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By Daniela Appel and righteousness, and an and build a protective layer In response to both the imperative to make the for African Americans “We’ve had much more honest conversations continuing crisis of COVID-19 world — and in this case and other communities about race in the last month than in most and the racial equality movement our North Texas corner to have faith in their of my life. Slogans are easy. Change is hard. after the death of George Floyd, the of it — a better place. We government.” Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas’ work with long-standing Those steps include Policy is complex. There is no quick answer. Jewish Community Relations partners in the Jewish banning of chokeholds, It took a long time to develop an antagonis- Council hosted a leadership and greater community Colin Allred eliminating no-knock tic relationship. It takes time to unwind. briefing with U.S. Representatives to make Dallas a more warrants in federal Colin Allred and Van Taylor June just and equitable place to cases, a requirement for It’s about accountability. We have to break 18 to facilitate communication and live for all its residents,” bodycam storage and through scar tissue and the biggest thing to discussion. said JCRC Chair Cindy release of footage in key do is stop pretending it’s not happening.” A.J. Rosmarin, board chair of Sweet Moskowitz. cases, ending qualified the Jewish Federation of Greater The JCRC invited immunity, ending -U.S. Rep. Collin Allred Dallas, said the Federation has Allred and Taylor to share racial profiling through worked to provide information their viewpoints and providing training funds a large part in a better tomorrow, time to develop an antagonistic and assistance to the greater Dallas discuss the work of the to police departments, Allred said. “Jewish Americans relationship. It takes time to Van Taylor Jewish community, as well as being government on current and the housing of a understand calling out what the unwind. It’s about accountability. a forum for elected officials to hear critical issues. national misconduct database, issue is, structural issues, bias, and We have to break through scar the needs of the community and The conversation opened with a which makes it harder for officers how race influences how people are tissue and the biggest thing to do is partner social services agencies. discussion on the racial inequality to be fired for misconduct in one treated,” he said. stop pretending it’s not happening.” This was the third online protests sparked by George Floyd’s place and hired in another. He shared that as painful as Representative Taylor, a Plano briefing since the COVID-19 death, caught on video while he Allred also stated that the flow this is for the African American Republican, said he is also unsettled pandemic began. The first was with was in custody of Minneapolis of military equipment to the police community, him included, he by the racial inequalities. “Where Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins police May 25. must end. “We don’t want our has a true hope that now is the we are as a country is upsetting April 22, and the second was with Allred, a Dallas Democrat, police to be the military. When time for our country to have and unacceptable. We have moved Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson May 21. said Congress has been “working we see armed vehicles rolling honest conversations about race. closer to a more perfect union, A fourth briefing is scheduled with on legislation to improve the down our American streets and “We’ve had much more honest but it is still not good. The pain Governor Greg Abbott on Friday, relationship and accountability armed officers at peaceful protests conversations about race in the so many feel about policing and June 26. between the police and nationwide, including in North last month than in most of my the way communities of color are As the public affairs division of communities of color, especially Texas, it can have an escalatory life. Slogans are easy. Change is treated is not acceptable. We need the Jewish Federation, the JCRC “is African American communities. impact.” hard. Policy is complex. There motivated by the values of justice [We] want to increase compliance The Jewish community plays is no quick answer. It took a long see JCRC, p.14

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The ﬁghters’ Family Jewish Community performing manager and agent ﬁghter Center. responsibilities. First one Hodak, 37, attended the fighter called, then another, and By Deb Silverthorn University of Indiana on a golf it evolved into a fulltime career. Oren Hodak has brought a scholarship, taking his game Hodak has since represented one-two punch to the world of to another level after summer nearly 30 Ultimate Fighting mixed martial arts, representing sessions with famed golfer Hank Championship league fighters, winning fighters as an agent and Haney, which resulted in his including Johny Hendricks, manager for more than a decade regularly shooting under par. Joe Lauzon, Julianna Pena, through his company Knock “Coach asked me how much local boxing champion Errol Out Representation. time I golfed each day and when Spence Jr. and Aljamain “I found a niche within the I said four hours, he wanted to Sterling. He says he was the sports industry, and I went all know what I was doing with the first person in combat sports in on my vision,” said Hodak. rest of the hours in the day,” to sign endorsement deals with “Here we are 10-plus years later said Hodak. “‘You have to put companies including Bass Pro ,and the career and business that your heart into what you love,’ Shops and Reebok. He handles I created for myself continues to he said, and I’ve put that advice his clients’ careers from every grow.” into play in every way.” angle including their social Photo: Courtesy Oren Hodak Hodak has settled in the Far Hodak’s first job was at Sun media campaigns. “I found a niche within the sports industry, and I went all in on my vision,” said Oren Hodak, right, here with UFC fighter Joe Lauzon, whom he’s represented for North Dallas neighborhood Sports and Entertainment in While no fans and no almost a decade. “Here we are 10-plus years later and the career, and business, he grew up in with his college Addison, booking athletes, interviews are currently allowed that I created for myself continues to grow.” sweetheart and wife Shannon creating marketing campaigns, in the arenas, the pandemic and their children Smith and securing sponsorships and ticket hasn’t kept the UFC out of the is probably the most hands- sustained him throughout his Noah. The son of Gary and sales for fight league events at cage. Athletes and their teams on, sweat-flying, connective career: “Momma knows best.” Shelley and brother of Ereet, the American Airlines Center. are tested upon arrival, and then sport there is has continued,” The words of his mother, a Hodak grew up attending Eyeing his success, Mark Cuban again the day of any fight, with Hodak said. “To my knowledge, former Akiba Academy teacher Congregation Shearith Israel sought out and hired Hodak as safety protocols in place. there was one COVID-19 case and now a pre-K teacher in and was also affiliated with director of corporate accounts Hodak is working from Dallas reported, but it was caught, and Richardson ISD, still resonate Chabad of Dallas. He was a for fighting events broadcast on and not on the road at this time. the person was quarantined with him. If you love what you BBYO Lewis chapter member his HDNet television network. “I’ve had at least one athlete in without it spreading.” do, you’ll never have to work. and a multisport athlete at J.J. Contacted by a fighter the ring every week for the last In addition to the mentoring A son’s entrepreneurial spirit, Pearce High School after years for representation, Hodak two months and it’s incredible. Hodak received from Hank a mother’s wisdom — now that’s of playing sports at the Aaron started a side business “It’s amazing that what Haney, another adage has a winning score!

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On June 17, police officers at the South Division Police Station enjoyed a home-cooked breakfast prepared for them by members of B’nai B’rith, the Fort Worth Jewish social service organization actively dedicated to improving the quality of life in its community. The volunteers were joined by Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus, who spent time with the group and told the volunteers that “it’s extremely important Photos: Submitted by Jim Stanton and meaningful to us when a Alex Nason speaks to B’nai B’rrith volunteers and police. group like B’nai B’rith expresses how much they appreciate our B’nai B’rith volunteers and Police Chief officers.” Ed Kraus. Breakfast included homemade B’nai B’rith Lodge. He told the bagels and cream cheese, donuts, South Division officers that “your sausage rolls, pastries, cubed sacrifices often go unnoticed, and cheese, sliced watermelon, we also know that some of your crackers, cookies, granola bars, colleagues have risked their lives candy and chips. to keep us safe. Providing food The Lodge brought enough for 70 hardworking police officers food so that 45 additional second is just a small way we can show and third shift officers that day our gratitude.” were also be treated to an array Attending the event were: of additional snacks including Marvin Beleck, Joe Mintz, Ebby pretzels, peanut butter crackers, and Linda Lavi, Polina and Michael cookies, chips, popcorn and a Kuptsin, Sophia and Alex Nason, large selection of fruit. Dan Sturman, Foster Owen, Members Linda and Ebby Lavi Bruce Miller, Rich Hollander, Jim presented the police with a supply Stanton and Evgeny, Rina, Adam of reusable masks. and Annie Ostrinsky. “We very much appreciate Board member Dan Sturman the work our Fort Worth police coordinated the event. officers do every day of the year to protect our neighbors,” said — Submitted by Alex Nason, president of the Jim Stanton The On Year Nativ brings learning, Israeli culture and service together between high school and college

Photo: Courtesy Yonah Davis “It’s defi nitely not a year off ,” Director Yossi Garr says of the Nativ program. “It absolutely is a year ‘on’ in the form of learning responsibility for oneself, and others.”

By Deb Silverthorn with immersive experiences. Garr program was meaningful, nurturing Tonia Stevens Nativ, the United Synagogue is proud of the fact that students can and safe. of Conservative Judaism’s college earn as many as 21 college credits at “Nativ’s team was caring and leadership program, is anything the Conservative Yeshiva, Hebrew responsible while providing tools Commercial Real Estate but a gap in the life experiences of University or a Hebrew language the kids will use throughout their and Business Brokerage its participants. The nine-month intensive with community service. lifetimes,” she said. “Nativ gave program for North American Jewish In between semesters, students Alisa academic tools but also life high school graduates allows them have three weeks to choose from skills and that, in the turnaround of to live, learn and explore Israel, being a part of an archaeological coronavirus, meant being prepared. | | | immersing themselves in the land dig, working with local farmers I would trust them again in a RETAIL OFFICE INDUSTRIAL LAND and the people — the soul of their or traveling to India or Poland for minute.” heritage. volunteer experiences. The program also reinforced “Nativ is not instead of college, “I didn’t know many people the Jewish experiences Alisa had [email protected] but a preface to helping build more at ﬁ rst but the people I met, with growing up at Levine and Akiba 469-732-8132 grounded and mature students, whom I share my love for Jewish Yavneh academies, at Anshai Torah ready to take on the gift of college,” everything, will always be in my and at Camp Ramah Darom, said said Nativ Director Yossi Garr. life,” said Alisa Rubinstein of Plano, Dafna Rubinstein, “cementing her 5850 Town and Country Boulevard, “It’s deﬁ nitely not a year off, but who worked with students in Jewish values and strengthening her Suite 502, Frisco, TX 75034 absolutely a year ‘on’ in the form of Mumbai and Tiberias, Israel. “It was identity.” She will attend University learning responsibility for oneself the perfect combination of freedom of Michigan in the Fall. and others.” and structure.” Nativ has spent the months since www.livrealty.net The program, now in its 40th Alisa’s mother, Dafna Rubinstein, the coronavirus began to plan for year, combines classroom learning offers assurance to parents that the safe continuation of the program. June 25, 2020 | 9

Photo: Courtesy Jacquie Mitzner “I learned about Israel and about being Jewish and I also learned a lot about me,” said Jacquie Mitzner of her Nativ experience in 2017-2018, photographed while harvesting onions in Southern Israel with Josh Bientock from Toronto. “It was a great balance of support, freedom and making forever friendships.”

Photo: Courtesy Alisa Rubinstein “Nativ was the most incredible experience and I’m so grateful to have been a part of it,” said Alisa Rubinstein, here working with children in a school in Mumbai, India, during a winter break program. “It was the perfect combination of freedom and structure.”

“If [the second wave] happens, we’re prepared and we won’t be surprised,” said Garr, who is working with Israeli ministries of health and education. “We’ve now written the manual of how to manage if we have to go online, if anyone is infected … no matter the ‘if,’ we’re ready without compromising the experience.” In the spring, students share in service-oriented opportunities while living and working with at- risk and immigrant youth at Mount Carmel’s Yemin Orde Youth Village or in the Negev development of Yeruham. Nativ seminars provide core Photo: Courtesy Ohayon family values of Conservative Judaism, Akiba Yavneh Academy 2020 grads Tia Einhorn (left) and Gabby Ohayon are as well as learning about Israeli among those headed to Israel this September, as participants of Nativ. politics, culture, the environment and high-tech industry. They hike or community lay leaders,” said classes and dining halls are being and camp across the country. Nativ’s Rabbi Kushnick. “Jewish pride recoﬁgured and, while it’ll work Yozma program, with trained literally oozes as leadership skills are out, it isn’t going to be what was A great source for all your staff members, invites those with honed in the most supporting and expected,” he said. “IU will still be cognitive and social challenges to loving environment.” here in a year and I’m so excited for construction and mortgage participate. Talia, director of admissions at the opportunity for Nativ.” financing needs. Jacquie Mitzner, of Allen, a Akiba Yavneh Academy, says while Einhorn, Govrin and Ohayon, junior at the University of Vermont, her Jewish ties were tight before 2020 Akiba Yavneh Academy attended Nativ in 2017-2018 and Nativ, those nine months were graduates, were already planning • New construction financing including One described it as unforgettable. “I unique. on Nativ before the coronavirus Time Close construction to perm products learned about Israel and about “I gained so much respect for the pandemic. • Lot acquisition loans being Jewish and I also learned a passion of Jewish life and learning,” “I researched lots of programs lot about me. It was a great balance said Talia. “I’ve always loved being and Nativ was my choice early on,” • Purchase or Refinance plus improvement loans of support, freedom and making Jewish but a year belting out songs, said Ohayon, who will attend Rutgers • Home improvement loans forever friendships.” davening together, and losing myself University in 2021. “I’ve grown up at Congregation Anshai Torah’s in the expression of Judaism is a Camp Chai and I want to be a camp • Mortgage financing – Fixed Rate and Rabbi Michael Kushnick was a treasure.” director someday. Nativ feels like an Adjustable Rate Mortgages Nativ counselor in 2006. His wife, Tia Einhorn, Ethan Fine, Tami extended college kids’ ‘camp’ with Talia, was a 2000 participant. They Govrin and Gabby Ohayon are learning, volunteering and travel.” • Experience to guide you through the process were introduced to each other by among next year’s Nativers. a mutual friend who knew they’d Fine, a Plano West graduate, For more information, or registration, MEMBER FDIC | 972.716.7379 | ndbt.com | both been in the program. recently deferred his start at Indiana visit nativ.org. “Nativ builds Jewish professionals University. “Indiana’s dorms, ADDISON | DALLAS | FRISCO | LAS COLINAS | PLANO 10 | June 25, 2020 JEWISH FOODIE Summer special: Brisket tacos with carrot slaw

By Rebecca Firkser stand for it, but I say that once you’re When I was growing up, I knew changing one thing, why not just lean brisket as an island of meat in a sea into some tweaks that speak to you? of sweet brownish-red sauce with Personally, I don’t miss the original at carrot-plank buoys. Every holiday, all when this is on the table. this was plunked in the center of the table alongside a loaf of bread. It was For the brisket: … fine. But nothing to write home • 4 pounds beef brisket about. • Kosher salt and black pepper Whoever hosted the meal would • 1 tablespoon neutral oil lament about how the meat had been • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar or in the oven for hours as they sawed honey through the roast. I couldn’t help but • ¼ cup apple cider vinegar think “all that time for this?” • 2 medium red onions, quartered or 3 As I sliced through the brisket, large shallots, halved I imagined all the ways it could be • 1 head garlic, halved crosswise (no improved upon: more salt, always, need to get rid of the skin) maybe a bit of heat to break up all this • 1 tablespoon hot smoked paprika fat, and some acid, too, to balance out • 1 tablespoon chili powder Photo: Rebecca Firkser Brisket tacos the sweetness of the sauce. And why • 3 tablespoons tomato paste such thick slices of brisket? Brisket is • 1 14-ounce can crushed tomatoes before searing). Heat the oven to 325 5 minutes, then return the brisket to the the sauce, but if you spy whole cloves of a tough cut of meat, but if braised in • 2 cups chicken, vegetable or beef broth degrees. Heat oil in a large Dutch oven pot, fat-side up. garlic, give them a smash to incorporate. well-seasoned liquid long enough, it over medium-high heat, then sear (Alternatively, remove pot without can go so tender it practically shreds For the slaw: the brisket fat-side down until well- 4. Cover the pot and transfer to the skimming fat, let the mixture cool to itself when nudged with a fork. • ¼ cup lime juice browned, about 4-5 minutes per side. oven. Bake, removing the pot from the room temperature and refrigerate I’ll be honest, all I want to do with • 1 teaspoon honey Transfer to a cutting board or plate. Pour oven and spooning some of the liquid overnight, covered. The following day, shredded meat is wrap it inside a • ½ teaspoon red pepper akes out all but 2 tablespoons fat. over the meat every 40 minutes or so, scoop o solidi ed fat from the surface warm corn tortilla with a big squeeze • Kosher salt and black pepper until the meat easily shreds when you and return to the oven at 325 degrees. of lime. This summer, I dare you to • 5 medium carrots, grated 2. In a small bowl, dissolve sugar or honey pull at it with a fork, 3 to 3½ hours. Discard fat. Cover and reheat for one leave the giant platter of meat for • 6 scallions, thinly sliced in apple cider vinegar and set aside. hour, then shred meat.) the winter months and embrace 5. Remove pot from the oven and the warming weather with braised For serving: 3. Add onions and garlic to the pot and carefully skim o as much rendered 6. To make the slaw, combine lime juice, brisket tacos. • Corn or our tortillas (small) cook, stirring occasionally, until they fat as you can from the surface of honey and red pepper akes in a large A note on carrots: You’ll find • Diced white onion, pickled jalapeño, take on some color, about 4 minutes. the mixture. Discard fat. Uncover the bowl and season with salt and pepper. none in this pot of brisket. When sliced radish, hot sauce Stir in paprika, chili powder and tomato pot and let cook for an additional 15 Let sit for at least 15 minutes or up to one cooked to oblivion along with the • Lime wedges paste, and cook until the spices are minutes. Let cool, then skim fat again. hour. Toss in carrots and scallions. Season meat, carrots become mush. But a fragrant and the tomato paste turns Skim fat every 15 minutes until you’re with more salt and pepper to taste. Serve crunchy, tangy raw carrot slaw served 1. Season the brisket all over with salt brick red, about 1 minute. Stir in the ready to serve, then use 2 forks to brisket with warmed tortillas, slaw and alongside the meat breathes new life and pepper at least one hour at room vinegar mixture, tomatoes and broth, shred the meat and coat entirely in the desired taco xings. Serves 6-8. into the familiar flavors. temperature (or overnight in the fridge, then bring to a boil. Season with a big surrounding sauce. The onions and My great-aunt probably wouldn’t then returned to room temperature pinch of salt. Let the mixture reduce for garlic will have essentially melted into This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. Banana tahini pops are the perfect summer dessert hack

And, they are And, like most viral recipes, Ingredients: so easy banana ice cream was soon • 6 ripe bananas, peeled, sliced and to make replaced by the next food trend — frozen and the one after that — and so on. • ½ cup tahini By Sheri Silver But we’re bringing it back, • 3 tablespoons maple syrup (or to taste) This recipe originally appeared on giving it a tahini swirl and The Nosher. turning it into ice pops! Because 1. Line an 8-by-4-inch loaf pan with everything’s better on a stick. And plastic wrap (you can use a 9-by-5 Remember when one-ingredient with a tahini swirl. pan if that’s what you’ve got), leaving banana ice cream broke the Not everyone has an ice pop an overhang on all sides. internet? If not, let me refresh your mold, so we’re showing you how memory. you can make these pops in a loaf 2. Place the bananas in your food Photo: Sheri Silver A while back a “recipe” (if pan — but feel free to use those processor and process till crumbly. Banana Tahini Pops you can call anything with one molds if you’ve got ’em. Scrape down the sides and continue loaf pan and smooth with the back slits and insert your popsicle sticks. ingredient a recipe) for banana ice And don’t stop there — tahini is processing — the bananas will of a spoon. Drizzle half the tahini Freeze overnight. cream went viral. And with good just the beginning! You can swap it become smooth, and then thick and mixture over. Repeat with remaining reason. To make it you simply put for almond butter, chocolate chips, creamy with a consistency similar to ice cream and tahini. Use a thin sharp 6. Use the plastic wrap to transfer a few frozen sliced bananas in a strawberry preserves, granola or soft serve ice cream. knife to swirl the mixture together; the ice cream to a cutting board – food processor and blended them even add some other frozen fruit rap the pan on the counter to level. carefully remove the top layer of until they achieved the consistency like strawberries or blueberries — 3. Meanwhile whisk the tahini and plastic and peel back the sides. Use a of soft serve. Pop them into the whatever you like. These couldn’t maple syrup till smooth — taste and 5. Cover the pan with plastic wrap, large sharp knife to cut the loaf down freezer and sure enough, you had a be easier, and when was the last adjust sweetener if needed. making sure it makes contact with the middle and then crosswise into frozen, scoopable “ice cream” that time you gave permission to eat ice the surface of the ice cream. Use individual “pops”. Serve immediately was healthy, vegan and sugar-free. cream for breakfast? 4.Spread half the ice cream into your a small knife to make two rows of or keep frozen. SIMCHAS June 25, 2020 | 11 No wedding-bell blues for these Anglos

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We’re going to take spirit of everybody wanting to group dancing and celebrating the additional time to make our accommodate everyone as much while ensconced in a venue us- wedding extra-special.” as they can.” ing recycled air, a wedding — at The two got engaged in Israel “When the coronavirus hit least, one indoors — seems like over the winter and were vetting and all the restrictions came into a prime breeding ground for the venues. Jawno was very close to play, so many clients were put novel coronavirus that preys on signing, but instinct told her to into a really difficult position. densely populated gatherings. walk away. Many were desperate to make Many governments, then, “I can’t say why, but my gut a decision as to what to do and put a pause on celebrating large told me it wasn’t right,” Jawno the future is unpredictable,” weddings and events for the time said of her decision. 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A soul is the embodiment of Dear Melanie, God’s spiritual light in this Class of 2020 The mitzvah of lighting candles on Friday af- ASK THE world; hence the verse says ternoon before sundown for Shabbat is one of RABBI “the candle of God is the soul I loved seeing all our local Jew- this year’s “Walk- the most beautiful and profound mitzvot per- of man.” Through the soul ish school graduates featured in less” graduation! formed in the Jewish home weekly. Jewish law By Rabbi of man God illuminates His last week’s TJP. Every single one is In your fu- cites three reasons why we light the Shabbat can- Yerachmiel world. In order to celebrate smiling happily, which I suppose is ture, you’ll be dles: Firstly, it is a great honor to usher in the D. Fried the expanded or additional because these pictures were taken telling The Story “Shabbat Queen” with the lighting of candles. souls which we are endowed while people were still able to stand of 2020 over and Secondly, it brings greater enjoyment to the with on Shabbat, and the spiritual illumination next to each other and had some- over: how you home when it is illuminated with extra light for they provide to the world, we mark the day by thing to smile about. It is so different didn’t have your Shabbat. Thirdly, it adds to the shalom bayit, or lighting candles. (There are opinions in Jewish now. I’d like to dedicate this column IN MY “Walk” because peace in the home, to have enough light (espe- law that one should light an oil candelabra rath- to our community’s graduates of MIND’S I of a killing virus cially in the days when all they had were candles er than candles, as the oil lit in the cup signifies public and private but non-Jewish sweeping across or oil lamps). the soul in the body which illuminates the body high schools, who may not have such By Harriet the entire globe. The Kabbalists add a further dimension. On cheerful photos to squirrel away in P. Gross Much sooner Shabbat we are endowed with an “additional see FRIED, p.14 their memory books. So here is my than you can message to all of them: possibly imagine, your own children Well: Your big day has come and will be asking about social distanc- gone. Your long-awaited “Walk” ing and wearing masks and what you across the auditorium stage never did during those long days of en- Korach: What is the message came to be. Those last-minute ac- forced isolation. Only you, the Class tivities, the hugs and kisses and even of 2020, will be able to tell these sto- tears you had counted on to carry ries. for our nation today? with you into your various futures I’ll advise you now: What you’ll — none of them materialized. In- be taking with you into your new When I signed up to write on Parashat Korach for something about considering the stead, you were saddened and with lives is pandemic knowledge and ex- the TJP it was months ago, and I had no idea what needs of the community and not good reason. Some of you were even perience. Someday you’ll be invited would be happening in the world. A typical d’var just our own needs. Sometimes, I angry. I understand. I share your to your own children’s high school Torah on Parashat Korach speaks to the illegitimacy focus on the content of the mes- sadness. But I’m urging you to take history classes to tell your personal of Korach’s rebellion. It usually explores themes of sage having merit, but I criticize another look at what you do have stories, to be pelted with questions Korach not having the community’s best interests at the delivery. I talk about the rather than what you’ve lost. Open you’ll never need your yearbooks heart or rebelling against God’s plan. This year those need to communicate with each your own eyes now for a peek into a to answer. Your status will be for- messages feel wrong considering the protests that other and work out our differ- future filled with memories and sto- ever unique. I know this seems so have swept our nation. D’VAR ences rather than lead rebellions. ries to tell that no other high school far away now, but I also know from Let’s summarize the details of the parasha. Ko- TORAH Those are all worthy messages to graduates will ever equal. personal experience how those years rach and his constituents complain to Moses and extrapolate from this parasha, By Rabbi Elana About the several graduations will be with you much sooner than Aaron saying, “You have gone too far. All the com- but this year, I do not think that Zelony I’ve had myself, I can say the sym- you can possibly imagine. And then, munity is holy, and God is in their midst. Why do you is what God is trying to teach us. bolism, while great, often doesn’t when you’re asked, you’ll embellish raise yourselves above God’s congregation?” In other Parashat Korach What do you do when privilege actually live up to the hype. When the telling with your own memories, words, Korach’s complaint is that Moses and Aaron is real, and communications you finally get to cross that stage to and not having that long-anticipated use their privilege to put themselves above the com- have failed? get your diploma and the handshake “Walk” will be one of the biggest munity. Maybe the protests we are experiencing are not that goes with it, your heart is beat- ones. Only your Class of 2020 will When I study this story with students, they often like Korach’s rebellion. Fast-forward a few weeks to ing so loudly, and you are shaking so have this opportunity: to relive be- want to know what is so wrong with Korach’s com- Parashat Pinchas when the Daughters of Zelophehad violently, that this long-awaited mo- ing fully alive during a major event plaint. This is not surprising considering that most come forward to Moses with their complaint. They ment quickly becomes a dull blur: “Is that affected the whole world. of my students are American. American culture sup- too object to the way life is in the community. They that it? Is this all?” You could never So please, believe this: As dif- ports the ideal of free speech. If we think something too say the system is flawed because men are privi- anticipate the huge letdown that in- ficult as these past weeks have been is unfair, we are empowered to assemble in public and leged to inherit while women are not. God heard their evitably follows the big hoopla. “It’s for you, they have already made you speak out against it. What is so wrong about Korach’s case and changed the law to protect the vulnerable. all over? What happens next?” strong enough to face the unpleasant protest? Maybe God learned something from his experi- Let me tell you: Life is what hap- realities that are part of everyone’s In a typical year I would bring one of the tradition- ence with Korach. God quashes that rebellion with pens next! You’ll go forward to col- future — and have already become al commentaries to answer that question. Onkelos the ground swallowing up the rebels and with a lege, a job, a “gap year.” You’ll miss a part of your life. says Korach separated himself from the community plague. When Korach protested the injustice of the the old routines, but not as much as I wish I could have been the and rebelled only to promote his self-interests. Hiz- system God quelled his voice. Later, when the women you’re imagining now. Your new life speaker at your graduation. I would kuni says Korach and his faction orchestrated an up- complain about injustice God listens and changes the will offer possibilities that take your have urged you to use this precious rising. His goal was never to talk and work things out. law. Perhaps, we are meant to learn from the change breath away. And in a short time, new knowledge wisely as you Walk From the start he wanted chaos and rebellion. Sforno in God’s response. May we all be blessed despite our you’ll have to open your Yearbook your own individual Walks in all the says Korach and his factions assembled to incite the fears and objections to see what is at the heart of the to help you remember the classmates years ahead. And may they be long, people. The plan was to intimidate Moses and Aaron protests, to listen and to change systems of injustice. you thought you’d never forget. But productive, joyous years for all of not to work with them to improve the situation. Rabbi Elana Zelony serves Congregation Beth Torah in Richardson. She nothing can ever dull the memory of you! In a typical year, these messages appeal to me. I say is a member of the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas. OPINION June 25, 2020 | 13 EDITORIAL J Street’s ‘pro-Israel, pro- Judge allowing Bolton’s memoir adds peace’ motto is a misnomer inside information to 2020 election (JNS) At the forefront of that not all members of J pro-Israel efforts stand Street side with BDS and Last Saturday’s ruling by doomed from the start. As Judge Stephens writes that Bolton’s our community’s most anti-Zionists on campus. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth noted in his opinion, putative revelations about Trump valiant and valuable as- Some help fight BDS Lamberth denying the Trump Simon and Schuster had widely are hardly surprising. “Bolton sets: students. I need not legislation on campus and Administration’s motion to disseminated pre-publication writes that Trump tried to bend highlight the battle that stand up to anti-Semitism halt publication of John R. copies of the book, major news the criminal justice system to pro-Israel students face and anti-Zionism. All Bolton’s memoir of his service as outlets obtained copies and do favors for China’s Xi Jinping in classrooms across the OP-ED too often, however, J National Security Advisor (NSA) approximately 200,000 copies and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip United States, Canada Street supporters actively means that the public will have of Bolton’s memoir had already Erdogan. Not surprised…. and Europe. Nor does By Ethan Fine vilify Israel-supporters a key Administration insider’s been shipped to Amazon, Barnes He writes that, in the midst one need to look far to and spend more time sharp views as part of the 2020 & Noble, and a host of other of trade negotiations, Trump find pro-Israel students denouncing Israel than Presidential election debate. booksellers. pleaded with Xi to help ‘ensure attacked, denigrated and bullied. defending it. While Judge Lamberth Not surprisingly, opinion he’d win’ the 2020 election. Not What many do not know, A recent encounter I had with J refused to order Bolton and his about the merits of the book is surprised. He writes that Trump however, is that a great deal of Street U — the student organizing publisher, Simon and Schuster, varied. Opponents of President thought China’s construction of the harassment that pro-Israel arm of the organization — vindicates to refrain from publishing “In Trump largely embrace Bolton’s concentration camps for ethnic students face comes from within this point. I messaged J Street The Room Where It Happened,” brazen criticisms of the Uighurs was ‘exactly the right the Jewish community itself. It’s U voicing my disappointment he clearly stated his view that president, while the president’s thing to do.’ Appalled – but not time to call it out. over misleading, and perhaps the book discloses sensitive supporters view the former NSA surprised.” The main instigators of this even libelous, information that classified information in as nothing short of a traitor. Perhaps even more telling divisive aggression: groups like it had posted on Instagram. I violation of non-disclosure Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer is Stephens’ view that Bolton’s Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow received the following response: agreements (NDAs) that Bolton Prize winning New York Times publication of his memoir is an and J Street. On college campuses “Hi Ethan! First of all, we know voluntarily signed as a condition columnist and former editor of exercise in cynicism. across America, members of these your camp friends, and are a little of his appointment as NSA. The The Jerusalem Post, panned the “It took cynicism to work for organizations tokenize their identity disappointed that they’d choose judge also found a likelihood book in a column titled “The a president whose character he to support and justify BDS legislation, to befriend someone as politically that Bolton’s $2 million advance Doom Where It Happened.” disdained and whose worldview all the while attending anti-Israel misaligned as you are. Maybe may be forfeited and that he may The column is noteworthy he opposed. It took gullibility to rallies and events (often sponsored try reading up on some regional be liable to criminal prosecution because Stephens noted that he, think he could blunt or influence by groups such as Students for Justice history?” for violating NDAs. himself, “shares many of Bolton’s either. It took cynicism to observe in Palestine), and slandering Israel It is deeply troubling that J Over recent weeks, the news hawkish foreign-policy views.” the president commit multiple before uninformed members of Street U, in its official capacity, has provided vast coverage Stephens quoted Karl Popper, potentially impeachable offenses student governments and student would reply to a high school student of Bolton’s memoir. Leading the late renowned British and then sit out impeachment bodies at large. These groups with a veiled threat (“We know newspapers have published philosopher who said “A theory on the pathetic excuse that also work to sabotage historically who your camp friends are”) and excerpts that are highly critical that explains everything, Democrats were going about strong ties that bind Israel and a denigration. Labeling someone’s of the president. And, there explains nothing.” He added it the wrong way and that his the Jewish, African American and political views as “misaligned” is has been extensive coverage of a corollary deriding Bolton’s testimony would have made no LGBTQ communities. akin to distinguishing “good Jews” the Justice Department’s legal opus as “a book that tells all, meaningful difference. Are they really pro-Israel? action to halt publication of the yet somehow manages to tell book — a legal effort essentially nothing.” see BOLTON, p.14 It is important to recognize see FINE, p.14 Christopher Columbus statue toppled alongside Confederates Why Columbus’ statue? The And third, among his Against the advice of were sent ashore, meeting But what is the reason for supposed “European Discoverer ship’s crew, the person others, he stood by the friendly natives, who introduced the current criticism against of America”? we definitely know to older map, eventually them to the smoking of tobacco. Columbus and the honors that Could it have something to have been Jewish before sailing to the Bahamas, They therefore became the first had been bestowed upon him? do with the belief that some he became a converso naming it San Salvador westerners to smoke tobacco. Christopher Columbus has the historians have that Columbus was Yosef ben HaLevi (Holy Savior), and Another “first” is that Yosef notorious distinction of using the was born Jewish, but secretly Halvri, referred to on the claiming it for Spain. ben HaLevi Halvri (Torres) may Taino as slave labor to extricate converted to Catholicism (known voyage as Luis de Torres. The friendly natives be considered the first Jew to valuable metals, sugar. and other HISTORICAL as a Marrano), so that he could Hired as the ship’s were the Taino people, reach America. crops, eventually supplying many become more acceptable and interpreter, Torres spoke PERSPECTIVE from whom not so Columbus left Torres and more natives to the international financially successful? four or five different By Jerry Kasten friendly Columbus with three dozen sailors on the island slave market. There is a belief among some languages. Columbus fewer men, but with before returning to Spain with six The Spanish Royal family had historians that there are three believed that Torres could speak superior weaponry and body natives as captive slaves. promised Columbus 10% of the “Jewish Connection Theories” with any Jews they might find in armor, successfully subdued. After being presented to the profits, but withheld much of it and involving Columbus’ voyages. the Chinese emperor’s court or After first, forcibly collecting Spanish royal family, the Taino imprisoned him and his brothers One, that the Marrano among the merchants. what gold and gems were slaves were paraded through the for six weeks as punishment for Columbus concealed his Jewish At this point, you should get available, Columbus established streets of Barcelona and Seville their mismanagement of the identity to pass as Catholic to out your world map or globe. the beginnings of a plantation for all to see. islands and their tyrannical harsh enable him to appeal to the Cover up North America, Central system before moving on. Upon Columbus’ return to treatment of the natives. Spanish royalty to finance his America and South America. That Columbus sailed on, attempting “India” (or so he thought) on I like to think that if Torres voyages of discover. was “the old map” that Columbus to reach the mainland of India, November, 27, 1493, he found the (Halvri), the first Jew in America, Two, that there were relied upon even though there but instead, landed on the shores village had been destroyed and had not been killed, he might conversos (Jews who converted were some newer versions as other of Cuba, thinking it was China. tragically, all the inhabitants, have influenced Columbus to be to Christianity) among his crew explorers began adding their (Check your map.) including Torres and the crew a kinder, gentler soul in dealing escaping the Spanish Inquisition. findings. Luis de Torres and a sailor members had been killed. with the indigenous people. 14 | June 25, 2020

born into the family. This can be one who is careful with lighting darkness to the world, let her be forced to spend in darkness. FRIED understood, as we mentioned, Shabbat candles will be reward- bring light to the world.” The Suddenly a courageous woman continued from p.12 that each additional soul adds ed with children who are Torah concept of death, the loss of a managed to reach her only bag, illumination to the world, and scholars. The rivers of tears that soul from the world, is darkness. and pull out of it her last prized and the surrounding world.) we celebrate that new Jewish Jewish mothers have shed for The Shabbat candle is light, like possession, her beloved can- The reason for two candles is soul each week by adding a can- generations at the time of this a soul. All the daughters of Cha- delabra. She lit the candles for to celebrate the two phrases that dle. Also, imagine the power- prayer is said to be the main rea- va, Eve, join hands throughout all in that car, lighting up their God used in the Torah to keep ful message expressed to a child son we still have a Jewish people the generations to perform this faces with a smile, and provid- the Shabbat: zachor, to remem- when he is told that a candle is with its Torah today. amazing tikkun, and collective- ing all with a ray of hope that ber it, by performing the positive lit for him each week, because he The mitzvah of lighting ap- ly repair the world through their better days and better Shabbats acts of Shabbat such as lighting or she is a beautiful soul which plies to men and women, but lighting the Shabbat candles. are yet to come. As they joined candles, eating the festive meals, illuminates the world. the first right to light goes to The story is told of a group in the joyous singing of “Lecha and reciting Kiddush; and sham- It is also the custom for the the women. This is because the of Jews stuffed in a cattle car, Dodi,” that special woman won or, or to guard the Shabbat (i.e., woman to recite a special prayer, first woman, after partaking of overcome with despair as Shab- the war of light over darkness, not to transgress it). after lighting, that her children the forbidden fruit, gave it to the bat was rapidly approaching as she ensured her place among Many light more than two should be upright, scholarly first man, causing the concept of and many knew that this would the great heroines of our people candles, as they have a custom and proud Jews. This is based death to enter the world. In the probably be their last Shabbat and joined the eternal tikkun of to add a candle for each child on the Talmudic statement that words of the sages, “she brought in this world, one they would Shabbat candles.

demonstrates its complicity. It is all, has victim-blamed Jews Indeed, if it were to display its in the Jewish community learn FINE hypocrisy of the highest order. for their own Holocaust, while work on campus to promote BDS, to understand this inconvenient continued from p.13 J Street’s mantra of being inciting violence against Israelis no genuine pro-Israel activist truth. Until then, we must root “pro-Israel” and “pro-peace” and paying salaries to terrorists would or could join its ranks. out divisions and mitigate the from “bad Jews.” may captivate and intrigue the and their families. The Jewish community already damage done to the larger ﬁ ght To imply that people should unsuspecting young adult who If J Street actually had the has too many external enemies; it we face as an organized pro-Israel not be friends with me because supports Israel yet opposes courage to advertise its true doesn’t need an additional internal community. Only then will we of my political views — of which the policies of Prime Minister intentions, as well as Ben-Ami’s menace. It’s time we put aside our defeat the threats that face us. they are unaware — constitutes Benjamin Netanyahu. But the relationship with Abbas, it differences and come together to bullying. The snarky suggestion J Street on paper is not the J wouldn’t attract many followers. ﬁ ght anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism Ethan Fine is a recent graduate of Plano West and that I “read up on regional Street in action. Its president, If it actually highlighted the work and actual injustice on campuses. the son of Suzanne and Eric Fine. Following his history” is an expression of self- Jeremy Ben-Ami, shares a closer its activists do to oppose anti-BDS As far as anti-Semites and those on gap year with Nativ, he will be a freshman at Indi- righteous condescension. relationship with Palestinian bills, or its PAC contributions to a quest to render Jews stateless are ana University, where he plans to study economics This behavior is unacceptable, Authority leader Mahmoud politicians who openly support concerned, there are no “good Jews” and public policy. He spends his summers at Camp and the ensuing silence from Abbas than with Netanyahu and BDS, many of its admirers would and “bad Jews.” There are just Jews. Ramah Darom and has been a tireless advocate for J Street, an organization that most of Israel’s Knesset members. immediately withdraw their The day will come when J Street Israel throughout high school. You can follow him prides itself in promoting justice, So much for justice. Abbas, after support in disgust. and the rest of the anti-Zionists on Twitter @ neethan or Instagram @ethan ine.

Watch ‘Resistance’ and converse with star scope of the challenges we’re facing. Jesse Eisenberg July 1 BOLTON JCRC [We are experiencing] exponential The Aaron Family JCC, in partnership with IFC Films and continued from p.13 continued from p.2 growth. This won’t get better until Tamar Simon from Mean Streets Management, presents the we change,” said Allred with regard fi lm “Resistance,” the story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who “Above all, it took astonishing to see substantial change.” to the surge of COVID-19 cases. worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of 10,000 foolishness for Bolton to Taylor has seen multiple pieces Taylor refl ected on the challenges orphans during World War II. On July 1, registrants can share imagine his book would advance of legislation move through COVID-19 has presented, the in a conversation with star Jesse Eisenberg; the fi lm’s writer and the thing he claims to care about Congress and believes that all measures Texas communities have director, Jonathan Jakubowicz; and Dallas Holocaust and Human most — a hawkish vision of U.S. are coming from the right place, taken, and where we still need to Rights Museum Chief Education Programs and Exhibitions foreign policy,” Stephens writes. “with a hope for change that we improve. “COVID-19 has really Offi cer Dr. Sara Abosch-Jacobson. The fi lm can be purchased at But withering criticism will come together to take most turned our world upside down. It resistance.movie/watch-at-home and required registration for the aside, “In The Room Where It important step forward so people has challenged us in many ways. It’s Zoom event can be found at jccdallas.org/special-events/fi lm- Happened” adds an additional aren’t afraid of police based on not over. Stay home and avoid large festival. The JCC is also presenting “Picture of his Life,” about source of an insider’s account skin color. It should never be that gatherings if you can. Be thoughtful famed underwater photographer Amos Nachoum, who, fascinated of a 17-month period of Bolton’s way,” he says. about what and how you are doing by the most fearsome creatures on Earth, developed a unique tenure as Trump’s national He acknowledged that it has this.” approach, putting him face to face with his subjects, without any security advisor. From the been a stressful time and one in These are deep, meaningful and protection. The fi lm can be purchased at jccdallas.org/special- tragic killing of George Floyd, to which change is imperative. emotional issues, Taylor says. Yet events/fi lm-festival. the coronavirus pandemic and I hope we can come together as there are still silver linings. “We its toll on a previously robust a country to make changes. Having also should be proud of, as Texans, economy, this year’s presidential conversations is the beginning. So how our state and my county election comes at a time where much has happened through faith (Collin) have handled this.” The number of active the outcome for America will leaders reaching out, stepping out, Allred said that the current COVID-19 COVID-19 cases in Israel has be of paramount importance. making change. We cannot stay challenges can help us grow continued from p.3 surged in recent days to more Bolton’s memoir adds a sharp where we are. As a country we need stronger as a state and country. than 4,940, with 45 people in se- critique to the marketplace of to move forward,” said Taylor. “I want us to hold on to that we to avoid reaching the outbreak rious condition and 29 patients ideas that may be considered or The conversation then shifted are Texans, we are Americans,” scenario. requiring intubation as of Tues- rejected by a reader. to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Allred said. COVID-19 and At the opening of Monday’s day morning. To date, 309 Israe- Even before its publication also a place of great pain, as tension the Floyd death and resulting meeting, the Israeli prime min- lis have died of the disease. date, Bolton’s memoir topped grows between supporting the protests “have shown us how ister said, “We are facing a sys- The number of cases has risen Amazon’s bestseller list via economy and the uptick of public interconnected we all are. We are tematic increase in morbidity. over the past two weeks as the preorders. Despite the Justice health concerns locally, making responding collectively to this. We see this not only here, but I country has reopened its econo- Department’s failed effort to halt Dallas County a hot spot for new We have to. I hope these crises are regret that we also see it around my, and the daily figure has now publication, Bolton’s take on his cases and hospitalizations. also opportunities for us to see the world. Various countries have reached between 200 and 300, up time as national security advisor “From a leadership perspective, neighbors differently. We can do already been forced to deal with from a single-digit low in mid- is now the stuff of history. we need to be honest about the better for everyone.” this, and we here in Israel as well.” May. OBITUARIES June 25, 2020 | 15

Aida Galanter attended school in El their children Bruce and she would meet. She was a doting Sadicarios of Frisco; grandsons Paso. Nancy and working side Bubbe and her pride and joy Ethan and Eliot Galanter and Aida Galanter, 89, passed away Following the Korean by side at their jewelry were her three grandsons, Ethan Daniel Sadicario; and many June 15, 2020, in El Paso. Born War, Aida was fixed up store, Cortez Jewelers, and Eliot Galanter and Daniel nieces, nephews, great-nieces and Feb. 4, 1931, in Mexico City, to with Louis Galanter, a which they opened in Sadicario. great-nephews and one great- Leah and Isaac Binetzky, Aida dashing jeweler from 1969. Aida was predeceased by her great-nephew. was the middle of three children. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Aida never met a husband Lou in May 2018. Rabbi Scott Rosenberg As a young girl her family They were married Aida Galanter stranger. With her warm She is survived by her children ofﬁciated at a graveside service relocated to Juarez, and although three months later and smile, she would engage Bruce (Shelly) Galanter of June 17 at Bnai Zion Cemetery in they made their home there, Aida enjoyed 64 years together, raising in conversations with everyone Dallas; daughter Nancy (Barry) El Paso. Norman Lamm sought to unify in divisive reality

Longtime Yeshiva U. and Chaye Warburg, in addition A Journal of Orthodox Jewish and yet he took it with ease. When president dies at 92 to grandchildren and great- Thought Lamm, its founding he asked why he did not respond, he grandchildren. Their daughter, editor-in-chief, wrote kind words quoted the Talmud, which praised By Dovid Zaklikowski Sara Dratch, predeceased them in about him, even in regards to the those “who are insulted and do not (JNS) It was a brave speech at 2013. issue debated in the 1970s with insult, who hear their shame and the 1969 Ideological Seminary in his mentor, Soloveitchik. “His do not respond,” that the “sun is ‘A thick skin and a big heart’ Kiljava, Finland. Rabbi Dr. Nor- moral sense was outraged by the going forth in its might.” man Lamm, then a prominent rab- Throughout his career, Lamm abuse of halakha [Jewish law] by He says that he had a thick bi, theologian, professor and writ- could be seen as someone who husbands who refuse to grant a get skin and a big heart. “The large Photo: Yeshiva University er, in the Modern Orthodox world, wanted to unify, to compromise [divorce] to their wives because of criticisms did not bother him, as Rabbi Norman Lamm in the classroom. was dissecting Neturei Karta, between two different entities. If greed or sheer intransigence. … the flattery did not either,” make a Zionism, but never talked about it, perhaps one of the 20th century’s it was back when he was a rabbi Rabbi Rackman evinced genuine difference to him. but just did good work [for Israel].” most divisive Jewish movements in in Springfield, Massachusetts, empathy for these ‘living widows’ There he was tasked, together ‘Times of great building and hope’ the Jewish world. when he wanted to unify the local and was impatient with the slow with several other students he “Clearly, we are dealing here Orthodox day school with the grinding of the mills of halakha, Born in 1927 to Pearl and had organized to accompany him, with a fringe group,” he said, “that, Lubavitch day school in 1958. Or and he demanded that something Samuel, Lamm grew up in the with coming up with a solution in its extremism, its hyperbolic when he encouraged the uniting more effective and concrete be Williamsburg neighborhood of of how to make ammunition language, its extravagance and of the Union of Orthodox Jewish done to alleviate their misery.” Brooklyn, New York, where he from the natural resources in simplifies, reveals a psychological Congregations of America and Lamm stood his ground on attended the local Torah Vodaath Israel. They were successful in pattern of defensiveness.” National Council of Young Israel, many issues of the day and keenly day school. “It was a good creating a formula that was used Despite this, he said that there is when he publicly said, in 1983, understood that there will always neighborhood to grow up in,” he to manufacture ammunition for much to learn from them, “yet its “If you do not feel inspired by be varying opinions in Judaism. said, “if you couldn’t afford to go the Davidka, a homemade Israeli fierce independence of thought, its the vision of all the good that can It was the approach to the other to a better place.” weapon that fired mortars. “It refusal to be outvoted on matters come out … consider the damage that he derided. While he was not After the Holocaust, he was was a great opportunity to express of principle, the courage of its that can come from disunity.” once to mince his words, he always shaken by the title of a newspaper our ahavat Yisroel [‘love of your convictions, and the coherency This also came to the forefront found a place for the other and he saw returning back from “Six fellow Jew’] and Zionism in a of its ideology, cannot but elicit when he was asked by former their virtues. Million Jews Killed,” on its front very practical way. No ‘Hora,’ no admiration. Courage, especially Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak In a 1997 speech, Lamm said page. In a 2008 interview, he ‘Haveinu Shalom Aleichem,’ [just] idealistic courage, expressed at Shamir, to resolve the “Who is a that when community leaders “too recalled thinking, “What if a Nazi real serious stuff,” he had said. great personal sacrifice, is so rare Jew?” issue that flared up again often an unhealthy degree of turf came here?” He says that while he It was at the request of Rabbi that even if we disagree with its in the early 1990s. During his rivalry and back-biting and empire does not talk about it much, “It was Dr. Samuel Belkin, at the time thesis, it deserves respect.” efforts, he united the various building. We have too many Lone a profound feeling, something that president of YU, that he pursued In Tradition: A Journal of Jewish denominations to agree on Rangers who may do much good, accounted for a great deal in my a rabbinic career. In 1951, he Orthodox Jewish Thought, a resolution to the question. While but far less than if we all worked life.” was ordained, with his first where the talk was published, ultimately he was not successful, together as befits a community of Also at a young age, when he rabbinic position in Springfield, one reader called that admiration he continued to encourage a leaders.” first saw a film on the Kineret in Massachusette In 1954, he married “disturbing.” He asked, “Since resolution in the matter, once He said that in every system northern Israel, he said, “I was Mindella (“Mindy”) Mehler. Her when does sheer hooliganism saying, “Communal peace is also a of thought, people and ideology, completely taken by it; it was my father passed away at a young age, with complete disregard for one’s principle of Judaism.” one can find redeeming merits. first exposure to modern Israel, and she told The YU Observer, “I fellow man go under the heading And it did again when Lamm When one cannot do that, it and it was overwhelming.” was raised in an environment of of ‘courage?’ ” was voted to the position of “is not only dishonest, it is also He later went to Yeshiva very strong women who overcame Lamm responded that he president of Yeshiva University in counterproductive. Overstatement University, where he studied tragedy and raised a wonderful expected the backlash, and while 1976. and overkill usually bring one’s chemistry. In 1948, during the family.” he disagrees with them, “I also Rabbi Emmanuel Rackman, to credibility into disrepute.” Israel Independence War, he While she was a public- do not throw verbal stones at the left on the Orthodox spectrum, While many in the Jewish orbit, assisted with disguising rifles in school teacher, from that time anyone with whom I disagree. … was his chief opposition. Rackman, and beyond, came to appreciate blankets that were shipped to she married, she focused her It is, I suppose, too much to expect a provost at YU, was waging a Lamm, “not everything that he said Israel. However, it was said, he energies on YU — at first, assisting that we objectively evaluate our battle with YU Dean Rabbi Joseph or did was universally accepted,” felt that as a student of science, he underprivileged students with antagonists and give them credit B. Soloveitchik on the issue of says his son-in-law, Rabbi Mark could do more. their basic necessities. where it is deserved, even while agunot, “chained women” whose Dratch, executive vice president of He soon found himself in Once Lamm became president, resolutely opposing them. But I, for husbands don’t want to give a the Rabbinical Council of America. the Catskills with Ernst David she helped in any way she could. one, cannot go along with [that].” religious divorce, or get. It was This was especially true with Bergmann, a nuclear scientist and “She was in many ways a partner After a long illness, Lamm at Soloveitchik’s urging that the the haredi community. Over the chemist, who would later be the to my father-in-law,” says Dratch. died May 31 at the age of 92. His board chose Lamm over Rackman years, some of those issues became first chairman of the Israel Atomic “He valued her advice and critique. wife, Mindella (“Mindy”) Lamm, for the position. well-known, and he was publicly Energy Commission. At that time, She was very loyal and devoted to died six weeks earlier on April Despite their differences, attacked by several members of the he said, his relationship to Zionism all of his activities, including travel 16, at 88, from COVID-19. They including the tone of many of Orthodox Jewish community. was singing and dancing “Hava and hosting [guests] in the house, are survived by their children: the exchanges, Lamm found a Dratch recalled one time when Nagilah.” For the first time, he met Shalom Lamm, Joshua Lamm place for Rackman. In Tradition: Lamm was vehemently criticized, people who were “connected to see LAMM, p.16 16 | June 25, 2020

accepting the job of president,” the school being forced into leadership, says Jonathan Sarna, movement [and] earned respect for LAMM Lamm once told Dratch, “because I bankruptcy. Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun traditional Judaism.” continued from p.15 had no background in fundraising.” “It was real danger of Professor of American Jewish And while his communal work Yet he excelled in that position, foreclosure,” says Lawrence History in the department of took away from his intellectual and befriending them.” leaving a very large fund to support Schiffman, professor of Hebrew Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at pursuits, he was “tremendously She has been reported to have the institution for many years after and Judaic Studies at New York Brandeis University, while he was productive,” says Dratch, who said, “Those were both very tough he left. “Donors were attracted to University, which brought him to expected to also fi ll administrative never wasted a second. Despite this, times, but also times of great his brilliance, his integrity and he raise tens of millions of dollars — duties. “Looking back it is really he always made time for his family building and hope.” became very successful. He used a sum unheard of at the time in quite remarkable,” he says, noting and personal interactions that he the various parts in his personality the Orthodox Jewish community. that “YU was very fortunate to have had with many people, and always ‘Spokesman for a whole movement’ and background to the advantage of “I believe that Norman would say someone who was really widely making “sure there was time Part of being president was to his fundraising and the university,” that saving the school fi nancially is respected,” by all segments of the for his Torah study and general keep the institution afl oat, which says Dratch. his legacy.” community, including scholars and knowledge.” Lamm did through very diffi cult A few years after he began Unique to YU, Lamm was in rabbinic leadership, thus becoming YU today is more diverse than fi nancial times. “I had no business his tenor, Lamm was faced with many ways expected to spiritual the “spokesman for a whole it ever was, says Zev Eleff, author of “Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History,” and that the fact that the many stakeholders have been able to create a space of equilibrium is thanks to Lamm. He became a leader at a time of real uncertainty about the direction of so many different worlds, he says — religiously, socially, educationally, professionally and politically. “Rabbi Lamm was able to make sure that all those voices were heard,” said Eleff. For Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, professor of Rabbinic Literature at Yeshiva University’s Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem, Lamm steered YU to a new modern era that will be his legacy. “Orthodox Jews have a tendency to fi ght new battles with old weapons,” Lamm wrote in his 1986 book “Seventy Faces,” “and to confront novel predicaments with antiquated strategies.” BE AMONG This willingness to catch up with the times, says Rakeffet- Rothkoff, who is based in Israel but comes to New York to teach THE FIRST TO KNOW as well, made Lamm uniquely capable of his long tenor at YU. Being American born, Lamm, he says, brought in deans who spoke English, and recognizing the thirst It’s an extraordinary new choice in for Israel among the Modern Orthodox community, brought at contemporary urban rental senior living. least one dean from Israel. “He knew how to channel • 184 Independent Living Apartments the winds that were blowing; he adjusted the yeshiva to an American Opening early 2021 reality and built the bridges to the • 51 Assisted Living Apartments State of Israel,” adds the educator. As a visionary leader, Opening late summer 2020 sophisticated scholar, master orator and prolifi c writer, Lamm • 36 Memory Support Suites left an indelible mark on Jewish Opening late summer 2020 history and was a central architect of the modern Jewish experience, • 54 Skilled Nursing & Rehab Suites wrote Rabbi Ari Berman, current Opening summer 2020 president of YU, in a statement to JNS. “He was a unifying voice who Start your best chapter here. Call today to learn approached all people with a kind smile and an open mind. the details of this exceptional new community. His vision charged generations of students to bring their positive 214-379-6700 Jewish values into the world. Our community has lost a legend, and we mourn the passing of our THE LEGACY MIDTOWN PARK | thelegacyseniorcommunities.org teacher and guide.”