Matters of Taste 2013

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PRE-DINNER RECEPTION

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FEATURING AN EXHIBITION OF STUDENT WORK An extraordinary TASTE OF THE EVERY DAY AT JCDS

SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013, 4:30 - 6:00 P.M. AT JCDS, BOSTON’S JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL 57 STANLEY AVENUE, WATERTOWN, MA 02472

FESTIVE ATTIRE Tickets for the pre-dinner reception are included in your dinner ticket, or are $18 per person.

INDIVIDUAL DINNERS BEGIN AT 6:30PM

Dear Friends,

‫שלום חברים‬

We are delighted to invite you to join us on Sunday evening, March 17, 2013, for the 14th annual Matters of Taste, the signature fundraising event of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School. This delectable evening provides essential support to the JCDS Annual Fund, which enables JCDS to continue to maximize support to families attending our school, to provide our outstanding academic program, to create an intentionally pluralistic environment, and to foster a joyful Jewish community.

As parents and grandparents to current and alumni students, we are honored to be a part of this event, and celebrate the Chai anniversary of this amazing school. We thank the numerous founders of JCDS, who had the vision, courage, energy, time, and ruach to create JCDS 18 years ago. We believe JCDS plays a unique and vital role in educating and developing today’s children for tomorrow’s future.

Matters of Taste is a special celebration for members of the JCDS community, as well as for family and friends of this extraordinary school. We hope that you will participate in Matters of Taste and in supporting JCDS. Your generosity says that you believe in the values of JCDS, Intentional Pluralism, Hebrew and English throughout the day, a Joyful Jewish Community, Academic Excellence, and a Whole Child approach. Please be sure to share the plans for this wonderful event with others to help ensure its success. With your commitment we will attract even more support among community donors and foundations. We look forward to being with you on March 17th at what promises to be a fantastic evening.

B’vracha,

JCDS

CELEBRATING 18 YEARS!

Judy & Al Zabin, Luz Arevalo & Ed Zabin Co-Chairs,

Judy & Al Zabin, Luz Arevalo & Ed Zabin Matters of Taste Co-Chairs 2013 Judy Zabin, a clinical social worker in private practice, and Albert Zabin, an accomplished trial attorney, have been described as “fiercely engaged in the world.” They lovingly grandparent nine children, including a JCDS alumna, and a JCDS 2nd grader. Edmond Zabin doubles as the Chief of Homicide in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and as a JCDS parent with Luz Arevalo. Luz, who is also an attorney, specializes in tax issues at Greater Boston Legal Services.

These three Zabin generations believe passionately in the JCDS mission.

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Please Join Us! Matters of Taste is an annual, sparkling evening as intimate and individualized as our school. Savor your choice of 18 simultaneous dinner parties, each hosted in private homes around the Boston area.

At each dinner, you’ll meet a special guest - perhaps a noted author, musician, scientist, or chef. Kick off the event with a pre-dinner reception at JCDS, where you can discover the breadth and energy of this joyful, pluralist institution. All are welcome: please invite your friends and family!

Over the 14 years since its first Matters of Taste, JCDS has been pleased to advise many other Jewish organizations on developing their own similar events. For more information, please contact Julie Gal-Or, Associate Director of Development, at 617-972-1733 or JulieG@jcdsboston.org.

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‫טעם‬ ‫שלטעם‬ ‫עניןשל‬ ‫ענין‬

YOUR MENU

kj‫התפריט להערב‬ Paul Breines - Grossman Home ...................................................4 Edward Davis - Korman/Hunt Home ...........................................5 Millie Dresselhaus - Ross/Katz Home ..........................................6 Peter Frumhoff - Paasche-Orlow Home .....................................7 Nancy Gertner - Shiner Home ......................................................8 Lisa Gossels - Caine Home ............................................................9 Joshua Henkin - Simonds/Kolodner Home ..............................10 Jeffrey Hoffman - Lapidas/Brown Home ..................................11 Frederick M. Lawrence - Lawrence Home ................................12 Peter Lefkowitz - Marbach/Jackson Home .............................13 Andrea Levin - Gann Home ........................................................14 Michael Leviton - Harverd/Dale Home .....................................15

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Bonnie Michelman - Winick/Small Home ....................................16 Joan Nathan - Rubin Home .............................................................17 Jonathan Sarna - Finn Home ..........................................................18 Setti Warren - Freiman-Polli Home ................................................19 Bo Winiker - Deener/Chodirker Home ...........................................20 Muhammad Zaman - Listokin Home ............................................21 Ashley Stanley - Tall at JCDS (Alumni Dinner) .............................22 Board of Trustees .............................................................................23 Acknowledgements ........................................................................24 Thank You to Our Supporters ........................................................25 General Information ........................................................................26

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let freedom ride

‫לחופש נולד‬ paul breines freedom rider

As a white child with a black nanny, Paul Breines wondered why there were no white nannies for black children. As a college student, he collected money in a hat to defend four young black men arrested for sitting at a white lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. His fraternity “pledge father,” in an expression of anger, threw his hat to the floor and said there would be none of that “n*****-loving” talk.

These formative moments led to Breines joining the Freedom Riders in 1961. Along with many other young people, Breines boarded southern buses to challenge the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation of black people in buses, restaurants, and schools. He was arrested and spent a month in a Mississippi prison. Breines will be discussing his experiences during the Freedom Rides, and the Jewish dimension of the early civil rights movement.

Breines taught modern European Intellectual History and LGBT history at Boston College for 35 years. Publishers Weekly called his book Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry a “provocative, sure-to-be-controversial study, a startling rereading of Jewish history, past and present.”

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HOSTED BY Ruth & richard grossman

Ruth Grossman is a native of Sindelfingen, Germany, who moved to Boston SERVING after high school. She is an kosher meat assistant professor in the Communication Sciences IN newton and Disorders Department at Emerson College and conducts research on autism spectrum disorders at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Richard Grossman was born and raised in Newton. He is a professor of economics at Wesleyan University and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on economic and financial history. He is the author of Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World Since 1800. Ruth and Richard are the parents of four current JCDS students: one in kindergarten, one in third grade, and two in fifth grade.

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DISH WITH THE COMMISH

‫אם תאכל יבוא שוטר‬ Edward davis police commissioner, Boston HOSTED BY

Sari Korman & Sari Korman and John Hunt met 24 years ago John Hunt in college and briefly SERVING lived in New York City vegetarian before moving to Boston, John’s hometown. John IN newton is a former JCDS board member and treasurer.

He is a partner at ABRY Partners, a private equity firm. Sari is a lawyer who has held numerous positions in the public sector. She is currently a mediator and JCDS board member. Sari and John are active members of Temple Emanuel in Newton, and are the parents of three children, two JCDS alumni, and one JCDS kindergartener.

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The news is full of crime and public safety statistics, but do you know what is being done about it? What is Boston doing to reduce the crime rate and ensure public safety? How does Boston measure up to other cities nationwide? Here is your chance to get the inside scoop from Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis as he discusses current issues and trends in law enforcement today.

With 35 years in law enforcement, including the last six as Boston’s Police Commissioner, Davis is an expert on emerging issues in public security, and is charged with the safety of 600,000 city residents, commuters, and visitors to Boston. Raised in a police family, he is committed to providing his officers the best resources to predict, prevent, and investigate crime. These tools include the traditional role of officers walking their beats, to innovative social media efforts to foster trust between the police and the community at large. Davis’s efforts have been recognized by The Police Executive Research Forum, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Major Cities Chiefs Association. He has collaborated with law enforcement officials in Singapore, London, Northern Ireland, Jordan, and Israel.

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Small science, big impact

‫לחשוב בגדול להתבונן מקרוב‬ Millie Dresselhaus Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at mit, Emerita Institute Professor

In a career that has lasted over fifty years, Millie Dresselhaus has advanced the frontiers of physics, not just through her research but Through her conversations, collaborations, and questions.

At a time when women were hardly common in science, Dresselhaus was a true pioneer. Today, her caring mentoring of young researchers educates scientists who will help maintain U.S. innovation and competitiveness. She tells her students what her own mentors, the Nobelists Rosalyn Yalow and Enrico Fermi, told her: learn broadly, and then follow your interests. She describes her own interests as “small science” - studying how particles in constrained systems behave in surprising ways. Her work in bismuth nanowires may lead to thermoelectrics that help us make the most of our dwindling power-generating fuels, and her theory and measurement work in ultrathin carbon sheets and tubes allows others to engineer sustainable energy systems, high-speed communications, and future computers.

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HOSTED BY Charlotte Ross & Matthew Katz

After living in the Bay Area for 15 years, Matt and Charlotte moved SERVING back to the Boston area seeking an observant kosher fish community, as well as IN newton a great school for their three children. They found JCDS and are very happy for their children, who are in second, fourth, and fifth grade. Matt’s company Merced, was recently purchased by an Israeli company, Nice Systems. He travels abroad extensively. He has a passion for craft beer and is studying for the title of cicerone. Charlotte is an avid baker and enjoys spending time in the kitchen with her kids. She was a math teacher for several years, took time off to raise her three children, and is now ready to re-enter the workforce.

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science on the hill

‫רוחות של מדע‬ peter C. frumhoff HOSTED BY

SARA & MICHAEL Sara and Michael met studying Talmud at PAASCHE-ORLOW JTS, where Sara was in SERVING rabbinical school and Michael was doing a MA kosher chicken in Jewish philosophy IN NEWTON and medical ethics. They have both found their way to professional lives in healthcare. Michael is associate professor of medicine at Boston University, and a general internist. He is a nationally recognized expert in the field of health literacy, whose work has brought attention to the role health literacy plays in racial and ethnic disparities. Sara is the director of religious and chaplaincy services at Hebrew Senior Life (HSL) in Boston. In this role, she created the HSL Chaplaincy Institute, a Jewish geriatric clinical pastoral education program, and is currently helping to create a Jewish hospice service. Sara and Michael’s three children are all JCDS alumni.

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Director of Science and Policy Chief Scientist, Climate Campaign, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

How can science contribute to more environmentally responsible actions of government, business, and ordinary consumers? Join us for a discussion with global change ecologist Peter C. Frumhoff, director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Beginning as a collaboration between MIT students and faculty in 1969, UCS is now an alliance of more than 400,000 citizens and scientists and is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Frumhoff serves as chief scientist of the UCS Climate Campaign, bringing science to bear on strengthening public policies, especially on climate change.

Frumhoff serves on the Board of Directors of the American Wind Wildlife Institute and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations. He is a member of the Harvard University Center for the Environment and was a lead author of the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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An Unrepentant Advocate

‫משפטנית ללא חת‬ nancy gertner RETIRED Judge, U.S. District Court of Massachusetts

Known as a “great storyteller,” Nancy Gertner has plenty of material - 23 years as a lawyer and 17 as a judge - but it’s where her narrative intersected with a defendant’s and a plaintiff’s that made her a refuge for those seeking justice. In 1977 a humor-wielding, red-dressed Gertner made a name for herself when arguing that Susan Saxe, an anti-war activist charged with robbery and murder, should be acquitted. Twenty-one years later, a blackrobed Gertner made waves again by sentencing Alexander Leviner to a shorter term than guidelines recommended because “driving-while-Black” lengthened his rap sheet.

Gertner will be discussing her experiences as a woman in a male dominated profession, and her autobiography, An Unrepentant Advocate. Her many awards include the Thurgood Marshall Award from the ABA. Now retired from the bench, Gertner teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and neuroscience at Harvard Law. She also speaks, consults, and litigates on the side.

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HOSTED BY Marlene & Michael Shiner

Michael is a leadership development consultant with a business background.

SERVING He is completing his Ed.D. vegetarian from Harvard, with a study on the association between IN newton emotional intelligence, psychological development, and leadership. Marlene is an attorney with a family law practice in Newton. Along with her practice, Marlene researches, writes, and speaks on the topic of children’s rights during divorce. She is also an avid runner, and an enthusiastic teacher of the JCDS Middle School running elective. Michael is an accomplished percussionist, photographer, runner, and cook.

Marlene and Michael are the proud parents of three JCDS students (in second, fourth, and eighth grade), and of one JCDS alumna.

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My So-Called Enemy

‫עם הפנים לאחר‬ lisa gossels HOSTED BY

Claire Caine is the IT Claire & Daniel director and technology Caine instructor at JCDS. Daniel SERVING Caine is president and kosher, dairy, co-founder of Family Law vegetarian Software, and previously founded the firm that IN newton developed the income tax software that is now called “H&R Block at Home.” Dan has been a member of the JCDS board, a Matters of Taste chair, and the chair of the annual parent campaign. Claire and Dan have four children, two of whom graduated from JCDS, and one of whom is currently in sixth grade.

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filmmaker and president, good egg productions, inc.

Many interesting questions arise when juxtaposing the lives of people suffering from the impact of war from opposing sides.

As long as the war goes on, how can they see each other as anything but “the enemy?” As long as they see each other as “the enemy,” how can the war do anything but go on? In July 2002, a group of Palestinian, Jewish Israeli, and Arab Israeli teenagers participated in a 10-day women’s leadership program in the U.S. called “Building Bridges for Peace.” Filmed over a seven-year period, My So-Called Enemy, directed by Gossels, follows the lives of six of these young women, and shows how the experience transformed them. Gossels will show a four-minute work sample from the movie and discuss the story around it: how she came to the project, what impact she hopes to achieve with it, and how it is encouraging dialogue in the Jewish community - and beyond. She will also be talking about her filmmaking process. Gossels is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian whose films, The Children of Chabannes and My So-Called Enemy, have garnered twenty awards on the festival circuit. A member of the Selah Leadership Network, she became a documentarian because she believes in the power of film to effect social change.

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THE WORLD WITHOUT YOU

‫העולם בלעדיך‬ JOSHUA HENKIN AUTHOR and MFA program coordinator, Brooklyn college

Read any good novels lately? If so, have you thought about how these stories and characters were developed? What elements make a great story? Join author Joshua Henkin for a discussion of his recent novel, The World Without You, and hear about how this and his previous novels came to be.

Some of Henkin’s previous work includes the novel Matrimony, a New York Times Notable Book, and Swimming Across The Hudson, a Los Angeles Times Notable Book. His new novel, The World Without You, a novel about sibling rivalries, marital feuds, and the true meaning of family, was published in June 2012 by Pantheon and has been named an Editors’ Choice Book by The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune. It was also the winner of the 2012 Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American fiction. His short stories have been published widely, cited for distinction in Best American Short Stories, and broadcast on NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and directs the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College.

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HOSTED BY DEBORAH SIMONDS & STUART KOLODNER

Stuart’s career in software has taken him from small companies in Cambridge to a very large software SERVING company in Seattle.

DAIRY He is currently part of VEGETARIAN a privately held startup, True Engineering IN NEWTON Technology. Stuart is an active participant in the JCDS men’s Torah study and book club. Deborah is a recruiter for early stage start-ups and small companies. Deborah and Stuart have three children, two JCDS sixth graders, and one sophomore at Newton South.

They recently returned from Seattle where Deborah was actively involved as a board member at the Stroum JCC. She is pleased to be a current board member of the Boston Jewish Music Festival.

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mission accomplished

‫המשימה הושלמה בהצלחה‬ Jeffrey Hoffman HOSTED BY

Barbara LapidasBarbara Lapidas-Brown and Larry Brown have Brown & Larry been connected to JCDS Brown since 1996, the school’s SERVING second year. In addition kosher chicken to being parents of three JCDS alumni, Larry is IN newton a former JCDS board member, and Barbara is a past co-president of the JCDS Parent Association.

Currently, Barbara is a hospital pharmacist. Larry is an entrepreneur and consultant in the Biotech Industry.

Astronaut and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

Where in the Universe Are We Going?

Join us for an evening about space flight and the future of space exploration.

Jeffrey Hoffman has logged more than 1,200 hours and 21 million miles as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993. He was the second Jewish man in space, after Boris Volynov, and appears in a Jewish Educational Media video spinning a dreidel in zero gravity.

Hoffman is a professor at MIT’s“Aero/Astro”department, where his research ranges from space flight operations and technology, to human-machine interactions.

He also served as NASA’s European Representative in Paris, searching for new areas of US-European space cooperation.

Jeffrey is the author of An Astronaut’s Diary (1986), which includes an audio diary of his experiences before, and during, his first space flight.

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jewish roots, global reach

‫ ראיה עולמית‬- ‫מקורות יהודיים‬ Frederick M. Lawrence President, Brandeis university

In an age of global student recruitment, how does a university with uniquely Jewish roots survive? Compete? Thrive? This is the challenge facing Frederick M. Lawrence, president of Brandeis University, or, as his students fondly call him, Fred or “Prez Fred.” Attorney, civil rights scholar, and accomplished singer, Lawrence is famous for turning up at student Shabbat meals and Friday night services - a different one each week. Praised for his inclusive leadership style and commitment to social justice, he refocused Brandeis’s growth on human infrastructure, rather than on architecture. Today, Brandeis has students from 116 countries, and Lawrence is working to develop a “sustained, deep and broad strategic engagement” with a select number of countries, especially Israel. How does global engagement at Brandeis fit with the university’s Jewish roots? Join Lawrence as he discusses balancing growth and heritage, with an eye to the global and the individual.

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HOSTED BY kathy & frederick M. lawrence

Frederick M. Lawrence took office as the eighth president of Brandeis University in 2011. An SERVING accomplished scholar, kosher fish teacher, and attorney, (french) Lawrence is one of the nation’s leading experts IN waltham on civil rights, free expression, and bias crimes. Kathy Lawrence attended Yale University, where she and Fred met at a Friday night Shabbat service at Hillel. Kathy is an academic who specializes in 19th-century American literature and teaches courses on Emerson, Margaret Fuller, their circle, and Henry James. She is currently writing a book about the darker side of Henry James, and working as an editor of the 35 volume Cambridge Edition of the Complete Works of Henry James. Kathy and Fred have two adult children, Miriam and Noah.

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PRIVACY IN A CONNECTED WORLD

‫פרטיות בעולם מקוון‬ peter lefkowitz HOSTED BY

Claudia Claudia Marbach and Daniel Jackson have been Marbach & longtime supporters of Daniel Jackson JCDS. All three of their SERVING children are JCDS alumni.

Claudia and Daniel have kosher fish hosted nine Matters IN newton of Taste dinners over the years (with Claudia cooking Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Indian food).

Claudia left her first career as a lawyer to come and teach at JCDS, where she developed much of the middle school Toshba curriculum. When not at JCDS or cooking, she likes to spend time at the pottery wheel. Daniel is a professor of Computer Science at MIT, and a photographer whose work was recently shown at the MIT Museum.

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Chief Privacy officer and Vice President, legal, Oracle corporation Thousands of computers have personal information about you.

Each one may have only just a little piece, but the pieces can be put together over the Internet, and often do so across international borders. In this new networked world, what does it mean to have a “right to privacy”? How is your personal information being used? What can “big data” companies know and infer about you? What should you and your government do to maintain your privacy?

Peter Lefkowitz holds degrees from Yale and from Harvard Law, and is currently in charge of data privacy at Oracle, the world’s leading database company. His team teaches Oracle employees how to handle individuals’ data in ways that minimize financial, reputational, and regulatory risk. Lefkowitz will discuss the economy of how the web works, and how we might think about individual and government involvement in shaping privacy in a connected world.

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Through the “camera” lens

‫מבעד לעדשת העיתונות‬ andrea levin Executive director and president of camera (Committee for Accuracy on Middle East Reporting in America) With 24/7 access to news and social media, how can you keep up and ensure that what you are hearing about Israel is accurate? How has the rapidly evolving media world shaped perceptions and what can be done to promote fair and accurate information? Join Andrea Levin to find out why media coverage remains an urgent issue in America today, and how you can be an informed consumer of the news.

Andrea Levin is the executive director and president of CAMERA, the organization she has directed for 24 years. CAMERA pioneered a unique mix of media-monitoring, academic-level research, and public activism to promote accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East. CAMERA’s 65,000 members are drawn from many nations around the world, and the group has offices in five U.S. cities, as well as in Israel. Levin, who was named in 2003 by the Forward newspaper as one of the most influential American Jews, writes and lectures widely on media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its impact on public opinion. Her columns and articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post, The Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, New Republic, Editor and Publisher, Middle East Quarterly, National Post, and Commentary.

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HOSTED BY nicole & josh gann

Like some other JCDS couples, Joshua and Nicole came to know one another SERVING in Israel living on the same KOSHER MEAT Kibbutz, though they & vegetarian actually met at Ben Gurion option Airport. Nicole is an attorney and practiced in California, IN newton where she grew up, and Boston until the birth of their children, one two year old, and two children who are now in second and fifth grade at JCDS. She is a JCDS Trustee, where she serves as development chair, and on the board of JALSA, the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action. Nicole is also a counselor for the Nursing Mothers’ Council. Joshua is a third-generation owner of Joseph Gann Jewelers and is on the Board of Trustees at Gann Academy. They have been active in a havurah with friends that has gathered for dinner the first Friday of every month for over ten years.

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top chef: sustainability challenge

‫שף עולמי ומזון מקומי‬ michael leviton chef/OWNER, Lumière CHEF/PARTNER, area four

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dorit harverd & Dorit works as a teacher of English as a second richard dale language (ESL) in various SERVING settings. In any given KOSHER FISH week, lessons range from by michael preparing for a driving Leviton* test or job interview, to studying literature. Richard IN newton works as a venture capitalist and is an avid recreational cyclist. He is a previous Trustee of JCDS, is currently on the board of Hazon, the leading Jewish environmental organization, and is on the CJP Day School Executive Committee. Dorit and Richard have three children - two current JCDS students (both in eighth grade), and one alumna now attending Barnard College. Dorit, Richard, and family are long standing and active members of the Newton Centre Minyan. * The dairy/fish meal will be prepared by Michael Leviton and his team in the Dale/Harverd’s home.

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DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MILES YOUR FOOD TRAVELED BEFORE IT ARRIVED ON YOUR PLATE? How it was handled before becoming a gourmet meal?

These are questions that consumers are considering when dining out in restaurants today. Michael Leviton, the chef and owner of Lumière, will address these and other sustainability issues in the restaurant industry, how he incorporates these practices into his own restaurant, and how this trend is growing nationwide.

When he was an undergrad, Leviton impressed friends with multi-course gourmet meals created on a single burner in his room. Today, he delights critics and patrons as the chef and owner of Lumière, a French bistro in West Newton. Offering a menu of simple, seasonal dishes, created from local, sustainable ingredients, Lumière has garnered numerous Best of Boston Awards and was named one of Gourmet magazine’s Best Restaurants in America in 2002. In 2011, Leviton opened Area Four, a bakery/coffee house located in Cambridge, that is stripped down to the basics - the best ingredients, techniques, and preparations within an unpretentious, comfortable atmosphere.

Leviton studied with several nationally renowned chefs including San Francisco’s Joyce Goldstein at Square One and Alain Rondelli at Ernie’s. While in New York, he trained with Daniel Boulud at Le Cirque, and Francois Payard and Eric Ripert at Le Bernadin.

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risky business

‫מפחיד כמה שזה בטוח‬ bonnie michelman dIRECTOR OF POLICE, SECURITY, and outside services AT MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

You probably have an expectation of safety and security when you are in the hospital, a doctor’s office, or even in your own workplace. Have you ever wondered why you feel safe there? How did this culture develop and why?

This is a result of the work from people like Bonnie Michelman, director of police, security and outside services at Massachusetts General Hospital and the security consultant for Partners Healthcare Inc. She is the leading expert in this unique industry - healthcare and workplace safety and security. She consults nationally in all industries for risk management, workplace violence, and optimal security operations. Her success in this unconventional field has led her to assist others through her work as a consultant, as a member of the Regional Board of Directors for the Anti-Defamation League and chair of their National Security Committee, and her appointment to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. She is frequently sought out by city, state, and federal authorities to lead major security initiatives. Join Michelman for an interactive discussion about her unexpected journey, and leadership in her field.

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HOSTED BY Elyse winick & david small

Elyse and David met in the Hillel lounge at Brandeis University on SERVING the first day of their senior year. They are the proud kosher fish parents of a current JCDS IN NEWTON seventh grader, and two JCDS alumni. Elyse is the director of KOACH, the Conservative movement’s college outreach program, and the Jewish chaplain at Brandeis. David works as a human resources manager for Steward Health Care. They live in Newton and are members of the Newton Centre Minyan.

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Not Your Mother’s Kugel

‫לא הסחוג של אבא שלך‬ joan nathan Kosher Cookbook Author HOSTED BY

Ellen & michael Ellen and Michael Rubin, three-time hosts of Rubin Matters of Taste, are the SERVING parents of a JCDS alumna and a JCDS seventh kosher meat grader, who are both big IN newton fans of Israeli dancing, art, and Michael’s cooking. Ellen is a repeat entrepreneur, most recently as founder of CloudSwitch, Inc., which was acquired in 2011 by Verizon. She serves on the JCDS Board of Trustees and finance committee. Michael is a tech entrepreneur in telecommunications and media. He served as co-chair of the 2010 Matters of Taste event and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel. Ellen and Michael met at Harvard Hillel and have long-standing family roots in the Boston area. They spent three years building start-up companies in Israel.

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Traditional Jewish foods are a tie that binds us to our ancestral community: think of how sentimental Ashkenazim become when they eat matzah ball soup. And yet, the meals we would consider “traditional” do not replicate what our ancestors ate in “the old country”; they, like other aspects of Jewish culture, connect to the past while adapting to every new generation.

Joan Nathan, the author of ten award-winning cookbooks, will speak about the changing landscape of American Jewish food. Her 1994 book Jewish Cooking in America won both the James Beard Award and the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award. She has also hosted an award-nominated PBS series on Jewish cooking, and her work to preserve Jewish foodways earned her a Special Recognition Award from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She is on the board of Martha’s Table, a Washington, D.C. charity that provides the needy with food and clothing in the short term, as well as family and educational support to break the cycle of poverty.

Her most recent book, Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France, was published in 2010.

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When General Grant Expelled the Jews

‫כשגנרל גרנט גרש את היהודים‬ jonathan sarna professor, Brandeis university chief historian, national museum of american jewish history

WHY DID GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT ISSUE AN ORDER EXPELLING JEWS FROM THEIR HOMES IN THE MIDST OF THE CIVIL WAR? WAS GRANT REALLY AN ANTI-SEMITE? HOW DID THE JEWS RESPOND? Join us for a fascinating conversation with Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis, and chief historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. “Anyone seeking to rock the Passover Seder with political debate will find the perfect conversation piece in Dr. Sarna’s account of this startling American story,” wrote The New York Times.

Listed as one of the fifty most influential American Jews by the Forward newspaper in 2004, Dr. Sarna has written and edited more than thirty books, including American Judaism: A History, winner of the Jewish Book Council’s “Jewish Book of the Year Award” in 2004. Dr. Sarna was chief historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His new book is titled, When General Grant Expelled the Jews.

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HOSTED BY NANCY & PETER FINN

Peter is an attorney with the law firm Rubin and Rudman, specializing in life sciences and corporate law.

SERVING He was a former chairman KOSHER CHICKEN and current member of the Zamir Board of Directors.

IN NEEDHAM He also serves on the Board of Directors of the New England Region of Technion and on the Board of Overseers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Nancy is a healthcare journalist focusing on patient engagement and health information technology. Her latest book is E-Patients Live Longer, The Complete Guide to, Managing Health Care Using Technology. Nancy is a member of the Board of Overseers at Mount Auburn Hospital, and is on the Executive Committee of the Society of Participatory Medicine. She sings with Koleinu, the Jewish Community Chorus of Boston, and is a member of their Board of Directors. She has also been involved with the Commission on Jewish Continuity.

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it takes a village to build a community

‫שלוש עשרה שכונות וקהילה אחת‬ Setti warren HOSTED BY ERIC & Jim freiman-polli

Eric, Jim, and their son, who is a first grader at JCDS, have friends and family in Italy and go there SERVING as often as possible. This kosher past summer, they spent italian meat two weeks living under & vegetarian the Tuscan sun. Eric loves option cooking, and along with Jim, enjoys having large IN newton groups of people together around the dining room table. Eric also enjoys genealogical research that has traced his family back to 1590, and is currently working on Jim’s family tree. Jim is a great baker, and enjoys photography and scrapbooking. Jim and Eric are also avid wine makers.

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mayor of newton

Do you live in one of the villages of Newton? Learn about your community as Setti Warren, mayor of Newton, discusses leading a city with a sizeable Jewish community, and the current initiative “13 Villages, One Community.”

Warren’s career in public service began as a student at Newton North High School, when he spearheaded efforts to build racial harmony after clashes by rival groups. Warren was elected class president all four years at Newton North.

Warren’s community leadership continued at Boston College, where he served as student body president. Following college, he worked with various Federal Agencies during the Clinton administration before directing New England operations for FEMA. More recently, Warren served on Senator Kerry’s state team focusing on small businesses and economic development. Before his campaign for mayor, Warren served a year-long tour of duty in Iraq as a Naval Intelligence Specialist. Warren was elected mayor of Newton in 2009.

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‫ענין של טעם‬

we are family, get up everybody and dance

‫צלילי המוזיקה‬ BO WINIKER MUSICIAN HOSTED BY Shira Deener & David Chodirker

An evening for jazz lovers and entrepreneurs!

What happens when a father shares his love for music with his sons? In 1961, Ed Winiker sat down at his baby grand piano, and patiently taught his sons song after song. The boys soaked up jazz, Motown, and so much more.

The music got “inside our brains and our bodies,” Bo Winiker told The Boston Globe. The boys watched their father bring music to life - and were hooked.

For 51 years, Winiker has been making music everywhere, from weddings to Presidential Inaugurations. His bio reads like a jazz lover’s dream come true; he has played for presidents, made music with stars like Billy Joel and Aretha Franklin, and was part of the Grammy winning New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble. Come hear Winiker talk about 51 amazing years of music, and how a father’s passion became his son’s lifelong enterprise.

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A native Canadian and hockey player, David Chodirker is a backyard SERVING skating rink maker who kosher chicken also enjoys cycling and trumpet playing.

He IN newton is a family physician affiliated with NewtonWellesley Hospital, and is the founding partner of Wellesley Family Care Associates. Shira Deener, a former JCDS teacher, is currently a senior program associate at Facing History and Ourselves, an international professional development organization. She also races in triathlons, and sings Jewish a capella. They have four children, one JCDS alumna, and three current JCDS students in kindergarten, second, and fourth grade.

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designing for the bottom billion

‫ מכשור רפואי נגיש‬:‫עיצוב להמונים‬ muhammad zaman HOSTED BY

Stephanie grew up in Stephanie & Clearwater, Florida and met Yair Listokin Yair her freshman year at SERVING Harvard Hillel. Stephanie kosher vegan loves running, hiking, traveling, and cooking. She IN newton is an attorney who focuses on estate planning and practices independently.

Yair grew up in Edison, New Jersey and is a graduate of Jewish day schools, both Rabbi Pesach Raymond Yeshiva and Hillel Yeshiva High School. He regularly races in triathlons, and closely follows all sports, with a particular fondness for baseball. Yair is a professor at Yale Law School. He uses economics methods to analyze the law, primarily in the fields of tax law, contracts, and corporate law. Stephanie and Yair recently moved to Newton from New Haven. They have two boys at JCDS, one in kindergarten and one in third grade.

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associate chair for undergraduate studies, associate professor of biomeidcal engineering, boston university

How can we save over a million children under five from dying of pneumonia every year? One thing we need is basic diagnostic tools that are portable, durable, reliable, and cheap, like Professor Muhammad Zaman’s “Zambia-ready” pulse oximeter. In addition to the oximeter, Zaman’s pioneering work in developing low cost diagnostics for testing sub-standard and counterfeit drugs in poor countries earned him “Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge Award,” which is a joint consortium between USAID, Gates Foundation, UK Aid, Grand Challenges Canada, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway. Zaman is a biomedical engineering professor at Boston University.

Bostonia magazine describes him as having “a rare set of gifts: technical skill, verbal eloquence, irrepressible enthusiasm, and an innate understanding of the developing world.” His inventions are being implemented in many African countries including Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. “Dr. Zaman stands out in his constant re-engineering of his teaching,” The New York Times wrote, and he is also involved with numerous efforts to improve engineering education in Africa and Asia, including his native Pakistan.

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‫ענין של טעם‬

Leftovers with love

‫לקט ופאה באהבה‬ ASHLEY STANLEY FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LOVIN’ SPOONFULS

Did you know that roughly 40% of all of the available food in the United States is wasted each year? If just 5% of that wasted food could be salvaged, we could completely eradicate hunger nationally. So, what’s the problem? While this food is available, the true challenge is connecting this surplus with those who are hungry.

While dining out at a restaurant in Greater Boston, Ashley Stanley was astounded by the amount of leftover food on the table. It was that experience that inspired her, in 2010, to launch Lovin’ Spoonfuls to bridge the gap between food resources and the people who need them. Since its inception, Lovin’ Spoonfuls has distributed 150,000 pounds of fresh, healthy food, and has raised awareness for food rescue in a crusade to end hunger in Massachusetts.

ALUMNI DINNER HOSTED BY sANDY & DAVID TALL

Sandy and David met at a Sukkot party after Sandy came from Jacksonville, SERVING Florida to Massachusetts KOSHER DAIRY/ looking for a job. Sandy VEGETARIAN and David have three kids, one JCDS alumna, and two AT JCDS current JCDS students (in sixth and seventh grade).

Sandy is a CPA with a small accounting firm in Fitchburg, and David runs the family’s plastic manufacturing company. The Talls enjoy watching Florida football after shul on Saturday afternoons, and Patriot/Jaguar football on Sundays.

Stanley was recognized locally as an “Emerging Leader” in the 2011 Boston Business Journal, and was recently honored as an Oxfam International Sister on the Planet Ambassador enabling her to replicate Lovin’ Spoonfuls’ model in Haiti and Africa. Join Stanley as she discusses food rescue and local food systems as a form of Tikkun Olam.

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‫ענין של טעם‬

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

‫חבר הנאמנים‬

Sara Riedner Brown, President

Shoshana Jacobs

Carey Schwartz

Noamit Erel Armony

Sari Korman

Tom Schwarz

Michael Bentley, Treasurer

Nicole Lamberg

Jed Shugerman

Fiona Epstein, Clerk

Devra Lasden

Dean Solomon

Nicole Gann

Jon Levisohn

Arnee R. Winshall,

Kathy Green, Honorary

Adele Newman

Alex Gurevich

Ellen Rubin

Betsy Hecker

Alex Sagan

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Founding Chair Judy Zabin

‫ענין של טעם‬

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS*

‫תודות‬ Matters of Taste Chairs

Matters of Taste Development Team

Co-Chairs, Matters of Taste 2013 Judy & Al Zabin, Luz Arevalo & Ed Zabin

Sara Riedner Brown, Nicole Gann, Terri Grogan, Stephanie Listokin, Alex Sagan, Dr. Susie Tanchel, Arnee Winshall, and Judy Zabin

Host and Special Guest Committee Chair Nancy Vineberg

In-Kind Donations to the

Host and Special Guest Committee Stephane Acel-Green, Smadar Belkind-Gerson, Joel Bloom, Shira Deener-Chodirker, Beth Drapkin, David Karger, Sharon Krebs, and Michael Shiner

Catering by Andrew

Matters of Taste Past Chairs Sara Riedner Brown and Stephen Brown Daniel Caine Joan and Peter Hoffman Devra and Don Lasden Shira Lion and Michael Rubin Barbara Skydell Safran and Arthur Safran Julie Altman and Alex Sagan Paula and John Sinclair Nancy Smith Arnee Winshall

Co-Chairs, Marketing Committee Debra Askanase and Ana Volpi

Contributors to the Matters

of Taste Invitation

Noamit Erel Armony, Sara Riedner Brown, Nicole Gann, Jen Gordon, Seth Gordon, Terri Grogan, Niki Lamberg, Ziva Mann, Guy Sapirstein, Joel Segel, Orna Siegel, Philip Schuchert, Carey Schwartz, and Dr. Susie Tanchel

*Thank you to all of our volunteers and staff. If we left anyone out inadvertently, you have our sincere gratitude!

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Matters of Taste Reception

Head of School Dr. Susie Tanchel

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‫ענין של טעם‬

THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS*

‫תודות לתומכינו‬ Master Chef

MâITRE D’HOTEL

Anonymous Robert and Lillie Breitbard Foundation Gayle and Jerry Klusky Ellen and Michael Rubin

Lois and Milton Cail Ted Cutler Lillian Freedman Nicole and Joshua Gann Claudia Davidoff and Joseph Kahan Elliot and Eloise Kaplan Family Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation Emily Beck and Jon Levisohn Gilda and Alfred Slifka Judith Katz and Dean Solomon Jennifer and Amiel Weinstock Judy and Albert Zabin & Luz Arevalo and Ed Zabin

Fran Elovitz Lenie and Richard Fraiman Alexander Gurevich Rabbi Susan Harris Devra and Don Lasden Stephanie and Yair Listokin Lisa and Mark Moellman Adele and Andrew Newman Fiona Epstein and Jon Pollack Danya Handelsman and Jed Shugerman Judith and George Small Ruth Weinrib and Paul Weiss

SOUS CHEF

CONNOISSEUR

GOURMAND

Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum

Restaurateur

Anonymous Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation Sari Korman and John Hunt

EXECUTIVE CHEF

Naomit Erel Armony and Izhar Armony

SOMMELIER

Betsy Hecker and John J. Barter

Anonymous (3) Barbara Lapidas-Brown and Dr. Larry Brown Sara Riedner Brown and Stephen Brown Margaret and Chaim Charytan Shoshana Jacobs and David Charytan Sara and Andrew Dauber

Terri and Rich Grogan Sharon Levin and David Lerner Suzanne Priebatsch Shula and Jehuda Reinharz Belle Halpern and Mitch Rosenberg Dr. Susie Tanchel and Jennifer Kaplan

*Commitments as of December 27, 2012. If you would like to join this list in time for the event, please contact Terri Grogan at TerriG@jcdsboston.org or call 617-972-1733 x215

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‫ענין של טעם‬

GENERAL INFORMATION

‫מידע כללי‬ For more information about Matters of Taste or supporting JCDS, please contact the Office of Development and Communications.

TERRI GROGAN Director of Development and Communications 617-972-1733 x215 TerriG@jcdsboston.org JULIE GAL-OR Associate Director of Development 617-972-1733 x326 JulieG@jcdsboston.org

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Matters of Taste KASHRUT POLICY

For purposes of this event, kosher means that the products used, including cheese and wine, carry a hechsher, a formal certificate of Kashrut other than a plain “K.” Kosher dinners will be prepared in a kosher home where separate dishes, pots, pans, and utensils are used for meat and dairy or prepared and served by Va’ad-approved kosher caterers.

EVENT PROCEEDS AND DONATION INFORMATION

All proceeds from Matters of Taste will benefit the JCDS Annual Fund. Your presence enables JCDS to continue to maximize support to families attending our school, to provide our outstanding academic program, to create an intentionally pluralistic environment, and to foster a joyful Jewish community. Donations in excess of $36 per attendee are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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OUR MISSION

‫החזון שלנו‬ The mission of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, is to provide a premier education that: • nurtures each student’s capacity for intellectual discovery and decision-making within a respectful, pluralist, bilingual Hebrew-English environment • gives our graduates the ability to create their futures informed by Jewish values, texts and culture and to make a difference in their communities and the world • kindles the flame of lifelong learning in all its constituencies and serves as an inspirational model of innovative, effective and joyful teaching and learning beyond the school.

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JCDS CORE VALUES

JCDS fosters curiosity, cherishes varied perspectives, engages students and welcomes every family as a partner. Intentional Pluralism ‫ פלורליזם‬at JCDS, embraces families from a broad range of Jewish expression, practice, and belief, through our shared traditions, texts, and language.

In the cutting-edge Hebrew instruction program at JCDS, students experience and learn in both Hebrew and English throughout the Day ‫ עברית‬in a single, integrated curriculum, which connects our teaching units across disciplines, and between Jewish and General studies.

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‫ענין של טעם‬

‫ערכי היסוד של בית ספרינו‬

JCDS is a Joyful Jewish Community ‫ קהילה‬that learns and celebrates together in rich, colorful, and meaningful ways. The creative community spirit and school mission go well beyond the walls of JCDS, for events like life cycle celebrations, Shabbat meals, and weekend soccer games.

The course of study at JCDS is rigorous and intentional, yet flexible and personalized. Academic Excellence ‫ לימודים‬is built on strong skills, citizenship, and Jewish literacy set in a nurturing and relaxed atmosphere.

At JCDS, each child is known by the faculty and administration. A culture of caring teachers, parents, and peers supports the high aspirations of our hard working students. This Whole Child ‫נפש בריאה בגוף בריא‬ approach leads to students who grow to be the best version of themselves.

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JCDS

CELEBRATING 18 YEARS!

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