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APRIL 2, 2021 | NISAN 20, 5781 | VOLUME 73, NUMBER 16 $1.50 Arizona prepares ‘Don’t let your guard down,’ local to observe Yom health care professionals advise NICOLE RAZ | STAFF WRITER HaShoah ith vaccines opening up to more people across NICOLE RAZ | STAFF WRITER Wthe state, there is a sense that the end of the pandemic might finally be in sight. While health eorge Kalman was 9 years old when he was shoved into care professionals promote vaccines as the quickest Ga cattle car to be deported to a concentration camp. He way to achieve that end, they warn against declaring was 10 years old when a Russian soldier entered his forced victory too soon. labor camp and liberated him on April 2, 1945. Once Dr. Mitchell Ross, an interventional cardiolo- “The Holocaust did not end in 1945,” he said. “The ‘Never gist and the managing partner of Arizona Cardiology Again’ continued and is continuing today.” Group, feels he can travel freely and attend live Kalman is one of 54 local Holocaust survivors who received sporting and theater events, he’ll feel like life is back the Phoenix Holocaust Association’s Shofar Zakhor award this to normal. But there is still much work to be done year. It’s the first time since the award’s inception in 1989 that before that can happen, he said. PHA is giving the annual award to more than one person. “There is still significant resistance to simple mitiga- Given during the annual Yom HaShoah commemo- tion strategies, including masking in public places and ration, the award recognizes contributions made to reluctance to accept vaccination,” Ross said. genocide awareness and Holocaust education. It is usually given Masking enforcement in the state was complicated to an educator. last week when Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey prohibited “Hearing from or meeting a survivor is educational and government mask mandates, saying, “I’m confident one of the best ways to combat Holocaust denial,” said Sheryl Arizona’s businesses and citizens will continue to Bronkesh, president of PHA. “We wanted to express our practice the fundamentals and act responsibly as we gratitude to all our survivors for their courage in telling others gradually get back to normal.” that they are Holocaust survivors — whether that is speaking According to the Centers for Disease Control and to a class, telling their children and grandchildren or telling local health officials, people need to continue to wear friends at their assisted living facility.” masks, remain socially distant and get vaccinated The decision to break from tradition and give this award to to combat the threat of emerging new variants and Holocaust survivors was made last year. a surge in cases due to Dr. Alexzandra Hollingworth wears personal protective gear to treat “We had no time to waste as the number of survivors is relaxed vigilance. SEE HEALTH, PAGE 3 COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit. PHOTO BY ALEXZANDRA HOLLINGWORTH dwindling because of their advanced age,” Bronkesh said. “In 2020 and thus far in 2021, 10 survivors in the community have passed away.” Kalman has been active in Holocaust education for over 25 Twelve secret spots to see in Israel years, speaking with a variety of men’s clubs, senior groups and Fancy seeing a flamingo in the desert? Look no further than the students who want to learn about the past, he said. evaporation ponds in Evrona near Eilat, which a group of previously “Instead of giving a prepared talk, I conduct my meetings migrating flamingos has decided to call home. To read more, go to p. 23. as a one-on-one Q&A format,” he said. “I tell them that I like hostile questions like, ‘I hear PHOTO BY MILA AVIV/FLASH90 VIA JNS.ORG frequently that the Holocaust SEE REMEMBRANCE, PAGE 2

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REMEMBRANCE Those wishing to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 attend must register at eventbrite.com. never happened. Why?’ Excellent question, Valley Beit Midrash is host- let’s talk about it in detail.” ing Janet R. Kirchheimer for The PHA is holding its annual commemora- a virtual commemoration at tion virtually on April 11 at 1 p.m. Holocaust 11 a.m April 8. Kirchheimer survivors will speak accompanied by music is a teaching fellow at The and a memorial candle-lighting ceremony. National Jewish Center for Rep. Alma Hernandez (LD-3) will present the Learning and Leadership and keynote address. Hernandez reintroduced her the daughter of Holocaust Holocaust education bill in February, which survivors. She’ll be sharing would require public schools in Arizona to her family’s story and read- teach students about the Holocaust and other ing some poems she wrote genocides — including the Rwandan, Bosnian over the course of about 15 and Armenian genocides — at least twice years related to her family’s Holocuast survivor George Kalman, 86, holds his Shofar Zakhor award 2021 Phoenix between grades seven and 12. experiences and what they’ve from the Phoenix Holocaust Association. “My message is simple: we must pass the meant for her. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PHOENIX HOLOCAUST ASSOCIATION Jewish News legislation that mandates Holocaust education “Poetry is about what’s RSVP at tinyurl.com/a9paf69x. if we truly want to ensure that this never hap- on the page, but — perhaps more importantly “It’s important to remember all the lost lives Print Dates pens again,” said Hernandez. “We must teach — about what’s not on the page,” she said. and to appreciate all the things we have now,” the future generations about the atrocities of “Poetry allowed me to enter the maze that is said Harel, whose grandmother successfully hid the Holocaust and ensure that they understand the Shoah and try to figure out my place in from the Nazis and escaped. “It’s part of our January 8 August 6* what hate, bigotry and xenophobia can do.” this world.” history. It’s part of the reason we are here.” January 22 August 20 Those wishing to attend must register at Growing up, she knew 90% of her fam- Harel moved to Phoenix from Israel three phxha.com. ily was missing. “I was lucky — I had one years ago, and goes out of her way to mark February 5 August 27 PHA is one of several organizations in Greater grandmother,” she said. Yom HaShoah and other days that would be February 19 September 3 Phoenix that have planned events around Yom There will be time for participants to share more easily observed in Israel. HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, their own stories and poems during the event. “It’s easy to forget here,” she said. “You March 5 September 10 which falls on April 8, 2021. It is important to create an opportunity for can let special days and holidays go by with- March 12 September 24 Hillel at Arizona State University is host- people to come together and remember the out even telling your kids or remembering or ing a 24-hour name reading on campus from Holocaust, because “unfortunately, never again doing anything. I have three girls and every March 19 October 1 sundown April 7 to sundown April 8. Student has meant again and again,” as evidenced by time I point out, ‘Listen, I know it seems like March 26 October 15** volunteers will read the names of thousands ongoing genocides, she said. a regular day but it’s not.’ And there are still of the six million Jewish people who perished Those wishing to attend must register at traditions and things that we need to remember April 2 November 5 at the hands of the Nazis. In addition to the visitvalleybeitmidrash.org. and talk about.” April 16 November 19 names, the victims’ age and place of death will The Israeli American Council organized a The Jewish Community of Sedona and the be read out.. worldwide six million steps in honor of the six Verde Valley will present a 90-minute webinar May 7 December 3 For students not living on campus and million Jewish lives lost campaign and invited for Holocaust Remembrance Day at 3 p.m. May 21 December 17 those uncomfortable with in-person events, people to wear a black shirt, take a walk and April 11. Hillel is encouraging attendance of a Zikaron add their number of steps to the global count Representatives of children and grand- June 4 Basalon (Remembrance in the Living Room) at iac360.org/6m. children of Holocaust survivors will speak July 9 *Best of Magazine event on Zoom, at 7:30 p.m. April 7, Yamit Harel, who does community about the impact their family stories had on hosted by PHA. Holocaust survivor Marion engagement for IAC Arizona, invites their upbringing and their ways of coping **Annual Directory Weinzweig will share her story, and a poem anybody who wants to partici- with challenges. written by Holocaust survivor Anna Geslewitz pate to walk with her at 5 p.m. April 8, WWW.JEWISHAZ.COM will be read. at Paseo Vista Park in Chandler and to SEE REMEMBRANCE, PAGE 8

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2 APRIL 2, 2021 JEWISH NEWS JEWISHAZ.COM HEADLINES HEALTH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Before he lifted restrictions on masks, Ducey said he’s focused on getting “vaccines into the community as quickly, widely and A Jewish Cemetery that cares equitably as possible.” On March about the Jewish Community 24, Arizona opened vaccination eligibility to all residents aged 16 and older. The decision to expand vaccine appointment eligibility to all residents was fueled in part by the high amount of appointment cancellations, said Dr. Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, in a press conference Monday, March 22. As of that morning, 58,000 appointments released the prior Friday were left unfilled. • Jewish Owned and Operated The State Farm Stadium site • Sidewalks at Every Grave in Glendale was getting almost 3,000 cancellations a day as peo- • Caring Professional Sta ple were finding appointments • Intermarried Families Welcome elsewhere, Christ said. Lana Susskind-Wilder receives her COVID-19 vaccine. PHOTO BY LANA SUSSKIND-WILDER “Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate,” said Monica McCullough, hoping for,” she said. with packed ICUs, packed ERs, people Madrona Hospice & Palliative Care’s Dr. Alexzandra Hollingworth, a trauma coming in left and right, people getting (480) 585-6060 nursing director. She agreed that vac- surgeon who’s board certified in general dropped off in the lobby in cardiac arrest cinating is the way to get past COVID, surgery and surgery critical care as well (due to COVID) — just unimaginable 24210 N. 68th Street, Phoenix and she worries that some people don’t as the chair of surgery and anesthesia amounts of people flooding into the (o Pinnacle Peak Rd) recognize how critical vaccinations are. at Midwestern University in Glendale, hospital,” she said. Now, she is back to Debbie McCune Davis, executive agreed that herd immunity is the goal, treating fewer COVID patients and more mtsinaicemetery.com director of The Arizona Partnership for but enough people have to get vaccinated trauma patients. Immunization, a nonprofit which advo- to make that happen. Yet, even after the pandemic ends, cates for a well-vaccinated population, “We may have herd immunity by the Susskind-Wilder and Hollingworth estimates that seven to 10% of Arizona’s summer, according to Dr. Christ, but foresee long-term impacts on health population is completely resistant to get- other countries may not. And people are care workers. ting the COVID-19 vaccine. going to be traveling back and forth,” “The biggest challenge to ‘getting past’ “It’s a relatively small number,” she said. COVID is the trauma it has left in its McCune Davis said, “but the way it Hollingworth, who is also assistant wake, to those of us who have been in the poses a threat is that they misinform oth- clinical professor and quality improve- trenches, so to speak, but also to the many ers about the vaccine and they build fear ment officer at Creighton University others who have been marked by COVID and anxiety.” School of Medicine, said there is a lot of in other ways — serious illness survivors, The group has the most potential misinformation about the COVID vac- family members of the dead, people in negative impact on the 20-30% of the cine, and vaccines in general, that may long term care facilities who have been so population that is hesitant and taking a be leading people to be hesitant about isolated and afraid,” Susskind-Wilder said. wait-and-see approach, she said. getting their shots. Hollingworth said the nonstop crisis Ross too, is concerned about vac- For anybody with doubts, she recom- and long hours have taken a toll on @ Arizona’s Only Jewish cine hesitancy. “I do think we need mends heading to the CDC website. her personally as well as her colleagues. Funeral Home more public education and messaging She is taking her cues directly from the “We’ve had to start talking about things to help alleviate fears and encourage governmental organization, including her that we usually don’t talk about,” she said. @ Arizona’s Only Member of vaccination,” he said. own metric for feeling like the pandemic “Usually surgeons don’t think about our- the Jewish Funeral Directors Heather Ross, special adviser to Phoenix is over. selves or our wellness. But after COVID, of America Mayor Kate Gallego, hopes people who “I will not let my guard down in the we definitely have become more aware don’t consider themselves to be “early immediate future because I know that of the consequences of that intense kind @ Arizona’s Only Jewish Owned adopters, will feel the time is right for these variants are around,” she said. of experience where people are dying & Operated Funeral Home them now,” after watching millions of “Until I get more information from stud- constantly, and they’re dying without others get the vaccine around the world ies and I get more data and information their families.” @ Arizona’s Only Funeral Home and experience “amazing results” of mini- from the CDC, I won’t be able to say that Despite all that McCullough has Endorsed by the Entire mal side effects while getting protection (this pandemic is over).” seen dealing with hospice patients and Rabbinical Council for themselves and their loved ones. She In the meantime, life with COVID their families, she is allowing herself also said the likelihood is that the vaccine has improved for hospital workers as the to believe that the worst is over. And will be similar to the flu vaccine in that number of hospitalized patients infected she is anxious to travel to her husband people will need to have a booster each with the coronavirus declines. and her home in Canada without a year. How that will complicate things Over the past few months, 14-day quarantine. remains to be seen. Hollingworth, like many others, stepped “People are looking for hope — I feel Lana Susskind-Wilder, a neuropsychol- up to care for critical intensive care unit the increased vaccines that are available, ogist, said she isn’t quite sure what metric COVID patients in addition to her the positive messages that can be shared she will use to feel safe again. “Perhaps trauma patients because of a shortage of about our numbers and our desire to get once we reach levels of herd immunity pulmonary critical care doctors. over this is what will bring us to the finish that experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci are “A few months ago we were dealing line, ” she said. JN

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LOCAL Jewish parents looking to adopt face unique challenges NICOLE RAZ | STAFF WRITER explains to Jewish parents looking to contacting an attorney or agency to match foster or adopt. them with a prospective adoptive family, arah and Seth Ettinger are expecting National data show there are about Zimmerman said. Stheir second child, a baby girl, in May. 424,000 kids in foster care, with about “That’s probably because the Jewish Plans are already underway for their third. 14,500 in Arizona, according to the state culture is supportive of their own,” she “We struggled so much to conceive the Department of Child Safety. Data on how said. “And so if a woman is in a situation second child that we would move straight many are Jewish is not available. where she is facing an unplanned preg- towards the adoption phase and wouldn’t There are also fewer adoption agencies nancy and her Jewish faith is important go through with trying the way that we focused on Jewish families as opposed to to her, she might reach out to a rabbi, did for the second,” Sarah said. Christian families. she might reach out to someone that can The couple started the adoption pro- “There are less options for someone help her identify a family that might be cess before conceiving their second child. who doesn’t identify as Christian,” said interested in adopting her child.” Seth and Sarah Ettinger with their son, Ronen, at “As they say, the minute you go to adopt, Katie Zimmerman, founder of Phoenix- Seth, the cantor at Congregation Beth Papago Park in February. you end up getting pregnant,” Sarah based Purl Adoption Advisory. Israel, and Sarah, a teacher at Pardes PHOTO BY DANIEL FISCHPAN OF INVOKE VIDEO joked. But they know they want three kids Yatom encourages Jewish families Jewish Day School, are already thinking “We don’t want to go ahead and dishonor and the adoption process can take a while. to be more “expansive in their idea of about the kinds of conversations they will the religious lineage of a birth mother, They’ll pick it back up in a few months. who they should be willing to foster or have with their child’s birth mother. who’s wanting to give this kid a better The adoption process can seem over- adopt,” Rothstein said. And that leads to “On the one hand, we’re a clergy life. And then at the same time, we want whelming for any family. Phoenix-based another challenge. family, and we’re Jewish. But I’m also a to be authentic to our upbringing and not Yatom: The Jewish Foster and Adoption “If we adopt a child who’s not Jewish, convert. So I understand what it must feel have this person feeling like an outcast.” Network has been offering support and what do we do? How do we raise this like for a birth mom, if she selects a Jewish Yatom has raised this conversation and guidance, and Seth and Sarah found there child?” Sarah asked. family, the questions she might have,” others like it for the Ettingers and the are challenges unique to Jewish parents The Ettingers expect to adopt their said Sarah, who converted to Judaism other parents participating in its annual looking to adopt. third child privately from an agency and when she was 23, about five years before support and education program. The For starters, there aren’t a lot of Jewish are expecting a semi-open or fully open she met Seth. program consists of up to six sessions kids up for adoption. adoption process, where the birth mom At the same time, the couple feels that take place about every other month. Relative to the number of kids in chooses the adoptive family for her child. strongly about honoring the wishes of Parents get the opportunity to meet the system, the number identifying as Expectant mothers tend to choose the birth mother. others on a similar journey and learn Jewish is relatively small, said Caron Blau families that have a belief system similar “Even though we have a very reli- about the adoption process. Rothstein, Yatom’s program manager. to their own, and there are probably fewer giously tolerant home, our kids are raised That fact is one of the first things she expectant moms who are Jewish that are Jewish, our kids are Jewish,” Seth said. SEE YATOM, PAGE 27

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LOCAL Holocaust survivor shares the story she once tried to forget NICOLE RAZ | STAFF WRITER had everything lined up. They got a spot was identified as “protected.” in the U.S.’ quota immigration system, “My mother was able to go out for one ary Hirschfeld, 89, only recently and they had their passports and their hour a week just to get us some food if Mbegan thinking about the title of exit visas. “We were leaving at the end of she could find somebody willing to sell to Holocaust survivor. December 1941.” us,” Hirschfeld said. The restrictions were Hirschfeld and her family arrived in the But due to the bombing at Pearl Harbor, suffocating. Because they had to wear a United States from Hungary in 1947. their ship never came. Her father had Jewish star on their chests, she and other She was 15 and ready to start a new life. already sold his business. “We got stuck. Jews could not use public transportation In order to do that, she tried to forget We had no place to go,” she said. and had to walk through the city. the Holocaust. They reluctantly stayed in Budapest. She doesn’t have many memories “I pretended like I was the American girl She remembers when German forces from this point on living under the Nazi I should have been at age 10,” she said. occupied Hungary in March 1944. She and occupation or the Soviet occupation that Her family was originally scheduled to her sister, five years older, woke up early followed. “It was just horrible bombings. come to the U.S. five years earlier, before in the morning to what she thought was And I don’t know how often, but the Mary Hirschfeld holds the Phoenix Holocaust the war interfered with their plans. an earthquake. Nazis would come to the building and Association’s Shofar Zakhor award. Now, Hirschfeld is ready to share her “The sound was horrible — all these call everybody down to the lobby and PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PHOENIX HOLOCAUST ASSOCIATION story and recently began writing a memoir. tanks and all kinds of war equipment ran they would select people to go kill by the Her children and grandchildren have asked through the city. And we knew at that time Danube (River) — they were using them Budapest’s ghetto. They were preparing her to share her experience, and “I really that we’re going to be in big trouble,” for target practice,” she said. to kill everybody. Hirschfeld doesn’t recall have a sense of responsibility to let them she said. The Germans immediately swept At some point, her father was selected to the details, but she and others ended up know what happened,” she said. the country of Jews, she said, including be part of a death march. “He had some very deep in a basement, with no food, Her coping mechanism was to forget as her own aunts and uncles who were sent pills in his pocket and he took them to water or bathrooms while a Nazi guarded much as she could, and she did. But every to Auschwitz. commit suicide,” she recalled. The Nazis the entry. She isn’t sure how many days she once in a while, a vivid memory flashes in Hirschfeld and her family were some- thought he was dead and didn’t shoot him. was there, but at some point a young boy her mind. what protected because — due to the Some peasants found him and nursed him appeared and said, “We’re free.” “All I can remember from being the efforts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish back to health, and he was reunited with “What I remember is all these weapons little kid I was, was that we’re going to humanitarian credited with saving thou- his family. all over the courtyard,” she said. “The the United States, that it’s a wonderful sands of Jews — they had forged papers The Nazi occupation of Hungary lasted Nazis just ran and left their guns behind.” country, a country of freedom,” she said. to show they were under the protection a year. Near its end, the Nazis took her It was 1945 and her family again It was the 1930s and her family — her of the Swedish government. They were and other Jews living in her building to parents, her grandmother and her sister — placed in an apartment in a building that join the thousands of others living in SEE SURVIVOR, PAGE 27

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LOCAL according to JFL. Ora Zutler, JFL’s president, of JFL’s annual meeting, a large in-person will present the award to Sheinbein on behalf gathering. But in order to ensure the health of the board of directors. and safety of the community, Zutler will Sheinbein was selected for her service and present the award to Sheinbein during a leadership “in enabling Jewish individuals virtual Gratitude Gathering event. It will be and families to improve their lives and achieve a live broadcast thanking the community for greater stability with regard to their long-term its support throughout the last year, as well as well-being,” according to a statement by JFL. providing an update on JFL’s impact. “Besides being humbled and honored I really do recognize that none of us succeeds in a Beth Ami fundraiser deemed a vacuum,” Sheinbein said, via email. “It is always success a team — the village that makes for a success. Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue in Yangon, Myanmar PHOTO BY DAN FELLNER The staff, the board of directors and volunteers, Beth Ami Temple's annual fundraiser in welcoming community on the globe during professional colleagues, the donors and, in March was a success, said Judy Lohr-Safcik, the 1930s for Jews looking to escape Nazi the case of Jewish Free Loan, the borrowers Beth Ami's vice president and head of the who trust in our program and come to us for fundraising committee. Germany. But in present-day Shanghai, there Tina Sheinbein PHOTO COURTESY OF TINA SHEINBEIN loans and the guarantors who stand besides “Unusual Jewish Locations in Asia” was are no longer any synagogues. He also said the title of this year’s virtual fundraiser, which Tina Sheinbein to receive JFL’s the borrowers. Truly an incredible group of that the second most welcoming community took place on Sunday, March 14 and raised a President’s Award at virtual event talented, caring and dedicated individuals to Jews during the '30s was the Dominican creating an amazing team. My success is total of $1,852. More than 50 people tuned Republic in the Caribbean. Tina Sheinbein, Jewish Free Loan’s former their success.” in to hear Dan Fellner, a Fulbright scholar, He described his travels in India, which executive director, will be presented with JFL’s Sheinbein worked for JFL for more than journalist and world traveler, talk about his time has one synagogue dating to 1567. Today President’s Award as part of a special virtual visiting various Jewish sites throughout Asia. 15 years. She started out as the director of Mumbai, once known as Bombay, has eight event on May 23, 2021. His presentation included many photos as well. development and outreach and later became synagogues. Meanwhile, Hong Kong is home “I am humbled and honored to share this Long-time Beth Ami member Mel Selbst the organization’s executive director. She to 3,000 Jews and Tokyo, Japan has 2,000. exciting news,” Sheinbein posted on her contributed her vision and dedication to JFL, said watching the presentation brought Thailand, too, has a vibrant Jewish community Facebook page for family and friends. “Jewish and was also a key proponent in creating the back many memories from his own travels. with many Jewish visitors. Fellner pointed out Free Loan is a passion that I am blessed to be named loan fund program. Arnold Schwartz, another long-time member, a part of. Thank you to JFL for bestowing this Since her retirement in June 2020, Sheinbein commented on how enjoyable and informative that almost all of the Asian countries have at honor and recognition on me.” became the part-time coordinator for the the program was. Schwartz especially least one Chabad. The award, established in 2007, is presented international association of JFL. appreciated that many people participated in By the end of the evening, members felt they to a person, organization or institution that Kathy Rood of Jewish Family & Children’s the Q&A portion of the event. had a good idea about the Jewish community “encourages Jewish continuity and reflects Services received the last President’s Award in Fellner surprised many viewers when in Asia, said Lohr-Safcik. the values and principles” of the organization, 2019. Usually the award is presented as part he explained that Shanghai was the most Elyssa Schneider chaired the event. JN This is what memory care is all about. It’s not to say that dementia isn’t an emotional and challenging disease. It’s just that when you see the person instead of the disease, you don’t see sadness. You see life. You see history. You see achievements. You see family. You see love. And that’s how we see it at Maravilla Scottsdale. We can help you with the challenges you’re facing.

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NATIONAL ‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman talks at Holocaust teach-in JESSE BERNSTEIN | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

ore than 400 students, educators and Mcommunity members tuned in from around the world on March 7 to attend Philadelphia’s Gratz College Zoom event with cartoonist Art Spiegelman. As part of the biennial Arnold and Esther Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-In, Spiegelman, creator of “Maus” and the first cartoonist to ever win the Pulitzer Prize, gave several talks to different groups over the course of the afternoon. For a few

hours, viewers heard from the 73 year-old From left: Rabbi Lance Sussman and Art Spiegelman SCREENSHOT BY JESSE BERNSTEIN Spiegelman on topics like MAD magazine, American cartooning, Donald Trump, “Maus” for many years, as the same ques- Weissman, an adjunct professor at Gratz 13 year-long project, and live only in that.” Zionism, Elie Wiesel, Charlie Hebdo, tions came up repeatedly. He even wrote a and an associate professor of English at the Spiegelman recommended the work of “Maus” and more. companion book, “MetaMaus,” that sought University of Cincinnati, was intended for younger cartoonists, and plugged Astra “Maus,” Spiegelman’s graphic memoir to preempt many of them. But the Trump educators at the high school and college Quarterly, a new international literary for which he is best known, is both the story presidency, he said, compelled him to be levels. Weissman discussed the various ways magazine edited by his daughter, Nadja of his father’s experience of the Holocaust in more vocal. in which “Maus” could be used to teach stu- Spiegelman. He answered many questions Poland and Spiegelman’s own experience as “I just got more and more scared about dents about the interplay between literature, regarding teaching techniques when it came the son of Holocaust survivors. It is based the reality I was in,” Spiegelman said, history and memory. to “Maus”; most were preceded by an out- on recordings that Spiegelman made of “because it seemed to me that ... well, I In the other session, Spiegelman pouring of gratitude for Spiegelman’s work. his father’s testimony. The resulting work, never quite thought I’d see fascism rear its addressed more than 40 Gratz students. Spiegelman insisted that education published serially between 1980 and 1991, head in America.” He discussed his relationship to Israel, the wasn’t on his mind when he first put pencil won praise and awards for Spiegelman from When a commenter expressed dismay difference between him and Elie Wiesel, and to paper. across the globe. that Spiegelman’s discussion was focus- a new project he’d illustrated for the novel- “I never made ‘Maus’ to teach anybody “Maus” is well-suited to the themes of ing too much on politics, the cartoonist ist Robert Coover; he talked about fascism, anything consciously. I didn’t think the world could learn,” he said. “I just knew this the teach-in. The late Arnold and Esther was indignant. Plastic Man and the difference between the was a story that people at that time, which Tuzman, the namesakes of the teach-in, “This isn’t politics as some kind of Republican and Democratic parties. was 1972, barely knew.” (Spiegelman drew were both Holocaust survivors. Their son, abstraction. This is politics. The Holocaust The work of Wiesel and some other the first “Maus” strip in 1972.) Marty Tuzman, and granddaughter, Kira was politics. And we’re living through poli- survivors, Spiegelman said, felt “emotion- Spiegelman tried to situate “Maus” in the Foley-Tuzman, described the experience tics now,” he said. ally manipulative” to him; additionally, he history of American cartooning, explaining of carrying on the legacy of their forebear- Spiegelman also discussed the history of had no intention of becoming a writer who that the genre wasn’t usually considered ers for the teach-in attendees, emphasizing American cartooning and the publication would be called upon every time someone to have any literary merit for most of its the responsibility that they feel to honor of “Maus.” Mostly, he answered questions needs a pronouncement on a matter of the Holocaust. history. It was his work and that of a few their memory. about particular choices he’d made in the “I have no real problem with his other cartoonists in the late ’80s, he said, After leading VIP sponsors on a tour of creation of “Maus,” covering everything work,” Spiegelman said of Wiesel. “But that finally brought a more sympathetic his at-home studio, Spiegelman spoke to all from his portrayal of Polish people as pigs I certainly didn’t want to spend the rest critical eye. JN attendees for close to an hour. to a shadow on the cover. of my life having to become a second Puffing on a blue-ringed vape, Spiegelman Preregistered participants then broke generation explicator of something that I Jesse Bernstein is a staff writer at Jewish Exponent, said that he tried to avoid talking about into two groups. One session, led by Gary put everything I could know into this one a Jewish News-affiliated publication.

REMEMBRANCE difficult to process, he asked readers to imagine “For those taken eight decades ago, we must and the other members organized this event CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 the entire population of Arizona, which was remember to ensure their memories against a because of their own interest in researching Those wishing to attend should visit just over six million at the time of his book’s final death; for ourselves, we must remember their family history. jcsvv.org. publication in 2014. “The next time you find precisely how such flagrant assaults on human About 30 people tuned in to hear gene- The Arizona Jewish Historical Society is yourself in a traffic jam, let your mind wander rights evolved, to ensure our own ability to alogist Emily Garber, who is also Jewish. “In hosting Holocaust survivor Oskar Knoblauch for a minute and picture Arizona without a diagnose resurgences of anti-Semitism and genealogy in general what we’re told to do is for an online presentation on April 16. His living soul,” he wrote. xenophobia today; and, for those to come, start with what we know, and then work back- family fled Germany in 1936 to Poland, only to AZJHS is also streaming the documentary we must remember to never lose hope that wards chronologically. And you can still do that see it invaded by Germany in 1939. His family film, “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary impregnable safety for our children’s children with Holocaust records on our families,” she was forced into the Krakow Ghetto, and when World of Ben Ferencz,” about the last surviv- may one day be assured,” he said. said. “More and more information is not only it was liquidated, put to work for the Gestapo. ing lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Michelle Blumenberg, executive direc- coming online but becoming available from In the preface of his autobiography, “A Streaming will be April 16-18. Those wish- tor of the University of Arizona Hillel many archives from Europe.” Boy’s Story, a Man’s Memory — Surviving ing to attend either program must register by Foundation, said 29 students participated Places like the U.S. Holocaust Memorial the Holocaust 1933-1945,” he wrote a short emailing [email protected]. in the reading of names. Each student read Museum are also now acquiring records segment directly to Holocaust deniers. Some events occurred ahead of names for 15 minutes, and about 12,600 from some European archives, she said, like “I ask those Holocaust deniers to explain Yom HaShoah. names were read over the course of the Arolsen Archives in Germany. And many to me where the six million Jews are. What On March 17, University of Arizona Hillel seven hours. records are free of cost. happened to them? Did they just disap- hosted two Holocaust survivors to share their A PHA-affiliated group of third-generation For Garber, observing Yom HaShoah is pear into thin air? No, you deniers, those survival stories over Zoom and hosted a vigil. descendants of Holocaust survivors called important to help put life in perspective. six million were turned into skeletons and Zach Schlamowitz, a sophomore, was 3GAZ hosted a Zoom presentation March “When you destroy somebody’s life, you ashes and were buried in almost every co-chair of the 30th annual Holocaust vigil. 25 about tracing Jewish family history despite can’t destroy our memory of them, and it’s European country.” He said remembering the Holocaust is critical the Holocaust. the memories that we’re trying to restore and Because such a large number can be for all humanity — past, present and future. Adena Astrowsky, founder of 3GAZ, said she carry on through the ages.” JN

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NATIONAL Nu? Want to learn Yiddish? There’s an app for that. JUSTIN VELLUCCI | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

vetch. Mensch. Mazel tov. Schmooze. backgrounds — from a civil engineer Twitter,” Viswanath said. K Colorful Yiddish words and phrases who grew up speaking Yiddish at home e Yiddish program, like Duolingo’s have been in America’s collective cultural to three Gen Z’ers (those born after popular Hebrew course, will help bilingual bloodstream throughout generations — and 1997) inspired by their heritage to or trilingual speakers who code-switch many more might soon follow. Duolingo, carry on the tradition, according to a between languages when they stumble on a the technology company that bills itself as Duolingo spokesperson. word predominantly known by an English “the most popular way to learn languages Meena Viswanath, the aforementioned name. To that end, Viswanath points to online,” will release its long anticipated civil engineer, grew up in New Jersey in a Israeli pronunciation of “sandvich” for Yiddish course on April 6. Modern Orthodox family and today lives sandwich or Russian fill-in words like The course, which has been under in Maryland. Her family includes experts “mobilka” for mobile phone. development at Duolingo for the better versed in various aspects of Yiddish. “People are very loyal to their family’s part of ve years, is ideal for those just Her grandfather teaches the subject at dialect,” Viswanath said. “There is learning about the language, Jews uent Columbia University, her aunt is an editor definitely pride in the Yiddish in Yiddish who want to brush up on at the Yiddish version of The Forward community. I’m looking forward to see grammar and spelling, as well as people and her mother published a Yiddish-to- how this happens.” whose ancestors spoke Yiddish and English dictionary. Viswanath’s brother Duolingo launched its Hebrew course in who want to explore a family tradition, even translated some of the popular 2016. To date, about 900,000 have registered said Myra Awodey, a senior community “Harry Potter” series into the language, to learn that language, which Awodey said manager at Duolingo. she said. is a good estimate for what the company “We, of course, started with the largest “We come from the secular, from expects of its Yiddish program. languages — English to Spanish, Spanish the academic world,” Viswanath said. Duolingo, which launched in Pittsburgh, to English —for the rst couple of years,” “We don’t live in communities where Pennsylvania in November 2011, o ers 100 Awodey said. “Over time, we realized Yiddish is the vernacular. It’s a conscious courses across nearly 40 distinct languages. not only were people asking about other decision we make.” “We want to ensure that anyone who languages, there were other people ere are three main dialects of Yiddish, wants to learn these languages, can,” Screenshot of Duolingo app reaching out, saying, ‘I’m an expert and I according to Viswanath: Litvaks, or Awodey said. JN SCREENSHOT COURTESY OF BRITTANY SMITH want to help.’” northern Yiddish, which was spoken in To illustrate that trend, Awodey pointed Lithuania, Belarus and Latvia; Galitsyaner, to Irish-Gaelic, which Duolingo estimated or central Yiddish, spoken in Poland and about one million people spoke uently parts of Hungary; and southeastern Yiddish, when it launched its Irish-Gaelic course spoken in Romania and Ukraine, which ve years ago. In just the rst year Duolingo o en is a “compromise” dialect between o ered Irish-Gaelic, one million people Litvaks and Galitsyaners. e southeastern signed up to learn from the course. Yiddish is the form of the language most Awodey stressed, though, that the o en depicted in the Yiddish theater and in Yiddish course Duolingo is releasing Yiddish lms, Viswanath said. is merely a beta version; the company Duolingo chose to teach Galitsyaner, or Phoenix Holocaust Association Invites You to Join Us for a Virtual constantly invites participants to report central Yiddish, as it is the most commonly errors and provide it with feedback. spoken dialect of the language, especially “The courses are never completely among Chasidic Jews, Viswanath said. finished,” Awodey said. “There’s always Parts of the Jewish world already are YOM HASHOAH room for improvement.” responding positively to news of the The Yiddish course was created by Yiddish course. COMMEMORATION contributors representing the three major “[Duolingo’s] Yiddish program has Yiddish dialects and from a variety of been trending on the Jewish/Chasidic Holocaust Education, Inspiring the Next Generation Guest Speaker AZ Rep. Alma Hernandez April 11, 1:00 PM Visit www.phxha.com to RSVP and receive a link to the event

We honor the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and recognize those who survived. Hear from Holocaust survivors and view a candle-lighting ceremony.

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JEWISHAZ.COM JEWISH NEWS APRIL 2, 2021 9 OPINION Editorials To The Israel in stalemate Another ‘Other’ Editor ne week after Israel’s fourth nowhere to turn other than an unlikely n the last year, Asian Americans your grandmother has control of Time for D.C. statehood Onational election in two years, the grouping with small center and left- Ihave suffered at least 3,795 hate Jewish space lasers. The Jewish News' editorial country remains in political gridlock. wing parties from the Tel Aviv Bubble, incidents. The upsurge in this dis- During the past few years, we on March 16, “It is time for As in previous rounds, in addition plus the largely Arab Joint List. That turbing trend seems to stem from have seen a distressing reawaken- a voting rights compromise,” to the traditional political, religious won’t happen. some level of “blame” associated ing of aggression and hate crimes notes that D.C. statehood is and national allegiance issues that Second, last week’s election was with the coronavirus outbreak in against minorities, including a “an issue worthy of serious divide them, Israelis are profoundly haunted by the ghost of Rabbi Meir China, and the taunting finger- serious uptick in anti-Semitic activ- consideration and support.” I divided over whether Prime Minister Kahane, whose Kach party was banned pointing and name-calling that was ity. Our sense of complacency has agree and write to offer several Benjamin Netanyahu should continue from the Knesset for racism in 1988 and shared widely as the dreaded virus been disrupted. As the poisonous reasons why. his longest-ever leadership of the who was assassinated in 1990. Some spread around the world. infection of hate grows, other vul- In Talmud, Rabbi Hillel says Jewish state. of Kahane’s followers are leaders in the The pandemic has put us all on nerable communities are inevitably “what is hateful to yourself, Pundits, prognosticators and politi- newly constituted Religious Zionist edge. But there is absolutely no targeted. Suddenly, our nation of do not do to your fellow cians are having a field day. Scenarios Party — an anti-Arab, anti-LGBTQ, excuse for the transfer of blame immigrants transforms into a nation man.” In the early 1900s, both abound with dizzying versions of anti-secular amalgamation, which for the virus or anything associ- of scapegoats, as we fall victim to a Arizona and D.C. desired to be potential political alliances and compro- secured a surprising six seats in the ated with it to our Asian American rising blame culture and the politics admitted as states. Congress mise possibilities. Yet, in the cold light election. The prospect of that group community generally, or to elderly of anger. granted Arizona’s petition for of reality, most agree that a fifth election being an essential part of the country’s Asian Americans who have been We can do better, and we must. statehood, yet over 100 years will be necessary. governing coalition is frightening. attacked while walking through the We need to stop the hate and later, the 712,000 residents of In this fourth round of voting, Nonetheless, based on last week’s results, streets of several major metropolitan embrace the hated. Our Asian D.C. remain without voting Netanyahu and his right-leaning allies Netanyahu cannot form a majority U.S. cities. American friends have done noth- rights and representation that are again a few seats short of the neces- coalition without them. It makes no sense. But reading wrong. Yet they have suffered a we now take for granted. Those sary 61 needed to create a governing Third, the political influence of the ing the reports and hearing the disturbing history of anti-Chinese in D.C. bear the responsibilities coalition in the 120 seat Knesset. And Arab MKs has been compromised. In disquieting stories of the Asian immigration legislation, anti-misce- of citizenship without sharing those opposing Netanyahu can’t do the last election, the Joint Arab List American victims makes it real. And genation laws and the internment of its privileges. D.C. is home to it, either. became the third largest party with 15 for our community, the stories are Japanese Americans. Today’s threats 32,000 veterans, and residents While a likely fifth round is no more seats. As a result, for the first time, Jewish disturbingly familiar. and violence are unfortunately pay more in taxes than 22 promising, there are several significant politicians were talking about breaking In a recent article in The nothing new — the animosity and other states. takeaways from last week’s results that the taboo of welcoming Arab MKs into Washington Post, Jeff Chang hate simply never went away. And Legislation has been could have a bearing. the government. This time around, described the thinking behind epi- now, they are simply rearing their introduced in Congress to First, of the 120 Knesset seats, the Ra’am Islamist party split from the thets like “China virus” and “Kung ugly heads, again. grant D.C. statehood. I hope 72 will be filled by right-wing or Joint List. Voter turnout was lower, flu” as the result of “the twisted We urge our community to see our senators, Kyrsten Sinema Orthodox MKs. This, of course, would Ra’am got 4 seats, and the Joint List logic that connects two opposed, the recent threats and attacks on and Mark Kelly, will support be Netanyahu’s natural constituency. In fell to 6 MKs. Prognostication about infernal ideas: that Asians and Asian Asian Americans as a wake-up call. it. We are fortunate to have the normal course, 72 seats held by such Netanyahu courting Ra’am and actually Americans are impure and inferior This is our opportunity to reach out senators — the people of D.C. like-minded politicians would have little getting them to join his coalition seems — and if not stopped, they will to our neighbors and to give them have none. As we celebrate problem forming a right-wing govern- pretty far-fetched. conquer our world.” Disturbing, comfort, support and empathy. Passover, we recall our own ment — hawkish, ultra-nationalist, Fourth, so long as a new government indeed. Replace “Asian” and “Asian That is the way coalitions of caring struggles and the freedom that pro-settlement and annexationist, with is not installed, and if a fifth election is American” with “Jew,” and long- and relationships of trust are built. followed. Perhaps by next year’s plenty of influence for the haredi parties. equally inconclusive, alternate prime lived and reviled anti-Semitic canards Let’s make clear to our Asian seder, the Americans who live But right-wing leadership is divided minister Benny Gantz of the Blue and are brought back in full color. Quite American neighbors that they can in our capital will have equal over Netanyahu, who is on trial for cor- White Party will become prime minister simply, blaming a Chinese American count on us. We will certainly rights, and democracy will be ruption and has antagonized many of in November under the terms of the grandmother in New York City for appreciate their support when the more complete. his former allies. That leaves right-wing current coalition agreement. the spread of the coronavirus is not wheel turns. But beyond that, it is politicians who oppose Netanyahu with Something has got to change. JN much different from believing that the right thing to do. JN Ellie Sims, Phoenix Museum discoveries JEROLD S. AUERBACH our relationship on it. The only exception I was the inheritor of their adopted faith. as their davening echoed within the ancient was the Baseball Hall of Fame, its unique My Jewish indifference was eventually stone walls, I knew that I was encountering rom boyhood version of a museum, where I delightedly upended by a sabbatical year in Jerusalem, “real” Jews, not the assimilated American Jews Finto adulthood, admired photos and mementos of my idols sparked by a brief trip to Israel sponsored of my parents’ generation (and, of course, I was never fond of (Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig) and my cousin by the American Jewish Committee for their children). museums. Whether (Hank Greenberg). “disaffected” Jewish academics (I was clearly At the time, a few years after the Six-Day it was a grammar- Eventually, once I became an American qualified). Except for my weekly teaching day War in 1967, the ancient Jewish Quarter of school trip to the historian, my chosen past for research, as a Fulbright professor at Tel Aviv University, Jerusalem, destroyed during Israel’s struggle Metropolitan Museum writing and teaching started at the I was free to wander through the Holy City for independence, was slowly being rebuilt. of Art in Manhattan or, as a young adult, the beginning of the 20th century. that was becoming my home away from home. I occasionally stopped by to watch the Louvre in Paris, I found the endless maze of Coincidentally, or not, it was then that My meandering invariably drew me to the remnants of old buildings excavated in the rooms and paintings a tiresome bore. But I my grandparents arrived from Eastern Old City and, inevitably, to the Western Wall. digging. One afternoon an Arab worker dutifully went along, whether because my Europe, launching our American family history Its cavernous interior chamber was endlessly approached me, holding several ancient fifth-grade teacher required it; or, years later, in the land of freedom and opportunity. My fascinating. Watching and listening to bearded coins that he had discovered underground because my girlfriend seemed to condition parents eagerly assimilated as loyal Americans; old men and young boys with long tzitzit SEE AUERBACH, PAGE 11 A NOTE ON OPINION We are a diverse community. The views expressed in the signed opinion columns and letters to the editor published in the Jewish News are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reﬂect the views of the ofﬁcers and boards of the Jewish Community Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Media or the staff of the Jewish News. 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10 APRIL 2, 2021 JEWISH NEWS JEWISHAZ.COM OPINION Commentary AUERBACH people and animals with huge round rim eyes. purchases were decorated with birds — one Most painful — and the heartrending CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 During that year, and in years and visits to with the Ten Commandments. After returning exception to my aversion to museums — was come, I purchased them from Mahmoud, the home, I arranged them on a wall in my study my visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. and was clearly interested in selling. As yet knowledgeable and genial store owner, for my as a miniature replica of the Israel Museum Its Children’s Memorial, a huge dark chamber unaccustomed to Middle East bargaining ritual, own burgeoning antiquities collection — or, as exhibit. Two others, different in size and with endlessly rotating ceiling photos of 1.5 I gladly paid his asking price. Our transaction I ironically identified it, my museum. ornamentation, earned privileged locations million children, my age at the time, who were marked my initiation into the world of In my wanderings, I discovered shops in near my desk. One displays two lions flanking murdered by the Nazis because they were Jews, Jewish antiquities. downtown Jerusalem that sold old religious a tall candelabra above the words “Betzalel” was especially searing. Had my grandparents Several weeks later, while walking along objects. As a boy, my favorite Jewish holiday (the chief architect of the Tabernacle) and not left Russia and Romania, I might have the Via Dolorosa, a shop window caught — and the only one observed by my parents “Jerusalem.” The other has an engraved been among them. No other museum has my attention. I ventured inside, wandering — doubtlessly to undermine any temptation backdrop of Jews praying at the Kotel; Me’arat had, or could have, its deeply sorrowful and past keffiyehs, beaded jewelry and beautifully for Christmas, was Chanukah. But the Hamachpelah, the Hebron burial site of the enduring impact. embroidered wall-hangings. In the rear was celebration of Chanukah in Jerusalem was patriarchs and matriarchs; and Kever Rachel, These days, writing and reading in my study, I a fascinating array of ancient clay pitchers of unlike anything I had ever experienced. where Jacob’s favorite wife and Joseph’s am surrounded by books about Israel and Jews, various sizes and shapes. Some, with handles In the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of mother was interned. antiquities and 19th-century lithographs of and spouts, clearly had been used to store and Mea Shearim and Sha’are Hessed, menorah In my explorations, I discovered two silver the Holy Land. They stir Jerusalem memories pour liquids. Others, flat and tapered with candles flickered outside nearly every home. spice boxes: one topped by a flag, the other linking past and present, the sorrows and joys of small openings, were oil lamps. There also The eighth-night celebration at the Western by a Magen David. Also two beautifully my people. Jewish antiquities have enabled me were fascinating clay figurines: a donkey with Wall, where large vats of oil simultaneously filigreed silver siddur covers, one etched with to track — and embrace — that history from a package bag on each side; a bird with spread burst into flame and many hundreds of Stars of David flanking a replica of the Ten wings resting on a stump; and a trio of tiny celebrants sang “Ma’oz Tzur” together, Commandments; the other with two men its biblical antecedents to Jewish statehood. stone cats, my favorite domestic animals. They was extraordinary. praying at the Kotel. I found an elaborately Ironically, Israel not only undermined my were all between 1,000 and 3,000 years old. Soon after, following my first (reluctant) visit decorated tzedakah canister with “Betzalel aversion to museums but inspired me to Most intriguing were ancient statuettes: a to the Israel Museum, where an entire wall Jerusalem” engraved above a bearded man create my own. JN woman nurturing her child; another propping displayed more than one hundred chanukyiot carrying a Torah. I came to realize that each Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of "Hebron Jews: up her disproportionately sizable breasts; the of various sizes, shapes and decorations from acquisition not only was a tangible reminder of Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel" and “Print to head of a man wearing a tall pointed hat and Jewish communities worldwide, I was inspired my time in Jerusalem, but a symbol of escape Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896-2016." another with his forefinger touching his chin; to start my own collection. Several of my early from my long-buried Jewish self. This article was first published on JNS.org. What I’ve learned teaching Jewish texts in the UAE

YEHUDA SARNA Clause. But little did I know, I was about against me in the court of this classroom. is blessed with diverse voices who to be called to the stand. “Judaism is the belief that because we are quenching that thirst. Ross Kriel, n 2011, on one “We have a special guest today. Yehuda, were redeemed from bondage, we are president of the Jewish Council of the Iof my first trips introduce yourself.” I said my name and obligated to do all we can to bring Emirates (JCE), and Rabbi Dr. Elie to the United Arab title, explaining that I ran the Bronfman redemption to ourselves and others. The Abadie, senior rabbi of the JCE and Emirates, I sat in Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU in stories and rituals are largely based on rabbi of the Association of Gulf Jewish on a class taught New York. “That’s not enough,” Sexton that belief.” Communities (AGJC), have provided by then-New York said. “They’ve never met a Jew before in At this point, the questions came fast eloquent explanations of the holidays University president their life, let alone a rabbi. We’re trying and furious. A rabbi in the classroom? of Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah, Purim John Sexton on law to analyze these Supreme Court cases. The Establishment Clause was forgotten; and Passover on the pages of the Khaleej and religion at NYU Abu Dhabi. It was a Can you explain to the class, briefly, what Judaism became the subject of curiosity. Times (at the newspaper’s request) thrill to watch this legendary law professor Judaism is?” Throughout the past decade, Judaism — the largest English daily newspaper take 20 Emirati students through a I hesitated, realizing suddenly that has remained a subject of curiosity. in the UAE. Jean Candiotte edited a Talmudic reading of the Establishment anything I said could or would be used The Jewish community in the Emirates SEE SARNA, PAGE 12 Energy diplomacy opens new chapter of independence for Greece

JULIE FISHMAN RAYMAN connects the three countries to European agreements between Greece, Israel Meanwhile, Cyprus also paid a premium and Asian power grids and cements and Cyprus have yielded strategic for energy from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya odern Greece their standing as energy exporters. military alliances, including shared and Saudi Arabia — some of which Mis marking Stretching 2,700 meters underneath the intelligence, technology and joint drills exploited Greece by offering gas and oil its bicentennial, Mediterranean Sea, the high-voltage to bolster security. Energy agreements on credit at the height of the country’s celebrating the highway offers more independence for have lessened their dependence on economic crisis. nation’s emergence Greece and its allies. nefarious regimes. When Greece, Cyprus and Israel from 400 years Accelerating the interconnector is Since its independence in 1948, Israel’s discovered their own natural-gas reserves, of rule under the only one piece of the energy diplomacy energy security has been tenuous at best. In an angel appeared. For the first time, a Ottoman Empire. While ancient Greek that offers stability to the region. For 2005, Israel’s diplomatic ties warmed with major source of natural gas in the region culture pioneered democracy, philosophy, the last decade, Greece and its partners Egypt, which signed a 15-year agreement was controlled by Western democracies. geometry and more, modern Greece have forged a new model of statecraft to export natural gas to the Jewish state. They were no longer beholden to regimes kick-started a more recent seismic shift: focused on cooperation and investments Israel relied on Egypt for 40% of its that didn’t align with their interests. Now, normalization with the State of Israel. in technology — a prototype for the natural-gas supply. But under the regime Israel has inked a deal to export its own Energy ministers from Greece, Cyprus Abraham Accords that pave the way for of Mohamed Morsi, the stability of that gas to Egypt. and Israel have agreed to speed up work normalized relations between Israel and supply faced constant threats. The pipeline Israel’s more secure boundary has long on the Euro-Asia Interconnector, a the Arab world. carrying gas to Israel through the Sinai been the Mediterranean Sea. It established 2,000-megawatt underwater cable that Numerous bilateral and trilateral Peninsula was regularly sabotaged. SEE RAYMAN, PAGE 12

JEWISHAZ.COM JEWISH NEWS APRIL 2, 2021 11 RELIGIOUS LIFE TORAH STUDY SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING APR. 2 - 6:32 P.M. Will Passover Ever End? A guide to Passover’s final day APR. 9 - 6:37 P.M. PESACH inner sense of appetite and dissatisfaction, Exodus of the past, while it’s in the final an expectant push launching us days that we celebrate what is yet to come. CHOL HAMOED forward, searching for better. It is in these last days of Passover when our SHABBAT ENDS RABBI NAFTOLI Perhaps on a humorous note, this ability to create a world of good and usher HERTZ PEWZNER APR. 4 - 7:29 P.M. can explain a central seder tradition: the in the arrival of Moshiach is especially s the birthday afikomen search. possible. This is reflected in the final APR. 10 - 7:33 P.M. Aof our people, After the seder preliminaries, but before day’s Haftorah where Isaiah’s descriptive Passover is not just we get to the story, a matzah is broken into prophecy of the future redemption is read. about history. It two, and the afikomen portion is hidden. So, will Passover ever end? I would like Find area congregations at jewishaz.com, where just isn’t “Once In classic Jewish style, it is the smaller to say, not yet. Passover hasn’t yet ended you can also find our 2021 Community Directory. upon a time.” part that makes it to the table and it’s the because we haven’t stopped expecting Of course, the Haggadah helps us larger “half” that we are left searching for. more, expecting better. We never consider through the story of our ancestors’ slavery Somehow, being left to search for more, to redemption to be a thing of the past. on the future. To celebrate our inborn in Egypt and their miraculous Exodus, but expect more, isn’t just a rite of seder night. It is in this vein that Jews all over the expectation that things should be better, that’s just the beginning. The Exodus was Rather it’s a trait that resonates deeply with world follow a tradition instituted by the much better. And no, not just to talk how we got started. Jews of all backgrounds — it’s part of who Baal Shem Tov and celebrate the waning about it, but to eat it too. Complete with Passover was the moment in time when we are. hours of Passover, Sunday, April 4, with matzah, four cups of wine and any other a new identity was born, when we became Each year, Passover doesn’t just remind Moshiach’s meal, a feast celebrating the Pesach goodies, let’s get ready to celebrate the Jewish People. This was not merely a us of the fact that we are no longer Divine revelation yet to come. the part of Passover that is yet to come! JN benevolent act of G-d to let an oppressed slaves, but it also opens us up to our true Why more food, you may ask. people leave captivity, it is the festival of potential. It empowers us to not be limited At the seder, we didn’t just tell the For a printable DIY program for your Moshiach’s meal, visit Chabad.org/4712962/. our freedom, free to be who we really are. to the status quo. It allows us to expect story of our Exodus, we ate it. We tasted Passover is when we began to chart our more, to yearn for better and to never be the bitter herbs, we ate the matzah and Rabbi Naftoli Hertz Pewzner is a New Jersey destiny, when our act began. It’s the time satisfied with a hurting, imperfect world. savored the cups of wine. We internalized resident and serves as an instructor of Chasidic when we were freed from our shackles Interestingly, Chasidus teaches that the experience. In the final hours of the thought and practice, as well as a professor of of slavery so that we can free the world the eight-day Passover holiday itself is holiday, the purpose of the Exodus is Jewish philosophy and mysticism at Rabbinical from its constraints. Indeed, born into structured around this theme. It is on the waiting to be realized. It is our chance College of America. He is also a frequent visitor to the very fabric of the Jewish psyche is an first set of days that we connect with the to get the family together and focus Chabad of Scottsdale.

SARNA RAYMAN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 chapter on the Jewish community in a others, give me hope for the region. It formal relations with Greece and Cyprus free by the end of his term in 2023. book published by the UAE Ministry of may sound strange to hear, but I believe decades ago, but it’s just within the past As the Biden administration rejoins and Tolerance and Co-Existence. Chabad- that the key asset the Middle East needs in decade that the Israel-Greece-Cyprus commits to upholding the terms of the Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Levi Duchman order to succeed is not oil, natural gas or a trilateral relationship has transformed the Paris Climate Agreement, Congress should has led seminars on kosher ritual law for booming tourism industry; neither global Eastern Mediterranean into a real political follow through on the commitments the tourism sector. finance hubs nor strong militaries. The key and economic region. of the Eastern Mediterranean Security The Bronfman Center at NYU decided resource that must be carefully cultivated is What started as a partnership based on and Energy Partnership Act signed into to offer the Jewish Learning Fellowship, intentional curiosity. energy has developed into something much law in December. The American Jewish a 10-week, non-credit course on Jewish There is no time to waste, and we must broader and strategic. The Interconnector Committee and its partner, the Hellenic texts, to students at NYU Abu Dhabi. We also do our part. The Passover seder is — geared to become the world’s longest American Leadership Council, vigorously expected that between five to 10 students at its essence an exercise in nurturing and deepest underwater cable — will advocated for this law. From authorizing would sign up. More than 80 students our curious instincts, as we find creative link Israel’s power grid to the European the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Center enrolled within a few days after a student ways to prompt questions from younger one, forming another bridge to the sent one single email. members of the table, though no one West. Seeking to reduce its reliance on to deepening the security relationships The highlight for me of every class is the is exempt: Russian energy, the European Union has with Greece and Cyprus, and calling out “Ask the Rabbi” segment. The questions If his son is wise and knows how to committed funds to the Interconnector, Turkey’s malign influence in the region, range from the most philosophical to the inquire, his son asks him. And if he is not deeming it a Project of Common Interest the EastMed Act advances key shared most practical — from questions about wise, his wife asks him. And if even his (PCI) that will bridge Asia and Europe. energy, climate, security and democracy God and prophecy to differences in head wife is not capable of asking or if he has But energy independence is just one promotion goals. covering. This past week in response to no wife, he asks himself. And even if two bridge built by this diplomacy. As countries The Abraham Accords are creating a question about kosher food, I walked Torah scholars who know the halakhot of move away from oil and coal towards a new path to peace for Israel in the my laptop through my meat and dairy Passover are sitting together and there is greener sources of energy, natural gas offers broader region, but in recognizing those kitchens, past the cereal box shelf and no one else present to pose the questions, a bridge from oil to a more renewable tremendous advancements, the path into our meat freezer. Next week, I will they ask each other. (Pes. 116a) future and green energy infrastructure forged by Greece and Cyprus should not address a student’s question about what A child is deemed “wicked” if they feign in accordance with the Paris Climate be forgotten. In the turbulent Eastern Jews believe about Jesus. curiosity. A child who does not question Agreement. The EuroAsia Interconnector, Mediterranean, these two democracies To be sure, we have respected the must be taught to ask. which can transport energy generated proved that there is much to gain from sensitivities around teaching texts of non- Passover is the Jewish festival of curiosity. by a variety of sources, will accelerate deepening and widening their links with Islamic religions. We have made it clear If we foster it within ourselves, we can, true progress in all three countries towards Israel. The region, the United States that we do not aim to sow confusion in to Judaism’s essence, redeem ourselves that goal. and the world stand to benefit from this anyone’s previously held faith; we are not and others. JN Israel has already pledged to derive a strategic alliance. JN seeking converts. Our purpose is simply to third of its electricity from solar power reverse the decades of division that have Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, NYU University Chaplain, by 2030 and is pouring profits from Julie Fishman Rayman is senior director of policy planted ignorance as a hedge between is the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the natural gas into its electric-car industry. Emirates and the Honorary Chairman of the and Political Affairs for the American Jewish Judaism and Islam. Association of Gulf Jewish Communities. This Meanwhile, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Committee. This article was first published on These teaching experiences, above all article was first published on JNS.org. Mitsotakis has declared Greece will be coal- JNS.org.

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SENIOR LIFESTYLE Wise Aging’s virtual fundraiser will ‘knock it out of the park’

SHANNON LEVITT | MANAGING EDITOR Wise Aging Center. Now that people under- Phoenix who provided ini- stand the virtual world better, she expects “to tial funding and eventually hen Nancy Pollinger moved to Desert knock it out of the park.” asked the BJE to become WRidge in 2016, she found herself This year’s gala will feature Ashton a home for the program. wondering where all the Jewish people were. Applewhite, anti-ageism activist and author Myra Shindler, execu- She had moved from a rather tight-knit com- of The Chair that Rocks: A Manifesto Against tive director of BJE, then munity — “kind of a ghetto” — in Baltimore, Ageism. Levin expects people from all over the asked Levin to become Maryland, and Greater Phoenix’s Jewish country to tune in. a facilitator and a coor- community wasn’t as clearly marked as in her The Wise Aging program is based on the dinator for the program. hometown, she joked. book “Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience, Levin also keeps track of Luckily, the internet provided assistance. and Spirit” by Rabbi Rachel Cowan and new Wise Aging groups Nancy Pollinger’s Wise Aging cohort doing their version of Pollinger was intrigued by something called Linda Thal and is part of the Institute for and continues to train “Hollywood Squares.” PHOTO BY NANCY POLLINGER Wise Aging on the Bureau of Jewish Education Jewish Spirituality. new facilitators. of Greater Phoenix’s website. It seemed like it “The program is a way to transition as you Levin, who had experience teaching college and women from all walks of life: teachers, could be right up her alley — after all she was age into living a life filled with purpose, vitality classes in developmental psychology and aging, doctors, lawyers, counselors and many others. aging too. But more than that, she didn’t want and knowledge, which translates to wisdom was excited to sign on. In part, she was moti- And while it has Jewish origins, the program to move to Arizona only “to live in a cocoon and happiness,” said Pollinger. “It breaks vated by the simple fact that “I’m aging myself, is open to people of all faiths. after retiring,” she said. “I wanted to give back down the myth that we need to just decline or and the program has a wonderful perspective Pollinger continues to be inspired as well to the Jewish community.” that we’re irrelevant. It lets people feel relevant, on aging — instead of the typical negative and is proud that her class has sustained itself She investigated the program and soon was connected and supported.” one about aging bodies and wrinkles,” she over the last few years — even in the face of part of a group of people who would become While that idea might seem a shoe-in for said. “I wanted to grow from this and learn COVID-19. When the group was forced onto close friends and confidantes. She became a a city filled with retirees, Wise Aging arrived from it.” Zoom, they called themselves the Hollywood facilitator herself and has run her own Wise through a somewhat circuitous path. And she did. Along with a group of volun- Squares. Joking aside, she said her group Aging cohort since. Harriet Rosen, an active volunteer in the teers, Levin was trained by Thal to become a has been successful “because we’ve created On April 25, BJE will host Wise Aging’s community, was familiar with the program and facilitator for BJE’s first cohort. The whole a sense of trust — a confidence in knowing fourth annual fundraiser gala. Last year, the believed in its mission. She enlisted the help of process was enlightening and fun, she said. what we say is confidential and valued. More gala took place soon after COVID-19 restric- her friend, Connie Wolf, and the two of them “Personally, it helped me to grow spiritually, importantly, everyone is heard.” tions took effect and before many people were visited with synagogue and community leaders emotionally and mentally,” said Levin, “and to A silent art auction begins on April 7 and Zoom savvy, but it still “went beautifully and about bringing the program to Arizona. Rosen look at life from a more resilient perspective can be accessed until the gala. JN was very successful,” said Linda Levin, the gained support before bringing it to a board enabling me to help others.” She has been program’s first facilitator and director of the member of the Jewish Federation of Greater pleased to watch it catch on with both men For tickets to the event, visit bjephoenix.org.

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SENIOR LIFESTYLE Holocaust survivor battles into her 90s

ANDY GOTLIEB | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

ven at 96, Holocaust survivor Cherie Born March 16, 1925, in the seaport Scandinavian countries before taking a ship EGoren doesn’t like sitting still. town of Memel, Lithuania, as Sarah to Great Britain. From there, they took the The pandemic’s ended her regular Fleishman and nicknamed Tutti (a cousin Queen Mary to the United States, arriving bridge game for now and an insurance changed her name to Cherie upon arrival in New York Harbor and passing the Statue company decision cost her some mobility to the United States in 1939), Goren of Liberty on April 20, 1939, which also was last month, leaving her largely confined described a happy, prosperous childhood Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday. to her condominium in Merion Station, with her two sisters and brother. Their “The ship passed close to the majestic Pennsylvania. father, Leo, sold wholesale textiles, while her lady holding her torch,” Goren wrote in Goren said she’s been paying into a mother, Judith ran her family’s Schwartzen her book “A Time to Keep.” “New York long-term care insurance policy with Adler Hotel. appeared in the background. People around Cherie Goren PHOTO BY ANDY GOTLIEB Transamerica for 40 years. With her health “It was a good life — it was a very good us were crying openly, so were my parents. I starting to decline last year, she filed a claim life,” she said. “We had help. We had a could not quite understand why, but I knew and, in July, the company approved her for beautiful apartment. We had the only car that this was the most auspicious moment five hours a day with an aide, who helped her in the city.” in our life.” run errands and other day-to-day activities. That started to change in 1937, when There they were met by her aunt, Rachel “If I don’t walk, I’m fine,” she said. “If her father returned from a business trip Domont, who enlisted the Pepsi-Cola Co. I walk, I fall.” to Czechoslovakia, sensing growing anti- in dealing with the red tape associated But in February, the company sent out a Semitism and general unrest. with immigration. The Domonts owned nurse to assess Goren and determined she “He said, ‘War is coming’ and ‘We’re a bottling company in Indianapolis and didn’t need the help, daughter Ellen Goren taking a trip,’” she recalled. bottled Pepsi for all of Indiana. said, and stopped approving payments. The For the next two years, Goren and her The story of Goren’s family’s departure case is under appeal, marking yet another sister Frances lived with their aunt in Riga, from Lithuania is chronicled in the 2018 chapter in a long and interesting life. Latvia, while her father liquidated his documentary “Leaving Memel - Refugees Transamerica Public Affairs Director Erin store and began making preparations to from the Reich,” directed and produced by Yang responded to an inquiry that, “Due immigrate to the United States. Most of nephew Fred L. Finkelstein. to customer confidentiality, we are unable the family’s wealth went to grease palms to The family spent the next few years in to provide information to you, but we enable their travel, Goren said. Indianapolis, eventually moving to New have been in contact with the customer to When it came time to depart, the family York, although Goren stayed behind address their concern.” avoided Germany, moving through the to finish high school. She enjoyed the freedom of basically being on her own From left: Frances (Fanny), Cherie (Tutti) and and recalled seeing an unknown “skinny Gisella (Gisa) in 1929 PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHERIE GOREN young kid standing by himself” backstage at a Tommy Dorsey concert and asking for eventually became merchandise manager his autograph. The singer was happy to do for the eight-location chain and created so, signing, “To Cherie, Sincerely Yours, a store-brand cosmetics line called Frank Sinatra.” Cherie Cosmetics. “I didn’t graduate with my class because Around the time she moved to the I cut too many classes,” she said. “I had to condominium she still calls home, go to summer school.” she bought the insurance policy now And she met one of her most valued in dispute. friends, Rabbi Elias Charry. “Forty years and never missed a payment “He was my mentor. I miss him a lot,” and they just pulled it,” she said. she said. “He was a big influence.” Goren might want some help, but At a wartime USO show, Goren met an doesn’t want anyone to believe Army Air Corpsmen from Pennsylvania she’s helpless. named Joe Goren who specialized in “All of a sudden, you become a charity “making false teeth for all the generals,” case,” she said. “The first time they sent she said. They married and moved to me Meals on Wheels, I sent it back. ... The the area a few years later, settling in longer I live, the less I know.” Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. Still, Ellen Goren isn’t letting the insurance This year we learned From there, they lived the American denial go easily, noting that her mother uses dream, raising two children in the a walker and has been hospitalized on three the value of community. suburbs and staying involved with the occasions because of falls. Jewish community. “I said, ‘You’re just waiting for her to WE CANNOT STAND ALONE; Goren doesn’t think too often these days die, so you don’t have to pay the claim,’” of her wartime experiences — she refers she said. “It’s just a very draconian way to WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER! to her book as a coming to America tale, do business.” not a Holocaust story — but did make a Ellen Goren said she’s still making return trip to Memel about 30 years ago. quarterly payments of about $500 to keep Take your AZ tax credit today She found little recognizable, although her her mother’s policy active. grandfather’s tombstone was just one of six “She’s gotten very dependent on to help those in need. saved from a cemetery there. her provider,” Ellen Goren said. “She’s At the age of 50, Goren entered the sitting alone.” JN work force, taking a part-time job at a jcctaxcredit.org National Beauty Stores location. Although Andy Gotlieb is managing editor for Jewish she didn’t have retail experience, she Exponent, a Jewish News-affiliated publication.

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SENIOR LIFESTYLE Much of my grandfather’s life is classified but the rest is pretty special LISA WOOLFSON University and Westinghouse Electric, a military and he had an 8-year-old brother. contractor that produced defense electronics. So instead, he decided to stay at hen my sister and I were little and we My grandpa worked 32 hours a week and went Hopkins and begin a Ph.D. program. Wvisited my grandpa, all we thought he to school at night and during the summer. In 1973, he finally earned his Ph.D. did was play cards and watch TV. We knew It took about six years for him to earn his in arts and sciences. little about him besides his hobbies and that bachelor’s degree. In the summer of 2016, when I he was a loving grandpa. As it turns out, there In 1958, he was drafted into the army and was between high school and college, was a reason for that. Most of the work he’d was at Fort Knox for about four months. But I went with my grandfather to the Lisa Woolfson, right, with her sister, Rachel Woolfson and her grandfather, Martin G. Woolfson, in front of the capsule done in his life was classified. And the work they decided his skills would make him more National Air and Space Museum that wasn’t, well, it wasn’t easy to explain to a at the National Air and Space Museum that Martin Woolfson useful on inactive reserve, so he returned to in D.C. When we arrived, my helped design. PHOTO COURTESY OF LISA WOOLFSON couple of kids. Westinghouse. He was honorably discharged grandfather told me that he worked Now that I’m older, I know a lot more about from the army eight years later. on the design of something in the museum. time on music. All in all, he started working at my once mysterious grandpa. He went for a master’s degree at night, We walked through the sprawling building to 16 and stopped at 76. My grandfather, Martin G. Woolfson, lives which took around another five years. the space section, and he pointed out a capsule My grandfather has been interested in music in Pikesville, Maryland and is a member of My grandfather also worked on Project since he was a child. Every road trip I’ve gone Beth Tfiloh Congregation there. He recently that he had partly designed. It was amazing Gemini, NASA’s second spaceflight program. to see that his work was such an important on with my grandparents has included listening turned 85. He was born in the Bronx, New to 3-4 hours of Frank Sinatra and other 1940s He helped design the circuitry and metering part of history that it was featured in a York but moved to Maryland during World and ‘50s hits. of the Westinghouse rendezvous radar, which national museum. War II, during which his father worked in After retirement, he took classes in music allowed people to take an object in space and While he was working at Westinghouse, a shipyard. theory and jazz theory. Then he saw a private hook it up to another object in space. he learned a lot of classified information, After the war, they returned to the Bronx, teacher to learn how to compose music. NASA liked my grandfather’s designs so much of which still cannot be shared and my grandpa left home at 15 when he had Whenever I visit him, he plays me his new much they patented his designs for themselves one year left of high school. He decided to today. But the information about songs and explains how he wrote them. I love move back to Baltimore, Maryland because in his name. This is part of why he won Project Gemini now belongs to the hearing the music he composes and that he still he liked it and had a lot of family living there. a fellowship from Westinghouse. Out of public domain. finds a way to make brilliant creations, even 100,000 employees with only one or two He went to Baltimore City College for high He eventually retired from Westinghouse, after retirement. JN school and graduated sixth in the class. offered fellowships, he was chosen. which, by then, had been bought by Northrop After high school, he got accepted to a work- My grandfather was supposed to go on to Grumman, an aerospace and defense Lisa Woolfson is a freelance writer for Baltimore study scholarship program with Johns Hopkins Stanford, but his mother had just passed away technology company. Now, he focuses his Jewish Times, a Jewish News-affiliated publication.

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Senior fitness classes at Martin Pear JCC. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARTIN PEAR JCC Fitness is key to healthy aging JONELL MERTENS

s the saying goes, friends, lifting weights together at the gym or A“Aging isn’t for the playing pickleball with a group — is often the faint of heart,” and fitness is main reason people will stick with an exercise how we make sure that our routine. This reflects my earlier point of finding heart, and the rest of our what you enjoy to keep yourself moving. body, stays strong. The list of fitness options For those of you exercising at home, you can is endless. The key is to find what you enjoy purchase a set or two of hand weights from an and keep moving. online retailer like Amazon. Start with a set of So where do you begin? If you aren’t a light weights and add a few pounds as you set regular exerciser, a trip to your doctor is higher goals. A yoga mat is great for stretching always the first step. Knowing if you have a and provides a non-slip surface. Sitting in an current health concern or injury can be vitally armless chair provides a secure position for important in planning your exercise goals. exercising on your own. Circle and handle If you are a regular exerciser, start by setting bands offer extensive exercise possibilities for small goals. If you always walk 1.5 miles the upper and lower body. outside, try increasing the distance to 2 miles. If you aren’t able to get on and off the Your next goal can be to do the same distance, floor without help, you may need to stay in but at a faster pace. Set similar goals for cardio a chair for safety. Many senior fitness classes machines like the elliptical or treadmill. In are chair-based, yet incredibly challenging. the end, all of those small changes will result If you are planning to work out at home, in a stronger heart and healthier body. No make sure that there are no loose rugs to slip matter your age, your body will respond on, and wear your tennis shoes. Your space to a progressive plan of action and you will should be large enough to move and groove see improvements that will make your daily without obstruction. activities easier. If you’ve fallen or are worried about falling, If you require more motivation, a certified doing exercises to improve your strength, personal trainer may be for you. A CPT is a balance and flexibility will help make you great option to assist you with balance and stronger and feel more confident on your feet. strength. The Martin Pear Jewish Community For additional guidance, the CDC Center in Scottsdale has a number of nationally recommends that adults aged 65 and older certified trainers who will meet with you should do the following: — at no charge — to help you with your • Aim to be physically active every day — any fitness plan. activity is better than none. Fitness classes are also a great option and are • Do activities that improve strength, balance often included in a gym membership. Check to and flexibility at least two days a week. see if your gym has classes that would be a fit • Do at least 150 minutes of moderate for you. Senior Fit, Yoga 101, Water Aerobics, intensity activity every week or 75 minutes Aging Backwards and Zumba Gold, are a few of vigorous intensity activity. If you are of the titles that describe active adult classes. already active, you should combine both. Group fitness classes that aren’t specifically • Reduce time spent sitting or lying down for seniors are also an option. Instructors are and break up long periods of not moving trained to offer safe options for everyone, no with some activity. matter their age or fitness level. If you aren’t When you think of exercise as a prescription sure, ask to observe a class before you join. for your health, it becomes a daily pill you Due to COVID-19, senior classes were take. But to hit your fitness goals, find what paused and converted to online options for you love so you will stick with it and keep safety. At the MPJCC, we now offer active moving. Aging doesn’t have to be for the adult classes with options both on site and faint of heart! JN online. Our schedule also includes classes for those with a Parkinson’s diagnosis. For complete CDC exercise recommendations, Gyms are often a social setting, and that is visit cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/older_adults. a huge incentive to get you in the door and coming back. It’s the perfect time to join Jonell Mertens is a NASM-CPT, AFAA-certified instructor and Parkinson’s coordinator for Martin your friends and encourage each other. The Pear JCC. For more information, visit mpjcc.org/ social aspect of working out — walking with personal-training.

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SENIOR LIFESTYLE How to ignite your relationship at any age or stage

MARTIN KUPPER

any of us spend an true no matter what stage of the relationship Make a deposit into your love bank account emphasis on this special idea, and with our Menormous amount of you’re at. When you do something nice for your partner we can identify projects close to time and energy in finding Here are six tips to increase connection, partner or go out of your way to make them home that can make a resounding impact a love relationship. That passion and romance in your relationship feel special, you’re making a “deposit” into on those less fortunate. Relationships thrive can still be the case as we whether it’s new or decades in the making. your “love bank account.” Conversely, when when you deepen a spiritual connection with age. Whether we meet through friends, fam- Create a morning ritual something negative occurs in your relation- your partner as well. ily, a synagogue, online or by happenstance, ship you are making a “withdrawal” from This can be as simple as alternating tasks, Hello and goodbye the quest to find “the one” consumes many with one partner making coffee while the the account. You get the idea. After we were together for some time, my anxious encounters with those who turn out When you make daily deposits in the love other makes the bed. It’s truly the little partner and I noticed a difference in how we to be “not the one.” account, it’s like having an insurance policy things we do for ourselves and our partners greeted each other. We were once so excited Maybe you found the right person long for a failproof relationship that stands the on a regular basis that make the most pro- to see each other that we always embraced ago and are now looking to ignite a new test of time. found impact on our relationship. Writing and gave each other a kiss. But after time, spark in a decades-long marriage. Or you’re and hiding little love notes for your partner Celebrate your love we noticed a pattern of coming and going caught in a romantic transition and feel to find during the day is another ritual My partner and I celebrate the anniversary without even saying hello or goodbye. lost. People who were in a very long-term that can be done easily. Or just send a of the day we met each and every month. Once aware of this, we made a conscious relationship and now find themselves dating fun playful text. We acknowledge the commitment to our again, might need a little help figuring out effort to take the time when we leave or relationship in various ways but always on what to focus on. Speak your partner’s love language return to give each other a heartfelt hug the 14th of every month. Even if we are It’s easy to give up on love, especially This is one of the easiest and most power- and kiss. apart, we send a note, flowers or a small amid COVID-19’s obstacles, which have ful things a couple can do to directly impact Take the time, energy and effort to gift recognizing our special day. We usually strained all of our relationships this past and enhance their relationship. Check out overflow your love bank account with go out to dinner or have a romantic dinner year. Ordering food in and watching the Gary Chapman’s 5lovelanguages.com and more deposits than withdrawals by being at home. latest Netflix show might seem easier than take the quiz with your partner to discover present in your relationship, prioritizing Make your relationship a priority and do working on your current relationship or your love language. If you already know it it and integrating these six tips. It’s guar- the little things on a regular basis. Watch finding a new one. and have been in a relationship for more than anteed to make you the happiest couple your love blossom and bloom over and Trying new experiences together invigo- one year, take it again with your partner and you know. JN rates, connects and bonds couples while you’ll be pleasantly surprised to learn how over again. the order of the languages may have shifted. Have a spiritual practice Martin Kupper is a Phoenix-based coach, consul- deepening their relationship, according to tant and co-founder of Surprise Date Challenge. Dr. Arthur Aron, professor of psychology at Be sure to do one thing each day that speaks In Judaism, we practice tikkun olam — His latest book, “Surprise Date Challenge: Home Stony Brook University in New York. That’s to your partner’s primary love language. repairing the world. Our faith places an Edition,” he co-wrote with his partner, Dana Lam.

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SENIOR LIFESTYLE Inspired by grandson's word, grandmother writes ‘Challah!’

JESSE BERMAN | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

nspired by her young grandson’s love of challah, Ellen Kahan Zager views the primary audience for IZager was spurred to write, illustrate and self-publish her her book as parents and grandparents who children’s book, “Challah!” that could capture the joy he feels for have Jewish children between birth and 4 his favorite food. years old, she said. A member of Beth T loh Congregation and B’nai Israel in Zager chose to self-publish “Challah!”, as she Baltimore, Maryland as well as a past president of the Macks has found working with a professional publisher Center for Jewish Education, Zager, 65, built a career for herself in to be challenging. “It was a very, very di cult graphic design. She got her start in the eld of children’s literature process,” Zager said. “Not that I was looking by collaborating with her friend, Harriet Cohen Helfand. Together, to make a lot of money. But there was so little they co-authored their illustrated retelling of the creation story, money in it, and so much aggravation, that I “Challah!” cover illustration ILLUSTRATION BY ELLEN KAHAN ZAGER “And ere Was Evening, And ere Was Morning,” selling 33,000 decided not even to pursue it this time.” copies to PJ Library alone. ough the book is available for purchase, Zager’s primary Her new book “Challah!” is currently available for motivation for creating the book was for the enjoyment of her sale on Amazon. grandson. She thought, ‘Oh, well I’ll get ISBN numbers, and “I wrote it, originally, for my grandson [Elior], whose rst I’ll put them up for sale, and if there’s a market out there, great, word was ‘challah,’” said Zager, who lives in Baltimore’s Little Italy good for me.’” neighborhood. “It’s still his favorite food. And any carbohydrate, Zager also wanted to have an outlet to focus her creativity. “ is until he developed any kind of vocabulary, he identi ed as ‘challah.’ keeps my creative juices owing,” she said. “I need to create. When So it really didn’t matter what the food was, he called it ‘challah.’” you’re a creative person, when you’re an artist, you have to have Her grandson’s habit of referring to things that are not challah outlets for your creativity.” as “challah” helps explain the speci c design of Zager’s new book. Zager is currently working on a new book focused on the “ ere are six spreads where there’s a picture of something that’s relationship between grandparents and grandchildren in the midst not challah. ‘Challah? No.’ And then the seventh picture is, of of social distancing, she explained. course, ‘It’s challah, yay!’” she explained. “The idea is that grandparents love their grandchildren Some of the pictures of items that qualify as not challah include a even when they can’t see them,” she said. “And they will love blueberry mu n, a chocolate layer cake, a croissant and pancakes. them always.” JN As her background is in art direction, rather than illustration, one of the biggest challenges Zager faced came from creating the Jesse Berman is a staff writer for Baltimore Jewish Times, a Jewish News- book’s artwork, she said. affiliated publication. Ellen Kahan Zager PHOTO BY JENNIFER BISHOP

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SENIOR LIFESTYLE First person: Lessons of an unintended caregiver

STU TURGEL

s a career nomad which health care professionals relate to home in her assisted living community to have one of the most remarkable AI have had the their patients and their patients’ families. with the help of non-medical home resources in the country that has as part joy of experiencing I learned how to navigate the medical care aides, it still felt like a full-time job of its mission concern for the elderly who life from coast to industrial complex and what physicians, overseeing her care. It is hard to calculate are homebound and their families who coast. Each new job nurses, technicians, hospitals and insurers the number of phone calls I’ve had with find themselves unexpectedly enlisted as brought me to a new deal with in the ever-changing dynamics countless health care workers and with caregivers. Duet: Partners in Health and community in which of health care from the perspective of a my family members who have been a Aging has been devoted to this work for to live and work. For some, the idea of provider and a payer. constant source of advice, counsel and 40 years. I am proud to have served on making numerous cross-country moves After decades working in hospitals, I emotional support. Duet’s board of directors for the past over the span of five decades would be a thought I knew all I needed to know Throughout the months of dealing few years. frightening proposition. For me, it was about how to be an effective family with this on a daily basis, certain question According to Duet, “A family the thrill of new adventures, new cities, caregiver and health care advocate. I continued to gnaw at me: What happens caregiver is defined as someone who new friends and new experiences. quickly learned that what I knew was when a seriously ill or injured individual provides unpaid care for a loved one. But one of the downsides of being barely enough to make me a minimally doesn’t have one or more family members Many family members don’t consider in what sometimes felt like perpetual literate health care consumer and proxy acting as their caregiver? What happens such care ‘caregiving’ — they are just motion was the separation from family. for an elderly relative. when a patient’s family members are doing what comes naturally. Whether In all the moves I made to wonderful the care is provided in town or across parts of the country, I never had the I QUICKLY LEARNED THAT WHAT I the country, it’s a responsibility opportunity to live and work near my that can take a physical, mental and closest relatives. Occasional visits were KNEW WAS BARELY ENOUGH TO MAKE emotional toll.” fine, but nothing takes the place of ME A MINIMALLY LITERATE HEALTH My work as a family caregiver continues being close to family members to share because I believe that COVID is likely happy occasions or to offer help in time CARE CONSUMER AND PROXY FOR to leave my aunt as a COVID long- of need. hauler, in need of attention for a long Both of my parents are now gone. AN ELDERLY RELATIVE. time to come. I hope I can live up to When my mother was very ill, I lived the task and be a caregiver capable of 2,000 miles away. Fortunately, my father providing the support that she needs served as her caregiver until the time of and deserves. her death. And decades later when my But for those who anticipate playing father was seriously ill, his second wife such a role, or for those who have was his caregiver since I was still living suddenly been thrust into the role of a far away. family caregiver, it is important to know I never had the burden or the privilege that there are resources available to help to act as a caregiver for my parents. I never you be the best helper you can be for learned what it was like to interact with your loved one. physicians, nurses, hospitals, insurance If you live in Greater Phoenix, consider companies and the myriad other people contacting one of these agencies to seek and places that provided vital health assistance: services. It wasn’t that I didn’t care about them, I just never had to care for them. Duet: Partners in Health and Aging: Both of my parents went through 602-274-5022 their final illnesses with a spouse at their Area Agency on Aging: side while I was on the other side of the country. 602-264-2255 Now, I’m suddenly faced with being a Senior Help Line: ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / FIZKES long-distance and unintended caregiver 602-264-4357 for my aunt who has neither a spouse But I am one of the fortunate family unprepared, ill-equipped and completely nor any children to care for her. My caregivers who has the benefit of a life overwhelmed with the prospect of caring Dial 2-1-1 to reach the Community late father’s sister celebrated her 88th partner who is an expert in the area of for a loved one? What happens when Information and Referral Service birthday as a COVID-19 patient in an aging. Without her abiding support and those who care the most are not even AARP Arizona State Office: acute care hospital 2,600 miles away. The counsel, I would have been lost. sure what questions to ask or how best 866-389-5649 physical distance that separates us can’t And I have been doubly blessed to to advocate on behalf of the person they separate the closeness I have felt for her have a cousin who has been a nurse for care so much about? If you live in another region or state throughout my life. more than 30 years at one of the nation’s As I pondered these questions, my search for your local area agency on So, with no background in being a elite medical centers and who shares my first reaction was to feel grateful that I aging or contact the local office of AARP caregiver and no prior experience caring love and deep concern for my aunt, her had a modicum of ability to deal with for suggestions on how you can be an for my parents at the end of their lives, I cousin. This cousin lives close to my aunt, this situation. My second reaction was to effective family caregiver. couldn’t let my lack of knowledge stand but in the era of COVID, a few miles think about those who lacked the support Being a caregiver is a noble task that calls in the way of trying to do the best for a or a few thousand miles don’t make a system to deal with such a difficult on us to show our compassion, love and person who has cared for so many others great difference. challenge. I feel compassion for both respect for the dignity and well-being of during her lifetime. I simply jumped Even with knowledgeable family the patients who lacked a family support others. It may be a weighty responsibility into the deep end of the pool and did members working in partnership to network as well as family members who but it can also be the greatest labor of love old-fashioned on-the-job training. ensure that our family member was well struggle dealing with what few people are you will ever experience. JN I spent the majority of my working years cared for while in the hospital for many ever trained to do — be a caregiver for Stu Turgel is a broadcaster, blogger and nonprofit as a hospital executive. I learned a great weeks, in a rehabilitation center for a someone they love. consultant in Scottsdale. This article was published deal about medical lingo and the way in few more weeks and eventually back My community is incredibly fortunate first on his blog, thephoenixfile.net.

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CHARITABLE GIVING Colel Chabad ups the ante to help fight poverty in Israel DEBORAH FINEBLUM | JNS.ORG

ll who are hungry, come and eat. All Ever since the day the Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Traxler, director of volunteering who are needy come and celebrate Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, told for Colel Chabad, delivers matzah to a recipient of “A food packages in Jerusalem. PHOTO BY MENDY HECHTMAN Passover.” the young newlywed that starting with the first Each year, comforted by the ancient words Rebbe Schneur Zalman and including himself Riel-Shamir Blatt, puts it: “We know we have of the Haggadah and the fragrances of brisket, as the seventh, “all of the Chabad rebbes had a children going to bed hungry and old people potato kugel and matzah-ball soup wafting in special place in their hearts for Israel,” recalled who can’t even get out to soup kitchens this from the kitchen, at least on seder night, Jews Duchman. “He told me that I am the one who year. We knew we needed a huge program to everywhere can enjoy the overwhelming sense needs to raise the money for everyone there reach as many of them as possible, and we’ve that all is right with the world. who is hungry.” seen that Colel Chabad could do the job.” But what if we really meant it: “All who are Forty-three years later, Duchman is still Much of what the charitable organization is hungry come and eat. All who are needy come heading up this mission. And it’s one that able to accomplish is not only donor-funded and celebrate Passover”? has expanded in the last year to embrace but also volunteer-driven. A factor that, This year in Israel, that’s a taller order than what Rabbi Menachem Traxler, director of organizers say, significantly reduces their costs. usual. Consider the nearly 200,000 families volunteering for Colel Chabad, calls “Israel’s Take Alex Katz, for instance. The former who can’t pay their rent and utilities, and still newly poor.” Californian has been supporting these efforts Change have enough money left for food. This segment “This year it can happen to anyone,” said with both his time and financially for more of the Israeli population has ballooned in the Traxler, who directs Colel Chabad’s Pantry than six years. year of COVID-19 and in the wake of mass Packers, a volunteer-run food packing facility Katz said it’s of paramount importance to the life job losses. Just compare the Central Bureau of in Jerusalem. “Many of those in need today teach his five children the mitzvah of giving to Statistics’ January unemployment rate of 13.9% are people who, until COVID, had jobs those in need. As a family, they often volunteer to the 3.9% a year earlier. with enough coming in to feed their families. at Pantry Packers, distribute gifts to hundreds Add in the extra costs of the Passover holiday Now, for the first time in their lives, they of orphans each Chanukah and have supplied of a and the pressure mounts. can’t pay their bills and buy enough food for a printing press so adults with multiple sclerosis But what can be done to help, outside of their children.” can earn an income. shlepping a soup pot from home to home of Pantry Packers, which got its start in 2013, is “It’s all hands-on chesed (‘lovingkindness’),” child in every hungry Israeli? just one of Colel Chabad’s dozens of programs said Katz. “And it’s inspiring to watch Rabbi It turns out that this is pretty much what benefiting Israelis in need. Traxler, who never backs down from even the the folks at Colel Chabad are doing — Chief among them is the National Food biggest challenge. The lesson for us all is to and increasingly with Israel’s government Security Initiative, a food-distribution system focus more on what we can do and less on foster as partner. that feeds 10,800 families every month — with what we can’t do.” It all began 232 years ago. In 1788, the first the cost of the multimillion-dollar program Indeed, one bonus of Colel Chabad’s work is Chabad Rebbe, Schneur Zalman of Liadi (also split evenly between the organization and its invitation to Diaspora Jews to get involved. care. known as the Alter Rebbe) issued a plea to his the government. Bar and bat mitzvah groups are welcome to faithful to send more than they could spare Other Colel Chabad programs include 23 help pack food during the year, as are visitors (poverty being an ever-present fact of life for soup kitchens, feeding some 3,000 seniors from overseas. Use your Arizona Foster most) to sustain Jewish immigrants braving a day, half of whom now require “Meals on “By supporting us, they know they’re Care Tax Credit to direct the hardships of life, including food shortages, Wheels” home deliveries; a safety-net program improving the lives of Israel’s poorest of the your state taxes to help hostile neighbors and disease, in a pre-state especially for widows and orphans; a lunch- poor,” said Duchman. “These are people who Israel under less-than-welcoming Ottoman bag initiative for low-income school kids; four literally have no food in the refrigerator unless Arizona’s children in foster rule. A decade later, the rabbi was jailed for not-for-profit supermarkets selling food below we provide it and do it in a way that maintains care. AASK has been treason by the Russians for raising these funds market cost; scholarships for youngsters who their dignity.” helping children in foster to support Jews in Israel. have lost a parent to COVID-19 or other In his 43 years on the job, Duchman said Today, Colel Chabad is the oldest causes; nine dental clinics; rehabilitation centers one crystalizing sight was watching an orphan care ﬁnd caring families continuously operating charity in Israel, still for those with neurological conditions; and 16 who had been able to finish high school and for over 30 years. Help us fulfilling that mission to feed and clothe Israel’s day-care centers in low-income neighborhoods become an officer in the army thanks to Colel help them. poorest citizen — Jews, Arabs, Druze and allowing mothers to work. Chabad’s support. Christians alike. This winter, as the social and economic For Blau, one point of pride was when Israeli Including Sofia, who made aliyah from costs of the crisis continued to increase, Israel TV personality Guy Lerer approached them For more information visit Russia in 1990. Now 85, she lives alone announced the most sweeping distribution last September with a request: After putting CreditsForKids.org or call in Jerusalem and knows that meals will be initiative in its history. To maximize the out a call for all those who wanted to turn delivered to her home twice a week. “I don’t program’s impact, the Israeli Ministry of over their governmental stimulus checks to 602-930-4665 have to worry where I will get food to eat, and I Interior asked Colel Chabad to distribute the poor, he was swamped with more than don’t have to cook it myself,” she said through monthly food cards — each worth as much 20,000 responses. a translator. “I am so thankful for this help.” as 2,400 NIS ($725) — to needy families So Lerer asked Colel Chabad to be among And Menachem, who lives with his wife and in Jerusalem and central and southern Israel the select few organizations to distribute it. 11 children in Jerusalem and lost his job due to (another organization, Pitchon Lev, is covering “The donors needed us to make it happen, the coronavirus pandemic. The family receives the north). A total of 200,000 families are to turn their money into food, electricity both a debit card for use at supermarkets and being helped through the 700-million-shekel and heat for people who’d otherwise be deliveries of food boxes. “Especially during the ($211 million) program. going without,” said Blau. “That’s what we holidays, when food is so expensive and still “Together, we’re performing miracles,” do best — getting what’s needed into the aask-az.org you want to give a sense of ‘specialness’ to the said Duchman. “And the program’s only right hands.” JN 2320 N 20th St, meals, it helps tremendously,” he said. qualification is need, including 64,000 These are the stories that keep Colel Chabad households in Arab villages during Ramadan.” To learn more about Colel Chabad and how to get Phoenix, AZ 85006 director Rabbi Sholom Duchman going. And, as Interior Ministry spokesman involved, visit: www.colelchabad.org/.

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CHARITABLE GIVING Thinking outside the [gift] box: An education in giving

ALLISON KIERMAN

ast year was rough, children, to the needs and struggles of Lbut communities our friends, neighbors and community still banded together members of various socio-economic to support those in groups. This helps to develop empathy, need. In August 2020, which is the gateway to other positive the crowdfunding emotions including joy, pride, motivation platform GoFundMe had more than and wonder. This, in turn, leads to a more 16,000 active fundraising projects fulfilling life and teaches our children to for small businesses affected by the become community leaders. coronavirus and hundreds of thousands As Jews, we are reminded daily to teach more for individuals and families. On our children to love Hashem with all our Giving Tuesday, Americans donated hearts and to perform his mitzvot. nearly $2.5 billion, a 25% increase from Local organizations have begun to 2019, according to the GivingTuesday respond by creating charitable programs movement. Many understand the need that allow the whole family to participate to support their communities in times in giving. Jewish Family & Children’s of distress. Service, for example, specifically promotes The definition of charitable giving giving and volunteerism programs that / WAVEBREAKMEDIA PLUS IMAGES / GETTY ISTOCK includes the concept that the “donor parents and children can participate for girls as young as 5. Girls are creation of a scholarship in memory receives nothing of value in return.” in together. This includes a school specifically encouraged to “identify a of the loved one. Other ideas are to However, we know that charitable giving backpack project and art supply kits, as problem they want to do something create a garden or dedicate a bench or provides substantial rewards — beyond well as others. about” and “be active and informed other physical item in the name of the the tax benefits — to the giver. It is for Other organizations have also begun members of their communities.” deceased. this reason that parents and grandparents to create givers and an expectation of These programs have taken to heart the • A beneficiary must create a private are increasingly using giving as a tool for volunteerism among children directly. words of Margaret Mead: Never doubt family foundation to support charities educating young people. For the 2020-2021 school year, Girl that a small group of committed citizens that are meaningful to the family and/ This education focuses on exposing Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine rolled out can change the world. Indeed, it is the or that create a family legacy. These the giver and their family, particularly regular volunteer and charity programs only thing that ever has. types of foundations are often multi- From an estate planning perspective, generational and endeavor to bind the parents have started setting forth activism, family together even after the matriarch volunteerism and giving requirements in and/or patriarch of the family has their estate plans for their children at all passed. REPAIRING ages. Traditional estate planning focuses on what happens at the time of death. For families with lifetime irrevocable THE WORLD It plans only for the two inevitables — trusts, some requirements of giving and death and taxes. Yet, more and more volunteerism can start now instead of ONE FAMILY families want to engage their heirs on waiting until there's a death. levels that transcend money and financial Each of these types of requirements AT A TIME! transactions. Families are encouraging have the good intention of educating the and even requiring giving and charitable beneficiary and building within them a support as a condition of inheritance, as sense of obligation to give and actively in the following examples: participate in the local community. Giving and receiving an inheritance • Before a beneficiary may inherit, the is generally thought of as a way to beneficiary must perform a certain provide long-term financial security number of volunteer hours or other and make education and travel more acts of service. This can include serving accessible, especially for younger children. on a committee or board of directors, Yet, a beneficiary must have the skills Help rescue a family experiencing SCAN TO GIVE running a food drive or planning a and maturity to successfully receive an inheritance and not waste it foolishly. homelessness by making your tax volunteer program. • A beneficiary must give a certain Establishing giving requirements as a deductible and/or AZ Tax Credit gift at: portion of the inheritance to a charity condition for inheritance can help educate https://FamilyPromiseAZ.org/JN of their choice and within a specific and train a beneficiary to appreciate the time frame. This is intended to help the inheritance and use it for societal good. beneficiary identify what is important Maimonides noted, and scientific to them and start to make a valuable studies have proved, the act of giving contribution to that cause. benefits both the receiver and the Family Promise would like to thank… • A beneficiary must establish their giver. Focusing on the giving as a tool Temple Chai own donor-advised fund to hold and for education may provide a longer Temple Solel annually distribute funds to various legacy for giving than the financial contribution alone. Temple Kol Ami charities of their choice. Donor-advised JN funds create a pattern of annual giving. For faithfully partnering with us to • A beneficiary must make a charitable Allison L. 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22 APRIL 2, 2021 JEWISH NEWS JEWISHAZ.COM LIFESTYLE & CULTURE 1 TRAVEL Twelve of the most beautiful secret spots in Israel PHOTO BY MILA AVIV/FLASH90 VIA JNS.ORG NAAMA BARAK | JNS.ORG

srael being a pretty small country, you’d think that every last inch of it would be well-known and well-covered. That’s far from being 2 Ithe case. Avid or armchair travelers can relish in reaching endless little locations where they can bask in the glorious silence, as well as in the glow of boasting about it to friends less in the know. So that you, too, will be able to sound all adventurous and mysterious next time Israel comes up, we’ve gathered 12 secluded spots up and down the country. Because really, who wants to hear about overflowing markets anymore? PHOTO BY GUR TATIANA VIA SHUTTERSTOCK.COM VIA JNS.ORG

1.) Evrona evaporation ponds, Arava Desert 7.) Austrian Hospice rooftop, Jerusalem 3 Fancy seeing a flamingo in the desert? Look no further than the evaporation The Old City of Jerusalem has many rooftops from which to take in the ponds in Evrona near Eilat, which a group of previously migrating flamingos breathtaking views, with one of the best — and relatively accessible — ones has decided to call home. The birds used to fly over the area on their way belonging to the Austrian Hospice. Opened in 1863, the building first to Africa, but more than 20 years ago made their pit spot a permanent one, served as the Austrian Catholic Church’s pilgrim hostel before turning into PHOTO BY MENDY HECHTMAN/FLASH 90 VIA JNS.ORG thanks to the readily available food at the site. The pools are located right on a military convalescent home during World War I, an internment camp the border with Jordan, meaning that the flamingos simultaneously receive during World War II, a hospital and again a present-day hostel with its very 4 audiences from both countries, whose people, in turn, can also wave hello own Viennese coffee shop. to one another. Coexistence, flamingo-style. While the coffee shop is famous for its hot chocolate and apple strudel, those looking for a different experience would do well to saunter up the staircase to the roof, from where they can comfortably view the very heart 2.) Timna hidden lake, Arava Desert PHOTO BY ESTER INBAR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS VIA JNS.ORG The hidden lake at Timna is perhaps one of the most striking sights in of the Old City. Israel — a bright turquoise body of water surrounded by red mountains in the 5 middle of the desert. Located a short ride from Eilat, the lake isn’t a natural 8.) Mount Scopus amphitheater, Jerusalem The open-air amphitheater located at the edge of the Hebrew University one but was formed when the copper quarries at the site were flooded. Since of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus campus is one of the university’s best-kept the lake is situated among mines, it’s a little off the beaten track and isn’t the secrets, alongside its botanical gardens. The amphitheater originates in easiest place to get to. And yet, keen travelers are making their way there for PHOTO BY NOAM REVKIN FENTON/FLASH 90 VIA JNS.ORG 1925, when a temporary wooden structure was laid down at the site ahead a swim in the salty waters and even, as has become somewhat popular lately, of the university’s opening ceremony, which included grandees, such as the for diving in the unusual location. British Lord Balfour and General Allenby. The current stone structure was 6 built 10 years later and withstood historic events, such as Israel’s War of 3.) Hamukei Nitzana, Negev Desert Independence and the Six-Day War. Today, visitors who make the endless Hamukei Nitzana (Nitzana Curves) is a natural park full of large, bright- trek all the way to the edge of the campus are rewarded with beautiful desert white chalk rocks that form in curvy, smooth patterns reminiscent of, well, views stretching into Jordan. PHOTO BY MICHAEL STEIN VIA SHUTTERSTOCK.COM VIA JNS.ORG curves. Its location right on Israel’s southern border with Egypt means that it’s not flooded with tourists even in the most COVID-free of times, enabling 9.) Saint Peter’s Church, Tel Aviv 7 enterprising visitors to walk around and enjoy the moon-like setting in peace The bright pink Russian Orthodox Saint Peter’s Church towering over and quiet. It’s also a great destination for a moonlight hike, when the chalky treetops makes an unusual addition to an otherwise rather nondescript stones shine bright. residential area of southern Tel Aviv. Built in the 19th century, the complex

includes both a church and a monastery and is open to the public for only PHOTO BY THOMAS MARCHHART VIA SHUTTERSTOCK.COM VIA JNS.ORG 4.) Little Crater, Negev Desert a short time each week, very much adding to its secretive status. Enjoyed Despite its name, the Little Crater is quite a large secret location, coming mostly by locals, the complex and surrounding park are a breath of fresh air 8 in at five miles long, almost four miles wide and 1,300 feet deep. The crater in the metropolitan area. is a rare geological phenomenon and far less famous than its cousins, the Ramon Crater and the Big Crater. It was only deemed a nature reserve in 10.) Midron Slopes beach, Jaffa 2019, following a decades-long struggle with Israel’s defense establishment, Located at the southern, less well-known side of Jaffa, the Midron Slopes PHOTO BY MOVRAW VIA SHUTTERSTOCK.COM VIA JNS.ORG which opposed the move because some of the reserve belongs to the Negev beach, rolling down from the Ajami neighborhood to the Mediterranean Nuclear Research Center. It is home to unique geological forms, colorful Sea, boasts expansive grass lawns, bike paths, walking lanes and strips of sand, rocks and endangered wildlife, and is a wonderful site for a desert hike. but somehow have yet to attract the crowds found elsewhere in Jaffa and 9 Tel Aviv. The beach is best enjoyed early on Friday evenings when families 5.) Kedem hot springs, Dead Sea get together for dinner, couples go out on romantic dates and kids whizz The Dead Sea is one of Israel’s best-known travel destinations, but it too is around, all in a uniquely pleasant, local atmosphere. full of surprises, including deliciously hot springs — dotted along the shoreline PHOTO BY EYAL ASAF VIA FACEBOOK VIA JNS.ORG where the Kedem Stream meets the Dead Sea — some of them large enough 11.) Ein Sukkot Spring, Jordan Valley to fit a family or a few friends, and some of them just big enough to seat Ein Sukkot is a wonderfully large spring surrounded by reeds, giving the 10 romantic couples. Getting there isn’t easy and requires going off-road and whole place a very private and secluded vibe. The spring is located off-road in between a couple of settlements, making getting there a bit of a challenge, avoiding dangerous sinkholes, but that doesn’t seem to deter the brave few but is a firm favorite among travelers who absolutely cannot bear the thought who venture out there, especially in the winter season. of sharing an afternoon with the masses. Secret indeed. PHOTO BY EYAL TAGAR/TEL AVIV/FLICKR VIA JNS.ORG 6.) Ancient fortress, Ashdod Beach 12.) Alma Cave, Galilee While the beaches in Tel Aviv are perhaps the most famous, the coastline 11 Alma Cave in the northern Galilee region is everything you could wish for in Israel in fact runs down a substantial part of the country. And the beach in a cave: long, dark, cold and full of bats. It has a few legends surrounding in Ashdod, half an hour’s drive south of Tel Aviv, even boasts its very it, such as the one claiming that Jews returned to the land of Israel from their own fortress. Babylonian exile through it (because it’s so long). PHOTO BY MATANYA TAUSIG/FLASH 90 VIA JNS.ORG First built by Arab rulers in the seventh century, the fortress was used in Fast-forward a few thousand years, and the cave is equipped with pegs and later centuries to unsuccessfully defend the Holy Land from the Crusaders, light reflectors to ease the way in for visitors, who should still come in long- who, after taking over the area, also took ownership of the stronghold. Today, sleeved clothes and anti-slip shoes. The cave is currently closed to protect its 12 the fortress strikes a magnificent picture against an otherwise empty strip bat population, but once it reopens, it’s well worth the descent. JN of sand, even leading couples to choose the venue to tie the knot in small, corona-era wedding ceremonies. This article was first published by Israel21c.

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Hats and walking sticks Always room for BBQ J Hiking Club advises bringing hats and walking sticks for long CTeen’s new Phoenix chapter started off with a bang and some BBQ on March 18, 2021. PHOTO BY RABBI TZVI RIMLER and hot Arizona hikes. PHOTO BY LAUREN BERCZYNSKI

Hands on your hips J Hiking Club kids take a moment to get silly in Cave Creek.

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26 APRIL 2, 2021 JEWISH NEWS JEWISHAZ.COM YATOM giving birth when she is close to 40. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 “I would rather adopt the third and not Corinne Weiss Flegenheimer, 94, passed away assume that health risk, so I can be there March 14, 2021. “It’s as important to know what you to take care of my family,” Sarah said. Born in Elizabeth New Jersey, Corinne left to pursue can do as what you can’t do, or what you They plan to pick the adoption process a Journalism degree at Ohio State University where want to do or what you don’t want to do,” back up when their daughter is around 7 she met her first husband and father to her children, Rothstein said. “In a couple, you may have months old. They have a few things still to Michael Harry Weiss, who was attending Dental School partners in different spaces after they go decide, but they both agree on adopting at OSU. After college, she assisted her husband with through the experience.” a child whose age maintains birth order. establishing his dental practice first in the Coolidge/ For example, Seth and Sarah have had to “Adoption is a very lengthy process, Florence area, where he worked as the first full-time come to terms with not only a potentially because to get certified and to get all this dentist at the Arizona State prison. complicated religious household, but also stuff, it can take years and then they could A return to Phoenix to establish his practice was cut short by his recommission the reality that many kids up for adoption also put you on a waitlist,” Sarah said. in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and a move to Camp Irwin, near have health risks. “Depending on when our paperwork goes Barstow California. At the conclusion of his service, they moved back to “You really have to ask yourself ques- through and when we’re fully licensed by Phoenix and reestablished his practice, where she resided for the rest of tions, because external people are going to the state of Arizona, we would take an her life and raised three children. In the 1970s she went back to school to be asking you questions and evaluating,” infant (aged) all the way up to whatever Rothstein said. “It’s not that you have to receive a Masters in Education at Arizona State University, and later worked age our youngest is at that time.” be in lockstep with each other, but you as a reporter for the Phoenix Jewish News, where from 1976 to 1983 she Yatom’s first fellowship program for have to be solid in your relationship.” interviewed a diverse range of Jewish figures, including Abbie Hoffman, parents began in 2016. The organization Seth and Sarah will finish the Yatom Congresswoman Bella Abzug and Simon Wiesenthal. offered the program for a Phoenix-only program in May, and feel committed to cohort in 2020, in addition to a national She was active in Jewish civic organizations, including a lifetime member of proceeding with adoption. cohort and will do so again this year. JN Hadassah and with the Brandeis National Committee Phoenix Chapter, of “We’re older parents,” said Seth, which she was President for a two-year term 2000-2001. She enjoyed travel noting he and Sarah had their son, Applications for Yatom’s next cohort will with her two husbands, sailing vacations in California with the family and her now 3, in their early 30s. If they were to open this spring. Those interested can email dear friends. conceive another child, Sarah would be [email protected]. Corinne was preceded in death by her first husband, Dr. Michael H. Weiss, D.D.S., and her second husband, Herman “Hy” Flegenheimer. She is survived SURVIVOR war and its horrid memories behind. She by her 3 children, Donna Ballard(Terry), Dr. David Weiss, D.D.S.(Daphne CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 started eleventh grade and went on to Atkeson) and Steven Weiss(Kateri) and two grandchildren, Robert Ballard graduate from University of California Los and Alexander Atkeson Weiss. prepared to leave for the U.S. But their Angeles. She got married, had two kids spot in the quota immigration system had and then went back to school to become A private family ceremony was held graveside at the Temple Beth Israel expired. They had to wait for legislation a family lawyer. Cemetery on March 17, 2021. Memorial contributions can be made to the that would recognize their visas and allow “I think when you get older, I’m almost Brandeis National Committee Phoenix Chapter “Book Fund” or “Honoring them to enter the country. 90, your early years come back to visit you. Our History” Campaigns, and Hospice of the Valley. “And then, in May 1947, we were And I think more about that now than I picked up by an American bomber in ever did,” she said. Budapest from the airport,” she said. Hirschfeld is one of 54 local survi- Madeline Lee (Maddy, Meema, Mimi) Roth, 74, of Fountain Hills Eventually she, her parents, her sister vors receiving the Phoenix Holocaust passed away Friday March 19. and her grandmother made it to San Association’s Shofar Zakhor award Maddy was born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Bayside, Diego, where her aunt and cousins had this year. The Shofar Zakhor award, Queens. Her parents Irene and Stanley Schannon predeceased been since the early 1940s. “I cannot tell given during the annual Yom HaShoah her. She graduated from Arizona State University, was an executive you what a shock that was,” she said. Commemoration, recognizes contri- for the Jewish National Fund and was a longtime supporter of the Her life had been in a Communist-era butions to genocide awareness and Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and beloved in the community. bombed-out city with horribly depressed Holocaust education. It is usually given to Maddy, a loving mother and wife, is survived by her husband, Sheldon Roth of people, and “all of the sudden I’m in San an educator. Fountain Hills; her two children, Jennifer (Angela) of Phoenix and Jason Shapiro Diego a few days later, with the sunshine Hirschfeld said once COVID-19 is no (Natasha Bolouki) of Sherman Oaks, California; and her brother, Dr. Robert and the palm trees and the ocean.” longer a threat, she plans to share her story Schannon (Paula) of Delmar, California. She is also survived by her blended family, She was eager to fit in and leave the in classrooms. JN Joe Roth, Bobby (Susie) Roth and Jonathan (Lori) Roth; and grandchildren, Sami Jo, Courtney, Alli, Spencer, Megan, Harrison, Jessica, Benjamin and Joelle Roth. MILESTONES Funeral services were held privately on Monday, March 22, at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. BAT MITZVAH Memorial contributions can be made to Congregation Beth Israel and/or SLOANE FARRAH GORMAN Hospice of the Valley. Sloane Farrah Gorman becomes a bat mitzvah on April 10, 2021, at Congregation Beth Israel. She is the daughter of Brenda and Andrew Gorman of Scottsdale. Shirley Zimmet, passed away peacefully on March 16, 2021, in Grandparents are Helene and Roger Wolheim of Scottsdale; and Arizona. For the past five years, she lived at a senior residence in Arlene and Mark Gorman of Scottsdale. Phoenix. She led an impactful life of 96 years. For her mitzvah project, Sloane is raising money and collecting Shirley was born in the Bronx, New York. She was the beloved wife PHOTO COURTESY OF GORMAN FAMILY wish list donations for Arizona Small Dog Rescue. of the late Josef Leo Zimmet, She resided in Queens, New York for A student at Cocopah Middle School, Sloane enjoys skiing, dance and hanging 60 years, where she raised a family. She was the loving mother of out with friends. Judy Zimmet of Scottsdale and Carol Zimmet (Paul Kononenko) of Boxborough, Massachusetts; and the cherished grandmother of Kevin Kononenko of Somerville, Massachusetts and the late Trevor Kononenko of Denver, Colorado. OBITUARY Shirley endowed several Hunter College scholarships, organized many fund-raising MICHAEL ZORRO SHEDROFF events and was named to the Hunter Hall of Fame. She was an enthusiastic initiator Michael Zorro Shedroff, 83, died March 18, 2021. He was born of cultural and educational activities for herself, friends and various groups. She cared in Chicago, Illinois and lived in San Tan Valley. about all people and loved to travel. When she moved to the Phoenix senior residences, He is survived by his daughter, Amy Hertig-Shedroff; his sons, she continued initiating enriching activities for all around her. These activities were with Walter and Benjamin Shedroff; and two grandchildren, Gideon and Jewish Family & Children’s Service, Smile on Seniors and within her residence. Hunter Hertig-Shedroff. Shirley will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her. Memorial donations can Services were held at National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. be made to Hunter College Foundation, 695 Park Avenue, Suite E1313, New York, NY 10065 or Smile on Seniors Arizona, 2110 East Lincoln Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85016 PHOTO COURTESY OF SHEDROFF FAMILY Arrangements by Sinai Mortuary. JN

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