before her and never wished for Bobbie was involved in helping Harry entertaining. The Bass home in Rolling on March 21, 1943 anything in return. develop and operate business ventures Fields always was a hub of activity, with in Louisville, Marcia She loved her daughter and over the years, including Industrial Gladys perfectly executing swim parties, attended Atherton grandchildren more than anything in the Services of America. themed dinners and wonderful family High School and world and wanted nothing other than She attended Indiana University and reunions. became part of the fi rst for them to be happy, healthy and never later graduated from the University Gladys and Sonny were huge University group of Key Punch Operators for the hungry. She was the family’s greatest gift of Louisville in 1980 with a degree in of Louisville fans and supporters. They City of Louisville. – a beacon of joy, a source of inspiration, physical education. enjoyed many tournament trips and Later, she provided childcare in her and a well of everlasting, unconditional Bobbie loved swimming, tennis and loved hosting parties for players and home and through the Ganon program love. May her memory forever be a racquetball. She bowled in leagues, coaches. at the Jewish Community Center, where blessing. She is at peace now and will played mahjong and bridge. They also were generous supporters she was a member. She also belonged to never be forgotten. Bobbie loved to fl y. She earned of the Louisville community and UofL, Temple Shalom. Nelya is survived by her daughter, her private pilot’s license, belonged providing seed money for the Bass-Rudd She was preceded in death by her Yelena (Alexander Ioffe); and her to the Ninety-Nines women’s fl ying Tennis Center and the Gladys and Lewis parents, Alex and Bertha Stengler Bailen; grandsons, Michael and Jacob. organization for years and was president “Sonny” Bass Family Scholar House, both her fi rst husband, Norman Applebaum; Funeral services were private. of the Louisville chapter. She also on UofL’s campus. Gladys also actively and her second husband, Sheldon Isaacs. belonged to B’nai B’rith Women and supported the Bass Family Foundation. Marcia is survived by her son, Roberta “Bobbie” Hadassah. She was a member of Standard Country Stephen Applebaum, and her daughter, Fell Kletter Bobbie loved going to the Kentucky Club, Cardinal Golf Club, The Jewish Michelle Stevens (Matt); brothers, Roberta “Bobbie” Derby and other horse races. Community Center and Boca Tecca Edwin “Jerry” Bailen (Irene Beattie) and Fell Kletter, 87, passed She and Harry were avid travelers for Country Club in Boca Raton. Gladys was a Ivan Bailen; grandchildren, Alec Suell, away peacefully business and pleasure. They enjoyed member of The Temple and Congregation Jacob Suell (Hannah), Kane Stevens, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. the beaches, scuba diving, Las Vegas, Adath Jeshurun, and she belonged to the Gabe Applebaum and Madison Phieler; at Sunrise Senior Europe and taking her children and Wall Street Women Investment Group. her nephew, Ben Bailen; her great- Living in Louisville. grandchildren on trips and cruises. Though Gladys loved her family granddaughter, Natalie Stevens, and The Born and raised in Besides her parents and husband, foremost, her friends also knew how Bailen, Isaacs and Applebaum families. Bloomington, Indiana, by her parents, Bobbie was preceded in death by her much they were loved. Her loving spirit, Funeral services were held Thursday, the late Rose and Irving Fell, she sister, Eleanor Fell. beautiful smile and unending patience Feb. 4, at Cave Hill Cemetery. In lieu attended University High School, where She is survived by her brother, Arthur blessed this world for 94 years and all of fl owers, please make donations she was Homecoming Queen in 1950 Fell (Teri); her children, Debbie Kletter who knew her are better for it. to the Temple Shalom Building and graduated in 1951. Montz (Art), Alisa Kletter Pipkin (EJ), Gladys is survived by her sons, Mitchel Maintenance Fund, 4615 Lowe Road, In 1952, Bobbie met Harry Kletter, Ron Kletter, Tina Kletter List (Ed); her (Delores) of Parkland, Florida, Ned and Louisville, Kentucky 40220 (https:// now deceased, a businessman from grandchildren, Eric and Adam Montz, Steve (Terri) of Louisville. templeshalomky.org/donate/) Louisville who proposed to her at the Carter, Meredith, and Tyler Pipkin, Alexis She also is survived by her nine Kentucky Derby. They married on Aug. List; her niece, Mia Fell Diercks; and her grandchildren: Richard (Stacy) of Melinda J. Kaplan 9, 1953, in Bloomington. nephews, Scott Caulfi eld and Matt Kletter. Miami, Nikki (David Walker) of Raleigh, Melinda J. Kaplan, Family and friends were everything Continued on page 18 North Carolina; Jodie, Dr. Heather Bass a lifelong Louisvillian, Zamanian (Kaveh), Anna Bass-Wilson died unexpectedly on THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE GRATEFULLY (Cara), Joel Richardson (Sherry), and Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. ACKNOWLEDGES DONATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING: Ben, all of Louisville; Elle Woodruff She was 60. (Suzy) of San Diego and Jason Gunoe Born Dec. 25, 1960, NEW BUILDING FUND (Dawn) of Canal Winchester, Ohio. a daughter of the late In memory of Bobbie Kletter Also cherishing her memory are her Rita and David Kaplan, Sandra & Kevin Collins four great-grandchildren: Henri, Lily Melinda was a Seneca Nancy Leahy and Bella Zamanian of Louisville and High School Graduate, class of 1978, Vicki Lurie Remmi Spinks of Chicago; her niece and and a graduate of Bellarmine University Ann Zimmerman nephew, Sarah Liebman and Michael with a degree in accounting. Lowenthal, both of Frankfort; her During the day, her in-depth In memory of Mercedes Nibur nephew, Stuart Lowenthal (Donna) of understanding and love of numbers Elaine Stauble & Bruce Tasch Lexington; and a cousin, Barbra Katz of fi lled her day as a legal assistant and Santa Barbara, California. accountant. Her artistic side was fi lled In honor of Dr. Howard Klein’s birthday In addition to Sonny, Gladys was with creativity, planning parties and Leah Kohn Gersh preceded in death by her parents, Manual spending time with family and friends. and Sarah Lowenthal; her two sisters, She is survived by her brother, Lillian Epstein and Selma Liebman; Lawrence “Larry” Kaplan; her aunts, GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES DONATIONS TO THE and her fi ve brothers, Herschel, William, Mildred Stern, Sylvia Plasner and Toby FOLLOWING JCC SECOND CENTURY FUNDS Sanford, Sidney and Joe Lowenthal; and Horvitz; her cousins, Michael Horvitz her grandson, Elliott Joseph Bass. (Haviva Kushner Horvitz), Myrle Davis, IDA & BERNHARD BEHR HOLOCAUST JOSEPH FINK BBYO SCHOLARSHIP Special thanks to Michelle and Larry Sheri Horvitz, Deborah Horvitz, Lisa MEMORIAL EDUCATION FUND FUND Smith who were wonderful caregivers Plasner; and many other family members In memory of Ellen Bizer In honor of Cathy Weinstein’s birthday and friends; All the 24/7 caregivers with and friends. Maxine & Jerry Bizer In honor of James Edward Wise’s Ellen Joffe at JB Medical Consultants, all Melinda’s funeral service was held at Patty & Marvin Coan Birthday who pampered Gladys in her fi nal days; Keneseth Israel Cemetery on Jan. 13. Diana Fink and to her amazing personal physician, Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. handled SANDRA K. BERMAN SHALOM Dr. Carmel Person. Likewise, thanks to arrangements. Donations in memory of LOUISVILLE FUND STACY MARKS NISENBAUM FUND Drs. Gary Fuchs, Britt Brockman and Melinda are appreciated to Congregation In memory of Harry Geller In memory of Susan Marks Ted Steinbock. Anshei Sfard, 3700 Dutchmans Lane, In memory of Robert Heyman Marcia & Donald Gordon Instead of fl owers, Gladys requested Louisville, KY 42005 In memory of Susan Marks donations to the Gladys and Lewis In memory of Hugh Wolff BETTY AND IRVIN ZEGART FUND “Sonny” Bass Family Scholar House Nelya Janice and Alan Glaubinger In memory of Murray Toborowsky (familyscholarhouse.org), CASA Khaskina Patty & Marvin Coan (casariverregion.org), Maryhurst Nelya DREW CORSON YOUTH ATHLETIC (maryhurst.org), Gilda’s Club of Louisville Khaskina, SCHOLARSHIP FUND In memory of David Davis (gck.org), The LBGT Center at University died Friday, The Corson Family of Louisville (louisville.edu/lgbt), or the Jan. 22, charity of your choice. Burial was private. 2021, in Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. made the Louisville. arrangements. She was 80. Born in Russia on Aug. 25, 1940, Marcia Rae she was a loving wife, mother and Applebaum Isaacs grandmother. Her Husband Boris 3600 Dutchmans Lane • Louisville, KY 40205 • 502.459.0660 • jewishlouisville.org Marcia Rae Applebaum Isaacs, 77, Khaskin preceded her in death. 18 Community Y FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 LIFECYCLE A private graveside service in Valhalla in Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central to this nonprofit organization in Susan’s and her son, Maury Pressburger (Tina) Memory Gardens, Bloomington, Indiana. in Radcliff. honor are appreciated. The address is: of Skokie, Illinois; eight grandchildren The family thanks Bobbie’s caregivers, Boca Ballet, 7630 NW 6th Avenue, Boca and 10 great-grandchildren. staff and friends at Sunrise Senior Living Susan Carol Marks Raton, FL 33487 (BBT4PD/Susan Marks Graveside services will be held on for all their care and compassion. Susan Carol Marks in the note section). Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 at in Adath Donations can be made in memory (nee Hechtman) passed A bright and loving spirit, Susan’s Jeshurun Cemetery. of Bobbie to the JCC of Louisville 3600 away in her home memory will live on in everyone’s hearts Rosalene’s family appreciates Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky in Boynton Beach, and minds. We know that she is likely donations to Chai Lifeline, a children’s 40205 or the charity of the donor’s choice. Florida, on Friday, dressed in one of her fashionable red health support network helping families Arrangements were by Herman Meyer Jan. 22, 2021, after a dresses, dancing away to her favorite of children with life-threatening and & Son, Inc. courageous 37-year songs. lifelong illnesses: Chai Lifeline, 151 West battle with Parkinson’s Virtual funeral services were held 30th Street, New York, NY 10001 Murrel Kohn Disease and other complications, on Jan. 27. Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. Murrel Kohn, 83, died Sunday, Feb. including COVID-19. She was 79. made the arrangements. Murray Toborowsky 14, 2021 in , Israel. Born and raised in , New Murray Toborowsky, Formerly of Louisville, Murrel attended York, Susan attended the Performing David M. Nitishin 80, died unexpectedly Atherton High School and graduated Arts High School and Taft High School, David M. Nitishin, on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1959. She then moved to 55, of Dallas, Texas, Born Oct. 20, 1940, Warton School of Business. Louisville, with her family, where she and a longtime resident in Perth Amboy, He was a CPA in Louisville and Tel enrolled at the University of Louisville, of Louisville, passed N.J. a son of the late Aviv, where he made his home for the where she helped start her sorority and away surrounded by Julie Sher and David last 50 years. eventually earned a teaching degree. his family, on Saturday, Toborowsky, Murray He was preceded in death by his After graduation, Susan became a Jan. 23, 2021. graduated from the parents, Helen and Abe Kohn. Jefferson County elementary school A loving father and University of Kentucky, then returned to Murrel is survived by his wife, Irit teacher. Sharing the gift of learning grandfather, David New Jersey to teach history in a school Kohn; his daughters, Yael and Maya; with her students became her most enjoyed spending quality time with his district there. But he returned Louisville, his son, Danny; four grandchildren; meaningful achievement. family, especially his grandchildren. He where he met his future wife, Bonnie and his sister, Susan Kohn Goldberg of In 1984, she became a state finalist enjoyed cooking and playing with his Zegart Stoler. Indianapolis. of the “Teacher in Space” project and dogs, Bella and Rocky, and was devoted He was retired from Bill Collins Ford The funeral service and the interment dreamed of being the first civilian to his Jewish faith. and a member of Congregation Adath were held in Tel Aviv on Feb. 14. educator to fly into space. David is survived by his wife, Donna Jeshurun, of which he was a current Donations may be made to the donor’s After retiring from teaching due Nitishin; and their five children, Lauren board member and remembered as the favorite charity. to her Parkinson’s diagnosis, Susan Risen (Zach), Lindsay Ratterman (Josh), “Cemetery Warden,” a position he held began volunteering for the American Hannah Burnett (Ricky), Julia, and PFC for many years. Stephen “Steve” A. Parkinson’s Disease Association of South Jonathan; his beloved granddaughters, His passion for history and teaching Koloms Florida in 1996, serving for more than a Hazel Risen, Genevieve Burnett, and included lectures on “Jews in American Stephen “Steve” decade. Amelia Ratterman; his brothers, Arnold History” at Rollins College. He also A. Koloms, 77, died In 1995, Susan and her husband, (Michele) and Jeff; his lifelong friends, presented on Abraham Lincoln and his peacefully Thursday, Buddy, moved to Parkland, Florida, and, David Goldstein, Jeff Rose, Barry Aaron, Jewish friends, acquaintances and how Dec. 9, 2020, in soon after, to Boynton Beach. She loved Isaac Russo; and many more close these connections may have influenced Louisville. He’ll be to host parties, lay by the pool, decorate friends and family. the direction of American history. remembered as a her home and spend time with her David was preceded in death by his Murray always had a smile on his face, congenial, lifelong grandchildren, which brought her the parents, Morton and Maxine Nitishin. loved life and was loved by everyone. tinkerer with a sly sense of humor. greatest joy. David was laid to rest at Agudath Achim In addition to his parents, he was Steve is survived by his loving wife Susan loved a fun night out, dancing Cemetery in Louisville. Arrangements preceded in death by his brother, Larry of 28 years, Karen Harlan Koloms; his with her friends with a glass of white were by Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. In lieu Toborowsky. daughter, Malka Hayman (Daniel) of Zinfandel (with ice) in hand. You would of flowers, donations to Congregation Murray is survived by his loving wife Los Angeles; his son, Benjamin Koloms often see her dancing away behind Adath Jeshurun “in Memory of David Bonnie; his beloved children Leigh of Bangor, Maine; and his stepsons, Buddy as he played the piano. Nitishin” (www.adathjeshurun.com/ Toborowsky (Beata), David Toborowsky Michael Harlan (Elaine), Jimmy and She was also known as a connoisseur Donate) are appreciated. (Annie) and Nancy Grzesik (Art); two John (Gina) Harlan. of fashion, always dressing “to the nines” sisters, Beryl Wild (Frank) and Soni His extended family include his in her finest jewelry and memorable Rosalene Pressburger Capolupo (Joe); seven grandchildren grandchildren: Illiana Oginskis of outfits. Rosalene Pressburger, 101, died and six great-grandchildren. He also is Miami; Joshua and Gabe Oginskis of Susan’s spirit is carried on by her Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Dallas, Texas. missed by his stepchildren, Dr. Robert Los Angeles; and six Harlan family husband of 57 years, Buddy; her Born Oct. 26, 1919, in Louisville, a Stoler (Andrea), Kevin (Stephanie) step-grandchildren and four step-great- sister, Judi; her son, Rodney (Julie); daughter of the late Dora and Israel Stoler, and Kimberly Schiller (Ron). grandchildren. her daughter, Melanie (Ken); and her Goldberg, she was predeceased by A private graveside for immediate Steve was predeceased by his parents, grandchildren, Sabrina, Sophie, Sydney her husband, Alfred; her two sisters, family was held. Arrangements were by Ruth and Robert Koloms and his brother and Ryan. Jeanette Roseneck and Gertrude Cohen; Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. Jerome Koloms. It was in Susan’s soul to dance, which her brother, Hyman Goldberg and her Memorial gifts may be made to Betty Funeral services were held on Dec. she did as long as she was physically parents. and Irvin Zegart Senior Adult Fund at 16, 2020, and were livestreamed via able in a weekly Boca Ballet Parkinson’s Rosalene is survived by her daughter, the Jewish Community Center, 3600 Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. Burial was dance class called BBT4PD. Donations Dr. Karen Kosowsky (Larry) of Dallas, Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY 40205 FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Y 14 ADAR 5781 Y Community 19 NEWS

King David. FOREMAN Even Abraham fought, Foreman Continued from page 1 Want to go? added. “[He] was not a stranger to the The Foreman-Williams fight will be held at sword.” the better part of a decade, he fought just 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 6, at the Ken- Strength is a necessary life component a handful of times. tucky Center for African American Heritage. That’s where Louisville comes in. Visit https://bit.ly/3rTzU37 for tickets. A for Jews, Foreman said, something The fighting rabbi is making a meet and greet with Foreman for ticket he learned firsthand when his family comeback. In his first bout in nearly holders will be held at 3 p.m., March 5, at arrived in Israel from the former Soviet four years, Foreman, now 40, defeated the Peerless Distillery. Union. He found it hard to find a gym, so Jeremy Ramos on Dec. 5, 2020, in an he began training at one in Kfar Yasif, a eight-round decision at the Kentucky predominantly Arab neighborhood. Center for African American Heritage. age. In fact, at this stage in his At first, “they wanted to take my head He is slated for another fight at the development, it might be an advantage. off in sparring sessions,” Foreman same venue on March 6 against Jimmy “Really, we’ve cleared out all the recalled, “but they saw I can fight, and Williams, a younger, taller opponent toxicity,” she said. “He’s grown so much when I fight back, you respect that with a longer reach. spiritually and personally, and with that person.” If he gets past Williams, he may get wisdom, his age works in his favor.” Eventually, he and his sparring partners another shot at the title. Judaism informs the way Foreman became supportive of one another, Why is he doing this? trains, how he fights, even how he talks understanding that they all wanted the “I’m having my second wind at 40,” about fighting. For instance, unlike same thing: to be a champion. Foreman said. “Boxing is something I Louisville native Mohammad Ali, he He equated what happened in that fell in love with as a kid. Hashem gave doesn’t boast before bouts. gym to what can happen with a future me a drive. Hashem gave me mental “God willing, I’ll beat Jimmy Williams,” peace treaty. strength. He gave me quite a few gifts in he said. “We supported each other,” Foreman that sport, in that field.” He doesn’t see anything unusual about said. “There were no differences a rabbi in the ring. If anything, he says suddenly, just a little difference in the He sees his journey as a source of Rabbi Yuri Foreman inspiration for others. “I’m not trying it’s consistent with the history of the mirror, darker [skin], lighter, that’s it. to convince people they should box, but quest for a second title is his way to faith. “The same can happen with living in when you are mentally and physically eventually walk away from the sport “I’m always trying to remind people, peace. Let’s not talk about religions; let’s aligned and you have in front of you a without regrets. especially the Jewish people, that we are not talk about what Torah says, what worthy goal, anything is possible.” “If he doesn’t [try], there’s going to be a a nation of not just the priests, but we are Koran says, what the New Testament Foreman’s wife and manager, void, an eternal what-if,” Shoshana said. also a nation of warriors,” Foreman said. says. Let’s just think about how we can Shoshana Foreman, said her husband’s She is not concerned about Foreman’s “Our whole history is compiled with a live harmoniously.” lot of the greatest warriors, starting with

pandemic. program – under AJ’s roof to revive it. instructors) are not Jewish. SLOSBERG “It’s actually gone up this year,” “Gradually, Melton took on more and “It builds community,” Slosberg said Continued from page 1 Slosberg said. “People are at home and more of my time,” Slosberg said, and in of Melton. “It builds relationships with everything is on Zoom. People can take the past few years it’s just been full-time the people in the class, which extend to Melton in good company. Last year, more courses because it’s just easier to Melton.” relationships outside of the class, and the Florence Melton Award went to the stay in your pajamas, put on a top and Today, the program not only offers gets people involved. It brings people to Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. Zoom in.” Melton’s core curriculum, plus electives the Jewish community.” Other past winners were the Meltons Even students from other countries in Jewish literature and culture, but Founded in 1986 with an endowment at Stephen Wise Temple in Los are taking the Louisville courses, which offerings Louisville Melton develops from the Florence Melton Institute, Angeles; Cape Town, South Africa; and are advertised on the Melton website. itself. Rabbi Laura Metzger takes charge Melton is considered the largest MetroWest, New Jersey. Which is why Slosberg believes the of that project. pluralistic adult Jewish education In fact, Rabbi Rachel Bovitz, executive Melton program is permanently changed It also joins in Melton travel network in the world, with 50 director of Melton, said the program by the coronavirus. “There are things experiences to Israel and other parts of communities and offices in Jerusalem, Slosberg runs typically exceeds the that have come out of the pandemic that the world. Chicago and . offerings of Melton schools – they’re I don’t think will go away.” Louisville Melton recently hired an Globally, Melton educates about called “communities” – much larger Louisville Melton has come a long way administrative assistant, Bridget Bard, 4,000 students per year, Bovitz said. than Louisville’s. since Slosberg took it over eight years to handle the community’s growing Most of its communities are in North “Under Deborah’s leadership, It’s just ago, when it was virtually non-existent. technical end. America, South Africa and Australia, been thriving in terms of the number of She had taught at Eliahu Academy Slosberg sees the Louisville Melton as though thanks to the Internet, students classes it offers, the faculty she’s built up for 10 years – a job for which she was more than a way for adults to brush up everywhere are now taking advantage of and the number of classes she offers per recruited by its principal, Barbara on their Jewish literacy. She says it is a it. year,” Bovitz said. Nefouse. When the school closed, gateway to the entire Jewish community. One reason for Melton’s success in This year, Louisville Melton has more she tutored privately for a while For example, many of her students Louisville, Bovitz believes, is Slosberg’s than 100 students enrolled, filling 12 before becoming AJ’s adult education were disassociated from organized success in building relationships with different classes taught by an eight- coordinator. Jewish life. “Because of Melton, her students. member faculty, including Slosberg. In 2013, Slosberg’s husband, Rabbi [they] started becoming interested in “She’s always picking up the phone Interestingly, enrollment has not Robert Slosberg, agreed to bring the synagogue and in other Jewish and checking on them in case they don’t suffered because of the coronavirus the dormant Melton – a community communal organizations.” make it to class, Bovitz said. “It’s really Other students (and this year, two a labor of love.”

experience, Haas said. The “hard core” studies her scripts reverently. In this case, She’s also a cast member of , HAAS final scene was done on a closed set though, she also met with physicians which is in its third season on . Continued from page 1 without rehearsal – because it couldn’t and patients living with the same disease She said the characters she plays bear little resemblance to her in real life, She doesn’t know why she chose be rehearsed. She and her co-star, Alena as Vika’s. (She said it was ALS, though which is part of their attraction. Shira, which means song in Hebrew, but Yiv, who played Asia, left the set drained. the film never names it.) Another attraction is the languages the performer, who has sung in some of Then there was a “hard and beautiful She learned as much as possible and dialects she must master for these her roles, thinks it was more than just scene” in which her character tries to about living with the disease before films. For instance, she had to become chance. commit suicide, and is stopped in time performing. “I was so, so ready for it that familiar with Yiddish (and German) for “I think there are no coincidences,” by her mother, that was cut. Haas said on the day on set, I knew exactly where I her role in Unorthodox and speak with she said. she and her co-star, Liv, were committed was in each scene.” a Polish dialect in The Zookeeper’s Wife. Asia is about a single mother, Asia, to that scene, so she was “devastated” to For a 25-year-old actress, Haas has That one detail is indicative of the and her sick daughter, Vika (Haas’ role), learn that it had been taken out because already lined up some impressive credits. preparation the actress commits to each Israeli immigrants from Russia. As it conflicted with the direction of the In addition to Unorthodox and Asia, she role. Vika’s condition worsens and her desire film. appeared in A Tale of Love and Darkness “There’s a lot to learn from language,” to live a more normal life takes hold, the Haas said she came to agree with that (2015), which was ’s Haas said, “and I want to learn as much mother-daughter relationship, distant at decision. At the time, though, “it broke directorial debut; she co-starred with as possible.” first, begins to change. my heart that they took it away.” in The Zookeeper’s Wife Making this movie was an emotional Like her other pictures, Haas prepared (2017) and with in the for the role meticulously. She always biblical drama Esau (2019). Expert emergency care. Fast and convenient Urgent Care Plus. So don’t put your health on hold.

In a medical emergency, every second counts. That’s why We offer safe, fast, compassionate care close to home. UofL Health offers the most ER locations in the region And we accept most insurances, including Medicare with shorter wait times. And, expert Urgent Care Plus and Medicaid. So there’s never a reason to put your centers nearby. health on hold. That's the Power of U. As emergency care experts, we have: n The most advanced technology and safety measures n Direct access to world-renowned specialists, for life-threatening emergencies n 7 locations to treat everything from stroke, trauma and burns to high-risk obstetrics, emergency psychiatric services, and more Our Urgent Care Plus centers offer: n 7 Convenient ER Locations n Convenient locations n Urgent Care Centers Nearby n No appointment necessary and less wait time n Safe and quick treatment of nonthreatening ailments THAT’S THE POWER OF U and injuries from stomach issues and allergies to sprains, ear infections and even sports physicals To find the nearest location, visit UofLHealth.org