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page 44 WINE: Overcoming bias in Kosher wine with sommelier Andrew Breskin.
page 40 FEATURE: Checking in with La Jolla Music Society’s new Israeli music director for Summerfest.
page 53 FEATURE: JFS and Federation are working together to help secure a grant for improved security for organizations that are victim to hate crimes.
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n a phone call with my sister, she told me that our dad had called me “something of a chef.” My sister is reliable in her kind exaggerations. What I think she was referring to was an unusal experience we share over a video call. One of us wasn’t getting cell reception, so we made a video call over wi-fi. He called me while I was in the middle of making dinner. I went about my process with one hand holding my cell phone and I tried being the host of my own cooking show with an audience of my dad plus my stepmom, exclaiming support out of frame. I made pad thai while on that call and only an average one at that. With full intention of being corny, it was only special because in a way, I got to make it with him. My dad and I are alike in that we approach cooking like woodworking–a crafty hobby. My relationship to food has changed considerably in the last couple years. I bake my own bread (and had success with bagels a few times!); I’ve made my own mediocre kombucha, caring for my starter like a
strange gummy plant; I have a trusty soup recipe; buying spices is a special treat and I plan the occasional Saturday around the farmers market. All of this is a far cry of what my relationship had been before not long ago: just an unwelcome interruption into whatever activity I was absorbed in. And as these things work, the food rituals and traditions of my childhood are starting to gel with my current life and I feel grounded and reconnected to my roots. Growing up, my dad and stepmom would take pleasure in finding the right wine complement for dinner. One beer was a post-work, pre week-night dinner occasion (my stepmom and I would often tease my dad that we could measure that postwork rest time by the level of his beer), but wine was for proper weekend dinners. My dad would offer me a whiff or small sip of his glass and ask me what I could pick up on. Eager to impress, I would try my best to get my nose to pick up more than just grape, and offer back my take-away. This training worked because I became the person “who knew something about wine” in my group of college friends.
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A tradition we picked up from my stepmom’s best friend was whoever got the last glass of wine from the bottle would close their eyes, make a silent wish, and clink their glass with everyone at the table asking “Will it come true?” The other guests respond with their first gut reaction sometimes sounding like a magic 8-ball “Yes, but in good time,” “Not in the way you think.” I’ve noticed in my many hours watching cooking shows and food documentaries that the chefs and the people that are the most absorbed by food in their life seem to have the fondest memories of their families. It is a well-known sentiment, but I think it merits repeating: Food connects us to our families, to our traditions, to our heritage, to ourselves. A
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Tel Aviv Pride Parade draws 250,000 participants Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai led about 250,000 revelers participating in his city’s annual gay Pride Parade procession, the largest in the Middle East. “I promise you we will not relent and continue to fight until we see full equality in the State of Israel,” Huldai, a reserves fighter pilot for the Israel Air Force and longtime ally of the LGBTQ community in Israel, said in his speech Friday.
Israel is holding new elections. What comes next? The blame game started shortly after midnight Thursday morning. The Knesset’s vote to dissolve itself and hold a second national election in five months had hardly been posted on the chyrons of news networks in Israel and around the world when the major players in the drama that is coalition government-forming took to microphones throughout the Knesset. It goes something like this: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Liberman. Liberman blamed the haredi Orthodox parties and, for good measure, Netanyahu. The haredi parties blamed Liberman. Rinse and repeat. Why wasn’t Netanyahu able to form a new government? Despite 65 of the Knesset’s 120 seats going to traditionally right-wing parties and politicians in April’s elections, Netanyahu could not cobble together a majority coalition of 61 seats. That was mostly because of the military draft law, which was designed to force more yeshiva students to enlist. The haredi Orthodox parties, with 16 seats in the current government, want changes to the law that would provide more leniency for those students. Liberman, representing rightwing secularists, wanted the legislation to be voted on as is, putting restrictions in place.
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The mayor ended his speech on Bnei Zion Avenue, in the city’s south, with the words “chag sameach.” The procession of floats and marchers, is the 21st edition of Tel Aviv Pride and one of the largest yet in terms of participation, Ynet reported. Amir Ohana, Israel’s newly appointed justice minister–the first openly gay Cabinet minister in Israel, attended the march with his partner. After the participants reached Charles Clore Park, thousands proceeded to the beach, where Gay Pride celebrations typically continue into the night.
Jewish Directors Dominate at Tony Awards “Hadestown,” a musical about the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the underworld, won best new musical at the Tony Awards, and a coveted prize for its Jewish director. Rachel Chavkin won the Tony Award for best director of a musical for “Hadestown,” the tenth woman ever to win best director for a Broadway play or musical, during the award ceremony on Sunday night. Sam Mendes, the Jewish director of the “The Ferryman,” also won for best director of a play. “The Ferryman” also earned a Tony for Best Play. Mendes is known for his work on the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” and won an Academy Award for directing “American Beauty.” Actress and comedy legend Elaine May received her first Tony award–for best leading actress in a play. She stars in Jewish playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Waverly Gallery,” his semi-autobiographical play about a family dealing with the declining health of its matriarch.
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Temple Beth Israel created a fabulous evening for their Annual Gala, in which they honored Rabbi Michael Berk’s retirement in spectacular 50s themed style. Co-chairs Heather Keith and Gail Malkus, along with their great committee, put together such a fun evening of eating, honoring, and laughter! Emcee Sam Zien (Sam the Cooking Guy), introduced comedian Joel Chasnoff who was hysterical! Some of those seen rolling in the aisles were Karen & Jeff Silberman, Susanna & Michael Flaster, Marcia Hazan and Mark Cammell, Phyllis & Dan Epstein, Evelyn & Ernest Rady, Bev & Len Bernstein, Deborah & Dan Carnick, Margaret Katleman and Dick Pearlman, Allison & Robert Price, Helaine Baum, Rachael Cunningham, Marcia & Len Fram, Sarah & Dan Shatz, Murrey Rogow, Irv & Jann Kass, Howard & Cynthia Fram, Tammy & Louie Vener, Susan & Richard Ulevitch, and newly elected Temple Beth Israel President, Kimberly Carnot. Arlene Bernstein, Michael Berk and Jeremy Gimbel.
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Werner & Norma Dreifuss, celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary. Adam Bartell on graduating with honors from the University of San Diego. Adam is the son of Emily Bartell and Gregg Bartell. Benjamin Schenk, son of Shari & Frederick Schenk, and his engagement to Ana Bowens, daughter of Judith Bowens of NYC and John Bowens of Phoenix. Happy grandparents are Bernard Friedman of Poway, and Dena Diamant of NYC. The couple met while undergrads at Dartmouth. Sophia Nicole Lipinsky was called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on June 8th at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana. Sophia is the daughter of Daren & Gina Lipinsky, and granddaughter of Jeff & Sheila Lipinsky.
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Annalise Janette Andrejczuk was called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on June 1st at Temple Emanu-El. Annalise is the daughter of Michelle & Dwayne Andrejczuk. Happy grandparents are Bruce & Renee Persky and Mykola & Doreen Andrejczuk. A
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To Danny Orlansky, celebrating his 92nd birthday, and Arlene Orlansky celebrating her 88th birthday. To Nancy Geist, celebrating her 86th birthday. To Edie Greenberg, celebrating her 85th birthday. To Ed Spilkin, celebrating his 80th birthday.
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Dennis & Chris Thompson , Bill Boyd & Joe Cortina.(above) The San Diego Zoo held its annual Rendezvous in the Zoo event recently. They called it “Zoozapalooza – Where Imagination Runs Wild,” and the event lived up to its name. The outdoor ballroom was resplendent in a dazzling assortment of colorful flowers, hanging designs, and table coverings that set the stage for party animals to dance the night away. As usual, Joan Embrey was there, introducing support20 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2019
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND JUDAISM
THIS WAY TO EDEN by Rachel Eden rachel.s.eden@gmail.com
Labels and Fables he’s extraordinary,” my friend, Hannah, confessed to me reluctantly. Hannah had spent the past year avoiding an “insane” woman in the name of creating a positive atmosphere for her social network and mind. The woman had a propensity to share personal information prematurely, appeared both smug and oblivious simultaneously and publicly cheated on her husband. Hannah wanted no part of this woman’s chaotic inner workings. Imagine my surprise when I heard Hannah remove the woman from categorically insane, skip the classification of plain ol’ normal, and decisively place her in the realm of extraordinary. I curiously inquired what heroic feat had earned her the newfound title. Apparently, a few days earlier, Hannah had to cook for a dinner party when her oven suddenly shut down. The insane–extraordinary–woman had not only opened up her kitchen but had helped Hannah chop and slice. Hannah and I chuckled at the drastic change of label in such a short time over a single kind gesture. A couple of weeks ago, I spent Shabbat across town and bumped into a friendly member of the community. We spoke for some time about our respective families and he beamed when he shared that his daughter had recently earned her PhD. He recalled a conference with his daughter’s teachers who morosely described her learning challenges that made an eventual high school graduation appear impossible. After the meeting, a loving administrator took the father’s hands and looked him in the eye, promising him that no one would give up on his daughter and she would graduate successfully. The journey was arduous, but his daughter’s determination and will 22 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2019
were stronger than the predictions of her teachers. The label of high school dropout flipped to distinguished PhD graduate, and the reassuring words of the administrator still brought tears to her father’s eyes. Years ago, my family and I went motorboating in Mission Bay. The trip started off serenely enough, as we breathed the fresh air and admired the view. However, due to our family’s ignorance in navigation and general weakness for all things directional, no one seemed to know where we were or how to get back after an hour of literal smooth sailing. A few family members made the easy transition from concern to panic and we all seemed sure that we were heading toward the Pacific Ocean for a Gilligan’s Island eternity. True to stereotype, the men on the boat refused to ask for directions and tensions rose quickly. Just before I jumped out of the boat to save myself, I called to a neighboring yacht. We gratefully accepted their offer to lead us back to our point of origin and in three minutes we adjusted from our state of panic back to a serene atmosphere. Our label of “lost” was quickly forgotten and we resumed a pleasant boat ride on the bay. In the recent Ted Talk, “The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters–and a Better Way to Live” (highly recommended), David Brooks discusses the fables behind the labels of success and fulfillment. He describes how he used to trust our culture’s insidious teachings that we are what we accomplish, dignity is prestige, and people are worth their skills and achievements. “I ask you to know that there is a piece of you with no shape, size, color, or weight that gives you infinite dignity and values.” Brooks learned this lesson following a divorce that left
him feeling socially estranged and finding his career triumphs to be no match for his isolation or loneliness. He quotes theologian Paul Tillich who writes that suffering carves through what you thought was the floor of the basement of your soul, revealing a cavity below. It is then that you realize that only spiritual and relational sustenance can feed the deepest parts of yourself. We are far deeper than we give ourselves credit and our interpretation of ourselves, circumstances, and other people create our labels, the fables we tell ourselves, and our reality. Saturday night, July 20, 2019, marks the beginning of our Jewish calendar’s three weeks of mourning. This was the day when Moses broke the tablets after the Jewish people labeled the Golden Calf a g-d. The three weeks end with the major fast of ‘Tisha b’Av’, the day of the Temple’s destruction and originally when the spies labeled Israel as too frightening to enter despite G-d’s directive. Labels reflect the fables, or stories we weave about the circumstances and people we fail to see more deeply. Labels and fables prevented Hannah’s friend from being extraordinary, neglected to see a PhD graduate as a high school success, and nearly propelled my family into oblivion– forever lost at sea. We must remember that the shapeless, weightless, colorless part of ourselves that gives us infinite dignity and values is nothing short of a piece of G-d Himself. Our (often Jewish) culture’s emphasis on labels, accomplishment, prestige, and skills are begging to be smashed, revealing a cavity below to fill with spiritual and relational sustenance. A
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ISRAELI LIFESTYLE
LIVING ON THE FRONT PAGE by Andrea Simantov andreasimantov@gmail.com
Of Flags and Falafel t was on the Fourth of July nearly 24 years ago that I boarded a plane for Israel with my six young children and Israeli husband. The significance of the date did not escape me and in a moment or two of resentment, I felt anger towards my husband for caring so little about the country of his wife’s birth that he could be so insensitive as to purchase tickets for that inauspicious date. Nefesh B’Nefesh didn’t exist yet and it was a time when many respective olim to Holy Land were hardy, brave, crazy, idealistic and driven by a feeling of spiritual fervor. I know, I know. It still isn’t easy, but like a crusty old farmer ruminating in the sunset of his life, the words “In my day…” rise to the surface more than I care to admit. As a journalist, I’ve now had the honor of attending many agency-sponsored immigrant arrivals and can inwardly bemoan that ‘in my day’ no one met us at Ben Gurion Airport with music, flags, ready-made identity cards, buffet lunches, buttons, t-shirts, translated instruction sheets and packaged cookies. 24 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2019
The compassionate part of me which yearns for more Jewish immigration to the Land of our Fathers is deeply happy for those still-brave individuals who endure tides of condemnation as they heed their respective callings. And another part of me, with gritted-teeth, is green with jealousy. In the summer of 1995, the internet was in its infancy; the Jewish Agency in New York had been a little worse than useless in helping us with the practicalities of moving here. In fact, I can now state that they were discouraging! Consequently, decisions of where to send children to school, where to pray, how to access routine medical care and where to go in an emergency were reached in supermarket queues as I asked women with children who looked like they knew more than me–and appeared to be the same level of religiosity as us–what they did in their own worlds. Without speaking Hebrew, I enrolled in Torah classes to whisper questions about where to get a PAP smear or affordable
chicken bottoms. Once, while waiting to have a nostril cauterized, I discovered the name of a popular elementary school for English-speaking children. My kids were enrolled within two days. If, indeed, hindsight is 20/20 and one grows wiser with age, I’m now adequately seasoned and suitably bespeckled to undramatically confess that when I moved to Israel, I hadn’t a clue. I never could have envisioned the tumultuous journey which would lie ahead. Who would have looked into a crystal ball and–gazing upon a yetto-be-revealed future rife with fractured relationships, an unceremonious death of a marriage, disconnection from children, one agonizing financial crisis after another, an inability to even slightly assimilate among the sabras, bomb-shelters, sirens, enmity among brothers, the terminal loneliness– still say, ‘It was worth it. It’s been good’? Me. That’s who. My oldest daughter and her family are coming home to Israel this summer after many years abroad. With several children to place in appropriate schools, the search for adequate livelihoods, navigating among the unusual Middle Eastern mindset, without a doubt the adjustment period will have its challenges. But unlike her mother before her, my daughter speaks Hebrew, is part of a more insular and deeply supportive religious community, works the internet like nobody’s business and has a network of family and friends waiting for her with open arms and pots of homemade food. The bumps that lie ahead of her and her family on this holy journey will more assuredly be cushioned with kindness and clarity. In celebrating the 24th anniversary of my personal Adventure of a Lifetime, I take great comfort in knowing that my life, bravery, frequent faltering, unwavering faith in G-d and endeavoring to live by Zionist principals has resulted in another soldered link in the fence that yokes us to Sinai while, concurrently, forges a connection to the promised Jewish forever. A
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EXAMINED LIFE
OUR EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT by Saul Levine, M.D., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at UCSD slevine@ucsd.edu
The Losses of Old Friends he recent death of one of my oldest and closest friends hit me hard. But even before mourning his loss, I’d been ruminating about many other friends who had passed away, as well as my own mortality. Within this last decade, I’ve had the painful experiences of losing eleven wonderful friends from my life, all men around my age. A while back, I wrote a column entitled “The Importance of Friendship” which struck a chord with many readers. They resonated to its message that good friendships not only bring us pleasure, but they are also vitally important: They enhance our physical and mental health, improve the quality and meaningfulness of our lives, and increase our lifespan. Other factors are also significant (genes, health, marital status, social status and income), but close friendships seem to particularly enrich our lives. Conversely, people without friends tend to have more challenging lives, with bouts of loneliness, sadness and physical illness. Some of you correctly reminded me that I hadn’t mentioned the effects on us when we lose these closest friendships. I was planning to address this in the future, but being personally confronted by this subject spurred me to write this now. I was close with each of those eleven friends ranging from three to seven decades. They differed from each other markedly in backgrounds, personalities and professions, but they were all important to me, all estimable individuals in whom I confided, trusted and depended upon, as they did in me. We provided each other with camaraderie, 26 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2019
mutual interest and support, and we enjoyed discussions, meals and activities together. As Life’s serendipities occurred, we celebrated or commiserated, as situations necessitated. Over the years we spent time conversing, laughing, shedding tears, or communing in silence. I loved each of those guys. Not that it makes a difference to you, but I hereby honor each by sharing their names: Chris G, John D, David I, Haim G, Leon K, Berl S, David S, Raziel G, Lew J, Mike B, Leon W. All of them died too young and each left behind loving families and friends and considerable contributions and achievements. They were kind and decent while they were here, and after they were gone, each left a “positive emotional footprint.” None of them was “perfect,” all had faults and frailties: They were neither saints nor sinners. They were veritable “mentsch’n,” the Yiddish word for individuals who embody warmth, wisdom, respect and generosity. I mourned and miss them all, but the most recent death proved particularly difficult. We were from similar Jewish immigrant families and we’d known each other since we were in elementary school (some seventy years ago!) Throughout our lives, even when thousands of miles apart, we kept in close contact and were inextricable parts of each other’s lives and families. While each personal loss was uniquely painful, they cumulatively took a toll on my psyche and soma. I was sadder and given to existential pondering. My energy and enthusiasm were sapped, my “mojo” was depleted. I was having provocative dreams on themes of
fantasied experiences with these friends from my past, leaving unresolved conundrums. Repetitive thoughts pervaded my mind about my own morbidity, my past (Could I, should I have done it better?) and future mortality (How much longer have I got? How can I make it better for others and myself?) Not to mention the proverbial ‘Meaning of Life.’ I’m certainly not alone in these feelings. I’m actually struck by the remarkable number of people who have had similar experiences. I made it a point to discuss this with many people and particularly those over 65. They were all eager to share their stories about how their own losses of friends affected them. Still, they mourn. Although they felt bereft at the sudden voids in their lives, their departed companions still inhabited their thoughts and memories. Particularly poignant and noteworthy is that these kinds of losses occur at the same time of their lives when they are acutely aware of their own aging process, and the gradual but inevitable diminishment of their own somas and psyches, bodies and minds. Still, we mourn. Clearly, it’s not just the disappearance of corporeal friends which saddens us as much as the loss of the shared and exchanged feelings, and the energies generated being together. They provided our lives with vital ballast and meaning, the familiarity of rituals and color, and the exquisite nuances of the ‘tastes and music’ which give our lives deeper meaning. At the risk of offering facile solutions, I do have a few suggestions which have been working for me as well as others in this situation:
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Think of, appreciate and be consciously grateful for the joys and pleasures your friends brought to your life. Keep in touch with the spouses or children of the departed friends. Savor and indulge those friendships which are still in existence. Cherish and enhance relationships with your own family, children, grandchildren, siblings and their families. Cultivate new relationships: Every city has a wide variety of clubs, activities, lectures, which offer opportunities to become engaged with acquaintances and even make new genuine friends. Look after your own health in terms of diet, exercise, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, recreation and relaxation. Do not avoid physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, physical therapists, trainers, and other professionals who can contribute to your well-being. Pursue interests which pique your new and old interests, give you genuine pleasure, enhance your life and even ennoble you. (The list is endless: music, art, plays, books, politics, travel, religion, writing, hikes, walks, swimming, cooking, dancing, singing, sports, exercise…) Use your time-honed skills, experiences and wisdom to mentor and teach others, or to contribute to needful volunteer organizations and projects which could benefit and appreciate your expertise, passion and persona. Allow yourself the time to cherish the pleasurable memories of your dearly departed friends and to ‘bathe’ in the emotional nourishment they brought to the fulsomeness of your life. Above all, remember how you enriched the lives of your departed friends, and that they were your soulmates because they loved you. A
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RELIGION
POST-POLITICAL by Rabbi Jacob Rupp rabbirupp@gmail.com
The Lost Sense of Self ong before I was mature enough to understand its meaning, I recall the first time I heard “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd. I was sitting in my middle school art room, the walls aligned with the creative projects of past students. The haunting melody and the lyrics made me wonder, “What does it mean to be ‘comfortably numb?" Many years later I recognize just how profound these words are, and how pervasive the concept. We travel the world, we consume endless media, we look in art, poetry, and religion to distance ourselves from the growing pervasive feeling that there is something else out there, or something more we should be doing. The media is a warm blanket; the endless streaming hours of content on Netflix lulls us into not asking so many questions. But under it all, we experience the out-of-body experience of looking at ourselves from the outside, knowing what to do and who to please in every facet of our lives except the most important one. Who are we? What are we missing? Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, a remarkable rabbi of the previous generation, explained at length in his works that we are missing from our lives. And if that was true in the 1930’s and 40’s (he was martyred in the Holocaust) how much truer is it today? Becoming detached from your life and your mission could be the product 28 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2019
of many things, but usually involves or can be attributed to the educational system, social media, and/or how we were raised (or all the above). The symptoms of this mindset may not appear until we are comfortably into adulthood, and find ourselves wondering “What I am doing here and whose life is this?” Or as Jack Nicholson said in the movie by the same name, “What if this is as good as it gets?” R’ Shapira writes that what is missing from our life is our heart. We can check off all the boxes in our lives, but there’s no heart. We are unable to arouse a sense of deep emotion that courses through our body and leaves us largely lifeless when it comes to our spiritual connection. And it is precisely this longing, this hunger that we have to feel alive, that is G-d calling us to find our inner potential. What does inner potential mean, anyway? As we grow up, we are surrounded by messaging–messaging of what to do, what to wear, who to become, and what to feel. We spend so much time trying to figure out what others want from us (parents, teachers, society and jobs) that we morph to fill those roles without having the time to connect with who we are, or what we want to live a fulfilling life. The question becomes not what to do but who we are. How do we feel about ourselves? So often in my coaching work I outline that a client is not in touch with themselves, and they are so quick to ask “what do I do?”
when in reality it’s trying to do something all along that is the problem. Shifting from trying to figure out what to do, to connecting to how I feel is the greatest transition we can imagine. If we recognize that genuine, authentic feeling is what we have avoided and been afraid of all along, suddenly we find everything we have been looking for. We are so afraid that should we be honest, and should we not carry all of our need to control our anxiety, we would lose our edge. But it is not so. We would find ourselves. Rabbi Shapira explains that that difference between the mind and every other part of our body is that the mind over complicates everything, while the body simply accomplishes its task. The stomach understands intrinsically to digest, and the heart knows how to beat. The mind, which is our greatest tool for self-discovery, tricks itself into spending all its energy trying to figure out what to do and how to be for everyone else. And therein lies the route to the exile of our self from our lives. So what can we do? Well, first realize that it is that question that has robbed you of feeling all your life. Secondly, take some time not to do anything, but to be something. Sit with yourself. Instead of the world throwing its answers on you, you might just find that which you’ve always been looking for to arise out of you.A
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very year in Los Angeles, the Hola Mexico Film Festival exhibits a colorful palette of work fashioned by Mexican filmmakers. Three of them—Isaac Cherem, Alejandro Lubezki and Sergio Umansky— are Jews, and brought their latest works to be screened in early June 2019; their latest stop in the festival circuit. Each film-maker spoke to the Journal about writing and shooting their films, which fall on a scale from lighthearted comedy to arresting drama. Isaac Cherem described the reception to his film “Leona” as it screened at this year’s film festival as ‘amazing’. “I didn’t think it was going to be that cool, because I’ve been to a lot of festivals in the US, but none of them Latin, and to come back to LA—because I’ve been here for film school—and come back with a film and show it in LA, it felt amazing. The theater was full, I think people really liked the film. I heard a lot of laughs, people were very interested, they were doing a lot of questions, I guess...it felt nice. It felt good.” Of the three filmmakers, only Isaac’s film
had Jewish subject matter. “Leona,” his directorial debut, follows the story of the Jewish Mexican woman Ariela (Naian González Norvind) who finds love in gentile Iván (Christian Vazquez), much to her family’s displeasure. Isaac got the idea for the film when he moved out of his parent’s apartment and in with his friend who was dating a Jewish woman at the time. “I was kind of seeing both sides of the story at the same time I was coming of age, so it was kind of like, uh, that felt natural. That felt like that was my voice. I wanted to say something; I wanted to scream.” “Leona” was shot primarily in Mexico City, not only for its diverse locales—from the French-esque neighborhood of Roma to areas reminiscent of colonial Spain—but because “Probably more than 95% of [Mexican] Jews live in Mexico City.” “I was brought up in a very...kind of like this Jewish bubble that is in Mexico City, but really outside in the skirts of Mexico City.” “I think it’s very tight-knit. There’s all
kinds of people, of course. But my personal experience of going to a Jewish school since kindergarten to high school, I think it’s... how can I say it...I think...I don’t want to say there’s little liberty to do something. I want to say there’s few options on the table, for people in the community. You don’t see a broad spectrum of things going on. I think... there’s a timeline to follow, there’s this path that you can take and it’s easy, and also you don’t see other paths but one. Go study...as a guy, you go study business or administration, and as a girl, you finish high school, you study classic design, or you get married and you don’t study anything.” “And your parents give you an apartment or a house, and you have kids, and your kids go to the same school as you, it’s kind of a like pattern that’s repeating, and when I came out of that pattern, I was able to see that it was actually a path that is marked for everybody, and it’s doing the standard life. And so that’s what I wanted to talk about, I wanted to talk about going out of the path, and into uncertainty, which is what I’m exSivan / Tammuz 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 31
"Eight Out of Ten."
periencing. And it can be scary to a lot of people, but also amazing.” Isaac explained Mexican Jews are increasingly diverging from the paths that have been expected of them, using himself—a filmmaker living in a non-Jewish community—as an example. “When Jews arrived in Mexico they can stick together, because of course they had their own language,” he explained. “They didn’t have much money or opportunities, so they kind of stick together and that’s how they became more powerful and were able to survive. But now a hundred years later, it’s like, we don’t need to do that. At least, some of us.” It is wrong, he said, to assume that Mexican Jews are all cut from the same cloth. “There is nothing that we all are. There’s no personality trait, there’s no marriage, there’s nothing that all Mexican Jews are. That’s basically it. And I think that’s the base of sometimes racism, anti-Semitism, discrimination, thinking that all gay people are like this, that all women are like this, that all Asians are like this. It’s just people. “There’s all kinds of people you’re gonna... yeah, it’s not like you meet a group of Mexican Jews, it’s not like you’re gonna see this film and you’re gonna know how Jews are in Mexico. This family, this family I created for a fiction film that is based on the people around me. But I don’t wanna impose that that’s the way it works in the whole community, it was just my experience growing up
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there, and it was my perspective of things.” Isaac hopes to release “Leona” theatrically in New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico before eventually bringing it to streaming devices. The second director of the bunch, Sergio Umansky (or Sergio Umansky Brener, as he is identified on IMDb) wrote and directed “Ocho de Cada Diez,” or “Eight Out of Ten” (a particularly multilayered title). The film follows Aurelio (Noé Hernández) and Citali (Daniela Schmidt), two people who unite amidst their own personal searches for justice that eventually blossoms into a mutual thirst for vengeance. Sergio described the film as ‘giving voice to the invisibles.’ “I gave out fliers that said, ‘If you want to tell your story, come to my office.’ And for two years I was recording different stories and interviewing around 400 people, and in those interviews I had many, many people that are the reason why I decided to write ‘Eight Out of Ten.’” These invisibles, Sergio said, are the “Eight out of ten people who live with an extreme, urgent need and no system to represent them. Not only eight of ten people in Mexico, but, in my personal opinion, the world. But here in Mexico, it’s the poor, the people that really have zero representation, have no way to achieve justice.” He elaborated, “Today, eight out of ten murders are not investigated. Today, we are still having more murders then when I made the film
two years ago.” On managing to get his actors to accurately portray the trauma and hardship the protagonists go through, Sergio attributed strenuous rehearsal to getting them to that point. “I am a big believer in serious rehearsing, so I work with my actors, every single line of dialogue, repeatedly, to make sure that we’re finding truth. In this case, in this film, I think the biggest directing note I gave them is that this story is already sad. And the situation is already sad, so they don’t need to act it. We already have it. It’s already sad. So just feel it, and not act it.” In regards to religion, the film focuses on Catholicism as, Sergio pointed out, eight out of ten people in Mexico are Catholic. “We have a very important scene during mass, and during that scene—in my view—what the priest says is why my main character ends up doing what he does. So I think [Catholicism is] very important.” “Eight Out of Ten” marks eleven years since Sergio went to the very first Hola Mexico Film Festival; the film is also in the process of wrapping up its festival circuit. Afterwards, Sergio plans on playing the film commercially in Mexico come September, coinciding with Mexico’s Independence Day. The film will also be released theatrically in Iceland. “Obviously, [a screening] in the US would be wonderful, there’s so many Mexican people that left Mexico because of the situations
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Isaac got the idea for the film when he moved out of his parent's apartment and in with his friend, who was dating a Jewish woman at the time. "I was kind of seeing both sides of the story at the same time I was coming of age, so it was kind of like, uh, that felt natural. That felt like that was my voice. I wanted to say something; I wanted to scream
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like the ones that I’m talking about; I think the film could really resonate with a large group. That would be a huge...something that would make me very happy and proud of,” he said. His next film, “Fault Lines,” is a comingof-age story about a boy in a Jewish family “who loses his father to cancer while discovering his own self in the battle between creativity and conformity.” The final director, Alejandro Lubezki, wrote and directed “Si Yo Fuera Tu,” or “If I Were You,” a body-swap comedy in which the displaced individuals happen to be husband and wife. “It’s not just a silly comedy,” Alejandro said. “It talks about relationships and communication and things we forget about the other part of a relation.” He mentioned "Some Like it Hot" as a partial inspiration for the film. Alejandro described making the film as, “Joyful, happy and a learning experience.
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Every day prepping the movie was amazing, and I had a lot of fun. Casting was incredible and shooting the film was like going to a party every day.” Like the other three films, it was shot primarily in Mexico City. “It’s a story about a couple, so he’s like, strong guy, and she’s very lean and little, so when...when the body-switching things happens, her soul is in his body, and the opposite. So everything is more difficult to them. And that was very important, to cast actors who wouldn’t be out of their comfort zone to really play the characters...no, be the characters and not only play them.” In order to get the actors, Sophie Alexander and Juan Manuel Bernal, to essentially swap roles, Alejandro rehearsed with them every day for a month to get their portrayals right. He described the process as playful, and “by playing a lot,” they were essentially able to develop four different characters with the two actors.
His desire to stray just a little bit differently from the tried-and-true body-swap formula lines up with Alejandro’s desire to inject diversity into his work. “For me, diversity... now, it’s particularly a good and difficult moment in history to speak about diversity. But I think diversity is not only about gender, it’s about religion, it’s about skin color, it’s about education, it’s about social classes. And I think it’s important to leave archetypes, trying not to stick to typical archetypes.” “You can make stories about whatever you want, and not necessarily about beautiful people that we have been looking that we have been looking in the TV and the screen since the 20s. In Mexico, the classical films used to be about rancheros and that they... they were beautiful, and they were not like the real people from the countryside. So I think if you take away prejudices and look at life the way it is, you make diverse more normal. You shouldn’t be afraid of diversity.” Like Isaac, Alejandro thinks there is little that separates Mexican Jews from non-Mexican Jews. “The cultural side of being a Jew, I think it’s amazing. Maybe what is different are the institutions. In Mexico there are not many Jews, I think they are not more than 40 or maybe 50 thousand. It’s a powerful little community.” A Curious film-buffs and general audiences can find trailers and more information on these films at holamexicoff.com.
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Summer Cucumber Salads Whether you go to farmers’ markets or grocery stores to buy your summer produce, cucumbers are a must. In Jerusalem, we have all kinds of cucumbers year around, but my favorite in Machaneh Yehudah is one with a fuzzy, pale green skin called melafafon beladi (native, urban or indigenous to the country) or, in Arabic, fauze. It’s very much more expensive than regular cucumbers but the taste is special.
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Yield: 6 servings This recipe came from Gourmet Magazine probably more than 30 years ago and makes a beautiful presentation for company. Ingredients 2 large cucumbers, peeled and halved lengthwise 1 cup grated carrots 1 cup grated radishes 2 T. olive oil 2 t. lemon juice Salt and pepper to taste 1. In a bowl, combine grated carrots, radishes, oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. 2. Scoop out some of the seeds. Place on a plate and fill with vegetables. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour. 3. To serve, cut each cucumber into thirds.
SEAWEED AND CUCUMBER SALAD Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: ½ cup washed seaweed ½ bunch green onions
4-6 cucumbers 2 ½ T. lemon juice ¼ t. sesame oil 3 T. soy sauce or teriyaki sauce 2 T. sesame seeds or chopped cashew nuts (optional) 1. Chop seaweed and green onions in a bowl. Chop cucumbers coarsely and add. 2. In a jar with a lid, mix lemon juice, sesame oil, soy sauce or teriyaki sauce. 3. Pour over salad. Sprinkle sesame seeds or cashew nuts on top before serving.
TURKISH CUCUMBER AND YOGURT SALAD Yield: 4-6 servings This Turkish favorite is often called Cacik or Jajik. Ingredients: 2 large sliced cucumbers 1 crushed garlic clove 2 t. white vinegar ½ t. chopped dill 2/3 cup yogurt Salt to taste 1 T. chopped fresh mint 2 T. oil 1. In a bowl, combine cucumber slices, salt, garlic, vinegar, dill, and yogurt and blend. 2. Sprinkle mint and oil on top before serving.
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This chef turned his popular falafel truck into a booming Israeli restaurant VIA JTA NEWS, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON THE NOSHER BY PENNY SCHWARTZ
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or nearly a decade, chef Avi Shemtov has been a pioneer on Boston’s food scene. In 2010, he rolled out The Chubby Chickpea, one of the first food trucks in the city, serving up Israeli-style street food from falafel and chicken shwarma to chickpea fries. Two years ago he launched Tapped Beer Trucks, the area’s first mobile local craft and wine fleet. But the 34-year-old Shemtov has long dreamed of opening a full-service restaurant to offer Boston-area diners a contemporary twist on Sephardic and Israeli dishes inspired by his Turkish-Israeli roots. For the past few years, Shemtov has been preparing for the moment, honing his restaurant concept at pop-ups that attracted an array of diners to his sold-out events. And now, finally, comes Simcha, Shemtov’s full-service restaurant that opened in March in his hometown of Sharon, a suburb about 20 miles south of Boston. With its aromatic Sephardic dishes from Israel, Turkey, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, Shemtov hopes to share the story of the global journey of the Israeli people and the ways this centuries-long journey has influenced its food, the chef told The Nosher in a phone conversation. Simcha, which means joy and celebration
in Hebrew, is also named for Shemtov’s paternal grandmother. In 1949, his grandparents fled persecution in their native Turkey and resettled in Israel, where his grandfather started a vegetable stall in the famed Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. When his Israeli-born father immigrated as a young man to the U.S., he went full steam ahead into the restaurant business. Shemtov’s appreciation for traditional Sephardic and Israeli food goes back to his childhood. “We ate what the other kids didn’t eat, eggplant salad and hummus, braised lamb, eggs in tomato sauce, that we now know is shakshuka,” he said. Aiming for a comfortable, welcoming vibe, the 38-seat, 1,200-square-foot Simcha serves dinner Tuesday through Saturday and a Sunday brunch. The eight-person bar includes local craft beers and offers a tasting menu. Shemtov also turns out house-made pita made with a blend of white and whole wheat flours and baked in Simcha’s 900-degree, custom-built wood fire oven. What’s on the menu? Small plates include several varieties of hummus, including one made with Maine-grown beans and tahini, and another made from white beans and bacon. You’ll also find charred Moroccan
carrots served with orange blossom syrup and short rib poutine, a creamy chickpea polenta with short rib gravy and Bulgarian feta cheese. And then there’s the octopus salad, which is served with green zhug, the traditional Yemenite hot sauce, and pickled vegetables. Shemtov developed a taste for octopus at a Boston-area Mediterranean restaurant, he told The Nosher. His version is infused with a blend of Sephardic spices that is a perfect pairing for the seafood delicacy that is popular in Mediterranean cuisine. Larger entrees include Yemenite fried chicken inspired by a visit to Nashville. He re-created the Southern staple, brined and battered with chickpea flour and served with a spicy zhug sauce. Shemtov said the chicken has become Simcha’s second most popular dish, only behind hummus. Shemtov credits his chef father for teaching him his food business skills and his mother, a social worker, for imparting her people skills. These days, the tables have turned and Shemtov’s parents enjoy meals at their son’s hometown restaurant. And, Shemtov revealed, his dad is now a fan of his octopus. A
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Creating Civility on Campus BY ALEX WEHRUNG
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laine Galinson’s vision of America has slipped away, a consequence of growing incivility in both the United States government and the world at large. “When we can not feel safe as Americans sending our children to school, going to our religious institutions, going to work, going to a concert, that is just not the kind of America I want to live in,” she said. To fight against growing incivility, Elaine helped found the Galinson/Glickman Campus Civility Program, an educational program on college campuses that is aimed at increasing understanding between disparate student groups. Elaine recently donated $5 million from a fund entrusted to her by her late father, for whom the program is also partially named. Elaine attributes her Jewish upbringing to her commitment to civil discourse, social justice and the importance of education. “I just feel that part of my Jewish heritage and my Jewish teachings that I have been part of all my life have been that people need to be civil to one another,” she is quoted in UCSD News. She was also once a board member of both the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Community Foundation. The Galinson/Glickman Campus Civility Program asks that students participate in its three-hour ‘Art of Inclusive Communication’ workshop, which is offered during daytime, nighttime, and on the weekends. At some universities, like UCSD, it has become mandatory for student leaders to attend so that their organizations—clubs, fraternities, sororities, et cetera—may continue to operate and have access to certain facilities. The
Galinson/Glickman program has spread to at least ten campuses across the western United States. “I am proud that it is spreading and I think that it needs to spread,” Elaine said, “because the students that are attending our universities now are going to go on to become leaders in their community, they’re going to go on to become parents, and there are ways they can learn to relate to one another, [to] people with whom they disagree, that can increase empathy and can make our communities and our social world much more safe and supportive.” “The Art of Inclusive Communication” course is offered through the National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC), a San Diego organization whose objective, per its website, is to “provide the resources, training and expertise to help people, organizations and communities manage and solve conflicts, with civility.” The course is designed to teach students through providing them with essential communication skills, “like active listening,” said Steve Dinkin, president of the NCRC. “And in addition to that, it also discusses a range of different topics around inclusivity. So focusing on one’s own identity, on unconscious bias, on a number of different matters regarding sort of identity issues. So we sort of intersperse, have identity issues with communication skills, and that’s through a number of different, really varied interactive exercises.” “Students walk through all those different exercises, they’re doing role-playing and moving around the classroom, so it’s very engaging.” Elaine worked with Steve to develop the
program which launched in 2012. Steve had previously worked with Murray Galinson, Elaine’s late husband and former president of the Cal State system. Steve credits Murray for conceiving of bringing the NCRC’s conflict-resolution program to college campuses. “I had worked closely with him,” Steve said, “to take the methodology of communication and conflict resolution training that we’d done extensively—in the community, in workplaces—to higher education, and launched the program [on] a couple different college campuses locally. And Elaine was also involved in those earlier discussions.” The program has trained at least 10,000 student leaders across its active campuses. Steve estimates at least 1,700 of them are being taught at UCSD alone, where Elaine Galinson has also contributed as a member of the Chancellor’s Associates and the Foundation Board of Trustees. “In addition to that, we’re now working with faculty where we’re providing similar training to the faculty on campus,” Steve said. “And we’re also starting to work with student employees on the campus as well, so it’s...and working with the recreation department. So the program is really starting to expand beyond the student population to include faculty and some staff,” Steve said. Regarding the program’s effectiveness, Steve drew attention to the story of of a UCSD student senator. The senator was involved in addressing tensions regarding the activities of the Students for Justice in Palestine at San Diego State, for which the NCRC sent trained mediators to address any conflicts that occurred between students. “He said he would go home at night and he...like, his stomach was hurting, beSivan / Tammuz 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 37
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judgment. It’s a different style.” Barnatan’s style can be summed up by this review in the Philadelphia Enquirer, which lauded his “breathtaking charisma that comes from gorgeously turned-out technique, a masterly sense of color, and an expressiveness that can question, weep or shout joy from the rooftops.” He has won numerous international awards, and his CD, “Darkness Visible,” was named Best of 2012 by the New York Times. In 2014, he was appointed first Artist in Association at the New York Philharmonic.
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musician is like an actor.” That’s one of many thought-provoking ideas espoused by Inon Barnatan, the Israeli-born, internationally-renowned pianist who’s taking the helm as new music director of the La Jolla Music Society’s 34th annual SummerFest. A nationally recognized classical music festival, SummerFest offers world-class classical concerts, uniting a stellar roster of resident soloists, composers, ensembles and artistic fellows every year during the month of August. The Festival routinely attracts an extensive and diverse audience from Southern California and beyond. “SummerFest has been one of my very favorite Festivals since the first time I attended. So it’s a huge honor to come back as Music Director,” Barnatan said from his home in New York, where he alights periodically, given his intense schedule of solo, orchestral and chamber music performances. “I never applied or thought about directing it. When I was approached by the executive director, my first inclination was to say, ‘I have a full career as a pianist.’ But the more I thought about it, the more excited I got about the program and its potential. I started thinking about the role of a 21st century musician beyond playing, and I wanted to experiment. The idea that I could choose not only what was played, but who was playing, was appealing to me.” Barnatan, 40, has been described as “one
of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times), a musician with “uncommon sensitivity” (The New Yorker), “a true poet of the keyboard, refined, searching, unfailingly communicative” (London’s Evening Standard). The Washington Post noted “the firecracker technique on display, [but] it was Barnatan’s intelligence, musicality and storytelling ability that most impressed.” When I asked what makes his playing so distinctive, expressive and poetic, the actor analogy emerged. “A performer, like an actor, is an interpreter,” Barnatan explained. “You have two options: you can be yourself, or try to disappear into a role.” In the realm of actors, we agreed on Jack Nicholson as the former type and Meryl Streep as the latter. It became clear which type of ‘interpreter’ he is. “I try to disappear into the role. If I’m playing something that requires poetry or lyricism or virtuosity, I try to become that role. My job, as I see it, is to deliver the message in the most convincing way possible. In general, those are the performers I relate to, but not always. I made a conscious choice. Others are incredible musicians with the opposite approach. “Horowitz,” he said of perhaps the most famous pianist of the 20th century (19031989), “was always Horowitz. But he was still a great pianist. It’s not necessarily a value
Barnatan was born in Tel Aviv. There was a piano in the house that his mother played occasionally, but his parents were not musicians. “At three years old,” he reports, “I started picking out tunes, and my parents realized I had perfect pitch. I’d tell my mother what the names of the notes were as she was playing. It’s not a particularly useful skill for the piano. It’s like knowing your letters.” Recognizing his gift, his parents enrolled him in a music school, where he remained for three years, then transferred to “regular school.” He later attended a high school for the arts. He can’t even recall at what age he made his performance debut, “but it was in the single digits.” He went on to win multiple competitions, and by age 11, he had performed with the Orchestra of the Tel Aviv Conservatory. “I don’t give a lot of emphasis or importance to age,” he says. “You either play well or you don’t. I’m much more interested in what you have to say.” Bsarnatan’s childhood home was a secular household. His Polish great grandfather was religious, but subsequent generations did not carry on the traditions.The recordings played at home were classical. Neither of his two brothers have any musical ability, but his mother has been a dancer and an artist, so he counts that as possible family “musical proclivities.” As a boy, Barnatan played only classical music, but expressed “interest in different types of music.” (This wide-ranging interest is reflected in his eclectic programming for SummerFest 2019). After high school, at age 17, he left for London, and studied for ten years at the Royal Academy of Music. Then he moved to New York, where he’d always wanted to
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be. He was invited to join the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where he spent three years. This, he says, provided “a built-in network.” His musical education connected him to some of the 20th century’s most illustrious pianists and teachers. He has performed with the world’s foremost orchestras, and worked with distinguished conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Pinchas Zuckerman and Rafael Payare, the new music director of the San Diego Symphony. Payare’s wife, acclaimed cellist Alisa Weilerstein, is one of Barnatan’s most frequent recital partners; they have toured the U.S. and Europe together. Having seen her play (with her exciting, energetic husband conducting), I can say that she certainly subscribes to Barnatan’s emotionally-charged actor performance style. They will be playing at SummerFest this year, joined by their frequent collaborators, Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan and Scottish percussionist Colin Currie.
Summerfest 2019 Over his career, Barnatan has commissioned and performed works by many contemporary composers. The old and the new, looking back and ahead, is the cornerstone of his first year directing and curating SummerFest. The overarching theme is Transformation, an attempt to answer some of the following questions: How do composers build on what came before them? How does one artform interact with and change another? How does transforming a physical space affect how we experience music? By honoring great compositional masters and experimenting with cross-collaborative performances and immersive experiences, Barnatan wants to create new ways for listeners to enjoy and appreciate chamber music. This year’s SummerFest will be held in the stunning new home of the La Jolla Music Society, the $82 million Conrad Prebys Center for the Performing Arts, named for its major donor, the late local philanthropist. Barnatan thinks "the hall is fantastic.” I was lucky enough to experience the facility on opening night in early April, and to witness Barnatan’s virtuosic, rapid-fire performance of the last movement of Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 2. His play-
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“Artistic transformation sometimes comes about suddenly, through violent revolutions that force artists to create radical new ideas from the ashes. But it can also come about more organically, through evolution. Here in La Jolla, surrounded by musical family and natural beauty, we are in the perfect position to celebrate the peaceful evolutionary process, by which new artist ideas are achieved by building and expanding on older ones. I hope that each concert can be experienced as something of a journey." ing reflected what the Chicago Tribune had once written about him: “His fingers were like perfectly-timed pistons as he attacked coiled-spring rhythms.” Barnatan has always been passionate about artistic cross-pollination. One of his SummerFest innovations is the “Synergy Series,” co-produced with Clara Wu Tsai, which explores connections between chamber music and jazz, visual arts and dance. He performs in all three parts of the Synergy Series. In Series I, “Intersection,” he plays with award-winning jazz vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant and virtuoso jazz pianist Aaron Diehl (August 7). Synergy Series II, “Music at an Exhibition,” finds Barnatan collaborating with polymath visual artist Doug Fitch (August 15). Synergy Series III, called “In Step,” features a new work created by eminent choreographer Mark Morris, set on his Mark Morris Dance Group to the music of Handel (August 21-22). Morris himself is a talented musician, says Barnatan, and “he’s one of the leaders in working with live musicians.” Barnatan chose Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, “one of the busiest American composers, and the most performed living composer,” to be this year’s SummerFest composer-in-residence, and to curate “Takeover @ The JAI: Music from Music,” a two-part series focused on work by living composers (August 11 and 18). “He has worked with all the major orchestras,” says Barnatan. “He chose composers both young and established.” Those concerts will be in The Con-
rad’s smaller, flexible multi-purpose space, named for Joan and Irwin Jacobs (JAI). Between performances, Festival-goers can relax and schmooze in The Conrad’s Wu Tsai garden courtyard. There will be three all-Beethoven concerts, performed by three different quartets, as the first of a two-season series of the complete Beethoven string quartets (August 9, 10, 16). The “Inventions” presentation includes the West coast premiere and La Jolla Music Society co-commission of “Seven Signals” by Australian Brett Dean (August 14). Barnatan is thrilled with the variety of music in the Festival, which showcases work ranging from Bach to Purcell, Dvorak to Ravel, Debussy to Caroline Shaw. “I’m particularly excited about having the chance to explore a single theme over the course of the Festival. Artistic transformation sometimes comes about suddenly, through violent revolutions that force artists to create radical new ideas from the ashes. But it can also come about more organically, through evolution. Here in La Jolla, surrounded by musical family and natural beauty, we are in the perfect position to celebrate the peaceful evolutionary process, by which new artist ideas are achieved by building and expanding on older ones. I hope that each concert can be experienced as something of a journey. “There’s really nothing in the program I’m not excited about,” he continued. “There’s not one performance I’d want to miss myself.” In addition to post-performance talks and musician round-table discussions, the public is invited to certain rehearsals. Amazingly (if you’re not a professional musician, I suppose), the performers only arrive in La Jolla a few days before the Festival begins. Barnatan takes it all in stride. He considers that he lives “a very normal life,” although he spends 50% of his time on the road (“when you keep confusing your body, it stops caring”). He comes to La Jolla directly from another Festival in Aspen. His appointment as Music Director of SummerFest is just for one year. “We’re taking it one year at a time,” he says. “It’s new for them and new for me. But if you’re a responsible curator, you’re already starting to plan for 2020.” The La Jolla Music Society’s 34th SummerFest, with Inon Barnatan as new music director, runs August 2-23. A
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| WINE |
Bias and Prejudice in the World of Spirits BY RABBI JACOB RUPP
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ing Solomon famously said that there is nothing new under the sun. It should not surprise us that the same blinders, predispositions, and close mindedness that plague our society and government institutions are alive and well in the world of wine. Standing at the forefront of the waves of change is San Diego’s own kosher sommelier Andrew Breskin, founder of “Liquid Kosher” and “The Cellar,” who for years has been dancing to the beat of his own drum when it comes to what he drinks and what he challenges his clients to enjoy. You may think that something as trite and personal as what we like to drink should be just that; personal taste, but Andrew has over a decade of experience demonstrating why having an open mind and open heart is where the true fans are made. High end kosher French wine had largely fallen out of favor in 2009 when Andrew began importing his own line from the legendary wine region of Bordeaux. A few companies had attempted to bring about a French revolution in the kosher wine world roughly ten years prior but had been largely unsuccessful. Of the available “fine wine” (bottles above the $60 range) the majority of it was coming from Israel. Not to fall in the same trap as the famed spies in the times of Moses and ridicule the produce of the Holy Land, Andrew would rather say that the quality of wine from Israel at that time was not yet at the level that French winemakers were able to display at the same price point. Why were people buying it? Simple—it was available, and outside of a few selected trained palates, much of the kosher consumers spending that kind of money on a bottle of wine didn’t know what they should be getting for the money. Andrew began the arduous process not only of bringing in the wine, but also educating his consumers about the ins and outs of fine wine. And while he did spend a lot of time outside of the mainstream wine world, his vision paid off in 2015 when French wine became the darling of kosher high-end collectors. Suddenly those early 2000’s bottles that had not been in favor became hot commodities, as did Andrew’s imports. Ever the entrepreneur, Andrew set out to explore new horizons when French wine got hot. He was introduced to a wine maker named Joshua Klapper by California wine making legends, Gabe and Shimon Weiss of Shirah Wines. Klapper, from Timbre Wines in Santa Maria, was classically trained and started making some kosher wine at the request of his father. Joshua met up with a Chabad rabbi in San Luis Obispo and produced a very limited amount of kosher wine. That small amount of wine was enough to convince Andrew that you could actually have a California wine (usually very fruity) that had the restrained flavor, balance, and texture of fine French wine. Andrew jumped at the opportunity to partner with Klapper and Timbre wines, and they produced a limited run of 2017 Rosé and Cabernet Sauvignon. He was so enamored of Klapper’s style that he bought every last bottle of kosher wine that Timbre had ever made. Selling French-influenced California wine to a market that was largely unfamiliar with the style was not a simple feat. As Andrew started pouring his wines for his usual clients and during his routine wine tastings he would conduct around the country, he found a lot of naysayers. It wasn’t that people didn’t want or like his wine, it was that they would initially refuse to try it. The level of close-mindedness was most evident when Andrew was leading a wine tasting at a Pesach program. For those that aren’t familiar, Pesach programs are week long extravaganzas when a company will reserve much or all of a resort and provide amazing activities and program-
ming for the duration of the Passover holiday. The entire experience had been paid for already, and Andrew was out pouring wines when participant after participant would turn down his offer to try his specific kind of wine. “I remember one of the people saying, ‘Oh I don’t like Rosé,’” Andrew recalled. The former attorney turned wine entrepreneur had to use his best negotiation skills to convince the patron that the bottle was already open, so why not just try it. And in a moment that sounded eerily similar to the Dr. Seuss book, “Green Eggs and Ham,” the patron stopped and said, “SAY! This is delicious!” (No, Andrew didn’t ask if he wanted to try it in a boat or on a train.) As was the case with the French wine, the Timbre wines were met with huge success once clients actually started trying it. With the French and California wines rolling, Andrew thought it would be a good idea to revisit his own bias that great high-end wine wasn’t coming out of Israel. He reached out to a well-known winemaker who had spun off from a large winery in Israel and had started producing wine under his own label and cultivated a relationship. Soon the wine maker had agreed to have Andrew import his wines from Israel and roll them out slowly to Andrew’s discerning but revolutionary client base. I couldn’t help but to ask Andrew how he felt when he was trying wines that were still months or years away from becoming popular. More specifically, I was curious about his thought process when he would taste wine that he either didn’t like, or that his wine tasting groups wouldn’t like. “Initially I thought I had to love the wine in order to sell it. But the truth is that once I got used to what my clients would enjoy, I actually
found myself able to offer wines that I may not love but they did. Conversely, if I really liked the wine, I wouldn’t really care if the first test groups didn’t like it. I figured eventually, they would open their minds and come around.” It seems funny that kosher wine has come so far. What was just a few dusty super sweet bottles in the local supermarket a few years ago is now a massive industry that produces world class wines across the world. But even this more recent phenomenon is but a throwback to earlier times in Jewish history when Jews were making world class wines both in Israel and abroad. And against that backdrop, Andrew answered my most directed question. “What’s wrong,” I inquired “with people just liking what they like? Why do you have to bombard them with these ever-changing vintages and varietals?” Andrew took a minute to think. “Look, you can eat peanut butter sandwiches all your life…” he trailed off. “No, it’s like you can eat meatloaf all your life and when you get to the Pearly Gates and they ask you how you liked steak, you’d give them this dumbfounded look and say, ‘Well I don’t know.’ Because just so much exciting stuff is available now, why not be as open minded as possible?” And while I don’t know if steak and meatloaf make it into the discussion we have after 120 years on Earth, I do know that the Talmud teaches us that we will be held accountable for all of the pleasures we neglected to enjoy during our lives as opportunities we missed to enjoy G-d’s creations. So I suppose in that sense, Andrew is doing his best to fulfill a Talmudic dictum and help people not be boring when it comes to what is in their glass at their next Shabbat dinner. A
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s a therapist as well as a writer, I can say with great authority that I have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that our preferences in food tell us something about our personalities. But, as a Jew, I go with my hunches. Trust me, there’s a connection. For example, I hate bananas. I like banana flavoring, banana pops, and banana cake. It’s just the fruit I can’t stand. Now, why should a sane but quirky person hate an innocent yellow hanging food? Simple. It’s suffering an identity crisis. Instead of quenching my lust for some juicy liquid, it’s mushy. This is a fruit? No. Watermelon is a fruit. A cling peach, even a pear is juicy. But a banana, especially with the strings hanging? Before you accuse me, I admit I’m messy, but organized. The thing is, as life is filled with enough “Tsouris Surprises,” (TS) I need fruit to surprise me? Have you ever bitten into a plum or pineapple expecting succulent and sweet, then suddenly your eyebrows stand at right angles? I’ve also had enough with false labeling hoping things (and people) are what they seem to be. The banana isn’t. I have a similar problem with beets. It’s a root that should be a fruit, which means I also dislike borscht, but that’s another story. Now, I could wait for whatever government agency is in charge of naming to get it right. After all, do we care if a tomato is a fruit or veggie? But we’ll upset the World Order, and worse, tick off a government agency. But I digress. In the interest of confounding our un-
derstanding of human nature even further, I present you with my list of what I believe our food preference say about us! If you’re a CHOPPED LIVER PERSON: Chances are you’re gregarious, out-going, and show up at Bar Mitzvahs–even of people you don’t know. Nothing pleases you more than chowing down a little liver on a Ritz topped off by a perfectly round onion–and chatting with everyone. You can also be a noodge, as, face it, while it’s Jewish pate, our presentation could turn off, say, a Gentile. This you have no patience for and might follow them around saying “Just try it! A bite!” which will make people run from you–along with your liver breath. If you’re a HERRING PERSON: This depends upon whether you like your herring with or without sour cream. If you’re a pickled herring person you’re probably a purist, no-nonsense pragmatist with maybe a little bite. You have no patience for fusses or musses in your herring or in your life. Should someone you love, God forbid, have a problem, you’re the one who says: “You’re overreacting!” which also means, you’re probably not too popular. If, however, you’re a sour cream herring lover, you can handle even the most difficult tsouris–by covering the situation with a little fat. For example, should your nephew want to study professional surfing, you’ll tell your sister, “Listen mamala? At least he’ll get a tan.” Should
you be a person who uses the original herring or adds mayonnaise–you’re a Gentile. If you’re a LATKE PERSON: If you eat latkes a lot all year round, mamalas, not only are you probably a zaftig, but chances are, ambition may not be first on your “to-do” list. You may have a tendency to lie there, and a little dripping could be involved. If you’re married for example, your mate might hock you to put in for head shoe salesman, but you’re happy not having to do inventory. You could also be addicted to schmaltz–in your food, and in your feelings. Sentimental you are, which could make you the family historian, the one who keeps photos of the great-bubbes or zaydes when they were kinder in Kielce, and, while seeing on Facebook a photo of your cousin in front of the Wailing Wall, you’re the one wailing. If you’re a TRUE STUFFED DERMA/KISHKE PERSON: Like the original stuffed derma, you like your Kishke to be made from true kishke– and you feel “the false” down to your kishkes. More, you have no taste for the tasteless. As with kishkes which must be cased in a cow’s intestine, in life the artificial gives you acid reflux. Unmasking phonies may mean your family and colleagues either respect you, fear you, or “forget” your invitation to the Purim party. While you’re sensitive and this may hurt you, nu, what can you do? You can’t help but call it as you Sivan / Tammuz 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 47
see it or risk being on a permanent Gaviscon IV. The good news is, Grand Juries adore you. More, when you’re in your element, say an authentic group of aliens, you’re the life of the party. If you’re a CHAZZERAI PERSON: Focus is not your thing. The opposite of the KISHKE PERSON, you live for junk–in your food, and in your life, where chances are, your stuff is so scattered Sherlock couldn’t find your tax return. Bargains– any bargain–gives you such a high, you feel like dancing a Hora on the Brooklyn Bridge, scarfing down potato chip pizza. So the used sofa on Craigslist is missing a leg, but you like the stripe. You’ll get it fixed you tell your mate which you won’t. No. It will lean there until the coming of the Messiah, along with the vintage Pinto you got– without a cylinder, and the clothes that fit no one that are hanging on the exercise bike that you bought in that new thrift shop which you never use. Chances are, your “collections” are not only making your mate meshugge, but your brain has morphed into schmaltz. If you’re a KNISH or BLINTZ PERSON: You love a mystery! Chances are you’re a “hider.” You have “secret compartments” everywhere, including your computer, and like George on Seinfeld, if one looked under your desk, you’d have a whole world you could live on in case of God forbid, nuclear war. Ah, but you also like the unknown! Black holes fascinated you. More, you delight in saying to the blintz person when he asks what filling, “Surprise me!” and chances are, you collect things like Pez dispensers or Russian nesting dolls. With this new insight, I welcome any additions, subtractions or multiplications. More, feel free to join my Jewish Food Personality movement as a critical adjunct to understanding Jewish behavior! A
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| HEALTH |
A New Look at Cannabis Customers BY JACQUELINE BULL
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eemingly overnight, cannabis changed from a taboo secret to dominating billboards all over town. You can even get it delivered to your door. One of the biggest growing demographics for new cannabis customers is retirees. For Jewish brothers Mark and Brian Davis who co-founded Mozen, Jewish seniors make up a significant portion of their customers. “When I was working in LA, I met my wife Melissa who was from San Diego and we got engaged and moved down here seventeen years ago, got married at Congregation Beth Am. And three kids later, we are pretty involved in the Jewish community here,” Brian Davis said. Brian was a casual cannabis smoker in college and felt he knew a little bit about it, but when he went into a dispensary here in San Diego, he felt overwhelmed. “I didn’t understand what the terminologies were or understand what these strains were and I thought I knew a little bit about cannabis, but I just found it really confusing. And most of the brands seem to speak more to the “Cheech and Chong” Bob Marley kind of demographic or was very high-end medical and there was nobody speaking in a real simple way to people like me who is an adult professional, a parent with kids, that had real issues. I have sleep issues, I deal with stress and anxiety, I’m dealing with pain and there was nobody communicating that in a real simple way in a brand,” he said. And how does it reduce pain? “Pain is caused by inflammation and cannabis reduces inflammation. Every cell in your body has a cannabis receptor because 50 SDJewishJournal.com July 2019
the body naturally makes molecules that are very similar to cannabinoids that are released in the runner’s high. When you use cannabis, that’s why you see these effects,” Cat Goldberg, Director of Community Engagement said. “Runner’s high” is one of the more wellknown examples of an endorphin creating a sense of calm and euphoria. New findings suggest it may not be the endorphins that are causing that result, but actually something in the body called endocannabinoids. Endocannabinoids are involved in pregnancy, appetite, pain-sensation, mood, memory and in the facilitation of cannabis from smoking, consuming, etc. “We know that cannabis isn’t going to cure your insomnia, it is not going to cure your anxiety, but it is one tool that we can use to deal with those real issues in a healthier way than a prescription drug or alcohol or things that people that I know in my community were using on a daily basis–a prescription of Xanax or a prescription of Ambien. We saw cannabis as a much healthier option, but do it in a way that was simple and easy for them to understand,” Brian said. Brian and his brother came up with the name Mozen which is the Hebrew name for balance. And helping others find their balance is the root of their philosophy. They designed their vaporizers to have simple names that could clearly communicate the effect each would have. They have two sativa dominant vapes that are more energetic and uplifting: Seize the Day, and Power Up. And they have two indica-focused vapes that are more relaxing: Rest & Chill
and Goodnight. “And so one of the first questions we ask people is ‘What’s your challenge? What’s your issue?’ And we created those four SKU’s to really clearly help them with those specific issues,” Brian said. Starting from the standpoint of what are you dealing with and what effect do you want is a much different approach to a dispensary that has numerous options. “You walk in, there is a million different products, there is like eleven varieties of vaporizers, there is just so much and if you are starting out, it can be really overwhelming. And the people who tend to work in dispensaries are on the younger side. And people of a certain age may not really want to open up about the issues they are having like menopause or sexual health or things like that,” Cat said. “Brian and Mark figured out a really good solution to that problem which is basically go into people’s homes and do tupperware esque parties where we call them ‘A Conversation About Cannabis’ and we come in and educate them about things like how the pain cream works and how it doesn’t get you high or figuring out the right vaporizer for what you are trying to do that day. We also serve hemp CBD water, so that’s non-psychoactive entirely, but it is just to kind of get people’s feet wet and they have been really well-received. It is just a way for especially women to kind of open up and ask these questions. And there is usually a lot of laughter and you know they smoked in the ‘60s and ‘70s and they just don’t know what the deal is today.” “[Brian and Mark’s] mom has been really
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helpful and hosted a couple of these parties. We’ve had a big Jewish crowd come through. And they complain about their aches and pains more than–I mean we’re Jewish, it is what we do–to hear the sense of relief that these people are finding...And it is just that they have been suffering and they don’t know there is a solution.” Cat emphasized the parties are not just a Mozen sales pitch. They aim to open up discussions about what may be right for their attendees and that may not be one of their products. They offer help to customize a routine for them. “Not everybody wants to inhale cannabis smoke, they might want to use a topical for their joint pain or drink the beverage or they might want to eat something and everyone has their different preferences,” Brian said. And these other non-vaporizer products are where they expect to expand the business. Brian explained that he sees Mozen as more of a lifestyle brand than a strictly vaporizer business. Staying focused on serving their demographic has informed their decisions like offering mild dosages and including how-to instructions with their product. “They are searching for alternatives to what their doctors are prescribing them and they read a lot and they look at the news and see the health benefits of CBD and CBD really mixed with THC,” Brian said. They have designed the products and included a card with directions on how to inhale, how long they should wait for the effects and it will even shut off if the user continues to keep inhaling to control the dosage. “People thought we were crazy because we were taking this THC percentage down to 40% from 80%. They were like, ‘People will hit it half as hard,’ and I’m like, ‘No you don’t understand, these are parents, they have real lives and they don’t want to be sitting on the couch watching ‘The Big Lebowski,’ and eating chips all night,” Brian said. “I think that people are so surprised to learn that you can use cannabis during the day and still have energy and be focused and alert and clear-headed, so it is just about debunking some of those myths and I think by having these conversations, it really does start to remove the stigma. I think starting in the Jewish community is who we are, it is the best place to start,” Cat said. A
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JFS and Federation are Working Together To Advocate for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program BY JACQUELINE BULL
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alifornia Governor Gavin Newsom put 15 million in his May Budget revision for the nonprofit security grant program. The California nonprofit security grant program was established in 2015 and since 2015, they have spent a total of 4.5 million. Bill AB-1538, introduced by assemblymen Brian Maienschein and Jesse Gabriel would codify the program “to improve the physical security of nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of violent attacks or hate crimes due to ideology, beliefs, or mission.” “In past years the governor would just kind of fund it, but it was never really defined and so this is to define and hopefully thereafter it will be funded each year. That bill right now has passed out of the assembly here in California and is flipped over to the Senate, so it still hasn’t made the rounds for the governor to sign the bill, but it is on its way. So there is still advocacy work to ensure for it to be enacted,” Michael Hopkins, CEO of Jewish Family Service San Diego, said. The advocacy work is where JFS and the Federation have banded together to represent the San Diego Jewish community. “All of the Jewish organizations are concerned about the safety of our institutions, so this budget line would provide potential significant funding to help our organizations improve their physical security. Our effort in this regard is to stand alongside JFS
to advocate our elected officials to approve this budget request and codify the request in AB-1548 which essentially establishes this nonprofit security grant program, so we’re here to stand alongside and represent the Jewish community to advocate for the release of these funds,” Michael Jeser, President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, said. If the bill passes, this would differentiate California’s nonprofit security grant program from the federal government’s and expand what the grant could be used for. The California program had been previously modeled on the federal program through homeland security. “JFS, for example, has in the past received two homeland security grants. They could only be used for capital items. We used them for cameras and alarms, fencing. The new California grant program permits ongoing expenses like security guards to be an allowable expense. So that is very different from the federal government, the federal government will not reimburse for any operating expense, but the California program will. That is really a distinct difference and so the codification of the California law allows for the nuances in California. Security guards, for example, are really critical as we know many synagogues, JCC, JFS all have employed security guards and so those expenses are eligible to be reimbursed,” Hopkins said.
Michael Jeser, President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County.
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technical assistance is going to be invaluable.”) “Assuming the funds do become available, the Federation is very interested in exploring ways of helping the community access the dollars. We’re interested in exploring ways to help make that possible and support organizations in their efforts...This is a great opportunity for the community to harden its security,” Jeser said. And for bigger organizations like JFS, security has been literally built into how they do business. “Security was built into the design of the new campus, so our property now has a perimeter fence and dozens and dozens of cameras, we do have armed guards on our campus and at our migrant shelter and are spending over a half a million dollars a year providing security at our sites. So that is a pretty big number. "Spending statewide millions of dollars or for local nonprofits and synagogues to be spending tens of thousands of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars is unfortunate. I mean, it is our new normal. It is our new reality. When we think about in our operating budget, our first half a million doesn’t support food or individuals who are experiencing poverty or doesn’t strengthen our programming, but in fact goes to cover just creating a safe environment for our clients, staff and volunteers. It is not about being hopeful, it is about being pragmatic, it is the cost of doing business in the times that we are in. “And unfortunately with security, it seldom goes in the other direction. We layer on levels of security so whatever we are spending today on security, you can be certain in five years or ten years that number is going to be much greater. It just becomes a higher cost of trying to serve our community,” Hopkins said. Jeser expressed being grateful that the governor put this forward and that witnessing the rise of anti-Semitism and hate crimes, the community will appreciate the additional support to feel safe. “Some of this is about making our con-
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The bill has passed on the assembly side and is now in the Senate. Hopkins said he was hopeful that the bill is going to pass, but he expects it will be carried over into the fall. “We already heard back from Senator Brian Jones who we met with in Sacramento... we got a note from Senator Brian Jones who represents the Poway area who is particularly receptive; understandably, you can imagine why he would be so receptive. There are other geographic regions in our county with representatives, so we’ve encouraged people to reach out to their representatives to support the passing of this bill,” Jesser said. And if the bill does pass, who might receive grants from this program? “I think the language in terms of ‘high risk for violent attacks or hate crime due to ideology, beliefs or mission’ is really clear, so that is everything from the Jewish community to the Islamic community to the LGBT community. We’ve seen an increase in the amount of hate crimes exhibited towards the transgender community. “I would say around the state and specifically within the Jewish community, a lot of small synagogues thought they were off the radar. And obviously the deadly attack at the Chabad in Poway is a wake up call for all of us that you don’t just have to be JCC or JFS to have to have thought about your training and security and planning. All of us need to strengthen our approach to security. So these dollars are really critical, particularly for smaller synagogues–to give you some ballpark numbers, I think that even one guard year-round by the time you are all done, it could easily be one hundred thousand dollars–and so for a small synagogue that maybe has a budget of less than one million, spending that amount of money for one guard is extraordinary. So clearly, they are going to need this expense,” Hopkins said. Hopkins said he has a sense of who would apply and that it was his understanding that the Federation and Leichtag would want to help synagogues in preparing their grant applications. (“For a lot of smaller synagogues that maybe don’t regularly write grants, that
Michael Hopkins, CEO of JFS San Diego, at the Poway vigil.
gregants and our members and our families feel safe walking into houses of worship and Jewish schools and Jewish centers...Because of the rise in violent crimes against faithbased communities and other minority groups, I think this makes us feel supported, it makes us feel the country and the government are listening to our concerns and we are grateful that they are moving quickly on this,” Jeser said. Both Michael Jeser and Michael Hopkins spoke at the Poway vigil which saw about 4000 people show up in support. “I’ve been in San Diego for nine months and I’ve been very proud of how this community has responded and I’m proud to be a part of it,” Jeser said. “You hope people never become desensitized and they continue to be vigilant and tight as a Jewish community. Coming together not only in times of crisis, but in times of celebration like we did around Israelfest. It is a painful time for the Jewish community and at the same time we are strong, we are resilient and we continue to come together,” Jeser said. The full text of Assembly Bill 1548 California State Nonprofit Security Grant Program is available online. A
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FOOD ADDICTIONS AND EATING DISORDERS IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY “No matter how much I eat, I never feel full. Food can’t fill what’s missing in my life.” Kylie Ora Lobell (Nov. 2016 Aish.com) Being fit and trim has become synonymous with beauty and success in western society. We are bombarded with advertising encouraging us to diet, lose weight and “look good”. As a result food addictions and eating disorders have reached epidemic proportions in a culture obsessed with thinness. Fortunately and unfortunately food is a central component of Jewish culture.
Although food addictions and eating disorders are not specific to any particular cultures it has had a significant impact
good starting point for many people who are struggling with food and weight issues.
in recent years on both religious and secular Jews. And the preoccupation with food and eating related pressures are exacerbated during Jewish holidays.
Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is effective in treating adult anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorders. It is a structured treatment that focuses on establishing healthier eating patterns and exploring the factors that perpetuate the disorder.
There are three prevalent eating disorders. Bulimia Nervosa is when overeating episodes are followed by purging and restrictive eating in an obsessive effort to lose weight. Anorexia Nervosa is when a person starves themselves out of a distorted belief that they are overweight. Many times anorexics require medical attention due to dangerously low body weight. More recently a third disorder has been added to the diagnostic and statistical manual. Binge Eating Disorder features recurrent food binges without subsequent purging episodes.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is another modality that has been successful with adult eating disorders and assists clients in better managing and regulating their emotions with healthy coping strategies. For child and adolescent eating disorders Family Based Treatment appears to be effective and is aimed at treating the youngster as well as strengthening and improving family relations and dynamics.
Bringing Sensitivity to the Mental Health Needs of our Community
Our holiday gatherings are filled with culinary delights. Shabbat is a weekly opportunity to treat our friends and family to the best of foods. Many in the Jewish tradition equate food with love and caring.
As with most challenges, if you are struggling with a food addiction or an eating disorder the first step is to recognize that there is a problem. Next is to reach out and ask for help from a practitioner you can trust to share your story. Wishing you good luck on your road to recovery.
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What are the treatments for eating disorders? In more serious cases the plan can involve a combination of psychotherapy, nutrition education, medical monitoring and medication. Psychotherapy can be a
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Seacrest Foundation to Hold 28th Annual Golf, Tennis and Spa Day Fundraiser BY THE SEACREST FOUNDATION
2018 Tournament First Place Golf Team: Herb Schaer, Charles Sher, Robert Meyer, Devin Chodorow and Charles Shapiro.
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ach year, Seacrest Foundation hosts a special event to raise money for the people living at Seacrest Village who need fitnancial assistance. The upcoming 28th Annual Golf, Tennis and Spa Day–or “Take a Swing for Seniors”–will take place at both the Del Mar Country Club and Rancho Valencia Spa on July 15, 2019. Seacrest Foundation’s “Guardians of San Diego” committee organizes and plans this annual event. “Seacrest Foundation is the beneficiary and organizer of the event,” explained Anna Johnston, the Foundation’s events manager. “Guardians of San Diego is a volunteer committee of Seacrest Foundation. And then the Gumpert Foundation is the leading sponsor of this event.” Seacrest Foundation supports Seacrest Village and Seacrest at Home with grants of over 2.5 million dollars each year to fund various scholarships. Holocaust survivors are
always a priority for receiving assistance. Seacrest Foundation will grant the funds raised at this annual event to Seacrest Village to be used for the provision of financial assistance to Seacrest residents who otherwise would not be able to afford the cost of their care. The money will pay for housing, meals, nursing care and more. This event typically accounts for 10% of the funds provided to Seacrest Village by Seacrest Foundation. Seacrest at Home is the newest affiliate of Seacrest and allows people to remain in their own homes while assistance is brought to them. “There must be scholarship money for that also, as it is a growing need in our community,” said Robert Haimsohn, President of Seacrest Foundation. “Take a Swing for Seniors” itself has gone through a steady amount of change demographics-wise over the years; 20% of participants would have been younger than sixty, now 20% are younger than forty. Seacrest
Foundation has been striving to attract a younger pool of participants to the event over the past few years, and provide a “rising leader” price to those below-40ers (just $250 for an individual golf entry). Seacrest Foundation has attracted this younger demographic by adding new activities and programs to the event. While the golf course and its “best ball shamble” tournament in particular have proven to be a considerable draw for attendees of all ages (around 116 people are expected to come and try to get under par), the addition of tennis and the spa have also brought many new attendees to the event. This year, the event will be adding another brand-new sport, pickleball, which NBC news has deemed “the fastest-growing sport you’ve never heard of.” The sport is essentially a combination of ping-pong, tennis and racquetball, involving hitting a wiffle ball with a ping-pong paddle on a miniature Sivan / Tammuz 5779 SDJewishJournal.com 57
Guardians Tournament Planning Committee: Earl Altshuler, Cindy Bloch, Devin Chodorow, Mary Epsten, Robert Haimsohn and Marty Ehrlich.
tennis court. Franco Castejon, head of tennis at the Del Mar Country Club, will be giving attendees lessons on how to play the sport. “We are going to have a clinic, followed by a round-robin tournament,” said Anna. “That way, people of all levels can come and join and they can learn and play.” Seacrest said the addition of pickleball gives participants an alternative to tennis (that’s also easier on the knees!). Diversity in programs, it turns out, has been the key to expanding attendance. “The golf tournament has been the main focus,” said Robert. “We’ve expanded; between golf and spa, we’ve probably added between twelve to sixteen participants to support ‘the home.’ And there’s a part of the population that may not play tennis but they’d love to go and support the home and get a spa treatment.” “It’s more inclusive. The golf event is no longer, quote, a golf event. It can almost be, not a family event, but it’s a community event or a couple’s event, where one can play golf, and the other can take advantage of the spa,” Robert said. “We now have 30 men and women attending the spa,” said Anna. Anyone interested in partaking in the spa’s services will get to choose between treatments such as massages, facials and citrus body polishes for as long as they want, considering that “Take a Swing for Seniors” 58 SDJewishJournal.com July 2019
is an all-day event. In addition, the spa includes a pool, and has a daily offering of classes. “We’ve attracted thirty percent more people to support Seacrest Foundation by adding the spa as an option. And these folks will also come to the silent auction and join us for a lovely dinner and awards ceremony,” Robert said. “The educational component for all attending any aspect of the event is important. Attendees learn about Seacrest and the services offered and then communicate this to their friends. They become part of our PR team, if you look at it that way,” Robert said. “The silent auction is huge,” Anna said. “We reach out to many people in the community for various auction items, and a lot of people are excited to support us with gifts.” The silent auction features items donated by a list of at least seventy sponsors, such as tickets to Padres games, a week in Kuai, golf packages, and a brunch cruise. “A lot of the residents and their families support us by contributing items,” Anna said. “Our sponsors are very important. While we give them brand recognition at the event, they provide funding and send participants to ‘Take a Swing for Seniors.’ Sending participants is very important and helps Seacrest in the long run, as people then spread by word-of-mouth the good work being done with the funds raised. This then attracts
more people for next year’s Golf, Tennis and Spa Day. They may not be completely aware of what we do,” Anna said, “then they get into the fold, which is really great. And sometimes, people just bring others to the auction and dinner, so you can come to just that portion and join the rest of your group.” Next year, Seacrest Foundation hopes to expand their activities with more people, estimating that between pickleball and the spa, they can attract another thirty participants. “As the location is not easy to change, we are constrained by the capacities of both locations. Maybe there’ll be a waiting list, I don’t know. It’s not like our gala, where it’s almost unlimited,” said Robert. "[Take a Swing for Seniors] is a fun activity. Everything is casual, you can come in shorts, have lunch, do a sport activity or spa and enjoy the day and evening knowing you are helping to provide for those in need.” “As we continue to seek the most progressive ways to meet the needs of our seniors, we are grateful for the continued support of our dynamic Jewish community. Together we continue to honor those who need us today while we plan for those who will need us tomorrow,” said Devin Chodorow, chair of “Take a Swing for Seniors.” For those interested in participating in the event, contact Anna Johnston, Seacrest Foundation’s Event Manager, at (760) 516-2003. A
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Rachel Wenitsky is the Jewish queen of satire VIA JTA NEWS, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON ALMA BY ARIELLE KAPLAN
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achel Wenitsky’s comedy can be categorized by four themes: anxiety, feminism, poop and France. Oh, and buttholes (I promised her I’d include that one).
Since her breakout role as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” in high school, the Jewish comedian has conquered all creative mediums. She’s half of the talented quirky comedy folk duo “Friends Who Folk,” the head writer for Gimlet Media’s “Story Pirates” podcast and former deputy editor (and podcast host) of “Reductress,” everyone’s favorite satirical women’s website. She’s dabbled in improv, musical sketch groups and even snags the occasional television role. But, subjectively speaking, the 30-year-old’s–“spiritually almost 29”–best work of art is her Twitter account. Wenitsky first caught my eye in February with a 27-second clip that made me howl with laughter. The viral video jabs at men who capitalize on feminism, and it’s just one of the many gems sprinkled in her feed. Whether she’s making fun of her Jewish mother, men’s fashion or “hot” women dancing, Wenitsky’s satirical shorts are always relevant, always relatable and always hysterical. I caught up with Wenitsky over the phone to talk about the inspiration behind her golden videos, how Judaism has influenced her comedy and that time she made her bat mitzvah Torah reading a pop diva concert. You’ve conquered basically all of the creative mediums. You sing, act, podcast and write. Is there one you’re drawn to most? Oh my G-d. What if I was like, born wanting to be a podcaster? I think that I enjoy doing all of the above, and I love that. We’re living in a world where you can do everything and you don’t have to choose, but I love singing. I love music, and I think that no matter what I’m doing, I can always find a way to bring music into it. Somehow I just can’t ever get away from my musical theater background. I was in “The Wizard of Oz” 60 SDJewishJournal.com July 2019
my senior year of high school and I will be coming down from that peak for the rest of my life. My office is obsessed with the video short on Twitter where you “get in on the fun trend” of a female character making a joke about respecting women in order to be flirty. Was it inspired by a particular character? Ah, well, you know, it’s kind of a controversial video. I posted it because I had seen a bunch of TV shows and movies in a row where it felt like there was this reaction to the feminist movement. There’s this kind of capitalism of feminism, where writers were really trying to put in these new characters that were facilitating the trope of women in movies and TV that we’ve seen for so many years, but then they were freaking out that people were going to call them out for not writing three-dimensional female characters, so they were giving them some feminist dialogue to fill the gaps. But the dialogue was often really reductive and not really saying anything. I saw this over and over again, and then there was a pretty big example of it in the “Spider Man Homecoming” trailer, so I made that video, which in hindsight was probably too close to the “Spider Man” trailer because a lot of Zendaya fans started coming at me on Twitter, calling me out as if she had written the script. It was pretty scary because I love Zendaya and I’m a huge fan. I love Marvel movies, I love superhero movies. It wasn’t a call-out of any of the women involved in any of those movies. It was just this trope I was seeing over and over again, these sort of one-dimensional characters
that they’ll give these lines to that are like, “You’re just saying that to get in my pants,” and then they go, “Just kidding! I’m so flirty.” It just feels very male gaze-y. So that’s what I was commenting on. It’s just a lazy way to make a character. On a Sunday night during “Game of Thrones” you dropped, “Hey Did You Hear You Died?” Tell me about the inspiration behind it. That was inspired by everybody in my family. Truly. It came from a particular conversation at my family’s Passover seder. Everyone was going around and doing a rundown of who had died.
or if I’m being too selfish. It’s purely joyful, and about other people, not about myself. So everything we do is based on an idea that was submitted by a kid, and since working there over the past eight years I’ve learned that kids are so much funnier than adults are. I could never come up with something as funny as what these kids send us every day. How has Judaism–if at all–influenced your comedy? Great question. You know, I think about this a lot because I love being Jewish, and I’m not religious. I was raised in a very traditional, Reform family. I had a bat mitzvah– Wait. What was your theme?
Oh, classic Jewish dinner discussion.
It was “Rachel’s Starry Night.”
Oh, so classic! My mom does it, my grandma does it, my aunts do it. Everyone does it. And I do think it is a very Jewish thing. I feel like Jewish people have a close relationship with death and a morbid fascination with it. Maybe it’s because we’ve been in so many situations where so many of us were dying and we wanted to remember and keep track of them, and then it becomes part of the gossip mill. But it is truly a discussion at every meal, and at every holiday. But then people were responding to the video like, “This is my Welsh Catholic uncle” and “This is my Puerto Rican grandmother,” so maybe it’s just a universal experience that we’re all obsessed with death and dying. But at every Jewish holiday we’re like, this terrible, terrible thing happened to us and we’re not going to let it go, even if it happened thousands of years ago. And now we’re going to eat.
You’re a Van Gogh fan? LOL, interestingly enough, no. I didn’t pick my theme, I wasn’t like obsessed with “Starry Night” when I was a kid. It was a theme that was chosen by a designer who put together the decorations for my party. I was going through a period of my life where I actually did feel a little more religious, insofar as I was like, “I’m primarily excited about my haftarah and my Torah portion, and that party can be up to you.” I think I was mostly doing that because I didn’t really have any friends and I didn’t want to get too excited. It was spring break and like 50 percent of the kids couldn’t go, so I was like, “I’m just going to focus a lot on like, singing as many rifts as possible in my Torah portion, and just really making this a pop diva concert.”
Is the song you wrote, “Everyone At This Party Is Mad at Me,” inspired by yourself?
So I’m not really religious, but I love being Jewish. I love the traditions of Judaism. I feel like we are a diasporic people, and we’re so scattered, and we’ve been forced out of so many places for so many thousands of years that, you know, my ties to my ancestors are through religious customs. I love going home for the holidays, and I love openly and very strongly identifying as Jewish. And because of that, everything I’ve ever done is funneled through that prism. I grew up being shown the Marx Brothers and Gilda Radner, and there were a lot of Jewish comedians that were really influential to me. I am the result of all of those influences.
No, I’m actually perfect. I have no anxiety and I’m incredible in social situations. Yes, 100 percent it was inspired by me. I feel like everybody has a little bit of anxiety in social settings. I am really interested in how that anxiety manifests when you’re around people who love you very much and people who you shouldn’t be anxious around. I think it’s very relatable. Like, having dinner with one of my best friends and then the next day, or that night, I’ll be like, “Oh G-d, I said all the wrong things.” And this is like, my best friend! It’s that type of anxiety that is so relatable, but it’s such a waste of time in so many ways. Was writing it cathartic for your anxiety? I think so. But even more than that, what I like about writing personal stuff and putting it out on the internet–which, the internet can be such a cesspool–is that you can put it on Twitter, and so many people are like, “I feel the exact same way!” and “This is me” and “I can relate to this!” and that can feel really nice. You know, just reaching out to people and collectively being like, “This is also my experience!” is a good thing, and a positive about the internet. You’re the head writer of “Story Pirates,” a Gimlet Media podcast for kids. What have you learned since making content for kids, and what’s it been like? “Story Pirates” has pretty much been the thing I turn to if I’m feeling down about what I’m doing. It’s just something I can always return to if I feel like I’ve gotten too big of an ego
Amazing. OK, back to comedy and your Jewish identity.
I also think because of how depressing so much of our history has been, comedy has always been so important within Judaism, and I think that also has fed my instincts. What would you tell a Jewish girl reading this interview right now? Hmmm, let me gather my thoughts so I don’t sound like a dum-dum. I’ve just always been inspired by people who are really open about their identity and about Jewish issues. And I think that right now especially, we’re seeing a rise of anti-Semitism and it can feel very scary. I think all the time about the whole Jewish community, and I hope that all of us are using our positions of privilege to lift up other voices and help out marginalized groups and keep fighting the good fight. Beautiful. You didn’t sound like a dum-dum. Thank G-d. A
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“As You Like It” playing at The Old Globe. The La Jolla Playhouse continues its summer season with “The Luckiest,” a new play about a fiercely independent young lady forced to deal with a shattering diagnosis. The play will remain at the Potiker Theater through July 28. The plot of this world premiere is funny, tender and emotionalyinsightful. The San Diego Symphony’s Pops season at the Embarcadero Marina continues on July 4, when Lyle Lovett and his Large Band celebrates America with an eclectic mix of Americana, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues. The Symphony will not appear on this program, but the fireworks show will light up the sky. The Doo Wop Project is on tap for July 5, with some of the greatest hits in American pop and rock history. The Midtown Men (stars from the original Broadway cast of “Jersey Boys”) is slated for July 6, followed on July 7 by Dvorak’s New World Symphony, conducted by Francesco Lecce-Chong. “Legendary Women’s Voices: An Evening with Cynthia Erivo” arrives July 12, with songs by the most famous female singers of all time. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” will be projected on the big screen–accompanied live by the symphony orchestra on–July 13–14. The action moves to Symphony Hall on July 19 for “Galaxy Quest” in concert, followed on July 20 by “Back to the Future” in concert.
“The Book of Mormon” at Broadway San Diego. The Globe is unveiling a new musical on July 6. “The Tale of Despereaux” (based on the animated film) is a beguiling piece that will amuse audiences of all ages through Aug. 11. The production abounds with stunning stage effects and beautiful music, and its message of optimism is sure to make it a family favorite. Legendary comedian Steve Martin will be showing off another hilarious work at the Globe on July 27. “The Underpants”–a riotously funny farce, featuring a bored new bride and her uptight bureaucratic husband–will delight local audiences through Aug. 25. Broadway-San Diego will bring “Miss Saigon” back to the Civic Theater for a fascinating run July 9–14. This revival is a stunning spectacle with a magnificent score. Following on July 23–28, look for another staging of “The Book of Mormon” to attract audiences in droves. This blockbuster is always a sellout, so don’t wait to snare a seat.
North Coast Repertory Theater is introducing a world premiere by the creators of “Guys and Dolls.” Aptly titled “Another Roll of the Dice,” the new musical will try to capture the same magic as the original by using three classic stories by Damon Runyon and intertwining some classic Frank Loesser songs. The show will take over the troupe’s Solana Beach home July 10 through Aug. 4. NCR will feature The Peter Sprague Trio on “Congas and Bongos: Celebrating Mongo Santamaria and July 15 as part of its Variety Nights series. Jack (Mr. Bongo) Costanzo”–a musical salute to the Latin Cygnet Theater will bring the rollicking hit musical comedy percussionist pioneers–will take place at the Embarcadero “Rock of Ages” to its Old Town stage July 2 through Aug. on July 25. “Hooray for Hollywood: A Night at the Oscars” will 25. The show takes audiences back to the 1980s era of big feature music and film clips July 26–27, with Ted Sperling bands, big hair, and big egos. on the podium. The Pops rounds out the month on July 28 The Lamb’s Players is taking on “The ‘80s Greatest Hits”–a when “Common with the San Diego Symphony” performs a sentimental journey through the music, dance, and fashions one-night stand, featuring the three-time Grammy winning of the 1980s. The lively musical will stay put through Aug. 11. hip-hop artist. The Timken Museum is hosting artist-in-residence Roman de The Old Globe’s summer Shakespeare season is off to a Salvo through Aug. 25. During that time, visitors will be able to splendid start with “As You Like It.” The charming romantic watch the artist create a new sculpture, titled “Electric Picnic.” comedy–with its delightful mix of eccentric characters and a magical forest–will make merry on the outdoor Festival The Museum of Art is highlighting works by Mexican sculptor Javier Marin. His intriguing pieces feature human body parts, Stage through July 21. heads, and powerful naked forms to explore the meaning of
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Roman de Salvo at The Timken Museum. humanity. Also on exhibit is a photographic exhibition, “Alfred Eisenstaedt: Life & Legacy,” a collection by one of the greats in photography. The newest exhibition at the Art Museum is “Art and Empire: The Golden Age of Spain,” a collection of more than 100 works by leading artists from Spain and its territories. Among the masters on display are Velazquez, Rubens, and El Greco. The Museum of Contemporary Art’s downtown location will feature “Marnie Weber: Songs that Never Die and Other Stories,” a collection of sculptures and photographs by an artist from Los Angeles’ post-punk scene. The exhibition will be on view through Nov. 3. Birch Aquarium is highlighting a brand new permanent exhibition, “Seadragons & Seahorses,” 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. The Reuben Fleet Science Center will be showing a new film, “Superpower Dogs,” (which showcases the bravery and prowess of some of the world’s most remarkable dogs) in addition to “Great Barrier Reef” 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 is captivating audiences with “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 another attraction, along with “National Geographic: 50 Greatest Landscapes,” the newest photographic 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 film, “Flight of the Butterflies.” 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. The Museum of Man (open during a seismic retrofit) is showcasing “Cannibals: Myth & Reality” and “PostSecret.” A
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the news MAZON Welcomes Government Aid to Puerto Rico and Condemns its Lateness MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger expressed gratitude that the President signed into law a $19.1 billion disaster relief package, which includes $900 million in critical funding for Puerto Rico’s nutrition assistance and community development block grants. Passage of this disaster aid package was an advocacy priority for MAZON. “While we are heartened that the funds will now be available for Puerto Rico, the needless delays for critical disaster aid is shameful,” said Abby J. Leibman, President & CEO of MAZON. “It is unconscionable that Puerto Rico has been denied life-saving nutrition benefits because of a lack of political will. All individuals must have access to the resources they need to put food on the table. While MAZON applauds this moment, it is long overdue and is but one step forward in addressing widespread food insecurity nationwide and the unfair treatment of Puerto Rico.” MAZON has been advocating on behalf of hungry families in Puerto Rico and working with lawmakers and partners to ensure that urgently needed nutrition benefits were included in the final funding package.
Chabad of Downtown Moved Locations Chabad of Downtown moved a few blocks from their 308 G street location to 419 W G Street. They held an open house Shavuos on June 9th to commemorate the holiday and the new location.
Ner Tamid Synagogue Welcomes New Rabbi On July 1st, Ner Tamid Synagogue welcomed Rabbi Sammy Seid as its new spiritual leader. Its rabbi of 11 years accepted a position in Michigan. Rabbi Sammy received his ordination and MA of Rabbinic Studies from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, a school that is part of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Rabbi Sammy and his family to our community. His ideas, enthusiasm and approach to modern Conservative Judaism merge perfectly with our vision of Ner Tamid
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JFS Named Nonprofit of the Year On June 5, Jewish Family Service of San Diego was recognized as the Nonprofit of the Year by the 78th State Assembly District for its efforts in assisting migrants at the border seeking asylum within the United States. “The example set by Jewish Family Service has reflected a true sense of values and provided inspiration for our region,” said Assemblymember Todd Gloria when he announced the recognition, as quoted in The Times of San Diego. “Their leadership role with the Rapid Response Network, providing humanitarian assistance to thousands of asylum-seeking refugees, not only gives shelter, but also helps avoid a health and safety crisis in San Diego,” he said. Led by JFS, the Rapid Response Network has helped thousands of displaced migrants find shelter with friends and relatives elsewhere in the United States. Gloria noted that JFS also “stepped forward to provide sanctuary for the grieving” following both local and national gun violence tragedies. JFS CEO Michael Hopkins and Board Chair Marie Raferty accepted the recognition from the California State Assembly at a ceremony in the state Capitol. for the future,” said Ner Tamid president Marisa Connell. “In fact, he has already become part of our community–celebrating as we welcomed our new Torah scroll and being with us to mourn and comfort after the tragedy at Chabad.”
Meetings and Events for Jewish Seniors Lawrence Family JCC Contact Melanie Rubin (858) 362-1141 July 3-24, 10:00 a.m. Technology Tutoring by Teens- bring your device and questions. Free. RSVP requested in advance. Jewish War Veterans of San Diego, Post-185 Contact Jerome Klein (858) 521-8694 July 9, 10 a.m. Veterans Association of North County, Post-385 Contact Marsha Schjolberg (760) 492-7443 Jewish War Veterans meetings July 9, 11 a.m.
AFWJM Raises Over $6,700,000 at Gala for Upcoming World’s Jewish Museum The American Friends of the World’s Jewish Museum held the inaugural gala for the World’s Jewish Museum (WJM) on June 6 at Montage Beverly Hills. The first public unveiling of the design and accompanying discussion of the museum concept raised just over $6,700,000. Architect Frank Gehry received a lifetime achievement award; the 90-year-old architect is known, amongst other things, for designing the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Gehry’s design for the WJM is intended to be a gathering place that links parkland, gardens, walking paths and wetlands, six pavilions and a grand lobby. Each of the six pavilions is dedicated to a different concept—Enterprise, Science & Inquiry, Philosophy & Education, the Covenant and the Land of Israel, the Creativity of Jewish culture and the arts, and Tzedek, Tikkun Olam and Tzedakah; incorporating justice, philanthropy and social change.
Jewish Education Project Publishes Study on American Jewish Teens
JFS College Avenue Center at Temple Emanu-El Contact Chris Maeoka (858) 637-3260 July 15, 1 p.m. Screening of The Best Man, a film starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson as political adversaries facing off in a race for the presidency. North County Jewish Seniors Club at the Oceanside Senior Center Contact Josephine (760) 295-2564 July 16, 12:30 p.m. JFS College Avenue Center at Temple Emanu-El Contact Chris Maeoka (858) 637-3260 July 22, 12:45 p.m. Elder Law Presents: The 5 Essential Documents Presented by Scott Stewart, Esq. On the Go Excursions Contact Jo Kessler (858) 637-7320 July 28, 2 to 6 p.m. TICO Annual Pops Concert, emphasizing Jewish history, culture and traditions. Cost is $25; payment due July 10.
found that teens who participate with youth-serving organizations (or YSOs) feel more of a connection to being Jewish, feel more comfortable with themselves, and have deeper relationships with family, friends, and The largest study ever on American Jewish teens depicts a group that mentors. They feel empowered to make an impact on the world. simultaneously embraces family, Jewish culture and friends, while also grappling with anxiety and pressure to succeed in a world made “A major shift is occurring in how the Jewish community understands its smaller by social media and communication technology. The study relationship to teens,” said David Bryfman, Chief Innovation Officer and GenZ Now: Understanding and Connecting With Jewish Teens incoming CEO of the Jewish Education Project. “We no longer engage Today—researched and written by the Jewish Education Project and teens simply for the sake of Jewish continuity. Rather, GenZ Now is a Rosov Consulting—shares survey results and interview responses from call to engage teens on a deep level because Jewish experiences and a total of 17,576 teens to reveal insights into their interests, challenges, community can be sources for their own personal growth and well-being.” and passions in all facets of life. According to the study, researchers The report can be downloaded at jewishedproject.org/genznow.
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ADVICE
ASK MARNIE by Marnie Macauley asksadie@aol.com
The “New” Zaftigs? halom my dear San Diegans: Food/ wine and health. For Boomer Jews, these would appear mutually exclusive. Yet, the fascinating thing about Jews and food is the fact that while GenXers are consuming vats of whey, wheatgrass, wattle seed, running 20 miles a day and yoga-ing themselves into a “calm” frenzy, many have EKGs that resemble a relief map of Bulgaria. Meanwhile, 90-year-old Jews in Miami who were on life-long diet of schmaltz, brisket, and sweet Manischewitz are doing the Kazatsky! There’s a lesson in there, somewhere, that extends to the one question for which there is only one good answer: The question: “Am I fat?” The only answer (I’ve had it printed for all males I know or gave birth to.) “No one in the history of the Earth has ever been, is, or ever will be as thin as you are.” (Was that so hard?) Read on... WIFE “DOUBLES,” MATE TROUBLES DEAR MARNIE: Help! I’ve tried to help my wife but she continues to gain weight! We’ve been married for 12 years and she has more than doubled her size and weight. I’ve thrown out all the chazzerai she buys, casually mentioned signing up at a gym, and have showed her general irritation. To be honest, I’m less attracted to her. I don’t want to her hurt her feelings, so what can I do? –Solomon in San Diego MARNIE SAYS: Mamala, your concern sent me careening into a container of Cherry Garcia in search of the meaning of unconditional love in a world of rocky road. And after four quarts, I’ve come up with the following wisdom. “Unconditional” is not without a few “conditions.” (Don’t pelt me 66 SDJewishJournal.com | July 2019
with Cherry Garcia.) GETTING IT! YOUR PERSONAL STRATEGY: TELL HER. Gently. (Don’t compare her to Sophie Tucker in a wetsuit.) Grab your corpulating mate by her love handles and explain that, contrary to rumor, less of her is more to love–for a lot longer. Now, I could give you all sorts of bibble-babble about diets, or worse, send you into that hideous jungle called the “SelfHelp” shelf. But I like you too much to force you lovely people to decide between dialing, measuring, dealing, weighing, throwing, counting, or playing Frisbee with cards and carbs. So, after the two of you with her doctor, assess whether it’s physical, emotional or both...STOP WITH THE CHERRY GARCIA! You’ll be shocked at how quickly your wife will shed once she turns in the junk for veggies and whole grains. Unattractive you say? Reverse and back up. The more you withhold affection, the more she’ll feel “fat and unloved” and the more “fat and unloved” she feels, the more she’ll turn to Chunky Monkey or Cherry Garcia for comfort, and the more unattracted you’ll be. See it? A circular route paved with rocky road. Your best strategy is to play together. Rock! Roll! Walk! Talk! Line Dance! If she feels the urge to be “naughty” at night? Give her more sweetness, as in hugs and kisses, in the boudoir she won’t need to stash a Ring Ding in the kitchen. Go mit mazel, my good man. BABY BLOAT=BEAUTIFUL! Dear Marnie: I just had a baby three months ago and gained a lot of weight during my
pregnancy. My husband says I’m beautiful. I know he just wants me to be happy, but I think I caught him eyeing another woman when we were shopping the other day. Should I believe him when he tells me that I’m beautiful? Thank you. – SGrieffel MARNIE SAYS: Good Grieff! (Yes, you may shoot me for pun-punishment.) Absolutely believe him! Totally. Enshrine him! Treasure him! You husband finds you majestic and wants you to be happy?! (I love this guy.) GETTING IT! YOUR PERSONAL STRATEGY: Why believe? Sweetie, sweetie, sweetie, think! These are men, mamala. You know, the people who look up from the news to utter the words, “Oh, you changed?”–when you’re in a full body cast. Therefore, if he’s telling you you’re Mila Kunis, when he sees you wading through doo doo and Pampers– believe, darling, believe! More, many men adore curvaceous, queenly women. Especially if the Queen in Question has filled out with their child. Two different mindsets, hon. (And ours is corroded with glossy urchins whose bony appendages resemble Q-Tips.) Therefore, muffin, The Truth is, this is not about him. It is about you. How you feel about yourself, which also includes the Big HMD—for hormone melt-down. (A condition that supports silly suspicions.) Of course, you gained weight, you silly goose. You’re supposed to! When I was “enceinte” (Don’t you adore the French? They can even make calves brains sound enticing) I registered myself with the DMV. And while some of the baby bloat melts down in the
delivery room, the last 10 pounds (okay, 20, 30) is the killer. Much depends upon our age, our pre-baby condition, our habits, and the new ones we acquire when we’re preggers (like chewing our way through an entire moose carcass wrapped around a two-ton Drake’s Coffee Cake.) If YOU wish to slim down more rapidly, for you, do so. If you’re nursing, talk to your OB/GYN about diets that are healthful. (To my knowledge, a nursing mother need not devour four boxes of Milk Duds a day to fill her “dairy” requirement. Pity.) And exercise, pumpkin! If your doctor okays it, bike, swim, jog, trampoline. Set realistic goals. Lose slowly and with care. But do stop conjuring doom-gloom hormonal melt-down scenarios for your husband. They are untrue, unfair, boring, and unattractive. My advice? Stop “sweating it.” The very next time he says you’re beautiful, jump upon him in a love frenzy that will make his eyeballs roll right to his Sketchers! You’ll re-affirm his adoration, his exquisite taste–and it’s far more pleasurable than a Thigh Master! My best! And Mazel Tov! A
SYNAGOGUE LIFE EVENTS Knit ‘n’ Nosh with Congregation Beth El
July 11, 1 p.m., 1100 Third Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 Knit, crochet, nosh, whether you wind threads wielding sticks or hooks or needles, come help this lively group create for its varied mitzvah projects. Visit cbe.org for more information.
Shabbat Services and Potluck in the Park with San Diego Outreach Synagogue July 12, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Call Cantor Cheri Weiss @ (858) 280-6331 for location details.
San Diego Outreach Synagogue will hold a Shabbat Services & Potluck in the Park on Friday, July 12 from 6-8 PM at a north University City location. Visit sdo-synagogue.org for more information.
Beth Israel Marches @ San Diego Pride Parade
July 13, 10 a.m., University Avenue, San Diego, CA 92105 Come march with Congregation Beth Israel to support the LGBQT+ community at the San Diego Pride Parade. Visit cbisd.org for more information.
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July 14, 7 p.m., Tifereth Israel, 6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92119 Learn some basic Israeli dance with instructor Paul Kalmar; no prior experience needed. Visit tiferethisrael.com for more information.
Plaza Prayer and Picnic with Congregation Beth El
July 26, 6:15 p.m. to 9 p.m., Congregation Beth El, 8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037 Join Beth El for a musical and informal prayer service followed by a potluck picnic dinner. Visit cbe.org for more information.
Jewish Community Day with Congregation Beth Am
July 28, 1:10 p.m., Petco Park, 100 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA 9210 Come together with the San Diego Jewish community for a day of fun and festivities while the Padres play off against the Giants. Prices range from $35 to $60. Visit betham.com for more information.
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