Washtenaw Jewish News Presort Standard In this issue… c/o Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor U.S. Postage PAID 2939 Birch Hollow Drive Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Sukkot Taubman, Moshav Permit No. 85 on Hadassah Nahalal and Campus and U-M Ann Arbor Medical Teens Center Page 6 Page 8 Page 16 November 2010 Cheshvan/Kislev 5771 Volume XXXV: Number 3 FREE Joan Nathan to open Jewish Book Festival Mimi Weisberg, special to the WJN oan Nathan, author of Quiches, Kugels and Sephardic include Foods of Israel Today, Joan Nathan’s Jew- Television. Nathan has appeared as a guest on and Couscous, will open the Jewish Com- elegance— ish Holiday Cookbook, The Jewish Holiday Baker, numerous radio and television programs in- J munity Center of Greater Ann Arbor’s have infiltrated The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen, The Jew- cluding the Today Show; Good Morning, Amer- 23rd Annual Jewish Book Festival on Monday, contemporary ish Holiday Kitchen, and The Flavor of Jerusalem. ica; Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, The Martha November 1, at 7:30 p.m. A dessert reception, French cooking. In 2004 she was the Guest Curator of Food Cul- Stewart Show and National Public Radio. generously donated by Lori Shepard of Simply All that Nathan ture USA, the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival An inductee to the James Beard Founda- Scrumptious Catering, will begin at 7 p.m. Joan has tasted and on the National Mall in Wash- tion’s Who’s Who in American Food and Bev- Nathan’s event will be moderated by Ari Weinz- absorbed is in ington, DC, erage, she has also received the Silver Spoon weig, co-founder of Zingerman’s Deli. this extraordi- based on the Award from Food Arts magazine. In addition, Travel to France with Joan Nathan and dis- nary book, rich research for Nathan received an honorary degree from the cover a new way to look at Jewish cuisine. What in a history that her book, The Spertus Institute of Jewish Culture in Chi- is Jewish cooking in France? Nathan takes us dates back 2,000 New American cago and the Golda Award from the American into kitchens in Paris, Alsace, and the Loire Val- years and alive Joan Nathan Cooking. Jewish Congress. ley; she visits the bustling Belleville market in with the personal stories of Jewish people Nathan’s Joan Nathan was born in Providence, Rhode Little Tunis in Paris; she breaks bread with Jew- in France today. PBS television Island. She graduated from the University of ish families around the observation of the Sab- In 1994 Nathan published the much-ac- series, Jew- Michigan with a master’s degree in French liter- bath and the celebration of special holidays. All claimed Jewish Cooking in America, which ish Cooking in ature and earned a master’s in public adminis- across France, she finds that Jewish cooking is won both the James Beard Award and the America with tration from Harvard University. For three years more alive than ever: traditional dishes are hon- IACP/Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Joan Nathan, was she lived in Israel where she worked for Mayor ored, yet have acquired a certain French finesse. Award; as well as An American Folklife nominated in Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. In 1974, working for And completing the circle of influences: follow- Cookbook, which received the R.T. French Taste- 2000 for the James Mayor Abraham Beame in New York, she co- ing Algerian independence, there has been a maker Award in 1985. She most recently wrote Beard Award for Best Na- tional Television founded the Ninth Avenue Food Festival. The huge wave of Jewish immigrants from North Af- The New American Cooking which also won the Food Show. She was also senior producer of Pass- mother of three grown children, Nathan lives rica, whose stuffed brik and couscous, eggplant James Beard and IACP Awards as best American over: Traditions of Freedom, an award-winning in Washington, DC and Martha’s Vineyard with dishes and tagines—as well as their hot flavors cookbook published in 2005. Her other books documentary sponsored by Maryland Public her husband, attorney Allan Gerson. n Dr. Denis Mukwege to receive University Frankel Center hosts lecture by renowned of Michigan Wallenberg Medal Holocaust scholar Ken Waltzer Wendy Ascione, special to the WJN Kim Reick Kunoff he 20th University of the catastrophic civil wars n April 11, 1945, Memorial Council. Is- Michigan Wallenberg in the Congo and Rwanda. American sol- rael Meir Lau (Lulek) T Medal will be awarded He is one of the world’s O diers in the U.S. was also part of the res- to Congolese physician Denis leading experts on how to Third Army moved into cue. He was eight years Mukwege. After the medal repair the internal physical Weimar, Germany, and de- old and would become presentation, Mukwege will damage caused by rape. scended on Buchenwald, a Israel’s Chief Ashke- deliver the Wallenberg Lec- The 12-year war in the Nazi concentration camp. nazi Rabbi as well as ture. The event will take place Congo, centered mainly in There, among the walk- the Chief Rabbi of Tel on November 16, at 7:30 p.m., eastern Congo, is the wid- ing skeletons and piles of Aviv, Israel, win the in Rackham Auditorium, on est interstate war in mod- corpses, the soldiers were Buchenwald Israel Prize, and chair the U-M campus. ern African history. It has surprised to discover nearly one thousand Yad Vashem, where he still is today. Dr. Denis Mukwege Dr. Mukwege is a leader directly affected the lives of boys among the twenty-one thousand sur- How was Elie Wiesel still alive? Who had in the movement to highlight the continued 50 million Congolese people. More people vivors. Most were teenagers, but almost two kept Meir Lau safe? What about the oth- problem of sexual violence in the Democrat- have died in the eastern Congo and adjacent hundred were under fourteen – and the two ers? Was there a rescue operation aimed at ic Republic of the Congo. He is the director regions than in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Dar- youngest children were four years old. protecting children and youths in the Nazi of Panzi Hospital, in Bukavu in the eastern fur combined. Among these youths was 16-year-old Elie camp? How could a rescue take place in a Congo, where he specializes in the treatment “The conflict has become a war against Wiesel, who would later go on to write New concentration camp? of women who are victims of the sexual vio- women,” according to a 2007 CNN report, York Times bestseller Night, win the Nobel In his November 9 lecture, “The Rescue lence that since the 1990s has been part of Peace Prize, and chair the U.S. Holocaust continued on page 30 continued on page 30 I Op-Ed NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2935 Birch Hollow Drive HATCHER Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 GRADUATE Stand strong against anti-Semitism voice: 734/971-1800 By Henry Brysk fax: 734/971-1801 LIBRARY e-mail: [email protected] was stunned to read an op-ed piece in I could add a lot more. What is remarkable www.washtenawjewishnews.org the October Washtenaw Jewish News is that all, regardless of their primary objec- I that claimed that American Jews are “ tive, have found room for anti-Semitism on largely free of” any serious impact of anti- their agenda. For instance, when it runs out Semitism and that the only remaining task of mourners at military funerals to harass, Editor and Publisher Oct. 1–Dec. 22 in eliminating bigotry in the US is to fight the Phelps cult picks on synagogues. Arthur Susan Kravitz Ayer Exhibit: From Trace to Text: anti-Muslim prejudice. I realize that students Schlesinger, Jr. stated some fifty years ago Calendar Editor Highlights from the UM Papyrus tend to have a short attention span and are that the political spectrum is not a straight Claire Sandler Collection, in the Audubon Room therefore susceptible to the “ cause du jour” line but a circle, with the extremists of Left syndrome, but this is a case of monumen- and Right largely indistinguishable. Today, it Advertising Manager Oct. 1–Nov. 30 tal cluelessness. I suggest that the authors is more a sphere, with the added dimension Gordon White Exhibit: U-M and the Peace Corps: read the Intelligence Report of the Southern of religion. Poverty Law Center, which tracks American They say that charity begins at home. So Design and Layout It All Started Here, in the Gallery Dennis Platte extremists of all flavors. (It is currently ac- should the fight for religious freedom. Only cessible online at http://www.splcenter.org/ one religious institution in Ann Arbor has Wed., Nov. 3rd Staff Writer get-informed/intelligence-report). One will been subjected to harassment, Beth Israel Sandor Slomovits 7:00-8:30 pm find that there is no dearth of hate crimes in Congregation. The events and the perpetra- Buzz Alexander, author of the US and that there is an almost unlimited tors have been extensively described in sev- Contributing Writers Is William Martinez Not Our diversity of ethnic and religious identities, eral recent issues of WJN, so I will not repeat Halye Aisner, Wendy Ascione, Jacob Berkman, Brother?: Twenty Years of the Henry Brysk, Marissa Brostoff, Jennifer Cohen, both among the victims and among the per- them (though the authors of the op-ed chose Rabbi Lisa Delson, Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, Sue Prison Creative Arts Project petrators. Blacks are still the most frequently to ignore them).