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Area Synagogues Grapple With MAY 6, 2021 – 24 IYAR 5781 JEWISH JOURNAL VOL 45, NO 20 JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Hate graffiti found at Tufts, and in Abington; ADL releases new report on anti-Semitism Ethan M. Forman JOURNAL STAFF ABINGTON – On the day racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was dis- covered on a remote path of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station on the morning of April 27, the Anti-Defamation League of New England flagged its report saying anti-Semitic incidents in the region are down in 2020 from 2019. While that may be due in part to the pandemic, with schools and campuses and other places closed for much of the year, the number “I do know that the live streaming services and the ability to stream classes, meetings and other gather- of incidents was still at “historically high levels,” the report stated. ings online has been a great success through this challenging time,” said Rabbi David Meyer of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead. In a coincidence to the timing of the ADL’s report, on May 2, Tufts University President Tony Monaco reported two incidents of hate on campus during the past week: A large swastika painted on the Bello Field shed found by one of the college’s athletic teams, and a verbal AREA SYNAGOGUES GRAPPLE assault from a passing car of several Asian students walking along Professors Row. The university’s police department is investigating WITH ‘NEW COMFORT ZONES’ the incidents. continued on page 22 By Ethan M. Forman said Jonathan Sarna, professor make a difference,” Sarna said. JOURNAL STAFF of American Jewish History at He sees Zoom being incorporat- Brandeis University. ed into the life of the synagogue. MARBLEHEAD – The syna- He said during an interview And that’s a good thing. gogue of the future may look a on Zoom that the use of vir- “When you look at our syna- lot different and very much the tual technologies embraced by gogues, they are actually quite same when the pandemic pass- shuttered temples during the nimble and they respond to es over. Temples might transi- pandemic will change the way change more quickly than most tion to a hybrid model, offering synagogues hold services, run institutions because it’s usually high-quality online services and religious schools and conduct just the rabbi and the leader- programs for much of the time, meetings from now on. He envi- ship; they can move very, very with in-person offerings some sions a model in which congre- quickly,” Sarna said. “They are of the time. gants meet sometimes in per- like little startups.” “I suspect that this will son reinforced by regular social Rabbi David Meyer of Temple become part of the new reli- media check-ins. Emanu-El in Marblehead said gious landscape that will be “Nobody doubts that across no one really knows what the Courtesy photo very good for some rabbis,” the spectrum, Zoom is going to continued on page 20 Anti-Semitic hate speech was discovered last week in Abington. Dov Glickman says ‘Shtisel’ a hit among Haredi By Ethan M. Forman Glickman said some of the feedback can feel strange JOURNAL STAFF at times. He described being at a Haredi wedding when a rabbi SALEM – Veteran Israeli actor Dov Glickman’s por- came up to him and observed: “You know, I must tell trayal of the stern, bearded, cholent-loving Rabbi you, you are too tough with your child, too tough.” Shulem Shtisel in the hit Netflix series “Shtisel” gets two “So, I told him, ‘But, do you see what troubles does thumbs up from the ultra-Orthodox, he says. he make me?’ and he says, ‘Yes, but you don’t have to be “Shtisel” portrays Haredi life in the Geula neigh- always right. You have to be smart, sometimes.’ So, then borhood in the heart of Jerusalem. With its many plot I told him — I thought we were joking together so I told twists centered around love and loss, Glickman says life him, ‘You know it’s a series, it’s a script.’” there is like that in any other neighborhood, only it’s set “He says, ‘Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, but you don’t against the backdrop of strict religious observance. have always to say the lines they wrote you,’” chuckled “Unbelievable, they loved it, you know,” Glickman Glickman. said of the hit show from Tel Aviv via Zoom during a The ultra-Orthodox love “Shtisel” more than any Lappin Foundation fundraiser for its Youth to Israel other production about religious Jews in Israel, even Adventure on Sunday, April 25, with 365 participants though they are not supposed to watch TV or have the online. internet, Glickman said. “The feedback I got from the Orthodox world in Israel, “It’s very strange, they see it, you know. They watch they just loved it because it’s not National Geographic Veteran Israeli actor Dov Glickman, who portrays Rabbi it, I don’t know how, in phones sometimes, in kosher about Haredi,” Glickman said. “It’s just really about how Shulem Shtisel in the Netflix series “Shtisel,” took part phones or kosher laptops or kosher TV, or whatev- are they as human beings.” in a Lappin Foundation fundraiser on Zoom. continued on page 21 TAKING CARE OF YOUR MONEY, AND YOU. Our expert guidance and services will help you feel better about your money. Talk to us today. Boston | Chelsea | Burlington | Framingham | Lawrence | Lynn | Melrose | Newton | Peabody | Salem | Tewksbury MetroCU.org | 877.MY.METRO Insured by NCUA | Member MSIC The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations. 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Bennett asks Shirat Hayam’s viewers to step outside themselves when thinking about racial injustice By Ethan Forman seminary while he studying at UMass and JOURNAL STAFF he completed his doctorate in education, doctorate in theology and doctorate in SWAMPSCOTT – The Rev. Dr. Andre ministry simultaneously. Bennett, pastor of youth and young adults He said he came from Jamaica, a deep- at Zion Baptist Church in Lynn, said he ly conservative, mostly Christian nation, was not lost when police in several tony with the notion that politics and ministry North Shore suburbs pulled him over last shouldn’t mix. year. When he started at Zion Baptist Church Bennett was out front with the Black 10 years ago, the first thing he declared Lives Matter movement, community from the pulpit was that he was not going organizing and racial justice in 2020. to entertain the race conversation. “But I’ve been pulled over in “What a fool I was, now that I look Swampscott. I’ve been pulled over The Rev. Dr. Andre Bennett Jerry Kreitzer back on it,” Bennett said. His son turned in Marblehead. I’ve been pulled over 6 shortly after they came to America, and in Beverly. I’ve been pulled over in from the area. introduced him to the Lynn community. Bennett said his son began having night- Manchester-by-the-Sea in 2020, and “I don’t know, Jerry,” Bennett said, Bennett, who has a deep respect for mares about some of the interactions he asked in all of these incidents one single “what it looks like. I couldn’t look at you police as his mother was an assistant had with police while driving. Mothers question: ‘Are you lost?’ OK. I didn’t stop and tell you what area you look like you superintendent of police in Jamaica, at church would talk to him about how a police officer to ask for directions. I’ve belong to … That’s not the training that came to the U.S. having completed two their sons would be arrested for what been pulled over and asked these ques- I have. And if that is the training that our bachelor’s degrees, in education and busi- seemed like shoplifting. He started to tions: ‘Are you lost? Do you need help with police department has, then that in and of ness administration, and he was in the realize through these “aha moments” that something?’ OK. That’s the reality of the itself is a major, major issue.” first year of a master’s program. But when the work of social justice is not political, North Shore in 2020.” Bennett outlined for viewers his path he came to the U.S., he had to start over. it’s sacred. His being stopped because he is Black to North Shore. He came to the United He registered for classes at North Shore “And I’m thinking to myself … How am is just one of the examples Bennett gave States 12 years ago from Jamaica. It was Community College and took a certifi- I going to be preparing people for heaven in talking about racial and social injustice supposed to be an 18-month stay after cate program in developmental disabili- when they are living in hell, literal hell at a local level during the third install- his wife at the time had been recruited by ties.
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