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Your Federation Supports: Annual meeting and picnic Jewish Education Food Pantry is just about here! Friendship Circle By Amanda J. Hornberger right here in Berks! Hills Pool, across the street from the park. Chevra The community is invited to join Jewish Immediately following the meeting The meeting and fun will take place at Federation of Reading for its annual stay for a free kosher picnic meal and Wyomissing Hills Park beginning at 12:30 Community Shabbat meeting on Sunday, June 2, at 12:30 Rita’s Italian Ice. There will be games, p.m. and the fun will continue until 3 p.m. p.m. at Wyomissing Hills Park, 53 Valley entertainment and fun for all ages, including Free parking is available at the pool or on Reading Jewish Film Series Road in Wyomissing. Learn about all the a magic show by The Amazing Carson at the street by the park. various programs and services offered by 1:30 p.m. Guests will also be invited to We hope community members of all PJ Library Federation and the great things occurring swim, free of charge, at the Wyomissing ages will join us for this fun afternoon! Jewish Family Service Jewish Cultural Center Our community in action Lakin Holocaust Library

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Leo Camp Lecture It’s been a busy month for Federation activities. Look inside this edition to find additional photos and to learn more about these events and more to come. Clockwise from top left, Yom Hashoah observance, Maimonides Society lecture, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut commemoration; memorial service at Chabad following the synagogue shooting in Shabbat B’Yachad Poway, Calif. Page 2 SHALOM June 2019 What is a community?

By Richard Nassau you want, need or require in a Jewish key elements, is Federation’s commitment Development Director community? to increasing engagement throughout our Last month our The replies to Ms. Zoloth’s question entire community. Maimonides Society covered most of the items on her list, Our goal is to build community and sponsored Laurie Zoloth, which was inspired by the Talmudic text foster the connections that come with a distinguished scholar found in Sanhedrin 17b. The list includes it. on the intersection of a synagogue, a teacher, a doctor and That list of 10 items needed for a bioethics and Judaism. a tzedakah fund collected by two and community demonstrates the responsibility The program distributed by three. It also looks to the we have for each other. It is a shared was held at the future — a teacher. Imagine that one responsibility. One that requires

n t Wyomissing home of these pieces was missing from our involvement. of Pam Charendoff and Jonathan community. I invite you to become involved and Primack. One of Federation’s roles is to foster engage with our Jewish community however While the Maimonides Society is open to connections between members of our you wish. e medical professionals, the talk on the topic, Jewish community. In sum, build community. Go online and make a gift to “May We Remake the World,” was also We do this by supporting our synagogues, Federation. attended by many non-medical community distributing food, bringing in speakers and Volunteer to distribute food at the Jewish members. collecting funds. Each is an example of the Family Service Food Pantry. The evening was highly electric with work Federation does to strengthen our Attend a community lecture or film.

m lots of interaction between Ms. Zoloth and Jewish community. Consider creating a legacy fund to those attending. One of the interactions Last year, Federation’s board began support the next generation. helped start the evening. Ms. Zoloth, developing a strategic plan looking at the There is a joy to being part of a who is a faculty member and former future of our community. community. Make a connection and

p dean of the University of Chicago Divinity We asked and heard from a wide help build our Jewish community for School, asked, “What makes a Jewish range of community members about the future. community?” Take a second to think about their needs. Let us know how you want to be what your reply would be. Was is it that One result, and it is just one of the plan’s engaged. o l A captivating talk at Maimonides Society

e By Richard Nassau Pam Charendoff and Jonathan Primack opened their home May 14

v for a captivating evening that explored the intersection of Jewish thought and bioethics. The program, sponsored by Federation’s Maimonides Society, e featured Laurie Zoloth, a distinguished leader in the field of bioethics and Jewish studies. Drawing from biblical and Talmudic

D texts to postmodern Jewish philosophy, Ms. Zoloth, a former dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, Annual Campaign led a lively discussion on the Jewish Women’s Philanthropy view and ethics of genetic engineering. The evening’s topic — “May We Maimonides Society Remake the World” — touched on issues ranging from space exploration Your Jewish Legacy to altering DNA to the African malaria Chai Circle epidemic that annually kills nearly 500,000 people, many of them children. L’Chaim Society Ms. Zoloth follows other nationally prominent speakers brought to Berks Book of Life County by Federation’s Maimonides Letter of Intent Society. She is the author of “Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice”; and co- editor of five books, including “Notes from a Narrow Ridge: Religion and Bioethics”; and “Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought.” She has been president of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Federation’s Maimonides Society offers programs of community interest and helps strengthen relationships DONATE NOW among medical professionals. Its TO OUR members are a valuable community resource. They integrate medical and JEWISH Jewish concerns and demonstrate COMMUNITY the many ways they and other health CAMPAIGN professionals are working to improve life for people. Open to medical professionals and Please visit welcoming new members, the Society ReadingJewishCommunity. also helps advance Federation’s org mission of serving vulnerable communities locally, in Israel and around the world. Make your gift For more information about today! the Maimonides Society, contact Federation at 610-921-0624. Laurie Zoloth, top, delivers a fascinating talk to participants in the Maimonides Society. June 2019 SHALOM Page 3 From the President’s Desk Working to weave a beautiful, welcoming community

By William D. Franklin working toward. Looking forward, on Sunday, June to educate us all. Program discussions will President May was a busy “weaving” month 2, from 12:30 to 3, we have our Annual be factual, not political. I recently read an for our Jewish community. We had Meeting with a barbecue picnic and a Speaking of education, we are intriguing article about a meaningful and informative Yom magician to entertain us. Later that week, excited to announce that an Education the Aspen Institute’s Hashoah. A week later we had a moving we will view Deborah Lipstadt’s talk on Committee has been formed. We program called Weave: Yom Hazikaron program during which her recent book, “Antisemitism: Here envision programs where people of all The Social Fabric an Israeli veteran spoke about the and Now,” and a discussion will follow. ages could study the same topics, but in Project. This project importance of the day to him and his Unfortunately, this is an important and age-appropriate format so that we weave is a decentralized compatriot Israelis and the difficulty of relevant educational event. together our generations. Courses could movement of not being in Israel on such a nationally At May’s JFR Board Meeting, several cover learning Hebrew, Israeli songs and individuals working to emotional day. This was followed by a board members mentioned that they dances and Jewish ethics. serve their community by creating hubs. Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration with singing, frequently have been asked by non-Jewish Doris and Elliot Leisawitz recently These are places that provide coherent dancing and delicious Israeli food. co-workers why Jewish communities gave us a beautiful crocheted “Shalom” centers of debate and learning and where We kick-started our Women’s are not rallying together to fight the BDS by Doris’ cousin Rose Kelly. We thank a commonality of values and efforts can Philanthropy Group, where Letty Pogrebin movement, antisemitism and other Israel them for the wonderful donation. You be hammered out. Friends can gather spoke of her Jewish journey. And our delegitimization groups rising on the will soon be able to see it as you enter and create a better, deeper community medical professionals participated in political left and political right. They had no the JCC. This piece of art is a lovely with healthy connections, respect and a discussion led by Laurie Zoloth at a ready answers. The conclusion was that woven symbol of our beautiful and trust. That is what the Federation is Maimonides Society event. we need to develop a series of programs welcoming community. Opinion: The Times and a cartoon that was no laughing matter By Michael Fromm footsteps of its British counterpart, led by including severing the paper’s relationship offending cartoon. While Mr. Sulzberger I did not grow up in New York City the avowed anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn. with the cartoon syndicate, to ensure that quickly dismissed this notion, he did but, like so many American Jews, I have Published by a standard-bearer of liberal such a blunder would never happen again. acknowledge an institutional culture that been a longtime reader of The New York opinion, the cartoon only fueled these But we explained that we were there to could be tone deaf to certain anti-Semitic Times. The Times has been called the anxieties. address the weightier question of whether tropes and went so far as to agree that if “hometown paper of American Jewry.” Is the uproar in the Jewish community the cartoon was an isolated incident or a mainstream media does nothing to defuse It is the newspaper we love and, in our justified? Does the culture of the Times reflection of the newspaper’s culture. a growing anti-Zionist atmosphere, the vulnerability to its perceived influence on truly lend itself to anti-Semitic and anti- In advance of the meeting, JCPA staff results can serve as cover for bad people public opinion, love to hate. Zionist reporting and editorial coverage? reviewed over a hundred Times editorials to do bad things. He concluded by stating In this regard, the Jewish community’s Immediately after the cartoon on Israel and Jews published since that the Times “needs to get it right”. We collective outcry over the anti-Semitic appeared, in my role as Chair-elect of the 2016 and came away with the following found this sincerity and introspection to be cartoon published in the Times’ Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), observations that we shared with Mr. compelling, but of course the proof will be international edition on April 25 — I co-authored a letter to the Times that Sulzberger and Mr. Bennet. in the pudding. portraying the prime minister of Israel as was signed by scores of national and local First, the Times consistently called In his defense of the paper’s coverage a dog leading a blind President Trump in Jewish groups, excoriating the newspaper out right wing anti-Semitism but failed to of Jews and Israel, veteran Times reporter a skullcap — should come as no surprise. for publishing an inflammatory and hateful publish a single editorial on left wing anti- Neil Lewis wrote that “journalism is, in the In the week after the cartoon was cartoon. How could this happen, and what Semitism until its mea culpa that appeared end, storytelling, and it’s a basic tenet published, I spoke to numerous friends are you going to do about it, we asked. following the cartoon controversy. of the craft that those on the bottom are and relatives who had long been frustrated Now in crisis mode, top newspaper Second, the editorials were uniformly more sympathetic characters than the by the Times’ negative tilt on Israel. For officials were receptive to our outreach critical of Israeli government policy. In powerful.” Hence the Times’ growing many, the appearance of the cartoon and agreed to meet. Along with JCPA’s fact, not one opinion piece presented sympathy over the past five decades for confirmed suspicions that the Times is CEO, I was joined by the leaders of the a generally positive viewpoint toward the plight of Palestinians. fundamentally hostile toward Jews and Jewish Federations of North America Israel. The majority upbraided the Israeli I would suggest that the current crisis Israel. Several went so far as to cancel (JFNA), Hadassah and two of the three government for lack of progress on a in its relationship with Jewish readers their subscriptions. major Jewish movements for a meeting two-state solution, settlements, and affords the Times an opportunity to rethink This cartoon came at an especially at the Times headquarters with Publisher anti-democratic legislation. Insinuations the story it tells and to expand its view of bad time. Amid a flurry of anti-Semitic A.G. Sulzberger and Opinion Editor of linkage between Zionist ideals and victimhood. Jews and Israel have most controversies on the left, many Jews James Bennet. government policy were blatant and certainly been victims — of terrorism, feel increasingly unwelcome in their The two could not have been more inescapable. delegitimization campaigns and hate traditional political home. They fear gracious. They were appropriately contrite, Given this, one could easily conclude crimes. It’s high time the “newspaper of that the American left is following in the telling us they had taken tangible steps, that the editors at the Times endorsed the record” adjusts its coverage accordingly. Everything you always wanted to know about Israel at 71

of 150 to 200 species migrate across • Israel has won nine Olympic one silver in judo, and bronze in judo, ISRAEL21c.com Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks Non-Profit Organization Jewish Cultural Center, PO Box 14925 U.S. Postage PAID • Israel has the highest number of Israel. medals since 1952, one goldReading, in PA 19612-4925sailing, sailing and canoeing. Permit No. 2 readingjewishcommunity.org Reading, PA startups per capita in the world. • Twelve Israelis have been awarded Change Service Requested • Israel hosts about 8,200 active Nobel prizes: S. Y. Agnon, Menachem Enriching Lives Volume 47, No. 9 September 2017 Elul 5777-Tishri 5778 high-tech companies. Begin, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, • Israel’s expenditure on research Daniel Kahneman, Aaron Ciechanover, and development as a percentage of its Avram Hershko, Robert Aumann, Ada ShaloThe Journal of the Reading Jewish Communitym published by0 the Jewish9 Federation1 of Reading/Berks7 GDP (4.21%) is the highest in the world. Yonath, Dan Shechtman, Michael Levitt A newspaper serving the Jewish community of Berks County, Your Federation Supports: • Israel ranks fifth in the world for and Arieh Warshel. Pennsylvania, andJewish published Education monthly, September through June, under Food Pantry healthy longevity and 11th in the world • Israel has the highest number of the Jewish FederationFriendship Circle of Reading/Berks. Funded by the Annual Jewish for overall happiness. engineers and scientists per capita. Chevra Community Campaign.Community Shabbat • Israel ranks 10th on the 2019 • Israel boasts a literacy level of Reading Jewish Film Series PJ Library Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index. 97.8% of citizens above the age of 15. General Offices:Jewish Family Service 1100 Berkshire Blvd., Suite 125 Jewish Cultural Center • In 1948, about 2% of Israel was • Israel is home to 66 institutions of Lakin Holocaust Library Wyomissing, PA 19610 & Resource Center covered in trees. Now it’s up to around higher education. Phone: Israel & Overseas 610-921-0624 FAX: 610-929-0886 8.5%. Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael-Jewish • Time Out of London ranks Tel Aviv Web site: Camp Scholarships www.ReadingJewishCommunity.org Israel Trips National Fund has planted more than 240 the best city in the Middle East. Jewish Community Jewish Federation Highof School Reading million trees in Israel since 1901. • There are 13 beaches along Tel Emergency Support Chair: Lakin Preschool Haia Mazuz • Israel is one of the only countries Aviv-Yafo’s coastline, visited by some Richard J. Yashek Lecture in the world that ended the 20th century 8.5 million people annually. President: Transportation William D. Franklin Maimonides Society with more trees than it had at the start. • Tel Aviv has been called the world’s Communications YourDirector: Jewish Legacy Mark Nemirow, Editor Proofreaders: 92ND ST Y Programs Federation staff • Every Israeli has access annually largest top destination for vegan tourists Joint Distribution Committee Meir Panim to an average 152 kilograms of fruit and and vegan capital of the world. Annual Campaign Jewish Agency for Israel 154kg of vegetables. • Israel has more than 230 museums, The opinions expressed in ShalomYemin Orde are of the writers and not the Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks • Israel recycles 87% of its believed to be more museums per School Education Programs Interfaith Unity Council wastewater for agriculture, much more capita than any other country. Israel Advocacy Youth Events than any other country in the world. • There are more vegans (5%) Great Decisions Series Jewish Community Some 31% of irrigation water originates and vegetarians (8%) per capita than Relations Council Community Holiday Programs from treated wastewater. anywhere else in the world. Women’s Philanthropy • As of 2019, Israel counts some 545 • In 2017, Israel hosted the world’s Jewish Federations of North America resident species of birds. largest animal rights march, drawing Counseling Services Leo Camp Lecture • Every year some 500 million birds some 30,000 activists. Shabbat B’Yachad Page 4 SHALOM June 2019 Our graduates

Brittany Baksic, daughter of Marla and Emily Baksic, daughter of Marla and Carson Endy, son of Chad and Alicia Mark Goldberg, son of Debbie and David Steven Baksic and granddaughter of Steven Baksic and granddaughter of Endy, grandson of Aileen Endy and great- Goldberg, graduate from Case Western Judy Schnee and the late Jack Schnee, Judy Schnee and the late Jack Schnee, grandson of Marjorie “Tootie” Moyer, is Reserve University in Cleveland. He has is graduating from Wilson High School. graduated magna cum laude from graduating from Exeter High School. accepted a job with Lockheed Martin in Brittany was involved in many student Hofstra University’s Honors College with He is an Eagle Scout and played in Binghamton, N.Y., as a Software Engineer activities. She was captain of the Wilson a B.A. in International Business. Emily the Exeter Marching and Jazz bands. Associate in the Rotary and Mission swim team and was a varsity water polo also received a B.A. from the University Carson will attend Penn State University Systems Division. player and a member of the State team. of Amsterdam. After graduation, Emily in the fall, majoring in math. Brittany will be attending James Madison will be working in the financial district in University in the fall. New York City.

Derian Haas, son of Jill and Michael Jennifer Brittany Kauffman, daughter Logan Kramer, son of Robin Kramer of Hannah Mart Walker, daughter of Haas, graduated from Georgia Institute of David and Jody Kauffman and Shillington and Barry Kramer of Mohnton, Michelle Mart and David Walker, of Technology in Atlanta with a Bachelor granddaughter of Robert and Shirley is graduating from Gov. Mifflin High School. graduated from Bard College at Simon’s of Science in Computer Science with Kauffman, graduated in May from Cornell He is a section leader in Marching Band, Rock with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her concentrations in Artificial Intelligence University with a Bachelor of Science in is in Indoor percussion, is completing his senior thesis is an original translation and Information Internetworks. He Information Science. Jennifer spent part Eagle Scout requirements, is a National and analysis of essays by the German participated in Chinese Language for of her junior year studying in Australia. Finalist for TSA teams and a semifinalist writer and critic Siegfried Kracauer. the Business and Technology program. Jennifer was inducted into the National for Berks Best in Computer Science. He Hannah studied abroad in Berlin and at Derian played clarinet in the GT Concert Society of Collegiate Scholars and was will be attending Lehigh University in the Barnard College. She will work in Great Band. a member of the Cornell Chorale. fall as an undecided engineering major. Barrington, Mass. following graduation.

Tobias Mart Walker, son of Michelle Mart Megan L. McIntosh, daughter of Dwight Gabriella “Lella” Michelson, daughter Mollie Pleet, daughter of Elaine and David Walker, graduated from Bard and Mindy McIntosh, received an Associate of Rabbi Brian and Holly Michelson, Mendelssohn and Jesse Pleet, graduated College at Simon’s Rock with an Associate Degree in Baking and Pastry Arts from is graduating with High Honors from from Pacific University with a doctorate of Arts degree. He will take a gap year the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Muhlenberg College with a double in psychology. She is completing a before completing his undergraduate Park, N.Y. Megan, a graduate of Antietam major in Theater and Dance Education. residency at a San Francisco VA Hospital, education. He has studied anthropology, High School, is currently enrolled in the She spent her junior semester at the treating patients with post-traumatic lighting and sound design, German, and institute’s Bachelor’s Degree Program University of Ghana in West Africa. Lella stress disorder and drug addiction. music. He will work in Great Barrington in Culinary Science. Megan wants to do plans to pursue a career in the performing She passed her National Licensing and at an organic farm and restaurant for the research and development for a chocolate arts, both on stage and behind the Certification Exam in March. summer. and confections company. scenes in nonprofit education.

Jacqueline Brooke Plesset, daughter of Michael Rosenzweig, son of Barbara Alexa Saidman, daughter of Amy and Ben Ueberroth, son of Lisa and the late Rochelle and Robert Plesset of Potomac, and Seth Rosenzweig of Wyomissing, Howard Saidman, graduated cum laude in Bill Ueberroth, formerly of Wyomissing, Md., and granddaughter of Robert and received an MBA from the Wharton School May from Penn State University’s Smeal graduated from Wayne State University Shirley Kauffman, graduated cum laude of the University of Pennsylvania. He was College of Business with a Bachelor of School of Medicine in Detroit. His internal from Cornell University with a B.S. in a Lauder Institute scholar and received a Science in Supply Chain and Information medicine/oncology residency will be at the Biomedical Engineering. Jacqueline will joint MA in International Studies, East Asia Systems. She has accepted a job as Mayo Clinic -Arizona. be a PhD candidate in Cell and Molecular concentration. He will be working in the Los a Supply Chain Analyst with Ferguson Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. Angeles office of Base Food, Tokyo.. Enterprises, Newport News, Va. June 2019 SHALOM Page 5 B’nai Mitzvot 5779

Joshua Nathan Brown, son of Lisa Jed Samuel Hoffman, son of Seth and Danielle Hannah Radosh, daughter of and Robert Brown, is celebrating his Joanna Katz Hoffman and grandson Drs. Lee and Jodi Radosh, was called bar mitzvah on June 15 at Reform of Judith Kraines and Neil Hoffman, to the Torah for her bat mitzvah on Oct. Congregation Oheb Sholom. Joshua is became a bar mitzvah on May 4 at 27, 2018 surrounded by family and a seventh-grader at Exeter Junior High Temple Menorah in Miami Beach. Jed friends. For her mitzvah project, she School. He enjoys science and math and excels at baseball and golf. Born in collected supplies to donate to the Animal plays the trumpet in the school band. Philadelphia, Jed remains a diehard Rescue League and helped take care of Joshua also plays soccer for the junior Phillies phan. Jed is a very caring person Therapeutic Riding Horses. high and like most boys his age, enjoys with a strong sense of fairness. He often his video games. advocates for others.

A spectacular Passover celebration by the beach

By Phyllis Dessel My son Ian of Haifa, Israel, invited me to spend Pesach at a Majestic Retreat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There are many such Pesach programs around the world for people who want to get away for the holiday and have all the preparation and cooking and cleaning done for them. We selected this particular program because it leaned more modern and less ultra-Orthodox and had scholars-in-residence that appealed to Ian. There were about 650 guests booked at the hotel for the holiday. We met many interesting people from all over the U.S. Jeff Braverman was the Passover host. Rabbi Sion Salem, the Head Mashgiach, led our First Community Seder and gave Ian a rare behind-the-scenes kitchen tour. Our Second Seder was as guests of Professor Marc B. Shapiro with his very lovely extended family. Highlights of a resort Passover in Fort Lauderdale included a beautiful beach and spectacular food. The first Seder dinner was tri-color gefilte fish, matzo ball soup and a choice of entrees that included morning tea room, a breakfast and lunch buffet, BBQ, irresistible selection of delicious food. Dinner was a glazed boneless short rib, rock cornish hen, pan-seared dinner and the evening tea room. The tea room featured choice of delectable entrees with table service. It was black skillet sea trout and portabello napoleon, and for more than 50 jars and bowls filled with dried fruit, candy a true feast at every meal! dessert, Savoiar di Tiramisu. The food portions were and nuts, a pastry table with cookies and cakes, fresh The hotel pool was beautiful with lots of umbrellas beyond generous, and there was an interesting variety fruit, soft ice cream and smoothies and a selection of for shade and a covered walkway to the beach, which of wines. freshly made fruit-flavored waters. Salads, sandwiches was gorgeous, with crystal clear water. Towels and Everyday there was a schedule of events taking and chips were offered to take to the beach or for travel. beach chairs were provided for all hotel guests. place in the hotel. Speakers included Rabbi Dovid M. The food provisions were overwhelming! The Daily activities ranged from lectures to jet skis on Cohen; Rabbi Yonatan Magazzinich; Dr. Erica Brown, Breakfast Buffet included a variety of fish dishes, bagels, the beach. Evening entertainment featured movies, whose lecture on Passover and Impossible Possibilities cheeses, salads galore, a waffle and pancake station, concerts, a casino night, an extreme magic show and I attended; Professor Marc B. Shapiro, director and chair an omelet station, a pastry table, potato latkes, a fruit much more. We toured The Bonnet House Museum of the Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute at the University station, and so much more! and Gardens, a 1930’s beach estate and enjoyed the of Scranton; Dr. Joseph Shatzkes; Rebecca Brown; Dr. Lunch was also a buffet with a sandwich station, Renoir Exhibit at the NSU Art Museum. The weather Jeremy Brown and many other interesting scholars. pasta bar, stir fry station, salad bar with an unbelievable in Fort Lauderdale was perfect. Each day there were program activities and a variety of items, a fruit station where the fruit was cut Best of all, it was pure joy spending the holiday with culinary schedule, which included such treats as the up and customized to your preference, and just an my son! Oheb Sholom hosts event for collectors of postcards, ephemera

Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom hosted a Postcard & Ephemera Expo billed as the first event of its kind in the Reading area. Sellers and collectors from throughout the region turned out for the event, which served as a fundraiser for the synagogue. Photos courtesy of the Reading Eagle. Page 6 SHALOM June 2019 JCC offering trip to Auschwitz exhibition By Amanda J. Hornberger Available for seven months only, the special exhibit “Auschwitz. Not far away. Not long ago” has been receiving a lot of press since its opening in May at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The JCC invites you to explore the exhibit on our bus trip on Sunday, Sept. 8. The cost is $50 per JCC member and $60 for non-members and includes round-trip bus transportation, admission to the Museum of Jewish Heritage and a private tour guide for our group. The most significant site of the Holocaust, Auschwitz was not a single entity but a complex of 48 concentration and extermination camps, at which 1 million Jews — and tens of thousands of others — were murdered. This groundbreaking exhibition brings together more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs from over 20 institutions and museums around the world. “Auschwitz. time, 74 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to 610-921-0624. An exact schedule and final Not long ago. Not far away” is the most a traveling exhibition dedicated to the historical details will be sent to attendees in August. comprehensive exhibition dedicated to significance of the camp is being presented to For more information or questions please the history of Auschwitz and its role in the a U.S. audience. contact Amanda Hornberger at 610-921-0624 Holocaust ever presented in North America, Don’t miss your opportunity to witness this or [email protected]. Please note that and an unparalleled opportunity to confront the history up close and see the exhibit described all museum spaces are wheelchair accessible singular face of human evil—one that arose as “a stark reminder of hatred” by the Daily News and assisted listening devices are available not long ago and not far away. For the first New York. RSVPs are accepted through Aug. 1 for the tour. Documentary goes behind the scenes of ‘Fiddler’

By Amanda J. Hornberger and its creative roots in early adaptation is most appropriately by Jewish Federation of Reading/ Beat the heat and get your 1960s New York, when “tradition” viewed through the lens of the Berks and Fox Theatres. summer Jewish movie fix at a was on the wane as gender social upheaval and change Admission is $8, and the film special screening of “Fiddler: roles, sexuality, race relations and in mid-20th century America. will be shown on Wednesday, A Miracle of Miracles” on religion were evolving. Yet, as the film shows the true July 31 at 7 p.m. at Fox East, Wednesday, July 31, at 7 p.m. at For the first time, intimate wonder of wonders and miracle 4350 Perkiomen Avenue, Exeter Fox East. interviews with the show’s of Fiddler is that audiences Township (next to Boscov’s East). This brand new documentary creators reveal how the world-wide and for the last half Tickets can be purchased at the tells the origin story behind one tremendous success and century claim the story as their theater beginning at 6:30 p.m. the of Broadway’s most beloved worldwide impact of “Fiddler” own. day of the screening. Cash and Center Jewish Cultural musicals, “Fiddler on The Roof,” and its subsequent film The screening is sponsored checks are accepted. 92nd St. Y Programs Game Nights Join us for a discussion of book on antisemitism Community Shabbat By Amanda J. Hornberger Is today’s antisemitism the same starting point in dire times.” In the a few copies available to borrow. Join us on Thursday, June or different from what we have book’s opening note to readers, This presentation by Dr. Reading Jewish Film Series 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the JCC for a seen before? Where is it coming Lipstadt writes: “My attempt to Lipstadt and our discussion is Great Decisions book discussion of “Antisemitism: from: the right or the left?…It is explore a perplexing and disturbing the first of a series of educational Here and Now” by Dr. Deborah E. about what many people are set of circumstances is written programs being planned to help Interfaith Mitzvah Day Lipstadt. Immediately following the doing, saying, and facing now… with the hope that it will provoke us better understand the sources discussion, we will gather to watch the existence of prejudice in any of action. What precisely that action is of resurgent anti-Semitism, the Yom Ha’atzmaut Dr. Lipstadt discuss her book from its forms is a threat to all those who remains in the hands of the reader.” BDS movement and other Israel PJ Library her recent visit to the 92nd St. Y. value an inclusive, democratic and This book offers the community delegitimization groups so we can Dr. Lipstadt writes in her multicultural society. the opportunity to have a better respond and contest their PJ Our Way introductory note: “As horrific as According to a review from the very interesting and impactful actions. the Holocaust was, it is firmly in the Jewish Book Council, “Lipstadt’s discussion. Copies are available We hope many of you can join Leo Camp Lecture past …Contemporary antisemitism sweeping, accessible education on at local public libraries, Barnes & us for the book discussion and Tech Tuesday is not. It is about the present… modern antisemitism is a welcome Noble and Amazon. The JCC has 92nd St. Y Program on June 6. Yom Hazikaron A celebration of Israel at the JCC Art Exhibits

Yom Hashoah

Annual Meeting and Picnic

Purim Carnival

Richard J. Yashek

Memorial Lecture

Kristallnacht Remembrance

Youth Events

Purim Masquerade Party

Bridge

Chevra

Mahjong

Trips to NYC/Philadelphia

Lakin Holocaust Library

& Resource Center

Shabbat B’yachad The community gathered May 8 at the JCC for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut, a commemoration of Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day. The program featured a speech by Community Calendar an Israeli military veteran along with music, dancing and Israeli foods. June 2019 SHALOM Page 7 Remembering the Holocaust and loved ones lost

The community gathered at the Highlands at Wyomissing May 2 for the annual Yom Hashoah observance. At left, Fleetwood High School teacher Sean Gaston discusses the importance of Holocaust education. At right, students prepare to read the name of victims of the Holocaust, each of whom had a connection to someone in Reading. Readers included Dani Radosh, Rachel Radosh, Alexandra Levin, Max Weiss, Simon Seesengood, Bella Karchevsky, Eva Karchevsky, Lena Bluestone, Ari Bluestone, Harry Weiss and Ari Levin. Health impact of circadian rhythm a hot topic in Israel

ISRAEL21c.com Nutrition at the Hebrew University. “In are providing services to pharma and head of its Ecological and Evolutionary Far more than your alarm clock, what nutritional sciences we usually teach that cosmetic companies that send us their Physiology Laboratory. “The biological governs your wake-sleep cycle is the energy consumed and energy expended molecules. We can tell them how the clock is the same in nocturnal and internal circadian clock regulating your equals your bodyweight but here we saw product works with the circadian cycle.” diurnal animals but is translated in the whole body. This also affects hunger, the timing factor was very important. The technology can predict things like opposite way.” Schor and international thirst, body temperature, mood, hormone If you synchronize with your circadian the best and worst times of day to take collaborators study the relationship fluctuations and more. clock that controls all your systems, a drug, and how to control metabolism to between circadian rhythm and disorders, Disturbances to the circadian rhythm, it makes sense.” Froy’s collaborative overcome circadian rhythm disturbances such as depression and diabetes. or to the genes that produce the rhythm, research has also shown better results such as night-shift work or travel. “Because we eat during the day, insulin can cause problems from low productivity if a weight-loss diet is structured with 6. Bees and babies should be produced during the day and and insomnia to depression and diabetes. a large breakfast, medium-sized lunch Studying the interplay between social glucose at night; everything has to be Some of the most common disturbances and small dinner rather than a small behavior and circadian rhythms in bees done at the right time. If you disrupt are night-shift work, artificial light and breakfast and large dinner, even though gives Guy Bloch new insights into social or de-synch the clock by working night travel across time zones. This is a hot the overall caloric intake is identical. In biology. His Hebrew University lab has shifts or eating at night it disrupts that topic in Israel and beyond due to the experiments relating to circadian rhythm shown that social signals are important homeostasis,” she says. “extreme importance of the circadian and insulin resistance – a factor in both time-givers for animal circadian clocks Light pollution also messes up the clock on many different processes in type 2 diabetes and polycystic ovary and that bees’ social interactions and circadian clock. “The system relies on neurobiology and metabolism,” says syndrome – a large breakfast and small division of labor actually synchronize the reliability of daylight to synchronize biology professor Guy Bloch from dinner also was successful in reducing their internal clocks. For example, they our bodies to the day-night cycle and the Hebrew University Department of insulin resistance. observed that the circadian rhythm of to seasonal changes, but since we use Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. 3. Mealtimes impact liver disease “nurse” bees switches off while they are artificial light the signals aren’t reliable Here are some significant Israeli Professor Gad Asher’s biomolecular providing around-the-clock newborn anymore,” she explains. “So we see contributions to understanding circadian sciences lab at the Weizmann Institute care. This may be how all mammals circadian rhythm disruption becoming rhythm. of Science in Rehovot came to a manage infant care. “The clock genes common and causing medical problems 1. Are you a night owl or morning lark? similar conclusion from studying the in humans and bees are essentially the and sleep disturbances in humans, Why do some people jump out of accumulation of lipids in the livers of same. If we understand the mechanism animals and plants exposed to artificial bed early and others reach their peak of mice without a functioning body clock. we may be able to use the bee model to light. We see birds that lay eggs at the energy only after dark? Eran Tauber at the When the researchers restricted feeding guide research in people,” says Bloch. wrong time of the year or stay awake at University of Haifa’s Institute of Evolution to nighttime hours, the mice showed a 7. Timing of pollination night; we see some animals experiencing studies the chronobiology of specially dramatic 50% decrease in overall liver In 2017, Bloch and HUJ researcher disruption in the timing of reproduction or bred nocturnal and diurnal fruit flies to triglyceride levels. Rachel Green published “Time is Honey,” hibernation.” Her lab is experimenting with better understand the phenomenon. The 4. Avoiding jetlag showing how the interactions of the different light spectrums and intensities research has many potential applications, Asher’s lab found that adjusting circadian clocks of bees and flowers at night to reduce artificial light’s harmful from adjusting schedules for night owls oxygen concentration in the air effectively affect the processes of pollination and effects on various species. to adjusting medication for each patient’s reset the circadian clocks of mice flowering, which are critical to crop 10. Corals and bacteria biological clock. After finding differences subjected to a six-hour jump ahead in production and conservation. Professor Oren Levy of Bar-Ilan in the bacterial composition of the gut daylight hours. This suggests that airlines 8. The dark side of bone University’s Intermarine Institute microbiomes of nocturnal and diurnal fruit theoretically could vanquish jetlag by Stem cells in the bone marrow follow discovered two photoreceptor genes flies, Tauber is collaborating with a lab at moderating cabin air pressure. daily cycles of light and darkness, called cryptochromes that synchronize the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 5. Best and worst times to medicate according to a study published by spawning in corals and other marine to check for similar differentiation in self- The circadian clock causes researchers at the Weizmann Institute organisms. Light pollution confuses the identified larks and owls. fluctuations in hormones and enzymes in collaboration with colleagues in Brazil synchronization. 2. Time meals to lose weight throughout the day. Scientists rely on and Canada.Adjusting the timing of But it’s not only light-sensitive If you synchronize mealtimes with mouse studies to predict how those stem-cell harvesting to these daily cycles organisms that have circadian rhythms. A your circadian rhythm you’ll get slimmer fluctuations affect our metabolism may boost the success of bone-marrow 2016 study from the labs of the Weizmann than if you eat the same type and and the development of obesity, fatty transplants. Institute showed that even gut bacteria amount of food without any schedule, liver disease and type 2 diabetes. A 9. Circadian rhythm and diabetes display circadian rhythmicity. Wiping regardless of whether the food is low-fat revolutionary organ-on-a-chip invented Melatonin is a hormone secreted only out mice’s gut bacteria with antibiotics or high-fat. That’s one significant finding by Prof. Yaakov Nahmias, director of at night, yet it signals nocturnal species eliminated normal toxicity fluctuations from the lab of Oren Froy, associate Hebrew University’s Grass Center for to wake up and signals diurnal species in their livers. The implication is that professor of neuroendocrinology and Bioengineering mimics the circadian (like us) to go to sleep, says Professor researchers should also be considering metabolism, and director of the Institute rhythms of the human liver, heart, brain Noga Kronfeld-Schor, chair of the Tel the activity of bacteria in relation to when of Biochemistry, Food Science and and kidney. Nahmias stated that, “We Aviv University School of Zoology and we take drugs. Page  Shalom March 2010 Community News Page 8 SHALOM June 2019 Obituaries Response to horror reminds us goodness will always prevail Lucy Suzanne Knoblauch L. (Sulman) Moyer. He is also survived By Rabbi Yosef Lipsker Judaism’s 3,000-year-old wisdom is and proclaimed to his heartbroken American way of life has to offer. Yes, Zeidman, 96, Wyomissing. by his daughters, Aileen D., widow Chabad Center of Berks County taught with depth and practicality. Our congregation “Am Yisroel Chai”, meaning we have bad apples everywhere, but Surviving are a son, Bruce F., of Neal H. Endy, of Pennside, and E. While transferring centers the world over are staffed by “the Jewish nation is alive.” Jewish Americans and all those who love husband of Geraldine L. Zeidman, of Roxanne, wife of Les Walker, of Batavia our Passover kitchen rabbis and rebbetzins, couples who After undergoing extensive surgery, our country and its founding principles, Shillington; a brother, Harry Knoblauch, Ohio; sons, Stan B. , husband of Kristine items to storage just a are devoted community leaders, who, he beseeched America to introduce a will not be deterred. The Egyptians, husband of Edith Knoblauch, of Reading; K. Moyer, of Sinking Spring and Jay mere few weeks ago I together with their children, build homes “moment of silence” into our schools, so Romans, Greeks, Byzantines, Ottomans, a sister, Ruth Balis of Wyomissing; and H., husband of Margaret R. Moyer, of turned on my dormant for all to celebrate, no strings attached, that America’s children would have a daily Spaniards, Bolsheviks, Third Reich, and several nieces and nephews. Muhlenberg Township. Other survivors phone that, in following no judgment ever passed. opportunity to contemplate their Creator and every other entity that tried to destroy us --- are grandchildren: Brett A. Endy, Chad Jewish tradition, had It was into this sacred space that a the meaning of life, which would help guide are gone, remaining only in sad history Irene S. Zeidman, 62, Wyomissing. M. Endy and Elizabeth K. Moyer; and been off for 48 hours. 19-year-old terrorist brought death and them to live a happier, more fruitful life. books, and those who’ve sought religious She is survived by her brother Bruce great-grandchildren, Carson N., Logan Instantly, my heart horror. It was yet another attempt of evil President Donald Trump, Gov. Gavin freedom andImages spread light, from are thriving. F., husband of Geraldine L. Zeidman C., Ardyn N. and Ava L. Endy sunk, my soul was trying to crush the infinite happiness and Newsom, Prime Minister Benjamin Am Yisroel Chai. of Shillington. --- punctured, my mind froze. Not again, not holiness that radiates from Jews and Netanyahu and so many other leaders Rabbi GoldsteinYemin gave Orde me a total --- Shirley Robinson of B’nai B’rith another Pittsburgh, not another Jerusalem, not Judaism. My uncle, a general in the Israeli reached out to Rabbi Goldstein and transformationArea resident of darkness and recent into college light, of Robert Berger, 54, Reading. Apartments. Survived by her Friendship another Paris. It did happen again. This time army, survived many wars as he fought supported the Jewish community at tragedygraduate into a time Jessica of inspiration. Flamholz I sentwill think us He was the former spouse of Lea Circle friends. at my sister Chabad center in Poway, Calif. for the survival of his people in our eternal large. We have seen an outpouring of Rabbithese Yisroel pictures Goldstein’s from her couragerecent visit and Berger, Reading. He is survived by --- Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein is only a homeland Israel. Growing up, hearing his of love and support from so many, faith, whichto Yemin will serve Orde, as an a Israeli reminder village to me two daughters, Molly R. Berger, State Louis Malamud, 95, formerly couple of years older than me, and we stories, I never thought that this hatred expressing America’s true colors. We that, ultimately,for children goodness and youth will always supported prevail. College, and Bethany S. Berger, of Temple. He is survived by a son, grew up together in New York. His center would be expressed so violently in my have seen the best that America and the Am Yisroelby Chai! our Federation. Reading; and one brother, Dr. Barry M. Mitchel, husband of Laura Malamud, in Poway, like our Chabad center here in beloved America. Sadly, it was. Berger, husband of Kathleen A. Vieweg, of Las Vegas; grandchildren Barry Reading, was molded with love and joy As blood was gushing from Boston, Mass. husband of Johna Malamud, Deborah by our beloved mentor Rabbi Menachem Rabbi Goldstein’s fingers, before the --- Babbit-Malamud and Sheri Malamud; Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. ambulances even made it to the horrific All Around the Town______David Moyer, 85, Reading. and great-grandchildren: Jessy Babbit, It’s a place where Judaism comes alive, scene at the synagogue, he stood up By MazelJoan G. Tov Friedman to Anneliese Bateman Badal, who has received the honor of He is survived by his wife, Marjorie Carly Malmud and Ian Malamud. where smiles are contagious and where on a chair outside his Chabad Center on Congratulationsthe birth of great-grandson to Korey Blanck Jusick beingWe chosen love good as thenews Child about Advocate members of Alexanderand to Edith Adkins. Blanck on the birth of ofthe our Year community! for the State Please of Pennsylvania. share it by their new granddaughter and great- *** survived by his wife, Randi; his children, *** emailing [email protected] or calling Plan for your Bar/Bat Mitzvah & Wedding Guests! Obituary granddaughter! Best wishes to our Berks County Holly, wife of Harry Zinn; Russell Brandt Mazel tov to Carol Greenberg on the JCC office at 610-921-0624. *** athletes competing in the 2010 Maccabi Walter R. Brandt, 78, of Blandon. and his wife, Frances; and Alyssa and the birth of her grandson Cohen Max Mazel Tov to the Bluestone Family: Games:Until next time: Shalom! (Joan Friedman) Walter graduated from Ryder University Ashley Brandt. Other survivors include Greenberg. Shalom Newspaper To David and Marianna on their new Emily & Jared Baksic, swimming with a bachelor’s degree in business his 10 grandchildren. He was a loving daughter and to grandparents Eric and Andrew Blickle, basketball 5” (2 col.) x 7” and was a senior buyer for Boscov’s for father figure to Grace Batista and Elijah Marissa. Matthew Eisenberg, swimming Questions? 37 years, retiring in June 2017. He is Velazquez. Were I God *** Hannah and Alexis Glassmire, Contact Jodi Gibble, Marketing Director ByCongratulations Nancy J. 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Chabad’s “Bake a Difference” event provided a beautiful way of having a wonderful time with others while baking challa from scratch. The breads at right were baked during the program and were donated to Opportunity House..

wrote a poem for you: the government paid for the sacrifice Do you remember? I am writing this poem to all of you, our men and women made. Over the age of 80 which includes We all remember bad times, but we me too. remember good times more, By Tootie Moyer • You couldn’t wear a bathing suit We remember what we want to keep Remember fun and laughter, so you Hi everyone, here are some more of on Atlantic City’s board walk, today you in our head, don’t get sore, my memories, see if you remember: can wear anything. We remember what I said and what smile, smile, smile and say hello to • Apples, oranges and bananas • Do you remember these you said. everyone you see, were 5 cents each – not one dollar. entertainers? But most of all we think about our life you will be much happier and so will • Bread and milk were delivered Jackie Cooper, Irene Dunne, Rosalind long ago. they, you will be to your home. Russell, ZaSu Pitts, Lana Turner When everyone in America prayed smiling to yourself and be so happy • You had to crank up to start a car Do you remember – oh my goodness, that every WWII “G.I. Joe”, you will see. (way back). I can’t remember anything else- so I Will come home safe to his kids and I know this because after 95 years, wife, I am still smiling most of the time. I and start living again to an ordinary will close with a hug and kiss to you life. from a “youngster.” I promise I will We remember the G.I. Bill that gave remember more the next time I write service men a trade, a column.

Join Us As We Observe

Tisha B’Av

Kesher Zion Synagogue

555 Warwick Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610

Our observance will include:

Saturday, August 10, 2019 Seudah Mafseket—8:30 p.m. The chanting of Eicha - (The Book of Lamentations) to follow Havdalah

Sunday, August 11, 2019 —No Service

Fast begins: Saturday, August 10 at 8:04 p.m. Fast ends: Sunday, August 11 at 8:33 p.m. Page 10 SHALOM June 2019 JFS helps the Jewish needy in Berks County

By Sari Incledon circumstances leave them destitute and relations. But there are still people who The Forward needing help. Fortunately, JFS since don’t have family who can help them. recently published its inception, has been there for at risk Some are disabled, some are seniors on “We Need to Talk individuals and families. a fixed income and some are working at About Jewish Eisner wants us to face “the fact that not low paying jobs, others seek employment, Poverty,” an opinion all Jews are well-educated, economically, often unsuccessfully. We are proud to have piece by Jane Eisner. successful, politically powerful, culturally been able to save people from becoming e It made an impression assimilated and solidly middle class (or homeless or have their utilities shut off. on me. For the last 25 wealthier).” A communal professional told But we do more. We help them to years I have worked her, “there’s a tremendous sense of denial be self-sustaining. We work with clients

c for JFS and helped in the Jewish community about how many to find solutions. We help them apply numerous people who were not able to Jews truly need help.” Our Jewish media for subsidized housing, food stamps, i make it on their own. It is true that American tends to celebrate Jewish success and Medicaid, VA benefits. And for those who Jews are generally more affluent and concentrate on Israel, anti-Semitism and are able to work, we help with references, economically stable than other groups. intermarriage. All are important topics, but resumes, and referrals to possible work v But in Berks County, like in other parts as a result many of us are not aware of opportunities. Generous yearly gifts from of our country, the social safety net does the struggles many Jews face here and the estate of Dr, Irvin and Beatrice Shaffer not always protect people when sudden throughout the United States. and your gifts to the Reading/Berks Jewish r unemployment, divorce, drug addiction, We are fortunate that many families Federation make it possible for us to help mental health issues and other unforeseen provide support to help their needy Jews who need help in Berks County.

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Friendship Circle enjoys an afternoon of pet therapy with Debbie Greusel

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Jewish Family Service held its annual community Passover Seder at the Manor at Market Square. Clockwise from top left: Mariette Jacobson; Edith Mendelsohn; Sylvia Wenger, Ethel Engel, and Mae Levy June 2019 SHALOM Page 11 Better Together and JCHS conclude school year

By Rabbi Barry Dov Lerner Reading Jewish Community High School For the final session of the 2019 year, JCHS celebrated in both regular classes and our Better Together session, with learning and a special dessert snack. In our course on “Traditional Jewish Values and Modern Media,” Rabbi Dov concluded this year with scenes from “Stand and Deliver,” a film based on students who overcame obstacles in order to earn AP course credits because a teacher believed in them. That was my intended message to them. Our Jewish tradition emphasizes “Talmud Torah k’neged kulam,” Jewish study and learning is of primary importance, and that message has been demonstrated by our students and their families over the years of JCHS. Our students thankfully didn’t face the economic, cultural and social obstacles of the East LA teens in the movie. But they did face the incredible challenges for teens and parents to travel from so many widespread communities, traveling through various seasons and for long distances. It was a constant challenge for each student to juggle Jewish Community High School and Better Together participants enjoy a video together. their unusually busy schedules and school and extra-curricular programs, and family calendars. Teens, parents and community deserve kudos for what we have achieved. We then had a special session of “Jewish Food: Fact or Fiction,” taught by Barbara Lerner. As she wrote for the students: “When we covered the artisanal Brooklyn mashup of babka ice cream, we started wondering … who else is making ice cream with h Education our favorite classic Jewish flavors? We decided to cover ice cream and gelato producers that sell in markets nationwide, and flavors that reminded us of Israeli markets or Jewish holidays or comfort foods.” These include: • Ben & Jerry’s nondairy ice cream: These pareve treats are perfect for people who keep kosher or are sensitive to dairy. • Haagen Dazs Toasted Sesame Brittle has a flavor reminiscent of halvah. • Talenti Black Cherry gelato is the sweet cousin of Hungarian sour cherry soup. • Talenti Toasted Almond gelato is right up there with almond macaroons or mandelbrot. ewi s • Steve’s Wildflower Honey Pistachio Rabbi Dov leads the final day of classes at Jewish Community High School/Better ogether.T vegan ice cream features not one but two of our favorite Israeli flavors. Plus, it’s pareve. enjoy one of the seven species in this all for a few hours and just sing – together. J • Steve’s Coconut Macaroon ice cream: goat milk (no cream) ice cream. Rabbi Dov distributed the Hebrew, Perfect for passover and Shavuot. To bring our year of Better Together English translation and transliteration in • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream’s Pistachio to completion, we addressed changing order to be able to “sing along.” https://www. Camp Scholarships and Honey: This flavor is right out of the attitudes regarding abortion and Jewish law. youtube.com/watch?v=oxzR9Z-kG6Q land of Milk and Honey. Which leads us to… We then finished our year, watching The song was “Al Kol Elah,” composed Israel Trips • Three Twins Land of Milk and Honey: a “Koolulam” video from last year’s Israel by Naomi Shemer, whose words speak to Jewish Community Creamy ice cream was made to become a Independence Day. “Koolulam” is a social- our constant hope that peace can come vehicle for honey. Plus, 1% of all sales of this musical initiative aimed at strengthening the to the world, that we can build decent and High School flavor supports research to help the honeybee. fabric of society. The project centers around respectful societies and we can anticipate • Three Twins Dad’s Cardamom: A spice large groups of non-professionals coming humanity living together in justice, in dignity Lakin Preschool that’s ubiquitous in Israel is at center stage together to form a collaborative musical and equity – someday, and soon. Better Together for this intriguing ice cream flavor. creation. Koolulam brings together people from May the summer and the coming year • LaLoo’s Goat Milk Black Mission Fig: all walks of life to do one thing: stop everything bring peace and fulfillment to us all.

June � Iyar-Sivan Join us for the final Tot Shabbat!

Shabbat Candle Lightings Torah Portions June 8th at 10:00 am

June 1/27 lyar Bechukotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34)

June 7 June 8/5 Sivan 8:13 p.m. Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20) habbat June 14 June 15/12 Siva otS 8:17 p.m. Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89) T Members and non-members are A musical, story-filled, interactive hour for invited. No registration is required. children through grade 2. Bring your family & June 21 June 22/19 Sivan Tot Shabbat services are held friends to celebrate with Rabbi Michelson 8:19 p.m. Behaalotecha (Numbers 8:1-12:15) Saturday mornings at 10:00 am at & stay for a pint-sized oneg of juice, challah, Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom, fruit, & child-friendly treats! June 28 June 29/26 Sivan 555 Warwick Drive, Wyomissing 8:19 p.m. Shclach (Numbers 13:1-15:41) unless noted. Please call the Temple office with any questions, 610.375.6034.

Page 12 SHALOM June 2019 Praying for the victims of Poway shooting

The community gathers at the Chabad Center to pray for those attacked at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California. The event included speeches from local community leaders, a candle-lighting ceremony and a video message from Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of Chabad of Poway. Photo by Jeremy Drey courtesy of Reading Eagle.

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From online news sources compared to only 26,000 in 2011. The number of Arab students in Israel Another general trend is the growth studying for undergraduate degrees in in the number of students majoring in engineering and computer science has high-tech fields, including electrical doubled in six years, Israel’s Council for engineering, telecommunications Higher Education reported. In 2012, about engineering, software engineering, optical 1,850 Arab students majored in these engineering, computer science and fields and in 2018 their number reached mathematics. Over the past six years the 3,780. number of students in these fields has The percentage of Arab students risen by about 30 percent and is now studying in these fields also grew by 34,660. During the present academic 50 percent — in 2012 only 8 percent year, for the first time, more students of all students enrolled in these degree registered for engineering programs than programs were Arabs, while in 2018 Arabs for the humanities – which for years were students made up 12 percent of the total. the most popular majors in Israel. About 60 percent of the Arab students in The Council for Higher Education these fields are studying in Israel’s public set a goal of increasing the number research universities, while the rest are of students in so-called high-tech studying in private colleges. professions over the next few years “The impressive figures testify to in general, and for Arab students scholarships for Arab students enrolled to run programs to reduce the dropout rate the great success of the revolution in in particular. A steering committee in doctoral programs, partly to create for Arab students. making higher education accessible in reporting to the Planning and Budgeting a larger pool of Arab academic faculty The Council recently presented a Arab society,” said the chairwoman of Committee worked on the matter and members. list of majors in which Arabs students the Planning and Budgeting Committee published its recommendations in The committee’s report said most of are underrepresented. The steering of the Council for Higher Education, Prof. August. the outstanding students from the Arab committee which deals with the issue Yaffa Zilbershats. “Today we see the As for specific recommendations community study medicine. of increasing the number of Arab Arab students learning and excelling on concerning Arab students, the committee The Council for Higher Education students, called this goal is a “national all the campuses in Israel.” Zilbershats recommended a few directions, including has already implemented a number of necessity.” The list of fields in which said the CHE will continue to work to investing in improving high school math, these recommendations, including a scholarships are available includes encourage the tens of thousands of Arab science and language studies for Arab program for encouraging higher education psychology, economics, math, students to rise to the challenge and study students. among Arab high school students. The communications disorders, social professions that are in high demand in Among the other recommendations Council is also making public relations work and veterinary medicine. The Israel’s economy. were conducting a program for efforts to change the negative image in committee has also called to increase The number of Arab university students outstanding Arab students, in which Arab society concerning studying in pre- the number of Arab students studying in general rose by 80 percent in the past they would be exposed to high-tech college preparatory programs. In addition, music and art, which is currently very seven years, reaching 47,000 in 2018, fields, and increasing the number of academic institutions now receive funding low. Tel Aviv researchers discover path to new epilepsy treatment

From online news sources various parts of the brain is a main The adaptation of a known drug element in a wide range of brain for the treatment of multiple sclerosis disorders, including epilepsy, could help epilepsy patients, a new Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.” study by researchers at Tel Aviv Since metabolic homeostasis is University has revealed. critical for maintaining normal brain The potential breakthrough, which function, and epilepsy is characterized may help patients with epilepsy and by significant changes in metabolic other brain disorders who do not activity in the brain, the researchers respond to available treatments today, applied a computational model for is based on the discovery of a new mapping metabolic processes in cells, mechanism that regulates and ensures a method developed and extensively the stability of brain activity. applied in cancer research by the While most researchers have laboratory of Professor Eytan Ruppin. previously looked for malfunctions in Using genetic data of epilepsy the regulation mechanism that may be patients, researchers “turned off” each perceived as a “thermostat” of neural metabolic gene in the model to search activity, restoring the neural network to for the gene whose silencing would its original set point after every event bring the defective metabolism closest that increases or diminishes activity, to normal. Tel Aviv University researchers led by One of the leading candidates Professor Inna Slutsky now argue that discovered through this process was the set point itself deviates from the the gene DHODH, known to be active norm among epilepsy sufferers. in mitochondria — organelles serving Tel Aviv University researchers, from left, Nir Gonen, Professor Inna Slutsky, Boaz Styr and Daniel Zarihin. The findings were published on in as the power station of all living cells. the peer-reviewed scientific journal “The DHODH gene codes for the substances that reduce cell activity In both models, researchers Neuron. DHODH enzyme, which is inhibited for a limited time, following which observed that brain activity returned “The concept of homeostasis has by a known drug for multiple the former level of activity, around to a normal level and recorded a sharp a long history in physiology... While sclerosis called Teriflunomide,” the initial set point, is subsequently decline in the severity of epileptic much effort has been directed to Slutsky said. “So we decided to restored. seizures. Viewing the mitochondria understanding neuronal homeostasis, test the effect of this drug on brain “These findings led us to suspect in the brain cells of the mice under we still don’t know how activity set cells.” that the DHODH affects the set point a microscope, researchers found points are regulated in neural circuits,” When Teriflunomide was added to itself. This means that, contrary to that Teriflunomide had significantly said Professor Slutsky of Tel Aviv healthy brain cells in a laboratory for a common belief, we do have the ability reduced abnormally high levels of University’s Faculty of Medicine and prolonged period of time, a lower level to change the set point of neuronal calcium — a known feature of many Sagol School of Neuroscience. of cell activity became permanent, activity,” Slutsky said. brain disorders. “The instability of neural activity in unlike the effect of most inhibiting “In other words, a drug targeting the “We discovered a new mechanism DHODH enzyme can actually ‘correct’ responsible for regulating brain activity the abnormal set point, bringing it in the hippocampus, which may serve Jewish Family Service Food Pantry Collection to a normal level. This may well be as a basis for the future development compared to changing the temperature of effective drugs for epilepsy,” Slutsky We are serving more families in an air conditioning thermostat, to set said. We are serving more families it at a comfortable level.” “We also assume that the same eacheach month!month! Please bringbring When researchers investigated phenomenon — an abnormal set donationsdonations of cannedof canned tuna, tuna, soup, the effect of Teriflunomide in two point regulation — may very well be soup, fruits and vegetables to mice models for epilepsy – an acute found in neurodegenerative diseases fruits and vegetables to model inducing an epileptic seizure characterized by anomalous levels of Kesher theZion JCC. or the JCC. immediately and a genetic chronic activity in various parts of the brain, ThankThank you!you! model of Dravet Syndrome, which such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. causes severe epilepsy in children and In a new study, we are now testing We also need plastic and paper grocery bags! is resistant to most existing treatments the effectiveness of our approach for — the results were encouraging. treating Alzheimer’s.” Page 14 SHALOM June 2019 BDS movement a cleverly disguised campaign to destroy Israel

By Alex Titus The truth is that many of the students Barghouti also isn’t afraid to play up Mission, a nonprofit watchdog group, and Alexander Khan and activists who support the movement anti-Semitic tropes. He has portrayed the BDS has received significant financial Don’t be fooled by talk of ‘social justice’ have been duped into thinking they’re Jewish people as puppet masters and contributions from organizations such as and ‘human rights.’ The movement is anti- supporting a noble cause. In fact, BDS is manipulators to rally troops to his cause. American Muslims for Palestine, which Semitic to its core. little more than a ploy established and run He once claimed during a talk at Wayne has direct ties to Hamas, the Palestinian Outrage ensued on social media and by radical anti-Semites who deny Israel’s State University that Jews “know how to terror group backed by Iran. The attorney university campuses across America this right to exist and seek to destroy it. bully, how to intimidate. … Congress is general of Arizona even publicly linked BDS past week when it was reported that the You don’t need to take our word for bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.” to Hamas in a court filing earlier this year. U.S. government had denied prominent it: Let Barghouti speak for himself. He Such talk echoes Rep. Omar, who in In short, BDS isn’t a civil-rights Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti entry believes that Israel is an illegitimate state. 2012 tweeted that “Israel has hypnotized movement; it’s a smart, sinister marketing into the country. Barghouti had planned At a 2013 event in Norway, he referred the world,” and earlier this year touched campaign designed to spread anti-Semitism to come to the U.S. to promote the highly contemptuously to “self-determination off a fierce backlash after claiming that and delegitimize and destroy Israel. It controversial Boycott, Divestment, and for Jewish settlers in Palestine, which I U.S. support for Israel was “all about the cannot be allowed to go unchallenged, Sanctions (BDS) movement he co-founded. categorically oppose. Never in history Benjamins, baby,” invoking the anti-Israel especially given its increasing popularity BDS supporters claim that they want to was a colonizing community ever allowed crowd’s favorite boogeyman, the American in the U.S. America supports its friends, put economic pressure on Israel to reach self-determination … colonizers are not Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), for and we have no greater Middle East friend agreement on a peaceful and fair solution entitled to self-determination.” He later good measure. and partner than Israel. Honoring that to its conflict with the Palestinians, and their went on to make his meaning crystal Speaking of which, evidence about the partnership demands a firm rejection of message has found increasing traction clear. “A Jewish state in Palestine, in any funding and connections of BDS is quite Barghouti and his ghoulish cause. in the U.S. The controversial Democratic shape or form, cannot but contravene damning. Activists attempt to claim that it Alex Titus is a policy adviser at America representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan the basic rights of the land’s indigenous is a grassroots-funded movement, but that First Policies. Alexander Khan is an Omar have lent the movement high-profile Palestinian population and perpetuate a is unequivocally false. Accordingto Canary incoming student at Harvard Law School. support. The New York Times Magazine system of racial discrimination that ought recently published a pro-BDS cover story to be opposed categorically,” he said. written by a highly controversial political “Definitely, most definitely we oppose a journalist. Altogether, 31 universities have Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No passed BDS measures since 2015, and, Palestinian — rational Palestinian, not a since 2005, 127 such measures have been sell-out Palestinian — will ever accept a considered. Jewish state in Palestine.”

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From online news sources In Israel, military service is For eight hours a day, E., 21, compulsory for all 18-year-olds sits in front of multiple computer following high school, though screens in Tel Aviv, scanning high- exemptions are issued on a number resolution satellite images for of grounds, including residence suspicious objects or movements. abroad, religious reasons, or physical As a decoder of Israel’s complex and or mental disability. often heavily civilian battlegrounds, In 2008, the country ended the he’s been critical in preventing the practice of issuing blanket exemption loss of life of soldiers on the ground notices for autistic Israelis and in several different situations, his instead began accepting them on officers say. a case-by-case basis, typically for For many people, combing through secretarial roles or voluntary civil- each millimeter of the same location service positions in hospitals and from various angles would be tedious schools. work — but E., who is on the autism None of these options interested spectrum, describes the job as E., who had decided he would enlist relaxing, “like a hobby.” only if he could have a more typical E. (he requested his full name experience. be withheld to comply with army But later that year, his school protocol) is a corporal in the Israel was visited by representatives from says he plans to apply to stay on soldiers as examples of what young Defense Force’s “Visual Intelligence Ro’im Rachok (Hebrew for “seeing permanently. But regardless of people on the spectrum are capable Division,” otherwise known as Unit into the future”), a program that how long they stay, many of Ro’im of when they have the appropriate 9900, which counts dozens of Israelis helps students with autism prepare Rachok’s graduates depend on the support systems. Efrat Selanikyo, an on the autism spectrum among its for enlistment in the IDF. When they connections and skills they build occupational therapist at Ono, says members. mentioned the two previous cohorts of in the army to help them achieve that she and her colleagues help The relationship is a mutually autistic Israelis who had successfully independence once they leave it. to create one such support system beneficial one. served as image analysts, E. recalls, Especially in the intelligence fields, by implementing strict and clear For these young people, the unit is he became convinced that he could military service is often a pathway to guidelines for the training phase of an opportunity to participate in a part find a meaningful position as a jobs in Israel’s booming tech sector. the program. of Israeli life that might otherwise be soldier. This is particularly advantageous “For their [own] good, we maintain closed to them. The pre-army course consists for young people with autism as a strong sense of discipline, but And for the military, it’s an of three phases, beginning with a they approach the so-called “bloody we also need to prepare them for a opportunity to harness the unique rigorous selection process: Students 21,” the age at which almost all reality in which things change very skill sets that often come with autism: undergo tests and interviews to government-funded programs for drastically,” she says. extraordinary capacities for visual ensure that they have the skills to autistic Israelis, like subsidized At first, some have trouble thinking and attention to detail, both successfully analyze images, that transportation and assisted-living following the rule that forbids them of which lend themselves well to they can adjust to the army’s rigid services, are cut off. from discussing the unit’s activities the highly specialized task of aerial structure, and that they pose no risk * * * with outsiders. But Selanikyo has analysis. to themselves or to their operations. Some research suggests that the also seen participants take the rules Geraldine Dawson, the director Of the dozens of applicants this year, rare visual capabilities required for so seriously that they refuse to tell of the Duke Center for Autism 12 candidates made the cut. (They Unit 9900 may come more easily their parents anything about their and Brain Development, says that can also choose to withdraw if the to the autistic brain. A 2011 study, experiences, their new friends, or beginning early in life, autistic process proves too onerous.) for example, found that childhood their work. children may compensate for The second phase is carried autism was two to four times more In response to calls from anxious lagging social development by out in conjunction with the health- prevalent in the Dutch technology parents suddenly in the dark about developing stronger-than-average profession department at Ono hub of Eindhoven as in other Dutch their children’s lives, Selanikyo now perceptual skills, excelling in Academic College, which hosts the cities of similar size, support for a sends weekly emails with updates visually- and systematically- satellite-image analysis course at its possible link between autism and on the participants’ progress and oriented activities such as puzzles campus in central Israel. scientific ability. Other people have wellbeing. or drawings. During the three-month course, observed a similar phenomenon in But she and her colleagues “People with autism often talk which runs three times a year, Silicon Valley. also help the participants take about thinking in pictures, rather than Unit 9900 commanders train the “A growing body of research is steps towards self-sufficiency and categorizing information according applicants using non-classified showing that autistics outperform independence, one of the most to language,” she explains. “They aerial maps. The students also meet neurologically typical children and important being their mastery tend to think less in a holistic form, frequently with a team of therapists adults in a wide range of perception of Israel’s public-transportation they’re integrating lots of pieces who help them learn to adjust to tasks, such as spotting a pattern system. into a whole, and they’re much new trials and stresses, from the in a distracting environment,” Selanikyo and the occupational more likely to see the finer details responsibility of the work itself to Laurent Mottron, a psychiatry therapists use the bus system as of something.” figuring out how to take the bus from professor at the University of a lesson for other potential small Those finer details are the nuts home to the army base. Montreal, wrote in a 2011 column crises: When a bus is off schedule, and bolts of the elite Unit 9900, whose These three months are considered in Nature magazine. He added for example, they teach students to soldiers act as eyes on the ground the program’s “honeymoon phase,” that most people with autism defer to an alternative plan rather for highly sensitive operations, when the candidates are full of “outperform in auditory tasks (such than descend into panic. analyzing complex images delivered excitement and motivation to learn. as discriminating sound pitches), Several Israeli transportation in real time from military satellites The organizers also encourage detecting visual structures, and companies have partnered with around the world. candidates to use the time for mentally manipulating complex Roiim Rachok, and allow the But for many of the unit’s autistic introspection, helping to foster three-dimensional shapes.” participants to ride for free, despite soldiers, the more daunting challenge discussions on the students’ futures Israel, like many developed the fact that they are not yet soldiers is learning to communicate and as independent adults and their moral countries, has experienced a (active members of the military are socialize with their peers. positions regarding the military, says continuous uptick in autism cases eligible for free trips). E. — who, like many of the autistic Tal Vardy, a co-founder of Ro’im over the past decade and a half. The organizers of Ro’im Rachok soldiers in the unit, is considered Rachok. Between 2004 and 2011, the are currently working on plans to “high functioning” and attended In the final three-month phase, number of Israelis on the autism expand beyond Unit 9900. Future special-education program within a Vardy says, the applicants continue spectrum increased fivefold, with applicants will be able to train for mainstream high school — says his their professional training and 1,000 new diagnoses per year, additional intelligence units of the adolescence was characterized by a therapy sessions on an army base according to a survey released IDF, in roles like quality assurance, general sense of “floating around,” in Tel Aviv, and decide if they are by the country’s Social Affairs programming, and information both socially and academically. He ready for enlistment. Ministry. sorting. had a hard time listening in class, Those who do enlist have the But autism still carries a heavy This growth, they believe, will help though he performed well on tests. choice to opt out after the end of each stigma among Israelis. Autistic the program continue its secondary His sense of isolation was year, or complete the typical required children are frequently suspended mission of integrating people with exacerbated by the special aide term of service. In Israel, men serve from schools for misbehavior, and autism into mainstream Israeli who accompanied him during the three years and women serve two; the Knesset Education Committee society. school day. although Unit 9900 is coed, Ro’im has found that because there are no “When the whole neighborhood “It’s not fun at that age to have Rachok has had just one female official special-education guidelines suddenly sees their neighbor, a boy someone always watching over you, soldier to date (researchers estimate for autistic students, some teachers on the autism spectrum, coming when you just want to hang out with that there are up to three times as have requested that they receive home on Friday in uniform,” Selanikyo the guys,” he said. many men on the autism spectrum stronger medication before they’re says, “and hears that they can also But his biggest setback came in as women). readmitted into class. continue in these fields into civilian 12th grade, when he received an E., who connects strongly with Partly as a means of reducing this work—it naturally has an enormous exemption letter from the army. the army’s structured atmosphere, stigma, Ro’im Rachok points to its influence.” Page 16 SHALOM June 2019 Israeli hospital performs first live vein transplant

From online news sources of his veins were in good enough You’ve heard of heart condition. transplants, kidney transplants What if someone in his family and bone-marrow transplants. could donate a vein? That was the Now doctors at Hadassah “crazy idea” that came to Prof. University Medical Center in Ron Carmeli, chief of vascular Jerusalem have added a new type: surgery at Hadassah. the vein transplant. And it saved the All four of Yavetz’s children life of 60-year-old Israeli Avi Yavetz. quickly offered to supply a vein Yavetz suffers from peripheral for their father. vascular disease (PVD), a blood- Carmeli subsequently removed circulation disorder that causes a long vein extending from 27- the blood vessels outside the year old Snir Yavetz’s groin to his heart to narrow and become foot, before surgically implanting blocked. it into the elder Yavetz. In one of his legs, the veins and Vein transplantation has been arteries were obstructed and blood done before — but only from a wouldn’t flow. An amputation was a corpse. “A donation from a living near certainty — an unfortunately person — and another family all too common occurrence in PVD member in our case — is the first Avi Yavetz, left, received a vein from his son Snir, right, at Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, in patients. of its kind,” Carmeli said. the first-ever live vein transplant. Yavetz did have an artery and Two weeks later, the vein is veins inside the leg that could functioning and Yavetz’s leg “is transplant patient, just like organ and be carefully monitored restore blood flow. safe from amputation,” Carmeli someone who has undergone by medical staff. But he was missing a vein large said. liver and kidney transplantation,” But if the results remain good, enough to connect the artery with Yavetz is not out of the woods Carmeli points out. Carmeli is optimistic. “I am sure the smaller veins; because of his entirely. “The treatment of this Yavetz will need to take drugs this breakthrough will save many past surgeries for his PVD, none patient is the same as every to prevent rejection of the new others in the future.” U.S. to U.N.: You yourself rejected withdrawal to 1967 lines

From online news sources the UN Dore Gold said a security Heights, Pompeo and Friedman Heights, the president has afforded The Trump administration is rationale for retaining territory “is believe that Syria is a different Israel the only secure and recognized challenging the United Nations’ even stronger in the West Bank” story. boundary that can exist under the claim that Israel must withdraw to than it is on the Golan. The previous “In word and deed, Damascus has circumstances — the objective of the pre-1967 lines, in an opinion claimant to sovereignty in the West for 52 years rejected the negotiating Resolution 242.” piece two of its top officials Bank was Jordan, which acquired framework of Resolution 242,” the Friedman and Pompeo added published in The Wall Street the territory during the 1948 War of two officials wrote. “It has maintained that if Israel does not maintain Journal. Independence, Gold explained. The a state of war with Israel since Israel control of the Golan Heights, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claim was recognized only by Pakistan became independent in 1948,” never Bashar Assad or Iran will take and Ambassador to Israel David and Great Britain, he said. allowing Israel to live in secure control, giving the world a choice: Friedman argued that the historic In contrast, many countries borders without threat.“By affirming “a dictator of a nonfunctioning state Security Council Resolution 242 — recognized Syria’s previous standing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan or a peaceful and democratic ally.” which the international community on the Golan, even though Syria was often cites as the basis of its claim an aggressor in the 1967 war, Gold that Israel is required to relinquish all said. territory it acquired during the June He pointed to the letter President Pediatric and Adult Patients 1967 Six Day War — bolsters the George W. Bush wrote to Israeli Prime Treating Ear, Nose, Throat Problems international legitimacy of the Trump Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004 about administration’s decision to recognize the terms of a peace deal with the Thyroid Nodules, Neck Masses & Sinusitis Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Palestinians. Heights, which Israel captured from In that letter Bush stated that, for Syria in 1967. security reasons, Israel is not required Their argument, however, could to fully withdraw to the pre-1967 Physicians: also be applicable to the West Bank, lines. Bush also used as his rationale James P. Restrepo, M.D., FACS, ECNU which Israel captured from Jordan Security Council resolutions 242 and Charles K. Lutz, M.D., FACS in 1967. Speculation is high that the 338, passed after the 1973 Yom Kippur Trump peace plan, which is expected War. Jeffrey S. Driben, M.D., FACS, ECNU to be released in early June, would “As part of a final peace Scott J. Cronin, M.D. allow for Israel to retain control of all settlement, Israel must have secure the settlements located in Area C of and recognized borders, which Nurse Practitioner: the West Bank. should emerge from negotiations Arguments about Resolution between the parties, in accordance Rosemarie Montgomery 242 — passed in November 1967 with UNSC Resolutions 242 and MS, CRNP, FNP-C — have often centered around a 338. In light of new realities on the single sentence, which calls for the ground, including already existing “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces major Israeli populations centers, from territories occupied in the recent it is unrealistic to expect that the conflict.” outcomes of final status negotiations Those who believe the West will be a full and complete return to Bank is occupied argue that the armistice lines of 1949, and all the resolution speaks of a full previous efforts to negotiate a two- withdrawal, whereas others say state solution have reached the same that the use of the word “territories” conclusion,” Bush wrote. Audiologists: rather than the phrase “the In The Wall Street Journal, territories” implies that Israel has Pompeo and Friedman wrote Kathleen D. Vivaldi, AuD, FAAA to withdraw from only some, but not that “President Trump’s Golan Melanie A. Appler, AuD, FAAA all, of the territories. proclamation [in March] is entirely Matthew R. Bonsall, AuD, FAAA Pompeo and Friedman focused consistent with Resolution their argument on the issues of 242.”Syria was the only warring security, saying that Resolution party in the Six Day War to ignore the Providing diagnostic and rehabilitative services for all types of hearing 242 allows for Israel to retain resolution in 1967, they explained. loss, for any age group. 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Continued from Page 5Israelalso gets that the students its are first genuinely interprofessional,On a wider note, there have justice and Holocaust remembrance today. silence is not the reason why survivors interested in hearing their stories. I know been many recent developments in I am heartened to hear that three additional are invited in. Instead, that factor is my students were genuinely interested in Holocaust education in Berks County schools in Berks County will be offering present because of the student-runimmense respect hearing Hilde’s story community and many still talk and the surrounding health areas. 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County.productive, The other,and contributeGerry Evans, to isthe a regardingstudents the joined ethical/moral the project.” implications community health center in the City Student participation is anchored teachersurrounding at Hamburg community High School. and its I of theThe Holocaust. “Ruach I Tova”found theCenter students is of Haifa. The center offers services in the curriculum of the Faculty havedevelopment. been in contact with two other tolocated be receptive in the Hadar and inquisitiveneighborhood and free of charge, catering to a local of Medicine and other faculties localParticipating teachers, Pete Ruckelshaus students at haveof Haifa, been askeda city to knowndeliver afor similar its urban population that has difficulty involved.  Twinexperience Valley and Jim empowerment, Konecke at Wilson programopenness in theand classes co-existence. that the same obtaining medical treatment, whether With a wonderful team, the Highenrichment, School. Pete and has resurrectedfirsthand a professorThe alsocenter teaches operates at Reading Area in due to lack of means or special status, center is headed by Faculty of courseleadership on Holocaust opportunity Literature as at theyTwin Communitycoordination College. with the City of including at risk, homeless, and Medicine Professor Ruti Margalit, Valley,take part and in its the first development offering is and during Haifa,As mentioned HMOs, above,local healthKim Yashek, and LGBTQ youth. a physician with extensive themanagement current fourth of quarter. this significant He is very daughterwelfare officesof the late , hospitals, local Holocaust non- The first educational-social experience in community medicine excitedproject.” about offering this course to survivorprofit organizations,Richard Yashek, is andspeaking other at initiative of its kind in Israel, the who knows the model and has led his “Suchstudents centers and has evenhave lined been up Twinentities Valley, operating Hamburg inand the Fleetwood. field. center connects medical students influential academic and medical severaloperating guest for speakers the past including decade Rabbi in RightAs part now of Albright the interprofessional College is hosting at the Technion to the urban fabric initiatives in the United States, Brianthe United Michelson, States, Kim Yashek Canada, and Hildeand anwork exhibit that titled,characterizes “Stories Among it, Ruach Us: and to the population it will serve India, and Africa. Gernsheimer.Europe but in Israel this is the first WashingtonTova will Statebe redesigned Connections to and the in the future. Health is a basic human centerJim Koneckeof its kind, is teaching and we at hope Wilson to Holocaust,renovated Lessons by students in Genocide.” from Thethe The center is operated by right. We are working to make it Centralgive it Junior a unique High butIsraeli will be character moving up exhibitTechnion’s includes Faculty the stories of of Architecture five Holocaust medical students from the accessible to all,” said Professor toand Wilson help High establishSchool at the beginningsimilar survivorsand Town and Planning. one liberator and has of next school year. He will be offering a received good reviews. It is definitely course on Nazi Germany. His students worth a visit! 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Water pollution is one of the company was founded in 2009 leading causes of death in the west by entrepreneur Arye Kohavi and African country of Sierra Leone, maintains two factories in Israel. where average life expectancy is Meanwhile Miami-based just 56 years. Watergen USA has a factory in Now, St. Joseph School girls in South Carolina. the capital city of Freetown can The GEN-350 in Sierra Leone easily access safe drinking water was purchased by a group of thanks to Israeli technology in donors and a local NGO from SL the form of an atmospheric water Watergen, a national Watergen generator from the Israeli-based distributor. firm Watergen. “Watergen USA is pleased to The GEN-350 can produce up work with SL Watergen, which has to 900 liters of water per day from worked with various government the humid air of Africa. officials in Sierra Leone who have The atmospheric moisture is made clean, drinking water a purified through an internal water- priority for the new government,” treatment system. said Yehuda Kaploun, president of The unit needs no infrastructure Watergen USA. Girls at St. Joseph School in Sierra Leone crowding around to see their new GEN-350 water machine. except electricity from the power “We thank the president, vice grid or from a generator, according president and the Ministry of African countries, “and even more to officials. to Watergen. Water, all of whom worked with us announcements about other countries in Sierra Leone’s water sources, which Watergen President Michael to facilitate this project,” Kaploun Africa using our machines and technology primarily consist of ponds, unprotected Mirilashvili’s efforts to make fresh, said. “The government is extremely will be forthcoming.” wells and freestanding water, have pure water available around the pleased and looks forward to In Sierra Leone, approximately been contaminated by mining as well globe earned the company a place working with SL Watergen’s team half the population has no access as chemicals used in the agricultural on the World Economic Forum’s to place many more of these units to clean drinking water, and fewer industry. list of the world’s top technology throughout Sierra Leone.” than three-quarters of urban Water-borne infections and pioneers in 2018. Kaploun noted that Watergen dwellers have a safe-drinking parasites can cause typhoid fever Based in Rishon LeTzion, the is currently operating in many water supply available, according and hepatitis A.

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