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October 2012 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5774 Volume XXXVIII Number 2 FREE Federation Main Event to feature journalist Susan Stamberg Mimi Weisberg, special to the WJN heir commitment to Jewish life con- Thanksgiving since 1971, Stamberg provides One of the most popular broadcasters in tinues to be a shared gift between NPR listeners with her mother-in-law’s recipe public radio, Stamberg is well known for her T Harlene and Henry Appelman and for a cranberry relish sauce that is unusual conversational style, intelligence, and knack for this is the reason that they are co-chairing the in having as one of its principal finding an interesting story. Her interviewing Jewish Federation’s Main Event on Sunday, ingredients. The recipe is known as Mama has been called “fresh,” “friendly, down-to- October 20, featuring nationally renowned Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish Recipe. earth,” and (by novelist E.L. Doctorow) “the NPR broadcaster Susan Stamberg. The event Stamberg is the first woman to anchor a closest thing to an enlightened humanist will begin at 4 p.m. at Washtenaw Commu- national nightly news program, and has won on the radio.” Her thousands of interviews nity College’s Morris Lawrence Building. every major award in broadcasting. She has include conversations with Laura Bush, Billy “We are so grateful to the Appelmans been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Crystal, Rosa Parks, Dave Brubeck, and for serving as Main Event chairs this year,” Fame and the . An NPR Luciano Pavarotti. says Federation President Laurie Barnett. “founding mother,” Stamberg has been on The Jewish Federation of Greater Ann “Their personal passion and commitment staff since the network began in 1971. Arbor invites the entire community to represent the unique gifts of individual and Beginning in 1972, Stamberg served attend the Main Event. A family gift of $100 family philanthropy, especially toward the as co-host of NPR’s award-winning is required and admission is $36/adults; $18/ Jewish Federation.” newsmagazine for students. For more information, contact Main Event keynote speaker, Susan 14 years. She then hosted Susan Stamberg Mimi Weisberg, at mimi@jewishannarbor. Stamberg, also recognizes the value of Sunday, and now serves as guest host of Saturday, in addition to reporting on cultural com or 677-0100 or register at www. legacy of Jewish life and love of family. Each NPR’s and Weekend Edition issues for Morning Edition. jewishannarbor.org. n Jewish Book Festival returns to the JCC, November 6–17 EMU Jewish Studies to host Halye Aisner, special to the WJN talk on Dead Sea Scrolls he Jewish Book Festival will return Allan Salkin and his book From Scratch will community organizations, business and Martin B. Shichtman, special to the WJN to the Jewish Community Center of give readers a behind the scenes look at the world individuals. This year books will be provided The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered between T Greater Ann Arbor November 6–17. of the Food Network on Wednesday, November by Barnes and Noble. Over 600 titles will be 1946 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran in Many compelling and diverse authors are 13, at noon. Another award winning journalist available for purchase. the West Bank, scheduled to speak during the festival. This that is familiar to many is Letty Cottin Pogrebin This year’s Book Festival chairs are are profoundly year’s event includes Lunch with the Au- who will speak on November 12, at 7 p.m. Her Nancy Margolis and Esther Ullman. The significant religious thor events, evening and Sunday programs, book How to be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick is committee includes Richard Adler, Bernie and historical a local authors’ brunch, a special children’s an invaluable guide for anyone coping with the Banet, Charles Butter, Mimi Chapman, treasures, shedding program and a night. All author pre- challenges of this passage in a friendship. Alice Fishman, Susan Flint, Clare Kinberrg, light on both Second sentations are free and open to the commu- The community favorite local authors’ Martha Kransdorf, Nancy Leon, Lisa Molnar, Temple Judaism and nity. Lunch may be purchased for the Lunch brunch will take place Sunday, November Sue Rebner and Martin Stolzenberg, whose early Christianity. with the Author events for $10 in advance or 17, at 10 a.m. Later that evening, guests can time and dedication help bring the festival to Dating from 408 $15 at the door. enjoy a comedy night, featuring comedian fruition. Sponsorships are still available and BCE to 318 CE, The dinner honoring Book Festival sponsors Fred Stoller and his book Maybe We’ll Have come with great benefits. the scrolls reflect will take place Saturday, November 9 at 6:30 You Back. Stoller had a recurring spot on For more information or to become a an age of religious p.m. at the JCC. Following the dinner, at 7:30 and other television sitcoms. A sponsor, contact Karen Freedland at 971- Dr. Matthias Henze diversity and p.m., the entire community is invited to enjoy dessert extravaganza will follow the talk. 0990 or [email protected]. controversy, a period during which Judaism featured speaker Richard Breitman, who will The festival is supported by the Fred and would encounter dramatic political, social, discuss his book, FDR and the Jews. Ned Shure Endowment, as well as many local Continued on page 6 intellectual, and theological challenges and during which new religions would rise. On October 7, at 7 p.m., Eastern Michigan University Jewish Studies will sponsor a lecture, “The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” by Dr. Matthias Henze, founding director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University. The presentation will take place in EMU’s Student Center Auditorium. Admission is free. n ICommunity

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2 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 ICommunity Becoming part of the community safety net Lisa Franklin, special to the WJN ewish Family Services has the perfect conducted surveys with JFS clients. Although ingredient to bring fun and fulfillment there is still no crosswalk, Chelsea laid the J to a student’s life, enhance their minds important ground work for the possibility of Meet Your Personal Mortgage Professionals and bodies, advance their careers and con- getting one in the future. In addition, Chelsea nect them with others. Interning at JFS has created a video on credit and debit cards for proven to do all of these things. Interns at JFS the JFS refugee and immigrant population. Jeremy Kimberly Chelsea left her internship at JFS and almost Shaffer Pearsall immediately secured a job as the Resident 734.418.0583 Life Director for Washington State Univer- 734.418.0582 sity where she will use the interpersonal and programming skills she learned from her aca- demic and intern work. Nicole Jason JFS has had the privilege of hosting Mourning Robinson interns from University of Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State and Eastern 517.315.4670 734.274.5782 Michigan. JFS benefits from both Bachelor and Master level students each with a different set of skills. Many go into to social Sean Dave work to make a difference in society as Breeden Graff a whole or their community specifically. Lan Wilson, BSW, Eastern Michigan University and 734.418.0588 734.274.6346 Most interns are surprised at how mutually Chelsea Yarbor, MSW, University of Michigan beneficial their intern experience is. One express how much the experience enhances intern stated “I started out thinking this was their lives. Chelsea Yarbor who finished her a just way to fulfill my school requirement Craig Caring service, advice and Social Work internship in August said, “This and help some people out. I ended my Orndorf was a really good internship because of the internship with a sense that I gained as much experience, at 734.272.4087 diversity of experiences. I got to meet people as I gave. I no longer see it as means to end Ann Arbor State Bank. from other countries, work with older adults, but as an enriching experience and really as provide food from our food pantry and even the beginning of my career in social work”. do home visits”. One of the most unique Social Work interns at JFS quickly become projects Chelsea accomplished was initiat- integrated into the agency making it difficult ing, researching and advocating for a cross to distinguish paid staff from students. In a2sb.com | 122 South Main walk near JFS. According to Chelsea, “the ma- addition to helping in the food pantry and jority of our clients take the bus to JFS and making home visits to older adults, interns have to cross a busy street to get to us. I put conduct counseling, accompany older adults on my social work community development to medical appointments, help resettle hat and thought ‘why not see about getting a refugees, and find clients employment. cross walk’?” Chelsea did her research includ- As Fall begins, JFS welcomes a new set ing counting the number of cars that passed of interns proud of the accomplishments of each day, contacted local traffic officials and those who have come before them. n Onal SPICE October events OctOber is nati Rachael Hoffenblum, special to the WJN Thursday, October 3 from CARE Response visit the SPICE program cO-Op mOnth. Noon: Lunch on the second Thursday of each month to provide free blood pressure screenings and change yOur wOrld One meal at a time. 12:30 p.m.: Monthly Birthday Celebration information on staying healthy. Is your birthday in October? Then come to OOd cO-Op. Free* Flu shots at the JCC—Are you shOp the f SPICE and celebrate with us! JCC members looking for flu shots to get through flu who were born in October will be honored. season? Are you looking to catch up on Come for the cake and ice cream, stay for the your child’s vaccinations? Rite Aid will be afternoon programming. providing flu shots and other vaccinations. 1 p.m.: Speakers: Carol Wineman and To RSVP, contact Rachael at 971-0990 or Carol Finerman. [email protected]. Enjoy some art on your lunch break. Carol Wine- *Rite Aid vaccinations are free with insurance man, recent Amster Gallery artist, and Carol only. Cost is $22.99 if uninsured. Finerman will speak about their beautiful quilts. 1 p.m.: Speaker: Joyce Kessler, St. Joseph Thursday, October 10 Mercy’s Trauma Injury Prevention 1 p.m.: Speaker: Seth Goldman Kessler has visited SPICE in the past to Seth Goldman, founder of the Honest Tea present her injury prevention series. She will Company, has written a present a refresher course, entitled “Balance graphic novel about his Your Life.” business and will be visiting Thursday, October 24 the JCC for a lunchtime 1 p.m.: Speaker: Glenn Clark, Michigan talk and book signing on Senior Brigade Thursday, October 10. To Are you worried about you or a loved one RSVP, contact Rachael at 971- becoming the victim of a scam? Clark, of 0990 or rachaelhoffenblum@ Michigan’s Attorney General’s Consumer Seth Goldman jccfed.org. Protection Division, will discuss identity theft. 214 n. fourth avenue people’s ann arbor, michigan 48104 Thursday, October 17 Thursday, October 31 verde food co•op P(734) 994-9174 12:30 p.m.: SPICE Health Fair fair trade coffee bar community-owned natural foods grocery peoplesfood.coop 1 p.m.: TBD Free blood pressure screenings—Do you worry about your blood pressure? The nurses Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 3 IJewish Community Center

Jewish Cultural Arts and Education Halye Aisner, special to the WJN JCC Drama Workshop—The Jews have made it. They exercise great power in (CKM) is a reality-based self-defense system the morning. The walls are lined with shelves Stanislavsky’s System of Acting American society. Yet, their political behavior utilized by the Israeli Special Forces. Developed containing Freud’s large library. Undoubtedly retains significant vestiges of their previous lack by Moni Aizik, a former Israeli Special Forces the most famous piece of furniture in all the The Jewish Community Center of Greater of power. Why does this group that has “made it” Commando trained in Judo, Jujitsu and Krav collection is Freud’s psychoanalytic couch, on Ann Arbor will host a three session workshop continue to act politically like it has not? We will Maga. Aizik developed Commando Krav Maga which all of his patients reclined. with Russian professor of drama Leonora discuss these and other paradoxes in surveying as a means of integrating parts of each art into The evening will conclude with lavish Ivanitsky on the American Jewish political experience in an effective reality based self-defense system. Viennese desserts and a surprise musical Thursdays, areas such as voting behavior, immigration Students learn the techniques needed to survive visitor. The cost is $20 for JCC members and October 10, 17, 24 and citizenship, church-state relations, and the aggressive encounters. $30 non- members. Reservations are required. at 7 p.m. Ivanitsky relationship between American Jews and Israel. Instructor Mike Trester is a level 6 certified RSVP to the JCC front desk at 971-0990. For is a visiting scholar Jeffrey L. Bernstein is professor of political Commando Krav Maga instructor with over 23 more information, contact Karen Freedland at and guest artist science at Eastern Michigan University, where years of law enforcement experience, including [email protected]. at the Residential he has been on the faculty since 1997. He did his 18 years as a Special Weapons and Tactical College of the undergraduate team member. He is one of 9 CKM instructors Friday Performing Arts Series University of w o r k a t holding a level 6 or higher in the United States. The JCC introduces a new Friday Michigan, in Washington After many years Performing Art Series to their Jewish Cultural collaboration with University and of investigating Arts and Education Department. Each week, drama faculty his master’s and violent crimes, the Center will showcase the local musical or professor Kate doctorate at Trester began to theatrical talents of Ann Arbor. All programs Leonora Ivanitsky Mendeloff. the University search for a self- will begin at 1p.m. During the workshop, each participant will of Michigan. defense system The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra practice a number of theatrical exercises that He is co-editor he could offer to Chamber concert on October 4 will be the first enhance memory, concentration, creativity, (with Rebecca the public. Upon event of this new series. This event will feature teamwork, self-confidence and self-esteem. The Nowacek and discovering a String Quintet, including Karen Donato on class will also read one-act dramatic stories by Michael Smith) Commando violin, Lina Etter on violin, Joe Deller on viola, contemporary American non-realist writers and contributing Krav Maga and Eric Amidon on cello and Gregg Emerson and perform them in class. The goal is to Jeffrey Bernstein author of attending his first Powell on bass. Tickets are $10. discover how much one can find reflections of Citizenship Across the Curriculum, and has Mike Trester boot camp in Friday, October 11 will feature. The Ann life in the plays and reveal these through acting. written numerous articles and book chapters 2009, Trester realized that CKM was the system Arbor Civic Theater performing in costume The program concentrates on the concepts focusing largely on political science education, he was searching for. The techniques are simple readings from the popular PBS series Downton and theory of the Russian director and teacher and the scholarship of teaching and learning. and easy to recall during times of stress. Abbey, This performance is the brainchild of Konstantin Stanislavsky and his followers. Fighting for Acceptance: British Jewry in Each Session is 75 minutes. The class fee Elaine Dexter, marketing director at Galcier Moreover, Ivanitsky will introduce exercises the Nineteenth Century is $40 for JCC members and $50 for non- Hills. Participants will enjoy High Tea then from her book, In the Realm of the Game, which Andrea Kaston Tange members. Registration is required as space be entertained by these talented actors. Come is based on this heritage and collects more than 8:30–9:30 p.m. class is limited. To register, call the JCC front desk dressed in your finest English hats, gloves and 200 theater exercises and games for a multi-age This short course will explore what it meant at 971 0990. For further information contact garb. High Tea will consist of 3 courses like audience. Professor Ivanitsky has taught these to be Jewish in Victorian Britain. This was a Karen Freedland at [email protected]. in England, including scones, followed by tea techniques at universities for many years and time of huge population migration and of hot sandwiches and ending with tarts. The cost the results have been strikingly positive for the public debate over questions of civil rights for A Night in Vienna with Mozart and Freud is $10 for JCC members and $15 for non- participants and the students. Leonora is on a religious minorities, women, and the working The JCC will present Julie Jaffee Nagel and members. Tickets are $5. mission to bring the skills of the art of drama classes. Within a culture determined to Louis Nagel in “A Gala Evening: From Vienna The October 18 event will feature Emily and and prepare you to be an actor and director in categorize everyone and everything, and then to London” on Saturday, October 26, at 7 San Slomovits in concert. Participants will enjoy one’s own life. to construct hierarchies of those categories, p.m., at the JCC. The evening will highlight a concert of violin and guitar. Tickets are $5. No prior experience is necessary. Cost is $45 Jews struggled not only with whether to an original conversation (composed by Julie October 25 will feature the Wild Swan members and $60 non-members. Registration assimilate but with how--and how much-- Jaffee Nagel) between Sigmund Freud and Theater, one of Ann Arbor’s theatrical treasures. is required by October 5. Call 971-0990 to to do so. In exploring the hierarchies of race, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Fin di siècle Established in 1980, Wild Swan performances register at the JCC front desk. For further religion, class, and gender that helped define and their disagreement about music will blend storytelling, movement, and music into information, contact Karen Freedland at 971- Jewishness in the period, we will read excerpts be discussed between them as well as other magical, accessible experiences. Based in Ann 0990, or [email protected] of essays, diaries, political speeches, and a lively topics. Mozart’s great Piano Sonata in Arbor and touring them throughout Michigan Evenings Learning Series at the JCC novel, all penned by Jewish authors reflecting A Minor will be performed and actors will and the Midwest, Wild Swan has enchanted portray Mozart and Freud. thousands of play-goers of all ages in theaters, The JCC, the Jewish Federation of Greater on their own experiences within this vibrant The program and the will be introduced by schools, libraries, and museums of all sizes. Ann Arbor and Eastern Michigan University and rapidly-evolving historical moment. Carol Seigel, director of the Freud Museum in Participants will enjoy Reynard the Fox, from Judaic Studies Andrea Kaston Tange is a professor of London. She will their play Once Upon a Time. Tickets are $5. Department have Victorian literature and culture in the English take participants For more information on any of these come together department at Eastern Michigan University. Her on a verbal and programs, contact Karen Freedland at to offer a new books include studies of Victorian domestic life visual tour of the [email protected]. Reservations can interactive Jewish and of the role of children in building the British museum. The be made at the JCC front desk or by calling studies lecture series Empire. She has taught a course on Nineteenth- Freud Museum, 971-0990. with professors Century Jewish Life for EMU Jewish Studies at 20 Maresfield Jeffrey Bernstein program and is founding editor of the site 19th Gardens in Jewish Hikers of Michigan and Andrea Kaston Century Jewish Life that aims to bring together Hampstead, The JCC and the Jewish Hikers of Michigan Tang of EMU’s links to texts from and historical information was the home of will hike on Sunday, October 20, at 1 p.m. Jewish Studies about this period. Sigmund Freud Location is to be announced. Participants can program. Two The cost is $100 per course for JCC members and his family enjoy a hike that is designed to cultivate the Andrea Kaston classes will take an $110 per course for non-members, or $180 Julie Jaffee Nagel when they escaped love of nature, spirituality, social interaction place back to back on Tuesdays, October 15, 22, for both classes for JCC members or $200 for Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained and physical activities. The hikes are targeted and 29 and November 5, from 7–9:30 p.m. at both courses for non-members. Reservations the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest for anybody who loves nature, and who likes the JCC. can be made at the JCC front desk or by calling daughter, died in 1982. The centerpiece of the to meet new people. Participants should bring Paradoxes in Jewish-American Politics 971-0990. For more information, contact Karen museum is Freud’s study, preserved just as back packs, and water. The activity will Jeffrey Bernstein Freedland at [email protected] or it was during his lifetime. It contains Freud’s last approximately 1-1/2 to 2 hours. The hike 7–8:15 p.m. class 971-0990. remarkable collection of antiquities: Egyptian; is not physically demanding, is very scenic and Alan Dershowitz has argued that whereas Commando Krav Maga (CKM) Greek; Roman and Oriental. Almost 2,000 is free. For further information and meeting Jews once looked “up” at anti-Semites as those The JCC is offering Commando Krav Maga items fill cabinets and are ranged on every points, contact Eli Avny at 883-9522, Karen in positions of influence with the power to keep training on Sundays, October 6, 13, 20, and 27 surface. There are rows of ancient figures on the Freedland at 971-0990, or email jewish.hikers@ Jews down, Jews now look “down” on anti- at 1 p.m. at the JCC. Commando Krav Maga desk where Freud wrote until the early hours of gmail.com. n Semites as the underclass of society. Simply put, 4 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 Realize the full benefits of entering today’s high performing real estate market. Start with an accurate assessment and a highly customized marketing plan.

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tells how the author’s parents, Aladar and and unabashedly presents abortion as a open to the community. Book Festival Schedule Hanna, met and fell in love in Budapest in fundamental right. When Joshua Safran was four years old, Wednesday, November 6 1940. Framed by a cache of letters written Sarah Erdreich has been identified as a his mother — determined to protect him between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy-Maszak leading pro-choice activist by Newsweek, from the threats of nuclear war and Ronald Shelley Frisch, Kafka, the Years of Insight tells the story, at once and her incisive writings Reagan — took to the open road with Noon: Lunch with the Author. $10 in intimate and epic, of the on abortion rights have her young son, leaving the San Francisco advance or $15 at the door. complicated relationship been noted by Jezebel, countercultural scene 12:30 p.m.: author presentation is free Hungary had with its Feministing, and the behind. Together they and open to the community. Jewish population—the National Partnership for embarked on a journey to This volume of Reiner Stach’s acclaimed moments of glorious Women and Families. She find a utopia they could and definitive biography of Franz, Kafka, the humanism that stood has worked for several call home. In Free Spirit, Years of Insight tells the apart from its history of prominent pro-choice Safran tells the harrowing, story of the final years of Marianne anti-Semitism and with Sarah Erdreich organizations, and has yet wryly funny story of the writer’s life, from 1916 Szegedy-Maszák the rest of the world. She been published in On The Issues, Lilith, and his childhood chasing to 1924—a period during resurrects in riveting RH Reality Check. Generation Roe: Inside the Joshua Safran this perfect life off the which the world Kafka had detail a lost world of splendor and carefully Future of the Pro-Choice Movement is her grid — and how they survived the imperfect known came to an end. This limns the moral struggles that history first book. one they found instead. riveting narrative reflects exacted—from a country and its individuals. Joshua Safran is an attorney, writer, the latest findings about Marianne Szegedy-Maszák is a journalist Saturday, November 9 speaker, and occasional rabbi, and was Kafka’s life and works, draws Shelley Frisch whose work has appeared in The New York Times Richard Breitman, FDR and the Jews featured in the award-winning documentary readers in with a nearly Magazine, Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, 6:30 p.m.: Sponsor Reception Crime After Crime, which premiered at cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close- among others. She has worked as a reporter at 7:30 p.m.: Author Presentation (free and the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and had ups of Kafka’s personal life, then pulling back the New York Post, an editor at Congressional open to the community) its television debut as part of the Oprah for panoramic shots of a wider world scarred by Quarterly, a professor of journalism at American Nearly seventy-five years after World War Winfrey Network (OWN)’s Documentary World War I, disease, and inflation. University, and as a senior writer at U.S. News II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Film Club. He is a nationally recognized Shelley Frisch taught at Columbia & World Report. The recipient of a Pulitzer Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back champion for women’s rights and a zealous University while serving as executive editor Traveling fellowship and the Alicia Patterson on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. Defenders advocate for survivors of domestic violence of The Germanic Review, then chaired the Foundation fellowship, Szegedy-Maszák has claim that FDR saved millions of potential and the wrongfully imprisoned. For his work Haverford/Bryn Mawr Bi-College German been an officer on the boards of the Center for victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others he has received national media coverage and Department before turning to translation Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence revile him as morally numerous awards. full-time in the 1990s. She has published in Journalism. This is her first book. indifferent and indict him Ann Kirschner, Lady at the O.K. Corral: The widely on literature, film, cabaret, translation, Jessica Sofer, Tomorrow there will be Apricots for keeping America’s and the political and linguistic dimensions True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp 7 p.m.: Free and open to the community. gates closed to Jewish 7 p.m.: Free and open to the community. of exile. Frisch is now translating the third This is a story about accepting the people refugees and failing to and final volume of Reiner Stach’s Kafka In Lady at the O.K. Corral, acclaimed we love—the people we have to love and the bomb Auschwitz’s gas author Ann Kirschner chronicles the biography as well as a dual biography of people we choose to love, the families we’re chambers. In FDR and Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. She fascinating, never-before-told story of given and the families we make. It’s the story the Jews, the authors Josephine Marcus Earp, lives in Princeton, New Jersey. of two women adrift in New York, a widow draw upon many new Richard Breitmnan a Jewish woman from Eric Goldman, The American Jewish Story and an almost-orphan, each searching for primary sources to offer New York who became through Cinema someone she’s lost. It’s an intriguing portrait of a consummate the common-law wife of 7 p.m.: Free and open to the community. the story of how, even politician-compassionate but also famed Western lawman Cinema offers a valuable text from which in moments of grief and pragmatic-struggling with opposing and gambler, Wyatt Earp. to gain an understanding of America’s Jews. darkness, there are joys priorities under perilous conditions. Ann Kirschner is This groundbreaking study analyzes select waiting nearby. Richard Breitman received his B.A. from University Dean of mainstream films from the Jessica Sofer is a Yale University and his Ph.D. from Harvard Ann Kirshner Macaulay Honors College beginning of the sound graduate of Hunter’s University. He is author or co-author of ten at The City University era to today, to provide an MFA program. A Hertog books and many articles in German history, of New York. She began her career as a understanding of American Jessica Sofer Fellow and recipient of U.S. history, and the Holocaust. Apart from lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton Jewish experience over the the Bernard Cohen Prize, his latest book, he is best known for The University, where she earned her Ph.D. A last century. she was a founding editor of The Tottenville Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final writer of wide-ranging interests, she is the Eric A. Goldman is Review and her work has appeared in the New Solution and Official Secrets: What the Nazis author of Sala’s Gift (Simon and Schuster, adjunct associate professor York Times, Vogue and Granta, among other Planned, What the British and Americans 2006) and an innovator in education, media, Eric A. Goldman of cinema at Yeshiva publications. Her father, a painter and sculptor, Knew. He served as director of historical and technology. She lives in New York City University and The Jewish emigrated from Iraq to the United States in the research for the Nazi War Criminal Records with her family. Theological Seminary. He is a film educator who late 1940s. She teaches fiction at Connecticut and Imperial Japanese Records Interagency lectures on , Israeli, and Jewish cinema, College and lives in New York City. Working Group, which helped to bring Monday, November 11 and is founder and president of Ergo Media Inc., Friday, November 8 about declassification of more than eight Michal Woll and Jon M. Sweeney, Mixed a distributor of Jewish film. He is also film critic million pages of U.S. government records Up Love: Relationships, Family and Religious for New Jersey’s The Jewish Standard. Sarah Erdreich, Generation Roe, Inside the under a 1998 law. He is editor of the Identity in the 21st Century Thursday, November 7 Future of the Pro-Choice Movement scholarly journal Holocaust and Genocide 10 a.m.: Brunch with the Author. $10 in Noon: Lunch with the Author. $10 in Studies and is a Distinguished Professor in advance or $15 at the door. Marianne Szgedy-Maszak, I Kiss Your Hands advance or $15 at the door. History at American University. 12:30 p.m.: author presentation is free Many Times; Hearts, Souls and Wars in Hungary 12:30 p.m.: author presentation is free Sunday, November 10 and open to the community. Noon: Lunch with the Author. $10 in and open to the community. Authors Sweeney, a Catholic spiritual advance or $15 at the door. 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6 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 the central question of what doctors and Eileen Rockefeller Growald, Being a and executive vice president of McLean other caregivers owe their patients in the best Rockefeller: Becoming Myself Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, one of and worst of circumstances. 7 p.m.: Free and open to the community. the world’s foremost psychiatric hospitals, Sheri Fink’s reporting has won the The first Rockefeller woman to write a and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, personal family memoir, School, where he also served on the faculty. and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Eileen Rockefeller gives An Evening with the Frankel Center of Award, among other journalism prizes. readers a look inside one Judaic Studies Scholars Fink, a former relief worker in disaster and of the most important 7 p.m.: Free and open to the community. conflict zones, received her MD and PhD families in American Deborah Dash Moore, author of Posen Jon M. 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Dr. Richard Adler, author of Cholera in Overweight Sensation is the story of Getting Older, and Deborah, Golda, and Detroit: A History how Allan Sherman’s Jewish song parodies Thursday, November 14 Me. Her last book was a novel, Three Julie Feldman, author of Grocery won him extraordinary Daughters. She lives in New York. Lloyd Sederer, MD, The Family Guide to Makeover fame and success and Mental Health Care Miriam Karpa, author of Painting Zaidy’s also changed American Wednesday, November 13 Noon: Lunch with the Author. $10 in Dream culture by leading Jewish Allen Salkin, From Scratch advance or $15 at the door. Mitch Rycus, author of A Novel comedy out of ethnic Noon: Lunch with the Author. $10 in 12:30 p.m.: author presentation is free Joan Zald, author of A Call from Egypt enclaves and into the advance or $15 at the door. and open to the community. 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Muddah, Hello Fadduh,” this is the first extraordinary behind-the-scenes story suffering from some Fred Stoller has played the annoying biography of the groundbreaking Jewish of the Food Network, kind of mental illness. schnook in just about every sitcom you’ve song parodist and humorist. the business, media, From understanding seen on TV—Friends, Everybody Loves Mark Cohen is a writer and speaker and cultural juggernaut depression, bipolar Raymond, Scrubs, , My specializing in the Jewish American scene, that changed the illness and anxiety to Name Is Earl—and was even a staff writer from the pop culture comedy of Allan way America thinks eating and traumatic for Seinfeld, but he’s never found a solid Sherman to the novels of Saul Bellow. His about food. Based disorders, schizophrenia, gig. When it comes to previous books include Missing a Beat: The upon extensive inside and much more, readers Hollywood, it’s a case of Rants and regrets of Seymour Krim and Last Lloyd I. Sederer access, documents, will learn what to do always the bridesmaid Century of a Sephardic Community. Cohen and interviews, this and how to help. Real-life scenarios and and never the bride, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Allen Salkin book is an exhilarating authoritative information are written in except in his case he’s Tuesday, November 12 rollercoaster ride from chaos to conquest. a compassionate, reader-friendly way, always the snarky waiter, Salkin illuminates the people we thought including checklists to bring to a doctor’s the mopey cousin, or Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and we knew, and the ones we never knew about, appointment so you can ask the right Man #2. This hilarious Death in a Storm Ravaged Hospital including many Jewish personalities, questions. 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From Scratch is the irresistible story of the of the New York State Office of Mental set to set as he tries to find a permanent Pulitzer Prize-winner intersection between business, television, Health, the nation’s largest state mental home for his oddball character Sheri Fink’s landmark pop culture, food—and us. health system and New York State’s chief As a stand-up comedian Stoller was work of narrative non- Allen Salkin has been a journalist for such psychiatrist. He is adjunct professor at known for his dating woes, and his thrill- fiction, Five Days at publications as New York, The Village Voice, and the Columbia/Mailman School of Public seeker persona. He’s appeared in many Memorial recreates Details. As a reporter for The New York Times, he Health and has served as acting ddirector of television series, several films. He wrote and the world of a hospital wrote hundreds of features about food, culture, The Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric starred in Fred & Vinnie, an indie feature ravaged by post-Katriina and media. He lives in New York City. Research in Rockland County, New York. that won the Audience award at The Austin Sheri Fink floodwaters and examines Dr. Sederer is a former medical director Film Festival. n

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The power of speech New JLI class offered by Chabad House Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the WJN Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the WJN he first of October we will be and not be considered gossip. So by allowing the ife in the Balance: Jewish Perspectives important end-of-life decisions that we need to reading the Torah portion entitled No- gossiper to continue relating the gossip, the listener on Everyday Medical Dilemmas,” a make today, and offers Jewish perspectives on T ach (Noah). In the opening verse of the is perpetuating the gossip and so is also deserving L six-part course, will begin on Tues- dying with dignity. portion it says: “These are the offspring of Noach. of rebuke. But how is the object of the gossip day, November 5, at the JCC and Chabad Complication in Pregnancy—Aborting One Noach was a righteous man. He was an honest harmed by the gossip? They didn’t participate in House” will run in Ann Arbor for six con- Life to Save Another person in his generation.” Normally after the state- the process of gossiping. Why should they suffer secutive Tuesdays. Couples undergoing fertility treatment are ment, “these are the any ill effects? Modern medicine has brought near miracles. often advised to reduce the number of fetuses in offspring of …”, the We’re told about the power of saying It’s also brought some of the most difficult decisions order to save a high-risk pregnancy. May we end expectation would be something negative and how it can even harm the that will ever have to be faced. Is one obligated to the life of one or two to save the lives of many? Is that the next sentence person being spoken about. How does this work? prolong life even at would list the names When we describe speech what do we find out? the cost of terrible of the offspring. Here We know that speech reveals something that was suffering? Should the the Torah digresses hidden in one’s thoughts. A person doesn’t know sale of organs, such and describes some of what another person is thinking until the thought as kidneys, to save the positive qualities is revealed with speech. Furthermore, there’s an old the lives of transplant of Noach before go- saying – that before you say something you are in patients be legalized? Rabbi Aharon Goldstein ing on to enumerate total control of what is to be said and how it should May a woman with his offspring. This poses a question. Why does the be said. But once the thought is uttered, it is totally a multiple-fetus Torah apparently interrupt the listing of Noach’s out of your control and there is nothing you can pregnancy opt for children with a description of some of his good do about it. Like the bow and arrow metaphor, fetal reduction, thus qualities? Our Sages have taught us that when we once you let the arrow fly there is no recalling it. forfeiting the lives of notice something unexpected in the text, such as You are the medium that controls the revelation some to possibly save this, there must be something for us to learn. of something hidden. This is the power of speech. others? When it seems that every available option the fetus considered a life? This lesson discusses Rashi gives us two explanations to consider in It has the ability to change thoughts from ethereal is morally questionable, how does one decide? Judaism’s view on the status of the fetus, and the the resolution of this question: in the realm of the hidden to concrete, actionable Fortunately, Torah and the Talmud are not ethics of choosing one life over another. First, the mention of Noach’s qualities should entities in the realm of the revealed. This is not silent about such matters. And this course will Sanctity in Death—Autopsy and Medical be considered merely parenthetical. Why are they simply an interesting morsel for intellectual teach what they have to say. Participants will Dissection mentioned here? Rashi says that whenever a Tzadik manipulation. It can have an actual effect. When discuss actual case studies, examining many Many states allow medical schools to use (a righteous man) is mentioned, it is respectful to a person uses their faculty of speech, they are possible viewpoints as they come to grips with unclaimed cadavers for anatomical dissection. mention some of their good qualities at the same revealing these heretofore hidden powers into this the issue that matters most: What kind of action Is this ethical? Is it ever moral to perform an time (To remember a Tzadik for blessings). So material world as entities with inherent power. — or inaction — should one take? When should autopsy over a family’s objections? Would Jewish when the Torah says “toldot” (children), the good Therefore, it can have an effect on the person who is one take it? And when does one edge too close to law allow one to voluntarily donate his or her body qualities of Noach are merely an interjection the object of the gossip. This relates to an expression playing God? More intriguing than any fictional to science? This lesson will examine how Jewish between “toldot” and the actual naming of the in the Talmud – that one should not open one’s TV show, this course will prepare participants for law balances the dignity of the dead with the needs children. mouth for the Satan. In other words, when one choices that they or a loved one may be called upon of society. The second explanation is that in addition to person says something bad about another, they to make. It is also a fascinating exposure to little- Confronting the Organ Shortage—Should the “children”, the word “toldot” in Hebrew can have are creating a spiritual opening with their words, discussed aspects of Judaism. Sale of Organs Be Legal? another meaning as well. It can also mean “ deeds”. this is an opportunity created for the Satan to have Permitting the sale of organs may significantly So in this case the Torah is telling us about Noach’s a negative spiritual effect on that other person. So Lesson Outline increase the number of organs available for good deeds, and his children as well. Rashi adds when we say something bad about another person, Safeguarding our Health—Navigating the transplant, potentially saving many thousands that according to the Midrash, the main “offspring” even if it’s true, we are revealing this negative, evil Hazards of Everyday Living of lives. But what effects will this have on human of a Tzadik are his good deeds. element from the hidden world to the revealed We all endeavor to protect our health, but we dignity, and on the destitute pressed to sell organs There is a reason why Rashi chooses the order world. So when we gossip about another person often question whether we do enough. What do to feed their families? Is our obligation to save lives of the two explanations. He lists them in this this is how it winds up harming the object of the you tell your child when he wants to play running a precedent to override these concerns? particular order due to the predominance of usage gossip in addition to the two active participants. back on his high school football team? Should you No Uterus? No Problem—The Ethics of of the two definitions of the Hebrew word “toldot”. So if we take the Torah principle that saying be concerned with the potential radiation hazards Uterine Transplants Explanation number one is the predominant way something bad about a person can have a of using a cell phone? How do you draw the line Until now, surrogacy has been the only the word is used, and number two is the lesser- negative effect upon them, we can see that saying between keen vigilance and exaggerated panic solution for women without a healthy womb. used definition. something positive about a person can have a mongering? However, a recently popularized new fertility There is still another issue with which we must positive effect. In fact, the power of good is much End of life Dilemmas—Prolonging Life vs. treatment, promises to bring them renewed hope. come to grips. greater than the power of evil. So when we speak Prolonging Death This lesson addresses fascinating ethical concerns This is not the first time the Torah mentions praises about another person, pointing out their Resuscitate? Do not resuscitate? How does surrounding uterine and other non-vital-organ the name of Noach. His name is mentioned at the great qualities, we are causing an effect that this one decide what to inscribe in their living will? transplants and surgical procedures. n very end of the previous portion where it states, good quality should become stronger and allow The value of life is immeasurable, but is the same “ But Noach found favor in the eyes of God.” So, the person to manifest those qualities in a physical true for its increments? This lesson discusses the the previous portion seems to violate the rule form. Negative speech can have a negative effect on Rashi mentioned earlier regarding the protocol of a person but positive speech can have a far stronger mentioning the good qualities of a Tzadik. Noach’s effect. We are speaking here of one human being saving the world by building the ark. He has to do good qualities of another person we will reveal the good qualities aren’t mentioned until after the speaking good about another human being to help all this important work in spite of the people of his goodness within that person and they will be able second time his name is mentioned – at the very bring about their potential goodness. How much generation persistently mocking him and trying to to better express their inherent goodness into the beginning of this week’s portion. greater when God “says” good things about a discourage him. He has to gather all the animals, world and use their best potentials in the best way. To help us resolve the issue, we will use a line person and writes the praises, as with Noach, in the their feed, and all the things to protect his family The Lubavitch Rebbe OB”M spoke many from the Talmud. The Talmud speaks about Torah For sure this praise has a positive effect on and the animals from the great flood. With this times on the subject of the nearness of the Lashon Hara - gossiping. When, God forbid, a the person and further, it grants the person special extra large responsibility that God gave to him he coming redemption. Only God knows the day person shares with another person some gossip, powers to strengthen their goodness and do all the needed some extra help from God to ensure that and time, but we can hasten the planned arrival there are actually three people who are harmed by good things they would like to do. all the good that was within him be revealed into of the Messiah by increasing our performance the gossiping; the one that is speaking the gossip, Now we should be able to understand why the the physical world. This explains why God chose of good deeds (Torah Mitzvoth). When we treat the one that is hearing the gossip, and the one that is Torah doesn’t give Noach his praises when he is first to mention Noach’s good qualities at the beginning our fellows with good and love it makes God being gossiped about is also being damaged by the mentioned, in last week’s portion, but waits until of this week’s portion when he needed extra power happy seeing His children getting along well with act of Lashon Hara. It is easy to see how the person the second mention at the beginning of this week’s to complete his mission. each other. So use the lesson of this week’s Torah speaking the gossip is harming the social fabric of portion. Last week, Noach is merely mentioned From this we can take a lesson. When you see portion and incorporate it into your everyday the community and therefore deserving of rebuke. as a person who found favor in God’s eyes. He your fellow, see the potential good within them – routines. At some point, it only takes one straw to The gossiper, however, needs a “gossipee” so to wasn’t doing anything and didn’t need the spiritual and speak about it! Compliment them. Make them “break the camel’s back”. May the positive energy speak. The one listening is enabling the gossiper boost that positive speech brings about. This week feel good about it. When speaking to other people entered into the world by the mitzvah that you to spread the gossip. Without a recipient, the Noach’s great tasks and deeds and challenges are speak about their good qualities. Only speak about perform be the one that tips the balance scale and n information would remain within the first person described. This week, he has to accept God’s task of good qualities! By speaking positively about the brings Moshiach.

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Beth Israel Congregation October programming Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN Talmud Study: The Holidays of the Year “We are All Litvaks and Why it Matters” may be something unusual or strange) and prizes current topics. Participants are invited to bring Thursday evenings, Oct. 3.10,17 and 24. Presented by Lonnie Sussman for the winning team. The race will conclude at a dairy lunch. Beverages and snacks will be 7:45 p.m. Sunday October 6, 7:45 p.m. Beth Israel by 4:30 p.m. Adult volunteers will be provided. needed to help chaperon each team. The Talmud covers many different subjects The impact of the popular “roots trips” to Tot Shabbat relating to Jewish law and custom. One of the Eastern Europe cannot be overstated. Ann Past participants have raved about the Saturday, October 12, October 26, areas which is most relevant is the discussions Arbor resident Lonnie Sussman recently Race and many of the contestants are return 11:15 a.m. on the holidays of the year. During each of the returned from an emotional trip to Lithania and participants. One participant said “I did not Tot Shabbat is a Saturday morning program/ seven sessions of this class, the focus of this class will share her unique insights and experiences. know you could have so much fun without service for parents and their children 2–5 years will be on a different holiday, and the participants Her family’s story reflects the history of Eastern using a game controller.” Students may form old which includes songs, stories, and prayers. will read a section from the Talmud debating a European Jewry. She discovered that there are teams ahead of time or may be assigned to a This program is run this month by Peretz specific custom relating to that holiday; some still Jews still living in Lithuania and she was team that day. Hirshbein on the 2nd Saturday of the month, customs will be familiar, while others might be inspired by their continuing connections to To sign up, contact Jake Kander, program and Jacob Kander on the fourth Saturday of somewhat surprising. The text will be available Jewish traditions. director, at [email protected] or the month. It includes the mysterious “Shabbat in Hebrew or Aramaic, as well as in English. No Haran Rashes at 660-9283 or [email protected] Box,” Torah processions with stuffed Torah knowledge of Hebrew or Aramaic is necessary Beth Israel’s Amazing Race Shabbat Limmud toys, and a for tots. Preschool sized in order to participate. Rabbi Robert Dobrusin October 6, 12, noon Saturdays, Oct. 12, Oct. 26. 9–9:45 a.m. tables are set up for the regular Kiddush so that will facilitate this series. This event is comprised of teams of middle school and high school students who will Adults are invited for over families may easily attend with their children Friday Night Lights race around Ann Arbor and the University coffee and cake. The discussions, led by Rabbi following Tot Shabbat. Dobrusin are informal, lively and participatory. October 4, 6 p.m. Service, 7 p.m. dinner of Michigan Campus in a scavenger hunt Mini Minyan (Kindergarten–2nd grade) This is the first family friendly Friday Night competition. Contestants will strive to arrive The study begins with traditional texts and Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. Lights program of the year. The Shabbat is first at given points around campus and then participants add their own thoughts on the At Mini Minyan, kids celebrate Shabbat welcomed at 6 p.m. with a Kabbalat Shabbat answer trivia or complete challenges related Torah or portion of the week. with the songs and stories they loved from Service, which is followed (approximately at in some way to their destination. Teams will Lunch & Learn Series Tot Shabbat while also learning prayers and 6:45 p.m.) with a pasta bar dinner. The cost for be judged on a point basis on how well they Wednesdays, October 9, 16, and 30, noon– discovering more about Shabbat and other each dinner is $8 for adults and children over 4 complete the trivia and the challenges. The 1:15 p.m. holidays through discussions, games, and years old. Children under 4 years old eat for free. winning team will receive valuable prizes. The Garfunkel Schteingart Activities Center activities. Mini Minyan meets the second The deadline for rsvps is Monday, September start of the race is at Beth Israel Congregation (2010 Washtenaw) Saturday of the month throughout the 30. Additional Friday Night Lights evenings where lunch will be served. Rabbi Robert Dobrusin and Rabbi Kim school year. n include November 8 (with Consecration for all The cost of participation is $10, which Blumenthal lead informal discussions on Gan and Alef students), February 7, and April 4. includes lunch and a (though the snack This month at Temple Beth Emeth Soo Ji Min, special to the WJN Families with Young Children (FYC): Lounge and are open to the community. points of departure in our own search for on occasion for specific books of interest. Shabbat Service times every Friday Lunch is not provided, bring your own. leadership in our time. Choose either the daytime or evening session. Widely ranging topics highlight the Tot (0–5 year olds) Shabbat Services led by CROP Walk Women’s Torah Study list of books by: Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger, Rabbi Levy and Cantor Annie Rose, 6 p.m. Sunday, October 6, 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 9, Monday, October Sylvia Boorstein, Karen Armstrong, Harold Dinner for Tot Shabbat, 6:30 p.m. The Interfaith Council for Peace and 21, Wednesday October 23 at 7 p.m. Kushner, Rodger Kamenetz, Abraham Popsicle Oneg, 7 p.m. Justice is sponsoring a community-wide For centuries, women were not Joshua Heschel, Leonard Felder, Brian Family Shabbat Service, 7:30 p.m. event to raise funds to end hunger locally encouraged to study Torah. Times have Weiss, and Michael Krasny. This book Adult Hebrew Classes and abroad. The walk for Washtenaw County changed and women are encouraged and club is for firm believers, non-believers, is hosted at TBE and food donations support empowered to study Torah with the same Tuesdays and Wednesdays, October 1, 2, gentle skeptics, and interested seekers. For the Back Door Food Pantry. Registration vigor as men. Join in for a unique experience 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, and 30, 6:15 p.m. more information, contact Cantor Rose, starts at 1 p.m. Send off service at 1:30 to study and discuss what the Torah has Hebrew classes for adult learners at [email protected]. p.m. Walk begins at 2 p.m. With questions, to say through the voices of women. For all levels. Hebrew 102 and 103 offered at contact Rodger Wolff, at rwolff@sigmarep. questions, contact Cantor Annie Rose at Evening in the Library Temple Beth Emeth on Wednesdays at 5:30 com, or 662-4981. cantorannieatgmail.com. Monday, October 20, 7:30–9 p.m. p.m. and 6:30 p.m. respectively and Hebrew Evenings in the Library are informal 104 offered on Thursdays at 5 p.m. Tuition Men’s Torah Study Torah Trop Class opportunities for learning from authors is $180 per term for members of either Beth Monday, October 7 and 21, 7:30k–9 p.m. Every Monday beginning October 14, noon about their books and from each other Israel or Temple Beth Emeth congregations. Temple Beth Emeth’s Men’s Torah study Cantor Rose leads class members through about one another’s interests, experiences, Tuition for full-time college students is $50 meets twice a month for an evening of the trop (cantillation) of the weekly portion, and expertise. These evenings, surrounded and for non-members is $200. learning. Refreshments served. For more discussing the implications of the trop on the by books in Temple Beth Emeth’s library, Shalom Gever information, contact Roger Stutesman, text. This year the group will focus on Haftarah include an author presentation, plenty of rgstutesmanatsbcglobal.net. portions and trop for the fall and winter, and Mondays and Wednesdays, October 2,7, 9, time for questions and discussion, and a Torah portions and trop in the spring. Class 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 and 30, 4:15–8 p.m. chance to purchase the books. TBE will also Kings, Prophets, Sages: An Intro to members are not required to know trop; Temple Beth Emeth’s Martial Arts for have print copies of the book to lend and Jewish Leadership Models materials will be provided to explain the Health, Fitness and Self-defense. Come feel copies on TBE’s new Kindle e-readers. Since Mondays, October 7, 14, and 21, 7:30 p.m. system as the group goes through the year. the energy! Find out what it’s all about. Open space is limited, RSVP to Clare Kinberg at Jewish history stretches across the many Torah/Haftarah discussion is completely to grades K-12. Grades K-2 meet from 4:15-5 [email protected] ages of civilization. Rabbi Levy will teach how participatory. For further information, email p.m. , grades 3-5 meet from 5:15-6 or 6:15- rabbinic leaders have demonstrated the vast Twenties and Thirties Pumpkin 7 p.m., grades 6-9 meet from 7:15–8 p.m., Cantor Rose: [email protected]. breadth of styles, strengths and foibles that and grades 10–12 meet from 7:15–8 p.m.. Carving Event human leadership can display. Participants Spirituality Book Club Questions? Contact Rabbi Peter Gluck at Saturday, October 26, 1 p.m. will explore three key leadership traditions: Tuesday, October 15, 7 p.m.; Thursday, 646-3864 or SooJi Min at 665-4744. Pick and carve a pumpkin 1) monarch, steward of God’s people and October 17, noon and share drinks with Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Levy homeland; 2) prophet, moral compass October’s Book: The Choosing: A Rabbi’s TNT. RSVP to Ariel Fridays, October 4, 11, 18, and 25, and guide; 3) rescuer and reinterpreter. Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days Saulles at asaulles@ noon–1 p.m. From each leader comes scores of recorded by Rabbi Andrea Myers hotmail.com to get Come for an informal discussion about examples from Queen Jezebel to the Prophet Join Cantor Annie Rose for the fourth directions. n the intersection between religion and Micah to Rashi. The goal of the course is to season of the spirituality book club. All science. 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Reflections on Israel by Rabbi Ilana Baden he Jewish Federation of Greater Ann servant knows his position is temporary, and has collectivism? What good does a shared lifestyle I go to a summer camp called Camp Tavor Arbor is pleased to be able to offer our the responsibility to hand over the tools of change do for others? that is part of the youth movement, Habonim T teens financial support for Israel travel. to those he is serving. With Hanoar HaOved, we The answer is a matter of actualizing our Dror. The summer leading into junior year of This is accomplished by three significant programs. are partners in an educational force that is giving values. The way we live is as an expression of the high school, campers travel to Israel on a program The first program is the Ann Arbor-Nahalal youth the tools to shape their realities. very same ideals that we educate towards: trust, called MBI (Machaneh Bonim Israel) rather than Student Exchange program, which is available This urban, educational approach is a collective responsibility, and equality of human attending camp. I have loved every year that I to our community’s ninth graders. The second relatively new one for the youth movements. value. Living in kvutsa means living by example, have gone to camp and been involved in the program is the Susan L. Lichter Memorial My own historical youth movement, Habonim, and being supported by others. Even if we may movement, and I didn’t want to miss a year of one Endowed Israel Scholarship, which provides two had been a steady agricultural kibbutz builder not see the beautiful rolling hills the chalutzim of my favorite things. I also saw an opportunity $2,500 scholarships annually for Ann Arbor area since statehood and into the 1980s. A week of saw on the way to the fields every morning, we are to see Israel in a new light and I took it; I’ve been high school students to participate in peer group Workshop is devoted to a “History of Habonim guided by the same commitment to the Jewish happier about a decision. Israel experiences such as semester, summer or Dror Hagshama (Actualization) Seminar”, State that guided those farmers and workers. The Throughout the course of our five-week trip, gap year programs. The third program is the where we visited many of these historical tan city-scape of Rishon LeZion is what we see as we hiked, swam, drove, visited museums and Federation Subsidies for Teen Travel to Israel, Habonim kibbutzim. we ride the bus to the neighborhood youth center. much more. I learned so much about different which provides up to $1,000 for summer, semester A difficult story of economic deficit and It is this Israeli society that we strive to shape. cities in Israel, things that happened in those cities, and year-long trips. confusion unfolded before our eyes. Privatization and how those things have changed some of the Below are the reflections of two recipients of in the 1990’s had led to a crisis in defining the role Seeing Israel with a new perspective cultural aspects. By learning about the history of these Israel Grants and Scholarships. Jordan Siden kibbutzim, and their contribution to Israeli society by Alona Henig Israel and actually seeing where certain things was a recipient of the Susan L. Lichter Memorial was not so clear. The kibbutz movement had lost happened gave me an entirely new perspective. Almost every year I travel to Israel to go visit Endowed Israel Scholarship, and Alona Honig was its ideological core, and a question appeared as Not only did I learn about my family’s heritage my family. Though I have been there many a recipient of a Federation Subsidy for Teen Travel to what was the Zionist youth movements were and my religion’s history, but I also feel that I times, I had never felt that I truly saw all of to Israel. supposed to do about it. even grew as a person. I learned about myself Israel. This year, rather than staying with family, On the last day of our seminar, we visited and I how I work with others and in a different I traveled the country and experienced it from Living the New Collective Kibbutz Mishol, an urban kibbutz in Nazereth environment. In addition, I learned about what an outsider’s perspective. by Jordan Siden Illit. A simple one story building in a tough being a Jew really means to me and neighborhood, the youth wing of the urban what I want to do with the label. When Jewish pioneers arrived to the shores kibbutz opens its doors to local children, providing Before this trip I didn’t understand Palestine during the turn of the century, it was a home-away-from-home with education and what being a Jew actually meant to rare that they came alone. Collectivism is a social action at the core of its activities. The power me. I was unsure of my relationship long engrained ideology of the Zionist youth of what we saw is astonishing. This new kibbutz with Israel and my thoughts about movements. From the hachshara training farms may have traded in the tractor for the art supplies it. Because of this trip, I now in the diaspora, to the dining halls of the earliest cabinet, but its example is redefining what it understand how I feel about Israel kibbutzim, living a shared lifestyle was a guiding means to take responsibility for Israeli society. as a Jew, and what I want to learn principal for the young ideologues. With my own kvutsa also actively engaged in more about. In my kvutsa (group) on Workshop, the messima, a larger picture of what this all means I want to thank the Jewish gap-year program of Habonim Dror in Israel, began to unfold. The new kibbutz movement Federation of Greater Ann Arbor this communal ideology guides our lifestyle as is growing, and providing an answer for the for helping me to experience one well. We evenly distribute the responsibilities question of the kibbutz’s relevance in the 21st of the best summers of my life. I of cleaning, cooking, and shopping around century. Urban communes of Israeli youth will definitely travel to Israel again our home. We make communal decisions, and movement graduates are popping up all across to visit my family, but I know share our spending money in a collective fund. the country, most notably in Akko, Sderot and in I will feel differently about my We share our feelings as readily as we share our our current hometown of Rishon LeZion. experiences there and I will see toothpaste. All this may seem rather reminiscent But what does all this have to do with things in a different way. n of the life of a kibbutznik, and it is no coincidence that the basis of our lifestyle stems from that of the chalutzim, the young pioneers who settled the Land and formed the agricultural collectives. Federation recruiting teens for Ann Arbor/Nahalal Student Exchange But there is a significant break that Rabbi Ilana Baden, special to the WJN distinguishes our collective from the one of the kibbutzim of old. My kvutsa of 22 live in a two- The Jewish Federation’s Ann Arbor/Nahalal the Nahalal delegation in October 2014 (specific will experience school, the UM campus, and story house in Rishon LeZion, a city of 300,000 in Community-to-Community committee dates to be determined), when the Nahalal Jewish life in Ann Arbor. the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. Our landscape is (C2C) is recruiting ninth graders for the students will have a similar program of touring, The friendships forged by the Student starkly different from the fields and cowsheds of Ann Arbor/Nahalal Student Exchange 2014. school attendance and teen interaction. Exchange participants do not end abruptly. our ideological fore-bearers. The Ann Arbor/Nahalal Student Exchange The Student Exchange is funded by the In addition to maintaining their connections What binds us to our historical roots, however, Program is a two-part exchange in which Federation’s Partnership2Gether Community-to- through social media and Skype, it is not is our commitment to the same vision of taking 9th grade students from Ann Arbor spend Community allocation. Participants are asked to uncommon for the Ann Arbor teens to return to responsibility for the society of the Jewish State. their February vacation in the Israeli Moshav, cover only the cost of their flight, trip insurance, Israel and spend time with their friends in Nahalal. The chalutzim drained the swaps and made the Nahalal. The following October, during the and pocket money during the trip. Thanks to a This past year, one local teen even volunteered at a desert bloom and defined what it meant to be the Sukkot break, their counterparts from Nahalal generous grant from the Max M. and Marjorie summer camp in the Nahalal region. New Jew. Now that the Galil is drained and the will come to Ann Arbor. S. Fisher Foundation, some funds are available to The Ann Arbor/Nahalal Partnership is an Negev (more or less) blooms, what is the role of An information meeting will be held Sunday, assist families who would like to participate, but integral part of the Michigan/Central Galilee Zionist youth today? October 13, at 3:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community for whom the full cost is prohibitive. Partnership2Gether program led by the Jewish A main component of our experience living Center of Greater Ann Arbor. This is an excellent Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Cooperative in Rishon LeZion is messima (mission), youth opportunity to learn more about the program. All Student Exchange Experience programs are developed with communities in educational initiatives in partnership with 9th graders and their parents are invited to attend. Since 2010, 52 Ann Arbor teens have Michigan and those of Nazareth Illit, Migdal HaNoar HaOved v’HaLomed, Habonim Dror’s participated in the Student Exchange and have Ha’Emek and the Regional Council of Emek Israeli sister youth movement. This work is a Student Exchange 2014 established friendships for a lifetime. The trip has Yizrael (Jezreel Valley). Developing a closer manifestation of our Socialist-Zionist ideology: we Part One of the 2014 exchange will take place a significant impact on the teens’ connection to relationship with Moshav Nahalal, a village in believe that education is a powerful, revolutionary during the Ann Arbor Public School’s 2014 Israel and their Israeli peers. “I feel connected to the Jezreel Valley, has allowed members of both tool to facilitate change in communities; to February Break, leaving Thursday, February 13 Israel in a much different way now knowing that communities to learn from and interact more empower the disempowered. and returning Sunday, February 23. Participants I have so many amazing friends waiting for me closely with one another. n there,” commented Abby Simon. Hava Kaplan This unique partnership with our Israeli youth will be hosted by families in Nahalal, and the For information or to register for the Federation’s added, “I now feel like I have a home in Israel that movement is what gives relevance to our work. program will include experiencing the Nahalal Student Exchange 2014 program, visit www. I can go to whenever I go there.” Revolutionary service, as opposed to community Regional High School, touring Nahalal and the jewishannarbor.org or contact Rabbi Ilana Baden service, is the idea that one must act as a reformer surrounding region, interacting with local teens, This December, the local teens who at 677-0100 or [email protected]. from within the community he is serving, not as and visiting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Students and participated in last year’s trip to Nahalal will host an influence from the outside. A revolutionary their families will be asked to serve as hosts for their counterparts in Ann Arbor. 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Hebrew Day School—reaching goals the SMART way JCC announces new youth Hadar Dohn and Jennifer Rosenberg, special to WJN and camp director he new school year, especially when it We all know that learning isn’t just for Deborah Grayson Riegel’s coaching Halye Aisner, special to the WJN coincides with Rosh Hashanah, brings students and our faculty continues to make their approach to SMART goals. We look to The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Tpromises of possibilities. As parents, own learning a priority as a means to meet the expand the SMART goals to include the Arbor welcomes Ethan Krasnow as their new the promises of possibilities for our children needs of their students. To this end, each teacher following: S=shareable: working with a youth and camp are endless and we have hopes and dreams for worked hard to select two personal goals that fit partner helps with accountability and director. Originally snugly under our school- cheerleading, M=Motivating: the goal needs from Milwaukee, wide goal. They looked at to excite us and those who are affected, Krasnow went to, various areas where they A=Actionable: we need to be able to take and worked for the can grow professionally action right away, R= Resonant: does this local JCC where such as instructional goal give us chills of excitement or fear; he worked in day content, methodology, and does it resonate? And T=Timely: is now the camp programing classroom management, right time for this goal? and managed the as well as personal areas of Keeping these goal guidelines in mind, our local recreation growth such as organization staff developed a range of goals from exploring program. He and finding non-teaching the Common Core State Standards and recently received his Ethan Krasnow opportunities for getting to applying them to differentiated instruction, master’s degree from know their students. to finding ways to ensure that the children’s Indiana University in Recreational Sports The goals we selected lunch and recess experiences are fulfilling Administration. He is looking forward to joining were SMART, and you and allow the students to approach their next the Ann Arbor community and expanding the may be familiar with them classes with utmost focus and attention. JCC’s youth and camp programs. as Specific, Measureable, Setting goals allow us to chart a course Krasnow says, “My favorite part about for each student. working with youth and recreation is literally While the course getting on a child’s level. When you do this, you may be different, the can really understand the children’s interests. destination is the Adam, fourth grade—knitting and learning Judaism is very important to me. Working at a same – confident, JCC means working with people who are like me, their education that we lay in the hands of their knowledgeable, who have similar goals in attempting to achieve teachers. As educators, we strive to turn those caring and bringing the Jewish community together.” possibilities into reality by making concrete ac- committed Jewish Noreen De Young, program director at the tion plans, for goals without plans are often just children. We set our JCC says, “I think that Ethan will bring fresh, wishes. At Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor goals to guarantee new ideas with him to expand our youth we plan our course by setting our goals. that we are well and camp programs. I am excited about the Our overarching goal for the year is equipped to guide experience he brings and look forward to to meet the needs of every child. We feel them along the way. working with him. strongly that educating the whole child is a We are committed Krasnow hopes to create a youth program mission; one that requires great focus and to have all students that has the potential to become one of the most commitment. This school-wide goal has meet their targets popular in the city. Krasnow says he will always many layers as it encompasses all aspects of at their own paces, be available to talk with questions, comments, learning… academic, social, and emotional. Ilana and Priya—Not all goals are academic with support, or concerns. All other objectives fall under this umbrella instruction, and lots For more information on the JCC’s and each teacher has focused very directly of love. As you begin youth programs, Krasnow can be reached at on these specific aspects of learning in order Action-oriented, Realistic and rigorous, and 5774, what are YOUR goals? What steps [email protected] or 971-0990. to create individual goals. Time bound. We have also considered will YOU take to achieve them? n

Introducing the AARC School (Beit Sefer) staff Emily Eisbruch and Carol Lessure, special to the WJN The Ann Arbor Reconstructionist other community members in parallel and administrative and other duties. D.C. area. He is eager to infuse the classroom Congregation (AARC) offers an innovative joint learning and bringing our studies out of Judy Blumenthal teaches the middle with games, activities and discussions that will and nurturing religious school (Beit Sefer) for the classroom into the community,” group with a goal of giving them a fun, help students appreciate our shared history students ages ages 4–14. The AARC Beit Sefer meets each Sunday educational experience. She brings to us a and tradition as well as prepare them with the “What I hear over and over again, from morning during the school year at the Jewish background as an assistant teacher at Beth tools to define their own relationship within parents and students alike, is that the AARC Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor. Israel Congregation, as a counselor and Judaism and its practice. Meiselman has Beit Sefer is a place where each child can find Here’s an introduction to the AARC’s Beit leader at various camps and most recently as returned to Ann Arbor to continue graduate his or her own connection to Judaism,” explains Sefer’s outstanding teaching staff: coordinator of daycamps at Camp Moshava studies in pursuit of a PhD. in economics. Rabbi Michal Woll, Beit Sefer director. “We Karen Pollens, head teacher, has seven and Habonim Tavor. Blumenthal is pursuing To learn more about the Ann Arbor have a wonderful and diverse community years of religious school teaching experience. a degree in early childhood education and Reconstructionist Congregation and the and that diversity enriches us, individually In the past, she ran a home-based daycare development at Eastern Michigan University. Beit Sefer, contact Rabbi Michal Woll at and collectively. I think our teachers bring a center for 15 years and had a career as a Ben Meiselman joins the Beit Sefer staff as [email protected]. Rabbi Michal looks similar diversity in background, both Jewishly neonatal nurse. She teaches the youngest the teacher of the oldest students. Meiselman forward to getting to know any families in and educationally and will be great assets to students. Pollens has five children of her own has many years of leadership experience in search of the right educational fit for their kids, the school. I am looking forward to building and became a member of the AARC last year. the Habonim movement as well as teaching and will be happy to reply to all inquiries. n an even richer program, engaging parents and She will be backing up Rabbi Michal with religious school in the Greater Washington

Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 13 RakeRake inin thethe CashCash I American Jewry ThisThis Fall!Fall! Following Birthright’s bar mitzvah, examining its offspring By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org hira Kaiserman remembers her 2010 compared to people who didn’t go on the trip. like civilians, and you cannot distinguish Let Encore Sell It For You: Taglit-Birthright Israel trip like it was More survey respondents who participated in who is the American, who is the Israeli,” Electronics • Musical Instruments Syesterday. While the New Yorker’s the program are likely to belong to a religious Gidi Mark, CEO of Taglit-Birthright Israel, Designer Items • Antiques & Collectibles group was visiting Mount Herzl, the guide congregation than those who did not. told JNS.org. Automotive Parts • Sporting Goods began to tell them the story of Hannah Birthright participants are also slightly more According to the Birthright website, more Camera & Audio/Visual Equipment Senesh, an Israeli national heroine who was caught and killed by the Nazis after para- 1958 South Industrial (in the Colonial Lanes Plaza) chuting into Europe to help rescue Holo- caust refugees in 1944. 734.761.6187 “As a woman you don’t really hear about a EncoreOnlineResale.com lot of modern-day Jewish women who made such a strong contribution to the Jewish people,” Kaiserman told JNS.org. She was so affected by the Birthright experience that she left a career in advertising for Jewish non- profit work, now serving as the director of When you only have one chance to catch that special moment program marketing and social media at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. Kaiserman, 28, belongs to a new generation—maybe even a new category— of young Jews who have come out of the I srael . -B irthright

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choices across different areas of life. C redit PHOTO Perhaps no one has seen the trip’s impact Taglit-Birthright Israel trip participants with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. more tangibly than Susannah Sagan, the Specializing in: Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Family Portraits, Children, Family Celebrations, Digital Imaging, Business Receptions associate director of Ohio State University’s likely than nonparticipants to make charitable than 55,000 Israelis have participated in the (OSU) campus Hillel. At OSU, many Birthright contributions to Jewish or Israeli causes. program since its inception, 87 percent of 734.546.0426 “My speculation is that in this era of them Israeli soldiers. One of the Israeli [email protected] participants return to campus and begin taking susanayerphotography.com Jewish studies courses, getting involved with electronically mediated social interaction, soldiers who accompanied his trip visited the university’s pro-Israel group, Buckeyes the need for actual connection is intensified,” Putterman in Houston. for Israel, or with the American Israel Public Saxe said. “Asaf and his friend (also Israeli, traveling Affairs Committee. Some of these students This holds true for the Manhattan JCC’s with him) were a big hit at our family’s “come back and start living in the [Hillel] Kaiserman, who said that before going on Thanksgiving Dinner,” Putterman said. building,” Sagan told JNS.org. Birthright she initially “didn’t really do “Without Birthright, Asaf might never have In the 13 years since philanthropists anything Jewish-related at all” after college, experienced a full American Thanksgiving, Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt even though she had attended Jewish day and I likely wouldn’t have returned to Israel joined forces with the Israeli government, school all her life. after graduating from college,” he said. the Jewish Agency for Israel, global Jewish Matthew Putterman, a 24-year-old Kaiserman said she had her “aha moment” communities, and other philanthropists to analyst for a real estate financial services regarding her choice of career after she saw an fund Taglit-Birthright Israel, the program firm in Houston, went on Birthright in 2010. Israeli soldier on her trip “dressed in uniform has taken about 350,000 young Jews on free He grew up in a neighborhood without a lot and making this daily sacrifice for Israel.” 10-day trips to Israel. of Jewish families and joined a non-Jewish The Brandeis study showed that former A series of studies by Brandeis University’s fraternity in college. This void “was quickly Birthright participants are 22 percent Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies filled during and after Birthright.” more likely to indicate that they are at least has surveyed program alumni regarding While on the trip, Putterman was introduced “somewhat confident” in discussing the the impact of Birthright on their lives and to the Gift of Life organ donor program. current situation in Israel in comparison looked at those who applied to the program, Spurred partly by his own sister’s diagnosis of to those who didn’t go on the trip. After the but didn’t participate, as a control group. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, he eventually made his experience, participants tell people, “You Most recently updated in 2012, the studies own bone marrow donation to a man suffering cannot say anything about the so-called bad show that Birthright often creates a new from blood cancer. Israeli soldiers, because we’ve been with many community for participants. “The sense of global Jewish community of them during our trip to Israel,” Mark said. “The evidence is clear that Taglit inspires developed during Birthright definitely Program participants are also 45 percent a stronger sense of Jewish identity,” said helped to substantiate my initial feelings of more likely to marry someone Jewish than Brandeis University professor Leonard Saxe, a wanting to help if at all possible,” Putterman those who didn’t go on the trip. “It’s very chief author of the research. While the surveys told JNS.org. One of the seminal aspects of important to me to marry a Jewish partner didn’t ask directly about leadership, it’s clear the Birthright experience continues to be the and to have Jewish life,” Kaiserman said. that Birthright “produces a desire to be part of Mifgash (“encounter” in Hebrew). Putterman is now dating a girl he met on the Jewish community,” Saxe added. “Each group is joined by eight Israelis, his Birthright trip. The research shows that former Taglit and … usually seven out of eight are Israeli “It is definitely comforting to know participants are 42 percent are more likely soldiers. They come dressed as soldiers only that… the tough decision that inter-religious to feel “very much” connected to Israel for the first two hours, but then they dress Continued on page18

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New satellite will be Israel’s “eye” in the sky By Judie Jacobson/JNS.org achel and Max Javit love Israel. And technologies to be carried by them, to the commercial, off-the-shelf components— equipped with a simulation lab within which because they do, they are helping to factors surrounding their launch, and their and the study of satellites suddenly became the research team can conduct a pre-launch Rboost the Jewish state’s ability to keep role in space and in the defense of Israel. accessible to university students and test of BGUSAT, as well as evaluate and an “eye” in the sky that will go a long way to- “Our objective is to learn what can be done researchers. What set the CubeSat apart and test each element of the project, including ward keeping the country, and its citizens, safe. with the satellite—how to miniaturize space made it so appealing was its ability to be interaction of the satellites with each other “Israel’s survival is imperative for the and with the ground control station. continuity of the Jewish people,” says Max BGU students are also collaborating with Javit, who along with Rachel, his wife, splits Israel Aerospace Industries to develop another time between homes in West Hartford, Conn., satellite that will interact with BGUSAT and and Florida. “Can you imagine, God forbid, if also carry a payload of communication and Israel wasn’t here?” GPS technology. The Javits can’t. And so, when Ben-Gurion Of course, there is still left the matter of University of the Negev (BGU) proposed the getting the BGUSAT into space. establishment of a space research program as Once launched, it is envisioned that the part of its highly regarded Homeland Security BGUSAT will orbit the earth and serve as Institute, with the development of a very small a platform for a series of research projects satellite—known as a “pico-satellite”—at its into the future. The data collection and core, the Javits responded to the call. transmission process will be evaluated, as Now, with a significant gift from the data is collected by the camera’s imaging Connecticut couple, BGU scientists have L edger . onnecticut J ewish technology and transmitted to the ground developed BGUSAT—a custom-designed receiving station. :BGU/C pico-satellite that weighs less than three Lift-off, though, is dependent upon two kilograms and measures 4x4x12 inches— factors: finding a location and financing the small enough to be held in a hand. BGUSAT launch. BGUSAT must be launched into space

carries a two-camera imaging system that C redit PHOTO while riding “piggy-back” on a larger satellite. interacts and communicates with a ground Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (whose campus is pictured) scientists have developed a The timing and site of the launch is dependent receiving station that was also developed at satellite that will be Israel’s new “eye” in the sky upon the availability of a launch vehicle, and BGU with funding provided by the Javits’ gift. the launch date and location of this larger The innovative new satellite will enable components, apply our robotics knowledge, produced in a short amount of time, and to satellite. BGU has been offered launching BGU scientists to expand Israel’s space study the communication issues related to be easily stored and ready for deployment opportunities aboard European satellites, but research and security program, which transmitting data both ways, operate solar as needed, using a common deployment a date and location have not yet been set. will culminate in the launch of BGUSAT, panels in space, and more,” says Prof. Dan mechanism. While the Javits’ generous gift has covered carrying imaging, communication and GPS Blumberg, director of BGU’s Homeland In addition, because of their small size the cost of BGUSAT as well as the ground technologies. Security Institute. “So, the satellite is itself and weight, a network of these satellites receiving station, funding is still being sought “This satellite is Israel’s eye on everything important because of its impact on future can be launched at a fraction of the cost of for the BGU launch. that’s going on below. It is an important projects and Israel’s foothold in space.” deploying one large satellite. To put that In addition to satellite development, tool in the fight against terrorism,” explains What’s more, all that knowledge will be of savings in perspective, the price tag on the innovative research is being conducted Javit, who sits on the Board of American benefit to the world beyond Israel’s doorstep. pico-satellite’s standard-size big brother is in at the BGU’s Homesland Security Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the It will position Israel as an important player the neighborhood of $1 billion; one BGUSAT Institute to safeguard Israel’s “virtual Negev (AABGU). “Israel,” he notes, “is one in the burgeoning international market that costs approximately $500,000 to produce. environment” with a focus on cyber security of only nine countries in the world with the surrounds the field of homeland security, The advantage of CubeSat, says Blumberg, and telecommunications. Other applications capabilities to independently develop, build as the Jewish state exports its innovative is that it has opened up new horizons. CubeSat being developed include driverless jeeps that and launch a satellite.” technology to the U.S. and other allies. brings space beyond the sole province of patrol borders; small helicopters equipped Indeed, researchers expect to garner For a long time, the direct study of satellites government and the defense industry, he says, with imaging equipment that can take off and important findings through this research— was out of the reach of universities. Then and new thinking about how to use it must result. land on a moving vehicle; robots for search from the design and production of the along came the creation of the CubeSat— While the CubeSat model provided and rescue missions; and high-resolution satellites and the development of the new inexpensive pico-satellites composed of the basis for the design of BGUSAT, the scanning and sensing technologies that make university’s research team custom-designed it easier to identify targets. The Institute its pico-satellite along with a deployment also provides trauma training and disaster mechanism that is even lighter and smaller— simulation programs, as well as disaster ​Syrian civil war rebels are nearly half jihadist or and reflects Israel’s unique security needs. response workshops. Islamist, report says In addition, the CubeSat model provides The Homeland Security Institute expects a cost-effective method of getting a payload to produce applied research that will reach (JNS.org) Nearly half of the Syrian civil war’s is just not borne out,” Charles Lister, one of into orbit, but it is the payload’s technology beyond the walls of academia to defend Israel rebel fighters are aligned with jihadist or the report’s analysts, told The Telegraph. that is a key element of research efforts. Israel’s and keep its citizens and friends around the hardline Islamist groups, a The report lists two security needs are integral to the project and world safe. new report says. jihadist groups connected are reflected in BGUSAT’s payload, consisting “BGU’s Homeland Security Institute, the According to an to Al-Qaeda, Jabhat al- of a two-camera imaging system utilizing only one of its kind in Israel and only one of a advance copy of defense ommons . Nusra and the Islamic State wavelengths in the visible and short wave few in the world, is researching and developing consulting service IHS in Iraq and the Levant, infrared spectrums. BGUSAT is expected technologies to protect Israel from attacks Jane’s report, a copy of who wish to overthrow to generate important data that will be used originating on land, at sea or from the sky,” which was obtained by the government of Syrian to learn more about low resolution imaging explains Doron Krakow, executive vice president The Telegraph, opposition President Bashar al-Assad from space, as well as helping to develop of AABGU. “[The Javits’] very generous forces in Syria now and replace it with an an experimental imaged-based global donation will provide significant resources for number around 100,000 Islamic caliphate. These

PHOTO C redi W ikimedia PHOTO positioning system. the BGUSAT program and momentum for fighters, including jihadist groups have also The Javits’ gift also made possible the BGU’s Homeland Security Institute.” an estimated 10,000 The flag of Al-Qaeda. begun attacking moderate design and development by the research As for Rachel and Max Javit, they look jihadists comprised of foreign fighters and secular rebel groups such as the Free team of a ground receiving station, enabling forward to working with BGU on future projects. for groups linked to Al-Qaeda. Another Syrian Army. BGUSAT to communicate with the ground “We were very impressed when we visited 30,000 to 50,000 Syrian rebels are hardline The report’s findings are at odds with and a second pico-satellite. Within the context Ben-Gurion University and saw all that’s Islamists who share the radical ideology of U.S. and British intelligence, which put of a world with increasingly dangerous threats happening there,” says Max Javit. “The future of the jihadists, but are more focused on the the number of jihadist and Islamist rebels to cyber-security, this technology takes into Israel is in the Negev; that’s where growth has Syrian civil war than on wider global jihad. at one-third or less of the total opposition account specific communication and control to take place; they’re doing amazing things.” n “The insurgency is now dominated forces. The report is also likely to fuel more needs and provides for the safe transmission by groups which have at least an Islamist concerns about Western support for Syrian This story first appeared in the Connecticut and receipt of data. viewpoint on the conflict. The idea that it is civil war rebel groups in their fight against Jewish Ledger. Still under construction is a testing facility mostly secular groups leading the opposition the Syrian government. 16 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 Care for you, Improve your hearing. too. Improve your life.

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Oslo Accords debated, rather than celebrated, on 20th anniversary By Alex Traiman/JNS.org wenty years after the signing of the Palestinian conflict negotiations, which were as a peacemaker. That was his choice,” Bar said. assumption is that the conflict is about territory. fateful Oslo Accords between Pal- announced in July, are largely being kept from In the third round, between Prime Minister The second assumption is that Arabs and Jews Testinian Liberation Organization the public. The negotiations are being advanced Ehud Olmert and Abbas, “Both sides say that it should not live together, and that segregation Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime by Secretary of State John Kerry and Martin was Olmert’s legal complications within Israel and separate states can create peaceful existence. Minister Yitzchak Rabin, Knesset Members Indyk, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Indyk that prevented the negotiations from going all The third assumption was that the conflict was are heavily debating the merits of the peace has come under scrutiny for serving on the the way,” Bar said. about 1967.” process and the two-state solution paradigm. board of the New Israel Fund, a left-leaning While the three rounds of negotiations “[Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon proposed Parliamentarians from both Israel’s left and NGO that heavily funds anti-settlement and ultimately resulted in increasing distrust, an segregation, with the unilateral disengagement the right agree that the process has not yielded anti-religious activity. intifada, Israeli military operations, and a from Gaza,” she said. “The result was radicalism. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Bar Hamas took over. Gaza didn’t become Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President suggested that Israeli-Palestinian conflict Singapore like many hoped it would. Instead, Mahmoud Abbas appear to be entertaining negotiations may still deliver results. rockets started falling on Sderot.” the possibility that a peace settlement can “This current Knesset has a very clear As to whether the current peace talks will be reached through the current round of majority for the two-state solution. I think that yield results, Hotovely is certain they won’t. negotiations, most Israelis and Palestinians more than 70 Knesset Members would vote for “I’m sure Bibi Netanyahu has goodwill, but alike are not paying much attention. a two-state solution if brought for a vote,” Bar the talks will fail. The reason is because the In an unusual turn of events, members told JNS.org. conflict is not about [Israeli territorial expansion

: V ince M usi /T he W hite H ouse . of Israel’s governing coalition and the prime “The status quo is unsustainable,” he said. in] 1967, it is about Israel’s independence in minister’s party are coming out against Other Knesset members are not as optimistic 1948,” Hotovely said. “The conflict is not about

C redit negotiations, while members of the opposition that negotiations will cure decades of unrest. territory. The conflict is religious. It may be are supporting the government’s initiative. Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at “The prime minister said clearly that he the signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. supports negotiations without preconditions. the results anyone would have hoped for, Yet he hasn’t said where he stands on the including the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis outcome of negotiations,” said Likud’s Danon. and 3,000 Palestinians, and agree that the Israelis “I think the Israelis are waking up and and Palestinians are more skeptical than ever they have understood that the idea is not valid about the prospects for a negotiated settlement. anymore, and we see more and more Israelis Where Knesset members disagree is on shifting. We should not endorse any idea that whether the process was flawed from the outset, we will give land to the Palestinians,” he said. and on whether the principles that led to the Labor’s Bar, however, believes it is the very signing of the interim peace agreement should distrust between Israelis and Palestinians that still be applied. Consequently, the 20-year makes segregating Israel into two separate states anniversary of the Oslo Accords—signed Sept. a necessity. Bar insists that if peace efforts had 13, 1993—is not a celebration of the agreement’s played out only slightly differently, the creation outcome, but rather a debate on its merits. of an independent Palestinian state in the West “The main lesson is that the paradigm of the Bank provinces of Judea and Samaria could

left, that land for peace will bring security to the have resulted. 90 : F lash region, has failed, and this is the time to think “We had three major attempts to make clearly that we should not endorse a Palestinian peace,” said Bar. “One was Rabin, Arafat. The state,” Member of Knesset and Deputy Defense treaty was signed. But as we know, Rabin was Minister Danny Danon (Likud) told JNS.org. shot down by a Jewish terrorist. There is no way C redit P hoto Member of Knesset Hilik (Yehiel) Bar, to know what would have happened if Rabin Paramedics and police at the scene of a Palestinian suicide bombing, killing 19 and injuring 74, on a bus Secretary General of the Labor Party and were still alive.” in Jerusalem on June 18, 2002. Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, said to think The second attempt was between Prime about the alternatives to the Oslo Accords and Minister Ehud Barak and Arafat, according to “Everytime you try a certain medicine and difficult for liberals to realize that the conflict to Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations “is Bar. During those negotiations, Barak offered it doesn’t work, you need to either realize the may not have a logical solution.” foolish, unfair, and it will not happen.” Arafat more than 95 percent of the West Bank medicine doesn’t work or reanalyze the disease,” “We’ve been there, we’ve done that. We’ve “There is no other option than to have a for a Palestinian state. Arafat famously rejected said Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi tried it. It failed. We need to try something else,” Jewish state and a Palestinian state that is based the offer, and embarrassed mediating U.S. Hotovely (Likud). she said. on the 67 borders,” Bar told JNS.org. President Bill Clinton in the process. “Oslo was based on three incorrect Meanwhile, the debate on Oslo continues. n Currently, details of the new round of Israeli- “Arafat chose to die as a shahid (martyr), not assumptions,” Hotovely said. “The first

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couples have to make on which faith to raise Yet interest in Birthright continues to rise. Birthright is also expanding in a variety “Although only a small percentage of Taglit their children is not something that I will According to Jeffrey Solomon, president of of international directions. According to alumni have already become Jewish leaders, need to worry about,” he said. Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, Gail Hyman, Birthright’s vice president of among young adults taking leadership roles, But not all participants fall in line with one of the philanthropic organizations communications and marketing, last spring those who have participated in Taglit are over- survey findings. Dan Eisenberg, an assistant involved with Birthright since its founding, the program launched a new “Tour Educator represented. Anecdotally, among the next professor in anthropology at the University last year about 34,000 students went on the Institute” so that tour educators “are better generation of Jewish professionals, we’re seeing of Washington who went on Birthright in program and about 42,000 will go this year, an prepared” for “the cultural differences many who come out of a Taglit experience and 2004, fondly remembers “hiking through approximately 25-percent increase. presented by a wide range of trip participants some who attribute their desire to work in the beautiful landscapes and nice times,” and “It is without question the best philanthropic from now more than 60 countries.” Jewish community to Taglit,” Saxe said. still remains friends with one of the Israeli investment we ever made. It’s been a success Additionally, dozens of countries looking Susannah Sagan’s son didn’t really enjoy soldiers on his trip. Eisenberg, however, still beyond our dreams,” he told JNS.org. to connect Diasporas with their motherlands his own Birthright experience, but when he doesn’t consider it very important to marry a This May, philanthropists Sheldon and are taking notice of Birthright. “I’ve just been returned to the U.S., he said, “I don’t know Jewish partner. Miriam Adelson donated another $40 to a conference in Dublin where everybody what it is but I think about Jerusalem every Eisenberg also said that despite the million to the Birthright Israel Foundation, was talking about Birthright-Israel as a day.” Shortly after, he returned to Jerusalem Birthright experience, he doesn’t buy bringing their total contribution to the pioneer in this. We were approached already for a 10-week career internship. the story some Israelis tell that they are program to $180 million. by countries like Bulgaria... and we are happy “These are the people who are going to “somehow more true Jews because they are “Exposing young Jews to Israel helps to help those who approach us,” Mark said. sit on federation boards... on all the Jewish living in a land with some historical roots… broaden their awareness and deepen their The true impact of Birthright on young agency boards.” Sagan said. n and among a contemporary culture that is cultural identity,” Miriam Adelson said, Jews around the world, in terms of fostering —With reporting by Jacob Kamaras predominantly Jewish.” according to Israel Hayom. leadership, may not be obvious for years.

18 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 I Books Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra 85 Years of Excellence Crucified Again an important and timely Autumn Students get 50% off! read on the plight of Middle East Christians (in sections A-D) By Sean Savage/JNS.org Cellobration n an unprecedented wave of violence against restrictions on Christian worship and Christian Egypt’s Coptic Christian community last freedom, and an overall climate of hate. Saturday, Oct. 19 Imonth, Islamic terrorists targeted several This focus constitutes Ibrahim’s work’s dozen churches, schools, businesses and homes. greatest strength. 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Philip Roth—chronicler of American-Jewish life Rachel Urist, staff writer ince Philip Roth’s surprise announce- To read a review of the book, Google it. ment that he will write no more novels, I will not review it here. I will, instead, let Philip Roth’s literary awards She has become the focus of consider- Roth’s mastery speak for itself. Man Booker International Prize able attention. Last March, PBS broadcast a Roth describes a walk he took with his Pulitzer Prize for Fiction documentary of his life, including interviews father through Elizabeth, New Jersey. “That’s PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction with Roth, several of his friends, a few liter- where Millie used to live,” Franz Kafka Prize ary colleagues, and scholars. (The video is says the father. The son National Book Award for Fiction available online at: http://video.pbs.org/vid- explains: “Millie was one Common Wealth Award eo/2359116301/) The month of the broadcast, of my mother’s two younger of Distinguished Service Roth turned 80. He begins the documentary by sisters; she had died at James Fenimore Cooper Prize saying: “In the coming years, I have two calami- seventy-eight, only a few PEN/Nabokov Award ties to face: death and a biography. Let’s hope months earlier, and by New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year the first comes first.” pointing to her building he National Book Critics Circle Award for Roth admits to being flawed and confesses had been pointing not to Fiction to feeling shame. (The source seems rooted where she used to live but Prix Médicis Étranger in his personal, not professional life.) As a to where she who no longer Medal of Distinguished Contribution to writer, he has long been lionized. His opus lived lived no longer.” American Letters Phillip Roth at 80 includes 28 novels, two memoirs, and a Before taking the walk, National Jewish Book Award for Fiction Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form number of short stories. He has been called the writer had to persuade his father to get up Young Phillip Roth “his country’s most decorated living author,” and leave his apartment. Roth records that Alternate History words. I am fifty-five, my father almost and his awards are enviable. (See sidebars for exchange, which begins with the son giving American Academy of Arts and Letters eighty-seven, and the year is 1988: “Do his opus and honors.) orders to the father. Gold Medal for Fiction as I say,” I tell him−and he does it. The I began to re-read his novels after −Look, put on your sweater and put on New Jersey Notable Book Award end of one era, the beginning of another. watching the PBS documentary, in the your walking shoes. It’s a beautiful day Ambassador Book Award for Fiction Recalling his father’s quirks, especially American Masters series. Given that Roth and you can’t sit around inside like this Lifetime Literary Achievement Award his penchant for nudging (pestering), Roth announced his retirement a month before with the shades drawn and so on. National Book Critics Circle Award for writes, not without admiration: my father died, I turned first to Patrimony, −I’m fine inside. Biography/Autobiography He could never understand that a which I read shortly after its publication, 22 I then spoke four words to him, four capacity for renunciation and iron self- years ago. It is an honest but moving portrait words that I’d never uttered to him discipline like his own was extraordinary Humbling, Roth’s psychological perspicuity of his father and their complex relationship before in my life. “Do as I say,” I told and not an endowment shared by all. ... is sublime. Nothing goes unexamined. In over the years. him. And they worked, those four He had no idea just how unproductive, Patrimony, the father’s aging and infirmity how maddening, even, at times, how meld with tales of the mother’s demise and Phillip Roth’s books cruel his admonishing could be. He would burial. Roth documents heartbreak with Zuckerman novels Other novels have told you that you can lead a horse exactingly ordered memories. The whole is The Ghost Writer (1979) Goodbye, Columbus (1959) to water and you CAN make him drink. elegant. While Roth does not like being called Zuckerman Unbound (1981) Letting Go (1962) You just hock him until he comes to his an “American-Jewish writer” (“I don’t write in The Anatomy Lesson (1983) When She Was Good (1967) senses and does it. (Hock: a Yiddishism Jewish. I grew up in America; I’m an American The Prague Orgy (1985) Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) that in this context means to badger, to writer.”), but he has been called “the chronicler (The above four books are collected as Our Gang (1971) bludgeon, to hammer with warnings and of the American-Jewish experience.” After Zuckerman Bound) The Great American Novel (1973) edicts and pleas--in short, to drill a hole in writing Portnoy’s Complaint, he was shocked The Counterlife (1986) My Life As a Man (1974) somebody’s head with words.) at being called “anti-Semitic,” and “a self- American Pastoral (1997) Sabbath’s Theater (1995) The reader recognizes that Roth uses this hating Jew.” The book was written as a kind I Married a Communist (1998) Short novels metaphor after learning that his father, who has of stand-up exercise, to entertain his fictive The Human Stain (2000) Everyman (2006) a brain tumor, is about to undergo neurosurgery. psychoanalyst. (He had benefited from Exit Ghost (2007) Indignation (2008) Philip Roth is direct and incisive. He writes psychoanalysis and had discovered that he Roth novels The Humbling (2009) about ordinary life in extraordinary ways. had a flair for comedy.) He never thought that Deception: A Novel (1990) Nemesis (2010) Where most see a pool, he sees waters many readers would conflate him with his fictional Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) Non-fiction fathoms deep. He describes each layer with characters – or that they would take the book’s The Plot Against America (2004) The Facts: A Novelist’s breathtaking precision. Where other authors “confessions” at face value. Kepesh novels Autobiography (1988) tell stories that set off imaginary escapades, Roth’s contribution to American and world The Breast (1972) Patrimony: A True Story (1991) Roth’s novels turn us inward, inspire literature has been substantial. He remains an The Professor of Desire (1977) introspection. In Patrimony, The Plot Against inspiration to the nation’s up-and-coming The Dying Animal (2001) America, Indignation, Nemesis, Everyman, The writers, both Jewish and non-Jewish. n

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Master storyteller Laura Pershin Raynor releases two new CDs Sandor Slomovits, staff writer begin with a disclaimer this month. Laura times I get a little carried away, and I don’t weekend, and the last time I was there I got turns out your dad only told the men in Pershin Raynor has been a friend, a col- always know what direction things are go- the same kind of reaction, “Oh my good- your family. league, and someone whose work I’ve ing. I know what the truth is, but do I really ness our people are so similar!” I Pershin Raynor: That was a surprise because admired for a long time. For years, when my know the truth?” And they just laughed, all WJN: Landsman! We’re all landsman. (Laugh- I thought I’d heard all of Dad’s stories. I’d daughter was younger, our standing weekly three of them totally different personalities, ter) You clearly have a lot of affection for all spent hours and hours with him towards Tuesday afternoon tradition was to head for and said, “You take the stories to your place. of your characters and yet you’re also very the end of his life and he just wanted to the Ann Arbor Library and listen to “Miss You do what you need to do. You know we honest. You don’t whitewash yourself, your tell stories, thank goodness, and I just Laura” tell stories. already exaggerated. (Laughter) You know grandma, and your parents. You all come wanted to listen. A couple of days before But there is no nepotism at work here. we’ve always already changed them.” So across as imperfect, wonderful human my father died our daughters just hap- I interviewed her seven years ago in these I really felt like they gave me this gift, this beings, not people who are too good to pened to be in town and they joined my pages because of her skills as a master permission to go a little loony with the sto- be true. sister and Mom and I, as we spent an en- storyteller, skills that are well known in ries, to put my stamp on the stories. And if tire day listening to Dad tell stories. And it our community, but also nationally. Laura I needed to explain a time period in a way Pershin Raynor: I feel like the more I tell, was just a miracle. So, we thought we had has performed at festivals from California that would support the story, I could go off the more I realize that there are points heard them all. A few months afterwards, to Utah, to Texas and Tennessee, has given on that tangent. I really felt like I was given in performing where you get an “ah ha” we’re at a family gathering and Jonathan, workshops on Jewish stories at Brandeis a cousin who married into the family just University, and taught storytelling at Elder a few years ago says, “You know what my Hostels at Harvard. In 1997 she was named favorite Lenny story is?” and he tells this “National Storyteller of the Year” by the story. And my sister and I look at each Creative Arts Institute of America, and in other…and we’re pissed off! (Laughter) 2006 she received the “Award of Merit” a How is that possible that we never heard career achievement award from her peers this story? Then Kenny, my husband says, at the Children’s Services Division of the “Lenny told me that story right before I Michigan Library Association. married you.” (Laughter) And another In 2006 she released two recordings of male family member says, “Oh yeah. He her family stories, A Well Kept Secret, and told me that story, too.” So, how cool is All Dressed Up, and when I learned recently that? And the story was a warning story. that she has released two more CDs, Tough The story was about one of my dad’s Cookies and Summertime, I wanted to catch favorite customers, Marlene. Dad was a up with her. I began by asking what has plumber. She was one of the wealthier changed in her life in the past seven years women in town and she hired him often, and she told me that her father, the subject of to install a shower at the outside pool, many of her stories, had passed away. or a fancy whirlpool. Marlene was very Pershin Raynor: I remember when the first gullible, and my dad, always the trick- CDs came out, those were the stories I’d ster, would play tricks on her. Then he been telling for years with Uncle Al in the Laura Pershin Raynor would come home with stories for my audience and Dad and Mom sitting in the mom about how he tricked Marlene. the permission. And once I felt that I just moment. Often my meeting place with front row. Even my grandma Dinah was Well, one time Marlene was out of town had to be careful that I also ask for permis- the audience is at those moments when alive when I first started telling, and she for the weekend with her kids, and my sion from friends who were in the stories. the edginess and the flaws come out. It’s would listen to stories about herself and dad got a call late at night from her hus- You know, there is this desire on my part to the little surprise moments like, “Oh, so chuckle and respond. And now, sudden- band. “There’s a diamond ring stuck in keep certain people alive. I lost a few friends you were checking out that blonde on the ly I’m on the stage without any of them the drain of the sink. Could you come get quite young, and so I can’t go to them. All I blanket, not sure if you were gonna like there, except Mom, and feeling their pres- it out?” And my dad said, “Sure, tomor- can do is respect them as much as possible, her just ’cause she was gonna take away ence everywhere I go. They’re just there, row morning, I’ll be there.” And the man and share the stories with their parents who all the boys.” supporting me, laughing with me, going, said, “No, I need you to get it out tonight. outlived them and share the stories with my “No, that’s not how it happened!” WJN: The Exchange Student. Sylvia Li- I’ll pay you triple time.” As my dad drove Mom’s kooky neighbor friend, where she povetsky. That’s exactly the story I was over there, something was bugging him. WJN: That brings up a good point. How comes across just as kooky as she was. thinking of. While he was taking apart the sink trap close do you stay to the truth? WJN: Your stories often have Jewish references. it hit him that Marlene was out of town. Pershin Raynor: So, right away, at the begin- Pershin Raynor: In my family there were so To me though, they are stories that with mi- She couldn’t have dropped a diamond ning of that story, you know something many natural storytellers, and that meant nor changes could be Italian or…any other ring down the drain. My father complet- important about me, that I was seventeen that there was a lot of exaggeration, a lot of ethnicity. Do you ever wonder if non-Jews ed the job, handed the ring to Marlene’s and that sexy girls made me nervous. It tells glorifying of the past, changing the past so miss some of the references, or if you need husband, looked him in the eye and said you a lot about where the story is going, but that it was clean enough for the children, to make changes so non-Jews will under- “Don’t you ever call me again.” Of course then when Sylvia stands up to the history (Laughter) or funny enough to entertain a stand the stories? my Dad, the trickster, came up with a very teacher and she makes that little awkward group after dinner, sitting around the table. creative way to get his revenge. So it’s a Pershin Raynor: One of the best things that speech, you have another “ah ha” moment, I remember as a kid, because I sat there be- warning story my Dad told to all the men happened to me early on—it’s well over 20 like “This is a very intelligent young woman, ing the story sponge, there was always the in the family. “You’re marrying into the years ago—I started going to this festival who knew more than any of the little Jewish argument between Aunt Sadie and Aunt family. You be true, you be loving, you in Texas. They wanted a Jewish storyteller kids in the room, or even the teacher, about Rosie as to what happened to whom. So I never…” So even after he passed away, my and I would be telling in a church. I was what happened with Roosevelt. It’s that grew up with this unconscious understand- dad left this story behind. pretty nervous about how my stories would moment in the story where I feel like the ing that stories shift and change, depending go over. That first year this man came up audience and I have gotten a little bit clos- Pershin Raynor’s stories are available on CD on the telling and the place, and the mood to me, and he was so sweet. He was about er. I also like to give the audience enough through her website, LPRaynor.com, but they of the teller and the audience. And yet, when half my size, he took my hand in his and he time. I want to respect the audience and will soon also be available online through the I went off to tell my own stories in public, had tears in his eyes and he said, “Your little give them a chance to make the leap maybe Ann Arbor District Library’s website. Explains where there were no family members, my Jewish grandma was exactly like my little even before I, as the speaker, have. That’s Laura,“It was my pleasure to license my work question to myself was, one, what could Latina grandma.” And then he said, “Thank just really fun for me. I feel like every story I to the library for free downloading. This is part possibly be interesting enough to share with you. Thank you for bringing back all these write I hope that there’s some little surprise, of an innovative new digital collection. Library non family members, and two, what was my memories of my grandma.” And that was my cute little round grandma teaching me card holders will be able to go to AADL’s website role, as the story collector, which I took very it. After that it was, “OK. They’ve asked me some Yiddish curses, my dad coming up and listen to any of the stories. I feel so lucky to seriously, how much of the truth could I here for a reason. I’m hopefully telling from with the copper mind-reading glasses… share stories with my community through the stretch to make the stories universally ap- the heart enough that the little Jewish de- library where I have happily worked for almost pealing. So I went to Grandma Dinah and I WJN: You are still writing down the stories of tails translate in some cozy way. After that three decades.” n went to Dad and I went to Mom and I asked your family, and recently you found a new I felt I could tell anywhere. I’m going off to their permission. I said, “You know, some- story, one you hadn’t heard before, one it tell stories to a largely Mormon crowd this

Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 21 I Kosher Cuisine

Celebrating Mary Bilyeu, staff writer any wonderful cooking tradi- And yet, Ruhlman says, “Never in my had no idea that had an actual history. the same way that there is no substitute for tions have traveled with the Jews experience, though, is this railing against America was just coming out of the culinary the aroma of a truffle, that nothing smells or through centuries of displace- more forcefully voiced than when Jews talk dark ages - I was a twenty-two-year-old boy tastes quite like it, so too does schmaltz add M from Cleveland who didn’t even know that flavor and richness to a range of preparations ment and have survived against unlikely about schmaltz. Schmaltz cannot be uttered odds,” as the introduction to a brand new Jew- without someone talking about clogged fresh basil existed. But of course knishes have that simply cannot be imitated or reproduced ish cookbook states on its dust jacket. “Yet a arteries and an early grave. There’s Jewish a history that is glorious for its simplicity any other way. Potatoes take on a crispness and staple ingredient in traditional guilt, which is such a powerful emotion that and necessity: mashed potatoes baked in taste that vegetable oil can’t produce. Meats and ... is at risk of disappearing from use.” even a goy such as myself is afflicted, and then dough, all enriched with schmaltz.” Someone starches enriched with schmaltz have a depth But just when you thought right behind it is Fear who didn’t grow up with traditional Jewish and complexity that put them on a different it might be going out of fashion, of Schmaltz. The word cuisine has become thoroughly enamored of spectrum from those same foods prepared as olive oil is touted for its itself even sounds bad. it. And with this cookbook, he invites other with olive oil or butter.” healthy properties and other Moreover, it has entered newcomers to discover it for themselves while Lois Baron, Ruhlman’s neighbor and the fancy varieties of oil are brought our language as a simultaneously refreshing it for those who inspiration for this book because of her passion to market, schmaltz is making a derogatory term ....” need no introduction. for this critical ingredient, states: “Schmaltz is comeback. Yes, schmaltz! But “Schmaltz Is In his Love Song to a Forgotten Fat, Ruhlman like a thread that runs through a great tapestry. states unequivocally that “nothing tastes like It’s a secret handshake among Jews who love to The Book of Schmaltz: Love Good, and Schmaltz Is n Song to a Forgotten Fat, by James Great”, Ruhlman says. schmaltz. It’s utterly unique, with an aromatic cook and eat.” Beard Award-winning author “My goal here is not savoriness as distinctive as a great olive oil. In Michael Ruhlman, celebrates simply to give schmaltz schmaltz in dishes that range from back, guilt-free, to the Egg and Spread the traditional to the novel. The Jews, but to give it to “I wanted to include this Baron family recipe because it underscores how rooted in poverty Jewish cookbook shows that this critical American home cooks cuisine is. This is a traditional spread to be served on crackers or toast, an easy and inexpensive ingredient is still relevant, and even far and wide.” canapé. It shows off the versatility of the egg, the power of schmaltz to enrich, the forcefulness of contemporary. And so, The Book of Schmaltz provides the gribenes to flavor, and the power of the . Onion and egg, that’s it .... (Its) greatness lies Ruhlman - who has co-authored books on recipes for classic Jewish dishes such as in this simplicity.” charcuterie and salumi with Brian Polcyn, an and , but also brings the 4 large eggs instructor at Schoolcraft College in Livonia ingredient into a new realm with sophisticated 1/2 Spanish onion, finely diced and a Detroit-area restaurateur - notes that, Parisienne Gnocchi. There are also a few 1/2 tablespoons schmaltz “just as American chefs and home cooks have treyf recipes - for Scones with Roasted Red kosher only recently discovered (these) age-old crafts Pepper and Parmigiano-Reggiano, as well as freshly ground ... so too should we look to Jewish cuisine to for Vichyssoise with Gribenes and Chives - 2 tablespoons gribenes preserve what might be lost. Charcuterie and while the one for Savory Brioche can be made optional additions: 1/4 teaspoon cayenne, 1 tablespoon salumi are largely defined by a specific animal kosher with appropriate substitutions. In this minced shallot, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon fish sauce, diced celery and its fat; it’s likewise logical, then, to focus way, Ruhlman opens up the world of schmaltz our attention not on the entirety of Jewish beyond the -observant Jewish In a small saucepan, cover the eggs with 1” of water and bring the water to a boil over high heat. cuisine but rather on the animal and the fat community and invites others in to discover As soon as the water reaches a full boil, cover the pan and take it off the heat. Let the eggs sit in that define this distinctive branch of it.” the rich legacy and potential of this ingredient. the covered pan, off the heat, for 12-15 minutes, then remove them from the water. Run the eggs As we’ve learned the difference between But the heart and soul of the cookbook under cold water, or transfer them to an ice bath, till they’re thoroughly chilled. Peel the eggs. HDL and LDL, memorized the numbers is Old World Yiddische cuisine. Kishke - “a Meanwhile, in a separate small saucepan over medium heat, sauté half the onion in 1 teaspoon when our test results come back, and sought starch-based stuffing that was once served at schmaltz till translucent. It’s a good idea to give it a pinch of salt as you do this, so don’t be shy. to improve the former while minimizing every Jewish celebration but has fallen out of Transfer the onion to a plate and allow to cool slightly. the latter, schmaltz has been rendered - pun fashion” - is featured, as Ruhlman believes it Combine all the ingredients except the celery, if using, and gribenes. Do any of the following: intended - verboten. How many of you still “deserves to be resurrected.” He even offers a put them through a meat grinder fitted with a medium or small die; coarsely chop them in use it, hmmm ...? We ban fat from our diets, recipe for , which is essentially kishke a food processor; chop by hand and finish by mashing to a pleasing consistency with a fork. while increasing sugars and other ingredients “wrapped in chicken skin with wings still Then fold in the celery, if using, and the gribenes. to compensate for the flavor loss. We trade one attached and roasted to a golden brown.” Yield: 2 cups demonized ingredient for another, believing And then there is “The Mighty ,” a fat to be the greater of the evils; it has become food Ruhlman was introduced to when he something to fear. first moved to New York City. He writes: “I Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cherries “That’s right: schmaltz oatmeal cookies. We had to have something sweet! The schmaltz does have a great effect here - it doesn’t make the cookie taste like chicken, but it does give it a savory depth Schmaltz to balance the sweetness. Using schmaltz in a cookie turns out to be a fascinating and useful “You can do all kinds of things to schmaltz to spice it up - for instance, cooking dried chilies example of balancing sweet and savory ingredients.” in it or adding star or Chinese five-spice powde—but we’re sticking to the basics here: 3/4 cup schmaltz, well chilled or frozen traditional rendered chicken fat with onion.” 1/2 cup sugar skin and fat from 8 chicken thighs (or 2 cups miscellaneous 1/2 cup packed brown sugar reserved chicken skin and fat) 1 egg 1/4 cup water 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1 Spanish onion, cut into medium dice 11/2 teaspoons 1 teaspoon kosher salt Put the chopped skin and fat in a medium saucepan and cook 1 in a small amount of water to begin the rendering at a gentle 1 /2 cups all-purpose 1 teaspoon baking powder temperature; bring to a simmer over high heat. (The finer you 2 cups old-fashioned oats (not quick-cooking) chop the skin, the more efficiently it will render.) Once the 2/3 cup dried cherries water and the moisture in the fat and skin have cooked off, the fat can rise above 212F and the browning can begin. Turn the burner to low and allow the fat to render; this will take Preheat oven to 350°F. anywhere from 90 minutes to several hours. Stir every now and then so that it doesn’t stick Cut the schmaltz into chunks and put it, along with both sugars, into the bowl of a standing to the bottom and burn. mixture fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on high until the fat is fluffy, 2 minutes or so. When the skin is lightly browned and plenty of fat has been rendered, add the chopped Add the egg, vanilla, and cinnamon and mix on low to incorporate. onion. Be careful not to overcook the fat. It should remain clear and yellow, not brown with Combine the salt, flour, and baking powder, and add this to the mixing bowl. Paddle on an overly roasted flavor. The browned skin and onion, called gribenes, are a delicious by- medium to combine, 30 seconds or so. Add the oats and paddle to combine. Add the cherries product of making schmaltz. and paddle to combine. Strain the fat and reserve the gribenes; if you want very clear fat, line the strainer with Shape the dough into golf ball-sized orbs and place on a cookie sheet. Flatten them to your cheesecloth. The schmaltz is ready to use, to refrigerate for up to a week, or to freeze. The desired thickness (they won’t spread much, but they will puff). Bake the cookies until done, gribenes should also be refrigerated or frozen. about 15 minutes. Yield: 1/2 cup schmaltz and 1/2 cup gribenes Yield: about 18 cookies

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Sunday 6 Thursday 10 Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. October 2013 Russ Collins Film Discussion Group: JCC. Monthly series of ten classes. Russ Collins, Fall Brunch: Ann Arbor ORT. Featuring Sephardi Lecture: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Executive Director of the Michigan Theater Tuesday 1 and Mizrahi recipes developed by Jews who “Women and the Musical Libel Against the and co-host of WEMU’s Cinema Chat, leads settled Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East Jews in Two Fourteenth Century Texts,” discussions of movie plots and characters as and North Africa. “On the Ground in Israel: presented by Frankel Fellow Dorothy Kim. For well as the unique cinematic elements that Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): ORT Works!” will be presented by keynote information, see www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic/ All ages and levels welcome including UM and send subtle messages to viewers. Films selected speaker Andi Wolfe. $10 donation requested. events. 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Held at Beanster’s Café, Hebrew 102: TBE. 5:30 p.m. Council for Peace and Justice. Community- system by following the intriguing discussions ground floor of UM Michigan League. For Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. wide event to raise funds to end hunger locally in the Talmud. The Talmud is a composite information, call 936-2367. 1:30 p.m. and abroad. TBE hosts the Washtenaw County of practical law, logical argumentation and Eastern Michigan University Evening Learning Thursday 3 walk. Food donations support the Back Door moral teachings. Study of the original Talmud Series: JCC. Two four-session courses offered. Food Pantry. Registration at 1 p.m. Send-off tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. The first course, “Paradoxes in Jewish- Monthly Birthday Celebration: JCC Seniors. service at 1:30 p.m. Walk begins at 2 p.m. American Politics,” is taught by Professor Celebration for JCC members born in Contact Rodger Wolff at rwolff@sigmarep. Friday 11 Jeffrey Bernstein from 7–8:15 p.m. The second October. Cake and Ice Cream followed by com or by phone at 662-4981 with questions. course, “Fighting for Acceptance: British special program. 12:30 p.m. “We Are All Litvaks and Why it Matters:” BIC. Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. Informal Jewry in the Nineteenth Century,” is taught Presentation: JCC Seniors. Quilt artists Carol Presented by Lonnie Sussman. 7:45 p.m. discussion. Participants are welcome to bring by Professor Andrea Kaston from 8:30–9:30 Wineman and Carol Finerman will speak lunch. Noon–1 p.m. p.m. $100 per course for JCC members or $110 for non-members. Or, $180 for both about their quilts. 1 p.m. Monday 7 Performing Art Series: JCC. Featuring the Ann Arbor courses for members; $200/non-members. For Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4 p.m. Civic Theater offering readings from Downton information, contact karenfreedland@jccfed. English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. Abbey. Tickets at JCC front desk or by phone Drama Workshop: JCC. Three-session workshop org. Also October 22 & 29 and November 5. concentrating on the concepts and theories of Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– at 971-0990. $10/per person. For information, Spirituality Book Club: TBE. Evening book club Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky and Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays contact [email protected]. 1 p.m. session focuses on The Choosing: A Rabbi’s his followers. Professor Leonora Ivanitsky will at Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. Tot Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days, lead the class and introduce some of the over Street. For more information, contact JFS at Shabbat at 6 p.m. Tot Dinner at 1:30 p.m. by Rabbi Andrea Myers. For information, 200 theater exercises developed by Stanislavsky 769-0209 or email [email protected]. Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Family Service contact Cantor Annie Rose at cantorannie@ and featured in her own book, Realm of the Ongoing. and First Grade consecration at 7:30 p.m. gmail.com. 7:30–8:30 p.m. Game. $45/JCC members; $60/non-members. Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. Friday evening services: See listing at the end of Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: RSVP in-person at the JCC or by phone at 971- Men’s Torah Study: TBE. Twice monthly the calendar. 0990. For information, email karenfreedland@ evening of learning. Refreshments served. Chabad. Reading the Torah may be easy, but jccfed.org. 7 p.m. Also October 10, 17. For information, contact Roger Stutesman by understanding it is no simple matter. Study Saturday 12 the text in the original, with the classical Rashi Talmudic Debates: The Holidays of the Year. BIC. phone at 352-1170 or at rogerstutesman8707@ comcast.net. 7:30 p.m. commentary. 8 p.m. Every Tuesday. Facilitated by Rabbi Robert Dobrusin. 8 p.m. Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. Kings, Prophets, Sages: An Introduction to Talmud–Jewish Civil War: Chabad. Sharpen Shabbat Limmud: BIC. 9 a.m. your wits and knowledge of the Jewish legal Jewish Leadership Models. TBE. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday 16 Bar Mitzvah Service: TBE. 10 a.m. system by following the intriguing discussions nd in the Talmud. The Talmud is a composite Tuesday 8 Mini Minyan: BIC. For K–2 Grade. 11:15 a.m. Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. of practical law, logical argumentation and Tot Shabbat: BIC. 11:15 a.m. Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. moral teachings. Study of the original Talmud Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): Family Square Dance: JCC. Grab your partner Hebrew 102: TBE. 5:30 p.m. tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. All ages and levels welcome including UM and for an old fashioned square dance with a caller Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. non-UM participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s on hand to teach the dances. Snacks and drinks Friday 4 Café, ground floor of UM Michigan League. available. RSVP in-person at the JCC or by Thursday 17 For information, call 936-2367. phone at 971-0990. $5/person; $15/household. For information, email noreendeyoung@ Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. Informal Lecture: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Spirituality Book Club: TBE. Lunchtime book jccfed.org. 7:30 p.m. discussion. Participants are welcome to bring “Researching the Protocols of the Elders of club session focuses on The Choosing: A Rabbi’s lunch. Noon–1 p.m. Zion: Do We Know the Russian Author of Shabbat services: See listing at the end of the Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days, Performing Art Series: JCC. Featuring Ann the Forgery?” presented by Henryk Baran of calendar. by Rabbi Andrea Myers. For information, Arbor Symphony Chamber Concert. Tickets SUNY Albany. For information, see www.lsa. contact Cantor Annie Rose at cantorannie@ at JCC front desk or by phone at 971-0990. umich.edu/judaic/events. 202 South Thayer, Sunday 13 gmail.com. Noon–1:30 p.m. Room 2022. 4 p.m. $10/per person. For information, contact Health Fair: JCC Seniors. Free blood pressure [email protected]. 1 p.m. Hebrew 104: TBE. 5 p.m. Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the screenings provided by the nurses of CARE Friday Night Lights: BIC. Service at 6 p.m. Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: basic text of Chassidism and discover the beauty Response who visit the JCC on the second followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Chabad. Reading the Torah may be easy, but and depth of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Every Sunday. Thursday of each month. Free Flu shots for Shabbat Services for Families: TBE. Tot Shabbat at understanding it is no simple matter. Study Planning Session: BIC Men’s Club. 9:30 a.m. those who are insured. Cost is $23 for those 6:00 p.m. Tot dinner at 6:30 p.m. Popsicle Oneg the text in the original, with the classical Rashi Sixth Grade Bar/Bat Mitzvah Family Series: BIC. who are uninsured. Flu shots and other follows. Shabbat Family Service at 7:30 p.m. commentary. 8 p.m. Every Tuesday. 10:30 a.m. vaccinations provided by Rite Aid. To RSVP for Friday evening services: See listing at the end of a flu shot, contact Rachael at 971-0990 or email the calendar. Wednesday 9 Monday 14 [email protected]. 12:30 p.m. Presentation: JCC Seniors. Joyce Kessler, of St. Joseph Mercy’s Trauma Injury Prevention, will Saturday 5 Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. present a refresher course, “Balance Your Life,” Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– as a follow-up to her previous series on injury Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. Hebrew 102: TBE. 5:30 p.m. Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays prevention. 1 p.m. Chapel Services: TBE. 10 a.m. Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. at Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State Street. For more information, contact JFS at Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4 p.m. Havdalah Service and Dinner: TBE Brotherhood. Women’s Torah Study with Cantor Rose: TBE. 769-0209 or email [email protected]. Drama Workshop: JCC. 7 p.m. See October 3. 6 p.m. For information, contact cantorannie@gmail. Ongoing. Talmudic Debates: The Holidays of the Year. BIC. Shabbat services: See listing at the end of com. 7 p.m. Torah Trop: TBE. Noon. Facilitated by Rabbi Robert Dobrusin. 8 p.m. the calendar.

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Talmud–Jewish Civil War: Chabad. Sharpen by JT Waldman, Illustrator and Digital Tot Shabbat: BIC. 11:15 a.m. scholars. Home hospitality available for your wits and knowledge of the Jewish legal Designer. For information, see www.lsa. Pumpkin Carving and Drinks: TBE. Meeting . UM Hillel. system by following the intriguing discussions umich.edu/judaic/events. 202 South Thayer, offsite. 1 p.m. Shabbat Services: BIC. 9:30 a.m. Morning in the Talmud. The Talmud is a composite Room 2022. 4 p.m. childcare from 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. of practical law, logical argumentation and Hebrew 104: TBE. 6:15 p.m. Sunday 27 Shabbat Services: AA Reconstructionist moral teachings. Study of the original Talmud Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Congregation. Learners’ Service held first tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. Chabad. Reading the Torah may be easy, but Gan Katan: BIC. 10:30 a.m. or second Saturday each month at the JCC from 10 a.m.–noon. Discussion-based format understanding it is no simple matter. Study Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into with changing topics, focusing on historical, Friday 18 the text in the original, with the classical Rashi the basic text of Chassidism and discover the geographical, and political traditions of commentary. 8 p.m. Every Tuesday. beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Every Sunday. Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. Informal different parts of traditional service each discussion. Participants are welcome to bring Wednesday 23 month. Regular morning service generally held lunch. Noon–1 p.m. Monday 28 on the second or third Saturday each month at the JCC from 10 a.m.–noon. Traditionally Performing Art Series: JCC. Featuring Emily and San Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. Torah Trop Classes: TBE. Noon. based, with music plus a lengthy Torah Slamovits on violin and guitar. Tickets at JCC front Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. discussion. For info, email [email protected] desk or by phone at 971-0990. For information, Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. Hebrew 102: TBE. 5:30 p.m. or call 913-9705 or visit www.aarecon.org. contact [email protected]. 1 p.m. Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. Shabbat Services: Chabad. Friday night services Sixth Grade Shabbaton: BIC. 4:15 p.m. Tuesday 29 Women’s Torah Study with Cantor Rose: TBE. at Shabbat candle lighting time. Saturday Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. Tot For information, contact cantorannie@gmail. Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): morning services at 9:45 a.m. Afternoon Shabbat at 6:00 p.m. Tot dinner at 6:30 p.m. com. 7 p.m. All ages and levels welcome including UM and services 45 minutes before sundown. Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Family Service non-UM participants. Meet at Beanster’s Café, Shabbat Services: Pardes Hannah. Generally at 7:30 p.m. Thursday 24 ground floor of UM Michigan League. For meets the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each Friday evening services: See listing at end of calendar. information, call 936-2367. 1:30 p.m. month. Call 663-4039 for more information. 10 a.m. Led by Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg. Presentation: JCC Seniors. Glenn Clark, Hebrew 104: TBE. 6:15 p.m. Saturday 19 Shabbat Services: TBE. Torah Study with Rabbi Michigan Senior Brigade of the Attorney Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Levy at 8:50 a.m. Morning Minyan with Rabbi General’s Consumer Protection Division, will Chabad. Reading the Torah may be easy, but Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. Delson and lay leaders at 9:30 a.m. Sanctuary discuss identity theft. 1 p.m. understanding it is no simple matter. Study Shabbat services: See listing at end of calendar. Service at 10 a.m. most weeks. Call the office Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4 p.m. the text in the original, with the classical Rashi at 665-4744 or consult website at www. Sunday 20 A Night in Vienna with Mozart and Freud: JCC. commentary. 8 p.m. Every Tuesday. templebethemeth.org for service details. Presenting Julie Jaffee Nagel, composer of Home Hospitality for Shabbat and Holiday original conversation between Sigmund Freud Wednesday 30 Meals: AAOM. Call 662-5805 in advance. Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, during a Gala Home Hospitality and Meals: Chabad. Every the basic text of Chassidism and discover Evening: From Vienna to London. Actors will Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. the beauty and depth of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Shabbat and Holiday. Call 995-3276 in advance. portray Mozart and Freud as they discuss Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. Every Sunday. and disagree about music and other lively Hebrew 102: TBE. 5:30 p.m. Seventh Grade Bar/Bat Mitzvah Family Series: topics. Mozart’s great Sonata in A Minor will Phone numbers and addresses of Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. BIC. 9:30 a.m. also be performed. $20/JCC members; $30/ organizations frequently listed in Hike: Jewish Hikers of Michigan. Join local non-members. RSVP at JCC front desk or by Thursday 31 the calendar: naturalist, birder and educator Julie Berger phone at 971-0990. For information, contact Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan (AAOM) for an informative and fun bird walk in [email protected]. 7 p.m. 1429 Hill Street 994-5822 Nichols Arboretum. Meet at Riverview Presentation: JCC Seniors. TBD. For information, Talmudic Debates: The Holidays of the Year. BIC. Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation Court entrance to the Arboretum for coffee contact 971-0990 Facilitated by Rabbi Robert Dobrusin. 8 p.m. (AARC) and , followed by the walk. Bring Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4 p.m. Talmud–Jewish Civil War: Chabad. Sharpen P.O. Box 7451, Ann Arbor 913-9705 binoculars and leave cellphones behind. For your wits and knowledge of the Jewish legal Talmud Study Group–Jewish Civil Law: Beth Israel Congregation (BIC) information, phone 971-0990 or contact Chabad. Sharpen your wits and knowledge system by following the intriguing discussions 2000 Washtenaw Ave. 665-9897 [email protected]. in the Talmud. The Talmud is a composite of the Jewish legal system by following the Evenings in the Library: TBE. TBE Library hosts of practical law, logical argumentation and intriguing discussions in the Talmud. The Chabad House graphic novelist JT Waldman, talking about moral teachings. Study of the original Talmud Talmud is a composite of practical law, 715 Hill Street 995-3276 The Making of Megillat Esther. 6 p.m. tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. logical argumentation and moral teachings. EMU Hillel Study of the original Talmud tractate. 8 p.m. 965 Washtenaw Ave., Ypsilanti 482-0456 Monday 21 Friday 25 Every Thursday. Jewish Community Center (JCC) Weekly Friday night Shabbat services 2935 Birch Hollow Drive 971-0990 English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. Informal Jewish Cultural Society (JCS) Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– discussion. Participants are welcome to bring Shabbat Service: AAOM. Services held at UM 2935 Birch Hollow Drive 975-9872 Hillel. Call 994-9258 in advance to confirm time. Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays at lunch. Noon–1 p.m. Jewish Family Services (JFS) Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State Street. Performing Art Series: JCC. Featuring Wild Shabbat Service: BIC. 6 p.m. 2245 South State Street 769-0209 For more information, contact JFS at 769-0209 Swan Theater with excerpts from Once Upon Shabbat Service: TBE. Tot Shabbat at 6 p.m., Jewish Federation or email [email protected]. Ongoing. a Time. Tickets at JCC front desk or by phone followed by tot dinner. Traditional Service at 2939 Birch Hollow Drive 677-0100 Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:15–8 p.m. at 971-0990. $5/per person. For information, 7:30 p.m. Once a month Middle School Service contact [email protected]. 1 p.m. at 7:30 p.m. For information, call 665-4744. Pardes Hannah Women’s Torah Study with Cantor Rose: TBE. 2010 Washtenaw Ave. 761-5324 For information, contact cantorannie@gmail. Fourth Friday Shabbat Service: AARC. Musical Shabbat Service: Ann Arbor Reconstructionist com. 7 p.m. Kabbalat Shabbat services, led by Rabbi Havurah. 6:15 p.m. at the JCC the fourth Temple Beth Emeth (TBE) Michal Woll. Services followed by vegetarian 2309 Packard Road 665-4744 Men’s Torah Study: TBE. Twice monthly Friday each month. Musical Shabbat service potluck dinner. Pizza nosh for children before UM Hillel evening of learning. Refreshments served. followed by vegetarian potluck. Pizza nosh services at 6 p.m. Childcare provided during 1429 Hill Street 769-0500 For information, contact Roger Stutesman by for the kids at 6:00 p.m. Childcare provided services from 6:15–7:30 p.m. Reservations during the service. All are welcome to phone at 352-1170 or at rogerstutesman8707@ preferred, especially for pizza and childcare. attend. For information, call 975-6527, comcast.net. 7:30 p.m. Contact Jennifer Cohen at 445-1910 or via email [email protected], or visit Kings, Prophets, Sages: An Introduction to email at www.aarecon.org/contact-us. At the www.aarecon.org. Jewish Leadership Models. TBE. 7:30 p.m. JCC from 6–10 p.m. Shabbat Service: Chabad. Begins at candle- Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. lighting time. Home hospitality available for Shabbat Candlelighting Tuesday 22 Tot Shabbat at 6:00 p.m. Tot dinner at 6:30 Shabbat meals and . Call 995- p.m. Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Family 3276 in advance. October 4 5:48 p.m. Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): Service at 7:30 p.m. All ages and levels welcome including UM and Friday evening services: See listing at end of calendar. Weekly Shabbat services October 11 5:36 p.m. non-UM participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s Shabbat Services: AAOM. Morning service, 9:30 October 18 5;25 p.m. Café, ground floor of UM Michigan League. Saturday 26 a.m. Evening service, 35 minutes before sunset. For information, call 936-2367. Call 662-5805 for information. Mincha/Ma’ariv October 25 5:15 p.m. Lecture: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. “My Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. with Seudah Shlisheet and Dvar Torah every Pekar Years (2004-2012): Creating Comix and Shabbat Limmud: BIC. 9 a.m. week. Torah topics and a bite to eat. Discussions Exploring Judaism with ‘Our Man,’” presented led by Rabbi Rod Glogower and other local

Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2013 25 A weekend in the country awakens old and new passions A Little

Directed by Mark Madama Music Direction by Night Ben Whiteley Conducted by Catherine Walker Adams Department of Musical Theatre 2013-2014 Season Music & Lyrics by October 10 & 17 at 7:30 PM MusicStephen Sondheim October 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 8 PM October 13 & 20 at 2 PM Book by Hugh Wheeler Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Reserved Seating $28 and $22 Students $10 with ID League Ticket Office 734-764-2538 tickets.music.umich.edu

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Mazel tov Ethan Nemeth on his bar mitzvah, October 12. Jacob Seel on his bar mitzvah, October 12. Elijah Shore on his bar mitzvah, October 12. Martha Weintraub on her bat mitzvah, October 19. Lisa Saulles on her bat mitzvah, October 19. Vera Newman on her bat mitzvah, October 26 Max Resnick on his bar mitzvah, October 26. Gabriel Rosenberg on his bar mitzvah, October 26. Rabbi Kim Blumenthal and Ira Horowitz on the birth of their daughter, Maya Leia. Roberta and Larry Tankanow, and Nancy and Jerry Schleicher, on the birth of their grandson, Max Edward, son of Andrew and Jennifer Tankanow. Rebecca and Steven Harvey on the birth of their daughter, Leigha Naomi. Molly and Rudi Lindner on the engagement of their daughter.

Condolences Florence Gerber on the death of her sister, Joy Gross, August 7. Alan Levy on the death of his father, Emanuel Levy, August 18. Susan Kravitz Ayer on the death of her mother, Janet Kravitz, August 26. Monica Schteingart on the death of her husband, David Eduardo Schteingart, September 3. Andrea Gersh on the death of her husband, Charles Gersh, September 4. Ellen Offen on the death of her husband, Samuel Offen, September 9.

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