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Special Needs Hard Lessons INTERMOUNTAIN WWW.IJN.COM JEWISH NEWS® CANDLELIGHTING DENVER 8:13 p.m. BOULDER 8:15 p.m. ASPEN 8:19 p.m. Happy July 4th Vol. 107, No. 27 Tammuz 11, 5780 JULY 3, 2020 © Published every Friday, Denver, CO $1.75 COVID ANNEXATION BLM DESIGNS Generations Not likely any time soon And Palestinians TA — Three generations fell ERUSALEM — Since April, On July 1, as stipulated in the ONDON (JTA) — Black Lives victim to the coronavirus in all eyes following the Israeli- agreement, Netanyahu could put Matter in the United King- New York in the span of Palestinian conflict have the topic of annexing the West dom conflated its movement 10 days. been glued to Wednesday, Bank — a move that would have with the Palestinians’ oppo- JThe first to die was Lenora JJuly 1. political repercussions well beyond Lsition to Israel’s “settler colonial pur- Garfinkel, 89; followed by her son, Israeli Prime Minister Ben- the Middle East — up for a vote suits.” Efraim Garfinkel, 66; followed by jamin Netanyahu had negotiat- in his Cabinet or in the Knesset, “As Israel moves forward with the his son, Doniel, 46, three days ed the date into his government Israel’s parliament. annexation of the West Bank, and later. coalition deal with his rival Ben- ANNEXATION BLM — PALESTINIANS Lenora Garfinkel was one of ny Gantz. the first women to study archi- Continued on Page 16 Continued on Page 17 SEE PAGE 19 — DESIGNS tecture at the prestigious Coop- er Union College in New York and went on to build Jewish com- munity buildings across the New Hard lessons Special needs Colorado’s Most of the Nazi doctors volunteered COVID retools the approach — it works COVID status By ERIC BERGER PAGE 14 JTA IJN report EW YORK — When Rache- ers and students quickly switched li Friedbauer, now 11, was to remote learning. York metropolitan area over the enrolled four years ago in a The abrupt shift was challenging, course of more than six decades. Jewish special education pro- to say the least. Teachers at first Her designs included the mas- Ngram, it changed her life. replicated their daily schedule using sive Viznitz chasidic synagogue Due to a rare genetic disorder, Zoom. But students with special in Kaser, the Atrium wedding Racheli has developmental delays needs who rely on structure for venue in Monsey, and multiple and some medical problems, and she academic and emotional stability schools and ritual bath houses. is extremely shy. But she thrived found the change jarring. “She was an expert in the hala- within the program, which is run by The risks of failure could be dis- chot [Jewish laws] of building reli- Sinai Schools, a network of special astrous for these children. gious buildings, mikvehs and educational programs that operates So educators quickly regrouped shuls based on Halachah. That’s within regular Jewish day school and retooled. why they came to her. She sat settings. Students were divided into small- with any rabbi making these “It was an environment where she er groups so teaching could be plans like one of them.” finally was comfortable, and she felt more individualized. Garfinkel died of COVID-19 on very loved and accepted for who Teachers put in more hours. April 29 at the age of 89. she was,” said her mother,Jill Fried- Instructors incorporated more Lenora Garfinkel was born in bauer. visuals — mastering the ability, the Bronx in 1930. After gradu- Then, in March, the coronavirus for example, to visually focus in on ating high school, she wanted pandemic hit and Racheli’s life a math problem they were work- to attend Cooper Union but was was turned upside down. ing rather than showing the entire told that the entrance exam Her school, the Rosenbaum Yeshi- SPECIAL NEEDS was on Shabbat. After attend- va of North Jersey,closed, and teach- ing Hunter College for a year,she Continued on Page 16 reapplied and demanded a test on another day. Dr. Matthew Wynia, head of the Center for Bioethics and Human- “We all should be one tenth ities, talks about making tough medical choices. David Weil SAINT LOUIS — REALLY? of what [my mother] was and By ANDREA JACOBS emulate every part of her per- sonality,” her daughter Letitia IJN Senior Writer ‘No statue — and change the name’ Dahan Forspan said. By BEN SALES r.Matt Wynia, then head of “I just saw all kinds of ways that “She had 50 great-grandchil- JTA dren and each was as if it was the American Medical Asso- Holocaust history continues to play ciation’s ethics institute, out and influence the way we think GARFINKELS received an unexpected about modern medical issues.” T. LOUIS — On top of a hill holding a sword in his right hand. Dinvite from the US Holocaust in front of an art museum in Erected 116 years ago in Forest Park, Continued on Page 19 Memorial Museum in DC in the ynia and the museum the biggest park in St. Louis it is one of the city’s best-known mon- early 2000s. collaborated on a trav- stands a statue of an anti- uments. SSemite. Now, a coalition of activists want “The museum was putting eling road show of “Dead- together an exhibit called “Dead- ly Medicine” in the hopes The monument to the city’s name- it taken down because Louis IX per- ly Medicine: Creating the Master Wof impressing its message upon sake, the medieval French king Louis secuted Jews, presided over a noto- Race,” says Wynia, 56, director of health professionals. IX, depicts the king astride a horse, rious mass burning of the Talmud, CU Anschutz Medical Campus’ In tandem with the museum’s wearing a crown and a robe and issued an order of expulsion against Center for Bioethics and Human- senior historian of medical crimes, his Jewish subjects and led two Cru- ities since 2015. Wynia visited at least 25 to 30 med- sader armies in unsuccessful offen- “Deadly Medicine” exposed the ical schools across the country over COURT sives in North Africa. complicity of physicians in Nazi the ensuing year or two. At a time when statues of Con- Germany’s vision of a genetically “We argued that we should real- federate leaders and other figures superior race. Technically sterile, ly teach bioethics, particularly Vouchers are coming down across the coun- the search was cruel and incendi- the Holocaust, to medical profes- ASHINGTON — The try, activists in St. Louis want the ary.It led to the murder of millions sionals as part of the lesson plan,” Supreme Court handed Louis IX statue to come down too. of Jewish, ethnic and political he says. school voucher proponents A petition launched last week is call- enemies of the state. “And we strongly encouraged a victory in ruling that a ing on the city not only to take the When Wynia was first introduced medical schools to incorporate Wstate-run scholarship program fund- ST. LOUIS to the exhibit-in-process, which was the Holocaust into bioethics train- ed by tax-deductible gifts could not Continued on Page 9 pieced together on poster boards, ing for medical students.” exclude religious schools. curators had no interest in his aes- The lukewarm response felled The court split 5-4 in the Espinoza INSIDE thetic appraisal.“We discussed how expectations. v. Montana Dept. of Revenue case, American physicians might “We pushed for this education with Chief Justice John Roberts pro- Business.....................................15 respond to this information, which for a number of years,” says Wynia viding the swing vote. Classifieds .................................19 Columnists .....................4, 14, 23 was not generally talked about at who trained in internal medicine, “A State need not subsidize pri- Editorials ..................................24 the time,” he says. infectious diseases, public health vate education,” Roberts wrote.“But Leisure ......................................12 “I was immediately struck by the and health services research. once a State decides to do so, it Lively Opinion ...........................4 resonance between the Holocaust “It was hard.To begin with, there cannot disqualify some private Obituaries .................................20 and medicine today,including racial aren’t a lot of experts in this field. schools solely because they are Readers Speak............................5 health disparities, managed care Unlike specialists in kidney dis- religious.” Shmoos......................................20 and doctors as the stewards of com- Synagogues & Calendar .........21 munal resources,” says Wynia, who WYNIA VOUCHERS Today’s Life........................10, 11 is not Jewish. Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 16 Weekly Calendar, Spotlight 13 WWW.IJN.COM — Most Local Jewish Information on the Web • FOUR-WEEK FREE IJN SUBSCRIPTION, 303-861-2234 July 3, 2020 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 17 NEWS: CU Holocaust taught in medical school ‘The reality of what we’re able to do with this history is bring it to their attention’ WYNIA learned from that legacy, if you Holocaust. But that of course implies was not a German invention. difficult ethical issues today.For peo- From Page 1 will. that there were just a few bad actors, Members of the eugenics move- ple in need, it brings up race and Up until the 1930s and 1940s, and this reduces the scope of health ment in America advocated steril- biological and social determinism, medicine was moving in the direc- professionals’ complicity in the entire ization by 1906. We sterilized about and the ways in which biological ease or heart disease, we don’t tion of population health; looking Holocaust. 70,000 people against their will determinants grow out of social have thousands of people who feel at the well being of the larger com- One of the things that we’re very because we thought they posed a determinants.
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