Southern Jewish Life January 2024 • Volume R1, Issue 1
REGIONAL
Numerous buildings throughout the world were lit in blue following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacres in Israel. Pictured here is the Governor’s Mansion in South Carolina. More, page 84.
Southern Jewish Editor This wasn’t how we intended to introduce ourselves. Since 1990, our publication has served as an award-winning independent voice for the Jewish communities in the Deep South, and for the past few months we have been working on this new regional edition that would serve communities from Virginia to East Texas. We were getting ready to launch, and then Oct. 7 happened. Like our colleagues at Jewish publications around the country, we have been incredibly busy ever since, getting the news out to inform our communities. The first issue of the regional edition was delayed a bit and the focus has definitely shifted (the photo on this page was originally a field of sunflowers), but here we are, and we’re glad you are reading us. We have spent the last three decades traveling throughout the South, covering and documenting the unique Southern Jewish stories that aren’t being published anywhere else, to produce our news magazine that has connected the Jewish communities in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and the Florida panhandle. We’re excited to add even more communities to our coverage area, as there is no shortage of interesting stories out there. Our coverage is entirely about the Jewish communities of the South, from larger communities to places where there’s one Jew remaining in the county or parish. When we do national and international stories, they are based on how they affect our region, such as how Israel’s war with Hamas reverberates in our region. We welcome your story suggestions, and we’re also looking for freelance writers throughout the region. Many communities in the region have their own community newspapers, most of which are published by the local Jewish Federation. Whether Federation paper or independent, we are not looking to supplant those local efforts. There is no way we can be on the ground in every community in the South, talking about what’s happening at each agency or synagogue, or who the local Hadassah chapter is bringing in as a guest speaker. Southern Jewish Life Regional will have a wider view of the region, with interesting news, opinion pieces, features and profiles from throughout the South. In some cases, we will be covering stories that Federation publications just can’t do. Naturally, our first issue has a lot of coverage about the war against Hamas and how it has affected our region. But we also have a mix of stories that we have been working on over the past several months, and which will be the mainstay of the magazine once again, when the war has ended. We invite you to subscribe to Southern Jewish Life Regional, so you don’t miss a single issue. If you like what we are doing, we certainly welcome additional support. Before starting this publication, I worked for a student newspaper at the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, who founded U.Va., emphasized the importance of newspapers, as a well-informed citizenry is vital for communities to function. With what is happening in our country and around the world these days, it is even more important for our Jewish community to be informed. Please enjoy our debut issue, subscribe to Southern Jewish Life Regional, and we look forward to informing you for years to come.
Lawrence Brook, Publisher/Editor
Agenda SJL receives national honors Fast food and Israeli drones Teen Diller Tikkun Olam Award winners Ramah Darom Retreats Summer Camp Incentives Remembering JCRS’ Ned Goldberg NFTY Memories in unlikely place
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Focus: The War Against Hamas
Escaping the Nova Festival massacre 18 Atlanta Lone Soldier killed in Jerusalem 20 State governments invest heavily in Israel Bonds 22 Consuls General fight the PR battle in region 26 La. woman volunteers in Israel, “We will be OK” 30 American cowboys cause a stir volunteering in Israel 32 Mississippi-built ship heads to Israel 34 N.C. Rabbis: Fringe groups don’t speak for community 35 ‘Bama, Texas welcoming to Jewish students 40
Gates of Prayer, Metairie, La.
From Federation to Congress for Manning 42 Va.’s Luria reflects on time in Congress 44 SJL, B’ham Times intern reflects on experience 48 Meeting Ethiopian Israelis as U.S. Black student 50 Evacuating a summer camp? No problem 54 Jewish scientist’s Nobel on market in Nola 56
Travel
Opinion
Sports
Tell antisemitic Presby. Church USA goodbye Anti-Israel Jewish studies at Wake
Books Most Fortunate Unfortunates Don’t Eat This Book! 4
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Rosenwald Schools exhibits New Judaic Acquisitions in N.C. Seeing Auschwitz debuts
Arts Tsvey Brider
Baseball’s Jewish draftees SEC Hoops Preview
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Food 64 67
Kugels and Collards
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Rear Pew Mirror
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Southern Jewish Agenda
Southern Jewish Life receives three Rockower Awards at AJPA convention Co-hosted national event in New Orleans with Crescent City Jewish News Southern Jewish Life magazine once again picked up multiple awards in the 42nd annual Simon J. Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. The regional publication with offices in Birmingham and New Orleans received three awards in what is regarded as the “Jewish Pulitzers.” The Rockowers were presented on July 11 at the American Jewish Press Association annual convention in New Orleans, and this year the Rockowers set a new record for most entries. Southern Jewish Life received first place in Excellence for Writing About Sports for “From the Plains to the Promised Land: Auburn Basketball in Israel,” coverage of the Auburn university basketball team’s groundbreaking trip to Israel in August 2022. The coverage was written by editor Larry Brook. Richard Friedman won second place in Excellence for Writing About Health Care for “Fighting for their Lives,” his profile of Morissa Ladinsky, co-leader of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Youth Multidisciplinary Gender Health Team, where she is challenging new Alabama laws restricting treatment of youth who have gender dysphoria. 6
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The piece also had a sidebar with the experiences of a transgender male who grew up in a very small Southern Jewish community. SJL also received second place among all publications for Excellence in Editorial Writing, for “You are the enemy,” about the lack of outrage when an official with a Muslim self-described civil rights organization referred to most American Jews and mainstream Jewish organizations as “the enemy”; “Say goodbye to the Presbyterian Church (USA),” about how the Jewish community should shun the church because its obsessive anti-Israel activism has crossed the line into overt antisemitism, and “Now what, ADL?” for its admission that its longtime No Place for Hate curriculum for schools had veered off a mainstream path and became “mis-aligned” with ADL’s values, seemingly confirming accusations of critics in Mountain Brook schools the previous year. As a magazine, for most categories Southern Jewish Life competes in a division with monthly newspapers and magazines, many of which are national in scope, such as Moment, Hadassah, Lilith and the Orthodox Union’s Jewish
Action. The editorial award was combined into one division with all publications, including weeklies, wire services and online sites. This brings Southern Jewish Life’s cumulative total to 25 Rockowers, having received four in 2022. The Forward led the night with 32 Rockowers, while the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles tallied 21. Among magazines, Moment and Jewish Currents each received 15. In the region, the St. Louis Jewish Light received four awards. The Jewish Herald-Voice of Houston received three, while the Jewish Observer of Nashville and the Atlanta Jewish Times each received two. Additionally, Dave Schechter received second place for Best Freelancer, with pieces for the Atlanta Jewish Times as part of his submission. The conference was co-hosted by Crescent City Jewish News, headed by AJPA President Alan Smason, and Southern Jewish Life. Smason presented Brook with a Volunteer of the Year award for his work on the convention. The 2024 convention is tentatively set for Nashville.
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deep and ongoing trauma. But we are not silent, and we are not still. CUFI’s more than 10 million members are demonstrating their solidarity and non-negotiable demand that the United States supports Israel with every resource it needs to bring every hostage home safely and eliminate the threat of Iranian-backed terror on its doorstep.” Resources for individuals include backgrounders on the current situation, graphics to share on social media and other materials. CUFI has raised and given out more than $3 million since Oct. 7.
From New Orleans to Brooklyn A billboard in Chicago that is part of the Christians United for Israel campaign “You Are Not Alone.” Credit: CUFI.
Christians United for Israel launch solidarity campaign (JNS) — Christians United for Israel has just launched a campaign to increase efforts in fighting anti-Jewish bigotry. “You Are Not Alone” has so far launched in New York, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas. “Christian Zionists are serving as watchmen on the walls for Jerusalem and will not keep silent in the face of barbaric terrorism and raging antisemitism that has brought immense pain to the Jewish people and all those who value humanity,” said CUFI founder and chairman Pastor John Hagee. “I am proud to see so many Americans responding, in word and in deed, to ensure the children of Israel are not alone.” CUFI Action Fund chairwoman Sandra Parker said “it pains us that Israelis and Jewish Americans are enduring a
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Author explains how geography was the least of the changes in making that move New Orleans native Corie Adjmi will share her debut novel, “The Marriage Box,” at a Jan 10 program at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans. There will be a Zoom option for those unable to attend in person. After growing up in a Reform community in New Orleans, she moved as a teen to an Orthodox Syrian neighborhood in Brooklyn. That transition inspired the novel, which follows Casey Cohen on that journey at age 16, as she goes from being a cheerleader in the wrong crowd to an insular world of Shabbat dinners, religious school and marriage prospects. The Marriage Box is a pool deck where teen girls put themselves on display for potential husbands. Cohen winds up marrying at age 18, only to find that her husband doesn’t want her to go to college, but start having children instead. In 2020, she released “Life and Other Shortcomings, a collection of linked short stories going from New Orleans to New York and Madrid, from 1970 to the present day. The women in the 12 stories portray a wide range in the female experience. At the 6:30 p.m. program, she will discuss growing up Southern, the culture shock she encountered in moving to New York, and how she has found her own sense of Jewish meaning. Registration for the free in-person program and the Zoom are at msje.org. The book is also available at the museum’s store.
Jacksonville Alliance’s longtime fitness director dies in kayak accident By David Swindle (JNS) — The search for Eiffel Gilyana, an acclaimed athlete and leader at a Florida Jewish center who disappeared during a kayaking trip, has ended with the discovery of his body seven miles from where he went missing the previous week. Eiffel Gilyana worked as the fitness and wellness director since 2009 for the Jewish Community Alliance (JCA) in Jacksonville, Fla. On Dec. 23, he particiPhoto courtesy pated in a kayaking trip to Eiffel Gilyana nearby St. Augustine with Task Force Hydro1, a nonprofit that brings together veterans, active military and first responders “united by a shared commitment to address mental health and foster emotional healing through water-based activities.” Gilyana served as Health and Wellness Advisor to the organization. The group lost track of Gilyana and soon discovered his kayak had split in two, prompting a 90-hour search by the U.S. Coast Guard. His body was found on Dec. 26. “Eiffel was an incredible human being,” JCA CEO Adam Chaskin told JNS. “Eiffel had a huge heart and was a very caring man. He would offer help to anyone and do what others might think is above and beyond to help people. But for Eiffel, it was normal and what he thought everyone should do.” Gilyana, a father of three and nationally ranked bodybuilder, was an Iraqi Christian. He served as a translator for the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Division from 2003 to 2009. “He loved his family very much and worked tirelessly to make a great home for them in the U.S.,” Chaskin said. In a nearly 15-year career at JCA, Chaskin said Gilyana “literally helped thousands of people achieve a healthier lifestyle.” “He was not just someone who worked there; he quickly became part of your family,” said Chaskin. “There is no replacing him, and he will be sorely missed. Although we know we must go on, it will be very difficult not having his incredible smile and energy with us every day.”
An Israeli drone will bring you a chicken sandwich
Want an easier way to get a Chick-Fil-A order, especially avoiding the often-lengthy drive-thru lines? An Israeli company is pleased to serve you. Flytrex, based in Tel Aviv, has been working with the popular chain to handle deliveries in test markets. Since Sept. 2022, locations in Granbury, Tex., and Durham, N.C., have tested drone deliveries, and the feature debuted in November in East Brandon/Valrico, Fla. The service in Florida is currently available during weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., within a 1.2 mile radius of the store. The order can be made by selecting drone delivery in the Chick-Fil-A app. The bag is placed in a cardboard box and delivered to a backyard, with the box being lowered by a wire, as the drone does not land with the order. If someone on the ground pulls on the wire, it detaches from the drone, preventing damage to the craft. According to Flytrex, in general, drones are 22 times cheaper than other forms of last-mile delivery services, and often are faster in areas where traffic is a concern. In January, their partner, Causey Aviation, received FAA certification to provide drone service beyond the line of sight. For those looking for a different chicken establishment, Raising Cane’s, a 700-location chain that got its start on the campus of Louisiana State University, is also working with Flytrex. The company was founded in 2013 in Tel Aviv, and in 2017 tested its service in Iceland. They began U.S. deliveries in 2019. Flytrex is also involved in drone deliveries with Walmart, Starbucks, Chili’s, Little Caesars, Papa Johns, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers, and Unilever’s The Ice Cream Shop in the Texas and North Carolina cities. They hope to expand nationally in the coming years. January 2024 • Southern Jewish Life Regional
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Remembering Ned Goldberg, longtime head of Jewish Children’s Regional Service
In 2018, Ned Goldberg (left) was honored at the JCRS annual Jewish Roots gala for his then-30 years of service to the agency. Ned Goldberg, who was the face of the Jewish Children’s Regional Service for over three decades before stepping down as executive director in early 2022, died on Dec. 25. In an email to JCRS board members and supporters, his successor, Mark Rubin, and JCRS President Michael Goldman said “Ned led an exemplary life and cemented JCRS’s legacy as an impactful and respected agency. His life will be a guiding light for us at JCRS.” JCRS was founded as a home in New Orleans for Jewish widows and orphans, and when the home closed in the 1940s, it evolved into a regional agency that now funds or serves over 1800 Jewish youth each year in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. The agency offers “needs-based” scholarship aid for Jewish overnight camp and undergraduate education, as well as subsidies for the care and treatment of dependent and special needs Jewish youth. Under Goldberg’s leadership, additional programs were added, including “outreach” services to families that are isolated or inactive within the Jewish community. There are also programs that provide outreach over Jewish holidays, including Chanukah gifts for children from families that are suffering from economic distress, or are victims of natural disasters. In 2008, JCRS started regionally administering the PJ Library program of free Judaic books for children. Goldberg graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1973, earning his Masters in Social Work from Case Western Reserve in 1975.
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Prior to moving to New Orleans to lead JCRS in 1988, he served in professional capacities with three Jewish Family Service agencies, or their spin-off projects, in Florida and Ohio. When Goldberg moved to New Orleans, he was single, but upon his arrival, he met the woman he was soon to marry, Wendy Diamond, an employee of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. In 2018, the agency honored him on the 30th anniversary of his tenure, at that year’s Jewish Roots gala, which was unofficially renamed “Grateful Ned,” especially since the Grateful Dead were in concert elsewhere in the city that night. Upon his retirement last year, he said his long tenure and the growth of JCRS was due to a “number of factors.” “First of all, you have incredible dedication from the JCRS board, staff, volunteers and donors,” he explained. “When you have them behind you, you can respond quickly to emergencies, as JCRS did during hurricanes and floods that have repeatedly hit East Texas and Louisiana over the last five years.” Goldberg said having “wonderful services, hardworking and talented staff, and dedicated and generous board and volunteers are the reasons JCRS endures, and explains why I have tried to stay a few years beyond a typical retirement age.” He is survived by his wife, Wendy, and children Adam and Jodie. Burial was in Cincinnati on Dec. 28, and there will be a memorial service in New Orleans, at Shir Chadash in Metairie, on Jan. 4 at 4:45 p.m.
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Gary Lazarus was talking with the owner of Shogun Restaurant in Metairie when he noticed something quite odd on the wall behind him — a photo of the Southern Federation of Temple Youth’s Leadership Institute at the Henry S. Jacobs Camp in the summer of 1970. Lazarus said “I asked him about it, and he said that it had been up there for a while because someone left it on the table, and he just hung it up in hopes that they would come back looking for it.” It had been on the wall for about a year. As of press time, it is still unknown who left the photo there.
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Southern Jewish Focus The War Against Hamas
Escaping the Nova Festival massacre Rosh Ha’Ayin resident recounts harrowing experience in surviving the Hamas attack Rosh Ha’Ayin, the Israeli sister city of Birmingham and Partnership2Gether community of New Orleans, may be relatively far from Gaza, but it is by no means unaffected by events of Oct. 7. On Oct. 22, the Partnership among the three communities held a multi-generational panel online to discuss current life in the central Israel city. Located east of Tel Aviv close to the pre1967 Green Line, Rosh Ha’Ayin has seen several red Alerts for incoming rockets from Gaza, and has reported several residents killed either in the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre or the subsequent Noa Kalash military operations. Amit Zehavi, a Partnership coordinator, noted that there had been plans for a Momentum women’s trip, a cycling group and community missions in the coming months, and “hopefully we can get back on track when all the dust settles.” Florina Newcomb, assistant executive director at the Birmingham Jewish Federation, reiterated the partnership among the communities, saying “we have had some very good times in Birmingham, New Orleans and Rosh Ha’Ayin.” Robert French, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, told the Israeli participants on the call that “we
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Burnt and abandoned cars at the site of the Hamas massacre at the Supernova Sukkot Gathering in southern Israel.
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stand with you 100 percent, we think of you every day. We are mobilizing ourselves to support you in every way possible.” Noa Kalash started the program by describing her experiences in escaping the Nova Dance Festival, the outdoor music festival near Gaza where about 260 were killed in a direct Hamas attack. She said she had been taking a break after telling the world about losing one of her best friends and barely escaping the festival herself. She went to the festival with her boyfriend, arriving right before sunrise, around 5:30 a.m. She met Noam, her friend, “and we ran to the rave area. We started dancing together, and after 15 minutes of freedom, joy, dancing and beautiful people, I started seeing rockets over us.” The sky “was shining” from the rockets, fired indiscriminately from Gaza toward Israeli communities. The 3,500 in attendance did not know what to do, though they were aware of the possibility that something could arise from Gaza. She said they went back to their cars and she started driving back to Rosh Ha’Ayin, though driving during a volley of rockets is very dangerous. After a couple minutes, they saw the rockets were continuing, so they stopped on the side of the road and went into a small shelter near a bus stop to wait for calm. But after 20 minutes, she decided to try and go home “even though everything was still happening and it wasn’t safe.” Just 10 seconds after she headed out, cars in front of her started suddenly turning around, and she could hear shouts of “terrorists shooting.” She turned around, then stopped in the middle of the road as a friend told her he had been shot in the leg and needed help. “We started driving the other way, toward the entrance of the party… there was a huge traffic of cars getting out.” The friend found someone to help him, but they figured there were terrorists all around. “Security and police told us, just run, run to the fields, run and hide. They didn’t have anything else to tell us,” she said. She and her boyfriend, Maor, took off, and she called Noam to tell her to run away.
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On Oct. 25, surveying the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre at a music festival in southern Israel, where hundreds of young people were murdered and and kidnapped.
“At the time,” she said, “we didn’t realize how many terrorists were in the area. We just figured it was a small terror attack. It’s sad to say, but it sounded like just another day in Israel.” Thousands of festival-goers were running, and “we could hear the terrorists running after us, shooting at us.” For a while, they hid in a bush. Then, they heard gunshots in the direction to where they had been running, and wound up turning toward an open field with nowhere to hide. “My boyfriend said no way we are running that way, we ran to the nearest bush we saw” and burrowed deep inside. They were there for the next eight hours. “We heard everything around us… helicopters, terrorists, shooting really close, we heard motorcycles passing close to our bush.” Another girl was hiding in a nearby bush. “After three hours, we heard them passing by and they kidnapped her. We heard them speaking Arabic, then heard a car, then silence.” Four different groups tried to rescue Noa and Maor, but some encountered terrorists and had to retreat. Still, when they heard calls in Hebrew, they remained silent, lest it be a Hamas trick. Only after someone called out her name did they respond. She added that she was so deep in the bush, Maor had to pull her out. Her friend, Noam, was killed in the initial attack, but Noa didn’t know that until the following Saturday. “They just
couldn’t recognize the body for an entire week.” She said she does not know where her friend was found, nor what happened to her. “It’s probably better that way.” While she was still hiding in the bush, her 25-year-old sister was already being called up to her unit in the IDF. Noa said the current fight in Gaza “is not about choosing sides, or ‘I stand with Gaza or Israel.’ I stand with humanity. I stand with things that are bigger than politics.” She said it is not about choosing sides, “it is helping Israel and the Palestinian civilians to fight against terror” and against “people who have pure evil. It’s something I can’t understand, how a human being is capable of doing what they did to my friends.” But living through that day affected her. She had spent a year traveling Central and South America, making Christian and Muslim friends without a second thought. She travels to Egypt every few months to hang out with friends living there. She would go to the Arab town of Kfar Kassem, located between Rosh Ha’Ayin and the Green Line, “all the time.” After what’s occurred, “it’s impossible to see a Muslim on the street and not be scared something will happen… we can’t trust anyone. Things are different, and knowing some of the Muslim students in the university support terrorism and Hamas, it’s something I can’t pass by. “These people killed my friends, these people almost killed me.” January 2024 • Southern Jewish Life Regional
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“A Jewish Hero” Lone Soldier from Atlanta killed in Jerusalem attack A Lone Soldier from Atlanta was killed on Nov. 6 in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem. Sgt. Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, 20, was a border police officer near Herod’s Gate at Jerusalem’s Old City. She had immigrated to Israel in August 2021 and was drafted into the police force in March 2022. An attacker stabbed Lubin, and another officer was moderately wounded. They were both treated at the scene before being evacuated to Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus. The Palestinian news agency WAFA identified the attacker as Muhammad Omar al Farouk, 16, of East Jerusalem. He was shot and killed by other Border Police officers. Another suspect was detained at the scene. Lubin, daughter of Robin and David Lubin, was a 2021 graduate of Dunwoody High School. At Dunwoody, she was on the girls’ flag football team and was the only female on the wrestling team — but still won a lot of the matches. She also became a cheerleader. Since football games were on Fridays, she received permission from her rabbi to ride the bus back to school after dark, but she still walked home from there. Lone Soldiers are those who go to Israel to serve in the Israeli military but have no other relatives in the country. Arrangements are made so these soldiers have somewhere to go when soldiers normally would go home, and receive other support services.
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The scene of the stabbing attack in Jerusalem, Nov. 6, 2023.
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In May, Lubin spoke at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces gala in Atlanta, where she said “if you’re ever by Herod’s Gate, come say hi, I’ll give you a fist bump and a smile and wave you on.” About 40 of her family members, from the Lubin, Hirsch, Halpern and Oppenheimer families, were at the gala. She had relatives throughout the region; an email from Adath Israel in Cleveland, Miss., noted that she was the greatniece of their members, Avery and Charlyn Lubin. At the gala, she said she had another 14 months on her current tour, and was thinking of signing up for more IDF roles or pursue a degree in exercise science. “Friends of the IDF and Jews worldwide mourn the loss of Rose Lubin Z”L, a special young woman and courageous Lone Soldier from Atlanta who made the ultimate sacrifice for the State of Israel and her people,” said Seth Baron, FIDF vice president of Georgia and Southeast States. Lubin “was not just a committed Lone Soldier, she was a hero who made the ultimate sacrifice for the Jewish people. Her courage and her commitment to protect Israel are a true inspiration, even in the face of grave danger,” he added. “She epitomized the values of dedication and commitment to her mission, and she will always be remembered and honored by the Atlanta community as a selfless hero.” At the gala, she spoke of how her unit’s motto spoke to her soul, “Generations dreamed of arriving in Jerusalem, and we have the honor of protecting her.” She also reflected on the generations of her family that would have also been there had there been an Israel during the Holocaust. She felt an obligation to take opportunities they were denied, including “watching over the Jews who are living the dream of walking to the Kotel on Shabbat.” The Israeli Consulate in Atlanta mourned the loss, recalling seeing her speak at the FIDF gala “about how much she loved
serving and protecting the State of Israel… May her memory and the memory of her smile that night and always, forever be a blessing.” Her commanders reportedly considered her a “fierce fighter” who was first to volunteer for any mission. Lubin lived at Kibbutz Sa’ad, near the Gaza border, and was there on Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked communities in that area. She joined the battle to defend the kibbutz from the Hamas terrorists, until later in the day when she was called back to duty in Jerusalem. Hamas was unsuccessful in infiltrating that kibbutz. A commander had reportedly offered her time off after witnessing the horrors of Oct. 7, but she insisted on resuming her duties to protect civilians. Rabbi Binyomin Friedman of the Ariel Congregation in Atlanta spoke at Lubin’s funeral at Mount Herzel Cemetery in Jerusalem on Nov. 9. “Rose is different,” he said. “Anyone who had an interaction with Rose remembered that interaction,” and “when you walked away, you felt touched, because you realized you had been part of something special.” He said a congregant, upon hearing the news, said “I remember Rose’s Bat Mitzvah speech and how much it touched me.” He noted how unusual it is for a random congregant to remember a Bat Mitzvah speech years later. Her mother read that speech at the funeral. Lubin had written that she wanted to “create a mind-blowing life story” and do something great for the world, rather than wait for the world to do something great for her. Her father said that even as a child, she would tell kids in the playground that they could be friends now, but when she turned 18 she was going off to join the IDF. Despite her focus and determination, Friedman said, “Rose was color, Rose was music, Rose was skipping and laughing… Rose was as bright as you could possibly be, she was light itself.” He said that “it was not at all surprising that a focused person would be drawn to bring herself to her land and to her people, and in her short decades, her two decades that she had in this world, she gave her life absolutely and totally to her people and to her God. Rose was a Jewish hero.” Georgia Governor Brian Kemp called Lubin “an inspiration to us all. While the horrors of war may seem far away, moments like these remind us why it is paramount to stand alongside our friends in Israel as they fight against terror in their land.” On Nov. 9, the Walla news site reported that an officer exhibited “serious disciplinary and operational failure” in the events leading up to the attack on Lubin. According to a police statement, the officer had gone to buy food just before the attack, “presumably leaving Lubin more exposed.”
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From the Federation world to Congress
By Richard Friedman
Representative Kathy Manning was asked which was harder: Dealing with the presidents and directors of 133 Jewish Federations, or 434 other Members of the U.S. House of Representatives? There wasn’t even a pause at what the questioner thought was a humorous question. “434 House Members,” Manning said, not skipping a beat. This North Carolinian would know. A former national chair of Jewish Federations of North America, the umbrella group for local Jewish Federations, Manning, a Democrat, is now in her second term representing North Carolina’s sixth U.S. House district. She is the first Jewish person to represent North Carolina in Congress. “In the Jewish world, despite many different opinions, we were able to set our sights on problems that concern all of us as Jews — such as getting more than 1 million Jews out of the former Soviet Union,” said Manning, who chaired JFNA from 2009 to 2012. “In Congress, it is much harder to get things done.” Running for Congress was a natural extension of this Greensboro resident’s impressive track record of community service. Not only was she a local and national leader in the Jewish Federation movement, her fundraising skills, leadership and commitment to make life better for people led her to carve out a stellar record as an effective and visionary community leader. Born in Detroit, Mich., educated at Harvard and the Uni42
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versity of Michigan law school, Manning never imagined that one day she’d be living in Greensboro, her husband’s home town, and representing the area in Congress. “I’ve never been one to create a long-term plan for my career. I’ve been willing to embrace opportunities as they’ve come along and make the most of them,” Manning, still youthful at 66, said in an interview. Forthright and engaging, smart and thoughtful, her bio sparkles with Jewish leadership achievements. In addition to her role as the first woman to be national chair of JFNA, she served as founding chair of Prizmah, a national network of Jewish day schools.
High on her agenda Her Judaism goes beyond her resume. It influences the way she performs her congressional duties and the issues she pursues. Helping the downtrodden, increasing educational opportunities, assisting people in distress and welcoming the stranger, the most often-repeated commandment in the Torah, rank high on Manning’s congressional agenda. These are the cornerstones of the Jewish Federation movement, she noted. Combating antisemitism and advocating for Israel, two other Federation priorities, also rank high on her congressional agenda. She is a co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, an important role as antisemitism continues to grow. In her view, antisemitism includes the misperception that American Jews face fewer economic challenges and experi-
ence less poverty, which makes them less vulnerable to harmful attacks. “This misguided perception serves to minimize the nefarious impact of antisemitism,” explained Manning. Upon seeing this misconception in the halls of government, Manning saw an opportunity to educate. She is quick to remind others that antisemitism is often the “canary in the coal mine,” a quote she uses regularly in dialogue with her fellow Members who may not be as familiar with the centuries-long history of antisemitism or who haven’t engaged much with Jewish communities. Manning is firm in her belief that “what starts with antisemitism never ends with antisemitism.” Between exchanges with her colleagues and her leadership role on the antisemitism task force, she’s spearheading the movement in Congress to ensure all members have the tools and language they need to combat antisemitism and form a united response against this distinct form of hate.
A major focus Drawing on her long-time association with Israel and her immersion in international affairs through her Jewish leadership roles, Manning sought a slot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She also serves on the subcommittee that deals with the Middle East. “It has been necessary to work on issues involving Israel to a far greater extent than I anticipated. Israel is a major focus of our subcommittee.” One of her first actions in the Congress came in 2021 when she helped motivate House members to allocate funding to allow Israel to replenish its Iron Dome missile defense system after the country was attacked by Hamas. She also is a member of the Abraham Accords caucus, a bipartisan group, Manning says, “that is trying to expand something great into something even greater.” Working side by side with Republicans on her committee and subcommittee and in a range of areas, Manning has developed good relationships and ties across the aisle. “I’ve made important friendships with Republican colleagues. We disagree on many issues. But when it comes to America’s role in the world as the leading democracy and support for Israel, my Republican friends and I are aligned,” she said. Being from the South, a more conservative and mostly Republican region, as well as traveling all over the country in her previous Jewish leadership roles, has given Manning insight into building relationships with GOP Members and a deeper understanding of what motivates them. Manning gets high marks for her work from former Virginia congresswoman Elaine Luria, who is from Birmingham, and who got to know Manning well during their time together in Congress. Their offices were next to each other in the stately Cannon House Office Building, and they often walked to the House floor together for votes.
“Kathy is dedicated, not only to her constituents, district and North Carolina, but she also immediately became one of the most vocal and strongest voices in Congress in support of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and combating rising antisemitism,” said Luria. “Her vast experience as a leader in the Jewish community, both locally and nationally, gave her a very strong voice to speak out on these important issues, even when it was standing up to members of her own party.” Manning is part of a small and vocal group of Jewish House Members who have worked together on issues affecting the Jewish community. This group includes some of the most influential Members. The former Jewish Federation leader frequently is the one encouraging the group to act quickly, and often is the first one to share a proposed statement or letter with her colleagues when issues emerge.
Dramatic moments Two dramatic moments in Congress tie directly to her Federation days. On Jan. 6, 2021, as the U.S. Capitol was invaded by a violent pro-Trump mob, Manning was caught in the House gallery with about 30 colleagues and a few Capitol police officers. Unable to evacuate, they were told to take off the pins that identify them as House Members, and to get down and take cover. Yet, she did not panic. “Everything will be alright,” she told herself. “I’ve been through worse.” That experience occurred years earlier when she was visiting the Israeli town of Sderot near the Gaza Strip. Sirens started blaring as Hamas-fired rockets began raining down near the building where Manning and her group were meeting. They fled to a bomb shelter to wait it out. The other dramatic moment came in July when Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, addressed a joint session of Congress. Manning, who has known Herzog for more than 20 years, was one of the Members selected to escort him into the chamber. “It was overwhelming,” she said slowly and emotionally, pausing to gather her words. “The enduring depth and historic ties of the U.S.-Israel relationship were in full view that day and the bipartisan support was electric. We don’t get a lot of moments like that in Congress. I was so proud as an American and as a Jew.” Proud is also a word that many in the national Jewish community use when they talk about this North Carolina congresswoman. She often meets Jewish people from around the country who thank her for combating antisemitism, supporting Israel and strengthening the Jewish presence in Congress. “I appreciate these comments so very much. This is a really, really hard job.” Much harder, for sure, than chairing a group of 133 Jewish Federations. (Editor’s Note: This piece was written before Oct. 7) January 2024 • Southern Jewish Life Regional
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The power of summer camp…
and Southern Jewish communities
One of the unheralded qualities necessary in Southern Jew- for strategic initiatives, and Melissa Frey, managing director of ish communities is the ability to pivot — but Jewish intercon- URJ Camps and Immersives, researched options, finding that nectedness around the region often makes it easier. the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge had enough space for the entire camp. That was evident for the Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Mississippi, which in the past has dealt with challenges including Linda Posner of Baton Rouge, immediate past Camp Covid, and been a place of refuge for those evacuating from Committee chair, said “much of the city was in Omaha for the the paths of hurricanes. This June, it was the camp that wound College World Series, but our bench is deep, and we knew we up needing a place of refuge, with a full complement of first could do whatever needed to be done.” session campers. With the power still out on Sunday morning, the next stage A major thunderstorm hit the Utica area early in the morn- of the “HSJ Magical Mystery Tour” was launched, and busing on June 16. While there was no significant damage to the es headed to camp for a quick re-packing of overnight bags camp, the power was knocked out. before departing for Baton Rouge. Camp Director Anna Herman said they planned for the “Moving 380 people on the fly, along with an entire camp’s outage by renting emergency lights, held a Glow Stick party at worth of art supplies, sports equipment, snacks, toothbrushes breakfast and served pizza for Shabbat dinner. and loveys, plus our full medical team, was no Aside from that, they tried to have a normal When the lights small task, but we were not working alone,” camp Friday, despite the heat and the lack of Herman said. went out at electricity. As the campers headed south, Nuell in North Jacobs Camp As it became apparent that the damage to the Carolina and Frey in Indiana coordinated electrical infrastructure in the area was extenassignments for the night. Posner noted for an extended room sive, plans began to move everyone to Jackson that each double room needed an additional for Saturday if the power was still out. Jackson time, the massive single bed for a counselor, and while the hotel itself was dealing with widespread outages, had some rollaway beds, there weren’t close to impromptu road including at Beth Israel, which wound up being enough. out for almost a week. Beth Israel Rabbi Joseph trip began The Posners, who had been out of town, Rosen, though, was spending the week at Jacobs headed back to Baton Rouge, with Frey ordering Camp. every air mattress from every Target store in a path from AlaAbram Orlansky, a camper parent and Camp Committee bama to Louisiana. Camp Committee Chair Gary Lazarus sent member, volunteers as an indoor soccer coach at the Jackson the Posners directions to each store along the way. “Between YMCA. He contacted the YMCA director, and on Saturday stops, we made phone calls to secure meals, snacks, security and the camp had arranged for several buses, and the Flowood and a medical team,” she said. Reservoir YMCA locations welcomed the campers with air-conWhen they arrived with the air mattresses, a group of volditioned space, as well as plenty of floor space for sleeping bags. unteers had already assembled to inflate and place the matWith assistance from the local Jewish community, “our tresses in the various rooms. staff magically re-created the camp Shabbat experience for Rabbi Sarah Smiley, in her first full summer with the our campers with a variety of Shabboptionals and a special Unified Jewish Congregation of Baton Rouge, was supposed sno-cone treat,” Herman said, and the campers also enjoyed to have traveled to Utica that day to receive her introduction skating and bowling excursions. to the camp as a week-long faculty member. Instead, “Jacobs But the power wasn’t coming on in Utica any time soon, Camp came to me in Baton Rouge.” and the camp leadership knew they needed to find a place When the buses pulled up to the hotel, the ballroom had with beds and showers. been transformed into a camp dining hall, with a big “WelIsaac Nuell, Union for Reform Judaism associate director come Home Jacobs Camp” banner. A hot dinner had been 54
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hastily arranged by the Kantrow Altons, camp parents who own Bistro Byronz, which had been closed that day. Security was arranged by a camper parent who is a police detective and got colleagues to show up despite it being Father’s Day. A medical team of camp nurses and doctors also joined in. “When the leadership decided to bring the entire camp to Baton Rouge, I witnessed beauty,” Smiley said. “Not only the leadership team and staff of Jacobs Camp, but many members of the Jewish community of Baton Rouge stepped up.” As room keys were handed out during the late afternoon, word came that the power was back on, but Nadav Herman and his team that had stayed behind needed time to get everything restored so the campers could return the next day. Posner said there was “an epic slumber party on two floors of the Baton Rouge Crowne Plaza” and fun at a local arcade the next morning. “Our campers could not have handled the transition to the hotel in Baton Rouge more beautifully,” Herman said. She reminded the campers that they were representing the camp, and “the hotel staff told us over and over again what a great group we have, and it was no surprise at all.” Posner observed that the hotel had probably never experienced 360 voices singing Birkat Hamazon, as they did after breakfast on June 19. “For those of us fortunate enough to witness it, the sound was familiar, but the closing words land-
ed with a different kind of gratitude.” Later that day, everyone headed back to Morrison Road in Utica. “Passing through the Jacobs Camp gates has never felt so sweet as it did on Monday when we brought our campers back home,” Herman said. Posner said that though the task was “immense,” it seemed “normal.” “Everyone did what needed to be done — often before they were even asked — because this is what real communities do,” Posner said. “In this part of the country, where our Jewish communities are small, we are also integral parts of our larger, secular communities,” and those relationships made everything possible. “Our amazing Jewish communities in Jackson and Baton Rouge said hineini with more enthusiasm than we could have asked for… they took care of us.” They were also assisted by the national URJ staff. In addition to Nuell and Frey working remotely, Debby Shriber, executive director of the URJ Northeast Camps, was on the ground for the adventure. To help with the unexpected costs, the camp posted an online fundraiser at jacobscamp.org/offsitefun and has raised about $9600 toward a $20,000 goal as of press time. Herman said those days were “nothing short of extraordinary, thanks to our entire community. There is nothing our camp family can’t do together, and I am so grateful.” January 2024 • Southern Jewish Life Regional
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Want a Nobel? Historic prize given to Jewish scientist for penicillin available at M.S. Rau in New Orleans The beginning of October marks Nobel Prize season, as the year’s winners are announced in Oslo. For those who haven’t been named this year, there is now a rare opportunity to get a Nobel Prize, at M.S. Rau in New Orleans. The high-end antiques and fine art store just acquired the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine presented to Ernst Chain, one of the three honorees that year for the discovery and development of penicillin. “Nobel prizes do not come up” on the market, M.S. Rau CEO Bill Rau said. “The great majority of people… it would descend through their family as a badge of honor,” as it is “the most prestigious prize in the world.” Nevertheless, he heard “through the Jewish geography grapevine” that this prize might be for sale, and he had a friend in England approach the family. “It took some time to get it done,” Rau said. After the five or six weeks to close the deal, he then had to wait a few weeks to get an export license from the British government, a mandatory step for taking anything over a certain price out of England. While Rau has owned many amazing items over the years, Chain’s Nobel is “one of the coolest things we have ever owned,” he said. “Penicillin is arguably the most important drug that has ever been found.” It has saved hundreds of millions of lives, and Rau said that if it did not exist, the average human lifespan would be 10 years shorter. “How many people would have died of strep throat or pneumonia?” The 1945 prize was presented to Chain, along with Alexander Fleming, who first discovered penicillin, and Howard Florey, Chain’s research partner. Nobels are awarded to as many as three individuals who contributed to an endeavor. The physical prize is a 23-karat gold medal weighing almost 8 ounces. It is accompanied by a fitted box and a hand-illustrated Nobel diploma, signed by the entire Nobel Institute. Chain’s original typewritten acceptance speech is also included. In 1945, the cash prize was around 121,000 Swedish kroner; the 2023 prizes were SEK 11 million, approximately $1 million. Chain was born in Berlin in 1906. His father was a chemist and industrialist, and Chain became interested in chemistry 56
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during visits to his father’s laboratory. His father died when Chain was 13 years old. He graduated from Friedrich-Wilheim University in Berlin in 1930, and worked for three years at Berlin’s Charite Hospital in enzyme research. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he knew he would not be safe there as a Jew, and moved to England with about 10 British Pounds in his pocket. His mother and sister stayed behind, and were ultimately murdered in a concentration camp. In England, Chain worked at University College Hospital, then moved to the School of Biochemistry in Cambridge, where he finished his doctorate. In 1935, he started at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, working with Howard Florey, with whom he would eventually share the Nobel Prize. Florey suggested that Chain work on lysozyme, which had been identified by Alexander Fleming in 1920. During that work, he came across Fleming’s paper on penicillin, and how Fleming had tried but failed to purify penicillin. In 1928, Fleming had been studying staphylococcus bacteria, and later said that if he had been neat, he never would have discovered penicillin. He had left samples out overnight, and one of the cultures was contaminated with mold — which cleared out a zone where the bacteria would not grow. He realized something in the mold was killing the bacteria, and isolated it. But he didn’t know what to do with it, or how to grow it so it could be of further use. Florey and Chain started working on penicillin in 1938 as a scientific exercise, without considering its possible benefit to humanity.
In 1940, they did an experiment on eight mice that had been infected with strep. The four that received penicillin were fine, the other four were dead the next day. The decided to do a human trial and grew a supply. In 1941, they treated Albert Alexander, a police officer who had a lethal infection from a rose bush scratch. They gave him penicillin and the infection began to subside. The infection was almost gone when they ran out of their supply, after which the infection came back and killed him. Chain, who had figured out how to isolate and concentrate penicillin, vowed he would not do another test until they had an adequate supply. The next year, they treated a woman, Anne Miller, who made a full recovery. However, it took six weeks for them to grow the amount that had been used to treat her, hardly a sustainable model. They had to figure out a way to grow penicillin in quantity, and succeeded in 1943. That was fortuitous, because Florey developed pneumonia that year, and his life was saved by their research. In 1944, penicillin was being deployed among Allied troops in World War II, and it is believed to have saved 2 million lives during the war. In his Nobel acceptance speech on Dec. 10, 1945, Chain said “as a member of one of the most cruelly persecuted races in the world I am profoundly grateful to Providence that it has fallen to me, together with my friend Sir Howard Florey, to originate this work on penicillin which has helped to alleviate the suffering of the wounded soldiers of Britain, the country that has adopted me, and the wounded soldiers of our Allies, among them many thousands belonging to my own race, in their bitter struggle against one of the blood lost and most inhuman tyrannies the world has ever seen.” He emphasized the role of scientists in pursuing discoveries for the greater good, and not to ignore the fight against
barbarism by saying it is the role only of the politician. After the war, he worked in Rome, becoming the scientific director of the International Research Centre for Chemical Microbiology. He returned to London in 1961 as professor of biochemistry at Imperial College. He died in 1979. Chain served on the board of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and was a supporter of Jewish education in England and beyond. Of the 954 Nobel Prizes awarded
through 2022, at least 212 have gone to Jews, or individuals with at least one Jewish parent. Rau said a physics medal from 1965, without the accompanying folder and speech, sold for $1 million at auction, while James Watson’s 1962 Nobel in medicine went for over $5.3 million in 2014. The Chain Nobel is priced well below Watson’s, Rau said. “I get excited about history,” Rau said. “This is history, and it is history for good. The discovery of penicillin was one of the great goods of all time.”
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Southern Jewish Opinion Jewish community needs to tell antisemitic Presbyterian Church (USA) goodbye
The Presbyterian Church (USA) goes out of its way to insult and denigrate the Jewish
community, paying lip service to opposing antisemitism
while bearing false witness against Israel.
PC(USA) or PCA? One important note — there are two main Presbyterian groups. The Presbyterian Church (USA), with about 1.3 million members, is the larger, more moderate group, while the Presbyterian Church in America is smaller and more fundamentalist. A local Presbyterian church is one or the other — differences include PC(USA)’s ordination of women, acceptance of same-sex marriages, and of abortion as “a last resort.” Which makes it further perplexing that the PC(USA) would be so hostile to the only place in the Middle East that is a democracy respecting LGBTQ rights (instead, they favor a leadership that throws such people off roofs), freedom of worship, and advancement of women. But nobody ever said that hatred of Israel is rational. 58
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Editor’s Note: For 2022, Southern Jewish Life received second place among all Jewish publications for Excellence in Editorial Writing in the American Jewish Press’ Simon J. Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. This opinion piece was one of three submitted for that category, and was originally published in August 2022. It is reprinted here for our new readers in our expanded coverage area. In all, SJL received three awards at the July 2023 ceremony. By Larry Brook
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has declared Israel’s creation to be a disaster, calls Israel an apartheid state, made an explicit comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany under the banner of “never again” and redefined antisemitism to encompass non-Jews. Why, then, is the organized Jewish community even talking with them any more? At their 225th General Assembly biennial in 2022, held online from July 5 to 9 after a series of committee meetings in late June, the Protestant denomination continued its recent history of hostility to the world’s only Jewish state, with resolutions filled with inaccuracies, hyperbole, a lack of context and little regard for Israeli lives. Like many international bodies, the church is obsessed with Israel. This year, there were 19 resolutions under the category of International Engagement. Four were castigating Israel. No other country was singled out in more than one, except for two resolutions about seeking a peace treaty between the Koreas. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine warranted one resolution — which condemned the invasion, but also is critical of the U.S. sanctions against Russia and how the U.S. and NATO “flooded Ukraine with lethal weapons” in a “hyper-militarization.” Naturally, the church has jumped on the Israel as an apartheid state libel, with a resolution claiming Israeli law gives preference to Jews and places Palestinians in “separate reserves and ghettoes.” Another resolution refers to Jerusalem as “three faiths, two peoples, and one human family,” bemoaning a recent “heightened Zionist-Jewish identity” in the eternal capital of the Jewish people. It calls on Israel to respect the rights of Christians and Muslims to access and worship at their holy sites — which it does and they do, unlike when Jordan controlled the city and barred Jews completely, destroying synagogues and holy sites. And what about places in Palestinian controlled areas that have Jewish holy sites, which the Palestinians keep trying to destroy?
Photo courtesy of the Philos Action League and Pathways for Peace.
Participants in the “Sidewalk Stand Against Antisemitism” hold signs in front of a mobile billboard reading “Don’t Wreck ChristianJewish relations” near the Presbyterian Church (USA) headquarters in Louisville, Ky., on June 28, 2022.
In fact, the only form of religious discrimination in Israel is on the Temple Mount, where Jews are barred from certain areas altogether, and in the rest of the site, one making any hint of Jewish prayer is subject to arrest, for offending the sensitivities of the Muslims. That, of course, is not mentioned. But when the resolution insists that the placement of metal detectors for security is a provocative act, what do you expect? The resolution also repudiates the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem, and urges visitors to utilize Palestinian service providers and to make sure they include encounters with Palestinians, being “mindful” of the “disputed status of Jerusalem.” The Jerusalem resolution also refers to Christian Zionism, the support of Israel by Christians, as a doctrine that “tend(s) toward idolatry and heresy… portraying a wrathful and arbitrary God, dividing and ignoring parts of the Christian community, and making of the land an idol to be possessed, exclusive of moral conditions.” Furthermore, Christian Zionism is declared to be “one of the very threats to the Christian presence in Israel and Palestine.” Another resolution references the “siege of Gaza” and, in an effort to appear even-handed, the “collective punishment of innocent Palestinians and Israeli civilians.” The blockade exists solely because the Gaza government, which is sworn to Israel’s destructon, seeks to use anything it can toward making war against Israel and attacking Israeli civilians, not caring about their own Palestinian civilians. All
that cement going into Gaza wasn’t used to build hospitals or schools, but tunnels under the border so they could sneak into Israel and attack civilians. But you wouldn’t know that from the resolution. Interestingly, the word “Egypt” isn’t in there, despite Gaza’s border with Egypt — a border the Egyptians control even more tightly than Israel does on its side. Why the omission? Of course, the resolution also uses the “open-air prison” cliché about Gaza. The condemnation of Israeli “collective punishment” actions against Palestinians after terror attacks, citing the far-left anti-Israel group B’Tselem, encompasses 822 words in the resolution. The rather matter-of-fact statement about the “rockets, with no guidance systems” (they forgot the words “thousands of ”) fired into Israel by Hamas and other Islamist groups received just 83 words. The church also designated May 15 as “Palestinian Naqba Remembrance Day” on the church calendar. May 15, 1948, of course, was the day that Israel was established, and the term “naqba” means “disaster,” leading Palestinians to declare that as “disaster day.” The church has thus declared that Israel’s very existence is a disaster of historic proportions, much like how the Jewish world would refer to the Holocaust or the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem. You know, those ancient Jewish Temples that anti-Israel January 2024 • Southern Jewish Life Regional
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Southern Jewish Books
Everyone knows of someone who was in the Home Marlene Trestman writes history of New Orleans’ Jewish Orphans Home In late October, Marlene Trestman embarked on a number of activities in New Orleans connected to the release of her new book, “Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans Home of New Orleans.” “There’s no other place the book could launch,” she reflected. The book details the history of the Home, which was established in 1854, dedicated its first building at the beginning of 1856 and closed in 1946, after which the Home has lived on in the form of Jewish Children’s Regional Service. An accomplished attorney, Trestman is a native of New Orleans, and was orphaned when she was 11. She and her brother wound up as wards of the state — had it been two decades earlier, they would have been residents of the Home. Instead, JCRS supervised their foster care as legal guardians. “For all of the advantages I was given in my unfortunate circumstance, I felt like a most fortunate unfortunate,” she said. “I wanted to find out if the children who grew up in the Home felt the same way.” The idea for the book came as she was writing a biography of Bessie Margolin, who was a champion of wage and hour
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rights for workers, and argued numerous cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Margolin was instrumental in many provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, drafted the original regulations under which the post-World War II Nuremberg trials took place, and was an attorney for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Margolin was also an alumna of the Home. Trestman, who met Margolin when she was headed to college and struck up a lifelong friendship, had often been asked to give talks about Margolin’s legacy. Since nobody else was going to write a biography, Trestman decided she had to do it. “As a lawyer, I know how to write,” she said, “but it’s different writing a book where people want to purchase it.” As she went through the Home files from 1913 to 1925, “I was really seeing all the history of the home in the boxes, digests and board minute books.” Going through those files and seeing the range of stories as she was looking for information about Margolin, she knew that her next project had to be the history of the Home. She figured there were two main audiences with different interests — families who had relatives in the Home, and scholars who are looking to understand the history of Jewish orphanages, philanthropy and education. The Home was the first Jewish orphanage in the country to have a purpose-built dedicated building. Trestman is particular about the wording, because a Jewish Home in Philadelphia opened before New Orleans, but it was in a rented building. She explained that the founders in New Orleans felt that they had to offer something of permanence to attract donors, so they rejected the idea of renting another facility. “Life in the home was really nothing like the Charles Dickens or Jane Eyre, or even Little Orphan Annie,” Trestman said, but “it certainly was regimented and nothing someone would wish for anyone.” After all, it meant that both parents had died, or one had died and the other was unable to provide care. “The home was always intending to be a compassionate place for the kids, and for the most part it really did serve kids in a humane and caring way, the best that an orphanage can do.”
Compared to other Jewish orphanages in the country, the one in New Orleans was rather small. Homes in New York might have 1,000 kids at once, while the Home in New Orleans had a peak enrollment of 173 in 1915, “where there might be seven other kids your age instead of hundreds.” In all, the Home had over 1600 residents in its nine decades of service. With that, “I don’t think you can shake a stick in New Orleans or around the South without hitting somebody who had a family member in the Home,” Trestman said. There were 390 who came from Texas, while the rest were from the other six states in B’nai B’rith District Seven, which established a formal relationship with the Home in 1875. The book’s title, Trestman said, is somewhat of a question. While not everyone had a happy experience, as one might expect in an orphanage, “by and large” the residents felt fortunate. As she went through stories, “I wasn’t cherry-picking kids.” She said there was “great fortune afforded these children in terms of the care, medical attention, food, clothing, social well being, education they received.” What is now Isidore Newman School was first established in 1904 to educate residents of the Home. When the Home closed, an agreement was reached with the school to continue to admit anyone who would have been eligible for the Home. Trestman said that agreement was used in her case, and she thinks it may have been the last time that was needed. Another institution connected to the Home was a camp in Bay St. Louis, run by the Jewish Charitable and Educational Federation. There was a growing trend to establish camps and get kids outside of cities during the hot summers, and the Home started bringing the residents there in 1918. By the 1930s, the residents would go to the camp for a month at a time, and it was a “uniformly beloved feature of the home… even kids who hated living in the Home, Bay St. Louis was a respite and soothed their soul.” But the book is only part of the story. Her website, marlenetrestman.com, has an extensive list of resources, including a list of American Jewish orphanages; the founders, officers and superintendents of the New Orleans Home, children’s birthplaces, siblings, ages and lengths of stay; and a searchable list of all of the Home’s children, listed by registry number. The website “may end up being a bigger impact than the book,” she said. In addition, she is assembling profiles of as many of the residents as possible. It is “my way of honoring all the people who shared photographs and memories.”
She was “delighted” every time she got a message from someone who had relatives in the Home, whether they knew about it for decades, or started exploring genealogy and found they had an ancestor they did not realize was Jewish and discovered they had been in the Home. Having a relative from the Home was a source of pride for so many people, she said. Thus far, she has done 73 profiles on her website, and had hoped to do 100 before the book launched. “I’m going to keep going, I feel a commitment to do that,” she said. She was able to interview many former residents, but “so many of the alumni who I interviewed are now deceased.” The oldest one she interviewed was Ellis Hart, “and I’m so glad I got to interview him before he passed.” Trestman grew up with his niece and nephew, Susan and Richard Hart, at Newman, and she believes their father, Carol, “had a hand in my being identified and able to go to Newman School under the Home’s charter.” Many hugely successful, well known individuals throughout the Jewish South were alumni of the Home, and both the book and website have many of their stories. January 2024 • Southern Jewish Life Regional
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There were also a lot of stories from the staff. In the 1920s, to provide more adult supervision, promising graduate students were offered free room and board at the Home, as long as they watched the kids and ate with them. In many cases, they wound up being role models.
Uncomfortable topics Because the book is also for historians, she did not shy away from thornier parts of the Home’s story, starting with the Home’s founders and slavery. Many of the founders owned slaves, showing how deeply rooted the institution was in the South, and how people in the Jewish community participated as part of becoming American. In all, she said 14 of around 30 founders had a total of about 90 slaves, with over half being owned by the Photo from Golden City Messenger, June 1925, courtesy of JCRS Home’s founding vice president. The Home’s 1925 confirmation class in the Home’s synagogue. She noted the “apparent irony of the seemingly well intentioned philanthropists who dediDespite that, the board released the girl to her brother’s cated time and treasure and talent, and at the same time were care in Port Gibson and would not consider requests for her putting ads in newspapers for their runaway slaves who were to come back to the Home, because of 19th century mores on mothers and children.” virtue and purity. Four of the board members fled the area rather than take As for Trestman’s writing career, unless it is related to her the oath of allegiance to the Union after New Orleans fell, she legal work, those days are over. The histories of Margolin and added. “It would have been a huge hole if I hadn’t gone into the Home “are the only two stories I felt compelled to write,” that,” she said. “It puts the Home in the context of New Orlethough work on the Home’s website is far from done and will ans and the context of the times.” continue. “It’s been a complete joy.” In recent years, many institutions have faced reckonings of In addition to the presence of JCRS, there are a few physical sexual scandals by staff, and the Home also had an episode — signs of the Home still in New Orleans. The site of its final but one that was well publicized in the 1880s, when it hapbuilding became the Jewish Community Center’s Uptown pened. location. The cornerstone from the Home’s 1887 location is embedded in the JCC by the front entrance. Rabbi Simon Weil, who had been at the congregation in Woodville, Miss., became superintendent, but after a couple When she started writing the book, she went to Jackson and of years was forced out when a 15-year-old girl accused him. Chippewa, the site of the original Home. “Some of the original Because of the times, the language used was quite vague, but intricately designed fence posts are still there,” not connected what surprised Trestman is how the board was transparent, to anything. A large tree has engulfed that fence, physically issued a statement that was printed in publications across the growing over it. country, and that they “believed the young accuser and took She reflected, “It’s almost poetic, the history of the Home is her word over the former rabbi/teacher who had come with so absorbed into New Orleans.” high recommendations.” 66
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We Want Your Ideas! Know of something that would make A culinary journey through Jewish holidays Award-winning author and playwright Beth Kander’s newest work takes children on a culinary trip through the Jewish calendar. “Do Not Eat This Book! Fun with Jewish Foods and Festivals” is written for ages 4 to 8, and explores the smells and tastes associated with different Jewish holidays, from Shabbat to Purim, Tu B’Shevat to Passover. It also places those food memories in the context of how every culture has their own specific observances tied to food, and that is a good way to learn about others. The book also includes kid-friendly recipes for foods related to the holidays, from matzah mac and cheese to rainbow latkes. Mike Moran did the illustrations. This fall, Kander will have a romantic comedy work, “I Made It Out Of Clay,” about a single Jewish woman who, in a panic before her sister’s wedding, creates a golem to solve her problems. Kander is also chief strategy officer at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson.
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Adding to the collection
North Carolina Museum of Art exhibits new acquisitions, plans expanded focus The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is one of only four general art museums in the United States with a permanent gallery devoted to Jewish ceremonial art, and until the end of January, four new acquisitions are being displayed. Sean Burrus, curator of Judaic art, said the museum has acquired numerous new pieces, but the exhibit features “four of the highlights that show the way the gallery has grown.” The Judaic Art Gallery began in 1983 under the direction of Abram Kanof. Burrus explained that Kanof was a founder of the Jewish Museum, and had an emphasis on contemporary art. “His vision of Judaic art, Jewish art and Judaism was that it was a living thing., that it has vitality. This wasn’t just a heritage project for him, but it was very much about demonstrating, and especially in the South, Judaism as a lived reality, a vibrant force.” The collection started mainly with European silver, but the museum is expanding its scope in materials, such as the textiles in the new acquisitions, and in geography. “The Jewish story is a global story… we’re starting to increasingly be able to tell that global story,” he said. Among the four new pieces displayed are textiles from Venice, a Torah crown from Algeria and a contemporary Miriam’s Cup from an American artist. A map in the main Judaic area shows where the pieces are from, and Burrus wants to expand the variety of locations on the map. In widening the geography, he also wants to emphasize Judaic art from the South. Furthermore, three of the four highlighted new pieces are by women. The largest work is an ark cover by Esther Kohenet, who embroidered her name and the year corresponding to 1717.
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Burrus said there was a tradition in northern Italy for ark curtains to feature the Ten Commandments. This is the only known example with the full text, laid out exactly as it is spaced in the Torah scroll. Such covers gave women the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of Torah and Hebrew texts. An accompanying Torah cover, from later in the 18th century, has over three dozen dyes used in the design, and the colors are still vibrant. “The mantle did its job” in protecting the cover, Burrus said. A 12-sided Algerian Torah crown, by artist Makhlouf Aznenou, made in 1868, is the second north African piece in the museum’s collection. Along the top of the crown is a running inscription listing the artist and three generations of the donor’s family. The Miriam’s Cup “shows how Judaism is evolving and continues, it is not a static tradition,” and the concept of the Miriam’s Cup dates back to 1970s feminism. In 1997, the Ma’yan Jewish Women’s Project had an exhibition of contemporary artists doing Miriam’s Cups, and one of the participants was Amy Reichert, known for her contemporary works. The museum commissioned a new piece from Reichert for this exhibit. “We were interested in her revisiting the concept” 25 years later, and the piece not only challenges the concept of a cup, it references three different moments where Miriam is involved in the Exodus story. Recently, the Judaic Art Gallery was moved and expanded by 50 percent. Burrus noted that the Judaic gallery had been located toward a back corner, now it is located in a prominent spot near the entrance. “Recent Gifts to the Judaic Collection” will run through Jan. 28, and the Judaic Art Gallery is a permanent display. Above: Passover Seder Set with Plates, Dishes and Wine Cup. Originally designed 1930, fabricated 1975, by Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert. Right: Ark Curtain, Venice, 1717, by Esther Kohenet.
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Southern Jewish Food Setting the South Carolina Jewish Table “Kugels & Collards” is a fusion of cookbook and Jewish family history A prominent space where Southern identity and Jewish identity intersect is through food. What started out as a way to document those stories in South Carolina recently turned into a cookbook, “Kugels & Collards: Stories of Food, Family and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina.” Rachel Gordin Barnett, from the only Jewish family in Summerton, and Lyssa Kligman Harvey, from Columbia, have been assembling those stories since 2016. Barnett is executive director of the Jewish Historical Society 80
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of South Carolina, and Harvey is a teacher who created the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission. Historic Columbia organized a Connecting Communities Through History Initiative, and the Jewish community took part with the Columbia Jewish Heritage Initiative. That led to historical markers, self-guided tours of the city’s Jewish historical sites and collecting oral histories. Barnett said that she and Harvey approached Robin Waites, the executive director of Historic Columbia,
with the idea of telling the Jewish community’s story “through the lens of food and memory, and we suspect there are really good stories out there.” Barnett said Waites “was really supporting,” so they worked with the organization’s marketing team to set up a blog, and they started collecting stories and publishing them online in 2017. “The blog is still going,” she said. “We’re still writing the stories.” Right before the Covid lockdown, they had been asked if they were interested in doing a book version of the blog, and take it beyond Columbia, expanding statewide. They consulted with Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of “Matzoh Ball Gumbo” and a leading figure in documenting Southern Jewish foodways, and Dale Rosengarten, who created the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston. “They were so generous with their time and guidance,” Barnett said. The blog posts and book chapters are short family stories and a couple of related recipes, from about 70 contributors. They had a list of simple questions and prompts, with the goal of staying between 600 and 900 words. For those who weren’t comfortable with writing, they did Zoom interviews, having originally hoped to do in-person interviews, but the pandemic prevented that. Barnett said that one could learn a lot about a family by their writing about food. “Food is very emotional,” and people would talk about their grandmothers, or a particular recipe. Many interviews were “happily emotional, good memories coming back.” Four years after the initial meeting, the book was published. “It’s a snapshot of South Carolina,” she said. The stories mainly cover the generation of her grandmothers, with a little bit going back to the 1800s. Barnett said the recipes are a mix of Southern and Jewish, “because we are in the South and talking about the Southern Jewish table.” It was important for them to make sure that proper credit was given to African-American women who cooked in Jewish homes, “because they were the ones who brought the recipes into a lot of these homes.” For Harvey, many family recipes came from Annie Gaillaird, who worked for her grandparents and made fried chicken and macaroni salad, adapting them to the family’s kosher kitchen. Her recipe for okra gumbo is in the book, though it had not been previously written down, but was prepared by taste. A section by the Dickman sisters describes Florida Mae
Boyd, who started working for their family in 1956, as “the best Jewish chef in Columbia.” She eventually took over catering at the Jewish Community Center, and Jewish women would call her to learn the twists she gave to traditional dishes. The recipes in the book aren’t necessarily a fusion of Southern and Jewish, but incorporating both cuisines into the same meal. “Collards next to the brisket and tzimmes,” Barnett explained. “It’s the way we grew up eating, but it’s novel to some people.” Still, there are items like the grits and lox casserole. The book also details how different families would maneuver their way to their own version of keeping kosher — if they did so at all, in a land of pork barbecue and shrimp. One family, she related, kept a strictly kosher kitchen, “but they would sit under a tree outside picking crabs.” For many families, in the words of Rhetta Mendelsohn, “we ate like our Southern neighbors, but with a few notable exceptions.” Jewish food could also affect life paths. One anecdote came from Michael Tonquor, now living in Washington. His father ran a factory in Barnwell, which had located there as part of
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an incentive program pushed by long-time Speaker of the House Solomon Blatt. The elder Tonquor would frequently travel to New York to meet with his boss, and return to South Carolina with a load of deli items. He would always bring a package for Blatt, who had a passion for smoked beef tongue, which wasn’t available in South Carolina. That deepened the relationship between the two, so when Michael Tonquor was college age, Blatt helped open doors for the path his career took. On Oct. 25, Harvey entered her Jewish star poppy seed cake in the 150th anniversary South Carolina State Fair and won a blue ribbon. In the book, her daughter, Jordane Harvey Lotts, says that cake is at all events, happy or sad, and “has become a family and Columbia Jewish community favorite.” The last section of the book, The Legacy, is by younger community members, giving their food-related memories and how their lives have been shaped. An example is Emily Levinson, who went to Auburn University and soon realized, as
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she used her microwave, how fortunate she had been to enjoy home-cooked meals every night. She soon embarked on her own odyssey of cooking dishes from home, even eventually starting her own baked goods business, Mamanu Baked Goods, introducing many Jewish specialties to Auburn. While the process preserved a lot of family recipes, it also showed that much has already been lost. Many fondly-recalled dishes have been lost, because they were never written down or taught — they were done by memory, with eyeing the ingredients rather than measuring them. Through experimentation, they were able to resurrect some of them. In addition to preserving these stories and recipes for the Southern audience, Barnett said she enjoys encountering those who are unfamiliar with the Southern Jewish experience. “It’s been our pleasure to open people’s eyes and educate them a bit.” View the blog at kugelsandcollards.org.
Rear Pew Mirror by Doug Brook
The Perfect Dreidel Stuffer It’s time for the triumphant return of our first-ever annual Gift Guide. To make gift-giving decisions simple amid the over-programmed, overloaded shopping season, this guide has exactly one item in it. It’s all anyone will need. With great fanfare — that is, a fair number of ceiling fans were turned on and made the room feel great — the first collection based on this column is now available, in paperback and Kindle. “Rear Pew Mirror: Reflections From the Back of the Sanctuary” contains 29 past columns, all updated with more laughs and fewer typos. Each column has been clinically proven to get laughs out of nearly both of our readers, by virtue of them needing clinical help after reading. It might seem self-serving to focus this shopping guide on this book. In many realms, it would be unthinkable. For example, self-promotion is difficult to get away with in the military. Despite that, we will uniformly discharge our duty, as off we go being all we can be with our anchors aweigh, while turning up our semper hi-fi. This collection includes past columns about holiday mashups, food, biblical sources, culture, and services. Longtime readers can relive the frightful Friday Yom Kippur that brought about Kol Nidre the 13th, or revisit the menu of Italian dishes for the Passover seder which went far beyond matzahroni and cheese. New readers can live or visit them for the first time. Each section of the book is introduced by newly uncovered, related pieces of classic literature. The food section begins with the famous Shakespearean monologue “To eat, or not to eat” from Act Three of “Treiflet.” The services section starts with the lyrics to the iconic song from The Man of La Mishnah, “To dream the Shabbat morning dream…” There’s something for everyone, from a letter to Superman from the Metropolis Rabbinic Council, to Dr. Seuss’s original, never-proven-to-be-inauthentic, ‘Twas the Night Before Chanukah. You may ask, in these trying times, is it appropriate to laugh? Yes. There’s a story about Rabbi Akiva where, sometime after the destruction of the Second Temple, he and several other rabbis entered Rome. The other rabbis began crying, but Rabbi Akiva started laughing.
The other rabbis asked why he was laughing. In true rabbinic form, Rabbi Akiva answered by asking his own question: why were they crying? They asked how could they not cry when these Romans who sacrifice to idols and bow to false gods live happily and securely, while for the rabbis the Second Temple had been destroyed. Rabbi Akiva said that’s why he was laughing. If this is what the Almighty Big G gave to people who anger Him, can you imagine how much more will come to His people? Similarly, Rabbah — a late Third-Century Talmudist — would start his talks with a joke. Of course, he was teaching to a captive audience and didn’t need to win their attention, but starting with a laugh would loosen up his students’ minds to expand their thinking. It gave students permission to approach things differently. So, if you ever need a break from the world, in this book you can revisit last decade’s anomaly known as Thanksnukah, or preview the yet-to-happen happenstance of Chanukippur. But, wait, there’s more. With the release of this book, Rear Pew Mirror is now a triple-threat. There’s the book, the column itself which has been insidiously inked since 1996, and the podcast. Yes, lest we forget, Rear Pew Mirror has also been a podcast since 2021. Available on all major platforms, this five-star reviewed podcast is based on columns, past and present. It’s not just reading a column — each episode includes sound effects to great effect, and additional bits that couldn’t get into the column itself due to space limits or unlimited good taste. Every day is some number of shopping days until next Chanukah, so get a copy now. Take two, they’re small. It’s the perfect bar or bat mitzvah gift, as long as they don’t read it during their ceremony.
You still have to laugh sometimes
Doug Brook does not recommend trying to stuff a copy of “Rear Pew Mirror: Reflections From the Back of the Sanctuary” into a dreidel. Unless you record the attempt and share the video. To acquire the book, read other past columns, or listen to the FIVE-star rated Rear Pew Mirror podcast, visit http://rearpewmirror.com/. See the ad for Rear Pew Mirror (the book) on page 57.
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