APRIL 11, 2019 – 6 NISSAN 5779 JEWISHVOL 43, NO 18 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG ON THE NORTH SHORE, PASSOVER MEANS FOOD AND MEMORIES Linda Sarsour and Roger Waters will lead a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions panel at UMass-Amherst on May 4. UMass-Amherst to host pro-BDS panel By Steven A. Rosenberg Israel to comply with interna- JOURNAL STAFF tional law.” The UMass event, which A roster of international lead- is being co-sponsored by the ers of the Boycott, Divestment, university’s Department of Dina Davidyan’s seder guests tap each other with scallions during “Dayenu,” a Sephardic tradition. Sanctions movement – led by Communication, Department Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters – of Women, Gender, Sexuality By Michael Wittner Manischewitz wine. Thelma on Atlantic Avenue in will lead a panel discussion at Studies and Resistance Studies JOURNAL STAFF For four North Shore women, Marblehead. “As a child, my UMass-Amherst next month. Initiative UMASS, is not a Passover is a holiday of food mother would greet four chil- The event, “Not Backing UMass-sanctioned event, and In the weeks leading up to and memories intricately inter- dren at the door and tell us to Down: Israel, Free Speech, no university or taxpayer funds Passover, North Shore kitchens twined with one another, full walk lightly because she’s got a and the Battle for Palestinian are being used to support it, are a flurry of activity. Ketchup, of tastes and smells that trans- sponge cake in the oven. A doc- Human Rights,” will take place according to UMass spokesman ginger ale, and onion soup are port them to different times and tor moved into town, and his at the UMass-Amherst Fine Arts Ed Blaguszewski. Blaguszewski poured into a bowl to season places. wife happened to walk into [my Center on May 4 at 6:30 p.m. said UMass does not support brisket. Matzah cake meal and Laura Goodman, of Marble- mother’s] shop, and said that it The event will be free, and open academic boycotts. potato starch are sifted together head, cooks a Pesadich sponge was going to be her first Pesach to the public. “Some departments have through a mesh bottom sieve cake recipe passed down away from home. So my mother According to its official web- chosen to list themselves as co- to make a Pesach sponge cake. from her Aunt Bertha. “I love did what any good Jewish moth- site, the Boycott, Divestment, sponsors to individually express And for the haroset: almonds, it because it’s written in my er would do – she said, ‘Come Sanctions movement or BDS, their support for the event, walnuts, hazelnuts, raisins mother’s handwriting,” said by my house – I want to make a “works to end international but the departments have not and dried dates are put in a Goodman, whose mother sponge cake for you for Pesach. support for Israel’s oppression provided any funding,” said blender and then soaked with Thelma Finger, owned RSVP continued on page 20 of Palestinians and pressure continued on page 10 What’s in a name? Millennial parents mix, match, and experiment By Michael Wittner mother Marcia, who passed which you certainly wouldn’t JOURNAL STAFF away,” said Campbell. have seen in an earlier genera- Like many other Jewish mil- tion.” Marisa Zelfond of Wakefield lennial parents, both Zelfond Data shows that millennial and Amanda Campbell of and Campbell chose offbeat parents are choosing increasing- Marblehead named their daugh- names that expressed their ly unique names. Jean Twenge, ters in similar ways. Zelfond personalities, but also honored a professor at San Diego State named her two-year-old daugh- their families and the Ashkenazi University, analyzed the Social ter Myla Miriam after her mater- Jewish tradition of naming chil- Security database in detail and nal grandmother, which is dren after deceased relatives. found that in 2015, 72 percent of reflected in her daughter’s first According to Jonathan Sarna, boys and 79 percent had a first and middle name. “Her middle professor of American Jewish name outside of the top 50 most name is after my grandmoth- History at Brandeis University, popular. er,” said Zelfond, the director Jews have joined the rest of the “Growing up as an Amanda, of account management for an country in giving their children everybody’s name was Amanda, IT company. “I wanted [her first increasingly diverse names in so I don’t want her to grow up name] to be an M – there’s sort recent decades. “Creativity in as Thea C., like I grew up as of an M tradition in my family, first names today is much more Amanda N.,” said Campbell, with my grandma being mostly acceptable in the United States whose maiden name is Neilson. known as Miriam, my mom is Thea May Campbell with a photo of her great-grandmother Marcia than it was before,” said Sarna. “I thought Thea was really ele- Marcy, and I’m Marisa … we Barron, for whom she is named. “There’s much more diver- gant and pretty – it has nothing thought Myla was really unique North Shore in Marblehead, name, and it has nothing to do sity. Where you have intermar- to do with anything.” and different.” also named her six-month old with Judaism, and we just did it riages, conversions, you see it Karen Tal-Makhluf, of Campbell, who teaches daughter Thea May after her because I liked it, but her middle even more. For example, one Marblehead, with three chil- preschool at the JCC of the grandmother. “Thea is a Greek name is May, after my grand- can think of Jewish ‘Christines,’ continued on page 20 The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations. Email [email protected]. 2 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – APRIL 11, 2019 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – APRIL 11, 2019 3 2019 #1 EMSculpt_Jewish Journal ad.2.qxp_Layout 1 4/4/19 10:58 AM Page 1 Venezuela native reflects ASK SUSAN! on a community in turmoil : Summer feels like it’s in the history of the Americas. 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