The Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties 33707 St. Petersburg, FL Avenue 6416 Central Jewish Press of Pinellas County Inc. Bay, Tampa The Jewish Press Group of recently expanded the mailing list it shares with the Jewish Press in an effort to connect with as many members of the Jewish community as possible. If you do not wish to continue to receive the paper, contact [email protected] or call (727) 530-3223. www.jewishpresspinellas.com VOL. 33, NO. 4 ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA A SEPTEMBER 7 - 20, 2018 TWO SECTIONS, 24 PAGES May You Be Inscribed In The Book Of Life For Good The Jewish Press Group U.S. POSTAGE PAID U.S. POSTAGE of Tampa Bay, Inc. Bay, Tampa of PRESORTED STANDARD Federation names INSIDE Ezra Singer president; JustJust Compliedaa nosh..nosh.. from news wires In flip-flop, Paraguay’s embassy welcomes new board is leaving Jerusalem for Tel Aviv While Ezra Singer has only lived JERUSALEM — Israel closed its embassy in Para- in St. Petersburg for three years, he guay following an announcement by the South American just made a big commitment to the country that it was relocating its embassy back to Tel Jewish community by becoming the Aviv four months after moving to Jerusalem. new president of the Jewish Federa- The move comes as Paraguay joins the effort to tion of Pinellas and Pasco Counties. bring peace to the Middle East. “Paraguay wants to contribute to an intensification of regional diplomatic The Federation also welcomed the efforts to achieve a broad, fair and lasting peace in the slate of officers and directors for the Middle East,” Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni 2018-19 year during its first meeting told reporters. From the Virtual Reality film, “The Last Good Bye,” Holocaust survivor Pinchas of the fiscal year. Shortly after the announcement of the return to Tel Gutter takes viewers inside a barracks at the Majdanek death camp in Poland. Singer, a native of New York, Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled moved here with his wife, Skip- Ezra Singer his country’s ambassador to Paraguay and then ordered the Israeli embassy closed. Netanyahu also holds the per. They selected the locale for Film reveals a new reality foreign minister’s portfolio. its vibrant arts community and comfortable climate. Prior to “Israel views with great severity the unusual decision his move to Florida, Singer lived in Columbus, OH, where of Paraguay, which will cloud bilateral relations,” the For- for Holocaust remembrance he worked as an executive with L Brands and served on the eign Ministry said in a statement. NEW BOARD continued on PAGE 13 Paraguay opened its new embassy in Jerusalem in The Florida Holocaust Mu- setting film on Sunday, Sept. 16. May, a week after the United States moved its embassy seum in St. Petersburg has been The limited engagement exhibit is to the capital from Tel Aviv and days after Guatemala selected as one of only four in the expected to remain at the Florida moved its embassy. nation to premiere a a virtual real- Holocaust Museum through mid- ity film,The Last Goodbye, which January. Theater in the Rye offers Israeli on way to explosives detection enables viewers to virtually walk The Last Goodbye features sur- seminar arrested for fake bomb at airport in the shoes of a Holocaust survi- vivor Pinchas Gutter’s visit to the kosher slice of Broadway An Israeli man heading to Florida for a police training vor as he retraces his steps from a site of the Nazi death camp Maj- seminar on X-ray detection of explosives was arrested at J.D. Salinger gave us Catcher in the Rye and some railroad boxcar into a Nazi death danek in Poland. Gutter, 86, is the Newark Liberty Airport for carrying a realistic-looking fake unknown culinary genius came up with pastrami on rye, homemade bomb. camp. only member of his family of four but it takes a rye sense of humor to come up with this Alon Felman, 50, was charged Sept. 4 with creating a The USC Shoah Foundation to have survived the Holocaust. false public alarm and interfering with transportation after -The Institute for Visual History Viewers, wearing VR headsets, one: Jo-El’s Theater in the Rye. Step right up and order your tickets quickly because a Transportation Security Administration officer at the and Education, one of the co-pro- will get a fully immersive experi- airport saw the item in his carry-on and alerted a supervi- ducers of the film, selected Jewish ence, visiting the site with Gutter there is seating for only 100 at St. Petersburg’s latest sor, according to local media reports. museums in Chicago, Los Ange- as he travels in life-sized projec- entertainment venue on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 4:30 p.m. TSA temporarily closed the third level of Terminal C at les and New York, as well at here tions through the railway car, gas when Jo-El’s Kosher Deli & Marketplace is transformed the busy international airport while it confirmed that the to show the 17-minute film in its chamber, shower room and bar- into the Theater in the Rye for a production of Tops from device was not a working bomb. A local bomb squad was Flops: An Exuberant Tour of Musical Theater. called to the scene. first museum exhibitions. racks of Majdanek seven decades Feldman was headed to Panama City, for the training All four museums will simulta- later. THEATER continued on PAGE 14 conference. He could face a civil fine of up to $13,000 for neously premiere the precedent- FILM continued on PAGE 7 the incident. Allow me to help you find a new home for your Mom and/or Dad Contact me today at 727-512-0909 INDEPENDENT LIVING • ASSISTED LIVING NO NEED TO DO IT ALONE FREE PLACEMENT SERVICE MEMORY CARE & IN-HOME CARE Michelle Krys Cohen [email protected] St. Petersburg Senior Placement Advisor ADVERTISEMENT PAGE 2 A JEWISH PRESS of PINELLAS COUNTY SEPTEMBER 7 - 20, 2018 Check Out These Events! www.JewishPinellas.org Save These Dates! Sep 18 . Erev Yom Kippur Sep 19. Yom Kippur Sep 21. Fed Friday #3 Sep 23. Erev Sukkot Sep 24. Sukkot Begins Sep 28. 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Standard Class Postage Permit: TAMPA PI #3763 SEPTEMBER 7 - 20, 2018 JEWISH PRESS of PINELLAS COUNTY A PAGE 3 I love Israel Perspective Column writer Aliza Norstein, her hus- Aliza Norstein band, Keith Norstein and Jordyn Schw- Federation Fellow ersky, all of Pinellas County, attended the national Young Leadership summer mission to Israel, sponsored by the Jew- ish Federations of North America. The three earned their trip by serving for the past year as Federation Fellows volunteering their time for various projects of the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties. I love Israel. I always have. Maybe it’s because much of my family lives there. Maybe it’s because I feel comfortable surrounded by other Jews. Maybe it’s because I’m not the minority with the odd name Aliza and Keith Norstein in Jaffa overlooking Tel Aviv and even odder eating habits. Maybe it’s because I feel a spiritual connection to the Jew- ish ancestral homeland. I can’t nail down one reason why I love Israel so much because there are too many reasons to love such a magical and historic place. Zionism is part of the fabric of who I am as a person. Israel provided a home to my father and his family af- ter fleeing Morocco.