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Tucson J and Arts for All will integrate, expand programs

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Classifieds .............................35 Commentary ..........................6 Community Calendar...........32 In Focus.................................34 Local ................ 3, 5, 12, 13, 14, .............................17, 26, 27 News Briefs ............................9 Obituary................................30 Our Town ..............................35 Rabbi’s Corner ......................29 Reflections............................ 31 Shlicha’s View ......................28 Synagogue Directory...........30 WINTER PUBLICATION SCHEDULE Nov. 22 Dec. 6 Dec. 20 Jan. 10

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Mind, Body & Spirit... 12-16 Philanthropy ........... 17-27 Restaurant Resource ....10-11

Taglit participants, friends, and Tucson Jewish Community Center staff gather for a semi-formal dance at the J on April 19, 2019.

PHYLLIS BRAUN AJP Executive Editor

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he Tucson Jewish Community Center will expand its capacity to serve people with disabilities by integrating Arts for All, a Tucson-based organization founded in 1985, into its programming early next year.

Arts for All provides opportunities for adults and children with and without disabilities to par-

ticipate in performing and visual arts.

The integration will increase the number of people the Tucson J can serve through its current Taglit day program for young adults with physical and cognitive disabilities, and expand the range of ages it serves.

“For years and years, the J has had inclusion in our camp program,” says Todd Rockoff, CEO of the J. “Almost 10 years ago now, as

children were aging out of camp but still desiring to participate at the J, Taglit was created. Taglit is for individuals with disabilities that are post-high school up to age 39.”

Taglit supports participants in developing life and job skills that promote increased independence in areas such as problem-solving, community participation, and expressing creativity. The program had maxed out at 25 participants

before the J’s renovation and expansion four years ago. “We added the second floor [Taglit space] during our renovation in 2015 to be able to move from there to where we are now, at about 45,” says Rockoff.

But there is still a large waiting list for Taglit, he says, adding that “throughout the J, inclusion still takes place in our after-school care program, in our summer See Arts, page 4

CAI scholar-in-residence to animate Shabbat with song, story PHYLLIS BRAUN AJP Executive Editor

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abbi Cantor Hillary Chorny of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles will bring new music and innovative, interactive Shabbat services to Tucson as Congregation Anshei Israel’s scholar-in-residence, Dec. 13 and 14. Her visit will culminate in a cantors’ concert with her sister-in-law, CAI Cantorial Soloist Nichole Chorny.

Beth Am’s rabbi cantor will begin her weekend here, she says, “by modeling what it means to do a Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat experience that mostly uses

new music.

So, how to introduce it, how to sing it, how to integrate and weave it, how to train your Rabbi Cantor lay folks Hillary Chorny who are natural leaders.” This doesn’t necessarily mean the people with the best voices, she explains, but rather those who “can pipe up and create the momentum” that turns a new tune into one that’s familiar enough that others will jump on board.

It’s also important to know how to figure out the right balance of new versus old, so it feels Cantorial Soloist like there’s Nichole Chorny enough innovation — “that it feels like Friday night is not the same as it was two, or five or six years ago” — while still honoring the fact “that nostalgia and custom are cornerstones of people’s experience,” she says.

CAI’s Chorny is excited about the format for the Friday night

service. “It’s going to be in the round, but in a very tight round,” she explains. Instead of the leaders being at the front, they will be in the middle of the circle, with “everybody gathered close together.”

“It should be a very moving experience, being able to pray in a different way,” she says.

The Friday night service, which also will include special meditations, will take place at 5:45 p.m., followed by a dinner (RSVP and a fee are required for the dinner).

At 7:45 p.m., Beth Am’s Chorny will offer Shabbat songs and a discussion on “The Torah of Innovation.”

See CAI, page 4

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LOCAL BSTC star party to feature comet-finder Levy

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eth Shalom Temple Center in Green Valley will host a star-gazing evening with acclaimed astronomer and author David H. Levy, Ph.D., on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Levy is among the most successful comet discoverers in history, having discovered or co-discovered 23 comets, nine of them using his own backyard telescopes. With Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory in California, he discovered Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994. That episode reportedly produced the most spectacular explosions ever witnessed in the solar system. Levy currently is involved with the Jarnac Comet Survey, based at the Jarnac Observatory in Vail, Arizona.

“The subject of this presentation is the story of my life,” says Levy. “I have had over 70 happy years, along with the eclipses, comets, displays of the northern lights, and a cosmic impact that have punctuated the years. Even though the cycle of my life story centers on the night sky, some of its details concern my lifelong battle against depression,” Levy says, explaining that he was a shy and lonely child who found comfort in his early looks at the night sky.

“As the years passed, I turned my childhood friendship with the night sky into a passion for it. I now have many, many good friends (many of them astronomical friends),” he says.

Levy is an adjunct scientist and member of the National Advisory Board for

Astronomer David Levy with Cupid, a Questar telescope that was a wedding gift from his wife, Wendee.

the Flandrau Science Center at the University of Arizona. He is the author or editor of 35 books and other products. He won an Emmy in 1998 as part of the writing team for the Discovery Channel documentary, “Three Minutes to Impact.” He was the science editor for Parade Magazine; a contributing editor for Sky and Telescope Magazine, writing its monthly “Star Trails” column for 20 years; and his “Nightfall” feature appeared in Skynews magazine. He currently writes a monthly column, “Skyward,” for a number of periodicals.

The presentation is at 1751 N. Rio Mayo in Green Valley, at 7 p.m. A telescope viewing and book signing will follow. The cost is $10. For reservations and more information call 648-6690.

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n Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman killed 10 congregants and injured six more at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. The gunman himself was shot but survived. On Aug. 26, 2019, the U.S. Attorney in Pittsburgh announced that federal prosecutors would be seeking the death penalty in the case.

Temple Emanu-El will hold a free public forum on Wednesday, Dec. 4 from 7-9 p.m., to explore the proposed death penalty in the case of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting and to consider the death penalty from Jewish, legal, and philosophical perspectives.

The “Forum on the Death Penalty and Judaism: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shootings and Beyond” will include five expert panelists to lead a discussion of the issues. The panel includes Rabbi Batsheva Appel of Temple Emanu-El; Rick Unklesbay, a veteran Pima County prosecutor and author of “Arbitrary Death: A Prosecutor’s Perspective on the Death Penalty”;

Amy Krauss, a criminal defense attorney and specialist in capital case appeals; Dan Cooper, a criminal defense attorney and veteran of capital case trials; and Michael Gill, a professor of philosophy at University of Arizona.

Jewish communities in America, and leaders and members of those communities, hold a range of beliefs about capital punishment, and the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings have put some of those beliefs to the test. Two of the leading Jewish movements are generally opposed to capital punishment. Two of the three congregations that shared the Tree of Life building have registered their opposition to seeking the death penalty in this case.

The surviving spouse of a victim also has asked that the death penalty not be sought.

Advance registration for the forum is recommended but not required. Call Temple Emanu-El at 327-4501, or visit www.tetucson.org/deathpenalty.

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Both programs are licensed by the Arizona State Department of Economic Security Division of Developmental Disabilities. The new alliance will allow clients to flow between both programs, with services provided at both locations: the J at 3800 E. River Road, and Arts for All at 2520 N. Oracle Road.

What that means for the J and the com-

munity, says Rockoff, is “the ability to accommodate more individuals with disabilities between the two delivery systems.”

“The other thing,” he emphasizes, “is Arts for All serves an older age group as well, so we will not be at risk of some of our participants aging out of our program. This integration allows the J to really be one of, if not the largest, provider

of day program services for people with and without disabilities.”

The J’s department of special needs services will be retitled the department of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Rockoff adds, and will include, along with Taglit and Arts for All, the J’s inclusive Sparks cheerleading team, JPride, and the new Women InPower fellowship.

“I am excited to witness the synergies that will result from the J and Arts for All coming together to better serve those in our community with disabilities,” says Sarah Singer, the J’s incoming board chair. “This collaboration will enable both organizations to better leverage their respective expertise, experience, and knowledge.”

Arts for All programming will continue to operate under the Arts for All name. Berger will become a key member of the J’s leadership staff while Frank Hernandez, currently assistant director with Arts for All, will become the J’s program director for Arts for All.

as singing a prayer more slowly or with a tune that evokes the Middle East rather than a klezmer melody — “and now I’m picturing a different place when I close my eyes.” The second way might be described as more cerebral: a cantor might explain why and how they’ve edited a Shabbat Psalm, for example, “and then we’re delivering, as a package, a new meaning there.”

At Anshei Israel’s Shabbat morning services on Dec. 14, Rabbi Cantor Chorny will present “Targum and Torah” during some of the aliyot, or Torah honors, standing next to the Torah reader, and translating verses in a dramatic, story-focused way. For the D’var Torah, she will engage congregants in a Bibliodrama.

The idea of Bibliodrama, which was popularized by a man named Peter Pitzele in the 1980s, she says, “is to challenge people to respond to a prompt as characters in the biblical text.

She gives an example: “You are Shi-

frah or Puah (Hebrew midwives in ancient Egypt). You’ve just learned that Pharaoh said all male Jewish children must be killed immediately upon birthing them. You are sitting in a birthing room, a male baby has just emerged, and you are standing there holding a crying baby in your arms. Talk to us as a group and tell us how you feel.”

On Saturday night at 7 p.m., the two Chornys will present a concert with the theme, “Hadeish Yameinu K’kedem: Renewing Our Days as of Old.” CAI’s Chorny explains they’ll be using familiar liturgical texts to introduce some of the newest music in the Jewish world, and, since the concert begins after Shabbat, they’ll be able to use instruments.

Raised in San Diego, Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a B.A. in Jewish studies and a minor in vocal jazz performance. After working as a Judaics instructor and music director in various Jewish communities and

camps, she pursued her dream of becoming a cantor. In time, teachers and family inspired her to also pursue the rabbinate.

She completed her cantorial investiture, rabbinical ordination, and a master’s degree in sacred music at the Jewish Theological Seminary before joining the staff of Temple Beth Am in 2014.

Nichole Chorny is a native Tucsonan with a degree from the University of Arizona in music education, with an emphasis in choral music. She has been cantorial soloist at CAI since 2014, and has been active in the Tucson Jewish community as a service leader and Jewish educator since 2006.

For the Friday night dinner, the CAI member fee, if reserved by Dec. 9, is $18 for adults, $12 for children. For guests, it is $23 for adults, $15 for children. Prices are $5 more per person after Dec. 9.

RSVP is also requested for the concert, with a suggested donation of $18 per person.

RSVP at www.caiaz.org or 745-5550.

ARTS camp and early childhood,” among other programs.

“About a year and a half or two years ago, Marcia Berger, who is the executive director of Arts for All, began a journey to look for a partner to work with. As she says, she was looking for Arts for All to be ‘the jewel in someone else’s crown,’” says Rockoff, noting that the organizations’ similar missions, visions, and values around working with individuals with disabilities soon made it apparent that the J and Arts for All were “a very strong fit.”

“I am thrilled,” says Berger, “to have found a partner organization with a commitment to arts, culture, and serving people with disabilities.”

The plan to integrate the organizations was passed by both boards of directors in late October.

Photo courtesy Arts for All

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The purpose of innovation, she explains, is rooted in the idea that there are two sides to prayer. “There’s fixed prayer, and there’s the intentionality that comes behind the prayer.” There’s “keva,” the liturgy one is obligated to say if following Conservative or Orthodox tradition, and there’s “kavanah,” or intention.

Innovation keeps prayer from becoming rote. “If you’re married to the idea, as I am, and as people who tend toward belonging to Conservative synagogues are, that you are going to stay loyal to that keva, to saying those same words, it’s hard to maintain kavanah without changing something that allows you to change the view or the angle of the experience.”

Cantors can use music to infuse new meaning in two ways, she says. One is by giving songs a different feeling, such

Arts for All day program participant Brent Quihuis uses a laser art technique with teaching artist Harriett Morton.

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Congratulations to the winners of the AJP ticket contest, who will each receive a pair of tickets to see a preview performance of Arizona Theatre Company’s

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LOCAL Tracing Roots program to continue in 2020 Pozez lecture will tackle ‘Aliyah of the Mind’

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he Tracing Roots intergenerational program, a partnership between Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging and Tucson Hebrew High, will be held at Handmaker again in 2020, beginning Sunday, Jan. 12. High school student participants will be paired with Handmaker residents and get to know them through the Jan. 12 orientation session, Shabbat dinner, and three group meetings. The partners will work on a project together, creating a Facebook or other social media page or a physical scrapbook, adding to it at each meeting, and using social media and the internet to help search out friends and memories from the past.

The program will culminate in a community event on Sunday, April 26, which will include a video about the program and a chance for partners to meet families.

The program has openings for 12 high school student participants. The application/contract, which is due Dec. 13, is available on the Hebrew High website at http://bit.ly/34YL2jy. Participants do not have to be enrolled at Hebrew High. The application must be signed by the student and one parent; it may be scanned and emailed to nlevy@handmaker.org. Tracing Roots 2020 participation will be con-

Tracing Roots 2.0 participants Sophie Silverman (left) and Elaine McLain admire a piece of art from the program at Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging.

firmed by Dec. 23 by email.

The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona provides funding for the program.

In addition, this year, JFSA’s Hebrew High received a grant from Legacy Heritage Fund as an alumni school of the Better Together Program to help defray costs of the community event. As a result of this grant, all student participants will have an opportunity to submit an essay to the Better 2 Write program contest, and one participant will receive up to $5,000 toward Jewish camp, or up to $8,000 toward a semester or gap year in Israel, and be entered into a national contest for additional scholarship funds.

avid Hazony, Ph.D., why it is important for the will present “Aliyah future of Zionism. of the Mind: Zionism Hazony received his as Jewish Emancipation” on Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy Monday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. at from The Hebrew Univerthe Tucson Jewish Commusity of Jerusalem. He has nity Center, as part of the Aribeen a fellow at the Shalem zona Center for Judaic Studies’ Center in Jerusalem, was Shaol & Louis Pozez Memothe founding editor of The David Hazony rial Lectureship Series.

Tower Magazine and was Most people think Zionism is about editor-in-chief of Azure. His articles supporting Israel. But really it means frequently appear in such periodicals as something much deeper: It’s about The Jerusalem Post, The New Republic, building and doing and Jewish pride, Commentary, The Jewish Chronicle, says Hazony, who is currently the ex- and Moment. He also is a frequent comecutive director of the Israel Innovation mentator on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox Fund. Zionism was launched a century News. He serves as a contributing ediago as a revolution against the stagna- tor at The Forward. He is the author or tion of Jewish life and in the face of editor of several books including “The increasingly dangerous anti-Semitism. Ten Commandments: How Our Most Hazony will focus on both public and Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modeducational aspects of this new ap- ern Life” (Scribner, 2010), which was proach to promoting Zionism and Jew- a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish ish values in the 21st century. He finds Book Award; and “New Essays on Zionthat the way to attract today’s young ism” (coedited with Michael Oren and people to Zionism is to connect them Yoram Hazony, Shalem Press, 2007). with the vibrancy and creativity of con- His translation of Uri Bar-Joseph’s “The temporary Israeli culture. He will ex- Angel” (HarperCollins, 2016) won the plain how he thinks this can work and 2017 National Jewish Book Award.

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COMMENTARY As children of survivors, Rohingya genocide reminds us of the Holocaust SUSAN LOWENBERG AND HOWARD UNGER JTA

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he was 16 years old and alone in a refugee camp in a foreign country when we met her. Sobbing, she told us how she hoped that her brother might be somewhere in this camp, “camp number 18.” She had heard that he might be alive — if so, he would be her only surviving family member. Or maybe he was in another of the many camps that have been established in Bangladesh for the Rohingya, a Burmese Muslim minority who fled genocide in Burma.

We saw displacement on an unimaginable scale. An estimated 800,000 Rohingya have endured harrowing conditions to reach a country that cannot indefinitely host this many people. A tipping point — for the Rohingya and Bangladesh — is coming. If their plight is unaddressed, it will have long-lasting consequences for the region and beyond — and for people like the girl we met.

A Rohingya refugee on the second anniversary of the Rohingya crisis in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Aug. 25, 2019

Yet the Rohingya cannot return home, at least not now, as doing so would be to face the risk of genocide yet again.

Although we visited the refugee camps

as members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s governing board, we primarily viewed this unforgettable experience through our own identities as

the children of Holocaust survivors. It’s unlikely that young girl had ever heard of the Holocaust, and she almost certainly had never met the children of people who survived Nazi Germany’s genocide.

The Holocaust happened in a different time, in a different place, and to different people.

But the Rohingya can all too easily understand the sense of abandonment our parents felt. Our parents wouldn’t have needed to speak her language to instantly understand the fear, desperation, and loneliness conveyed by her words.

Few people spoke up for our families in the 1930s and ’40s. That’s why we went to Burma and Bangladesh today, and why we feel such a deep responsibility to tell the Rohingya’s stories. We hope to help move the international community to action and do for them what wasn’t done for our families.

The camps’ conditions are squalid, and physical depravations alone are more than See Rohingya, page 7

My son’s Orthodox Jewish school is 85 percent Muslim. That’s OK with me was a little anti-Semitic incident at school today.”

Breathe in, breathe out.

“What happened this time?” I asked.

The last time there had been a “little anti-Semitic incident” was when Lucas mentioned being Jewish in a religious education class during the first year of secondary school, and one of his classmates teased, “Hope you don’t get gassed!” That time I had to bring it to the school’s attention.

My husband and I grew up in insular

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y heart jumped when I saw the phone number of my oldest son’s school on the screen.

“Hello?”

“Is this Dr. Skinazi?”

“Yes.” “Don’t worry, Lucas is fine. Only — I just wanted to let you know that there

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Canadian Jewish communities. We attended Jewish day schools through high school, Jewish sleepaway camps and Shabbatons. We met on our year abroad in Israel. When we had kids, I wanted them to have the same strong sense and love of Yiddishkeit that I had. So we sent them to Jewish preschools and Jewish day schools.

When my husband was offered a job at the University of Warwick, in Coventry, England, a place with a negligible Jewish population, I realized our children would have upbringings very different from our own. But in many ways I was excited about what that meant: friends from all kinds of backgrounds, worldliness, empathy across ethnic and religious lines. Also, who doesn’t love a British accent?

We moved to Birmingham so that we could send our children — who were then all elementary school age — to King David Primary, the only Jewish school between London and Manchester. Small and heimish, academically solid in both secular and religious studies and located in a lovely, leafy area of this city, it was a no-brainer. My children would not only get a Jewish education, but they would also get the diversity I treasured and lacked in my own youth: the KD students and their families come from Britain, Israel, America, Canada and France — as well as Pakistan, India, Malaysia and Bosnia.

About 85 percent of the student body of King David Primary is Muslim. If you enter the schoolyard, you’ll see most mothers wearing headscarves; many wear a full niqab. Some of the girls wear headscarves, too, and the boys, who are required to cover their heads (it is an Orthodox Jewish school, after all), wear the Muslim white knit caps that seem barely distinguishable from kippahs.

The kids all participate in daily prayers, covering their eyes and reciting the Shema. They do weekly school kiddushes, eat in a sukkah on Sukkot and perform a mock seder before Passover.

In England, where there is no separation of church and state, a “collective act of daily worship” is required by all primary schools according to the School Standards and Framework Act of 1998.

Unless the school is a specific faith school, that worship must be “wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character.” In other words, as we and many other religious minority groups see it, all schools in England are faith schools — some are just more honest about it.

Religious schools here are state-funded and require that applicants fill out a nominal Declaration of Practice of Faith to receive priority admission (this practice-based determination emerged as a result of a 2009 landmark case in which a child was not granted admission to a London Jewish state school because his See School, page 8

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enough for concern. But it is the potential long-term consequences of this human catastrophe that most concerned us.

The Rohingya have lived in Burma for generations, but for decades, the government has treated them as second-class citizens or denied they were citizens at all.

Today, the Burmese government has shown it is unwilling to restore full citizenship to the Rohingya. They are required to live in segregated areas and denied access to education, health care and the basic protections of the state. Anti-Rohingya activity has waxed and waned, but the persecution began accelerating in intensity two years ago.

Burma is a predominantly Buddhist country. Like many Westerners, we perceived Buddhism’s adherents to be unwaveringly committed to nonviolence. Certainly many of them are. But the Holocaust teaches us that all humans are susceptible to hatred and persecution of

The tragedy of the Rohingya is different from the genocide of the Jews.

What is not different is the danger of inaction. “the other.” That is one of its timeless lessons.

We were shocked at the blatant official racism and nationalism that defines Burma’s government and especially its military. At least some Burmese government immigration offices post signs saying “Mother Earth will not swallow another race to extinction, but another race will.” The Rohingya cannot forever remain in Bangladesh. But how can they return home to such sentiments?

Stranded in one country and unwanted in their home country, they languish. Educational opportunities, including English language courses, are reasonably available to school-age children in the camps. But what good is an education if there’s no chance of using it to build a livelihood? Indeed, one of the remarkable aspects of life

there is the absence of what makes life worth living: a future. Everywhere we saw people idling away the hours.

A few small, odd jobs may arise to relieve some of the intense boredom, but there was nothing constructive for these people to do or strive toward.

The Rohingya refugees would like nothing more than to return to their homes and support themselves. But the reality is that absent a concerted international effort to resolve this crisis, the Rohingyas’ future is grim.

The tragedy of the Rohingya is different from the genocide of the Jews. What is not different is the danger of inaction and the responsibility to promote our common humanity, and for the victims, the sense of profound grief at the loss. As the children of Holocaust survivors, we will do what is in our power to ensure that their story does not end like those of our families.

Susan Lowenberg is from San Francisco, California, and serves on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s board.

Howard Unger is from Chappaqua, New York, and serves on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s board.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the AJP or its publisher, the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.

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mother’s conversion was not recognized by the chief rabbi). Answering only one question in the affirmative (i.e., “Do you perform the Mitzvah of Mezuzah by ensuring one is affixed to the front door of your home?”) is sufficient to be considered Jewish by the state’s standards.

So, Jewish children are given priority, but with a limited number of Jewish kids to fill the classrooms of King David, the doors are opened wide to children of the neighborhood — and neighboring faiths.

Some Muslim families choose King David because it offers a good education.

Others appreciate its kosher food, which many Muslims consider halal. And it is thought that a school that is intended for a religious minority is likely to be more sensitive to religious minorities.

One Muslim friend of mine, whose sons are classmates of my children, told me about her family escaping the Bosnian genocide. I told her that my grandparents were Holocaust survivors. She said that our tragic history and sense of community — similar to her own — was part of what drew her to the school.

At its core, Islam has very close ties to Judaism, and grassroots organizations are popping up around the globe to remind us of our connections. So why should I be surprised that our Muslim friends make up some of our greatest allies?

Let me return to the call from my oldest son’s school. Lucas is in secondary school, having graduated from King David a number of years ago. The secondary school has a diverse student body and tries to be sensitive to the different needs of the students, but we have our

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grievances. Every year we have to argue with the school to let Lucas take the Jewish High Holidays off (we’ve involved our rabbi and a religious education advisory committee).

Still, things go smoothly for the most part. Lucas likes his school.

The recent incident involved a boy who was new to the school. Every period, he was asked the same question by the teacher: “What brought you to our school?” and every period he gave the same answer: “My teacher at my last school was Jewish! And I hate Jews!”

When he got to Lucas’ class, he repeated this behavior — and the person who stood up for my son was a Muslim student named Omar.

“Hey, that’s rude,” Omar said. “And also kinda racist!”

Omar and Lucas are not really “mates,” as they say here. I don’t think that’s why Omar stepped up when the situation arose. I think that in addition to having parents with good values, Omar is sensitive to racism, and particularly anti-Jewish racism, because he is a graduate of the King David Primary School.

Maybe it’s a “funny thing” that Muslims say the Shema, as observers to the school have noted, and maybe the Jewish education does not have the depth it would have if all the students were Jewish. But it does seem to have a profound effect on the children who go there, and these children carry with them a respect for Jews that they spread far and wide.

Karen E. H. Skinazi, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer and director of liberal arts at the University of Bristol in the UK. She is author of “Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture” (Rutgers University Press, 2018).

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the AJP or its publisher, the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.

NEWS BRIEFS Blue and White party head Ben- tus of the West Bank.

Deeming settlements illegal “hasn’t ny Gantz told Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he is unable to form a government.

Gantz made the announcement on Wednesday evening, about four hours before his mandate to form a government was scheduled to expire at midnight.

Gantz spent the last 28 days trying to cobble together a coalition government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so. Netanyahu was first tapped to try to assemble a government following the September national elections.

Israeli lawmakers now have 21 days to identify another lawmaker to try and form a government. The signatures of 61 lawmakers are required to charge another person with the opportunity.

Failing that, Israel will go to its third elections in less than a year, which would be scheduled for the first half of March.

Gantz said that he will continue his efforts over the next 21 days “to form a good government for the citizens of Israel,” according to a party statement.

Earlier in the day, Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Liberman, whose eight Knesset seats both Gantz and Netanyahu would need to form a government, announced that he would not join either a narrow right-wing or a narrow left-wing government. Liberman is holding out for a secular unity government without the religious and haredi Orthodox parties and without the Joint List of predominately Arab parties.

— Marcy Oster, JTA

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The Trump administration will no

longer regard West Bank Jewish settlement as illegal.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in reviewing the history of U.S. policy on settlements said that since 1978, the United States has regarded settlements as illegal. But, he said, successive presidents have turned a blind eye to some settlement building while condemning other instances.

Pompeo said at a brief news conference Monday on an array of issues that it would now be the U.S. position that “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements is not per se inconsistent with international law.”

That, in addition to moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli and cutting aid to the Palestinians, brings the Trump administration closely in line with the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Pompeo emphasized that the recognition would not extend to settlements that Israel’s courts deem illegal and the new position does not prejudge the sta-

advanced the cause of peace,” Pompeo said. “There will never be a judicial conclusion to the conflict.”

Netanyahu in a statement said that the U.S. decision “rights a historical wrong” and Israel “will continue to reject all arguments regarding the illegality of the settlements.”

Blue and White party head Benny Gantz, who is trying to form a government coalition, also applauded the U.S. move.

“The fate of the settlements and the residents of Judea and Samaria should be determined by agreements that meet security requirements and that can promote peace,” he said in a statement.

— Ron Kampeas, JTA

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Jewish groups joined a coalition

of national civil rights organizations in demanding that President Donald Trump remove Stephen Miller as his senior policy advisor over his support for white supremacists.

The Anti-Defamation League, Bend the Arc, and the Union for Reform Judaism signed a letter sent earlier this week to Trump on behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

“In his role as your senior advisor, Stephen Miller has promoted hate speech spewed from neo-Nazis, bigots, and white supremacists,” the letter said.

Southern Poverty Law Center earlier this month published hundreds of emails sent by Miller to a reporter at the conservative Breitbart News, many of them racist and anti-immigrant in nature.

“Supporters of white supremacists and neo-Nazis should not be allowed to serve at any level of government, let alone in the White House. Stephen Miller has stoked bigotry, hate, and division with his extreme political rhetoric and policies throughout his career. The recent exposure of his deep-seated racism provides further proof that he is unfit to serve and should immediately leave his post,” the letter said.

The groups said that Miller’s beliefs led to the implementation of several policies that hurt immigrants, people of color, and marginalized communities, including the Muslim travel ban, efforts to end the DACA program for undocumented immigrants brought to America as children, and the family separation policy.

“Unless and until you fire Stephen Miller — and all who promulgate bigotry — and abandon your administration’s anti-civil rights agenda, you will continue to be responsible for the violence fueled by that hate,” the letter concluded.

— Marcy Oster, JTA

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magine telling adolescents, “You don’t have to say you’re going to quit using drugs” and then dealing with their parents and community. Imagine encouraging young clients to talk about what they like about drugs instead of focusing on the harm drugs can cause.

Counter-intuitive and certainly non-traditional, these approaches are part of the Seven Challenges counseling program developed in 1991 by Tucsonan Robert Schwebel, Ph.D., that has offered a radical change in the world of drug treatment, first for adolescents and now for adults.

His program is used in hundreds of residential, intensive outpatient, school, and other settings across the country, including “Pathways of Arizona,” a behavioral health services provider with locations in Tucson.

“You can’t shout out ideas like these that are so counter to mainstream thinking,” Schwebel says. “They are fundamentally different from the judgmental, disempowering, controlling, and narrowminded approaches that have completely dominated the field.” He says you have to explain them person-to-person, “but they make so much sense that people eventually agree.”

Schwebel takes the same approach in “Leap of Power: Take Control of Alcohol, Drugs, and Your Life” (Viva Press, 2019), his new self-help book that provides specific guidance and practical strategies — information formerly available only in counseling — for anyone concerned

Robert Schwebel, Ph.D., a Tucsonan since 1981, is the author of ‘Leap of Power.’

about their use of alcohol or other drugs.

“On a personal level, I feel that my Jewish background influences a big part of what motivates me in my work, in particular the idea that you can be successful, but — and it’s an important but — you must make a contribution to the world,” Schwebel told the AJP. “Also, I follow the Jewish tradition of activism to promote social justice. My focus on drugs is in part because there’s significant stigma, misunderstanding, and prejudice toward people with drug problems.

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“Like other groups, the Jewish community has been reluctant to acknowledge problems. ‘Leap of Power’ is very deliberately written to reduce stigma and empower people to confront drug problems, bring them into the open, talk

about them without shame, and take action to overcome them,” he says.

Most often, people do not go for drug treatment until they are desperate. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 97% of those with diagnosable drug problems do not perceive a need for treatment.

People may be reluctant to seek treatment because they expect judgment and criticism. Schwebel says we need to stop telling people what to do about drugs and start supporting them and helping them make their own informed decisions. Instead of accepting dogma that there is only one solution, immediate abstinence, Schwebel seeks to empower readers to take control of their own lives: to become aware of all their options and make their own decisions about if, when, and how to change their drug use behavior. “You can modify your plans as you go along until you figure out what works for you,” he says.

Schwebel disagrees with the popular notion that people have an incurable disease and are powerless over drugs. He tells readers that even if they have been told they are powerless, and even if they feel powerless, they absolutely are not.

For those who say they can’t stop once they start, he says you can decide not to start.

The book leads readers through a systematic process that helps them think about what they like about drugs — what See Leap, page 16

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Allison Wexler, the J’s speAJP Assistant Editor cial abilities coordinator, overomen caring for sees the support group. She children of all ages started out as a group parwith disabilities ticipant. “My daughter with can find support with the Jewspecial needs is 18 now, and a ish Mothers/Grandmothers freshman at the University of Special Needs Support Group, Arizona. When I started atTeresa Corbin which meets at the Tucson tending the group, she was in Jewish Community Center. “It really middle school. Those were very tough doesn’t matter what the special need or years socially for her, and I appreciated disability is, the feelings around it are the validation and support I got from the very similar,” says Joyce Stuehringer, who group. Other moms were experiencing started the group in February 2013. similar challenges, and the group made The group welcomes anyone — Jewish us all feel less isolated,” she says. or not — with a child or young adult with Group facilitator Corbin recently reany special needs, from dietary to mental tired to Tucson after a 30-year career health, autism spectrum disorder, physi- in human services. She has a bachelor’s cal disability, severe allergies, sensory in- degree in psychology and a master’s in tegration disorder, learning disability, and clinical social work. She has experience cognitive issues. The group relaunched its working with developmentally disabled monthly meetings in October with vol- adults, neuro-typical and neuro-atypical unteer facilitator Teresa Corbin. children and adolescents, and college stuStuehringer shares her experience dents. with her now-37-year-old son. “He was “I find group work to be an extremely never diagnosed but I always knew there effective modality for processing emowas something. In the ’80s there was little tions, providing support and developing awareness and [there was] shame. I felt skills and strategies,” says Corbin. “The so isolated. Every mom is stressed out group provides a relaxed environment sometimes. Put that on steroids when that is as conducive to laughter as it is to your child has special needs. I felt it was tears. Ideally, the group is a safe and nonimportant to start a group like I wish judgemental space that gives participants I’d had.” She says that in this group, you the confidence to tap into their inner wisknow you’re being heard and understood. dom.”

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needs they are satisfying or attempting to satisfy. Once people know what they are seeking through drugs, they have the option of finding other ways to deal with life, he says.

Early in his career, Schwebel operated free drop-in centers in Berkeley and San Francisco, California. He moved to Tucson in 1981 to direct a community-based drug treatment agency. Until recently, he also maintained a private practice. For nine years, he wrote a weekly psychology column for the Sunday edition of the Arizona Daily Star. He hosted a series of monthly television specials called “Good Loving” for KVOA Channel 4. He appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Today Show,” “The CBS Early Show,” CNN interviews, and has provided interviews for local media across the country.

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needs are different now. Those years of feeling isolated have passed, and now I find my role as a listener and supporter within the group to be extremely rewarding. I’m grateful to Joyce Stuehringer and the J for starting and sustaining such an

com. He has been the subject of articles in national print media including Newsweek, USA Weekend, Parents Magazine, Redbook, and U.S. News and World Report. He is the author of five other books, including “Saying No Is Not Enough,” and numerous professional publications.

Over the years, Schwebel has been involved in community issues, serving first on the Tucson Council and then on the Governor’s Council for Children Youth and Families in Arizona. On the national level, he was the author of a monograph “Helping Your Children Navigate Their Teenage Years: A Guide for Parents” for the White House Council on Youth Violence. His work extended across the border to Mexico when he was appointed and served for many years on the public health committee of the Arizona-Sonora Commission.

Currently, he develops materials for The Seven Challenges program and remains active in program oversight and clinical direction. He also promotes drug policy reform. His wife, Claudia, has been a close companion in all of this work.

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ewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Arizona recently partnered with a national initiative that provides emergency funding to local Holocaust survivors. Assistance from the Seed the Dream Foundation and KAVOD-Ensuring Dignity for Holocaust Survivors now is available for any Holocaust survivor through the new KAVOD Survivors of the Holocaust Emergency Fund.

This funding is available to Tucson area survivors in need, regardless of other support they receive, in whatever environment they live. KAVOD SHEF funds may be utilized quickly, with few restrictions, to address unmet emergency needs such as dental, vision, medical, utilities, home repairs, rent support, and food.

Graham Hoffman, president and CEO of the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, brought the initiative to Tucson this summer with the encour-

Tucson Holocaust survivors (L-R) Sidney Finkel, Wolfgang Hellpap, Walter Feiger, and Pawel Lichter

agement of the Seed the Dream Foundation. “I was deeply moved,” he says, when he heard of growing unmet emergency needs of Holocaust survivors around the country. “When the opportunity was created for Jewish communities in Arizona to secure matching funds to enable our philanthropic dollars to go twice the distance

in meeting these needs, I was committed to ensuring these resources be available to survivors in Southern Arizona.”

There are about 60 Holocaust survivors in Southern Arizona served by JFCS. JFCS first became involved with KAVOD when its co-founders, John and Amy Israel Pregulman, visited Tucson in Febru-

ary to take portraits of 46 local Holocaust survivors for their Survivor Legacy Photography Project.

“We are so pleased to partner with KAVOD and Seed the Dream Foundation to help us better meet the needs of Holocaust survivors in Southern Arizona who face occasional or frequent financial hardship,” says Susan Kasle, vice president of community services at JFCS. The funding already has been used locally to assist with emergency medical bills and for food support. It is not cash support, but pays service providers directly or provides food gift cards, Kasle explains.

“The fund is important for survivors in need,” adds Raisa Moroz, JCFS’s program manager for services for Holocaust survivors. “They can call us for screening and we also can offer other services to those who haven’t yet connected to JFCS, perhaps someone who has moved from out of state, or previously didn’t have a need but now does. This is another way See Survivors, page 20

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Maximizing philanthropic impact: Why capacity building and unrestricted giving matter most GRAHAM HOFFMAN Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Philanthropy is increasingly a hands-on endeavor. Donors, particularly in making sizeable philanthropic investments, want to understand the impact of their donations on the causes they support. This approach has influenced the philanthropic landscape, resulting in many nonprofits soliciting program-designated or restricted donations rather than unrestricted support in an attempt to cater to donor preferences.

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The Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, also known as Rambam, offered a model of hierarchical prioritization for philanthropic giving that is often referred to as “Rambam’s Ladder.” At the top, the highest form of tzedakah is philanthropy that enables the recipient to achieve self-reliance. In an organizational context, giving at its best achieves this highest rung of Rambam’s Ladder by helping organizations help themselves through critical investments in the fundraising, governance, systems, and professionals that enable each nonprofit to become increasingly effective and self-reliant. Moreover, unrestricted gifts can have the added power to magnify the impact of the entire nonprofit — including all of the programs that individual restricted gifts would seek to augment — and ensure the nonprofit is able to continue its work now and for generations to come.

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grown dramatically over the past decade to provide comparative analyses of nonprofits informed largely by publicly reported financial disclosures.

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Yet, looking only at the overhead ratio devalues crucial pieces of a nonprofit’s infrastructure, oversimplifying what qualifies as work in support of the organization’s goals.

In order to create a path forward, donors and organizations need to build trusting, stable relationships that result in increased willingness to empower nonprofit professionals to prioritize financial resources for the areas most critical to their organizations’ success. In turn, organizations must deliver predictable, reliable results, instead of leaning on well-packaged and well-meaning, but nonetheless anecdotal, demonstrations of success. As donors see increasing achievement of measurable results, they can be more confidently engaged in increasing unrestricted support for the organization’s work.

The trend toward more informed and data-driven philanthropy is altering the nonprofit landscape and has brought with it an influx of knowledgeable, engaged philanthropists. It has also stewarded some trade-offs around restricted giving and capacity building, the complexities of which are important for every donor to begin to grapple with and understand as they move forward in their philanthropic journeys. In the Jewish philanthropic sector, we will continue to prioritize and invest in Rambam’s most highly-prized selfsufficiency for nonprofits by undertaking the critical capacity-building work that ensures growing, successful, sustainable, and increasingly impactful organizations equipped to address and support the evolving needs in our community. We hope that by elevating the philanthropic sector beyond the limitations of overhead ratios — and supporting nonprofits in delivering predictable, reliable results — we will forge great partnerships between the benevolent commitments our funders undertake for our community and the critical organizations that carry out the work every day.

Donors want to feel comfortable that their philanthropic investment will be managed wisely, carefully, and well.

Graham Hoffman is the president and CEO of the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona.

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of getting the support they may need or haven’t otherwise requested,” such as socialization opportunities, counseling, or financial assistance.

KAVOD will work with more than 15 communities across the United States, including Phoenix, where survivors can access KAVOD SHEF assistance through Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Phoenix.

Recent studies indicate that up to 80,000 Holocaust survivors are living today in the United States — and more than 30,000 are living at or near the federal poverty level. The support these survivors receive does not always allow them to afford what they need in order to live a dignified life. Many must choose between heat or food, medicine or rent, according to KAVOD. Others have dire living conditions because they do not have the funds needed to repair their homes.

“The issue is not going away and is not dwindling! Our survivors are getting older and are having bigger financial stresses.

We only have a few years left with these courageous individuals and we feel it is our responsibility to take care of them and offer them peace in their final years.

They have been through enough and as a human community, we are responsible,” says Amy Israel Pregulman, executive director of KAVOD. “Every day, we lose more than 40 Holocaust survivors, and yet every day we continue to see hundreds of new requests for care. There is no time to waste,” adds Marcy Gringlas, Seed the Dream Foundation president and co-founder.

To learn more about KAVOD SHEF, visit www.kavodensuringdignity. com. Contact Moroz at JFCS for assistance information, 795-0300, ext.

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In Ukraine, some Jewish aid comes with a catch CNAAN LIPHSHIZ JTA

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lina Feoktistova always knew she was Jewish, but the first time she sought contact with the community was to see if it could pay her tuition.

Feoktistova’s family couldn’t afford to send her to college, but the local Jewish community provides an alternative in the form of the Jewish University of Odessa, an accredited institution that offers tuition and room and board at no charge.

Founded in 2003, the university features five-year programs in a number of fields, including foreign language, early childhood education, law, business, and Jewish studies.

“I was crying. I really didn’t want to do it,” said Feoktistova, 28, who studied literature at the school. “[My family had] no funds for college for me. The Jewish community was there for us.”

After graduation, Feoktistova found work as an office administrator with Tikva, the Orthodox group that runs the Jewish University of Odessa along with a host of other identity-building and educational programs. And though she married a Jewish man and raises her two children in an observant home, Feoktistova does not fit the stereotype of an Orthodox Jewish woman.

On a Saturday evening earlier this month, she wore a black leather biker jacket over a long dress with a matching studded kerchief in her hair as she smoked her first post-Shabbat cigarette.

“I’ve accepted my fate,” Feoktistova joked.

About 360,000 Jews are estimated to live in Ukraine, most of them in Odessa and other major cities, and Jewish groups have used their robust welfare systems not only to help those in need, but also to overcome the indifference and aversion to Judaism that was instilled here during the communist era.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, provides assistance to any Jewish applicant it deems needy, regardless of their participation in communal activities. But other Jewish organizations often require communal engagement, from enrolling children in Jewish educational programs to attending synagogue, in exchange for help.

In Odessa, the estimated 30,000 Jews are eligible for free services through the Jewish community’s various institutions, which include two community centers, a

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Alina Feoktistova at the Tikva Jewish education complex in Odessa, Ukraine, Nov. 2, 2019.

dozen schools and two orphanages. Families and the elderly can get hundreds of dollars a month — a significant sum in a country where the average monthly salary is about $300.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, a network affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic movement, also runs a Jewish university in Odessa, which it describes on its website as “a path out of poverty and into Jewish service.”

The engagement-for-aid model has had a meaningful impact on “breathing life into the dry bones” of a moribund community, according to Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, director of intergovernmental relations at the Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical Center of Europe.

“Some might even call it a bribe, but it’s legitimate — and it works,” said Jacobs, citing the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, who allowed parents to use candy to motivate children to study.

“Of course, Russian-speaking Jews are not babies, they’re sophisticated people, but from a Jewish perspective they are like captured babies — people who know nothing about Judaism because of oppression,” Jacobs said. “It’s OK to offer them something they need as a way to acquaint them with Judaism so they can decide in an informed way if they want it in their lives.”

Many young Ukrainians in this city and beyond seek a connection to Judaism without financial incentives. The Limmud FSU conference here last month attracted 600 participants who paid nearly $200 to attend the weekend event at a resort.

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Hundreds meet in Kyiv for teen conference

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ore than 400 Jewish teens from around the world gathered for the sixth annual Active Jewish Teens Conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov. 7-10, organized by the JDC, the global Jewish humanitarian organization also known as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. A bar/bat mitzvah ceremony for five teens, a conference first, was one highlight.

“In much of the rest of the world, a b’nai mitzvot marks the entrance of young people into adulthood and the obligations of Jewish community life. But for AJT teens, this sense of responsibility and identity are already on the fast track. They are the emerging leaders of the post-Soviet Jewish space,” says Michal Frank, director of JDC’s former Soviet Union operation. “Their enthusiasm is key to building not just the future of Jewish life in this part of the world, but globally as they build bridges to other Jews the world over.”

The gathering, created and run by AJT

teens, drew participants from across the former Soviet Union, as well as the United States, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Austria, Israel, and Germany. More than 150 workshops explored the theme, which was the Jewish experience in communities around the world.

In another first, teens with special needs attended the conference. Modeled after the work of Krembo Wings, an Israeli organization for social integration of children and teens with special needs, this participation was part of a pilot project to integrate teens with special needs into AJT. AJT is powered by a partnership with Genesis Philanthropy Group, among other philanthropists, and an ongoing partnership with BBYO, the worldwide pluralistic teen movement.

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hometown of Tevye from “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Yarelchenkos not only found shelter, but work and a sense of community.

“I never thought I’d go to synagogue, much less live in a Jewish village,” Sergey told JTA. For other Ukrainian Jews, the community was a ticket to big city life.

Haya Saphonchik, a 27-year-old kindergarten teacher, enrolled in a Jewish school in Odessa primarily to escape her impoverished hometown of Kremenchuk.

“My mom had no money to send me to Odessa,” Saphonchik said. “She asked me when I was 17: ‘Do you want to stay in Kremenchuk in a regular school, or do you want to go a Jewish school in Odessa?’ Of course I went to Odessa.”

After graduating from high school, Saphonchik went on to study at the Jewish University in Odessa, where she met her husband, Uriel, who came to study computer programming from his native Russia. Though she came initially for financial reasons, she stayed because the school offered her more than just an education.

“I found great beauty,” Saphonchik said, “a great mutual responsibility for each other that I didn’t know existed and which ended up giving me the best things that I have in life.”

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One participant, Vlodymyr Zeev Vaksman, a 38-year-old active in the Odessa Jewish community, said he sought out the Jewish community after suffering bullying in school. Connecting with his Jewish identity, Vaksman said, “helped restore my pride in it because it’s hard to be a proud Jew when you’re being beat up in school almost every day for being Jewish.”

Others, however, are clearly induced to get involved out of necessity.

Rivka Bendetskaya attended a Chabad school in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia where she grew up. Her family was poor and not religious, but the Chabad school offered free meals and long hours. At 16, Bendetskaya came to Odessa to pursue a degree in business management at Chabad’s Jewish University. The five-year program would have cost about $17,000 at a regular university, an unaffordable sum for her family.

Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko had little to do with the organized Jewish community before they were forced to flee their home in Lugansk during the 2014 revolution. At a Jewish refugee camp set up outside Kyiv by Rabbi Moshe Azman, who named it Anatevka after the fictional

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id you know … that the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona is a 501c3 charitable organization?

Did you know … that the Federation in turn supports six local community agencies that also are nonprofits?

They are the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging, Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center, Tucson Hebrew Academy, and the Tucson Jewish Community Center.

Did you know … that the Federation provides burials for indigent Jews who otherwise would be buried in a potter’s field? Recently, the Federation facilitated the burial of a community member’s loved one who otherwise would not have been able to afford a traditional Jewish burial. Making this happen involved the coordinated efforts of JFSA, JFCS, Rabbi Batsheva Appel of Temple Emanu-El, Evergreen Cemetery, and Pima County.

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he Women’s Philanthem joy. Being an active thropy Advisory Counmember and leader within the cil of the Jewish FedJewish community and wider eration of Southern Arizona Tucson community brought is seeking nominations for the me more joy than I could have 14th annual Bryna Zehngut ever imagined,” says Erika SpiMitzvot Award, recognizing vack, the 2019 winner. “One an outstanding Jewish teenage voice has the power to make a girl. The award honors Zehndifference and I urge all young Erika Spivack gut, a community leader who women to use their power died in 2005. within the Tucson community because Nominees should be high school ju- you are never too young to make a difniors or seniors who have modeled Jew- ference.” ish values and shown leadership through Spivack is currently attending the their volunteer activities. The winner will University of Wisconsin-Madison, and receive a $613 gift, relating to the Torah’s works with Blessings in a Backpack, a 613 mitzvot, which may be used toward nonprofit that helps to support food inparticipation on a trip to Israel or a Jew- secure children. Next semester, she plans ish leadership or educational program, to volunteer with children in the greater or donated to a Jewish non-profit orga- Madison community, either at a day care nization. The honoree will be recognized center or in a museum. at the Women’s Philanthropy 2020 ConNominee requirements and applicanections Brunch on Sunday, March 8 at tion forms are available online at bit.ly/ Loews Ventana Canyon, featuring Dr. zehngut2020.

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Nominations cannot be submitted by “I encourage young women to aspire a family member but can be self-submitto be great and find things that bring ted. Applications are due Jan. 17.

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SHLICHA’S VIEW Gaza clash evokes painful memories of rockets, shelters INBAL SHTIVI Weintraub Israel Center

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s these words are being written, an Israel-Gaza truce has been already achieved, after 48 hours of intensive fighting. The attack from Gaza — retaliation for an Israeli action against an Islamic Jihad leader — included over 300 rockets fired at Israeli communities near and far.

Eighty Israelis were treated by medical emergency units, among them old and young, men, women and children.

School was canceled for over 1 million children and workers were told to stay home. A “special situation” was declared.

In summer 2014, my family and I experienced Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. We lived, then, 40 kilometers from Gaza, and had a shelter built inside the house.

If a warning siren sounded, we had exactly 60 seconds to get from wherever we were into the shelter. The residents of Hof Ashkelon have less than 30 seconds to do the same. It is extremely frightening to be in this situation. Sirens go off again and again, bombs explode above your head. You might be on the phone, in the restroom, or the shower. You might be just trying to put your child to bed, or picking them up from a routine after-school activity. Code Red is announced and all of a sudden you are in a different world.

One night, back during Protective Edge, I was sleeping when the siren went off. My daughter Alma was then 5 years old. She heard the siren and went to our bed. Her dad was already awake. I remember her trying to wake me up. She wouldn’t let me stay in bed when I should be inside the shelter. The fact that she had to take this responsibility hurts.

After this incident we decided to go north, take a break from this madness. After a short drive out of town

we found ourselves lying in a ditch, beside the car, with a 5-year-old beneath me, looking up and seeing the Iron Dome missile defense system in action. I couldn’t stop thinking — my god, we are in the 21st century. I have all the technology in the world, I am healthy and self-sufficient. Why do I have my daughter experiencing war?

For those who live closer to the border, this is routine.

My friend who lives in the Hof Ashkelon area once told me her child is a “missile child.” She was born into an ongoing fighting situation and is affected by this. Another friend from the area described an afternoon during which he could not find his daughter throughout the kibbutz, while sirens were going off and everyone else was already sheltered. He could not hold back the tears when he told me this.

In Ashkelon, a building this time received a direct hit. One Israeli woman died from her injuries; another worker was injured. In another place, an 8-year-old was rushed to the hospital with a heart attack. Thanks to Iron Dome, these were the only major physical injuries reported on the Israeli side. Most of the others were injured by falls running to a shelter, or were treated for shock.

Some 34 Palestinians, including children, died in Israeli airstrikes.

These few days of fighting will pass, and fade into the background. A new routine will begin. Organizations that specialize in mental health and assistance will continue to work with groups and individuals. Medications will be prescribed to help those who need them to overcome symptoms of stress and anxiety. Mothers and fathers will tell funny bedtime stories. People will go back to work. School will re-open. Teenagers will go back to the mall. At dinner, people will talk about politics, money, and TV shows.

Until the next time.

Inbal Shtivi is Tucson’s shlicha (Israeli emissary) and director of the Weintraub Israel Center.

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RABBI’S CORNER On visit to migrant detention center, recognizing our collective responsibility RABBI STEPHANIE AARON Congregation Chaverim I was humbled and inspired to travel Nov. 3-6 with other rabbis and cantors to El Paso and Juarez, along with staff from HIAS (formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) and T’ruah, a rabbinic organization for human rights, to visit detained immigrants near the U.S.Mexico border. These are my reflections from the journey. isiting Otero Detention Center, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, we actually are entering a jail.

But what crimes have the detainees committed?

And why isn’t it called a prison? Why is everyone from the warden to the guards to our guide putting on happy faces? While these actually are prisoners, people who are accused of committing crimes, these detainees only have committed the “crime” of leaving home; of walking many miles across the desert to a promised land; they have committed the “crime” of fleeing for their lives; the “crime” of seeking sanctuary.

Every morning, we pray umanos li, and You, Holy One, are my refuge, my sanctuary. You are that safe place that we call home. This is the place that these men were seeking, but what they found in their asking, in their seeking, in their journey born of fear and despair, was this: a place of detention also born of fear and despair; the fear and de-

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spair of many people in this country, our fellow citizens, our fellow travelers, the fear of the stranger.

We are in a “dorm.” This euphemism causes my very bones to shake. The last time we Jews encountered this much distortion of words and their meanings, we were in Nazi Germany heading for disaster. This is a men’s dorm yet I am certain that the man/boy’s eyes I look into are younger than 18. I cannot stop looking; I want to hold this young man who keeps wrapping and unwrapping his blanket. He is lying in a bunk bed. He should be out leaping and running and being alive; instead he is here shrouded in a blanket. When we enter and exit this “dorm,” the doors are unlocked before us and locked behind us. I am confused about my purpose here; facts on the ground, yet all I want to do is grab the boy, load him onto the bus and take him to safety.

As the tour continues we see in rapid succession space after space. Answers flow quickly before questions are asked.

Because I am me, I explore the word “detain.” I stumble along in my thesaurus: delay, keep, impede, hinder, arrest, hold, capture, confine, and control. I immediately remove “keep” from the list. “Keep” is our Shabbas word; I cannot have this word reside here on this list yet, if only, these men were being kept safe, protected by me, by my country, while they sought the sanctuary they came for.

I also want to remove “hold” from the list because “hold” is what I try to do every day of my life. Hold onto Torah, to G-d, to a life of mitzvot, hold on to other hu-

mans, strangers, family, and friends as we make our way through our lives in the delicate balance of hope and fear, love and anger, joy and justice. I do not want to hold, to stand as a barrier to these asylum seekers.

I trudge back to the bus on this beautiful blue-sky day aware that the state I am in, New Mexico, bears the motto “land of enchantment.” But the soul state I am in is so far from enchantment, I have to remind myself to breathe.

I catch my breath with the recognition that I am both jailer and visitor; I am the guard in this detention center as surely as if I held the keys in my hands and turned the lock. What is done here in the land of enchantment is done by me, by you, by each one of us.

“This land is your land; this land is my land, from California to the New York Island,” is about everything that happens shore to shore; everything that is done in your name, in my name, in all of our names. Here for the next few hours, my strongest emotion is shame. I am ashamed for each one of us; I am red-faced and burning. We are Jews; we are commanded to know the stranger, to love “our” strangers, but here we are shredding the Haggadah, forgetting, when we are constantly taught to remember, we were strangers in the land of Egypt. We were persecuted, oppressed, and enslaved. In Nazi-conquered Europe, we were persecuted, hunted, and slaughtered. We must stand up and reopen the borders of our hearts. We must not do the same to these fellow humans who are only seeking freedom from fear.

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Congregation or ChadaSh 3939 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85718 • (520) 512-8500 Rabbi Thomas Louchheim, Cantor Janece Cohen www.orchadash-tucson.org Shabbat services: Fri., 6:30 p.m.; 1st Fri., Friday Night LIVE (Sept.-May); 2nd Friday, Tot Shabbat (Sept.-May), 6 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. / Torah study: Sat., 8:30 a.m.

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OBITUARY Harry Katz Harry Victor Katz, 81, died Oct. 31, 2019, in Coral Gables, Florida.

Mr. Katz was born on June 14, 1938, in Los Angeles, where he spent the first 26 years of his life with his parents, Alfred and Lillian Katz, and his brother, Roger Katz.

He attended John Marshall High School and then enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. Upon his return from the service and while in the Reserve, he worked as a stockbroker in an investment firm in Los Angeles. There he met and married his wife. In 1965, they moved to Nogales, Arizona where he became a partner of Capin Mercantile Corporation. His love and knowledge of travel, cars, watches, and investing were among his favorite avocations.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Diane Capin Katz; daughter, Mary (Richard) Kinkade of Coral Gables; brother, Roger Katz of Ventura, California; and two grandchildren.

Services were private. Memorial contributions may be made to your favorite charity.

Obituaries printed free of charge may be edited for space and format. There is a nominal fee for photographs. Please inquire at 319-1112 for obituaries.

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recently returned from a fantastic trip to Israel — an interfaith delegation sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona. Our group consisted of 28 dynamic and open-minded people — a vibrant and deeply engaged mix of faiths, ethnicities, and professional backgrounds.

Together we walked, climbed, and explored the LAND — from religious, historical, and archaeological sites in Jerusalem, Masada, and the Golan Heights to the military complex of Israel Aerospace Industries, a leader in both the defense and commercial markets, where the Iron Dome was developed.

We enriched our understanding by reading TEXTS, from Biblical to contemporary. We read Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sources that informed the foundation as well as the continuing conflict that defines the only democracy in the Middle East.

We focused our attention on the diversity of PEOPLE who inhabit this thriving country. Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims, Christians, Bahais, and Druze, settlers in the West Bank, and immigrants from Africa, Russia, and the Philippines. Secular and religious, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, each one sharing a different story, a different struggle, a different Israel.

And as we wove a tapestry of these three aspects of Israel — land, people, and texts — a common thread emerged. In fact, a single phrase defined our major takeaway: IT’S COMPLICATED. I first lived in Israel in 1974 when Israel, at 26, was only five years older than I. Now, 45 years later, it’s hard to reconcile the Israel of today with the one I knew back when my apartment had no hot water or heat and the (non-Arab) world was predominantly sympathetic to and supportive of the fledgling country that was established as the Jewish homeland.

The Holocaust enabled us to support a country where Jews would always be welcome and safe. And American Jewry was proud to support Israel with dollars, slogans, new immigrants, and even life.

Today the majority of American Jews view Judaism as a religion based on universal principals of social justice and liberal Jewish values. Liberal thinking is universal and applies to all people, regardless of race, sex, gender, nationality. It requires fairness, justice of the highest resort. And Israel poses problems to this type of liberalism, or so it seems from the optics and news we read.

But in Israel, Judaism is much more than religion.

In Netiv Ha’asara in Tucson’s Partnership2Gether region, trip participants took part in an art project to promote peace. Back row (L-R): Steve Silverman, Shelly Silverman, John Irish, Terri Kessler, Gene Einfrank, Melissa Einfrank, Jamie Lakin Kelley, Bill Kelley, Zohreh Kazemi-Dunn, Richard P. Benoit II, Soonalyn Jacob, Jinnyn Tata, Jennifer Lohse, Amy Hirshberg Lederman, Jon Kasle, Susan Kasle, Graham Hoffman, Deborah Howard Jacob, Jeff Jacob, Chuck Dunn; front row: Rick Sack, Katherine Davisson, Lisa Lovallo, Israeli artist Tsameret Zamir, Dan Jacob, Patricia Doerr, John Doerr

It is a national concept emerging from Biblical times where civilization, history, and culture reside. Judaism was and is the basis of Zionism, the national yearning for and mandate to establish a country that any Jew can call home. This difference between American Jews and Israeli Jews leads to more than diversity of opinion. It leads to a crisis of identity and identification. And it’s COMPLICATED. It’s hard to fathom in the safety of our homes in Tucson what the daily need for national security in Israel means, let alone requires. But an incident occurred during our trip that really brought that point home.

After we visited IAI, we visited Netiv Ha’asara, a small Jewish community on the Gaza border. There we met with a Jewish artist and participated in Paths for Peace, a project in many ways similar to Ben’s Bells in Tucson.

Within yards from the Gaza border, an Israeli artist engaged us all to add to the beauty of the security wall with tiles that said PEACE in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.

We knew that behind that wall in Gaza, Palestinians were struggling to live. We also knew that from behind that wall, rockets were sent daily, weekly, at all hours into Israel, forcing Israeli families to run for shelter in order not to be killed. (Imagine living in Tucson where rockets fired from South Tucson would land in our backyards.)

We had dinner that night with families who lived in Netiv Ha’asara. They welcomed us with open arms and home cooked meals and shared stories of what it was like to live so close to death.

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that when she took a shower, a siren would go off. She only has 15 seconds to get her family to the shelter in order to keep them safe. Just three days later, 11 rockets were fired from Gaza into the very town we visited. It’s COMPLICATED. We met people in Israel who believe that peace is still possible. They were working in organizations like Shorashim, a joint process that envisions a social and political reality founded on dignity, trust, and the mutual recognition that Jews and Palestinians have a legitimate relationship to the land. Israelis and Palestinians, side by side, working together at the risk of their own safety to create a new reality. Yes, it’s COMPLICATED. It would be hubris to think that I have any answers.

In fact, this trip only created more questions. But I know that any resolution over time will require sacrifices. And sacrifices cannot be unilateral; they must be made on both sides.

When Jews and Arabs work together to save rather than to destroy what is most precious to them, be it their children or their land; when they mutually agree to educate their children about the necessity of peace rather than to deploy them in the cause of hatred; and when love for life trumps hatred and revenge, we may see a new beginning in the land of Israel. But, in the meantime, it’s COMPLICATED. Amy Hirshberg Lederman is an author, Jewish educator, public speaker, and attorney who lives in Tucson. Her columns in the AJP have won awards from the American Jewish Press Association, the Arizona Newspapers Association, and the Arizona Press Club for excellence in commentary. Visit her website at www.amyhirshberglederman.com.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR The calendar deadline is Tuesday, 10 days before the issue date. Our next issue will be published Dec. 6, 2019. Events may be emailed to office@azjewishpost.com, faxed to 319-1118, or mailed to the AJP at 3718 E. River Road, #272, Tucson, AZ 85718. For more information, call 319-1112. See Area Congregations on page 30 for additional synagogue events.

Men’s Mishnah club with Rabbi Israel Becker at Cong. Chofetz Chayim. Sundays, 7:15 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 6:15 a.m.; Saturdays, 8:15 a.m.

747-7780 or yzbecker@me.com.

Chabad of Sierra Vista men’s tefillin club with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, first Sundays, 9 a.m., at 401 Suffolk Drive. 820-6256 or www.jewishsierravista.com.

Southwest Torah Institute Beginners Hebrew for Women with Esther Becker, Sundays, 10:30-11:30 a.m., 14 sessions, no classes Thanksgiving week or last two weeks of December, at 5150 E. Fifth St. Free. Register at 591-7680.

“Too Jewish” radio show with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon on KVOI 1030 AM (also KAPR and KJAA), Sundays at 9 a.m. Nov. 24, David Broza, Israeli and world music star.

Beth Shalom Temple Center of Green Valley bagel breakfast and Yiddish club, first Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Members, $7; nonmembers, $10. 648-6690 or 399-3474.

Southern Arizona Jewish Genealogy Society, second Sundays, 1-3 p.m. at the Tucson J. Contact Barbara Stern Mannlein at 731-0300 or the J at 299-3000.

Tucson J Israeli dance, taught by Brandi Hawkins, 2nd and 4th Sundays, 5 p.m., no partners. Members, $6; nonmembers, $8. 299-3000.

Friday / November 22

11 AM: JHM Gallery Chat, “Love Letters in the Shadow of the Shoah,” discuss letters of Paul Celan, Hannah Arendt, and others. Free. 564 S. Stone Ave. www.jewishhistorymuseum.org or 670-9073.

5:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Shir Hadash Shabbat: A New Song musical Shabbat. Dinner at 7 p.m.: members, $10; guests, $15. RSVP for space availability for dinner only at 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.

7:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Downtown Shabbat at Jewish History Museum, 564 S. Stone Ave., with Rabbi Batsheva Appel and Armon Bizman band. 327-4501.

Saturday / November 23

10:30 AM: Cong. Bet Shalom and PJ Library Tot Shabbat with Lisa Schacter-Brooks.

Free. At Cong. Bet Shalom. 577-1171.

6:30 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel B’Yahad (Together) Mishpacha Program, “Havdalah Under the Stars.” Create spice boxes, Jewish “Family Feud,” and make Hanukkah cards for Jewish military personnel. RSVP for space availability to Cantorial Soloist Nichole Chorny at 745-5550, ext. 228 or cantorialsoloist@caiaz.org.

Sunday / November 24

1:30 PM: Beth Shalom Temple Center (Green

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ONGOING Cong. Anshei Israel parent-tot class, led by Ally Ross. Mondays, 9-11 a.m. Children up to 24 months and their parent(s). Free. Mandatory vaccination policy. Call Nancy Auslander at 7455550 or visit www.caiaz.org.

Temple Emanu-El mah jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m. 327-4501.

at 795-0300.

Awakening Through Jewish Meditation — Discover Freedom, with Reb Brian Yosef, Tuesdays/Sundays at 10:30 a.m., at Cong. Bet Shalom. Free. Check calendar at www.torahofawakening.com.

Cong. Anshei Israel mah jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon. All levels, men and women. Contact Evelyn at 885-4102 or esigafus@aol.com.

Tucson J social bridge, Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-3 p.m., year round. Drop-ins welcome. Meets in library on second floor. 2993000.

Tucson J current events discussion, Mondays, noon-1:30 p.m. Members, $1; nonmembers, $2. Bring or buy lunch, 11:30 a.m. 2993000, ext. 147.

Tucson J canasta group, Tuesdays 1-4 p.m., and Thursdays noon-4 p.m. Instruction available and a beginners’ table every week. Call or text Lisa at 977-4054.

Cong. Bet Shalom yoga, Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. $5. 577-1171.

Jewish 12-step sobriety support group meets Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. at Cong. Bet Shalom. dcmack1952@gmail.com.

Spouse Bereavement Group, cosponsored

by Widowed to Widowed, Inc. at the Tucson J, Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Contact Katie at 299-3000, ext. 147.

JFCS Holocaust Survivors group meets Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Contact Raisa Moroz

Valley) Jewish Film Festival, “Run Boy Run.” $5. RSVP to bstcgv@gmail.com or 648-6690.

2–4 PM: Temple Emanu-El JLL Sunday Salon: “How to Make A Golem,” with Bob Schwartz. Free. Register at 327-4501 or www. tetucson.org.

3:30-5:30 PM: Cong. Or Chadash talent show. $5. RSVP for availability at 512-8500.

Saturday / Nov. 30

10 AM-NOON: Temple Emanu-El Pray & Play with Eva and Ari Turner. Repeats on Jan. 25; Feb. 8, March 14, April 11. 327-4501 or www.tetucson.org.

Wednesday / December 4

7 PM: Beth Shalom Temple Center (Green Valley) star gazing with author/astronomer David Levy, who has discovered 22 comets.

Presentation followed by telescope viewing and book signing. $10. RSVP to 648-6690.

7-9 PM: Temple Emanu-El Forum on the Death Penalty: The Tree of Life Shootings and Beyond. Panel includes Rabbi Batsheva Appel; Rick Unklesbay, veteran Pima County prosecutor and author on the issue of death penalty; Amy Krauss, criminal defense attorney, specialist in capital case appeals; Dan Cooper, criminal defense attorney, veteran of capital case trials; Michael Gill, professor of philosophy at UA. Register

Cong. Anshei Israel Talmud on Tuesday with Rabbi Robert Eisen. Meets 6 p.m. 745-5550.

Temple Emanu-El Talmud study, Wednesdays, 10 -11:30 a.m. Text required, call 3274501.

Chabad of Sierra Vista women’s class with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, last Wednesdays, 2 p.m., 401 Suffolk Drive. 820-6256 or www.jewishsierravista.com.

Jewish mothers/grandmothers special needs support group for those with children/grandchildren, youth or adult, with special needs, third Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m. at Tucson J. Contact Joyce Stuehringer at 299-5920.

“Biblical Breakthroughs with Rabbi Becker” at the Southwest Torah Institute. Fridays, noon, for men and women. 747-7780 or yzbecker@me.com.

Temple Kol Hamidbar (Sierra Vista) “Wrestling with Torah” study group, led by Reuben Ben-Adam, Fridays, 6-7:15 p.m. 458-8637.

Weintraub Israel Center Shirat HaShirim Hebrew choir, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Learn to sing in Hebrew. Contact Rina Paz at 304-7943 or ericashem@cox.net.

Beth Shalom Temple Center (Green Valley) art gallery presents “Playing with Paper” by local artist and educator Linda Lucas Larriva, through Jan. 6. Call 648-6690 for a viewing appointment.

Cong. Anshei Israel gentle chair yoga with Lois Graham, Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Members of Women’s League, $6 per class; nonmembers, $8 per class. Contact Evelyn at 885-4102 or esigafus@aol.com.

Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center exhibit, “Asylum/Asilo,” through May 31. Drop-in hours Fridays 1-3 p.m., Saturdays/ Sundays 1-5 p.m. 564 S. Stone Ave. 670-9073 or www.jewishhistorymuseum.org.

at www.tetucson.org/deathpenalty or 327-4501.

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Thursday / December 5

1:30 PM: JFCS presents “To Tell Our Stories,” local Holocaust survivors reading from their book published by JFCS. Free. Dusenberry-River Library, 5605 E. River Road, Suite 105. 795-0300 ext. 2214.

Friday / December 6

11 AM: JHM Gallery Chat, Anita HuizarHernandez, Ph.D., UA assistant professor of border studies and author of “Forging Arizona.” Free. 564 S. Stone Ave. www.jewish historymuseum.org or 670-9073.

5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat Rocks! service with b’nai mitzvah students, followed at 6:30 p.m. by family Shabbat dinner, and traditional service at 7:30 p.m. 327-4501.

5:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Tot Shabbat service and dinner. Hosted by 14-month to 2-year-olds’ classes. Dinner at 6:15 p.m. $25 family of 2 adults and up to 4 children; additional adults $10. RSVP for dinner by Dec. 2 to Kim at 745-5550, ext. 224 or edasst@caiaz.org.

Saturday / December 7

NOON: Cong. Anshei Israel book club discusses “To the End of the Land,” by David Grossman. Contact Helen Rib at 299-0340 or

4:30 PM: Beth Shalom Temple Center (Green Valley) “Carnival of Illusion” presented by Men’s Club and Sisterhood. At Scottish Rite Grand Parlor, 160 S. Scott Ave., Tucson. $36.95.

To purchase tickets contact Gary Friedman at 344-7599 or grfriedman@yahoo.com.

Sunday / December 8

9 AM-NOON: Temple Emanu-El WRJ Hanukkah Bazaar. 327-4501.

9:30 AM-12:30 PM: Cong. Or Chadash Sisterhood Gift Shop Hanukkah Boutique. 512-8500.

10:30 AM: Desert Caucus brunch with Steve Chabot (R-OH). Guests should be prospective members. Contact desertcaucus@gmail.com or 299-2410.

1:30 PM: Hadassah Southern Arizona Wine and Chocolates Philanthropy Event, Woman of the Year 2019 presentation, and installation of officers for 2020. Wine and chocolate tastings by Enchanted Bean. $25. At Ruth and Irving Olson Center for Jewish Life, 180 W. Magee Road, Ste. 140. RSVP by Nov. 25 to Rochelle Roth at 298-3038.

2 PM: Tucson J Celebration of Heritage Concert Series presents Arizona Balalaika Orchestra with Romani-style vocalists Natalia Neazimbyetov and Guy Velgos. $10. 299-3000.

UPCOMING

Friday / December 13

7:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Scholar-inResidence service and dinner with Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles presenting “The Torah of Innovation.” Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 5:45 p.m. Dinner at 7 p.m.: members, $18 adults; $12 children; nonmembers, $22 adults; $15 children. $5 more per person after Dec.9. RSVP by Dec. 9 at www.caiaz.org or 745-5550.

Saturday / December 14

9 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Scholar-inResidence Shabbat service. Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny presents “Targum and Torah.” 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.

7 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Cantors’ Concert, “Hadeish Yameinu K’kedem: Renewing Our Days as of Old,” with Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny and Cantorial Soloist Nichole Chorny. $18 suggested donation.

RSVP at 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.

Sunday / December 15

7:45 AM: Tucson J Hot Chocolate Fun Run. 10K, 5K, or 1K run/walk. Pricing varies by route. Register at www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000, or arrive at 6:30 a.m. to register.

Monday / December 16

6 PM: J Street reception honoring Larry Gellman, featuring Amb. Wendy R. Sherman and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami. At home of Larry and Kristen Gellman; address provided on registration. $100; students/young professionals free; sponsorships available. https://act.jstreet.org/donate/jstreet-arizona-reception or cecilia@jstreet.org.

Saturday / December 21

7:30 PM: Weintraub Israel Center co-sponsors Israeli singer/guitarist David Broza & Friends with Trio Havana at the Fox Tucson Theatre. Tickets at www.foxtucson.com.

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Chair yoga with a Jewish flair taught by Bonnie Golden. At Ruth and Irving Olson Center for Jewish Life, Mondays, 10-11 a.m. $7 per class or $25 for four. 505-4161 or northwestjewish@ jfsa.org.

NW Needlers create hand-stitched items for donation in the Jewish community. At Ruth and Irving Olson Center for Jewish Life. Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. RSVP to judithgfeldman@gmail.com or 505-4161.

Mah jongg, meets at Ruth and Irving Olson Center for Jewish Life, Wednesdays, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., 505-4161.

Chabad of Oro Valley adult education class, Jewish learning with Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman. Wednesdays at 7 p.m., at 1171 E. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., #131. 477-8672 or www.jewishorovalley.com.

Chabad of Oro Valley Torah and Tea for women, with Mushkie Zimmerman. Thursdays, 2 p.m., through Dec. 12, no class on Thanksgiving, at 1171 E. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., #131. 4778672 or www.jewishorovalley.com.

Friday / December 6

5:30-6:15 PM: Cong. Beit Simcha Tot Shabbat. Free. Contact Lori Riegel at 2769244.

Sunday / December 8

10 AM-NOON: Ruth and Irving Olson Center for Jewish Life hosts Stuff the Truck event for 1st Rate 2nd Hand Thrift Shop.

Drop off gently used, re-sellable items. All proceeds from items donated on this day will benefit JFSA Northwest Division. For more information, contact 505-4161 or northwest jewish@jfsa.org.

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Tuesday / December 10

5 PM: Ruth and Irving Olson Center for Jewish Life JFSA Northwest Division Campaign Kick-Off, “An Evening of Jewish Jazz Through the Ages” with Robin Bessier and her jazz trio, at The Buttes at Reflections, 9800 N. Oracle Road. Sunset cocktail hour followed by dinner and program. $45.

RSVP by Dec. 5 at www.jfsa.org/nwcampaign kickoff2020 or contact Anel Pro at apro@jfsa. org or 647-8455.

Monday / December 16

5-6:30 PM: Ruth and Irving Olson Center for Jewish Life and Hadassah Southern Arizona book club discuss “The Spy Behind Home Plate” by Moe Berg, at the Olson Center. RSVP at 505-4161 or northwestjewish@ jfsa.org.

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Tucson’s Jewish History Museum hosted a panel of local Holocaust survivors on Friday, Nov. 8, in commemoration of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” a series of pogroms on Nov. 9, 1938 that signaled the beginning of the Holocaust. The survivors read from “To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona,” two volumes published by Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Arizona, containing 81 personal testimonies. Some 80 community members attended the reading. “Some come to every reading and others come to thank them and us for bringing the survivors to teach everyone,” says JFCS’s Raisa Moroz, program manager for services for Holocaust survivors. Upcoming readings are Thursday, Dec. 5 at 1:30 p.m. at Dusenberry-River Library, 5605 E. River Road #105, and Friday, Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. at Joyner-Green Valley Library, 601 N. La Cañada, Green Valley. For more information, contact holocaustsurvivors@jcfstucson.org or 795-0300, ext. 2214.

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Photojournalist Linda Solomon will celebrate the launch of her new book, “The Queen Next Door: An Intimate Portrait of Aretha Franklin” at the Tucson Museum of Art’s “A Night With Aretha” on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 6-8 p.m. The evening will include performances by Ann Hampton Callaway and Charity Lockhart, and a panel discussion.

For more information, visit www.tucsonmuseumofart. org. Solomon also will sign books Wednesday, Dec.4, 3-6 p.m., at the W Boutique at St. Phillips Plaza. Both events will feature live music, hors d’oeuvres, and wine.

Solomon is the founder of the nationally recognized Pictures of Hope program; Tucson children living in homeless shelters have participated in the program for eight years. Solomon lives in Tucson and Detroit.

The Rialto Theatre will present “The Arroyo Café Radio Show” on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 1 p.m., taping the show for broadcast on Dec. 24 on NPR 89.1. Tickets are $20; proceeds will benefit Casa Alitas Aid to Migrant Families, The U.S. Committee for Refugees & Immigrants, HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), and Arizona Public Media. For more information, visit www.rialtotheatre.com.

The national Association of Realtors® honored Jill Rich as one of its original Good Neighbor Award winners at its annual convention in San Francisco earlier this month. The awards honor Realtors for volunteer efforts to improve the lives of people in need. First recognized in 2000 for her support of American Red Cross disaster relief efforts, Rich is the only person to receive the award in two separate years. A lifelong volunteer, Rich also has worked with nonprofits that combat homelessness. She founded an organization that provides support and resources to refugees who fled to the Tucson area from war-torn and poverty-stricken countries, including South Sudan, Guatemala, and Syria. Her second Good Neighbor Award honored her for helping 54 refugees from Sudan, known as “Lost Boys,” forge a new path in America. To date, she has touched the lives of 3,000 refugees from nearly 20 countries. Rich and three other original winners from 2000 each received a grant of $2,400 for a nonprofit — Rich designated the American Red Cross. The grants are funded by Good Neighbor Award sponsors realtor.com and Wells Fargo.

Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, will ride in El Tour de Tucson on Nov. 23.

Frequent El Tour participants, they will be riding this year for Friends of Aphasia, a non-profit Giffords recently co-founded. Aphasia is a communication disorder that can affect the ability to speak, understand, read, and/or write. Giffords suffered from aphasia after she was shot in Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011; six people were killed and 13 wounded in the attack.

Nate Marenfeld will play Tiny Tim in Arts Express’ “A Christmas Carol & Dickens Festival,” a musical theatre production at the Berger Performing Arts Center Dec. 6-15. For tickets, visit www. arts-express.org or call 319-0400

The Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter and Sanctuary will host its annual lighting ceremony that celebrates pets and people on Saturday, Dec. 7, 5-7 p.m. To purchase a light or luminaria, call 571-7839. The Hermitage is located at 5278 E. 21st St.

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