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Former Major League Player Cody Decker Says Anti-Semitism Is ‘Rampant’ in Pro Baseball Former pro baseball player Cody Decker said that anti-Semitism is “rampant throughout baseball” and that an Oakland Athletics coach should be suspended for making a Nazi salute after a game. Decker, who played briefly for the San Diego Padres and for Israel’s national team in the World Baseball Classic, spoke candidly on the topic with TMZ Sports on Aug. 8. He detailed several instances over the course of his career in which he was singled out for being Jewish and called Jewish slurs by fans and teammates. Decker said that while playing a minor league game

against the Frisco Rough Riders in Texas, several members of the opposing team called him and fellow Jewish teammate Nate Freiman an anti-Semitic slur. He also said he was fired from a team the day after being called into a coach’s office to “explain my Judaism to him because he was born again Christian.” And in 2012, Decker said he was at a bar with teammates when a group of girls asked him to leave the table when they found out he was Jewish. The talk was spurred by a recent incident involving Oakland A’s bench coach Ryan Christenson, who was widely criticized for making a Nazi salute — he claims

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“unintentionally” — after a recent game against the Texas Rangers. “In the world today of Covid, I adapted our elbow bump, which we do after wins, to create some distance with the players,” Christenson said in a statement last week. “My gesture unintentionally resulted in a racist and horrible salute that I do not believe in. What I did is unacceptable and I deeply apologize.” Decker said he accepted Christenson’s apology but that he should be educated

on the issue and suspended nonetheless. “Actions have consequences. That’s not cancel culture, that’s life,” Decker said. Decker took issue with the A’s response for saying it “looked like a Nazi salute.” “No, he did a Nazi salute. He did a Nazi salute twice,” Decker said. “Let’s not sugarcoat around it … I really, really despise their response. I hate every half-measure response Major League Baseball always makes.” — Gabe Friedman

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‘Harry Potter’ Actor Jason Isaacs Opens up About His Struggle With Addiction British Jewish actor Jason Isaacs opened up about his longtime struggle with drug addiction to the British magazine The Big Issue on Aug. 3, saying he first got drunk at age 12 and “by the age of 16 I’d already passed through drink and was getting started on a decades long love affair with drugs.” “Every action was filtered through a burning need I had for being as far from a conscious, thinking, feeling person as possible. No message would get through for nearly 20 years,” he said. “I think what would surprise the 16-year-old me is that I’m okay,” he added. 4

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Isaacs, 57, born in Liverpool to Jewish parents who have since moved to Israel, is perhaps best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in all eight “Harry Potter” films. He has spoken at length about growing up in the Jewish community, and his experience with anti-Semitism as a Jewish teenager in London. “There were constantly people beating us up or smashing windows,” he told the Independent in 2013 about his upbringing in the suburb of Childwall. “If you were ever, say, on a Jewish holiday, identifiably Jewish, there was lots of violence around.” — Emily Burack

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YOU SHOULD KNOW … Jessica Gorsky Halle

f Jessica Gorsky Halle could change one thing about Baltimore, she would make the harbor clean enough to swim in. Gorsky Halle, 32, is an associate attorney at Whiteford, Taylor and Preston, LLP. Her practice focuses on estate and elder law. She and her husband, Jordan M. Halle, live in Owings Mills, around where she grew up. They are expecting a baby in February. The Halles are members of Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation in Pikesville and participate on the board of IMPACT, the young adult division of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, and are both co-chairs of the Couples Committee. Why do you enjoy your work? When I chose to become a lawyer, I wanted to help people, plain and simple. My favorite part about my job is getting to know my clients. It sounds simple, but I’m a people person. My husband frequently calls me a “yenta.” My favorite anecdote is one of the first cases that I worked on by myself, from soup to nuts. A single mother’s child had been awarded a medical malpractice award settlement at infancy. The settlement award was bound by a significant amount of red tape, so it was difficult for the

mother to actually be able to use any of the benefits for her child. The mother spent years trying to access the funds. Without that money, the mother found it difficult to manage consistent housing. The family was constantly on the move. By the time the mother came to me, the child was already in his teens. She was desperate to get him into this certain school that could assist with his special needs, but she couldn’t afford a home in the area. I came up with a plan. It took several months and court hearings, but finally I was able to convince the court to move the funds into a special needs trust, which would grant the family immediate access. The child turned and gave me one of the biggest hugs I’ve ever received. It was one of the most fulfilling moments of my life. As you work in elder law, what do you see seniors face? The biggest issues facing seniors stem from their vulnerability and the disparity in generational gaps. The Silent Generation and the Baby Boomers grew up during a time when trust was honored. Today, it’s difficult for seniors to grasp fraud. New scams are popping up every day. Why do you like Baltimore? I love Baltimore. It is beautiful

because of all its parts — it’s gritty, homey, historical, eclectic, always evolving and yet you can always count on certain things to never change. When I was younger I definitely did not appreciate the “smalltimore” nature of Baltimore, where everyone seems to have at least six degrees of separation from one another. What does your Jewish identity mean to you? I grew up a first-generation American in a family of Soviet refugees. Both my mother and father grew up being raised Jewish in the Communist USSR. Their access to things like Hebrew school or services at an actual synagogue was nonexistent.

My family was only able to embrace the culture of Judaism [much later]. When they moved to Baltimore in the late ‘70s, my parents and grandparents had their first integration into an established Jewish community. By the time I came on the scene, my family’s assimilation, and education into the religious aspects of Judaism, was still new. My husband, on the other hand, grew up with as much cultural Jewish influence as religious. So now that we have melded our lives into one, I feel lucky that he has been able to provide me with a religious Jewish awakening that I didn’t have growing up. J T

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Editorials »

Promoting E-Commerce Growth in Israel

The novel coronavirus is testing our resources and creativity in ways we never imagined. We look to government for support; we turn to communal social service organizations for assistance; we look to our scientific and medical community for innovation and answers; we look to our schools for creative educational approaches; and we look to one another for patience and understanding. Each of these relationships calls on a sense of mutuality — we are all in this together, so let’s work together to solve the problem. Governments around the world have tried various approaches. Most include a financial infusion designed to help newly unemployed citizens through difficult economic times. In Israel, for example, the government has distributed the equivalent of $300 million to Israeli families. That has been a significant investment, and more will be needed. But is money alone enough? Israeli venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg has proposed a different approach, which he argues will allow the government to provide needed

relief support, while at the same time upgrade what he sees as Israel’s faltering e-commerce platform. In a recent series of tweets, Eisenberg suggested that the Israeli government support for pandemicburdened citizens be in the form of vouchers instead of cash, and that the vouchers be tied to e-commerce activity, like online shopping. His goal is to promote more local e-commerce activity and, through competition, help build Israel’s e-commerce infrastructure and competitive edge. “The world operates on incentives,” said Eisenberg, managing partner at the Tel Aviv-based Aleph Venture Capital. “If you give people money, they’ll stay at home. But if you give them money that they have to spend, they’ll spend it. And therefore proper channeling of money can jumpstart the entire economy.” Eisenberg asserts that the e-commerce experience in Israel is lagging: “User experience is poor, as is customer service and logistics.” He posits that a little competition, spurred by government-sponsored relief vouchers, will help improve e-commerce

and encourage brick-and-mortar stores to elevate their game and compete by investing in e-commerce technology. It will also help Israel wean itself from reliance on U.S. and Chinese online markets. “The citizens of Israel are in need of jobs and investment in the infrastructure of the future,” Eisenberg tweeted. “Stop handing out money and start investing in the future — the future of business, the future of infrastructure, and the future of employment. It is happening with or without us. We will be better off taking part in the game.” We think Eisenberg’s idea is worth exploring. His voucher suggestion could benefit those in need, help build business opportunity for those who innovate, and ultimately bring value to consumers and growth to the economy. And the idea of government money doing a form of “double duty” by helping those in need and promoting innovation and growth has the potential to be a win-win experience — a very rewarding approach for the start-up nation. J T

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, z’l It is a rare accomplishment for a rabbi to have his name attached to the word “Talmud,” the corpus of Jewish law and lore that has been the subject of Jewish study and scholarship for close to 2,000 years. But becoming identified with his eponymous translation of the Talmud was only one of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz’s many accomplishments during a life of making Jewish texts accessible to all — from casual reader to scholar — without compromising the rigor of his analysis. Steinsaltz, who died in Jerusalem on Aug. 7 at 83, was well known for his sharp intellect and tireless work ethic — with reports indicating that he regularly put in 17-hour workdays. Steinsaltz’s path to elevated Jewish scholar status was a bit unusual, as he was born into a secular family, and wasn’t drawn to religion until his teenage years. He eventually became associated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement, but was better known for his erudition, prodigious work product 6

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and overall scholarship than his Chasidic association. In 1965, when Steinsaltz was in his 20s, he began a translation of the Talmud from Aramaic into modern Hebrew. That project, which became his life’s work, took 45 years to complete. In the process, Steinsaltz added his own commentary to each page — a move that courted some degree of controversy, since it was seen by some as an effort to elevate his teachings to the level of Rashi, the preeminent medieval commentator whose glosses on the Bible, the Prophets and the Talmud appear with those traditional texts in a script that bears his name. But Steinsaltz was undaunted, and in the process made much-welcomed technical innovations to his new Talmud texts, adding punctuation and paragraph breaks to make the ancient block texts (with no punctuation) more open to the modern reader. For a haredi Jew, his innovations were seen as radical, even heretical, by some. And perhaps those concerns contributed

to Steinsaltz’s rock-star status in the Jewish world, where he was lionized as a “once-ina-millennium scholar” who could “converse and relate with ease to the most brilliant scientist and the smallest of children equally,” as Rabbi Pinchas Allouche, a colleague of Steinsaltz, put it. Accessibility and broad-mindedness were the hallmarks of Steinsaltz’s work. In addition to his writings, he established a network of schools in Israel and the former Soviet Union that helped advance his goal of making the entire canon of Jewish texts accessible to all, irrespective of knowledge and background. Later in life, Steinsaltz Hebraized his surname to Even-Israel, but it is the Steinsaltz name — associated with this most humane, modest, prodigious, erudite scholar — that has become so well-known, honored and respected. Adin Steinsaltz was a hero to the Jewish people and a scholar of our generation. May his memory be for a blessing. J T

OPINIONS

Teachers Must Expand Their Roles Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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By Debbie Niderberg | JNS

We are all familiar with the flight attendant’s announcement when we get on a plane, “When traveling with someone who needs assistance, make sure to put on your own oxygen mask first.” When the coronavirus pandemic struck, educators pivoted quickly, translating their curriculum overnight into remote platforms even though many lacked sufficient training. They were remarkable, but it took a toll on them. Anticipating another disruptive semester — and seeing a need to help educators attend to their own needs and recharge, collaborate and plan for another challenging year — Hidden Sparks launched a Summer Learning Summit for nearly 100 teachers from 30 Jewish day schools. The goal of gathering together for a Zoom learning summit was to help teachers cultivate community and student engagement despite the challenges of distance learning and social distancing; to think about what contributes to impactful and engaging in-class and remote learning; and to provide an opportunity for teachers from across the

country to learn with top learning experts and work together in planning for the upcoming year. As most students will look to their teachers to be the stabilizing force in an increasingly unstable world outside of the classroom, our conversations focused on what teachers can do to embed social and emotional learning into their classrooms this fall and help students succeed. Perhaps even more important than ever in the recent past, we need to help students feel connected and cared for. Forming connections with students and families should ideally begin before school begins. Reaching out to students or meeting them in small groups before school starts can help students feel that they are valued members of their class and help ease the return back to school. For younger students returning to physical classrooms, teachers can meet them virtually, one on one to foster the connection to students and help prepare the children for the classroom. A conversation with a parent can help the teacher learn about the student’s

interests, strengths or fears, and form a connection with home to ease a potential transition to remote learning. Once school starts, consistent routines that strengthen the feeling of community and belonging, such as morning meetings or closing circles, can be adapted and continued if need be for virtual classrooms. Jewish day schools face the extra pressure of additional subjects because of a dual curriculum, and traditionally, there has always been a very high emphasis placed on academic achievement. Faced with the impacts of the pandemic, lost time last year and fears of a second wave of the virus, teachers will likely feel increased pressure to cover more ground before the winter. On the other hand, children have experienced loss, anxiety, disorientation and isolation. They are returning to schools and classrooms with complex emotions that will surface. Teachers will need to be attuned to this, to validate what their students are feeling and support them. Educators have a critical role to play in creating classrooms that feel

Letters » The Feds Invited Themselves As the rhetorical answer to the title of the editorial “Who Invited the Feds?” (July 30), the Portland invasion served as the perfect pretext for President Donald Trump to distract attention from his gross incompetence in

responding to the pandemic that has claimed the lives thus far of more than 150,000 Americans. Neither Operation Valor nor Operation Legend, as far as Trump is concerned, has anything to do with the proper role of federal law enforcement activities in cities throughout

the country experiencing waves of violent crime and protests. As Mary Trump, the president’s niece and a clinical psychologist has written, he “requires division. It is the only way he knows how to survive.” Barry Dwork Alexandria, Va.

safe and comfortable, and that help students address their emotions so that they will be more prepared to learn. One of the most powerful lessons we can model for our students is how we approach challenges. Enabling students to discuss what they cannot do legitimizes those feelings, but thinking about what they still can do helps them reframe the challenge and focus on what they can control, fostering resiliency. Educators, in many ways, have been on the front line of the pandemic since its start. They have rapidly pivoted from in-class to virtual teaching, and, in many cases, have seized opportunities to run special “feel-good” programs, all while often managing their own busy households. We are living in unprecedented times that call on us to wear multiple hats as teachers, guidance counselors, healers and hopeful leaders. Our students will learn from us by example as we model life lessons in compassion, resilience, hope and dedication to community. J T

Debbie Niderberg is a co-founder and executive director of Hidden Sparks, a coaching and teacher-training program helping diverse learners and all students in Jewish day schools succeed. As a result of the success of the Summer Learning Summit, Hidden Sparks will be offering additional back-to-school workshops for teachers and schools this summer and fall.

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Israel May Not Top Progressive Agendas Now, But Tensions Will Persist By Ron Kampeas | JTA

THE ISRAEL ISSUE isn’t necessarily toward the top of the progressive to-do lists at the moment, but that doesn’t mean elements of the movement are any less at odds with the proIsrael community. That was evident in an interview last week that the Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City co-chairwoman, Sumathy Kumar, gave with the news site Kings County Politics. Here’s the passage involving Israel: KINGS COUNTY POLITICS: I noticed in the DSA questionnaire given to all local candidates looking for DSA support before this year’s state races that they were asked if they support Divestment, Sanction and Boycott (BDS) the state of Israel for their policies regarding Palestinians. Does the DSA support BDS as a policy plank? KUMAR: The DSA is in favor of BDS and believes everybody has a right to their home. Obviously in New York City, we don’t have that much that we’re doing around that here, but we have a national organization that focuses on international affairs. KCP: So does the DSA support the existence of the state of Israel? KUMAR: I feel like that’s not really relevant to this conversation. That’s a tough stance to back in a country that’s still overwhelmingly pro-Israel. But it’s worth noting that not all progressives feel this way. Ritchie Torres, a progressive 8

being backed by pro-Israel groups who secured the Democratic nomination last month in a Bronx congressional district, did not think the exchange made much sense. “The leadership of the DSA declines to affirm that the state of Israel should exist,” he said on Twitter. “‘Insane’ is the word that comes to mind.”

and backs BDS. Bush in a primary just ousted a longtime pro-Israel congressman, Lacy Clay, in the St. Louis area. She is expected to win the general election and would become the third House member to support the boycott Israel movement along with Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

That’s a tough stance to back in a country that’s still overwhelmingly pro-Israel. Last week, four Democrats whose Israel positions rile the pro-Israel community — notably Sen. Bernie Sanders — met for an hourlong conversation on YouTube and Israel never came up. Sanders, the erstwhile presidential candidate who has repeatedly angered the proIsrael community for saying things like the United States should move money to Gaza from the funds earmarked for defense assistance for Israel, was joined by three progressives he is endorsing: Jamaal Bowman of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Cori Bush of Missouri. Bowman in a recent primary ousted longtime pro-Israel stalwart Eliot Engel and, like Sanders, said he would condition assistance to Israel. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American congresswoman from a Detroit-area district who just won her primary, believes in a binational one-state solution

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In the event on the Sanders campaign’s YouTube channel, each of the candidates told compelling stories about themselves and their constituents who had to overcome institutionalized adversity. Bowman, for example, described how his experience as a middle-school principal informed his campaign. “I approached education, first and foremost, as a teacher, school counselor, middleschool principal, and then maybe like a social justice educator,” he said. “You know it wasn’t just about providing a quality academic environment. It was about social and emotional learning, it was about mental health, it was about interrogating the community and why certain communities lived in concentrated poverty and others did not.” The pro-Israel community may take some comfort in the absence of the mention of Israel, but as the Kings County

interview shows, it should not. Compelling narratives of class struggle are what is winning elections for these candidates. And when their Israel-critical posture emerges, it will be inextricably woven into those narratives, in no small part because of the tendency of some pro-Israel activists to make enemies of these folks. Bush removed from her campaign website the page in which she endorsed BDS. Still, Clay made it an issue — he sent around a mailer that highlighted her BDS support and his own pro-Israel record. Pro-Israel PACs spent $1.5 million in a bid to defeat Bowman, a similar amount to defeat Sanders and millions in an effort to replace Omar. The only thing protecting Tlaib from a similar onslaught was her primary rival’s associations with Louis Farrakhan. How tightly the Israel postures of these progressives are tied to their appeal was evident in how Bowman celebrated when he learned that he had earned the endorsement of Barack Obama. Bowman told his followers on Twitter that he heard the former president endorsed him in part after reading his letter to Rabbi Avi Weiss in trying to address the longtime New York Jewish activist’s concerns about the candidate’s Israel policies. “He loved it,” Bowman said. Notably, Weiss did not. J T

Ron Kampeas is Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Washington correspondent.

OPINIONS

How to Help a Failed State?

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By Jonathan Tobin | JNS

THE DISASTER in Beirut epitomizes everything that is wrong with Lebanon. But we didn’t have to wait for an investigation into the explosion at the Beirut port that left more than 150 people dead to know what is wrong with that country. The problem with Lebanon isn’t merely that Hezbollah largely runs it. Nor is the damage solely to do with the fact that Hezbollah is primarily an ethnic terrorist organization that takes its orders from the tyrannical theocrats that run Iran. Those facts alone would doom that nation to be dragged into conflicts that are not in their interests and that serve only Tehran’s goal of regional hegemony. The Lebanese disaster is more than Hezbollah. It goes back to its founding as a separate nation after World War I, when the Allied powers carved up the remains of the Ottoman Empire. The French received a mandate for Lebanon and Syria. They went on to draw the borders of these new entities arbitrarily, with little relation to any sense of nationhood shared by the different populations that actually live there. The French had ties to the Lebanon region since the days of the Crusades, where the Maronite Christians trace their origins. Seeking to enhance the power of that Catholic community, Paris drew Lebanon’s borders to encompass more territory. But that meant ensuring that the Christians would not have a stable majority and would have to share the country with Sunni

and Shia Muslims, as well as the Druze, communities with which they had been in conflict from time immemorial. In order to facilitate the sharing of this polyglot entity, the French helped them draw up a constitution whose basic formula would survive after Lebanon achieved independence during World War II. It involved a complicated scheme whereby the president would be a Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and parliament would be divided strictly along sectarian lines with a permanent 6-5 ratio of Christians to Muslims, even though the latter would eventually strongly outnumber them. It was a prescription for an on-and-off civil war — and that is exactly what has happened over the course of the last half-century as Muslims, and particularly the Shia with their strong ties to Iran, began to predominate. The main thing to know about Lebanon is that it is not a country in any real sense. It is a place where warring tribes are locked inside borders where they continually tear each other to pieces, as is the case with neighboring Syria, which is just now winding down its own civil war produced by the conflicts between competing religious and ethnic groups that cost half a million lives and created at least 5 million refugees. As far as Lebanon goes, with Iran’s help, Hezbollah and the Shia currently have the upper hand over all the groups. Were ethnic and religious war not the determinative factor in

defining civil and communal life, it would be a prosperous and beautiful country — and for a very short time once was. Instead, it is both strife-torn and an economic basket case. Over the last few decades, both the United States and Israel have been dragged into Lebanon’s civil wars in ways that didn’t benefit anyone. The question we should be asking is not only what can be done about Hezbollah and Iran. Rather, we should be contemplating whether there is anything the West can do to fundamentally change these countries. Much of the world wants to help the Lebanese recover from the port disaster (including Israel, though the Lebanese don’t want their help since the Jewish state is demonized there, as is the case throughout the Arab world). France is taking the lead on this. But no one is optimistic about a long-term solution for the problems that allowed this tragedy to happen because there are none. There is nothing that would fix Lebanon that wouldn’t involve a foreign takeover and/or reimagining of it in modern and democratic terms. As the United States proved in Iraq, such a task is a fool’s errand.

We can argue that Lebanon, like Syria and Iraq, are breeding grounds for terrorism that cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of bad actors. Still, the idealism that led Americans to believe that these countries can be remade in the West’s image was a fantasy. We can and should wish their peoples well, and send aid if they wish to shake off the ancient quarrels that breed slaughter and have reduced them to penury. Israel should be supported in its efforts to ensure that violence in Lebanon and Syria doesn’t spread. And the West should continue sanctioning and isolating Iran so as to prevent it from creating more mischief. And sensible people should support Israel’s refusal to create a Palestinian state that would be just as much of a disaster as Lebanon or Syria. For too long, Americans have labored under the delusion that we can fix the Middle East. But the slaughter in Syria and Iraq, added to the catastrophe that is Lebanon, should remind us that the only sensible approach to these faux nations is to stay clear of being dragged into their endless and futile internecine conflicts. J T

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS— Jewish News Syndicate.

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French Kosher Cafe Opens in Pikesville By Jesse Berman

PASS THE RUGELACH, s’il vous plaît? The long-awaited Croustille Café held the grand opening of its Pikesville location at 1404A Reisterstown Road on Aug. 5, offering kosher French pastries to any and all. The cafe’s planned opening, which the JT first reported on in November 2019, was understandably hampered 10

by the arrival of the novel coronavirus and its effects on the restaurant industry. “It was very stressful,” said Moshe Mimoun, co-owner of the cafe. “It was not easy to find employees and to be ready.” To promote employee and customer health, hand sanitizer was made readily available in the cafe, employees are required to wear gloves and everyone

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must wear a mask. In addition to the nowubiquitous carryout option, dine-in service is also available, with the cafe able to serve up to 50% of its normal capacity, Mimoun said. Mimoun got his start in food services in his family’s two cafes/bakeries: Manicoti in Marseille and Les Delices de Maxime in Paris. He decided to

leave France over concerns of rising anti-Semitism and began looking for quiet towns that could provide his children with a quality education. In Pikesville, he said, he found everything he was looking for, adding that his children attend Bais Yaakov and Talmudical Academy. Since moving to the area, he has begun davening at Mercaz Torah U’Tefilla in Baltimore,

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THE ANNUAL SUMMER TEACHERS SUMMIT concluded last week after an intense three-day dive into how to teach students to stand up to injustice. The Baltimore Jewish Council, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Maryland State Department of Education and the Macks Center for Jewish Education co-hosted and presented this professional development opportunity for teachers in the area of Holocaust education. The conference lasted from Aug. 3 - 5 and was streamed live on Zoom. This year, each session provided educators with resources to teach and encourage their students to be upstanders,

or the opposite of a bystander. Presenters broke the summit into informational sessions that lasted about an hour each. Many of these were followed by breakout sessions, where teachers could discuss a topic and share ideas in a private Zoom room. Watchers joined from all over the world, including the Philippines, Australia and Portugal, as well as from across the country such as Arizona, Virginia and, of course, Baltimore. Because there are so many topics associated with the Holocaust, each year the summit has a different theme. In the past, it has covered rescue

and resistance and propaganda, with last year’s theme being Women and the Holocaust. Ilene Dackman-Alon, JMM’s director of education, kicked off the summit the morning of Aug. 3. She explained that this year’s summit aimed to deepen participants’ understanding of human behavior during the Holocaust and help students realize they have choices. “[We want to] compel our students to speak up when they think and feel wronged,” Dackman-Alon said to the almost 60 people who joined that morning. After opening remarks, Holocaust educator and child

survivor Miriam Klein Kassenoff took the spotlight. “Instead of turning on each other, why don’t we turn toward each other? That’s what being an upstander is,” Klein Kassenoff said, as she spoke on her own experiences and the power of upstanders. Following Klein Kassenoff, participants watched a short documentary called “Weapons of the Spirit,” about survivors hiding in the French village of Le Chambon during the Holocaust. Paul Kutner, historian and DC International School teacher, then spoke and offered tools for teaching the documentary. Kutner showed

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BJC. He stated that BJC is the advocacy arm of the Jewish community, and what better type of advocacy is there than education? Tuesday’s first session was led by Christina Chavarría, program coordinator in the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This and the other Tuesday morning sessions focused on the point that even in the face of injustice, people had choices. For example, USHMM historian Edna Friedberg and program coordinator Kim Blevens-Relleva told the story of one teacher who quit her job rather than teach Nazi propaganda. This teacher then created an underground network to help children escape and joined a resistance. “Over the course of three

years, [she] is credited with saving the lives of over 2,000 Jewish children and many adults,” Blevens-Relleva said of the teacher, who was in her 20s at the time. They also shared accounts where young children stood up for their peers against authority figures. “Children and teenagers have agency and can be empowered. And the values that shape them can drive them for the rest of their lives,” Friedberg said. COVID-19 also came up. Friedberg said these materials are more difficult to share virtually, as a teacher cannot gauge how the classroom is responding. However, there are other tools to diversify learning around the Holocaust. Later, during a presentation on why choices matter, one survivor, Kurt Messerschmidt,

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What are your thoughts on the states’ response to safety concerns at this time? It’s difficult to tell one is right and one is wrong. States are doing the best they can to optimize the response. The critical issue is contact tracking, tracing and isolation. And for the public, they need to be wearing masks when out. What have you learned about a possible vaccine? I’m not doing any direct work with development, I work on distribution once it is available. ... Once the vaccine is available, there will be an issue of making it available in large enough numbers to vaccinate everybody. There will be a high level of manufacturing [but] if we wait until [enough are ready] we will lose even more people. We’ll be lucky if we have 2 billion doses by the end of 14

2021. Countries will have to sort how to distribute it, and once that decision is made, decide on individual locations. And then they have to decide a good mechanism of delivery to children, or what about high-risk communities? These will have to be engaged in the discussion, too. The vaccine has to be safe for the community. Whether that means make it available to shuls or schools or the local town hall; it’s not just a medical novel problem. Logistically, we don’t want people congregating. Whether it’s possible or feasible is one thing, but the [ideal] idea would be a shot delivered in the mail. But we’re not quite there. We have to design delivery with the communities. We have to make sure the vaccine is safe itself, too, and test the surveillance of that [to keep an eye on results].

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And it will have to be adaptive to where the hot spots [of breakouts] are. At the soonest, when could you predict a vaccine to be available to the U.S. population? We have [vaccines] but they just need to be proven to be effective. So that means a wide trial with all ages. ... Then it goes through licensing after all the data is collected. Then it can be manufactured. Realistically, it is hard to pinpoint, but it is unlikely that you can get one by the end of 2020. Maybe, for healthcare workers, by 2021.

Do you believe there will have to be a difference in dosages for older adults? The main issue is older adults have the most responsive immune system. What is generally not safe may be needed to be effective for older adults. It would be wonderful to have one vaccine, but it’s possible we will need different ones for older adults, or more frequent dosages. We also don’t know how long the vaccine’s effect could last, and if that could be different for different ages. If it wanes and we’re back to where we started that would be no good. How reliable are the current testings on chimpanzees to the predictability of whether it will work with humans? It is a necessary step. If it’s safe

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When will we have the cure to COVID-19? How effective will it be? How will we get it? Naor Bar-Zeev is a pediatric infectious disease physician and statistical epidemiologist who serves as an associate professor of international health and vaccine science and deputy director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. BarZeev, who is Jewish, spoke with the JT about what it will take to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. This interview has been condensed.

particularly to one biological animal similar to humans, meaning primates, it’s a good indication to move it to human trials. Then we need to demonstrate on humans that it’s safe and efficacious. The more it’s evaluated, the more I will be comfortable to say it’s safe. There’s only been 1,500 people vaccinated so far. We need many more people before I can say something is safe. So we’ll increase the number again soon. The next trials will vaccinate 30,000 each. So the fact it’s safe in animals is a necessary step to get there, but the real results are in humans. The worst thing that’d happen is if [we went straight to testing on] people to cut corners, and that causes harm. That would be terrible for all vaccines, because people’s trust

The critical issue is contact tracking, tracing and isolation. And for the public, they need to be wearing masks when out. in vaccines would go down. The population does have to be prepared, learn from it. What will that next phase of testing look like? So we break it into Phase 1, 2 and 3. Before Phase 1 of human trials, you have a whole bunch of experiments, then to animal testing. We haven’t seen the results of Phase 2 yet, but are expecting to move to 3 soon. .... At the end of Phase 3, we can roll out the vaccines and begin a Phase 4. But when we get there, it also raises an ethical concern: What

if the vaccine kills one in a million? Would you still give it to children? These are not black and white questions, but there is a lot to consider. What other challenges and questions like that must we consider? So I already told you about distribution: who will get it first, how do we distribute it, and remember that equity does not mean the same. It means everyone will be protected equally. But also, what if we have 1 million doses and people over

age 50 require two? And how are we affording it? And what if 70% is efficacious, or even just 50%? Do we still spend the money on it? And what if there is no other option for a long time? The RotaShield vaccine in the ‘90s caused a condition in children, but it took 10 years for a new vaccine to come around. You have these questions of what is practical versus the specifics of it. Above all, though, people must remember: A vaccine is not the end all be all. It won’t make it go away. Particularly, not initially. Obviously we still need one. But, really, the idea of social distancing, washing your hands, being careful — this will still be crucial. J T

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A Yaakov in King Arthur’s Court: Jewish Museums Present History of Britain’s Jews By Jesse Berman

WOULD YOU CARE for some tea and crumpets with your gefilte fish? The Jewish Museum of Maryland partnered with the Jewish Museum London to give a virtual presentation on the history of Britain’s Jewish community, Aug. 9. The event was part of a larger collaboration that also includes the Jewish Museum of Australia and the Jewish Museum of South Africa, said Trillion Attwood, the director of public programs and visitor experience at JMM. Each of the four museums plans to give online, historical presentations on their Jewish community to the communities of all four regions. According to Attwood, the aim of each presentation, including the one given by the London museum, is to provide a better understanding of each community, from the initial arrival of its first Jewish settlers to the lives of that Jewish community in modern times. The Jewish Museum London’s presentation gave an overview of the experience of British Jews from the arrival of the first Jewish migrants in 1066, to the community’s expulsion by King Edward I in 1290, to their readmission in the 1600s. Frances Jeens, the Jewish Museum London’s interim museum director, pointed to a medieval mikvah and an exploration of London’s East End as highlights of the virtual “tour,” along with a closer look 16

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at the Kindertransport rescue, in which thousands of Jewish children were brought from Nazi-controlled nations to new homes in the United Kingdom before the war. The presentation ended with a look at one family’s experience with post-war migration to Britain. Attwood initially had the idea for this series following JMM’s decision to switch to virtual programming, which, for all its challenges, created new opportunities, she said. JMM began by reaching out to the Australian museum as a potential partner and received an enthusiastic reply. Heartened by their response, the new partnership began looking for other English-language institutions willing to participate, eventually finding the museums in London and South Africa receptive to the proposal. Attwood was particularly excited about the Q&A session

toward the end of the event, viewing it as a unique chance for different Jewish communities otherwise separated by borders and oceans to interact with each other. “Questions will be coming both from America and South Africa simultaneously,” she said, “which I think could really lead to a fascinating discussion and comparison of different Jewish experience across the globe.” Attwood described the joint events as the type of collaboration that museums would have had difficulty imagining prior to COVID-19 and the ongoing era of virtual interaction. The pandemic, she said, forced JMM “to think about how we can take this current situation and take this technology and use it to give us an opportunity to deliver a unique experience that wouldn’t have been possible prior.” Tracie Guy-Decker, JMM’s

deputy director, concurred with Attwood and added that the museum didn’t want to do “a watered-down version of what we did in the before times, but really coming up with ways that leverage the current situation, and so I think that this series does that beautifully.” Attwood hopes to follow this series up with similar collaborations with groups in other countries in the future, she said. Guy-Decker added that the current series represented a way to work out the “kinks” before pursuing those future projects. Additionally, JMM is also looking at future collaborations with U.S.based groups like Washington, D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum (currently under construction) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, she said. Guy-Decker hoped that the series would help deconstruct the

idea that there is a single Jewish experience by highlighting the variety of Jewish experiences across borders. “Sometimes because something is ‘normal’ for us,” she said, “we start to think that that’s normal for everyone. … It’s totally different for how Jews came to be in Britain and how they now live, different ways of immigrating, different ways of assimilating, acculturating, making their home.” Jeens expressed her hope that the “tour will highlight the complex reasons and motivations for Jewish migration to Britain over the last 1000 years. By joining the tour, the audience will be able to discover that each one of these moments in history sheds light on how the diverse Jewish life of today’s Britain came to be and the genuine contribution Jewish migrants have made to British society.” J T

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Sen. Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2020

However, Harris has said that she would rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, an agreement that conservative Jews despise over its aid to Iran, a regime that routinely calls for Israel’s destruction. That keeps her aligned with Biden, who was part of the Obama administration that brokered the 2015 agreement over vehement objections by Israel. “This nuclear deal is not perfect, but it is certainly the best existing tool we have to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and avoid a disastrous military conflict in the Middle East,” Harris wrote in a statement in 2018 after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal. “As the international community and the Administration’s own national security team has confirmed multiple times, Iran

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remains in compliance with the deal. In the absence of an Iranian violation, it is reckless to break this agreement without presenting any plan on how to move forward.” Like many other Democratic lawmakers, Harris is also against Israel’s potential unilateral annexation of parts of the West Bank. She wrote a letter to President Trump in June arguing that annexation would “harm prospects for a negotiated two-state solution.” She did not, however, sign onto a letter signed by other senators stating that annexation would fray U.S.Israel ties. Harris, previously the attorney general of California, is a self-described progressive who’s also known for being “tough on crime” — a quality that has hurt her standing among other progressives

but could be seen as a plus by Jewish Americans rattled by a series of historic anti-Semitic attacks during the past few years, including the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 in 2018. As San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris created a hate crimes unit, and as attorney general, she reported in 2012 that anti-Jewish hate crimes were the most commonplace religion-based hate crime in California. In the Senate, she has urged better hate crime reporting and helped pass a resolution that named religious institutions as possible targets of hate crimes. Outside of politics, Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff has two Jewish children from a previous marriage — and often cheerleads for his wife on Twitter. J T

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IT’S OFFICIAL: Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s choice for vice president. The California senator, who made history Tuesday as the first Black woman to join a major party presidential ticket, is still in her first term. But during several years in public office, the 55-year-old lawmaker’s outspoken opinions on a range of issues and her presidential run have given Jewish voters plenty to scrutinize. She is also married to Jewish lawyer Douglas Emhoff, who would become the country’s first Jewish second husband. As a senator, Harris has been aligned with Biden on Israel: She is seen as a strong supporter with ties to AIPAC, the country’s largest proIsrael lobby, and unlike some Democrats has not broached the idea of conditioning aid to Israel to influence its policies. During her presidential run, Harris separated herself somewhat from even the mainstream moderates in the pack, firmly opposing the idea of condemnatory U.N. votes or even strong public criticism aimed at swaying Israeli policy. While the more liberal pro-Israel group J Street has endorsed the centrist Biden, who also has committed to keeping spats with Israel private and the idea of not allowing any “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel in diplomatic terms, it has not backed Harris. J Street, which lobbies for a two-state solution, has endorsed more than half of Senate Democrats.

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JULIE WOHL, 40, can teach you Jewish spirituality through artistic expression. Wohl is the director of PJ Library in Baltimore, which is facilitated by the Macks Center for Jewish Education. This role, which she’s served in since March (though she’s been with CJE two years), is perfect for her, as she’s studied Jewish education and yearns to express it through art. Wohl’s Jewish spirituality has shone through in all parts of her life from art to career to volunteering to romance. Her husband, Rabbi Josh Wohl, leads Congregation Kol Shalom in Annapolis, which she attends. She studied Jewish education for her master’s. After graduate school, she started a synagogue school. And since then, she’s pursued a career in Jewish life. “I worked in Jewish education since my early 20s. God, that’s a long time already,” she joked. “But I’ve also always been interested in art and from very early on incorporated art into classrooms.” 20

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Initially, she wrote and illustrated books for Jewish families and schools. Then, she started a business out of training teachers to incorporate art-based projects in their lessons. In 2018, she moved to Severna Park and started working in Baltimore with CJE, where her coworkers agree she belongs. “Julie is a thoughtful coworker who thinks beyond her own work and is always willing to lend a hand — often literally, with her amazing artistic talents — to any CJE program,” said Terri Rosen, executive assistant at CJE. “She’s a great fit for her role as PJ Library director in Baltimore, as she engages people with Judaism in a fun, colorful and inclusive way.” Just recently, CJE hired her to help them create a Jewish infant’s memory book, “Shalom Baby.” (These are free and available for locals.) “Julia is one of an amazing staff of people with new perspectives,” CJE CEO Amian Kelemer said. “She just exudes creativity and collaboration and loves to share her skills with the agency.” Most recently, in one of their staff meetings, Wohl gave them a tour of her studio. “In real life, you don’t see your coworkers’ houses, but in one of our Zoom meetings you could see her painting behind [her] so I said, ‘Hey, could you give us a tour?’ and it was like a staff [bonding] moment.” While she does help CJE in various ways, such as decorating a book return box, Wohl’s job is to help Jewish locals find ways to engage virtually. “We’re all doing stuff online now, which is a challenge and opportunity,” Wohl said. She was quick to adapt to these changes, though, as she started this position right around the time social distancing began. “I didn’t have an ingrained idea of ‘This is how we do things.’” This has allowed her to blend education and art creatively in her job.

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Wohl was supposed to showcase her art at an exhibit with the Peggy and Yale Gordon Center for the Arts March 17, but the center closed March 15. She had created 25 individual paintings for the exhibit with Jewish themes of text or prayers. “Up until the show, I was really working hard to get everything ready for the show in major creation mode; finding new prayers, new resources, new ideas. I was still in a creation space when the world shut down.” Wohl continued to paint at first, then she resolved to just posting the pieces on social media. She shared one painting every night. “I called it my quarantine show.” The depressing incessant state of quarantine had gotten to her, and she couldn’t create anymore. “I sort of hit a wall,” Wohl said. Once she resolved that she’d be stuck for a while, she started to paint again. While she works to continue that collection, she is also working on commissions and another art gallery. She has an Etsy shop, where customers can buy print reproductions of her art. This passion for art has always been a part of her. “I just have jewishtimes.com

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”I want people to feel joy when they see my work.“ always, it wasn’t even a choice. It was never a decision that I made,” Wohl said. Both her mother and grandmother were creative types, likely to leave art supplies around to pique young Wohl’s interest. “I think it was in second grade, the first time I realized not everybody can do what I can do. It had never occurred to me before that it was special.” Even then, it wasn’t until her late 20s when she published her first (of five) book that she was willing to call herself an artist. “There’s a difference between being an artist and being able to call myself one.” In her early art, Wohl was inspired by classical and post-modern paintings. Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh particularly influenced her. Recently, her biggest inspiration has been Sagal. “One of the best compliments was that my art reminded them of Sagal,” she said, which she modestly doubted. Reflections of these artists’ 22

styles can be seen in her shapely, vibrant art. “I just really love colors,” she said. “I have a hard time editing. I sort of feel like more is more. More texture, more color, more shape.” This youthful personality in her art reflects her own youthful excitement to learn. “People ask me what my favorite art piece is, but it’s always the one I’m working on. Because I think I’m more excited by the act of making art,” she said. “I’m always learning. I’m always trying to push myself to the next level. That to me is very exciting.” Her art is uninhibited. “I didn’t go to art school or get any training. I just taught myself because I just like to play. So I don’t have anyone on my shoulder saying you can’t use those colors together.” While this can be an advantage, Wohl still wishes she had formal training. “I am an educator and I really believe in the power of education,” she stressed. She believes wholeheartedly that everything

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she has learned would have come to her more easily and quickly if she had gone to school for it. “I got there, but it was a longer path.” Still, the art she produces today is full of life and meaningful themes. “I want people to feel joy when they see my work, but also [be] a little intrigued. I want my work to tell a story and be thoughtful, but the overarching feeling is joyful and warm.“ Wohl believes the purpose of art is best described by Judy Chicago. “When art is meaningful and substantive, viewers can become enlightened, inspired and empowered,” she quoted. “As a teacher who uses art to teach, this is my greatest aspiration.”

Teaching Through Art

In order to inspire and empower her students with art, Wohl starts with a big idea in Jewish text. She has her students respond to the idea by creating art. They then talk about the art

and the Jewish motif. “Art is a tool for further thinking and making it more personal and meaningful,” she stated. One of her workshops is Place at the Table. There, they study Jewish concepts like B’tzelem Elohim, (in God’s image). She asks students to create self-portraits, not just of what they look like, but a visual way to share something about themselves because they are in God’s image. They then put the portraits on a table with notes and words they use to describe themselves. “So the lesson is I myself am made in God’s image, but also the person next to me is made in God’s image and the person down the street who doesn’t act or talk like me is made in God’s image, and there’s space for all of us at the table.” For Wohl, this connection between Judaism and art goes even deeper than spirituality. It’s also a way to celebrate the culture. “Jewish tradition is really about words and action,” she said. “And because of prohibitions against graven images, it’s not a tradition that has a super long history connected to artwork, but every culture has artists and people who want to create. So the earliest artists, if you want to call them that, are the sofers creating the Jewish letters. From there, they make art out of words.” Art is a language in and of itself, she said. It is one that allows new questions and answers that elicit emotional responses. “For me, Jewish art and responding to Jewish words with color is adding another level of meaning and exploring and seeking out the meaning.” J T

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A Dessert With a Fascinating Story to Tell

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YOU’VE HEARD OF the wandering Jew, but have you heard of the wandering Jewish cookie? As Jews move from country to country, they pick up recipes, spices and dishes along the way. Sometimes, even after a Jewish community is no more, their food remains, an echo of a world that once was. Such is the case of the “Jewish cookie” from Iceland. Recently I learned of a cookbook, “The Culinary Saga of New Iceland, Recipes From the Shores of Lake Winnipeg,” compiled by Kristin Olafson Jenkyns, a writer with forbearers from Iceland. Her book documents the history and culinary traditions of immigrants from Iceland who settled in North America at the end of the 19th century. Many of them moved to Manitoba, Canada, on Lake Winnipeg, where they formed a community that came to be known as “New Iceland.” In the section of the book titled “Cakes and Cookies,” following classic Icelandic foods like skyr, smoked fish and brown bread, are recipes for cookies traditionally eaten on Christmas. Their name in Icelandic is gyðingakökur, which translates to “Jewish cookie.” How did Jewish cookies end up in a cookbook filled with the food of Icelandic immigrants to the New World? You can be sure that there weren’t many, if any, Jews among those settlers 150 years ago. Yet there are three recipes for Jewish cookies nestled between other traditional sweets like Vinarterta and ginger cookies. Olafson Jenkyns is not sure how they came to be part of the culinary canon of the New Icelanders. Her guess is that the Jewish cookies came to Iceland by way of Denmark. For hundreds of years, Iceland was closely tied to Denmark; traders and merchants, some of them Jewish, moved back and forth between the two countries. Perhaps the cookies came via that trade route. And how did those “Jewish” cookies land in Denmark in the first place? According

INGREDIENTS: For the dough: 2½ cups flour ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cardamom ¾ cup butter, cut into ½ inch cubes 1 egg FOR THE TOPPING: 1 cup cold, strong coffee 1 cup blanched slivered almonds, coarsely chopped 1 cup crushed sugar lumps (coarse bits, not fine)

Stir flour, salt and cardamom together. to Gil Marks, author of Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, Jewish butter cookies originated in Holland. Many of the Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries found a safe haven in Holland. There they merged, “… their Moorish-influenced Iberian fare with the local Scandinavian cuisine. Instead of olive oil, they used the butter found in great quantity in Dutch cookery to create small rich morsels, still called Joodse boterkoeke (Jewish butter cookie) in Holland.” Until

Work the butter into the flour mixture by rubbing it between your fingers, as if you were making a pie crust. Beat egg with a fork and add to dough. Combine well. Wrap in wax paper. Chill thoroughly (at least 1 hour) until firm. Roll out dough on wax paper until ⅛ inch thick. Cut in 1½ inch rounds with a cutter. Brush tops with coffee; mix the almonds and sugar and sprinkle generously on top. Press down gently with your hand to help the almond-sugar mixture stick. Place on greased baking sheets and bake at 350 Fahrenheit for about 12 minutes or until lightly golden brown. today, Dutch Jews serve those cookies on Chanukah and Shavuot and at other dairy meals. From Holland, the cookies spread to Denmark, where they became a traditional pre-Christmas treat. This recipe for gyðingakökur comes from “The Culinary Sage of New Iceland, Recipes From the Shores of Lake Winnipeg.” J T

Rachel Ringler is a museum docent, challah instructor and cook.

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ChaiFlicks,

the ‘Jewish Netflix,’ Is Here

A screenshot from ChaiFlicks, a Jewish-themed streaming platform

much content, ChaiFlicks also offers something that newer, bigger streaming services like HBO Max and Peacock don’t: It’s available on every major streaming platform, including Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV, as well as both iOS and Android mobile devices, in addition to a desktop version. The tech for the site is powered by the video platform Vimeo. “We have not had any issues with Roku or Amazon,” Friedman said. “We are a small niche streaming service and that has its advantages so as not to affect the preexisting ecosystem in the VOD and streaming worlds.” The ChaiFlicks lineup at the start includes “Natasha,” “A Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma,” “Holy Land Hardball,” “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel,” the show “Soon By You” and other titles that might be familiar to those who follow the Jewish film festival circuit.

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“Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women” and “Bulgarian Rhapsody” are among the titles that will come to the service in the week after launch. “We started ChaiFlicks … as soon as the pandemic hit in March, as we had the advantage of owning 80 Jewish and Israeli titles of our own,” Friedman said. “Since such time, although still in the beta stage for the channel, we have been acquiring third-party product for ChaiFlicks to the extent that we as of today have 150 titles for ChaiFlicks alone.” As the service continues to acquire third-party programming, Friedman said, he and his two co-founders expect that Menemsha titles will become a minimal part of the ChaiFlicks presentations. Those co-founders are Heidi Oshin, a fellow Menemsha Films staffer, and Bill Weiner, who once worked for the large production company now called Regency Enterprises. Friedman estimated that the

service will add about three new films per week. Categories include comedy, drama, documentaries, food, music, sports, LGBTQ stories, shorts, “The American Sephardi Federation presents …” and specific categories for individual countries and regions, which include Israel, Europe, France and South America. Also on the way, according to the spokesman Springer, is a partnership with the Jewish Women’s Theater in Santa Monica, Calif., and agreements with some Israeli film companies. Eventually there will be content that premieres on ChaiFlicks, mostly special live debut events. “We will need to provide that ‘wow’ factor to the subscribers with premieres on ChaiFlicks,” Friedman said. “However, for now we want to retain the sequential windowing not to upset existing relationships in the first four stages of release.” J T

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It was only a matter of time: A Jewish Netflix has arrived. That moniker is probably the best description of ChaiFlicks, a film and TV streaming platform focused on Jewishthemed movies that launched Wednesday. It helps that its creators were once in business with the real Netflix. Neil Friedman, founder of the Jewish-focused distribution company Menemsha Films, said he sold two films to Netflix: the 2015 bakery-set drama “Dough” and the 2016 Israeli film “The Women’s Balcony.” But since then, Netflix has shifted its focus to its original offerings. In 2017, when Netflix passed on another film that the founders were distributing — “1945,” a rare Hungarian production about the effects of the Holocaust — the idea for ChaiFlicks began. “We realized then and there that if we were going to have our films on [a subscription video on demand] channel, we would have to initiate our own channel,” Friedman said. The service was offered earlier this year in a beta version for Menemsha Films’ mailing list subscribers, spokesman Gary Springer said. But on Wednesday, the service will be open officially to all at a price point of $5.99 a month, or $65.99 a year. ChaiFlicks also offers a 14-day free trial. It’s launching with over 150 titles, including feature films, documentaries, shorts and other entertainment, all of it either Jewish- or Israeli-themed. While it doesn’t have nearly as

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Giving Without Calculations R’ Zushe from Anipoli, a famed Chassidic master who lived in the late 1700s, would spend hours meditating and praying every morning. A fellow townsman, a man of financial means, didn’t know who R’ Zushe was, but saw his sincerity and prayers and chose to quietly support him by dropping off a sum of money every week. This fellow felt he was being blessed by his actions and saw his business prosper while supporting R’ Zushe. One morning, the businessman noticed R’ Zushe wasn’t in his usual seat at the synagogue. He was told that R’ Zushe had traveled to his Rebbe, his older brother, R’ Elimelech of Lizhensk. The businessman was quite shocked, thinking, “All this time I thought he was a holy man, and I therefore supported him. But he has a Rebbe? Obviously that rabbi is holier, I may as well support him!” And so the townsman stopped dropping the sums of money near R’ Zushe and began supporting R’ Elimelech. Shortly after, his business turned sour. He realized that perhaps it had something to do with his actions. He went to R’ Zushe and asked forgiveness and asked why this chain of events happened. R’ Zushe explained that when he began to support him, he did it sincerely, without any calculations. He did it without thinking if R’ Zushe deserved it or not. Therefore, in heaven he was treated the same way. But

once he started to make those calculations, heaven treated him the same way, debating whether indeed he deserved all his wealth. Of course, the townsman understood the message and continued giving tzedakah with pure, wholehearted intentions. This week’s Torah portion, Parshat Re’eh, tells about the great mitzvah of tzedakah, charity. “Patuach tiftach et tadcha … Noten titen lo.” Open your hand to give. This coming week begins the Hebrew month of Elul, the month we prepare for the High Holidays, when we take stock of our spiritual selves. As Maimonides teaches us, we increase in giving tzedakah. When we give charity, we create new channels of receiving blessing from G-d. It is very common to pass a poor man collecting and think, “Go work! Why should I give of my hard-earned money?” or debate if an organization collecting truly needs the funds or has enough because it’s not only about them, it’s about you. When G-d sees you giving without calculating if they’re deserving or not, He will treat you the same without debating your worthiness and bless you with a happy, healthy and sweet new year. This d’var Torah is dedicated for the complete, miraculous recovery of Yosef Yitzchas ben Chaya Liba. J T

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« Obituaries COHEN — On July 15, Morris J. Cohen of Baltimore at 96. He was predeceased by wife Ann Cohen (née Rubinstein); siblings Esther Berman, Jack Cohen, Bernard Cohen and Ethel Kadin; and parents Benjamin and Sarah Cohen. He is survived by children Irwin Cohen, Larry (Laura) Cohen, and Bruce Cohen; three grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Contributions may be sent to Beth Tfiloh Congregation, 3300 Old Court Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21208 or Anshei Emuna Congregation, 16189 Jog Road, Delray Beach, Florida 33446. FEINGLASS — On July 18, Gerry Ilene Feinglass of Owings Mills at 86. She is survived by children Candee Fox Mirkin (Carlos Mirkin), Stephanie Forehand, Howard Feinglass and Merle Goodman; sister-in-law Wendy Oberfeld; g r a n d c h i l d re n St a c i e Mirkin Boccanfuso (Chris Boccanfusso), Melissa Mirkin Barr (Matthew Barr), Andrew Forehand, Samuel Goodman, Dorian Goodman, Benjamin Feinglass and Gillian Feinglass; and great-grandchildren Sydney Boccanfusp, Jillian Barr, Jacob Boccanfuso and Seth Barr. She was predeceased by husbands Leonard Feinglass and Stanley Fox; brother Walter “Buddy” Oberfeld; and parents William and Mayme Oberfeld. Contributions may be sent to The Parkinson’s Foundation. FREEDHAND — On July 14, Peter Freedhand at 64. He is survived by cousins Susan (Robert) Steeble (and their children Andrew Steeble and Diana Steeble (Karin Johnson)),

Paula (Joseph) Martin (and their children Joshua (Nicole) Martin (and their son Teddy)), and Rachel (Sarah) Meytin (and their children Coby and Ruthie Meytin). He was predeceased by parents Anne and Charles Freedhand. Contributions may be sent to UNICEF USA. FROMM — On June 24, Jeffrey Fromm of Delray Beach, Fla., at 63. He is survived by friend Terry Muhl; sisters Melinda (Edward) Bielarski and Nancy (Richard) Sheain; mother Rosalyn and the late Bernard Fromm; and by nieces, nephews, other family and friends. Contributions may be sent to the charity of your choice. GARRON — On July 13, Jerry W. Garron of Baltimore at 91. He is survived by wife Doreen (née Lessner); children Lisa (Marty) Lyons, Bonnie (Greg) Lardieri, Wendy (Mark) Berman and Eliot Singer; grandchildren Jessica (Taylor) Gandy, Alex (Emily) Lyons, Jason (Mandi) Berman, Stacy (Jesse) Lynn, Michael (Alli) Lardieri, Matthew (Rachael) Lardieri and Sam Singer; and 12 great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by sister Alyce Brown and parents Samuel and Sarah Garron. Contributions may be made to the charity of your choice. GROSS — On July 16, Evelyn Ruth Gross (née Pomerantz) at 97. She is survived by children Carol (Steven) Batoff and Edward (Wendy) Gross; grandchildren Alissa (Cary) London, Justin Batoff, Jeremy Batoff (fiancé Eric Goldie) and Samantha Gross (fiancé Perry Marcus); and greatgrandchildren Sunny and Lux

London. She was predeceased by husband Gerwin Gross; parents Fanny and Nathan Pomerantz; and sisters Frieda Tatelbaum, Ann Brown and Sara Kurtz. The family is grateful to her caregivers Nina Syzmanska and Francine Schaftel. Contributions may be made to Beth Tfiloh Congregation, 3300 Old Court Road, Baltimore, MD 21208. HARTZ — On July 15, Michael Hartz of Pikesville at 82. He is survived by daughter Martha Dickinsonl; longtime partner Gail Lefko; and special friend Carol Rosenfeld (Bobby) Allan. He was predeceased by wife Mona Hartz (née Morrow) and parents Bernard and Ruth Hartz. Contributions may be sent to the charity of your choice. HIGHKIN — On June 12, Selma Highkin (née Finkelstein) at 88. She is survived by daughters Sharon (Terry) Fuquay and Linda (Howard) Berg and grandchildren Shelbie Riley (Bryce Kehoe), Michael Riley and Angel Fuquay Crain (Bob Crain). She was predeceased by her husband of 69 years Alvin Highkin who passed away on June 6, 2020 and parents Hyman Finkelstein and Cecelia (Silverstein) Finkelstein. Contributions may be sent to Alzheimer’s Association of Maryland, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093. HYATT — On June 27, Charlotte Hyatt of Baltimore at 90. She was predeceased by husband Robert Hyatt and parents Regina and Herman Wallenstein. She is survived by children Dr. Bruce

(Andrea) Hyatt, Michelle (Jon) Blankman and Dr. Marti (Dr. Rob) Liddell and grandchildren Dr. Jared Scheff (Dr. Sarah Koteen-Scheff), Ross Hyatt, Alexandra Hyatt, Richard Blankman (Deyvi Alvarado), Joshua Blankman, Rachel Liddell and Clare Liddell. She was predeceased by siblings Roy Wallenstein and Aubrey Wallenstein. Contributions may be sent to Humane Society of the United States, 1255 23rd Street NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037 or Woodland Park Zoo Animal Health, Attention Donations, 5500 Phinney North, Seattle, WA 98103. KLEIN — On July 14, Annette Klein (née Kanter) of Palm City, Fla., at 93. She is survived by sons Dr. Mark Steven (Naomi) Klein, Dr. Jeffrey (Ellen) Klein and Irvin Klein; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by husband Hyman Klein; daughter Randy Rudo; brothers Morton and Morris Kanter; and parents Sophie and Benjamin Kanter. Contributions may be sent to Chabad Jewish Center of Martin and St. Lucie County, 2809 SW Sunset Trail, Palm City, FL 34990 or Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah, 7000 Rockland Hills Drive, Baltimore, MD 21209. KORUNSKY — On July 16, Mikhail Korsunsky of Baltimore at 42. He is survived by parents Alla and Alexander Korsunsky and sister Anna Mirov. LAFFERMAN — On July 15, Fred Lafferman of Ellicott City at 74. He is survived by daughter Kimberly (Jeffrey) jewishtimes.com

Berger; grandchildren Gavin Berger and Samantha Berger; brother Wesley (Ellen) Lafferman; and niece Brooke Lafferman. He was predeceased by wife Linda Lafferman (née Jacobs) and parents Isadore and Edna Lafferman. LICHTMAN — On July 15, Eleanor Shirley Lichtman (née Pierce) at 84, surrounded by her family in the comfort of her own home. She met her lifelong love Albert Lichtman at 15. They married after she completed high school. Along with her husband Albert, she is survived and remembered by children Ina Sirkis (Wally Kleid), Glenn (Jan) Lichtman, Stephanie (David) Citron and Bonnie Davies; grandchildren Steven Sirkis, Erica (Micah) Zimmerman, Sherri Lichtman, Scott Lichtman, Jennifer (Mike) Lurie, Lindsey Citron (Bradley Herbig) and Daniel Citron; and great-grandchildren Judah and Talia Zimmerman and Issac and Elijah Lurie. The family is especially grateful to her aide Cheryl Clarke. Contributions may be made to the charitable organization of your choice. MARCHANTI — On July 15, Sharon Lee Marchanti of Frederick at 73. She is survived by children Gina (Brian) Boone and Michael Marchanti; grandchildren Brittany (Ashley and Eli) Minor, Rachel Bart and Carter Boone; greatgrandchildren Landyn and Karsyn Crisco; and sister-inlaw Jan Braunstein. She was predeceased by husband Joel Marchanti and siblings Barbara (Norman) Rothbloom, Stewart Braunstein, and Herbert Braunstein. 28

LIPMAN — On June 27, Michael Paul Lipman of Westminster at 64. He is survived by children Jessica (Jamie) Goodwin and Scott (Ashley) Lipman; brother Kenneth (Ruth) Lipman; and grandchildren Jamie Goodwin Jr., Kayla Goodwin, Owen Minton and Quinn Lipman. He was predeceased by parents Ralph and Sylvia Lipman. Contributions may be sent to the Nikki Mitchell Foundation, PO Box 68305, Nashville, TN 37206. QUITTNER — On June 25, Beverly Ann Quittner (née Sellis) at 91. She was predeceased by husband Leonard Quittner and parents William and Ethel Sellis. She is survived by sons Seth (Heather) Quittner, Jeremy Quittner and Adam Quittner and grandchildren Zalman Quittner, Elishiva Quittner, Heshy Quittner, Mendel Quittner and Sruly Quittner. RASHBAUM — On June 25, Harry Rashbaum. He is survived by wife Betty M. Rashbaum (née Feinholtz); daughters Shira R. (Jeffrey) London and Rona L. (Nathan “Nossi”) Gross; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by siblings Pearl Lebson and Eunice Raigrodski and parents Rheba and Jacob H. “Jack” Rashbaum. Contributions may be sent to the charity of your choice. ROSEN — On May 17, Evelyn Rosen (née Blank) at 97. She is survived by nieces and nephews Charlene (Wayne) Block, David Blank, Deborah (late Brent) Colby, Cynthia Solle, Karen (Ronald) Adolfo-Vida, Fran Ludman (Sheldon Laskin)

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and Diana (Marc) Grosman. She is also survived by many great-nieces, great-nephews, friends and other relatives. She was predeceased by husband Mervin Z. Rosen; brother Stanley (Leda) Blank; parents Mollie and Harris Blank; and nephew Ronald (Diane) Blank. Contributions may be sent to Alzheimer’s Association of Maryland, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093 or the charity of your choice. ROSENSTEIN — On July 15, Samuel “Sammy” Rosenstein of Baltimore. He is survived by children Bari Rosenstein and Max Rosenstein; siblings Marcy Ginsburg and Mark (Treecy) Rosenstein; and nieces and nephews Michael and Lauren Ginsburg and Natalie Rosenstein. He is predeceased by parents Sue Rosenstein and Stephen Rosenstein. Contributions may be directed to Itineris, 2050 Rockrose Ave, Baltimore, Maryland 21211. SEIDMAN — On June 27, Harry Seidman of Pasadena at 87. He is survived by wife Mary Seidman (née Jerosimich); children Janet Seidman (Marc Sokol), Lisa Seidman, Vanessa Seidman (Bruce Markowitz) and Stephenie (Michael) Malone; brother Morris Seidman; and grandchildren Elana Sokol and Nina Sokol and Brandon Markowitz and Alec Markowitz. He is predeceased by parents Kalma and Mala Seidman. SILVERMAN — On June 23, Rita Silverman (née Samuels) of Baltimore at 92. She is survived by children Susan (Danny) Carroccia, Nancy Boguslaw (Buddy Sapolsky) and

Benjamin (Susan) Silverman; grandchildren Kelly Carroccia (Jordan DeSousa), Ryan Burns, Joseph (Nicole) Burns, Danny Carroccia Jr., Michael Boguslaw, Alissa Boguslaw, David (Jennifer) Silverman and Sara (Joseph) Binkowski; greatgrandchildren Jenna Carroccia, Lilyana Burns, Jameson and Jake Burns and Justin and Joshua Silverman. She was predeceased by husband Larry Martin Silverman; brother Allen (Carol) Samuels; and parents Abraham and Sarah Samuels. Contributions may be sent to Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21208. STEEL — On June 20, Sherrie Lynn Steel of Phoenix at 69. She is survived by husband of 50 years, Farron; children Jason (Jenny) Steel and Jennifer (Elizabeth) Steel; grandchildren Perrin, Bryce, Gavin and Skylar Steel; sister Debbie Dinkin Shavitz (Mike); sister-in-law Cathy (Eric) Steel; brother-inlaw Gary (Blanche) Steel, and Eddie (Barb) Steel. Aunt of Lauren Stern, Jeremy (Meghan) Steel, Lauren (Daniel) Blumenfeld, Danny (Jenn) Steel and Alex Steel. Contributions may be sent to Phoenix Children’s Hospital 2929 E.Camelback Rd., Ste. #122 Phoenix, AZ 85016. Checks made to the address above can be sent with a note that says “To the Child Life department, In memory of Sherrie Steel.” STRAUSS — On June 18, Rose K. Strauss (née Kohn) at 94. Wife of the late M. Richard Strauss, she is survived by children Dr. Leon Strauss, Hannah (Dr. Martin) Magram and Sarah (Edward) Himmelfarb;

sister Esther Wolberger; grandchildren David (Yalda) Magram, Clara Magram, Henry (Yan) Magram, Benjamin (Aisatta) Himmelfarb, Charlotte Himmelfarb and Daniel Himmelfarb; and greatgrandson Sean Magram. She was predeceased by parents Leah and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kohn and siblings Faye Tenzer, Moshe Kohn, Miriam Yorkmark, David Kohn, Pnina Peli and Malka Jagendorf. Contributions may be sent to American Committee For Shaare Zedek Medical Center, 55 W. 39th St., 4th Floor, New York, NY 10018. STREETT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On June 20, Craig Alan Streett of Elkridge at 70. He was husband of Gayle Streett (nĂŠe Sanders); father of Lori N. Doyle; father-in-law to Gino Armetta; grandfather to Jacob and Erin Doyle; brother of Brian Street; brother-in-law to Varda Streett of Ein Karem, Israel; and uncle to Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;anan, Nadav and Eyal Streett. He was predeceased by parents Clara and Julius Streett. THOMAS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On June 27, Sally Thomas (nĂŠe Levin) at 88. She is survived by husband Melvin Thomas; children Cyndie (Barry) Schlossberg, Jill (William) Anthony, Wendy (Bruce) Wolock and Randi (Jonathan) Jacobson; grandchildren Sean Hiken (Lisa Hodges Hiken), Robert (Elizabeth) Hiken, Jed (Marla) Hiken, Tara (Chas) Collins, Matthew Wolock, Jennifer Wolock, Mackenzie Cooke and Maxwell Cooke; greatgrandchildren Shea, Seth, Gabriella, Parker and Jacob Hiken, Kyle Rubenstein and Tillie and Paige Collins. She

was predeceased by parents Sylvan and Rose Levin; siblings Leonard Levin and Lucille Popper; and grandson Reed Rubenstein (Alisa Tinkham). Contributions may be sent to Gilchrist Hospice Care, 11311 McCormick Road, Suite 350, Hunt Valley, MD 21031 or Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10004. WEINER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On June 27, Leonard Weiner of Baltimore at 86. He is survived by wife Irene Weiner (nĂŠe Richmon), Steven Weiner, Lori Weiner, Marci (John) Palmer, Richard (Laurie) Tucker, Nann Tucker and Julie (Gary) Stein; brother Elliott (Susan) Weiner; and grandchildren Jordan and Mason Palmer. SCHREIBER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On July 15, Helen Miriam Schreiber (nĂŠe Mazer) of Baltimore at 96. She is survived by daughter Francine (Howard) Reynolds; brother Bernard (Arlene) Mazer; grandchildren Morgan (Michael) Jacobs, Brittany (Michael) Bosner and Ryan Schreiber; great-grandchildren Sammy, Eli Jacobs and Sydney Bosner; and by other family and friends. Aunt of Frances Ann Jensky Barrow and Mark Mazer. She was predeceased by husband Maurice H. Schreiber; son Stuart Schreiber; siblings Julius ( Mildred) Mazer and Harold Mazer; and parents Joseph and Rose Mazer. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the charity of your choice. SPEVAK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On July 11, Myrna Wanda Spevak (nĂŠe Horowitz) of Timonium at 87. She is survived by children Linda

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