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JULY 1 - AUGUST 31, 2020 9 TAMMUZ - 11 ELUL 5780 New York Jews and the Making Discussion and Q&A with Resistance of American Pop Culture Actor Jesse Eisenberg and Directors with Dr. David E. Kaufman Jonathan & Claudine Jakubowicz Thursday, July 16, 12:00pm Monday, August 3, 7:00pm Who can imagine American theater, music, comedy or Join actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) television without New York Jewish luminaries like Ira and directors Jonathan and Claudine Gershwin, Barbara Streisand, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Jakubowicz for a discussion about Resistance, Billy Joel, and Jerry Seinfeld? Impossible! This discussion a film that highlights internationally famous will explore the extraordinary, perhaps even unlikely, mime Marcel Marceau’s life during World War dominance of New York Jews in popular culture. II. Before he became the world-famous mime David E. Kaufman is a scholar of American Jewish Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an history, his publications include two books, Shul with a aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Pool and Jewhooing the Sixties. Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. Contact Jane at [email protected] for more information. To register visit https://tinyurl.com/cewpopculture. The film is available to rent on demand. Contact Jane at [email protected] for more information. To register visit https://tinyurl.com/cewresistance. Jews, Blacks and the Music Industry: This event is presented in partnership with IFC Films and Tamar Simon from Mean Streets Management. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Professor & Author Jonathan Karp The evening is co-sponsored by Congregation Emanu-El of Thursday, July 23, 12:00pm Westchester, Community Synagogue of Rye, Congregation B’nai Guest speaker Jonathan Karp will discuss Israel, Congregation B’nai Yisrael, Congregation KTI, Greenwich the relationship between Jewish Reform Synagogue, Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, entrepreneurs and black performers in the Jewish Community Center of Harrison, Westchester Hebrew High music business of the mid-20th century. School and Young Israel of Scarsdale. His lifelong research explores both the roles Jews have played in modern economic life and the images and stereotypes that have The SS Officer's Armchair: accompanied them. Dr. Karp's published works Uncovering the Secret Life of a Nazi include Philosemitism in History, The Politics of Jewish with Author Daniel Lee Commerce, World War I and the Jews, The Cambridge History Monday, August 17, 12:00pm of Judaism, and The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times. Based on concealed documents Contact Jane at [email protected] for more information. discovered within a simple chair for To register visit https://tinyurl.com/cewkarp. seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single SS officer during World War II encapsulates the tragic experience of a generation of Europeans. Daniel Lee is a historian of the Second We are excited to announce that we are World War and a specialist in the history updating the temple website to better reflect of Jews in France and North Africa our warm and inviting community with a fresh look and during the Holocaust. easier access to information. We will keep you posted on our progress and we look forward to sharing our launch Contact Jane at [email protected] for with you by early fall. In the meantime, our current site is more information. To register visit fully functional and there will be no interruption in https://tinyurl.com/cewarmchair. accessing the site. 1 SNAPSHOT This year’s artists each brought something unique and special to the Congregant Art Show. For those of you who missed it, here is a glimpse of some of the art submitted. For those who saw the show, here’s another chance to enjoy the art! See the whole show at https://tinyurl.com/artcew2020. Sleeping Rabbi Still Life Cordoba Barkeeper Pitcher with Saucer by Lois Falberg by Janice Kaplan by David Fried by Rick Wolff Scotland Ruins The Only Way Out is Through Sunset in Fair Harbor by Karen Quinn by Meredith Stone by Charlie Sindell Bedouin Desert Camp Togetherness Crossing the Seine October 2019 by Pat Bernstein by Terry Schwarz by MJ Wolff White Art Sculpture Circles Big Sky Heron on the Pond by Terry Feldman by Ann Fliegenspan by Charlie Cooper by Margie McCabe 2 2125 Westchester Ave East Rye, New York 10580 In This Issue www.c-e-w.org Phone: 914-967-4382 Fax: 914-967-0845 Featured Events 1 Snapshot 2 & 11 Staff Directory Directory 3 Howard J. 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Wolk ext. 11 Rich Rosenbaum Rabbi Emeritus [email protected] Marc Schwartz Marcie Aiuvalasit ext. 12 Religious Educator Emerita [email protected] 3 RABBI GOLDSMITH’S MESSAGE Black Lives Matter and Anti-Semitism “Justice, justice, you shall pursue!” for the Jews of Europe. Ben Gurion famously said, declares Deuteronomy. Well, it turns “We shall fight side by side with the British in our war out that is not always so simple. against Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and we Congregants have reached out to me shall fight the White Paper as if there were no war [in over the last few weeks to ask about Europe].” Perhaps that logic applies here, as well. anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism Despite the anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in some within the Black Lives Matter small part of the Black Lives Matter movement, the movement. They want to stand for issue of systemic racism demands our participation. social justice, to be allies, but this question leaves them unsure. Just where does Black Lives Matter stand on When fighting for a cause, we cannot questions of Israel and the Palestinians? And, should it always agree on every issue with our matter? coalition partners. In 2016, some members of the Black Lives Matters movement participated in a conference which created a Politics makes strange bedfellows. Activism makes even platform put forth by the Movement for Black Lives. stranger bedfellows. I will happily go to Capitol Hill with One plank of that platform singled out Israel with a Catholic priest and argue for an increase in SNAP language that was anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic. It was funding to alleviate food insecurity. And then I will inaccurate and inflammatory. This section of the stand on the opposite side of a protest from that same platform ignored the nuance and complexity of the priest to demand reproductive rights for women. When Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It promoted a conspiratorial, fighting for a cause, we cannot always agree on every anti-Zionist view that, as I spoke about this past Rosh issue with our coalition partners. Indeed, it is likely that Hashanah, has been used as cover for explicit and there are other issues on the Black Lives Matter website implicit anti-Semitism. with which we may disagree. But if the main goal is While some Jews felt they could not engage because of important enough, then we ought to stay at the table. the 2016 Movement for Black Lives platform, others This runs counter to the current tendency in our society stayed involved. Today, perhaps thanks in part to their to choose sides, to see everything as an either-or, binary continued engagement, there is no mention of Israel or decision. This acknowledges shades of gray and the Palestinians on the official Black Lives Matter complexity that do not align with cable news narratives. webpage. Unfortunately, it does still appear on a policy It embraces complexity – a very Jewish thing to paper on the affiliated Movement for Black Lives embrace. website. That said, just as we would not want someone To answer the initial questions: The Black Lives Matter to ascribe views to us based on every statement of the movement has a range of views on Israel and the organizations to which we belong, we should be careful Palestinians. And, yes, that should matter to us – but it is not to ascribe the views of a single component of a vast not a reason to walk away. Quite the opposite. When we platform to everyone involved in advocating for the stay at the table, we build bridges and connections that rights of people of color. we can ultimately use to shift hearts and minds on Israel. It is worth considering the perspective of my friend and And, of course, individual relationships and stories will colleague Rabbi Joshua Weinberg, vice president for prove more powerful and resonant than any plank of a Israel and Reform Zionism and the executive director of movement platform.