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Thank you! All in The Family for Rabbi Perlman ow in our 41st year of publishing the Jewish Journal, we’d SOPHIE KATZMAN Ivan Perlman, who grew up in studying with his rabbi in like to thank you for welcoming us into your home every Special to the Journal a family that wasn’t extremely Rhode Island as well as with Ntwo weeks. It is a privilege to serve the North Shore Jewish religious. Ivan’s religious call- his father, on alternate days Community – and beyond - as we publish more than 17,000 For years, Rabbi Richard ing came after he served in of the week, not to mention papers each edition, holding a mirror up to our community. Our Perlman (now of Temple Ner Iwo Jima and came back as a at the Yeshiva. But as he went hope – our goal – is to provide continuity, to be a glue that helps Tamid in Peabody) resisted war hero, having gone to war out into the working world, he to hold the community together, even as the world of Judaism and joining what he likes to call with 450 comrades but having started out in furniture sales the world of publishing go through challenging times. “the family business.” Not only returned with just three - one and later became a radio host The fact that the Journal has been able to maintain this con- were his parents involved in without an arm, one without and manager. Although he tinuity through the course of so many years has to do with you. the synagogue, but his three both an arm and a leg, and was doing part time cantorial It is only through the generosity of readers like you who send us brothers are rabbis, cantors or himself. This had a huge impact work and teaching in religious donations, businesses which buy our advertising, and institutions a mix of both. For some rea- on his decision to become a schools during those years, like CJP whose generosity is a constant, that we are able to keep son, though, Rabbi Perlman Cantor, as Rabbi Perlman Rabbi Perlman said he felt a doing what we do. put off the inevitable, leaving recalls of his father. “He was void. “Something was missing taking his place on the bimah so moved by what he had seen. in my radio days, it was very Along those lines, we’d like to ask for your support once again as to wait until later. But he was He was influenced by the chap- much a business; I wanted to we hold a fundraiser brunch on April 23 at the JCC in Marblehead well trained in the necessary lain overseas who had to bury help people and do community at 11am. Called “Menschions and Mimosas,” the event will honor skills – his upbringng had been so many, that he decided to work.” the fascinating people who we’ve been highlighing since last a home schooling rabbinical go to the Jewish Theological It was only as he was September. Please see our ad on the back page for details of how training program. Seminary to serve God.” approaching middle age that you can donate, buy tickets, a table or an ad in our event book. The ‘family business’ started Per his parent’s rules, Rabbi Rabbi Perlman, feeling the need Thank you! with Perlman’s father, Cantor Perlman spent his childhood continued on page 14

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Update: JCC bomb threats continue

PENNY SCHWARTZ available facts and evidence, logistics of the meeting. “From Special to the Journal and will ensure this matter is the community’s standpoint, investigated in a fair, thorough, that was well received,” he told In the wake of the most recent and impartial manner,” Setera the Journal. spate of bomb threats against said in an email. Training on how to prepare local Jewish institutions, local While that language may and respond to bomb threats law enforcement officials from sound rote, it was welcomed was among the subjects dis- the FBI and Justice department, by Robert Trestan, ADL New cussed at the meeting, Trestan as well as local police depart- England regional director. said. A training session was ments, are responding to the “Someone is targeting Jewish held in February and another threats against the Jewish com- institutions, a potential civil was scheduled for this week munity. As news spread, expres- rights violation,” he pointed out. in Springfield. The Springfield sions of support bolstered the ”It’s what they should be doing,” Jewish Community Center was spirits of those impacted by the he said of Setera’s response. evacuated on Friday, March 3, incident. Last week, local FBI officers following a bomb threat at the Bomb threats phoned and the acting U.S. Attorney JCC that houses a pre-school Police responded to recent bomb threats phoned in to the Solomon in to the Solomon Schecter for Massachusetts, William D. and many educational and rec- Schecter Day School in Newton. Day School in Newton, the Weinreb, met with representa- reational programs for people MetroWest Jewish Day School tives from the area’s Jewish com- of all ages. receiving a telephone bomb with kids told at that point that in Temple Beth Sholom in munity, where Trestan found Trestan had high praise for threat. “That’s important. Those there was a fire drill. Local law Framingham and the ADL office more reason to be encouraged. local law enforcement in the are the people who respond on enforcement arrived quickly on in Boston were part of another “They told us in no uncertain communities that have been the ground,” he added. the scene. One hour later, the wave of attacks on Jewish insti- terms that this was a top prior- impacted, such as Newton, Rabbi Mark Sokol, head of building was determined to be tutions and three other ADL ity and the FBI had allocated home to many Jewish schools school at the MetroWest Day safe and the decision was made offices across the country – in significant resources to finding and institutions, including the School, said the Framingham to return to school and get on fifteen different cities. There out who is behind this,” said Leventhal Sidman JCC, was police have been very respon- with the day. Later, they learned were no bombs found at any of Trestan, who helped arrange the evacuated in January after sive. that the Solomon Schecter Day the sites, as has been the pat- The school has an ongo- School in Newton had also been tern. ing relationship with local targeted. Since January, there have STATEMENT OF MARTY SCHNEER, law enforcement and the “We know what’s going on been more than 150 phoned- JCCNS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Framingham police department around the country. We weren’t in or emailed bomb threats “The JCCNS has not received any threat. has a designated school liai- happy but we were not terribly targeting Jewish institutions, son who has been very helpful, surprised,” Sokol said. But he according to Jewish Telegraphic However, we have been monitoring the recent Sokol said. discovered that there’s a big dif- Agency. situation closely and want to assure our members The threatening call received ference between knowing this “The FBI and the Justice and the local community that we have established at the school was answered by a in theory and the reality when it Department’s Civil Rights staff member who heard a voice actually happens. Division are investigating possi- protocols for these types of threats. We are always saying there was a bomb in the Rabbi Sokol acknowledged ble civil rights violations in con- vigilant about security and are in constant contact building and that people in that the goal of disruption is nection with threats to Jewish the building would be harmed, real. “But, we are not going to Community Centers across the with local, state and federal authorities and security according to Rabbi Sokol. allow them to disrupt us. ‘We country,” according to Kristen experts, as the safety and security of our members, With safety and security are safe,’” he told the students, Setera, of the FBI’s Boston field guests, and staff is our highest priority.” protocols already in place, the and the school would make sure office. “The FBI will collect all building was quickly cleared, they feel safe.

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From Cantor Wannabe to Cantor Doob

ences. From there, she became you enter from the front and While the old stereotype is a B’nai Mitzvah tutor and back, in the US, you wait in that a cantor is a failed opera decided to go back to school line or sometimes push, and singer looking for a second for a second undergraduate in Canada, you do the same, career to sustain himself, degree in music. From a listing but apologize as you do it,” Cantor Doob believes that all in the newspaper, she signed explained Cantor Doob. “In the cantors come to the trade for up to volunteer at the American end, there’s no right way; every- different reasons. Conference of Cantors/Guild of one gets on the bus. I treat my “For me, singing is an exten- Temple Musicians Conference, clients with the same model, sion of who I am; it’s not a cloak convening outside of Toronto. and I meet them where they are. that I lay over myself. After fol- “Everyone was so lovely and There’s a lot of work that needs lowing a long and winding road, thoughtful; they even gave me to be done to connect people I found a career that matches a name tag that said ‘Cantor today. I hope we can use all the my ethical values, my ability to Wannabe!’ When I first heard goodness we have and recog- connect with all people and my all of the harmony of everyone nize that despite our different passions. It’s truly a luxury for singing together, it struck me to ways getting on, we’re all on the me to spend time doing what I the core; I was in.” same bus.” love.” Cantor Lisa Doob, who has been at Temple Isaiah in Lexington for Lisa attended the Hebrew nine years, spent time teaching in Toulouse, France, before becom- Union College-Jewish Institute ing a cantor. of Religion in New York City and one year in Jerusalem, Phyllis levin SOPHIE KATZMAN one thing always stayed con- earning her Master of Sacred on Special to the Journal stant. “Everywhere we went, my Music degree in 2001. From Real estate family sought out and estab- there she spent seven years at wHaT Is INCluDED IN THE salE? For Lisa Doob, a cantor, wife lished a Jewish community.” a synagogue outside of Chicago and mother of three, singing Lisa carried that pattern in and now is in her ninth year How do you know if your favorite has always been an extension her own travels to France after at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, chandelier will be included in the sale of your of herself. Even so, it took some graduating from the University where she couldn’t be happier. home? Usually if a feature is attached to the time for her to discover her call- of Manitoba with a degree in “I lucked out to find this con- Phyllis levin house, it will go to the buyer. ing: “A cantor isn’t like a fire- French Language, Literature gregation, we are a mix of clergy CRS GRI CBR In most cases, the critical test is whether the fighter or a dancer or teacher; and Translation. She earned and lay leaders who are really item is permanently fastened to the property it’s not something you think of a one-year teaching position in sync. The more that I do and by nails, bolts, screws, cement, glue or other permanent attachment. when you’re five.” to teach English in Toulouse, more people I work with, the If attached, it is considered a fixture that has been converted into Growing up in Winnipeg, where she made rich connec- more meaningful it becomes,” real property. For example, a wine cellar installed after the house Canada, Lisa was part of a tight tions with the Jewish student explained Doob, who loves was built will convey, but the portable wine rack in the kitchen will knit Jewish synagogue of about community. working directly with young not. If there is nothing specific in the sales contract about a fixture, 60 families, making it all hands She soon came to realize people. “It’s especially signifi- it is automatically included in the sale. To avoid misunderstandings on deck for each congregant. it wasn’t just Jewish life she cant to tutor B’nai Mitzvah stu- that could lead to litigation, replace your prized chandelier with an “The Torah lived in my brother’s sought. “I sat myself down dents because middle school is inexpensive substitute before the house is put on the market. bedroom, my dad was the head in the middle of one night in not an easy time of life, and I A buyer can ask that certain features remain with the home. So it’s of the temple’s school, I sang February, and I made a short really feel like I can empower important to specify what fixtures are included or excluded in the sales in the choir – I lived the syna- list of the things I couldn’t live them and help them gain self contract. gogue, it was a natural part of without. Short it was! I realized esteem.” my life.” I wanted to live a Jewish life and Having traveled and lived in EXPERIENCE Is THE DIFFERENCE. With a father as a professor, make sure I was able to sing.” various cities, there is a meta- Lisa’s upbringing didn’t stop in Upon returning home to phor – “There are many ways Feel free to call me at SAGAN REALTORS Canada. She traveled and lived Winnipeg, Lisa put her gradu- to get on a bus.” – that really on all aspects of buying or selling real estate in foreign countries, and as a ate applications for a Masters resonates for her. at 781-367-8150 result learned to speak French, in French on hold and looked “In England you cue up, in www.phyllislevin.com [email protected] (781) 367-8150 Dutch and Hebrew fluently. Yet for Jewish and musical experi- Jerusalem you push, in France, website email cell Journal contributor releases her latest novel TODD FEINBURG Journal Editor/Publisher

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Local student competes on Food Network

CINDY BERNSTEIN studied Integrative Health Services with ly creative, talented, and knowledgeable Special to the Journal a concentration in Food Science. She has about baking, ingredients and foods.” resided in Marblehead with her cousins She added that when Molly asked for Molly Winsten imagines herself on TV, since beginning the graduate program. permission to miss the last class of the fighting for culinary dominance like the Winsten has deep roots on the North fall semester so she could compete on celebrity chefs on the Food Network. The Shore, her mother having grown up in the Food Network that she had no reser- 24-year-old Boston University graduate Swampscott. vations in agreeing. student took a big step toward her goal It was her love of cooking that prompt- The premise of the TV show is to when she recently competed in the net- ed Winsten to audition for food shows. have two professional bakers and two work’s “Bakers vs. Fakers” program. Before appearing on the Food Network, non-professional “fakers” compete in Winsten is in her second year of a she had auditioned for Master Chef on two rounds. The winner of the second Master’s program in Nutrition and Fox, saying that “I came close to getting round is awarded $10,000 if they are a Dietetics. She expects to finish the on that show.” professional and $15,000 if they are not. program sometime next year. Her The process for the Food Network The two pastry chef judges, as well as the undergraduate degree is from Stetson audition included Skyping videos of her- host, are unaware who are the bakers University in Deland, Florida where she self cooking. After a vigorous selection and who are the fakers. process, Winsten was invited onto the Molly won the first round, but lost show. “I had a sense of accomplishment, the second round where she competed excited in that I wanted to show what I Boston University student Molly Winsten, against the two professional bakers. can do, and what I can do especially at a resident of Marblehead, competes on She explained that the competition my age.” She was the youngest of the the Food Network program “Bakers vs. was set up where each baker had to four contestants on the show. Fakers.” include a secret ingredient in each of the Winsten credits her dad for her inter- Her awareness of the subtle nuances recipes. est in food, helping him prepare family of flavor influenced her decision to study The first round was potato chips, and dinners from the age of two. Originally food science, but it also led Winsten into she made an apple fritter with cheddar from Florida, Molly is the oldest of three a business of food preparation for fami- chips and thyme with a crunchy topping. siblings, and she always wanted to help lies with children who have allergies. She said her brother’s love of apple frit- make Jewish holiday meals with the She explained that she wants to create ters influenced her decision. extended family. gluten free and For the second round, she had to “Growing up, other healthy rec- include yogurt and made a lemon filled we lived in a ipes that tastes as macaroon with a blueberry yogurt butter couple of small delicious as that cream frosting. The winner, a proprietor Jewish commu- food she remem- of a cookie shop, made a banana split nities, so we held bers from her own cupcake. large Hanukkah childhood. When it was revealed she was a “faker,” parties with tons Dr. Paula Quat­ the judges, she said, were shocked. of latkes and romoni, chair of “I thought I had it in the bag, and I am even brisket,” the department still a little bitter,” but Winsten explained Molly mans the sushi station during she explained and one of her she has moved on and will continue her senior year of college at Stetson University in Florida. The faculty made In addition to professors said, “I to audition for other shows. “It was a her a custom chef’s coat and she made the hundreds of latkes, there was her was very supportive of Molly’s appear- great experience, and the fact the judges vegan sushi for the student body. “It was Grandma’s kugel, and Winsten said the ance on the Food Network. I know this is thought I was a pastry chef was a huge a blast!” she said. flavor combinations were wonderful. a real passion of hers and she is extreme- compliment.”

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Israeli playwright in Boston this month ‘David, King’ CHARLES MUNITZ at Wellesley College Special to the Journal JULES BECKER newscaster and top correspon- ponsored by Israeli Stage, Special to the Journal dent speaking to King David in noted Israeli playwright a television studio. Sobol has SJoshua Sobol is now in the s a true leader one who is David and Jonathan engage in Boston area to present a series of ready to give up leadership? a ritual exchange of outfits as lectures, with a world premiere IMajor Israeli playwright soul mates. At the same time, of his new play to be performed Joshua Sobol (“Ghetto,” among Avishag participates in audi- on April 5. According to Guy many others) seems to think so tions through which she gains Ben-Aharon, artistic director in his provocatively secular new the role of the virgin girl who of Israeli stage, the 77-year-old drama “David, King” (“David, will lie with cold King David. Sobol is “one of the most impor- Melech”), in an April 5 premiere “Because Sobol is a deeply tant voices in Israeli theater.” staged reading at Wellesley secular person,”observes Ben- He continues to create, accord- College. To Israeli Stage artistic Aharon, “he replaces God, and ing to Ben-Aharon, working in Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol, in residence in Boston this month director Guy Ben-Aharon, who God’s voice from the Tanach fringe theater as a matter of has given Sobol a residency this (Bible) story with the statue of preference. “As a writer, he has the people, even though it was formances as Bernie Madoff year with his company (through David (described in the play as a deep sense of political aware- clear that the Nazi project was in “Imagining Madoff” and as March 31; go to israelistage. a ‘living statue’ street perform- ness,” said Ben-Aharon, “and to exterminate the Jews.” Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof” com for details and locations), er painted marble white) – a his residency here is extremely In the late 1980s, Sobol’s at the New Repertory Theater, “Sobol’s David is shrewd, and dramatic device that grounds timely because it addresses how play “The Jerusalem Syndrome” will perform with several other funny, and sharp-tongued, but King David. “Still, there are theater can be a form of resis- called into question the wisdom actors in a staged reading of isn’t confident in his leader- substantial references to tance. He’s youthful, dynamic, of the Second Temple era armed a world premiere of the brand ship – he constantly questions David’s psalms and dialogue in funny, bold, and a provocateur.” revolt in Israel by the Zealots new Joshua Sobol play “David, and thinks about leading (and which Solomon speaks of The author of many dramatic against the Romans. The play King” directed by Guy Ben- abandoning leadership) from learning the language of ravens works, Sobol is perhaps best created such a backlash in Israel Aharon, at Wellesley College on different points of view – mak- (a detail calling to mind the known for the so-called “Vilna that Sobol was forced to step April 5. ing his leadership much more stories of the Midrash). Sobol Trilogy” and, in particular, its down as artistic director of the “David, King,” according to effective.” also seems to suggest that first part, “Ghetto,” set in Vilna, Haifa Theater. Sobol, is based on the biblical While this bible-based play David contended that kingship Lithuania during the darkest “There is a tendency in our story of David and Saul and gives ample attention to King was a vanity of vanities and periods of World War II. Based collective history and subcon- reflects on the nature of ethi- Saul’s dangerous jealousy made the initial observation in fact, it focuses on the figure scious towards self-destruction cal leadership which, in David’s toward David, the Goliath- about a time and purpose for of Jakob Gens, the Jewish ghetto that manifests itself as zealotry case, involves considerable self- killing shepherd’s singular everything under heaven – leader, fraught with ethical chal- and fanaticism,” Sobol contin- reflection and humility. “At the love for Jonathan, blood- ideas that inspired Solomon lenges, who tried to preserve the ues. “I feel that the same thing end of his life, David abdicates thirsty general Yoav (who (according to tradition) to community by making it eco- influences Israel today, which the crown and gives it to his son, premeditatedly kills Saul’s write “Ecclesiastes.” nomically useful. As a part of is why I wrote ‘The Jerusalem Solomon, who says, in response, general Abner and David’s The premiere staged read- trying to normalize the lives of Syndrome.’ The result was a ‘but, Father you’re the King,” to rebellious but cherished son ing will feature Jeremiah Kissel the inhabitants, he also founded huge blow-up because the which David responds modestly Abshalom), Sobol adds a fairly as King David, Thomas Kee a hugely popular theater in the extreme right wing was opposed “what does it mean to be a king, modern take as well in which as Saul and Nael Nacer as the ghetto. to that interpretation of our his- and what’s the importance of some prophets are described Statue. Asked if Israeli Stage “The play is about the func- tory.” power?” as “half-naked Hasidim” and will present a full production tion of theater as a means of Jeremiah Kissel, a well- Concerned with the exam- an “Internationale” – here a of Sobol’s play as with the spiritual resistance,” says Sobol. known Boston-based actor who ples of just the opposite in the song embracing the freedom company’s 2016 IRNE Award- “It helped to raise the morale of recently gave command per- contemporary world, Sobol of slaves – is sung in English, nominated area premiere of observes that “when the govern- French, German and Spanish Anat Gov’s “Oh God,” Ben- ment starts to change the laws as well as Hebrew. Aharon offers, “Who knows? to suppress criticism or opposi- The contemporary approach Let’s see what happens with tion, there’s the danger of fas- applies to the setting as well as the workshop! Having said cism, which is about paranoia, to the story of David. As Ben- that, Israeli Stage is committed about stirring up all kinds of Aharon sees it, “Sobol sets up to Joshua Sobol, his voice, his fears among different sectors of the scene as a fight for power perspective, his ever-creative society, according to the idea of in the local square (of a Middle and inventive approach to the- divide and rule.” Eastern town), with gangsters atre. You can expect to see a lot Concurrent with Sobol’s resi- and a beauty salon owner more of Sobol in the future!” dency, New Repertory Theater (Michal, daughter of Saul) and will be presenting a fully staged archetypal characters that are Staged reading of “David, production of his play “Sinners” more a part of our modern day King” by Israeli Stage is pre- about the consequences of a vernacular. This translates the sented in partnership with forbidden relationship set in an lessons of King David to today’s Wellesley College’s Department unspecified Muslim country. world.” To that end, for exam- of Religion and Department ple, the text of the play finds of Jewish Studies. April 5, Visit IsraeliStage.com. prophet Nathan becoming a Wellesley. Free. A scene from a production of Joshua Sobol’s “Ghetto”

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JEWISH JOURNAL TODD FEINBURG Publisher/Editor Becoming Undivided he political parties like to blame each Just as politically divided voters demand other for the polarized political environ- polarized politicians, they also demand news Tment today, and so do voters. But what if channels that don’t just present their perspec- the great political divide is our fault, not theirs? tive but which also reflect their emotional According to Pew Research, it is clear that attachment to their positions. Political engage- we have become a more politically polarized ment has become more like rooting for a team. society. Twenty years ago, “36% of Republican Red Sox fans don’t find sports radio from New voters were more liberal than the typical York, with it’s strong Yankees bias, much fun to Democrat, and 30% of Democrats were more listen to. They want to bathe in the warmth of conservative than the typical Republican,” their own bias. reported Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” last There is more data to support this state of Sunday, citing Pew. In other words, both par- affairs. “In 2002, there were 137 house mem- ties represented voters on either side of the bers who fell in the ideological middle ground, left/right divide, allowing voters to feel com- with voting records somewhere between the fortable belonging to either party. most conservative Democrat and the most lib- The idea of being a conservative Democrat eral Republican,” continued Chuck Todd. “In or liberal Republican today sounds foreign, 2013, that number was down to four!” On the perhaps because a huge shift has occurred. senate side, the number of moderate senators Those numbers from 20 years ago show- went from seven to zero over the same period. ing that roughly a third of affiliated voters What was the trigger? Todd said, “”This were closer philosophically with the other coincided with the advent of micro-targeting party have now reached single digits – 8% for in 2004, then advanced by Team Obama, Republican voters and 6% for Democrats. So and now… everybody uses it.” With micro- while we like to blame politicians for being targeting, political organizations identify and politically obstinate, the numbers indicate that code individual voters by their preferences the divide is caused by us, as we elect candi- and the strength of their commitment and dates who reflect our own adamancy. then make sure that sympathetic voters turn LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The same dynamic is revealed in cable out on election day. When the challenge is to news viewership. Fox News has dominated get your voters to turn out, politically extreme the genre, almost across the board, through messaging serves as motivation, in contrast to Stopping anti-Semitism the Obama years and beyond. But over the the amorphous feel-good themes often used What does it take to stop it. They would work with local last two weeks, for the first time ever, the in mass appeal advertising. This is why Trump anti-Semitism in this country? law enforcement for the com- snarky left-wing MSNBC commentator Rachel was able to reinvent presidential campaigning It has become painfully obvious mon goal of solving anti-Semitic Maddow beat the bombastic populist ratings by severely curtailing the use of television to that words alone will not stop acts. But, unlike the police, their leader Bill O’Reilly, long the top draw on Fox. mostly niche appeals. the current wave of Jew-hatred. focus would be on anti-Semitic Yet words alone seem to be the crimes. The reason? The left is in an extreme pique It’s true that we’ve become more politically standard procedure of Jewish What could they accomplish? over Trump holding the White House while divided, but this is largely a symptom of the leaders after an anti-Semitic act. First, their concentrated effort the audience for the right leaning Fox News marketplace responding to the will of the peo- Their “deep concern” is a ver- would be a deterrent to any- is feeling more relaxed than it has in years ple. If we want it to change, then we may have bal continuation of the passivity one considering an act of anti- now that the most conservative president in to spend more time contemplating opinions that historically characterized Semitism, knowing that special- memory appears to hold the presidency. that we find, at least initially, distasteful. Jewish reaction to the scourge ized investigators would be in of anti-Semitism. Words alone pursuit. Second, a perpetrator won’t stop it, action might. would be aware that local police LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What can the Jewish com- together with dedicated investi- munity do to uncover and deter gators would be concentrating Darn that Denbo! anti-Semites who desecrate on his crime. Perhaps the best our cemeteries and defile our purpose would be the realiza- Ms. Denbo’s letter was others less privileged live. Ms. also refugees. synagogues? We can use the tion by the Jewish community brought to my attention. Denbo, there were other peo- As for contesting my point resources of the Jewish commu- that positive action is in place to Obviously, she did not read my ple in Israel for many decades that Flynn shared an anti-Semitic nity to employ licensed inves- protect them. column (Journal, February 23), before 1948, including Jews. tweet, that is a much-published tigators whose sole purpose is Not comfortable with hir- where I say that I watched the As for the facts that I stated in and recorded fact. Moreover, I to track and bring to prosecu- ing dedicated investigators to video (of retired Lt. General my article, I am a professional did not call him an anti-Semite, tion those who commit crimes fight anti-Semitism? See if words Michael Flynn when he spoke journalist who relies exclusively as she claims. Again, that is not against Jews. These investiga- alone can do any better. in Stoughton last August). That on official and reliable sourc- what a journalist does. I simply tors would not supplant local Herb and Sylvia Belkin is about as first-hand as one can es. I am quite offended at her stated the much-published and law enforcement, but augment Swampscott get without actually being there. denouncement of my research. verified facts about his online In the video, I saw and heard For my column, I read (and activity that belied what he said LETTERS TO THE EDITOR should include one’s name, the repeated, raucous applause conversed about) many offi- at the talk. address and telephone number. Letters must be respectful, for Flynn, as I mentioned, I cial accounts from people who And since my Journal col- civil in tone and contain no personal insults. Email submissions to heard the attendee ask him if were there, and who saw the umn, further information has [email protected], subject “Letters.” President Obama is a Muslim, rally outside. I also thoroughly come out about his association and I saw his evasive response, researched the ruling in Florida, with avowed pedophile Milo prior to his criticizing his for- and it is not as she claims. Yiannopoulos, and his lying, mer Commander-in-Chief. I Democratic legislators correctly once again, about his unlawful watched how affectionately the saw the so-called imposition of payments from Turkey. Join us on April 23 rabbi greeted him and saw him Sharia law charge as singling out May I remind Ms. Denbo that embrace him on the stage, and the Muslim community for criti- Flynn lied to the vice president as we celebrate our continue to embrace him fol- cism, given that foreign law is of the United States. lowing the talk. To me, that’s routinely applied without inci- I suggest that Denbo actu- Honorable Menschions support. dent in court cases for all other ally read the articles that she Ms. Denbo is a habitual letter races. (An example was given vilifies in her reactions, which Join us for bagels, lox, mimosas and writer whose letters are often in my research showing that, are roundly viewed by many as other goodies as we hold a brunch to celebrate groaned about by my friends, i.e., Argentinian divorce law was knee-jerk, paranoid, and shock- who talk about how she inces- applied in a Florida Argentinian ingly cold-hearted. our Honorable Menschions on April 23 at the JCC. santly promotes her heartless case.) Susie Davidson Our Menschions appear every issue on the back page viewpoints. One friend men- However, Denbo sees the Brookline tioned her constant slamming word Muslim and thinks Jihad. in a feature we began last September. of the Palestinians. While we all That is her problem, but not that Happy Writer want a safe and secure Israel, of the rest of us who are ratio- To learn about the event or how you can he would like to know how she nal, thoughtful and compas- Thank you for publishing my buy tickets or advertising in our event book, could imagine living the way sionate people who objectively letters in recent issues of the that they do instead of in her consider all sides of an issue, Jewish Journal. I also appreciate please email [email protected] safe enclave in Swampscott. instead of simply reacting, espe- how they were edited. or call Todd at 978-745-4111 x130. It’s easy to write letters. What’s cially because most of us are Dick Freeman not easy is envisioning how here because our ancestors were Chestnut Hill

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Do education and religion mix? ALAN BERGSTEN with only 1.9% having college and ministers. There has never Special to the Journal readiness levels. In other words, been “a religious issue” with the they were not even ready to suc- GI Bill. So why in public schools? etsy DeVos was recently cessfully complete junior high Charter schools are another confirmed by the Senate school. Their lives have already bone in the throats of liberals. Bto be our new Education been ruined. How can they func- They are publicly funded but Secretary. As part of her cam- tion in a rapidly expanding tech- can be privately run. Their flex- paign to have all of our nation’s nologically based world if they ibility and lottery-based admis- kids improve their current are denied learning just the nec- sions increase the options of the low level of learning, she has essary basics to get on with life? poor and minority students who advocated taxpayer funding to Many concerned parents are often zoned to failing public include private, charter as well want to send their kids to the schools. The good news is that as religious schools. This has schools of their choice, even reli- only 7% of their staff, nationwide aroused all sorts of outcries from gious ones as long as they do is unionized. Which means that Liberal-Progressive-Democrats in life. Not an easy task when they control. Their employment their job of educating their chil- lousy teachers lose their jobs. who claim she wants to do away you’re up against the politically does not depend on a well fin- dren. The political bureaucracy Mrs. DeVos wants to enlarge the with the “Separation of Church mighty teachers unions whose ished, ready for market product. wishes to deny them these rights number of charters which will and State.” In addition, they members are on the public Incompetent teachers are now based on the bogus religious compete with and challenge demand federal funds should payroll in our major cities. The flooding the classrooms in the issue. Churches, synagogues their neighboring public schools not be given to schools that are goals of such as the National public schools around the coun- and mosques are already public- to improve. In our society, com- not public schools and not run Education Association (NEA) try. Their own academic inade- ly supported in that they pay no petition delivers results. And (down the tubes) and controlled and the American Federation of quacies make them incapable of real estate taxes and are income good luck to our new Secretary by government officials. Teachers (AFT) are to keep their teaching the essentials to their tax free 501c3 corporations. The of Education who wants only for Mrs. DeVos has a job to do constituents’ salaries mounting students. GI Bill funded by taxpayer $$ our kids to get the breaks they and that’s to see that our kids and their membership soar- The New York Post recently gives the green light for veterans deserve: A better education for are motivated to learn, achieve ing. Unlike those employed in revealed that some city high to attend the Jewish Theological a better life and a better society academically and using that business, there is no concern schools punched out gradu- Seminary as well as colleges pre- with federal funding. Good luck basic education, to succeed for success in the classrooms ates, with diplomas in hand, paring candidates to be priests to her and her goals. Country of men (NSA) JOSEPH F. DOYLE timony became perjury because they Heinrich Himmler, had today’s technol- Special to the Journal were both still under oath. This perjury, ogy, and had known exactly where every- according to Edward Snowden, a com- body in Germany had been for the last ith the recent perjury impli- puter-troubleshooting consultant for five years, and had all their emails and cations concerning Federal the giant Boze-Allen Hamilton corpora- texts, and knew where they were right at WAttorney General Jeff Sessions’ tion, was the impetus for Snowden to any given moment, seven million mur- multiple contacts with the Russians, I expose the truth, that the United States dered would have been a modest figure.” asked an attorney why Sessions hasn’t Government is spying on its citizens in He paused, and then stated emphati- been placed in custody for lying to the a carte-blanche manner by monitoring cally, “No nation-state should be allowed Senate Judiciary Committee. After he them on GPS and capturing their emails to have this kind of information on its stopped laughing, he said “because of and texts. citizenry.” His eyes grew narrow. “What the multiple multi-level interpretations.” Every American has a numbered file are they going to do with it? What do they My response to him was, wasn’t that at the Utah Data Center in the National want it for?” what a protracted jury trial is for? Guard Complex in Bluffdale City, Utah, The fearless journalist, Edward R. His response was surprising. He 26 miles south of Salt Lake City! Morrow, in the 50’s Joe McCarthy fear- brought up James Clapper, former direc- This is being done under the pretext mongering era, made a statement that tor of the National Intelligence Agency, of catching terrorists inside the U.S. bor- still resonates in the 21st Century. “A and General Mike Hayden, former direc- ders. To date, there has not been one Attorney General Jeff Sessions nation of sheep soon begets a govern- tor of the CIA and the NSA, who both case (for almost 16 years!) discovered. of freedom of the people by “gradual and ment of wolves.” admitted, almost three years ago, to Snowden, myself, and Americans in gen- silent encroachments by those in power.” With no probable cause, and no 4th or not telling the truth, on live TV at the eral, are Flight 93 people (the selfless He would be aghast. This reminds me of 5th Amendment protection of personal Senate Intelligence Committee hear- passengers who crashed and perished a conversation I had with my seventy-ish privacy, our government has degener- ings. They had both been asked several in a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11). We’re Jewish doctor about the American gov- ated to arbitrary implementation of laws times, each, whether the intelligence willing to make necessary sacrifices for ernment spying on Americans. He didn’t and prosecutions. We are no longer a community of the U.S. Government freedom. use the word “Hitler”. He used the whole government of laws, but a country ruled was spying on American citizens. Each One of the authors of the Constitution, name, “Adolph Hitler.” by men. time they denied emphatically that former president James Madison, cau- “Can you imagine?”, he said, “if they were. At that moment, their tes- tioned us to beware of the abridgement Adolph Hitler, and his Nazis, particularly Joseph F. Doyle writes from Salem. Better relationships, better medicine LEONARD FRIEDMAN, MD which led to the Hippocratic Corpus being introduced Special to the Journal into the medical schools of Alexandria and Antioch. This raised the level of medicine significantly and an American physicians and their academic lead- Christianity was accepted in Rome due to the success ership provide better doctor/patient relation- of Christian doctors. John Locke is another Hippocratic Cships? Academic medicine, like the law, prefers doctor whose works are credited with beginning the Age the latest developments in the literature to produce of Enlightenment in Europe. best practices. Academic law rests on the latest court The crimes of World War II Germany were met at decisions in all areas of law. There is no interest in the the Nuremburg courtroom by utilizing elements of the history of medicine or law to provide ethical guidelines Hippocratic Oath in the trials of the Nazi leadership. and historical movements to channel future successful Post war American medical students were then taught developments. how to practice medicine under the Hippocratic Oath. Germany and the United States in 1775 entered the This began to end with the federal government involve- height of the Age of Enlightenment to produce multiple ment with Medicare and Medicaid in 1964, and by the glorious economic and political results. The Germans Graduating doctors taking the Hippocratic Oath late seventies government had become the gatekeeper. developed research Universities. Within a hundred I would suggest that the three branches of medicine years German research discoveries produced a plethora tors who went among the homes of ancient time. Today should have their own Boards of Registration. Each of of successes. The United States did not develop the we have hospitalists and administrators, surgeons as the three groups would have their own ethical systems. German style research university until John’s Hopkins well as pathologists and technicians who enter the body Presently these three groups do not understand one in 1873. Education in America instead produced indi- with MRI’s and technological advances, and the ves- another and seek different goals. Their own elected vidual innovation and inventions. During the 1775 tigial Hippocratic doctors of the community who lack Boards of Registration could provide best practices rath- American Revolution, America did develop constitu- first responder gear for home use. Hippocrates spoke er than mainly punitive actions against their claimed tions and multiple bills of right. The Germans did not in Classical Greece of letting food be one’s medicine, abusive doctors. have a bill of rights to surround the individual until such as the Mediterranean diet and of the importance Graduating from a relatively unknown Upstate 1948, which came courtesy of Americans like General of digestion or today called the micro biome. The height Medical Center in New York, my Brotherhood of Lucius Clay. of classical Greek civilization contained a Hippocratic Hippocrates was able in Boston to produce the first History points to the Hippocratic Oath as a guideline Corpus and an ethical oath. Our understanding of these president of Partners, the recent long-term head of the and a partial bill of rights for medical doctors and their writings resulted when they were published by the Framingham Studies as well as medical academics at patients. The Hippocratic Oath describes three different Vatican in 1527, as Greek knowledge was reintroduced Tufts, Harvard and Boston University. The reintroduc- areas of physician practice. The first group practiced during the Renaissance. tion of Hippocratic doctors should lead to a brighter in the temples of Asclepius and Apollo. Another group, A major movement in Christianity and Judaism future for medicine and its patients. the surgeons, were recognized for utilizing the knife to centered around St. Luke, who as a Hippocratic doc- Contact Leonard Friedman at friedman119 enter the body. A third group was the community doc- tor, introduced the Hippocratic Oath into Christianity @gmail.com. 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Nearly sixty years later: Another look at Philip Roth’s ‘Eli, the Fanatic’

SOL GITTLEMAN was relatively But, whatever tentative stability exists disrupted, the Holocaust has come to Special to the Journal little writ- for the Jews of Woodenton disappears in Long Island, and the figure of the Hassid ten about the the shock of seeing a Hassid walking the walking down Coach House Road has hilip Roth is eighty-three years old. Holocaust. streets! With long black caftan, broad- enraged them. But, Eli, their lawyer, is He has won, for his more than thir- The American brimmed hat, and tieless white shirt, an troubled, and makes a decision: the black Pty novels, every major literary prize government apparition from the shtetl has appeared outfit offends, not the wearer. If he can that America and Europe can bestow, was con- in suburbia! The Jews of Woodenton go get the Jew to dress like everyone else, except the biggest one which contin- sciously try- crazy and run to their lawyer, Eli Peck. perhaps Eli’s neighbors will accept him. ues to elude him: The Nobel Prize for ing to make It seems that eighteen Jewish children Eli tries to convince Rabbi Tzuref that the Literature. He is running out of time; the a strong ally with a rabbi named Tzuref and a Hassid black suit must go: Prize can only be awarded to living writ- out of West have taken over the venerable Protestant “To take away the one thing a man’s ers. Roth, verbissen and angry, has said Germany. Puddington Mansion and have pro- got?” that he will write no more. So, let us begin The trials claimed “The Yeshivah of Woodenton”: “Not to take away; to replace.” to write his literary obituary: of Nazi leaders and sympathizers were “Eli, a regular greenhorn,” Ted Heller “But, I tell you, he has nothing, noth- How shall I remember Philip Roth? over, sentences were being shortened, had said. “He didn’t say a word, just ing! You have the word in English? Nicht? Let me confess: I do not prefer the bitter- and there was little scholarship coming handed me the note and just stood there, Gornisht?” ness and darkness of The Human Stain, out of the academic community on the like in the Bronx the old guys who used “Yes, Mr. Tzuref, we have the word.” American Pastoral, The Plot Against destruction of the European Jews. There to come around selling Hebrew trinkets.” “A mother and a father?” Tzuref said, America, The Humbling, Nemesis, and wasn’t even much interest in the State of “A Yeshivah!” Artie Berg had said, “Eli, “No. A wife? A baby? A little ten-month Everyman; or the narcissism and sexual Israel. Some American Jews were pas- in Woodenton, a Yeshivah. If I wanted old baby? No. A village full of friends? excess of Nathan Zuckerman, Roth’s sur- sionate and committed Zionists, but the to live in Brownsville, Eli, I’d live in A synagogue where you know the feel rogate alter-ego in his mid-life crisis. A majority were mostly interested in “mak- Brownsville.” of every seat under your pants? Where younger Roth produced one of the most ing it” in America. The war in Europe was “Eli,” Harry Shaw speaking now, with your eyes closed you could smell hilarious novels in American literature; I in the past, the GIs returned and threw “the old Puddington place. Old Man the cloth of the Torah?...And a medical haven’t laughed with Roth since Portnoy’s themselves into finding the American Puddington’ll roll over in his grave. Eli, experiment they performed on him yet! Complaint in 1969. He has forgotten how Dream, which meant a split-level house, when I left the city, Eli, I didn’t plan the That leaves nothing, Mr. Peck, absolutely to laugh. a car, and the material prosperity that city should come to me.” nothing!” Where can we find the authentic Roth? was coming with the post-war Good Life. Another note sent to the supermarket “I misunderstood.” What is the one work you should read For the American Jew, that meant assimi- turns the Jews of Woodenton to action: “No news reached Woodenton?” that reveals the strength of literary style, lation – and forgetting. But, the young “Dear Grocer: Please give this gentle- With Tzuref’s final crushing question humor and moral authority? I would sug- Philip Roth would have none of it. man ten pounds of sugar. Charge it to Roth cuts to the heart of Jewish indiffer- gest: go back to the beginning…. Eli Peck is a successful New York law- our account, Yeshivah of Woodenton, NY ence during the Holocaust and after. For Eli, the Fanatic first appeared in the yer. His partners are Lewis & McDonnell. – which we will now open with you and Eli, the choice has been made. After pro- pages of Commentary in 1959, the same He lives in Woodenton, Long Island and expect a bill each month. The gentleman viding the Hassid with two J. Press suits year that Roth brought forward the col- he has a home near Coach House Road will be in to see you once or twice a week. and appropriate haberdashery, Eli is vin- lection of short stories under the title of in a town where the local supermar- L. Tzuref, Director 5/10/48). P.S, Do you dicated: the Jewish community accepts one of them, Goodbye, Columbus. The ket has a colonial design. Since the war, carry kosher meat?” The letter, by the the modern dress, and the Yeshivah can twenty-six year-old prodigy won his first Jews have been able to buy homes in way, is dated four days before the state of stay. Woodenton’s gentiles never com- National Book Award; he also won the Woodenton by giving up “some of their Israel was proclaimed. plained at all. almost universal anger of the American more extreme practices in order not to But, in Woodenton, the Jews are only But, Eli can’t make a simple accom- Jewish community: self-hating Jew, mar- threaten or offend.” There is no syna- interested in ridding themselves of this modation. When the Hassid returns the ginal Jew, anti-Semite, revealer and con- gogue in town, no community activity reminder of their past, and Eli Peck, favor and gives Eli his old clothes, Peck cealer, a traitor to his family and his that brings Jews together. That would be neurotic, unhappy, and burdened with discovers the roots of his own Jewishness: people. offensive to the town’s fathers, who have a guilt he does not understand, is sent “Inside the box was an eclipse. But But, looking back on Eli, we can dis- permitted the Jews to move in, as long as to the Yeshivah as emissary, to end the black soon sorted from black, and shortly cover a young writer’s conscious effort they don’t look or act Jewish. What has offensive sight of eighteen Jewish refugee there was the glassy black of lining, the to discover a truly Jewish identity: Roth this compromise brought Eli? A couple orphans and their teachers, all survivors coarse black of trousers, the dead black never wrote anything that more clearly of nervous breakdowns. For the Jews of of the death camps. The assimilated Jews of fraying threads, and in the center the explores what it means to be a Jew; and Woodenton, there is no Torah, and as far of Woodenton want no part of Jewish mountain of black: the hat. For the first the time was right. In the late 1950s, there as Roth is concerned, no peace of mind. memory. Their fragile paradise has been continued on page 10

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Rabbi Fudge, Iced Tiffany, Raspberry Torte, Railroad, Huge Selection of Spices Starting at Shadow, Cappuccino, and More), 7-Layer, Great Assortment of Hard to Find Items Like Cayenne, Crushed Red Pepper,1 Dill, Matbucha, Turkish, Caponata, Schug (Hot Pepper was honored, he said, at the idea remarks that it will be difficult Roulades (Rasp/Apricot/Choc), Choc Dipt Nutmeg, Rosemary, Turmeric, Cumin, Curry Powder, Coriander, Shawarma, & More Sauce), Vegetarian Chopped Liver, Hummus & more. Macaroons, Gourmet Cookies (Lace, Rainbow, $ .79 of following in Rabbi Abraham without their parents, “We will Krakofsky, Sandwich, Leaf) & Much More! Ground Black Pepper 3 oz jar 2 Morhaim’s footsteps. Rabbi certainly miss their voices, but $ .29 Barton’s Chocolates Parve Choc ChipsMishpacha 10 ozbag (11% extra) Israeli Pickles & Olives Perlman was well aware of Rabbi we are honoring them. I left Best Selection – Best Prices 2 (most at “extra 20% free”) $ .99 Bittersweet Baking Chocolates Semisweet Pickles 7-9 size(lge), 13-17 (med), 18-25 size (tiny) Morhaim, who he was familiar the part of the sheet music that pkg Almond Kisses 7 Baking Supplies – a Complete Selection Including Manzarella, Nova, Oriental, Cracked, Green $ .99 Olives with growing up through United says dad; the hardest part will Choc Mint Truffle Squares parve 5oz 5 Vanilla & Other Extracts, Ground & Slivered Nuts, Coconut Flakes, Cocoa, Baking (whole & pitted), Black (whole & pitted),Dry Black Olives $ .99 Powder, Vanilla Sugar, Confectioner’s Sugar, & More Synagogue Youth programs, and be getting to that part, and I parve 6oz $ .89 Passover Wines Seder Cream Mints 5 Mishpacha 12 oz squeeze bottle is a leader he considers to be don’t know which one of us will $ .99 Honey 2 International Flavors Bartonettes Gift Choc parve asst. 8oz 11 We carry a variety of other Honeys includingOrganic Huge Selection – Best Prices one of his rabbinical heroes. sing that line yet.” Yet having the Assorted Ice Cream Passover Margarines $ .79 Rabbi Perlman and his wife chance to keep their memory Premium Dairy Pints and Half-Gallons, Parve Ice $ .99 California-Baron Herzog 750 ml btl 11 Cream, Premium Sorbet, Ice Cream Pops, Italian 1lb solid-unsalted 2 Cab Sauvignon – Chardonnay – Merlot – Pinot Noir Kit are enjoying the “family alive will bring pleasure. “We Ices, Juice Sticks, Dixie Cups, and More! Also available a limited supply of Margarine Sticks (quarters) $ .79 spirit” of the North Shore more loved our parents so much, and $ Jeunesse 750 ml btl 8 than they could have imagined, as much as they taught us to be Tomato Sauce Mishpacha 15oz can10 for 10 Canned Tuna & Salmon $ .79 California Delight $ .89 Israeli - Barkan 750 ml btl 10 he said, and their children and human, they also taught us to Tomato Paste Lieber 6 oz can 89¢ Solid White Albacore 6 oz. can in water 1 Cab Sauvignon – Chardonnay – Merlot $ .99 California Delight $ .79 grandchildren also appreciate be professional, and we will be Diced Tomatoes 28 oz can 2 $ Chlilean - Alfasi 750 ml btl 8 the chance to visit. “There is - people are coming to seek joy, Chunk Lite Tuna 5 oz. can in water 4 for 5 Cab Sauvignon – Merlot Also available: Tomatoes Crushed, Whole, or Puree We carry a large variety of Tuna including: Pouches, Single Serve Cans, $ .79 $ .79 something really unique about and we will bring that.” Mayonnaise reg or lite 16oz Tuna packed in Olive Oil, and no salt added Tuna Italian – Moscato 750 ml btl 10 2 $ .99 Bartenura… only 5% alcohol this place. People are very warm, Everyone is welcome to the $ .99 Rubinstein’s RED Salmon Tall 14.75oz can 6 $ .99 Whole Hearts of PalmCalif Delight14oz can 1 $ .99 750 ml btl and we’re just so happy to be concert on Sunday, and Rabbi Sour Cherries Gefen - 24 oz jar Italian - Joyvin 10 Whole Mandarin Oranges Gefen 11 oz can 89¢ 3 Red or White… only 5.5 % alcohol here.” Perlman encourages everyone $ .79 $ .59 We Carry Over 20 Varieties of Sardines Packed in Water, Olive Oil, Tomato Liber 23oz Mishpacha 48oz While it’s hard for Rabbi to attend from the Jewish com- Apple Sauce 2 4 Sauce, With or Without Salt! $ .89 We have a variety of other low alcohol wines including: Kedem Kal $ .89 Galil - large varieties 13oz 3.5% alc, Fabrengen Melody 4% alc, & Rashi Light 5.5% alc Perlman to pick a favorite part munity and beyond. “There will Cranberry Sauce 16oz 1 Preserves 2 Passover Caffeine free Pepsi, Large Apricot, Blackcurrent, Orange, Strawberry, Cherry, plum and more We also have ORGANIC WINE for Passover of his job, he says he loves get- really be something for every- Plus: Natural, No Sugar Added Preserves; Seedless Raspberry Preserves assortment of Flavored Sodas from We have Menus for Passover ting to see the smiles on the one.” Mayim Chaim, Diet & Reg. Ginger Ale, Gefilte Fish - 24 oz jars Assorted Flavored Seltzers – Some vari- $ .99 $ .79 Fresh Briskets: Rokeach Hemish or Gourmet 4 others starting at 6 eties in 12 oz cans as well $ .79 Whole, Single, Double, and NY Style as 1 Liter & 2 Liter Bottles Manischewitz: Huge Selection starting at 6 Huge variety of the best quality fresh Historical Photo on previous page: meats and poultry for Pesach The Perlman family of singing rabbis and cantors with their mother and, left to right: The elder Cantor Ivan Please support our advertisers by choosing them first. Perlman with sons Manny, now a cantor at a large Our advertisers, along with our contributors, United Synagogue congregation in Baltimore, Josh, a cantor at B’Nai Israel in Rockville, Maryland, Rabbi Rick make the Jewish Journal possible! of Temple Ner Tamid and Eli, a rabbi in New Jersey.

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Marblehead family FUN PLAY ON: MUSIC THAT MOVES US Bad Habit Productions welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. RSVP Arts Association performs its family-friendly, interactive production of director to Phyllis Osher, 978-740-4404 or posher@lappinfoundation. Liz Fenstermaker’s adaptation, through April 1 at the Boston org. Center for the Arts, Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont St., BABY AND ME CLASS Bring children ages 6 months to 3 Boston. years old to the Jewish Community Center in Marblehead THEATRE OF LIGHT WORKSHOPS Miriam Eyges continues on Fridays from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. for fun, baby-focused her one-day theater workshop for North Shore children ages classes and the chance to meet other parents and caregivers 8-15, March 25, 1-5 p.m., AheadWashington St., Marblehead, while children play together. Jccns.org. culminating in an informal performance for parents, relatives PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL New York’s multi-award- and friends the last 30 minutes. Enrollment limited to 10. winning Vital Theatre Company presents the delightful Register at [email protected]. children’s play Pinkalicious, based on Elizabeth Kann and IMPROVBOSTON The Boston comedy improvisation theater Victoria Kann’s popular children’s book, Sunday, April 2, of Cambridge is currently accepting registration for April 11a.m., 1p.m., Leventhal-Sidman Center, 333 Nahanton St., vacation Comedy Clinics for ages 8-13 and Summer Clinics Newton. The musical is geared to families with children 3+ for ages 8-17. Registration, ImprovBoston.com/training, years old. $18, JCC members, $15. bostonjcc.org/magicark. scholarships for season starting in March, ImprovBoston. GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS Spectacle Management com/training/scholarships. presents world-renowned impresario Danny Chang and CAMP TOUR Camp Grossman in Dover welcomes visitors to choreographer Angela Chang combining their acrobatics, tour the 290 Powisset St. camp, meet the director and staff, traditional dance, costumes, ancient and contemporary music and learn about the camp for children ages 4.5 to 15 years in this show of skill and beauty, April 8, 3 p.m. Lexington’s Six new exhibits are old. For more information, visit bostonjcc.org/grossman or Cary Hall, 1605 Mass. Ave., $39-$49. caryhalllexington.com. call 627-244-5124. displayed through KIDS NEW JEWISH LEARNING PROGRAM Experiential Works by MOVIN’AND GROOVIN’ skill-building classes connecting children to Jewish life are April 30. offered at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Cheryl Dyment, Adults with children ages 18 months to 2.9 years 333 Nahanton St., Newton. The classes are part of the old are welcome to participate in the free PJ Library Center’s new program, Discovery Club, and include Earth King Hooper Dimensions Adventurers, Early Astronomers, Spicing it Up, Spectacular Movin’ and Groovin’ with Phyllis Eidelman, Monday, Storytellers, and Growing Gardeners, for children ages 5-8. Mansion, Invitational; Diane April 3, 10:15-11 a.m. at Cohen Hillel Academy, Six bostonjcc.org/discoveryclub, discoveryclub@jccgb. 8 Hooper St., Community Road, Marblehead. Walk-ins welcome. PJ LIBRARY SHABBAT SHALOM CIRCLE Jewish children Bradgon, Joe Pulitano, [email protected]. ages 8-younger, their parents, grandparents are invited to Marblehead PJ Library Shabbat Shalom Circle, where they’ll welcome in National Art Honor PJ LIBRARY JUNIOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS Shabbat with stories, songs, friendship and a free dinner, Children 3-5 years old are invited to participate in Cohen Friday, May 12, June 9, alternating between Temple Society students Hillel faculty-led PJ Library Junior Scientists and Engineers Ner Tamid, Lowell St., Peabody, and Chelsea Jewish and Marblehead Schools “labs, ” using Jewish values-based literature and hands-on Foundation, Tanzer Room, 240 Lynnfield St., Peabody. experiments. Monday, April 6, 3-4:30 p.m., 6 Community Free program of Lappin Foundation, NSJCC and Temple Ner art faculty. Road, Marblehead. Lab coats, books provided. Walk-ins Tamid, supported by CJP. [email protected].

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Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lead support from Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay. With generous support from Marc S. Plonskier and Heni Koenigsberg, and Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner. Additional support provided by The David Berg Foundation; Dr. John and Bette Cohen; the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc.; Mary Levin Koch and William Koch; Ronald and Julia Druker; the Highland Street Foundation; Joy and Douglas Kant; Marjie and Robert Kargman; Brian J. Knez; Myra Musicant and Howard Cohen; James and Melinda Rabb; Cameron R. Rahbar and Dori H. Rahbar; the Schlebovitz Family; Candice and Howard Wolk; Xiaohua Zhang and Quan Zhou; and the Andrew and Marina Lewin Family Foundation. Educational and public programming is generously supported by the Beker Foundation. Additional support provided by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation. With thanks to our partners Facing History and Ourselves, and the Jewish Arts Collaborative (JArts). Henryk Ross, Ghetto police with woman behind barbed wire (detail), 1942. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift from Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007. © Art Gallery of Ontario, 2017.

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Community NEWS FROM DARKNESS TO HOPE Temple BOSTON JEWISH FOOD MEDIAMINDS Award-winning PARENTING THROUGH A JEWISH RABBI DOCTOR MICHAEL J. SHIRE Emanu-El of Haverhill presents Dr. CONFERENCE The annual food filmmaker-journalist Michelle Cove, LENS The Jewish Community Center Temple Tiferet Shalom, 489 Lowell St., Fred Feldman’s Holocaust survival conference is held Sunday, March 26, executive director of MEDIAGIRLS of the North Shore presents its sixth Peabody, welcomes the Hebrew College story, Sunday, March 26, at the 514 12-7 p.m. at Gann Academy, Waltham. will discuss how mainstream media session of its six-Sundays program scholar who will discuss the myth of Main Street temple. Telling stories, beantownjewishgardens.org. pushes “the story of perfect” and what with Rabbi Michael Ragozin and Rabbi Hitler’s Jewish museum, at this free using maps and pictures, genealogist parents and educators can do to help Jillian Cameron, 9:30-11a.m. Parents presentation, Tuesday, April 4, 7 p.m. TRIVIA NIGHT AND BOURBON Dr. Feldman traces his family’s post kids strike back, Tuesday, March 28, of all backgrounds welcome, free Co-sponsored by the Temple Tiferet TASTING The Merrimack Valley World War II journey across Europe and 7-8:30 p.m., Cohen Hillel Academy, babysitting, scholarships and couple Shalom and the Lappin Foundation, Jewish Federation of Andover will Asia and their coming to the United Six Community Road, Marblehead. discounts available. $90 per person, Temple Ner Tamid, and the Salem hold a trivia night and bourbon tasting States. Continental breakfast, 9:30 Free. 781-639-2880. couples, $145. hebrewcollege.edu/ State University Center for Holocaust Saturday, March 25, Old Town Hall, a.m.; presentation, 10 a.m. Suggested parenting. and Genocide Studies; the event is free Andover. Teams and individuals are JOHN D’AGATA The renowned donation, $5. Walk-ins welcome, but and open to all. RSVP recommended. welcome to compete. There are free American essayist-author is guest should contact the temple office at ZUMIX ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION [email protected]. appetizers, desserts, cash bar, and speaker Tuesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m. [email protected]/978-373- ZUMIX celebrates its 25th anniversary prizes for winners. Proceeds benefit as part of Salem State University’s SPEAKEASY SPRING 3861. with a fundraising event, Boston DJs Federation programs in the Merrimack Writer Series. Free. Salemstate.edu/ for ZUMIX, Friday, March 31, 8 p.m., GALA SpeakEasy Theatre Company’s Valley and Israel. $25. Mvjf.org. arts. at ZUMIX, 260 Sumner St., East spring gala, honoring Lovely Hoffman and Samuel Yinis, is held Saturday, JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF THE DR, JACOB MESKIN The prestigious Boston. The event will be broadcast April 8, 6-9 p.m., Hyatt Regency NORTH SHORE The group meets educator leads an 11-session class live on 94.9 ZUMIX Radio. Admission, Boston, to celebrate the theater’s Sunday, March 26, 10:30 a.m., at called “Fateful Encounter: Relations $25; VIP, $40, which includes a private work. Includes seated dinner, cocktail their post headquarters, Congregation Between Jews and Muslims in reception. Zumix.org. reception, open bar, silent auction, live Sons of Israel, Park Street, Peabody. the Medieval and Modern World,” music. speakeasystage.com. Featured speaker is Steve Patten, Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., at the LARRY RUTTMAN Temple Beth veterans agent for City of Peabody. Jewish Community Center of the North Israel of 25 Harvard St., Waltham, COMMUNITY PASSOVER SEDER Light breakfast served. New members Shore, Community Road, Marblehead. welcomes Boston-born Larry Ruttman, Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield will welcome. Free. Call Post Commander 617-559-8708, jccns.org. author of “American Jews:America’s hold a catered, community kosher for Jeffrey Blonder at 781-598-5932. Game,” Voices of a Growing Legacy Passover four-course seder dinner, ENGAGING ISRAEL: FOUNDATION in Baseball, as their guest speaker, led by Rabbi Greg Hersh, Tuesday, FAMILY OF CANTORS Temple Ner FOR A NEW RELATIONSHIP Temple Sunday, April 2, 10 a.m. Breakfast April 11, 6:30 p.m., 7-12, $25; ages Tamid presents the Perlman Brothers, Emanu-El and Congregation Shirat advance tickets, $10; at the door, $12; 6-under, $5. Reservations by March 28. with Cantor Stephen Abramowitz, Hayam present Rabbis David Meyer children, free. Minyan, 9 a.m., program Checks payable to Temple Emmanuel Sunday, March 26, 2-4 p.m., and Michael Ragozin leading the 11 a.m. Reservations with checks to of Wakefield, Inc., 120 Chestnut St., featuring Rabbi Richard Perlman and Engaging Israel project, where Jews Temple Beth Israel required by March Wakefiled, MA 01880. Adults, 13 years his brothers, Rabbi Eli of New Jersey, join others from around the world to 28. Send to Ed Brown, 35 Lyme Road, old, over, $36. [email protected]. Hazzan Emanuel and Cantor Josh think about Israel, its meaning in their W. Newton. RUSSIAN FILM As a preview of Maryland, performing cantorial lives and the positive influence of the classics and family favorites, Cantor Jewish nation. Tuesday discussions to the annual MAtryoshka Ivan and Muriel Perlman. 368 Lowell from 7:30-9 p.m. on April 4, May Festival held on Mother’s Day, St., Peabody. TNTPeabodyConcert@ 2, May 23, June 6, at alternating Music & COMEDY May 14, Clinton Town Hall, 242 gmail.com. synagogues, JCC, Hillel Academy CANTATA SINGERS The melodic group holds its biennial gala and auction, and and synagogue members, $36; general Church St., Clinton, the group A TASTE OF GINGER Joslin Diabetes inaugural after-party Saturday, March 25, at the Liberty Hotel Boston, and performs community, $50. shirathayam.org/ will show Russian director-Oscar Center features 28 Boston area chefs chamber concert Les Six, Friday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., at the American Academy iengage. winner Nikita Mikhalkov’s 1998 in this treat-tasting event supporting of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge. Anna Winestein, art historian and executive film, “The Barber of Siberia,” the center and Joslin’s Asian TIFERET SHALOM OPEN HOUSES director of the Ballets Russes Arts Initative, leads a pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. cantatasingers.org. starring Julia Ormond and American Diabetes Initiative, Monday, Peabody Reform Jewish congregation March 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Museum of welcomes people of all backgrounds to Richard Harris, March 26, at the ROMANTIC MASTERS Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra performs the music of Fine Arts, Boston. joslin.org/ginger. its open houses located in several areas romantic masters Dvorak, Rossini and Saint-Saens, featuring guest performer, Historic Strand Theatre, 58 High of the North Shore. For information or THE FIRST LOVE STORY Best-selling world renowned cellist, Blaise Dejardin, March 26, 2 p.m., Manchester-Essex High to RSVP to a site, e-mail bsimons@ St., Clinton. Spoken in Russian author-New York Times columnist School auditorium, 36 Lincoln St., Manchester-by-the-Sea.$40, senior citizens, templetiferetshalom.org. with English subtitles, the film is Bruce Feiler discusses his latest book, $35,youths 18-under, $5. capeannsymphony.org. shown 1-4:30 p.m. Ticketholders “The First Love Story- Adam, Eve, and FITNESS CLASS North Suburban JOHN D’AGATA Salem State University welcomes author-essayist John D’Agata, have free admission to the Us,” with WBUR host Robin Young, Jewish Community Center and Temple appearing as part of its Writers Series, March 28, 7:30 p.m., Metro Room, Ellison Museum of Russian Icons, a Monday, March 27, 7:30 p.m., Temple Ner Tamid sponsor Pilates, Sunday Campus Center, 352 Lafayette St., Salem. Fee. salemstate.edu/arts. Sinai, 50 Sewall Ave., Brookline. $36 mornings, 10:30-11:30 a.m., and five-minute walk away. Advance ticket includes book. Jewish Arts zumba, Monday nights, 6:15-7:15 p.m. ETHIOPIAN-ISRAELI FUNK Soulful rising star Aveva Dese and her band bring her tickets, $15; at the door, $20. Collaborative. at Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell St., Ethiopian Israeli funk to the Somerville Armory, Thursday, March 30, 8 p.m., 191 Eventbrite.com Barber of Siberia. Peabody. RSVP to [email protected]. Highland Ave., Somerville Advance tickets, $20; at the door, $25. artsatthearmory. org, 617-718-2191. She shares her story at an Ethiopian/Israeli Shabbat dinner, From the Producers of Friday, March 31, 6:30 p.m., Fenway Community Center, 1282 Boylston St., MY MOTHER’S ITALIAN MY FATHER’S Boston. $38. [email protected], THE HIT MUSICAL COMEDY JEWISH & I’M IN THERAPY! MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Boston Conservatory at Berklee presents Otto The National Touring Production Nicolai’s opera, “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), March 30, March 31, April 1, at 8 p.m., April 2, 2 p.m., Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., Boston. $25-$30, discounts available. bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/events. LINDEN TREE Grammy Award- winning acoustic guitarist Pat Donohue performs Saturday, April 1, 8 p.m., at Linden Tree Coffeehouse, with opening act and local favorite Janet Feld, “Be Prepared Unitarian Universalist Church, 326 Main St., Wakefield. $20; under age 18, $10. To Laugh Off Reservations, LindenTree Coffeehouse. A Few org. Pounds!” - BroadwayWorld.com

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Theater & DANCE BRAD MEHLDAU Pianist Brad THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED Take Your CHILL. GRAND CONCOURSE SpeakEasy Theatre Company Mehldau performs the Boston premiere Merrimack Repertory Theatre presents Brookline native presents the New England premiere of award-winning of “Three Pieces After Bach” and other Eleanor Burgess’ Boston-based, bittersweet drama actor, screenwriter-playwright Heidi Schrek’s new selected compositions, Sunday, April 2, “Chill,” about life for people ages 18-28 through April drama, through April 1 at Boston Center for the 7:30 p.m., at the Sanders Theatre, 45 16, Nancy L. Donahue Theatre, 50 E. Merrimack St., Arts Roberts Studio Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Quincy St., Cambridge. $28, $32, $48, Lowell. Tickets, $26-$70. associated events, senior, Pavilion, 527 Tremont St., Boston. Tickets start at $25. $58. WorldMusic.org. group discounts. mrt.org. SpeakEasyStage.com, 617-933-8600 DOWNTOWN SEDER Israeli superstar SINNERS Renowned director Brian Cox helms New OUR AMERICAN HAMLET Commonwealth David Broza and comedians Judy Gold Repertory Theatre and Boston Center for American Shakespeare Company presents the world premiere of and Joel Chasnoff perform with an all- Performance’s production of Greensboro Arts Alliance Jake Broder’s play, “Our American Hamlet,” starring star lineup, including Hankus Netsky, and Residency Mirror Theater’s limited engagement Jacob Fishel. Will Lyman, Maureen Keiller and Broder, Rick Berlin, Ezekiel’s Wheels, novelist performance of Joshua Sobel’s “Sinners,” starring March 23-April 2, Sorenson Center of the Arts, 19 Rachel Kadish, Cantor Elias Rosemberg, Nicole Ansari and Ben Getz, March 23-April 2, Babson College Drive, Babson College, Wellesley. and Vince Warren, at this interactive TheatreLab@855, Boston University campus, 855 $25-$60; students, $5. Commshakes.org. Passover seder, at Boston Laughs, Comm. Ave., Boston. Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 CHRISTAL BROWN The renowned choreographer Sunday, April 2, 7 p.m. Westin Boston p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. $20-$35. Newrep.org. Waterfront, 425 Summer St., Boston. and her company INSPIRIT, perform “The Opulence Only 250 tickets available.$95, $125. MRS. PACKARD Bridge Repertory Theatre and The rocking-to-the-rafters musical comedy of Integrity,” inspired by the life and legend of Citywinery.com/boston/seder2017. Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company of New York Muhammad Ali, facilitated by the Dance Complex’s City present Emily Mann’s “Mrs. Packard,” provocative Altar Boyz comes to Stoneham Theatre Peter DiMuro, March 31, April 1, 8 p.m.; April 2, American drama of Elizabeth Packard, inspired by true March 23-April 9, 395 Main St., Stoneham. 7 p.m., Julie Ince Thompson Theatre, the Dance events, through April 9, Multicultural Arts Center, 41 $5-$55; seniors, $45-$50; students Complex, Mass. Ave., Cambridge. $12-$34.opulence. Second St., East Cambridge. bridgerep.org. bpt.me/, dancecomplex.org. with valid ID, $20. Talkback March 26. FINISH LINE The world premiere of “Finish Line: A Stonehamtheatre.org. Documentary Play About the 2013 Boston Marathon, Calendar Editor SHEILA BARTH features the words of people directly affected by the LOVE/SICK Firehouse Center for the Arts presents Submit your events to: attack and is performed by Boston’s top actors, at the John Cariani’s comical set of nine short plays, March Shubert Theatre, Tremont St., Boston. Ends Sunday. 30-April 2, Market Square, Newburyport. firehouse.org. [email protected] $25-$57.50. citicenter.org. HEALTH SERVICES

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Robert S. “Bobby” Finestone, 94, of Revere, formerly of Chelsea NOTICES Robert S. “Bobby” Finestone as well as in the Pacific Campaign Marian and Andrew Finestone DANIS, Betty (Zubick), 83 – late passed away on March 9, 2017. of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. and his wife Blaire, his grand- of Stoneham. Died on March 5, He was 94 years old. Bobby worked in the home children Emma and Nicholas 2017. Wife of the late Dr. John Born in Chelsea, he was the improvement industry as a sales- Finestone, and many nieces, Danis. Mother of Myla and Scott son of the late Harry and Rose man and business owner, while nephews and friends. Karpinski, Ian and Denise Danis, (Stoloff) Finestone and the lov- also serving as President of the A graveside service took and David and Kathleen Danis. ing brother of the late Phyllis Eastern Massachusetts Chapter place on March 20 at Woodlawn Grandmother of Karrah and Werner and the late Leonard of the National Association of Cemetery, Everett. Assisting Rachel Karpinski, and Meghan, Finestone. the Remodeling Industry. He the family was the Torf Funeral Sam, Miles, Justin and Derek Bobby was raised in Revere was a life member of the VFW, Service, Chelsea. Contributions Danis. Sister of Howard Zubick. and was a class of 1942 gradu- Jewish War Veterans of Revere, in Bobby’s memory may be Daughter of the late Miles and ate. He was a proud World War Revere Elks, Disabled American made to The Joslin Diabetes Rhoda Zubick. (Goldman) II US Coast Guard veteran who Veterans, Order of The Free Center, One Joslin Place, Suite GLICK, Fannie “Fay” (Graubart), served on the USS Bayfield APA Masons and Shriners. 745, Boston, MA 02215. For an 93 – late of Andover, former- 33 in Europe, the Normandy Bobby is survived by his sons online guest book, visit www. ly of Framingham and Coconut Campaign and Southern France, Todd Finestone and his wife torffuneralservice.com. Creek, Fla. Died on March 15, 2017. Wife of the late Benjamin Marcia Asquith Kaufman, formerly of Newton Glick. Mother of Ruth Asher of Somerville, and Marla Behrman Marcia Asquith Kaufman from Boston University School ness, she approached each day of New York City. Grandmother died on March 17, 2017, of breast of Management. In her early with a positive attitude, unbe- of Larry Kramer and his wife cancer at the Parlin Hospice career, she worked at New lievable strength, courage and Chloe. Great-grandmother of Residence in Wayland. She was England Mutual Life, Parker the determination to live each Caroline Kramer, Olivia Kramer a resident of Boston’s South Hannifin, and Data Resources as day to the fullest. Supported by and Alexandra Kramer, all of New End and Chilmark, Martha’s an econometrician in their plan- her loving family and friends, York City. (Stanetsky) Vineyard. ning departments. she was thrilled to escort her She leaves her husband Subsequently, while raising daughter, Sara, down the aisle at LEVINE, Carolyn (Mirkin), 94 Matthew R. Kaufman, MD, her her daughters, she served in her wedding in June. – late of Springfield. Died on children Emily Kaufman, Sara multiple volunteer capacities in The funeral took place at March 15, 2017. Wife of late Kaufman and Daniel Tyre- the Newton School System and Temple Shalom, Newton, on Samuel L. Levine. Mother of Karp of New York, her parents at Temple Shalom in Newton. March 22. Burial followed at Or Steven Mark, Joel Phillip and Lawrence and Gloria Asquith She returned to work at Strategy Emet Cemetery, West Roxbury. Seth Allen. Grandmother of of Chestnut Hill, and her sib- Analytics, and then served as In lieu of flowers, remem- Nava Miriam, Shulamit Chana, lings Joan and Scott Shrier of partner and COO of Hurwitz brances may be made to Yitzchak Avraham Chaim, Tzipora Newtonville. She is the daugh- Associates. There, she teamed Spaulding Rehabilitation Net­ Pia, Chava Sara, Sara Eta, ter-in-law of Betty and the late with Judith Hurwitz to provide work, Development Office, 1575 Rachel Esther, Dovid Meir, Pia Fred Kaufman of Salem and for- consultative services to many Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Liba, Sammy and Jake. Great- merly of Marblehead. She also large IT companies, including 02138; Friends’ Place at Dana grandmother of seven. (Ascher- leaves her sisters-in-law Susan IBM, VMWare, Hewlett-Packard Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Zimmerman) Gorban and Amy Kaufman, and SAP. They co-authored six Brookline Ave., #1, Boston, MA MADRUGA, Roberta Ann along with nieces and nephews. full length “For Dummies” books 02215; or Connecticut College, “Bobbie” (Sessen) Marcia was born in Newton about information technol- Development Office, 270 , 83 – late and lived there until 2004. She ogy including “Service Oriented Mohegan Ave., New London, of Swampscott. Died on March graduated from Newton South Architecture for Dummies,” “Big also co-authored a trade book CT 06320. Arrangements were 13, 2017. Daughter of the late High School and Connecticut Data for Dummies” and “Cloud entitled “Cognitive Computing.” handled by Brezniak-Rodman Jacob Sessen and Ida (Glen) College. She received her M.B.A Computing for Dummies.” They Throughout her severe ill- Funeral Directors, Newton. Sessen. Wife of the late Charles Madruga. Mother of Richard and Grace Gordon of Swampscott, Jeffrey and Deborah Gordon of Danvers, John Madruga of Nahant, Michelle and Michael Amendola of Hawaii, and Cheryl Montana of Nahant. Sister of the late Gloria “Peachy” Garfield. Grandmother of Lisa Fuenzalida, Danielle Madruga and Nickolas Gordon. Great-grandmother of Jeffrey Gordon. (Stanetsky- Hymanson) www.maplehillcemetery.com OZURANSKY, Hilda (Liberman), 103 – late of Peabody, formerly of Somerville. Died on March 13, 2017. Wife of the late Irving Ozuransky. 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Seniors rock Jewish Community Center who later became the address up the core group: Fran Tyler, of instrumental jazz and solo announcer for the Boston Red vocalist and drummer, Bob performances of each musician. Sox, got them a recording con- Tyler, woodwinds and piano, Knowlton sang and played key- tract with Jubilee Records. Their Dave Matabas, bass, and Ted board. Tyler played accompa- records were sold in stores and Knowlton, piano. Others in the niment on the keyboard while supermarkets. March 6 performance included his wife sang “Old Cape Cod,” a The Insight Band got its start tune made popular by Patti Page when local musician Irv Galis in 1957. Children from the day began doing a solo act for the “We were playing seven care program sat and listened visually impaired at the JCCNS to the music from a bygone era in Marblehead. It grew into a nights a week and as the audience sang along to jazz band and a monthly tra- had to rehearse every “Button Up Your Overcoat.” dition. Sighted people went to morning. We had a Tyler, who is retired as cho- dance with them and listen to ral director at Burlington High their favorite old standards. The good agent.” School, introduced the band Tylers dropped in one day and and reminisced about gigs at became regulars, eventually various clubs in Boston and on Bob and Fran Tyler, now in their eighties, have been married for 64 taking over when Galis could no Tony Lenno on the trumpet, Bob radio stations WBZ and WEEI. years but have been playing together for 65. longer do it. Druckman, sax, Joe Lentino, He recalled playing at Motorama Today, they bring their music trombone, Dave Rasmussen, in the 1950s, a traveling car LINA REHAL forte.” When she was in high to those who are not able to clarinet, and Mike Elman on show put on by General Motors, Special to the Journal school, a friend invited her to come to them. Four members the violin. at the Commonwealth Armory a jam session. “In the old days, of the original Storm Trio make Listeners enjoyed an hour continued on page 20 After sixty-five years of play- you could go in and listen to ing together and sixty-four music.” years of marriage, Bob and Fran Bob Tyler, 87, was part of a Tyler help keep jazz alive by radio show back then on WGBH sharing their combined talents called Young America Speaks. and mutual love of music with She recalled their first meeting. local seniors. “Bob was playing his sax. He Along with seven other gifted gave me his number and I called musicians of the Insight Band, him. Before long, it became the the couple entertained a group Bob and Fran Show. Those were of more than seventy senior citi- wonderful, crazy times.” zens earlier this month at the The couple started a trio 781-639-4759 Senior Jazz & Lunch Program together to get work. That was Specializing in Home Health Service since 1997 held at the Jewish Community the beginning of The Storm Center of the North Shore in Trio of the 1950’s. They played Marblehead. in local lounges and did radio CARING COM Fran Tyler, an 81-year-old shows. “We were playing HERE ES FIRS vocalist and drummer, always seven nights a week and had “W T” wanted to be a singer when to rehearse every morning. We Geriatric Care Management • Dementia/Alzheimer Care • Home Health Aides she was young. “Singing is my had a good agent.” Sherm Feller, Nursing Care • Medication Management • Assist with bathing/dressing Meal planning/preparation • Companionship • Transportation Light cleaning/laundry • Respite Care • Shopping/errands Chestnut … and more … from 2 to 24 hours a day Gardens Email: [email protected] Susan K. Newton, President Apartments 301 Essex Street, Lynn, MA 01902 • 781-592-1246 Spacious, Modern Affordable Apartments Social Activities 24 hr Emergency Maintenance

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The Insight Band also includes Joe Lentino on trombone, Dave Rasmussen on clarinet, and Mike Elman on violin.

in Boston. After GM showed off look forward to the first Monday its latest models, singers, actors of every month.” and musicians would perform. Fran Tyler loves what she’s “We were on a stage toward the doing today. “I’ll continue doing back. Ed Sullivan was there. It it until my voice goes.” was better than following a dog “Senior Jazz & Lunch has act,” said Tyler. been one of our signature pro- The Insight Band performs grams for several years,” said four to eight times a month at Sara Ewing, Adult Programming local nursing homes and senior Director at the JCCNS. “On the centers. first Monday of every month “This is wonderful. I love seniors gather to listen to jazz coming here and playing with standards by the Insight Band this group,” said violinist Mike and stay to socialize over lunch.” Elman. Swampscott resident and Lina Rehal is a freelance concert pianist Sandy Yagendorf writer and independent author. enjoys listening to these musi- Visit her website, www.the- cians. “It brings back memories. fuzzypinkmuse.com, or email There’s always a big crowd. I her at [email protected].

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BARRY SHRAGE HONORED MARLENE BADOLATO JOINS RE/MAX IN MARBLEHEAD Barry Shrage, President of CJP (Combined Jewish Philanthropies) Re/Max Advantage in Boston, was honored last month announces a new team mem­ as Israel Bonds celebrated two major ber as Marblehead real estate milestones – more than $40 billion in veteran Marlene Badolato, a worldwide sales since it was founded leader in North Shore home in 1951, and more than $1.1 billion in sales over the past 30 years, U.S. sales in 2016 alone. Shown with joins the Marblehead office. Barry, left, is his wife Ellie, as well as Badolato brings her experi­ Jason Alexander, who emceed the ence and large following of proceedings in Miami Beach. happy customers to the firm’s Said Shrage of his devotion to 12 Atlantic Avenue location. Israel Bonds, “In going to Israel, you Marlene is excited to join Re/ can’t help but feel that you’re part Max Advantage, an organiza­ of a family – it’s overwhelming and tion that has proven through beautiful. All of the sudden, you fig­ the years to be a serious player ure out who you are and what the in Massachusetts real estate, purpose of your life is, and Israel has a way of doing that. I feel a sense of responsibility to look at an treating all participants in a issue with regards to Israel or Jewish life or Jewish education, and do something about it.” transaction with honesty, while Institute). A member of Temple focusing on providing superior Emanu-El in Marblehead and customer service. the Dolphin Yacht Club, Marlene CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL CELEBRATED PURIM Badolato has top industry and her husband have put their credentials, including ABR three children through the (Accredited Buyer Represen­ Marblehead schools. tative), CRS (Certified Reach her on her cell at 617- Residential Specialist), and GRI 775-9886 or email marlene@ (Graduate of the Realtor marlenehomes.com.

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Members of Congregation Sons of Israel in Peabody celebrated Purim on Saturday evening, March 11. They enjoyed a musical Havdalah service, the reading of the Megillah as well as delicious haman­ More than $460,000 was raised earlier this month in support of taschen. JCC Greater Boston’s efforts towards creating and sustaining a thriv­ Congregation Sons of Israel is located at the corner of Park and Spring streets in Peabody. Sabbath ing Jewish community at the JCC@333 Gala to celebrate a new capi­ services are held every Saturday morning beginning at 9 a.m., followed by a kiddish. Sunday morning tal campaign to reimagine the JCC and support the organization’s services begin at 9 a.m., also followed by a kiddish. Friday Sabbath services are held once a month on expansion throughout Greater Boston. Plans include significant the first Friday night beginning at 7:30 p.m. renovations to the Leventhal-Sidman Center in Newton and Camp Grossman in Westwood, as well as the construction of an additional Early Learning Center in Arlington. Pictured above are Lori Sidman, BEVERLY FINN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP The Jewish Journal JCC Greater Boston Governing Board Chair, Mark Sokoll, President and CEO of JCC Greater Boston and Paula Sidman, President of the The North Suburban Jewish is happy to print news Sidman Family Foundation and past JCC Greater Boston Governing Community Center in Peabody has of your simchas Board Chair. announced the annual Beverly at no charge. Finn Memorial Scholarship. The Text may be edited award will go to a graduating high school senior who attended the 2009 for style or length. NSJCC early childhood center. The Photos will be used scholarship is named for Mrs. Finn because she was a beloved teacher 100 Chinese if space permits. Restaurants 2002-13 at the NSJCC for many years. Her in U.S.A. Send your information to unbridled warmth, kindness and passion for teaching was a con­ Life is Good @ Gourmet Garden [email protected], stant ray of sunshine at the NSJCC. subject: people. Contact Arlyne at Arlyneg@nsjcc. All Natural & Organic Sushi org or 978-471-5520. No MSG • Zero Trans-Fat Celebrate your elaine monaco, IDS, WCAA Gluten-Free & Sugar-Free Dishes happy occasion with a Convenient parking located in Swampscott Mall donation to Receive concierge 430 Paradise Road, Vinnin Square (Rt. 1A), Swampscott the Jewish Journal. service with your 781-599-1780 Your gift supports own designer. Sun-ThuRS 11:30 am-10:00 pm • FRi-SAT 11:30 am-11:00 pm the continuity of Call Elaine today! Jewish life in Online ordering, delivery & catering at our communities. www.GourmetGardenRestaurant.com

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TODAY’S MENSCHION: JILL LEVINE

TODD FEINBURG start their divorce and those who we refer to as Journal Publisher/Editor “angry associates.” There are relevant strate- gies even for parents who are doing their best ill Levine is a licensed independent to cooperate; for instance, the organizational clinical social worker who has been challenges of running two households can be Jpracticing for over 20 years. She has a tall order. We discuss children having what I experience with both the juvenile and call a visual roadmap, or a colorful calendar. So probate courts regarding child protection children can see their schedules and know what and permanency planning initiatives. to expect with all the changes. Jill has developed treatment plans for individuals and families in a variety of Is one of the big problems parents using their community health settings including kids as weapons? clinics, shelters and the homebound. She The way we frame it is that children should be allowed to love and be loved by both parents. has served as a Guardian Ad Litem for The Jill Levine, center, Massachusetts Probate Court specific to with her daughter Sydney and son Troy. There are several concepts we deal with in the class, one is to not put your child in the middle, child custody disputes and has consulted Could you explain more about the teaching? reassuring them that they are not responsible as a psychotherapist for several organizations I teach classes that are mandated by the and discussing the importance of children’s treating individuals with a variety of mental Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It’s a curricu- extended family staying involved. Basically reduc- health issues. Jill is an approved instructor for lum that I developed for Family Healthy Choices ing loss and ownership of the separation. the Massachusetts Probate Court and is on and Dr. Nisenbaum edited it and was approved by faculty with Family Healthy Choices Inc. as she the court. We are not the only parent education Is there a simple guideline for kids succeeding provider – there are many. Ours is a curriculum was instrumental in developing their revised through divorce? where we really invite participants to get engaged, parent education curriculum. Additionally, About 75 or 80% of kids do well through and much of the feedback that I get has to do with she is the parent education facilitator for the divorce. Who are those kids? We have some the compassion felt through the course delivery, Tufts Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center answers based on research. The kids who do well content and the clarity of how it is presented. in Boston, and is on faculty with the Center generally have contact with both parents, have for Families in Transition in Brookline and at least one parent who is doing well psychologi- Cambridge. Jill resides in Swampscott with Rob, These programs are required of all divorcing cally, if not both, and their parents work toward her husband of 23 years, and their children parents? reducing conflict. But there are other contributing Sydney and Troy. How it works is that there’s a mandate in the factors. state for parents who divorce and have children What does your current work consist of? ages 18 or under and they are generally com- Divorce is so difficult, it must be an experience The bulk of what I do is provide parent educa- pelled to take a parent education class. A lot of that provides those who go through it enormous tion at different locations throughout the state. people aren’t aware of this mandate. The reason growth. Is this accurate? I’m fortunate to have a colleague who is well we want parents to get some education when they You’re absolutely right. It’s one of the things regarded in the field and has trusted me to create are separating is based on years of research on we talk about in class. We encourage participants a new curriculum that we use to teach parent edu- the psychological effects of divorce on children. to try and take the high road with their former cation. I act as a sort of program coordinator for a The premise of the class is to enhance parents’ partner – excluding certain safety situations where non-profit called Family Healthy Choices, and the knowledge of these effects and to reduce conflict, some co-parenting strategies might not apply. president is my colleague and mentor, Dr. Steve because we know that conflict increases stress for Nisenbaum who is a lawyer and a psychologist. children. Are there other places where you share your experience? That’s how you got into parent education? This sounds like it would be hard given that par- I facilitate parent education for the Center for That was the beginning of my getting involved ents are going through tons of stress themselves. Families in Transition in Brookline. I’m connected with parent education, yes. Our programs are run Exactly. We talk about the emotional stages to the Tufts Comprehensive Family Evaluation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Tufts School of divorce for both children and their parents as Center through parent education. Parent educa- of Medicine and we have locations in Danvers well as the common reactions experienced by tion dovetails with the psychotherapeutic, guard- and Newburyport. That’s the main thing I’ve been children. And by the way, some of our content ian ad litem and divorce consulting work I’ve doing. is germane to people who are friendly as they done.

The Jewish Journal Join us on April 23 invites you to a morning of as we celebrate our Honorable Menschions Join us for bagels, lox, mimosas and Menschions other goodies as we hold a brunch to celebrate our Honorable Menschions on April 23 at the JCC. Our Menschions appear every issue on this page & in a feature we began last September. Mimosas To learn about the event or how you can Sunday, April 23, 2017, 11am-1pm buy tickets or advertising in our event book, Jewish Community Center of the North Shore please email [email protected] 4 Community Road, Marblehead, MA Bagels, lox and mimosas will be served or call Todd at 978-745-4111 x130.

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