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September 2010 Elul 5770/Tishrei 5771 Volume XXXV: Number 1 FREE Kerrytown BookFest features Jewish authors Kluger new Federation Bill Castanier, special to the WJN campaign director our notable award-winning Jewish au- Sharon Pomerantz will participate in a dis- er’s Kitchen & Home shop in the adjacent David Shtulman, special to the Wjn thors will discuss their books and tell cussion with authors Judge William Whitbeck, Kerrytown Shops. Avram Kluger has joined the staff of the Jew- F the stories behind their writing at the John Smolens, Steve Amick, and Donald Lystra The focus of this year’s event is on Michi- ish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor as the new eighth Annual Kerrytown BookFest on Sep- on writing historical fiction. Pomerantz’s re- gan writers, said Gene Alloway, president of the campaign director. Kluger and his family come tember 12. The stories often delve into the past cently published book, Rich Boy, covers three Kerrytown BookFest. “We are honored to wel- to Ann Arbor with a and what it means to be Jewish along with in- decades in the life of her protagonist Robert come such distinguished writers who have deep wealth of experience volving long held secrets of infidelity, mental ill- Vishniak, who becomes enmeshed in high soci- roots to both the Jewish community and Mich- and love for Jewish ness, and the Holocaust. Steve Luxenberg, Ann ety following his “escape” from a working class igan. The four authors have written amazingly communal life that Pearlman, Sharon Pomerantz, and Lev Raphael, Philadelphia Jewish neighborhood. evocative books deeply exploring the meaning will make him a all noted fiction and or non-fiction writers, will Both events will be held in the Kerrytown of being Jewish in America,” said Alloway. perfect addition to participate in programs detailing memoir writ- Concert House: the Memoir panel is at 1 p.m. Pomerantz is a writing instructor at the both the Federation ing, historical fiction and Jewish culture. and the Historical Fiction panel is at 3 p.m. University of Michigan; Raphael is a full-time and the Ann Arbor Jewish community. Originally from Rochester, New York, Kluger brings a host of useful skills. He Avram Kluger previously worked for the Federation of Colum- bus, Ohio, where he served as vice president for community services. His portfolio in Columbus included strategic communications and out- reach, donor development and event planning, and he also had responsibilities in community relations and the allocations process. Sharon Pomerantz Steve Luxenberg Ann Pearlman Lev Raphael In Atlanta, Georgia, Kluger spent seven years working for the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) At the panel “Remembering and Forget- Author Ann Pearlman and her co-author writer and author of 18 books who lives in as the director of Federation relations and ma- ting: the Art of the Memoir,” author and Marybeth Bayer will discuss Pearlman’s Okemos; Pearlman is a resident of Washtenaw jor gifts, working with a dozen American Jewish moderator Steve Lehto will lead a conversa- book, The Christmas Club, and Bayer County; and Luxenberg grew up in Detroit and communities to raise funds and provide logisti- tion with Steve Luxenberg and Lev Raphael will be baking using recipes from his book is set in Michigan. cal support for JAFI projects. to explore their search for secrets in their their collaborative effort, The Christmas Alloway said that each book, in its own way, Kluger has also spent a great deal of time in family’s past. Cookie Club Cookbook at 1 p.m. in Holland- continued on page 10 Israel, using the skills gained from his master of public administration’s degree (NYU) to work as a policy analyst for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, as a senior program analyst for the Israeli Dr. Judea Pearl to keynote Main Event, October 12 Ministry of the Interior. He was also a founding David Shtulman, spccial to the WJN member of Kibbutz Ravid in the Galilee. r. Judea Pearl, cofounder and presi- reporting and E. Joseph Prize for its “distinctive contribu- Kluger’s wife, Dana, an MSW graduate from dent of the Daniel Pearl Founda- E a s t - W e s t tion to humanity.” the University of Michigan, was director of the tion, will be the featured speaker understanding, Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed, the found- Florence Melton Adult Mini-School in Colum- D bus and also worked as a learning specialist at for the Jewish Federation’s “Main Event,” to organizes world ers of the Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim be held on Tuesday, October 12, at the Eastern -wide concerts Jewish Understanding, are co-winners of the the Epstein Solomon Schechter School in At- Michigan University Convocation Center. Dr. that promote inaugural $100,000 Purpose Prize, which lanta. Two of their three children, Hadas (age 9) Pearl’s address is called, “Being Jewish, Ameri- intercultural honors five individuals 60 or older who have and Elan (age 6) will be attending the Hebrew can and Western in the 21st Century.” respect, and demonstrated uncommon vision in address- Day School in the fall. Their oldest, Dalit (age Dr. Pearl is the father of slain Wall Street sponsors public ing community and national problems. 11) will begin school at Tappan Middle School. Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and co-founded dialogues be- Dr. Pearl will also sign copies of the book, I In addition to working on the launch of the Daniel Pearl Foundation with his family tween and am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the the 2011 Federation campaign, Kluger is busy meeting as many community members as he in February 2002, “to continue Daniel’s life- Dr. Judea Pearl Muslims to ex- Last Words of Daniel Pearl, winner of the 2004 work of dialogue and understanding and to plore common National Jewish Book Award for Antholo- can. Feel free to stop in at the JCC and introduce address the root causes of his tragedy.” The ground and air differences. The Foundation gies, which will be available for sale following yourself, drop him a line at Avram@jewishan- Daniel Pearl Foundation sponsors journal- received the Commonground’s Parners in the event. narbor.org or call him at 677-0100. ism fellowships aimed at promoting honest Humanity Award in 2002 and the 2003 Roger continued on page 10 IHigh Holidays

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Florence Melton Adult Mini-School at the JCC Mimi Weisberg, special to the WJN

he Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor will offer the TFlorence Melton Adult Mini-School once again, beginning this September. Phi- lanthropist Florence Melton initiated the Melton Mini-School in 1986 in cooperation with The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where they designed and continues to de- velop new curriculum. It is offered in more than 65 locations in North America, Europe, Australia, and Israel. There are no exams, no homework, no pre-requisites; the only re- quirement is the desire to learn. The Melton program is a two-year course of study in which two classes are offered each year, back-to-back on the same night. The first-year classes are Rhythms of Jew- ish Living and Purposes of Jewish Living. The Rhythms class examines ideas and text central to recurring Jewish rituals, and the Purposes class probes essential Jewish theo- history, as reflected in historical texts. Ethics $250/JCC members, $600/non-members, and logical concepts in the Bible, Talmud and will be taught by Robin Axelrod and Dramas includes the Melton course pack. Israeli Litera- other sacred texts. Aviva Panush will teach will be taught by Michael Weiss. ture will be taught by Ori Weisberg. Rhythms and Michael Weiss will teach Pur- Year 1 and Year 2 Classes will begin Thursday, Two Scholars courses will also be offered— poses. The second-year classes, for those who September 16, and run for 30 weeks, excluding Jewish Denominations will begin on January 6, have completed year one, consist of Ethics of holidays. Tuition is $550/JCC members, 2011, and will run for 10 weeks and Jews in Amer- Jewish Living which examines ethical issues $600/non-members, and includes a Melton ica will begin on March 17, 2011, and will run for such as justice; life and death; sexuality and course pack. 10 weeks. The Scholars tuition per class is $250/ community, with case studies from Talmu- This year a graduate course open to all JCC members, $275/non-members. Both Scholars dic, rabbinic, and contemporary literature; Melton Year 1 and Year 2 graduates will also be courses will be taught by Ori Weisberg. n and Dramas of Jewish Living which address- offered: Israeli Literature as Window to Israeli Contact Mimi Weisberg for more information es the dramatic developments, experiences, Society. This course will begin on Thursday, at [email protected] or 971-0990. and issues from different periods in Jewish September 16, and run for 10 weeks. Tuition is Why study Mussar? New study groups now forming at Beth Israel Congregation Roann Altman, special to the WJN Have you ever wondered why you’re here and Participants in Mussar study groups at ing of the texts for them personally. It can what you’re supposed to be doing? Are you Beth Israel over the last two years have been lead to great inner transformation. interested in bringing more meaning into deeply appreciative of the impact it has had The course being offered at Beth Israel your life? Would you like to be more success- on their lives. Studying ethical issues and Congregation this fall is Season of Mussar I. ful in your relationships with family, friends, practices has helped with the challenges of The materials are those produced by Dr. Alan and co-workers? Have you been looking for everyday life. Members have become more Morinis, founder of The Mussar Institute. a greater sense of spirituality? If any of these aware of what God expects of them in their His thoughtful and caring approach is one questions resonate for you, then Mussar study relationships with others. And all have that is easy to relate to. The course will begin might be just what you’re looking for. grown. What draws them to the practice immediately following the High Holidays Mussar is a spiritual tradition that has is the Jewish path it provides for spiritual and run from October 12 through January existed within Judaism for centuries. It fo- growth and its potent applicability to every- 11, meeting on alternate Tuesday evenings. cuses on one’s soul and helps participants day life. The course costs $100 and is payable di- realize what is important in life. It helps one Mussar study involves more than just rectly to The Mussar Institute. The deadline improve one’s reactions to situations and to reading a book. It takes work. Change takes for registration is September 15. For more people. It gets one to do what one should be place as the members of the group discuss information or to register for the 13-week doing and not do what one shouldn’t. In ef- what the rabbis had to say about their spiri- course, contact course facilitator Roann Alt- fect, it brings one closer to God. tual life and as partners reflect on the mean- man at [email protected] or 483-8352.

Limited spaces still available for Ann Arbor community bike trip in Israel Eileen Freed, special to the Wjn There is still time to join the 23 community in seeing parts of Israel not usually encoun- Turkey and the United States. During the members participating in the Ann Arbor tered on a normal tour of the country.” past three summers, Rockman and Rabbi Community Bike Trip in Israel, November The trip is designed to offer a combina- Levy co-led the Olin-Sanger-Ruby Union 4–14, 2010, but interested riders should act tion of great cycling, interesting sites, and Institute’s “Wheels Around the Lake” pro- quickly to ensure a space. Trip coordinators delicious food. An added bonus will be a stay gram, a four-week teen bike trip around Lake Rabbi Bob Levy of Temple Beth Emeth and in Ann Arbor’s Partnership 2000 commu- Michigan. Eileen Freed of the Jewish Federation teamed nity, Moshav Nahalal, and the participation “Amir is an outstanding guide and really with Bike Ride Chair Hillary Murt and Eco- of members of Nahalal and neighboring vil- knows his bikes,” said Levy. “His expertise Bike Cycling vacations to develop an exciting lages in some portions of the ride. and dedication will ensure our group has an itinerary focused on Northern Israel, Tel Aviv The trip provider, Ecobike Cycling Vaca- exceptional experience.” and Jerusalem. tions, specializes in bike tours in Israel and For more information, visit www.jewishannar- “Cycling trips have become my preferred the Mediterranean. Its co-founder, Amir bor.org or contact Eileen Freed at eileenfreed@ type of vacation,” said Murt. “This trip will Rockman, has cycled across North and Cen- jewishannarbor.org or 677-0100. combine my love of cycling with my interest tral America and has guided tours in Israel,

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SPICE* of Life Women’s League opening event and plans for the year *Social, Physical, Intellectual, Cultural, and Educational Programs for Adults Yvonne Wardle, special to the Wjn On Sunday, September 26, Beth Israel Wom- The Beth Israel Women’s League Gift Tuesdays 2:15 p.m.: Literary Group facilitated by en’s League will host their opening event, Shop features fine Judaica for every day and Sidney Warschausky. Call Merrill Poliner, “Enlighten Yourself, Holiday Kitchen Se- every occasion. The gift shop is open Sun- 11 a.m.: Energy Exercise with Maria Far- 971-0990, for more information and the crets and Our Spiritual Journey Together.” days, 9:30 a.m.–noon, during the school quhar. $4 per session, or 3 sessions for $10. current book. Activities at the event will include: Mar- year when the Beth Israel Religious School Noon: Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per person. cie Greenfield, a local caterer, who will go is in session and by appointment with Doris 1 p.m.: Games and Activities. Join in for Fridays over some strategies to make Jewish reci- Miller (662-5926). a variety of games and activities including 1:30 p.m.: Reading Group at the pes; recipe swap and sharing; information mahjong, quilting, art projects, and other JCC. Call Ray Juni for additional informa- about current Women’s League programs; card games. tion at 761-2765. refreshments; the opportunity to see and 1 p.m.: Wii sports including bowling, ten- connect with old friends and a chance to nis, golf and baseball. No sports or com- Thursday special events make new friendships puter experience necessary. and presentations The gathering will take place 9:30 a.m.– 1:30 p.m.: Yidish Tish (Yiddish Conver- noon at the Jewish Community Center of sational Group). Open to the public as well September 2 12:30 p.m. Birthday celebration for Greater Ann Arbor. This program is open to as University of Michigan faculty, staff and anyone who wishes to attend. For more in- students, all ages and levels welcome. Bean- all with September birthdays. Bring your family and friends for lunch and birthday formation, contact Yvonne Wardle at fullof- ster’s Café, ground floor, Michigan League. [email protected] or 945-8256. Those wanting The Mission of the Beth Israel Women’s Free. For more information, call 936-2367. cake. 1 p.m. Celebrate Labor Day with a viewing to attend should RSVP before September 21. League is to support and represent the con- Wednesdays of With Babies and Banner, a documentary Other programs for the coming year gregation and community through inno- about the UAW Women’s Auxiliary support include: vative and fun opportunities that support 10 a.m.–noon. The Bible in Its Time with • More Beth Israel Cafes, Jewish identity and values; and to include Dr. Liz Fried. Continues through Septem- of the Flint sit-in strike, a seminal event in the beginning of organized labor. • More Rosh Chodesh Group events, and inspire women of all ages by promot- ber 16. Free for those over age 65 through • A new program: Jewish Mother’s Studies, ing friendships, personal growth and well- Washtenaw Community College. Register September 9 Discussion & Support Group, being. Members are committed to Jewish at 971-0990 or at first class. The JCC is closed for Rosh Hashanah. • A new program: education at home, in the synagogue and the September 29 September 16 Jewish Baking Discussion Club, community. The group promotes programs Afternoon Delights Concert sponsored by 12:30 p.m. A registered nurse from Care • A Chanukah-Mania Sale, through the to enhance the Jewish cultural experience the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra featur- Response will take and record blood pres- Women’s League Gift Shop in November, of individuals and families. The group also ing the Andiamo Quartet. at 1 p.m., sures and address any questions. Free. (This • The Women’s League auction and dinner supports the broader Jewish community as a concert begins at 1:30 p.m. Tickets cost $8 event is repeated the second Thursday of event, member of the Women’s League. at the door. each month.) • “Bowl-a-Rama” in the Spring, All new and continuing members of 12:30 p.m. Meet the Social Worker. Alli- • Mah Jongg opportunities, Women’s League are welcome to share new Thursdays son Pollock, FS geriatric social worker, will • The Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah Shabbat, ideas, talents, and interests. To join, make a • Jewels of Sisterhood membership party check payable to Women’s League, and send 10 a.m.: Energy Exercise with Maria Far- be available for discussion, questions and and appreciation dinner, to: Dennie Carbeck, 830 Sunrise Court, Ann quhar. $4 per session, or 3 sessions for $10. assistance. 1 p.m. Pianist Will Bennett returns for • The Annual Torah Fund event. Arbor, MI 48103. 11 a.m.: Current Events with Heather another performance. Dombey. A discussion of the week’s news. Bring items of interest for group discussion. September 23 The JCC is closed for . Hadassah opening event September 24 Noon: Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per person. Roz Sarver, special to the Wjn 1 p.m.: Thursday Special Events and Pre- September 30 The JCC is closed for . Join the Ann Arbor chapter of Hadassah’s for its opening event when Kol Halev and the sentations (see below for details). Klezmer Kids will present “Yidishe Music for Yidishe Mommies.” The morning also include brunch. Everyone in the community is invited to attend and find out about Hadassah and en- joy a morning of Jewish music and food. The event will be held October 10, from 10 a.m. till noon at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor. A donation of $18 is requested; RSVP to [email protected] or call 663-3175 by September 24.

Local authors sought for Jewish Book Festival Halye Aisner, special to the Wjn The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor is searching for local authors to par- ticipate in the 23rd annual Jewish Book Festival. This event will take place from Monday, November 1 through Sunday, November 14, at the JCC. Writers can promote their new books at the Local Author Brunch on Sunday, November 14, from noon to 2 p.m. Books must be written by a Jewish author or have Jewish content and must have been published within the last year. To submit a book or for further information, contact Mimi Weisberg at 971-0990 or [email protected]. Submissions must be received by Wednesday, September 15.

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Naomi Harrison, Standing l to r: Esther Goldman, Betty Hammond, Sylvia Bachman, Doris Jamron a founding member of the sitting l to r: Minnie Berkie,and Jayne Harary Ann Arbor Chapter of ORT America, was honored for her dedication to ORT at the Annual Donor Dinner on June 7, 2010. 4 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 ICommunity

JCC installs new board and honors outstanding volunteers Halye Aisner, special to the WJN The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor honored incom- ing and outgoing board members, as well as vol- unteers, at their Annual Meeting and Volunteer Appreciation Brunch on June 13. Several new board members were elected and several board mem- bers continued on for a second term, helping to insure that the JCC has Seth Penchansky, Leslie Bash and Norman Miller both continuity and a fresh perspective. Bernard volunteers were given awards for outstanding Banet, Sheldon Ginns, Irwin Martin, and Sharon efforts on behalf of the JCC. Rachel Nosowsky Newman were all elected to serve a second three- was awarded the President’s Award for her work SBP0201359B year term. Robin Axelrod, Melissa Greenhawt, on the JCC board and by-laws revisions. Five Matthew Jane, and Bruce Moyer were elected members received Above and Beyond Awards for a three-year term. Isaac Fink was elected as for going the extra mile for the JCC, including the board’s new teen board member and Seth the three chairs for the Jewish Film Festival, Penchansky was elected for an additional year to Levana Aronson, Norman Miller, and Roberta MARK YOUR CALENDARS! complete his presidency. There were also three Tankenow. Irwin Martin and Haran Rashes also appointments of replacement officers (for a received this award for the time and hard work Trunk Show one-year term). Those included Harriet Bakalar they devoted to the JCC by-laws revisons. September 23, 24 & 25th as vice-president, Eric Metzendorf as treasurer Both JCC President Seth Penchansky and and Laurie Greenberg as member-at-large. Executive Director Leslie Bash took the oppor- GIFT WITH PURCHASE RECEIVE A FREE PANDORA CLASP Retiring board members Avi Dobrusin, tunity to thank the entire community for help- BRACELET WITH YOUR 2000 W, Stadium Blvd Ann Arbor, MI PANDORA PURCHASE 734-994-7680 • WWW.LEWISJEWELERS.COM Rebecca Friedman, Michael Levine, Rachel ing to make Jewish Community Center warm, OF $150 OR MORE* Nosowsky, Max Rashes, Stuart Silberman, and inclusive and dynamic. Hardworking and en- Trunk Show Hours *GOOD WHILE SUPPLIES LAST, Thursday 9:30-8:00, Friday 9:30-5:30, Saturday 9:30-5:00 Joanne Smith were honored for their hard work LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER ergetic volunteers, and an involved and focused U.S. Pat. No. 7,007,507 • © • All rights reserved • PANDORA-JEWELRY.COM • PANDORA.NET and dedication to the JCC. board of directors, have proven indispensable to As is tradition at the Annual Meeting, several the agency’s success. SBP0201359B-091310.indd 1 8/13/10 4:06 PM

Hadassah and the JCC – educational partners for excellence Mimi Weisberg, special to the Wjn The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann tional Jewish women and their obstacles and Arbor and Hadassah are joining together to pres- successes throughout the world and through- ent a series of seven classes entitled, “They Lit out history. The seven-week courses are entitled: the Way: Extraordinary Women Leading Jewish Fiddlers on the Glass Roof: Powerful Jewish Lives.” These classes will be held on Mondays for American Women Today; You Be the Judge: seven weeks, September 20 through November Gender Issues Before Israel’s Supreme Court; 1, from 1–2:30 p.m. at the JCC. Would You Burn Your Bra?: Social Activists and A few months ago when talking with Judy Their Issues; If We Build It, They Come: Ameri- Loebl, associate director of the Alliance for Jew- can Zionist Women; In Your Living Room or ish Education in Detroit, Loebl was asked, “Af- Mine? Jewish Salon Women in Christian Eu- ter Melton, what is one of the greatest programs rope; The Original Balabustas: Ashkenazi Jew- that you offer to the Jewish community in De- ish Women in Europe; and Helping Each Other troit,” and without hesitation, she responded, Through Thick and Thin: Sephardi Women “They Lit the Way,” by Hadassah. Members Under Islamic Rule. Particpants will be asked of the JCC then spoke with the Ann Arbor to read preparatory materials before each class, Chapter of Hadassah about this exemplary as peer discussion is a large component. curriculum. Hadassah agreed to co-sponsor The cost for the course is $130 for JCC mem- this program with the JCC. Seasoned educator, bers and $160 for non-members. Reservations Aviva Panush wanted to teach the series and are required by September 10. For more infor- “They Lit the Way” became a reality for the Ann mation, contact Mimi Weisberg at 971-0990 or Arbor community. [email protected]. “They Lit the Way” was created by Hadassah for Jewish women to explore the lives of excep-

JCC hosts new exhibits in Amster Gallery Halye Aisner, special to the Wjn The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor’s Amster Gallery will host two exhibits in September. Steve Fishman z”l was a devoted supporter and attendee of the senior program of the JCC and is being honored by showing an exhibition of his work. Oil Paintings by Steve Fish- man will run through September 21. The Art of Harold Levine, presented by the Bobbie and Myron Levine Jewish Community Center Cultural Arts fund, will run from October 1–28, with an opening reception on October 3, from 3–5 p.m. at the JCC. Harold Cohen was trained in the Bauhaus Tradition of Art and Design at the Institute of Design in Chicago. After his retirement as dean of the School of Architecture and Environmental Design at the State of University of New York at Buffalo, he turned to his love of printmaking. For more information on either of these events, contact Mimi Weisberg at [email protected] or 971-0990. Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 5 Chelsea Flower Shop, LLC 203 E. Liberty St. Phone 662-5616 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 www.chelseaflowersllc.com Over 60 years of excellence services

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Sunday, September 12 from 11:00 to 5:00 at the Ann Arbor Farmers' Market (Located at N. 4th Ave and Kingsley) www.kerrytownbookfest.org Great Lakes, Great Books, Great Kids The 2010 Kerrytown© BookFest celebrates books and writing by and for young people--see our ad on the opposite page for details. Join us throughout the day on Sunday, September 12 for book appraisals, 100 book and arts vendors, speakers, and workshops at the Farmers’ Market: Main Tent 11:00 The COMMUNITY BOOK AWARD is presented to Loren D. Estleman by our honorary chairs, Joe & Karen O’Neal. 12:00 NORTHERN NOIR - Moderator Craig McDonald talks with mystery writers Steve Hamilton, William Kent Krueger and Bryan Gruley. 1:00 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER THOMAS LYNCH interviewed by Keith Taylor. 2:00 PARANORMAL FICTION & POETRY: WEREWOLVES, VAMPIRES AND GHOSTS - Moderator Colleen Gleason leads a discussion with Toby Barlow, Amy Huntley, and Jennifer Armintrout. 3:00 CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER DAVID SMALL interviewed by Nicola Rooney. 4:00 ILLUMINATING IMAGINATIONS - Moderator Jackie LaRose leads a discussion with children’s book illustrators Susan Kathleen Hartung, Mark Crilley, Debbie Taylor, and Michael and Colleen Monroe. Kerrytown Concert House 11:00 Announcement of 2010 BOOK COVER CONTEST winners by judges Steve Hamilton and Steve Klein. 12:00 MICHIGAN LIT - Moderator Eric Olsen leads a discussion with Bonnie Jo Campbell, Michael Zadoorian, Kristina Riggle, and Wendy Webb. 1:00 REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING: THE ART OF THE MEMOIR - Moderator Steve Lehto leads a conversation with Steve Luxenberg and Lev Raphael. 2:00 "WORD WORKS" - Teen poets read from their work. 3:00 HISTORICAL FICTION - Moderator Judge William Whitbeck leads a discussion with John Smolens, Steve Amick, Donald Lystra, and Sharon Pomerantz. 4:00 MICHIGAN MURDERS - Moderator Ellen McCarthy leads a discussion with true crime writers Mardi Link and Gail Griffin, in conjunction with the University of Michigan Press' re-release of The Michigan Murders.

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6 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 Frankel Institute Fellows arrive in Ann Arbor Kim Reick Kunoff, special to the WJN ach year, the Frankel Institute for Ad- nority of Jews to reshape their identities into Poles spectrum,” which claims that around the world, man Empire. Traditions recorded in Philo, Origen, vanced Judaic Studies invites a dozen of the Mosaic faith. This research will analyze con- wherever Jews have lived and either wished to dis- Epiphanius, and many other provincial Romans Escholars from history, literature, and re- nections between publishing activity and shifting tinguish themselves from their neighbors or were have close parallels in the Bavli, suggesting that ligious studies departments in Israel and North Jewish and Polish cultural identifications. encouraged or forced to distinguish themselves, late antique Jewish Babylonia, to a far greater de- America to Ann Arbor to pursue research proj- Thursday, November 18: Elliot Ginsburg, they did so in clothing, in food, and also in lan- gree than has heretofore been imagined, formed ects on a general theme. University of Michigan guage: they have spoken and written somewhat part of the Mediterranean world of late antiquity, Led by head fellows Anita Norich and Joshua Dos Pintele Yod: Hebrew Orthography, the Play differently from the “non-Jews” around them. and that we find evidence for the emergence of L. Miller, this year’s group will consider how the of Ethics, and the Jewish Mystical Imagination. By The project also explores the notion of Judeo- this shared culture in the pages of the Bavli in the questions and implications of Jewish dialects mo- selectively analyzing representative texts and devo- Arabic in the twenty-first century. form of the fourth century “Palestinianization” or tivate approaches to narrative and literary form, tional strategies drawn from different periods and Thursday, January 27: Monique Balbuena, eastern provincial Romanization of Babylonian biblical and Talmudic studies, literary modern- settings, registers and genres, Ginsburg provides a University of Oregon rabbis and their literature. Receptivity toward ism, multilingualism and translation, and more. “thick description” of Jewish mystical prayer life, The New Faces of Ladino in Latin America eastern provincial Roman literature and modes of A list of public colloquia and a brief descrip- in its verbal and non-verbal dimensions. Through Today: Language Revival and National Identi- behavior likewise manifests itself in the neighbor- tion of each fellow’s topic follows. This year, lec- close readings, performance studies, and historical ty Resurgence of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) in Latin ing ethnic communities of Mesopotamia, eastern tures will be held at noon in Rooms A and B of contextualization, Ginsburg aims for a more nu- America and its use by contemporary writers and Syria, and western Persia, most dramatically in the the Alumni Center, located at 200 Fletcher on the anced understanding of the concept of prayer. artists. Balbuena interrogates the use of an endan- form of the flowering of eastern Syriac Christian University of Michigan campus. All events are literature, the conversion of Armenia and Georgia Thursday, December 2: Hana Wirth-Nesher, gered language and culture in 21st century cultural free and open to the public. works. She examines the construction of an ethnic to Christianity, and the rise of important Christian Tel Aviv University communities in western Persia. Colloquia schedule and project Hebrew in The Crucible: Multilingual Voices national identity through choice and manipula- tion of languages and genres and, by looking at the Thursday, March 17: Avraham Novershtern, description: in Israel Zangwill’s The Melting Pot. Cross Scripts extends the examination of multilingual Jewish popular appeal of dialectical languages and genres, Hebrew University Thursday, September 16: Dan Shapira, writing in American literature that was the sub- she discusses changes that occurred in national for- The Profane and the Sacred: The Image of Bar Ilan University ject of her recent book, Call It English, by shifting mations and in conceptions of nationality. Yiddish in American Yiddish Literature. Nover- Turkic-Karaite Biblical Translations. The the focus onto Hebrew in the shaping of Jewish Thursday, February 10: Yaron Tsur, shtern seeks to analyze the different concepts Eastern-European Karaites were Turkic-speaking American identity as represented in prose, fiction, Tel Aviv University and images of Yiddish language and literature, adherents of an offshoot of Judaism, who lived in poetry, drama, educational and religious texts, and The Modern History of the Languages of which can be traced in the American Yiddish lit- two states—in the Crimean Tatar Khanate of the visual arts. Hebrew is discussed as a meta-language North African Jewry: A Survey with the Aid of erary discourse throughout the course of nearly Crimea (vassal to the Ottomans since circa 1475) whose significance is poetic, aesthetic, psychologi- Historical Jewish Press. The project will trace the a century—the lifespan of Yiddish literature in and in Poland-Lithuania (Rzeczpospolita). The cal, social, national, and spiritual. She will address modern history of the Jewish languages in the the United States. Throughout three literary gen- most important such a text from the historio-lin- the signification of the Hebrew alphabet, the North African communities of Tunisia, Morocco erations, and especially after the Holocaust, the guistical point of view is a Karaim translation of changing role of Hebrew historically, and the role and Algeria. Tsur will discuss the separate linguis- literary models and ways of thinking about the Nehemia copied in 1632–1634 in Turkish-speak- of Hebrew in the cultural work of secularism, spiri- tic routes characteristic of the colonial period that language itself have shifted dramatically, reflect- ing Mangup for a Karaite from Łuck (the copy- tuality, and commemoration in America. created different “sectors” among the Jewish pop- ing socio-linguistic and cultural developments as ist was apparently a native of Łuck as well). This ulation, and examine the role of different forces well as the changes in the status of Yiddish as a text, written in archaic Karaim in the Crimea, Thursday, December 9: David Bunis, minority language in an open society. Hebrew University in that history: local modernist elites, colonial was printed in the Turkic Bible edited in 1841 by regimes, international Jewish organizations and Thursday, March 24: Andrew “Marc” Ca- M. Tirishqan. This text was claimed to be in “the Judezmo/Haketía (Ladino): A Language of Jewish Emotional Expression. Since the Middle nationalist movements. The project will combine plan, Johns Hopkins University archaic Crimean Karaim dialect,” a dialect that political, economic and cultural history, and will Between Self and Other: Displacement, Dislo- never existed. It is, in fact, the longest existing text Ages, Jewish languages reflect the popular con- ception of a uniquely Jewish “soul” and “heart,” make use of a new website that deals with Jewish cation, and Deferral in Dovid Bergelson’s Mides in Karaim written prior to the mid-19th century, press in different languages (http://jpress.org.il). ha-din and Alfred Döblin’s Reise in Polen. Caplan and Shapira’s intention is to edit it. In his view, often expressing deep emotional sensitivity. A wealth of linguistic sources is available to Jew- Thursday, February 24: Ruth Tsoffar, will focus on five leading Yiddish modernists active “An edition of this Karaim translation to Nehe- in Germany during the 1920s, taken in compari- mia would be the greatest service to the scientific ish language speakers. How have Jews expressed University of Michigan emotion in their traditional languages? Which Between a Palestinian and Jewish Mouth: son with contemporaneous figures in German- study of the older strata of the Karaim language language literature, film, music, and critical since the pioneer work of Tadeusz Kowalski.” linguistic sources have they drawn upon? How Bread and the Economy of Hunger. Tsoffar do the modes of Jewish language effective ex- continues a longstanding focus on resisting he- theory. By focusing on Yiddish literature’s critique Thursday, October 7: Kalman Weiser, pression reflect an attachment to pan-Jewish gemonic cultures through alternative modes of of modernization, this comparison will consider York University tradition? How has the interaction of Jews with reading and writing. She approaches contempo- the belatedness of East European modernity as Language Use and Choice Among Jews in Post- non-Jewish neighbors come to be reflected in rary Hebrew literature and culture, a product of a characteristic that serves to anticipate the frag- war Warsaw, 1860–1939. Weiser examines the evo- Jewish-language expression of affect? life in “a land flowing with milk and honey,” as mentation and dislocation of literary modernism. lution of scholar Max Weinreich’s attitudes toward Because Yiddish literature parallels characteristics Thursday, January 6: Na’ama Rokem, ideological feeding institutions. As such, “canni- the Yiddish language, as well as his concerns about balism” is tightly bound with extreme hunger and of German-language modernism, it provides a the viability and relevance of its secular culture University of Chicago structural model for understanding modernist Stumbling Through Language: Yehuda Ami- starvation, highlighting the distorted dialectics of after the Holocaust. He seeks to understand how “lack” and “excess” in the individual’s relationship aesthetics while participating in the constitution of Weinreich’s priorities and perceptions adapted to chai, Paul Celan, and Georg Büchner. “The Di- a multilingual, borderless German culture—not in vided Horizon” is a study of German-Hebrew with the land, the language, and the Hebrew na- a new context and how he coped with acclimatiza- tion/state. While the image of cannibalism may spite of its peripherality, but because of it. tion and the burden of living for and creating on Bilingualism in the twentieth century. It fills a lacuna that has been created by the divisions be- at first seem contrived and even foreign to Jewish Thursday, April 7: David Aaron, behalf of a culture widely judged moribund, if not and Israeli discourse, the symbolic “ferocious de- Hebrew Union College irrelevant, in America. Weiser also investigates how tween the fields of German-Jewish and Modern Hebrew studies and provides a new perspective vouring,” a mode of total assimilation, consump- Translations Vs. Talking God’s Language: Weinreich and colleagues canonized a specific im- tion, and attachment, is consistently invoked in Rabbinic Judaism’s Dilemma. Aaron will trace age of Eastern European Jewry and “built” a new on the cultural aftermath of the Holocaust as well as on the cultural landscape that preceded it. The the cultural discourse of Hebrew literature. The the development of Jewish ethnic and religious discipline prior to the widespread diffusion of Jew- main questions are: how has ideological, protec- identity during the late biblical and early rabbinic ish studies in American academia. dominant paradigms in both fields privilege the figure of the monolingual German or Hebrew tive feeding been transformed into violent over- periods as they are manifest in the emergence of Thursday, October 28: Karen Auerbach, speaker; this study reveals cracks in both portraits feeding? And more critically, is it possible for the language consciousness and the development of University of Southampton (UK) by describing and analyzing a broad range of cas- one who is still feeling hungry to realize that he is Hebrew’s status as a holy language. Language con- Communism, Publishing, and Paths to Pol- es in which the languages are mixed both before continuously devouring and being devoured? sciousness and identity are shaped in response to ishness in Postwar Warsaw: A Case Study. Au- and after the holocaust. Rokem has recently com- Thursday, March 10: Richard Kalmin, assimilatory forces both in the Land of Israel and erbach will examine the role of Jews in Polish pleted a chapter from this work, which deals with Jewish Theological Seminary the Diaspora in antiquity. As the Jews’ “literature” publishing and bookselling from the mid-nine- the German-Hebrew bilingual work-notes of the Aramaic Targumim in Jewish and Christian became their ideological “homeland,” Hebrew’s teenth century through the Second World War as celebrated Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. Mesopotamia. Rabbinic literature and society ontological status in the world polity became an a study of how shifting definitions of Polishness underwent important changes during and fol- object for Jewish reflection. This study will engage and Jewishness affected possibilities for Jews to Thursday, January 20: Benjamin Hary, theories of ethnic identity, socio-linguistic theory, Emory University lowing the fourth century CE, a time when rab- operate in multiple languages, cultures and social binic Babylonia became increasingly receptive to translation theory, and literary and cultural criti- circles. Jewish involvement in Polish publishing in Judeo-Arabic: The Language of Arabic-Speak- cism, in an attempt to decipher the significance of ing Jews. Hary explores Judeo-Arabic history traditions and modes of behavior deriving from the nineteenth century and interwar Poland was Palestine and other eastern provinces of the Ro- diglossia, translation, and identity as they pertain intertwined with an attempt by the Polonized mi- within the framework of the “Jewish linguistic to Judaism’s ideology of its “holy language.” n Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 7 ICommunity

A wondering Jew finds a home at Hillel Nelson Grossman, special to the Wjn hen I think about my life as go from barely Jewish to super-active Jewish a Jewish young adult, my EMU student? Hillel at EMU provides Jew- W thoughts return to my child- ish students like me with a warm and sup- hood in South Euclid, Ohio. portive community. It was I grew up in a community one of those students who with few Jewish families. persistently encouraged My own family was only me to participate. For over peripherally involved in a year and a half, I refused, anything Jewish. If we did until I was invited to join participate in Jewish life, it a “men’s interest” group. was the rare time we went I went to that meeting at to a “catch all” single ser- Hillel at EMU and never vice for the High Holidays. looked back. First, I found a During my college search sense of community; then, the only things I consid- I found a place of tradition ered were the academic and culture. I wanted to ex- programs offered. Jewish perience and explore more. life was the furthest thing My Jewish journey began Evening & Weekend Appointments • www.SevickLaw.com from my mind. Fast for- by helping with programs Nelson Grossman Free Initial Consultations • 734.480.9100 ward to the present. I am and Shabbat celebrations, 2002 Hogback Rd., Suite 11, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 now 21 and the founding president of the and led to the place I am now. brand new Student Advisory Board (SAB) I appreciate the opportunity Hillel at of Hillel at Eastern Michigan University. EMU has given me to represent the Jewish My primary role as president is to lead my community at EMU and in Ypsilanti. While I fellow board members so that we can con- did not come to Eastern to develop my lead- nect Jewish students at EMU with the Jewish ership skills and spiritual life, I now realize campus community. It is our responsibility that this is why the Jewish community sup- to show them the great opportunities created ports places like Hillel at EMU. I also realize by peers who are actively involved with Jew- that Hillel at EMU has facilitated opportu- ish campus life. nities for me that have set me on a path to As if that wasn’t enough involvement, with becoming a lifelong participant and leader Hillel at EMU’s support, we have revitalized in the Jewish community. Now when I think the Epsilon Mu colony of the Alpha Epsilon about my life as a Jewish young adult, I think Pi fraternity at Eastern Michigan University about how much I appreciate Hillel at EMU and I am its first vice-president. This gives and the support it receives from the Jewish The Jean & Samuel Frankel Center me the opportunity to connect EMU’s Jew- community. Because of this, I am no longer for Judaic Studies ish young men who might not have had a a wondering Jew, but a wandering Jew on an strong Jewish upbringing, like myself, or are exciting Jewish journey. n September 13 * 12:30 pm October 13 * 4 pm simply interested in exploring a Jewish so- 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 cial life, with a Jewish community. How did I Numerus Clausus Exiles: Jewish Jews and Muslims in Modern Students and the Quota System France: A Century of in Interwar Europe Coexistence and Conflict Michael Miller Ethan Katz Mira Sussman to be honored at Habonim gala Central European University University of Cincinnati Esther Allweiss Ingber, special to the Wjn

September 16 * 12 noon October 25 * 4 pm A local Jewish communal worker will be Union College- Rooms A & B, Alumni Center International Institute, Room 1636 honored in the Chicago area this fall at the Jewish Institute Turkic-Karaite Biblical Translations Auschwitz in the 21st Century Ameinu Midwest Gala marking 75 years of of Religion. Dan Shapira, Bar Ilan University Piotr Cywinski Habonim. S u s s m a n Director of Auschwitz-Birkenau Mira Sussman, resettlement director at moved back to October 6 * 4 pm Memorial and Museum Jewish Family Services, is one of three Ha- Ann Arbor in 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 bonim activists who will be recognized at 2005 to be close Before and After Babel: Linguistic October 26 * 4 pm the celebration scheduled for Saturday, Oc- to her family, Exceptionalism and Pluralism in 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 tober 16, at the Evanston Golf Club in Skok- including par- Early Rabbinic Literature The Bitter Taste of Success: ie, Illinois. The others are academic lecturer ents Ron and and Jewish Antiquity Gendered Politics in Israel Rabbi Herbert Bronstein, rabbi emeritus of Elana, and also Steven Fraade, Yale University Sarai Aharoni, Bar-Ilan University North Shore Congregation Israel in Glen- started that Mira Sissman October 7 * 12 noon October 28 * 12 noon coe, Illinois; and Chicago businessman/en- year with the Rooms A & B, Alumni Center Rooms A & B, Alumni Center ergy expert Josh Ornstein, facilities director Jewish Family Language Use and Choice Among Communism, Publishing, and Paths at Habonim Camp Tavor in Three Rivers. Services agency of Ann Arbor. In her current Jews in Postwar Warsaw, to Polishness in Postwar Warsaw: An Ann Arbor native, Sussman grew up position of resettlement program director, 1860-1939 A Case Study in a family affiliated with Habonim, now Sussman works to resettle refugees from Kalman Weiser, York University Karen Auerbach, called Habonim Dror, a progressive Labor around the world in Michigan and Ohio. University of Southhampton Zionist youth movement. Ameinu, based She lives in Ann Arbor with her husband, October 11 * 12:30 pm in New York City, provides funding for Ha- Doron Yitzchaki, and their two sons, Matan 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 bonim Dror North America. and Ishai. From Maimonides to Microsoft: Sussman completed her undergraduate Ameinu is seeking individuals who would The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print and graduate degrees in Los Angeles, re- like to be invited to the gala and the next Neal Netanel, UCLA ceiving her bachelor of arts degree in Jew- morning’s seminar on “Religious Pluralism ish Studies from the University of Judaism in Israel,” or are interested in placing a con- (now American Jewish University), masters gratulatory ad in the event’s tribute journal. All events are free and open to the public. degree in social work from the University of Contact Esther Allweiss Ingber, director of Visit www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic Southern California and a master’s degree Ameinu Detroit, at EstherIngber@gmail. for a complete list of upcoming lectures. in Jewish Communal Service from Hebrew com or call (248) 967-3170.

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Bookfest, from page 1 September activities at Beth Israel Congregation Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN examines Jewish culture, but also looks at how deeply held secrets from the past impact on to- High Holiday Family Celebration Tot Shabbat day’s world. On Wednesday, September 8, from Everyone is invited to celebrate Shabbat Luxenberg, who is an associate editor of the 4–4:45 p.m. in the sanctuary, Beth Israel with songs and stories at Tot Shabbat, a service Washington Post, is the author of Annie’s Ghost, Congregation will offer its annual “High Holi- for children ages 5 and under and their par- a nonfiction examination of a family secret that day Family Celebration”—a program of sto- ents or friends. This month Tot Shabbat will he stumbled upon following his mother’s death. ries, songs, treats, and the blowing of the shofar. be held September 11 and September 25, from The Annie in the title refers to a lost aunt who While the program is intended for families with 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. This interactive, fun Luxenberg discovered was institutionalized as a pre-school and early elementary aged children, Shabbat experience for the youngest members teenager and never discussed. His book is basi- all are welcome. This program is offered free of is led on alternating weeks by Peretz Hirshbein cally a detective story to discover who she was charge to anyone in the community. and Jessica Kander. and what happened to her. “Every generation has it own secrets,” explained K–5 Family Program on second day of Sukkot and Shmini Artzeret services Luxenberg. But, he stressed, modern society would Rosh Hashanah Morning Sukkot services will be held on Malli Holoshitz and Pauli Weizman. be better served if many of those secrets. While work- On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, Thursday, September 23, and Friday, Septem- currently teaches Hebrew and heads the He- ing on his book he discovered some peculiarities of Friday, September 10, a Rosh Hashanah ber 24, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. As part of the brew department at the Frankel Jewish Acad- Jewish genealogy that make it difficult to trace family family program will be offered beginning at congregation’s celebration of Sukkot, there will emy of Metropolitan Detroit. history, especially in Europe, such as not recording 11:30 a.m. in a tent set up in the Beth Israel be a luncheon in the sukkah on the first Pauli Weizman has been teaching Hebrew at the last names of family members or not recognizing courtyard. (Children will be brought in from day of Sukkot, and a kiddush in the sukkah on the University of Michigan since 1987. She is the males to protect them from conscription laws. the High Holiday children’s programming.) the second day. The services feature the ancient recipient of an “Excellence in Education” award While working on the non-fiction My Ger- Rabbi Blumenthal will facilitate the activities, ceremony of the lulav and etrog processions; by the Department of Near Eastern Studies. many, noted mystery writer Lev Raphael discov- including a play presented by the older students. the Hallel service is said on both days. She is also a native Israeli and has earned two ered his own family secrets about his parents who The morning will culminate in a celebration of On the following Thursday morning, Sep- masters degrees—one in Teaching English as a were both Holocaust survivors. the “birthday of the world” This program is free tember 30, there will be a Shmini Atzeret service Second Language and the other in social work. My Germany is a one-of- a- kind memoir of of charge to anyone in the community. at 9:30 a.m. The service will include Yizkor. She also has a bachelor’s degree in Hebrew lin- his journey and his family’s journey from the Ho- Tot Shabbat Sukkot Dinner in guistics. Weizman teaches at Keshet Ann Arbor, locaust to modern Germany. Part travelogue and Child Care/Services for ages 3 and up and has developed her own introductory He- part psychological drama, his book puts together Child care is offered for all children ages the Sukkah brew course pack (with a compatible online what it was like to be part of the Holocaust and 3–5 the mornings of the first and second days On Monday, September 27, at 5:30 p.m., tots program) titled “Getting Acquainted.” barely escaping death, to growing up as survivors of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. There is and their families are invited to dinner in the For registration forms, call 665-9897, or in New York City. Raphael’s incredible attention a fee for this child care. For elementary school sukkah. There will be songs, stories and a dairy email [email protected]. There is to detail and investigative skills makes this book a students, there will be creative programs and dinner. For dessert, the children will make an a fee for the Hebrew classes. Members of ei- benchmark for books on the Holocaust. services on the first and second days of Rosh edible graham cracker and candy sukkah. There ther Beth Israel Congregation or Temple Beth Sharon Pomerantz said the protagonist in her Hashanah and on Yom Kippur morning. is a charge of $18 per family. Emeth receive a subsidy rate underwritten by debut novel, Rich Boy, carries with him deep secrets their congregations. from his middle class Jewish past that he would High Holiday programs and services for Simchat Torah and the International prefer were not known in his adopted New York middle school and high school students Shul of Pancakes New Level I Mussar study group high society. Rich Boy tells the story of a middle Middle school students will participate in On Thursday, September 30, at 6 p.m. beginning this fall class Jewish boy who wants to be successful at all their own services on both days of Rosh Hasha- there will be a Congregation Erev Simchat To- A new introductory level Mussar class is will costs. The book is richly detailed with stories about nah and for Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur morn- rah Dinner with new members invited at no meet every other Tuesday evening, from 7–9 Jewish working class families. Growing up outside ing. For high school students there will be a snack charge. This will be followed at 7:30 p.m. by p.m., beginning October 5. The course, called of Philadelphia, Pomerantz had an extended fam- reception on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and a Simchat Torah Maariv Service with family- Season of Mussar I, is based on the materials de- ily centered in a Jewish enclave within Philadelphia a Kol Nidre service on Erev Yom Kippur. friendly Torah processionals and snacks. veloped by Dr. Alan Morinis of the Mussar Insti- that serves as the backdrop for her book. For the sixth year in a row, on Friday, tute. (See www.mussarinstitute.org for details.) As a Jew, Pomerantz said, she has always been Free Tickets for High Holidays for October 1, after the Simchat Torah Shacharit The course covers six middot (or traits) over aware of class and its impact on the Jewish com- newcomers, graduate students and and Hallel services, which start at 8:30 a.m., a 12-week period. Sample traits include Humil- munity. As she explores upward mobility of the there will be a free pancake breakfast in the ity, Gratitude, and Trust. Keeping these traits first generation she also looks at its dark side. “Lots first and second year medical residents, and special dues for those 35 and under social hall from 9:30–10:30 a.m. for con- in balance helps one lead one’s life with more of people got out of the neighborhood and did well gregants and visitors, followed by the Haka- equanimity. Each week the Mussar Institute and then just blew it. I explore what it is about leav- Individuals and families who have moved to fot, (the Torah processionals), and the rest of Washtenaw County since last Yom Kippur may sends texts via email for self-study. The partici- ing and seeming to go a little crazy,” said Pomerantz. the service. Tots and their parents are invited pants then meet one week together to discuss Ann Pearlman promising debut book, The request free High Holiday tickets as Beth Israel’s to the pancake breakfast with the rest of the way of welcoming them into the local Jewish the study questions and the alternate week with Christmas Cookie Club, has now been translated congregation, followed by a Tot Simchat To- a study partner to discuss more personal reac- into seven languages and she is looking forward to community. Graduate students and first and rah program just for them. second year residents with I.D.s and documen- tions to the material. seeing the Chinese version, due out in paperback The group meetings will be October 5 and along with an accompanying cookie cookbook. tation may also request free individual tickets. Adult Hebrew classes Request forms must be submitted before the 19, November 9 and 23; December 7 and 21; Pearlman has unusual duty at Kerrytown—she Beth Israel Congregation offers profes- and January 11. (The program includes six will not only talk about her writing, but also about holidays, as no tickets can be provided imme- sionally taught adult Hebrew classes, open diately prior to any service. meetings (one for each middah or trait) plus an baking holiday cookies in the Hollander Kitchen to anyone in Washtenaw County. There are extra summing up meeting.) Shop at the Kerrytown BookFest. People who are age 35 or younger may be- classes for those with no knowledge of He- come members at a special rate of $300 for the The program costs $100 per person, with As a Jewish writer, Pearlman said the story she brew whatsoever and for those who are flu- payment made directly to the Mussar Institute. tells in The Christmas Cookie Club was influ- whole family for their first year of membership ent and wish to maintain their skills. Many (plus USCJ dues assessment of $34.75). Gradu- Those interested should contact the facilitator enced by her own Jewish identity. She laughingly levels of Conversational Hebrew and Biblical of the group, Roann Altman, at 483-8352 or answers her own rhetorical question: “’What’s a ate students and first and second year medical Hebrew are offered, with 12-week semesters students may also become members in a volun- [email protected]. Registration instructions Jewish girl doing writing about Christmas in the fall and winter. This year, we will be of- will then be forwarded to all participants. cookies?’—it’s also about holiday cookies,” tary dues opportunity. fering a crash course in Hebrew reading skills, she said. The author added, “The book has an Regular High Holiday tickets called Hebrew in a Day, on Sunday, October Baby Shabbat extremely strong message about diversity and 3 from 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Class instructors are On Saturday, October 2, at a service which how much more we are alike than different.” Tickets for the High Holidays are provided Malli Holoshitz and Pauli Weizman. free of charge to all members of Beth Israel. begins at 9:30 a.m., Baby Shabbat will be cel- The Christmas Cookie Club also explores secrets Malli Holoshitz is a native Israeli who has ebrated at Beth Israel. New babies born during and conflicts between three women who are close Non-members may purchase tickets for the taught Hebrew for many years; she is noted High Holiday services, although no tickets are the past year are officially welcomed and blessed friends. An on-going affair between one of them for her lively and animated teaching style. by the congregation around 11:30 a.m. Babies and another’s father threatens to break up the required for the High Holiday Family Celebra- She earned a Ph.D. in education from the tion for Young Children and the K–5 Family are presented with t-shirts marking the date of friendship when the holder of the secret is torn be- University of Michigan, and has taught at their upcoming bar/bat mitzvah year, followed tween revealing it and hurting her friend. n Program on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Keshet Ann Arbor, at the School of Educa- Those interested in further information are by a kiddush for everyone present, with the tion at Eastern Michigan University, as well name of each baby decorated on the cakes. The Kerrytown BookFest is a free event. More infor- asked to call the synagogue office at 665-9897. as at the University of Michigan. Holoshitz mation is available on www.Kerrytownbookfest.org. 10 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 September activities at Beth Israel Congregation Temple Beth Emeth programs and High Holiday services Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN Ronnie Simon, special to the WJN TBE theme for 5771: Sustaining Our a family service, with a special family prayerbook. using the side bar, “Register for Events.” munity and no tickets are necessary. Middle Torah is read every Friday night in services. school students should attend services with Souls, Our Community, Our World. Once each month, Middle School students Movie Tuesday: A Serious Man their families at Pease Auditorium.uy This year TBE will explore what sustaining lead their own services in the chapel, followed by College students are welcome to attend at ourselves within community and the world re- September 14, 1–3 p.m. at TBE an oneg or activity. High School services led by no charge. Those wishing to purchase tickets for ally means. TBE recognizes the importance of TBE offers a monthly free movie to the Jew- AARTY members also take place monthly on a the holidays can find a non-member ticket or- having focused programming in a congrega- ish community on a topic of Judaic interest. In varied schedule. der on the TBE website home page, www.tem- tion of its size. Sustainability is a hot topic right preparation for Yom Kippur, the September TBE’s Shabbat Morning Services and Torah plebethemeth.org, or can stop by or call the office, now, not only in terms of the environment movie will be A Serious Man by the Coen Broth- Study will resume on Saturday, September 4. 665-4744. Anyone interested in exploring mem- but also in relation to the ers. This movie tells the story of a modern day bership is encouraged to contact TBE’s executive economy and other areas Job, dealing with the questions of good and evil director, Ronnie Simon, 665-4744, or rsimon@ of daily life. Each area of in every day life. Snacks are provided and child templebethemeth.org. A free, one-year member- programming or group care can be arranged with advanced notice. Ev- ship is available to anyone under age 30 who has in Temple Beth Emeth is eryone is welcome. never been affiliated with a congregation. Mem- working toward the goal Sukkot celebration: bership materials are on the website or by stopping of sustaining ourselves by the office. Those purchasing tickets for the High within the community Sukkah decorating and pizza: Holidays may apply their ticket purchase to mem- and the world. This theme September 22, 6 p.m. bership dues if joining before December 31, 2010. will be prevalent in adult Come to TBE to celebrate Sukkot. Pizza and education opportunities salad bar will be available for $5 for adults and Selichot and “Preparing your Heart including the upcoming $2 for children under the age of 12. After din- Beit Café Adult Education ner, there will be craft materials for children of for the High Holy Days” Nights, in a continued ef- all ages to create decorations for the sukkah. Saturday, September 4, 8:30 p.m. fort to learn and use He- At 7 p.m. the group will gather for songs and In preparation for the High Holidays, Rabbi brew, in study of the Torah prayers in the sukkah. Register online at www. Levy, Rabbi Delson and Cantor Rose will lead a portion for the week and templebethemeth.org or pay at the door. discussion on “Sustaining the Interconnecting Rabbi Levy will lead a lively Torah Study of the in creating an environment where youth has the Circles of Self, Community and the World.” The weekly Torah portion, from 8:50–9:30 a.m. No TBE’s Twenties and Thirties: Sushi in ability to learn and have fun. TBE has invited discussion will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will include preparation is necessary to participate. Follow- Anat Hoffman, director of the Israeli Religious the Sukkah refreshments. Havdalah and Selichot with Kol Ha- ing Torah Study, there is a congregant-led service Action Center, to speak in the spring on issues September 25, 7 p.m. lev, TBE’s adult choir, will begin at approximately from 9:30–10:15 a.m. This service is timed so that related to Israel and religious rights for non- What do Japanese culture and Sukkot have 10 p.m. All are invited to attend the discussion, and those with students in the first session of Satur- Orthodox Jews and sustaining our world. to do with one another? Come and find out to come for refreshments and the Selichot Service. day morning religious school will be able to at- for this fun evening with other people in their TBE launches new website tend. On weeks when there is a bar or bat mitzvah, twenties and thirties; singles and couples are Birthday of the World for tots and The New Face of TBE was launched this there is also a 10 a.m. service in the sanctuary. welcome. $10 includes “kosher-style” sushi and their families| summer at www.templebethemeth.org. The TBE School opening dates Asian-inspired appetizers, BYO drinks (alco- September 9, 4:30 p.m. home page of the new site has easy access to holic or not). To RSVP contact Rabbi Delson Join Cantor Annie Rose on Rosh Hashanah Saturday, September 11, registration for events, information about at [email protected] or register on afternoon for a “Birthday of the World Cel- Religious School, preschool–grade 5. Shabbat services, the opportunity to become a our website www.templebethemeth.org. ebration” with songs and birthday cake. Rosh Sunday, September 12, “Facebook friend,” and access to photo galleries. Hashanah celebrates the beginning of the New Religious School, grades 6–12. In the month of September, the High Holiday Jewish Hikers of Michigan Year, but also the creation of the world. This will Monday, September 20, and Wednesday, Guide, and forms to request tickets to services Enjoy an afternoon hike on Sunday, Sep- be a joyful afternoon program for all. No tickets September 22, for both members and non-members, are lo- tember 26, with others who like the outdoors. necessary, and everyone is welcome. Hebrew School. cated on the home page. Jewish Hikers of Michigan offers a monthly To inquire about school, contact Terri Gins- hike through a local nature area. Hikes are led Generations Yom Kippur Service Shabbat at Temple Beth Emeth burg, school director, at 665-9237 or tginsburg@ by Eli Avney. Bring back packs, hot chocolate, September 18 Temple Beth Emeth is expanding Friday night templebethemeth.org. The Beth Emeth website, munchies, and water. The activity lasts approxi- Each High Holiday season, one of TBE’s Caring service options again this year, with services for ev- www.templebethemeth.org, has complete de- mately 1 to 1-1/2 hours. The hike is not physi- Community groups, “Generations After,” for ery age group, each followed by an Oneg Shabbat. tails of the school curriculum. cally demanding, is very scenic and is free. those whose families survived the Holocaust, Tot Shabbat begins at 5:30 p.m. Rabbi Levy, Sweet Beginnings opens Hebrew School For further information, contact Eli Avny, takes on the responsibility of planning and Cantor Rose, and the Tot Shabbat Song Team lead 883-9522; Rabbi Lisa Delson, 665-4744; or leading a portion of the afternoon Yom Kippur September 20 and 22 a service of songs, dancing, stories, and blessings. email [email protected]. Friends are in- Service. This year the group is exploring how, TBE Sisterhood starts Hebrew School off At 6 p.m., dinner is served, featuring mac & cheese, vited to join the hikes. despite hardships throughout the Holocaust with a sweet beginning by running Hebrew fish sticks, salad bar, and applesauce. (Dinner cost Meet at Dolph Park, 1/2 a mile south of Jack- and difficulties following the war, their family games and activities and providing a delicious is $5.00) Following dinner, there are two options son and Wagner Roads. Maps are available on members had the ability to move on and snack during the first day of Hebrew School. for young children and their parents. Rabbi Levy the TBE website: www.templebethemeth.org. persevere in raising families and accomplishing and Cantor Rose lead a new service (beginning Jewish Parenting Program— their life’s goals. This meaningful and uplifting on September 24) for children in kindergarten High Holiday services Yom Kippur Afternoon service will begin at through mid-elementary age. Entitled Sukkat “Strong Moms, Strong Girls: Middle Temple Beth Emeth congregational services approximately 3 p.m. Community members are Shalom, this service includes songs, prayers, To- School Friendships” for evening and morning on both Rosh Hashanah welcome to attend. rah reading, and a D’var Torah. Also at 6:30 p.m., September 26, 6–7:30 p.m. and Yom Kippur will be held at Pease Auditorium tots and their parents are invited to Shira, a lively Community members are invited to join in on the campus of Eastern Michigan University. Simchat Torah: Something for Everyone song session led by U-M graduate and former a dialogue and thoughtful reflection on how to Tickets are necessary for these services. Services September 29, 5:15 p.m. NFTY-MAR song leader Hannah Winkler. Oneg help your daughter navigate Middle School re- for Yom Kippur afternoon through Yiskor/Neilah The celebration of Torah begins at 5:15 p.m. Shabbat Popsicles are served to all youngsters and lationships. The program will be led by a repre- will be at the temple at 2309 Packard. with a short service, live klezmer music and parents following Sukkat Shalom and Shira. sentative from “Strong Moms, Strong Girls.” Services for high school students, grades dancing with the Torahs in the sanctuary. Every- Once each month, Shabbat dinner for adults 9–12, will be planned and run by AARTY, TBE’s one is welcome to come and join the fun. At 6:15 and older children is served in the social hall at 6 Brotherhood Shabbat BBQ dinner Youth Group. AARTY will hold Rosh Hashanah p.m. the celebration of the Torah and its teach- p.m. The menu varies and is posted on the TBE Friday, September 3, 6 p.m. Day services (Thursday, September 9) at 11 a.m. ings continues with an adult Torah study with website one week ahead; reservations can be made Grilled hamburgers, hotdogs and an ample at TBE. Students may be dropped off between Rabbi Levy and a light dinner. Rabbi Levy will through the website (www.templebethemeth. salad bar will be the menu for the opening Adult 10–11 a.m. for pre-service socializing; brunch be speaking about “Reaching Out to Others with org). The cost is $10. The first dinner of this sea- Shabbat Dinner of the season. Once a month, will be served following the service. On Yom Our Hearts, Our Strength and Our Resources. son will be on September 3. a special adult dinner is offered alongside the Kippur (Friday, September 17), AARTY will Call the TBE office, 665-4744, to make a reserva- At 7:30 p.m. every Friday, Erev Shabbat ser- weekly Tot Shabbat. TBE’s Brotherhood mem- conduct a Kol Nidre service at 8 p.m. Students tion; last minute attendance is also welcome. bers will be grilling the dinner four times this may be dropped off between 7–8 p.m. for a pre- vices are held in the sanctuary, led by Rabbi Levy, (A complete service schedule for Temple Beth coming year. Dinners are $10 per person. Reserve service dessert and socializing. These services Rabbi Delson, and Cantor Rose, followed by an Emeth is on page two of this issue of the WJN.) oneg in the social hall. Once each month, this is on the TBE website, www.templebethemeth, are open to Jewish high schoolers in the com-

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Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Havurah High Holidays with Pardes Hannah Jennifer Cohen, special to the WJN Lucinda Kurtz, special to the Wjn t is the custom of Pardes Hannah, the And as Rabbi Arthur Waskow teaches, there website, www.aaRecon.com or contact the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Jewish Renewal Community of Ann is a way of wrestling with a beloved that can Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Havurah The Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Arbor, to weave a theme throughout be a form of love-making. Havurah High Holiday services are open and ([email protected] or 445.1910). I High Holiday services, from Rosh Hashanah The second name for being a Jew is Ye- accessible to all members of the community, Shabbat Shuvah through Shemeni Atzereit. In this way, min- hudi, coming from Jacob’s son, Yehudah: one with no ticket required. Jews as well as to their yan members are invited to reflect on sig- who gives thanks and is grateful for what is. non-Jewish spouses, partners, and friends are A meditative, musical Shabbat Shuvah program is planned for September 11, the nificant personal and social issues of the past This name suggests the first words of prayer all invited. year in the light of a challenging theme. How uttered in the morning: Modeh/modah ani, I Reconstructionist Judaism is the youngest Saturday evening between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The evening’s songs will has this theme reverberated in your life over am grateful before You— for the gift of life, denomination of Judaism. The first denom- the past year? In what way is this theme alive which has been returned to me. It is another ination “born” on American soil, it consti- concentrate on the themes of teshuvah, re- turn, and the longings of the heart. A story for you now? Pardes Hannah invites mem- way of not taking life for granted. But where- tutes roughly four percent of America’s Jews. bers of the Ann Arbor Jewish community as Yisrael perhaps implies a certain restless- One of the hallmarks of Reconstructionism or two may also be told. The program is open to both affiliated and non-affiliated Jews, as to explore these three questions and others ness, Yehudah suggests taking in what is. It is the value that it places on community. during this special time of year and partici- acknowledges the present, and even, receives Another is its attention to active participa- well as their interested partners. Those who RSVP will be given the location and direc- pate in the variety of services led by Rabbi, it as a blessing. tion. A third distinguishing characteristic is Elliot Ginsburg. In the Sefat Emet, the Gerer Rebbe taught, its openness and welcoming attitude toward tions. RSVP to Aura Ahuvia, 975-9045, or [email protected]. This technique of focusing on a specific don’t pray for what you don’t have, but pray Jews who may sometimes consider them- theme helps to unite the community even for what you already do have.” So which selves on the margins: GLBT Jews, Jews of Beit Sefer Sunday School before Rosh Hashanah, when it gathers on name to opt for? At certain moments, one or mixed marriages, Jews who are intermarried, The curriculum for the Reconstruction- Saturday, September 4, for Selichot, as prep- the other option may be more desirable. But and Jews who have shunned affiliation with ist Havurah’s Sunday school, called the Beit arations are made to enter the Days of Awe Rabbi Ginsburg suggests, “ellu ve-ellu, not organized religion. Sefer, was mildly upgraded over the summer, with an evening of study and chanting at either/or, but both/and. Both names may be High Holiday services will be musical, adding a prayer leadership component to this the home of Rabbi Elliot and Linda Jo Doc- true names, yet they only reach their fullness participatory and interactive, community- year’s program. The update will mean that tor, at 2924 Baylis Drive. This is reflective of when they are brought together.” oriented yet students in the community-oriented yet very personal Join Pardes Hannah for First Day Rosh Ha- introspective, each of the experience that Jewish Renewal embod- shanah services from 9:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on giving ample three mixed- ies through its honoring of revered Hasidic Thursday, September 9, at St. Aidans Church, opportunity to age classrooms practices, chanting, meditation, movement, 1679 Broadway. This will be a traditional Jewish engage actively will have the and deep joy in contemplation. Renewal service with prayer, niggunim (word- and vitally with opportunity This year’s theme/question concerns two less melodies), and teachings by community the process of to lead prayers contrasting Hebrew names for being Jewish members followed by a potluck lunch. Tash- teshuvah, or re- during the and is presented by Rabbi Ginsburg in the lich will be at 3:30 p.m. at Island Park (meeting pentance/return. Havurah’s following way: “The first name is Israel/Yis- at the shelter). Second day Rosh Hashanah They will be led monthly Shab- rael, the name that Jacob merits later in life, services—a meditation service—will be on by the Havurah’s bat services when he is ready to more fully confront his Friday, September 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rabbinical Stu- t h ro u g h o u t past, his brother Esau, and God. Jacob was at St. Aidans followed by Kiddush. On Friday, dent Intern Aura the year. The someone who grew into his wholeness not September 17, Kol Nidrei preparations will Ahuvia, with remainder of straightaway, but via twist and turns. The commence at 6:45 p.m. and services will begin contributions the curriculum will remain the same, focus- name Yisrael means one who wrestles with at 7:15 p.m. at St. Aidans Church. Yom Kippur from Deb Kraus and other Havurah mem- ing half on ethics and Jewish history, and half God, or as the Torah has it, one who wres- services will begin at 9:30 a.m. with contempla- bers. Services will be at the Unitarian Univer- on Hebrew, with a brief singing component tles with God and humanity va-tukhal, and tive yoga at 2:45 p.m., meditation at 4:15 p.m., salist Congregation of Ann Arbor, 4001 Ann connecting the two. is able to hold his own. Yisrael is the name mincha at 4:45 p.m., yizkor at 6 p.m., neilah at Arbor-Saline Road. The first day of school is Sunday, Sep- of a striver, a risk-taker who is willing to dig 7:10 p.m. and shofar blowing at 8:15 p.m. Break- Services will be at no cost for current tember 12, with a concurrent orientation for deep and move from what is to what might fast to follow. For more information about Havurah members. A $126 per household do- parents that will include and coffee. be/what can be/even what ought to be. The Pardes Hannah, the High Holiday schedule and nation is recommended from non-members Questions may be directed to the Beit Sefer’s name Yisrael also invites us to envision new other fall services and holiday plans, call Dorrie to help cover the costs of services; those not head teacher, Shoshana Maloff Jackson, names for God, to dare new forms of holy Rosenblatt at 665-4186. n able to donate the suggested amount, can do- 709-3434, or to School Director Aura Ahuvia, living, to risk a deeper knowing. Wrestling nate what they can. 975-9045, or [email protected]. Infor- suggests an embodied form of engagement. A Break-the-Fast will be held on Septem- mation is also available on the website, at ber 18, following Ne’ilah (around 8:30 p.m.). www.aaRecon.com. A catered dairy buffet with traditional Jewish foods will be served. The cost is $15 for mem- Learning Services Resume Parsha Nitzavim bers, $20 for nonmembers. The year-long “Learning Service Series,” a Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the Wjn Childcare for children 2 years of age and 10-part drop-in-based class held on the first older will be available for portions of the ser- Shabbat mornings of every month, will begin On the Shabbat before Rosh Hashana we God is the source of our existence and we are vices, but reservations will be required and Saturday, October 2, at 10 a.m. at the Jewish always read the Torah portion Nitzavim. It given our mission on Earth via God’s Torah, must be made by Wednesday, September 1. Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor. begins with Moses addressing the entire Jew- which was revealed directly from God to our Childcare for nonmembers is $18 per child These services are geared toward Jewish adults ish people. He states “You are standing today, ancestors—then the eternal thread that binds per day. Without advance reservation, child- who are largely unknowledgeable about the all of you, before the Lord your God….” His us together and unifies us from generation to care will be offered only on a space-available nature of the Jewish prayer service. Through address is both general and specific, distin- generation becomes evident. basis. Members who have not made a reserva- active learning activities, sharing, singing and guishing specific functional groups of Jews It’s human nature to tend to focus on tion will be asked to pay $10 per child per day; discussion, the nature of the Shabbat morn- from the leaders of tribes to the drawers of the differences between us rather than the non-members $18 per child per day. ing service, its shape and contents, history water and then encompassing them all under commonality that unites us. At Chabad, our Childcare will not be offered on Erev and contributing characters are all explored. the unifying banner of “all of you.” Why the mission is to provide a spiritual home for Rosh Hashanah (September 8); Kol Nidre No RSVP is necessary to attend, and each apparent inconsistency? every Jew regardless of background, affilia- (September 17); during the afternoon ses- class is designed to be self-contained. Last Moses was making the point that although tion, education, level of observance, position sions of Yom Kippur (September 18; 3–5:15 year’s curriculum included classes on “Pos- there must be unity among the Jewish people, in the community or any of the other “ten p.m.); or during the Break-the-Fast (Sep- tures toward God,” “The Service Structure,” simultaneously each person has their own, thousand things” which, if we’re not careful, tember 18, 8:30–10 p.m.). “The Shema,” “The Amidah,” “Sources of individual mission. But how can there be a can lead us to disunity. Perhaps this New Year Contributions, childcare reservations, Prayer: Characters and History,” and “The true unity when even Moses makes the dis- would be a good time to make a resolution and Break-the-Fast payment may be sent Prophetic Voice.” One need not be a member tinction between the heads of the communi- to try harder to emphasize the unity of the to the AARH, PO Box 7451, Ann Arbor, of the Reconstructionist Havurah to attend. ty and the drawers of water? Moses supplies Jewish people under our covenant with God, MI, 48107-7451. A form for payment may For more information, check the website, at the answer within his address when he states, and to try to be less distracted by the differ- be printed from the website, www.aare- www.aaRecon.com, or contact Aura Ahuvia, “You are standing today, all of you, before the ences of our individuality. con.org. For more information, check the 975-9045, or [email protected]. n Lord your God.” When Jews recognize that

12 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 A community eruv in Ann Arbor Nehama Stampfer Glogower, special to the Wjn story is told of a traveler passing erecting or dismantling the tabernacle. sacred day, and be able to attend synagogue stalling new wires would pose insurmount- through a dark forest. In the distance So what does this have to do with putting services more easily. able problems, The planning committee, A she can see a well-lit house and con- a key in my pocket? Well, the various poles An eruv is the means by which a commu- led by Ari Kahan, Zev Berger, Bob Savit and siders stopping there. But through the win- that formed the basic wall structure had to be nity is “enclosed,” not just symbolically, but Danny Elbaum, under the supervision of dow she sees people jumping up literally. It is a means by which a “private” Rabbi Howard Jachter with the consultation and down and waving their arms area is defined for purposes of Jewish law of Rabbi Rod Glogower, spent hundreds of in the air. Concluding that it is Ann Arbor has now become one of the many hours literally pounding the pavement of the an insane asylum, the traveler communities around America that have a areas nearest Ann Arbor’s synagogues, try- continues on. community eruv—a result of many years and ing to locate the largest enclosure feasible. My dad used to tell this story countless hours of hard work and planning. Unfortunately most of the wires for the in explaining Jewish observance. So, how does a community create such an University of Michigan campus area are un- “The traveler didn’t realize what enclosure? An actual fence would certainly derground, which meant that student dor- was going on,” he’d say. “She do the job, but is not really feasible. But if we mitories, the hospital and building adjacent thought the people were crazy, return to a legal point of view, we must define to campus, could not be included. But the but in reality they were danc- a fence? How about a power line high above committee continues to explore other op- ing—it’s just that she couldn’t the ground that is attached to poles? This is tions, additional plans; it is not unusual for hear the music. Sometimes the basis of Ann Arbor’s eruv, with certain a community eruv to be built in stages and people may witness Jewish ob- there is still hope that the Ann Arbor Eruv servances and not understand it will be expanded in the future. because they can’t hear the music How will the eruv impact Ann Arbor? Like of the Jewish ritual and law.” I’ve all of the other Jewish institutions in town, often used this little story when I try to ex- loaded and unloaded from it is symbolic of community diversity and plain why I can’t eat meat and milk together wagons—carried from “pub- growth. It is a sign of a mature and healthy (even if they are both marked “kosher”) and lic” to “private” property. My Jewish community. Observant families with certainly when I try to explain why I can’t house is private property, young children, who may not have consid- carry a key in my pocket on Shabbat. but the street in front of my ered living here, will now take a second look Like any other legal system, Jewish law house (as I am reminded ev- at Ann Arbor, knowing that Shabbat doesn’t deals with definitions, boundaries and re- ery winter when I don’t clear mean that they must stay at home with their quirements. Michigan drivers, for example, snow off my sidewalk quickly children. Most beautifully, however, is the fact must be a certain age (16, not 16 minus one enough!) is public property. that the community has worked together on day), pass a driver’s test, which clearly defines I can’t carry anything out of this project. Even those for whom the ritual the skills one must have, and accept certain my house on Shabbat, in- music is faint have joined enthusiastically in restrictions, such a speed limits, etc. We are cluding my key. the dance and celebrate the establishment of told not to work on Shabbat, but how do we But like any other legal this milestone project. define “work”? What exactly is forbidden? system, there are ways to maintain the force enhancements that fulfill the requirements of The entire community is invited to a The clues are found in the Book of Exodus and validity of the law in a way that reduces halakha (Jewish law). Thanks to a great deal of meeting and reception to mark the eruv’s chap 35, when the Israelites were instructed the burden upon daily life. What if the “pub- help and cooperation from Detroit Edison, as completion, on September 28, at the Jewish to build the tabernacle and, in virtually in the lic” property can become part of a much, well as steadfast support from the Jewish Fed- Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor, at same breath, informed that they must not much larger “private property?” Then there eration and the congregations, the Ann Arbor 7:30 p.m. Maps of the eruv will be available, work on the Sabbath. According to Jewish ju- would be no problem of carrying from one Eruv was declared kosher in early July. as well as a chance to ask questions and learn risprudence, this juxtaposition indicates that domain to another. Not only would I be able Creating the route of the eruv was an more about eruv construction and the par- even work on the holy tabernacle had to be to carry my key, but I’d be able to carry a enormous challenge. How could the greatest ticulars of the Ann Arbor Eruv. Further in- suspended on the Sabbath so “work” had to be baby, or a book, or a water bottle on Shab- amount of area be included, considering our formation is also available at a2eruv.org. n understood as anything to do with building or bat, and thus enhance my enjoyment of the dependence on current overhead wires? In-

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Bnai Tzedek teens complete first year Eileen Freed, special to the WJN even teens and their parents gath- they decided to fund and why. Some teens ered on May 23 to celebrate the con- chose to allocate the entirety of their funds Sclusion of a year of exploring the to one organization; others decided to divide world of tzedakah and philanthropy. The their funds among several. Funds could be eighth graders, Jonah Ahuvia, Hana Berk- donated to any non-profit organization, and ooz, Samantha Brandt, Zachary Colton, the choices reflected the varied interests of Shira Hammerslough, Katia Kassof, and the participants. Recipients included Ozone Yael Silver comprised the inaugural class of House and Safe House, two organizations the the Jewish Federation’s B’nai Tzedek Youth group visited. Others included Jewish Family

Katia Kassof, Samantha Brandt, Yael Silver, Hana Berkooz, Zachary Colton and Jonah Ahuvia. Not pictured: Shira Hammerslough Philanthropy program. During the year, they Services, the Humane Society, Alpha House, completed four sessions during which they and Jewish Federation’s Partnership 2000 examined the Jewish values of tzedakah, de- project. Katie Kassof chose to donate her veloped tzedakah mission statements, gained funds to Kids Kicking Cancer, a program in a deeper understanding of non-profit orga- which children undergoing cancer treatment nizations and how they work, and simulated take classes in Tae Kwan Do or Karate. “I re- the challenge of “allocating” limited funds in ally like this program because it helps kids to worthy causes. The students had the op- focus on something else while they have can- portunity to visit several local non-profit cer,” explained Kassof during her speech. “On the website there are kids with BIG smiles on their faces. I think this is one of the nicest I am so pleased that through things I have ever seen.” Parents who attended were very pleased B’nai Tzedek Mark and I can with the process undertaken by their children and looked forward to having them continue help young people learn from to grow as philanthropists and community leaders. Carolyn Grawi, mother of Brandt, an early age that they can felt that she “would like the teens to be re- make a difference and sponsible for a group allocation process. This would help them better understand the to give them the tools to challenges faced by adults who balance com- munity needs with limited resources.” At the do so wisely.” Rachel Bendit Jewish Federation’s annual meeting in May, Corry Berkooz spoke of the impact the pro- agencies to learn first-hand how they oper- gram had on her daughter: Hana: “She took ate and to understand the challenges faced by her funding decisions seriously and asked mission-driven organizations. important questions of the organization. I Participants in B’nai Tzedek created their think her decision was better informed than own philanthropic funds in partnership with it would have been before.” program funders Rachel Bendit and Mark The Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Bernstein. Mark and Rachel were moved by Arbor launched the B’nai Tzedek, a pro- their own early experiences with tzedakah to gram of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation provide a framework for developing educat- program, with the generous support of Ben- ed, thoughtful and generous young philan- dit and Bernstein. The program is designed thropists. “As a teen, it was through tzedakah to encourage Jewish teens to increase their that I found the most connection with my charitable awareness and participate in both Jewish heritage” said Bendit during the cer- individual and, eventually, collective grant emony. “I am so pleased that through B’nai making. Recruitment for the second cohort Tzedek Mark and I can help young people of eighth graders is underway with program- learn from an early age that they can make ming to begin in October. a difference and to give them the tools to do For more information about B’nai Tzedek, so wisely.” visit www.jewishannarbor.org or contact Ei- During the M’sibat Siyum (concluding leen Freed, 734-677-0100 or eileenfreed@ celebration), the teens shared their Tzedakah jewishannarbor.org. n decisions, explaining which organizations

14 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 Ann Arbor and Nahalal teens join forces at 2010 JCC Maccabi Games in Omaha Eileen Freed, special tot the Wjn ach summer, the Jewish Community and Nahalal teens develop as a team” said Eva Center of Greater Ann Arbor sends Solomon, co-chair of the C2C committee and Ea delegation of teen athletes to par- mother of Gabe. ticipate in the JCC Maccabi Games, a week During their stay in Ann Arbor, the Israeli of Olympic-style events, competitions and athletes visited Camps Raanana and Gan Israel, community service projects. For the second toured and shopped downtown with local teens, summer, the delegation included athletes and spent quality time with their host families. from Michigan’s Partnership 2000 (P2K) re- They even had time to enjoy Greenfield Village gion and sister community, Moshav Nahalal. and a canoe trip with other members of the Mac- The group of 13 athletes and three chaper- cabi team. They all found their most memorable ones competed with over 1,000 Jewish ath- experiences in Ann Arbor were the times they letes from 30 communities in swimming, spent with their new friends. “I loved the experi- tennis, dance, soccer and volleyball. ence and look forward to seeing my new friends Israeli athletes, Michal Tsfoni (13) and Halel when they come to Nahalal,” said Tsfoni. Ann Tamir (14) from Nahalal, Anat Strupinsky (14) Arbor teens reciprocated the positive feelings. from Nazareth Illit and their chaperone, Dudi Pinsky, who would be in Israel with her family Halel Tamir, Gabe Solomon, Anat Strupinsky, and Theo Chupp at the farewell dinner Tamir, spent a week in Ann Arbor learning soon after the Maccabi games, was looking for- At a farewell dinner hosted by Seth Penchan- 12th graders, who were volunteer madrichot about the community, developing relationships ward to spending time at Nahalal. “We had such sky, Chupp congratulated the athletes, noting, “I (counselors) at Camp Gan Israel. “I loved hav- with their teammates and other local teens, a great time together, and having friends in Israel am so impressed that this group of kids who met ing Noy and Atalia participate at camp,” said and training for their dance competition. Ann makes me even more excited for my trip.” each other just one week ago developed such a camp director Shternie Zwiebel. “They added Arbor athletes included Michael Bondin (13, strong bond, representing our communities so much spirit and connected the campers even tennis), Theo Chupp (15, swimming), Cassidy Ann Arbor/Nahalal delegation in Omaha so honorably at the Games.” Israeli chaperone, more to Moshav Nahalal and Israel.” Members The Maccabi games in Omaha took place (16, dance) and Sacha (14, soccer) Moravy Dudi Tamir, was moved by the way the teens of Moshav Nahalal returned the hospitality and Sunday, August 1, through Thursday, August 5, Penchansky, Zoie Palan (14, volleyball), Alexa interacted: “Within one day, they really became welcomed visitors from Ann Arbor including and included a moving opening ceremony and Pinsky (14, volleyball), Jonah Schmidt (13, ten- one delegation. I was so proud of the way they Zweibel, Andy Rudick, and the Pinsky family. huge evening events at the zoo and Strategic nis), Noah Seel (14, soccer), Emma Share (16, supported one another and grew as friends.” Last year’s joint Maccabi delegation led to dance), and Gabe Solomon (15, swimming). Air and Space Museum. In addition to enjoying the development of the Student Exchange for JCC Board President Seth Penchansky led the themselves and developing new friendships, the Other summertime Ann Arbor/Nahalal 9th graders, and this year’s generated a great delegation. Tim Chupp and Dudi Tamir served Ann Arbor/Nahalal delegation had great success community-to-community exchanges deal of excitement for incoming 9th graders as coaches and chaperones. in competition. In dance, Halel Tamir and Tsfoni The Ann Arbor/Nahalal Partnership is an inte- to participate in February 2011. Yair Hammer, earned bronze and silver medals for their duets Nahalal co-chair of the C2C committee reports, Partnership 2000 and the Maccabi Games and honorable mention as student choreogra- gral part of the Michigan/Central Galilee Partner- ship 2000 program led by the Jewish Federation “In Nahalal there is a lot of excitement about The Maccabi Games typically include del- phers; Strupinsky won two silver medals; Share all the activity connecting our teens. The Mac- egations representing the State of Israel. Since and Cassidy Moravy-Penchansky earned a silver of Metropolitan Detroit. Cooperative programs are developed with communities in Michigan cabi games have proven very successful, and we 2004, communities participating in the Jewish medal for their duet and a gold medal for student are sure the upcoming Student Exchange visit Agency’s P2K project have included athletes choreography; and Share won bronze and silver and those of Nazareth Illit, Migdal Ha’Emek and the municipality of Emek Yizrael (Jezreel Valley). to Nahalal [September 2010] will broaden and from their partner communities in their Mac- medals for her individual dance. Gabe Solomon deepen the connection. We are so fortunate that cabi delegations. The P2K Community-to- and Theo Chupp won a total of thirteen medals Developing a closer relationship with Moshav Nahalal, a village in the Jezreel Valley, has allowed we have a sister community like Ann Arbor.” Community (C2C) sees the games as a unique in swimming. Seel and Sacha Moravy-Penchan- For more information about C2C or Nahalal members of both communities to learn from and opportunity to foster connections between sky helped their San Diego/Ann Arbor soccer or to see more pictures from the trip, visit www. interact more closely with one another. teen athletes in Ann Arbor and Nahalal. “After team win the silver, and Palan and Pinsky took jewishannarbor.org, visit the facebook group: This summer, in addition to the Maccabi three years of working on the P2K Communi- home gold as part of the San Diego/Palo Alto/ Nahalal & Ann Arbor: Two Communities; One athletes, the Ann Arbor community hosted ty-to-Community project, it was heartwarm- Ann Arbor volleyball team. Bondin and Schmidt Family or contact Eileen Freed at 677-0100 or Noy Hammer and Atalia Mekler, both rising ing and exhilarating to see the Ann Arbor won gold and silver in mixed-doubles tennis. [email protected]. n Federation recruiting teens for second Ann Arbor/Nahalal student exchange delegation Eileen Freed, special to the Wjn

The Jewish Federation’s Ann Arbor/Nahalal of Michigan football, and Jewish life in Ann similar program of touring, school attendance experience what it means to be Jewish living in Community-to-Community committee (C2C) Arbor. Participants on both sides of the ocean and teen interaction. The Student Exchange is a Christian country where one’s Jewish-ness is is recruiting ninth graders for the Ann Arbor/ developed such a close bond that they are using funded by the Federation’s Partnership 2000 experienced as a voluntary choice to participate Nahalal Student Exchange 2011. The Ann Ar- Facebook to count the days together until they C2C allocation; participants will be asked to in Jewish communal activities or not. Together, bor/Nahalal Student Exchange Program is a see one another. cover only the cost of their flight, trip insurance they will have the opportunity to understand two-part exchange in which ninth grade stu- Cheryl Sugerman, C2C co-chair, has been and pocket money during the trip. the unique challenges to Jewish identity that dents from Ann Arbor will spend their February moved by the development of such close rela- Yair Hammer, chair of the Israeli committee, each path holds.” vacation in Nahalal. The following September, tionships. “Just watching teens from two na- says, “I am very pleased with success of our first The Ann Arbor/Nahalal Partnership is an during the Sukkot break, their counterparts tions become one group has been a wonderful teen exchange in which our children strength- integral part of the Michigan/Central Galilee from Nahalal will come to Ann Arbor. experience, I can only imagine how thrilling it ened their Jewish identity by connecting with Partnership 2000 program led by the Jewish must be to be a part of the delegation.” the Jewish world outside Israel and yours Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Coopera- 2010 Student Exchange experience strengthened their Jewish identity by develop- tive programs are developed with communities The Student Exchange began in Febru- Recruitment open for 2011 Student ing relationships with Israelis. We are looking in Michigan and those of Nazareth Illit, Migdal ary 2010, when seven Ann Arbor teens visited Exchange Delegation forward to welcoming our second delegation Ha’Emek and the Regional Council of Emek Nahalal and attended school, visited Jerusalem Part One of the 2011 exchange will take and establishing a strong foundation for the Yizrael (Jezreel Valley). Developing a closer and Tel Aviv, and celebrated with their place during the Ann Arbor Public School’s continuation of this wonderful program.” relationship with Moshav Nahalal, a village in new friends. The trip had a significant impact 2011 February break, leaving Thursday, Feb- Federation Executive Director David Shtul- the Jezreel Valley, has allowed members of both on the teens’ connection to Israel and their ruary 17, and returning Sunday, February 27. man sees the Student Exchange as an important communities to learn from and interact more Israeli peers as evidenced by their comments Participants will be hosted by families in Na- opportunity for Israeli and American Jewish closely with one another. This summer, Ann about the trip. “Nahalal was like my home away halal, and the program will include attending teens to learn from one another. “Jewish teens in Arbor welcomed Maccabi teen athletes and from home” (Sarah Zimmerman), “Now I feel classes at the Nahalal Regional High School, Israel and in the United States experience what teen volunteer counselors at Camp Gan Israel, like I have a connection to Israel” (Isaac Fink), touring Nahalal and the surrounding region, it means to be Jewish in very different ways,” and Nahalal hosted several Ann Arbor families. “This trip made me feel that I have a home in plenty of interaction with local teens, and a visit says Shtulman. “This program gives the teens For information or to register, visit www.jew- Israel that I can always go to” (Lily Scheerer). to Jerusalem. Students and their families will be from Ann Arbor an opportunity to understand ishannarbor.org or contact Eileen Freed at eileen- This September, the local teens will host their asked to serve as hosts for the Nahalal delega- what it means to be a teenager growing up in a [email protected] or 734-677-0100. counterparts for ten days during which the Na- tion in mid-October 2011 (specific dates to be Jewish state with military service looming just halal teens will experience school, University determined). The Nahalal students will have a after high school graduation. The Israeli teens

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Gardening, Jewish identity, and early Afterschool programs at the JCC Deborah Huerta, special to the Wjn education at the JCC ECC The Jewish Community Center of Greater Participants receive discounts on JCC youth en- Peretz Hirshbein, special to the Wjn Ann Arbor has announced another year of af- richment classes and priority enrollment for the terschool programs for youth. The afterschool JCC’s School’s Out, Snow Day, and Vacation Fun ver the course of the summer at ronmental stewardship requires more than programs are designed to provide the safety and Days programs. Additional siblings enrolled in the the JCC Early Childhood Cen- knowledge; it also demands commitment. convenience parents need and the fun and ex- JCC’s afterschool programs receive a 10 percent Oter, children and adults watched But as a Jewish early childhood program, citement children desire. discount, and employees of Jewish community or- with wonder as the preschool garden grew the ECC has more reasons for teaching chil- The JCC’s Kids’ Konnection afterschool pro- ganizations are also eligible for discounts. Scholar- and flourished. The garden started from dren about nature than the average preschool. gram caters to students in kindergarten through ships are available for qualifying families. seedlings under growing lamps in the win- While all early childhood programs seek to second grade with nurturing staff, daily circle time, Several afternoon transportation options are ter, which were planted in the garden in the prepare children to become enthusiastic and exciting supervised activities. The Kids’ Club available for students who attend local elementary spring. The plantings are now lush, tall, and learners and good citizens, the ECC also aims program is designed to meet the interests of third schools. Ann Arbor Public Schools provide free bus full of vegetables. Over the summer, the chil- to build Jewish identity. Jews have long had through fifth graders with designated homework transportation to the JCC from Bryant, Pattengill, dren harvested (and ate) over five pounds of a term for environmental stewardship: tik- time, separate hang-out spaces, and expanded and Ann Arbor Open elementary schools. The string beans, four pounds of salad greens, kun olam, repairing the world. The emotional activity choices. Both programs run from 3:20–6 JCC can also provide transportation from some two pounds of radishes, two pounds of connection that the ECC builds between chil- p.m. daily. Parents interested in afterschool pro- other elementary schools; contact Deborah Huerta cherry tomatoes, and lots of basil to go with dren and nature through gardening is a posi- grams for 6th–8th graders should inquire about the for details. the tomatoes. The children are still waiting tive Jewish emotional connection. JCC’s Middle School Helpers program. For more information about the JCC’s after- for their potatoes, gourds, ornamental corn, Children in the ECC learn concrete Jew- Both Kids’ Konnection and Kids’ Club offer school programs, contact youth director Deborah watermelon, and pumpkins. ish lessons through gardening as well. Most convenient scheduling options, allowing parents to Huerta at [email protected] or 971-0990. While backyard gardens have become Jewish holiday celebrations have an agricul- choose schedules from two to five days per week Registrations will be accepted in the fall and very popular in recent years, why has the ECC tural context. When the ECC teaches chil- and also to utilize drop-in care for additional days. throughout the school year. embarked on such an extensive gardening dren that Tu B’Shevat is the birthday of the program? There are many reasons, all related trees, children made a concrete connection to one another, to children’s scientific under- between the holiday and the seeds that they BIC receives grant to offer Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! standing, and the building of Jewish identity. plant under the grow lights. When children Elliot Sorkin, special to the Wjn learned that This fall Beth Israel Congregation will launch engage more deeply with Judaism. P a s s o v e r Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing!—a fun program Rabbi Sara Adler will be leading the group. She is not only Jewish girls say is a safe place to talk about chal- was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary Chag HaMat- lenges they face in adolescence. This program is in 1999, and works as the University of Michigan zot, but also being funded through a generous grant from the Health System’s first Jewish staff chaplain. As the Chag HaAviv Jewish Women’s Foundation. The program will mother of two young daughters, Rabbi Adler (holiday of be open to all Jewish girls in grades 6 and 7. Partic- appreciates the celebrations and complexities in- the spring), ipants do not have to be a member of Beth Israel. volved in helping young women and girls navi- this lesson Rosh Hodesh builds self-esteem, Jewish iden- gate through modern American culture. was rein- tity, leadership skills, and friendship networks of The kick-off event, “Taste of Rosh Hodesh,” forced by the adolescent girls. The group will meet monthly in will take place on Sunday, September 26, from sprouts that the homes of members on a rotating basis. The 4–6 p.m. at the Beth Israel sukkah. This event is peeked out program uses Jewish teaching and engaging ac- for teens and their parents. Attendees will get a of the grow- tivities to help adolescent girls grapple with the life chance to experience the program and ask ques- ing trays this issues they care about most, including body im- tions. Registration is required for the program, last spring; age, popularity, friendship, and decision-making. and there is an enrollment fee. Contact Rabbi next spring, In the process, the girls are inspired to form per- Kim Blumenthal at 665-9897 or kblumenthal@ the children sonal Jewish identities. The program is a project bethisrael-aa.org for more information. w i l l ma ke of Moving Traditions, which inspires people to Isaac Hess, Leo Wilensky, and Kalman Demeester catch butterflies in the garden out of the horse- First, gardening with young children radish growing in the garden. By the time ECC presents Krislov Award at JCC’s Annual Meeting teaches important lessons about how nature of Shavuot, when first fruits are harvested, works. From the concrete lesson that soil + the preschool garden was ready to offer up Halye Aisner, special to the Wjn seed + water + sun = plant, to the more ab- its first radishes and salad greens. Director Susan Horowitz, a teacher in the Jewish Center stract lesson that their food comes from the Noreen DeYoung says, “We hope to use the of Greater Ann Arbor Early Childhood Center’s earth, gardening experiences are invaluable produce of our garden to decorate our pre- Duck Room, received the Evelyn Krislov Excel- for teaching children about their relation- school Sukkah this year—the ornamental lence Award at the JCC’s annual meeting in June ship with the world around them. Ask chil- corn is already eight feet tall, and we have of this year. This award is given to teachers at the dren who have never tended a garden where some promising gourds growing!” To come JCC who have gone the extra mile. Horowitz a tomato comes from; their answers are more full circle, the ECC will also be harvesting demonstrated excellence in bringing in and inte- likely to include “the grocery store” than “the potatoes in the fall, to be saved for making grating Judaic curriculum, as well as new ideas to garden.” Children at the ECC know where at Chanukah. her classroom and the ECC. This includes having vegetables come from, and they are excited DeYoung explains that “Making concrete a positive attitude, the amount of training courses Noreen DeYoung, Susan Horowitz, and Carolyn Kuranz about eating the peas, stringbeans, and to- connections to holidays is critical to build- and seminars taken above and beyond basic re- jects to give the children extraordinary experiences. matoes that they have grown. ing a strong Jewish identity in young chil- quirements, attendance both during school hours She involves the children in the selection, set up More abstractly, gardening teaches chil- dren. Just as making for Shabbat, and at after school functions and having done and clean up of activities in addition to experienc- dren why they should care for the environ- frying latkes in oil for Chanukah, and eat- something that is considered “above and beyond ing the fun. She is a great leader and team player. ment. As a society, we continually send ing matzah on Passover create lasting Jewish the call of duty.” Seeking input on how to improve daily activities, children the message that they are respon- associations, gardening with children while A committee of parents observed the candi- Horowitz consistently welcomes feedback from sible for saving our planet. Without concrete making explicit connections to Jewish holi- dates as well as reviewed their past history at ECC. her colleagues, takes their suggestions and builds experiences with the good that comes from days also create the powerful Jewish memo- In addition, all teachers and parents were surveyed on them. nature, why would children have the emo- ries and experiences that are the building and given an opportunity to give their input. In or- Horowitz has a commitment to incorporating tional connection to nature that would lead blocks of identity.” n der to be a candidate for the award, teachers must Jewish values and themes into the daily routine. them to want to save it? Actively engaging have worked at the JCC for three years. Interested readers can follow the ECC’s gar- This includes making hamentashen on Purim, children in gardening gives them not only Horowitz received $1,000 in honor of her excel- dening efforts by reading the ECC Gardening finding creative ways to teach children about knowledge about nature, but also the emo- lent work for the past four years. During that time Blog, on the JCC website: http://www.jccan- plagues on Passover, using Hebrew words with tional connection to nature that makes it she almost completed her masters in Early Child- narbor.org. Space in the JCC Early Childhood children whenever she can and working with an possible for children to want to protect it. hood Education. When parents and colleagues Center is still available for fall. Contact Nor- Israeli family to see how she might incorporate as- ECC Director Noreen DeYoung asks, “How were asked to describe Horowitz ‘s work here, they een DeYoung at [email protected] or pects of Israeli culture into her care of their child. can we expect children to save the earth if emphasized dedication, teamwork and commit- 971-0990 for more information. Horowitz shows an impressive commitment to we don’t teach them to love it first?” Envi- ment to Jewish values. Horowitz uses ordinary ob- helping the JCC Early Childhood Center shine. 16 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 17 I Youth

Camp Gan Israel 2010: merging mitzvot and summer fun Brynie Stiefel, special to the Wjn amp Gan Israel of Ann Arbor may feelings of many parents, “I kind of expect- have closed its doors for this sum- ed the competition in camp to be centered Cmer, but for the children, parents and around sports and the like, and here there is counselors who took part, the seven weeks of the focus on becoming a mensch. I love that, fun and learning are not over. “It’s not just and really see a difference in my child for it.” about the fantastic program, the sports, the For the camp administration, the devel- swimming or the trips,” explains one parent, opment of each child is serious business. “the joyous atmosphere in CGI, the focus “We focus on finding caring, responsible on doing mitzvot and giving to others, re- staff from around the US who will view each ally gave my child a sense of self-satisfaction child as an individual and bring out the best and direction, which I think will carry him in each of them. The mitzvah campaign re- through the new school year.” ally gave each and every child a chance to After a year of planning and brainstorm- shine and feel appreciated, and added to the ing for the camp directors—and eager antici- amazing work of our team of staff,” explained pation for the summer to arrive on behalf of Zwiebel, who owes much of the camp’s suc- the campers and parents—the reward of the cess to the welcoming and warm atmosphere seven-week program is watching the happi- the staff and campers alike work hard to cul- ness and inspiration on the faces of all the tivate. “While we work hard to provide a truly children who took part, reflected in their varied and exciting program—especially the parents satisfaction. new icamp program, which featured Gym- “The highlight of the camp was defi- nastics with Gym America, Balloon Twisting nitely the mitzvah board,” explained Shter- with John Balloon Baffoon, and Martial Arts nie Zwiebel, camp director. “Although there with Quest, as well as regular trips, sports was a fully-packed program, including many The mitzvah board at Camp Gan Israel and swimming—our highest priority is to unique activities and adventures, the huge always see happy and well-adjusted children, mitzvah note collection placed near the front by the children, and every time a parent or Frisbee and hoola hooping, but also look- excited to take part.” entrance to camp was what the children set child walked past, they were inspired. ing for a good thing to do so that they can As children from all over Washtenaw eyes on right when they walked in each morn- The parents were equally enthused with share the mitzvah they have done with their County ready themselves for the new school ing.” Children were invited to bring notes the idea, as they watched the positive rein- friends at camp the next day,” said one par- year, they also begin the countdown until written by their parents reporting mitzvot forcement given for doing mitzvot really mo- ent. Mitzvot were as varied as brushing teeth Camp Gan Israel opens it’s doors once again they had done, which were read aloud every tivate their children. to holding the door open for a stranger; the to welcome the many campers eagerly await- lunch time and then tacked onto the bulletin “It’s really great to watch my kids grow, pride and enthusiasm for each child’s good ing next year’s CGI summer experience. n board. By camp’s end, the board was literally not only in the sense that they are coming deed really added to the camp atmosphere. packed with notes detailing good deeds done home excited about water parks, Ultimate Another mother’s comment summed up the A summer of smiles at Camp Raanana Deborah Huerta, special to the Wjn amp Raanana, the Jewish Commu- Park, Summit on the Park Water Park, North- this summer. The campers visited camp for nity Center of Greater Ann Arbor’s fork Farms, Cranbrook Institute of Science, showed off their team spirit Israel Day and per- Coutdoor summer day camp for chil- formed at the JCC in dren entering grades K–8, had an incredible the evening. And for summer this year. The camp experienced Messy Day towards excellent enrollment numbers, with several the end of the sum- sessions being at or near capacity. Camp Raa- mer, the campers nana always prides itself on its experienced got themselves and and dedicated staff members, and this year’s their counselors full counselors and specialists were no exception. of frosting, syrup, The camp was delighted to welcome some whipped cream, and outstanding first time staff members, as well other sticky sub- as many counselors returning for their fifth stances during a va- or sixth summer at camp. riety of very messy This summer, campers entering grades games. K–2 enjoyed swim lessons, arts and crafts, The final special music, Judaics, nature exploration, sports, event of the year was free swim, Shabbat celebrations, and weekly Shabbat at the Lake, special events and field trips. Campers enter- Camp Raanana’s an- ing grades 3–5 participated in these camp nual closing event. All camp families were activities and also got to choose an enriching invited to camp for a wonderful Shabbat specialty each week. This year’s specialties dinner overlooking the lake, followed by included boating, digital photography, mar- performances by all the camper groups. The tial arts, drama, drumming, clay creations, campers work very hard on their perfor- World of Sports, Edible Art, dance, magic, mances to make Shabbat at the Lake a very and Silly Science. Finally, campers entering memorable and moving event each year. grades 6-8 participated in Camp Raanana’s Although summer has just ended, plan- Pioneer Adventure Program. The Pioneer Howell Nature Center, the Detroit Zoo, Hen- during the Camp Raanana Maccabi Games, ning for the next season is already under campers enjoyed exciting field trips and fun ry Ford Museum, and Jump City. The field a day of color wars and silly relay races. To way, and the Camp Raanana staff looks for- mitzvah projects each week, participated in trips were the highlight of the week for many mark the half way point of the summer, ev- ward to welcoming many new and returning activity sessions and Shabbat celebrations at campers and were wonderful opportunities eryone participated in Spirit Week, which campers next year. Brochures for the 2011 camp, and joined the rest of camp for weekly for campers of different ages to enjoy educa- featured fun theme days including Wacky camp season will be available in January. special events and all-camp field trips. tional and fun activities together. Hair Day and Crazy Hat Day. All the camp- For questions about Camp Raanana, contact This year’s all-camp field trips included In addition to the weekly field trips, Camp ers also had a great time singing and dancing Deborah Huerta at deborahhuerta@jccfed. visits to the Toledo Zoo, Rolling Hills Water Raanana offered a number of special events when the Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan org or 971-0990. n

18 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 Hebrew Day School hires new staff Dina Shtull, special to the Wjn ebrew Day School welcomes new public admin- staff to its academic and adminis- istration and a Htrative team. New teachers include BA in aviation Caroline Nathans and Michal Carmon. management, Caroline Nathans has been hired as Hebrew both from EMU. Day School’s resource specialist to provide She worked for academic support to individual and small many years for groups of students, as recommended by the the Federal Air Student Support Team. Marshal Service. Caroline Nathans has been teaching “They say timing in elementary schools since 1990. She has is everything,” teaching certificates in elementary education says Overend, Kelly Overend from the states “and given the of Maryland and economic climate, this timing could not have Michigan. Prior been better. After being a stay-at-home-mom to moving to for a few years, I was very fortunate to have Ann Arbor, Na- found a job in my chosen career field. Ev- thans was an el- eryone at HDS welcomed me very quickly ementary school as part of the family, and I even have my teacher in Bal- son around the corner at JCC’s preschool. I timore County, feel very fortunate to have joined the HDS Maryland, where team and look forward to meeting all of the she taught second students and parents at the start of the new through the fifth school year.” grades. In Ann Caroline Nathans Nina Lavi has been hired as a development Arbor she taught at Eberwhite Elementary assistant to work alongside Kelly Overend in School as a long-term substitute in a variety the area of database management. Lavi is a of positions, including third grade teacher, student at Washtenaw Community College, special education teacher, and resource studying psychology. She has administra- teacher for all grades. Nathans has a law de- tive experience gree from University of California, Hastings in such areas as College of Law. Her undergraduate degree is tracking inven- from Brown University. “I am delighted to be tory, managing joining the Hebrew Day School community,” billing, and pro- says Nathans. “I am impressed by the energy, cessing trans- commitment, and expertise of Hebrew Day actions from School teachers and staff, the high level of pa- positions with rental involvement, and the enthusiasm and Tree Town Toys, accomplishments of the children.” Charles Rein- Michal Carmon has been hired as a kin- hart Company, dergarten teaching associate who will teach and the law firm introductory Hebrew to the children. A na- of Moran, Raimi, Nina Lavi tive of Israel, Carmon has a BA in education Goethel, & Kar- from Haifa University. She has been a sub- nani. “I’m really excited to work at the He- stitute teacher brew Day School,” say Lavi. “My family has at Hebrew Day a long standing history with HDS and I look School for He- forward to working with such great people.” brew and Juda- Lavi, along with her brother Guy and sister ics. Carmon is a Maya attended HDS in the mid-1990s. graphic designer Ilana Gafni has been hired as the school’s who worked for recruitment and marketing associate. Gafni a variety of com- is currently self-employed and the owner of panies in Israel. Paper Station, an She also volun- Ann Arbor sta- teered in Israel in tionary and invi- a day care center tations business. and in a program Michal Carmon Prior to running for children with a business, she special needs. “Being a student in the Gan is worked for al- an important early experience for shaping a most 20 years as child’s love of Judaism and our traditions,” a software devel- says Carmon. “I look forward to entering this oper engineer for warm and nurturing community and to the a number of soft- opportunity of contributing to the children’s ware companies. Jewish education.” Gafni has long- Ilana Gafni Administrative staff members have been time connections to the Hebrew Day School. hired to assist with development, recruit- Two of her daughters attended the school. ment, and marketing. Her oldest grandson now attends the Chica- Kelly Overend began at HDS in the spring go Hebrew Day school, and her granddaugh- of 2010 as a development associate to sup- ter attends a Hebrew pre-school in Chicago. port the school’s 36th anniversary cam- Says Gafni, “I am enthusiastic about the op- paign. Overend has a Graduate Certificate portunity to join the team and contribute to in Non-Profit Management from Eastern the school’s success.” n Michigan University (EMU). She did an in- For more information about Hebrew Day ternship in the development office at Perry School, see www.hdsaa.org or call 971-4633. Nursery School. Overend also has an MA in

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5770 in Israel: Diplomatic crises, but economic prosperity By Leslie Susser JERUSALEM (JTA)—For Israel, the Jewish year The move prompted the Palestinians to re- Jerusalem, Obama invited Netanyahu to the significant action to prevent it. In mid-Febru- 5770 was characterized by ups and downs in re- tract their agreement to participate in proximity White House for a meeting that was to patch ary, the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, lations with the United States, a virtual stalemate talks and infuriated the Obama administration. up the strains in the relationship and provide a Adm. Mike Mullen, came to Israel to underline in Middle East peacemaking and growing inter- U.S. officials blamed Israel for what they saw as positive image in contrast with an earlier, low- Washington’s opposition to a pre-emptive Is- national alienation. a deliberate slight calculated to torpedo their profile meeting in March that included no pub- raeli strike on Iran. Last November, after months of intense U.S. peace efforts. lic component or photo op. “I worry a great deal about the unintended pressure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In an angry 43-minute telephone conversa- The meeting was delayed several weeks consequences” of an attack against Iran, Mullen declared a temporary freeze on new construc- tion, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rep- due to Israel’s commando raid aboard a Gaza- said. The prospect of an Israeli strike, however, tion building in West Bank settlements—a move rimanded Netanyahu, insisting that Israel freeze bound aid flotilla from Turkey on May 31. But significantly diminished following the adoption designed to create conditions for a renewal of the Ramat Shlomo project and agree to discuss when the two leaders finally met on July 6, the in early June of new, tougher sanctions against peace talks with the Palestinians. But the freeze all the core issues in the proximity talks. Netan- two projected a public display of warmth. The Iran by the U.N. Security Council. was only for 10 months, did not include some yahu explained that the planning committee’s meeting resulted in no new pressure on Israel. Perhaps the year’s most prominent develop- 3,000 units already started and did not apply to announcement had taken his government by Rather, the Americans exhorted the Palestinians ment was a major erosion of Israel’s internation- construction in eastern Jerusalem. surprise as much as it had the Americans, made to move from proximity talks, which were not al standing. The downward trend began with The Palestinians, convinced that President it clear that there would be no building in Ramat making headway, to direct negotiations between the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, released Obama would exert even heavier pressure on Shlomo for at least two years, and agreed to put the parties—the position favored by Israel. in September 2009, which accused Israel of pos- Israel on the core issues of dispute—borders, the core issues on the table. The meeting also cleared up earlier tensions sible “war crimes” and “crimes against human- Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees and the nature Parallel to the U.S.-led peacemaking endeav- over Israel’s presumed nuclear weapons’ pro- ity” in its war with Hamas in Gaza in December of a future Palestinian state—without their hav- or, the Palestinians stepped up unilateral efforts gram. In late May, the United States had backed 2008 and January 2009. ing to negotiate, highlighted the lacunae and re- to create a framework for statehood, focusing on the final communique of a monthlong Nuclear Although the report was widely dismissed jected calls to return to the peace table. law and order, economic viability and institution Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference as biased and deeply flawed, the damage to Is- As a compromise, special U.S. peace envoy building. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister calling for a nuclear-free Middle East and call- rael’s image was devastating, and critics of Israel George Mitchell proposed indirect negotiations Salam Fayyad made no secret of his intention ing specifically on Israel to sign the NPT. used the Goldstone report to hammer away at under U.S. auspices. By early March, both sides to have “a well-functioning state in just about In their meeting, Obama assured Netan- its reputation. had agreed to “proximity talks,” with Mitchell every facet of activity” by mid-2011, irrespective yahu that despite his long-term vision of a The Israeli military refuted some of the re- shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah. U.S. of whether any peace agreement with Israel had world free of nuclear weapons, the United port’s central accusations, but the perception Vice President Joe Biden traveled to the region been reached. States would continue to back Israel’s policy of that Israel used disproportionate force to quell to announce the breakthrough, but during his After weeks of bickering, the proximity talks nuclear ambiguity under which Israel does not the rocket fire from Gaza remained embedded visit an Israeli Interior Ministry planning com- finally were launched in early May, after the Pal- confirm or deny possession of nuclear weap- in international public opinion. mittee approved plans for 1,600 new housing estinians received the go-ahead from the Arab ons or sign the NPT. An early manifestation of new boldness units in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish neighborhood League. Neither side expected to achieve much. Although Israel and the United States were among Israel’s European critics came last De- in Jerusalem on the east side of the pre-1967 It seemed both had agreed primarily to engage in agreement that Iran must not be allowed to cember, when Swedish Foreign Minister Carl border—what most of the world still considers to avoid American censure. develop nuclear weapons, Israel was skeptical the West Bank. With ties strained between Washington and about the international community’s will to take Continued on next page Looking back: A review of the news highlights of the Jewish year 5770 By JTA Staff

OCTOBER DECEMBER fence with Egypt to help prevent illegal im- Due to Israel’s stringent standards for com- JIMENA, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East The European Union officially calls for a migration, saying that illegal immigration is peting, Israel sends just three of its athletes to and North Africa, launches a visual history proj- divided Jerusalem, which would serve as the a huge threat to Israel’s economic and social the Olympic Winter Games—its smallest del- ect in which former refugees now living on the capitals of both a Jewish state and a Palestinian livelihood. egation in 12 years. At the Vancouver Games, West Coast can share their stories. Meanwhile, the state. The Israeli Foreign Ministry condemns President Obama delivers his first State of a U.S. Jewish ice dancer, Charlie White, teams American Sephardi Foundation is conducting the EU’s move and calls for more pressure on the Union address. Many Jewish groups are with Meryl Davis to win a silver medal. similar interviews of New York-area residents. the Palestinians to resume talks. upset over his lack of specifics on health care The assassination of a Hamas operative at Experts on intolerance suggest to the U.S. Cuban authorities arrest Alan Gross, a and the threat of Iran. a Dubai hotel by agents thought to be from Helsinki Commission that schools adopt contractor who works with Cuban Jewry and After a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Israel and bearing forged passports from Eu- more curriculum that promotes tolerance of was in the country to visit Jewish non-profit Jewish nonprofits mobilize to provide aid. ropean Union countries and others friendly minorities, including Jews. organizations, and accuse him of being a Israeli volunteers, officials, nongovernment with Israel prompts outrage among many of The U.N. Human Rights Council votes to spy. American officials insist that the charges organizations and industries maintain a long- Israel’s friends and results in the expulsion of reopen the Goldstone report, which accuses against Gross, who was in Cuba on U.S. busi- term presence in Haiti to help with rebuilding Israeli diplomatic personnel from a variety Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes ness, are false. In July, U.S. Secretary of State and relief efforts. of countries. and possible crimes against humanity during Hillary Rodham Clinton would urge the Jew- Uganda proposes legislation outlawing ho- their confrontation in the winter of 2008-09. ish community to work for his release. mosexuality, prompting the American Jewish MARCH President Obama accepts the Nobel Peace World Service to mobilize against the bill. Israel’s half-century jinx at the Oscars NOVEMBER Prize and scientist Ada Yonath receives the continues when Ajami, a gritty film about the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- chemistry prize, becoming the first Israeli fe- FEBUARY Jewish-Arab tensions in the mixed quarter of tanyahu announces a 10-month freeze on male Nobel laureate. In a speech at the University of California, Jaffa, loses out for best foreign language film. settlement construction in the West Bank. Yuri Foreman, a rabbinical student, be- Irvine, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Three Jewish-themed films vying for the best U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clin- comes the first Orthodox Jewish boxer in more Michael Oren, is interrupted continually by picture nod—Inglourious Basterds, A Seri- ton describes the move as “unprecedented” than 50 years to win a world championship protesters and ultimately forced to premature- ous Man and An Education”—also are passed and says it would help advance the Israeli- when he decisions Daniel Santos for the World ly conclude his remarks. The school eventu- over. Christoph Waltz takes the Oscar for best Palestinian peace process. Some Palestinians Boxing Association super-welterweight crown. ally recommends a one-year suspension for its supporting actor for his portrayal of Hans reject the freeze because it does not include In June, Foreman, a Belarus native living in Muslim Student Association, which is named Landa, aka The Jew Hunter, in Inglourious construction in eastern Jerusalem and allows Brooklyn, N.Y., via Israel, would lose in his first as the group behind the heckling. In between, at Basterds. for the continuation of construction projects title defense and for the first time as a pro when a three-hour meeting in March of the Univer- On the day of U.S. Vice President Joe already in place. he is stopped in the ninth round by four-time sity of California Board of Regents, hundreds Biden’s arrival in Israel for talks, Israel an- In Rio de Janeiro, a diverse crowd of 800 champion Miguel Cotto before a crowd of show up to decry the recent spate of racist, ho- nounces plans for 1,600 new housing units Jews, homosexuals, Afro-Brazilians, Gypsies, more than 20,000 at Yankee Stadium. mophobic and anti-Semitic violence plaguing in eastern Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister students, human rights activists and members University of California campuses from Davis Benjamin Netanyahu says the announcement of several other groups protest Iranian Presi- JANUARY to San Diego; UC President Mark Yudof calls takes him by surprise as well and he offers an dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Brazil. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- the unrest “the worst incidents of racism and yahu announces the construction of a border intolerance I’ve witnessed in 20 years.” Continued on next page

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Bildt led an initiative to have the EU recognize ness for peace with Israel, the Syrians con- apology—which Biden accepts, but other U.S. as well as seven Israeli soldiers, are injured in East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian tinued to transfer sophisticated weapons to officials continue to press the issue. the confrontation. Many political, religious state—a move eventually quashed by Israel’s the Shiite Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. Of With tensions still high over the Jerusalem and cultural leaders worldwide condemn European allies, with France, Germany and the particular concern to Israeli military planners building flap, AIPAC speakers at the organi- Israel’s actions, but Israeli officials and pro- Czech Republic playing dominant roles. was the supply of GPS-guided M-600 missiles, zation’s annual policy conference call on the Israel groups defend the raid as a legitimate Israel suffered another major PR setback which for the first time gave Hezbollah the ca- Obama administration to keep disagreements attempt to thwart Hamas. when agents believed to be from the Mossad in- pacity to pinpoint specific targets in Israel as with Israel behind closed doors—an approach Veteran White House correspondent telligence agency were accused of using forged far away as Tel Aviv. rejected in an otherwise friendly speech by U.S. Helen Thomas says that Jews living in Israel foreign passports in the January assassination in Iran also tried to supply Hezbollah by sea. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. should “get the hell out of Palestine.” Thomas Dubai of Mahmoud Mabhouh, a senior Hamas On Nov. 3, 2009, Israeli naval commandos inter- President Obama’s massive overhaul of later issues an apology and resigns. official involved in arms smuggling. Several cepted a cargo of more than 3,000 Iranian-made the U.S. health care system draws praise from The U.N. Security Council passes new countries expelled Israeli diplomats. Israel has rockets destined for Hezbollah on the Francop, most Jewish groups. and stronger sanctions against Iran, with 12 neither confirmed nor denied its involvement an Antigua and Barbuda-flagged vessel sailing of its 15 members voting in support. The new in the assassination. from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. APRIL sanctions package isolates the regime until The year’s worst PR disaster for Israel In the face of the growing threat from A plane crash in Russia kills Polish Presi- the country’s nuclear development becomes came in the May 31 flotilla incident: Nine the Iranian axis—Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and dent Lech Kaczynski and 96 other members more transparent. AIPAC applauds the sanc- Turkish citizens were killed when Israel inter- Hamas—Israel significantly augmented its mis- of the Polish elite. Amid weeks of condolences tions and urges organizations such as the Eu- cepted a ship carrying aid material bound for sile and rocket defenses. In January, the Iron and reflections sent by heads of state, includ- ropean Union to adopt similar policies. Hamas-controlled Gaza, which was under Is- Dome system designed to intercept short-range ing Israeli President Shimon Peres, many The Israeli Supreme Court’s decision that raeli blockade. Though Israel released videos projectiles passed final tests, and in June Israel reflect on Kaczynski’s positive impact on segregationist practices against Sephardic girls showing its soldiers were attacked when they launched the Ofek 9 spy satellite, enhancing in- Polish-Jewish relations. in a haredi Orthodox school are discrimina- boarded the ship, a worldwide storm of protest telligence gathering over Iran. Olympic swimmer Jason Lezak and wres- tory adds to the tension between secular and erupted. The anger against Israel resulted in the Moreover, despite the political differences, tler Bill Goldberg are among seven promi- religious Jews. first-ever Israeli commission of inquiry with an Israeli-American defense ties remained strong nent Jewish sports figures inducted into the international presence and the easing of Israel’s and intimate. For example, in late October 2009, National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. JULY blockade of Gaza. the two armies jointly tested the interoperabil- The volcanic ash cloud over Iceland ef- President Obama and Israeli Prime Min- The main diplomatic casualty of the flo- ity of their highly sophisticated defense systems fects 6.8 million passengers, including 48,000 ister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White tilla affair was Israel’s already strained strate- against incoming ballistic missiles. people stranded traveling between Europe House, capping months of tensions between gic relationship with Turkey. In 2008, the two Despite its diplomatic difficulties and strate- and Israel. the two administrations over settlements and countries had been close enough for Ankara gic challenges, Israel’s economy prospered, with the timing of construction in eastern Jeru- to mediate between Israel and Syria. But since the most dramatic development the discovery in MAY salem. Meant to heal the rift, the meeting is The Israeli author Amos Oz is the first re- the war with Hamas in Gaza, Turkey, a key re- June of a huge natural gas reserve off the Israeli reported by both sides as overwhelmingly cipient of a new literary prize awarded at the gional power broker with an Islamist govern- coast. The field, called Leviathan, is estimated to positive. 2010 International Book Fair in Turin. ment, had been vehemently critical of Israel contain about 15 trillion cubic feet of gas, nearly Israeli Knesset member David Rotem in- President Obama announces the nomina- while ostensibly moving away from the West twice as much as the adjacent Tamar field dis- troduces a conversion bill that would con- tion of solicitor general Elena Kagan to fill a and edging closer to Iran. covered the year before. solidate ultimate authority over conversions vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Her Relations between Israel and Syria, Iran’s According to Infrastructure Minister Uzi in the office of the Chief Rabbinate. Diaspora confirmation by the U.S. Senate in August closest ally, oscillated between hopes for a re- Landau, Israel now has enough gas to supply all Jewish leaders from the North American fed- marks the first time that three women and sumption of peace talks and fears of war. French its needs “for the next 50 to 70 years.” Experts eration umbrella group and the Conserva- three Jewish members serve on the high court President Nicolas Sarkozy tried his hand at have described the finds, which could contain tive and Reform movements say the measure at the same time. mediation, hosting both Netanyahu and Syr- as much as one-fifth of America’s known gas would be disastrous for the unity of the Jewish Indirect peace talks between Israel and the ian President Bashar Assad at a multinational reserves or twice that of Britain’s, as a potential people and could disqualify converts from the Palestinians begin. conference last November. But the two never geopolitical game-changer. Diaspora as Jews or render them ineligible to met, and by early April Sarkozy had given up, As a mark of its increasing economic power, make aliyah. Netanyahu concurs, and a deal is JUNE reached to postpone any vote on the bill for at complaining to Israeli President Shimon Peres Israel was admitted in May to the OECD, which Kosher meatpacking executive Sholom least six months. about Netanyahu’s lack of cooperation. incorporates the world’s most developed nations. Rubashkin is sentenced to 27 years in a federal In one of the most-watched interfaith The Syrians had insisted that Netanyahu first Netanyahu described Israel’s admittance as a “seal prison for his conviction on federal financial marriages ever, Chelsea Clinton marries Marc commit to Israeli withdrawal from the Golan of approval” that would attract investors. fraud charges. Earlier in the month, Rubash- Mezvinsky, a Jewish hedge-fund trader, in a Heights as a basis for negotiations, a demand the And despite the continued aftershocks of kin was acquitted on 67 counts of child labor ceremony that includes a chupah and ketubah, Israeli prime minister rejected. Tensions flared the international economic crisis, Israel’s eco- violations. as well as the Jewish tradition of the breaking in early February, with Assad accusing Israel of nomic performance remained robust, with Nine Turkish passengers on board a flotil- of the glass. A minister and rabbi co-officiate. leading the region into war, and then again in growth of 3.4 percent in the first quarter of la of ships seeking to break the international The groom wears a tallit and kipah. n May, with Netanyahu charging that Iran was 2010 following the 4.4 percent growth of the blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza are killed trying to drag Israel into war with Syria. last quarter of 2009. n after attacks on Israeli soldiers who boarded Despite Assad’s talk about “strategic” readi- the ships. An estimated 36 additional rioters,

Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 21 I Campus

Hillel students and professionals gear up to face anti-Israel campus activism By Sue Fishkoff ST. LOUIS (JTA)—Amanda Boris is nervous And as part of the Boycott, Divestment and addressed along with other concerns. And AIPAC, During the Hillel Institute in St. Louis, some 80 about what she’ll face when classes resume at the Sanctions campaign, efforts to bring resolutions the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, of- Hillel professionals arrived early to take part in a University of Wisconsin later this month. calling for divestment from companies doing fers such sessions throughout the year. 24-hour simulation exercise in which they played “There’s an uncomfortable amount of anti- business with Israel were noted at more than half “We want to enable students to open up these various roles on a mythical university campus Semitism on my campus,” said the incoming senior. a dozen campuses—a new tactic in the anti-Israel difficult conversations on campus,” said Daniel faced with a divestment bill and a boycott of visit- Last year, her campus newspaper ran an ad from a movement that targets student governments. May, J Street U’s national director. ing Israeli professors. notorious Holocaust denier for several weeks, de- Only one of those proposed resolutions passed, “Everyone’s concerned, and that’s good,” said The techniques used in the simulation are in- spite protests from the Jewish community. More in a non-binding student body vote at Evergreen Rothstein of StandWithUs. “Once the year begins, cluded in an Israel Advocacy Playbook that Hillel troubling, she said, were the anonymous posts that State College in Olympia, Wash. But every time such everyone’s work on this will merge and hopefully distributed at the conference and plans to give ev- appeared under the ad, stating that the Jews “de- a bill is put forward, Hillel activists say, the charged strengthen the students.” AIPAC declined to speak ery Hillel campus professional. served it” and they “better watch themselves.” And atmosphere it creates leaves lasting wounds. about the issue on the record. “The group that went through this exercise to- a professor who teaches an introductory course on When the student government at the University Israel advocacy is a nuanced issue, say Jewish gether now has a common language,” said Chicago the Middle East makes “openly false statements of California, San Diego voted on a divestment bill campus professionals, and that can be divisive. educator Carl Schrag, who developed and ran the about Israel,” she charged. in April (see sidebar), Hillel campus director Keri “For the average student, Israel is a problem— exercise on behalf of the Israel on Campus Coali- Boris told her story to a group of Jewish stu- Copans noted some Jewish students standing on and they don’t want more problems,” said Michael tion. “When BDS [the sanctions campaign] hits— dents who joined some 300 of their peers from Au- the other side of the room with the pro-divestment Faber, longtime Hillel executive director at Ithaca and I presume it will—hopefully they’ll remember gust 11–15 at Washington University in St. Louis crowd, even as most Jewish students stood with her College in Ithaca, New York. “It makes that leg of they’re not alone.” at the Hillel Institute, a summer training session in opposing the bill. their Jewish identity wobbly.” Coalition building is key to Israel advocacy designed to help them prepare for Jewish engage- As a professional charged with helping students Students with varying religious and political work on campus, say those involved in leading ment work on campus. develop all aspects of their Jewish identities, Copans views are being asked to stand together for Israel’s such efforts. It shouldn’t come down to Jewish stu- A big part of that work is learning how to re- said she found the physical divide painful. right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state, and dents against the rest of the campus community, spond effectively to anti-Israel activities on campus. “Divestment bills come and go, but these are that can bring them into conflict with other friends they add -- and as interfaith efforts increase on Such activity has been on the rise on North Jewish students,” she said. “I want them to have and other causes, activists say. more and more campuses, Jewish students should American campuses for several years, but pro- positive Jewish experiences, and that’s not what “College is emblematic of what’s happening find themselves less isolated. Israel activists say last year was different: The new they get by being glared at across the room.” in the general society -- Israel both unites and di- Allison Sheren, now Hillel program director at campaigns are better organized, more prevalent Asking students to act as Israel advocates along vides the Jewish people. That’s what we’re wrestling the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says that and more vitriolic. with all the other things they do at college isn’t easy, with,” said Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman, Hillel’s things were different five years ago as divestment This summer, a number of national Jewish or- activists say. “Our students are coming to school executive director at the University of California, efforts hit her campus when she was a student. ganizations, including Hillel, held training sessions to learn, and now they’re expected to defend,” said Berkeley, which also faced a protracted struggle Now she points to a “MuJew” program—a to help their students and staff prepare for what is Roz Rothstein, co-founder and CEO of StandWi- over a divestment bill last spring. “For me, pro-Isra- Jewish-Muslim alternative spring break option on expected to be an even more targeted anti-Israel thUs , a Los Angeles-based international organiza- el is someone who wants to develop a deep, mean- her campus that has brought Jewish and Muslim campaign this coming year. tion that describes itself as working to ensure that ingful, mature, loving relationship with Israel. How students together on social action projects for the “In the Jewish community there’s a lot of fear Israel’s side of the story is being told on campuses this is manifested may be different for different past three years. “There’s a real focus on dialogue, and anxiety, and that lands on our campuses, on and in other public spheres. “Israel is the target, but people.” But students active in Jewish affairs say it’s on partnerships,” Sheren said. “When Israel issues our students,” said Hillel President Wayne Fires- Jewish students who stand up for Israel also be- something they face whether they want to or not. come up, even if there are disagreements, there is tone at the gathering’s plenary session August 11. come the target.” “We were very affected by the divestment struggles discussion.” “We have seen things on campus, last semes- In mid-August, StandWithUs flew 40 of its at Berkeley and San Diego, and we’re fully aware it Samantha Shabman, a student at George ter in particular, that are really ugly,” he told the campus leaders to Oxnard, Calif., for a training is coming to our campus,” said Raquel Saxe, who is Washington University in Washington, says she’ll crowd. “We can imagine what we’ll face when session, and the organization will host another beginning her sophomore year at the University of “defend Israel until the day I die,” but at the same we return this fall.” Whereas past years might session in November for 150 students. J Street U, California, Los Angeles. time she notes that her school has a large Arab and have involved handfuls of anti-Israel students a self-described pro-Israel advocacy organization Firestone also weighed in on the issue. “We Muslim student population she hopes the Jewish passing out photocopied flyers, last year saw a with a network of supporters on about 40 cam- want the students to be prepared, not paralyzed students will reach out to. high-tech traveling exhibit of Israel’s separation puses, sponsored its first student leadership con- with fear,” the Hillel executive said. “We are in the “We have to work together and show we re- barrier, complete with an embedded plasma TV ference in late May outside Baltimore, where work identity-building business, and the Israel issue is spect each other,” she said. n showing anti-Israeli images. to counter the anti-Israel sanctions campaign was one we are standing up for.” UC-San Diego Hillel director reflects on divestment battle By Sue Fishkoff ST. LOUIS (JTA)—Last April, Keri Copans, Hil- “The hardest thing for me to see was the the most pro-Israel students felt comfortable outside Jewish organizations, she added. Many lel’s campus director at the University of Califor- tension in the room,” she said. “There were standing there on the front lines.” Jewish leaders called Copans wanting to get in- nia, San Diego, learned that a measure was about Jewish students on the other side, with peo- Afterward, the school’s chancellor met with volved. She tried to hold them off, she said, but to come before her student government asking ple glaring at them. Some Jewish students Copans and a delegation of Jewish students wasn’t always successful. the university to divest from companies that do sat in the middle—they didn’t know how and issued a statement declaring the univer- “Groups from the outside swoop in and expect business with “occupying” powers. they felt. Others couldn’t even be there. It sity’s neutral stance on the week’s events. The students to clean up the mess, but the students live The bill didn’t mention Israel by name—but was too much. It wasn’t part of how they vice chancellor for student affairs told Copans on this campus—an hour after a protest, they sit everyone knew that was its target. look at their Jewish identity.” The bill ended that the Muslim students had worked hard to with people from the other side,” she said. “The Copans got the call on a Sunday night. The up going to committee, and another public put on their event and to line up faculty sup- students knew what they wanted to do. The out- vote was set for the following Wednesday. forum was held the following week. Efforts port for it. The Jewish students could do the side groups feel the students won’t do it right, but “A part of me was in denial for a couple hours,” to pass the measure eventually fizzled out— same, the vice chancellor said. we need to let them do it themselves.” said Copans, who was hundreds of miles away in an outcome that Copans attributes to the “I thought, she’s right. We need to be more Copans called the task of navigating the di- the San Francisco Bay area at the time and unpre- perception of how divisive the measure was strategic and get our message out to the wider vestment bill struggle and its aftermath “the hard- pared for the news. “I’m used to anti-Israel activities to the campus community. campus,” Copans said. est thing I’ve had to do as a Hillel professional.” on our campus, but this was different.” The trouble wasn’t over yet. Two weeks At the end of the school year, Hillel and Tri- But she, her staff and the students got through it. Copans rushed back to San Diego the next later the Muslim Student Association on cam- tons for Israel, the student pro-Israel group on Now she wants to be better prepared and, morning, and she spent three days strategizing with pus sponsored its annual “Israel is Apartheid” campus, organized a retreat to plan for the fall. more important, to make sure that such crises do her staff and student leaders about how to respond. week, complete with a 50-foot-long reproduc- In addition, a pro-Israel faculty group has come not take focus away from Hillel’s overall mission “We met through the night,” she recalled. “We went tion of Israel’s separation wall and anti-Israel together to support the Jewish students if Israel of helping students develop a well-rounded Jew- down the list of everyone in the student govern- images blasting from a plasma TV set embed- again comes under attack. However, Copans ish identity. ment, saying, OK, who knows this person? She’s in ded in the display. warned, they have to tread carefully. Countering “We need to give our students the tools they your dorm? Great, go talk to her.” Compared to that sophisticated campaign, anti-Israel messages on campus is the students’ need to combat divestment, but we have to be By that Wednesday evening, the Hillel students Copans said, the Jewish response—a line of responsibility, and while she wants them to careful,” she said. “There are Jewish students who were exhausted from their lobbying efforts, Copans students wearing T-shirts with the slogan “I’m know Hillel and other groups are there for them, feel left out by this. Jewish life on campus can’t just said. The meeting room was filled to capacity for pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian and pro-peace”— it’s up to the students to decide what to do. be about fighting divestment.” the pre-vote discussion, which went on for hours. looked very weak. Even so, she said, “Only That position is not an easy one to convey to

22 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 OpEd I Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus Op-Ed: The Shoes of Majdanek New Directions • New Exhibits • New Programs • New Spirit By Michael Berenbaum LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Reports of a fire at We shoes — that used to go strolling Majdanek that damaged the barracks hous- in the market ing hundreds of thousands of shoes of the Or with the bride and groom to Jews murdered in the death camp should the chuppah, Synagogues in Germany: cause us to shudder. Something monumen- We shoes from simple Jews, from A Virtual Reconstruction tal has been lost. butchers and carpenters, August 29 - November 29, 2010 A word about Majdanek: The camp is From crocheted booties of babies situated in a valley just outside the major just beginning to walk and go town of Lublin, in proximity to Little Maj- On happy occasions, weddings, and dan, from which it derived its name. It was even until the time situated in the Polish territory annexed to Of giving birth, to a dance, to A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: the Third Reich. During the war, it was part exciting places to life... of Germany proper. Or quietly — to a funeral. A Birthday Trip in Hell Majdanek was captured whole in July Unceasingly we go. We tramp. December 12 , 2010 - March 13, 2011 1944. Unlike at Auschwitz, the Nazis had The hangman never had the chance no time to evacuate the camp or to burn its to snatch us into his contents. Its liberation was featured on the Sack of loot — now we go to him. front page of The New York Times. H.W. Let everyone hear the steps, which Lawrence, a correspondent for the Times, flow as tears, Symposium on Altruism: wrote: “I have just seen the most terrible The steps that measure out place on Earth.” These revelations were not the judgment.” Seventh Annual given much credence. The very existence of I saw a mountain May 8, 2011 something as awful as a death camp seemed Higher than Mt. Blanc impossible. Even graphic films of the camp And more Holy than the Mountain shown in Britain and the United States were of Sinai. dismissed as Soviet propaganda. The shoes of Majdanek are rotting. They Because Majdanek was captured whole, smell. The rot and the smell viscerally illus- Daily Tours: those who visit the death camp see far more trate the distance that stands between that Sunday through Thursday @ 1:00 p.m. than they might see at Auschwitz. As any time and our time. They bear witness to the visitor to the camp will tell you, Majdanek is erosion of time, which we want to decouple Call to Schedule Your Group or Exhibit Tour more primitive, more actual, more real and from the erosion of memory. more powerful. In a barracks adjacent to the barracks hous- Shoes ing the shoes, the visitor files past the uniforms Visitors to Majdanek would walk through of men and women, even of children who lived the barracks of shoes, the shoes of the in this camp, who died in this camp. Human 500,000 Jews from the various ghettos and beings once wore those uniforms and those camps who entered but did not leave. To me, shoes; once, they were alive; now, they are that barracks was the most powerful part of dead. One can sense their absence; the visitor a visit to Majdanek, more moving even than must imagine their presence. the gas chambers and crematoria that one How did the shoes and uniforms arrive Illuminating the Past. sees intact at the top of the hill, more power- at Majdanek? ful still than the pyramid of ashes that form Majdanek was the place where the ware- Enlightening the Future. a mountain just outside the gas chamber. houses from Aktion Reinhard (Operation Moses Schulstein, the great Yiddish poet, Reinhard, the Nazis’ code name for their plan Holocaust Memorial Center wrote of these shoes in his poem “I Saw a to exterminate Polish Jewry) were located, Mountain”: where the clothing and valuables taken from Zekelman Family Campus the prisoners were collected, sorted and 28123 Orchard Lake Rd I saw a mountain stored, and shipped back into Germany. Higher than Mt. Blanc The death camp was also the headquarters Farmington Hills, MI And more Holy than the for the destruction of regional ghettos and the 248.553.2400 Mountain of Sinai. place of supervision for the Aktion Reinhard Not in a dream. It was real. camps — Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka. On this world this mountain stood. So much was lost in the fire – the material Such a mountain I saw — remains of the people who were consumed of Jewish shoes in Majdanek. … there and elsewhere by fire, and whose burial place was the sky. Hear! Hear the march. I cried when I heard of the flames that Hear the shuffle of shoes left behind consumed those shoes, and then I thought — that which remained. again. Perhaps after 66 years of bearing wit- From small, from large, from each ness to the hell fire, the shoes – made of and every one. fiber and leather – were reunited with the Make way for the rows — for the pairs, grandfathers and grandchildren from Paris, For the generations — for the years. Prague and Amsterdam, the men, women The shoe army — it moves and moves. and children of flesh and blood. Michael Berenbaum is a professor of Jewish “We are the shoes, we are the last studies and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: witnesses. Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications We are shoes from grandchildren of the Holocaust at the American Jewish Univer- and grandfathers. sity in Los Angeles. He was the project director for From Prague, Paris and Amsterdam. the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Museum and And because we are only made of is the former director of its research institute. stuff and leather www.holocaustcenter.org And not of blood and flesh, each one www.facebook.com/HMCZFC of us avoided the hellfire. www.twitter.com/HolocaustMI

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Tourists flocking to Israel at record pace Life sciences become big business in Israel By Marcy Oster By Dina Kraft JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli tour guide Yossi Jewish, and 35 percent of those visitors TEL AVIV (JTA)—Yaron Aizenbud lays out resentatives at the ILSI-BioMed conference. Weiss was leading two busloads of American define themselves as pilgrims, according in neat rows a set of patented titanium tools Over the years, Israel has built up a strong Christian pilgrims on a tour of Jerusalem’s to Drori. designed for back surgery, picks out a curved name internationally with a track record of Old City when he noted how difficult it was • More Russians are coming, in part because drill that matches the curve of a spine and a success stories. Perhaps most well-known is to move around. Israel lifted the visa requirement for trav- plastic model of vertebrae, and simulates how the invention by the company Given Imag- The Jewish Quarter was so crowded elers from Russia in 2008. With the visa the drill is used to stabilize a damaged spine. ing of the PillCam, a capsule containing a and busy Monday as the group visited the restriction now being lifted on Ukraine, Aizenbud and the other founders of camera that a patient can swallow, enabling visitors from that country are expected to the small Israeli start-up Scorpion Surgical the physician to see distinct portions of the grow, too. Technologies hope their medical devices will gastrointestinal track. • Tourism traffic from Latin America, par- become a new solution for back operations, And there are the potential blockbuster ticularly Brazil, has risen dramatically. A new El Al route established earlier this year between Tel Aviv and Sao Paulo has helped bring more visitors from South America. “It’s a boom,” Pilgrim Tours’ operations manager Eduardo Kitay said of the agency’s Spanish and Latin Ameri- can pilgrimage tours. Kitay says the agen- cy is so busy, it may have to turn away Temple Mount, Robinson’s Arch and other groups at the end of the year and into famous sites, observed Weiss, who recently early next year. was named chairman of the Israel Tour • New tourism markets, such as the Far East Guides Association. and Eastern Europe, have begun to send It was one sign of the record year Israeli more travelers, while tourist from Ger- tourism is having. many, England and France remain steady. particularly for people with osteoporosis, in products coming on the market, like the Despite the hand-wringing over Israel’s North America remains the No. 1 source some cases even eliminating the need for re- drug to help treat schizophrenia developed image overseas, the political direction of the of tourists to Israel. placing ruptured discs. by the Jerusalem-based company BioLineRx. Jewish state and the persistence of the Israe- Tourism Ministry officials attribute their Scorpion Surgical was among the hun- The drug, BL-1020, helps reduce patient vio- li-Palestinian conflict, visitors are continu- success in promoting Israel to implementa- dreds of companies displaying their wares in lence. ing to flock to Israel—more than ever. tion of the recommendations from a 2006 a maze of rooms and bright lights at a recent In June, BioLineRx signed an out-licens- In the first half of 2010, some 1.6 million report by Ernst & Young on Israeli tourism. biotech and life sciences convention in Tel ing agreement with a major U.S. pharma- tourists visited Israel, setting a new record, The report found that Israel has the potential Aviv. Among them were firms with home- ceutical company for $335 million. according to the Israeli Tourism Ministry. to more than double the number of annual grown advances in cell and gene therapy, At the conference Kinneret Savitsky, the It constituted a 39 percent increase over the visitors, to between 4 million and 5 million imaging and heart disease drugs. company’s CEO, tried to put her company’s same period of 2009, which included the per year, and the way to reach that point was In its ninth year the conference, ILSI- success in a larger, national perspective. Gaza war, and a 10 percent increase from to promote Israel’s attractions while mini- BioMed, drew some 7,000 people, including “Research is in our blood,” she said. “We the first half of 2008, Israel’s previous record mizing any negative feelings associated with international investors and industry leaders. think out of the box. It comes out of our way year for tourism. its political developments. It was the largest such industry gathering of life here.” “Israel is a sought-after tourism prod- The study propelled the Tourism Min- outside of the United States, according to The medical device business accounts uct,” said Oren Drori, senior deputy director istry to develop “intensive, segmented and conference organizers. for more than half of the life sciences in- general at the Tourism Ministry, adding that focused” marketing and advertising cam- Aizenbud, a veteran of Israeli high-tech dustry in Israel. These technologies require there is a wide gap between Israel’s political paigns to improve Israel’s image as a tour- who has worked for IBM, Amdocs and a host less research than biotech and usually can be image and its actual image. ism destination while targeting specific of start-ups, spoke of the special satisfaction brought quicker to market—before inves- Despite the gains over last year, the num- audiences, Drori said. Over the past year, in switching gears to the life sciences. tors become impatient. ber of visitors for 2010 is only slightly ahead targeted advertising campaigns have run in “You feel the difference in what you are The relatively long time it takes to build a of where the numbers were 10 years ago, the United States, Russia, Germany, France, doing,” he said. “This is about contributing success in pharmaceuticals and biotechnol- before the start of the second Palestinian Britain, Scandinavia and Brazil, ministry of- something to the public.” ogy makes the industry a high-risk, high- intifada, according to Ami Etgar, director ficials said. The field of life sciences, an umbrella yield one. general of the Israel Incoming Tour Opera- The manager of Tel Aviv-based Yarkon term that refers to medical devices, pharma- Claudio Yarza, the partner in charge of tors Association. Tours, Joseph Mizrachi, says the main in- ceuticals and biotechnology, has become big life sciences for PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Claiming that Israel can do better, Etgar crease in bookings has come from Chris- business in Israel. There are more than 1,000 Israel office, cautioned that although the said that “This is a country that every person tian visitors. Jerusalem is the agency’s main companies, and another 80 join the field ev- industry has developed well in the past few in the world has a motivation to visit.” destination, in addition to such Christian ery year, according to industry estimates. years, the risk remains. Furthermore, the record numbers have religious sites as the Sea of Galilee (the Kin- Last year, life sciences accounted for $6 bil- Even when a deal is made, Yarza said, it’s not translated into equal gains for Israeli neret), the Jordan River, the Mount of the lion in Israeli exports, mostly to the United not clear that the product will make it to hotels because many of the tourists are day Beatitudes and Mount Tabor. States, making it one of Israel’s biggest exports. market or become a success. trippers visiting from Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus The surge in tourists also has benefited Israel tops the list of countries in medical “Bio-tech is harder to succeed at than and Turkey, according to Eli Gonen, presi- the Palestinian economy by sending visitors device patents per capita and is fourth in the high-tech because the development stage dent of the Israel Hotel Association. to the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and world for biotechnology patents per capita. is more complicated,” he said. “Many high- The numbers also include the passengers Jericho. Though Israeli passport holders are Observers credit Israel’s success in this ex- tech companies start with an idea for a prod- on cruises that dock in Haifa and Ashdod barred by law from entering areas fully con- tremely competitive market to the nurturing uct, and it’s already ready for development ports. For nearly a decade, cruise ships did not trolled by the Palestinian Authority, known ecosystem the country has produced to foster not awaiting more research. And in bio-tech stop in Israel due to ongoing security issues, as Area A, the Tourism Ministry recently life sciences innovation. The ecosystem brings we think we might have a new solution on but they have returned in recent months, and allowed Israeli tour guides into Bethlehem together a combination of top research at Is- our hands, but until trials are completed we bookings have increased for 2011. in preparation for leading tours there, and rael’s universities that transfers to companies, cannot say it definitely does.” “We are glad that people are coming to Israel is considering easing restrictions on many of which get their start in state-subsi- Debra Lappin, the president of the Coun- visit the country,” Gonen said. “We hope Israeli visits to Palestinian areas. dized “incubators.” In 2000, the government cil for American Innovation, said the United they will come again and stay longer.” Weiss, of the Tour Guide Association, designated life sciences a priority sector. States needs Israeli know-how and thus Industry experts attribute Israel’s tour- says August and September do not look “My impression is there is both a lot of should be welcoming to Israeli companies ism boom to several factors: very promising now. The American mar- innovation here and a willingness to take and the advances they bring. • Israel has changed its aviation policies to ket, which usually books well in advance, high risks here, even in comparison to U.S. “The new nature of innovation relies on allow more airlines to land in the coun- appears to be waiting until the last minute, biotech,” said Simeon Taylor, vice president partnerships,” she said. “The U.S. is reliant try, including charters and low-cost Eu- he said, speculating that concerns about the of Cardiovascular and Metabolics Discovery on outsourcing its innovation, so we need to ropean carriers. economy could be the reason. Biology at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a major make sure the door is open because other- • The evangelical market is growing. Three- “It puts some uncertainty into the equa- U.S. pharmaceutical company that had rep- wise Israel will look elsewhere.” n fourths of all visitors to Israel are non- tion,” he said. n

Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 25 I High Holidays

Ask the Expert: Why the shofar? The second day of Rosh Hashanah: The Talmud struggles with the same To be (in shul) or not to be Question: Is there a reason we blow the question that you have, James. In Tractate By Suzanne Kurtz shofar on Rosh Hashanah and not a real Rosh Hashanah 16a we read: “R. Abbahu trumpet? I know it’s traditional, but is there a said: Why do we blow a ram’s horn? The WASHINGTON (JTA)—Steven Levine is Rosh Hashanah is a time when every in- reason that the shofar is so special?—James, Holy One, blessed be He said: Sound before matter-of-fact about his family’s upcoming dividual affirms his own relationship with Salt Lake City Me a ram’s horn so that I will remember on plans for Rosh Hashanah. God, and “the second day is an equal part of your behalf the binding of Isaac, the son of At the dinner table with his wife, Leslie, that process,” Schmidt says. There is a new Answer: Well, I don’t want to toot the sho- Abraham, and to account it to you as if you everyone will share resolutions, round-robin light in the world, he says, “and it takes two far’s horn too much, James, but it really is had bound yourselves before me.” style. He will take the day off from his job at days to accomplish that.” pretty special. Allow me to explain. In this case, Rabbi Abbahu is claiming that the U.S. Olympic Committee and his three With the drop-off rate in synagogue at- In the Torah, we are given a command- the shofar is an allusion to the ram we read children won’t go to school in order to attend tendance from the first to the second day at ment that on the first day of the seventh about in the story of the binding of Isaac, synagogue. approximately 75 percent, Rabbi Isaac Jeret which is the Torah reading for Rosh Hasha- But only on the first day—it is no two-day of Congregation Ner Tamid in Los Angeles nah. The shofar reminds us of the sacrifice holiday for this family. says that, “As a rabbi, what to do on the sec- made by Abraham, and we use it to remind “It’s all cost-benefit analysis,” says Levine, ond day of Rosh Hashanah is a fascinating God of that same sacrifice, so that He will 45, a risk-management director from subur- question, and I look at it as very important credit their good actions to us today. (Re- ban Denver. to have different offerings” the first day and member, in the end of that story, Abraham The local public school is still open on the the second day. sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Isaac.) Jewish New Year and vacation time is tight at On the first day, when he expects some In your question you asked about why work. “With other 2,000 attend- we don’t use a real trumpet, and I think it’s obligations and ees—many reasonable to consider that a trumpet is per- commitments,” he The Sages declared Rosh Hashanah a not even be- haps too technical for the function served by says, “we do the longing to the a shofar. Trumpets have evolved over time, best we can.” two-day holiday, or a “Yoma Arichta,” Conservative and there are many different kinds of horns, “I suppose synagogue— from bugles to cornets to French horns to there’s a bit of a one long day of 48 hours, to ensure the service sousaphones. Those instruments are all reg- feeling of guilt for that Jews everywhere were celebrating has musical ulated to sound a certain way. not doing more, but accompani- A shofar is taken from a living being. Ev- I’ve rationalized it at approximately the same time. ment and ery shofar sounds different, just like every that the second day Jeret gives a community and every listener is different. is not significant.” longer ser- For more insight on this issue, I contact- During her time as a congregational Re- mon. On the second day, “it is shul-goers ed Rabbi Josh Feigelson, campus rabbi and form rabbi, C. Michelle Greenberg had a dif- day,” he says, and the service reflects that. senior director for educational initiatives at ferent experience: She was not expected to “There’s no choir and no piano,” he says. the Northwestern University Hillel. Rabbi lead synagogue services—if the synagogue “We take out the Torah and study text as a com- Feigelson is a trained tubist, and he wrote to even had services—on the second day of munity. It’s a much more intimate service.” me about some of the differences between Rosh Hashanah. Greenberg, 37, an educator Rabbi Charles Arian of the Conservative playing the tuba (a brass instrument, like a now living in the San Francisco Bay area, says Beth Jacob Synagogue in Norwich, Conn., month (Tishrei), “you shall observe com- trumpet) and blowing the shofar. the second day often would become a chance says he makes no secret of the fact that he plete rest, a sacred occasion commemorated “Pitch is not so much an issue in playing for her “to celebrate as a participant” at an- would get rid of the second day on the Jewish with loud blasts.” (Leviticus 23:24) These the shofar,” he said. “You’re not out to create other synagogue. festival holidays of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, loud blasts, or teruah, were understood by a melody, which you are trying to do when With its seemingly red-headed stepchild Passover and Shavuot, which are tacked on to the rabbis to allude to the blasts of the shofar. playing the tuba. When I’m playing the sho- status outside the more traditional segments of remind Diaspora Jews that they are not ob- So on Rosh Hashanah, we blow the shofar in far, I’m more focused simply on the sound.” the Jewish community, what is the significance serving the holidays in the land of Israel. order to fulfill this commandment. The bib- He goes on to say that “The shofar isn’t of the second day of Rosh Hashanah, anyway? But Rosh Hashanah, he says, “It really is lical text doesn’t go into precisely the reason a musical instrument. It is a battle cry, or a When the ancient Israelites started cele- different.” One reason, Arian explains, is that that it’s so important that we hear a teruah, mournful cry, but its symbolism comes from brating the “head of the year” 2,000 years ago it is the only Jewish holiday that is also a rosh but there are a few possibilities. its sound and the fact that it is the shofar it was, in fact, a one-day holiday. But with chodesh, or a new month. But, he adds, a You might imagine that a shofar was cho- making the sound on the day of Rosh Hasha- no convenient wall calendar to indicate the “complete repeat of what you did [the day] sen for Rosh Hashanah just because it was nah. The tuba has no inherent symbolism, actual day to celebrate, they relied on trust- before” is not necessary. He says wearing new the only horn-like instrument that the Isra- and its sounds are ultimately judged and un- worthy witnesses to report to the Sages at the clothes or eating a new fruit (like a pome- elites had in the desert when they were given derstood within the context of a melody or Sanhedrin, or Supreme Court, a new moon granate or an apple) also makes the second the commandments. But actually, the Torah a larger work.” sighting. Shortly thereafter a series of smoke day of Rosh Hashanah different and mean- mentions a number of instruments the peo- Feigelson reminded me that shofars are no- signals would alert the scattered communi- ingful. ple had with them, including silver trumpets, toriously stinky. Other brass instruments do not ties that it was time to start the holiday. For Ephraim “Fry” Wernick, 33, heading so the use of the shofar doesn’t seem to have tend to carry quite the same level of aroma. The ineffectiveness of this communica- to Dallas to spend Rosh Hashanah with his been borne from necessity. I also think there’s something to be said tion system was not lost on the Sages. They family may not be different from years past, The Bible contains many explicit refer- for the primitive nature of the shofar. It is declared Rosh Hashanah a two-day holi- but it will be meaningful. ences to the shofar, not just the Rosh Ha- nature-made. It is simple. Many people think day, or a “Yoma Arichta,” one long day of 48 He says the first day of the holiday may shanah commandment. When the people that a teruah sounds like a voice crying out. hours, to ensure that Jews everywhere were seem more important, but the Washington- receive the Ten Commandments from God Isn’t it appropriate for the instrument that celebrating at approximately the same time. based lawyer will attend services at a nearby on Mount Sinai, they hear a very loud blast calls us to reflect and repent to sound like a Yet as Mark Leuchter, director of Jewish traditional synagogue on both days. of the shofar. We are commanded to blow the human voice? studies at Temple University, points out, de- “Rosh Hashanah is a cleansing of the shofar not only on Rosh Hashanah, but also All that said, did you know there are some spite “its root traditions, Rosh Hashanah has soul,” Wernick says. “I try to use the time for at the beginning of the Jubilee year. Warriors pieces of classical music that call for the use changed dramatically in 2,000 years,” and “we spiritual growth, reflecting on the year, right- in battle and musicians in the Temple also of the shofar? Edward Elgar’s oratorio “The don’t do it the way our ancient forefathers ing the wrongs.” blew the shofar. Apostles” includes a shofar, and Lester Bow- did it.” Nor is there any need for smoke sig- And two days, he adds wryly, is just a start, The sound of the teruah is both earthly ie, a famous jazz trumpeter, was known for nals today.“The only part of the original recipe adding that “I need as much time as God will and Divine. It comes from an animal, but sometimes playing the shofar with the Art that we’ve retained” is the practice of observing give me.” n makes the same sound that was heard on Ensemble of Chicago. n the holiday for 48 hours, Leuchter says. “Now the top of Mount Sinai when God addressed we do it not because we have to but because we the people. Music can be celebratory, but the For more information about Judaism and Jew- used to. It ties us back to a hallowed antiquity.” sound of the shofar is more than just a sound ish life, visit MyJewishLearning.com. Menachem Schmidt, a Chabad-Lubavitch of jubilation. It is the sound of the presence rabbi in Philadelphia, says beyond the his- of God, and the sound we use to cry out to toric reasons for observing two days, “There God when we need God’s intervention. is also a spiritual reason for needing 48 hours for the holiday.”

26 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 Understanding the lost art of repentance and its urgency By Louis E. Newman NORTHFIELD, Minn. (JTA)—In the past several suggestion that he or she has done something Forgiving others for their transgressions against us sions before a live audience for their entertainment, months I have had some version of the following to hurt others by insisting repeatedly that it’s re- is a piece of cake by comparison. never displaying a hint of the contrition or soul exchange several times. I tell a friend that I’ve just ally someone else’s fault; There are many obstacles on the path to true searching that is the mark of repentance. finished a book on repentance, and they respond • The boss who can acknowledge making mistakes repentance: ego, self-deception, dishonesty and Most of all, we know it in those quiet moments that they find the subject of forgiveness very in- but can never quite say the words “I’m sorry,” or stubbornness, to name just a few. Because we all in our own lives when we recognize that we are not teresting. It’s psychologically so much healthier to worse, can say the words but not express genu- want the approval of those we love, it is tempting living up to our own moral standards, yet don’t forgive than to hold on to resentments, they say, ine remorse; to cover up or minimize any actions that might know how to restore our own sense of wholeness signaling that they appreciate the importance of • The spouse who cheats on a partner and apolo- and integrity. The ultimate benefit of doing tes- the subject. gizes profusely, but who is utterly unprepared huvah is that it offers us a way to overcome our past The confusion of repentance and forgiveness is to do the hard work of restoring the trust that Repentance, is what we are precisely because we have confronted and taken full widespread, it seems, and also very telling. he or she has undermined; responsibility for it. It enables us to escape the sense Forgiveness, I explain, is what we are called on • The friend who has a habit of speaking harshly or called on to do when we have of guilt—in some cases, even despair—with which to do when we have been wronged by others. It is acting impulsively, but lacks the self-awareness many of us live. about our willingness to be generous and compas- to explore the real roots of those dysfunctional wronged others. In its place, we come to live with self-acceptance sionate with those whose behavior was hurtful and patterns of behavior; cause us to lose their affection. Because we all and hope because we know that moral renewal is unwarranted. Repentance, by contrast, is what we • The person who has promised repeatedly to know that others expect us to make amends always a possibility. We may even discover, as the are called on to do when we have wronged others. reform her ways—to give up smoking, to when we hurt them, it is tempting to feign re- ancient rabbis taught, that through repentance our It involves confession of our transgressions, feeling make more time for her children, to be less morse and utter empty words of apology. transgressions can be transformed into merits. The remorseful, making an apology, seeking forgiveness judgmental of others—yet continually falls But counterfeit repentance, like counterfeit cur- rewards of doing teshuvah are commensurate with (hence the confusion in the minds of so many), of- back into old patterns. rency, has no value. We can’t restore our integrity the effort we expend. fering restitution, soul-searching and ultimately In light of these examples—and hardly a day or repair our relationships with others by merely This year when we celebrate the Ten Days of uprooting old patterns of behavior from our lives. goes by when we don’t encounter others—we do pretending to repent; there are no shortcuts to an Repentance, which are the holiest days on the Jew- In these weeks leading up to Rosh Hashanah well to ask: What makes genuine repentance so dif- ethical life. All of which explains why genuine re- ish calendar, we would do well to focus on what and Yom Kippur, it seems that the need to un- ficult? And why should we even bother trying? pentance is so rare. The work of examining our repentance is and what it is not. Surely it is easier derstand what repentance is and why it matters is Repentance, what Jewish tradition has called te- selves and repairing the relationships we have bro- to think of this as a time to forgive others for their more urgent than ever. shuvah—“turning” or “returning”—entails noth- ken is arduous and always has been. transgressions against us. But it is far more reward- Forgiveness is difficult and rare, to be sure, but ing less than a radical transformation of our selves The culture in which we live only compounds ing to remember that this time is really a gift, an I want to suggest that engaging in real repentance and our relationship to others. It requires profound the difficulties. The expectation that we can find a opportunity to engage in searching moral intro- is far more difficult, more easily misunderstood psychological self-awareness, which includes both quick fix for every problem that arises makes us less spection about the ways in which we have harmed and far less frequently practiced. Despite the many recognizing our own moral blind spots and ex- prepared to engage in the long, morally demand- others and so failed to be our best selves. dozens of sermons that our rabbis have given on ploring the character traits that cause our moral ing work of teshuvah, and even less inclined to try. Tradition has laid out the path to follow, as well the subject of repentance, the process of repenting lapses in the first place. When virtual friends take the place of real relation- as how we can work with our internal resistance remains something of a mystery to most Jews (and, It demands that we take full responsibility for ships, we lose the impetus to cultivate the sort of and what we stand to gain in the process. All that of course, not only Jews). Many never take seriously our behavior, without hesitation or equivocation, emotional honesty that teshuvah requires of us. we require is an accurate understanding of what is the need for repentance. Others start out on the and then take action to undo the effects of that be- The costs of ignoring the work of repentance required of us and the will to begin anew. n path of repentance but give up when they encoun- havior on others. And if this were not enough, Ju- are not easily quantifiable, but the evidence is all Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. ter one of the many obstacles along the way. daism teaches that the process of teshuvah is never around us. We see it in the lives of public figures— Musser Professor of Religion and the Humphrey Repentance, in our time, has become a lost art. really finished. Each time we have an opportunity politicians and corporate executives—who get Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning at Carleton Consider several examples, which I suspect all of us to make the same mistake again, we need to re- caught in some deceitful or fraudulent behavior, College in Northfield, Minn. He is the author most will find familiar. nounce the past and choose a different path. and then baldly deny it. We see it on daytime televi- recently of Repentance: The Meaning and Practice • The family member who regularly deflects any So doing teshuvah is literally an endless process. sion shows, where people confess their transgres- of Teshuvah, published this year by Jewish Lights. The Yom Kippur sermon that helped spur the Soviet Jewry movement By Gal Beckerman NEW YORK (JTA)—On a fall day in 1963, life to cultural expression, had been brutally more they could have done—is irrelevant. In 1963, after reading the then slim literature of Abraham Joshua Heschel unburdened his soul. squashed. At the same time, the avenues to the early 1960s, just as consciousness of the the Holocaust, that they had to do something Speaking the truth without regard for assimilation were blocked—if nothing else, extent of the genocide was bubbling up, so for those Soviet Jews now suffering “spiritual whether it scandalized or hurt was something their internal passports singled them out for too was a painful recognition that as millions genocide” and started the first grass-roots So- he would do fairly often in that decade of so- discrimination by identifying them as Jews. of their brethren were murdered in Europe, viet Jewry group. It was also present in New cial upheaval. Already branded as an eccentric The option of abandoning the Soviet Union this increasingly stabile and prosperous com- York the following year at the inaugural mass and an outsider, that year he had met the Rev. for good was not even a possibility. munity could hardly organize themselves to meeting of what would soon be known as the Martin Luther King Jr. for the first time, be- Heschel looked at the Jews of Amer- put on a single rally. Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. One of the ginning a close friendship that would deepen ica—most of them themselves only two This guilt would blossom into what for students offered to sing a ditty he had come his involvement in the civil rights movement. generations removed from the Pale of Settle- some time now has been an obsessive con- up with for their first protest. Its refrain was The two eventually would offer the most en- ment—and could not believe that they were centration on the Holocaust, one that many “History shall not repeat.” dearing and enduring image of the now long responding with little more than sadness and have rightly come to see as an extremely cor- Guilt, leavened with anger, also was pres- dead black-Jewish alliance when they walked resignation rosive development—the constant memori- ent in Rabbi Meir Kahane’s slogan “Never arm and arm to Selma, Ala., in protest, gar- “What is called for is not a silent sigh but alizing eclipsing so much else about Jewish again,” when he hijacked the movement in lands of flowers around their necks. a voice of moral compassion and indigna- identity. But what has been forgotten is that the early 1970s. In 1971 he rallied a thousand But in September 1963, Heschel’s audi- tion, the sublime and inspired screaming of before every Jewish community had its own young people to be arrested in Washington, ence was Jewish—a gathering of rabbis at the a prophet uttered by a whole community,” memorial and museum, there was the guilt D.C., near the Soviet Embassy with the words, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Heschel lectured the assembled rabbis. and the need to do something about it. “I’m asking you to do today what Jews didn’t His speech would be read aloud that Yom Then he made his most searing argument. I’ve been exploring the Soviet Jewry move- do while the gas chambers were burning. Sit Kippur at hundreds of congregations across This was not the first time that American Jews ment over the past five years for a forthcom- down in the streets of Washington.” the country. It was a sermon that set in mo- had been impotent when it came to helping ing book. Throughout its 25-year history, And in 1987 when a quarter-million peo- tion one of the great engines of what would other Jews, Heschel told them. the need to caste away this heavy burden was ple marched in Washington for Soviet Jewry, soon be known as the Soviet Jewry move- “We have been guilty more than once of present at nearly every moment. But I also greeting Gorbachev on his first visit to the ment: guilt. failure to be concerned, of a failure to cry out, came to see it as a positive element. American United States, guilt dripped from Elie Wie- Heschel was angry and ashamed that Amer- and failure may have become our habit,” he Jews mobilized, went up against an American sel’s words: “Too many of us were silent then. ican Jews were not more engaged in helping told them. administration and became a more assertive We are not silent today.” their brethren in the Soviet Union. There was Heschel was referring, of course, to the community partly as a way of clearing their But this guilt was not about wallowing. It mounting evidence that these Jews were stuck Holocaust. And it was effective. Whether or collective conscience. was directed, focused. I heard the same line in an increasingly untenable situation. Every not American Jews deserved to bear this his- Guilt was present when a group of NASA element of their Jewish identity, from religious torical burden—whether there was anything scientists in Cleveland, Ohio, decided in continued on page 34 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 27 IHigh Holidays

Tasting a new sweetness in Rosh Hashanah By Edmon J. Rodman LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- What flavor is your Another traditional approach to a sweet new Jewish New Year? year is eating taiglach, literally “little dough,” For most, since childhood, Rosh Hashanah small pieces of dough boiled in honey. begins with apples dipped in honey. Custom What about substituting another form of has Jews eating them together supposedly to en- cooked dough, one with which many Jews are sure a sweet new year. Over time they have be- even more familiar: crispy chow mein noodles? come a ritual comfort food. But what if we like We already eat them at Christmas; apparently change?What if you don’t like apples, or honey, even Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. So or find the combination a drip too saccharine why not on a Jewish holiday? for your tastes? For dipping, use the bright red sweet and If the good quality of time we choose to cel- sour sauce, of course. Let the dipping remind ebrate is sweetness, I want to revel in a different you to dip into your wallet; Rosh Hashanah is kind of sweet. an auspicious time to make someone else’s new Does eating the same old thing portend we year sweet as well. will have the same old year? Does habit have us Moving beyond food, at this time of year we singing, “Apples dipped in honey on Rosh Ha- should be thinking about the “land of milk and shanah, blah?” honey,” and that sounds a lot like a drink. What You don’t need food dehydrators and mo- about raising a glass for a sweet and healthy year? lecular gastronomy to come up with something With their myriad ruby red seeds, antioxidant- better. Just follow your nose, taste buds, Jewish rich pomegranates have a holiday significance, re- history and ritual. minding us of both mitzvot and fertility; all the At this time of year, we dine on so much food good deeds and perhaps new babies we intend to symbolism. Two noteworthy symbols: round surround ourselves with in the coming year. challah, for the continuity of the Jewish year, We can toast the year with a glass of pome-

with some even decorated with wings or ladders granate juice, sweetened further by serving it anticipating our spiritual ascent; and pomegran- with a slice of orange on the rim of the glass. ates, their seeds representing the commandment Pomegranates and oranges are agricultural to be fruitful and multiply. products of modern-day Israel. Before we say a blessing and eat, why not first At the High Holy Day season‘s end they give consider what we want our food to represent? us another reason to sing “L’shana Ha’baah, Ye- For a different new year, one filled with as many rushalayim,” next year in Jerusalem. new experiences as the seeds of the pomegranate, Chocolate has all the right stuff to bring us a new combination is in order. Unless someone is Jewish New Year joy. For a Jewish connection, planning to open a Rosh Hashanah food truck, Rabbi Debra Prinz on her blog “Jews on the we will need to come up with our own. Chocolate Trail” has amply demonstrated the New combos can be as easy as apples and involvement of Jewish traders and producers in honey, providing new ways to feed our heads at the chocolate trade. the head of the year. Your favorite fruit or berries dipped in melted To start, let’s not stick with honey. Accord- chocolate can easily introduce a sweet new year. ing to Claudia Roden, author of “The Book of But if I have my choice of chocolate-infused Jewish Food,” “Beekeeping is not mentioned in ways to bring in Rosh Hashanah, it’s a chocolate the Bible, and it is believed that every mention of every time. A treat with a Jewish his- honey in the Pentateuch refers to date honey.” tory, many historians say the drink dates back “Let me take hold its branches,” says a verse to early 1900s Brooklyn. Louis Auster, a Jewish of the Song of Songs, which refers to the tamar, Brooklyn candy store owner, is said to have cre- the date palm. ated the fizzy chocolate drink. Since we want to bring more Torah into our To make a chocolate egg cream, tradition- lives at this time of year, then in our search for a alists recommend using only Fox’s U-Bet, still new combo, let’s begin with dates. Many already made in Brooklyn. The ritual calls for a little use them as an ingredient of for the milk and some chocolate syrup; add cold soda Passover table. water and stir vigorously. Pairing dates with another ancient food, ice The bubbles represent the sparkle we all need cream -- it dates back to 400 BCE Rome, around to begin a new year; their sweet effervescence can the time of the prophet Malach—provides a get us written onto that big menu of life. Choco- kid- and adult-friendly treat to begin 5771. late mixed in seltzer on Rosh Hashanah, yes! So chop up a few dates and sprinkle them onto On Rosh Hashanah, sound the shofar. But in some vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt. Think of the quiet that follows, listen for the fizz. n a refreshing new year with many satisfying acts of Edmon J. Rodman is a JTA columnist who loving kindess. Serve and say “L’shana tova um- writes on Jewish life from Los Angeles. Contact etukah,” wishing you a sweet new year. him at [email protected].

28 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 IOn Another Note

Rabbinic intern and songster Aura Ahuvia San Slomovits, staff writer ura Ahuvia is in her second year all the campers, we’d all erything work properly and with full en- as Rabbinic Student Intern for join in the singing, and ergy; knowing how to breathe and control A Ann Arbor’s Reconstructionist we’d be this one singing the breath, having the breath come from Havurah. Her quarter time position encom- giant mass of people, the correct place, relaxing the parts that passes both running the Havurah’s religious walking into the din- need to be relaxed, and engaging the parts school and leading services. ing room. There we’d that need engaging, in the correct order. Music is central to her work. She leads sing more, sing Kid- That was all something I had to be taught, services with her voice and guitar. In the dush, have the meal, because I wasn’t doing it. Havurah’s religious school, between the first and afterward we’d all For me, probably for as lot of people hour, which is devoted to the cultural as- stand on the risers and when they study voice, at first I didn’t pects of Judaism, the holidays, and the ethi- the song leaders, about know there was anything to be learned. cal component, and the second hour, which a dozen of them, with For me, part of the journey of explor- is devoted to the study of Hebrew, she leads guitars, would sit in the ing and finding my core voice got really the children in songs. middle and they’d lead deeply tied to exploring and finding that us in Shabbat songs. deeper sense of legitimacy from which we WJN: Did you grow up in a musical fam- It would be three-part can speak and learn and grow as human ily? Is that what started you on this path? harmony, non-stop, for beings. And it became really foundational Ahuvia: I wish. (Laughter) From what I can two, three hours. It was in my thinking, both literally and meta- gather, my mom had a beautiful voice just so glorious. I loved phorically. Because literally, as I was find- and when she was a young woman, at one it. It became a very deep ing my core voice, things were flowing point she was going to audition to sing emotional rooting in and I was checking well, and at the same on the radio. But her mom thought that the tradition for me. time, metaphorically, it became a form the guy who did the audition was kind But I didn’t really of seeking your fertile ground and grow- of shady. She didn’t like him and said, find music as an adult ing from it. I came to understand this as “You’re not doing this professionally!” until after my first boy a path that all Jews should be given the And that was that. She never pursued it. was born. I decided Aura Ahuvia opportunity to explore and take. And so, There wasn’t a whole lot of music in the after a couple of years as I was beginning to grow as a lay leader, house. I did grow up playing the piano, so that I wanted to lead at one point along the way I entered into I was trained classically, and got to a point Tot Shabbat for his sake, and later on for who see the world in full living sound, a Rabbinic program. I started thinking, where I was actually playing real pieces, my second son. And so I bought a guitar, the way I do, without thinking about it. “This is what I want for everybody. This rudimentary, but the real stuff. But then actually for my husband. He knew the ba- I didn’t know such people existed, and I is what everybody should have. A chance I quit. It was around middle school or sic chords and I had all this music in my didn’t know I was one of them until we to explore their deep and true voice, and so, and I think I quit because my teacher head and I’d watch him play and I’d say, got together and started singing. It was to be given a chance to develop it, and live wanted me to start performing. I kept “Ok, now play this chord, now play that just a mind-blowing, life-changing expe- up to it.” saying, “No, I just want to play for myself, chord,” because I had the piano keyboard rience for me. WJN: There is a reason we use that phrase, I don’t want to, I don’t have to perform.” in my mind. And he’d get enormously WJN: Is that when you started doing what “Finding your voice.” (Laughter) I was hugely terrified of it. He frustrated and say, “Look, you know these you’re doing now, song leading at the kept insisting, and so I quit. On quitting songs. I don’t. You play.” (Laughter) And Ahuvia: Yes. Exactly. For me it was a deeply Havurah? day he said to me, “But you shouldn’t so I started picking up guitar. I took the spiritual journey. And it still continues. quit. You have such talent!” It’s the first group lessons they offer through the Ann Ahuvia: I waited a few more years. You know time those words had ever left his mouth! Arbor Rec and Ed. I took the beginning kids are very forgiving. I was plenty good for WJN: Talk some more about the Rabbinic (Laughter) And I said, “Well, sorry, I don’t and intermediate courses, I built my cal- them, for a long time. (Laughter) I did not program. believe you, and I’m leaving.” So I did. I luses. Took me an entire year to learn to dare play anything in front of the grownups Ahuvia: I’m in my third year. For a period of also grew up singing in choirs and that play a bar F. After a couple of years I got until I felt comfortable that I knew some- time I worked at Beth Israel as the pro- was great fun. up the gumption to go to an annual Jew- thing and could do it well enough. But at gram director. Shortly after I began work ish song leaders workshop called Hava Na one point I finally felt like I had a bare mini- WJN: School choirs? there, I started thinking, “Well, I think I Shira. I started going, I think in 1999 or mum, I could maybe do this. And honestly, might want to become a rabbi.” Wasn’t so Ahuvia: In school and in youth group. Re- 2000. I went to ten consecutively. It took when I started leading services with the sure yet. I sort of sat on that idea for a few form youth group, it turns out, was a me a whole lot of courage to go the first guitar in front of the Havurah, I must say years, thinking about it, mulling it over, hugely formative connection for me Jew- time, because at the time I might have I credit to this day the Havurah’s generosity but I really thought, “I like the idea of ishly. It almost tied me with an umbilical known maybe five chords—but I only of spirit for putting up with me. (Laughter) helping to play a role in building commu- cord to a Jewish path and it was some- had three of them memorized. (Laugh- It was one steep learning curve and I was nity, knitting it together, helping people thing that I came home to much, much ter) And at the time, if it was your first absolutely on it, mistakes and all. I’m deeply engage in a really honest, deep way with later. It taught me a repertoire, when I was time, you’d have to play a piece in front grateful for that. this tradition.” It’s a tradition that’s worth about high school age, which stayed with of one of the teachers and they would Over the years I continued guitar les- wrestling with. me. Our youth group leader for a period evaluate you. And of course I was terri- sons, and I entered into voice lessons. The program that I ended up applying of time was a twelve-string guitar-playing fied, and my teacher was Debbie Fried- I had three different teachers. I studied to and being accepted into is ALEPH, (Al- hippie by the name of Bruce. He would sit man, who I revere, and I make a fool of with Jane Heirich. liance for Jewish Renewal). It’s a program us down, and he’d shut off the lights, and myself every time I see her, because her WJN: She’s terrific. I’ve studied with her, too. that’s really designed for people like me, there’d be candlesticks in the center, and music is such an influential piece of my who are not young and unattached, and can we’d all be sitting arm in arm, very Kum- practice, my connection to Judaism. So Ahuvia: She is terrific. She was my first teach- go somewhere for five years to a seminary baya-ish. But the Jewish songs he taught I just got completely flustered, played er and then she said, “OK, we’ve reached and then go somewhere else. I’m rooted. us, and he taught us the harmonies too, my little three-chord piece. She was very our end.” So I moved on to a local jazz vo- I’m not going anywhere! (Laughter) well, you know, they pluck at your heart. kind. (Laughter) calist, and we reached our end, and then In this program, we fly out twice a year to I worked at a Reform summer camp one But that first Hava Na Shira, about ten I worked with Cantor Pamela Schiffer, study intensively and in the meantime we summer when I was in college and when years ago, for me was a really profound out of the Metro area. I love her, and as take classes either online or locally. Within we’d get together on Shabbat, this was at experience. Because for the first time a teacher she’s fabulous. She was, among a year of applying to ALEPH, I also applied OSRUI (the summer camp run by the in my life I really felt like I was coming the three, the teacher who recognized that to the University of Michigan for my sec- Union for Reform Judaism) in Wisconsin. home. This was a gigantic learning for my biggest piece of work was working on ond master’s degree there, this one in Judaic Their practice was to really do a Kabbalat me, because I didn’t know that I was a core voice. Studies. I’m at the tail end of that, just com- Shabbat. The whole camp would shut music person. I think from that point on WJN: Core voice? pleted my master’s thesis last month. I’ll down at noon, everybody would shower I started thinking of myself that way. Part graduate in December or next spring. n and dress, the girls would have leg-shav- of it was being surrounded by two hun- Ahuvia: Core voice is the notion that instead ing parties. Then the musicians would dred other people who got music the way of generating the energy from your throat, start singing Shabbat songs, and they’d I do. Who spontaneously harmonized, or burying the energy and just having a slowly walk through the camp collecting without thinking about it, the way I do; very thin voice, it’s the idea of having ev- Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 29 I Kosher Cuisine

Exploring Jewish ancestry through food Syrian eggplant with pomegranate molasses Finding out that the great Jewish cooks of Aleppo, Syria, used this molasses with eggplant intrigued By Linda Morel Wasserman to explore this stunningly delicious combination often served with bread. NEW YORK (JTA)—Teiglach came along who cherished it enough to bring the preparation with Tina Wasserman when she moved to Dallas method to a new part of the world. 1 medium eggplant (11/2 pounds) in the 1980s. Ever wondered why some Ashkenazim eat 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses (available at Wasserman, a cooking teacher and the food at Rosh Hashanah? During the Middle Middle Eastern stores and Amazon.com) columnist for Reform Judaism magazine, didn’t Ages, Jews from Central and Eastern Europe sealed 2 large garlic cloves, finely minced or pressed literally transport clumps of the sticky pastries their dishes in pouches of dough and wore them through a garlic press whose dough is wrapped around nuts and sim- as amulets. Because they didn’t want to waste this 1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper flakes mered in honey syrup. But among her most precious food, they put it into soup. 3 or 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil cherished possessions, she packed her recipe “Most of our food customs come from the Kosher salt to taste for the traditional Rosh Hashanah sweet hail- Middle Ages,” said Wasserman. Pomegranate seeds for garnish (optional) ing from Lithuania. Jews needed stories to give them hope during Roast the eggplant over a grill until all sides are charred and the eggplant is soft and deflated. “No one had seen it down here,” said Was- the Crusades, when anti-Semitism flourished. Remove to a colander, slit open on 1 side from stem to bottom. Let the juices run out for 10 min- serman, the author of Entree to Judaism: A Cu- While Ashkenazim dip apples in honey to utes, or until it is cool enough to handle. linary Exploration of the Jewish Diaspora (URJ connote sweetness in the New Year, Turkish Remove the skin and stem and discard them. Press, 2010), until she served the dessert to her Jews convey the same wishes by partaking in Place the eggplant pulp in a clean bowl, cut in all directions with a knife and fork, and continue to new friends. Dulce de Manzana, sweet apple preserves in- mix with the fork, until no long strings of eggplant remain. She then introduced the recipe in cooking fused with rose water, the signature flavor of Add the pomegranate molasses, minced garlic, and red pepper flakes and combine thoroughly. classes. Before long, teiglach became part of the many Sephardic pastries. Slowly add the oil as you whip the eggplant mixture with a fork until a smooth emulsion or spread Jewish culinary scene in Dallas. Dulce de Manzana is the first of 20 dairy foods is formed. Season with salt to taste. The incident is typical of how Jewish foods have Wasserman serves at the bagels and buffet she Spread the mixture on a 9-inch plate and make a slight well in the center. Drizzle with a little more traveled around the world, says Wasserman, whose and her husband host at their home each Rosh olive oil, and sprinkle with some pomegranate seeds. goal in writing her cookbook was to educate about Hashanah following the Tashlich ceremony when Jewish culture while providing sensational recipes Jews, often in large groups, cast away their sins Serve with pita points or crackers. that tell the story of Jewish history. from the previous year by throwing small pieces of Yield: 4 servings. Parve As Jews migrated from country to country, bread into a natural body of flowing water such as they carried their recipes and kiddush cups. Like a river, lake or ocean. Johnny Appleseed, they spread their favorite foods. The Wassermans for the past five years have Lubiya—Sephardic black-eyed peas But they also adapted to the cuisines they encoun- invited to the meal about 110 guests, including the This Ethiopian recipe is a consistent winner at Wasserman’s Rosh Hashanah buffet. She prepares tered wherever they went. five rabbis from their Dallas synagogue, Temple triple the amount but still finds there are no leftovers. “I wanted to create a link to our ancestry Emanuel, the fourth largest Reform congregation 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil through food,” said Wasserman, who feels that in America. 1 medium onion, diced into 1/4-inch pieces such a connection will keep Judaism alive. International Jewish foods featured in En- 2 large cloves of garlic, minced “Food is the most direct connection in our tree to Judaism are found on their buffet table. 1 1/2 cups of water brain to memory,” said Wasserman. Wasserman not only prepares each dish her- 3 tablespoons tomato paste She began assembling recipes for Entree to self but posts a small sign explaining its origin. 1 pound fresh or frozen black-eyed peas Judaism with a question: What makes a food Jew- Many of the deliciously exotic recipes hail from 1/2 teaspoon cumin ish from a historical viewpoint? Her conclusion: Sephardic countries. Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Kosher laws and Sabbath observance were the One of Wasserman’s favorite recipes is Syr- Heat a 3-quart pot over high heat for 20 seconds. Add the olive oil and heat for another 10 seconds. reasons for the invention and evolution of Jew- ian Eggplant with Pomegranate Molasses, which Add the onion and garlic and saute over medium heat, until onions are lightly golden. ish recipes. is similar in consistency to babagonoush. Pome- Add the water and tomato paste, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Add the peas and For instance, Wasserman says that Caponata, granates are traditionally eaten at Rosh Hasha- cumin and cook covered for 1 to 2 hours, or until the peas are tender. It might be necessary to the popular Italian appetizer of simmered egg- nah because their seeds symbolize prosperity in add a small amount of additional water to the pot, if the mixture looks too dry. Conversely, if the plants, tomatoes and peppers, is a 500-year-old the New Year. The recipe is great as an appetizer, mixture is too soupy, continue to cook uncovered, until some of the liquid has evaporated. Sabbath dish. During the Spanish Inquisition when hors d’oeuvres, first course salad or part of a meze Remove from the heat and add salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot or at room temperature. Serve Spain occupied Sicily, 40,000 Jews fled to mainland assortment, an array of appetizers typical of Sep- alone or over rice. Italy to escape persecution, bringing with them this hardic cuisine. Yield: 8 servings. Parve make-ahead recipe that can be served cold or at “I’m all about connecting to the Jewish com- room temperature. munity at large,” said Wasserman, whose website “I tried to put the foods we love into a context,” http://www.cookingandmore.com creates a com- Sweet potato-pumpkin cazuela Wasserman said, explaining that she wanted to munity around food. “We’re a shrinking popula- Instead of using pumpkin, this festive casserole from Puerto Rico can be made with carrots, a breathe life into Jewish culinary history. tion who used to live everywhere in the world.” traditional Rosh Hashanah vegetable that symbolizes sweetness in the New Year. Each recipe in her cookbook includes the The following recipes are by Tina Wasserman story of its origins, when and why it was eaten, and from Entree to Judaism. 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or margarine 2/3 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup dark brown sugar Dulce de manzana — apple preserves 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour This Rosh Hashanah, try dipping challah into this sweet treat that Turkish Sephardic Jews eat 1/2 teaspoon salt to wish each other a sweet New Year. 2/3 cup unsweetened canned coconut milk (a pareve ingredient) 2 eggs 3 cups granulated sugar 1 can (15 ounces) unflavored pumpkin puree or lb. fresh carrots, 1 1/2 cups water cleaned, sliced, and steamed until tender 2 pounds apples, Jonagold, Gala, or Delicious 1 can (29 ounces) of yams in light syrup, drained and mashed 1 Juice of /2 lemon 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon rose water or 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 cup slivered almonds 2-inch piece of stick , broken into pieces Place the sugar and water in a 3-quart saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. 1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds While the mixture is heating, peel the apples and grate them by hand with a coarse grater. 3 whole cloves Immediately add the apples to the hot sugar syrup. Preparation: Place the butter or margarine in a 2-quart glass bowl and microwave for 45 seconds. Reduce the temperature to medium and cook for 30–45 minutes, or until most of the liquid has Whisk the sugars, flour and salt into the butter to combine. Whisk the coconut milk into the evaporated and the mixture is quite thick. Stir the mixture occasionally to prevent sticking. mixture until thoroughly blended. Add the eggs and combine. While the mixture is cooking, toast the almond in a 350-degree oven for 4 minutes, or until Add the pumpkin puree (or carrots) and the mashed yams and whisk until a smooth batter is formed. lightly golden. Set aside. Combine the water with the spices in a small glass cup and microwave on high for 1 1/2 minutes. When the mixture is thickened (it will get thicker when it cools), add the rose water or vanilla. Let the mixture steep for 5 minutes. Strain the spiced water through a fine mesh strainer into the Place in an open container until cool. The toasted almonds may be added to the mixture at sweet potato mixture and stir to incorporate. this time or sprinkled on top as a garnish just before serving. Refrigerate until serving. Butter a 2-quart casserole and pour the mixture into the prepared dish. Bake covered in a pre- heated 350-degree oven for 1 hour. Serve immediately. Yield: 3-4 cups. Parve. Yield: 8-10 servings. Dairy or Parve. 30 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 I Calendar

rah reading, with Jewish philosophy. 9:30 a.m. 1:15 p.m. with prayer, niggunim (wordless September 2010 Every Sunday. melodies), and teachings by community mem- Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into bers. Kiddush and potluck following services. the basic text of Chassidism and open your Tashlich at 3:30 p.m. at Island Park, meeting at Wednesday 1 eyes to the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. the shelter. For information, phone 665-4186. Every Sunday. Rosh Hashanah Services: Chabad. Morning ser- Jewish Concepts–for Women: Chabad. Learn the vices at 9:45 a.m.; sounding of the Shofar at Thursday 2 deeper meanings of the Jewish way of life. 8 p.m. 11:30 a.m.; Afternoon and Tashlich Riverside Every Sunday. services at 4 p.m. Prayer, Weekly Torah Reading and Jewish Phi- losophy–for Women: Chabad. 9 a.m. at the JCC. Monday 6 Friday 10 SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Energy Exercise with Maria Farquhar, 10 a.m., $4 or 3/$10; Fajita Fest: EMU Hillel. 5–8 p.m. at University Park. Rosh Hashanah Services: Chabad. Morning ser- Current Events with Heather Dombey, a Jew- vices at 9:45 a.m., followed by festive meal. ish perspective on this week’s news, 11 a.m.; $3 Evening services at 7:30 p.m. Homemade Dairy Buffet Lunch, noon; Weekly Tuesday 7 Rosh Hashanah Services: Pardes Hannah. Medi- special events and guest presentations (see de- tation Service from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. followed scription below) 1 p.m.; Literary Group with SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Energy Exercise by a Kiddush. St. Aidans, 1679 Broadway. Sidney Warschausky at 2:15 p.m. Call Merrill with Maria Farquhar, 11 a.m., $4/session or Rosh Hashanah Family Program: BIC. For fam- Poliner at 971-0990 for name of current book. $10/3 sessions; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet ilies of children in grades K-5. Beginning at Lunch, noon; Games and activities includ- Birthdays and Presentation: JCC Seniors. Birthday 11:30 a.m. in a tent set up in the courtyard. ing mahjong, quilting, art projects and card celebration for all with September birthdays. Children will be brought from High Holiday games. 1 p.m. Every Tuesday. Family and friends join for lunch and birthday children’s programming. Rabbi Blumenthal cake at 12:30 p.m. Celebrate Labor Day with a Wii Fun: JCC Seniors. Intro to Wii sports. No ex- will facilitate the activities, including a play viewing of With Babies and Banner, a documen- perience or physical expertise necessary. 1 p.m. presented by older students. The morning tary about the UAW Women’s Auxiliary support For information, call Merrill at 971-0990. culminates in a celebration of the birthday of of the Flint sit-in strike, a seminal event in the Yidish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group). All the world. No tickets required. beginning of organized labor. 1 p.m. ages and levels welcome including U-M and Tot Shabbat and Dinner: TBE. Tot Shabbat at Talmud Study Group–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. non-U-M participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s 5:30 p.m. Dinner at 6 p.m Sharpen your wits and knowledge of the Jewish Café, ground floor of U-M Michigan League. Shabbat Service and Board Installation: TBE. legal system by following the intriguing discus- For information, call 936-2367. 7:30 p.m. sions in the Talmud. The Talmud is a composite Student/Faculty Reception: EMU Hillel. 3–5 Middle School Shabbat: TBE. Once a month ser- of practical law, logical argumentation and moral p.m. at the Student Center, Room 204. vice for grades 6–8 in the TBE chapel. 7:30 p.m. teachings. Study of the original Talmud tractate Weekly Torah Portion—for Women: Chabad. Taanit chapter 2. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. Reading the Bible may be easy, but under- standing it is no simple matter. Study the Saturday 11 text in the original, together with the classical Friday 3 commentaries. 8:30 p.m. Every Tuesday. Torah Study: TBE. Led by Rabbi Levy at 8:50 a.m. followed by Morning Minyan at 9:30 a.m. Weekly Yiddish Reading Group: JCC Seniors. Sanctuary Service and Bar Mitzvah at 10 a.m. Meets at the JCC. 1:30 p.m. Call Ray Juni at Wednesday 8 Tot Shabbat: BIC. Tot Shabbat. For preschoolers 761-2765 for information. and their families. Interactive, fun Shabbat ex- Tot Shabbat and Dinner: TBE. Tot service at 5:30 p.m., World Birthday Bash: EMU Hillel. 11 a.m.–2 perience for youngest members is led on alter- followed by tot dinner at 6 p.m. p.m. at the Student Center, Ballroom B. nating weeks by Peretz Hirshbein and Jessica BBQ Dinner: TBE Brotherhood. Monthly High Holiday Family Celebration: BIC. Program of Kander. 11:15 a.m. dinner. $10/person. Register at www.tem- stories, songs, special treats and the blowing of the Mystical Insights to the Torah–for Women: Cha- plebethemeth.org or call 665-4744. shofar. Although program is intended for families bad. Learn more about the mystical dimen- Friday evening services: See listing at end of calendar. with pre-school and early elementary aged children, sions of the Torah. 1 hour before sundown. all are welcome. 4–4:45 p.m. No tickets required. Every Saturday. Saturday 4 Erev Rosh Hashanah: AARH. 7:30–9 p.m. at Laws of Shabbat–Jewish Ethics: Chabad. Study Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 4001 group code of law for Shabbat, and study of Ann Arbor-Saline Road. No tickets required. Jewish Ethics, 1/2 hour before sundown. Every Torah Study: TBE. With Rabbi Levy. 8:50 a.m. Erev Rosh Hashanah: TBE. Family Service at Saturday. Mystical Insights to the Torah–for Women: Cha- EMU Pease Auditorium. For ticket informa- Shabbat Shuvah: AARH. Celebratory evening. bad. Learn more about the mystical dimen- tion, call 665-4744. 8 p.m. Bring instruments and singing voices. For lo- sions of the Torah. 1 hour before sundown. Rosh Hashanah: Chabad. Services at 7:30 p.m., cation and directions, RSVP to Aura Ahuvia at Every Saturday. followed by festive meal. 975-9045 or by email to [email protected]. Laws of Shabbat–Jewish Ethics: Chabad. Study group Shabbat services: See listing at the end of calendar. code of law for Shabbat, and study of Jewish Ethics, 1/2 hour before sundown. Every Saturday. Thursday 9 “Preparing Your Heart for the High Holy Days:” Sunday 12 TBE. Rabbis Levy and Delson and Cantor JCC Closed for Rosh Hashanah. Rose talk about “Sustaining the Intercon- Rosh Hashanah Services: AARH. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at Reading Hebrew through the Prayer Book–for necting Circles of Self, Community and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 4001 Ann Women: Chabad. An in-depth study into the World.” Refreshments. 8:30 p.m. Arbor-Saline Road. No tickets required. Chil- prayer book, plus an overview of the weekly Selichot Service: Pardes Hannah. Preparing to dren’s Services at 11 a.m.–noon for K through Torah reading, with Jewish philosophy. 9:30 enter the days of awe. An evening of study and Grade 2 and for Grades 3–5. a.m. Every Sunday. chat. 9 p.m. at the home of Rabbi Elliot and Oneg, following services from 1–1:30 p.m. Tash- Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into Linda, 2924 Baylis Drive. lich from 3–4:30 p.m. at Island Park, 1450 Island the basic text of Chassidism and open your Drive, with Yoga option offered by Allison Stupka, Selichot Service: TBE. Refreshments, Havdalah eyes to the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Ev- or a self-guided service with provided handout. and Selichot. Welcome the High Holy Day ery Sunday. season at this service which includes Kol Ha- Rosh Hashanah Services: TBE. Family Service at Kever Avot: TBE and BIC. Joint service at Ar- lev, the TBE adult choir. 10 p.m. EMU Pease Auditorium at 9 a.m. Traditional borcrest Cemetery open to all who wish to Service, co-sponsored by EMU Hillel, at 11 a.m. Selichot Service: Chabad. 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, remember their loved ones. 12:30 p.m. at EMU Pease Auditorium. For ticket infor- September 5, led by Rabbi Polter of Oak Park. mation about services at Pease, call 665-4744. Jewish Concepts–for Women: Chabad. Learn Shabbat services: See listing at the end of calendar. AARTY Service at TBE for High School students. the deeper meanings of the Jewish way of life. No tickets necessary. Tashlich at 1:30 p.m. at Riv- 8 p.m. Every Sunday. Sunday 5 erside Park in Ypsilanti. Birthday of the World at TBE with Cantor Annie Rose. Celebration of the Monday 13 New Year including birthday cake. 4:30 p.m. Reading Hebrew through the Prayer Book–for Women: Chabad. An in-depth study into the Rosh Hashanah Services: Pardes Hannah. Tradi- Senior Holiday Lunch: JCC Older Adults. High prayer book, an overview of the weekly To tional Jewish Renewal Service from 9:30 a.m.– Holiday lunch for seniors co-sponsored by the

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Jewish Community Center and Jewish Family Saline Road. No tickets required. Children’s bers; $20/non-members. Send payment to Services. $14. For information, contact Mer- Thursday 16 Services from 11 a.m.–noon for K through AARH, PO Box 7451, Ann Arbor, MI 48107. rill Poliner at 971-0990 or email merrill@ Grade 2 and for Grades 3–5. Afternoon dis- jfsannarbor.org. SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Energy Exercise with cussions from 3–5:15 p.m. Non-traditional Talk: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. “Nu- Maria Farquhar, 10 a.m., $4 or 3/$10; Current Yizkor service offering mourners the oppor- Sunday 19 merus Clausus Exiles: Jewish Students and Events with Heather Dombey, a Jewish perspec- tunity to share some words about the person the Quota System in Interwar Europe,” pre- tive on this week’s news, 11 a.m.; $3 Homemade lost. Ne’ilah from 7:15–8:30 p.m. Reading Hebrew through the Prayer Book–for Dairy Buffet Lunch, noon; Special events and Women: Chabad. An in-depth study into the sented by Michael Miller of Central Europe- Kol Nidre: Pardes Hannah. Preparation at 6:45 p.m. guest presentations, 1 p.m.; Literary Group with prayer book, an overview of the weekly Torah an University. 202 South Thayer, Room 2022. Services at 7:15 p.m. at St. Aidans, 1679 Broadway. 12:30 p.m. Sidney Warschausky at 2:15 p.m. Call Merrill reading, with Jewish philosophy. 9:30 a.m. Ev- Poliner at 971-0990 for name of current book. Yom Kippur Services: Chabad. 7:15 p.m. ery Sunday. Program: EMU Hillel. 7–9 p.m. at Hillel House, Kol Nidre: TBE. Service at EMU Pease Auditorium. 965 Washtenaw. Prayer, Weekly Torah Reading and Jewish Philos- Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into ophy–for Women: Chabad. 9 a.m. at the JCC. 8 p.m. For ticket information, call 665-4744. the basic text of Chassidism and open your Talk: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. “Tur- AARTY Service: TBE. 8 p.m. eyes to the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Ev- Tuesday 14 kic-Karaite Biblical Translations,” presented ery Sunday. by Dan Shapira of Bar Ilan University. U-M Saturday 18 Jewish Concepts–for Women: Chabad. Learning SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Energy Exercise Alumni Center, Rooms A & B. Noon. the deeper meanings to the Jewish way of life. with Maria Farquhar, 11 a.m., $4/session or Health Check and Music: JCC Seniors. At 12:30 p.m. 8 p.m. Every Sunday. $10/3 sessions; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet Yom Kippur Services: TBE. Family Service at 9 a registered nurse from Care Response will take a.m. at EMU Pease Auditorium. Traditional Lunch, noon; Games and activities includ- and record blood pressures and address ques- ing Mahjong, quilting, art projects and card Service at 11 a.m. at EMU Pease Auditorium. Monday 20 tions. (This event is repeated the second Thurs- Co-sponsored by EMU Hillel. For ticket in- games. Wii sports including bowling, tennis day of each month.) At 1 p.m., Allison Pollock, formation, call 665-4744. Afternoon services English as a Second Language Daily Classes: and baseball. No sports or computer experi- JFS Geriatric Social Worker, will be available for continue at TBE. Service of Renewal, 2:30 JFS. Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on ence required. 1 p.m. Every Tuesday. discussion, questions and assistance. Also, local p.m.; Torah Study with Rabbi Levy at 2:30 Mondays–Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays– Movie Tuesday: TBE. Film selection is A Serious pianist Will Bennett will perform. p.m.; Afternoon Service at 3:30 p.m.; Yizkor Man. 1 p.m. in adult lounge. Refreshments. Thursdays at Jewish Family Services, 2245 Talmud Study Group–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. and Neilah followed by Break-the-Fast spon- South State Street. For more information, Yidish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group). Sharpen your wits and knowledge of the Jew- sored by TBE Sisterhood. contact JFS at 769-0209 or email andre@jfsan- All ages and levels welcome including U-M ish legal system by following the intriguing Yom Kippur Services: Pardes Hannah. Services narbor.org. Ongoing. and non-U-M participants. 1:30 p.m. at Be- discussions in the Talmud. The Talmud is a at 9:30 p.m. Yoga at 2:45 p.m. Meditation at “They Lit the Way” Class: JCC–Jewish Cultural Arts anster’s Café, ground floor of U-M Michigan composite of practical law, logical argumenta- 4:15 p.m. Mincha at 4:45 p.m. Yizkor at 6 p.m. and Education. They Lit the Way: Extraordinary League. For information, call 936-2367. tion and moral teachings. Study of the original Neilah at 7:10 p.m. Shofar blowing at 8:15 p.m. Women Leading Jewish Lives, is a Hadassah cur- Weekly Torah Portion—for Women: Chabad. Talmud tractate Taanit chapter 2. 8 p.m. Every Break-the-fast to follow. riculum that will be presented by Aviva Panush. Reading the Bible may be easy, but under- Thursday. Yom Kippur Services: Chabad. Morning service at $130/JCC members; $160/non-members. 1–2:30 standing it is no simple matter. Study the 9:45 a.m.; Yizkor memorial service at 12:30 p.m.; p.m. at the JCC. For information, contact Mimi text in the original, together with the classical Afternoon and evening service at 5:30 p.m. Weisberg at 971-0990 or email mimiweisberg@ commentaries. 8:30 p.m. Every Tuesday. Friday 17 Break-the-Fast: AARH. Catered dairy buffet with jccfed.org. Mondays through November 1. Kol Nidre: AARH. 10 a.m.–2:45 p.m. at Unitarian traditional Jewish foods. 8:30 p.m. or when 3 Women’s Torah Study: TBE. With Cantor Rose. Wednesday 15 Universalist Congregation, 4001 Ann Arbor- stars appear. Reservations required. $15 /mem- 7 p.m.

32 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010 Opening Brunch: TBE Sisterhood. 10 a.m. Monday Mocktails: EMU Hillel. 8–10 p.m. at Tot Shabbat: BIC. Tot Shabbat. For preschoolers Hillel House. Thursday 23 and their families. Interactive, fun Shabbat ex- Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into perience for youngest members is led on alter- the basic text of Chassidism and open your JCC Closed for Sukkot. nating weeks by Peretz Hirshbein and Jessica eyes to the beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. at Tuesday 21 Prayer, Weekly Torah Reading and Jewish Phi- Kander. 11:15 a.m. Chabad House. Every Sunday. losophy–for Women: Chabad. 9 a.m. at the Mystical Insights to the Torah–for Women: Hike: Jewish Hikers of Michigan. 1 p.m. Hike SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Energy Exercise JCC. Chabad. Learn more about the mystical di- at Dolph Park, ½ mile south of Jackson and with Maria Farquhar, 11 a.m.; $4/session or Sukkot Service: BIC. 9:30 a.m.–noon. Followed mensions of the Torah: Chabad. 1 hour before Wagner Roads. Open to all who like to hike. $10/3 sessions; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet by Kiddush luncheon in the Sukkah. sundown. Every Saturday. Co-sponsored by Temple Beth Emeth. Email Lunch, noon; Games and activities includ- [email protected] for information. Sukkot Services: Chabad. 7:15 p.m. Laws of Shabbat–Jewish Ethics: Chabad. Study group ing mahjong, quilting, art projects and card Jewish Parenting Workshop: TBE. “Stong Moms, games. Wii sports including bowling, tennis code of law for Shabbat, and study of Jewish Ethics, 1/2 hour before sundown. Every Saturday. Strong Girls: Middle School Friendships.” and baseball. No sports or computer experi- Friday 24 Community members invited to join in a ence required. 1 p.m. Every Tuesday. Sushi in the Sukkah: TBE TNT. For the “twenties dialogue and thoughtful reflection on how to and thirties” in the community. $10 includes Yidish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group). All Weekly Yiddish Reading Group: JCC Seniors. help daughters navigate Middle School rela- “kosher-style” sushi and Asian-inspired appe- ages and levels welcome including U-M and Meets at the JCC. 1:30 p.m. Call Ray Juni at tionships. 6 p.m. tizers, BYO drinks (alcoholic or not). RSVP to non-U-M participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s 761-2765 for information. Jewish Concepts–for Women: Chabad. Learning Café, ground floor of U-M Michigan League. Rabbi Delson at ldelson@templebethemeth. Sukkot Service: BIC. 9:30 a.m.–noon. Followed org or at www.templebethemeth.org. the deeper meanings to the Jewish way of life. For information, call 936-2367. by Kiddush in the Sukkah. 8 p.m. Every Sunday. Shabbat services: See listing at the end of calendar. Lulav Making: Chabad. Annual community Sukkot Services: Chabad. 9:45 a.m and 7:15 p.m. event. 6:30 p.m. Tot Shabbat and Tot & Sukkot Shalom Dinner: Monday 27 Weekly Torah Portion—for Women: Chabad. TBE. Tot Shabbat at 5:30 p.m. followed by Sunday 26 Reading the Bible may be easy, but under- dinner at 6 p.m. standing it is no simple matter. Study the English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. Sukkot Shalom: TBE. New service for children Reading Hebrew through the Prayer Book–for text in the original, together with the classical Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– in kindergarten through mid-elementary age Women: Chabad. An in-depth study into the commentaries. 8:30 p.m. Every Tuesday. Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays at including songs, prayers, Torah reading, and a prayer book, an overview of the weekly Torah Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State Street. D’var Torah. 6:30 p.m. reading, with Jewish philosophy. 9:30 a.m. at For more information, contact JFS at 769-0209 Chabad House. Every Sunday. Wednesday 22 Shabbat Services: TBE. 7:30 p.m. or email [email protected]. Ongoing. Fun, Friendship and Food: BIC Women’s League. Tot Shabbat Sukkot Dinner: BIC. For tots and their Harvest Heaven: EMU Hillel. Sukkot celebra- Join in to enlighten yourself, share holiday families with songs and stories in the Sukkah and tion at Big Bob’s Lake House. 7–9 p.m. Saturday 25 kitchen secrets and explore a spiritual journey a dairy dinner. For dessert, kids of all ages will together. Fun, friendship, delicious snacks, Sukkah Decorating and Pizza Dinner: TBE. make an edible graham cracker and and candy Torah Study: TBE. Led by Rabbi Levy at 8:50 recipe suggestions and cooking and baking Decorating and meal at 6 p.m. Reservations Sukkah. $18/family. a.m., followed by Morning Minyan at 9:30 ideas. Receive annual calendar of Women’s at www.templebethemeth.org or phone 665- Program: EMU Hillel. 7–9 p.m. at Hillel House, 965 a.m. Sanctuary Service at 10 a.m. League events. For members and non-mem- 4744. Followed by songs and prayers in the bers alike. 9:30 a.m.–noon at the JCC. For Washtenaw Ave. Sukkah at 7 p.m. Sukkot Shabbat: Pardes Hannah. Shabbat ser- vices in the Sukkah. 10 a.m. at the home of more information or to RSVP by September Rabbi Elliot and Linda, 2924 Baylis Drive. 21, phone Yvonne Wardle at 945-8256.

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Tuesday 28 by vegetarian potluck. Tot Shabbat with op- tional kid’s pizza dinner at 6:00 PM. All are Free Jewish apps for your iPhone welcome to attend. For information, call 913- By Mark Mietkiewicz SPICE of LIFE: JCC Seniors. Energy Exercise with 9705, email [email protected] or visit www. Maria Farquhar, 11 a.m., $4/session or $10/3 ses- aarecon.org. Do you have an iPhone or iPod Touch that is (c) Joey Ramone or (d) Chris Klein sions; $3 Homemade Dairy Buffet Lunch, noon; Shabbat Service: Chabad. Begins at candle- hungering for Jewish and Israeli content? Today, (e) Judd Nelson or (f) Joy Behar Games and activities including mahjong, quilt- lighting time. Home hospitality available for a look at the ever-growing number of free apps You’ll find the answers below. ing, art projects and card games. Wii sports in- Shabbat meals and Jewish holidays. Call 995- (mini applications or programs) that you can Mitzvah Project—“Whether you’re prepar- cluding bowling, tennis and baseball. No sports 3276 in advance. download. This is really a no risk proposition ing for your Bar or Bat Mitzvah or at any time or computer experience required. 1 p.m. Every since all these apps are free. (They will also work in your life, Mitzvah Project will guide you Tuesday. Weekly Shabbat services on the tablet device too.) through identifying interests, goals, and actions Yidish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): All Shabbat Services: AAOM. Morning service, 9:30 iGavolt—Why shlep around your Bubbe to plan and implement a project that will make ages and levels welcome including U-M and a.m. Evening service, 35 minutes before sunset. around with you when you can download a difference and inspire good deeds across the non-U-M participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s Call 662-5805 for information. Mincha/Ma’ariv someone else’s onto your iPhone? Listen to the world.” [http://bit.ly/happ62] iGavolt Bubbe utter such gems as, “You look too Café, ground floor of U-M Michigan League. For with Seudah Shlisheet and Dvar Torah every iBirkat—Did you have a good meal? Then skinny, eat some farfel.” And the guilt inducing, it’s time to say Birkat Hamazon. This app has information, call 936-2367. week. Torah topics and a bite to eat. Discussions “Why don’t you call me anymore?” [http://bit. variations for Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Oriental Caregiver Conversations: JCC Older Adults. This led by Rabbi Rod Glogower and other local month’s topic is “Preparing for and Grieving ly/happ55] and Arizal communities. [http://bit.ly/happ64] scholars. Home hospitality available for Shabbat Jewish Almanac—A nugget of Jewish wis- the Death of a Parent.” Discussion about how When I did my first roundup of Jewish apps meals. U-M Hillel. dom and history for every day of the year. A few for the iPhone earlier this year, I got feedback to ensure one is logistically and emotionally Shabbat Services: BIC. 9:30 a.m. Morning child- weeks ago you would learn about the phrase from Palm and Blackberry users who also equipped to handle the devastating and com- care from 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. from Leviticus: “‘The Lord called unto Moses, wanted to know about Jewish apps for their de- plicated loss that is the death of a parent. 6:30–8 Shabbat Services: AA Reconstructionist Havurah. and spoke unto him.’ Why did God call first, vices. The truth is that app development for the p.m. at the JCC. For information, contact Ab- Discussion-based format with topics changing and then to speak? The Torah teaches good iPhone (over 225,000) dwarfs the others (with bie Lawrence Jacobson at 769-0209 or email monthly. For info, email [email protected] or manners, that a man should not communicate Palm at 3,000 and Blackberry at 7,000). But that [email protected]. call 913-9705 or visit www.aarecon.org. to another anything before he tells him that he doesn’t mean you need to go without. Weekly Torah Portion—for Women: Chabad. Shabbat Services: Chabad. Morning services at wishes to speak to him. (Yomah Chapter 1)” The best place to look for Jewish software for Reading the Bible may be easy, but understand- 9:45 a.m. Afternoon services 45 minutes before [http://bit.ly/happ51] your Palm, is PilotYid.com. Ari Engel has done a ing it is no simple matter. Study the text in the sundown. Israel Pavilion at Expo 2010—Even if you masterful job in scouring the web for Palm apps original, together with the classical commentar- won’t get a chance to visit the stunning stone that you can download. [http://bit.ly/happ65] ies. 8:30 p.m. Every Tuesday. Shabbat Services: Pardes Hannah. Generally meets and glass Israel Pavilion at the Shanghai fair this Blackberry users can download classic texts the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month. Call year, you can still drop by virtually. Includes a onto your Blackberry include the Chumash, 663-4039 for more information. 10 a.m. Led by photo gallery, a video simulation and wrap Tehillim, the entire weekday Siddur and guides Wednesday 29 Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg. around panorama shots. [http://bit.ly/happ57] to the Jewish Festivals. [http://bit.ly/happ66] Shabbat Services: TBE. Torah Study at 8:50 a.m. Jeff’s Pocket Travel Guide: Israel ’10—If As for the iPad, since its release in April, over Hashanah Rabbah Service: Chabad. Everyone will re- Chapel Service at 9:30 a.m. Sanctuary Service you are looking for a mini travel guide that 10,000 apps have been created. When the time is ceive bunch of willows for the services. 7:30 a.m. at 10 a.m. Call the office at 665-4744 or consult focuses on Israeli antiquities, this one does the right, I’ll review Jewish and Israeli apps available Afternoon Delight Concert: JCC Older Adults. website at www.templebethemeth.org for ser- trick. You can read up and see photos from Cae- for that device. n Sponsored by Ann Arbor Symphony featuring vice details. sarea, Masada, the Cardo and two dozen other Mark Mietkiewicz is a Toronto-based Web site Andiamo Quartet. Refreshments at 1 p.m. Con- Home Hospitality for Shabbat and Holiday Meals: sites. [http://bit.ly/happ67] cert at 1:30 p.m. $8/person. For information, Guess Who’s Jewish—How encyclopedic producer who writes, lectures and teaches about AAOM. Call 662-5805 in advance. the Jewish Internet. He can be contacted at high- contact Merrill Poliner at merrill@jfsannarbor. is your knowledge of Jewish performers and Home Hospitality and Meals: Chabad. Every Shab- [email protected]. . org or by phone at 769-0209. 1–2:30 p.m. bat and Holiday. Call 995-3276 in advance. celebrities? Test yourself by guessing the Jew in Simchat Torah Celebration: TBE. Short service, live these pairs: (Answers to Guess Who’s Jewish: b, c, e) klezmer music and dancing with the Torahs in (a) Jenna Elfman or (b) Michael Bolton the sanctuary. 5:15 p.m. Phone numbers and addresses of Simchat Torah Supper and Torah Study: TBE. Rab- organizations frequently listed in bi Levy will speak about “Reaching Out to Others the calendar: Soviets, continued from page 27 with Our Hearts, Our Strength and Our Resourc- Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan (AAOM) es.” For reservations, call 665-4744. 6:15 p.m. 1429 Hill Street 994-5822 from the many activists I interviewed for the much about saving themselves as it was about Shemini Atzeret Service: Chabad. Service at 7 p.m. Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Havurah (AARH) book: They did not want their children to saving this far-off community of Jews. with Shemini Atzeret Dancing with the Torah. P.O. Box 7451, Ann Arbor 913-9705 ask the same question of them that they had When I started working on the book, Beth Israel Congregation (BIC) asked their parents: What had they done to I was drawn by a need to understand the Thursday 30 2000 Washtenaw Ave. 665-9897 help Jews during the war? world after the war. My grandparents all Chabad House As a result, the movement acted as a sort survived death camps and lost much of their JCC closed for Simchat Torah. 715 Hill Street 995-3276 of catalyst. By cleansing the conscience, it al- families. And yet, by the time I knew them, Yizkor Service and Lunch: TBE. 11 a.m. EMU Hillel lowed these Jews to be assertive. It embold- they had raised families and were happy, ened them to act with a confidence they had well-adjusted people. Erev Simchat Torah Dinner: BIC. Congregation 965 Washtenaw Ave., Ypsilanti 482-0456 never before exhibited on American soil. As curious as I was about what happened to dinner at 6 p.m. with new members invited at no Jewish Community Center (JCC) Never was this truer than during the fight them in those camps, I also wanted to under- charge. Followed at 7:30 p.m. by a Simchat Torah 2935 Birch Hollow Drive 971-0990 Maariv Service with family-friendly Torah pro- for the Jackson-Vanik amendment from stand what went into this transformation. The Jewish Cultural Society (JCS) cessionals and special snacks. 1972 to 1975. The Jewish community went same was true on a much larger scale. How did 2935 Birch Hollow Drive 975-9872 Shemini Atzeret Services: BIC. Service includes Yiz- up against the president—and won. They American Jews scrub out that terrible stain? Jewish Family Services (JFS) kor. 9:30 a.m. wanted Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger The answer, it seems, was contained in 2245 South State Street 769-0209 Shemini Atzeret Services: Chabad. Morning and to temper their pursuit of detente and make the Soviet Jewry movement. Here Jews were memorial services at 9:45 a.m. Afternoon and Jewish Federation any improved trade relationship with the So- able to work out those feelings, answer He- evening services at 7 p.m. 2939 Birch Hollow Drive 677-0100 viets contingent on freer emigration. schel’s lament. Simchat Torah: Chabad. All night dancing. 8 p.m. Pardes Hannah Here, too, the Holocaust was not far away. A few months before his speech in 1963, Morning services on October 1 at 9:45 a.m. with To- 2010 Washtenaw Ave. 761-5324 The amendment was inspired by a new tax a reporter from the Yiddish newspaper the rah dancing, followed by annual deli Simchat Torah Temple Beth Emeth (TBE) the Soviets wanted to levy on departing emi- Day-Morning Journal asked Heschel where lunch with afternoon and evening services at 7 p.m. 2309 Packard Road 665-4744 grants: They would have to pay back the state he had been in 1943. He answered mourn- U-M Hillel for their education. fully that he had just arrived in America, did 1429 Hill Street 769-0500 An editorial cartoon in the Los Angeles not speak the language well and commanded Weekly Friday night Shabbat services Times captured the feeling this tax inspired no attention from the Jewish leadership. Shabbat Service: AAOM. Services held at U-M by showing a caricature of two almost iden- Still, he said, “This does not mean that I Hillel. Call 994-9258 in advance to confirm tical prisoners: The first held out an arm tat- consider myself innocent. I am very guilty. I time. Shabbat Candlelighting tooed with a number from a concentration have no rest.” Shabbat Service: BIC. 6 p.m. camp and was captioned “Germany, 1936’; If not for him, then for the next genera- Shabbat Service: TBE. Tot Shabbat at 5:30 p.m. September 3 7:49 p.m. the second had the same tattooed arm and tion, Soviet Jewry offered that rest. n followed by Shira at 6 p.m. Traditional Service was captioned “Russia, 1972.” The difference September 10 7:37 p.m. Gal Beckerman is a writer at the Forward and at 7:30 p.m. For information, call 665-4744. was the numbers on the second arm had a September 17 7:24 p.m. the author of When They Come for Us, We’ll Shabbat Service: Ann Arbor Reconstructionist dollar sign in front of it. Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Havurah. 6:15 PM at the JCC the last Friday September 24 7:12 p.m. American Jews made this guilt produc- Jewry, in bookstores September 23. each month. Musical Shabbat service followed tive. The Soviet Jewry movement became as 34 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2010

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Susurrus A Fire Exit Production Written, directed, and conceived by David Leddy SEASoN 132nd September 9 – October 3 Matthaei BOtanical GardenS The season opens with a unique and intimate theatrical experience in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. This stroll through nature includes a narrative on an iPod that weaves together snippets about opera, memorial benches, and botany, in a mournful and poignant story of love and loss loosely based on Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden’s collaboration on Britten’s opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recommended for ages 16 and up. Contains adult content.

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The List Rosanne Cash

Saturday, September 25 8 pm hill auditOriuM Rosanne Cash lends her unique, sophisticated perspective to selections from her father Johnny Cash’s list of “100 Essential Country Songs,” embracing her heritage with selections that have shaped who she is as an artist.

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The Route to the New World: From Spain to Mexico La Capella Reial de Catalunya with Hesperion XXI and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo Jordi Savall music director

thursday, September 30 8 pm St. FranciS OF aSSiSi cathOlic church This concert, conceived by early music superstar Jordi Savall, traces the movement of music from Spain to the New World, bringing together ensembles from Spain and Mexico, and fusing Hispanic baroque and guitar music with contemporary jarocho and huasteco traditions.

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