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J Rosemary Frenza Chudnof ,special to the WJN JFS to benefitfrom “GiveDay Local” nations to their favorite organizations local thepublic toencouraging make online do- on May participate will 6bythe country Over 100community foundations around thefirst foundation.community of versary thatcommemoratesgiving the100thanni of “Give Local America,” anational day of giving. individual day of $20,000 from thecommunity on one single to at least raise that JFS hastheopportunity Local day on May 6. means selection This Arbor Area Community Foundation’s Give inthe participate Ann thatwill ganizations T the two JCCFilmFestival thatday. movies encourages theexpo inbetween to people visit p.m. at the Michigan Theater. committee The take placewill on Wednesday, May 7from 5–8 feature Israeli innovations inthebusiness world, Israel Businessgan Bridge. event, This which will a Business Expo theMichi inconjunction- with in birthday cakes for to all enjoy. p.m., theCelebrate Israel committee bring will Film Festival showing of the Film Festival of showing Theater,igan at9:30p.m. Following the JCC’s pendence Day) on Monday, May 5, attheMich take place on Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel’s Inde- couldpeople inthe festivities.” participate topeal different sub-groups sothateven more wanted to provide events various that would ap having just for one program ourcommunity, we plained, “Our committee than decided that rather Jewish Greater Federation of Ann Arbor, ex- May.month of throughout the andopportunities programs year’s of feature Celebrate avariety Israel will event date on washeld time, aspecific and this Israel program. Whereas inpastyears this she representswhat through the Celebrate Rabbi Ilana Baden, special to the WJN Celebrate Israel:amonthofprogramsfor thecommunity In thisissue… “Give Local Ann Arbor Area” isapart Two days later, sponsor Celebrate Israel will The kick-off event for Celebrate Israel will event for Celebrate Israelwill kick-off The David Shtulman, executive the director of has been chosen as one of only 50or chosenhas been asone of is excitedCounty to announce that it Washtenaw of Family Services ewish

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2935 Birch Hollow Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 voice: 734/971-1800 To the editor e-mail: [email protected] The Washtenaw Jewish News published a JNS.org article (“Jewish state” demand gets to www.washtenawjewishnews.org the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, April 2014) arguing in favor of Israel’s negotiating position that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel “as a Jewish state.” The article contained ad hominem attacks: Hussein Ibish is a “faux moderate”; Peter Beinart Editor and Publisher is a “professional Jewish critic of Israel.” It criticized as lacking “a scintilla of evidence” a Susan Kravitz Ayer meticulously documented article by Mr. Beinart arguing against a Jewish-state definition that unduly burdens non-Jewish citizens and for one that adheres to the promise Calendar Editor of its Declaration of Independence: “complete equality of social and political rights… Claire Sandler irrespective of religion, race or sex.” Advertising Manager It also failed to grasp the complexity of the demand that the Palestinians, unlike the Gordon White Egyptians or Jordanians in previous peace treaties, recognize Israel as a Jewish state. To illustrate, imagine a future treaty between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Design and Layout Iran. While the US would have no problem employing the formal name of the country Dennis Platte in any document, it ought to reject language explicitly recognizing Iran “as an Islamic Staff Writers republic,” since that would amount to taking sides on internal decisions regarding the Mary Bilyeu, Sandor Slomovits, Rochel Urist Not Just A country’s constitutional order. Moreover, countries’ descriptors—with terms including “Islamic Republic,” “Bolivarian Republic,” or “Plurinational State”—have vague mean- Contributing Writers Photobooth! ings at best to the outside world notwithstanding their deep internal resonance. Final Rabbi Ilana Baden, Rosemary Frenza Chudnof, Ben agreements over borders and refugees will preserve Israel as a Jewish and democratic Cohen, Rabbi Lisa Delson, Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, WEDDINGS state, not Palestinian recognition of Israel’s Jewish character. Hadar Dohn, Deborah Fineblum, Jenni Frazer, Karen Freedland, Florence Gerber, Alan H. Gill, Susan BAR/BAT Nonetheless, Israel could solve the problem singlehandedly by adopting as its of- Gitterman, Robert Gluck, Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, MITZVAHS ficial name “The Jewish State of Israel.” Then that would be the entity with which any Josh Hasten, Rachel Hoffenblum, Suzanne Horowitz, peace agreement would be signed. That construction would be consistent with the Maayan Jaffe, Cindy Klein, Yaffa Klugerman, Lucinda SCHOOLS official nomenclature of many states, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Demo- Kurtz, Joan Levitt, Laurie Leflein, Rafael Medoff, BIRTHDAYS cratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Hashemite Debra Rubin, David Shtulman, SooJi Minn, Andrea Kingdom of Jordan, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and the Bolivarian Siegel, Clara Silver, Elliot Sorkin, Moran Stern, Judy CORPORATE Republic of Venezuela. Adjectives are perfectly fine in country names, if the country Williams, Michal Woll, Norma Zager EVENTS can agree on them. The Washtenaw Jewish News is published Israel ought not to change its name to “the Jewish State of Israel.” Its affiliation monthly, with the exception of January and 248.545.6460 is with the non-adjectival countries of the liberal democratic West, rather than the July. It is registered as a Non-profit Michigan countries listed above. But the potential to resolve this issue through an adjustment Corporation. Opinions expressed in this pub- in nomenclature implies that Palestinian non-recognition of “Israel as a Jewish state” lication do not necessarily reflect those of its should not be treated as an insurmountable obstacle to a peace treaty. editors or staff Code: WJN Jonathan Levine ©2014 by the Washtenaw Jewish News. All rights reserved. No portion of the Washtenaw Jewish News may be reproduced without permission of the publisher.

JFS “Give Local” Day, continued from page 1 Signed letters to the editor are welcome; they should not exceed 400 words. Letters can be emailed to the receive at least $10,000 in donations on May can’t or choose not to donate online, JFS will editor at [email protected]. Name will be 6, thus guaranteeing it will receive a match- be able to take a check and then make the withheld at the discretion of the editor. ing $10,000 from the AAACF. donation online itself. The minimum dona- Circulation: 5,000 “We were very pleased to be chosen for tion is only $10. Subscriptions: $12 bulk rate inside Washtenaw County this opportunity that highlights the impor- “We are excited and hopeful that May $18 first-class subscription tance of supporting local organizations,” says 6 will be a very impactful day for JFS,” says The deadline for the June/July/August issue of the Washtenaw Jewish News is Wednesday, May 7. Publication date: Wednesday, May28 Extra copies of the Washtenaw Jewish News are available at locations throughout Washtenaw County.

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Resettled families enjoy the JFS International Lunch Congregations...... 9 Israel...... 18 JFS Executive Director Anya Abramzon. “JFS Abramzon, “and one that will support our was chosen from among hundreds of local many vital programs.” Kosher Cuisine...... 28 organizations, in part because of our human Persons who wish to be reminded to give services mission and our unique role in the on the day of the match can go to the JFS web- On Another Note...... 27 local community.” site to sign up for this service: www.jfsannar- Rabbis’ Corner...... 8 To prepare for Give Local day, JFS will be bor.org. Find more information about getting reminding both loyal donors and new po- involved on JFS’s Facebook and Twitter pages, Youth...... 11 tential donors, via email and social media, to in e-blasts, and online. You may also contact donate online between midnight and 11:59 Rosemary Frenza Chudnof at 769-0209 or via Vitals...... 35 p.m. on May 6. For those donors who either email at [email protected]. n

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Rabbi Gold’s chant ritual to honor Pardes Hannah’s 20th anniversary Lucinda Kurtz, special to the WJN abbi Shefa Gold, the inspirational country. Her book, The Magic of Hebrew Chant: composer and performer of spiritual Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deep- R music and leader in the Jewish Re- ening Love, presents the fundamentals of chant newal Movement, will lead a Chant Ritual on and elevates chant as a transformational tool, in Saturday, May 10, at 8 p.m., in honor of the meditation, in prayer, in healing. 20th Anniversary Celebration of Pardes Han- In addition to her exceptional talent in nah. Rabbi Gold is director of music, her book Torah Jour- C-DEEP, The Center for De- neys: The Inner Path to the votional, Energy and Ecstatic Promised Land illustrates the Practice in Jemez Springs, New depth of her mystical read- Mexico. Her deep spiritual ing of Torah and the creative friendship with Rabbi Elliot ways she has evolved to help Ginsburg, who will be honored others find meaning in a at this weekend Shabbaton, weekly meditation upon the brings her to Ann Arbor to help Torah parsha. She has also the Pardes Hannah Renewal written In the Fever of Love: Community celebrate. An Illumination of the Song Rabbi Gold brought her of Songs that Rabbi Lawrence love of music and musical abil- Kushner says, “offers Ameri- ity to her rabbinical studies and ca Jews seeking to rediscover received her ordination from Rabbi Shefa Gold the melody of meditation both the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College the perfect primer and inspiration.” and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. In Rabbi Gold is on the faculty of the Insti- describing her pathway into chant, she explains, tute for Jewish Spirituality and includes her “I want to study the sacred text with mind and understanding of Buddhist, American Indian, heart, and with the body as well. Chant is very Christian, and Islamic spiritual traditions in her much a heart practice, a devotional practice. I’ve teachings, finding the underlying core of de- been doing it for many years because it’s my way votional energy in each faith system. For more in. I love it so much. Traveling about half the information on Rabbi Shefa Gold, see www. year doing retreats and seminars and teaching rabbishefagold.com. groups the power of Hebrew chant—as well as Rabbi Gold will present a Chant Ritual with training chant leaders in Kol Zimra, a two-year music and story to honor Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg program for rabbis, cantors, and lay leaders—is and the 20th Anniversary of Pardes Hannah at 8 ‘my rabbinate,’” p.m., at the home of Linda and Richard Greene. Rabbi Gold’s love of chant is also evident The $25 contribution will support the Pardes in her ten albums and liturgies that have been Hannah community. For more information, incorporated into several new prayerbooks and check the Pardes Hannah website at a hannah- into the services of synagogues throughout the www.pardeshannah.org.c-pardes. n Time to move? JFS and JCC begin education series on older adult issues Cindy Klein, special to the WJN Alex makes it easy for you to sell “We are all older than we were yesterday, like it or not!”—a true statement, and a reminder that aging happens to everyone, regardless of their thoughts on the topic. But, what one un- your home. derstands about aging issues, and how one prepares oneself for it, are subjects one does have control over. Get a real estate market analysis and a custom Jewish Family Services and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor will sponsor a series of lectures over the coming marketing plan tailored to fit your goals in today’s months on topics related to the aging process. Whether someone is a high performing market. primary caregiver for an older adult at this time, will be a caregiver in the future, or is curious as to what choices should be considered, there will be something of interest for everyone. Client relationships are confidential with highly The first presentation will take place May 21, at 7 p.m., at the JCC. customized sales strategies. To learn more, call Jane Bassett The speaker will be Jane A. Bassett, Elder Law Attorney from Ann Ar- bor, who brings significant experience with older adult issues, the resources needed to care (734) 417-3560 or email [email protected]. for older adults, and making plans for one’s future needs. Bassett will share information about utilizing Social Security benefits; Medicare and Medicaid eligibility; fiduciary responsibilities; and documents every adult should have. , CRS, GRI, ABR Register for this event by contacting Diane Fenske from JFS Older Adult Services at 769- ALEX MILSHTEYN 0209 or [email protected] Associate Broker / Realtor JCC’s Adult Program welcomes spring with music, field trip (734) 417-3560 / [email protected] www.alexmi.com Rachael Hoffenblum, special to the WJN After such a long winter, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor is ready to help its Howard Hanna Real Estate Services adult members celebrate spring. The JCC’s adult program will offer two concerts this May. Local harpist, Laurel Federbush, will perform on Thursday, May 1, as part of the JCC’s monthly birthday 1898 W. Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103 celebration. Local soprano, Caroline Helton, will perform with her daughter, Hava Kaplan, on Thursday, May 15. Both performances will take place from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. at the JCC An exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate The JCC’s adult program will also be taking a field trip to the 13th Annual Jewish Film Festival on Tuesday, May 6, to watch a screening of The Third Half. For additional information or to RSVP for any of these programs, call the JCC at 971-0990. Ann Arbor’s Realtor of the Year

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Adult Show and Tell scheduled at JCC, May 29 t for Food Gathe WJN staff writer A Benef rers Everyone can remember bringing prized pos- als, families, communities, and organizations. sessions to school and taking part in class- Participants will receive a recording of their room “Show and Tell,” and the sense of pride story. that came from sharing these treasures and Two more “Show & Tell (for Grown- stories. Well, adults are getting that opportu- Ups)” events are scheduled for Ann Arbor nity again with a new trend that is sweeping in May to celebrate Personal History Month, across the nation. including May 7, 6–7:30 p.m., at The Old “Show & Tell (for German (117 Grown-Ups)” is an ini- South Ash- tiative promoted by the ley) and May Association of Personal 10, 3–5 p.m., Grillin’ WJN ad-- MAY / 2014--1/2 PG VERT-4C / 2014--1/2 PG ad-- MAY WJN Grillin’ Historians (APH) that at the Ann is encouraging adults Arbor District to bring out those cher- Library down- ished items—whether town. The old or new—and share story-gathers the stories behind the will also host objects at local story- an event in telling events. Open Chelsea May to all at no charge, the 22, from 6:30– public is invited to 8:30 p.m., at bring anything meaningful to them, such as Thompson’s Pizzeria (20700 West a family heirloom, a photograph, or even a Old US Highway 12). souvenir from a recent trip. Relive the fun by coming to a local “Show The Jewish Community Center of Great- & Tell (for Grown-Ups)” where you can show er Ann Arbor will host a “Show & Tell (for an item, tell your story, and listen to others Sunday, June 8 Grown-Ups)” event on May 29, from 7–9 p.m. share theirs. Each participant will have five 3-8 PM The event will be led by JCC founder Chuck minutes to speak and there’s no reading or Newman, who will be joined by Janet Ogle- performing; this is amateur storytelling at its (Rain or Shine) Mater and Stephanie Kadel Taras, personal best. Attendees are also welcome to come and 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Road historians dedicated to recording, preserv- listen without sharing a story of their own. Ann Arbor, MI 48103 ing, and sharing the life stories of individu-

A Picnic Ann Arbor ORT donor event The Cause with a Joan Levitt, special to the WJN We believe that in a nation Purpose! The Ann Arbor chapter of ORT America will Current, new, and past members of ORT hold its annual Spring Donor Recognition are invited, and spouses are also encour- of plenty, no one should go Event on Monday, June 2. This year’s event aged to attend. This brunch will honor past hungry! Proceeds from Grillin’ will be held at 7 p.m., at the home of Patti presidents and celebrate 30 years of accom- enable Food Gatherers to The Bands Aaron. Appetizers and desserts, provided by plishments in the chapter. The chapter has the Book Group and other ORT cooks, will been committed to raising money for ORT distribute more than 5 million George Bedard and the Kingpins, be served. A $10 donation to ORT America America’s schools and programs around the pounds of food to our hungry Misty Lyn & the Big Beautiful and is requested. world. It also has provided Jewish women neighbors in Washtenaw Jake & Mary The event will honor the chapter’s 2013 in Ann Arbor with social and educational donors and their contributions to the ORT events, a thriving Book Group and Cinema County. mission. The speaker will be Yodit Mesfin Club, and more. Tickets Johnson, director of business development ORT is the largest Jewish education non- The Food Purchase tickets online at at NEW (Nonprofit Enterprise at Work) in profit in the world. It provides cutting-edge Grilled gourmet sausages, foodgatherers.org/grillin Ann Arbor and Detroit. She will speak about educational skills in state-of-the-art technol- current efforts to revitalize Detroit, “What’s ogy and other fields that enable over 300,000 chicken and corn; side $50/Adults and Right with Detroit: How a Community is students annually to attain successful careers dishes from our area’s best $10/Kids (ages 3-13) Transforming Itself.” and become community leaders. The Ann Arbor Chapter of ORT is also Rides to the June 2 Donor Event will be food purveyors; and desserts th At the door: $60/Adults planning its 30 Anniversary as an ORT available to those who need them. For more from Zingerman’s Bakehouse chapter. The chapter’s 30th Anniversary information or to RSVP, contact Joan Levitt $10/Kids and Creamery. Vegetarian, Celebration will be marked by a brunch at at [email protected] by May 23. the Campus Inn on Sunday, September 14. vegan and gluten-free options available. Ongoing Hadassah “rummage sale” The Fun Judy Williams, special to the WJN Live music; cash bar featuring Throughout the year, The Ann Arbor Chapter of Hadassah collects women’s clothing as well Michigan microbrews and as household items. They are then brought to re-sale consignment shops in order to raise money for worthwhile Hadassah programs. Clothing is accepted for any season of the year. A wines; kids’ activities hosted donation receipt will be given for all items as all donations are tax-deductible. by the Ann Arbor Hands-On Only the following items can be accepted: Museum; a food-inspired • Clean, stain-free, current, name-brand women’s clothing (on hangers); • Clean, good-quality household items (in liftable boxes). Items can include dishes, glassware, silent auction and raffle; free foodgatherers.org/grillin linens, polished metalware, electrical appliances (in working order) No telephones or massages by Body Wisdom electronic devices such as computers or printers can be accepted. Massage; and a photo booth! To schedule a pick-up appointment, email Judy Williams for clothing (naugwarren@aol. com) and call Cecy Copeland (487-4171) for household items.

4 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 The 13th Annual Jewish Film Festival

SUNDAY, MAY 4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 May 4-8, 2014 Lost Town H 1:00 p.m. Next Year in Jerusalem H 2:00 p.m. The Michigan Theater Reporting on the Times: The New York Bethlehem H 5:00 p.m. 603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor Times and The Holocaust H 4:00 p.m. Quality Balls H 8:00 p.m. FOLLOWED BY Double Feature! The Upside Down Book THURSDAY, MAY 8 The Ceremony H 8:00 p.m. Out in the Dark H 2:00 p.m. H MONDAY, MAY 5 The Pin 5:00 p.m. with special guest speaker Aron Kaufman No Place on Earth H 2:00 p.m. with special guest speaker Dr. Zvi Gitelman The Sturgeon Queens H 8:00 p.m. FOLLOWED BY SPONSOR RECEPTION H 6:00 p.m. Double Feature! Never a Bystander The Zig Zag Kid H 8:00 p.m TUESDAY, MAY 6 The Third Half H 2:00 p.m. Blumenthal H 5:00 p.m. www.jccannarbor.org H The Attack 8:00 p.m. (734) 971-0990

FOR FILM INFORMATION AND SCHEDULE: Visit www.jccannarbor.org and click on Jewish Film Festival button.

The way camp JCC CAMPS should be! JUNE 23 - AUGUST 15, 2014

Why choose Camp Raanana? Why choose Camp Keshet? • Beautiful, natural setting at Cedar Lake • Located on the grounds of the JCC, in Chelsea (bus transportation provided from making full use of the large playground, the JCC) gardens and wooded nature area - the • Eight 1-week sessions, plus two weeks of Summer Fun Days perfect canvas for an outdoor day camp. (June 16-20 and August 18-22) • Camp Keshet’s counselors are the highly experienced • Red Cross trained and certified swim lessons and qualified preschool teachers of the JCC’s ECC. • Exciting activities including: archery, arts & crafts, boating, dance, • Exclusive use of the Tot Pool at Buhr Park for drama, nature programming, orienteering, pioneer skill building, swimming twice a week! song sessions, sports and games, storytelling and more! • Special activities every week, including exciting field • No fee increast from 2013 rates! trips and interesting guests!

Questions? For Camp Raanana, contact Ethan Krasnow at [email protected]. For Camp Keshet, contact Peretz Hirshbein at [email protected].

(734) 971-0990 www.jccannarbor.org

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JFS celebrates community service Rosemary Frenza Chudnof, special to the WJN n Sunday, April 6, Jewish Family work, The Tradition of Kindness: Four Stories. Services of Washtenaw County held The piece was written for the occasion by local O its annual fundraising event and playwright Simone Yehuda and was based on celebration. “Sweet Charity: The Joy of Giving the refugee resettlement experience of persons Back” was held at the North Campus Research from 1900 through the present. Complex, and honored longtime community “I am very excited and pleased with the col- volunteers Susan Fisher and John Waidley for laboration between the Performance Network and JFS on this special event,” said JFS Executive Director Anya Abramzon. “This was an original way for two non-profit agencies to come together and further each other’s missions. I am hopeful that this will be a model for future partner-

Jessica Vinter (center) received the JFS Outstanding Employee of the Year Award, flanked by Susan Fisher and John Waidley

their many years of service to JFS and numerous other organizations. After guests enjoyed a social hour and wine reception, the event’s program began with remarks from JFS Board Member Nan Gill and Board President Bob Susan Fisher and John Waidley accepted the Claire and Isadore Miller. As part of a creative Bernstein Award partnering between local non-profit agencies, ships in the community.” the Performance Network Theatre Company The event also featured the presentation of then performed a musical interlude for the JFS’ Outstanding Staff Award, which was given guests. After a video presentation celebrating this year to ESL Program Coordinator Jessica community volunteerism, Fisher’s son David Vinter for her compassionate and excellent ser- Kersch and Fisher’s sister Anita Rackow spoke vice to JFS’ clients. movingly of the couple and their contribu- After a second musical interlude by the Per- tions to the community, and David Shtulman formance Network, guests were encouraged to praised Fisher’s long-term role with the Jewish stay for an “afterglow” hour, an opportunity to Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. Fisher and linger and socialize while enjoying the desserts June 6, 2014 Waidley received the Isadore and Claire Bern- prepared by event caterer Amanda’s Kitchen. stein Award for their years of dedication to JFS JFS staff consider “Sweet Charity” a rousing August 1, 2014 and its programs. Guests were then treated to success, and Abramzon noted that the event a dramatic performance by four Performance was possible due to the support of JFS’ many September 5, 2014 Network actors, who performed an original donors and community partners. n October 3, 2014 6:30pm – 9:00pm

JCS members and others come together for songs, candle lighting, wine, challah, and a short program, in which members of the congregation offer their thoughts about the theme. Following Shabbat, we share a meal and schmooze. Children are always welcome.

Shabbat is held in the lounges at the Jewish Community Center. The cost of dinner is $10/person or ~$25/family of 4. Your financial contributions make it possible for us to continue our culinary themes. Call for reservations: 734.975.9872

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Community invited to Jewish Communal Leadership Program graduation Andrea Siegel, special to the WJN he University of Michigan’s Jew- • Avital Ostfield, a Twin Cities native, taught ish Communal Leadership Program in the Detroit public schools as a Teach T (JCLP), based at the School of Social for America (TFA) corps member prior to Work, will host its annual graduation ceremo- coming to JCLP. Over the past two years, she ny on Friday, May 2, at 3 p.m. Members of the has built a strong professional profile in a Ann Arbor community are invited to attend. variety of local organizations: fieldwork at Offering keynote remarks will be philan- National Council of Jewish Women/Greater thropist Mandell “Bill” Berman, a long-time Detroit Section and Jewish Family Service Jewish communal leader and supporter of of Metropolitan Detroit, teaching at Temple pivotal programs and initiatives to strengthen Beth Emeth, and staffing a Birthright trip Jewish life locally, nationally, and internation- for University of Michigan Hillel. In JCLP, ally. Berman has served as president of De- she focused on Management of Human troit’s Jewish Federation and of the national Services; Community and Social Systems; Council of Jewish Federations. His vision- and Interpersonal Practice. Her interests in- ary philanthropic leadership has also shaped clude education and philanthropy. institutions and initiatives as varied as U-M • Bobby Siporin is from Huntington Woods, Hillel, the Association for the Social Scientific and a Wexner Fellow. During his first year Study of Jewry, the Jewish Education Service with JCLP, the National Association of of North America, United Hebrew Schools Social Workers-Michigan named him Stu- of Detroit, the 1990 and 2000–2001 National dent of the Year for University of Michi- Jewish Population Surveys, the Berman Jew- gan. Building upon his prior work in New ish Policy Archive, the Jewish Community Mandell ”Bill” Berman (center) flanked by JCLP students Orleans schools (including two years as a Teach for America corps member), in Center of Metropolitan Detroit, research to field, completed both her graduate and to the particular strengths of Jewish com- 2012 created the campus organi- support children with disabilities, and the In- undergraduate degrees at University of munity and the ways in which ethnic and Siporin zation “We Support Detroit Schools” to ter Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues. Michigan. Her JCLP field placement was historical perspectives differentiate Jewish create reciprocal partnerships between As for young JCLP students into the ranks at Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan communal work and commitments from U-M students and public school students of Jewish Communal Service professionals, the Detroit, where she was able to gain experi- those found in the Catholic community. opportunity to hear from someone who has in- in Detroit to meet community needs. Si- ence with event planning and older adult McEwan, who grew up in Mason, Michi- is passionate about building bridges vested himself in Jewish communal leadership programs. As part of her work on JCLP’s gan, previously participated in the Jesuit porin for over six decades is most welcome. between Jews and non-Jews to respond to 2014 Communal Conversation, Cutler de- Volunteer Corps Northwest (Spokane, urban challenges. Dr. Laura Lein, dean, U-M School of So- signed a strategy session for Jewish Com- Washington) and spent a year working JCLP’s 2014 graduation ceremony will be cial Work; Dr. Karla Goldman, director, JCLP; munity Center of Greater Ann Arbor’s with Native American students at St. Paul’s and Dr. Deborah Dash Moore, director, Jean held at the Educational Conference Center Early Childhood Center. Cutler particular- Mission Grade School on the Fort Belknap in U-M’s School of Social Work, 1080 South & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, ly benefited from the opportunity to take reservation in Hays, Montana. Her JCLP University Ave. RSVP to be part of this special will offer additional remarks, as will the four courses in the Stephen M. Ross School of field placements were with Temple Beth occasion and to hear the voices of committed graduating students. Business as a JCLP student. Emeth, Jewish Family Services of Washt- As JCLP says farewell to the Class of 2014, Jewish leaders from across the generations. Call • As an engaged member of the Roman Cath- enaw County, and Catholic Social Services. it is fitting to note students’ diverse interests 764-5392 or email JCLP Program Manager Dr. olic faith, Sarah McEwan brought a dis- McEwan plans a career in faith-based ser- Andrea Siegel at [email protected]. n and accomplishments: tinctive perspective to her studies within vice that recognizes the power of interfaith • Sammi Cutler, a native of West Bloom- JCLP. Her own background attuned her collaboration. New cohort of Frankel Institute fellows announced Yaffa Klugerman, special to the WJN iblical sacrifices, European impe- of scholars who rarely get an opportunity to the Frankel Center • Reuven Kiperwasser, Open University of rial borderlands, Roman architecture, talk to each other,” remarked Deborah Dash will make it possible Israel (winter semester)“Rabbis Between B post-Communist Jewish communi- Moore, director of the Frankel Center. “It’s for me to make sub- Two Empires” ties, and Iberian Conversos. That’s a taste of going to be a dynamite year.” stantial progress on a • Gil Klein, Loyola Marymount University some of the topics that the 2014–15 Frankel The new fellowship year will begin in monograph on these “The Roman Architecture of Empire and Institute for Judaic Studies fellows will research September, and the topics of research prom- topics,” Toman said. the Establishment of Rabbinic Space” this coming year at the University of Michigan. ise to be fascinating. “But above all, I am • Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan A total of 14 prestigious scholars hail- Incoming fellow Reuven Kiperwasser, for looking forward to Jindrich Toman “Spaces of Memory: Imagining a Soviet ing from around the world will focus on the example, who teaches Midrash and Rabbinics be able to discuss my research with the fel- Past in Post-Soviet Russian Jewish Writing” theme of “Jews and Empires.” The group will at the Open University lows within the frame of the current theme • Devi Mays, University of Michigan (fall be led by Mikhail Krutikov, associate profes- of Israel, will travel to of Jews and Empires.” semester)“Reorienting Imperial Jews: sor for Slavic and Judaic Studies at U-M. Ann Arbor to study Bab- The 2014–15 Frankel fellows and their Constantinople at the Crossroads of Established through a generous financial ylonian and Palestinian fields of research are: Jewish Identities” contribution from the Jean and Samuel Fran- rabbis who emerged • Mira Balberg, Northwestern University • Alexei Siverstev, DePaul University “Jews kel Jewish Heritage Foundation, the Frankel from the Roman and “Blood for Thought: The Rabbinic Re- and the Roman Imperial Culture in Late Institute provides annual fellowships for schol- Sassanian empires. invention of Sacrifice in Its Roman and Antiquity” ars and artists around the world to conduct “In order to accom- Early Christian Context” • Claude Stuczyniski, Bar-Ilan University research on a given theme. With the goal of ad- plish this research project • Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University (short-term fall semester) “Iberian Con- vancing Jewish studies globally, it remains the Reuven Kiperwasser successfully, I need a sup- “Zionism, the British Empire, and the versos: Victims, Agents, and Thinkers of only program of its kind at a public university portive environment where I can express and Making of Israeli Identity: Mimicry, Re- Empire” in the United States. Additionally, the Institute exchange ideas with colleagues on the topics of sistance, and Nostalgia” • Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan offers a broad range of events to the public, in- my research and on related topics,” he said. “I • Joshua Cole, University of Michigan (fall semester) “Bohemia’s Jews and Their cluding lectures, symposia, art exhibitions, and believe that the Frankel Institute is an appro- “A Riot in France: Violence and Colonial Decentered Empire” musical performances. priate place for this. I anticipate a fruitful and Reform in Algeria, 1919–1940” • Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan “The theme of Jews and Empires, because enriching discourse within its environs.” • Sara Feldman, University of Michigan “Border Jew: Between Empires” it applies to Jewish experiences as imperial Jindrich Toman, professor of Slavic lan- “People of the Russian Book: Translating • Deborah Yalen, Colorado State University subjects in so many times and places—from guages and literatures at U-M, will join the Pushkin into Jewish Languages” (fall semester) “Forging the Anti-Impe- ancient Roman and Persian empires to 20th group to research Jewish culture in 19th cen- • Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan (win- rial Empire: Jews, Ethnographic Science, century Russian and Ottoman empires—will tury Bohemia. ter semester) “Under and After Empire: and the Soviet Family of Nations” n bring together a particularly diverse group “I very much hope that the semester at Jewish Public Life After Communism”

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Twenty-five years of interfaith dialogue and learning Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, special to the WJN began my rabbinic career in a small syn- could not accept. Still, I felt that the greater tered had it not been for the monthly Round words, music and chanting from different agogue in a largely rural town north of good was being served by continuing close Table meetings. religious traditions. I Philadelphia. One of my first goals as I relationships with my colleagues. In addition to the monthly dialogue meet- I believe very strongly in the need for entered the rabbin- When I came to Ann Arbor, I sought out ings, there have been many special events as those of different faiths to learn from each ate was to seek out opportunities that I had hoped would be well. Among the highlights was an interfaith other and to insure that their own faiths are opportunities for more comfortable. There were some groups understood and appreciated by others. The interfaith dialogue that were meeting to discuss issues of theol- Round Table continues to give us opportuni- as I had always ogy or practice but there was no comprehen- I believe very strongly in the ties for dialogue and understanding. been interested sive group that brought leaders of different On Sunday evening, May 18, the Inter- in learning about faiths together in dialogue. need for those of different faith Round Table of Washtenaw County will other faiths and That changed in 1994 when the Interfaith celebrate its 20th anniversary at a program to was concerned, es- Round Table of Washtenaw County was faiths to learn from each be held at the Chinmaya Mission (Hindu) on pecially in a small formed. I was eager to be involved in this Packard Road. town like Lansdale, dialogue group and am proud to say that 20 other and to insure that their The program will include a vegetarian Pennsylvania, that years later, the Round Table is still thriving, Indian meal and presentations from many Rabbi Robert Dobrusin own faiths are understood there might be providing for clergy and lay leaders of faith Round Table participants. some misconceptions about Judaism. communities in our area a forum for build- and appreciated by others The celebration is open to all and if you Shortly after I began my work, I discov- ing bridges of understand and responding to would like to learn more about this very spe- ered the local “ministerium” and found the shared concerns. trip to Israel in 2000 that I still remember as cial event, please visit the website at irtwc. opportunity to meet with clergy colleagues Under the tireless leadership of Rev. one of the most exciting and inspiring of my org. It promises to be a wonderful evening to be invaluable. George Lambrides, the group has grown in many trips to Israel. and I hope you will join us for the celebra- It was not always easy. At the first an- many different ways and today with Rev. Another highlight has been the annual tion. nual “Interfaith Thanksgiving Service” that Lambrides and Rev. Susan King serving as Interfaith Thanksgiving celebration that As a Jew, I know how much Torah there is I attended, I quickly realized that “interfaith” co-directors, the Round Table continues to takes place on the Sunday evening before to learn and how important it is to continue meant bringing all the denominations of seek ways to bring those of different faiths the holiday. This celebration, unlike the one our traditions midor l’dor, from generation Christianity together. It was an awkward together in dialogue and friendship. that I experienced many years ago in Penn- to generation. evening for me to say the least and I told Over the past 20 years, I have enjoyed sylvania, aims to be comfortable for all and But, I also believe it is critical for us to the group that very clearly at our next meet- and benefitted from my participation in this that is quite an accomplishment given the learn from those around us and teach them ing. That resulted in some minor changes group immensely. The participants represent vastly different perspectives of the partici- from our wisdom as well. The Round Table in future “interfaith services”. I was never many different religious faiths and perspec- pants. We have been honored to host the has been the forum in which I have been able 100% comfortable in those settings as they tives and I have become close friends with celebration at Beth Israel on two occasions to do this over the past 20 years and, God still used some exclusionary language that I people I would probably not have encoun- and our sanctuary was filled with inspiring willing, for many years to come. n From barley to wheat Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the WJN very day, starting in the middle of Then they could utilize the new grain crops the differences in Jewish law regarding: God, that one will have the strength and April, for the entire month of May, for the rest of the year. 1. The prohibition against bringing the new ability to engage in correcting the world. In E and part of June, we will be doing a We find a difference in these two grains as offerings before Passover addition to this, even after a person “brings very special mitzvah called “The Counting prohibitions; not eating from the new grain 2. The preferred policy of waiting until the first offering of barley” and manages to of the Omer.” It begins on the second day of (chodosh) crops until after Passover, and Shavuot to use the new grain crops subjugate their animal soul to God, there is Passover and ends the preferred action—waiting until after 3. The exception made for the time between still a need to do more to improve their level the day before the Shavuot. According to Jewish law, if a person Passover and Shavuot. of holiness. This means bringing the godly holiday of Sha- wanted to use “new grain” as a sacrificial An offering made before Passover is soul closer to God. That is the reason why it vuot. We count 49 offering, for food, or any other beneficial invalid. This symbolizes that a person has not is not recommended to bring a sacrifice from days, seven weeks, usage—before the current Passover season— yet subjugated and corrected their animal the “new wheat grain crop” before bringing hence the name they would be absolutely prohibited—the soul. Consequently, that person cannot yet the offering of wheat on the holiday of Shavuot - Hebrew offering would be invalid. However, if a priest go out into the world and attempt “tikkun Shavuot. By waiting until Shavuot, it shows for “weeks.” Since accidentally made a grain offering after the olam”—correcting the world. If they have not that one is bringing both the animal and the the entire month Passover barley offering but before Shavuot, yet mastered their animalistic tendencies, godly soul into subjugation and service to of May will be oc- the law says the offering is kosher. So why is it they will be drawn down away from God’s God. After one subjugates and offers both the cupied with the that the barley offering brought prematurely path into the temptations of the physical animal and godly souls to the service of God, Rabbi Aharon Goldstein Counting of the (before Passover) is invalid but the wheat world. It is only after subjugation to God’s then one can be strong enough to go out Omer, it seems ap- offering brought prematurely (between will and having the attitude that the purpose into the world and “benefit” from the “new propriate that we discuss lessons we can Passover and Shavuot) is acceptable? There for getting involved in the world is to serve grain crop” with maximum effect. However, learn from “The Counting of the Omer.” are two ways to answer this question: one nobody is perfect, so if one inadvertently The Torah commands us to sacrifice two is by Jewish law and the other is from a didn’t wait the full complement of time to grain offerings from the new crop, in the Holy spiritual, metaphysical perspective. We’ll bring the wheat offering, it is still acceptable Temple in Jerusalem, before we can benefit take the latter perspective first. because the main hurdle that precludes from the new crop. One is called the Omer Bringing an offering to the Temple is engagement in “tikkun olam” is the offering, consisting of barley and is brought a means for us to get closer to God. So, subjugation of the animal soul, represented on the second day of Passover. The second symbolically, offering the two types of grains by the barley offering. grain offering is called Shtay Ha’lechem (the at the Holy Temple represents the two aspects The counting of the Omer (aka Sefirot), two loaves of bread); it is made of wheat of our soul that we are offering to God. The not merely counting numbers but working rather than barley and is brought on Shavuot. first offering, of barley, is a coarse, lower food on our self-improvement, refining our Before Passover, all the new grains, started the that is primarily for animals. This represents character traits and trying to bring both our previous year after Passover until the current the lower, animalistic aspect of our nature— animal soul and our godly soul into better Passover season, could not yet be eaten. This the animal soul as it is known in Chassidus. service to God. Once this is accomplished, is called “chodosh” – new grain. Actually, even The second offering, of wheat breads, shows with the help of the structured exercises used after sacrificing the Omer (the barley) offering how we offer a less coarse, higher order food during the seven weeks, we will be ready to the priests in the Holy Temple were still not that is primarily for people. This represents receive the Torah (Shavuot commemorates permitted to bring any sacrifice from the new the higher, spiritual aspect of our nature— receiving the Torah). n crop. They had to wait seven weeks until after the godly soul, as it is known in Chassidus. “The Counting of the Omer”—until Shavuot. From the above distinction we can explain

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Chabad offers JLI course based on teachings of Rabbi Schneerson This month at Mendel Sirota, special to the WJN habad of Ann Arbor will present Temple Beth Emeth “Paradigm Shift: Transformational Rabbi Lisa Delson, special to the WJN C Life Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe,” a new six-session course by the Rohr Temple Beth Emeth Commemorates Jewish Learning Institute. The course will be Yom HaShoah Friday, May 2 offered as part of a series of local activities Each spring Jews around the world commemorate in Ann Arbor, marking 20 years since the the loss of life during the Holocaust and the passing of “the Rebbe,” Rabbi Menachem survival of the Jewish people on Yom HaShoah. M. Schneerson. The Rebbe was a visionary TBE’s Generations After Group, made up of religious leader who inspired countless in- Holocaust survivors and their families, will lead dividuals during his lifetime and established the congregation in prayer and remembrance a global network of educational, social, and during Shabbat services on May 2, at 7:30 p.m. religious institutions to revive the post-Ho- Music written by Jews around the world before locaust Jewish landscape. and during World War II is the basis for this Paradigm Shift will be offered Tuesdays at service with personal family stories included. 9:30 a.m., and 7:30 p.m., beginning May 20. The entire Ann Arbor Jewish community is The course will explore Rabbi Schneerson’s welcome to attend this service. philosophy and outlook, offering participants the chance to see things from a radi- Families with Young Children (FYC): cally different perspective. “It’s like putting Last year's JLI class members Shabbat Service times every Friday on a new pair of glasses through which ev- Tot (0–5 year olds) Shabbat Services led by es questions such as: What were the Rebbe’s izing what is possible and seeing how you can erything appears much more vivid; it enables Rabbi Levy and Cantor Annie Rose, 6 p.m. central teachings and contributions to Juda- make it a reality. “Like all JLI programs, Par- you to see so much more,” explained Rabbi Dinner for Tot Shabbat 6:30 p.m. ism and society? What was his understand- adigm Shift is designed to appeal to people Zalman Abraham of JLI’s Brooklyn head- Popsicle Oneg, 7 p.m. ing of the human being and what were his at all levels of Jewish knowledge, including quarters. “The Rebbe guided individuals to Traditional Shabbat Service, 7:30 p.m. see the potential and inherent goodness in hopes for humanity? What stands behind the those without any prior experience or back- themselves, in others, and in every circum- continued success of the Chabad-Lubavitch ground in Jewish learning. All JLI courses Shabbat Dinner and Service stance of their lives; we hope to convey a movement? And how can we apply these in- are open to the public, and attendees need Honoring Rabbi Lisa Delson glimpse of this outlook to participants of the sights toward living a more purposeful life? not be affiliated with a particular synagogue, “We all want to live up to our inherent temple, or other house of worship. Inter- Friday, May 30, 6 p.m. dinner, 7:30 p.m. service course.” Paradigm Shift is an important con- The Temple Beth Emeth community tribution to the Rebbe’s legacy—the product design, to make the best of the unique set of ested students may call 995-3276 x 2 or visit skills and circumstances that we were given,” www.myJLI.com for registration and other will celebrate the many blessings Rabbi Lisa of a collaboration of over two dozen experts Delson has brought to Ann Arbor with a on Rabbi Schneerson’s teachings. It address- said Chabad Rabbi Aharon Goldstein. “Para- course-related information. n digm Shift is the first step; it’s about visual- special dinner. After a Shabbat service the celebration will continue with an oneg. Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Levy Music is midrash Fridays, 2, 9, 23, 30, 12:30–1:30 p.m. SooJi Min, special to the WJN Join Rabbi Levy for a relaxed and informative lunch and learn series. All sessions are held tarting from age 6, Cantor Regina of helping to shape a positive and fulfilling the bima of Temple Beth Emeth. She moves in the Adult Lounge and are open to the Lambert-Hayut was on a path toward Jewish future for herself and others. Her with her husband, Avishay, who is a physical community. Lunch is not provided; bring S the stage. Her grandmother, Anna, two previous pulpits were at The Barnert therapist and their children, 14-year- old your own. taught her Yiddish songs and would have her Temple in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, and Yoav and 13-year-old Alon, who are also granddaughter sing for her friends. Cantor most recently at Temple Beth Or, in the both accomplished musicians. TBE’s Cantor Shalom Gever Hayut loved to sing and also played the cello. Township of Washington, New Jersey. Yet, Annie Rose will retire around the same time. Mondays and Wednesdays, May 5, 7, 12, 14, After college, she returned to the New York not surprisingly, Cantor Hayut has collected “As a cantor committed to Reform Jewish 19, 21, 26, 28, 4:30–8 p.m. area to study music and to perform. Truth her own share of fans—old and new—who life in America, I am more determined than Temple Beth Emeth’s Martial Arts for Health, be told, Cantor Hayut had her eyes set on the praise her for her many lovely qualities. ever to work toward deeper engagement of Fitness and Self-defense. Come feel the energy! 3,800-seat concert stage of the New York City- Find out what it’s all about. Open to grades based Metropolitan Opera House—think K–12. Grades K-2 meet from 4:15–5 p.m., American soprano Renée Fleming. “I loved grades 3–5 meet from 5:15–or 6:15–7 p.m., her rich, silky voice and what seemed to be her “I love helping people grades 6-9 meet from 7:15–8 p.m., and grades warm and genuine personality both on and find their connection to 10–12 meet from 7:15–8 p.m.. Questions? off the stage,” says Hayut. Contact Rabbi Peter Gluck at info@ At the time, Hayut was living in Jericho, the synagogue through shalomgever.com or SooJi Min at 665-4744. New York. When Cantor Marvin Antosofsky, the cantor of her childhood synagogue, asked music, whether vocal or Spirituality Book Club her to sing in a cantor’s ensemble that he Thursday, May 15, Noon and Tuesday, was conducting, she couldn’t refuse. “There instrumental. Music is May 20, 7:30 p.m. weren’t any women in it,” adds Hayut. “So he Join Cantor Annie Rose as she leads a wanted me to balance out the voices.” That my midrash.” discussion on One God, Many Paths: Finding experience lead to a position as cantorial Cantor Regina Lambert-Hayut Meaning and Inspiration in Jewish Teachings, soloist at Temple Sinai in Massapequa, a by Rabbi Amy Hirshberg Lederman. This town on Long Island. “Her voice is just wonderful, clear and our constituents who have already come book celebrates the joy and wisdom that the And the rest was history. Cantor Hayut inspiring,” says Rabbi Joel Soffin who first through our doors,” says Cantor Hayut. As teachings of Judaism can bring to everyday was on a new path—this one leading to the met Cantor Hayut when he was the sabbatical more and more young American Jews reject life. Lederman’s heartwarming stories inspire bima. As she read and studied, exploring the rabbi at Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, Jewish institutional affiliation, Cantor Hayut as they provide new insights into love, family, Jewish tradition and history, she did a pulpit New Jersey. “There is a sweetness that comes strives to encourage potential members to work, relationships, tradition, and God. switch. “I began to question whether the out in the way she relates to everyone.” find a meaningful Jewish experience within concert stage was the right pulpit for me,” “What I appreciate even more than the sacred walls of the synagogue. Men’s Torah Study says Hayut. “I soon realized that it was not Cantor Hayut’s musical abilities and strength “I love the excitement and energy of Mondays, May 5 and 19, 7:30–9 p.m. the theatrical stage that I was interested in of character is the kindness she exhibits at creating fun and wonderful programs Temple Beth Emeth’s Men’s Torah study performing on but the bima.” all times,” says Temple Beth Emeth’s Rabbi that make us feel like a community. I love meets twice a month for an evening of Cantor Hayut will be the first to say that Robert Levy. helping people find their connection to the learning. Refreshments will be served. For she traded in the applause and flowers from Starting on July 1, 2014, Cantor Hayut synagogue through music, whether vocal or more information, contact Roger Stutesman, n the concert stage for the deep satisfaction enters a new phase of her career, joining instrumental. Music is my midrash.” . n rgstutesmanatsbcglobal.net.

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Upcoming activities at Beth Israel Congregation Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN does one contact a funeral director for pre- 2–5 years old and includes songs, stories, and meets at Beth Israel on the lower level in room Lunch & Learn Series prayers. It also includes the mysterious “Shab- 15. Following services child-size tables are set Wednesdays, May 7, 14, 21, 28, Noon–1:15 planning or at a time of need? What is the procedure for funerals conducted at Beth Is- bat Box,” Torah processions with stuffed out for Tot Shabbat kids, and their families are p.m. Torah toys, and a kiddush for tots. Peretz always invited to stay to enjoy a kiddush lunch Garfunkel Schteingart Activities Center rael? How does one arrange for the purchase of a cemetery plot at Beth Israel Memorial Hirshbein, the director the JCC Early Child- with the rest of the congregation. There is no (2010 Washtenaw Ave.) hood Center, leads the program. Tot Shabbat fee for this program. n The May Lunch and Learn series will Garden at Arborcrest Memorial Park? What kick off with a lunch and learn celebrat- arrangements are made for funerals or buri- ing Yom Ha’atzamaut, Israel Independence al out of town? How will Beth Israel help to Day on Wednesday, May 7. An Israeli meal support the family during shiva and beyond? Beth Israel puts the fun in fundraiser will be provided by Beth Israel and the Participants are asked to bring their ques- study will center on the importance of the tions and concerns. Beth Israel’s annual fundraiser will the president’s advisory committee for Land of Israel in Jewish tradition. RSVP for honor Eileen and Saul Hymans. The eve- the Beth Israel Second Century Endow- that particular session by Monday, May 5. Adult Hebrew Spring Session ning’s theme is “1964,” the year Eileen and ment Fund. Saul is emeritus professor of For the rest of the month, participants are The community adult Hebrew classes of- Saul became mem- asked to bring a dairy lunch; Beth Israel will fered by Beth Israel and Temple Beth Emeth bers of Beth Israel, provide the beverages and snacks. Rabbi will continue for a spring term. Tuition for 50 years ago. The Dobrusin and Rabbi Blumenthal facilitate this 6-week term is $90 for members of ei- fundraiser will take these sessions. ther congregation, and $100 for non-mem- place on Sunday, bers. University students can attend the June 1, at 7 p.m. Shabbat Limmud classes for a special rate of $25. Classes will The fundraiser Saturday, May 3 and 17, 9–9:45 a.m. be held from early May through June. will feature hors Rabbi Robert Dobrusin will facilitate a Individuals thinking of attending Rabbi d’oeuvres and des- discussion on Parashat HaShavua, the Torah Dobrusin’s study trip to Israel next March, serts, and a fun portion of the week. All are welcome to par- or Rabbi Blumenthal’s family trip next June, program highlight- ticipate in an informal conversation on the or who are personally planning a trip to Is- ing the year 1964, Torah portion over coffee and cake preced- rael, or who want to work on prayer book or which included the ing the Shabbat morning service. Bible skills, are asked to contact Cindy Saper, Beatles performing [email protected]. She will help with on The Ed Sullivan “Supporting You at a Time of Need: placement in a Hebrew class to best help one Show, the debut of Funerals and Mourning at Beth Israel meet their Hebrew goals. Fiddler on the Roof, and Beth Israel Memorial Gardens” the airing of Jeop- Eileen and Saul Hymans Mini Minyan ardy for the first Monday, May 12, 8 p.m. At Mini Minyan kids celebrate Shabbat time, and Ford’s introduction of the first economics and statistics at the University One of the most important functions of a with the songs and stories they loved from Mustang. of Michigan. synagogue is to be a source of support during Tot Shabbat while also learning new prayers Eileen and Saul moved to Ann Arbor Sponsors of the event include Bonnie times of loss. Although it may be difficult, it and discovering more about Shabbat and in 1964 when Saul joined the faculty of Castleberry (Independency Priorities), is wise to consider important questions re- other holidays through discussions, games, the University of Michigan. Eileen has Matthew Kaplan and Caroline Helton, garding funeral and burial before a death oc- and activities. Mini Minyan meets the second served on the Beth Israel education and Stephen and Pamela Landau, the Tichel curs. This program will address many of the Saturday of the month throughout the school mitzvah committees. Saul served as presi- Group and the Tichel Jr’s and Tichel- questions that are asked concerning funer- year. There is no fee for this program. dent of Beth Israel from 1969–1970 and letes. For an invitation and tribute book als and burial. Rabbi Kim Blumenthal and served on the building committee when information, call the Beth Israel office, Rabbi Robert Dobrusin will facilitate the Tot Shabbat the current synagogue building was de- 665-9897. discussion along with Rebecca Kanner, the Saturdays, May 10 and 24, 11:15 a.m. signed and built. Both currently serve on synagogue cemetery representative. Tot Shabbat is Beth Israel’s Shabbat morn- These subjects will be addressed: How ing program for parents and their children Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation celebrates spring Michal Woll, special to the WJN esach has passed, spring is finally purchasing dollars most ethically, responsi- Second Saturday Shabbat Morning and contemporary prayers, chants and read- here and the land has come to life. bly and effectively. This program will be held ings. The service runs from 6:15–7:30 p.m. What a wonderful time to follow up at the home of Michal Woll and Jon Sweeney, Service Featuring Parashat Behar and is followed by a vegetarian /dairy pot- P Sunday, May 10, 9:30 a.m.–noon on the excitement and energy of the March 2960 Lakeview Drive. RSVP to ravmichal@ luck dinner. Fourth Friday services are held AARC will expand its usual Second Satur- community conversation on Food, Land and aarecon.org or 845-2361. at the JCC. For more information, contact day Shabbat gathering with a, multi-faceted Justice. In addition to two special programs the AARC by website, www.aarecon.org, via service to celebrate the upcoming Shemitah focused on Fair Food and the upcoming Sh- Information Brunch about Beit Sefer e-mail, [email protected], or by phone, 445- year. Attendees will read and study from emitah year, AARC will gather for its monthly Sunday, May 4, noon–1:30 p.m. 1910. RSVP for childcare and pizza snack of- Parashat Behar, which contains the bulk of musical and delicious Fourth Friday Service Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congre- fered from 6–7:30 p.m. the mitzvot involving the sabbatical year and Dinner as well as introduce the commu- gation (AARC) will host an annual brunch and other issues of food and land justice. nity to its Beit Sefer school program. for parents and families interested in Beit Shmita Study Group Sefer, the AARC religious school. Children Themes of rest, renewal, and release will be Sunday, May 25, 10–11:30 a.m. Learning and Havdalah: Eating can play together at this informal gathering woven throughout the morning through This study group meets on the fourth Sun- within our ethics and our budgets while parents ask questions and learn about movement, music and meditation. Services day mornings through June at the JCC. The the innovative and engaging education of- are held at the Jewish Community Center of group, led by Marcy Epstein, will delve into Saturday, May 3, 7 p.m. Greater Ann Arbor. Contact Rabbi Michal Making good decisions about what food fered to K–7th graders. The AARC Beit Sefer the sources and contemporary relevance of strives to provide an understanding of Jew- Woll at [email protected] or call 845 Sabbatical/Shmita with lively dialog on per- we buy and where we buy it will not fix the 2361 for more information. broken food system. Yet this is where every ish tradition, to develop Hebrew language sonal, social, communal and environmental concerned individual must start. For many, and to encourage self-expression. The school Fourth Friday Kabbalat Shabbat transformations possible in the coming year. these personal decisions, and their poten- welcomes blended families of various back- Email Epstein at [email protected] for grounds and faiths. This event will take place Friday, May 23, 6:15–7:30 p.m. more information. n tial financial implications, can be daunting. AARC will welcome Shabbat with its in the home of Caroline Richardson and AARC members Rena Basch and Carole Ca- monthly musical Kabbalat Shabbat service. Paul Resnick. RSVP to Karin Ahbel-Rappe at plan will facilitate this program addressing The congregational band accompanies a [email protected] or leave a mes- the myriad questions of how to use food- unique liturgy consisting both traditional sage at 445-1910.

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What do jelly fish and cancer cells have in common? Laurie Leflein, special to the WJN he Hebrew Day School of Ann Ar- specific genetic mutations in an individual’s bor’s fifth grade class learned the cancer. T answer to that question when they The children saw firsthand, under a mi- visited Dr. Diane Simeone’s University of croscope, the difference between normal Michigan Pancreatic Cancer Lab. What and cancerous cells. They also saw fluores- might you ask are a bunch of fifth graders cent cancer cells. One student asked “If you doing in a pancreatic cancer lab? Last fall know the environment the tumor cells like to the HDS Student Council began researching grow in, why can’t you change that environ- worthy causes to target for this year’s fund- ment so they can’t grow anymore?” Another raising efforts. The children researched many student confidently raised her hand and different organizations, and in the end, they explained that the pancreas secretes insulin democratically voted to support Dr. Sime- and is responsible for producing enzymes to one’s lab. The children chose pancreatic break down food. cancer because they learned that not only is The HDS Student Council has raised over pancreatic cancer one of the worst cancers to $1,000 for pancreatic cancer research by col- get in terms of survival rates, it is also one of lecting deposit cans, food sales, receiving a the worst in terms of research funding. $100 grant, a penny wagon, and additional Students were intrigued by an afternoon donations. The children learned many les- of hands-on learning led by a talented in- sons from their extremely successful fund- terdisciplinary team of PhDs, graduate stu- raising efforts. The biggest lessons were you dents, engineers, and experts in computer are never too young to practice tikun olam modeling, who bring together many types (repairing the world), everyone together can of expertise to tackle the problem of pan- make a difference in this devastating disease, creatic cancer. They quickly learned that Dr. and anything is possible when people are Simeone is not only passionate about find- Back row third from right Dr. Diane Simeone, director, Pancreatic Cancer Center U of M; lab passionate about a cause. ing a cure for pancreatic cancer, she is also personnel; and HDS fifth grade class So what do a jelly fish and cancer cells passionate about engaging young minds in niques, and more effective medicines to treat in Experimental Therapeutics, where scien- have in common? By removing the protein scientific research. Dr. Simeone presented a this cancer. Another physician poked his tists have a virtual library of 10 million anti- from a jelly fish which enables it to glow in short lecture on the role of the pancreas in head out of his office to talk to the children cancer compounds and can utilize computer the dark and infusing it into cancer cells, re- the body, pancreatic cancer biology and sta- about how he uses the computer to fight modeling to develop specialized drugs to tar- searchers can better visualize the cells and tistics, efforts to find earlier diagnosis tech- cancer. His area of expertise in the team is get and fight a particular cancer based on the their behavior. n

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Humane Society visits ECC toddlers Susan Horowitz, special to the WJN n April 3, Karen Patterson from about tzedakah. The collection process em- the Huron Valley Humane So- phasized how the children could help the O ciety, along with her dog Lucky, animals. “We talked about how by bringing met with the children of the Jewish Com- in items for the animals we were helping to munity Center of Greater Ann Arbor Early make them happy again, because some of Childhood Center. When the children en- them were really sad,” said Payne. “The chil- tered the room with Lucky, they brought items they had collected to help the animals at HVHS. The children handed items they had collected to Patterson; but, many children wanted to give donations directly to the dog, showing that they understood just who they were helping. The children also had the opportunity to pet the dog, see some tricks, and throw a ball for Lucky to fetch. 3 Ann Arbor locations for finely crafted espresso Over the past few months, in a project designed and led by Bunny toddler teachers drinks and freshly roasted beans. Nina Doigan and Courtney Payne, the toddlers collected wish list items for the Huron Valley Humane Society (HVHS). The proj- Two Wheel Tango, 4765 Jackson Rd. ect culminated with the visit from Karen and Lucky. The initial idea for this project was based on a combination of a teacher desire Mark’s Carts, 211 W. Washington St. to promote tzedakah as well as the expressed interests of the children. “I have been feeling a personal obligation to be doing more tze- Mighty Good Cafe, 217 N. Main St. dakah myself,” said Doigan. “I then thought, ‘Why can’t the kids participate?’” ECC Humane Society visit Following the child-centered philosophy of the ECC, Payne and Doigan then looked dren really understood that by helping the to the interests of the children to guide them animals we were making them happy.” in the specifics of planning this activity. Connecting the concrete idea of collect- “The children have been really interested in ing and donating items to more abstract the emotions of each other and our plastic emotions such as happy and sad also provid- animals, so when Nina suggested that we do ed the toddlers with a lesson in emotional a tzedakah project I thought about the Hu- literacy. “Our kids are just starting to under- mane Society,” said Payne. “It would bring stand emotions and being hurt, so that’s how together both interests of the children.” we got them to understand such a complex Come with Payne and Doigan then invited the two other idea,” said Doigan. Ultimately, the toddlers toddler classrooms to participate as well. learned a great deal about tzedakah with the to During the months of February and added bonus of having fun while doing it. March, families brought in a variety of items Through this experience the toddlers at the to donate to the HVHS. When the toddler JCC ECC learned that tzedakah is a mitzvah May 18-28, 2015 classrooms gathered together for weekly in which even the youngest groups of learn- activities such as Havdalah and Kabbalat ers can participate. We’ve been blown away by Shabbat, the children put their items in the For more information about the JCC the amazing artisanal food of collection boxes, talked about doing nice ECC, email [email protected], call 971-0990, or Hungary and the warm welcome things for others (including pets) and sang visit the website at www.jccannarbor.org. n of its people. Join us this Spring so we can share these experiences with you. Space is very limited, Youth programs offer fun in the sun sign up today at Clara Silver, special to the WJN zingermansfoodtours.com he Jewish Community Center of Great Lakes Zoological Society. Every Friday Greater Ann Arbor Youth Depart- we look forward to parents joining us by the T ment will explode with summer ac- lake to celebrate Shabbat.” tivity as Game Crazy ummer Fun Days and For the week before and after Camp Camp Raanana begin. The overall focus of Raanana the JCC will partner with “Game JCC summer youth activities is a combina- Crazy.” Game Crazy is an organization spe- tion of confidence building, skill building, cializes in synthesizing technology and game and team building while having an excit- concepts in innovative ways to engage young ing and engaging summer. Camp Raanana, people to explore science, technology, engi- now located at the beautiful Cedar Lake neering, and math, or “STEM” concepts. In Learn to BAKE at wooded campsite, offers campers traditional addition to the Game Crazy activities, youth experiences like archery, swimming, boat- will also engage in traditional summer fun Zingerman’s Bakehouse ing, music, nature exploration, and crafts, including swimming, snacks, sports, and Choose from more than 60 different hands-on baking as well as innovative options like adventure other outdoor games. classes. Get the recipes we’re famous for and go home overnights, theme activities, and field trips. Parents will find this summer’s program Every camper will also get a taste of the JCC full of excitement as well as flexibility with with all the food you made in class. Scout program that has been very success- pre- and post-camp options and more. Spac- ful this spring. Ethan Krasnow, director of es are still available for all the summer pro- For more information, to see the Youth, Scouting, Camping Services, and grams and families are encouraged to reserve full schedule, and to sign up, Fun, says that, “Camp Raanana has the most space as soon as possible by contacting Kellie visit www.bakewithzing.com. fun planned than ever before, with “Special Cohoon at 971-0990 ext. 113 or kcohoon@ Fridays,” multiple music programs, Mad Sci- jccfed.org. More information is available at ence, and lots of visitors from places like the www.jccannarbor.org. n 12 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 I Looking Back Come Home Perfection To Beautiful 50 years on, remembering the rally that Maid Services.Com launched the Soviet Jewry movement Residential & Commercial By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org Custom Cleaning Plans e didn’t know you couldn’t stantly looking for symbolic ways to dramatize Laundry, Dishes and More organize a mass rally in four days, our cause. When we started organizing for FREE ESTIMATES W and sometimes if you don’t know, Soviet Jewry, we borrowed heavily from what then you just plunge ahead—and you do it.” So we learned in the civil rights movement.” Rich- Tenira Byrd, Operations Manager says Glenn Richter, one of the organizers of the ral- ter himself had been a regular volunteer in the ly in New York City, 50 years ago on May 1, which New York offices of the Student Non-Violent 734.945-8057 launched the Soviet Jewry freedom movement. Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leading [email protected] In the spring of 1964, not many American civil rights activist group. Later, anti-Semitic Gift Certificates Available Jews were paying CREDIT: MOSHE MILNER/GPO. attention to the plight of their three million coreligion- ists in the Soviet Union. But Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum and Morris Braf- man were. Their personal experiences had made them keenly aware of the com- mandment to not stand idly by as fellow Jews were persecuted. Birn- baum, 37, was A mass solidarity rally with Soviet Jewry at the Western Wall in Jerusalem born in Germany on December 20, 1970 but raised in England, to which his parents fled black nationalists took over SNCC and many of from the Nazis. Brafman, 58, was a refugee from its Jewish members departed. Some ended up in Austria. His nephew—prominent criminal de- the Soviet Jewry movement. fense attorney Ben Brafman—has written about “For four days, we ran around like crazy, how on Kristallnacht, his father, Sol, and uncle pasting up posters, handing out leaflets on col- Morris “ran into a burning synagogue and res- lege campuses, ‘talking up’ the rally everywhere cued a Torah that would otherwise have been we could,” Richter said. “We really had no idea consumed by the flames.” In 1960, the Brafman how many people would show up. When the brothers, living in New York, established the day arrived, we watched in amazement as the first fledgling Soviet Jewry group, the American people started coming, and then more, and then League for Russian Jews. more, until more than a thousand students were In April 1964, after reading reports in the marching up and down the street. It was an in- press about the mistreatment of Soviet Jews— credible moment.” including the Kremlin’s refusal to allow Jews The large photograph and article that ap- to obtain matzahs for that year’s Passover holi- peared in the next day’s New York Times—on day—Birnbaum and Brafman decided to call a page 2, to the students’ great surprise—reveals meeting on the campus of Columbia University a lot about the young protesters. They are well- to brainstorm about the situation. Glenn Rich- dressed, picketing in calm, orderly fashion, ter, a Queens College sophomore, was one of holding placards with well-thought-out slogans. those who attended. The sign that is most prominent in the photo is Richter told JNS.org that about 150 students remarkably informational: “Report from Rus- attended that meeting—a surprisingly large sia: 1956—400 Synagogues; 1964—80 Syna- number, considering the Soviet Jewry issue was gogues—1970—?” almost completely unknown at that point. “It “We understood that it was, first of all, a battle was an amazing scene, kind of electrifying,” he for public opinion,” Richter explained. “Nobody recalled. “We had the indignation of college stu- had heard of the issue. We had to educate the dents, we were outraged over an injustice and public. The slogans were carefully planned. The anxious to do something.” One of the students students were instructed to be on their best be- suggested they hold a rally outside the Soviet havior. We were trying to make Soviet Jewry into Mission to the United Nations, on Manhattan’s an issue that Americans would take seriously.” 67th street, on May 1—just four days away. That would not happen overnight. There “Sometimes enthusiasm makes up for expe- would be decades of demonstrations and other -, 3-, and 4-week rience,” Richter said. “Nobody in that room had protests—by the Student Struggle for Soviet sessions, Camp Tavor o ers 5-day the experience to know how difficult it would Jewry, led by Birnbaum and Richter, by other ac- sessions for campers entering grades be to organize a serious rally in just four days— tivist groups, and eventually by the mainstream so nobody thought it was impossible. We just Jewish organizations. There would be battles in 3–5. Program Dates: June 15–20 or July 9–13. jumped into it.” Congress and empty chairs set at Passover sed- Birnbaum was instantly attracted to the rally ers and American Jews sneaking into the USSR proposal because of the symbolism of holding it to help Soviet Jewish refuseniks. It would be one on May Day—the international holiday of the of the proudest chapters in American Jewish Communist movement. Rebuking the Soviets history. All that had to start somewhere—and on their own holiday was exactly the kind of it did, 50 years ago on May 1, with a handful of irony that he believed would attract public and college students who did the impossible because media attention. And he was right. they didn’t know it couldn’t be done. n “Symbolism was everything to us,” Rich- Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The ter noted. “Many of us were active in the black David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. civil rights movement, where we were con- Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 13 IOp-Ed

What is BDS? David Shtulman, special to the WJN he first anti-Israel boycott of Zionist narrative without fully understanding what port referencing J Street as a source of inspiration. … I do not trust the BDS movement. Its stated goods produced in Mandatory Palestine drives it or what its goals are. However, many We explained then, and have reiterated ever since, aim is to end the occupation, secure “full equality” T was announced by the Arab League on outspoken critics of Israeli policies who have a that, in our view, the one-sided, extreme rheto- for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and fight December 2, 1945, long before Israel was estab- better understanding of the issues involved have ric that accompanies the Global BDS movement for the right of return of all Palestinian refugees. lished. It was broadened in 1948 to include all spoken out forcefully against BDS. makes a mutually agreeable solution more difficult The first objective is essential to Israel’s future. The companies that do business with Israel until the to achieve, not less. second is laudable. The third, combined with the US Congress made it illegal for any American Judge Richard Goldstone, chair of the 2009 UN Gaza … I would say to the Church’s leaders as they second, equals the end of Israel as a Jewish state. company to cooperate with the boycott in 1976. fact-finding mission: New York Times, October 31, 2011 again consider joining forces with the BDS move- This is the hidden agenda of BDS. The objective was to turn Israel into an interna- “In Israel there is no apartheid. Nothing there ment, that the movement’s rhetoric and tactics are … A single state cannot mark its Day of In- tional pariah long before the issues it purports comes close to the definition of apartheid under the not only a distraction, but a genuine threat to con- dependence and Day of Catastrophe on the same to fight today came about as a result of the Six 1998 Rome Statute: ‘Inhumane acts… commit- flict resolution…. Such an approach encourages date. One state, however conceived, equals the end Day War in 1967. ted in the context of an institutionalized regime not reconciliation, but polarization. of Israel as a Jewish state, the core of the Zionist The movement, inspired and generated by of systematic oppression and domination by one … The Jewish pro-peace, pro-Israel com- idea. Jews must not allow this to happen. Trust the 2001 UN World Conference Against Rac- racial group over any other racial group or groups munity calls for an end to settlement expansion, your neighbor? Been there, tried that….” ism in Durban, bases itself on a number of very and committed with the intention of maintaining the promotion of human rights, securing Israel’s BDS is not a social justice movement. It is basic, general and widely used political slogans, that regime.’ Israeli Arabs—20 percent of Israel’s future as a Jewish democracy and establishing a a deliberate effort to bring about an end to the deliberately couched to be reminiscent of the population—vote, have political parties and rep- thriving Palestine. We call for bold American and State of Israel disguised as a Palestinian equal- South African apartheid regime and to appeal resentatives in the Knesset and occupy positions of international diplomatic initiatives, starting with ity movement. The Palestinians living in Israel to the genuine humanitarian sentiments of the acclaim, including on the Supreme Court. Arab a push to define mutually agreed borders. But as Israeli citizens deserve full equality within grass roots groups to whom they direct their ef- patients lie alongside Jewish patients in Israeli turning to tactics like BDS deepens divisions and Israel. Palestinians who do not live within Is- forts. The aim is to manipulate well-meaning hospitals receiving identical treatment. fails to promote reconciliation.” rael and do not seek citizenship in a Jewish state, people who are generally unfamiliar with the … those who conflate the situations in Israel deserve full equality as citizens of Palestine in Middle East by instilling in them an inherent and the West Bank and liken both to old South Roger Cohen: excerpts from The BDS Threat New York an area whose boundaries are internationally bias against and hostility toward Israel. Africa do a disservice to all who hope for justice Times,February 10, 2014 recognized and mutually agreed upon through The BDS movement is spearheaded by a and peace.” “… I am a strong supporter of a two-state a negotiated process. People who want justice small number of full-time and well-financed peace. The messianic idea of Greater Israel, occu- encourage negotiations and normalization as a Jeremy Ben-Ami, Head of J Street, speaking to the pying all the land between the Mediterranean and anti-Israel activists inspired by senior Palestin- Presbyterian Church USA, excerpts from the Huffington path to reconciliation. People who want victory ian figures such as Omar Barghouti, Mustafa the Jordan River, must wither. encourage BDS. Post, July 2, 2012 … Palestinians must accept the permanence of Barghouti, Nabil Sha’at and others. The constant “Two years ago, the organization I head, J Street, The University of Michigan Student Gov- use of terms like apartheid, colonialism and rac- the State of Israel within the 1967 lines with equi- ernment was correct to give the BDS debate a was honored with an invitation to speak at a break- table land swaps. Competitive victimhood should ism in regards to Israeli society is designed to at- fast hosted by a Presbyterian USA peacemaking full airing and correct in voting against it by a tach these attributes to Israel in the public mind. cede to collaborative viability for the nation states large margin. How can anyone believe that a de- group—a long-time ally in the struggle for Middle of the Jewish and the Palestinian peoples. Nar- Many well-meaning people who want only East Peace. But we attended with heavy hearts. bate causing so much tension on an American to support what they view as an oppressed peo- ratives and revealed truth do not a future make. campus can ever be a path to peace? n A PCUSA committee had just offered an They perpetuate the imprisoning past. ple, including many Jews, have accepted the BDS alarming and problematic Middle East study re-

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Kansas hate crime didn’t emerge from a vacuum By Ben Cohen/JNS.org hen you look at the image of One might add that the wider community’s Look at some of the posts that Cross left on And both are convinced that the type of “Jewish Frazier Glenn Cross, AKA Glenn reaction to the Overland Park murders show- various neo-Nazi and white supremacist bulle- supremacism” practiced in Israel makes a non- W Miller, the shooter who cold- cased a humble, hard-working, tolerant America tin boards, and you’ll see what I mean. Amidst sense of American Jewish appeals for tolerance bloodedly murdered three Christians in a at its best. We suffer and we pull through—just his hate-drenched rants against Jews, he warm- and understanding. bloody eve-of-Passover spree at two Jewish ly recommended Two years ago, Blumenthal mocked the De- CREDIT: FACEBOOK. community buildings in Overland Park, Kan., an article by “Jew partment of Homeland Security for describing what do you see? journalist” Max Jews as a community facing “special risks.” I’ll tell you what I see. The dead-eyed stare, Blumenthal, whom “It’s clear what’s going on here,” he said, in a the pasty, blotched skin and lousy teeth, the he complimented nod towards undue Jewish political influence. unkempt facial hair—this is exactly the kind of for exposing Is- Blumenthal has also actively promoted the idea face we associate with anti-Semitic and racist rael’s “attempt... that Judaism itself is a hateful religion, a slander thuggery. In the 20th century, Cross could have to buy the presi- propounded by his Israeli collaborator, Yossi been a concentration camp guard, wearing his dential election Gurvitz, who has stated that “Rabbinical Juda- ignorant, vulgar sneer as he shoved his Jewish for the neo-con, ism is a Judaism that hates humans.” On Twit- victims into a gas chamber, screaming barely war-mongering re- ter, meanwhile, Blumenthal has used his own literate, anti-Semitic epithets along the way. publican establish- account to retweet the rantings of one David As we mourn the dead, and agonize over ment... the k*kes Benedetti, who taunted a Jewish user with Ho- the fact that security at Jewish institutions be- The Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City simply do not trust locaust imagery, saying “your grandmother also comes more vulnerable when Jewish holidays a lame-duck black made a nice lampshade.” draw near, we comfort ourselves by saying as we pulled through the shootings at Jewish president with the name Hussein.” (Incidentally, Now that the Kansas atrocity underlines that that such exemplary specimens of the “Master Community Centers in Los Angeles in 1999 it’s not unheard of for Nazis to recommend cer- Jews do, in fact, face serious risks, Blumenthal Race” as Cross are a rarity. Neo-Nazis are at the and Seattle in 2006. Just as French Jews pulled tain Jewish authors—Hitler himself reportedly has shifted tack, writing on the anti-Semitic fringe of the fringe, most of them don’t have through 2012 murders by an Islamist of a rabbi described Otto Weininger, a Viennese Jewish website Mondoweiss on the alleged similarities the guts to go beyond harassing their enemies and three beautiful children at a Jewish school philosopher who lambasted the modern “Jew- between Frazier Cross’s Nazi ideology and Zi- on social networks, and the odd individuals in Toulouse. Just as Jews in Israel overcame the ish” era, as a rare example of a Jew he admired.) onism. Elsewhere on the same website, which who do engage in violence unfortunately have enormous pain that accompanied the Palestin- It’s not an accident that today’s Nazis are receives part of its funding from conservative easy access to guns. What this means is that ian bombing of a Passover seder, which claimed attracted to left-wing, viscerally anti-Zionist businessman Ron Unz, another contributor, Jews and other minorities have to occasionally the lives of 30 people, at a Netanya hotel in 2002. writers like Blumenthal. Both share the view Annie Robbins, wondered aloud whether Kan- shoulder atrocities like the one in Kansas. It But something is missing. By overly fo- that the so-called “Israel Lobby” drove the U.S. sas was an Israeli conspiracy. absolutely does not mean that America is an cusing on punks like Frazier Cross, there’s a into foreign wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both Why does any of this matter? Left-wing anti- anti-Semitic country, or that such attacks are danger that we ignore those elements in our believe that politicians kowtow to Jewish inter- Zionists are increasingly regarded as acceptable a prelude to greater persecution. broader culture that sustain and inspire them. ests because they fear the costs of not doing so. Continued on page 22

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Report from Amid Cosmos return, remembering famed Jewish AIPAC 2014 astronomer Carl Sagan Florence Gerber, special to the WJN By Robert Gluck/JNS.org other hand, I was fairly insulated from the confirmed by the first NASA space probe. It ourteen thousand people from all arl Sagan fans old and new have been horrors of the war.” was an incredible achievement. Sagan prob- 50 states and many foreign coun- gazing at their televisions in awe as In his 1996 book The Demon-Haunted ably couldn’t have dreamed at the time that F tries attended the AIPAC (American C host Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson’s resur- World, Sagan included his memories of this the greenhouse effect would be important Israel Public Affairs Committee) conference rection of the science epic Cosmos takes them conflicted period when his family dealt with in the current debate we’re having about in Washington, DC, March 2–4. AIPAC is an on a journey from the Big Bang, to micro- whether human produced CREDIT: JPL VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. advocate for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship scopic one-celled organisms, to the ascent of carbon dioxide is changing In keeping with AIPAC’s bipartisan ap- man, to beyond the stars and planets. our climate. His work was The return of Cosmos—which launched important to that.” in March and runs for 13 episodes on the Fox Promoted as a pro- network, ending June 2—provides an op- gram that shows how mat- portune time to remember Sagan, the show’s ter, over billions of years, CREDIT: AIPAC. AIPAC. CREDIT: Jewish creator. transforms into conscious- An American astronomer, astrophysicist, ness, the past and present cosmologist, and author, Sagan was born to versions of Cosmos speak Reform Jews. According to science writer to the joy one can find in William Poundstone, author of Carl Sagan: nature, science, and per- A Life in the Cosmos, Sagan’s family celebrat- haps—as Sagan believed— ed the High Holidays and his parents made the search for intelligent sure Carl knew the Jewish traditions. life in space. Sagan was enthusiastic Benjamin Netanyahu and AIPAC President “Both of his parents instilled in him this Michael Kessen at AIPAC conference drive to get ahead in America, and that is CREDIT NASA JPL VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. something he kept all his life,” Poundstone proach to congress and the Obama admin- told JNS.org. “It may have been one factor in Sagan with a model of a NASA Viking lander istration, there were speakers from both sides this idea that he not only wanted to be a suc- of the aisle: Secretary of State John Kerry; cessful astronomer, but [also] to write books, the realities of the war in Europe, but Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew; Senator to become a celebrity and an entrepreneur. tried to prevent it from undermining Charles Schumer (D); Senator John McCain His mother particularly instilled that in him.” his optimistic spirit. (R); House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R); Born in Brooklyn to Samuel Sagan, an “Carl fulfilled his mother’s unful- House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D), immigrant garment worker from Russia, and filled dreams,” Poundstone told JNS.org. and Senator Robert Menendez (D) to name Rachel Molly Gruber, a housewife from New Sagan spent most of his career as a few. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu York, Carl was named in honor of Rachel’s a professor of astronomy at Cornell and various Israeli figures also spoke. biological mother Chaiya Clara. Both Carl University, where he directed the Lab- AIPAC did not rate or endorse candidates and his sister say their father was not partic- oratory for Planetary Studies. He pub- for office. It worked with both Republicans ularly religious, but their mother believed in lished more than 600 scientific papers and Democrats. Its board members have been God, was active in her synagogue, and served and articles and was the author, co-au- active in politics and come from both politi- only kosher meat. thor or editor of more than 20 books. cal parties. During the Obama presidency, the From an early age, Sagan was seized with He advocated for scientific skeptical AIPAC presidents have been Democrats. inquiry and promoted the search for the mission of searching for life on other Carl Sagan (center), Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman, of The central issue of the conference was extra-terrestrial intelligence. But it was worlds, a quest that would dominate his The Planetary Society with journalist Harry Ashmore Iran and its pursuit of the nuclear bomb. In entire professional career. Poundstone re- perhaps Sagan’s personality—not just addition there were dozens of breakout ses- counts how this quest continuously drove his scientific credentials—that popularized about sending messages to possible extrater- sions featuring experts on all sorts of subjects. Sagan, from his adolescent chemistry-set “Cosmos” on the PBS television network. restrials. The Pioneer Plaques were a pair of One panel included Dennis Ross and Elliot accidents, to his colorful academic career, to “One of the reasons the original Cosmos gold anodized aluminum plaques placed on Abrams discussing Iran and the implications his professional work on the Viking and Voy- series worked was Sagan was one of the few board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer of a nuclear Iran for Israel, the Middle East ager NASA missions, nuclear disarmament, scientists who could wear jeans and a turtle 11 NASA space probes, featuring a picto- and the world. Topics ranged from energy, the Cosmos, and Robert Zemeckis’s film Contact neck and look comfortable,” Poundstone rial message in case either was intercepted Middle East, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, India and (starring Jodi Foster). said. “He did have this vibe as someone who by extraterrestrial life. The plaques show Israel, and missile defense. In 1986, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) was cool and a member of the youth culture. the nude figures of a human male and fe- Besides politics, Israeli high tech firms presented Sagan with the Nahum Goldmann That was a big part of the show’s appeal.” male along with several symbols designed to show-cased inventions: eye glasses that en- Medal, according to WJC North American Cornell University’s press release at the provide information about the origin of the able the blind to see; small sensing devices press officer Eve Kessler. The medal is awarded time of Sagan’s death called him the world’s spacecraft. that give pictures of bad guys behind brick to distinguished individuals for their contri- greatest popularizer of science, as he reached The Voyager Golden Record, a much walls; missile defense and many others. butions to universal humanitarian causes and millions of people through newspapers, more complex and detailed message using At the close of the conference delegates actions benefiting the Jewish people. magazines, and television broadcasts. Cos- state-of-the-art media, was attached to the lobbied senators and representative from all At that time Sagan, gave an address titled mos—seen by more than 500 million people Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. 50 states to urge them to support a policy “The Final Solution of the Human Problem: in 60 countries—became the most watched “The Voyager Golden Record is often such that as part of the final agreement Iran Adolf Hitler and Nuclear War.” series in public-television history. The ac- credited with spurring the degree of interest must dismantle its illicit nuclear program “If the United States and the Soviet Union companying book, Cosmos (1980), was on we have in world music,” Poundstone said. so that it cannot develop or build a nuclear permit a nuclear war to break out, they would The New York Times bestseller list for 70 “They compiled this wonderful sampler of weapon. Another issue was to urge enhance- have retroactively lost the Second World War weeks and was the best-selling science book all the world’s musical traditions, which was ment of cooperation between the U.S. and and made that sacrifice meaningless,” Sagan said ever published in English. something you didn’t get so much then but Israel and designate the Jewish State a “major after accepting the Goldmann medal. “If we take “Carl was a candle in the dark,” said Yervant you do now.” strategic partner.” seriously our obligation to the tens of millions Terzian, chairman of Cornell’s astronomy de- Poundstone identifies three elements that David and Joshua Nacht, Marvin and who perished in World War II, we must rid the partment. “He was the best science educator in define Sagan’s legacy. Florence Gerber, and Tillie Shames with 22 planet of the blight of nuclear weapons.” the world this century. He touched hundreds of “He was a great, poetic writer and he was students from the University of Michigan Also in 1986, Sagan received the Shalom millions of people and inspired young genera- able to communicate that on screen,” he said. Hillel represented Washtenaw County at the Center’s first Brit HaDorot (Covenant of the tions to pursue the sciences.” “Second, he tends to be underrated as a sci- conference. Generations) Peace Award. Shared with Bos- Sagan predicted that the surface of Venus entist, but he did incredible things including Show your support for Israel by attending ton’s Jewish Coalition for a Peaceful World, was 900 degrees Fahrenheit, a finding con- the greenhouse effect on Venus and a lot of next year’s conference March 1–3, 2015, at the the award was presented to Jews who work firmed by the Mariner 2 robotic space probe. work on Mars. He was the first to show that Convention Center in Washington, DC. For to prevent a nuclear Holocaust. “He was the architect of the greenhouse the dark areas were high mountains and not information, contact Avi Davidoff at (312) “We had relatives who were caught up in effect model of Venus’s atmosphere,” Pound- low seas. Third, he was a great advocate of 253-8975 or [email protected] or www. the Holocaust,” Sagan wrote. “Hitler was not stone told JNS.org. “Sagan’s model was a rad- the skeptic movement, the idea that you have aipac.org. n a popular fellow in our household. On the ical thing at the time but it was dramatically to have evidence for a claim.” n Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 17 I Focus on Israel

British BDS countered by grassroots movements and a touch of humor By Jenni Frazer/JNS.org n August 2012, a Christian and a Jew canson. The group now has 6,200 “likes” has been the “Pies Against Lies” initiative. says Duncanson, “we have had inquiries bumped into each other in Brighton, the on Facebook and 1,200 followers on Twit- Others have been “Cakes Against Hate” and from Inverness, Canterbury, Oxford, Hert- I languid seaside resort on Britain’s south ter. Most of its supporters are local Jews, “Bagels Against Bigotry.” fordshire, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, and coast that has become the hub of Boycott, often people who had dropped out of main- “We ran an event saying ‘we bring pies, north London.” Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) protests at stream activities but were galvanized by the they bring lies’ and offered food to the pass- While SFI is a grassroots organization, the local Ecostream store. The Israeli-owned ers-by,” Duncanson the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and shop has attracted weekly demonstrations CREDIT: says. “For me, the Ireland (ZF) is a venerable Anglo-Jewish from the BDS crowd, angry that products best part of the day institution established in 1899, but it too is

made over the Green Line should be sold in OREN TEICHMANN/SUSSEX FRIENDS OF ISRAEL. is after the shouting heavily invested in fighting the boycotters. the United Kingdom. stops and the ordi- ZF’s chairman, South African-born Paul Simon Cobbs, a passionate Zionist who nary person in the Charney, says the group is starting to under- had lived in Israel for three years by the time street has the chance stand BDS—and how to deal with it—better. he was 17, was walking past the Ecostream to examine our leaf- “There is at least one category of protesters store when he spotted BDS demonstrators lets and material, and that is anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic, and we inside the shop. By chance, he also spotted ask questions.” At know we can’t change their minds,” he says. Daniel Laurence, who lived in the apart- that point, according “But we can negate the lies, and these people ment upstairs and was an equally passionate to Duncanson, those don’t get a free ride, they don’t get an unchal- Christian Zionist. Cobbs and Laurence, like on the fence often re- lenged voice. We also have a role in educating bouncers, threw the BDS demonstrators out ject BDS. those people who are willing to listen, particu- of the store. “Then we turned to each other SFI now has a larly within the Jewish community.” and said, see you next week? I’ll bring some regular turnout of Charney describes the ZF’s most difficult friends,” says Cobbs. at least 30 people area as “actually educating Jewish youth and BDS scored a notable victory in London “Pies Against Lies” protest at the Israeli-owned Ecostream store in England outside Ecostream, trying to rid them of the perception that be- where sustained protests forced the Israeli rising to about 70 cause we are challenging boycotters, we are cosmetics store, Ahava, to close down in the anti-Ecostream protests that have frequently for its foodie initiatives. BDS, by contrast, right-wing.” summer of 2011. But in Brighton, a different degenerated into anti-Semitic rhetoric and has advertised parades in Brighton that have “We are not [right-wing],” he says. “We story emerged. It was what local pro-Israel abuse. At least four grandmothers make failed to get off the ground. “At the beginning are negating falsehoods and putting forward activist Dr. Winston Pickett describes as akin regular appearances on the picket lines. SFI’s of March, they had a march which consisted positive stories about Israel, in medical de- to the moment from the movie “Network” calling card has been most successful when— of just eight people,” says Duncanson. “They velopments, inventions, research, etc. We feel when the famed British-born actor Peter candidly—it has mocked the BDS protesters had another [recently] which attracted only we have something to say to normal right- Finch says, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not go- with cheerful humor and a friendly local two people, young Libyan women. We said minded people, and we also give [Jewish] ing to take this any more.” saxophonist playing for the entertainment that they had two marches in March which people courage by providing a physical pres- Sussex Friends of Israel (SFI), born from of Brighton’s Saturday shoppers. weren’t marches.” ence at some of the nastier protests.” that first accidental meeting between Cobbs While the BDS movement tries to hit Is- SFI’s model of undermining the BDS Most of those engaged in fighting the and Laurence, has grown so successfully that rael in the wallet, SFI’s anti-BDS efforts hone crowd with humor and education is attract- it employs a part-time director, Neil Dun- in on the stomach. A recent SFI campaign ing attention from all over Britain. “So far,” Continued on next page Yom HaZikaron: Israeli families discuss what it means to lose a soldier, a son, a sibling By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org ome 22,000 Israeli soldiers have died mored military vehicle. Cohen was on opera- Yehudit Rotenberg, whose son Sgt. Nadav She said the hardship, the emotion, came since the establishment of the Jewish tional duty on Dec. 15, 2013 at the time of Rotenberg, 20, was killed January 7, 2011 by quickly. state, including 40 soldiers between his death. a stray Israel Defense Forces mortar shell in Avital Yahalomi has a similar story. Her

S CREDIT: PROVIDED PHOTO. March 2013 and March 2014, according to an incident near the Gaza border, brother, 20-year-old Cpl. Netanel Yahalomi, the Israel Defense Forces. still remembers the day she learned was killed on Sept. 21, 2012 while on patrol “We in Israel are fighting—and dying—on of her son’s death. The family had along the Israeli border with Egypt. Three behalf of every Jew in the world. … We are seen a report on a border incident heavily armed terrorists attempting to infil- maintaining a safe haven for every Jew to es- in which four soldiers were injured. trate Israel attacked the soldiers. One terror- cape to. Jews in the Diaspora live safer lives “It was a Friday night,” Rotenberg ist was wearing a suicide belt, which went off and hold their heads higher because Israel and recalled. “We learned of the incident during the battle. its army exists,” said Chantal Belzberg, execu- at around 6:10 p.m. I was worried, Cpl. Yahalomi was a deeply religious sol- tive vice chairman of OneFamily, an organiza- but I didn’t believe he could have ider and a Zionist; three Jewish books were tion dedicated to the rehabilitation of Israeli died. They said there were injuries found on his body after his death. His sister,

victims of terror attacks and their families. CREDIT: PROVIDED PHOTO. Avital, told JNS.org that her brother dreamed On Yom HaZikaron, the fourth day of of being the strongest and best combat sol- the Hebrew month of Iyar (sundown on dier. He was upset when he learned that May 4, 2014), Israelis will pay tribute to the Cpl. Netanel Yahalomi, 20 because he wore glasses, which reduced his country’s fallen soldiers in a solemn day of profile, he could not join the unit of his mourning. On its official Memorial Day, OneFamily’s Belzberg said that choice, but instead would be part of the Ar- Israel also mourns the loss of civilians who when a young soldier is killed, it has tillery Corps. This knowledge, however, put were killed as a result of terrorism. a “radically shocking, traumatic and his family more at ease. They knew he was on Among the soldiers killed during these debilitating” effect on the soldier’s the Egyptian border, but they assumed that past 12 months was 20-year-old Gavriel parents and family. he was safe there. Kobi, a combat soldier in the Givati Brigade, “Siblings suffer tremendously, but “In general, we have peace with Egypt,” who was shot and killed on Sept. 22, 2013 not as deeply as a mother losing her Avital said, noting that her brother was by a Palestinian sniper while on guard duty son, the son she bore, nursed, dressed, careful about what he told the family, never outside Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs. Also walked to school, took to his school’s wanting to worry them. killed were 18-year-old Eden Atias, stabbed football practice and whose game Sgt. Nadav Rotenberg, 20 On the afternoon of Cpl. Yahalomi’s in the neck on Nov. 11, 2013 while on a bus she watched proudly,” Belzberg told JNS.org. on the news. Eating Shabbat dinner was very death, his family was preparing for Shabbat in the northern Israeli city of Afula, and “Siblings suffer because they don’t just lose a stressful; it was hard to eat the food. … We at their home in Nof Ayalon, near Modi’in. 31-year-old Shlomo Cohen, a Petty Officer brother; they also lose their mom and dad. … kept thinking he would call, that he would When an IDF representative came to deliver 1st Class in the Israeli Navy, who was fatally They wallow in their grief and have no energy tell us he was OK. … Then there was a knock the news, then 9-year-old Yitzchak opened shot by a Lebanese sniper while driving near to care for the living. The dead child occupies a at the door, and we saw an army uniform col- the door. the Israel-Lebanon border fence in an unar- lot more time than a living one.” lar through the window.” Continued on next page 18 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 2014 ANNUAL MEETING The Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor and the Jewish Community Foundation BDS countered, continued from previous page boycott campaign acknowledge that the given this motion, and are therefore staying as front line is on college campuses. Univer- far away as possible,” Steinbock says. sity of Oxford student Jonathan Hunter, UK If things are bad for pro-Israel students at Together, campus director for the pro-Israel group King’s, Hunter says an even darker campus is StandWithUs, says there is a growing tide of Sheffield, in the north of England. The Shef- delegitimization of Israel on every campus. field student union’s education officer is in We Do charge of enforcing its “end CREDIT: the Israeli occupation” policy, and there was a recent Extraordinary

OREN TEICHMANN/SUSSEX FRIENDS OF ISRAEL. attempt to put through a policy that would have Things. forced the student-led Jew- ish Society to boycott Is- rael, says Hunter. “The problem is that Wednesday, May 28 people who are applying to university are less likely to 7:00 pm Reception • 7:30 pm Program want to attend somewhere Federation/JCC Building (2939 Birch Hollow Drive) where there is a strong BDS presence, which means that Honoring Joan Lowenstein, Carey Sherman and there are smaller Jewish so- Jonathan Trobe for extraordinary leadership. A recent event of Sussex Friends of Israel’s “Pies Against Lies” initiative cieties on campus and less impetus to try to overturn Please RSVP to Cindy Adams ([email protected] or “It is very loud, inaccurate, offensive, and the BDS initiative,” Hunter says. “In [the Scot- intimidating,” he says. In fact, the anti-Israel tish city of] Dundee, for example, there are 734-677-0100) or register online at www.jewishannarbor.org voice is so loud that it is difficult to find stu- only two Jewish students. But even on bigger dents who are ready to speak out against it. campuses people don’t want to draw atten- On March 25, only two percent of the stu- tion to themselves by opposing what has be- dent body at King’s College, a constituent come the majority opinion.” college of the University of London, voted On the horizon are new challenges for on a controversial anti-Israel motion that Britain’s pro-Israel activists, such as the re- pledges affiliation to the national BDS cam- cent decision of the Royal Institute of British paign. The motion initially passed, but was Architects (and its separate Scottish counter- overturned by the school’s student union on part) to boycott the Israel Architects’ Union April 1. and push for the Jewish state’s ejection from Sami Steinbock, president of the about- the International Union of Architects. There to-be-launched Israel Society at King’s, has are also fights against supermarket chains run a campaign against the boycotters. He that refuse to stock Israeli produce, and confirms that there is “no institutional dis- against campaigns to persuade local author- crimination” at King’s, but says it is “cer- ities not to use Israeli inventions—such as tainly uncomfortable to be in a campus the latest initiative against Arad Water and atmosphere that votes on such a divisive and its state-of-the-art water meters. The way poisonous [divestment] motion.” the Zionist Federation’s Charney sees it, the “In terms of Israeli students we have a fair stakes are high. amount, a few participated in our campaign; “BDS is not a battle that we can win, but others are too scared to even identify as Israeli, it’s one we can’t afford to lose,” he says. n

Yom HaZikaron, continued from previous page “He didn’t know what was happening,” “These are brave children,” said Roten- Avital said. “He thought they were coming berg. “Even though I lost a child, I still be- to kick us out of our home and he called to lieve the army is very important and we have mother. My father was in the shower. … One to support it.” by one we learned what happened. Then we Avital Yahalomi has similar ideas. “I am all just sat on the couch and we cried and happy to be Israeli, even though it cost me cried. This is something that never goes so much. … I plan to stay here, to raise my away. It will never go away.” children here, to send them to the army to “When you say goodbye to your son as he defend my country,” she said. gets on the bus with all of the new soldiers, “Yom HaZikaron is about remembering a you’ve offered up your son as a potential larger family, about saying to each bereaved sacrifice to the country,” explained Belzberg. family that their child, the apple of their eye, “Your heart sinks. The worst may happen. is remembered,” said Rebecca Fuhrman, But most parents say to themselves, ‘It won’t manager of marketing and communications happen to me.’” for OneFamily. “Their loss is our loss.” She added, “Then, in the middle of the For a full listing of soldiers (in Hebrew) night, there’s a knock at the door. … Three who died between last Yom HaZikaron and soldiers stare sadly into your eyes. Your worst this one, visit http://www.izkor.gov.il/Sipu- nightmare has happened. Your son is dead. rim_Search.aspx. For a list of soldiers and You scream and your whole body shakes. victims of terror killed in 2013, visit https:// You collapse.” www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Ter- But you have no choice except to go on. rorism/victims.html#2013. n Today, Nadav Rotenberg’s younger brother is Maayan Jaffe is a freelance writer in Overland in his second year in the army. The first year, Park, Kansas. She can be reached at maayan- said Yehudit Rotenberg, “I worried a lot.” Yet [email protected]. she is also very proud.

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Analysis: The conflicting agendas of Israel’s Jewish Home party By Moran Stern/JNS.org s both Haredi political parties in were elected, might have found itself as the that aims at conscripting Haredi men to a military conversion in Israel. Despite its flirtations with Israel—United Torah Judaism and sole representative of religion in pre-state Israel or national service. But in negotiating the law the liberal denominations, the Jewish Home will AShas—are currently in the opposition, (Yishuv). The Yishuv’s leadership was concerned with its coalition partners, the party secured the fiercely oppose any non-Orthodox jurisdiction the Jewish Home party is the only representative that an intra-Jewish conflict would result in a special arrangement of many religious-Zionist on personal matters in Israel. of religion in the governing coalition. To address social rupture, compelling the Mizrahi to take and national-religious yeshiva students. Under As part of its coalition agreement, the party its multifaceted objectives, the party engages in extreme positions on religious matters in order to the new law, the service of these students has has the right to veto any legislation that concerns

several fronts that often come into conflict with avoid seeming less religious than Agudat Israel. CREDIT: MATI PROJECT MILSTEIN/THE ISRAEL religion and state. For one another. Trying to carry the heavy burden of After the establishment of the State of Israel example, the party is expected religion alone, members of the Jewish Home are in 1948, tensions between the religious Zionists to oppose a new bill that often adopting positions on religious matters in and the Haredim continued. The Haredim aims to make the process of order to avoid seeming too stringent for their na- consider themselves as the truly pious Jews and converting to Judaism easier, tionalist modern-Orthodox constituency or less perceive the religious Zionists as transgressing by increasing the number of religious than the Haredim. Jews because of their casual dress, small kippot, rabbis authorized to approve Formed in 2008, the Jewish Home is the interaction with secular society, patriotism, conversion and the number of reincarnation of several mergers and splits military service, and more lenient approach to religious courts. Thus, while between different religious-Zionist parties. The religious commandments. Sharing the view of the Jewish Home advocates roots of the party can be traced to the Mizrahi most Israelis, the religious Zionists perceive the a bureaucratic reform to party (acronym for Merkaz Ruhani or Spiritual Haredim as loafers, religiously coercive, and polish the Chief Rabbinate’s Center), which was formed by Rabbi Ya’akov unproductive citizens. poor reputation and make its Reines in 1902 and played an active role in the As the only religious party in the current services more appealing to Zionist Congress. Today, the Jewish Home coalition, the Jewish Home attempts to strike a Israelis, it will outright object represents the worldview of mainly modern- balance between these mutually hostile views to any changes that involve a Orthodox, religious-Zionist Israelis as well as by trying to adhere to all sides. The result is an Naftali Bennett, leader of Israel’s Jewish Home party more flexible interpretation of some non-religious nationalists. ideological overexpansion that exhausts the party Jewish law in religious courts. Tensions among proponents of religious and positions it in a political limbo. Owing much been extended by a single month to 17 months, in The convergence of these conflicting ends, Zionism have been endemic to the movement of its success in the 2013 elections to its promise comparison to the 36 months that secular Israelis the party’s average electoral size, and its status since its inception. As Zionists, they rebelled to promote social equality and a “friendlier” must serve. Nevertheless, these students will as the only representative of religion in the against the old political structure of the Jewish Judaism in state institutions as an alternative to continue to enjoy a soldier’s full financial benefits coalition forces the Jewish Home party to community in the diaspora and sought to establish the Haredi version, the Jewish Home is pressured for 4.5 years. position itself at the complicated crossroad of Jewish self-determination in the land of Israel. As to meet the expectations of its modern-Orthodox Recently, the party supported a new law that traditionalism, modernism, nationalism, and a byproduct of traditional Judaism, they tried to and non-religious nationalists’ constituencies. allows couples to choose the rabbinate that will liberalism. Thus, while the Jewish Home played synthesize their national vision with Orthodox Simultaneously, however, the party’s ties to register their marriage, even if it is not located in an active role in recent legislation concerning Judaism, which opposed the establishment of traditional Judaism have remained deep. the municipality where the couple resides. The the status of religion, its multiple agendas a Jewish polity in the land of Israel before the As a nationalist party, the Jewish Home seeks main purpose of the law is to incentivize better prevent it from leading structural changes in arrival of the messiah, and therefore considered to meet its voters’ demand for greater social rabbinic services and provide additional review on the relationship between religion and state in Zionism heretic. Such tensions have led to equality in the forms of Haredi conscription to the problematic cases of conversions. Furthermore, Israel. As history may suggest, despite their ongoing rivalries within Mizrahi, resulting in the military, cutting state funds to Haredi institutions, holding the portfolio of the Ministry of Religious ideological animosity with non-Zionist Haredi departure of some of the movement’s members and breaking the Haredi monopoly over Services, the Jewish Home has demonstrated an Orthodoxy, religious-Zionist parties operate to form the Haredi party Agudat Israel in 1912. religious-personal matters. As a religious party, unprecedented support for the recognition of more comfortably when their Haredi rivals are Before the first elections for the Jewish it is pressured to demonstrate a commitment to the Conservative and Reform denominations in in the coalition to help them carry the heavy governmental institutions in Mandatory the rabbinic study of Torah in Israel by securing Israel, securing them some state funding on the burden of religion in Israel. ” n state funding to Haredi yeshivas and maintaining municipal level. Palestine in 1920, the representatives of Agudat Moran Stern is a lecturer at Georgetown a considerable number of exemptions from But traditionally, all religious-Zionist Israel threatened to secede from any decision- University’s Program for Jewish Civilization in the military service for young Haredi men. parties—the Jewish Home included—seek to making process if women were allowed to vote. School of Foreign Service. Follow him on Twitter @ The Jewish Home took an active role in the further cement the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate’s According to historian Anita Shapira, the Mizrahi MoranStern. party, in whose institutions women voted and Equality in Burden law, recently passed legislation monopoly over marriage, divorce, and At Jewish state’s 66th birthday, Bedouin seek to better integrate into Israeli society By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org

am certain the world will judge the Jew- CREDIT: DAVID SHANKBONE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS were no Bedouin women study- neurship and vocational training, said Vivian ish state by what it will do with the Ar- ing at BGU. Silver, its former co-executive director and now I abs,” said Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first “If you saw a person fall, an active volunteer. president, in December 1947, just months wouldn’t you help them get up?” One of the organization’s greatest successes before the state’s founding. asked Robert H. Arnow, who was the transformation of the hot lunch pro- For anyone who reads the news, Weizmann’s helped found the center and over gram in the Bedouin village of Hura from an words ring true. Despite the wide array of con- the years invested significantly in Israel-run and Jewish-contracted program into tributions Israel makes to the world, the media scholarships and support services one that employs 17 Bedouin women. Daily, the and other forms of public attention inevitably for Bedouin students, with an em- program makes 6,000 hot lunches and runs a focus on the country’s shortcomings and on the phasis on women. Today, more professional and immaculate kitchen. situation faced by its Arab minority. than 60 percent of the 268 Bed- In another instance, AJEEC-NISPED Israeli Arabs make up 20.6 percent of the Is- ouin students seeking their first trained a number of Bedouin women from raeli population, but they contribute only eight degree at BGU are women. “That’s several villages to be photographers, videogra- percent of the country’s gross domestic prod- how I pictured the Bedouin com- phers who could record celebrations such as uct (GDP), according to Israel’s Authority of munity. Someone needed to help weddings. It also trained hairdressers. Rahat, the largest Bedouin city in Israel Economic Development of Minorities Sector. them,” Arnow said. “I think most women want to change. … Some 51.4 percent of Arab families live below cational system, supports forced marriages of Similarly, the Arab Jewish They want an education, they want opportu- the poverty line (compared with 15 percent of underage girls, and places cultural restrictions Center for Equality, Empowerment and Co- nities, they want freedom of movement—and Jewish families). Each year, only 63 percent of on women working outside the home. operation - Negev Institute for Strategies of slowly, it is happening,” Silver said. Arab youngsters reach 12th grade, compared At the same time, there are programs like Peace and Development (AJEEC-NISPED) Dr. Rania Okby, the first female Bedouin with 93 percent of their Jewish peers. the Center for Bedouin Studies and Develop- runs programs that meet real-time needs while physician in the world, agrees. Okby represents Among Israeli Arabs, the Bedouin number ment at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) that are leveraging existing resources. The organization the convergence of two worlds: ancient Bedou- 250,000 and experience the highest unemploy- beginning to change Bedouin lives for the bet- offers training programs for Bedouin women, in tradition and modern Israeli society. She was ment rate. Bedouin society lacks a strong edu- ter. When the center was founded in 1997, there combining assertiveness training with entrepre- Continued on page 22

20 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 On Yom Ha’atzmaut, falafel takes a back seat to barbecue By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org or one day in the spring, the humble Not everyone will be lighting a personal grill (FSU), says the immigrants demonstrate at least where alarms go off with frightening frequency. falafel is all but forgotten as Israelis fire up on the holiday. Business is booming for Israeli res- as much enthusiasm for Israel Independence This is Massachusetts native Bracha Vaknin’s fifth their grills for some serious meat-eating. taurants on Yom Ha’atzmaut, with families taking Day—and for the traditional steak—as do his year in Israel, and she says she’s still enjoying the

F CREDIT: YONATANSINDEL/FLASH90. In that way, Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Indepen- Israeli customers. “They’re new here,” says Fisa- “miracle of being surrounded by other Jews.” But dence Day), which falls on the fifth day of the He- fasavich. “But, no matter where they come from, living in Netivot, a 10-minute ride from Sderot, brew-calendar month Iyar, is not all that different they read the newspapers too, so they know what she and her family have gotten used to the alarm from its American counterpart, the Fourth of July. is going on and how lucky we are to be here.” going off on her iPhone, signaling a siren any- On this holiday, marking Prime Minister That is the case for Yehudah Zaragoza, who where in southern Israel. Vaknin and her husband David Ben-Gurion’s announcement of Israel’s arrived in Israel last year from Iran with his and children spent nearly two weeks in a shelter independence at the stroke of midnight on May wife and two small sons. This year is the first two years ago, and this March she was waiting for 14, 1948, you’ll find musical and theatrical per- time Zaragoza has the chance to celebrate the her daughter’s ballet class to end when they were formances on street corners; Israeli dancing and existence of his new home country. Living in all sent to shelters in Netivot’s community center. sing-alongs, speeches, and classic Israeli movies the immigrant absorption center in Ra’anana, “We’re hoping for a quieter year,” she says. shown on TV and radio; and Israeli flags flutter- he plans to toast the Jewish state with the other The level of alert doesn’t detract from the cele- ing from windows and balconies and car anten- A picnic on Israel s 64th Independence Day in 2012 newly minted Israelis from Spain, Brazil, India, bration of Israel on Yom Ha’atzmaut, says Vaknin, nae. Sheet cakes are decorated with the blue and France, the U.S., and the FSU. who is looking forward to her father’s kin’s annual white colors of Israel’s flag, and the air is filled advantage of the return of spring. Many workers Mati (Matthew) Katz, from New York, hap- “ritual family barbecue,” where she will enjoy the with the smoke of barbecue grills. use the day off to go on tiyulim, or day trips. In pened to be visiting a daughter in Israel last Yom holiday with uncles and aunts and cousins. New olim (immigrants) are celebrating not Zichron Yaakov, at the Italian restaurant Adama Ha’atzmaut before he made aliyah this winter. Yet not everyone is happy with at least one only Israel’s freedom to exist as an independent Bistro, manager Dganit Azolai expects the usually “The irony is, I made aliyah this year but this is my aspect of Yom Ha’atzmaut. Over at the Village Jewish state, but also their own transformation popular pasta specialties to be largely ignored in second Yom Ha’atzmaut,” says Katz, who is now Green Restaurant—located near Ben Yehuda into Israeli citizens, with those from the U.S. favor of meats of every kind, especially beef on the living in Maaleh Adumim and waiting for his wife Street and the countless Yom Ha’atzmaut bands, trading in their July 4 Hebrew National hot dog grill or other barbecue items. to sell the family home and join him there. performances, and parties that will color the Fifth for a Fifth of Iyar all-Israeli kabob. As a variation on the meat theme, the kosher “It was wonderful last year with my wife and all of Iyar in that area—the fact that Barry Sibul’s es- “The first time a new citizen celebrates Yom Chinese restaurant Chon Lee in Ashdod finds three of our daughters here, but I know it will be tablishment is vegetarian takes the edge off busi- Ha’atzmaut, they are exhilarated that only a its annual Yom Ha’atzmaut favorite to be crispy something very different this year now that I am a ness on Independence Day, he says. year earlier they were dreaming of making Chinese duck, says owner Jung Lee, who has now citizen,” Katz says. “I had visited here many times, “There is an amazing quantity of meat con- Israel their home and now they are a full part added the Hebrew and English languages to his but there was something very powerful about hav- sumed on that day in Israel,” he says with a sigh. of their Jewish homeland,” says Rachel Berger, native Mandarin. ing a one-way ticket to Israel. This year for the first But not to be outdone, Sibul is making sure to who heads up the Post-Aliyah Department of Boaz Fisafasavich, whose Beit HaStek in Haifa time, I am celebrating as an Israel citizen.” stock up on plenty of veggie burgers. Nefesh B’Nefesh, which brings thousands of attracts an international crowd hailing from Israelis are determined to celebrate their hard- “That way,” he says, “even vegetarians can have new olim to Israel each year. France, the U.S., and the former Soviet Union earned freedom—even in the country’s south, something that at least looks a bit like meat.” n

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Bedouin seek to integrate, from page 20 able to graduate in 2004 thanks to the outreach Okby noted that the birth rate in the Bed- program offered by BGU. But her journey was ouin community averages six children per not without challenges. woman, and many raise their children too During her studies, Okby moved back and close together to be healthy. forth between her home and the university. “It Rafi Rone, Director of Jewish & Israel was the most difficult thing,” she said. “From Initiatives at the Joseph and Harvey Meyer- Wednesday, May 21, 2014 • 7:00 pm 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. I was in the Western world hoff Family Charitable Funds, said there is and from 4 p.m. until the next day, the tradi- a strong correlation between having positive tional world. It creates a lot of conflict.” role models and success among women. He Author tAlk w i t h Steve luxenberg Okby recalled feeling immense pressure pointed to a recent study by the National In- to succeed, believing that if she failed during stitute for Women in Trades, Technology and her first years of study then perhaps no other Science, which found that female students who had four to six female professors were Annie’s Ghosts: CREDIT: more likely to report having an educational or career role model (55.8 percent) compared

A Journey into a Family Secret DANI MACHLIS. to those who had only one to three female professors (50.7 percent) or no female profes- s time erodes the landscape and memory fades, sors (46.0 percent). The fields these professors Ahistory becomes intangible. Meet author Steve taught in affected the students’ career choices. “I hear a lot of women saying, ‘I want my Luxenberg and discover the unexpected journey girls to become like you.’ They are proud and that led to the discovery of an untold family happy to have me as their doctor,” said Okby, who believes she is representative of a new history, lost relatives, and Michigan’s asylums. generation of Bedouin women. “There is new generation that really wants n AdMISSION : Free to move forward,” said Rone, noting that the Chosen as a 2013-2014 with museum admission Meyerhoff fund has made Israeli-Arab access Great Michigan Read one of its many overseas priorities. Since change won’t happen overnight, and Questions on events? it needs to come not solely from the outside Call Lawrence Willim at 248.553.2400, ext. 124 but also from within, programs like Silver’s and role models like Okby are particularly HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER ZEkELMAN FAMILy CAMpUS important, said Rone. “When you talk about Israel today, you 28123 Orchard Lake Rd. • Farmington Hills, MI 48334 www.holocaustcenter.org need to talk about Israel as a country and of Dr. Rania Okby all of its citizens,” he said. “The stronger Israel Bedouin woman would have the courage to is economically and educationally, the bet- May is Better Hearing & speecH MontH accomplish what she ultimately did. ter off it will be in the long run. That means She chose to go into maternal fetal medi- creating centers of excellence in education, cine because she fell in love with the “beautiful workforce development and access.” cycle of pregnancy to birth” during her first Jamal Alkirnawi—founder and chairman Only 1 out of 5 people who year as a medical student. At BGU, even first- of the non-profit A New Dawn, whose stated year students get a white lab coat. In this role, mission is “to promote equality, coexistence could benefit from a hearing aid however, she has found other benefits, includ- and peace among all residents of the Ne- ing the ability to influence her society. Okby gev”—seconded Rone’s sentiments. He said actually wears one.* told JNS.org that she serves as a psychologist, that as Israel turns 66, it is time to invest in sociologist, counselor, and social worker, and and focus on Bedouin society and education. Which group are you in? that her Bedouin patients feel comfortable “I feel very connected to Israel. I feel re- opening up about their marital issues and sponsible for making it a better place,” Al- Hearing loss is a physical condition. As a medically-based practice, other concerns because they trust her. kirnawi said. “We need to invest in stronger we have the knowledge and experience to help you hear better. “I have a very important role. When I talk connections between Jewish Israelis and Bed- with [my patients], I bring examples from our ouin people, to bring these peoples together. Call today for a hearing evaluation. 1-800-851-6672 tradition, and then they listen to me more. For We live in this area, in Israel, together. And we example, if a Jewish doctor says, ‘You shouldn’t should make it better together.” n have any more children,’ they think she says Maayan Jaffe is a freelance writer in Overland Park, MOSA Hearing Aid Centers this because of the demographic threat. When Kansas. Reach her at [email protected]. & Audiology Services I say it, they think, ‘she really cares about my life and my health,’” said Okby. ANN Arbor/YpsIlANtI • CHelseA • sAlINe FREE ONLINE HEARING TEST click on www.mosaaudiology.com for our FREE GUIDE TO Kansas hate crime, from page 15 HEARING AIDS company in the intellectual mainstream. why do we continue to view his discourse as Blumenthal has, for example, recently ad- more sophisticated then the bigots who par- dressed the New America Foundation, a rot him? leading liberal think-tank in Washington, People like Frazier Cross don’t emerge DC, which was apparently unperturbed by from a vacuum. They are enabled by the his flock of Nazi admirers, or by the fact that same deadly ideas about Jews and Israel that he was the subject of a flattering profile on have become so fashionable in parts of the Press TV, the official mouthpiece of the Ira- media and academia. In the wake of the hate nian regime. crime in Kansas, it’s time to start highlight- How much longer will we buy into the ing those links. n ludicrous idea that Blumenthal carries no Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS.org. responsibility for the way his screeds are in- His writings on Jewish affairs and Middle East- terpreted? Similarly, when we read leading ern politics have been published in Commen- political scientist Stephen Walt, co-author tary, the New York Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas of the miserable book “The Israel Lobby,” *NIH/NIDCD Daily and many other publications. telling Haaretz that 9/11 was Israel’s fault, 22 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 For 66th birthday, Israel fetes the year of the woman By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org ow is the Jewish state’s 66th birth- Directorate, is the Israeli army’s highest- • Geula Cohen, a former member of the Knes- Among them: day celebration different from all ranking woman. set, who will light a torch together with Gal • Karnit Flug, current governor of the Bank of H other years’ celebrations? Special • Adina Bar-Shalom, who was recently tapped Yoseph, chairwoman of Israel’s National Israel, the country’s central bank, was “nom- plans are afoot to recognize the achieve- for the Israel Prize for her “pioneering work Students Council. inated” by Chana Port of Beit Shemesh. ments of Israeli women. to bridge societal rifts and socioeconomic The 14 torchbearers were selected by the • Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick, On May 5, the theme of the ceremony gaps and to promote an ultra-Orthodox members of a special committee charged to whose outspoken political analysis shakes kicking off the back-to-back Israeli Me- lifestyle that includes social openness and CREDIT: Israelis out of their complacency, said Raa- morial Day and Independence Day events higher education.” nana’s Etta Korenman. on Mount Herzl is “The Era of Women— • Actress Miriam Zohar, who also received the DANI MACHLIS. • Supermodel Bar Refaeli, who, said Sofie Rous- Achievements and Challenges.” Indepen- Israel Prize, in 1986. seau of Kfar Saba, is a stalwart defender of dence Day torches, featured annually at the • Kira Radinsky, for her pioneering work in the Israel wherever her international career official state ceremony, will be lit exclusively field of web dynamics at the Technion - Is- takes her. by women at this year’s event. rael Institute of Technology. • Rabbanit Chana Henkin, educator and inno- Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Limor • Belaynesh Zevadia, the Israeli ambassador vator of the Yoetzet Halacha program, which Livnat introduced the government’s yearlong to Ethiopia. trains and empowers women to give advice focus on the achievements and challenges • Carmela Menashe, military affairs reporter for on matters of family and women’s health, of today’s Israeli woman, in recognition of Army Radio. suggested Tzilia Sacharow of Jerusalem. those women who have made significant • Hindia Suleiman, who founded an initiative to • Bestselling Iranian-born Israeli pop singer contributions to both the State and to Israeli empower the women of Bu’eina-Nujeidat, Rita, who is “talented, charismatic, and cre- society as a whole in the arenas of science, an Israeli Arab village. ative,” according to Shelly Margalit, who culture, economy, defense, women’s rights, • Tali Peretz-Cohen, whose rape crisis center lives on a kibbutz near Petach Tikva. education, business, hi-tech, the environ- comes to the aid of victims of sexual assault Yet Gabie Sykora of Ra’anana believes that ment, and social activism. in the Galilee and the Golan. every wife and mother of every soldier should “The time has come that the state and soci- • Maxine Fassberg, CEO of Intel Israel and a lead- Israel’s Memorial Day/ Independence be nominated. She currently has a son and a ety will put women at the center and give them er of Israel’s burgeoning hi-tech industry. Day celebration, 2007 daughter in the Israel Defense Forces. the national stage,” Livnat said in a statement. • Miriam Peretz, whose two sons were Israeli “Behind nearly every holy chayal/chayelet Though all Israeli women are included in army officers killed in the line of duty in the select women of great accomplishment from (male and female soldier),” she told JNS.org, the government’s Independence Day salute, 14 Gaza Strip and in Lebanon. across Israel’s diverse population, what Livnat “there’s a mom or wife doing their horren- notable women have been singled out for spe- • Shahar Pe’er, a teenaged Israeli tennis star referred to as representing “a unique mosaic of dously smelling laundry, getting food ready cial recognition as ceremonial torchbearers: currently ranked 11th in the world, who is Israeli society.” And that they did. But other Is- to stuff them with or send back with them, • Maj. Gen. Orna Barbivai, who, as head lighting a torch with Paralympics handcy- raeli women interviewed by JNS.org have their and trying her darndest not to worry and to of the Israel Defense Forces Manpower clist Pascale Noa Bercovitch. own ideas of who should have made the list. keep smiling.” n

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‘Tears of Color’ art exhibit displays struggles of Israeli patients with eating disorders By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org his is how I want to be—without fear. In- The Jerusalem Post reported last year that dependent. I want to be like a bird. I want 1,500 Israeli teenagers develop an eating disorder Tto spread my wings.” and five percent of those suffering from anorexia So reads part of the description beneath one die each year. of the 30 paintings on display until the end of In January 2013, the Israeli Knesset passed a May at the ZOA House in Tel Aviv. The collection law that banned models deemed too skinny— represents the first-ever art exhibit of its kind: an those with a body mass index level below 18.5— exhibit created entirely by Israelis in treatment for from the catwalks, as well as from photo shoots eating disorders. and advertising campaigns. This was the first Dubbed “Tears of Color,” based on one of (and to-date only) time a country has set down the collection’s paintings, the exhibit provides a legislation for a wholesale ban on what are viewed window into the minds of individuals struggling by some as unhealthy skinny models. with eating disorders. Each image is accompanied Currently, the Knesset is reviewing new leg- by an explanation of the patient’s treatments and islation that would allow a husband or other trials during their time at Reuth Medical Center’s family member to obtain medical custody over

Machon Agam center CREDIT: PROVIDED PHOTO a woman with an eating for eating disorders. disorder if her weight Agam, located in the dropped to a danger- Tel Aviv area, is the ously low level and she largest and busiest was refusing treatment. outpatient eating dis- It’s a positive step, order clinic in Israel. said model Yomi Abio- “Eating disorder la, founder of Stand up patients are often for Fashion, a global among the most ar- campaign promoting ticulate people,” ex- diversity, equality, and plained Yehudit Arad, inclusion that aims exhibit curator and a “Tears of Color” exhibit at the ZOA House in Tel Aviv to “transform lives renowned Israeli art through the power of therapist. “But when it comes to talking about fashion.” But she told JNS.org in an email that their eating disorders, they cannot express them- she thinks Israel is treating “the effect and selves, or they have learned what they are sup- not the cause. … I think efforts and resources Special Naot posed to say.” should be poured into education.” Art, Arad said, helps these patients to open up. Judy Krasna knows firsthand the frustra- TRUNK Through Arad’s guidance and a series of exercises, tion of treating an eating disorder in Israel. Her the patients are able to tap into the gap between daughter suffered from the disease for several SHOW! what they show on the outside and what they feel years, and Krasna said it was challenging to learn on the inside. When used in conjunction with about and to get proper care. She told JNS.org other therapies such as counseling, medication, that her daughter’s pediatrician didn’t have a lot SATURDAY, and nutritional support, art therapy can serve a of resources, and that she was blamed for her 7 vital role in eating-disorder patients’ recovery, ac- daughter’s disease and shunned from involve- JUNE cording to Arad. ment in her treatment. At public clinics, her “They learn to see themselves through the col- daughter saw one psychologist and she saw an- ors, lines and drawings,” she said. “These tell a sto- other; the two did not share information. She was ry. It helps the words come out. Often they have not even welcomed into her daughter’s nutrition- no voice. On the canvas they find their voice.” ist appointments. The imagery is bold and colorful; each color, Additionally, she noted, while there are several said Arad, has a personal meaning. On each wall Israeli hospitals that will work with eating disor- is a different patient’s story. On the wall including der patients, few have units exclusively to deal “Tears of Color” are 10 paintings, among them with this disorder. And there are always waiting several images of birds. The first one shows an lists. Private clinics like Agam are “wonderful,” orange bird in its cage without eyes or wings. Krasna said. “Private clinics are better, more in- “She is choosing to stay in her cage,” explained tensive, multi-disciplinary,” she said, “but only the the artist, who like the others in the exhibit asked privileged get private.” to remain anonymous. Today, Krasna serves as a coach for other Is- Later, the bird stands atop a hill, surrounded raeli parents of children with eating disorders and by yellow light, testing the possibility of freedom. is an activist for increased public funding for the In the final painting, the bird becomes a female cause. Arad, too, said the one thing Americans body, with arms spread, ready to make the plunge could do to assist Israel in this arena is offer finan- into independence and a life without her disease. cial support to enable clinics like Agam to provide Yehuda Ninyo, head of Machon Agam, grants to the patients who cannot afford Agam’s said the exhibit is on target to be viewed by services, but desperately need the assistance. Try Our Expansive Selection 10,000 people. Agam has seen a 20-percent Temimah Zucker, 23, is a recovered anorexic of Naot Footwear annual increase in patients for the last sev- from New Jersey. She speaks publicly about the eral years, he noted. Ninyo attributed this to need for culturally sensitive and targeted support Made in Israel a combination of medical and public aware- for people with eating disorders, especially within Beautiful and ness, and not necessarily to a spike in eating the Jewish community. Miracle disorders in the Jewish state. Still, he said, the “This is a very serious issue,” said Zucker. Comfortable disease is starting younger and parents should “It’s an illness and it needs to be thought of as be trained to know the signs. an illness.” n “Parents can begin to see symptoms at around Maayan Jaffe is a freelance writer in Overland Located in the Westgate Shopping Center | (734) 662–8118 age 4 or 5,” Ninyo said. “Maybe they are not eat- Park, Kansas. 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Jewish author of Eat to Live dishes on health care, nutrition, disease prevention By Robert Gluck/JNS.org hile the national debate on Lionel Friedberg. The film focuses on Jewish for being fat. After following Fuhrman’s life- tions and food cravings,” Fuhrman says. “The “Obamacare” rages on past the teachings about caring for the earth, treatment style change and diet plan, she lost weight and diet I recommend is much more promotion of W recent March 31 sign-up dead- of animals, and the environment, with a focus exercised more, running 20 miles a week. long life, heart attack protection, reduction of line, bestselling Jewish author Dr. Joel Fuhrman on vegetarianism. Fuhrman laments growing rates of obesity cancer risk, and prevention of dementia and says the “current disease care model of what we Americans, Fuhrman says, have a diet of and diseases resulting from unhealthy diets in strokes. It’s much more aggressive as far as dis- call ‘health care’ cannot possibly be sustained.” mostly animal products and processed foods. America, saying, “we’re destroying the land, ease protection.” “There is simply not enough money avail- “Five percent of calories from fruits and we’re destroying people’s health, people are get- Fuhrman coined the word “nutritarian” able to support a system in which the lion’s vegetables isn’t sufficient,” he says. “The diet, to ting more sick, which is requiring more medi- for those who adopt a diet based on his simple share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, cal attention and care.” formula: Health = Nutrients/Calories. Simply, with virtually nothing being spent on preven- beans, nuts and seeds. We have these weapons “Our population can’t walk and can’t per- your health is predicted by your nutrient intake tive medicine, i.e. health care,” Fuhrman says in of mass destruction on every street corner and form; it’s ruining their intellectual abilities divided by your intake of calories, in Fuhrman’s an interview. “To make matters worse, the dol- they’re called donuts, cheeseburg- on the job,” he tells JNS.org. “We estimation. lars spent in acute care vastly favors procedural ers, French fries, potato chips, cannot compete worldwide and “Your key to permanent weight loss is to rather than cognitive medicine.” junk food. Our kids are living we are paying so much for medi- eat predominantly those foods that have a high Fuhrman is best known for his popular on a junk food diet.” cal care costs. If we’re going to proportion of nutrients to calories. Every food 2011 book Eat to Live, which uses scientific According to Fuhrman, if expect to compete in the world can be evaluated using this formula,” he says. evidence to make a case for how Americans people don’t change their di- marketplace, and even to survive Healthy food can also taste great, notes should change their diets and that what they ets, they can expect a shorter as a nation or as a species for Fuhrman. eat is, in fact, killing them. life, and if they do live into their hundreds of years, we have got “You like what you get used to eating,” he “Out of one pocket we pay billions of our golden years, they will have an to take better care of the Earth says. “When you start eating healthy, you start tax dollars to support the production of expen- increased likelihood of dementia and our health.” liking it. It’s all about changing your habits and sive, disease-causing foods,” Fuhrman writes. and physical ailments. According to Mark Ep- giving your taste buds a chance to adapt.” “Out of the other pocket, we pay medical Celebrities like singer-song- stein, president of the National Exercise is another key element to bills that are too high because our overweight writer Alanis Morissette and Health Association, Fuhrman Fuhrman’s proposed “nutritarian” lifestyle. population consumes too much of these rich, primatologist Jane Goodall say presents a nutritional road- A former member of the U.S. World Figure disease-causing foods. Our tax dollars are actu- they have been influenced by map to optimum health. Skating Team, Fuhrman placed second in the ally used to make our society sicker and keep Fuhrman’s work. “His information is pains- U.S. National Pairs Championship in 1973. our health insurance costs high.” In Goodall’s book, Harvest for takingly researched and supported, yet he pres- He came in 3rd place at the 1976 World Pro- Fuhrman—a member of Jewish Vegetar- Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating, the famous ents the results with an easy-to-follow style,” fessional Pairs Skating Championship in Jaca, ians of North America (JVNA), author of six chimp researcher notes, “In his excellent book Epstein says. “He states the facts and educates Spain, with partner Gale Fuhrman. At nearly books, frequent PBS show host, and former on family nutrition and healthy appetizing us to make the food choices that will help us 60, he still enjoys physical activities, such as ten- world-class figure skater—tells JNS.org that recipes, ‘Disease-Proof Your Child,’ [Fuhrman] overcome disease and regain health. His book nis and skiing. he does not consciously apply Jewish values or points out that we have been conditioned to Eat to Live marks the beginning of a genuine, “If we eat these foods that are dramatically any religious preference to his scientific deci- believe that animal products are the best source scientifically-based health revolution.” protective, we can be protected,” Furhman sion making regarding preventing and treating of protein. In fact, peas, green vegetables, and Eat to Live is not just about counting calo- says. “When you are protected, you feel well, disease with superior nutrition. beans have more protein per calorie than meat.” ries and eating less, but also about protecting you have energy, you maintain your youthful He was, however, featured in the filmA Sa- Morissette, in a 2009 interview with People the body against disease, says the author. vigor, and you can live life and do what you cred Duty: Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal magazine, calls reading Eat to Live a “redefin- “I go through the biology and the physiolo- want to do. You can exercise, you can climb the World, a 60-minute JVNA documentary ing moment” in her life. The singer had battled gy showing how higher nutrient consumption mountains.” n from 2007 that was written and produced by eating disorders her whole life and was mocked suppresses appetite and reduces food addic- Overprotective or loving? Daughters reflect on Jewish mothers in new anthology By Debra Rubin/JNS.org achel Ament noticed that she and her verman and essayist Sloane Cosley said “no”— God Himself to be your soul mate, then I don’t a video to ABC, explaining why I would be the friends often shared humorous anec- they’re too busy, their publicists told Ament. know who was,” Ament writes. next Bachelorette,” she writes. R dotes that were typically variations on More than one writer mentions her “Jewish Yet after meeting a Jewish guy at a “Matzo Ball” Ament doesn’t worry about perpetuating ste- a theme: overprotective, worrying Jewish moms nose,” including Bialik. “If Barbra dance who was ready on a first reotypes with her book. “I don’t think as a culture who smothered them with love. Streisand could be so famous and date to bring her home to meet we should ever be scared to talk about ourselves, That included Ament’s own mother. “My amazing and wonderful with her his mother, Ament texted her own to talk about our identity, but I do think we mom is probably every Jewish stereotype nose, why should mine be any mother to say she was ready to should be careful about how we talk about it, and scrunched into one,” the Washington, DC, resi- problem?” the former child ac- meet Seth. “I figured that even fic- talk about it in a very full, multidimensional way,” dent tells JNS.org. “At the root of all these stereo- tress from Blossom writes. tional characters from Fox TV pro- she tells JNS.org. While Jewish mothers in the typical, worrying, overprotective moms, is love.” Many of the essays focus on grams would be more promising past were often ridiculed and demonized, Ament A social media writer for Capital One, as well dating and a Jewish mother’s than the eligible young men you says the writers in her book portray their moms as a freelance writer, Ament decided about three strong desire to see her daughter meet at the Matzo Ball,” she writes. “in a very loving, heartfelt, affectionate way.” years ago that it would be fun to invite Jewish married. That includes Ament’s Among Ament’s favorite es- Not all the essays focus on mothers. Some- women writers she admires—mostly bloggers, chapter, “Seth Cohen Is the One says is one by Lauren Greenberg, times it’s a grandmother, such as blogger Almie standup comics, and actors—to contribute sto- for You,” in which she states her who wrote for Whitney Cum- Rose’s 5-foot-1, feisty Oma, a Holocaust sur- ries about their mothers for an anthology. certainty that all Jewish women mings’s Love You, Mean It E! TV vivor and “slip of a thing” who was “bawdy, The result—The Jewish Daughter Diaries: carry a “particular chromosome show. When Greenberg turned blunt” and sarcastic. True Stories of Being Loved Too Much by Our for matchmaking—a trait that 30, her mother created a JDate “But on the opposite side of that fire and Moms—features 27 essays and is set for a May surfaces with a particular strength of spirit in my profile for her. “Why would I want to sarcasm was a fierce love for her children and 6 release by Sourcebook, in time for Mother’s mom.” date some guy who hung around to talk to a grandchildren,” Rose writes. “Oma’s love was Day (May 11). The youngest contributor is Ament was in second grade, she writes, when girl’s mother?” Greenberg writes. “Like, I’d be immense and unconditional.” writer and BuzzFeed senior editor Lauren Ya- her mother “would point out different snot- all, ‘Glad you and my mom hit it off. Let’s make Then there’s Kerry Cohen, a child of bitter di- palater, 24; the oldest is stand-up comedian drenched boys in the carpool lane at my school out!’ Ew. No. Ew.” vorce, who looks to her grandmother as a model Wendy Liebman, 53. insisting that they were meant for me.” No matter She didn’t follow up with any of the men her for relationships. “My grandmother could teach In putting the collection together, Ament that at the time, Ament believed boys had coo- mother had prescreened, although she concedes me things when it came to men,” Cohen, whose contacted about 40 writers. Mayim Bialik, actor ties and by the time she liked boys, they were that it is “something I now regret. My mother books include Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscu- from The Big Bang Theory and blogger for Kvel- “rarely of the Semitic kind.” That didn’t stop her put a lot of effort into screening potential sons- ity, writes. “It wasn’t just because she’d been mar- ler; Jena Friedman, a producer with The Daily mom from declaring that the fictional Seth Co- in-law and all I did was roll my eyes at her.” ried for fifty-seven years to a man who adored Show; and Deb Margolin, a playwright and actor, hen from the TV series “The O.C.” would be her Greenberg, however, figures she might have her until the end. It’s that her standards were so said “yes.” Foul-mouthed comedian Sarah Sil- match. “I swear, if that guy wasn’t designed by a second chance. “Maybe this year, she’ll send much higher than mine.” n

Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 25 IBest Reads

Ari Shavit: My Promised Land Rachel Urist, staff writer ri Shavit has written this landmark how deeply that Zionist faith now resides in Zionism, put great stock in their journey. But Shavit never forgets the Arab side of work with passion, courage, and the generation that must bear arms to protect Like Moses sending Joshua to the land of the story, too. What to Jews was triumph, A vision. It is intensely personal. It is the nation. After covering Israel’s political and Canaan (my analogy), Herzl expected a posi- the Arabs dubbed “nakba,” or catastrophe. also a stunning overview of the rise of the social history, he asks: where are we going? tive report from Bentwich, one that would The expulsions and massacres of Arab vil- modern state of Israel within the context of Shavit begins his book describe the land and its lagers—in Lydda and Deir Yassin, for ex- 20th century Jewish history. My Promised with the story of his great- inhabitants, and one that ample—must not be ignored. He pays heed Land is like a letter, sent through time and grandfather, the Rt. Honor- would confirm the land’s to the legitimate grievances of Arabs living space, to Jewish brethren round the world. It able Herbert Bentwich, born “prospects for coloniz- in Israel. While most live far better in Israel beseeches us all to open our eyes to the grim in 1856 and raised in London ing,” as Shavit puts it. than they would in neighboring Arab coun- realities that beset our beloved state of Israel. by parents who had fled Rus- Herzl wanted the report tries, they are, compared with most Israelis, The book reflects the author’s sense of mis- sia. Sent to the best schools, presented at the first Zi- second class citizens. Resentment grows. sion and purpose, and it testifies to the moral he became a lawyer. He was onist Congress, to be held Shavit writes much of the book in pres- and existential conundrum that besets con- among the gifted and highly in Basel. But Bentwich’s ent tense, giving a sense of immediacy, even cerned Israelis and Zionists the world over. regarded solicitors of his day. interest in Palestine was urgency, to the narrative. The book is often “romantic,” not politi- punctuated with personal memories, but it cal. Bentwich journeyed is not a memoir. Nor does Mr. Shavit allow to find God, not a future his personal biases to dictate the realities he Jewish state. His report to presents. This book is the how and why of Herzl was positive. Upon the Zionist cause; an enterprise that bound returning from his initial Jews together for millennia. In the face of journey, he invited Herzl Nazi Germany, the Zionist cause became to his patrician London an imperative. “In 1935, Zionist justice is an dining club, where Her- absolute universal justice that cannot be re- zl’s charisma captivated all who heard him. futed,” writes Shavit. The establishment of a Ultimately, Bentwich and his family relo- state of refuge was essential to the existence, cated to Palestine. vitality, and future of the Jewish people. For When Shavit writes of Israel’s 1948 war of centuries, the Jewish people had invoked independence, he is astonished at the nascent Zion in their daily prayers. In the 20th Cen- state’s miraculous triumph. “Against all odds,” tury, whether or not a Jew began the day with he writes, Israel’s brave 80,000 Jews defeated prayers, whether or not he believed in God, the armies of 600,000 Arabs. That the tiny but safe haven was essential to life. determined entity, newly called Israel, could In his endnotes, Shavit writes: My Promised win against such enmity, is staggering. But, he Land is not an academic work of history. Rath- Ari Shavit goes on, the odds are shifting. The Arab ma- er, it is a personal journey through contempo- Ari Shavit wrote My Promised Land after He was blue-eyed, commanding, and loyal to jority of the Middle East is growing. The men- rary and historic Israel, recounting the larger interviewing countless Israelis, both Jewish the crown. Unlike many of his enlightened ace to Israel is being harnessed with patience Israel saga by telling several dozen specific Is- and Arab. They were government officials, Jewish peers, he remained an orthodox Jew. and resolution. Israel’s Dimona facility—its raeli stories that are significant and poignant.” policy-makers, writers, scientists, military and He and his wife had eleven children. nuclear capability—has served as a deterrent According to the New York Times, My intelligence officers, entrepeneurs. The result Shavit writes: to large-scale war, but with the Iranian nuclear Promised Land was written in English with an is a controversial book that both sparks and Had I met Herbert Bentwich, I prob- capacity at hand, the future is, at best, uncer- American readership in mind. It is an impor- transcends debate. Written with conviction, ably wouldn’t have liked him. If I were tain. Yes, one finds glimmers of peace, here and tant book. Plaudits abound. Among them: and erudition, the book describes and often his son, I am sure I would have rebelled there, and voices of reconciliation. But those “This is the epic history that Israel de- takes issue with Israeli policies, Israeli social against him. His world—royalist, re- glimmers and voices are quickly dimmed. serves—beautifully written, dramatically and political movements, and with individual ligious, patriarchal, and imperial—is Shavit lauds Israel’s early pioneers. They rendered, full of moral complexity.” –Franklin voices in the conversation regarding Israel’s eras away from my world. But as I study transformed the image of Jew from victim to Foer, editor, The New Republic. future. It offers firm, historical contextualiza- him from a distance—more than a brawny, self-assured man of the hour. The “A beautiful, mesmerizing, morally serious, tion. It dares to ask whether Israel can and century of distance—I cannot deny the new Jew was self-reliant, ready to take action. and vexing book.” –Jeffrey Goldberg will continue to exist, given the many forces similarities between us. I am surprised The change was astonishing. The technologi- “… one of the most important books about against it—from within and without. The to find how much I identify with my ec- cal advances that transformed the land into Israel and Zionism that I have ever read.”– author emphatically and enthusiastically af- centric great-grandfather. a picture postcard of the green thumb were Daniel Gordis firms his love for his homeland. He is grateful Leading a group of 21 pilgrims, Shavit’s (and are) staggering. The Jewish Israeli was Be warned. However riveting, this book can to the faithful who gave their lives to ensure great-grandfather sailed to Palestine in 1897. a figure of moral, physical, intellectual, and be as depressing as it is thought-provoking. n the state’s continued viability, but he wonders Theodore Herzl, the founder of political psychological strength.

26 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 IOn Another Note

Renee Robbins—pianist, performer, teacher San Slomovits, staff writer enee Robbins is a long-time Ann WJN: And you studied at the Eastman felt like… why am I doing this? It’s not Robbins: There’s a term that music teachers Arbor Suzuki piano teacher and School of Music? satisfying. The kids don’t practice.... And use, which is “spring cleaning” about that time there was a piano teacher, R teacher trainer and a performing Robbins: I was actually on the River Cam- WJN: And you don’t do that. who at the time seemed very old to me, pianist. I first heard of her when, after the pus, (of the University of Rochester) in and she talked about Suzuki piano. She Robbins: No. Rarely. I’ve had some kids who 2010 Haitian earthquake, she helped orga- the liberal arts school there. My father taught a workshop, and a light bulb went have just plodded along for a long time nize a fundraiser for a Haitian school that insisted that I have at least one year of off. I guess what appealed to me was—ev- and suddenly they feel committed to it. had been destroyed by the quake. liberal arts. ery teacher ought to feel this way—you’re And that’s great to watch. It’s wonder- Robbins: My husband John and I moved to WJN: Was your family musical? really teaching children to grow. Music is ful. I don’t know how you measure soul the medium. development, or soul growth. I feel really Ann Arbor in 1969. Robbins: My mother started my brother on I know a lot about my students, because passionate about getting music into kids’ WJN: Did you come here to study at the Uni- the parents have to come to all the lessons, lives. versity? so I really am pretty connected with the whole family, and I hear from people all WJN: Let’s talk about your work with the Robbins: John has a degree in nuclear phys- the time that I am the second mom in Haitian violinist, Romel Joseph. ics from the University of Rochester. I the family. I have some kids who’ve been Robbins: After the earthquake in Haiti in went to the Eastman School of Music; we extremely successful. I have a girl who’s 2010 I felt very moved by what I was hear- met there. I graduated in ’65 and then I on Broadway right now. Just made it a ing, upset about it, and there was a piece worked for VISTA on a Navajo reserva- month ago. on NPR about this guy, Romel Joseph, tion in Utah. who’d just been rescued and they talked WJN: Wonderful. Working in a pit band? WJN: You taught music there? about how he was blind from infancy, and had a masters from Juilliard in violin. Robbins: No, she’s on stage. She graduated Robbins: No, I set up a Head Start program, He lost his wife in that earthquake; it was this last May and she’s made it. It’s a small I set up a library in the boarding school, just miraculous that he was saved. And I role, but it’s in Mama Mia. taught health education, some English, decided we’re going to do fundraising for just everything. In the VISTA program WJN: Broadway is Broadway! his music school. they said, “Well, you’ll work yourself out of a job in a year.” And here I was, this Robbins: Broadway is Broadway! (Laughter) WJN: The school had been destroyed in the naïve 22-year-old, with these wise Nava- Her mother says she can pay her own bills earthquake. now. jos who’ve been just dumped on, and I’m Robbins: Yes. And ten years, to the day, before supposed to do what I’m supposed to do WJN: Not even every lawyer can say that, the earthquake, the school had been de- in a year? Are you kidding? I didn’t know fresh out of school! (Laughter) stroyed by fire. Well, these people do not any Navajo, people didn’t speak Eng- give up. I organized a playathon at Ker- Renee Robbins Robbins: I’ve had some who’ve been that lish…. rytown, for music students of any teacher successful and I have had a lot of kids violin. She was an amateur violinist, and in the area, and we did it for about twelve WJN: Were you married by then? who have been very slow and I just kind she started me on piano. Of course I was hours straight. We raised almost $10,000. of prod them and nurse them along. Robbins: No, we used the payphone at the forced to practice. My father was the lis- Cecilia Johnson, a violinist from Toledo trading post a lot. (Laughter) When I got tener in the family. But somehow I kept WJN: Did you ever pursue social work? that I met through a mutual friend here, back we got married and then I worked at it, even though I hated to practice. I al- went to the Cincinnati Conservatory with at the YWCA in Rochester for a couple of ways hated to practice. I was awful. Robbins: For a long time, in my head, I Romel and they’ve been good friends ever years with teen mothers. They figured I would say, “Well, I’m not a really good so- since. She helped organize the playathon. WJN: We won’t print that, so your students was the only married person in the group, cial worker because really I’m a pianist.” don’t see it. (Laughter) Or maybe we WJN: And you’ve continued to work with and so I ought to work with the moth- And then I’d say, “Well, I’m not really that should print it so they’ll know it’s OK to Romel. ers. These were like 12-year-old girls, you good a pianist, because really I’m a social hate practicing, as long as you do it any- worker.” I was sitting right on that fence, know… but it was fun. Then after John Robbins: Yes, he came a couple of years ago way! (More laughter) and I finally decided I had to stop that. I finished his PhD, we went on a six-month and again in March of this year. His chil- had to go one way or the other and it was camping trip, we drove all around the Robbins: I’ve told them all this stuff. I’ve dren came with him. His daughter, Victo- very hard. West and picked up mail that my brother told them. (Still more laughter) I do like it ria, a violinist who was a Sphinx finalist, forwarded every two weeks. We got to UC now. Because it’s meditative, and it calms WJN: Although it sounds like you’re now do- and his son Bradley, a pianist, also came Berkeley [University of California] and me down… but not then. ing a little bit of social work when you’re with him. I play music a lot. I don’t much John sent out letters saying he was in- like to do solo stuff, but I love chamber WJN: You started teaching piano here 40 teaching. terested in nuclear methods for peaceful music and I play with a lot of people, years ago? purposes, and he got one job offer from Robbins: A lot. It’s usually about 90 percent and so we played together. The concerts The Phoenix Lab (which no longer exists Robbins: Actually, my first piano student social work. When I’m lucky it’s 90 per- in March went very well. A Detroit area – it was on North Campus) where they was a Native American girl on the reser- cent music. That’s probably what makes Haitian-American group came in full were doing environmental work. He was vation. Her father was Navajo; her moth- it satisfying to me, that I really know these force and made a quite sizable donation hired sight unseen, from payphones in er was Chippewa, Ottawa and Laguna kids. I know what they’re capable of, what to Romel’s school, and a number of at- National Parks. (Laughter) My brother Pueblo, and her father worked in the oil they’re not capable of... I feel like my job tendees from Ann Arbor made very gen- was living here, and I wanted to go to camps. They had a piano, the father was is to prod them as much as I can, but not erous donations. But, above all, it was a to get rid of them, which a lot of teachers Social Work school here. I was going to a self-taught trumpet player, a real hogan large, warm, happy audience. n leave music behind. We figured we’d be Navajo who ran away from home to go do, but to make them go deeper into what here while I was in school and then we’d to school, an amazing person. They asked they do. leave. We never left. me if I would give her piano lessons. She WJN: Meaning that you’ll work with a child was my first piano student. WJN: You started piano at a young age. who is perhaps not very talented, or will- And then I came here and I did some ing or able to work very hard... Robbins: Yes. piano teaching and I didn’t like it. It just

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Try Southern desserts for Shavuot Mary Bilyeu, food editor outherners and Jews share a great made it clear from the start that ‘everyone’s Carter Custard tradition: that of feeding people, of money is the same color, and if you don’t un- feeding them well, and of feeding derstand that, then you don’t need to work “President Jimmy Carter frequented Mary Mac’s Tea Room so much that he even had his S own dessert named after him. Margaret Lupo introduced the peanut custard when Carter them generously. No self-respecting mem- in my restaurant.’” Mama —as Margaret was was running for governor.” ber of either group would ever fail to nudge affectionately called by staff, customers, and 1 1- /2 cups graham cracker crumbs family, friends, and guests toward second or family alike—“treated that dining room as if 3 /4 cup granulated sugar even third helpings of food. Tables, especially it were her own personal dining room.” 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted for holidays, are laden with pickles and main Many employees have worked at Mary 6 ounces cream cheese, softened dishes and sides and salads and breads and Mac’s for nearly four decades, and their chil- 3 /4 cup whole milk 1 desserts. Whether being haymish or offer- dren have worked there as well. Waitresses /2 cup creamy peanut butter ing Southern hospitality, the notion—along greet customers—regulars or newcomers— 1 cup confectioners’ sugar ”with a friendly ‘Hey, hon- 1 cup whipping cream 1 ey, how are ya?’ spoken /2 cup unsalted dry-roasted peanuts with the requisite South- In a medium bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, granulated sugar, and melted but- ern accent,” and the cook- ter until the mixture clumps. Pat the crumb mixture into the bottom and up the sides of a book graciously includes 9-inch pie plate. photos and quotes from In the work bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, on medium speed, beat the the staff, acknowledging cream cheese, milk, peanut butter, and confectioners’ sugar. In a clean work bowl of a stand their contributions with mixer with a clean whisk attachment, on medium-high speed, beat the whipping cream until gratitude. The restaurant stiff peaks form. Gently fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter mixture. is an institution but, as John Ferrell writes, “You Pour the custard into the crust. Cover the top with the peanuts. Freeze for 2 hours. Serve never really own a timeless frozen. place like Mary Serves 6 to 8. Mac’s, you just take care of its legacy and trea- Cream Cheese Pound Cake sures.” “This is my mother’s recipe,” writes John Ferrell, “and is wonderful served with fresh, seasonal with the resulting full stomach and He also notes fruit and topped with whipped cream. But I prefer it sliced and toasted in the morning for need for a nap—is the same. that, “Traditions breakfast.” So for Shavuot, it seemed fit- are important 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened 3 ting to talk about the new cook- to life in the /4 pound (3 sticks) salted butter, softened book Mary Mac’s Tea Room: 65 South,” just as 3 cups plus 3 tablespoons sugar Years of Recipes from Atlanta’s Fa- they are to Jew- 6 large eggs vorite Dining Room. I have an older ish life. Thus, 3 cups all-purpose flour book, Southern Cooking from Mary for Shavuot— 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Mac’s Tea Room, by Margaret Lupo, with its history 1 teaspoon pure lemon or almond extract who’d bought the restaurant from of eating dairy 2 pints fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered founder Mary McKinsey shortly af- foods— you’ll whipped cream, for garnish ter starting to work there. This lat- want some Preheat the oven to 300°F. Lightly grease a Bundt pan. est one is from John Ferrell, who’s treats ready to In the work bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, on medium speed, beat the owned the business since 1994. Margaret’s enjoy when you return home from shul after cream cheese and butter for 10 minutes, or until creamy. Gradually add the 3 cups sugar daughter, Marie Lupo Nygren, writes in the the tikkun. Although it’s not a command- and beat for 5 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating just until the yellow disappears. foreward that calling it a tearoom “was a ment to eat dairy, it’s certainly wonderful to Gradually add the flour, beating on low speed until blended. Fold in the vanilla and lemon misnomer, as it wasn’t a place to have tea, celebrate the holiday with rich, sweet foods or almond extract. 1 but a nicer version of a ‘meat and three’”— reminiscent of the Torah having been lik- Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 1- /2 hours. Let the cake cool in the pan; remove a place serving a meat with three vegetable ened to milk and honey in the Song of Songs. from the pan and let cool completely on a rack. dishes on the side. There are, therefore, So this month, I’m offering some reci- Place the strawberries in a large bowl. Add the 3 tablespoons sugar and toss until the sugar recipes for everything from soups to corn- pes for decadent dairy desserts from Mary dissolves, about 2 minutes. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour or overnight. Stir occasionally. bread to roasts to cookies. Mac’s, combining Jewish and Southern tra- Now, I grant that there are many dishes ditions. Of course, this being classic South- To serve, spoon the berries over slices of the pound cake and garnish with whipped cream. in this book that glorify Southern cooking ern cuisine, health is not a primary factor Serves 10 to 12. while simultaneously representing an affront in Mary Mac’s recipes; enjoyment is. Ritz to the laws of Kashrut: Fresh Corn and Ba- crackers, mayonnaise, and butter make regu- con Chowder, Fried Gulf Shrimp and Oys- lar appearances throughout the cookbook. Cottage Cheese Pie ters, and Country Ham with Redeye Gravy But, all things in moderation! And Shavuot “Shirley Mitchell has baked our yeast rolls, cornbread, peach cobbler, and cinnamon rolls for are just a few that set off the treyf alarm. is a celebration, after all. A little indulgence, more than three decades, and is still baking up sweet magic in the kitchen,” says John Ferrell. 1 But there are so many, too, that would be a little nosh, right? /2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar wonderful for Rosh Hashanah (Applesauce You could enjoy a luscious frozen peanut 3 large eggs 1 Cake), for Chanukah (Battered Cornmeal butter pie named in honor of President Jim- /2 cup half-and-half Fries), for Tu B’Shevat (Pecan Pie Muffins), my Carter, a long-time Mary Mac’s devotee. 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour or even for Pesach (Pickled Beets). Or, perhaps, a beautiful, moist coffee cake 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 Just as traditional delis are fading away— which can be served simply with ice cream /8 teaspoon salt with hipper, chicer establishments seeming to or, more elaborately, with whipped cream 2 cups cream-style cottage cheese take their place in many large cities—so, too, and fruit. Or how about a distinctive and 1 9-inch pie shell, unbaked 1 are tea rooms becoming relics; Mary Mac’s is unique pie made with cottage cheese, akin to /2 teaspoon ground cinnamon the last of 16 that used to thrive in Atlanta in a combination of rice pudding and the tra- Preheat the oven to 350°F. 1 the 1940s. This cookbook helps to enshrine its ditional Shavuot cheesecake? In a blender, combine the /2 cup sugar and the eggs and process for 15 to 20 seconds, until recipes, which have barely changed since the If you need any further convincing, just well blended. Add the half-and-half, flour, lemon juice, and salt; process for 15 to 20 seconds, restaurant first opened in 1945. heed the advice of Mary Mac’s cook Shirley until smooth. Add the cottage cheese; process until smooth. Pour into the pastry shell. When she owned it, Margaret Lupo was Mitchell: “Have you tasted one of my des- Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until set. Combine the 1 tablespoon sugar and the cinnamon; famous for welcoming everyone to Mary serts yet?” she asks in the cookbook. “Honey, sprinkle over the pie while warm. Mac’s, regardless of socioeconomic status or you’re really not livin’ right if you haven’t.” n race. Her daughter Marie writes: ““Mother Serves 8 to 10.

28 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 I The World

Azerbaijan: A modern Muslim nation openly defies stereotypes, befriends Israel By Norma Zager/JNS.org

hose of the mindset that religions are CREDIT: WORLD FORUM. ECONOMIC regularly infect the world media—is an open high-level officials, and all are welcomed with inherently at war with one another society where Jewish people of all walks and deserved pomp and circumstance. T must have a difficult time reconcil- Arab Israelis of all religious attitudes are not But it must be said that Iran and the other ing the friendship between the State of Israel only welcome, but also govern the country in the evil empires in the Middle East put enormous and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Yet, in the real Knesset (Israel’s parliament) and public offices. pressures on Azerbaijan to fall in lockstep with world, it makes perfect sense. So why are perceptions so opposed to the their worldview, and the threats are tough Muslim countries that use Islam—a truth about both Israel and Azerbaijan, two and genuine. Azerbaijan is a thorn in the side traditionally peaceful religion with a rich quite accepting and open societies? of Iran, a country that seeks to control the tradition—as a weapon to stifle religious In Israel’s case, it is quite obvious that the world through an extremist Islamic caliphate. freedoms are indeed abundant, so what is use of such lies and propaganda are designed to In Iranian eyes, a modern Muslim nation like different about Azerbaijan? alienate and separate the Jewish state from the Azerbaijan that is thriving is a deterrent that Azerbaijan is a moderate, progressive, good graces of the world—to yet again villainize must be dealt with in the harshest of terms. and democratic majority-Muslim nation that Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan Jews and set them apart from the rest of society. Azerbaijan often finds itself between its own suffers the same slings and arrows as Israel is an educated and decidedly modern For Azerbaijan, it is partly a case of mistaken moderation and the proverbial “rock and hard regularly does from its militant neighbors, who woman with a career in medicine (an identity. Although the results are the same for place” known as Iran. suppress and murder those who oppose their ophthalmologist) and a penchant for stylish both countries, the intent is different. Azerbaijan As Iran grows stronger, and it seems the extremist views. designer clothing. In her role, she encourages is lumped in among a cadre of countries that have current U.S. administration is determined to Israel, the Jewish state, was founded on the women to be educated, independent and too loud a voice and behave badly on the world allow this sad state of affairs to occur, there is Western principles of democracy and the rule of sophisticated in their life choices. stage. This is much like a child who is related to a no doubt Azerbaijan will feel the sword of its law and has been falsely accused of suppressing Pop stars like Jennifer Lopez travel to criminal by birth, and spends his life doing good neighbor bearing down. other religious groups and minorities. Azerbaijan for concerts, and in a Gallup poll, deeds with the hope of separating himself from One cannot predict how this will influence That is exactly what these two countries have it was revealed that Azerbaijan “is one of the his evil relative. Exacerbating the situation is the religious practices or its strong alliance with in common, and one of the things that allows most irreligious countries in the Muslim penchant for Westerners to simplify issues. In this Israel, but from past encounters it seems them to share a strong friendship and partnership. world, with about 53 percent of respondents case, the perceptions are “all Muslims are bad;” Azerbaijan is resolute to walk its own path and Although religious principles guide their indicating the importance of religion in their “all Muslims are Arabs;” “all Arabs are Muslims;” control its own destiny. No matter how far the nations, as is the case with most Western- life as little or none.” and “all Muslims are the same.” Of course, none of friendship with Israel progresses, one must oriented nations, the tenets of religious On the flip side, in many other Islamic these statements are true. applaud this young nation of only 22 years for freedom and equality for all are a basis for their republics women are stoned, subjugated to Azerbaijan and Israel have found a friendship its fortitude and unwavering battle against the governments and policies. men, and held to rigid standards of dress in their commonality of shared open societies. stereotypes and the pressures of militant bullies. Azerbaijan is a secular Muslim state with a and behavior. Azerbaijan neither stifles nor Yet one is Muslim and one is Jewish, so how can Azerbaijan stands alone in its success as a constitution assuring freedom of worship and represses its young women, but rather provides this be? Watching these two countries coexist prosperous and open Muslim society, and its equality to everyone. It is not uncommon to see them with role models for a contemporary and deal with one another, it is actually quite friendship with Israel is proof there is room young people listening to pop stars on their iPods, Muslim woman. It is a place where Muslims easy to understand. Each year their trade and for a progressive, secular Muslim nation on the and covered women are not, at all, the norm. The participate in a modern lifestyle, and still value joint scientific, military, agricultural, and other world stage.” n and protect their religious ideals. business projects increase, and each nation is streets of Baku teem with moderns, dressed in the Norma Zager is an award-winning international This is also the policy of Israel, a country welcome and inviting to one another. Azerbaijan fashion of any upscale Western capital. journalist and a professor at California State that—despite the propaganda and lies that and Israel are regularly visited by each other’s The president’s wife, Mehriban Aliyev, University, Los Angeles. OpEd: In Ukraine, caring for caregivers By Alan H. Gill/JNS.org CREDIT: JDC. y first visit to Odessa—the “pearl Odessa. I spent my time there speaking to lo- help guarantee that our staffers there know that of the Black Sea”—was in the cal Jews who expressed their concerns for the we support them and that they have a safety net M 1990s after the Soviet Union’s col- future, their increasing needs, and their appre- when they need that extra comfort required to lapse. The city, even after decades of communist ciation for our emergency response during their get through a very tough day. After all, at the rule, remained a historical gem with its Potem- time of need. height of the crisis in Ukraine, they were spend- kin Steps and ornate Opera House. It was also And I also spent time speaking to the staff ing nights in clients’ homes, tending to clients home to a significant Jewish population that of my organization, JDC. They share the con- on a 24-hour basis, and even traveling into ar- has earned a distinct reputation for its special cerns of their neighbors, and are apprehensive eas of unrest to ensure the homebound had care. brand of pride. about what lies ahead. The difference for them, This is all an important reminder that the Having survived the Nazis and the Soviets, however, is that they don’t just shoulder indi- lessons learned in Ukraine—and throughout these Jews were eager to reclaim their identity vidual burdens, they also shoulder the growing the world in crisis zones where we have enacted and embrace the challenges of a post-commu- concerns of those in their care. And it is that programs that ensure care for the caregiver— nist existence. And they had a legacy of Jewish special dynamic—the caregiver caring for oth- must be absorbed and implemented as part of greats to draw from: Isaac Babel, Ze’ev Jabo- ers even as they themselves are impacted by the the value of mutual responsibility that organiza- tinsky, Boris Goldstein, and even the Olympic crisis—that is profoundly felt in Ukraine today. tions inject into their larger goals. For us, that medal-winning swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg. I heard from our brave staff about deep per- connectedness and support system is critical In the more than 20 years that have passed sonal stress, friends facing hopelessness, and today—not just because it is good professional since I first visited, the community has blos- family members torn apart by changing bor- practice, but because it instills the values that somed. A flagship of post-Soviet Jewish life ders. But there were two passing remarks that underpin our century of work. and of the investment by the North American stood out for me above the rest: “Every night I The Jews of Ukraine, and caregivers work- Jewish community and others in that goal, go to bed and I am praying to wake up the next ing on the ground there, must know that they In Odessa, Alan H. Gill shares a story have a collective hand extended to them at this the city today is home to several JCCs, syna- morning and just realize everything that has with a Ukranian child gogues, Jewish cultural and educational oppor- happened today was a bad dream” and “I am time—worrying for them, and working hard to tunities, leadership training programs, nursery not supposed to show that I am under stress.” ters that serve more than 1,000 locations around be a source of strength for them. In that em- schools, and many other outlets for Jewish life. Inexorably linked, the two sentiments Ukraine. They therefore need outlets to vent, to pathy is the ultimate expression of the story of And yet a common thread has persisted: eco- demonstrate both the enormous stress that constructively channel their feelings, and en- the Jewish People: that we can transcend time, nomic fluctuations and political crises that have our staffers experience and their self-imposed sure they can continue to carry out the avodat place, and even our daily worries to embrace contributed to poverty and dire need among the professional mandate to keep a stiff upper lip, hakodesh—holy work—they do to ensure that our fellow Jews, acknowledge their suffering, elderly, families, and score of other Jews. even when the circumstances are dire. And Jews in need have access to life-saving services and impart a sense of lovingkindess worlds Those factors—including news this week of this is increased manyfold when you consider and Jewish community engagement. away. In Odessa, and throughout Ukraine, they n a downgrade in Ukraine’s credit rating, fears of that these professionals—and the employees of To help with this, we have provided them need it more now than ever before. energy stoppages, and unrest—came to a climax programs and facilities we support, including training for handling high-stress environments, Alan H. Gill is CEO of the American Jewish over the last five months in Ukraine, and I got social and home care workers—operate out of counseling, daily support calls, and increased Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). to witness this firsthand when I recently visited four offices and 32 Hesed social welfare cen- visits from senior professionals to Ukraine to Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 29 ICalendar

culture on current movies and filmmakers understanding it is no simple matter. Study May 2014 while providing a forum for the discussion of the text in the original, with the classical Rashi Saturday 10 films from around the world that illuminate commentary. 8 p.m. Every Tuesday. Jewish issues and principles. Tickets are Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. Thursday 1 $10 each and film passes are $90/members, Wednesday 7 Brotherhood Breakfast: TBE. Off-site. 9:30–10:30 a.m. $100/non-members. For information, Shabbat Morning Service: AARC. Participatory Thursdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. Join email [email protected] or phone community service integrates liturgy with music, Lunch and Learn: BIC. Celebrating Yom Diane Dahl for Callanetics featuring muscle 971-0990. Through May 8. chanting and contemporary English readings, Ha’Atzmaut, Israel Independence Day. Noon. firming through stretching exercises synchronized Kol Halev Recording: TBE. 7:30–9:30 p.m. including Torah service and discussion. The to music. $12/members; $14 non-members; Jewish Film Festival: JCC. Annual event celebrating service and discussion this month will include 9:30 a.m. Energy Exercise with Maria Farquhar. film and the impact of Jewish culture on current special discussion about the celebration of Parashat $4 per session or 3 sessions per month for $10; Monday 5 movies and filmmakers while providing a forum Behar and how it relates to the upcoming Shmitah 10 a.m. Current Events at 11 a.m. Homemade for the discussion of films from around the world year. Led by Rabbi Michal Woll at the JCC. For Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per person; Noon. For English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. that illuminate Jewish issues and principles. information, phone 845-2361 or email Rabbi information, contact rachaelhoffenblum@jccfed. Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– Tickets are $10 each and film passes are $90/ Michal at [email protected]. 10 a.m.–Noon. Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays at members, $100/non-members. For information, org or phone 971-0990. 20th Anniversary Celebration Weekend: Pardes Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State Street. email [email protected] or phone Monthly Birthday Celebration: JCC Adult Hannah. Service led by Rabbi Aura Ahuvia For more information, contact JFS at 769-0209 971-0990. Through May 8. Programs. Entertainment provided by local and Rabbi Chaya Gusfield from 10 a.m.–noon. or email [email protected]. Ongoing. pianist Laurel Federbush. 12:30 p.m. Mahj: TBE. Off-site from 1–3 p.m. Lunch and additional teachings and reflections Jewish Film Festival: JCC. Annual event Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4–7 p.m. Hebrew 101: TBE. 5:30–6:30 p.m. to follow. Beth Israel Annex Lower Level. celebrating film and the impact of Jewish Israeli Dancing: JCC. Easy and oldies from Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. Suggested donation for weekend-long series is culture on current movies and filmmakers $65. Suggested donation for Saturday Chanting 7:30–8:30 p.m. Intermediate and requests while providing a forum for the discussion of from 8:30–10 p.m. $5 per class. Students and and Havdalah Celebration is $25. Sliding films from around the world that illuminate Thursday 8 scale available. For information, see http:// children free. Learn the latest Israeli dances, Jewish issues and principles. Tickets are line dances, mixers and more. Families pardeshannah.wordpress.com. Also May 9. $10 each and film passes are $90/members, Thursdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. welcome. Thursdays. Chapel Service: TBE. 10–11:30 a.m. $100/non-members. For information, Join Diane Dahl for Callanetics featuring Mini Minyan and Tot Shabbat: BIC. Mini Minyan Talmud Study Group–Jewish Civil Law: email [email protected] or phone muscle firming through stretching exercises for K-2nd Grade and Tot Shabbat. 11:15 a.m. Chabad. Sharpen your wits and knowledge 971-0990. Through May 8. synchronized to music. $12/members; $14 th of the Jewish legal system by following the Shalom Gever: TBE. 4:30–8:30 p.m. non-members. 9:30 a.m. Energy Exercise with 20 Anniversary Celebration Weekend: Pardes intriguing discussions in the Talmud. The Hannah. Seudat Slishit Shabbat Third Meal Bricks4Kidz Enrichment Class: JCC. Kids will Maria Farquhar. $4 per session or 3 sessions per Talmud is a composite of practical law, from 6–7:30 p.m. Light meal and teachings at learn about physics and math in a fun and month for $10; 10 a.m. Current Events; 11 a.m. logical argumentation and moral teachings. home of Linda and Richard Greene, followed by engaging way. $60 for full session through Homemade Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per person; Study of the original Talmud tractate. 8 p.m. Saturday Chanting and Havdalah Celebration June 2. No class on Memorial Day, May 26. For Noon. For information, phone 971-0990. Every Thursday. with R. Shefa Gold at 8 p.m. Suggested donation information, email [email protected] Jewish Film Festival: JCC. Last day of annual for weekend-long series is $65. Suggested or phone 971-0990. 4:45–5:45 p.m. Mondays event. Celebrating film and the impact of Jewish donation for Saturday Chanting and Havdalah through June 2. culture on current movies and filmmakers Friday 2 Celebration is $25. Sliding scale available. of today while providing a forum for the Keshet Classes: BIC. 6 p.m. For information, see http://pardeshannah. discussion of films from around the world that Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. Informal Men’s Torah Study: TBE. 7:30–9 p.m. wordpress.com. Also May 9. discussion. Participants are welcome to bring illuminate Jewish issues and principles. Tickets Movie Night: TBE. Joint STC/TBE activity. 7–10 p.m. lunch. 12:30–1:30 p.m. are $10 each; Film passes are $90/members, $100/non-members. For information, email Shabbat services: See listing at the end of the calendar. Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. Tot Tuesday 6 [email protected] or phone 971-0990. Shabbat at 6 p.m. Tot dinner at 6:30 p.m. Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Service with Tuesdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4–7 p.m. Sunday 11 Kol Halev, Yom HaShoah and Adult Bat Join Diane Dahl for Callanetics featuring Israeli Dancing: JCC. Easy and oldies from 7:30– muscle firming through stretching exercises Mitzvah. 7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Intermediate and requests from 8:30– Planning Session: BIC Men’s Club. 9:30 a.m. synchronized to music. $12/members; $14 10 p.m. $5 per class. Students and children free. Friday evening services: See listing at the end of Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into non-members. 9:30 a.m. Energy Exercise with Learn the latest Israeli dances, line dances, mixers the calendar. the basic text of Chassidism and discover the Maria Farquhar. Low impact exercise in a and more. Families welcome. Thursdays. beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Every Sunday. supportive environment. $4 per session or 3 Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. Sharpen Saturday 3 sessions per month for $10; 11 a.m. Homemade your wits and knowledge of the Jewish legal Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per person; Noon. system by following the intriguing discussions Monday 12 Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. Games and Activities including mahjong and in the Talmud. The Talmud is a composite quilting, including making quilts for children Shabbat Limmud: BIC. 9 a.m. of practical law, logical argumentation and English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. of Mott Hospital; 1 p.m. For information, moral teachings. Study of the original Talmud Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– Adult B’not Mitzvah: TBE. 10–11:30 a.m. phone 971-0990. tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays at Eating Within Our Ethics and Our Budgets: Field Trip to Jewish Film Festival: JCC Adult AARC. Havadalah and learning are combined Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State Street. Programs. Timing TBD. For information and For more information, contact JFS at 769-0209 for an evening program exploring the to RSVP for the trip, phone 971-0990. Friday 9 decisions we make about where and what or email [email protected]. Ongoing. Jewish Film Festival: JCC. Annual event food we buy. AARC members Rena Basch Supporting You at a Time of Need: BIC. Funerals celebrating film and the impact of Jewish Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. Informal and Carole Caplan will facilitate a discussion and Mourning at Beth Israel and Beth Israel culture on current movies and filmmakers discussion. Participants are welcome to bring of the myriad questions of how to use food Memorial Gardens. 8 p.m. of today while providing a forum for the lunch. 12:30–1:30 p.m. purchasing dollars most ethically, responsibly discussion of films from around the world that Afternoon Delights: JCC. The Ann Arbor and effectively. Held at a private home. For illuminate Jewish issues and principles. Tickets Symphony Orchestra (AASO) presents their information and to RSVP, email ravmichal@ Tuesday 13 are $10 each and film passes are $90/members, Chamber Series. Refreshments served at 1 aarecon.org or phone 845-2361. 7 p.m. $100/non-members. For information, email p.m. Concert at 1:30 p.m. Tickets for $10 can Tuesdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. Join Diane Shabbat services: See listing at the end of the calendar. [email protected] or phone 971- be purchased through the AASO or at the JCC Dahl for Callanetics featuring muscle firming 0990. Through May 8. on the day of the event. For information, email through stretching exercises synchronized to music. Sunday 4 Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): [email protected] or phone 971-0990. $12/members; $14 non-members. 9:30 a.m. Energy All ages and levels welcome including UM and 20th Anniversary Celebration Weekend: Pardes Exercise with Maria Farquhar. Low impact exercise Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into non-UM participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s Hannah. Welcome and light appetizers at 6 p.m. in a supportive environment. $4 per session or 3 the basic text of Chassidism and discover the Café, ground floor of UM Michigan League. Service at 7 p.m., led by Hazzan Shulamit Fairman sessions per month for $10; 11 a.m. Homemade beauty of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Every Sunday. For information, call 936-2367. and Rabbi Hannah Dresner. Potluck dinner Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per person; Noon. Games and follows. At the home of Lucinda Kurtz and Oran Activities including mahjong and quilting, including Social Action Committee Meeting: BIC. 10:30 a.m. Hebrew 104: TBE. 5–6 p.m. Hesterman. Suggested donation for weekend- making quilts for children of Mott Hospital; 1 p.m. th Musical Meditations: TBE. 5:30–6:15 p.m. 8 Grade Graduation: BIC BIRS. 11 a.m. long series is $65. Suggested donation for Saturday For information, phone 971-0990. Kol Halev Recording: TBE. 6–9 p.m. Beit Sefer Informational Brunch: AARC. Chanting and Havdalah Celebration is $25. Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): Family friendly brunch introduces the AARC “Peoplehood and Its Role and Significance in Sliding scale available. For information, see http:// All ages and levels welcome including UM and religious school to parents and their children. Jewish Life:” BIC. 8 p.m. Also May 13. pardeshannah.wordpress.com. Also May 10. non-UM participants. Held at Beanster’s Café, Meets at home of Caroline Richardson and Topics in Jewish Law: AAOM. With Rabbi Rod Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. Tot ground floor of UM Michigan League. For Paul Resnick. RSVP to Karin Ahbel-Rappe at Glogower at the Lewis/Bernstein home, 1304 Shabbat at 6 p.m. Tot Dinner at 1:30 p.m. information, call 936-2367. 1:30 p.m. [email protected] or leave message Cambridge. 8–9:15 p.m. Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Service and Hebrew 104: TBE. 5–6 p.m. at 445-1910. Noon–2 p.m. Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Adult B’not Mitzvah at 7:30 p.m. Musical Meditations: TBE. 5:30–6:15 p.m. Jewish Film Festival: JCC. Annual event Chabad. Reading the Torah may be easy, but Friday evening services: See listing at end of calendar. celebrating film and the impact of Jewish Topics in Jewish Law: AAOM. With Rabbi Rod 30 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 Glogower at the Lewis/Bernstein home, 1304 Israeli Dancing: JCC. Easy and oldies from 7:30– special programs and prizes for children and sessions per month for $10; 11 a.m. Homemade Cambridge. 8–9:15 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Intermediate and requests from 8:30– adults. For time and location, phone 995-3276. Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per person; Noon. 10 p.m. $5/per class. Students and children Games and Activities including mahjong and “Peoplehood and Its Role and Significance in Kol Halev Recording: TBE. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Jewish Life:” BIC. 8 p.m. free. Learn the latest Israeli dances, line dances, quilting, including making quilts for children mixers and more. Families welcome. Thursdays. of Mott Hospital; 1 p.m. For information, Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: phone 971-0990. Chabad. Reading the Torah may be easy, but Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. Sharpen your Monday 19 understanding it is no simple matter. Study wits and knowledge of the Jewish legal system by Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): the text in the original, with the classical Rashi following the intriguing discussions in the Talmud. English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. All ages and levels welcome including UM and commentary. 8 p.m. Every Tuesday. The Talmud is a composite of practical law, logical Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– non-UM participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s argumentation and moral teachings. Study of the Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays Café, ground floor of UM Michigan League. original Talmud tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. at Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State For information, call 936-2367. Wednesday 14 Street. For more information, contact JFS at Hebrew 104: TBE. 5–6 p.m. 769-0209 or email [email protected]. Musical Meditations: TBE. 5:30–6:15 p.m. Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. Friday 16 Ongoing. Spirituality Book Club with Cantor Rose: TBE. Hebrew 101: TBE. 5:30–6:30 p.m. Men’s Torah Study: TBE. 7:30–9 p.m. Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. Tot 7:30–9 p.m. Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. Shabbat at 6:00 p.m. Tot dinner at 6:30 p.m. Topics in Jewish Law: AAOM. With Rabbi Rod Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Service. Tuesday 20 Glogower at the Lewis/Bernstein home, 1304 Thursday 15 Friday Night Live with HSSC and Anniversary Cambridge. 8–9:15 p.m. Birthday Shabbat. 7:30 p.m. Paradigm Shift–Transformational Life Teachings Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Friday evening services: See listing at end of calendar Chabad. Reading the Torah may be easy, but Thursdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. Join of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: Chabad. First understanding it is no simple matter. Study Diane Dahl for Callanetics featuring muscle firming . session of new six-session course by the Rohr the text in the original, with the classical Rashi through stretching exercises synchronized to music. Learning Institute. Course offered as part of Saturday 17 commentary. 8 p.m. Every Tuesday. $12/members; $14 non-members. 9:30 a.m. Energy series of local activities marking 20 years since the passing of “the Rebbe,” Rabbi Menachem Exercise with Maria Farquhar. $4 per session or 3 Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. sessions per month for $10; 10 a.m. Current Events; M Schneerson, “of righteous memory.” The Shabbat Limmud: BIC. 9 a.m. Wednesday 21 11 a.m. Homemade Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per Rebbe was a visionary religious leader who Chapel Service: TBE. 10–11:30 a.m. inspired countless individuals during his person; Noon. For information, phone 971-0990. Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. Shabbat services: See listing at the end of the calendar. lifetime and established a global network of Spirituality Book Club with Cantor Rose: TBE. educational, social, and religious institutions Mahj: TBE. Off-site. 1–3 p.m. Noon–1 p.m. to revive post-holocaust Jewish landscape. Hebrew 101: TBE. 5:30–6:30 p.m. Blood Pressure Screening: JCC Adult Program. Sunday 18 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. Nurses from CARE Response visit the JCC on Tuesdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. Board Meeting: BIC. 8 p.m. second Thursday each month to provide free Executive Committee Meeting: BIC. 9:30 a.m. Join Diane Dahl for Callanetics featuring blood pressure screenings and information on Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the muscle firming through stretching exercises staying healthy. No RSVP required. 12:30 p.m. basic text of Chassidism and discover the beauty synchronized to music. $12/members; $14 Thursday 22 Concert Presentation: JCC Adult Programs. and depth of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Every Sunday. non-members. 9:30 a.m. Energy Exercise with Caroline Helton performs from 1–2 p.m. Maria Farquhar. Low impact exercise in a Thursdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. Lag B’omer Picnic: Chabad. 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Diane Dahl for Callanetics featuring muscle Speaker Presentation: JCC Adult Programs. Saturday 24 firming through stretching exercises synchronized Presenting Lauren Zinn of Zinn House. 1–2 p.m. to music. $12/members; $14 non-members. 9:30 Wednesday 28 a.m. Energy Exercise with Maria Farquhar. Low Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4–7 p.m. Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50–9:50 a.m. Tot Shabbat: BIC. 11:15 a.m. impact exercise in a supportive environment. Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon Israeli Dancing: JCC. Easy and oldies from 7:30– $4 per session or 3 sessions per month for $10; 8:30 p.m. Intermediate and requests from 8:30– Shabbat services: See listing at the end of the calendar Hebrew 101: TBE. 5:30–6:30 p.m. 11 a.m. Homemade Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 per th 10 p.m. $5 per class. Students and children free. . person; Noon. Games and Activities including 5 Grade Family BBQ: BIC. 6 p.m. Learn the latest Israeli dances, line dances, mixers Sunday 25 mahjong and quilting, including making Hebrew 103: TBE. 6:30–7:30 p.m. and more. Families welcome. Thursdays. quilts for children of Mott Hospital; 1 p.m. For Brotherhood Dinner: TBE. Off-site. 6–8 p.m. Shmita Study Group: AARC. Group meets information, phone 971-0990. Thursday 29 Mahj: TBE. Held off-site. 7:30–9:30 p.m. on 4th Sunday mornings at the JCC from Paradigm Shift–Transformational Life Teachings Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. Sharpen January–June. Group delves into the sources of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: Chabad. First Thursdays at the JCC: JCC Adult Programs. your wits and knowledge of the Jewish legal and contemporary relevance of Sabbatical/ session of new six-session course by the Rohr Join Diane Dahl for Callanetics featuring system by following the intriguing discussions Shmita with lively dialogue on personal, Learning Institute. Course offered as part of muscle firming through stretching exercises in the Talmud. The Talmud is a composite social, communal and environmental series of local activities marking 20 years since synchronized to music. $12/members; $14 of practical law, logical argumentation and transformations. For information, phone 445- the passing of “the Rebbe,” Rabbi Menachem non-members; 9:30 a.m. Energy Exercise with moral teachings. Study of the original Talmud 1910 or email Marcy Epstein at dr_marcy@ M Schneerson, “of righteous memory.” The Maria Farquhar. $4 per session or 3 sessions tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. hotmail.com. 10–11:30 a.m. Rebbe was a visionary religious leader who per month for $10; 10 a.m. Current Events at Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the inspired countless individuals during his 11 a.m. Homemade Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3 basic text of Chassidism and discover the beauty lifetime and established a global network of per person; Noon. For information, phone Friday 23 and depth of Judaism. 10:30 a.m. Every Sunday educational, social, and religious institutions 971-0990. to revive post-holocaust Jewish landscape. Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. 12:30–1:30 p.m. . 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Presentation: JCC Adult Programs. Presenting Hip Hop artist Julius Theophilus. 1–2 p.m. Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. Tot Monday 26 Yiddish Tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): Shabbat at 6:00 p.m. Tot dinner at 6:30 p.m. All ages and levels welcome including UM and Back Door Food Pantry: TBE. 4–7 p.m. Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Service at 7:30 p.m. English as a Second Language Daily Classes: JFS. non-UM participants. 1:30 p.m. at Beanster’s Israeli Dancing: JCC. Easy and oldies from Shul-In: TBE AARTY. 9 p.m.–10 a.m. Ongoing class from 9 a.m.–noon on Mondays– Café, ground floor of UM Michigan League. 7:30–8:30 p.m. Intermediate and requests from 8:30–10 p.m. $5 per class. Students and Fourth Friday Shabbat: AARC. Musical Kabbalat Fridays and 1–3 p.m. on Mondays–Thursdays at For information, call 936-2367. Jewish Family Services, 2245 South State Street. Hebrew 104: TBE. 5–6 p.m. children free. Learn the latest Israeli dances, Shabbat services are held at the JCC and are line dances, mixers and more. Families led by Rabbi Michal Woll. Services followed For more information, contact JFS at 769-0209 Musical Meditations: TBE. 5:30–6:15 p.m. or email [email protected]. Ongoing. welcome. Thursdays. by a vegetarian potluck dinner. Pizza nosh for Topics in Jewish Law: AAOM. With Rabbi Rod

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32 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 Talmud Study Group–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. the JCC from 10 a.m.–noon integrating Sharpen your wits and knowledge of the traditional liturgy with music, chanting and Jewish legal system by following the intriguing contemporary readings including Torah discussions in the Talmud. The Talmud is a service and discussion. A morning of songs composite of practical law, logical argumentation and text study takes place the first Saturday of and moral teachings. Study of the original each month. For info, email [email protected] Talmud tractate. 8 p.m. Every Thursday. or call 913-9705 or visit www.aarecon.org. Shabbat Services: Chabad. Friday night services at Shabbat candle lighting time. Saturday Friday 30 morning services at 9:45 a.m. Afternoon services 45 minutes before sundown. Call Rabbi Levy’s Lunch and Learn: TBE. Informal 995-3276 for Home Hospitality and Meals for discussion. Participants are welcome to bring Shabbat and Jewish Holidays. lunch. 12:30–1:30 p.m. Shabbat Services: Pardes Hannah. Generally Shabbat Services for Young Families: TBE. meets the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each Tot Shabbat at 6 p.m. Tot dinner at 6:30 month. Call 663-4039 for more information. p.m. Popsicle Oneg follows. Shabbat Service 10 a.m. Led by Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg. honoring Rabbi Lisa Delson at 7:30 p.m. Shabbat Services: TBE. Torah Study with Rabbi Friday evening services: See listing at the end of Levy at 8:50 a.m. Morning Minyan with Rabbi the calendar. Delson and lay leaders at 9:30 a.m. Sanctuary Service at 10 a.m. most weeks. Call the office Saturday 31 at 665-4744 or consult website at www. templebethemeth.org for service details. Torah Study with Rabbi: TBE. 8:50 a.m. Home Hospitality for Shabbat and Holiday Dinner for Rabbi Delson: TBE TNT. Off-site. Meals: AAOM. Call 662-5805 in advance. 6–7:30 p.m. Home Hospitality and Meals: Chabad. Every Mud Hens Outing: AARC. Celebrate spring Shabbat and Holiday. Call 995-3276 in advance. with a trip to see the Toledo Mud Hens play the Charlotte Knights at Fifth Third Field in Phone numbers and addresses of Toledo. If interested, email [email protected] or leave a message at 445-1910. 7 p.m. organizations frequently listed in Shabbat services: See listing at the end of the calendar: the calendar. Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan (AAOM) Weekly Friday night Shabbat services 1429 Hill Street 994-5822 Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation Shabbat Service: AAOM. Services held at UM (AARC) Hillel. Call 994-9258 in advance to confirm P.O. Box 7451, Ann Arbor 913-9705 time. Beth Israel Congregation (BIC) Shabbat Service: BIC. 6 p.m. 2000 Washtenaw Ave. 665-9897 Shabbat Service: TBE. Tot Shabbat at 6 p.m., Chabad House followed by tot dinner. Traditional Service at 715 Hill Street 995-3276 7:30 p.m. Once a month Middle School Service Jewish Community Center (JCC) at 7:30 p.m. For information, call 665-4744. 2935 Birch Hollow Drive 971-0990 Shabbat Service: Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Jewish Cultural Society (JCS) Congregation. 6:15 p.m. at the JCC the fourth PRESENTS Friday each month. Musical Shabbat service 2935 Birch Hollow Drive 975-9872 followed by vegetarian potluck. Pizza nosh Jewish Family Services (JFS) for the kids at 6:00 p.m. Childcare provided 2245 South State Street 769-0209 during the service. All are welcome to Jewish Federation attend. For information, call 975-6527, email 2939 Birch Hollow Drive 677-0100 [email protected], or visit www. Pardes Hannah aarecon.org. 2010 Washtenaw Ave. 761-5324 Shabbat Service: Chabad. Begins at candle- Temple Beth Emeth (TBE) lighting time. Home hospitality available for 2309 Packard Road 665-4744 Shabbat meals and Jewish holidays. Call 995- CELEBRATING THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE 3276 in advance. UM Hillel 1429 Hill Street 769-0500 Weekly Shabbat services SUNDAYS & TUESDAYS FEBRUARY-MAY Shabbat Services: AAOM. Morning service, 9:30 with support from theride.org a.m. Evening service, 35 minutes before sunset. Call 662-5805 for information. Mincha/Ma’ariv with Seudah Shlisheet and Dvar Torah every Shabbat Candlelighting 5/4: Champagne (1928, Silent with live organ muSic*) week. Torah topics and a bite to eat. Discussions led by Rabbi Rod Glogower and other local May 2 8:14 p.m. 5/6: Vertigo (1958) scholars. Home hospitality available for May 9 8:22 p.m. (1959) Shabbat meals. UM Hillel. 5/11: north By northwest Shabbat Services: BIC. 9:30 a.m. Morning May 16 8:29 p.m. 5/13: psyCho (1960) childcare from 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. May 23 8:36 p.m. Shabbat Services: AA Reconstructionist 5/18: the manxman (1929, Silent with live organ muSic*) Congregation. Morning services held May 30 8:42 p.m. the second Saturday of each month at 5/20: Family plot (1976) 5/25: BlaCkmail (1929, Silent with live organ muSic*) 5/27: SerieS Finale! the Birds (1963)

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Coming this Summer: Impact Funds, continued from page 1 • Nine community organizations who do the DVD to extend the conversation, meet- JUNE 12 - AUG. 30 not receive regular allocations from the Fed- ing with small groups gathered in partnership eration received funding to engage in com- with local Jewish organizations. Summary munity projects either by themselves or in reports from the large and smaller conver- combination with others. sations will spark continued engagement in • Existing beneficiary agencies received Ann Arbor and beyond. seed funding to launch new projects. • Nearly 1,000 individuals have voted for Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congrega- their favorite proposals. tion: Food, Land and Justice: $5,000 Food, Land and Justice will be a year of • Community members and organizations interactive, educational activities for all ages have expressed appreciation at the opportunity that explore food justice and sustainable 734.433.7673 to participate in and benefit from Federation land use, and their basis in Jewish tradition. PurpleRoseTheatre.org disbursements not normally available to them. The activities will include days of learning Blatt says, “Over the last three years the through action, a youth farm curriculum and Jewish Community Impact Fund has become pilot project, and outreach educational mate- a signature program of the Jewish Federation rials. The group’s efforts will culminate in the that invites the entire community to engage Ann Arbor Jewish Food Festival, connecting with us to make our community stronger, Ann Arbor to a budding Jewish Food move- more collaborative and more inclusive.” ment. These activities will create connections 2014 awards by community voting to food justice and sustainability through Please join us on May 11 for personal experiences and help participants our Mother's Day Brunch! Jewish Community Center: JCC Scouts of develop a Jewish perspective on land use, ag- Ann Arbor: $7,500 ricultural practices, and tikkun olam. “The JCC Scouts of Ann Arbor” is a unique Many want to change the world and know scouting program offered to girls and boys in that their children are going to inherit that grades K–8. The program will foster a love responsibility. But teaching kids the value of for outdoor experiences and nature; teach a tikkun olam and finding meaningful volun- variety of skills not often taught in schools; teer opportunities is hard. Family Salon is develop character, leadership, citizenship and creating four fun and engaging ways for chil- 1703 Plymouth Road • Ann Arbor, MI 48105 a sense of personal achievement; teach ba- dren to nurture equality and happiness in the (734) 662-1711 • [email protected] sic principles of Judaism; and create unique community. In “Backpack-tacular” kids will Lunch 11-2:00 M-F • Dinner 5-9:00 M-Sat year-round niche for the JCC that will serve stuff backpacks with school supplies for un- as a feeder for other youth activities. Impact AysesCafe.com derprivileged children. In “Canvas for Kids” Grant funding will assist the JCC with travel participants brighten the hallways of Mott expenses for off-site field trips, overnights and Children’s Hospital. In “Apple Pickin’ Kids” program fees and ensure that every child who families will pick and donate apples to Food wishes to participate will be able to do so re- Gatherers. A “Gratitude Party” will highlight gardless of their ability to pay. participants’ appreciation for their efforts and will celebrate everyone’s achievements. Jewish Family Services: Jewish Family Life Education: $10,000 Jewish Cultural Society Sustainable JFS intends to rebuild and enhance ca- Sukkot: $2,500 pacity to provide Jewish Life Education and This proposal aims to engage everyone, but Outreach programs to the local Jewish com- especially intercultural, inter-married Jewish munity. These programs stopped expanding families through a culturally based Sustainable in 2008 when all JFS resources were diverted Sukkot celebrating diversity in Jewish culture to direct services in response to the economic and promoting inherent values of Jewish life. crisis. Funding is requested to partially cover Many families are intercultural, value their a new part-time position (0.4 FTE) of a Jew- Jewish heritage and want their children to ish Family Life Education and Outreach Co- maintain a Jewish identity. Sustainable Sukkot ordinator with the following responsibilities: will be a fun family-friendly, casual (Hamish) arrange six Jewish Family Life education pro- potluck. Favorite foods and recipes represent- grams; expand outreach to facilities with un- ing diverse cultures will be shared. A“green” der-served Jewish populations and establish sukkah will be decorated and there will be cultural activities for Jewish residents of these interactive presentations by the Community facilities; recruit and coordinate volunteers Farm of Ann Arbor. Recipes and stories will be and form a program committee to help with developed into an online database to continue planning and implementation; coordinate a the conversation through social media. partnership with the JCC (JFS has committed to provide transportation for up to six special Salon: Jewish Business Network: $1,000 older adult events, while JCC will cover space The Jewish Business Network (JBN) will and set up for up to six JFS Jewish Life Educa- be a hub for Jewish businesspeople in the tion programs held at the JCC). Ann Arbor area to gather, interact, promote When you only have one chance to their businesses and become better educat- catch that special moment Awarded by Selection Committee ed on a variety of topics. The JBN will be a place where: SPECIALIZING IN: Jewish Communal Leadership Program, • Entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas for BAR/BAT MITZVAHS Frankel Center, UM Hillel: Gesher.Edu: $9,000 funding FAMILY PORTRAITS Gesher.Edu leverages Ann Arbor’s com- • Business owners can seek advice on orga- CHILDREN bination of a world–class university and nizational challenges FAMILY CELEBRATIONS small-town intimacy to develop provocative · Members can be inspired by others’ suc- DIGITAL IMAGING intergenerational programming that radiates cess stories BUSINESS RECEPTIONS throughout the community. The three cam- · Fruitful relationships will be initiated pus organizations will develop a public pro- The objective of the JBN is to facilitate a gram featuring diverse voices keyed to local 734.546.0426 lively, connected community of Jewish busi- Jewish concerns (pilot year: “The Future of ness professionals – which coincides with the [email protected] Midwest Jewish Communities”) and produce susanayerphotography.com Federation’s mission to create and support a a DVD featuring insights and questions from strong and vibrant Jewish community. n the event. Trained facilitators will then use 34 Washtenaw Jewish News A May 2014 I Vitals

Mazel tov Rita Benn, on her bat mitzvah, May 2. Carla Grayson, on her bat mitzvah, May 3. Sarai Koster-Mockeridge, on her bat mitzvah, May 3. Judie Lax, on her bat mitzvah, May 9. Natalie Iglewicz, on her bat mitzvah, May 9. Julie Ellis, on her bat mitzvah, May 9. Abigail Gaies on her bat mitzvah, May 10. Sarah Caston on her bat mitzvah, May 17. Ian Rothsein, on his bar mitzvah, May 24. Lily Rosenberg on her bat mitzvah, May 24. Benjamin Ramseyer-Gordon, on his bar mitzvah, May 31. Sarah Lewis, on her bat mitzvah, May 31. Ethan Kahana on his bar mitzvah, May 31. Ron and Lonnie Sussman on the birth of their granddaughter, Anna Claire Sussman, daughter of Ari and Jaimie Sussman. Marilyn Friedman on the birth of her great grandson, Henry Wyn Lipson, son of Bryan and Sloane Lipson.

Condolences William Saalberg, on the death of his father, Jim Saalberg, March 11. Kathi Cohen, on the death of her mother, Ricki Nederlander, March 13. Eric Young on the death of his mother, Phyllis Young, March 3.

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