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Celebrate the Installation of Rabbi Joshua Dorsch
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Being healthy is part of the San Diego lifestyle – and not just because of the weather. We’re a cosmopolitan, progressive city and we jump into life feet first. Goat yoga, mermaid fitness and beach everything are all things that exist in San Diego. And why not? We’re not your average city so we don’t exercise in an average way.
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Savor ood, wine and health. Yeah, we’re kind of spoiled here in San Diego. But we already knew that. Add in the sun and the ocean and it’s not really fair to the other cities. Oh well. Let’s talk food first. I’ve never considered myself a foodie (I don’t eat vinegar encrusted amuse-bouches while talking about how oaky the waiter smelled), but I do love food. I cannot emphasize that enough. I was taught food is love as a child, and I see no harm in that. (Tongue is only partially in cheek, so to speak). In fact, when relatives or friends come to visit, their trip usually becomes a flavor tour of San Diego. Our excuse is to shrug and say ‘well, we have to eat dinner, don’t we?’ Where and what you eat in San Diego depends on what you’re in the mood for. The Gaslamp, in the heart of our little town, has an eclectic mix of whatever you want. There’s Irish pubs, seafood, steakhouses, Italian, Mexican, Japanese and American food. It’s definitely filled with tourists, (those pedicabs are so annoying) but it’s also a favorite among locals. Just a couple miles northwest of the Gaslamp is Little Italy. If you’re in the mood for Italian, you come here. I’m pretty sure that’s not breaking news. Little Italy is historic, it’s authentic and it’s darn good. Filippis, established in 1950, was one of the first restaurants I ate at when I first visited here, and it’s still my favorite San Diego pizza. That line out the door most nights at the India Street location isn’t for nothing. Mexican. In my opinion, that’s San Diego’s food selling point. Our Mexican food cannot be beat. I actually brag about the quality of our Mexican food to people I know who live in other cities. (That’s not annoying at all, is it?) My brother, who had the nerve to take a job in Washington, D.C. is reminded every time he says he had Mexican food that it couldn’t be as good as ours.
And he agrees. Of course Old Town is the hub, but there’s great Mexican anywhere in town. Et maintenant, mes amis, let’s talk wine. San Diego also has an underappreciated wine scene. Wineries like Orfila Vineyards in Escondido and Bernardo Winery in Rancho Bernardo can match the sights and tastes of any Napa upstart – but without the crowds. There’s also Hacienda de la Rosas, Hungry Hawk Vineyards and Winery and Vesper Vineyards. We also have our very own kosher wine sommelier in Andrew Breskin of “Liquid Kosher,” who is featured in this issue. He’ll break down the best kosher vino for summer. Finally, health. Our temperate climate means that we can exercise pretty much any day of the year. And our proximity to the ocean and other bodies of water all around us gives San Diegans any array of watersports (surfing, snorkeling, swimming, jet skiing, paddle boarding, kayaking, you get it) that we can pursue 365 days of the year. (Besides we need to workout, we ate all that Mexican and Italian food). Being healthy is part of the San Diego lifestyle – and not just because of the weather. We’re a cosmopolitan, progressive city and we jump into life feet first. Goat yoga, mermaid fitness and beach everything are all things that exist in San Diego. And why not? We’re not your average city so we don’t exercise in an average way. Bastyr University also has a culinary program that can help you enjoy more nutritional eats. In the pages of this issue we have a plethora of recipes, wine selections and information about holistic health – and even a Jewish yoga program. We hope you enjoy this issue while sipping Chablis by the water, doing Down Dog at sunset or savoring Pavlova (on our cover) with friends. Bon Appétit! A
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Dear Editor, Your piece on Jews and the atomic bomb [June, 2018] was interesting, though you might also have mentioned Leo Szilard (who wasn't at Los Alamos but had a great deal to do with the initiation of the project); and Enrico Fermi had a Jewish wife and therefore had to leave his native Italy. Sanford Lakoff
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Dear Editor, There is never, and I mean never, any positive comments of any sort about our president - even when he moved the American Embassy in Israel or when he opened dialogue with North Korea. I am interested in knowing how
much longer The San Diego Journal plans to continue support of the Democratic viewpoint by shoving it down our throats in every single issue. Yes, some Jews are Republicans, and we do not subscribe to your magazine to hear the opinions of your liberal-minded staff berating our president! Therefore, my question is, is there any chance of the editor of the Jewish Journal becoming fair to both parties in the near future or shall we assume The San Diego Jewish Journal will continue to be an extension of Nancy Pelosi's views? Sondra Burke Letters are edited for space.
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Trump Moved the Embassy to Jerusalem, But He Still Waived the Law Requiring It President Donald Trump signed a six-month waiver that suspends the law that calls for the U.S. Embassy to move to Jerusalem. Although the new Jerusalem Embassy was dedicated last month, not all of the requirements of the Jerusalem Embassy Act have been met, including moving the ambassador’s official residence from Herzliya to Jerusalem.
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund said it will sue Hamas in international court for environmental damage caused to land it owns near the border with Gaza caused by rockets, mortar shells and incendiary kites. Hamas, which controls Gaza, is considered responsible for at least 200 fires in southern Israel caused by flaming kites and helium balloons sent over the border since protests at the border began in March. Damages to agriculture from fires set by the incendiary kites are estimated at $1.4 million, and thousands of acres of agricultural land and nature reserves in the Gaza border area have been damaged or destroyed, including KKL-JNF forests.
Former Israeli Lawmaker Arrested as Alleged Spy for Iran A former Israeli lawmaker was arrested in May on suspicion that he spied on Israel for Iran. Last month, the state attorney filed a criminal indictment against Segev in Jerusalem District Court for spying and other charges related to passing information to an enemy country. Segev, a physician, was energy and infrastructure minister from 1992 to 1995. He served more than two years of a five-year prison sentence beginning in 2005 for trying to smuggle more than 30,000 ecstasy tablets into Israel from the Netherlands and for forging a diplomatic passport. He later moved to Nigeria, where he continued to practice medicine.
Review of “1945” “1945,” a Hungarian film directed by Ferenc Toroc, is a drama about the fallout from the end of the war. Its black and white vintage, yet sleek look is similar in style to other haunting productions like “Schindler’s List.” The story follows an Orthodox man and his son who return to their village after the war. The town clerk, who is preparing for his son’s wedding, fears they are heirs of the village’s deported Jews and may demand their stolen property back. Read the full review of “1945” online. 16 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
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our TOWN BY LINDA BENNETT & EMILY BARTELL, PHOTOS BY VINCENT ANDRUNAS
Caroline and Steve Lipinsky.
25TH ANNIVERSARY Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival Gala
The 25th Anniversary Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival Gala, on Sunday, May 27th, was FANTASTIC!!! Held at the panoramic home of Barbara Fischbein in Rancho Santa Fe, a gourmet dinner with live music performances by Yale Strom & Hot Pstrami and Fred Benedetti, dance performance by Malashock Dance Company and special theatrical performances made for a VERY SPECIAL evening!!! Co-Chairs, Julia Ramirez-Stone and Ali Viterbi, outdid themselves in preparing such an extraordinary evening! Many of the past “Woman of Valor” performances were recreated for the pleasure of all those in attendance. At the end of the evening we were mesmerized by a special performance from Hershey Felder and surprise guest artist, Nathan Gunn, in celebration of the evening’s honorees, the entire Lipinsky tribe and Todd Salovoy. Some of those enjoying the evening’s festivities were Hilda & Jeremy Cohen, Sam Woodhouse, Councilmember Barbara Bry & Neil Senturia, Edna Yedid, Diane & Robert Zeps (w/Kate and Grant), Kamaya Jane, Darin & Gina Lipinsky, Stephen & Caroline Lipinsky, Judi Gottchalk and Ed Colby, Andrew Viterbi, Ken Stone, Sue Marder, Marjory Kaplan & JJ Surbeck, Harvey Neiman, Hermeen Scharaga & Robert Penner, Lydia Krasner, David Bennett, Susan Chortek Weisman & Eric Weisman, Joy & Jack Charney, and Seth Krosner & Phil Johnson.
Motherhood, Daughterhood and the Mess In Between
Hersey Felder (featured performer), Todd Salovey (festival artistic director), Nathan Gunn (appearing in “Flying Solo” at SD Rep).
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On Wednesday, May 30th, we attended a moving program, Motherhood, Daughterhood and the Mess In Between, sponsored by the Behavioral Health Committee of Jewish Family Service. Featuring author and performer, Judy Batalion, her program was a humorous and insightful account of hoarding, healing and the effects of the Holocaust on four generations of women in her family. Among those we saw in the audience were, Rabbi Alyson Solomon, Toby Hartman, Linda Cole, Rabbi Scott Meltzer, Marlene Greenstein, Gayle Wise, Carol Fox, Les-
Ken Stone and Julia Ramirez-Stone (she’s gala chair), Barbara Fischbein (event hostess), Jeff and Sheila Lipinsky (event honorees)
Andrew Viterbi, Ali Viterbi.
lie Caspi, Tamar Caspi, Bobbie Witte, Geri Freed, Shirley Pidgeon, Ann Mound, Joyce Camiel, Mimi Lee, Fern Siegel, Karen Foster Silberman, Rabbi Marty & Anita Lawson and many more. The 2nd Annual Malashock Dance Company Fundraiser was held on May 26th at The Abbey. We had a lovely evening and enjoyed many dance performances, as well as a live art creation. Some of those in attendance were Bill & Evelyn Olsson Lamden, Danny Erez, Dame Zandra Rhodes, Patti Cooprider, Joanie Nelson, Judy White, Tom & Julie Karlo, Nancy Norton, Dahlia Najor and Flossie Cohn. Having just returned from the 81st meeting of the Board of Governors of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (with over 400 in attendance from around the world), it was a pleasure to also attend a reception at the residence of Reuven Rivlin, president of Israel. Some
Laurel McCrink, Marsha and Dr. Mickey Shahon, Shelley Zimmerman.
of the Scholars heard in presentations throughout the annual event were, Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund, Prof. Reuven Hazan and Prof. Cory Shulman. A Gala, celebrating “100 Years of Knowledge” at the Tower of David Museum, featured a spectacular interactive multimedia show, projected on the Old City walls. Other folks from California in attendance were Joyce Brandman, Barry Littman, Marilyn Wallace, Sami Freedman and Michael Cypers. Mazel Tov to… Sylvia & Paul Esrig on their 55th wedding anniversary. Barbara & Norman Rozansky on their 60th wedding anniversary. Yom Huledets Sameach to a great man, Cantor Sheldon Merel, celebrating his 94th birthday. A
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Seacrest’s Diamond Anniversary Gala
Talia Israel, Susan Sobel & Larry Krause.
the BY EILEEN SONDAK SEACREST PHOTOS BY RYAN SONDAK, BOB ROSS, SD ZOO PHOTO BY RYAN SONDAK
Supporters of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities were out in force to celebrate an important milestone. It was the 75th anniversary of this vital community resource, and the Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village toasted the occasion with a sparkling Diamond Anniversary Gala at the Hyatt Regency at Aventine. One family (the Winickis, parents of Lee Goldberg) has been part of Seacrest Village since its inception in 1944. To acknowledge their generous, long-time contributions, the organization honored Lee and Frank Goldberg during the festive evening. The couple’s daughters, Anne Nagorner and Suzi Feldman, co-chaired the successful fundraising event, pointing out with pride that “Our parents believe it is critical to care for those who came before us, and they have worked hard to make this happen for Seacrest.” The evening featured a lavish cocktail reception and martini bar, live auction and a ceremony honoring the Goldbergs, along with a sumptuous sit-down dinner and dancing. The ballroom was filled to capacity for this celebration, and as master-of-ceremonies Dan Cohen announced, “This is the largest crowd we ever had at a Seacrest gala.” Not surprisingly, the anniversary bash was all-aglitter – with Tiffany blue tablecloths and napkins and massive floral centerpieces. Among the many delighted supporters enjoying the evening were Sheila and Jeffrey Lipinsky, Merrill and Robert Haimsohn, Lynn and Bert Epsten, Joan and Stuart Rubin, Barbara Bloom, Lisa and Gary Levine, Marilynn and Roger Boesky, Jeannie and Arthur Rivkin and Stacy and Jonathan Halberg.
Rendezvous at the Zoo
Bernie & Suzi Feldman, Frank & Lee Goldberg, Anne Nagorner, and Edward Goldberg.
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The San Diego Zoo was transformed into a whimsical wonderland for the 35th Annual Rendezvous in the Zoo. This year’s bash was dubbed “Wild @ Heart,” an apt title for an affair that featured exotic animals to entertain the delighted guests. Joan Embery and her animal friends got the party off to a great start, while supporters enjoyed lavish finger food and sunset cocktails. As usual, the outfits ranged from elegant black tie to exotic animal prints. The party rolled into high gear when supporters were ushered into the zoo’s colorfully decorated alfresco ballroom for a gourmet dinner under the stars. Dancing to a live orchestra was also on the menu. Gala chairs Kathryn and Don Vaughn (with help from a large gala committee) made this year’s zoo bash another huge success. And the Tappan family matched every dollar donated with two dollars – up to a million bucks. That contribution will be earmarked for the brand new Sanford Children’s Zoo. Among the many celebrants at this year’s Ritz gala were Joye Blount and Jessie Knight, Vicki and Chris Eddy, Micki Olin and Dr. Reid Abrams, Marilyn and Arthur Neumann, Pamela Hartwell, Kristi Pieper, Steve and Lynne Doyle, Debbie Turner, Emma and Leo Zuckerman, Carole Sachs, Beth and Marshall Nadel, Leonard Hirsch and Barbara Hoffer, Lynne and Steve Wheeler, Viviana and Charles Polinsky, Dolores and Rod Smith and Bonnie Wright. A
How Will Your Legacy and Service Be Honored? Alice J. Tevelson and Marchel Charles Tevelson, of La Mesa, CA, shared a great love for each other and the life they created together. Married in 1957, Alice gave up her teaching career to become a Navy wife. Charlie, as he was known to his family, was a graduate of Temple University and a decorated commander in the U.S. Navy, serving in World War II and Vietnam. Charlie served in the U.S. maritime and naval forces on active duty and as a civilian for a total of 54 years. In 1972, while on active duty and having completed several decorated combat tours, Charlie became Director of the Navy’s worldwide humanitarian mission, Project Handclasp. He held this position as both an active duty Commander and Civilian Director until 2006. During his career, Charlie was awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit Medal recognizing his warfare and humanitarian contributions, as well as the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal in recognition of his 34 years of service as Project Handclasp Director. He received letters of recognition and thanks from U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush for his work. Ever at his side and through it all was his partner and bride, Alice. Charlie’s parents, Theodore R. Tevelson and Edythe Florence Tevelson (née Binder), were devout Jews who kept a kosher home and made Judaism a focal point in their lives. In his teenage years, Charlie was a counselor at Camp Sholom, located in Collegeville, PA, and had his Bar Mitzvah at the Conservative Har Zion Temple in his hometown of Wynnefield, PA. Alice and Charlie were very charitable and in discussing their giving plans, made it known that after their passing a donation was to be made to honor Charlie’s parents at Jewish National Fund’s American Independence Park in Jerusalem—a living symbol of the enduring partnership between Israelis and American Jews. The Tevelsons also felt it was important to support Israel and the Jewish community, and to ensure the development of the land of Israel. Alice named Jewish National Fund as one of the beneficiaries of her IRA, in addition to the Shriner’s Hospital in memory of her parents. Charlie passed away in 2015 at the age of 88. He will be honored with a plaque at the Wall of Honor at Ammunition Hill as a tribute to his military service and courage. Ammunition Hill was chosen as the location for the Wall of Honor because of a famous battle waged there by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1967 Six-Day War. The Israeli victory at the strategic hilltop led to the capture of the Old City and the reunification of a Jewish Jerusalem, making this site all the more appropriate to honor Charlie for his years of heroism, bravery, and service to his country and people.
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND JUDAISM
Position Yourself Face to Face
“ THIS WAY TO EDEN by Rachel Eden
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks describes this zero-sum game as the reason for our political divide nationally and globally. We assume we lose if the other side wins and vice versa.
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lways take out the trash!” one said, cheeks flushed from the buzz of good food and wine. “Happy wife, happy life!” laughed another. We had been married for 4 days, 7 hours, and 23 minutes. We were eating our fourth celebratory dinner complete with big smiles, well wishers and an abundance of unsolicited advice. I recall a transient thought: Write everything down because who knows which person just shared the ultimate secret to intimacy and harmony. Dr. John Gottman, renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, discusses an element of marriage that is highly relevant for both newly and ‘oldly’ weds. The principle is called: Turn Towards Instead of Away. Couples who stay married (in a study that followed them for six years) turned towards one another 86% of the time. Divorced couples only turned towards one another 33% of the time. The secret, it would appear, to staying married, is turning towards. The first step to understanding turning towards is understanding a “bid.” A bid is a request for affection, attention, affirmation or any positive connection. Bids show up when a partner requests help (“Ready to put the kids to sleep?), needs comforting (“I had a hard day") or wants attention (“How do I look?”). Missing a bid, or turning away from it, is devastating for a relationship. When a partner misses a bid, the bids diminish, or worse, those same bids will be made outside of the marriage. A visual that emerges when contemplating Turn Towards Instead of Away is that of the kruvim, the cherubim. Inside the mishkan, the portable dwelling place for G-d used while the Jews wandered the desert, there was a fascinating structure called the kruvim. Above the ark’s ceiling stood two figures that had the faces of cherubic children with outstretched wings. When there was peace among the Jewish people, the children would face each other, but when there was conflict, they would turn away from one another. Apparently, the Turn Towards model originated with the kruvim which were a symbol for all modes of relationship. What if we began to notice the bids, or opportunities to Turn Towards, of our friends, our family members and our community? I began my
own personal experiment and was surprised to note how often bids are made of me and how often I make them (and to whom). Once I became aware of these bids, I made a point of addressing them, meeting people’s desire for positive connection, support and help. In a financially stable climate, where we enjoy safety and good health, we also experience deep isolation and polarization. Divisive issues can easily split groups of people perhaps because we don’t experience much loss when divided. We are able-bodied, we can work, we have money, what need do we have for others? One step further, we may perceive a loss when we connect with others because then we have to share what’s ours. Our resources of time, energy and money are divided and we have less than when we started. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks describes this zero-sum game as the reason for our political divide nationally and globally. We assume we lose if the other side wins and vice versa. However, Rabbi Sacks asserts that social resources expand when shared, such as love, friendship and influence. These “social goods” function differently because they are predicated on cooperation, not competition. He continues that our relationships should not be formed on contracts, transactional exchanges for mutual benefit, but rather covenants, coming together to share lives faithfully and do together what neither could accomplish alone. While the social contract creates a state, the social covenant creates the society. So Turning Towards may not just be what saves your marriage, it may be what saves the world. While I fondly remember everyone’s anecdotes and pearls of wisdom at that celebratory dinner as a new bride, it’s rare for me to put them to use. Thankfully, by the time you read this, we will be married for 11 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days. We still have a long way to go (I hope) but we are definitely no longer newlyweds. The well-intentioned, albeit trite advice has faded and we now require words of substance to thrive. In every possible moment, we strive to Turn Towards Instead of Away. We must stop living alongside one another, or worse, back to back, rather, we must position ourselves face to face. A
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TWEET, TWEET Alfred Hitchcock in Jerusalem oo big a job for even the Israeli Army, an infernal battle against pigeons in my pantry is an unwinnable war. Google’s best suggestion is seven drops of both lemon and peppermint oils in a diluted vinegar solution, generously sprayed on perching areas. The pigeons now smell great and have lovely complexions. More have arrived to The Spa. It started with the discovery of two sweet eggs in the flowerpot on the living room windowsill. Those were the days when my children still liked me. Gathering them around, I intoned a tedious narrative about the wonders of nature. One son said I was in La-La Land; he’d been living in Tel Aviv for more than a year and swore that they were rats with wings, a callous description since I was trying to offer enrichment education to city-slicker offspring. Another 24 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
daughter had fine-tuned an imitative ‘pigeon prance,’ consisting of a sway-backed walk while bobbing her head. Oh, how we’d roar as she danced them out of the salon, a cross between Isadora Duncan and the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The birds showed no fear as they calmly strutted through the living room on mornings following the nights I’d forgotten to shut the windows and sliding doors of the patio. That was two apartments ago where we had a small garden. Much of the time, the birds were cute. The horrific smell, the powerful flapping of wings, the dusting of downy feathers on anything I now store on patio shelves has become unbearable. Does anyone reading this know that downy feathers stick to surfaces? Surprise! I occasionally recall stories from Japan telling of people who died from poisons released by bird excrement in the attic. My husband erected a wooden frame covered in chicken wire to keep them out, resulting in a hideous view that also traps dirt, feathers and assorted filth in the openings. Now I cannot even get out to clean, imprisoned by a foolish invention that, like other projects, seemed brilliant and foolproof when discussed over coffee. The neighbors are equally plagued and my heart breaks for those who, unlike me, do not
have an electric clothes dryer. Unless they scatter collapsible laundry racks throughout the house, their fresh laundry is vulnerable to the crapshoot of pigeon poop. So I watched the Trevi Fountain scene in “The Devil Wears Prada” and ignored the birds, as I was more consumed with Anne Hathaway’s probable dress size and the realization that we couldn’t be friends. And I no longer croon like Mary Poppins to “Feed the Birds” while peeling zucchinis. What’s more, even if I experienced an unexpected urge to speak with the Pope, there is no way I’d book a hotel room in Vatican City. Too many irreligious morning doves pecking at the robes of nuns and ankles of visiting Jews like me. If the Pope wants to shmooze, we’ll have to find a neutral, bird-free location. Maybe Masada. I’ve purchased a box of disposable medical masks and, after dousing the offending areas with bleach, I’ll string up no longer used CDs. Apparently the shiny sides, reflected by the sun, serve as deterrents. Maybe Perry Como’s Great Hits or The Best of Johnny Mathis will do the job. Maybe not. But I’m game. I don’t mind coo-coo-cooing at little babies but cooing of pigeons at my kitchen window just won’t do. Where is the IDF when the people really need them?A
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OUR EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT by Saul Levine, M.D., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at UCSD
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Once, Immigrant Children. Now, 80 Years Old. can't believe that we are all turning 80 this year! “We” refers to a class of 50 children who graduated from our Jewish elementary school in 1951 when we were 13 years of age. And recently, 67 years later, we octogenarians held a class reunion! Many of us were first generation children, offspring of Jewish parents who had immigrated from Eastern Europe. There were also second-generation students and a few children who emigrated directly from refugee camps. All our parents (or theirs) shared a common Jewish heritage, and had escaped the inflictions of European anti-Semitism and Nazi Fascism. Many of them arrived in the New World with no knowledge of English, few material possessions and little money. They knew that life here would be challenging at first, and these expectations were often realized, as many were exploited, shamed or shunned, or worked at arduous labor for low wages. Many of our parents (and we) lived in 26 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
apartments or cold-water flats in a crowded area of town, which had always housed immigrants, not far from our school. Our Jewish mothers and fathers of course differed in their approaches to many things: Some were religious, others were atheists; some were socialists, others entrepreneurial; some were gregarious, others were loners; some remained in the Jewish community, others wished to assimilate. But whatever their personalities and predilections, they all shared one overriding objective: A passionate desire to improve their own (and especially their children’s) lives. They wished to inculcate in us a desire to read and study, to learn about our heritage, our new culture, history, art and music, to appreciate families and friends and help the less fortunate. Many of the immigrant fathers earned their keep at working-class jobs like cabdriver, plumber, carpenter, tailor, electrician, salesman, machinist, furrier, cleaner, painter, clerk, barber, shopkeeper and the like. My own father arrived as a teenager in steerage on a crowded ship, with neither money nor knowledge of English. He started work as an apprentice bricklayer, became an upholsterer and later opened his own small business. My immigrant dad was a strong yet gentle, sweet man who loved people, became an avid self-taught reader and lover of classical music. In spite of hard knocks, he was always grateful for the opportunities offered to him by the New World. We elementary school students became closely bonded in our eight years together, but at the age of 13, we dispersed to various high schools, and thereafter on to jobs and colleges. In the “old days,” our class communicated loosely via word of mouth, phone calls, handwritten letters and visits. The advent of the internet was a boon for communication and rekindling our bonds of friendship. By then we were living throughout North America and elsewhere, and over time we lost a few classmates due to age-related attrition. Please bear with me as I fast-forward 67 years until the present, knowing this does a disservice to inevitably complicated, often gratifying, sometimes challenging life stories which demonstrate remarkable fortitude and resilience. From humble immigrant beginnings, the
boys and girls of this class became men and women who led lives of remarkable diversity and fulfillment. In addition to being spouses and parents, they pursued careers as diverse as teachers, business people, nurses, physicians, actors, producers, artists, politicians, scientists, therapists, professors, lawyers and writers. Our classmates created professional identities, businesses, works of music and art, articles, books and especially ideas and generativity which enhanced their community and world, as did their children and grandchildren. The reunion of 80-year old graduates recently took place, as we “children” gathered for a weekend together. “Wasn’t That a Time!” captures the deep pleasures we experienced. We remembered funny anecdotes, and even each other’s parents. In our sharing of past and present, there were tales of achievements and losses, successes and regrets. Laughter suffused us, tears were shed, love was expressed. We all noticed the dramatic physical changes we had undergone in those “brief ” 67 years. Even more striking, the personalities we knew so well in our formative years were still vividly apparent. It was moving to re-meet our fellow classmates, all in their 80th year of life. We immigrant-derived “boys and girls” had become substantive and generative adult men and women. Each class member is unique, and each individual life story fascinating. They are all informed, respectful citizens, still engaged with their families and community. All exemplify the “Four Bs”: Being (self-esteem), Belonging (community), Believing (ethical values) and Benevolence. Each has contributed a “Positive Emotional Footprint.” We students were enhanced and enriched by our personal “immigrant experiences,” and we and our families have contributed significantly to our “host country.” That said, it is hard to believe that, a century after our parents arrived, there are those who again wish to slam the door in the faces of aspiring citizens from other lands. This country is great in large part because it offered a haven and opportunities to immigrants, and because these newcomers in turn conferred their creativity and benevolence on society. I fervently hope this important tradition continues…A
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RELIGION
Finding Our Stability
POST-POLITICAL by Rabbi Jacob Rupp
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You can’t Google G-d’s existence, nor what he wants from you. The fact that you can access anyone and everyone that ever had a perspective on faith doesn’t make it easier—it makes it harder!
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e live in a world where we crave certainty. This creates both fundamentalism and extreme apathy. On one hand, people are so sure of something that they aren’t open to the alternative, and when certainty eludes them, they claim it doesn’t matter or they don’t care. With the world being so polarized between people who are ‘sure’ and people who avoid those who are ‘sure,’ how can we ever have an honest conversation? How do we deal with the challenges to our faith that pop up throughout our lives? On an even more fundamental plane, how do we stay true to ourselves? With all things, perhaps we can go back to the source. Were our patriarchs and matriarchs fundamentalists? On one hand yes. G-d appeared to them and they were completely faithful to G-d’s words. Yet on the other hand, you see tremendous struggles with G-d, spirituality and destiny. Abraham flatly argues with G-d on multiple occasions. Jacob suggests that G-d may not see him fit to merit Divine protection. So the conventional ‘certainty’ that modern day fundamentalists proclaim seems not characteristic of our ancestors. Especially today, we want answers. We don’t want to live with questions. After all, with Google, we have become conditioned to the idea that everything must have answers. In this vein, spirituality is hard—can we prove anything? You can’t Google G-d’s existence, nor what he wants from you. The fact that you can access anyone and everyone that ever had a perspective on faith doesn’t make it easier—it makes it harder! Back in the day, you had your immediate social circle, maybe your town rabbi, and that was it. Now you are open to the world, but this openness creates a greater challenge by robbing us of the ability to formulate our own opinions. A student of mine reached out to me recently, wanting to know how she was supposed to believe in G-d when she learned of a particular tragedy that had affected a close family friend. Rather than launch into a discussion of spirituality, reward and punishment, or G-d’s existence like I may have in my younger rab-
binic days, I told her I didn’t know. I could have said since when did G-d promise a world without pain, consequences or suffering? Is suffering incompatible with G-d’s existence? But that wasn’t what she was really asking. She wanted to know how she could restore her sense of stability. She wanted to understand how we can live as practicing, faithful Jews while also accepting we couldn’t protect ourselves from tragedy or suffering. It’s a good question. And the simple answer is we can’t. But it isn’t because we lack clarity of G-d’s existence. Jacob had plenty of clarity of G-d’s existence and still had doubts that his life would turn out OK. King David was the same. Yet they channeled their needs into opportunities to reach out, and to connect to G-d in faith. There are two points that have, for me, been most instrumental in my spiritual life. First and foremost, I am always trying to learn how to better recognize and appreciate the blessings in my life. By focusing on them and thanking G-d, I increase my awareness that no matter what hardship I find myself in, I still have a lot going for me. From this position of abundance and appreciation, our lives always feel fuller. Sure, we can always complain, but can we always live in a state of appreciation and gratitude? It’s not easy, but I really want to try. Secondly, our lacking or our fear is an opportunity to get close to G-d. Looking into the Book of Psalms reveals this deep truth; King David spent much of his life in very severe problems and composed perhaps the most profound spiritual work as a result. We might be conditioned to think a spiritual life is roses and sunshine, but the legacy of the Jews is much different. We recognize that no matter where we are, up or down, we are with G-d. And while our lives may not be stable or always easy, the ability to develop a greater connection is always there for us. There is a Jewish concept that G-d desires a broken heart – the very sense that everything is perfect and stable paralyzes us as spiritual people. We don’t have to be sad or desperate, but we do have to realize that we aren’t perfect and use our lack as an opportunity to get close. A
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FOOD: Tori Avey
Apricot Spinach Salad with Avocado Basil Dressing Chickpea Avocado Salad with Lemon and Dill
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id you know that avocados have been considered a potent aphrodisiac throughout history? When Montezuma shared avocados with Cortez and his fellow conquistadors, the Aztecs explained that their name, ahucatl, was inspired not only from their physical appearance, but also because of their ability to incite romantic passion. The Aztecs believed in the aphrodisiac power of the ahucatl so much that they would not allow young women to leave the house while they were being harvested. When Louis XIV found his aging libido in need of reviving, he turned to the exotic avocado for help, nicknaming the fruit la bonne poire (the good pear). The Sun King may have been on to something, as avocados are rich in vitamin E, which boosts the immune system and helps give skin a youthful appearance. Avocados are abundant in Southern California markets this month. While we enjoy them year round here in California, this season seems to produce the best tasting avocados. Most of us go by feel when we check for ripeness, but there is another quick trick. If you remove the stem of the avocado and look inside, you can see the color of the fruit – if it’s dark green or turning brown, you should probably use it as soon as possible. If it’s bright green, it should be good for another day or two. Instead of turning all of your avocados into guacamole, I suggest getting creative with the recipes below. One is for a delicious summer salad topped with an avocado basil dressing, while the other is a vegan alternative to egg salad made with smashed chickpeas and avocado. Both have a bright summery flavor and are fantastic on their own. Pair them together for an avocado-inspired feast. Serve them to your love interest, and who knows what might spark? Enjoy!
Apricot Spinach Salad with Avocado Basil Dressing Salad Ingredients 3/4 cup unsalted raw walnuts or walnut pieces no shell 12 oz. baby spinach cleaned and sorted 5 whole ripe apricots pitted and sliced into 6-8 pieces each
Dressing Ingredients 1 cup ripe avocado diced 1 cup fresh basil leaves loosely packed 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice 2 tsp. honey 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 3/4 cup cold water 1/2 heaping tsp. salt You will also need: skillet, salad bowl, blender Servings: 6 Kosher Key: Parve Toast the walnuts in a skillet over medium heat until they begin to brown and smell toasty. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Combine spinach, walnuts and apricot slices in a large salad bowl and toss gently to combine. Combine dressing ingredients in a blender and process until smooth and creamy. Do not over process in order to preserve the color. If the mixture is too thick and not smooth enough to easily pour, stir in water a tablespoon at a time until the proper consistency is reached. Serve salad portions drizzled with dressing. The dressing may be made a few hours ahead; store it in the refrigerator with plastic wrap touching the surface of the dressing to prevent browning. Best made the same day you serve to preserve color and freshness of flavor.
Chickpea Avocado Salad with Lemon and Dill Ingredients: 1 ripe avocado 1 3/4 cups chickpeas, cooked or canned and drained 1 can 2 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice or more to taste 1 1/2 tbsp. freshly chopped dill Salt and pepper to taste You will also need: Small mixing bowl, potato masher Servings: 2 Kosher Key: Parve
Add the chickpeas to a small mixing bowl and cut the avocado into chunks. Add the avocado and the rest of the ingredients to the mixing bowl and mash together using a potato masher. I like to leave a little texture, but you can make the mixture as chunky or smooth as you like. Add salt and pepper to taste, and more lemon juice if desired. Serve the salad on toasted bread, with crackers, scooped on top of salad, or however you might use egg salad.
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My mother is a fantastic baker and cook and I have memories going back as far as I can remember of her being in the kitchen. These recipes were staples in our home on a rotating basis with a few others. Baking Scones was my introduction to baking, as I didn’t need to use an electric beater. It’s all done by hand! I only graduated to the electric beater as I got older. Biscuits are quick and easy to bake and have a good shelf life. They also freeze very well - so you always have something sweet on hand!
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Zelda’s Maizena Cookies
Preheat oven to 375F Rub all ingredients together 1 lb. butter 1 lb. powdered sugar 1 lb. flour 1 lb. maizena (corn starch) Add 4 eggs 4 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. vanilla Pinch salt Roll out onto a floured board. Using a cookie cutter (your choice of size) cut and place on greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges turn a little brown. When cool, sandwich together with your favorite jam. Make a water/powdered sugar icing, spread over the top and decorate with a piece of glacé cherry. This quantity can easily be halved.
Press into a greased 9-inch square tin. 2nd Layer 1/4 cup butter 3 tbsp. milk 2 tsp. vanilla pudding powder 2 cup powdered sugar Cream butter. Combine pudding powder and milk. Stir into creamed butter. Blend in powdered sugar. Spread over layer 1 and refrigerate. 3rd Layer 4 oz. bitter chocolate 1 tbsp. Butter Melt chocolate and butter over hot water. Spread over layer z2 and refrigerate until set. Cut into squares.
Granny Bern’s Rich Chocolate Cookies 1st Layer 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup sugar 5 tbsp. cocoa 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla Combine in the top of a double boiler. When butter has melted and mixture has thickened. Add 2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
Custard Cookies
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Preheat oven to 400F Mix together 6 oz. butter 2 oz. powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 425F Rub together 2 cups flour 2 Tbsp. sugar 4 tbsp. Butter
Add 2 oz. custard powder 6 oz. flour Pinch salt Mix together and roll into small balls. Place on cookie sheet and gently press down with the back of a fork. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.
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Add 1/2 tsp. salt 4 tsp. baking powder 1 beaten egg 1/2 cup milk (just under) Mix together and drop into greased and floured muffin tin. Paint the scones with a beaten egg. Bake at 425 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
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FOOD: Kitchen Peri Peri
THE UNITED COLORS OF SUMMER I grew up in a magical land enveloped in nature’s deep earthy tones. The luscious violet of the Jacaranda. The sublime coral of the Flamboyant. The perfect green of the Acacia. All growing in the generous red soil of Africa. Now, as an adult, my love of color is deeply rooted in these memories. They inspire the beautiful things that decorate my home, my choice of clothes, my painting and definitely the food I cook for my family. As we head into warmer weather, I can’t help reminiscing about summer in Zimbabwe. I fondly remember our family lunches outdoors on the spacious patio. The flavors, conversations and colors meld together into a real-life painting. The magenta pink of cold borscht dished up in navy-blue glass bowls with piping hot potatoes and sprigs of green. The majestic jewel-toned roasted vegetables glistening in my mother’s giant earthenware casserole dish. And the piece de resistance – the fragile and magnificent honey-colored vanilla Pavlova, festooned with bright fresh fragrant fruits. Living here in bountiful Southern California, I am again surrounded by glorious hues and fabulous fragrances. My happiest time is when family and friends sit together outside on our patio feasting on foods of many colors. We enjoy lazy breakfasts, impromptu potluck lunches and evocative Shabbat celebrations. Fourth of July is almost here – let’s celebrate life’s rich offerings and feast on the United Colors of Summer!
JEWEL TONED ROAST VEGETABLES Organic Ingredients: Serves 8-10 • 3 Organic Red Beets • 1 large butternut • 6 Multi colored baby carrots • 2 Red Yams • 2 Japanese sweet potatoes • 4 large russet potatoes • 2 Large red Onions • 4 Shallots • 1 large sweet onion • 1 large fennel root • 1 bag Brussels sprouts • I can of garbanzo beans • 1 tbsp. kosher salt • 1 tbsp. ground pepper • 3/4 cup olive oil Directions 1. Preheat the oven to 375F. 2. Wash and peel all root vegetables (potatoes, yams, carrots, sweet potatoes, beets) and butternut. 3. Peel and quarter red and sweet onions. 4. Peel shallots. 5. Roughly chop the fennel root.
6. Wash Brussels sprouts. 7. Place all vegetables (except the Brussels sprouts and baby carrots) in a deep large casserole and sprinkle with salt and pepper. 8. Pour ½ cup of olive oil over the vegetables and toss the veggies till they all have a good layer of olive oil. 9. Place in the middle shelf of the preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes. 10. Add Brussels sprouts and baby carrots together with ¼ cup of olive oil ½ cup of water. Toss the veggies. 11. Take the garbanzo beans out of the can and rinse in fresh water. Add to the roasted veggies. 12. Cook for a further 40 minutes or until the vegetables are soft and caramelized. I personally like them to be browned really well, crispy on the outside and soft inside. 13. Serve as a vegetarian entrée or as a side dish.
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Gently Does It
- Rules for the Perfect Pavlova Don’t use freshly laid eggs. Separate the eggs while fridge cold. Not even a drop of yolk is allowed! Bring egg whites to room temperature before beating them. Make sure your bowls and whisk are clean and dry. Prep Time:10 minutes Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes Course: Dessert Servings: 8-10 Ingredients • 5 oz. egg whites (4-5 eggs) • 1 cup caster sugar (superfine sugar) • 1 tbsp. cornstarch, sifted • 1 tsp. white vinegar
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Turn oven off, leave the door closed and leave pavlova in the oven overnight to cool. Transfer pavlova to serving platter and slide cake pan out from underneath. Use butter knife if required to loosen edges from paper, then slide paper out from underneath. Just before serving, top with cream and fruit of choice.
Topping • Place cream, sugar and vanilla in a bowl. Beat cream until it is thickened and just holds its shape – don't overbeat, it should be silky smooth. •
Store the cool pavlova in an airtight container until ready for serving. It can be left in the oven. Do not refrigerate the pavlova – it will sweat when it comes to room temperature and soften the crisp meringue shell.
• Add the whipped cream mixture and fruit just before eating – no more than 20 mins before.
Cream • 1 1/2 cups heavy cream (any whipping cream) • 1/4 cup caster sugar (superfine sugar) • 1 tsp. vanilla extract or essence Topping • Fruit of choice. Instructions • Separate the whites and yolks while eggs are cold. Measure 5 oz. egg whites. • Set whites aside to come to room temperature. • Preheat oven to 300F (convection) 340F (standard). • Place whites in a bowl. Use a stand mixer beat until soft peaks form. • Add sugar 1 tbsp. at a time, beating as you go. • After adding the sugar, beat for a further 3 minutes or until thick and glossy, not gritty. • Add cornstarch and vinegar; fold through with spatula until just mixed through. Making the Pavlova • Get the base of a cake pan (9.5" or larger) and turn it upside down. Dab meringue on the edge and place a piece of baking paper (parchment paper) on top. • Gently place half the egg white mixture onto the paper. Use the cake pan as a guide to make it round into a circle shape around 8" in diameter • Carefully scoop out the remaining egg white mixture and create a dome shape with edges sloping in slightly. Gently flatten the top. Make it 2 " high. • Transfer to baking tray. CAREFULLY place in the oven, GEN- TLY close the door and turn oven DOWN to 210F (convec tion) 240F (standard). • Bake for 1 1/2 hours – do not open the oven door.
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FOOD: Israeli Slushie
Frozen Limonana The Israeli Slushie Your Summer Needs
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imonana is a classic Israeli drink that combines freshly squeezed lemon juice and mint leaves for a unique Israeli-style lemonade treat that’s beloved throughout the country. Limonana is a combination of the Hebrew and Arabic words “limon” and “nana,” which mean lemon and mint, respectively. While the drink may have originated elsewhere in the Middle East, it’s an Israeli advertising agency that provided the catchy portmanteau of a name in the 1990s. In an attempt to get public bus advertising off the ground in Israel, the agency advertised a new soft drink called Limonana in sprawling ads across the sides of buses and reported that local athletes and celebrities couldn’t get enough of it. Although the drink was advertised on buses only, the ad campaign was a huge success. Customers begged for the drink and stores pleaded to carry it until the advertising agency was forced to admit the truth: no such drink existed. Undeterred, soft drink companies began to manufacture the flavor – the drink 38 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
that had existed only as a marketing ploy was now a reality. Restaurants and cafés quickly followed suit, reimagining the drink in iced, slushed and alcoholic variations. It’s been a nationwide hit ever since. The ubiquitous drink is peddled by vendors on nearly every street in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but those of you across the ocean can make this simple, invigorating version at home. Creating a simple syrup with the sugar and water, which turns the sugar liquid, means it’s much easier to blend into a cold drink, and steeping mint in the simple syrup infuses the drink with an extra layer of flavor. It’s delicious as is, but you can make it alcoholic (look below for my margarita inspired variation) for a fun, adult twist on the classic. Or if you’re feeling really adventurous, substitute Arak, an anise-flavored spirit that’s popular in Israel, for the tequila and see where it takes you. With or without alcohol, you’re going to want to make these icy, cooling, sweet and tart slushies all summer long. A
Ingredients: 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, from around 3 lemons 1/2 cup loosely packed mint 6 tbsp. sugar 1 cup water 4 cups ice cubes Directions: 1. Combine water, sugar and half of the mint leaves in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Simmer for 1 minute. 2. Remove from heat and let syrup steep, about 30 minutes. Discard the mint leaves and refrigerate the syrup to let it cool. 3. Combine the mint simple syrup, the rest of the fresh mint leaves and the fresh lemon juice in a blender. Blend at high speed until well mixed. 4. Add the ice and blend until the ice is thoroughly crushed. Pour into glasses and serve immediately. Serves 2.
FOOD: Shalom Catering
Family-to-Farm-to-Table | BY JACQUELINE BULL |
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eff Rossman is the Head Chef and CEO of Terra Hospitality Group that includes a gourmet burger restaurant, a bistro and two catering operations, one of them kosher (Shalom Catering). When we spoke over the phone, I mentioned this and said he either really excels at multitasking or gets bored easily. He laughed and said, “You got it right on the head. I’m one of those kinds of guys that likes to create.” One of his tenets for running his business is the idea of farm-to-table – the idea of eating locally and having an intimate knowledge of your suppliers and the products they are providing. “We’ve been doing it almost since we opened day one in 1998. We would go to the Hillcrest Farmers Market to get produce, I would drive up to Gino Farms to get produce,” he said. “The whole idea of farm-to-table is way back. I mean when people were growing their own stuff and using it from their own farm from their own garden ... We’ve been doing it the whole time and it is nothing new. It’s kind of in our culture that we’ve established,” he said. He expresses that customers are starting to become more interested in where the food is coming from and are expecting it when they dine. One of their programs with this in mind is a series of dinners called “Know the Source” where they bring in local farmers, winemakers, fishmongers so the guests can know what is available locally. And while the idea of farm-to-table isn’t new to Jeff or his family who have been in the restaurant business his whole life, the selling point of it is attracting some frauds. “The problem is a lot of people are saying they are doing farm-to-table, but they are really not. People are trying to get on the bandwagon. It’s the same thing with
fish. They say, ‘Oh yeah, we’re serving you sea bass,’ and it’s tilapia from Vietnam,” he said. He suggests people should ask about where the fish is coming from, ask about the produce and try to know the source if that is important to you. “That’s important to me as an operator, so we let people know. On my menus at Terra it says ‘local fish’ and ‘local vegetables’ ... Today, for example, I’m going to go down and pick up fish and I don’t know what they are going to have. They might have opa, they might have pink grouper, they might have corvina sea bass. Whatever the fish is, it’s local, it’s fresh,” he said. And just like asking for the soup special, the servers know what the local fish and local vegetable of the day are. This liminal menu fuels his love of variety and newness as does the nature of catering. “Catering changes so often and the venues change quite a bit so it feeds that sense
of needing to do something new. Every venue is different in some respect or another. For an example, we are doing a private dinner at the top of Mt. Helix on Saturday, which is super cool,” he said. This loyalty to change is something he mentioned a few times that fits with his macro approach to cooking and also in his philosophy as a chef. “It is kind of a farm to table philosophy, too … It’s using the best possible ingredients that you can without doing a lot to it. A lot of times there are chefs or cooks that start adding and adding and adding ... So for me it is all just enhancements. I want people to be able to try the food and have a great experience, but also not lose sight of the quality of the ingredients – if that makes sense.” Makes sense to me. A
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WINE: Wine Business
When Life Gives You Lemons, Start a Wine Business | BY RABBI JACOB RUPP |
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ndrew Breskin always thought he would be a successful lawyer with a penthouse office downtown that boasted sweeping views of the harbor. But it wasn’t until nearly ten years of being a successful entrepreneur, reinventing an ancient industry that he gave up on his original dreams, and instead embraced his current life, elevating the world of kosher wine. But how did this major pivot occur and why? Andrew passed the bar in 2008, in the throes of the recession. He found that seasoned lawyers were willing to work for the same fees that entry-level attorneys charge, and firms were quick to take advantage. To keep himself afloat, Andrew quickly developed a legal expertise in a field he knew well, the alcoholic beverage industry. But after helping numerous entrepreneurs with their journeys into the wine business, Andrew felt it was his turn. From as early as he could recall he had been studying the small wine and liquor collection his family had. He was struck by the variety of the bottles, labeling and the concept that the same beverage could have such variety. As soon as he was of age, Andrew was off to the races learning everything he could about wine and spirits from the best in the industry. He became a sommelier, a ‘wine expert,’ fluent in all things having to do with wine. He started his own website where he began offering news and reviews, as well as buying and selling collections of high end wine estate collections. At the same time Andrew was following his liquid passion, he was rethinking his Jewish observance. Having been raised as a traditional Jew in a family that attended a large conservative synagogue, he had always kept kosher at home, but not completely outside his home and wasn’t Sabbath observant. In college and immediately after, Andrew spent time studying his Jewish roots and desired to commit to a more observant lifestyle, which would include keeping strictly kosher and
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observing the Sabbath. While any lifestyle change can be difficult, as a wine expert in a world where the mass majority of wine isn’t kosher, this transition was extremely challenging. Andrew had developed his palate on non-kosher wine, having tasted the best wines in the world and having acquired a decent-sized collection of high-end and exclusive bottles. In Andrew’s dark night of the soul, he sold off his very personal collection of non-kosher wine and opted only to drink kosher wine. For someone with Andrew’s palate, enjoying kosher wine wasn’t always easy. Much of the kosher wine world was sorely lacking when compared to its non-kosher counterpart, mostly because there wasn’t a large market for high-end wine within the kosher drinking world. Most people were used to spending $10-$30 for a bottle of wine, when much of what Andrew sold and had consumed started at $100 or more per bottle and soared quickly northward. However, to pay the bills Andrew began to monetize the love he had for the liquid art form. It wasn’t necessarily glamorous at first; he worked in the wine department of a gourmet grocery store to pay the bills while in law school. After practicing law for a few years, newly married and with a family to support, Andrew started stretching his entrepreneurial wings and launched his company Liquid Kosher. The kosher wine world is a vibrant and growing industry dominated by a few very big players, leaving little room for a solopreneur. But always looking for his niche, Andrew did what he knew best—high-end, high-quality kosher wine that wasn’t just good according to kosher standards, but would rank with the world-class wine that Andrew had enjoyed before becoming kosher. What Andrew realized was his unique competitive advantage was having tasted the best wines in the world, and he could educate the growing fan base about high-
end kosher wine. He began recommending and carrying only a very select collections of wine, stocking them out of his house, and hand delivering them to customers in the nearby areas. The kosher wine industry is an international business, with the majority of highest quality wine coming from vineyards in Israel and California. Andrew knew France, specifically the legendary region of Bordeaux, was vastly underrepresented. To fill the hole in the market, Andrew flew to France and began to work with an old winemaking family that didn’t produce kosher wine to create a line of kosher bottles of wine. Andrew would import and sell the wine himself. Once he saw the success his wine had amongst discerning customers, Andrew expanded the labels that he imported to other wine makers, and, as of late, has even begun creating very small runs of ultra-premium bottles made by some of the best winemakers in Israel and California. He has followed the trend of the modern entrepreneur and built an online following for himself on social media and has aspirations for a podcast. Reflecting on his journey, Andrew acknowledges that it was indeed difficult and uncertain. He is just now making peace with the idea that his life and legal expectations were just a stepping stone to something more creative. And advice he gives himself and other aspiring entrepreneurs? “When I started I had no idea what I was doing. But since I was initially speaking to people on the phone, I would sound as professional and confident as possible, so no one figured out how young I was or how long I had been in the business. And with each step, I learned more and was willing to take on bigger responsibilities. Sometimes life doesn’t go in the direction you intend, but if you stay true to your passions and move with confidence even if you don’t know where you are going, things will work out.” A
Kosher Wines for Summer | BY ANDREW BRESKIN |
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ummer in San Diego brings about images and memories of backyard barbecues, picnics at the beach or Balboa Park, all the while enjoying a cold local beer or refreshing cocktail like a margarita or mojito. Noticeably absent from this list is wine. Something about the casual nature of San Diego summertime entertaining lends itself to less formal beverages. While lounging in shorts and flip flops, sipping and swirling a fine Cabernet, and all the contemplation that goes along with it, doesn’t quite match the picture. Personally, due to the summer travel schedule for my wine club Liquid Kosher, I tend to do the most amount of wine drinking (“tasting”) during the summer, while meeting with our winemaker partners overseas, and hosting small gatherings all over the country. But aside from this pleasant duty, summer does present the opportunity to drink wine in a more relaxed setting, which is more conducive to enjoyment than deliberation. The food is simpler, the company is sedate, and the sunlight inhibits the deep and meaningfuls, more suited for winter nights. The following are a few selections that are flexible, food friendly wines, that don’t need much in terms of advance preparation or planning, and are perfect for casual fun!
2015 Borgo Reale Pinot Nero, Italy While tasting through a flight of Italian wines for an event, I was surprised that this unusual bottling was my favorite. Italy is not typically associated with quality Pinot Noir (Nero), but this elegant wine is crisp, flavorful and had very alluring aromatics immediately upon opening. No further cellaring required. I would pair this wine with a mezze course of grilled bread, Mediterranean dips and roasted/grilled vegetables.
2017 Hajdu Rosé, California Rosé is generally simple and easy to drink. This edition is that, plus adding layers of complexity that become evident as the wine warms
in the glass (as it will, while entertaining outdoors). A lighter color rose composed of a melange of uncommon varietals, wrapped up in ever striking packaging, which is typical of the brand. Pair this lovely wine with a cool leafy salad with grilled salmon, and save the empty bottle for the centerpiece of your next event, ideally with a sunflower.
2015 Flechas de los Andes Malbec, Argentina While of French origin, this varietal has become almost entirely associated with Argentina. The high altitude vineyards with unique soil turned out to be a perfect match for this grape, as evidenced by this always enjoyable release from Flechas. Bright and burly fruit flavors are certainly a crowd pleaser, but the wine has the tannins and acidity to match nicely with grilled classics such as steak and ribs.
2016 Les Marronniers Chablis, France Not to let the article pass without a French wine, this is a tremendous value that can be enjoyed yearround. Chablis is the region where the wine comes from, and it is composed of 100 percent Chardonnay. If you’re not a fan of the buttered popcorn California style Chardonnay, try this crisp, nimble wine that is perfectly comfortable being paired with anything on a tortilla chip, as much as it can be enjoyed on its own. A
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HEALTH: Bastyr
The Science and Symphony of Food | BY JACQUELINE BULL | astyr University is bringing their Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Culinary Arts program to their San Diego campus this coming fall. Dr. Neal Malik, the Chair for the Department of Nutrition and Basic Sciences at Bastyr talked with me about this program that combines the science of nutrition and the practicality of the culinary arts. “When I was working as a nutrition counselor and as a dietician, the question that I would often get asked is ‘So you want me to eat 90 grams of protein a day, but what foods should I eat? And do you have any recipes for me that taste good and are cheap and would be easy to make?’” Dr. Neal Malik said. He explained that he would tell them to wait a week for him to have found some recipes on the internet. “There is this need. People want to know about food. They want to know what they can eat that will taste good and at the same time know that what they are eating is good for them. So we felt like this program needed to be created. We have to have that union otherwise we have no way of communicating this kind of idea of healthy eating and nutritious eating,” he said. “We think of our students as nutrition translators. And again, having gone through a traditional dietetics program, I didn’t get that. I got the focus on the macro and micro
nutrients and don’t worry how that translates into food. And so I think they are really unique because they can do both and they walk away with both of those skills,” he said. The program is unique and so is the university it comes from. Bastyr University is the only accredited school of naturopathic medicine in California. They have Masters of Science in Nutrition for Wellness, and Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine programs. “Those that have a natural medicine focus, those that graduate with a doctorate in naturopathic medicine are essentially physicians. They go through med school,” he said. There is a lot of mystery around what naturopathic medicine actually is and means and for Dr. Malik, he explained it as the focus on treating the whole person. “When you think about going to urgent care, or just seeing your normal doctor, they may give you 20 minutes because they have that pressure to see more patients. And they can’t spend that kind of time. But with natural medicine, they really want to know the root cause of the problem and so they’ll spend at least 45 minutes up to 90 minutes with just a single patient to really assess what is going on and make sure they don’t miss anything. And they use, when necessary, natural remedies, but at the same time there is they emphasis of ‘When antibiotics are needed,
let’s give them antibiotics,’ there is that acknowledgement as well,” he said. Reading through the materials about the university, the phrase “science-based” comes up frequently and you won’t find any mention of spirituality or chakras. The idea that is conveyed is the idea of alternatives (or accompaniments) to allopathic (drugs and surgery) medicine. “A lot of it is meeting the patient where they are. So it’s not necessarily about ‘Do this, do that, I’m going to direct you to do things.’ A lot of it is ‘Tell me your story. Let’s figure out what is going on and what can I do to support you and make you feel your best’... So it’s really meeting them where they are and addressing the root cause of them not feeling their best,” Dr. Malik said. Dr. Malik shared his own story of struggling with a chronic illness that was linked to nutrition and lifestyle and by focusing on some of those preventable problems – chiefly on improving his diet – he was able to gradually get off his medication. This won’t be the case for every person and every illness, but the approach to treating the whole person in a relaxed and patient way is a far cry from spending 11 minutes with a doctor for them to scribble out a prescription. A
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HEALTH: Yoga
You Don’t Have to be a Buddhist | BY LEORAH GAVIDOR |
ractice yoga, practice medicine, practice Judaism: Dr. Paul Kurtin does all three. He hosts yoga on Saturday morning once a month before Shabbat services at the Jewish Collaborative of San Diego (JCo) in Carlsbad. “Yoga is yet another way to be together as a community, and that’s what people are looking for,” said Dr. Kurtin, who helped found JCo five years ago and is currently chairman of the board. A retired pediatrician, Paul welcomes all ages—and levels— to his yoga class. “Seventy percent of Jews in San Diego County are not affiliated with a temple,” Dr. Kurtin pointed out, so he and others founded the Jewish Collaborative to provide a gathering place. Studying with the same trainers who advised Obama on community organizing in Chicago, the group set out to create “a different kind of Jewish community and experience. It has been a huge success.” JCo celebrated its fourth anniversary on June 2nd. “We don’t categorize our practices. What is special is that people are happy to be here, they feel like they belong and they enjoy each other’s company.” The JCo space and building (on the grounds of Carlsbad Presbyterian Church)is next to a communal garden. Dr. Kurtin said the setting encourages reflection. The collaborative holds Shabbat services three Friday nights and one Saturday morning per month. Rabbi Gabi Arad frequently commences services with breathing and mindfulness exercises. 44 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
“Meditation has long been a part of Judaism,” Paul Kurtin teaches his “Walk with G-d” group. “The prophets meditated.” Dr. Kurtin, who worked for two decades at Rady Children’s Hospital, began his yoga practice in high school. He sees it as a natural companion to his religious study and practice, and as another component of spiritual life. And, of course, yoga and meditation both have well-proven health benefits. “Our yoga practice is restorative, helping people who are stressed to relax and helping people a bit stiff to move a little easier. Why not help our bodies at the same time as we calm our minds and connect with our souls?” Dr. Kurtin encourages individuals of all abilities to try a yoga session with him at JCo. As founder of Our Place, the Yoga and Wellness Center at ARC of San Diego, Dr. Kurtin has experience teaching yoga to people with all ranges of disabilities. “If being on the floor is not possible, we offer ‘chair yoga.’ Bring your props, bring your mat, bring your best intentions and we can find something that works.” Dress comfy—casual is okay and the same outfit is fine for Saturday services. JCo is both casual and non-judgmental. Entirely made up of volunteers (except for Gabi Arad, who works full-time as both rabbi and cantor), JCo serves 110 member families, about 350 people. The full service synagogue offers child, teen and adult education, such as unique intergenerational and experiential Hebrew Lab and L.O.M.E.D. programs. JCo also celebrates life cycle and
year cycle events in addition to regular services. Bar and bat mitzvah preparation is tailored to the individual child and family. Parents and grandparents are welcome to learn Hebrew alongside their children, and siblings are welcome to hang out. Each year, the Kurtins invite students and families to pick and bless the first fruit of the season at their ranch in Julian as part of the L.O.M.E.D. program. Rabbi Gabi is very supportive of meditation in the service. A Tibetan singing bowl brings the congregation together for the beginning of each service. “When the Dalai Lama was exiled, he asked the advice of Jewish people who had lived in diaspora,” Dr. Kurtin said. This became a historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama that Kamenetz wrote about in “The Jew and the Lotus.” “You don’t have to be a Buddhist,” he assured, “to do yoga or to meditate. These practices allow us as Jews to more fully embody and connect with Adonai,” said Dr. Kurtin, who also teaches walking meditation. “It’s a way for me to give back and teach what I have learned over the past 50 years,” he reflected. A JCo yoga is at 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. one Saturday per month, before Shabbat services at 10:15. The rabbi and volunteers serve a light lunch afterwards. Go to Jcosd.com for the schedule.
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Feature: StandWithUs
StandWithUs Honors the “Iron Man” Crew Nearly 70 Years Later
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t was a magical evening, to be sure. Dozens of StandWithUs San Diego supporters gathered on May 31, 2018 for an uplifting event in the historical Maps and Atlas Museum of La Jolla, befitting an event with a renowned U.S. aviator. The honored guest was Captain Elgen M. Long, 92, the last surviving member of an Alaskan Airlines crew, who embarked on one of the greatest rescue missions in Jewish history: the secret transport of 1,800 starving Jewish refugees from Yemen to Israel in March, 1949. Israel was still fighting its War of Independence. Long, then a 21-year old flight navigator for Alaska Airlines DC-4 charter flights (together with three others) flew consecutively for the first seven days of the mission earning the nickname, "Ironman Crew." They took out seats in the airplane
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L to R: Sara Miller, director, StandWithUs San Diego; Captain Elgen Long; Roz Rothstein, co-founder and CEO StandWithUs; and Shahar Azani, executive director StandWithUs Northeast.
so it could carry up to 150 passengers and completed 12 clandestine runs between Aden and Lydda (Lod) airport. Their trips became the precursor to "Operation Magic Carpet," which rescued another 48,000 Jews in 1950. Although neither he nor any of the other members of the crew were Jewish, they never questioned the necessity of the operation. “It was our responsibility to help those that needed help, and they needed help,” Long recounts. Shahar Azani, executive Director of StandWithUs Northeast, whose Yemenite grandparents were rescued on one of those missions, introduced the hero. StandWithUs' Azani took Long to Israel where the people he helped save and their descendants hugged and thanked him for bringing them to the Promised Land. Sara Miller, director StandWithUs San Diego, stated, "It was remarkable to hear
audible gasps as guests drew the connection – they were alive because of Elgen's heroic and selfless actions. Elgen’s courage paved the way to their very existence! To see the look on their faces, to watch them stare into the eyes of their hero and pour out their gratitude was stunning. Elgen is a credit to all who know him and StandWithUs is honored to be part of his platform in sharing his tremendous and heroic life experiences." As one guest aptly put it, "Elgen's inspiration, positivity, and courage is the nutrition we need to keep our spirits up when we get overwhelmed by negativity." It will be a long, long time before we forget the kind man whose fierce spirit dared to save a generation. Guests were given a copy of Captain Elgen M. Long's book, "On Eagle's Wings: An Untold Story of the Magic Carpet." A
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Feature: San Diego Museum of Art
Epic Tales Indian Paintings From San Diego Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection | BY BRIE STIMSON |
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ith just one stroke of one hair of a brush, the romance, adventure and majesty of thousands of years of classic Indian literature are conveyed to the viewer. Miniature paintings originally from texts such as the Ramayama and the Bhagavata Purana, weave tales of Vishnu, Krishna, Rama and Sita, the monkey god Hanuman and Ravana, the demon king of Lanka in deep, rich colors and exquisite detail. “Many of them are painted with just a single hair of a brush,” Anita Feldman, deputy director and chief curator at the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), told me over the phone a week before “Epic Tales From Ancient India” opened in 5,000 square feet of the museum’s east wing. “You get close and you see all kinds of things in the distance, little castles and islands.” She says the paintings are so detailed, patrons need to use a magnifying glass to properly view them. Feldman said the paintings were usually produced by a team of artists, and each artist focused on their area of expertise (i.e. faces, plants, animals, etc.) Artists worked on the floor with their pigments and utensils in front of them. “They used a lot of different media like insect wings to get red, and they’d grind them down and sometimes you’d have little bits of wings actually applied to the paintings to resemble jewels,” Feldman explained. “Pigments would be burnished and then layered and layered and layered.” For SDMA, the exhibit is a point of pride. All of the 90 plus works are from the mu-
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seum’s permanent collection – paintings that have been stored away in the vaults in some cases for decades before making their triumphant appearance in the galleries this summer. The exhibit went on a short tour to Princeton and the Blanton Museum at the University of Austin before briefly going into storage at SDMA in anticipation of their installation. “We have a really careful policy about light exposure because the pigments are so fugitive, so we can’t display them for very long periods of time,” Feldman explained. “This tour, each venue is just three months and then the paintings will have to rest for at least nine years and not be seen again for nine years. So this is a chance to see them before they go in storage.” Feldman said one of the striking attributes of the paintings is the perspective. “They’re very different from the Western conventions of painting in the sense that you have an arbitrary sense of perspective where you could see more than one scene at a time unfolding in kind of flat even light,” she told me. “Instead of having the kind of linear perspective that we’re used to in the West, you have all kinds of things going on in different places and also an arbitrary sense of scale, whereby the most important figures would be larger. It doesn’t have necessarily as much to do with distance as it does to importance, and quite often figures are in silhouette so that you can easily read who they are and what they’re doing much like Egyptian hieroglyphics. That kind of thing
Four types of lovers, Udaipur, India, 1630s. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. The San DiegoMuseum of Art; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection.1990.594. 1990-290
where things are a little more stylized and intended to be interpreted by the reader is very clearly what’s happening in the scene.”
The Exhibit In the exhibit itself, which will be designed in sumptuously deep blues and purples, each painting corresponds to the text it comes from and each text is a separate section of the exhibit. “Everything’s organized by the stories that
Aniruddha is abducted by Usha’s handmaiden, Nepal, India, ca. 1800. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. The San Diego Museum of Art; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. 1990.172.
they’re telling, so it becomes for us more of a kind of narration and storytelling,” she explained. She said it hearkens back to the original purpose of the paintings “because most of these paintings would have been ... bound into manuscripts and be pages, which would also contain a lot of text. These would be painted for the different courts.” Over the years the manuscripts were unbound, pages were sold “and the paintings rarely accompany those texts anymore. So this exhibition is an attempt really to bring them back to the original context and put them in the context of the storytelling.” The exhibition was curated by Marika Sardar, SDMA’s former associate curator for South Asian art, who now works at the Doha Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar. The first section is an introduction to Indian Painting: how to read them and how they’re made. The second section delves into the Ragamala, a series of paintings based on a range of melodies known as ragas. Ragamala literally means “garland of ragas.” “They’re meant to kind of evoke not only the sound of the music but the things that would happen when that music was being played,” Feldman explained. “We have a certain way in the West where we’re used to a certain kind of narration. This is a little bit different because it’s presenting stories in a different way, of using music.” The next section depicts paintings from the Ramayana, “which is basically the story of Rama and Sita, which is quite an exciting story,” Feldman said.
“The Ramayana is a really popular story because it’s so colorful and full of adventure. Rama and his wife Sita are exiled to a forest and Sita’s kidnapped by a 10-headed demon. And they take her to the island of Lanka and Rama goes out on a quest to find her and then gets some help from Hanuman, the monkey army leader. And Hanuman and his monkeys and another contingent of bears help Rama go and rescue Sita.” The last section of the exhibit focuses on Persian language and literature in India, concentrating on the Shahnemah, the Book of Kings, a sacred text in Iran. “For a long time in India the Persians were holding a lot of important places in the court and had a lot of influence over the culture and the artworks that were produced in India, and so the Persian stories became very popular and were also created in India,” Feldman told me. At the end of the exhibit is a performance space where musicians and dancers will perform on weekends and stories, activities and hands on workshops will be available every day. While a few pieces from their 1,500work collection are sometimes on display on a smaller scale, the museum wanted to exhibit the paintings in a more significant way. “It’s considered to be the most important collection outside of India of this material, and it covers every region and time period of Indian painting,” she added. And once the paintings go back into the vaults, they’re gone. A
ABOVE: Lava and Kusha battle Lakshmana and Rama’s army, Northern India, 1598. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. The San Diego Museum of Art; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. 1990.306. BELOW: Hanuman brings healing herbs to Rama and Lakshmana, Bundelkhand, ca. 1595–1605. The San Diego Museum of Art; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. 1990.290.
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Book Review: "Eddokko"
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“Eddokko” | BY JULIA BERNICKER |
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ddokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan” is a story that a reader must begin by closely examining the table of contents. Just by looking at the array of places and dates that title the memoir’s 30 chapters, it is clear that author Isaac Shapiro has seen a great deal of the world and has witnessed some of the greatest historical events of his time. Shapiro was born in Tokyo as the fourth son of Jewish musicians who moved to Japan to escape pogroms and violence in their Russian hometowns. At birth, Isaac’s identity is already complicated, and intensifies as he moves to China with his mother for the beginning of his childhood. When he returns to Japan at the onset of World War II and later finds himself in Hawaii for the end of high school, Isaac struggles to make sense of his many backgrounds and to survive as an Eddoko, a child of Edo (Tokyo’s former capital), in a country that has never felt quite like home. There is no doubt that Shapiro has led a most extraordinary and unusual life, one that my 17-year-old self can hardly believe to be true. At the same age I learned to ride a bike, Shapiro’s mother was kidnapped by Japanese police in China. And at the same time I entered my first year of high school, Shapiro was acting as an interpreter for the U.S. Navy. I may not be able to relate to preparing for an air raid or watching American occupation troops land in Japan, but my favorite parts of the book are when Shapiro tells of his everyday life in wherever he was living at the time, be it Japan or China or Hawaii. These are the moments that remind me that Isaac
was once a high schooler just like me. He had a first crush, he loved movies and went camping with his friends. The fact he managed to find normalcy throughout one of the most intense times in Japanese military history makes his childhood all the more fascinating. At times, the book feels repetitive, and doesn’t need all of the historical and family background the author provides; But this is also a testament to the amount of effort and research Shapiro poured into telling the story of his life, along with the lives of his large and spread out clan. Despite passages clunky with dates and technical information, Shapiro’s passion for his family’s history is never lost. He writes with love about the people who affected him the most: from his complicated relationship with his father to his admiration for his talented and beautiful mother, from his devoted partnership with his older brother to finding a mentor and role model in Marine colonel Toby Munn. After spending most of the time looking so closely at Isaac’s childhood, I feel invested in his future. Although Shapiro gives us a quick overview of where his family and friends ended up years later, the ending feels rushed and I still have unanswered questions. But for those who love history or World War II, Edokko tells a unique story about a relatively unexplored aspect of Jewish history. A quick read, but one that will prompt countless additional Google searches and leave you pouring over pictures for days to come. A
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Feature: Cayenne Clothing
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A New App Takes the Frustration Out of Shopping | BY BRIE STIMSON |
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n a small attic space of a real estate company in Pacific Beach, three late-20s, early 30-somethings are living their career dreams. Michael Sacks, 25; Max Gleicher, 26 and Jimmy Woolley, 31 – two San Diego Jewish Academy graduates and a former coworker from Utah – all quit their jobs at the beginning of the year, moved back to San Diego and founded Cayenne Clothing. The app, which went on the App Store May 1, offers one item of clothing per day – available to be bought or not for 24 hours – to its customers. It’s targeted to men who want to be stylish, but don’t have the time or the interest to shop. Cofounder Michael Sacks says the trio work seven days a week and 14 hours a day on their new venture. “You can’t really stand in half of our little space,” he
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laughs, “but it’s just what we need, no more.” His contention of working every day is further backed up by the fact that we’re speaking on Memorial Day, and he didn’t seem to remember until a few days before the interview that it was even a holiday. The partners usually get to work around 8 a.m. and their time is spent planning, dealing with customer service issues and searching for new brands to feature on the app. “That’s amazingly time-consuming. As my cofounder Max says, there are a lot of bad brands out there. A lot of time is spend actually trying to find a decent company to feature,” Michael tells me. Before starting Cayenne Clothing, Michael was an iPhone app developer at a clothing retail company. And although he worked in fashion there as well, “I definitely did not have the reputation for being into clothing or fashion. My cofounder Max is
very much involved and interested in the whole style aspect.” He says even in high school Max dressed well. The one item a day concept is modeled after a company called
Amazon. They now sell more than one item per day, but they still have one featured item each day. As mentioned, the minimalist sales model is aimed at men.
L to R: Max Gleicher, Michael Sacks, Jimmy Woolley.
Woot. “They’ve changed quite a bit, but when they originally started they used to sell one electronic item a day,” he says. “When I was at the Jewish Academy I was obsessed with the company, and I wrote an economics paper about them.” Soon after, he says, Woot was bought by
“There’s this theory that I read a while back that there’s kind of the hunter-gatherer human nature that women tend to be more inclined to choose between many options,” he tells me. “Because historically women have been the ones who purchase most items, stores have been designed with
“I’ve found that most successful tech companies make money by having people use their app as much as possible and for as much time in their day, and I’ve seen that kind of become detrimental to society in a way,” he explains. “I didn’t want to do that, so giving people their time back is important to me.” that idea to have a wide selection so that people can go look at all the options and make their decision. But my thought was that a lot of men don’t want a bunch of options.” He says they look for brands that are exciting but without being too risky. When they pick an item to feature, they work with the company to let them know how many of the item they expect to sell so the company can hold the inventory. After the 24-hour selling period they let the company know how many were bought, the company mails them X amount of the item and Cayenne ships the items to customers themselves. “Especially the smaller brands don’t really have
the infrastructure to ship out to a bunch of people kind of all of a sudden,” Michael explains. There’s also an ethical aspect to the one-item-a-day concept. “I’ve found that most successful tech companies make money by having people use their app as much as possible and for as much time in their day, and I’ve seen that kind of become detrimental to society in a way,” he explains. “I didn’t want to do that, so giving people their time back is important to me.” Michael says business has been doing well and they’re breaking even with their costs. “It’s been a great learning experience for us. There’s some things, definitely a lot of stuff we didn’t expect, and
then things that have changed quite a bit while we’ve been around, but it’s going well.” They gain about 25 users a day, Michael says. “Some people just kind of fall in love with it, and that makes me really happy. There are people that just check every single day.” A lot of time is spent looking for quality brands, and Michael says 50 percent of the brands they feature are local. They frequently visit warehouses and factories from San Diego to LA, and the app is focused on making it easier to discover small and medium-sized clothing brands. “We realized that a lot of companies spend a vast majority of the money they have on marketing
instead of making quality stuff – the bigger players tend to do that – get very cheap clothes and just market it a lot. So that’s what you really pay for,” he explains. He says their goal is to make it easier for smaller brands to make quality clothing for a better price. “We want to create a place where a small brand that truly just makes quality stuff doesn’t have to spend a ton of money on marketing, but instead pieces get featured by us and be successful that way,” he says. “Don’t worry about the discovery aspect, just worry about making something great.A
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Theater: Debby Buchholz
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Meet Debby Buchholz
Theater Devotee and New Managing Director of the La Jolla Playhouse | BY PAT LAUNER | he La Jolla Playhouse has a penchant for the “new.” For each of the last five years, the theater has presented a full season of world premiere plays and musicals. Now they can boast another first: the Playhouse’s first female Managing Director. Debby Buchholz joins Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Christopher Ashley at the theater’s administrative helm. With the departure of Michael Rosenberg, who had served as Managing Director for nine years, the choice of replacement was clear.
“Debby has been at the Playhouse for 16 years,” says Ashley, “preceding me by a few years. She’s a major figure in the American theater, even serving as vice president of LORT [the League of Resident Theatres]. In 2009, she received a San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award from the San Diego Business Journal. “She’s a fantastic collaborator,” Ashley continues, “and we’re extraordinarily fortunate to have her. When it came time to search for a new managing director, we knew we already had the person we would’ve wanted. It was
universally decided that we couldn’t do any better than Debby Buchholz. We went right to her. There was no in-between time. She and I have had a lot of fun together, and I’m sure we’ll continue to have that going forward.” “It was very humbling,” says Buchholz. But she’s thrilled. A graduate of UC San Diego, she’s spent a lot of time in this city. A native Californian (she was raised in Woodland Hills, in the West San Fernando Valley), she says she “grew up in ‘The Brady Bunch.’” Her physician father died when Tammuz • Av 5778 | SDJewishJournal.com 55
Debby’s husband attended Bucknell and then Cambridge University. He has been an economic policy advisor and author. Now, he and their oldest daughter are working on a musical; she’s composing the score; they’re collaborating on book and lyrics. “It’s a mixed marriage,” Debby quips. “I’m a Democrat and he’s Republican. But we have a very clear rule: we’re all respectful of all sides.”
Growing into her position
The Cast of “queens.”
“In my prior role,” she admits, “I’ve been a very internal person. This is a very external job, representing the Playhouse. That’s easy. I love the Playhouse, and UCSD, and the art we make.” she was eight years old, leaving her mother a widow with three kids. Her divorced stepfather had four children. So, there were seven youngsters in the house, with only a 6½-year age-spread; at the time of the remarriage, they ranged from 6 to 12 years old. Her mother, who studied early childhood education, was the nursery school director at the family synagogue, Congregation Beth Kodesh (now Shomrei Torah), a conservative shul where Debby had her bat mitzvah. Her husband also grew up in a conservative congregation, in New Jersey, where he became a bar mitzvah. With their three children, they joined Temple Solel in Cardiff. Their two younger children went to Mountain Chai overnight summer camp in Angelus Oaks, where Debby’s brother-in-law served as 56 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
camp doctor. The family continues to have what Debby calls “an adapted kosher” home: no shellfish or pork products, no meat with dairy. “For me,” she explains, “it’s reminding myself, being grateful and aware. Every time I go out and look at a menu, I’m reminded. It’s all about being intentional.” One of her husband’s grandfathers was born in England; his other grandparents were American-born. No one’s certain of the source of his Germanic surname. Debby’s maiden name was Goosenberg (of Russian origin). Her middle name is Rivkah. Her mother is a fourth-generation descendant of the rabbinical scholar Samson Raphael Hirsch, the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism.
Debby majored in political science at UCSD. In 1984, she worked for Gary Hart’s presidential campaign. In her teens, she was very active in USY (United Synagogue Youth). And she participated in theater in high school. “I was terrible,” she admits with a smile. “I don’t sing, though I love musicals as well as plays. But some people are meant to be administrators.” She has the perfect combination of skills for her new position. After graduating from UCSD, she earned a law degree from Harvard University, and practiced for several years in a New York/D.C. corporate law firm—Kramer, Levin, Nesso, Kamen and Frankel (all observant Jews), a “very social-justice-oriented group.” She was a transactional lawyer, primarily concerned with business deals. But she realized that her job was “not as exciting as other jobs friends had.” She found her excitement at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., where she served as associate general counsel (in-house lawyer) for a dozen years. She was also a faculty member for the Smithsonian Institution’s program on Legal Problems of Museum Administration. She married in San Diego in 1988, when her husband (whom she’d met at Harvard), chose to relocate to be near family. “I came without a job,” says Debby. “My husband writes, consults, manages money and is a corporate speaker. All he needs is an airport. I had never not worked. I worked through having each of my children. When I moved here, I had an eight-year-old, a twoyear-old and a two-month-old. “I knew I didn’t want to take the California Bar exam. I was interested in arts management, having seen the inside workings of a massive arts institution. I had stayed in touch with several of my professors at UCSD. One of them, who knew Joan Jacobs [wife of Qualcomm founder, Irwin Jacobs], introduced us,
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Brad Oscar and Summer Spiro in “The Squirrels,”
and she sent my resume to the Playhouse.” When she was general manager, she oversaw Playhouse business operations, human resources, board governance and artist and production contract negotiations. “I had a good background in Human Resources from the Kennedy Center,” she says. “And I had managed lots of labor agreements. “What I loved about both jobs—at the Kennedy Center and La Jolla Playhouse—is that my interactions cut across all departments. The Kennedy Center was almost entirely a presenting institution while I was there. After six months at the Playhouse, a presenting and producing institution, I realized that that was the most rewarding thing in the world. “I’m thrilled that Chris and I are now peers. He’s an incredible artist and an incredible leader. He’s a great listener, and he creates a real team. He’s so collegial and collaborative. And really, really smart. And funny. And self-deprecating.” Over the years, she has watched the Playhouse grow to a $15 million annual budget and 10,000 subscribers. “Now, there’s a ton of immersive and WithOut Walls work,” she beams, referring to the off-site or site-inspired program Chris Ashley initiated eight years ago. But her new job is a big change.
From General Manager to Managing Director “In my prior role,” she admits, “I’ve been a very internal person. This is a very external
job, representing the Playhouse. That’s easy. I love the Playhouse, and UCSD, and the art we make. This job entails a lot of fundraising. That’s new for me. I need to hire a development director, and a general manager, because right now, I’m doing my old and new job.” In case that doesn’t fill up all her time, she also serves on the board of her temple, and the board of the Canyon Crest Academy Foundation, which raises funds for the school’s wide-ranging programming, including its highly regarded theater program. “So, I’ve been on both sides,” she says, “both asking for and giving money.” It’s the art itself that really gets to her. “There’s nothing like standing in the back of the theater during tech week, and watching it all come together, and feeling you were a part of it.” She especially remembers the Standing-Room crowd (“within code, of course”) for “Jersey Boys” and “Come From Away,” both still running in New York. Typically, she sees almost every production five to seven times—and that’s just from the first table-read to opening night. “Sometimes I really fall in love with shows, watching them come into being.” She especially loves world premieres, which are “hard to do, but enormously gratifying. People flock here because they love to be part of something new.” Chris Ashley has originated several other new programs: the Residence Theatre Program, which provides a temporary home
to up-and-coming theater companies with no fixed location. Among those that have been given a major boost by the Playhouse are: Moxie Theatre, San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre, and Teatro Máscara Mágica. The 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 recipient was Native Voices at the Autry, which produces plays featuring Native American writers, casts and directors. Ashley also initiated an Artist in Residence Program; this year’s recipients are married playwrights Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza, who have been commissioned to write a trilogy, “The Colonialism Project.” During their residency, they’re also working on a musical, “Bhangin’ It,” about the high-stakes world of intercollegiate competitive bhangra – a traditional Indian folk dance. One of the challenges of the Playhouse— and any theater—is attracting new audiences, and young people, to become theatergoers. “There are two pipelines,” says Debby. “One is the WithOut Walls participatory work, presented in a place that’s not intimidating, and focuses on subjects—or the community— they’re involved in. “Another is big musicals. After coming to see big blockbusters, people often take a chance on another show. Many sign on for a three-play series.” One of the fun parts of her job has been sitting down, just before she goes to bed, and reading the stage manager’s report. There, she’ll encounter statements that can be hilarious out of context, such as “Tomorrow there will be a blood meeting, to discuss viscosity and color.” Or “Thank you for Velcro-ing the corpse to the back of the van.” Before Debby (sort of ) left her position as general manager, her chief operating officer made her a 3-D-printed, hand-cast pendant of the La Jolla Playhouse logo. She plans to wear it at all times. One co-worker made wearable buttons for every show. Another etched the Playhouse logo into drinking glasses for Debby. “Theater attracts people with all sorts of hidden talents,” she beams. And that’s just one of the things she loves about her work. Though she’s not directly involved with artistic decisions, she says, “I get to tell Chris how much money we have for a production, or the season. “I have absolutely the dream job: Theater arts management for an institution that makes great theater.” A Information and tickets for La Jolla Playhouse productions are available at 858-550-1010 or lajollaplayhouse.org. Tammuz • Av 5778 | SDJewishJournal.com 57
HEALTH: Cancer
In Our Genes hat do you do with information from the future? Specifically, what do you do with the knowledge that you are at a higher likelihood of cancer? This is the question that Jill Werman Harris is interested in. With the invention of testing for the BRCA gene mutation (having this mutation increases your risks of getting breast and ovarian cancer), people are now faced with difficult information and difficult choices. Jill is primarily a journalist on this topic and also a bioethicist. “What are you supposed to do with information from the future?” Jill asked, “You don’t know if you’re going to get cancer, you don’t know what kind of cancer you’re going to get, you don’t know the degree of the diagnosis you’re going to get. And so you’re asking people to be aware that they are at risk. And what do you do in the circumstance in which the information is both a ‘knowledge is power,’ but it’s also a burden.” Certain high risk populations like Ashkenazi Jewish people that are more likely to 58 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
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carry the BRCA mutations than the general population and people with family history of breast and ovarian cancers are opting to determine if they have the gene mutation and assess their lifetime risks. “A lot of people just don’t know that they have it, so [Basser Center’s] goal is to build a worldwide community and focus on these cancers, not to tell women what to do, but to say ‘Listen, you should know about this,’” she said. Jill is moderating the panel “Knowledge is Power: Understanding and Managing BRCA-Related Cancer Risk,” put on by the Basser Center for BRCA right here in San Diego at the Lawrence Family JCC on July 17. The panel brings together specialists to discuss what is happening in medicine and science working with BRCA mutations. The panel includes Susan M. Domchek, a Basser Professor in Oncology; Dr. David Smotrich, founder and medical director of La Jolla IVF; Dr. Paul Hyde, a surgeon that performs procedures related to breast cancer; and Sarah Abelsohn, a local San Diegan
and BRCA mutation carrier. “We look at it as a joining of hands, you know, for the community of people who are dealing with such perplexing issues – we look for a sense of community, a sense of partnership, knowledge, education. Our resource fair will really show them that San Diego, has many resources available for people who are going through this tough time and all of the medical decision making that comes along with it,” Jill said of the panel. The decision making is chiefly intense surveillance or undergoing surgery of some kind. And part of the panel and these experts’ goal is to educate and help people in that position. Now that it is easier to get information about your DNA, sometimes people are left to interpret this potentially frightening data on their own. “There is a big debate going on right now because there are all kinds of at home tests like 23andMe that don’t require you to have genetic counseling for this test,” she said. These DNA kits deliver their results in a
packet of information and having to interpret the information alone can leave people with fear and without a complete picture and context of their risks. Jill explained there are stories from women having had these tests and undergoing surgery to prevent a risk that they didn’t have. Being more educated and knowledgeable can also clarify which tests/genes you may not even meet the criteria to be tested for. This is where genetic counselors come in and also where having support groups and knowledgeable professionals come in. “It’s deeply personal. There is no way to know what women will do with this information, so you don’t know what the future holds. We can’t predict the future. And so we just try to guide women with the best
information that you have at the time,” she said. Navigating the concept of risk over one’s entire life and considering all of the other factors that would make one at a greater or lesser likelihood of getting cancer is one of the reasons it is so difficult to make one size fits all recommendations. “Also remember it is a lifetime risk, if you are a 20 year old girl, it is not like they are going to get cancer tomorrow. It is a lifetime risk. And so there are many other factors, it is not a guarantee you’re going to get cancer,” she said. “It’s a big head trip so to speak. Basically Basser – their goal is to make better choices for women. Their mission is to see a world free of the devastating effects of BRCA re-
lated cancers and provide a road map for curing all genetic diseases. The choices are so awful for these women – your breasts or your ovaries or live in fear. Talk about a rock and a hard place,” she said. As a journalist and bioethicist, Jill foresees genetic testing becoming more common and expects that how well the BRCA community (both patients and physicians) approach this adversity will be informative for other genetically linked cancers. “This is a template for all kinds of genetic cancers as genetic medicine becomes part of everyday medicine, how BRCA people will handle it. They are kind of like the pioneers of how to handle things in the future.” A
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will bring that sizzling brand of music to the Bayside on July 26. “Marc Cohn and the Blind Boys of Alabama” will mark Cohn’s Bayside debut on July 27. Patti LaBelle turns up the heat on July 28 with her program of soulful music, and “Beethoven by the Bay” rounds out the month on July 29 with a stirring performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and other classics.
Meghan Kreidler, Rick Miller, and H. Adam Harris as The Lorax and Steven Epp as The Once-ler in “Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax.”
La Jolla Playhouse
The La Jolla Playhouse launched its summer season with “The Squirrels,” a contemporary comedy by the writer of the hit show “Hand to God.” The Playhouse describes this world premiere as “a twisted new comedy.” It’s also outlandishly funny, revealing the animal instincts that drive us all. “The Squirrels” will remain on the Mandell Weiss Forum stage through July 8, under the astute direction of Tony Award-winner Christopher Ashley. The Playhouse will present the San Diego premiere of “queens” on July 3. This show – which arrives in town direct from a Broadway run – will continue through July 29.
The Old Globe
The Old Globe kicked off its summer season under the stars with Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” an enchanting fantasy that takes audiences to a desert island where the Duchess of Milan lives in exile. The beloved work weaves a tale of magic and romance, and love and redemption that is sure to delight fans of the Bard’s. “The Tempest” will play out on the Festival Stage through July 22. The Globe’s Main Stage is finally ready to unwrap a summer gift for the small-fry set. Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” will make its San Diego debut on July 2, unleashing a barrel of fun for kids of all ages. David Greig adapted the book for the stage and Charlie Fink created the music and lyrics for this charming children’s tale. The show abounds with eye-popping color and inventive stagecraft, so take the kids to see it before Aug. 12. The Globe’s White Theater will be reviving a Neil Simon classic on July 28. “Barefoot in the Park” is a comic romp that has free-spirited Corie trying to loosen up her buttoned-down new hubby. While they adjust to married life in a dilapidated New York apartment, other amusing characters get added to the mix, and the results are hilarious. The show will stay on through Aug. 26.
North Coast Rep SDSO Bayside Summer Nights Finale.
San Diego Symphony
The San Diego Symphony is in high gear for its Bayside Summer Nights concerts, which began with Star Spangled Pops (through July 1). These spectacular outdoor performances will continue until Sept. 2. This month’s busy slate includes “America’s Birthday with Clint Black” on July 4, followed by Megan Hilty, who brings her acclaimed voice and versatility to the Bayside July 6 – 7. Jazz great Arturo Sandoval is featured on July 12. The one-and-only Rick Springfield will delight San Diego audiences at this alfresco venue with his ‘80s hits July 13 – 14. “Godfathers of Latin Jazz: A Salute to Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo” 60 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2018
North Coast Repertory Theatre is reviving “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” July 11 through Aug. 19. The hilarious storyline revolves around a Roman slave desperate for his freedom and a pair of young lovers. Stephen Sondheim wrote the memorable songs for this vintage musical comedy, which has been called the funniest ever written. Omri Schein in North Coast Rep’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”
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Lakisha May, Candy Buckley, Terence Archie and Summer Spiro in La Jolla Playhouse’s “The Squirrels.”
Broadway-San Diego
Broadway-San Diego’s stunning production of “The King & I” will end its run at the Civic Theater on July 1.
Coronado Playhouse
Coronado Playhouse will stage a new musical about family, friendship and acceptance on July 20. “A Man of No Importance,” based on a film, is one of those rare musicals that combines depth and drama with lyricism and musical comedy. The show will be ensconced at the Playhouse until Aug. 26.
Cygnet Theatre
Cygnet Theatre’s staging of “Spamalot,” an irreverent parody of the Camelot story, is a musical that makes merry with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The show will tickle local funny bones until Aug. 5.
Lamb’s Players Theatre
The Lamb’s Players are featuring the musical, “Once” through July 22. The show (based on a hit Irish movie about love and longing) snared eight Tony Awards, and it should be a favorite with mature audiences.
The Welk Theatre
The Welk Theatre is back in business. The first show in its new incarnation – “Hard Days Night,” Southern California’s leading Beatles Tribute Show – will be performed through Aug. 29. Coming on July 14, is “Forever Plaid,” one of Welk’s most successful shows. You can see “Forever Plaid” until Aug. 26. A pre-show meal is available before each performance.
Spreckels Organ Pavilion
The 31st Annual International Summer Organ Festival is offering free concerts every Monday evening through Sept. 3 at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
tion consists of 85 pieces, including sculptures, paintings and others that reflect the artist’s East meets West oeuvre. The museum has opened its vaults for “Visible Vaults,” a collection of 300 pieces, including works by Andy Warhol, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec and other great artists. This exciting exhibition will be on view through Nov. 12.
Timken Museum
The Timken Museum turned its galleries into a playground for emerging artist Aharma Mehta in June, when visitors were able to observe the artist creating a 3-D artwork based on “The Portrait of a Woman in a Green Dress.” Mehta’s creation will remain at the Timken through Sept. 16.
Birch Aquarium
Birch Aquarium is featuring “Hall of Fishes,” which also serves as a working laboratory. Birch has an installation on light by scientist Michael Latz, and another exhibition that helps you understand Scripps’ expeditions to discover and protect the planet. “Expedition at Sea” includes a 33-foot long projected triptych and hands-on learning opportunities. The newest exhibition at the Birch is “Research in Action: 100 Island Challenge,” an exhibit that explores the way reefs are adapting to our rapidly changing planet. Also recently opened is “Oddities: Hidden Heroes of the Scripps Collection,” a comic book-inspired exhibit that highlights amazing adaptations of ocean species.
Reuben Fleet Science Center The Reuben Fleet Science Center will be showing three films: “Dream Big: Engineering our World” – a first-of-its-kind film that will transform the way we think about engineering; “Islands of the Lemurs,” an up-close-and-personal look at some fascinating creatures; and “Aircraft Carriers: Guardians of the Seas.” The Fleet is offering “Dream, Design, Build” – an exhibition that explores the Fleet’s collection of interactive engineering activities (and will remain on permanent display) and “Myth Busters: The Explosive Exhibit,” a hands-on, family-friendly experience that combines popular scientific facts with innovative displays. Also on view is “Taping Shape 2.0,” which uses hundreds of rolls of packing tape to create a world of translucent spaces and tunnels. The museum has several other permanent exhibitions, including “Don’t Try This at Home,” “Tinkering Studio” (which has evolved into “Studio X”), “Block Busters” and “Origins in Space.” San Diego Natural History Museum
The Gods Hatch a Plan, Kangra, India, ca.1800–1815. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. TheSan Diego Museum of Art; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection.
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The Museum of Art opended a new exhibition on June 9. “Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art” explains classics of literature through the art that illustrates them. This exhibition (which includes 90 plus artworks) will remain on view through Sept. 3. The art museum is also featuring “Nancy Lorenz: Moon Gold,” a solo exhibition of the work of this New York-based artist. This exhibi-
The Natural History Museum will open “The Backyard” – a new gallery for the 5-and-under set – in mid-July. It will add “Backyard Wilderness” (a 3-D film) on Aug. 1. The NAT is featuring “Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary people: A History of Citizen Science.” Among the items on view in this exhibition are rare books, art and historical documents. Also on display is “Coast to Cactus in California.” “Unshelved: Cool Stuff from Storage” – a display of specimens from around the world – is another popular exhibition. It will be ensconced at the NAT for the next two years. Check out “Oceans 3-D: Our Blue Planet,” “Ocean Oasis” and “Titans of the Ice Age,” along with the 3-D film “Incredible Predators.” The Nat also offers “Fossil Mysteries,” “Water: A California Story” and “Skulls.”
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the news Hadassah Medical Organization Finds Key to Healthier Future Pregnancies After six years of research led by Dr. Simcha Yagel, the Hadassah Medical Organization has discovered that “natural killer cells” may be the reason why pregnancies become easier and healthier after the first. Natural killer cells are named for their ability to destroy tumors and pathogens and are abundant in the uterus lining and in the placenta. These cells produce proteins that support pregnancies, which explains why natural killer cells don’t attack the fetus in the same way they would attack a disease. Yagel and his team, which included scientists from around Israel, also found that natural killer cells have memory and can learn to fight certain parasites. For a repeated pregnancy, this means certain complications become less frequent. Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization in America, which includes the Hadassah Medical Organization, suggests that in the future, natural killer cells could be replicated artificially to treat issues in first pregnancies.
Leichtag Foundation Hires New Director of The Hive at Leichtag Commons
Diamond Anniversary Gala Raises $3 Million for Seacrest Foundation Seacrest Foundation hosted the Women’s Auxiliary Diamond Anniversary Gala, held in early June at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla. Nearly 600 people attended the gala, which raised over $3 million. All proceeds raised will support the Seacrest Village Retirement Communities’ Resident Assistance Fund, providing charitable care for those who are most in need. This year alone Seacrest expects to pay $2.5 million in charitable care. Co-Chaired by Anne Nagorner & Suzi Feldman the evening honored their parents, Lee & Frank Goldberg. The Goldbergs first began their support of the organization when it was the Hebrew Home on 54th Street in San Diego, and they were instrumental in the creation of the Encinitas Campus of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities.
Jenny Camhi has been promoted to the position of Director of The Hive, a coworking and event space that nonprofits and social entrepreneurs of Jewish community life use as an opportunity to collaborate and grow as well as space for their offices. Camhi curates the arts and culture programs, manages a portfolio of the Foundation’s grantmaking and serves on the Foundations’ senior team. She has worked with the Foundation since 2014.
2018 Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award Winner Announced
The 2018 award will be presented to Lori Polin, who has been a Lion of Judah for over ten years and serves on the Federation Board of Directors and is the acting Vice Chair of Philanthropy. The award is given to Lions of Judah who are chosen by their communities as “Women of Valor” and who show a lifetime commitment to Judaism and philanthropy. Lions of Judah is a philanthropy arm of the Jewish Federation. All Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award recipients will be honored at the International Lion of Judah conference in Jan 2019.
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Spirit of Anne Frank Awards Dr. Jud Newborn, a Founding Historian and co-creator of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, received the “Spirit of Anne Frank Human Writes Award” last month. He is an internationally recognised multimedia lecture artist and an expert on anti-Semitism. Recently, with the rise of neo-Nazism and bigotry, Dr. Newborn was key in salvaging 900 anti-Semitic artifacts. Other awards included the “Spirit of Anne Frank Youth Empowerment Award,” which was presented to Amy Poehler and Meredith Walker for the Smart Girls Foundation.
Israeli-American Coalition for Action Appoints New Executive Director Last month the Israeli-American Coalition for Action (IAC for Action) announced the appointment of Jonathan Harris as its executive director. Harris previously served as a senior policy director for government relations at the Washington, D.C. branch of the Zionist Organization of America. He has covered Jerusalem for Time Magazine and worked as a managing editor for the Middle East Forum. “Jonathan brings a wealth of tremendous experience and proven leadership skills that will support our fast-growing advocacy organization as we work to make change at the federal, state and local level,” IAC for Action Chairman Shawn Evenhaim said. “He’s a beltway veteran with a deep and well-grounded knowledge of the U.S.- Israel alliance, Middle East history, and U.S. foreign policy, and track record of working to build diverse pro-Israel coalitions. We are confident he will be an invaluable asset for empowering the Israeli-American community to make our voice heard.” Under Harris’ leadership, the IAC for Action will continue its efforts to engage Israeli-Americans in advocacy initiatives at all levels of government, from city councilmembers and mayors to state governors and Congressional leaders.
MEETINGS AND EVENTS FOR JEWISH SENIORS JFS Balboa Ave. Older Adult Center Contact Aviva Saad (858) 550-5998 July 3. 10 am. Enjoy an Independence Day Celebration. Jewish War Veterans of San Diego, Post-185 Contact Jerome Klein at (858) 521-8694 July 8, 10 a.m. Veterans Association of North County, Post-385 Contact Marsha Schjolberg (760) 492-7443 Jewish War Veterans meetings July 8, 11 a.m. JFS College Avenue Center at Temple Emanu-El Contact Elissa Landsman (858) 637-3273 July 13, 12:30 p.m. Dancers as young as five and old as 75 from the San Diego Recreation Dance Program will be visiting for their annual concert. North County Jewish Seniors Club at the Oceanside Senior Center Contact Josephine at (760) 295-2564 July 15, 12:30 p.m.
Maccabi USA Recruiting for 2019 Pan-American and European Games In the summer of 2019, Maccabi USA will send 700 participants to Mexico City in July and Budapest in August to compete in the Regional Games. Both games are held every four years in accordance with the Maccabi World Union and seek to connect Jewish athletes all over the world. Offering 25 sports, Team USA chairs Tonja Magerman and Debbie Adams are looking for high-level athletes, coaches and volunteers to serve as Sports Chairs and help recruit additional participants. For additional information, visit maccabiusa.com or contact Program Director Shane Carr at scarr@ maccabiusa.com.
On the Go Excursions Contact Jo Kessler (858) 637-7320 July 29, 2:00 p.m. TICO Annual Pops Concert with Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Register by July 19, cost is $35. Lawrence Family JCC Contact Melanie Rubin (858) 362-1141 Aug 5, 12:30 p.m. “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” Registration is due by July 20, price is $42-$50.
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dies at 82 Professor Yirmiyahu Yovel (1935-2018), emeritus professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winner of the Israel Prize and a public intellectual in Israel, died after a long battle with cancer last month. Prof. Yovel published volumes on Kant, was a political columnist, translated philosophy classics in Hebrew and edited several books. Tammuz • Av 5778 | SDJewishJournal.com 63
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Campfire Shabbat with Beth Am July 6, 7 p.m., 5050 Del Mar Heights Rd., San Diego, CA, 92130 Every first Friday of the month Beth Am will have a special Shabbat. There will be a bonfire, singing and hot cider to accompany the service. Visit betham.com for more information. Kosher BLT, The Men’s Club with Chabad of Chula Vista July 8, 9 a.m., Eastlake Beach Club, 2050 Lakeshore Drive, Chula Vista, CA 91913 Join the Men’s Club of Chabad of Chula Vista for a short morning service and bagels, lox and Tefillin. Visit jewishchulavista.com/remember for more info. Tuesdays in the Park with Beth Israel July 10, 5:30 p.m., Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Centre Dr., San Diego, CA, 92122 Come to the grassy field of Beth Israel for family summer fun. There will be nights of music, singing, dancing and dessert. Also on July 31 and Aug 14. Visit cbsid.org for more information. Wine, Cheese, Shabbat Services and Dessert Oneg with JCoSD July 13, 6 p.m., JCoSD Bayit, 7805 Centella St., Carlsbad, CA 92009 Enjoy an all ages service of wine, cheese, dessert and a discussion of Mattot/Massei (Numbers 30:2 – 32:42/33:1 – 36:13). Go to jcosd.com for more information.
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San Diego Pride Parade with Tifereth Israel July 14, 11 a.m., Tifereth Israel, 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd., San Diego, CA The parade begins at the Hillcrest Pride Flag on University Ave. The route is about 1.5 miles. Visit tiferethisrael.com for more information. Beth Israel will also be in the parade. Pray at the Park with Tifereth Israel July 20, 5:30 p.m., Lake Murray Community Park, 7001 Murray Park Dr., San Diego, CA, 92119 Celebrate Shabbat in the great outdoors with a snack and schmooze before the service. People are encouraged to bring a dairy/pareve Shabbat Picnic dinner, blankets and lawn chairs. Visit tiferethisrael.com for more information.
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Food & Whine halom, San Diegans: We Jews thrive on belief, learning and our pisks (mouths) for talking and ingesting. After breakfast, we’re already planning lunch (corned beef or brisket?) After lunch, a snack wouldn’t hurt. After dinner? “So where shall we go for a little dessert?” We plan our attack at a buffet like secret agents. “The fruit salad, cottage cheese and beets are up front to the left. Take from the back! That’s where they hide the lox and white fish!” Biological foodies, do food and wine issues arise? Let’s look.
In Need Of Breather DEAR MARNIE: I’ve been married for almost a year to a great guy. The problem is his parents. They’re originally farm people who are very strong and determined. We rotate Shabbat dinner. One Friday it’s at our place, the other at theirs. I have food allergies. After years of misery, I finally learned from an allergist that I can’t eat fish, eggs and milk, among other things. Try telling that to my in-laws! They think I’m crazy, that NO ONE could possibly be allergic to something as natural as eggs and milk! How do I convince them? – Tired of Arguing. MARNIE SAYS: Wheezing your way into anaphylactic shock would do it but it might do you in. The “scaring” part’s OK – just leave you out of it.
Getting It! Your Personal Strategy: Your allergist. Tell me quick. Is he or she an MD? Looks professional? Doesn’t push weird “alternatives” (like recommending
eye of newt to cure asthma)? Carries real prescription pads? Good. Conspire to enlist some aid. Invite the good doc to Shabbat dinner at your place. Add a few clued-in sufferers with similar woe-tales. (Not too many or you’ll look like a coughing coven.) Do not introduce them as your allergist and the allergic. Just, “meet Irv, Becca,” etc. Encourage lively conversation. The topic of “career” will of course come up and the “Doc” will be ID’ed. Again ... no big deal. At some point, orchestrate the following: STEP 1: Doc says to you: “Sasha ... I hope you’re sticking to your diet.” (WHOOP! HEAR YOUR IN-LAWS WHIPPING AROUND.) Doc continues: “I know it’s tough – no eggs, milk – but we wouldn’t want you to (FILL IN DIRE RESULTS). STEP 2: Now for the woe-tales. Another sufferer, Jonah, can jump in with ... “Y’know, I’m allergic to nuts! Well, let me tell you my Pesach charoset story. (FILL IN DIRE RESULTS). By now the in-laws should be cowed enough to button it up – well, at least in your presence. Now go forth and breathe free!
A Corker DEAR MARNIE: My brother-in-law thinks he’s a maven at everything, including wine. When we all go to an upscale restaurant, he brings the sommelier to tears with his smelling, swishing, twirling, rolling and talking “fruity,” “earthy,” “floral.” Marnie, the man
took a two week course online, acts like Mr. Manischewitz and doesn’t shut up. How do we put him in his place? – Enough Already MARNIE SAYS: Oh mamala, what a terribly ignoble yet delicious question. If I were any sort of typical advice maven, I’d tell you to have compassion for this man with a hole in his goblet. Thank G-d you wrote to me. The next time you go out …
Getting It! Your Personal Strategy You or your husband offer to do the honors. You test the wine. You got these special tips from one of Gordon Ramsey’s top sommeliers...Pierre. With the fervor of Emeril, ask the sommelier to uncork the bottle. Take the cork, put it between your hands and roll it for a full minute. The heat from your hands should turn the cork dark if the wine is excellent. Fill a quarter of the glass with the wine. Hold a mirror to the glass, as the mirror is a far superior way of judging color. Stick a fancy long spoon you’ve brought and swish to test for just the right amount of sediment. Strike a match or lighter under the bulb of the glass. If it bubbles in under 30 seconds, it’s inferior. Turn to the sommelier and blithely say: “This will barely do, but we’ll grin and bear it.” The shocked faces around you will be in awe of your prowess (maybe they missed a lesson?) No one will question it, but if they do, who are they to argue with? Pierre? Then go home with your anecdote, open a bottle of Diet Cel-Ray and be “amused.” A Tammuz • Av 5778 | SDJewishJournal.com 65
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he second season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will not air until later this year, but the show has already been given the green light for a third season. Variety reported that the show’s creator appealed to Amazon Studios executives on Saturday night while accepting a Peabody Award at the awards show in New York City. “You’re going to give it to us because we’re bringing home the fancy thing, right?” Amy Sherman-Palladino said. Amazon then confirmed to Variety on Sunday that the show would get a third season. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” tells the story of a Jewish housewife in 1950s New York who becomes a standup comedian. It is set in the very Jewish milieu of Manhattan’s Upper West Side and is full of Jewish references. The show, which stars Rachel Brosnahan, garnered acclaim last year and won two Golden Globes in January for best comedy series and best lead comedy actress. It’s seen as a prime contender at the upcoming Emmy Awards in the fall.
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Gal Gadot is Producing and Possibly Starring in a Fidel Castro Movie Gal Gadot is set to produce and possibly star in a film about how an American journalist became one of Fidel Castro’s closest confidantes. Gadot’s husband, Yaron Versano, who is also Israeli, will co-produce the drama for Warner Bros., Deadline reported. The idea is based on a recent Politico article by Peter Kornbluh titled “My Dearest Fidel: A Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro.” It details how ABC journalist Lisa Howard helped establish a secret channel between Cuba and Washington after the Cuban missile crisis. “When I first read Peter’s article, I was entranced by his thrilling account of a complicated, fascinating woman in the midst of a high-stakes, real-life drama. I knew immediately that I had to be involved creatively with telling Lisa Howard’s story, and am thrilled to be producing this film with Sue,” Gadot said, mentioning co-producer Sue Kroll. A
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