Look: Inside: Don’t Miss: im! Purim The Future New Happy Pur Events of Aging in Nickel Buffalo City Jews Page 7 Page 5 Pages 8,14,15 The Award Winning A publication of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo THE EWISH JOURNAL J OF WNY Buffalo, Israel & the Jewish World March 2015 | Adar-Nisan 5775 Get your Purim on! March 4-8 Say Happy Pesach and honor your friends in the Jewish Community. Say Happy Passover in the April issue of THE EWISH JOURNAL J OF WNY Call Cindy Oppenheimer at 716-972-2240 or Julie Ann Nagel at 716-972-2237 RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY! What’s Inside... THE EWISH JOURNAL J OF WNY Published by The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo March 2015 2640 North Forest Road Getzville, NY 14068 JCC Early Childhood children celebrate 716-204-2241 This issue of The Jewish Journal Purim at the Benderson Building. Cover design www.jfedbflo.com of WNY marks the 24th month of the by Catherine Sollenberger, photograph by newspaper, and also begins the third year Ellen Goldstein. of the publication. Three years! I am so proud of what we have all accomplished Interim Executive Director ........................................... Lewis Stolzenberg together! Who is “all of us?” Certainly, President ...................................................................Howard Rosenhoch Editor, Marketing and Community Relations Director ..Ellen S. Goldstein I am not using the “Royal We.” There Advisory Board are quite a few people who make this Susan Adelman Elizabeth Kahn Kenneth Rogers newspaper run! Partners in this venture have Jonathan Epstein Rabbi Gary Pokras Peter Simon included all those folks at the local Jewish Richard Hirsch Eric Reich Michael Weisman agencies, organizations and synagogues I talk Editor’s Note Editor’s with month after month, the writers and On The Cover photographers who have made meaningful The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Is a proud member of the Jewish Federations of North America and important contributions; Federation and the American Jewish Press Association colleagues, my friends, family and all the Produced by new friends I have made through the 3 Message from the JJWNY. From a practical point of view, I President: Howard Rosenhoch could not even come close to getting this 4 Camp Centerland’s New Senior Vice President/Creative Director ............................................Chastity O'Shei monthly paper out without the tour de force “Gretchen Gross” Building [email protected] of Spree Publications. 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Signed editorials do not represent the view of the newspaper or the Jewish 28-41 Agency Events Federation of Greater Buffalo, but rather express the view of the writer. 29 March Calendar All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Ellen Goldstein - Editor Act of 1968, which makes it “illegal to advertise “based on race, color, religion, 42-43 Jews in the News sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly 44 Not The Last Word accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available Departments Miriam Greenberg on an equal opportunity basis. 2 www.jfedbflo.com | March 2015 Dan Metchnik, Federation’s Community Relations Director and JJWNY Managing President’s Column Editor Ellen Goldstein, who is providing staff support to our Buffalo delegation, and AIPAC’s Northeast Regional Director Sarah Walsh, are partnering to make Buffalo’s Howard Rosenhoch presence at Policy Conference a success. The importance of the Policy Conference and its positive impact on our Buffalo At Federation, we remain focused community cannot be over emphasized. We will be in the strongest position ever, on building community through through our attendance at and active participation in the high quality plenary and collaboration. breakout sessions, to immerse ourselves in the critical U.S. – Israel policy issues of the To that end, in February the day. This will prepare us for the all-important culmination of the Conference, lobbying Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies and cementing our personal relationships with our local Congressional representatives. and Temple Beth Zion collaborated on a Through these efforts, the unbreakable U.S. Israel strategic partnership will remain luncheon for Florida-based Buffalonians. strong and vital. Of equal importance, the participation of students from UB at Policy We joined our Florida Snowbirds and Conference will prepare them for the ever important task of countering the increasing transplants at the Boca Raton Resort campus instances of anti-Semitism and attempts to delegitimize Israel by, among and Club on February 13. TBZ Senior others, promoters of the infamous Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement Rabbi Gary Pokras described initiatives against Israel. under way at TBZ, and I discussed Even though we don’t reach Passover until April (I’ll save my official greeting for a developments at Federation. Our Florida- Happy Passover until the next issue of the Jewish Journal), we will nevertheless have based Buffalo contingent remains a vital part of our Buffalo Jewish Community. Many our annual Passover celebration and teach-in for our non-Jewish community partners. thanks to Peter Fleischmann and Rabbi Pokras for making sure the local connection to That’s right! We will once again hold our Community Interfaith Passover Seder on our Florida contingent remains strong, and for inviting me to update on Federation’s Thursday evening, March 19, at Temple Beth Zion’s Rabbi Fink Auditorium in the agenda. Thanks especially to the Floridians with “Buffalo Jewish hearts” for the warm spectacular Delaware Avenue building. Nearly 300 people attend each year, most from welcome upon joining us for the luncheon. And to those of you Buffalo Floridians our sister and