April 2019 by San Diego Jewish Journal

April 2019

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PASSOVER

Community Seder Listings

RABBI DAVID M. FRANK Reflects on 28 Years at Temple Solel

A CONVERSATION

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CONTENTS

page 30 PASSOVER: Community Seder listings from Chula Vista to Oceanside.

IN THIS ISSUE

page 36 FEATURE: Rabbi David M. Frank is retiring after 28 years as senior rabbi of Temple Solel.

page 42 PASSOVER: Pesach in the age of Instagram. 8 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

page 44 FEATURE: Jewish teen, Talia Schauder, is giving school presentations about the Holocaust and tolerance.

page 50 POLITICS: Councilwoman Barbara Bry is running for mayor.

page 46 THEATER: Jamie Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein's daughter, comes to the JCC to talk about her father. MONTHLY COLUMNS

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

12 The Starting Line 22 Personal

39 FEATURE Jewish

Women's Foundation.

Development and Judaism 24 Israeli Lifestyle 26 Examined Life 28 Religion

41 PASSOVER Why it's

AROUND TOWN

Sonboleh's new book "Ignited" tells the stories of people she's met while running her Judaica shops. 59 PASSOVER Seder wines.

18 Our Town 20 The Scene 68 What's Goin On IN EVERY ISSUE

14 Mailbag 16 Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up Online 66 Diversions 67 Food 70 News 72 Advice 73 Synagogue Life

important to take pictures during Passover.

53 PASSOVER Passover on my mind by Patricia Goldblatt.

57 FEATURE Pauline

61 FEATURE Tips for getting your property taxes done.

63 BOOK REVIEW of "The Tattooist of Auschwitz."

64 FEATURE Isaac

Artenstein, Filmmaker.

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FROM THE EDITOR

THE STARTING LINE by Brie Stimson editor@sdjewishjournal.com

Change hange is a strange thing. It can mark the beginning of something truly exciting or the end of something wonderful–and often it’s both. Change can fill a person with butterflies, glee, fear and confusion. It’s a catchall word that describes everything from birth, to a new job, to marriage to death. Change is something we often hope to avoid but when it doesn’t happen, we’re disappointed. There is safety is sameness, but there is opportunity in change. As you may have guessed, I’m ruminating because my own life is changing. I have taken a new editing job in Los Angeles, which means change on many levels. It also means a change for the magazine, something I have always seen as healthy. Just as my ascension to editor in 2017 was good for a new perspective, I believe our new editor-in-chief, Jacqueline Bull, (whom many of you will recognize as our current assistant editor) will bring her own creative spin on our little

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monthly journal. After a year and a half of being blessed in a wonderful job where I get to write interesting articles for a living, work with and read stories by creative, talented writers, I knew it was time for a change. While I will miss this place like I can’t describe, the magazine is in safe hands and will no doubt continue to churn out the same sharp, smart writing it always has. During my year and a half helming the San Diego Jewish Journal, I attempted to write and assign insightful, provoking and heartwarming stories that have meaning to our readers. While we have not hit the mark every time and some of our readers have voiced their objections in letters to the editor (which we always appreciate because a critical conversation is always important) I hope some of our stories have reached you personally. I will miss this monthly meeting with all

of you. As The Starting Line was my first column, I didn’t always know what to say at first, but as I put pen to paper (so to speak) I realized speaking my mind was no trouble at all – for better or for worse in the reader’s estimation. I appreciate how supportive you the readers have been during my time as editor (even the critics were always polite) and as we head into this new chapter, all of the journal’s talented, creative writers will continue to make SDJJ the award-winning magazine it is. I look forward to staying on as a contributor and watching Jacqueline grow into her role and make the magazine her own just like I did when Natalie left. Because the best type of change is growth. P.S. Thank you Mark, Doc, Derek and Jacqueline for your support. A I wish you all the best, Brie Stimson

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Thank goodness San Diego is full of worthy Jewish charities and they are all doing great work. But sometimes it seems to me as though we may have lost our way. I have read with interest about the activities of several prominent Jewish charities, which seem to be expending tremendous resources on causes that are not necessarily Jewish. I am well aware of the idea that we are here for Tikun Ha’Olam, to ‘repair’ the world, which includes everyone. But do we not need to sometimes draw some lines and make sure that Jewish charities that have local Jewish charity dollars take care of Jewish needs first? As we know charity begins at home; that we are obligated to take care of our own first. Not that we ignore the stranger, but our first responsibility is our own. I know of countless stories where indigent Jews, or those living well below the poverty line, have been turned down for basic help being told

things like, ‘Go to your children.’ Or ‘Your social security check disqualifies you from assistance.’ At the very same time this charity is busy with major programs helping people from other countries who are here illegally. I understand that people are people and that they are here seeking a better life and come from abject poverty. But some come from countries that are downright hostile to Jews and especially to Israel. These institutions are using Jewish charity money for others before legitimate Jewish needs. Everyone tries hard and everyone is stretched thin. Unfortunately we cannot do everything for everybody. Sometimes we are forced to prioritize one worthy cause over another. I believe our faith tells us to help everyone we can, but first to take care of our own brothers and sisters. Charity begins at home. An Anonymous Member of the Jewish Community Who Loves Jews & All People

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President Trump continuously bashes John McCain about various McCain positions that Trump disagrees with which is somewhat amazing since McCain has been dead for seven months. I believe DDT wants to be in the spotlight all the time and doesn’t care if he receives negative criticism about his comments. As a former Navy enlisted officer, I am particularly perturbed with DDTs ongoing disparagement of McCain’s military service. McCain was a Navy pilot who flew missions against the enemy in Vietnam, and unfortunately he was shot down and spent years in a North Vietnam prison. I believe DDT was able to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War by receiving four draft deferments while in college, and then he was deemed medically unacceptable after college because of a supposed bone spur in his heel, which apparently was conjured up by DDT and his doctor. DDT skated out of military service and is no better than the draft dodgers who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. And now as President DDT continues with his toxicity. Donald Moskowitz Former AG2 and LT, U.S. Navy Londonderry, NH

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Netanyahu Hit With Corruption Charges Weeks Before Elections Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases, likely after Israel's elections on April 9. It is the first time a sitting prime minister will face criminal charges, Israel's attorney general said.

The series is by Oriel Danielson for the Israeli Broadcasting Corp., or Kan, the PBS of Israel. The episodes are in English and Hebrew with English subtitles.

Israeli poet Agi Mishol to receive a top international literary prize Israeli poet Agi Mishol will receive the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award for 2019. Mishol was born in 1947 to Holocaust survivor parents and has written about Israel, nature and her family’s history. The award is named after the Polish poet who was a member of the resistance during World War II.

New Zealand Jews ‘sickened’ by mosque shootings that killed 50 The New Zealand Jewish Council is ”sickened and devastated” by the attacks, in which at least one armed individual killed dozens of people by shooting them at close distance with a semi-automatic rifle. The attack, which came around the time of Friday prayers, killed at least 49 people, the deadliest in the nation’s history. “We offer our full assistance and support to the Muslim community and stand united with it against the scourge of terrorism and racism, which we must do all we can to banish from New Zealand,” Stephen Goodman, the president of the New Zealand Jewish Council said. 16 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

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The SD Center for Jewish Culture’s Arts & Ideas Series continues to impress. We recently saw Nellie McKay perform in her one woman show, “The Big Molinsky: Considering Joan Rivers.” Some of those joining us in the audience were Bob Silverman & Andrea Ladmer, Nancy Neigus, Jain Malkin & Gary Watson, Lynn & Norman Lurie, Rachel Millstone, Todd Frank & Luna Levy-Keller, Marilyn & Al Shelden, Ray & Marcia Sacks, Karen & Warren Kessler, and Mark & Elaine Smith. On March 6th, we attended “Matti Friedman, Author - Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel” and found it very informative. Also enjoying the evening were Al Lefcourt, Steve Davis, Alan & Rosa Lasnover, Ben & Jennifer Dolin, Ellen Rofman, Noami Feldmen, Jackie Gmash, Shlomo & Leslie Caspi, Jill Steiner, David Ellman, and Wendy Avraham. We were also wowed when we recently attended, Professor Jacob Goldberg’s Annual Three-day Lecture Series on the current political landscape of Israel. This is his 16th straight year of speaking in San Diego. Former Senior Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, Professor Goldberg was introduced by his long-time friend of 35 years, Sandy Levinson. Some who were just as enthralled as us were, Janis & Steve Boner, Judy Faitek, Hillary & Jeff Leiber, Stan Rodier, Ed & Susan Weiner, Michael Pines, Sammy Krumholtz & Ina Cantor, Joy Heitzman, Merle Brody, Norman Ratner and Stephen Steinberg. With over 650 women in attendance (and a few men), this year’s Jewish Federation of San Diego’s Options event was an enormous success. Welcoming everyone were Co-Chairs, Britney Ewing, Sylvia Geffen, and Jennifer Meltzer. Stacy Kagan was the Guest Speaker, and Orly Wahba, was the Keynote Speaker. Some of those seen in the crowd were, Simma Nemath, Lynn Lasher, Rebecca Epner, Julia Bernicker, Yael Steinberg, Nina Brodsky, Ruth Jordan, Debbie Rodriguez, Ann Spector, Emily Hirsekorn, Emma Lefkowitz, Linda Anne Kahn, Sue Small, Ruth Levy, Shoshana Wohlgelernter, Silvana Christy, Jill Wasserstrom, Leslie Simon, Sharlene Berman, Jeanne Gold, Lynne Greenstein, Helena Galper and Julie Bronstein.

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Congratulations to our pal, Heidi Gantwerk, who was named President Elect of the San Diego Jewish Academy. She will begin her term on May 2019. Yom Huledets Sameach to, Bud Kader (80), Ron Fox (80), Don Goldman (86), Shirley Haimsohn (90). Mazel Tov to, Phyllis & Dan Epstein on their 55th wedding anniversary, Phil & Drene Levinson on their 60th wedding anniversary, and Jim & Ruth Harris on their 71st wedding anniversary. Mazel Tov to Liora Schneider, daughter of Dr. Bruce and Mrs. Ilene Schneider of Irvine, married Marc Ponseggi, son of Mr. Lawrence and Mrs. Marilyn Ponseggi of El Cajon, on Sunday, February 17, at the Hotel Irvine. Rabbi Drew Kaplan officiated. Hank Kostrinsky was called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on February 23rd, at Temple Emanu-El. Hank is the son of Jen & Mat Kostrinsky. Proud to announce the engagement of San Diego native, Nikki Fig to Adam Kaitain. Happy parents are Susan Fig and David Winick (Shalev). The wedding will take place in September in Netanya, Israel. A

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Falling from Grace ebecca was the most popular girl in our high school class and her posse ruled the school. I would observe Rebecca with a mix of disdain and admiration. She was a fearless leader, but had her moments of cruelty toward her fellow peers. Everyone was at Rebecca’s mercy, including her closest friends and she appeared untouchable–that is, until the end of our junior year. Rebecca was caught spending alone time with her best friend’s boyfriend and the entire group made a pact to banish her. She spent the final months of her junior year rejected and alone. Following that summer, she returned appearing anew and rehabilitated. She treated people with kindness, carried herself with humility and attempted to establish genuine dependable friendships. Her fall from grace transformed her spirit for the better and everyone noticed. Falling from grace is not a new phenomenon. From Marie Antoinette to Aaron Burr, history exposes the rich, powerful people of influence who become the most debased and despised. The world remains fascinated by the characters that transform from ministers-turned-molesters, professors-turned-perverts and politicians-turned-criminals. I’m less preoccupied by the fall of these figures and more intrigued by the climb up that follows. While some stories end in tragic death or life in prison, those who work toward a new chapter capture my attention. I recently watched part of a set by a fallen-from-grace comedian who went under22 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

ground for a full year before emerging in a secret, surprise event. He began by asking, “So... how was YOUR year?” Peals of laughter erupted from the crowd as the comedian masterfully went on to explain the joys of being hated by the world, including the hit his bank account and career took. I watched an interview conducted with another fallen from grace celebrity. She received a phone call on the day news hit of her scandal from a well-intentioned acquaintance saying, “At least now you’ll know who your true friends are.” The celebrity ruefully responded: “Who really wants to have to find out who their real friends are?” I haven’t watched daytime television in a while, but I remember the ever-popular makeover episodes on certain talk shows. A daughter would bring out her unfortunate mother wearing an outdated dress and sporting a hairstyle that could be traced back to her high school yearbook decades prior. The nervous middle-aged mother would be whisked backstage and reprimanded for her look and before you can say “shopping spree,” mom would come out looking glamorous and confident! Imagine that we could create such concrete change with our emotional health, addressing our worst sins (public or private), and restoring reputations and relationships. But how do we give ourselves an emotional makeover that’s deep and long-lasting? Are we just a sum total of our behaviors? The Torah commands us to judge others favorably (Ethics of the Fathers, 1:6). The

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Meaning & Matzah nce again, I am going overseas for Pesach to see my children, leaving the husband behind. Because I love him, I prepare the house for Passover so he doesn’t have to play the Wandering Jew. Tired from cleaning before starting, I asked myself, “Why am doing this again? Who decided that an observant Jewish woman has to be the Korban Pesach–Passover sacrifice??? I get it. We were slaves. We were miraculously freed. We endured 40 years in the desert and received the Torah. Then we got to Israel. I knew the story even before Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson worked for MGM. Why am I on my knees again this year scrubbing under the radiator?!” Taking a break from ‘where-are-the-breadcrumbs-hiding’ duty, I pour myself a cup of tea and look upon the Jerusalem mountains that pepper the landscape. My hissy-fit slowly abates and, to my amazement, I become spiritually transported, surrounded by other freed slaves as shoulder-to-shoulder we plod toward emancipation. What horrors haven’t we endured as a nation? A meditative unity rises from my belly as I feel myself enveloped in a loving, calm embrace. Knowing that my pre-Passover ministrations are per24 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

formed by holy Jews the world over and that we are reenacting the work of our ancestors causes me to feel humbled. A cup of tea, the smell of dish soap and clean windows remind me that I am deeply connected to an eternal people. Connected, in fact, all the way back to Sinai. “I’ll have to bring gifts for everyone,” I sigh, determined to travel overseas this year only with a carry on. But what affordable (and small!) items can I bring relatives who have everything and don’t need another mezuzah case or packet of halvah from the shuk? I’m the poor relation! The settler, the Zionist, the idealist who smugly left the fleshpots of the West to re-enact the lives of our forefathers as per my interpretation of the Torah’s exhortation. Sigh. Thinking that an attitude adjustment might be in order, I envision the Four Sons that the Haggadah speaks of. The Wise Son who is the pride of his parents, the kid who ‘drank the Kool-Aid’ and buys the whole package; he has no questions. The simple son is told the story in language that is accessible, with imagery and song. The son who does not know how to ask is engaged on whatever level suits his intellect and curiosity. But what role does the Wick-

ed Son play at the Seder? He is angry. He is mocking. He is contrary. He disrupts. Do you know what else he is? He is there. And ‘there’ is where hope lies. If one is not present, the chance of his remaining part of the twisted chain that still connects us to Sinai is remote. There is room on the harlequin tapestry of Jewish existence for naysayers and observers. For different kinds of observers. For Jews of color and Jews who live alternative lifestyles. For Jews who struggle with aspects of identity and inclusion and Jews who strive to honor each mitzvah outlined in the Torah. If we do not move over and make room at our tables–Seder and Shabbat and birthday and backyard-picnic tables–for the Jew who is not even ‘there,’ we have missed the point of this mandated commemoration and have no reason to repeat the cleaning and other preparatory rituals. But if we cherish our existence and tremble with the miraculous irrationality of our existence despite millennia of oppression, we must make room at the table for our brothers and sisters. Not only for their sake.A

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OUR EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT by Saul Levine, M.D., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at UCSD slevine@ucsd.edu

Strange Coincidences: Serendipity or Synchronicity? ave you ever experienced unexplainable, even eerie, coincidental occurrences? If so, you are in good company: Life and history are replete with examples of strange but meaningful meetings, visions and dreams. Are these merely chance events, well within mathematical probabilities, or might they be due to some other (perhaps “other-worldly”) causes? When my Ethiopian friend Menelik greeted me at the Addis Ababa airport, I was jet-lagged and exhausted. Sensing my condition, he took me to his favorite Ethiopian coffee shop, where the joe was terrific and gave me a needed lift. When I asked to purchase its unique mug as a souvenir, I was told it wasn’t for sale. The owner soon walked over and apologized for not selling the mug, and we immediately seemed to hit it off as if we were old friends. (Coincidence #1). He told me he was originally from Toronto where he’d lived for 25 years, as was I over the exact same period. (Coincidence #2). We had never met, were of very different ages, thousands of miles from Toronto, leading vastly different lives, yet we connected. (C #3). It turned out that he and I had both lived in the same close-knit neighborhood over that same quarter century, and he had attended the same community high school during those years as my three sons. (C #4). He fell in love with an Ethiopian woman in Toronto and they emigrated to Addis Ababa 25 years ago, just about the same time that I moved to San Diego. (C #6). His surname was familiar to me, and it turned out that his father and I had been in the same kindergarten class in Montreal 75 years earlier. (C #7). We also attended the same elementary school, the same undergraduate school, and were in the same medical school class. (C’s # 8, 9, 10). Our dispersed elementary school class had 26 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

kept in touch over the years via letters and phone calls, and the coffee shop owner’s father and I had seen each other just a few months earlier at a 67th class reunion in Montreal. (C #11). Similarly, our med school class had been in communication via the internet and we two old guys had a few weeks earlier attended our medical class’s 55th graduation reunion. (C #12). Finally, he and I had been in touch about political and cultural issues over the last few years. (C #13). (Yes, his son gave me the coveted coffee mug!) I found that entire episode pleasurable, magical and yet eerie. It lifted my spirits, but raised questions about strange coincidences and serendipitous events in our lives. How do these things happen? The more rational among you might say I am hinting at some “force” causing a chance meeting, which you may see as nothing more than coincidence, with no need to invoke outside influences. But what if I told you that other uncanny experiences have occurred in my lifetime? I don’t frequent palm, tarot card or tea leaf readers, or any other fortune tellers, but in Mumbai in 1989 I was urged by a respected family to visit a well-known astrologer. I did so somewhat reluctantly, and I daresay, cynically. She knew nothing about me beforehand, yet her observations blew me away: She accurately described my history and current personal and professional situations. More remarkably, she predicted dramatic personal (divorce, remarriage, child), professional (major career move) and geographic (3,000 miles to another country) changes: all of these came to pass over the ensuing decade. She also described aspects of a suggested pendant to protect my health and longevity

(which I privately derided), but soon had designed and have worn daily for 30 years. I’ve had other riveting coincidences which are seared into my conscious memory, but I’m certainly not alone in having these strange encounters. Many people have had inexplicable and unforgettable experiences in their lives, sometimes pleasurably, others painfully. Perhaps you too have been in circumstances which seemed weirdly personal, yet seemed too profound to occur purely by chance. These strange occurrences raise provocative questions: Is serendipity (chance, randomness, happenstance, fortuity) enough to explain these memorable experiences? Not always… Is there such a phenomenon as synchronicity (fate, preordained, predetermined) which might play a role, or is this too airy-fairy to be mentioned, let alone considered? Perhaps. Is there such a thing as “karmic reward,” or indeed, “karmic retribution”(mystical, kabbalist, gnostic, etc.)? Many believe this. Are there people with preternatural gifts of extrasensory perception? Do some individuals have prescient dreams–not symbolic or metaphoric–but actually predictive of real events? It appears so. Are some people more prone to chance encounter or experiences? Possibly. Might there be dimensions beyond our knowledge, which circumvent the laws of physics, perception and reality which can contribute to improbable experiences? There may be… I am not alone in wondering about these conundrums, as these have been voiced by people as diverse as astrophysicists and poets, believers and atheists, philosophers and seers. They (and certainly I) don’t have the definitive answers to these questions, do you? A

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The JuBus Or How We Search for Spirituality thoroughly enjoyed Dan Harris’ “10% Happier, How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self Help That Actually Works.” It’s a New York Times Bestseller from a few years ago, authored by a news anchor that had a panic attack while he was live in front of five million viewers. In his book, he documents his religious journey, starting with conservative Judaism, to atheism, to drugs, to being an agnostic who interviewed Christian fundamentalists, to eventually bumping into the popular neo-Buddhism of Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Mark Epstein where he found his place. While the book has all the fun ups and downs and scintillating wit of a polished news broadcaster, it underscores modern man’s search for meaning, and the rather circuitous route that we take. And he can’t help but point out, in a chapter with the same name as the title of this article, that Jews are spiritual leaders not only in our religious category (which gets very little airtime in the book) but in all categories, especially those dealing with mindfulness and Buddhism. It’s no surprise that the contemporary nothingness of what most Jews get growing up going to Hebrew school (or not going) doesn’t satisfy them in the long run. And it’s no surprise that we Jews view religious dogmatists of all stripes with more than a little cynicism, quick to point out their flaws and inconsistencies. What is interesting though is that neither of these factors dampen our need for peace of mind, meaning and some broader need for purpose. 28 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

The modern works and popularity of meditation and mindfulness, while oftentimes seen as the product of eastern thinking, speaks to many a Jews’ minds and hearts. The idea of coming into our now, to focus on our breath and to be fully present (as Oprah says) is a valuable commodity in our day in age. Finding oneness and peace in the universe, as well, is a very nice idea that Jews (and others) gravitate to, and we reject or rebel against the societal pressure that ‘organized religion’ puts on us, the judging deity or the one upsmanship and damning of the other that has so marred our history in the past millennia. Non-practicing Jews gravitate to Buddhism and mindfulness—because in a way it’s more of our legacy than what we define as organized religion. My wife gave me a very concerned look when Amazon delivered Sam Harris’ book, "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion." Harris (a different Harris) is a best-selling atheist author who argues religion isn’t necessary for spirituality. With an undergraduate degree from Stanford and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, Harris is the academic philosopher darling of the intelligencia leading the charge against the religiosity of the West. And of course, his mother is Jewish. So, what’s a nice Jewish boy like me–who happens to have rabbinic ordination–doing reading books like these? It reaffirms a lot for me. First, no matter how far or where we Jews go to find our meaning, truth resonates. We aren’t looking for dogma. We’re looking for truth. And sometimes getting part of the way there is important to getting all the way there. What do I mean? Religion in America is

fraught with everything that screams of falsehood: contradictions, events we can’t verify, failed practitioners of faith, etc. Even if some of the values of the religious are in line with what we believe (i.e. charity, honesty, etc.) the morals and value that come out of clearly falsified stories begs the question if the values themselves are worthwhile or true. But behind religion, there is something else. There is the truth of the unity of the world, that we can come into a deep and profound appreciation and happiness by connecting with our inner world, and that materialism and commercialism doesn’t equal long-term meaning. Of course, you’ll say I’ve drunk the Buddhist kool aide, but I’d venture to argue that these ideas come from the Torah. The first man was created alone because he had to learn how to relate to himself and to His creator. There is amazing power in doing this. But for Jews, we go a step further. The mitzvot are how we take and concretize our spiritual potential. That’s the missing link that the JuBus, the Sam Harris’s, etc, are missing. They never really applied the standards of reason and debate to Jewish philosophy and thus never took the final step of Jewish observance. I’ll be the first one to say that Jewish observance doesn’t automatically equal mindfulness. Maybe that’s why I’m reading the books. But mindfulness without observance is also missing the mark. Call it wild optimism, but in a way these books and these thinkers may be the first steps towards a world that is more mindful and spiritual, and for some Jews could be the first step in reexamining their own faith and learning how to better actualize it—in the same way our forefathers did.A

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PASSOVER | Seder Listings

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Our annual list of community Seders has arrived. Use this guide to find information on your local synagogue or try a new one. Costs, dates and times are included along with contact information. If anything remarkable happens at your holiday gathering, please share the story with us. Send a letter to the editor, tag us (@sdjewishjournal) on Twitter or drop us a note on our Facebook page. Happy Passover! Chabad Chabad Center of University City 3813 Governor Drive, San Diego, CA, 92122 (858) 455-1670 chabaduc.org April 19, 7:30pm Cost: $40 per member Chabad of Downtown 308 G Street San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 289-8770 chabaddowntown.com April 19 & 20 Cost: Adults $45, children $30 Chabad of East County 7290 Navajo Road, Suite 207 San Diego, CA 92119 (619) 387-8770 jewishec.com April 19, 7:15 p.m. Chabad Jewish Center of Rancho Santa Fe 5690 Cancha De Golf Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92091 (858) 756-7571 jewishrsf.com April 19, 7:30 p.m. RSVP required. Chabad of Oceanside/Vista 1930 Sunset Drive, Vista, CA 92081 (760) 806-7765 jewishoceanside.com/seder April 19, 7 p.m.

Cost: adults: $55, children under 10: $30, children under 3: Free Chabad of Chula Vista 1910 Harrils Mill Avenue Chula Vista, CA 91913 (619) 836-0770 jewishchulavista.com/passover April 19, 6:30 p.m. Cost: adults: $36, children: $15 Chabad of Coronado 1300 Orange Avenue, Suite 130 Coronado, CA 92118 (619) 365-4728 chabadcoronado.com April 19, 7p.m. Chabad of Carmel Valley 12341 Del Mar Oaks, San Diego, CA 92130 (858) 333-4613 chabadcv.com April 19, 7 p.m., April 20, 7:30 p.m. Cost: adults: $55, children: $25 Chabad of San Marcos and CSUSM 649 Sandy Lane, San Marcos, CA, 92078 (760) 481-7503 alefcenter.com April 19, 7:30 p.m. Cost: adults: $54, children 3-11: $18, children 3-11 & college students: Free

Orthodox Beth Jacob Congregation 4855 College Avenue, San Diego, CA 92115. bjsd.org/events April 19, 8 p.m. (619) 287-9890 Cost: Adult member: $38, child member (5-12): $21, adult non-member: $48, child non-member: $26, under five: Free.

Conservative Temple Beth Shalom 208 Madrona Street, Chula Vista, CA 91910 (619) 420-6040 Arlene: (858) 344-5632 bethshalomtemple.com April 20, 6:30 p.m. Cost: adults: $30 Ohr Shalom Synagogue 2512 Third Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103 ohrshalom.org (619) 231-1456 April 20, 5:30 p.m. Cost for non members: adults: $50, children: $30. Temple Isaiah 332 W. Alejo Road Palm Springs, CA 92262 (760) 325-2281 templeisaiahps.com April 19, 7 p.m. Cost: adults: $75, children ages 4-12: $12; non members: adults: $75, children: $50

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Ner Tamid Synagogue 12348 Casa Avenida, Poway, CA 92064 (858) 513-8330 nertamidsd.org April 20, 7pm. Cost: adults: $20, children: $10.

Reform Congregation Beth Israel 9001 Towne Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92122 (858) 535-1111 cbisd.org April 19, 5:45-9 p.m. Cost: Nonmembers: $45, members and guests: $40, Children 6-12: $18, children 5 and under: $5 Temple Adat Shalom 15905 Pomerado Road, Poway, CA 92064 (858) 451-1200 adatshalom.com April 20, 6 p.m. Cost: $42/adult, $52/nonmember adult,

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$27/child 5-12, $30 nonmember child, $5 child 5 and under. Temple Emanu-El 6299 Capri Drive, San Diego, CA 92120 (619) 286-2555 teesd.org April 20, 6 p.m. Cost: adults: $72, children: $45, children 5 & under: $12

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Other Kehillat Shaar HaShamayim 3232 Governor Dr Suite K, San Diego, CA 92122 kshsd.org April 19, 8:30 p.m. Cost: members: $50, nonmembers: $65, children: $25, students and active Military: $45 Congregation B’nai Tikvah Carlsbad Senior Center: 799 Pine Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92008 (760) 650-2262 bnaitikvahsd.com April 19, 6 p.m. Cost: Non-member adults: $40, Children and military: $15, children under 5: Free

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WHAT JEWISH HISTORY FORGOT PASSOVER 2019 MARNIE MACAULEY

halom my dear San Diegans. In “What Jewish History Forgot” we look at fascinating, little-known, unsung, and yes, funny finds, the details of which you may or may not read in history books. Yet, these facts and anecdotes are not only edu-taining but can forever affect the way we see ourselves and how the world sees our culture. For this entry, we look at Passover, our celebration of the Israelites’ exodus from Egyptian slavery. Did you know about the President Lincoln-Passover Connection? Or, the controversy raging over an ancient Haggadah? Or … Please read on!

ABE LINCOLN AND THE “PASSOVER” CONNECTION The time: Sunday, April 9, 1865. The place: Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. The event: General Lee surrendered to Grant. The Civil War that took over a half million American lives was over. Did you know that the news broke the next day, which was also the morning before Passover was to be observed? “Union” Jews couldn’t miss the congruence of the two events. For survivors of the bloody war, the question “Why is this night different from all other nights?” had multiple meanings. When Lincoln died on April 14, the fifth day of Passover that year, from wounds inflicted by John Wilkes Booth, virtually the entire Jewish community mourned, deeply and personally. What you probably don’t know is that the first official words of mourning in a religious setting for the assassinated President came from a synagogue! As Lincoln died on a Saturday, Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, the oldest congregation in the U.S. deviated from the norm in its Shabbos services as the rabbi recited the Hashkabah for the slain President. This was likely the first time this was ever done for a non-Jew (which brought about some con34 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

troversy). Jews throughout the land draped their altars in black, Yom Kippur hymns replaced Passover music and many rabbis cried openly and unabashedly, as did their congregants. President Lincoln’s friendship with Jewish Americans were a matter of record. For example, he overturned Grant’s anti-Semitic General Order #11 and he supported Jewish military chaplains. More, in his eulogy for Henry Clay in 1852 before the Civil War, he used imagery from the Jewish Bible saying: “Pharaoh’s country was cursed with plagues, and his hosts were drowned in the Red Sea for striving to retain a captive people, who already served them more than four hundred years. May like disasters never befall us!” Did you know that after the assassination an analogy was drawn in “The Jewish Record” between Moses dying before seeing the Israelites enter the Promised Land and Lincoln dying before seeing the North and South reunite? The parallels between Lincoln and Passover are profoundly etched, as are the principles.

RARE, MYSTICAL JEWISH HAGGADAH IN DISPUTE IN ISRAEL? How many have heard of the legendary Bird’s Head Haggadah? If so, did you know it is the oldest illustrated Passover manuscript that has survived? The Haggadah has taken on almost mystical properties as the Israelites are portrayed with bird-like heads; a fact that has confounded scholars. Some believe the heads on the figures are those of a beloved mythical creature, the griffin, which doesn’t violate the biblical prohibition forbidding representing human likeness. The writer, known only as Menahem, created the work around 1300 in Southern Germany. The conflict: The masterpiece has been housed in the Israel Museum after being purchased years earlier by its forerunner, the Bezalel National Museum. About two years ago,

a Jewish family descended from the Marum family claimed rightful ownership of the Haggadah–and wants a settlement. Here are the claims–and the moral dilemma. You decide. Eli Barzilai, who lives in Jerusalem, has pursued ownership on behalf of the family claiming the 14th-century Haggadah was a wedding gift from his grandmother's family to his grandfather, Ludwig Marum, a lawyer from Karlsruhe who served in Germany's parliament and opposed Hitler. Ultimately Marum was killed in the Kislau concentration camp. Years later, Marum’s former law partner, Shimon Jeselsohn, who escaped the Holocaust an, moved to Israel after WWII and read about the museum purchase. Recognizing the piece, as Marum kept it in their office, Jeselsohn followed up with the museum. He was told it was brought to Jerusalem by an immigrant who sold it to the museum after the war. Jeselsohn grew suspicious after talking to the immigrant and got in touch with Barzilai’s aunt Elisabeth in New York. After traveling in 1984 to see it, Elisabeth wrote the museum, explaining that while the immigrant sold it illegally, the family wanted it to stay at the museum "for the benefit of the public." And there it stayed. The family did nothing more, as according to Elisabeth’s daughter, Dominique Avery, her late mother believed she had no recourse. However, her cousin Barzilai did. Several years ago, he heard a speech by E. Randol Schoenberg, the attorney responsible for retrieving the Klimt paintings, and retained him. Barzilai, age 75, is seeking a compromise with the museum over the priceless piece, and is reportedly asking for under $10 million. While the museum has acknowledged the Marum family’s ownership of the manuscript until 1933, the moral dilemma is sensitive as the museum is not only a prized national in-

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Three Decades of Service Rabbi Frank Retires From Temple Solel INTERVIEW BY BRIE STIMSON

fter 28 years as senior rabbi of Temple Solel in Cardiff by the Sea, Rabbi David M. Frank is passing the baton. I recently spoke with Rabbi Frank and Dawn Grossman, president of Temple Solel’s board of directors about his imminent departure in the next few months. The following has been edited for space and clarity. Rabbi Frank: A congregational rabbi does not take on a job, but rather joins a family. I am not sure I recognized this when I first came to Temple Solel in 1991, but I soon came to learn it. It is an immersive experience that pervades a rabbi’s being. Sometimes, this is exhausting, other times exhilarating, and almost all of the time it is sacred.

San Diego Jewish Journal: Tell me what Temple Solel was like when you joined. RF: When I joined the congregation, Solel had recently established itself under the very able leadership of Rabbi Lenore Bohm. Just four years earlier, it constructed and occupied its very first building. In a short period of time, it had grown to some 400 households 36 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

Rabbi David M. Frank joined Temple Solel in 1991.

as our North County Coastal community began to explode with housing construction and new families. Solel was a community of transplants, coming not only from other parts of San Diego, but also from around the country. And they were all searching for a Jewish home and connection with other Jewish families. When I arrived, Solel was managing this tremendous growth, almost like a startup company might manage its early success. I was selected from among the various candidates to succeed Rabbi Bohm, who retired with distinction, largely because of my programmatic and administrative experience in addition, of course, to the other requisite rabbinic skills that I and all the candidates possessed. I inherited a very special congregation. Friday night services regularly drew 150-200 worshippers. Many if not most of them were regulars who took great ownership of greeting and welcoming those who entered the sanctuary. There was a strong sense of community and connection. The religious school was large and continuing to grow. Members came out regularly to support programs and my Sunday morning classes would draw over

100 adult learners to each session.

SDJJ: What distinguishes Temple Solel from other congregations? RF: Our early challenges all revolved around growth. Our schools were growing so rapidly that we needed to hold double sessions on Sunday and alternate Hebrew School days during the week. Our High Holiday attendance required us to add a temporary addition to the rear of the social hall and also hold double services. By the late 1990s, it was clear that we would need to either cap our membership and turn families away or move to a new location and build another facility. I commissioned an expansion task force, which ultimately developed a plan to purchase a new piece of land and eventually construct a new campus. We initiated a capital campaign and built our current campus, which we occupied in 2005. For the first 15 years of my tenure at Solel, I was devoted to serving the needs of a growing young congregation. As with any startup, we were focused on developing infrastructure, staffing, cutting edge programs and education to meet the

needs of our expanding community. One of things that has always distinguished Temple Solel is the willingness to try new things. Since we were the first generation of the congregation, we were never tied to “this is the way it has always been done.” In fact, our hallmark is innovation and experimentation.

SDJJ: What has Rabbi Frank contributed during his time at Temple Solel? Dawn Grossman: Rabbi Frank is a visionary leader, always open to change. He encourages and supports different means of celebrating Judaism on Shabbat, including Torah Study, traditional Services and Halacha hikes–all to ensure Temple Solel provides diverse programming for our membership. He is credited with growing the Temple from a small size to the largest reform synagogue in north county San Diego, and leading the charge to building our beautiful campus. He educates hundreds with his thought-provoking sermons and provides pastoral care to just as many in times of joy and sorrow. He believes in l’dor vador, focusing on Jewish youth by hiring a full time, senior staff youth director and collaborating on teen programs, including starting our teen journey program where he takes the 10th grade confirmation class to Israel. RF: When I reflect back on my contributions, I am proud of the many programs we have created over the years–not just new programs like Synaplex or Teen Journey, but also those that make Solel a home for Jews of all backgrounds, from LGBTQ inclusion to a Reform Kosher kitchen. But my greatest satisfaction comes from the private personal moments I have shared with so many people over 28 years. The relationships I have been fortunate to enjoy now span three and four generations of our temple families. I have named children, officiated at their b’nei mitzvah, stood with them beneath their chuppah. Along the way, we have wept in hospital rooms, held each other at funerals and shiva minyans, met in prison cells and at powerful interventions for destructive drug abuse and mourned national emergencies like 9/11 and the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre. My rabbinate has, above all, been deeply personal. What I have gained from all of this is tremendous admiration for the strength and goodness that our temple members exhibit during their most challenging life passages. On a professional level, I can look back over my career with some degree of pride. In

my former congregation, I created a very extensive resettlement program and gave a Jewish home and support to the many refugees from the Former Soviet Union who we welcomed into our congregation, Temple Beth Hillel in North Hollywood. After coming to Solel, I was chair of the San Diego Federation Community Relations Committee, then a member of the Federation board and, ultimately, executive board. I was president of the San Diego Rabbinical Association, treasurer of the San Dieguito Interfaith Ministerial Association and a recent founder of Faith Leaders for Reproductive Justice. I have always believed that part of a rabbi’s job is to bring our Jewish values out into the greater community. And that is something that I plan to continue after my retirement.

SDJJ: How has Temple Solel changed since his time there? DG: Rabbi Frank shaped and defined Temple Solel during his tenure into a diverse, inclusive and innovative congregation. When Rabbi Frank joined Temple Solel, we were at a time of tremendous possibility and openness, in search of our true identity. Rabbi Frank created our culture by asking us to consider what it means to be Jewish in north San Diego County, as well as in the world. Rabbi Frank’s principled guidance has inspired and united our congregation’s approach on many topics, including providing marriage equality for same sex unions, supporting reproductive rights and strengthening our relationship with the people in Israel. He helped us grow into the largest reform congregation in North County San Diego and, thanks to his vision, Temple Solel built our magnificent campus containing a vibrant early childhood center, an active religious school and several beautiful meeting spaces. He will be missed and we look forward to seeing him on campus as Temple Solel’s first rabbi emeritus.

SDJJ: What will you miss about Rabbi Frank? DG: I will miss Rabbi Frank’s sensitivity, guidance and leadership. He has represented Temple Solel well in both in the Jewish community and the greater secular community. RF: I will say that, while not always meeting the approval of my congregants, I was outspoken on social issues. Over the years, I have been outspoken about LGBT inclusion in the early days of that struggle, about the invasion of Iraq, about the Iran nuclear

deal, about the Intifada, Gaza and American attitudes toward Israel, about the 2016 election, Charlottesville, and the lack of civility in our current political climate. I have been critical, political and highly charged. But I always tried to preach from the framework of Jewish values and avoid partisanship. Some were unhappy with my political sermons and thought that politics and social issues should not have a place on the bima, but I was guided by the philosophy that it is the job of the rabbi to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

SDJJ: What’s next for you and Temple Solel? RF: Over my 28-year tenure, Temple Solel has grown significantly in size and scope. We now have a much larger staff, a bigger budget, more programs and a congregational history. The emerging well-documented trends in American Judaism are also widely felt today in our congregation and new approaches will be needed to successfully meet the needs of the incoming generation. I am most pleased that an excellent successor, Rabbi Alexis Berk, has been selected to lead our synagogue forward. She is well positioned to understand and meet this Jewish future. I can retire with confidence that my beloved Solel family is in good hands. As is appropriate and expected by our Central Conference of American Rabbis, I will not be at Solel for the next year in order to allow Rabbi Berk the space to establish her rabbinate and relationship with the congregation. Meanwhile, I have some waiting academic and business projects that will keep me engaged. I look forward to joining the ranks of my fellow recent retirees, including Rabbis Marty Lawson, Michael Berk and Jonathan Stein. I’m sure the four of us can find some trouble to stir up somewhere. I would be remiss if I did not express tremendous gratitude to my wife, Davida, and my three children. They sacrificed a great deal for my rabbinate. Not only because of the public role they played everywhere we went, whether to a restaurant or on a trip in another state where we would invariably run into congregants. But mainly because the demands of my career took me away from them. Evenings and weekends were difficult for them because of my commitments. The refrain, “when will Dad be home,” was a common one when my kids were growing up. The rabbinate is not a solitary journey and I could not have navigated it without an understanding and forgiving family. A Adar II / Nissan 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 37

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he Jewish Women’s Foundation (JWF) is a fund of the Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) and acts as a giving circle. They have a three-year grant initiative and their current initiative (2018-2020) is well underway addressing homelessness, hunger and poverty for Jewish women and girls. They have about 70 members of Jewish women in San Diego who function as funders and decision-makes. “It is completely self-run by the members,” Jessica Effress, the chair of JWF said. She described it as “grass roots.” “I like the fact that we do a lot of research before we make our grants. We are very thorough and we have a process that I’m very proud of,” Jessica said. “The Jewish Women’s Foundation is the only fund that focuses specifically on helping Jewish women and girls. Members consist of Jewish women of all ages and interests that care deeply about supporting women and girls who need it most. In addition to the collective grantmaking and volunteering opportunities, members and their friends attend social, networking and educational programs provided by the Foundation,” Sarah Schatz, Manager, Philanthropy and Social Impact of the JCF added. Under the current initiative, they are providing funding to three grantees: Coastal Roots Farm to support their Holocaust survivor food delivery program, G’mach (San

Diego Jewish Gift Closet) for their emergency fund and start up funds for Marpeh a program (through Ohr Shalom) that will provide therapeutic yoga and wellness classes. The grant to Coastal Roots farm doubled the amount of people they were serving and the frequency of when they were receiving the produce. Coastal Roots Farm was able to expand service from 11 to 25 recipients and from delivery once a month to twice a month. Volunteers and staff deliver the produce boxes for the survivors, so they are not only getting the produce, but a friendly visitor. Jessica explains that with these grants, the Jewish Women’s Foundation had an opportunity to focus geographically; the Coastal Roots Farm grant serves North County, Marpeh serves downtown and G’mach serves everyone. And, “With this current initiative, it is very important for our council and our members to make these next three years, not only giving of our money, but giving of our time. We’ve made it a point to actually go and get our hands dirty at these different organizations,” Sarah said. The members toured Coastal Roots Farm and met with Holocaust survivors who are beneficiaries of the program and they also spent time with G’mach sorting clothes. There will be additional opportunities to engage with each of the grantees by working

on the farm or participating at Ohr Shalom, Marpeh. “I have always liked the women who are involved. It is a group of women who are dedicated to the cause, they are hardworking and willing to give their time and their energy and also their funding because they believe in the mission of the group. It is nice that is is women together for a cause that is dear to them.” “There is definitely an energy that comes from a group of women,” Jessica said. She explained that some of the members have been in a situation where they needed help or may never know when they may need help in the future. With the grant cycle every three years, the JWF members keep in touch and have a regular reporting schedule from the grantees. In between they also do outreach and an annual educational event. “Let’s Talk About It” focuses on a topic that may be controversial or not necessarily easy to talk about in an open, safe and supportive forum. The 2019 event addressed the topic of Substance Abuse Disorder. The JWF has been serving Jewish women and girls since 202 and is always welcoming new members. “The power of a group of women getting together and women serving women is really the heartbeat of what it is for me,” Jessica said. A

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Embracing Seder BY RABBI BEN LEINOW

grew up in Los Angeles, and had my Bar Mitzvah at the largest Orthodox Jewish Synagogue on the west side, and graduated from Fairfax High School. The student body at Fairfax was 98 percent Jewish. When I was growing up, we did not need a calendar or to be told which holiday was coming next. If we had ‘hamantaschen’ and ‘mondelbrot’ to eat it was Purim time. When breakfast was ‘matzah brie,’ it was Pesach. I knew that the ‘Angel of death without harming the Jews’ passed over the Jewish homes in Egypt. I did not know that the Jewish Holiday Pesach was also called Passover until I went to college and encountered Hillel. I remember the Seder when the ‘boys’ of my family came back from World War II. They were real heroes and they loved each other and supported one another. They were Army, Navy and Marines. My Uncle Myer, a Marine, became a top sergeant and was among the first to hit the beaches at every campaign in the Pacific. Some of my family wondered if he had converted from Judaism because he could bring in non-Jewish sources so eloquently, and he came to our house on a motorcycle. In my youth, my view of Pesach was that it was the time when the aunts, uncles and cousins got together to argue about the meaning of every word in the Haggadah as well as what melody was correct when we sang the songs. The women and girls were in the kitchen and the men and boys were around a table, debating about the gift of freedom that G-d had given the Jewish People.

When I was a graduate student, I also entered the Hebrew Union College, where I studied to become a Rabbi. I encountered Jewish prayer books and Haggadahs that had the same content, but the editions could be read either from left to right or right to left. The concept was that our Jewishness and secularism were equally important. The prayer books gave us something else to discuss and argue about. The one concept that seems constant is that there is a past, present and future, and we Jews will debate about which is most important. To some people, whatever Rashi had to say in the 12th century is more important than a statement about current conditions. Some people believe we must only focus on changing today's sociological problems. I believe that learning from the past and making an effort to improve present conditions establishes a fixable worthwhile future. I am very fortunate to have beautiful and meaningful memories connected to the Seddurim in my synagogues, in my home, and in the homes of my parents, sister, aunts and uncles. In addition I have the gift of two loving daughters with whom I have enjoyed Seddurim. At this moment, I realize that with close to 50 years of communal and family Seddurim under my belt that I do not have a single Seder picture of family members. I do not have a single comment of shared agreeable or uncharitable thoughts. I do not have a picture of the family Seder Plate. I do not have a single picture of family members around the ta-

ble. I have good, beautiful memories in heart and mind, but none that I can physically pass on to the loving members of my family. Why all this background about my family and Jewish communal commitments? I am going to describe a change that I am going to make in my congregational and home Seddurim. I believe you could make a similar change that will bring joy to your Passover and your Seddurim. When I have started a worship service or a wedding or a funeral or a Seder in the past, either I or a leader of the community will say approximately the following, “Please shut off your phones, and put them away so that they do not distract what is about to take place.” At our coming community seder and my home seder I am going to say, “ Take out your phones, take whatever pictures you would like of the Seder Plate, table or people around the table. In addition, during the first 10 minutes of the Seder please make a smart phone call to a person you wish could be here with us this evening. Please wish them a ‘Happy Passover.” Once the announcement is made we will wait 10 minutes while people phone, photograph and send greetings to the people at their table and in some distant spot. I am doing this for everyone present and myself. I have a daughter with her family in Berlin, Germany, and I have a daughter with her family in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and it will be my joy to wish them Happy Passover and let them be involved this year in two of the best Seddurim of my life. A

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PASSOVER | Rabbi Rupp

Passover in the Age of Instagram BY RABBI JACOB RUPP

ou are always on your phone!” is the classic refrain of those who are closest to me. Is it really an addiction? Probably. While I am still rubbing sleep from my eyes and inhaling the first aroma of the coffee as the hot water hits the ground beans, I have already started my daily podcast listening ritual. News, emails, Netflix. How else can I stimulate my mind? The need for constant stimulation and multiple streams of mental stimulation makes the daily grind seem somewhat unable to address our deep needs. There is an endless amount of information out there, and (at least in my mind) if only I was more seasoned and educated, the world would be mine. Pesach is unique in its simplicity. Of course, we’ve overcomplicated it—with the food, the guests, the wine, all the kids’ projects from school. But its clear—the matza is flour and water. The haggadah summarizes itself and says you just need the Cliff's Notes: pesach, matza, marror. For all that is going on, if you miss the simplicity, you missed the point. I remember my earlier days of newfound religious fervor when I argued passionately that the point of Passover wasn’t recognizing the oppression of other peoples and faiths and that the Jewish redemption was unique. But now maybe there’s something more, or a new lesson for this year. Freedom is simple. You don’t need a declaration of independence. You don’t need a long form business plan. You need to know three things; we were slaves to Pharoah, G-d freed us and now we’re supposed to act according to His wishes. So how is that freedom? Seemingly, it's slavery. Thus begins the epic conversation about humanity and humanity's destiny. Are we ever truly free? As the shackles of political, 42 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

economic and other types of slavery have lessened somewhat for us in the modern era, we find that on the other end of freedom, there is anxiety, depression and the gnawing feeling that our lives could be better lived. In a way, there is peace and clarity in being a ‘slave’ because there are no existential crises. Your life isn’t your own. But when you aren’t compelled, and you are truly forced to ask the question “what do you want from your life?” so often we fill that thunderous silence with fear, addiction and distraction. See, if we completely remove ourselves from any bounds, any sort of history or destiny or obligation, we find ourselves enslaved—but this time by ourselves and our consciousness. If there is nothing bigger about our lives and nowhere we are going or need to be, we bump into the slavery of a meaningless existence. So enter Pesach. Life shouldn’t be complicated, or complex or even terribly hard to figure out. Do the best job you can. G-d outlines our roles and responsibilities and we should try to do what we can, and BE HAPPY in the role that we occupy. Be present. Be there. Be grateful. All the new information in the world cannot build a foundation where there isn’t one. For me, trying to always distract myself, to always add more information is, in a way, slavery. I am working hard to learn to be there in the present, to focus on what I need to do immediately instead of consistently thinking about the future. That’s the inherent danger of social media and all of the digital platforms around us. If we aren’t careful, we have endless distraction. Always something new to learn or to listen to. Our life becomes an endlessly complicated maze of new things, new obligations, new information…just one more post, one more comment, one more influencer to follow. The flip side is turning it all off. Recognizing that we are intrinsically

enough. That G-d put us in our situation today and gave us all the information and tools we need to do what we have to do, right now. As my favorite line in the Haggadah reads, “Because of this (and you point to the matzah) did G-d take us out of Egypt.” It’s puzzling; surely we eat matza because He took us out and not vise versa. But it's not true. G-d orchestrated us and our history in order to allow us to plug in now, to accomplish now, to make our lives meaningful right now – not sometime in the future. When we do the mitzvah of eating matza, we are self actualizing in the present tense. That’s all it takes. But to create a truly meaningful present, we need to learn about our history. We have to learn about our destiny. And we have to recognize that we’ll always be slaves—we can just choose if we want to be enslaved to our potential and our Creator or enslaved to our iPhone. There’s nothing wrong with technology if there’s nothing wrong with you—but sometimes it behooves us to focus on our inner world before we flood ourselves from the world outside. Happy Passover! A

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FEATURE: Talia's Tolerance Tour

Talia’s Tolerance Tour BY EMILY GOULD

Talia Schauder with her grandfather, Paul Schauder.

n May 13, 1931, Paul Schauder was born to Markus Schauder and Fanny Garten in Germany. As Jews could not attend public school at the time, Paul and his older brothers, Jacob and Hermann, attended a private Jewish school. Their parents worked at the family department store, Kaufhaus Schauder, until its destruction on November 10, 1938–otherwise known as Kristallnacht. Soon after the barbarity of this nigh–namely the vandalization of Jewish properties and killing of nearly 100 Jews–the Schauder family was separated as Markus was jailed by Nazis. When Paul was just seven years old, he went to the jail to visit his father and bring him bread. He was laughed at by the Gestapo. While they eventually let the boy see his father, it was the last time he ever would. Around this time, Fanny decided to protect her sons by bringing them to an orphanage: first in Frankfurt, and then in Berlin. She received word in 1942 that Markus had been killed in Buchenwald concentration camp. While Fanny, Jacob and Paul were able to evade the Gestapo in 1943, Hermann was not so lucky and died in Auschwitz. From their escape until the end of the war, Fanny and her two sons hid with separate families: Fanny in Manheim, and the boys in Ettlingen. Paul and Jacob were liberated and cared for by an American Army chaplain (Rabbi Haselkorn) and a Jewish Army captain (Albert Hutler) until they traveled by military

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ship to America in 1946. Although Paul survived the war and was able to build a new life for himself in America, he lost his father, brother and childhood due to the anti-Semitic atrocities committed throughout World War II and the years leading up to it. Now, his granddaughter, Talia Schauder, is speaking up and out, giving presentations to local schools about her grandfather’s story and the Holocaust, as well as delivering a broader message about the importance of tolerance in general. What started out as a history project evolved into something much greater when Talia’s step-mother, Heather, “voluntold” Talia to come speak at the middle school where she worked, after having some challenges with 8th graders playing an anti-Semitic game. Heather and the school’s principal agreed that the message might be better received coming from a peer, versus an adult. They were right. Talia’s presentation was a huge success and word soon got out to other schools and youth groups in the community. By the end of March, Talia will have spoken to almost 4,000 students at six schools, a church and her own Jewish youth group (YAM). Talia customizes her presentations to best meet the needs of her audience. She said that while speaking to Jewish groups, the message is “about our responsibility to not let people forget what happened to us.” But when speaking to secular audiences, she projects a “broader message of tolerance.”

Talia is very “thoughtful about engaging students in dialogue about being tolerant, not just about the Holocaust,” said her father Mark, “and she’s done an amazing job.” So amazing, in fact, that she’s being honored with the Peter Chortek Leadership Award through the Jewish Community Foundation. The award is given to high school-age individuals as a praise for “taking Tikkun Olam to the next level.” Talia plans to keep up this personal excellency by continuing to speak to students throughout high school as well as college. She also hopes to be a teacher in the future to continue educating. For now, the 17-year-old continues to make a difference by being actively involved in Youth Action Movement (YAM), and seeking different leadership opportunities within the group. She also volunteers as a teacher’s assistant at an extended school year program for special education students during the summer. In her free time, she enjoys photography, spending time with family and friends and playing the flute in marching band. Whatever she does, Talia takes care to hold not only herself, but others up to a high standard of personal and social responsibility, ensuring that we will never forget the events of the Holocaust and we will never allow such intolerance to be targeted at any group or individual again. A

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Jamie Bernstein Appears at the JCC BY PAT LAUNER econd grade. All she wanted to do was fit in–act like she came from a “normal” family like those on TV. But her classmate Lisa Morrison called her out, dubbing her “famous father girl.” It was mortifying at the time, but more than half a century later, it became the title of Jamie Bernstein’s 2018 memoir, “Famous Father Girl: Growing Up Bernstein.” That ‘famous father’ was Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), a 20th century icon: composer, conductor, author, teacher, pianist, philanthropist and social-political activist. He was among the first great conductors born and educated in the U.S. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was “one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history.” A prodigy and genius by any definition. Bernstein (Jamie often refers to him as LB) served a long tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic, conducted most of the world’s leading orchestras, and composed in many styles, from symphonic and orchestral music to ballet, film and theater scores (including “On the Waterfront,” “Wonderful Town,” “On the Town”), as well as choral works, opera, chamber music and piano pieces. He was critical to the modern revival of the work of Gustav Mahler. LB was already renowned when Jamie was born, the first of three Bernstein children. They became “co-conspirators,” a “force-field,” the “three-headed monster” that now travels the world sharing their father’s legacy. This responsibility was particularly intense last year, the centennial of Lenny’s birth. “I took a year off to be a professional Bernstein,” says the charming, affable Bernstein daughter by phone from her home in New York. She’s been on the road since last June, on a book tour that, thanks to the Jewish Book Council, has included 50 appearances (including the Lawrence Family JCC on April 3).

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“There were more than 5,000 commemorative events worldwide. We had to trifurcate,” she says of herself and her sibs. “I never had a year like that in my life. But it was so gratifying, because some of his works really got re-discovered, like ‘Mass’ and the violin concerto ‘Serenade,’ and ‘Dybbuk.’” LB was educated at Harvard and insisted on the same for his children. That’s one of Jamie’s regrets, especially since Lenny was on the campus teaching at the same time she was there–taking up all the oxygen. She was always trying to set her own course, independent of his influence and she thinks she would’ve done a lot better in a smaller college like Vassar or Barnard. But Lenny was a force of nature, and he got pretty much whatever he wanted. He didn’t just get it; he insisted on it. Not to say that Jamie hasn’t gone on to her own glory while celebrating her celebrated father. She’s a prolific concert narrator, broadcaster, journalist, poet, radio host and film producer. And a warm, humorous and heartful writer. But she pulls no punches in describing the “exhilarating and exhausting” experience of being eternally “in orbit around Lenny.” He was larger-than-life, in many ways. He was flamboyant (even before he began to publicly indulge his homosexual side). He dominated every conversation, every room. He was, she says, “matinee-idol handsome, madly charismatic, a superstar.” Also vain and narcissistic. He was a perennial teacher. He was even teaching his new bride English grammar on their honeymoon; Felicia Montealegre, “a petite, elegant” actress, was born in Chile. She raised her three children to be bilingual. But it was no picnic being “Mrs. Maestro” all the time. LB was an inveterate insomniac and had inexhaustible energy (according to Jamie, he had “an engine that would not, could not, shut

The Bernstein Family (L to R) LB, Alexander, Felicia, Nina and Jamie.

off ”). He did a good deal of his composing during the night. Jamie could sing the scores of “West Side Story” and “Candide” by the time she was four. Although he was a natty dresser (Jamie says he had “no visual sense” and often wore “garish outfits, sartorial atrocities that Felicia threw away and dressed him”), he hung around the house in a scruffy, brown wool bathrobe. Every morning, he would “sit on the porcelain throne” for an extended period, smoking, reading, doing “very hard British crossword puzzles” and studying musical scores. The bathroom door was always open. One time, with a score on his lap, Jamie tried to talk to him. “’Let me finish this movement,’ he said, and then burst into a laughing and coughing fit.” Wit and comedy were a big deal to Lenny: Jewish jokes, vaudeville, radio gags. He and his brother and sister were extremely close, and they loved Borscht Belt humor. Jamie can still use Yiddishisms and tell a good joke herself. After decades of chronic smoking and bronchitis, Lenny ultimately died of lung cancer at age 72, but it wasn’t even the smoking-related kind; it was mesothelioma, typically caused by asbestos inhalation.

Writing Down Her Memories Fortunately for Jamie and her delightful memoir, she kept journals most of her life. Her diaries often focused on her various boyfriends, but there were enough details to flesh out a fascinating family history. The Bernsteins, she says, “weren’t very religiously Jewish,” but they were all, starting with Lenny’s Eastern European immigrant parents, extremely culturally Jewish. One great story goes that Lenny’s father, a beauty supply business-owner, refused to pay for his son’s early piano lessons, calling it “an unlucrative career.” He later defended himself with, “How did I know he’d turn out to be Leonard Bernstein?” In her book, Jamie recalls explicit aspects of her childhood, especially the early “golden years,” when the Bernsteins were the epicen-

ter of New York culture. She blithely says, “Let the name-dropping begin,” and freely employs nicknames. Regular visitors in the New York City digs, and the summer home on Martha’s Vineyard, were superstars like director Mike Nichols, photographer Dick Avedon; Broadway composer/lyricist duo Betty Comden and Adolph Green, director/producer/choreographer Jerry Robbins, playwright Lillian Hellman, violinist Isaac Stern, actor Betty (Lauren) Bacall. After the “monster rallies” (huge dinner parties), LB would sit down at the piano, and everyone would “sing silly songs and make each other laugh.” Funny home movies were created by Steve Sondheim (“he and Daddy were very competitive in playing word games”). “The Lenny Show” never stopped. Jamie attended LB’s highly acclaimed Young People’s Concerts, but says she was too young to understand them. She did understand the Bernstein double standard: “Lenny’s ambition was tolerated, but it was not acceptable in the rest of the family.” And she laments “our ongoing inability to express our feelings to each other.” From their parents on down, they are all decidedly non-confrontational. Her father was often away from home; he conducted all over the world. In fact, her parents missed her debut in a school production of “Guys and Dolls” and her college graduation, among other notable events. But, she asserts, “the biggest waste of one’s life is to stay angry at your parents in one’s adulthood.” She would have liked “more autonomy, less pressure” when she was growing up, but clearly, Jamie is not angry or resentful. In fact, she thinks that one of the main through-lines of the book is the fact that “LB’s incredible affection and open-heartedness made the rest of it bearable. The love was so genuine.” And his bear-hugs were deliciously bone-crushing. One of the important elements of her story, says Jamie, is “how I eventually made my own peace with music.” She had tried to be a musician, a singer/songwriter, but every time she began to make her way, Lenny would intervene–sometimes for good, sometimes, not. She would always write funny songs, loaded with in-jokes, for Lenny’s birthdays. Although she admits to being “the indisputable ham of the fam,” she would freeze when she had to perform musically. “As I was writing the book, I discovered what it’s actually about,” she says. “There’s an unforeseen, satisfying resolution. I can’t play music, but I can talk about it all day. I’m leading a musician’s life,

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minus the music-making.” Now, she travels the world giving information (always teaching– just like Dad). One project is called The Bernstein Beat. “It was deliberately modeled after my father’s Young People’s Concerts. It was initially about LB and his music—as an introduction to the orchestra for young audiences and to promote the catalogue. I volunteered to develop it. I called my friend Michael Barrett, a conductor who was my father’s assistant and said, ‘You be the music guy, and I’ll be the words person.’” They performed together for years. Michael still joins her occasionally, but now orchestras book the presentation, and Jamie narrates. She does one show on beloved family friend Aaron Copland (“I love his music as much as my Dad’s. It has the same way of getting to me”). When she presented on Mozart, she would dress up as young Amadeus and “portray him as a rascally kid.” At 67, she feels a little beyond cavorting as a wunderkind, but she makes good use of her bilingual skills, performing in Spanish-speaking countries “en español.” In 2014, she co-directed the award-winning documentary, “Crescendo: The Power of Music,” about El Sistema, a music-teaching program for struggling inner-city children that originated in Venezuela in 1976 (acclaimed L.A. Phil conductor, Gustavo Dudamel is one high-profile alumnus). The program has spread worldwide. Jamie’s inspiring film (available on Netflix) follows two students in West Philadelphia and one in New York’s Harlem, as they participate in Sistema-inspired youth orchestra programs. In her role as broadcaster, Jamie has produced and hosted shows for U.S. and British radio stations. She has presented the New York Phil’s live national radio broadcasts, as well as live broadcasts from Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, where her father taught and performed for 50 years. In addition to writing her own scripts and narrations, Jamie’s feature articles and poetry have appeared in such publications as Symphony, Town & Country, Gourmet, Opera News, and Musical America. She also edits “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter about issues and events pertaining to her father’s legacy. Her brother Alexander, formerly a schoolteacher, “put together an amazing, widely-used educational model based on our Dad’s philosophy (artfullearning.org), infusing the arts and the spirit of creativity into every school subject.” Her sister, Nina, is a chef, who helps inner-city high school students learn about food. Jamie is also proud of her son, Evan, who is “passionate about Japanese culture,” and her daughter, Frankie, who is currently working on a novel at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. In case you were wondering, she did see Hershey Felder’s “Maestro” about her father. “Once I got over the disconcerting fact that he didn’t look like my father – I found it very well devised, and quite touching.” Among her many other activities, Jamie is an avid Scrabble and tennis player. And Lisa Morrison (the second grader who came up with “famous father girl”) is now one of her closest friends. Jamie Bernstein talks about her life, her book and her famous father in the Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla on Wed. April 3 at 7 p.m. A

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POLITICS | Barbara Bry

What Are We as a City?

An Interview With Councilmember Barbara Bry BY BRIE STIMSON

irst of all, I never expected to run for mayor,” Councilmember Barbara Bry tells me at the beginning of our interview in her temporary campaign space on 5th Street. She’s still dressed in a suit for our meeting at 3 p.m. on a Friday and says she just walked over from City Hall a few blocks away. There’s no fuss or pomp about her. Local government doesn’t have the glamour of a national office. We walk through rooms filled with boxes ready to be moved to a different office before we sit at a table with a view all the way to the bay. “I never expected to even run for city council,” Bry continues to tell me. “I ran in 2016 for council out of frustration with– my office was on Avenida De La Playa–and I saw the same work being done over and over again. And when I got to city council I thought, ‘well maybe I’ll do my two terms and then I’ll go off and do something else.’” Then came Soccer City. “I opposed Soccer City from the beginning,” she says. “I saw it as a bad deal for our taxpayers, for our residents and at the beginning, I was the first elected official to oppose it, and I was out there by myself.” She was in opposition to Mayor Kevin Faulconer who was in favor of the plan to turn the former Chargers stadium into a professional soccer stadium and entertainment center. The Soccer City idea failed and another measure to expand San Diego State University’s campus to the site was passed. “People started coming forward and say50 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

ing to me, 'Barbara, you should consider running for mayor. We’ve never seen a new councilmember stand up like this.'” Last January, that’s exactly what she did. It is not clear whom Barbara will face since Mayor Faulconer has been termed out, but Rep. Scott Peters, Assemblyman Todd Gloria, City Councilman Mark Kersey and former San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman are in the mix. Bry grew up in a Jewish household outside of Philadelphia and was confirmed at 16 at Rodeph Shalom, the oldest Ashkenazic synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. She later moved to California and worked as a journalist for the Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Times. She worked in the tech industry for decades and started two women’s organizations: Athena, an organization for women in the tech and life science communities, and Run Women Run, which promotes pro-choice women running for office. She met her husband in San Diego, and in 1981, they settled here. I ask her why she thinks the mayor has come up short in his job. “I try to operate with trust, transparency and collaboration,

but what I’ve seen most is the city lurches from reactive decision to reactive decision,” she answers. She says the city has no longterm plan for homelessness or real estate, “which is one of our most valuable assets.” “Just recently, I got the data on how much money we actually spend a year on homelessness,” she says. “I’ve been asking for this data for several months. That would include the cost of operating the shelters, a storage center, police overtime, Clean San Diego. We never had all that data in one place until a few days ago. You need to make data-driven decisions to get the most effective results.”

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She says the key to the homelessness crisis is affordable housing, and the council has already passed an ordinance to make it easier to build granny flats. She adds that a recent study said the granny flats could add thousands of affordable homes to San Diego County. She says they’re also looking at ways to incentivize developers to build more affordable housing. She says an important way to do that is to give developers certainty. “As we update community plans, we do master environmental impact reports, so there’s certainty on the part of the community, there’s certainty on the part of the developer as to what you can build where,” she says. “And updating a community plan is a public process so the community has a chance to have input.” Barbara tells me since she joined the council they’ve updated Old Town and Midway and in both cases it allowed for more affordable housing. Regarding real estate, Barbara says the city voted to buy 101 Ash Street, the former Sempra headquarters, shortly before she joined the council for $72 million without knowing the full cost of ownership. “It turned out they needed to spend $30 million more,” she explains, “and the building has now been sitting empty for two years, costing taxpayers $18,000 a day or $126,000 a

week–and just think how many librarians, firefighters and police officers that could pay for. It will finally be occupied in September.” She also says many important city jobs have been vacant for years. “In some positions we need to compensate people more to be able to recruit them, but it would be much less expensive than paying police officers overtime to do it, so it’s kind of having an overall plan of what positions do we really need to fill and how much do we need to compensate to attract and retain the best,” she explains. “People are our most valuable asset.” Her priorities as she runs for mayor are “safe, clean and prosperous–It’s the same principles I ran my campaign for city council on. Public safety is the number one responsibility of local government: Police, fire and lifeguards together are about 52 percent of our general fund. And before I joined the council we had major issues with police recruitment and retention, largely because of our salary levels. And last year we gave our police officers a very well-deserved pay raise and that has really started to turn the tide there. But that is our number one responsibility: making sure we have good neighborhood policing.” She says this fiscal year they will be adding another fire academy because fire season is now 12 months a year. Lastly, she wants to ensure the beaches are staffed with enough lifeguards. She is also focused on the environment – the “clean” part of her plan. She plans on instituting “community choice energy,” which

is setting up a separate entity that will give San Diego residents a choice as to where they buy their electricity, and “it would be able to get us to 100 percent renewal more quickly and can be an important economic driver in creating good jobs in a way that we can make sure benefits all of San Diego.” “The last part is prosperous, which is about jobs and that includes housing and transit,” she says. “Then I step back and I think about what’s been missing in San Diego is we haven’t had a vision for what are we as a city and where do we want to be in five years and 10 years. And my vision comes out of my 20 years in the innovation economy and my long-term support for the arts. So it’s science, technology, engineering, arts and math ... It’s important because the innovation economy creates the highest paying jobs in San Diego. It creates a lot of good service sector jobs. You don’t have to have a technical degree for a lot of the jobs. And it provides the tax base that pays for the quality of life we love in San Diego.” She says a report found San Diego employers will be short 20,000 skilled workers by 2030. “Unless we do something different, and we particularly need to make sure that people who live in communities south of interstate 8 have the skills to access the innovation economy jobs.” From the Jewish values she’s learned like Sadaka and Tikkun Olan, to her work on the Jewish Community Foundation as well as Athena and Run Women Run, Barbara says she’s “always about building a team and bringing people together.” A

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PASSOVER | Patricia Goldblatt

Passover on My Mind BY PATRICIA GOLDBLATT

s winter ends, buds begin to sprout again, trees are planted, houses are cleaned and readied for the holidays and we begin to think of the seminal events in our lives that will mark the spring. Maybe there are weddings, bnei mitzvot, family reunions, a trip away, most once-in-a-lifetime occurrences. In contrast, there are those ever-occurring, annual events that are part of our religion, our culture as Jews, those anticipated forever mainstays that draw us together with food, in prayer, in gathering family. And for most of us, we eagerly look forward to the holidays: as a pause from work, a late evening of thoughtful conversation, a focus on an idea, perhaps of renewal or freedom, or family, the underpinnings of the stories that define us as Jews. We meet with my husband’s cousins and as we are all older, we begin to sift through rich memories of the past, times of our converging for the specific purpose of participating in our religious holidays, and for many reasons, Passover is the Queen, best loved. Maybe we focus on Passover because as kids we played the afikoman game, the dipping fingers into make-believe blood; the magical singing that would bring Eliahu to the door. On that special night, no school in the day to pull us from our warm

beds, we believed anything was possible and we looked forward to a “night different from all other nights.” We imagined we could feel the sudden swoosh of cool night air as Eliahu invisibly entered our darkened house as we crept to the door and he made wine recede – even a tiny bit. Gleefully, we would drop our jaws in awe, nodding our heads in agreement, yet perplexed that he would not get drunk if he were sampling all the wine of all Jews. In itself, a miracle. As well, at the table, there was a swelling camaraderie of cousins, well scrubbed and nicely turned out in fresh clothes, as we swung our heads and bodies in unison, singing as we joined into the raucous chorus of Dayenu, even if the words of the main verses were mumbled. But loudly and confidently, we demonstrated to our cousins who attended parochial Hebrew School that we knew the words to Avoidem Hayenu, our voices entwined we, bursting with love for all of them. Something about Passover with its lolling postures, symbolic plate and involvement of everyone at the table renders it very special, especially the specific inclusion of the children at the table, the role set out for them. As a group, whether in English or Hebrew, every one of us is involved and

contributes to the ambiance at the table. The Haggadah story of repression, escape and freedom harkens and unites us. Yet I cannot forget my son’s plea to my father so many years ago, requesting we add some English; to which my father, truly not a religious man, with no hesitation, replied absolutely, "No.” My son’s face darkening, finding it incomprehensible that a simple request is refused by his loving Hayda (our special play on the word for grandfather). And the Seder itself – as we sat hunched, expectant, around the table, the Seder that seemed to be prolonged for hours. I remember my grandfather’s nonstop stream of prayers as he joined the fray, of course, in Hebrew, was different, heralding from his own father’s Romania, the inflection, the sounds different. My father, grandfather, sister and her husband audible wheels of the same train that raced towards its destination. The rest of us searching for a word, upon which to latch, gratefully locating the familiar signposts of “matzoh…moror…pesach…” And my mother nodding but refusing to read because she knew no Hebrew, ashamed she could not contribute. In our reunion with my husband’s cousins, she mentions the role of water at Passover. "Water?” I query. “Yes,” she retorts, Adar II / Nissan 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 53

surprised, amazed I hadn’t considered it before. She enumerates, “Moses was found in the water, the 10 plagues where water is turned to blood, the Red Sea parting so we could escape, travelers thirsty in the desert that according to Midrash, are sated by water from Miriam’s miraculous well, we dip our greens into salt water and we wash our hands often with water...” I demure at her wealth of examples, for my mind had always fastened on the symbols on the Seder plate, not water. A new perspective refreshes my thoughts, interrelating the past, the present and the future. For even now I reflect on the wondrous bounty of water here, especially when we traveled home from some spot in Africa or Asia: whereas in most places in North America, one can turn on a tap and miraculously, water flows and you can drink or bathe without fear. Once you experience water that comes out of a faucet, not gathered in the street or in a rain barrel, you never ever take it for granted again, marvelling at the luck to feel it stream over your bodies or sip it when thirsty. Although water, the cousin asserts, is central to the Passover story still for me, it is the romp of the children, their restless fidgeting as the narrative unwinds slowly and the children’s eagerness to perform The Four Questions makes them perch and twist anxiously in their seats for their moments, mini grownups performing in a foreign language. So many years back, it was my daughter with her operatic voice who dazzled us all, the ruffles of her shirt separating her angelic voice that boomed forth from her child’s body, pausing the Seder so she could follow with, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” so

we might all imagine ourselves “next year in Jerusalem,” our teary eyes laced with stars. Into the next generation, it is the combined voices of my precious grandsons, who have never studied Hebrew but are making a wonderful attempt, their mother pointing out individual troublesome words and quietly reinforcing their brave efforts before the beaming mishpucha. The quiet voice of the eldest lad, joyously dipping his fingers into his tottering wineglass before calling out the ten plagues, suddenly asks for the meaning of the words. When “locusts, darkness, death of the first born” are translated, his merriment turns to horror, his stained fingers stopped in his game as he murmurs, "Those are not good things.” He wipes his fingers, reddening the snow-white linen napkins, transfixed. He never forgets, forgoing the recitation in years to come. In contrast, my daughter recalls her wonderment at the sensual delights of the dinner–piling her plate high with haroset because the mixture of ground nuts, apples and wine is so delicious, the combination of sweet and savory of my mother-in-law’s tangy gefelte fish, never to be recreated now that she has passed and of those pastel sugary jellies that only appear at Passover to be devoured by the handful. For me as a young girl, it was the delicious raisin wine aged in my grandmother’s cellar in barrels. And the “gelt,” those golden coins awarded for the search for the affikoman, but now folded dollars we never could have imagined: the prize at the end of the treasure hunt. My daughter, the singer, grown up now with three children herself, opines, “It was a sense of Jewish identity and com-

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munity, connecting to the story of the slaves and the exodus. It’s the holiday I miss most now that I’m not home.” I too am saddened that her children (my grandchildren) are missing that communal experience as they live too far to attend our yearly Seder. Only days later after Seder night when we tire of the lack of bread and strange concoctions for suppers do we look back on our coming together on Passover night, agreeing it’s our favorite holiday. Other holidays are awash in prayers, but at the core of Passover is the dramatic reading, the realization of the constant need to be free. And because we sat amongst, first and foremost, those dearest and most cherished and loving, our Baba, our Hayda, our aunts, uncles and silly cousins, we are overwhelmed by feeling part of something greater. And if we are older, we cannot forget families we never knew, separated in the Holocaust, the diaspora, the Inquisition, all of the trials that forced our ancestors’ disappearance when all they desired was to sit at the table, as we do now and beam with pride and love at their family–expectant, happy, hopeful, awaiting the story of Passover to unfold, simultaneously in Jewish homes world-wide. And so, like precious water that we appreciate only when it’s missing, this service, this meal, this night, this Passover stands as a prized amulet to be stored deeply in our souls, wondered at, cherished forever, appreciated for bestowing the memories that bind us to our faith. A

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level of excellence. This was confirmed when these projects were presented at the SD Country Science Fair and took home 6 first place prizes, 6 second place prizes, 4 third place prizes, along with several other awards. This is a true testament to the outstanding quality of the projects and the education being provided to these students.” Dr. Henry Golembesky

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FEATURE: Pauline Sonboleh

Igniting the Fire BY EMILY GOULD

n February 1978, Pauline and Sol Sonboleh celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary by taking a trip to Los Angeles. Disappointed by “LA’s similarity to Brooklyn” (their hometown), they drove down to San Diego, where they fell in love with La Jolla. Greeted by a debilitating blizzard upon their return to New York, Pauline and Sol couldn’t help but wonder why they punished themselves by living in a place so cold and dreary. It was then that Pauline “heard the words that G-d spoke to Abraham, ‘lech-l’cha’ go to the strange place.” And so they did. While for Abraham that place was Canaan, for the Sonbolehs it was La Jolla. “It all happened so unexpectedly and quickly, that there was no time for forethought ... The air I breathed [in Brooklyn] was saturated with Jewishness, which infiltrated my body and soul," Pauline said. The same could not be said about La Jolla. For Pauline, the loss of an overwhelmingly Jewish atmosphere was devastating and left her with a void in that desperately needed to be filled. Salvation came when Pauline discovered the congregation at temple Beth El; there she reconnected with her Jewish identity by attending Shabbat services and befriending other congregants. When then Executive Director Mark Moss placed an ad for a volunteer to run the synagogue gift shop, she

responded that she was interested but lacked any prior experience. Pauline met with the shop’s manager, Barbara, on her last day so she could offer tips and tricks of the trade. “Barbara handed me a shopping bag filled with invoices that needed to be paid, a check book, a set of keys and her phone number. . . She said good-bye and left,” Pauline remembers. That brief encounter was the spark that ignited Pauline’s career as the manager at the gift shop and to later own two Judaica stores with Sol. Pauline’s first customer was a young man with a Spanish accent. She asked where he was from and he replied, “I’m coming from someplace else.” Pauline suspected that place was nearby Mexico, but was surprised when he revealed that he was “coming from being Catholic.” He and his family were in the process of converting to Modern Orthodox Judaism after Catholicism, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Conservative Judaism didn’t quite satisfy his “spiritual niche.” His story amazed and inspired Pauline to write it down immediately so she wouldn’t forget. Such an encounter turned out to be a common theme in the Judaica gift shop business. Each story compelled her to scribble them down on scraps of paper so that they wouldn’t be lost. Pauline had many intriguing conversations with clientele, who ranged from Jews, to converts, to gentiles. Over 18 years of working in and owning Judaica stores left

Pauline with innumerable scraps and stories. Realizing these tales were worth telling, Pauline decided to write a book chronicling the stories of her customers: their search for G-d, their curiosity in Judaica and the “souls [that were] on fire to be Jewish.” Her book is called “Ignited,” a significant word in Judaism. “Ignited is defined as to ... set on fire ... Fire has always played an important role in Judaism. It can be used for good or evil. It can give warmth or destruction. Light is fundamental as a sign of G-D’s [sic] Spirit and his guiding force,” she said. The title also conjures up images of the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust: both events that sought to destroy Jews with flames. The resulting diasporas from those events are inextricably linked to the customers who wandered into Pauline’s store, she says. Religion has had a significant impact on Pauline’s own life: without Judaism, she would never have found Congregation Beth El, never come to work in and own Judaica stores and never have heard so many spiritually inspiring stories along the way. She believes that divine intervention entered her life for the creation of this book and that destiny is what brought all those customers into her shops. A “Ignited: How Religion Impacts Our Lives” is available for purchase on Amazon.com.

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PASSOVER | Wine

Kosher Wines for Passover Or Just For Dinner BY ANDREW BRESKIN

oes Kosher Wine have a Black Friday? The time between Purim and Passover is reminiscent of the shopping season that begins the day after Thanksgiving. Consumers rush to find out what is the latest and greatest in the industry, aggressively sifting through new releases and opportunities. Among those who exclusively drink kosher wine, it’s a time to stock up when prices are low and availability is great. And for those who are seasonal kosher wine aficionados, there is no better time to see the diversity and breadth of today’s kosher wine offerings. After recently attending multiple trade tastings and judging a kosher wine blind tasting competition, I can comfortably conclude that as each year passes, we are in the greatest age of kosher wine in modern times. Today’s kosher wine drinker can find kosher versions of some of France’s finest blends, and contemplate the artisanal offerings of boutique wineries from California, Israel, and beyond. Kosher has become a component, not a category. Kosher wine has moved beyond the search for a kashrut symbol into a culture of its own. Each month, dozens of groups around the world meet for monthly tastings of exclusively kosher wines, to dine, taste, and contemplate together. A Facebook

group with nearly 6000 international members keeps kosher wine lovers informed with shared tasting notes, opportunities to taste and travel, as well as some obligatory boasting and gossiping. The kosher wine world is indeed becoming mainstream. While there are certainly hundreds of worthwhile new wines released this year, my recommendations tend to be geared towards those with a background in non-kosher wine. Any contemplative wine lover will be able to find satisfying kosher options in today’s modern market–maybe enough to move beyond once or twice a year.

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2010 Yarden Blancs de Blanc The second vintage of this unique blend Sparkling Wine, Israel from a hilltop vineyard in Montagne St Emilion. Blessed with an especially unique vineyard, the winery opted to age this wine in concrete vessels to preserve the wine’s “terroir” and pure fruit character. This can be aged, but is just wonderful now after thirty minutes of air.

2015 Neshama by Covenant Sonoma, California I know I enjoy this wine quite a bit, but I was very impressed when a group of non kosher collectors completely flipped for it. A proprietary blend of Syrah, Malbec, and

Thankfully, this series is becoming a more regular release, as the Golan Heights Winery is expanding their sparkling wine program. Is there a better quality, vintage sparkling wine that can be enjoyed now or aged for most of a decade? Certainly not in kosher, and doubtful outside of it as well. A lovely apértif, but bold enough for more adventurous pairings.A Andrew Breskin is the Founder and Sommelier of The CELLAR Wine Club at LiquidKosher.com, and the Host of the Kosher Sommelier Podcast. He can be reached at andrew@liquikosher.com. Adar II / Nissan 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 59

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10 Tips for Paying Property Taxes, Saving Money DAN MCALLISTER San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector

roperty taxes are due on April 10 and making a mistake or missing the deadline could cost you an extra 10 percent, plus a $10 fee, on your total bill. We at the San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector’s Office want to help you avoid the most common pitfalls and possibly save you some money. Here are our top 10 tips for paying your property taxes:

Pay online by e-check: Going online to sdttc.com is the fastest, easiest and most secure way to pay your taxes, and it’s free if you use an e-check. That means all you have to do is enter the account and routing number found on the bottom of your checks. More than 60 percent of taxpayers pay electronically, so join the movement.

Sign up for free e-notifications: If you’re afraid of losing track of time, sign up for our email reminders at sdttc.com so you never miss a deadline. Save up: Put away a portion of your paycheck each month to pay your property taxes. If you don’t pay them before the delinquent date, a 10 percent penalty and $10 fee will be added to your bill. Know the difference: Paying by e-check is NOT the same as paying your bill through your bank’s online bill pay system. Submitting a check through the bank’s system could take up to 10 business days before it reaches our office, and by then, the delinquent date could have passed. With an e-check, your payment is credited as of the date of successful submission. Watch helpful videos: Go to our website sdttc.com and watch our videos that explain the best way to pay, supplemental bills, online bill pay and more.

Check your travel schedule: Make sure you don’t leave for vacation before you’ve paid your property taxes by the delinquent date. This is another reason to pay online – save some time.

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Take advantage of your homeowner’s exemption: Property owners who call their home their “principal place of residence” on Jan. 1 – and every year after that – are eligible for the exemption, which could save you about $70 every year. Download a homeowner’s exemption application from the County Assessor’s website at sdarcc. com, or request that one be mailed to you by calling their office at 619-531-5772. Disagree with your home’s assessed value? Appeal it. You can consider filing an assessment appeal if you dispute the assessed value on your secured tax bill. For the appeal forms and information, visit the Clerk of the Board of Supervisor’s website at sandiegocob.com, or call their office at 619-531-5777. Our collection rate was 99.2% last year – one of the highest in the state. This year, these taxes are expected to generate about $6.5 billion for our schools, our community colleges, our libraries and more. Please contact the Treasurer-Tax Collector’s office with any questions that you may have at sdttc.com.A Dan McAllister is the San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector. His

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What can Pesach teach us about education through challenge? BY JOSHUA ROLLER, ARETEEM INSTITUTE Education is a gift. It has been our dedication to learning that has helped share the stories of our people’s history and lessons from generation to generation. Pesach optimizes our love of education by sharing the story of Elohim delivering us out of Mitzraim, from despair to joy. It’s a story of Am Yisrael. It’s my story. It’s your story. It’s our story. We are commanded to educate our children of our redemption, hope, humility, and learning. This is the time of year we commemorate our deliverance and acknowledge the responsibility our freedom demands of us. It is this very freedom that highlights our need to teach gratitude, grit, and responsibility. The recent college admission scandal highlights the importance of adding to the story of our ancestors and sharing it with our children. These parents were able to offer their children everything,

but it wasn’t enough. Why? Perhaps, we can find the answers in the themes of Pesach. These students did not embrace the tears of those who came before them nor were they taught to be grateful for what they already had in life. They were denied the opportunity of challenges, to learn from them and remember them. Education is about being able to learn through one’s own struggles and pass that knowledge to the next generation. Parents can open opportunities for their children to learn, but they cannot replace the struggle needed to achieve their dreams. We didn’t wait for bread to rise. We grabbed the matzah and ran. This world is full of opportunity waiting for us to take action. It’s through matzah we learn to run toward our goals . Happy Pesach from Areteem Institute. Creating opportunity for our children in math and STEM.

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BOOK REVIEW | Heather Morris

Marked for Life

Review of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” BY LEORAH GAVIDOR

irst and foremost, the “Tattooist of Auschwitz” is a love story. Based on a true story, the novel follows Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov (formerly Eisenberg) from deportation through three years at Auschwitz-Birkenau and back home again. “Lucky” enough that early in his imprisonment he is taken under the wing of another inmate who is the “Tatowierer.” Lale becomes an apprentice. Like others who persevered through the ordeal, he does what he must to survive. “Tattooing the arms of men is one thing; defiling the bodies of young girls is horrifying,” Lale thinks to himself as he is confronted with a long line of women who have just been transferred from Auschwitz to Birkenau and must receive their number tattoos. Despite the horror of the situation, or perhaps because of the vulnerable condition of the prisoners, one of the women on whose arm he tattoos a number captures his heart. After this encounter, seeing the woman again becomes Lale’s impetus for survival. He resolves to do anything he can to make her stay more bearable, if only he can find

out who and where she is. Shortly thereafter the Tatowierer Lale has been assisting disappears, and Lale is given the job. Certain benefits come with the position; it is what he does with these perks that make the story an extraordinary tale of selflessness in the face of extreme hardship. “Nobody is perfect,” Lale’s wife tells their son many years later. “Your father has always taken care of me since the first day we met in Birkenau. I know he is not perfect, but I also know he will always put me first.” Author Heather Morris initially envisioned Lale Sokolov’s life story as a film, a medium she pursued for the tale for 12 years before converting it to a novel. Cinematic qualities remain: Morris possesses a knack for setting the scene as if we are looking over it from a crane-mounted camera, then moving closer to focus on the details. “A shot rings out. Men flinch. Someone falls. Lale looks in the direction of the shot only for Pepan to grab his face and twist his head away.” Morris spent three years getting to know Lale and listening to his story. Friends and others in the Jewish community of Mel-

bourne, where Lale and his bride settled after the war and where Morris met him, confirmed details of life in the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As Morris gets to know Lale, she learns of the terrible guilt he carried at being treated differently than the other prisoners. He felt that he would be viewed as a Nazi collaborator for his role as Tatowierer. When the SS discovers Lale has been collecting precious stones and jewels to trade for necessities and extra food, they send him for punishment. A large, strong Jew named Jakub, who Lale helped previously, is in now responsible for torturing him to reveal the sources of his bounty. Though Jakub spares him as much as he can, he still must beat Lale to give the impression of compliance with SS orders. “Lale knows he will be marked for life. ‘Perhaps the Tatowierer deserves that.’” But after reading his story, one would tend to disagree. A

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FEATURE: Isaac Artenstein, Filmmaker

Isaac Artenstein, Identity And Documentary BY MARLENE DAVIS STANGER

or some writer-filmmakers, the process of researching and telling a story is a way of journeying into their own histories and psyches. I spent an afternoon drinking coffee and talking with Isaac Artenstein at the Pannikin Coffeehouse in Leucadia–and my conclusion is that this is true for him. His successful career encompasses both writing and directing feature and documentary films. The documentary that explores both his Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish roots is “Tijuana Jews.” It tells the story of how his grandparents settled in Mexico, how his parents came to Tijuana, and that he and his siblings were brought up within the tightknit cross-border community. The story also weaves the lives and stories of many of the families he knows and grew up with. “I was an anchor baby,” he quips. While he grew up in Tijuana, Isaac went to high school in Chula Vista then studied painting and photography at UCLA and filmmaking at the California Institute for the Arts. He went on to become a founding member of the Border Arts Workshop in San Diego, as well as a lecturer in film production and direction at the University of Southern California and at UCSD. Now, he is back on a personal journey with 64 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

a new project that launched production in March: “Across Many Oceans: The South African Jews of San Diego.” He started by interviewing members of this community–from various generations–to produce a documentary that will bring audiences a new perspective on who we are as Jews. Isaac likes to say that there are three themes in these types of documentaries “identity, identity, and identity.” He sees many similarities between Mexican Jews and South African Jews. “The majority of the migrations of these two groups has been to San Diego— where 20% of the Jewish community was born outside the U.S.” He notes that immigrants from both countries “succeed in maintaining their cultures while fitting into the society they now live in.” He also notes that, as with other Jews, they have a facility for acculturation, which is a different adaptation model than assimilation. He references the Jewish school in San Diego where approximately one third of the students are from Mexico or have parents from Mexico, and the same proportion are South African, or have South African parents. “For many of these children in the Mexican community, while they are all fluent in English,

their first language remains Spanish.” It’s been that way for three generations—fully bilingual households. In keeping with the theme of exploring roots and identity, Isaac has also journeyed into the histories of other Southwestern Jews for his series “Frontier Jews” that includes the documentaries “Challah Rising in the Desert: The Jews of New Mexico,” and “To the Ends of the Earth: A Portrait of Jewish San Diego.” Both premiered on PBS affiliates in San Diego and New Mexico and have garnered high praise in U.S. and international film festivals. Isaac remarks that neither Mexican Jews nor South African Jews came directly from the “old country” to the U.S.–as the majority of American Jews have done for so many years. He is also fascinated by the fact that so many South Africans in San Diego are fully immersed in Jewish communal life and leading major organizations and philanthropic initiatives in our city. A significant contribution by South African Jews is the creation of Shabbat San Diego, which was started by Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi of South Africa. It has extended to cities throughout the world, where on the same weekend, once a year in October, challah is collectively baked and Shabbat is observed across the globe.

Directing at the launch of the “Across Many Oceans” shoot, SAJAC Newcomer’s Tea.

While Jews may look the same and pray the same, those migrating to the U.S. via a third country bring an added set of unique stories and cultural identities that provide new models of “representation, cultural preservation and trans-culturation….” Examples include language, food, artistic expression and social organizations. Other productions written and directed by Isaac include “Ballad of an Unsung Hero,” which aired nationally on PBS. This documentary, about the life of legendary Mexican singer and radio personality, Pedro J. Gonzalez–who made a significant social and political impact on the Latino community in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s–formed the basis for his subsequent feature film, “Break of Dawn.” He has also produced comedies including “A Day Without A Mexican” and “Love Always.” Isaac looks to the universality of experience. He knows that to tell a story through the eyes of one group is not a limiting endeavor because the way the story is constructed highlights the common themes running through migration stories. He is a master at telling these tales. His own ancestors came from Poland and Turkey to México, and then to the U.S.

“Tot Shabbat,” Congregation Albert, Albuquerque N.M. from “Challah Rising in the Desert: The Jews of New Mexico.”

He talks with great respect and admiration about his Polish grandfather Fischl who became Feliciano Artenstein on arriving in Mexico; about his father, Natan, a former store-keeper on “Avenida Revolucion” in Tijuana; and his grandmother “Bube” Clara who sailed to Mexico as a young girl to join her father who had fled Turkey to avoid the draft during World War I. Our conversation makes it clear that with every film and with each new project, he gains a deeper understanding of himself, his own history and his relationship to his family. The way Isaac speaks about his work and his family reminds me of a love story, particularly when he tells of finding Artensteins in Uruguay and in Australia after being told by his grandfather Fischl, that his whole family perished during the Holocaust. The joy and wonder in which he speaks about these journeys elicits a pang of homesickness and heartbreak in me for those in my family that I have lost or left behind; that emotion is an integral and universal part of the journey as he eloquently explains. “I go from a particular story to the universal,” he says. The universality of his stories is borne out by the fact that PBS—both locally and nationally—has screened many of

his films. His “Frontier Jews” documentaries that have aired on public television speak to audiences nationwide, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. They transmit themes of family, community and migration in the context of their own lives and roots. His journeys have taken him throughout Mexico and the American Southwest. “Across Many Oceans: The South African Jews of San Diego” will now take him on a journey that will likely extend to the tip of Africa. After coffee, pastries, and scintillating conversation with Isaac, I understand why Isaac wants to turn his talents to making a film about South African Jews in San Diego. In the end this will be another facet of a story that belongs to us all. It will be another link to the roots that bind us and reflect the unique and tantalizing flavors of the different cultures that have shaped our identities and personal journeys to this city we now call home. A For those who would like to read more about Isaac and his work, see his website at cinewest.net

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DIVERSIONS: Joseph Pulitzer

Documentary on Joseph Pulitzer Recalls Another Era of President vs. the Press BY TOM TUGEND, JTA NEWS

t’s a story that would not sound too out of place in 2019: New York’s leading newspaper accuses the President of the United States of corruption and the latter sues the paper’s publisher for libel. Striking back, the publisher declares in an editorial that his newspaper “cannot be muzzled.” That confrontation actually happened in the first decade of the 20th century, pitting President Theodore Roosevelt against Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who had lifted The World to the rank of most influential newspaper in New York and the broader United States. In one of his numerous crusades, Pulitzer charged Roosevelt with orchestrating a $40 million cover-up of corrupt practices in the building of the Panama Canal. Roosevelt retaliated by demanding, in an address to Congress, that the government perform its “high national duty to bring to justice the vilifier of the American people.” Not cowed, Pulitzer proclaimed, “Our republic and its press shall rise or fall together.” After three years of legal battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for Pulitzer, arguing that even the president was not above the law. The encounter between the one-time penniless immigrant and the most powerful man in America is but one footnote in the film “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People,” which opened March 1 in New York, a week later in Los Angeles and afterward in other cities. The documentary on the life of the man who founded newspaper journalism’s most prestigious prize and stood up to the most powerful forces in the country could not come at a more relevant time. The movie is the latest of some 20 films, mostly documentaries, by Oren Rudavsky. Half of those are on Jewish themes, among them “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” and “Colliding Dreams,” which examines the history and impact of Zionism. Pulitzer was born in 1847 in Mako, a town on the Hungarian side of the border with Romania, as one of eight siblings. But only he and one brother lived to adulthood. His first ambition was to become a soldier; and at 17 he migrated to America and immediately enlisted in a German-speaking unit of the Union Army in the final year of the Civil War. Pulitzer’s first postwar job was shoveling coal, but he soon embarked

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on his journalistic career through a German-language newspaper in St. Louis. On the side he taught himself law and became an investigative reporter. In 1881 he struck out for himself and founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, pledging to “oppose all frauds and shams,” and promoting a writing style of short, snappy paragraphs. For starters he published the names of all tax dodges in St. Louis — and in those rugged days, he was not surprised when his managing editor shot a critic of the newspaper. Two years later Pulitzer had accumulated and borrowed enough money to purchase the New York World for close to $400,000, proclaiming the paper’s policy by observing, “Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.” Around the same time he married the beautiful Kate Davis, an Episcopalian and distant relative of Jefferson Davis, the leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War. The marriage of a member of the Southern aristocracy to an immigrant Jew apparently was not considered as scandalous as it would be in a later century, Rudavsky noted. “There was relatively less anti-Semitism in America in the 1870s and 1880s, before the start of the Jewish mass immigration in subsequent decades,” Rudavsky said. Still, Pulitzer’s numerous political enemies and journalistic competitors referred to the publisher as “Jewseph Pulitzer,” and caricatured him with a huge hooked nose. Pulitzer used the clout of his newspaper to bring the Statue of Liberty to New York Harbor to defeat a proposal to charge pedestrians for walking across the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge, as well as to acculturate the waves of new Jewish and other immigrants to the new country. As a permanent legacy, he endowed the Columbia University School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize. During the run-up to the 1898 Spanish-American War, Pulitzer was accused of resorting to “yellow journalism,” in competition with the warmongering Hearst papers. But Rudavsky cited as a more fitting epitaph the appraisal of novelist and newsprint crusader Nicholson Baker, who judged Pulitzer to be “the most original and creative mind in American journalism.” A

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what’s goin’on?

| By Eileen Sondak

“Life After” will be at the Old Globe through April 28.

The Broadway tour of “Cats” is coming to the Civic Theatre on the 16th.

The La Jolla Playhouse is staging the world premiere of the musical “Diana”–under the direction of Christopher Ashley. The story of this fairytale princess and her troubled marriage features a contemporary score by Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist David Bryan. “Diana”–with its emotionally charged plot and strong production values–will captivate audiences through April 14 (thanks to two extensions).

Benjamin Jaber performing a horn concerto by John Williams is set for April 27 & 28.

The Old Globe will continue to showcase its U.S. premiere of a new musical, titled “Life After.” This bittersweet story of a young girl’s grieving and questioning the death of her famous father will inhabit the Globe’s Main Stage through April 28.

at relationships. The playwright uses wordplay and clever language to tease your brain as it tickles your funny bone. David Ellenstein will direct this delightful offering, set to take over the troupe’s Solana Beach home April 10 through May 5.

Broadway-San Diego is bringing back one of the most popular musicals in the repertory–Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats.” The record-breaking musical won seven Tony Awards and the hearts of theater-lovers around the world. It will entertain a new generation of audiences at the Civic Theater April 16-21. The San Diego Opera continues its production of “Carmen,” By all means, take the children to see this one! the story of a fiery gypsy and the naïve soldier who sacri- North Coast Repertory Theatre is ready to unveil a witty and intelfices everything for her, through April 7 at the Civic Theatre. ligent satire that comes to us after a huge success off BroadThis incarnation of the Bizet masterwork stars Ginger Cos- way. “All in the Timing,” penned by David Ives, is actually a ta-Jackson in the title role. sextet of one-act comedies that examines various attempts

Barry Edelstein will direct the witty and life-affirming musical. San Diego Repertory Theatre is ready to unveil a Pulitzer The Globe will reprise “Thinking Shakespeare Live!” on the Prize-winning drama on April 18. “Sweat” is set in the dirtMain Stage April 6, with a book signing by Edelstein to follow. poor steel town of Reading, Pennsylvania, and deals with the The world premiere of “They Promised Her the Moon” will unsettling changes in America. The play has humor and heart arrive at the Globe’s White Theater Stage on April 6, where it as it examines a group of close friends on a night out in their will remain through May 5. This true story of an unknown pilot neighborhood bar. It will stay put through May 12.

and record-setting aviator and her attempt to join the famed Cygnet Theatre is delivering “Angels in America,” Tony Kush“Mercury Seven” was developed here at the Globe – and it’s ner’s “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” in rotating repertory. Part One, titled “Millennium Approaches,” will alternate a compelling tale. The San Diego Symphony continues April 4 & 6 with “Harry with Part Two: “Perestroika” through April 20. Obviously, the Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” in HD – accompanied play is recommended for adults only, but it is considered one by the orchestra. “An Afternoon with Lea Salonga” is slated of our finest contemporary dramas. Sean Murray directs this for April 7, when the Broadway singer makes her debut with monumental work. the symphony. “Ling Conducts Brahms” follows on April 12 & 13, with Maestro Jahja Ling returning to the podium to conduct pianist Jan Lisiecki and the orchestra in a three-piece program that features Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. “Joshua Bell Plays Brunch” brings the violin superstar back to Symphony Hall for Brunch’s hallmark concerto on April 14. The Jazz Series continues on April 20 with “Freedom Rider: An Art Blakey Centennial Celebration.” “Danzmayr Conducts Sibelius” with David Danzmay conducting and principal horn

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The Lamb’s Players’ production of “Chaps!” continues to keep audiences in stitches at its Coronado home through April 14. The comedy (set in London during World War II) is about the frenzy surrounding a live broadcast, when some singing cowboys are late for the show. “Chaps!” is described as “Monty Python meets the Wild West,” so take the whole family to enjoy this hilarious romp. Welk Resort Theatre is presenting “Menopause the Musical” through May 29. Every Wednesday (until May 29) the Welk

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David McBean, Omri Schein, Uma Incrocci from NCR’s “All in the Timing.” will show off “The Long Run.” La Jolla Music Society has a full slate this month at its new home, the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, starting on April 9 with the Jerusalem Quartet. Midori & Jean-Yves Thibaudet follows on April 12, with NPR’s From the Top coming this way on April 13. Pianist George Li performs on April 14, with Danil Trifonov tickling the ivories April 17. Anoushka Shankar is due on April 18, followed on the 24th by Chis Thile. Gil Shahm & Akira Eguchi are on tap for April 25, and the San Diego Symphony (under the baton of Matthew Halls) arrives April 26. Hiromi rounds out the month on April 27. The Museum of Art is ready to show off its signature event “Art Alive.” The weekend exhibition, slated for April 11-14, features almost 100 floral designers interpreting works of art in magnificent flora and fauna creations. This premiere fundraising event includes a gala, “Bloom Bash” (slated for April 12) that usually attracts well over 1,000 supporters. The museum is highlighting works by Mexican sculptor Javier Marin. His fascinating pieces feature human body parts, heads, and powerful naked forms to explore the meaning of humanity. Also opening in time for “Art Alive” is a new photographic exhibition, “Alfred Eisenstaedt: Life & Legacy.” Birch Aquarium is highlighting “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. Another interesting 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 on display is “Oddities: Hidden Heroes of the Scripps Collection,” a comic book-inspired exhibit that highlights amazing adaptations of ocean species. In addition, Birch will feature Whale Watching Cruises through mid-April. The Reuben Fleet Science Center will be showing a new film, “Superpower Dogs,” in addition to “Great Barrier Reef,” Pan-

Art Alive returns to the Museum of Art April 11-14. das,” and “Volcanoes,” which examines the contribution of volcanoes to the wildlife ecosystem and their impact on humans. Also at the Fleet is the “Renegade Science Project,” which escorts visitors through the park for a 90-minute exploration. Its newest exhibition, “Pause/Play,” is an immersive experience for mind and body that uses science in a completely new way. The Fleet is offering “Dream, Design, Build,” an exhibition that explores the museum’s collection of interactive engineering activities (and will remain on permanent display), and “Taping Shape 2.0,” which uses hundreds of rolls of packing tape to create a world of translucent spaces and tunnels. The Fleet has several other permanent exhibitions, including “Don’t Try This at Home,” “Studio X,” “Block Busters” and “Origins in Space.” The newest is “It’s Electric,” an interactive show that explores the fundamentals of electricity. The Natural History Museum added “Escape the Nat” – an escape room experience that dares you to solve puzzles and save the world. “The Backyard,” a gallery for the 5-and-under set, and “Backyard Wilderness” (a 3-D film) are also on view. “Hidden Gems” is the newest exhibition at the NAT. “Coast to Cactus in California,” and “Unshelved: Cool Stuff from Storage”–a display of specimens from around the world–are also worth checking out. “Unshelved” will be ensconced at the NAT for the next two years. The Nat’s 3-D films include “National Parks Adventures,” “Ocean Oasis” and the newest films, “Flight of the Butterflies” and “Subaru.” The museum also offers “Fossil Mysteries,” “Water: A California Story” and “Skulls.” The San Diego History Center is featuring the first exhibition in Balboa Park exploring San Diego’s LGBTQ+ community. The History Museum’s permanent exhibition, “Placed Promises,” chronicles the history of the San Diego region – and the America’s Cup Exhibition highlights the sailing race held in San Diego three times since 1988. Also on view is an exhibition of paintings by Carol Lindemulder depicting landscapes in the Southwest. The show continues through May 5. A

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the news Anne Frank Center Joins with Legislators to “Educate Against Hate” Across the United States

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ensemble Shesh Besh to Perform in La Jolla The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s acclaimed Arab-Jewish ensemble, Shesh Besh, is in the midst of an American tour that began at the end of last month in Washington, D.C. and will conclude in Portland, OR, on April 9. Shesh Besh, which was created as part of the IPO’s KeyNote music education program, includes three IPO musicians and four of the most renowned Arab musicians in Israel. Shesh Besh’s music weaves together traditional Asian material with works by Bach, Dvorak, and Saint-Saëns, as well as original compositions by Jewish and Arab composers, leading audiences on an immersive music journey across cultures. On the tour will be Peter Marck, the longtime IPO Principal Bassist who plans to retire this year after 45 years with the orchestra; as well as IPO Principal Flutist Yossi Arnheim; Aziz Naddaf, who plays the tablah; Sami Kheshaiboun, who plays the Eastern violin; and Michael Maroun on the oud. The ensemble will perform at Beth Jacob Congregation in Los Angeles (April 3) and at a private event for AFIPO donors in Beverly Hills (April 4). On April 7, the ensemble will perform at a private event in La Jolla.

Today, only one in five U.S. states mandates that schools include the history of the Holocaust and other genocides in their curriculum, according to the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect. Nearly a quarter of American millennials say they’ve never heard of the Holocaust, or are unsure of whether they have. About half of all adults in the U.S. are unable to name even one of the more than 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos from one of the darkest times in global history. The center is on a mission to reverse this trend. For the past decade, the AFC has worked with partners across the country to establish that such teaching be mandated in every state through the 50-State Holocaust & Genocide Education Initiative. In addition to the 10 states that now have such legislation, the AFC has received commitments from 17 additional states on their intention to advance this initiative, and the momentum is growing. Two such resolutions are now working their way through Congress, both with bi-partisan support: the Never Again Education Act, sponsored by Congresswoman Caroline Maloney (D, NY); and HR27, which promotes nationwide Holocaust curricula, sponsored by Congressman Brendan Boyle (D, PA). The AFC is seeking partners to join its coalition—which includes several Holocaust-related organizations, elected officials, the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights (Idaho), the Anti-Defamation League, and the Claims Conference. To join, or for more information on the 50-State Holocaust & Genocide Education Initiative, please visit annefrank.com/50state or contact Kendra Mills, the coordinator for the project, at kmills@annefrank.com.

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La Jolla Music Society Announces New President La Jolla Music Society (L JMS) Board of Directors announced the appointment of Ted DeDee as President and CEO of La Jolla Music Society on April 1, 2019. “With the opening of The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, “The Conrad,” in April, this is an extraordinarily exciting time for L JMS, as we’re celebrating our 50th anniversary,” said Katherine Chapin,

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Chair of the L JMS Board. “We are delighted to have Ted DeDee join us at this transformative juncture.” Ted DeDee brings nearly 45 years of experience in operating and expanding arts-oriented venues. “I am truly honored to have been chosen as the La Jolla Music Society’s next President and CEO, especially as the organization celebrates its fiftieth anniversary season and opens The Conrad,” said DeDee. The Conrad is a 49,000 square foot facility with a 513-seat concert hall and a multi-purpose venue for up to 180 people.

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The Magic of Music-Eurovision and Israel at Beth Am Beth Am’s Elisheva Edelson will be teaching Jewish music history and singing in eight classes that continue through May. The classes will include songs performed at Eurovision, a European Song Contest has been a platform for many countries to share their Music with the entire world. The State of Israel has been a participant and a winner at this festival, and that has brought to the world many messages through song. Eurovision will take place in Israel next month. Remaining classes are April 4, 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 9 and 16. For more information go to betham.com.

Jewish War Veterans of San Diego, Post-185 Contact Jerome Klein at (858) 521-8694 April 14, 10 a.m. On the Go Excursions Contact Jo Kessler (858) 637-7320 April 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A blaze of color, bright blossoms, and lush foliage—“Art Alive” is a garden of earthly delights at the San Diego Museum of Art. Cost is $36. Veterans Association of North County, Post-385 Contact Marsha Schjolberg (760) 492-7443 Jewish War Veterans meetings April 14, 11 a.m. Lawrence Family JCC Contact Melanie Rubin (858) 362-1141 April 17, 1:30 p.m. “The Art of Aging” Exhibit & Conversation with Rabbi Lenore Bohm at JCC. Free. RSVP by April 15.

Taste of Liberty Station Returns this April Taste of Liberty Station will return for its third annual event on Wednesday, April 24, from 5 to 9 p.m. The community is invited to explore everything Liberty Station has to offer in one night— food samples, live entertainment and art. Attendees can purchase a “Liberty Pass,” which will grant them access to all food tastings and special offerings from participating businesses.

JFS Balboa Ave. Older Adult Center Contact Aviva Saad (858) 550-5998 April 18, 11. a.m. Join JFS Balboa for a Passover Seder. North County Jewish Seniors Club at the Oceanside Senior Center Contact Josephine at (760) 295-2564, April 21, 12:30 p.m.

“We are looking forward to hosting Taste of Liberty Station in our community this spring for the third year in a row,” said Laurie Albrecht, community coordinator of the Liberty Station Community Association. “It’s a great opportunity for San Diegans to come and discover every element that Liberty Station has to offer.”

JFS College Avenue Center at Temple Emanu-El Contact Elissa Landsman (858) 637-3273 April 29, 1 p.m. Come watch “The Wife,” a film starring Glenn Close as a woman reflecting on her marriage to a soon-to-be Nobel laureate. Cost is free for College Avenue Center members and $2 for non-members.

There will also be live music taking place throughout the neighborhood, so ticket holders can enjoy pop-up entertainment as they stroll through Liberty Station. Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 day of.

Drives for Rides Event to Benefit Children With Cancer The 7th annual Drives for Rides event, which benefits the families of children with cancer, will be held at the Maderas Golf Club in Poway on May 3 from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. The annual fundraiser will include golf, lunch, raffle prizes, a silent auction and a dinner banquet. Proceeds raised will support the Emilio Nares Foundation’s flagship program, Ride with Emilio, to ensure that no child misses life-saving cancer treatment due to a lack of transportation. Gap Intelligence, the host, has a goal of raising $100,000 for ENF. Adar II / Nissan 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 71

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TWINLESS TWIN `halom my dear San Diegans! During our Passover season, our thoughts turn to the challenges we Jews faced, and still face in our families, communities, our country and in the world. Here are letters from two individuals trying to overcome some of life’s most difficult challenges. Marnie: I’m 19 years old and a sophomore in college. Two months ago, my identical twin sister was coming home from a party and was killed by a drunk driver. I can’t even put into words the emotions I felt when I heard the news. Ever since my sister’s death, I feel like I have this huge hole in my life. I can barely drag myself out of bed in the morning and looking in a mirror is nearly impossible. Everywhere I look I’m reminded of my sister and it just makes things even more raw when people ask where my twin is or ask how it feels to lose her. Please, help me! I don’t know how I can go on feeling this way -Twinless Twin MARNIE SAYS: My precious child, losing someone you love at any age hacks your heart. Losing someone young is incomprehensible. Losing someone because of a despicable, preventable act–drunk driving–is raging insanity. Losing a twin, I would think, feels as though your soul has been separated, and you’ve lost part of you. I promise you, you’ll feel whole again. Maybe not yet. But you will. Personally yours ... When someone we love dies suddenly, it feels like the Earth just flew out of orbit. The world as we knew it spins out of control, 72 SDJewishJournal.com | April 2019

and everything we were sure of collapses in a heap of grief, fear and confusion. We ask ourselves, “Who and what do I trust now?” Undeserved guilt is often overwhelming as we agonize over all we did and didn’t do, the times we wanted space, or why “they” died, and “we” lived. Please know these feelings are normal. Also know you will and must work through them. I insist that you be kind to you. Even identical twins are unique marvels of nature. Despite your individuality, critical to your individual growth, death violates the special twin world you’ve known and adds excruciatingly to your burden. “Who am I now?” “Who will finish my sentences?” “We came into the world together–how could I be left behind?” Loneliness, fear, confusion are swirling around you. There’s also the sense that this tragedy is not outside of you, but in you. Know these questions and feelings, too, are normal–and you will work through them. Tell yourself, “I’m still a twin. I always was and I always will be.” You’ll carry that special that bond with you forever. Grieve any way you choose. If “talking to her” and holding onto some of her things keeps you from stumbling, do it. Feel her presence and take comfort from her. Ask yourself what she would tell you if she were sitting in a chair across from you right now. You know, don’t you? She’d say, “Hey sis. Quit thinking you’re living on borrowed time. Live your life happily. Live it full-out. Live it for you. And thanks for everything.

For making my life one uncommonly fascinating, marvelously intimate rip-roaring journey–even if we did argue or got fed up sometimes–Well, I felt that way, too. But most of all... I loved you so much–in specialness. I know you’ll always take that part of ‘us’ with you.” Now, honey, do it. Decide to live your life–to the fullest. Do get help. Here’s where. The Twinless Twins Support Group International facebook.com/ttsgi/. Talk to your rabbi to help renew your faith. Trying to make some sense out of the senseless is one way to deal with your rage. Consider joining Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) whose national mission is to stop drunk driving and support victims. Through involvement with this organization and/or others, you can create reason out of unreason and commemorate your sister’s life. Call 1800 GET-MADD or go their website at madd.org. Finally, take one breath at a time. Then another. Then another. With each breath, give yourself permission to take one mor and feel stronger, and less afraid ... and less alone. Then, one day, you’ll look into that mirror and you’ll see you, and yes, the memory of your twin too, but sweetheart, her presence in your heart will fill you, not with emptiness, but with supreme joy. The majesty of twins is forever. My deepest condolences to you and your family. A

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