The Jewish News - June 2012 by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

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June 2012 - Sivan/Tammuz 5772 INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

6A Community Focus 10A Focus on Youth 11A Jewish Interest 17A Commentary 20A Israel & the Jewish World 23A Life Cycle 1B Jewish Happenings 6B Recent Events

6A The journey of De Yiddishe Kup from Lakewood Ranch to Philadelphia

7A JFCS celebrates volunteers

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Volume 42, Number 6

Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors eager to visit Israel By Len Steinberg

s you read this article, 15 students from the Sarasota-Manatee area are preparing for the trip of a lifetime. The Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors Leadership Mission to Israel is a wonderful program offered by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. The purpose of this educational and spiritual trip is to help teens develop leadership skills as they learn firsthand the importance of Israel to Jews around the world. Our students will embark on their two-week journey on Wednesday, June 13. The enthusiasm and energy that evolves from this type of cultural adventure is priceless for American Jewish teenagers. It encourages them to maintain, preserve and transmit their love for Judaism and for Israel. These students will have the opportunity to explore a new country and take the lessons learned into the next generation as dedicated American Jews. Each Young Ambassador went through a process that involved applying for the trip and being interviewed by a selection committee, chaired by Anne Stein. The Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors program is quite different than other youth-related missions to Israel in that it is a yearlong process that encompasses leadership training before and after the mission, as well as a commitment to service in the community. This year’s Young Ambassadors participated in five pre-mission training sessions that were designed to provide them with basic leadership skills and knowledge about the State of Israel, its history and culture.

Several of last year’s Young Ambassadors in Israel

Upon their arrival back in the U.S., the Young Ambassadors will participate in training sessions that will continue their leadership training, allowing them to become leaders in the Jewish community. They are expected to volunteer their time in the community, share their Israel experiences, and spread the truth about Israel. During the mission, each student is given a journal to keep track of their thoughts; this information is also utilized in the post-mission sessions. This is truly an inspirational experience. Young Ambassador participant Daniel Yohann said, “I feel as though the information sessions have adequately prepared me for my trip to Israel and what I hope to see there. The packing is a different story.” For more information regarding the Bob Malkin Young Ambassador Mission to Israel, please contact Len Steinberg at 941.371.4546 x106 or lsteinberg@ jfedsrq.org.

My Masa Israel journey

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f one had asked me where my life was turning as I finished college, I never would have said that I’d be moving to Israel. I graduated from UCF in December 2010 with a B.S. in Biology. I began exploring different areas of my field by working in the laboratory at SCF and then working in surgery at Venice Regional Medical Center, but still felt like a lost soul. Of course I always loved Israel and had visited the country a few times (my first time being with Taglit with UCF’s Hillel), and have always wanted to live there, but the thought of it becoming a reality seemed pretty farfetched. I took my third trip to Israel to visit a friend in November 2011, and that’s when I decided, “Why not start making a life here?” When I returned to the states that December, I started looking into different Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID MANASOTA FL PERMIT 167

ways I could make a plan for myself to get established in Israel. I needed to go to graduate school, not just find a job. My younger brother, Caitlin Balno and her brother, Alex, Alex Balno, had at his Masa Kumpta Tekes already made aliyah and was in the army there, so I knew if he could do it, I could too! Since I had been involved with the Jewish community in Sarasota my entire life, I knew I could turn to The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee for

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FEDERATION NEWS

June 2012

Legacies live on

Bea Friedman It is my belief that we must give now to insure our children’s security in the future. I gave a legacy gift to our Federation because I feel that we owe this to our children and grandchildren…to make the world safe and loving for them. My gift is my way of providing for our Jewish people, especially our children, here in Sarasota, in Israel and around the world forever!

By Jessica Katz

ermanence. This one word sums up the advantage of endowment for you as a donor and for the Jewish community. Endowments established decades ago are still sustaining The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee and our community today. Federation has the expertise to help you design a planned gift that will endow your personal vision for the future. Our community is continuing to build a stronger foundation for our future. Jerry Silverman, President and CEO of Jewish Federations of North America, is a big proponent of legacy

giving. Mr. Silverman says that “in our Jewish hopes and prayers, we talk passionately about the concept of ‘from generation to generation.’ Legacy giving allows us to take those prayers and hopes and truly put them into action for our future generations.” An endowment ensures that your generosity and vision will have an impact that extends far beyond your lifetime. For more information about endowments, contact Marty Haberer, Associate Executive Director, at 941.371.4546 x108 or mhaberer@jfedsrq.org.

We are pleased to present Part 3 of our Endowments feature. We are so proud to highlight those in our community who have already decided to leave a legacy.

Robert Michelson During my lifetime, many of my friends and associates were not Jewish. In the military, my work, and my activities, I was always treated fairly and with respect. For example, even though I was the only Jewish member, I was elected for two terms as Commander of my American Legion post. My legacy gift to our Federation is meant to insure our commitment to reach out to our Christian brothers and sisters in support of Israel and our Judeo/Christian values. We need to build on our common values and mutual interest to help stop anti-Semitism, support Israel, and make our world a safer, better place for us all. I hope my gift helps to do just that.

Irene Ross Eleven years ago, I became a Lion of Judah. It was one of the proudest days of my life. I remember how thrilled I was to be “pinned.” Even now, when I wear my pin, I always feel like a member of a special sisterhood. A short time later, inspired by our traditions of tzedakah and tikkun olam, I realized that when I no longer would be here I wanted to continue that tradition with an additional gift that would help secure the continuation of my commitment to a strong vibrant Jewish community. In addition, I wanted to leave a legacy for my children, grandchildren and future generations that, hopefully, would inspire them to continue my work. Or L’Atid, light unto the future, is symbolized by the flame which is attached to my pin. May the light always shine upon all Jews throughout the world, on Israel and in our hearts! I believe my endowment can help, in the smallest way, to keep that light shining.

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Jacqueline Siegel-Frascella I created the “Jacqueline Siegel-Frascella College Scholarship Fund” to offer an alternative avenue for students, actively involved in athletics (including dance), to receive financial aid for college. A healthy mind achieves its greatest potential in a healthy body; therefore, if our Jewish youth are to achieve their full potential, we must guide them in this direction. My belief is that participation in athletics and dance can be a great equalizer, and a wonderful way to bring greater understanding and acceptance of one another – individually and as a people. It is my hope that my fund at the Jewish Federation will, through athletics and dance, help our children to be seen, understood and valued, now and for many years to come.

Susan Shimelman You can’t take it with you…but you can continue to repair the world. When comforting mourners, we conclude with “May his/her name be a blessing.” Usually to take action, I make a donation to the person’s named charity. I feel the warmth of the memory and the hope of the future with the words and actions. When we Sarasotans are asked about our community, we say we live in Paradise; a glib response that reflects the warmth, friendships, culture and community that we have built in our retirement community. No one can, with certainty, assure us of the world to come, but we can insure that those who continue to live in Sarasota live and thrive with dignity. I have chosen to leave my IRA for charitable use. It is easy, it is economical, and I will not miss the corpus! Join me in securing the future of our community and leaving a legacy for a blessing.

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June 2012

Members of the Tribe convene in Las Vegas By Maury Azerad, Esq.

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ifteen-hundred Jews in Las Vegas for a convention?” I asked. “Sounds great, but I doubt I would be able to afford it.” Jessica replied, “The Federation is giving a subsidy to the first 10 people who sign up.” “Hmm,” I thought, “I better ask my dad about this.” And I’m glad I did. Sure, I had been to Las Vegas before, but when I made the trip in the past, it was mostly about the place. This time it was about the people. Not just any people; these people were all Jews (like me)! And guess what? There’s something special that happens when you get 1,500 Jews together at the same hotel in Las Vegas. It stops being Vegas and it becomes TribeFest. I can’t explain how privileged I felt to be a part of it – from the time I heard the first guest speaker to the moment I took my last bite at the intimate group dinner the night before

we left. For me, it was a continuation of my Jewish career. There was Hebrew school as a child, JCC summer camp, sleep away camp, my Bar Mitzvah, youth group trips, my Jewish fraternity at Florida State, and now TribeFest. All of the aforementioned activities made me feel part of a larger community composed of others with similar values, tastes, traditions and, let’s face it, noses. However, TribeFest seemed to start a new chapter of Jewish involvement. This convention was my first large-scale (young) adult activity with other Jews. There was a sense there that we were all in attendance for a reason. Whether we knew it going into it or not, once those main stage lights came on and we started to hear the stories of our fellow Jews, we all knew. We were there because we wanted to stay involved.

My Masa Israel journey...continued from page 1A guidance. I didn’t want to make aliyah without a plan, so I decided to start with a Masa program. Federation staff members Jessica Katz and Len Steinberg were so helpful in introducing the Masa programs to me. I did some research and decided the Masa Career Israel program

Hiking in the Machtesh

fit my needs perfectly. This program set up an educational internship in the place or field of my choice, while giving me the chance to meet people from all over the world and explore the whole country of Israel. This Masa program lasts five months. My group of 80 young adults met and toured in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, attended ulpan classes, and got to experience the unique culture of the cities. I decided to live in Haifa to do my internship at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. A few times a month for the next four months, the group met for trips and seminars. We explored the different scenarios that the Israeli people and Israeli government are faced with. Some of these subjects include: whether or not Israel is a real democracy because of the Orthodox laws enforced by the Knesset, the struggle of Ethiopian Jews and Sudanese refugees, the loose laws that allow education and collaboration of terrorists in Israeli prisons, the stereotypes of Jewish Americans versus those of Israelis, how Jews in the Diaspora and Jews in Israel are interdependent for various social, political and economic reasons, and the importance of developing and inhabiting the Negev.

I chose to do my internship at the Technion because it’s one of the best institutions in the world, especially in my field of microbiology. I am currently doing research under Professor Dan Zilberstein, Ph.D., on the amino acid transport of a parasite called Leishmani donovani. I am fascinated with this field of research and am looking forward to publishing my findings in the near future. Dr. Zilberstein has invited me to stay in the lab, so I am planning to attend graduate school at the Technion in the fall. I will hopefully be doing a direct track PhD program in Biology. On a lighter note, the greatest parts of living in Israel are my growing knowledge of Hebrew, the incredible bus system, the springtime in Haifa, the beaches, the overall Israeli culture (most of it), the people I have met from all over the world, the fact that everyone speaks English, the sirens on Yom HaShoah and Yom HaZikaron, my laboratory, and the way that every city seems like a completely different country. I have been to so many diverse places since I have been here: The Ne-

On a goat farm in the Negev

gev in Sde Boker where Ben-Gurion lived, the Machtesh, Mitzpe Ramon, goat farms, Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan, illegal and legal Druze villages, East Jerusalem borders, Netanya, Carmel, Sderot and Gaza. I have also gained a thicker skin and become very self reliant, but that’s the reality of life here. Israel is a magical place and I have a feeling I’ve only begun to scratch the surface.

Caitlin’s trip was partially funded by the Federation’s Schiff Senda-Kid-to-Israel program. She received a Masa travel grant from the Federation as well. For more information about these programs, contact Jessica Katz at 941.371.4546 x123 or jkatz@jfedsrq.org.

There was an air of importance at getting married, having children, and TribeFest. The people who organized starting businesses, and a world where the convention, spoke at the main stage everyone guards their time so closely events, and put on the workshops were (because as we know, time is money), doing important things with their lives TribeFest seemed an oasis of authentic– not just in the Jewish ity amidst a barren desert world, but the world of self-occupied individuat large. Information als. These individuals were is power, and true emwilling to put self-occupapowerment cannot be tion aside for a few days in bought. It logically order to gain an outside perfollows that the inforspective and forge new relamation I added to my tionships, even though their own human experience current ones were probably while attending Tribeenough to fill their plate. Fest is priceless. From Abe Feder, Jessica Katz and They knew, as I have come Maury Azerad at TribeFest Leonard Bernstein to to know, that expansion of The Beastie Boys, Jewish genetic dis- one’s influences and network, though it eases to Ukrainian Olympic swimming, may require a little extra time or focus, and Israeli activism to Internet dating, will often yield an exponential return on information on the circumstances and investment. details of the life experiences of our felIn sending our group of young low Jews helps to enrich our own lives adults to TribeFest, members of the and experiences, as well as those of our Sarasota-Manatee Jewish community local communities and the entire Jewish knew this too. They made an investcollective. ment in the future leaders of our Jewish “I’m from Sarasota, the west coast community. Now it’s our job to make of Florida. You? Oh, Baltimore? Or- that investment grow, and ensure that ange County? Detroit?” Everyone was we are added as assets to the portfolio so friendly. I knew they would be, but of The Jewish Federation of Sarasothe open arms of my Jewish peers still ta-Manatee. For more information about the brought a smile to my face. In a world of longer work hours, less pay, grow- Young Adult Division, contact Jessica ing commitments to existing friends Katz at 941.371.4546 x123 or jkatz@ and community members who are jfedsrq.org.

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FEDERATION NEWS

June 2012

A lasting impression – Joel and Linda Abromson

By Sarah Ida Tedesco

ehind every man is a great woman; behind every woman is a truly phenomenal man. Linda and Joel Abromson are two individuals who have made it impossible for me to give up my dream of making a social impact through my Jewish Heritage. This couple is a true inspiration not only to youth, but a model of how all human Sarah Ida Tedesco beings should act. I recently spoke with Linda Abromson and found it hard to believe that I was there fulfilling my obligation as a Jewish News volunteer reporter. Linda Abromson’s warm presence made me feel as if I was talking to a member of my own family. I came into our interview knowing nothing about the Abromson family, but came out wanting to be an Abromson myself. Joel Abromson, Linda’s husband for 42 years, was a man of irreplaceable grace, passion, honesty and true wisdom. Unfortunately, on January 14, 2002, Joel lost his battle with cancer. There is no doubt that this man did not live long enough, though he made the most of the years he was given. He accomplished more than most could accomplish in several lifetimes. The

world lost a man who exemplified the meaning of tikkun olam. Joel helped create the serenity we find in our Jewish communities, and helped to change the path for non-Jews as well. When speaking about her husband, Linda explained just how special he was. Joel was an ideal father, a spectacular Jew, and a caring human rights activist. His selfless personality reflected the love he had for everyone he met. When he saw a cause that needed attention, he used every resource available to him and always made a difference. Although I never had the opportunity to meet Joel, the presence of his spirit was evident in Mrs. Abromson’s home. The smile that enveloped her face when speaking about her husband showed me exactly how much this man meant not only to her but to everyone’s life he touched. As Mrs. Abromson and I got deeper in to our conversation she showed me the scrapbook she created for her husband after his death. The first page was Joel’s obituary followed by countless articles that clearly showed the stature of this man. The scrapbook was several inches thick. Reading it and soaking in the love that it was created with, made it evident just how special this man was. Joel did not just have a love of helping his fellow Jews, but was a member of high stature in Maine. He occupied one of 33 seats in the Maine Senate.

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to do anything to protect this precious land. Joel was also a chair in the United Jewish Appeal’s National Young Leadership Cabinet, president of his local Jewish Federation in Portland, Maine, and a member of the Board of Directors at his local conservative synagogue. Linda was modest when speaking about herself but spoke eagerly about her husband, even though she was mayor of Portland and worked hard to attend several mission trips to Israel each year. Israel was not the only passion she shared with her husband. America’s Jewish community was one as well; she served on her local Jewish Federation board and chaired both the women’s division and local campaign of the UJA. Many humanitarians do a vast amount of service on one or two projects, or help out in a couple of organizations. Joel defied this standard. He went above and beyond and did not just represent himself as a Jewish activist but as a high member of society in Maine. He

was voted in as one of Maine’s senators and helped pass several bills that made differences in minorities’ lives. For example, one subject that he was passionate about was helping homosexuals gain equal rights. He worked diligently and was eventually rewarded for his dedication after his death. The Lesbian Gay Political Alliance held a dinner in his honor and thanked Linda for her husband’s service. Out of all of the organizations and service projects Linda shared about her husband, one stuck out. Joel was one of the original cabinet members on the United Jewish Appeal National Young Leadership Cabinet – a social activism organization sponsored by the Jewish Federations of North America. Members take part in yearly trips to Israel and conferences around the United States. Active members who reside in our community are Dr. Joshua and Julie Green. Linda shared one of her favorite experiences while traveling with her husband to Israel on a National Young Leadership Cabinet mission. Directly after the Yom Kippur war, the Abromsons were planning on leading a group to Israel. Instead of canceling the mission, they bravely led a group of adults to a country struck by war. The group visited wounded soldiers in hospitals, and spoke to civilians who were devastated by the terror. Not many communities can say that one of their own was the wife of an original chair on the National Young Leadership Cabinet. It was an honor to speak to a woman with such grace and high stature. Linda will be attending a reception for original cabinet members. This gathering will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Young Leadership Cabinet and will take place in Washington, D.C. Her experiences are forever engraved in my heart. Linda Abromson’s passion for Judaic excellence has made it evident that I will continue to strive to become a Jewish activist in my future.

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FEDERATION NEWS 5A June 2012

June 2012

Israel has had enough of the United Nations Established 1971

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By Rabbi Howard A. Simon, Chair of The Robert and Esther Heller Israel Advocacy Initiative

t long last Israel has had enough Middle East – even after the world has of the United Nations and has observed the results of the Arab Spring taken a very positive step to that have little or nothing to do with Ismake this fact clear to the rael, but have disrupted world. Israel has cut off ties life entirely in this part with the United Nations of the world. Human Rights Council. Israel has finally The reason for this achad enough. The leadertion is that the UNHRC deship looked at the most cided to send a fact-finding recent, but certainly not team to probe the impact the only, expression of of Israeli settlements on support for Palestinian Palestinian human rights. wishes, and has decided This action was taken at to act and make clear its the behest of the Palestinfeelings regarding the Rabbi Howard A. Simon ian Authority, because they United Nations. have decided not to accept the continuIn September of last year it was ally offered invitation from Israel to sit the General Assembly of the U.N. that down together and work out a peace adopted a resolution promoting Duragreement that would be beneficial to ban III’s “anti-racism” declaration – a both the Palestinians and the Israelis. declaration condemning Israel and only Instead of accepting Israel’s offer, the Israel, ignoring all the facts that label Palestinians prefer to go through agen- Israel as the only true democracy in the cies within the U.N. where they feel Middle East and calling her a “racist there is more acceptance of their posi- state.” tions and their beliefs. It is the United This is the same United Nations Nations that refuses to accept the reali- organization that, in 1975, adopted the ties that exist regarding Israel and her blatant lie that “Zionism is racism” and neighbors. repeated the action in the 2001 Durban Israel is always “at fault.” Israel Declaration accusing only one state is the “cause” of the problems in the in the United Nations of racism, that

state being Israel. How consistent is the thinking of the U.N. and how false are their conclusions. With the latest action of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Israel has decided to fight back. In the future, Israel will not appear before the council, answer any of its phone calls, or cooperate in any way with Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay. The fact-finding mission will be barred from entering Israel, and all direct relations will cease between Israel and the Council. Enough is enough. Israel has decided, as well she should, that if the U.N. is unwilling to view the Middle East in general, and Israel in particular, in honest, forthright terms, then Israel can do without the United Nations. The shame is that Israel has so much to bring to this organization, but blind hatred and the wish to appease the Arab world makes it impossible for the U.N. to benefit from Israel or Israel to benefit from the U.N. How sad. How very sad. To learn about how you can get involved with the Heller IAI, please visit www.helleriai.org or contact Geneve Kallins at gkallins@jfedsrq.org or 941.371.4546 x105.

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The journey of De Yiddishe Kup: From Lakewood Ranch to the Independence Mall in Philadelphia By Sandy Chase

hen you hear the expression Yiddishe kup, what comes to mind? Maybe the literal translation: Jewish head? Or a definition that has evolved because of our tumultuous history: extra common sense G-d gave us Jews in order to survive in a fickle world? But to five Lakewood Ranch golfing buddies, Yiddishe Kup is a trophy symbolizing a bond of friendship bolstered by their Jewish heritage. And that trophy is en route to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) – a Smithsonian affiliate, just steps from

spirit. Shekels were quickly abandoned because of potential shpilkes, or anxiety, caused by awarding only one winner. But when the friends put their Yiddishe kups together, they inspired Lou (aka the Artist) to create a masterpiece that would achieve their goal of recognizing each of the foursome based on his six-week score. A sacred testament Lou literally designed De Yiddishe Kup based on the collective Yiddishe kups. The trophy centerpiece is a sterlingsilver Kiddush cup, mounted on a high base. Surrounding the cup and resting on golf tees are four blue-and-white

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the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall – to become part of the museum’s permanent collection. In the beginning Undertaking their own personal “Diaspora” from other parts of the country, Lenny Drexler (Eliazar), Eliot Charnas (Eliahu), Joel Ehrenpreis (Yussel), Lou Siegel (Label), and their wives migrated to Lakewood Ranch, knowing no one here but reaching out and ultimately finding one another through their Wednesday foursome on the golf course. Friendships blossomed, nurtured by their Jewish connection. Randy Mallitz (Moishe) and his wife were welcomed into this group a few years later. The idea for the trophy was born in October 2007, when the guys wanted an egalitarian way of recognizing each golfer while celebrating the Jewish

golf balls, representing the State of Israel. Each ball is embossed with the Star of David. Directly below is a section containing the trophy name and the four winning positions based on the lowest to highest score: Maven, Shmendrik, Shmegegi and Shlemazel. Interchangeable Hebrew name plates of the original foursome are under each one of the rankings. A wooden pedestal supporting the structure is stained to represent the brisket gravy of the Artist’s wife, Ruth z”l (Hebrew for of blessed memory). According to the Artist, brisket is the staple of most Jewish holiday meals. Four dreidels – with their respective letters – rest on a pedestal stained with the same “gravy.” Dedication During a November 2007 Shabbat din-

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e Yiddishe Kup Trophy represents a span of time filled with irreplaceable and precious memories of my wife, my friends, my pleasures, my heritage, and my knowledge that with hard work, some planning, and some mazel, life can be good and dreams of the future can be fulfilled, at least for awhile. – Lou Siegel

hat is common among us Yiddishe Kuppers is the priceless memories and schmooze time we have shared, bonding “Jewishly” around an inspired brisket-gravy-stained trophy, supporting each other when we needed it most, and just smiling and laughing hard, all of which has enriched us and made our lives even more rewarding. – Joel Ehrenpreis

e Yiddishe Kup is a symbol of a very special group of guys who, over five years, have developed an amazing bond held together by friendship, respect for each other, fun, laughter, tears and silliness. We’ve shared good times and tough times on the golf course and in our homes with our spouses – with the trophy ceremonies always the focus of much joy and hope that its spirit will continue. – Lenny Drexler

came to Lakewood Ranch from Cleveland knowing no one. At that point I did not think that I would enjoy it here. I met the boys who took me into their game, and our friendship has been the best part of my life. – Eliot Charnas

hat means the most to me is the binding relationships we have all formed and the fact that we talk Jewish life weekly, which helps me stay in touch with Judaism. – Randy Mallitz

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ational Volunteer Appreciation Week was celebrated April 1521. Jewish Family & Children’s Service recognized its Volunteers of the Year at the agency’s 26th Annual Meeting at Michael’s On East on April 16. The designated week has become a nationwide effort to urge people to vol-

unteer in their communities and recognize volunteers for their service. JFCS depends on volunteers to provide vital outreach and supportive services to clients such as Bikkur Cholim Para-chaplains, Doulas, Friendly Visitors, Intake & Referral Social Workers, Hospital Visitors, Mentors, Respite Care Aides

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and Tutors. The Independent Sector has set the value of volunteer time at $21.79 per hour. Last year more than 400 volunteers provided 11,479 hours of service, setting their contribution of time and talents at $250,127. Our volunteers are compassionate, dedicated, trained individuals who provide support to children, families, veterans and seniors who turn to JFCS when they need help with life’s challenges. The following volunteers were honored for their service to the community: Judy & Scott Barde, Jewish Spirituality Award Elinor Burstein, Humanitarian Award Pat Dinney, Jewish Life Education Award Joel Ehrenpreis, Children’s Services Award Bobby Fleisher & Marylen Oberman, L’Dor V’Dor Award

Nina Gitomer, Senior Outreach Award Betty Hillman, Management Services Award Randy & Susan Mallitz, Visionary Award Stuart Roth, Center for Faith & Freedom, Community Outreach Award Stephen Seay, Organizational Impact Award Temple Emanu-El, Gemilut Hasadim Award Harvey Vengroff, Philanthropy Award Harris Private Bank, Corporate Citizen Award To find out how you can make a difference as a volunteer at JFCS, please contact Tara Booker, Director of Volunteer Services & Community Outreach, at 941.366.2224 x143 or tbooker@jfcscares.org.

Tikkun Olam one penny at a time

nce again representatives and members from area synagogues joined interfaith groups supporting the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) demanding that Florida Publix begin paying a living wage to their tomato pickers. What does that living wage amount to? One cent more per bushel. As a result of protests in November 2011 in Sarasota and elsewhere, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods have joined Taco Bell in discovering that, after all, one penny per bushel means little to mega corporations, but is incredibly important to the farm workers and to caring customers. On April 22, 150 demonstrators marched more than two miles round-trip along Tamiami Trail from the Publix at The Landings to the Publix on Osprey Street chanting, sometimes in Spanish, that all they are seeking is justice and fair pay. Among the Jewish contingent was Rabbi Aaron Koplin, Temple Beth Israel’s Rabbi Jonathan Katz, Beth

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Jewish Housing Council Fdn. to honor Eight Over Eighty Nominations now being accepted for senior community humanitarian award

he Jewish Housing Council Foundation is calling all nonprofit organizations and residents to help nominate eight worthy volunteers who are over 80 years old for a special honor. Eight Over Eighty is to be a celebration of the gems of Sarasota-Manatee’s senior population who have exhibited in the past and continue to show leadership, activism, altruism and/or philanthropy. The honorees will be people who continue to participate actively in the community and defy the stereotypes – people who just won’t slow down.

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They are the folks the rest of see as role models. Nominations are now being accepted. Nominees must be over 80, serve as a role model for people of all ages, and have dedicated themselves to the betterment of the community. Winners will be honored at a brunch in November at Michael’s On East. For a nomination form, contact Denise Cotler, Director of Development of the Jewish Housing Council Foundation, at 941.377.0781 x404 or dcotler@ kobernickanchin.org.

JFCS offers support group for adult children of aging parents By Andria Keil Bilan, JFCS VP of Development

ewish Family & Children’s Service recognizes that caregiving is stressful and offers special support groups for adult children who are caring for their aging parents. The JFCS Sarasota CARES Program, funded through a grant from the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, offers these caregiver support groups which provide emotional support, affirmation, understanding, socialization and assistance with community resources. Groups are offered monthly in both Sarasota and Venice as follows:

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Temple Emanu-El children’s Students learn through play flags take a journey to Israel at Temple Beth Sholom

hen young Jewish and interfaith families gathered for Tot Shabbat at Temple Emanu-El on April 14, they enjoyed a pre-Yom HaAtzmaut celebration that would echo all the way to Israel. Every year, Temple Emanu-El holds a special installment of Tot Shabbat in honor of Yom HaAtzmaut, or Israeli Independence Day. Children and their parents and grandparents celebrate Israel’s birthday with an “archaeological dig” in the sandbox for real Israeli

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coins, simple Israeli folk dancing, an Israel-related craft, and a cake decorated in blue and white that reads “Happy Birthday Israel.” With the interfaith mission to Israel – sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and the Sarasota Ministerial Association – approaching, however, this year’s craft took on particular significance. Each child at Tot Shabbat was given the opportunity to create and color two Israeli flags: one to keep as a souvenir, and one to be given to participants in the mission to Israel, who would celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut in Sarasota’s sister city Kiryat Yam. Under the leadership of Federation Executive Director Howard Tevlowitz, these flags were presented on Yom HaAtzmaut to the mayor of Kiryat Yam as a gift from the children of Sarasota. “Our mission participants look forward to bringing these flags to our sister city in Israel on Israeli Independence Day,” Tevlowitz stated before the mission departed. “The flags represent the importance of teaching our children to love Israel, and that our commitment to Israel lives in every generation.” For more information about Temple Emanu-El children’s programs, please call 941.379.1997.

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By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jewish parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are also identified as Jewish. Jews rock the Hall of Fame This year’s induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame took place on April 15 and was first televised on HBO on May 5. Look for encore showings throughout the summer and, no doubt, the program will be available for months via the HBO “on demand” feature. It will come out later this year on DVD. Individual inductees: (1) singersongwriter LAURA NYRO (1947-97) was born Laura Nigro, the child of secular parents. Her maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish, as was her father’s mother. Her paternal grandfather was Italian Catholic. Nyro wrote very wellcrafted songs that others turned into big hits, including Wedding Bell Blues, Stoned Soul Picnic and Eli’s Coming. Ovarian cancer claimed her. She was inducted by a tearful BETTE MIDLER, 66, who said at the ceremony: “In a world of imitators...she was a complete original. She was an ornament on the Earth.” (2) DON KIRSHNER (19342011), inducted as a “non-performer,” was the genius producer/executive who was critical to the creation of most of the best rock music of the early to mid’60s. His stable of in-house songwriters included CAROLE KING, NEIL SEDAKA, BARRY MANN, CYNTHIA WEIL and NEIL DIAMOND. He created the Archies and the Montz a Ka essic atzor ct: J K3 ta a n kees rock bands. King, 70, inducted o ic C ess 12 ns? r ct: J xt. stio nta 3 og 46 e t. 12o Co5 Que ? .4 sof n7 him, saying: “He was one the 1 io e t q. rrg s r 6 dxsmost 4 ue41.3 5 Q9 .4 fe o .371@j srq. significant influences on94jpopular k1atzz@jfedmusic t th in the 20 century.” jka Bands: (1) The Red Hot Chili Peppers, a hard rockin’ band, whose original line-up (and Hall inductees) includes two Jewish members: JACK IRONS, 49, the original drummer, and HILLEL SLOVAK, the original lead guitarist. Born (1962) in Israel, the son of Holocaust survivors, Slovak’s great talent was overwhelmed by drugs and he died (1988) of an overdose. (2) Guns N’ Roses: STEVEN ADLER, 46, the group’s original virtuoso drummer.

He’s battled a serious drug problem for decades. (3) The Beastie Boys, the best “white” rap group of all-time, its lineup has always been: (the late) Adam Yauch, ADAM HOROVITZ, 45, and MIKE DIAMOND, 46. Although the band has sometimes touched on Jewish themes – the ‘two Adams’ come with asterisks. Horovitz is the son of a Jewish father (famous playwright ISRAEL HOROVITZ) and non-Jewish mother, while Yauch was the son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. Both were raised secular. Yauch, long a devout Buddhist, was very ill on April 15, and wasn’t able to be at the ceremony. He was 47 when cancer took his life on May 4. The Beastie Boys’ Jewish ties never were that deep, but they made a number of Jewish references in their songs over the years. These references are most numerous in the 2004 album, “To the Five Boroughs.” Background on Barrymore I don’t write often about interfaith celebrity weddings. However, as I write this (in early May) actress Drew Barrymore, 36, is scheduled to marry her Jewish fiancé on June 2 and reliable reports say that it is likely that the groom’s family rabbi will preside. If this all comes to pass, which is likely, you have already seen reports about a Jewish wedding and wonder what’s up with that. Barrymore’s fiancé is WILL KOPELMAN, 33, a fine art consultant. His father, ARIE KOPELMAN, 71, is the now-retired head of Chanel, America (a subsidiary of the famous French company which is owned by the French Jewish brothers GERARD and ALAIN WERTHEIMER). Will’s sister, JILL KARGMAN, 37, is a wellknown columnist and novelist. His mother, COCO, is from a distinguished Sephardi Greek family. I would call the Koppelmans moderately religious based on bio “bits and pieces.” Barrymore had a chaotic childhood family life and I suspect she’s drawn to Will Kopelman’s very stable and

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Barrymore does have a Jewish half-brother. Her father, the late actor John Drew Barrymore (1932-2004), the very troubled son of the legendary actor John Barrymore (1882-1942), was married four times. His first wife was actress CARA WILLIAMS, now 87. Born Bernice Kamiat, she got an Oscar nomination for playing a poor Southern widow who fancies TONY CURTIS in The Defiant Ones (1958). Her short marriage to Drew’s father produced a son, former actor JOHN BLYTH BARRYMORE, now 57.

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From shipwrecks to salvation: breaking the blockade By Philip K. Jason, Special to The Jewish News Blockade: The Story of Jewish Immigration to Palestine: 1933-1948, by Gerald Ziedenberg. Authorhouse. 204 pages. $24.95 hardback, $19.95 trade paperback. E-book available.

lthough this study has several problems, it is nonetheless extremely useful and deserves our attention. It is not smoothly written, and it is unclear in too many places. It is not organized for maximum impact. The author has not made use of many recent books that are relevant to the topic. What does it have going for it? First of all, Gerald Ziedenberg Phil Jason exhibits a passionate concern with creating a fair-minded rendering of this important slice of 20th century history. Secondly, he introduces unique primary materials, namely, interviews with survivors of the blockade experience conducted in 2010 and 2011. As one might expect, Ziedenberg’s treatment is mostly chronological, but it is also topical – which is what forces some sections to take readers over the same ground they’ve already traveled. He begins with an overview of

the Balfour Declaration and the British Europe are being slaughMandate, then moves on to the main tered, many are heading business of the immigration experi- for Palestine, and the ence. Ziedenberg recognizes three dis- British are blocking the tinct phases of immigration following sea-path to survival. Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. The first The heart of Ziedenphase, essentially legal, lasts until the berg’s book, and what later thirties. After the Arab revolt in I expect will most 1936, the mandate administrators tight- fully engage his readened immigration quotas to Palestine. ers, is his narrative of This second phase runs through the war the failed and successful atyears and is a period in which Britain’s tempts to overcome the blockade. These naval blockade is largely successful. In stories are told in terms of the seacraft the post-war period, beginning in 1945, themselves: age, condition, size, numthere is much more intense and effec- ber of passengers, routes, supplies and tive piercing of the blockade, along living conditions. They are also told as the stories of with other efforts against the British individual experiforces in Palestine. ences. Here the thirThe author is careful to teen interviews that differentiate among the variZiedenberg conous components of the Zionist ducted serve him movement and to sift through well in particularizthe political biases of these ofting the physical and times adversarial factions. psychological orClearly a Zionist himself, deal of a wide range Gerald Ziedenberg is not blindof personalities. The ed by his sense of Israel’s necespassages of the book sity and his love for the country. based on these interThat is, he clearly recognizes Gerald Ziedenberg that others, let’s call them Palviews bring the past estinian Arabs for convenience, suf- alive. The author also draws upon the fered greatly both before and after the previously published testimony of other creation of the Jewish state. However, blockade-runners. For the most part, Ziedenberg dethis issue is not his main focus. The clock is ticking, the Jews of scribes the transit of motor-driven boats.

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Film review: Dancing on a Volcano

By Sarah Ida Tedesco

ilm producer Gary Merz jumped head first into the cinematography industry with his feature film, Dancing on a Volcano. The film won the runner-up title at the 14th annual Sarasota Film Festival. Dancing on a Volcano tells the story of Nadja Hammermann, an Austrian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by locking lips with Sarah Ida Tedesco a French leader. The award-winning movie enlightens the audience about the persuasion Nadja used to save hundreds of European Jews from being slaughtered. Federal Street Productions, a company named after Gary Merz’s Delaware art gallery, produced this film on a budget of $25,000. The documentary was produced, written and directed solely by Gary Merz. After watching the film, viewers thought Merz had created several other films with his artistic talent, but this was not the case. His first and only winning submission was Dancing on a Volcano. The cast and crew of the film were ecstatic about the film’s second-place award. Dancing on a Volcano includes enticing interviews with Nadja and her sister, Helen. The interviews reveal the struggles they faced escaping to Trinidad. Living in the slums of a tropical island, Nadja felt lost. For her entire life this artistic beauty lived large in Europe. After succumbing to four years in poverty, Nadja moved to Paris unaware of the danger Jews were facing. Nadja found herself caught in France alone and discriminated against. It was not until she met Armando Marin Mojica, Consul General of Paris, that her identity was changed and she was granted a visa. Armando fell in love with Nadja and requested one thing for her safety, a kiss. This kiss began a two-year affair that helped save not only Nadja but hundreds of others. Juano Marino Perez became Nadja’s new name and remains her professional identity to this day. Later that same year, Armando sent his family back to his home country of Chile. This was done so that he could continue to keep Nadja safe and give visas to European Jews. In 1941, Armando escorted Nadja to New York City and left her alone in a Manhattan hotel room. Nadja had $200 in her pocket and not an ounce of English in her vocabulary. This was the last time she ever heard or spoke to Armando. In New York, Nadja began a new life in a new world. She became the executive illustrator for the New York Times, and created hairstyle designs for top designer stylists. Her art became famous and the Austrian Jew thrived in a world that would have been obliterated

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without Armando Marin Mojica. Gary Merz is one of a few individuals besides Nadja who knows of Armando’s honorable work. A second film is in the works that will research the life and reputation of Armando. Gary learned of this extraordinary story from selling Nadja’s work in his art gallery. After hearing her story, he had only one choice – produce a groundbreaking film that reconstructs the meaning of a Holocaust survivor’s legend. When I asked Gary what he learned from his work on this production, he responded: “So much, everything has changed.” As a young Jewish woman, not much younger than Nadja when she was forced to use her beauty to escape Nazi-controlled Europe, I connected to the documentary. While I watched, I

imagined what life was like for Nadja. I wondered how anyone could survive alone in a foreign country without any form of usable communication. The Holocaust is full of countless extraordinary tales of human courage. Dancing on a Volcano portrays this courage extremely well. Nadja uses symbolism to allow the viewers to feel the fear she felt. The film’s title expresses the anxiety Europeans felt during this time. Love, fear and confusion are all expressed in the film. A bright future in the film industry awaits Gary Merz. I am honored and proud to have this film presented at my community’s pres-

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Knowing Jack: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 By Nick Bravin Editor’s note: I received the following note and article from Nick Bravin: For Holocaust Remembrance Day, I wrote an essay about my grandfather, Jacob Brodman, and his experiences during the Holocaust, and it was published by the Huffington Post. I’m visiting with my grandfather in Sarasota this week and after speaking with him, we thought the essay might be appropriate for The Jewish News. My grandfather has been a longtime member of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and based on the national reactions to the story of his life, we thought it might have an even greater impact locally. After reading the article, I’m sure you’ll feel, as I did, that it is worthy of the space afforded it in this community newspaper.

y grandfather, Jack, will never forget the day his father was shot to death in a city park in Grybòw, Poland, by a notorious Nazi named Hamann, as he watched through a small office window. It was Jack’s 22nd birthday. Next week he will celebrate his 92nd in Sarasota, Florida. Not a day has passed in the 70 years in between that Grandpa hasn’t remembered what has come to be called the Holocaust. Today is the day designated by Congress for the rest of us to remember the grisly fate that befell the Jewish people of Europe under Hitler and his willing accomplices – Holocaust Remembrance Day. But how can we in 2012 America begin to comprehend the events of that far off place and time? For the past several decades Jack has spoken to schoolchildren and Jewish groups to tell his story, to put a human face and name to the outsize numbers

and foreign locales of the Holocaust. Jack knows he belongs to that small and shrinking group of survivors who were old enough then to really understand what was happening and young enough now to still be alive and able to tell their stories. But, Jack is getting older. He’s tired. This year, he told me, he doesn’t have the energy to do it. Jack still feels his obligation to bear witness. He still fears what will happen when no survivors are left to testify about what they lived through. He just doesn’t have the energy to do it. This year, Jack asked me to tell his story. Though I’ve called him Grandpa all my life, Jack is not my real grandfather. Rather, he is my real grandfather in every sense of the word except biological. I never knew my mother’s father; he was murdered by the Nazis in the Vilna ghetto or the killing fields of the Ponari Forest just outside the city now called

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Vilnius, Lithuania. Of all the family on my mother’s side, only my grandmother and my mother survived. They came to New York in June 1946 aboard the S.S. Marine Perch. It was on the deck of that ship that Jack first saw my grandmother. By the time I was born, my grandmother had been married to Jack for more than 20 years. Most of my young childhood memories with Jack are typical. He’s picking me up off the ice at Rockefeller Center teaching me how to skate. He takes over rowing for me when I get tired of trying to propel our little two-man boat in a lake in the Berkshires. He’s pushing me into Central Park to play on the rocks. I’m squeezed between him and Grandma on the front bench seat of his green Plymouth Satellite station wagon on a cross-country drive. Some memories are less typical. Because he rarely mentioned his Holocaust experience to me, when he did, it seared. Like the time when I was about eight and I wouldn’t share something – a toy, some food – with my brother, and Grandpa sat me down. “When I was in Auschwitz,” he started, “my brothers were not as strong as I, so I would always share my bowl of soup with them so they could eat, too.” He told me after his day’s work as a slave laborer building scaffolding for I.G. Farbenindustrie, he’d do special jobs late into the night in exchange for which he’d get an extra portion of soup. “Not just soup water like normal, but thick noodle soup,” he said. This, too, he would share with his older brother. Chastened for the moment, I vowed to be better. Later, when I was much older, he described the extra work he did to earn more rations. Besides repairing stockings and gloves of SS men, some of the camp kapos were homosexuals, he told me, and they had my grandfather use his expert tailoring skills to take in their pants. “They wanted it very tight in the tuches,” he said, slipping into Yiddish as he does from time to time.

“How did you know how to sew so well?” I asked him. “I didn’t,” he said. Before Hitler’s army invaded western Poland in 1939, Jack had worked at his family’s lumber mill near Grybòw, in the Krakow region of Poland. “But sometimes I’d seen my late mother do it, so when they asked who could sew, I raised my hand,” Jack said. It was a valuable skill, and in my grandfather’s inimitable way, he would learn it by force of will and fake it until he did. It was the same way he entered many of the odd jobs he took when he arrived in New York after the war – slicing shoulder pads in a clothing factory in the Garment District, peddling women’s lingerie to sunbathers on Long Beach, delivering phone books in unfamiliar neighborhoods – before he finally learned upholstery and opened his own shop. fter surviving two death marches, Jack broke free in April 1945, just before the liberation of Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald – the first camp liberated by the Americans, with a room of dead bodies so gruesome it made General Eisenhower “a bit sick,” and General Patton wouldn’t enter. Jack shed his striped uniform, cut his hair short to even out the reverse mohawk shaved into his head to mark him as a prisoner, and accompanied American soldiers to identify Nazi guards trying to slip back into society. “We found an SS man, our Lagerfürer from Buna,” a subcamp of Auschwitz, Grandpa explained, “and we gave him a good portion of our thoughts.” In some amalgam of justice and mercy I fear I do not possess, Jack has always been mindful of the wrongs he and his family and his people suffered, but has never been obsessed with vengeance. In 1966, he traveled to Bochum, Germany, where his father’s murderer was being put on trial. Heinrich

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JEWISH INTEREST 15A June 2012 Hamann, chief of the Nowy Sacz Gestapo during the war, had been living under an assumed identity as a mailman for almost 20 years when he was exposed by a relative. Jack testified about watching Hamann shoot his father in the stomach and then in the head. He also described the day he was summoned to the forest as a slave laborer, where he watched Hamann try to pull a seven-year-old girl from her mother’s arms. When he couldn’t, Hamann shot a bullet through both of them and they fell into a pit with the bodies of other dead Jews, and Jack was ordered to bury them. “That girl, that face, with her mother...I could never forget,” my grandfather says in his Shoah Foundation testimony. “Hamann used to say he would be worse for the Jews than the Haman in the Bible,” my grandfather told me, a reference to the villain of the Book of Esther who ordered (at chapter 3, verse 13) “the destruction, slaughter and annihilation of all Jews, young and old, women and children.” Heinrich Hamann was convicted and sentenced to life plus 10 years imprisonment for complicity in the murder of 15,000 Jews, among them Eliasz Brodman, Grandpa’s father. Returning to Germany to testify was difficult, but Jack understood justice required it, whatever the personal cost. It forced Jack back to that world he had left behind forever in 1946. Then, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, when it was not uncommon for Jews returning to their hometowns to be killed by former neighbors who had appropriated their property, Jack decided to leave Europe. He walked from Poland, through Czechoslovakia, to Germany. He walked. He bribed soldiers and townspeople with vodka and

sausage for short rides now and then. From Germany he left for America and his new life. In a way, this small, Polish man whose English has always had a heavy Slavic touch, is the most American person I have ever met. More fittingly, he represents the best of what America is. He has a pioneer spirit, an unflinching optimism, an indomitable work ethic. He has never thought the world, or the country, or anyone owed him anything. He has never had that much but he has always shared whatever he’s had. He denies himself luxuries, but he’s a big tipper. He is not without his foibles, but Jack is a self-made man in every sense. Our language needs to find new words for loyalty, generosity and courage after robbing them of their meaning by overuse. During the six or so years when Alzheimer’s disease ravaged my grandmother’s mind, my grandfather cared for her almost single-handedly. Even when she’d lock him out of the house, scream at him, insist she didn’t know who he was, or threaten to call her “husband” (my biological grandfather, perhaps?), he was her devoted companion. Theirs was a “great love,” he has told me. “I fell in love with her when I saw her on the boat.” That was more than 65 years ago, and I know when Grandpa closes his eyes, he can still feel the June sun on his face and see my young grandmother on the deck of the Marine Perch. I know Grandpa will think of her today, not because it’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, just because. Jack and my grandmother were still young when they married in New York, but they never had any children of their own. “Anya was pregnant once,” he told me referring to my grandmother. Accepting new patients Same-day acute care appointments available

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more about dying. Last time I was there, he sat me down in front of his computer and pulled up his investment account statement on the Internet. “Some of this will be for you when I’m gone,” he told me. I couldn’t help but notice that part of his account password was the number hastily tattooed on his left forearm when he arrived at Auschwitz 70 years ago. “That won’t be for a long time, Grandpa,” I said. “I’m an old man,” he said, “I’m tired.” So, today, if trying to remember six million dead and untold millions of destroyed lives is too overwhelming, think of Jack. Even if you measure yourself only by how loyal a friend you are, how devoted a spouse, how honorable a person, or how loving a grandfather, instead of how many times you cheated death, saved a starving brother, or helped convict a war criminal, Jack’s is a worthy life to emulate. Holocaust remembrance is ultimately about humanity. And that’s what Jack is, a real human being – a mensch as they say in Yiddish. Nick Bravin is adjunct professor of constitutional law at the University of California’s Washington Program.

“We both didn’t want it.” After what they had just been through, I understood that. More difficult to understand is how Jack always has a smile on his face and a kind word on his lips. He knows all the local butchers and maitre d’s, the YMCA gym attendants and the shop girls. He’s a bit of a flirt – he’s not quite 92, after all. Helen, the wonderful woman he married after my grandmother died, a Holocaust survivor from Poland who doesn’t like to talk about her wartime experiences, doesn’t seem to mind. She knows Jack is devoted to her. henever I visit them in Sarasota – where Grandpa moved after he was shot during a holdup of his Manhattan upholstery shop in the mid-1970s – he likes to show me off to his many friends. “This is my grandson,” he says, beaming. Then he goes on about some inconsequential accomplishment of mine. Besides the mild embarrassment all kids, however old, feel at being feted by their family, I always want to say, “This is my Grandpa. There’s nothing Jack can’t do.” I wonder if there’s any way he will understand how proud I am to be his family. On my recent visits, Jack has talked

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10 tough Jewish characters in movies By Ronn Torossian, May 7, 2012

he Avengers opened this weekend to the biggest film opening of all time – making over $200 million at the box office in a single weekend in cinemas in North America, and set to become one of only a handful of movies to gross $1 billion worldwide. Unknown to many is that these characters were created by three Jews (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon), and the film consists of an all-star team of Marvel superheroes. These were some tough Jewish superheroes, and as has been documented by some, there are also real life avengers – heroes who took revenge upon those who killed Jews. The media has not often portrayed Jews as tough, but in real life there are many tough Jews, and there are also many tough Jewish characters in movies. It’s a list open for debate, but it consists of mainstream movies with mass-market appeal, no gangsters, and is written by a PR agency owner, not a rabbi. In no particular order, here is my list of the top 10 tough Jewish characters in movies: Tuvia, Zus and Asael Bielski in Defiance – one of the greatest Jewish movies ever: These are three Jewish warrior brothers who fought the Nazis. They are tough but decent good real-life (and on screen) heroes. Ari Ben-Canaan in Exodus: Ari is the heroic underground commander who outwits the British to bring

Jewish immigrants into postwar Palestine. (Fittingly, Paul Newman, who portrayed Ben-Canaan selfidentified as Jewish, “because it’s more of a challenge.”) Avner in Munich: Avner and the other Mossad agents were strong Jews who let terrorists understand that Jewish blood is not cheap. In the comedy movie Knocked Up, a few Jewish characters discuss how great it was to watch tough Jews beating people up, killing them and taking revenge. I agree. The Bear Jew in Inglorious Bastards: The bat-wielding Sgt. Dony Donowitz, aka “The Bear Jew,” played by Eli Roth in Quentin Tarantino’s movie about American Jewish soldiers in the immediate aftermath of World War II, depicted a Jewish soldier who beat Nazis to death with a baseball bat. Richie Roberts in American Gangster: Russell Crowe plays a detective who wears a Star of David and tracks down a drug lord stopping at nothing to win. Zohan Dvir in Don’t Mess with the Zohan: Surely the toughest hairdresser ever, this ex-Israeli commando played by Adam Sandler was a kindhearted fighter with extreme capabilities. Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski: What a character, but an

absolute tough Jew who defends the faith. “Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax...YOU’RE RIGHT I LIVE IN THE PAST!” Taylor Reese in Knockaround Guys: Vin Diesel’s character has him take off his jacket where he had a huge Star of David tattoo on his arm. He then beat the toughest bully in a neighborhood bar to a bloody pulp. David Greene in School Ties: Portrayed by Brendan Fraser, Greene is a working class tough kid who wins a football scholarship. He’s handsome, smart and hardworking, and challenges his racist classmates and the school administration. Tevye in Fiddler on The Roof: Perhaps the most famous Jewish character in theater or movies, he is indeed a tough man who manages to keep his family together, knows when to laugh, and keeps his faith despite tremendous difficulty. He stands up to the thugs who disrupt his daughter’s wedding and keeps the faith. There were some close runners-up, including Charlton Heston as Moses, and multiple Kirk Douglas characters. Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the quintessential tough Jew, wrote movies and books all his life – and it’s fitting that today there are movies depicting tough Jewish characters. Chazak Ve’ematz (Be Strong and Have Courage) are words from the Torah, and it’s beautiful to see courageous Jews portrayed on screen as they are in real life. As you watch The Avengers, think of strong tough Jews – and don’t get distracted by gorgeous Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson. Ronn Torossian is the CEO of 5WPR, a leading PR firm and Author of For Immediate Release.

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ew York City public schools have officially declared Jewish English, now dubbed Hebronics, as a second language. Backers of the move say the city schools are the first in the nation to recognize Hebronics as a valid language and a significant attribute of American culture. According to Howard Ashland, linguistics professor at Brooklyn College and renowned Hebronics scholar, the sentence structure of Hebronics derives from middle and eastern European language patterns, as well as Yiddish. Professor Shulman explains, “In Hebronics, the response to any question is usually another question with a complaint that is either implied or stated. Thus “How are you?” may be answered, “How should I be, with my bad feet?” Shulman says that Hebronics is a superb linguistic vehicle for expressing sarcasm or skepticism. An example is the repetition of a word with “sh” or “shm” at the beginning: “Mountains, shmountains. Stay away. You should want a nosebleed?” Another Hebronics pattern is moving the subject of a sentence to the end, with its pronoun at the beginning: “It’s beautiful; that dress.” Shulman says one also sees the Hebronics verb moved to the end of the sentence. Thus the response to a remark such as “He’s slow as a turtle,” could be: “Turtle shmurtle! Like a fly in Vaseline he walks.” Shulman provided the following examples from his best-selling textbook, Switched-On Hebronics: Question: “What time is it?” English answer: “Sorry, I don’t know.” Hebronic answer: “What am I, a clock?” Remark: “I hope things turn out okay.” English response: “Thanks.” Hebronic response: “I should be so lucky!” Remark: “Hurry up. Dinner’s ready.” English response: “Be right there.” Hebronic response: “Alright already, I’m coming. What’s with the ‘hurry’ business?”

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Remark: “I like the tie you gave me; I wear it all the time.” English response: “Glad you like it.” Hebronic response: “So what’s the matter; you don’t like the other ties I gave you?” Remark: “Sarah and I are engaged.” English response: “Congratulations!” Hebronic response: “She could stand to lose a few pounds.” Question: “Would you like to go riding with us?” English answer: “Just say when.” Hebronic response: “Riding, shmiding! Do I look like a cowboy?” To the guest of honor at a birthday party: English remark: “Happy birthday.” Hebronic remark: “A year smarter you should become.” Answering a phone call from son: English remark: “It’s been a long time since you called.” Hebronic remark: “You didn’t wonder if I’m dead yet?”

COMMENTARY 17A June 2012

June 2012

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Happy 64th Birthday, Israel! By David Harris, Executive Director, AJC, April 15, 2012

But, above all, Israel is a wondrous strikes against Israel were taken for hat’s so special about a counHow can it be, its adversaries ask, try’s 64th birthday? that this nation of just under eight mil- “adventure.” I feel privileged daily medical care, and seeing Palestinian paWell, in the case of most na- lion, grown from only 650,000 at its to see the fulfillment of the prayers of tients from Gaza in rooms adjoining the tions, perhaps not all that much, unless birth in 1948, repeatedly defeats far generations longing for a return to Zion Jewish wounded. Or getting to know Save a Child’s the country happens to be Israel, which more populous Arab foes that have been from forced exile. Witnessing Soviet Jews arriving in Heart, an Israeli program that provides celebrates its birthday this year on April arrayed against it? 25 and 26. How can it be, its adversaries Israel as Saddam Hussein’s Scud mis- life-saving pediatric heart surgery. Israel has the dubious distinction ask, that these Jews, seemingly led to siles came raining down, while Israel Many of the children come from Arab did not miss a beat countries that deny Israel’s very exisof being the only U.N. memOther nations might have succumbed, in welcoming the tence. ber state whose right to exist Or seeing the scrawling on a is regularly challenged, whose after 64 years of uninterrupted hostility, newcomers, reveals the country’s charTel Aviv wall shortly after 21 young elimination from the world map to the enemies trying everything under acter. Israelis were killed at a discotheque – is the aim of at least one other the sun to destroy them and, short of So, too, being in “They won’t stop us from dancing.” U.N. member state, Iran, and Or watching an Israeli Arab Suwhose population centers are that, to demoralize and isolate them. But Rambam Hospital Haifa during the preme Court justice – who, incidendeemed fair game by HamasIsrael has not flinched. It refuses to cave. in Hezbollah missile tally, refuses to sing Israel’s national controlled Gaza and HezbolIt keeps confounding its foes. attacks. One min- anthem – sit on a panel that upheld the lah-dominated Lebanon. Thus, ute, a siren would conviction of an Israeli ex-president on Israel’s sheer act of survival slaughter like sheep by the Third Reich, sound and everyone would calmly go, charges of rape. from year to year is itself noteworthy. suddenly learned how to defend themor be moved, to the bomb shelters. The No, this Israel may not feature None of the countries that are serial selves and vanquish larger Arab armies, next minute, after the all-clear signal, prominently in the media, I’m sorry to human-rights violators – not Iran, North within three years of V-E Day? the scientists would return to their labs say, but it is the Israel that pulsates daily Korea, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Sudan or And how can it be, its adversaries to continue cutting-edge research in with a love of life, of freedom and of the any of the others – gets anything near the ask, that Israel, with no natural resources cancer, diabetes and stem cell therapy. land. It is the Israel I know and cherish. relentless, obsessive, guilty-till-provento speak of until recent natural gas findOr being in Barzilay Hospital in Happy 64th Birthday, Israel! innocent scrutiny that democratic Israel ings (yet to be exploited), could achieve Ashkelon, where victims of Hamas’ For more information, visit www.ajc.org. receives from U.N. bodies, with their a first-world economy, catapulting it built-in, anti-Israel majorities, in New into the OECD; double-digit winners of York and Geneva. Nobel Prizes; and a top-three ranking in No other country is the target of new NASDAQ listings? such non-stop, well-funded, and highToo often, Israel’s adversaries have ly-organized campaigns to discredit, come up with misguided, if self-satisfydelegitimize and demonize a sovereign ing, answers, usually elaborate conspirstate. acy theories inspired by anti-Semitic No other country faces such systropes. tematic attempts to launch boycotts, In reality, though, the answer is divestment campaigns and sanctions much simpler. It derives from an ageagainst it, not to mention flotillas and old connection among a land, a faith BRING FRIENDS AND ENJOY A SALAD, flytillas, and all the while those behind and a people. Many have tried to sever the efforts, claiming to speak for human A COOL ICED TEA AND A HOT TOPIC! the link. All have failed. rights, blithely ignore places like Syria, Consider the words of Ezekiel, exJune 13 ** July 25 ** August 15 where thousands were killed in the past pressed some 2,700 years ago: Thus 11:00 am – 1:00 pm year alone, because they can’t claim an says the Lord God: Behold, I will take Israeli connection. the people of Israel from the nations Only $25 Per Lecture (Includes Luncheon!) And no other country has its right to among which they have gone, and will Reservations Required self-defense challenged as Israel does, gather them from all sides, and bring even though it does no more than any R.S.V.P. to (941) 365-4955 or sarasota@ajc.org them to their own land; and I will make other nation would do if confronted by them one nation in the land, upon the periodic terrorist assaults and deadly Wednesday, June 13 mountains of Israel... And the desolate missile and rocket attacks. land shall be tilled... And they shall say, The Polo Grill and Bar I have enormous admiration for IsThis land that was desolate is become Forward to the 19th Century? rael – for its resolve, resilience, courage like the Garden of Eden. – Florida, Religion, and the Schools and ingenuity. Or, to fast forward from the anMARC D. Other nations might have sucSchool Prayer, Aid to Parochial Schools, Anti-aid Provisions, and cient prophet Ezekiel to the prophetic STERN cumbed, after 64 years of uninterrupted Efforts to Ban Sharia – All 19th Century Issues Resurrected in the AJC’s General Counsel Winston Churchill: The coming into & Director of hostility, to the enemies trying every21st Century Agenda being of a Jewish State in Palestine is Legal Advocacy thing under the sun to destroy them and, an event in world history to be viewed Wednesday, July 25 short of that, to demoralize and isolate in the perspective not of a generation them. But Israel has not flinched. It reThe Sarasota Yacht Club or a century, but in the perspective of fuses to cave. It keeps confounding its Is Peace Possible? a thousand, two thousand or even three foes. thousand years. Growing Challenges to a Two-State Israeli-Palestinian Solution in Its commitment to a two-state acChurchill added that the state’s esthe Region’s Shifting Political and Strategic Landscape cord with the Palestinians, polls reveal, JASON tablishment was “one of the most hoperemains unshakeable, even as many IsISAACSON ful and encouraging adventures of the AJC’s Dir. of Gov’t. & raelis can’t help but wonder if the PalesInternational Affairs 20th century.” Indeed, it continues to be tinians, given one chance after another st in the 21 century. Wednesday, August 15 for sovereignty, truly share Israel’s aim To be sure, Israel, like all demoMichael’s On East of Jewish and Palestinian states living cratic societies, is a permanent work in side by side in peace and harmony. Iran’s Impact on Latin America progress. Much remains to be done. Moreover, in a recent global surand its Jewish Communities From grappling with a less-thanvey, Israelis came out the 14th “happiideal electoral system to dealing with DINA SIEGEL Iran has close relationships with several countries in Latin America. est” country in the world, and Tel Aviv This along with the increasing influential Palestinian community is religious zealots who invoke a “higher VANN ranks as one of the top “go-to” destinaDirector, AJC Latino creating new challenges for local Jewish communities, Israel and the authority” than the state, from address& Latin American tions for young people. United States. Institute ing a yawning gap between rich and poor How can it be, Israel’s adversarto balancing the Jewish and democratic ies ask, that these “sons of monkeys nature of the country, from the decadesSponsored by and pigs,” as radical Muslim preachlong pursuit of peace to the defense of ers openly refer to the Jews, manage to the country in a turbulent region, Israel stand tall, strong and, yes, optimistic? has no shortage of challenges. To learn more about AJC, please visit www.ajc.org.

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COMMENTARY

June 2012

Yom HaShoah and the founding of the modern State of Israel By Chaim Shacham, Consul General of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico, April 19, 2012

ix Million. The number is beyond one’s ability to comprehend. Behind this number are six million individuals. Six million souls with six million different hopes and dreams. Together, they were the soul and the collective aspiration of the Jewish people. The Jewish people, one of the oldest peoples of the world, were in those dark days of Chaim Shacham the Holocaust the most defenseless people of the world. With no homeland, no state, no army, no means with which to protect itself by itself. Since its exile from the Land of Israel in the year 70 CE and the loss of its national independence, the Jewish nation had to depend upon other nations for its security and well-being. Although the Jewish people were miraculously able to survive, the results of this historical incongruity were disastrous. After almost two thousand years of teetering between fleeting tolerance and murderous persecution, this untenable reality of nationhood without the

means of self-defense culminated in the Holocaust – the systematic mass genocide unique in the annals of human cruelty by several orders of magnitude. As unique in history as the Jewish people itself. In the wake of this unfathomable and indescribable atrocity, the Jewish nation rose up from the ashes, took its destiny into its own hands, and reconstituted the State of Israel – the reborn nation-state of the Jewish people, reestablished in the Land of Israel, the cradle of its history. Founded upon the inspiration of the Biblical prophets, and the lessons of two millennia of exile, the cornerstone of this State is the national commitment that the Jewish people no longer be beholden to the whims of others for its survival; that the Jewish people no longer be forced to convince others that the clear, present and existential threats that it sees before it are actually real; that the Jewish people no longer be forced to convince others that they are worthy of their protection. In other words – the re-establishment of the State of Israel has again provided the Jewish people with the most basic element of national survival – the right to self-defined self-defense.

On this, the annual observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, coinciding with the 69th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, it is again time to remember, and never forget. For Israel, its people and its leaders, this remembrance has a very real dimension. It is remembrance through national pro-action. This is a defining moment for the State of Israel. Iran, whose leaders continue to deny that the Holocaust even EXISTED, is as we speak contemplating a new Holocaust. Like Nazi Germany in the thirties, the regime of Ayatollahs boasts openly of their desire to destroy the Jewish nation. And their declarations are supported by their actions. Their nuclear program is well documented, as is their wake of terrorist carnage against Jewish targets throughout the world. The writing is on the wall, and they mean what they say. Until today, they have used every means at their disposal to strike out at Israel and kill Jews: through proxies or by their own hand, with rockets against cities, guided missiles against

buses or airplanes, truck-bombs against Jewish community buildings, kidnappings against Israeli civilians and reservists, hit teams against diplomats, and anything else they can use. There is no reason to doubt that if they were to succeed in gaining a nuclear weapon, they would eventually use it as well. Yes, the Jewish people do not dwell on this earth alone. Israel has allies, the greatest one being the United States. Thankfully, the Iranian threat is now of common concern. It is now viewed as a global threat, and serious international effort is being made to confront it. Yet, although international sanctions and diplomatic coercion are the best option, for Israel, this is an existential issue, and all options remain on the table. So, Israel being what it is meant to be, will do what it needs to do. The world must understand that this is not 1938. No Israeli government will sit idly by as Iran gains nuclear capability. Israel was created to remember. Israel was created to give active meaning to the words “Never again.”

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June 2012

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Where are the demonstrations, boat fleets, backpack heroes and angry artists calling for boycotts? By Pilar Rahola, March 3, 2012

hat would happen in our cities if the situation in Syria slid a little further down the map? What if, instead of an Arab dictator massacring its Arab population, “as usual,” this would be a flash of the Arab-Israeli conflict? What would happen in these places? The streets would be filled with loud pro-Palestinian screamers, calling for the excommunication of Israel, some universities would stage boycotts, the usual pseudo-artists would produce proselytizing videos, and the old idea that Jews are the only problem in the world would get once again installed in the corners of their consciences. And all this would happen using parameters that have nothing to do with the situation in other countries. In Israel, nobody massacres at demonstrations; there is no dictator killing its people, as the complex and decadeslong conflict is promoted ad nauseam by its neighboring countries. All this in the hopes that the war against Israel never ends, having even a threat from Iran of mass destruction and obliteration. And yet, whilst missiles are falling daily on its population, fanatical groups in the South are re-arming, and with the constant harassment by a whole Islamist army in the north, when Israel shoots a single bullet, our streets shout their indignation. Israel never had the right to defend itself and, for many,

has no right to exist. But when the dead fall under the bullets of the old friends of the Socialist International, those same ones who just two days ago, were considered liberators of peoples – silence… What a powerful silence! Of course, the day after the tyrant is overthrown, everyone will raise their voices against him and forget that they too were his accomplices. Was it not an attack of amnesia that some had with Mubarak, who only some months before had been a great friend of world socialism? What about Ben Ali? And even with Gaddafi, who paraded himself on the Paseo de la Castellana with tent included. And of course there is Syria, the great ally of the Soviet Bloc, “the paradise of the struggle of Third World peoples against Yankee and Zionist imperialism.” I can still see the leaflets in the style of the European left, and whose victims never interested anyone. In fact, the current president only lives up to the killings of his father, but this time in plain daylight and impunity. But nothing – neither ship fleets nor rallies nor backpack heroes; no boycotts, no outraged artists – nothing. No tears of solidarity for the dead of Syria, because all their tears have long been dried out…against Israel. So to all these devotees and banner holders, where lies the heart of their movement? In the love

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BRIEFS ISRAEL MUSEUM SHOWCASED IN GOOGLE ART PROJECT The Israel Museum has made 520 objects available for viewing in partnership with the Google Art Project, an online compilation of high-resolution images of artwork from galleries worldwide. The Israel Museum was among 151 museums in 40 countries taking part in the second wave of the project, which follows last year’s collaboration with Google to make the museum’s famed Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to all online. Google has also teamed up with Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the Internet. (AP)

ISRAEL’S NANOTECHNOLOGY FUTURE ON DISPLAY Israel has emerged as a world center of nanotechnology research, on display at NanoIsrael 2012, the third international conference on all things nano being held in Israel. Nava Swersky Sofer, who chaired the conference, says that among innovations developed recently in Israel using nanotechnology are a $10 DNA test, which squeezes molecules through a tiny channel in a body cell to take readings; a system using tiny bacteria

to reduce pollutants in internal combustion engines to almost zero; and using nano-based ingredients to give food the taste and texture of a full measure of sugar and fat, while reducing calories to super-strict diet levels. (Times of Israel)

FEMALE ARAB SINGER CAPTURES ISRAELI HEARTS PERFORMING JEWISH SONGS IN TV CONTEST A young Arab woman, Nissren Kader, 25, recently won first place in a popular Israeli music competition for the best performer of Mizrahi songs, the musical tradition of Middle Eastern Jews. By singing beautifully in Hebrew, she charmed her audience. “I am so proud: I’m the first Arab to win a Hebrew singing program,” said Kader, who is from Haifa. Moshe Alfassi, an Israeli of Moroccan descent, said he found it strange to see an Arab woman singing Mizrahi music, but like many other Israelis, was quickly won over by her voice. Her victory is part of a small but growing trend of Arab artists and entertainers rising to prominence. One of the country’s most popular sitcoms is a comedic satire about an IsraeliArab journalist trying to fit into Jewish society whose attempts frequently backfire, written by Sayed Kashua,

an Arab writer. All but one of Israel’s soccer league teams have Arab players, including the season’s top scorer, Ahmed Saba. (AP)

JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB AND MUSLIM COUNTRIES During various talks in pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, negotiators have overlooked the uprooting of 850,000 Jews living in Arab nations, the loss of their assets and property, and

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BRIEFS ISRAEL’S GOLDEN AGE Tiny Israel of 7.5 million people, comparable to the size of Rhode Island, is breaking ground in so many areas these days, and the world is finally starting to take notice. Whether it’s Israel’s 10th Nobel Prize; Israeli wines winning global awards; Apple opening its firstever R&D center outside California; 162 other U.S. high-tech R&D centers in Israel; or the Technion together with Cornell winning an international bid to build a super science center in New York – this is the Israel that people may not know, but will, very soon. Start-Up Nation, the global bestseller about Israel’s high-tech miracle, has been translated into 16 languages, and tops business lists around the world, most intriguingly, in Asia. Experts on international economic affairs say Israel is actually forging a unique path, distinct from other highly developed countries, due to its extraordinary ability to innovate across so many fields. Southern California may well be facing severe water challenges in the years ahead, and water recycling is one solution that Israel can share with California, since Israel recycles far more water (over 80%) than any other nation in the world. (Tribe)

ISRAELI-BUILT ROBOTS SHOOT FOR U.S. COMPETITION Recently, several thousand spectators watched student-built robots square off for two days on a custom-sized basketball court in Tel Aviv. Dozens of high school teams built robots for a chance to represent Israel in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) World Championship, held in St. Louis from April 25-28. One standout at the competition was a bright pink robot developed by an allgirls team called “Ladies FIRST,” from Beersheba’s Ulpana Amit religious high school. (Los Angeles Jewish Journal)

BOYCOTT, WHAT BOYCOTT? UK-ISRAEL TRADE BOOMING Britain’s ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, said that bilateral UK-Israel trade has reached £3.75 billion, up 34% in a year. “There is a lot of noise around boycotts but these figures show that it is just noise, and the trade relationship speaks for itself,” Gould said. Israel is now the UK’s largest individual partner in the Near East and North Africa. (Jewish Chronicle-UK)

IRON DOME VS. THE TERRORISTS In the recent clash, Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system performed far better than even optimists had expected. It’s also good news for the entire Western world. As in so many other areas of military hardware and tactics, the implementation of Israel’s Iron Dome missile system (which incorporates American technology and Israeli upgrades) in the Gazan theater is a pilot for technology that someday will protect all of us.

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Iron Dome is more than just a lifesaving weapon system. It is a technological metaphor for the Middle East conflict as a whole. While Palestinian militants in Gaza waste what few resources they have on smuggled weaponry that kill citizens indiscriminately, the Israelis produce life-saving hightech refinements that one day will be protecting American military bases in the Gulf – and who knows what else besides – from attacks by Iran and its proxies. The Western world will profit from the technological fruits of Israel’s struggle for survival. (National PostCanada)

ISRAEL AND CHINA CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP As China and Israel mark 20 years of diplomatic relations, bilateral trade stands at almost $10 billion, a 200-fold rise in two decades. China is Israel’s third-largest export market, buying everything from telecommunications and information technology to agricultural hardware, solar energy equipment, and pharmaceuticals. At least 1,000 Israeli firms now operate in China, home to a massive $10 billion kosher food industry that sends much of its output to Israel. Last September, the Israeli government announced Chinese participation in a rail project that would allow overland cargo transport through Israel’s Negev desert, bypassing the Suez Canal. Hebrew-language and Jewish studies centers have sprung up in Chinese universities nationwide. Indeed, one of the more curious elements in the Israel-China alliance is the latter’s widespread fascination with Jews. Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are iconic figures in the country, and in the 1950s the Chinese communist government issued a postage stamp bearing the visage of the Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem. However, Chinese trade with Iran is valued at over $30 billion and is projected to reach $50 billion by 2015. (Oren Kessler in Foreign Policy)

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BRIEFS ISRAELI-MADE PROCESSOR RESPONSIBLE FOR 40 PERCENT OF INTEL’S 2011 SALES The Intel Sandy Bridge processor, developed in Israel, was responsible for 40% of Intel’s sales worldwide in 2011. Intel has invested $3 billion in preparing its Kiryat Gat facility to manufacture the new 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge processor. Intel Israel had $2.2 billion in exports in 2011. (Times of Israel)

MUSIC MOGULS TO ARTISTS: DON’T BOYCOTT ISRAEL Leading music executives, talent agents and entertainment lawyers have joined together in the nascent group Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a nonprofit seeking to counter artist boycotts of Israel. While some high-profile musicians

have succumbed to pressure to cancel their Israel tours, many prominent artists are still performing there – Lady Gaga, Elton John, Rihanna, Paul McCartney and Leonard Cohen are just a few who have taken the stage there in recent years. This summer, 46 musical acts are scheduled, including Madonna, Rufus Wainwright, Herbie Hancock and Lenny Kravitz. (Los Angeles Jewish Journal)

ISRAEL’S HANDICAPPED MIRACLE Israel’s determination in tackling the physical problems that arise either from natural causes, terrorism or war is astounding and says much about Israel’s moral lesson to the world. The Jewish state is in fact the world’s most important laboratory for healers of diseases. There is an amazing quantity of research, inventions and newfound techniques for curing and helping the ill, the blind, and the paralyzed to return to normal life.

ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD Scientists at Hebrew University have developed the drug Exelon for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injuries. The Weizmann Institute has led the development of promising new therapies for acute spinal cord injuries. In Israel it is very common to see children with Down’s syndrome in television programs and there are special parks for disabled people. Paraplegic war heroes are the protagonists of soap operas and disabled athletes are extremely successful. 2,248 “children of Chernobyl” were brought to Israel for treatment after the nuclear plant meltdown in Ukraine. (Ynet News)

WHY GOLDA MEIR WAS RIGHT Since last August the Syrian death toll has moved from 2,000 to over 9,000 – about six times more than the Palestinian casualties during Israel’s Gaza Operation in 2009. These distressing figures forcefully remind us of Prime

Minister Erdogan’s famous dictums: 1. Muslims don’t kill, and 2. (Jews) know well how to kill. Simple Middle East research will give you 1 million deaths in the allMuslim Iran-Iraq war; 300,000 Muslim minorities killed by Saddam Hussein; 80,000 Iranians killed during the Islamic revolution; 25,000 deaths from 1970 to 1971, the days of Black September, by the Jordanian government in its fight against the Palestinians; and 20,000 Islamists killed in 1982 by the elder al-Assad in Hama. The World Health Organization’s estimate of Osama bin Laden’s carnage in Iraq was already 150,000 a few years earlier. In a 2007 study, Gunnar Heinsohn from the University of Bremen, and Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, found that some 11 million Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000 (0.3%) died during the six years of Arab war against Israel, or one out of every 315 fatalities. In contrast, over 90% who perished were killed by fellow Muslims. Time magazine quotes a one-legged revolutionary singer undergoing medical treatment in Turkey in the most recent wave of refugees, as saying: “We’d rather accept Israel than Bashar...The Israelis didn’t do to the Palestinians what Bashar has done to Syria.” Who, really, knows better how to kill? (Burak Bekdil in Hurriyet-Turkey)

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Temple Emanu-El Brotherhood and Sisterhood happily host the fourth annual Beach Picnic and Havdalah at 6:00 p.m. at Turtle Beach Pavilion (on Siesta Key at south end of Midnight Pass Road). Under the shaded pavilion, Brotherhood members will man the grill for the cookout; we’ll also have delicious side dishes, homemade desserts, and plenty of watermelon and ice-cold beverages. Enjoy cornhole and lawn games and time on the playground and beach. We’ll conclude with a beautiful, musical Havdalah service as the sun sets over the ocean. An intergenerational celebration; all are welcome! $7/person with a maximum of $21/family for guests; free for members of Temple Emanu-El Brotherhood or Sisterhood. For more information, call Temple Emanu-El Brotherhood President Steven Leavitt at 941.587.8944.

Temple Beth Sholom Schools’ Goldie Feldman Academy (1050 S. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota) is offering four two-week summer enrichment programs (June 4-15 and June 18-29 this month) for incoming Kindergarten to 3rdgrade students. Themes for academic sessions include cooking, gardening, games and sports, and Modern, American and World arts. These courses are designed to maximize fun and provide an educational camper experience. Cost is $400 from 9:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. Possible after care is available. For more information, please contact Cindi Bavry at 941.954.2027 or cbavry@tbsschools.org.

sunDAY, june 3 A Day of Meditation and Consciousness Learn to stay present and awake in each moment. Participants will experience meditation, silence, conscious eating, self-awareness and reflection. The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road off Proctor between Beneva and Swift Roads. $15 per person. Preregistration required. For information or to register, contact Reb Ari Shapiro at 941.966.7778 or rapsz@comcast.net.

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Summer Experience: Summer Camp at TBS Schools Four two-week sessions are offered this summer for campers 15 months - 4 years. The first camp session (June 4-15) features two programs: Creatures Featured - The Fly and Kindergarten Readiness. Summer camp activities include art, cooking and science with our experienced and caring staff. The second session (June 18-29) theme is Creatures Featured - The Birds. Swim lessons are offered for older campers. Kindergarten Readiness is a special program that focuses on academics to prepare your child with reading and writing skills for the upcoming school year. Cost is $220-$375 from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Possible after care is available. Temple Beth Sholom Schools is located at 1050 S. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota. For more information, please contact Cindi Bavry at 941.954.2027 or cbavry@tbsschools.org.

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Looking for something interesting and fun to do this summer? Brandeis National Committee invites everyone to join us for the Reel Discussion. There is no charge; simply see the movie (TBD) on your own and come to participate in a discussion of it at 1:30 p.m. at Roskamp, 1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Members and nonmembers are all welcome. Mark your calendar for future dates: July 3 and August 7. Call Lenore Weintraub at 941.977.5958 to learn the name of the film to be discussed.

Children ages 18 months through five years are invited for an unforgettable, wonderful camp experience at Temple Emanu-El Preschool. In a clean, safe, loving Jewish environment, campers will enjoy fun themes like books, occupations, dinosaurs and signing hands (where kids will learn some sign language!); science, cooking, singing and art; free play; and special activities including a visit from a real scuba diver and the Humane Society. Fridays bring Shabbat celebrations and a pizza lunch. Temple Emanu-El Preschool is located at 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. For the schedule and tuition information, call Elaine Sharrock, Temple Emanu-El Preschool Director, at 941.377.8074.

“The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, What Really Happened” Many questions have gone unanswered regarding the massive BP Deepwater Horizon Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Widely acclaimed for his expert deconstruction of the events and malfeasance that led to this unprecedented manmade disaster, Dr. Frank Alcock (pictured), New College Director of Environmental Studies, will present photos, a specific timeline and an examination of oil drilling corporate culture to describe what led to the spill, why so much oil was released and what regulatory changes have been implemented in its aftermath. This fascinating and telling presentation will also explore the broader implications for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere. This presentation, which begins at 2:00 p.m. at Temple Beth Israel (567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key), is free for TBI members and nonmembers. For more information, contact the TBI office at 941.383.2438.

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“Lunch with the Rabbi” Temple Emanu-El’s popular monthly program of lunch, dessert, stimulating conversation and friendly socializing continues. The first Wednesday of the month brings Temple members and many community guests together for this lunchtime discussion of current events or other subjects of Jewish interest with Rabbi Brenner J. Glickman. Attendees are asked to bring a brown-bag lunch and are also welcome to bring a newspaper article or suggested topic for discussion. Homemade dessert and enjoyable company are provided! This free event begins at noon at Temple EmanuEl, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. For more information, call the temple office at 941.371.2788.

Temple Beth Sholom Interesting Lives Series Join us at 1:15 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom (1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota) to hear Robert Talley, who will speak about his experiences as an Arab World specialist. Robert has spent much time in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia where he had connections with the royal family. The program is open to the public and free of charge. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Judy Lebowich at 941.371.4686 or lebowich.judy@comcast.net.

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You are welcome to join the Kaplan Preschool’s end-of-year celebration at 9:15 a.m. at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. Meet with the parents and teachers and see the marked developmental and academic achievements of our young students. At 10:00 a.m. Preschool Director Sara Steinmetz will give a tour of the facility, meet with prospective families and answer questions. To RSVP or for further information, call 941.925.0770.

Beat the heat and enjoy a stimulating afternoon at this popular summer film series. The series opens with Fugitive Pieces, an elegiac adaptation of Anne Michaels’ 1996 poetic novel about survival, death, inheritance, and the role of art and learning in healing. Fugitive Pieces has been heralded as one of the most delicate, approachable and rewarding Holocaust movies made in recent years. Fugitive Pieces will be screened on the temple’s state-of-the-art projection system at 2:00 p.m. at 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. Cost: $5. Contact Temple Emanu-El Chair of Adult Education Eunice Cohen at eunice.cohen@comcast.net for more information.

Shabbat Alive! at Temple Emanu-El The community is warmly and enthusiastically invited to share in Shabbat Alive!, a jubilant, inspirational and totally exhilarating Shabbat worship experience, at 6:00 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El (151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota). The quarterly Shabbat Alive! services are entirely musical celebrations of Shabbat featuring upbeat, contemporary arrangements of the traditional prayers. Be moved by the glorious spirit of Shabbat and raise your voice in joyful song to God! All are welcome. Call the temple office at 941.371.2788 for more information.

saturDAY, june 9 “Splash Shabbat” at Temple Emanu-El Welcome to “Splash Shabbat,” the summer version of Temple EmanuEl’s popular monthly Tot Shabbat program. The morning begins with sprinklers, wading pools and water play as well as bubble time and chalk in the shade. Attendees will then head inside to enjoy bagels, cream cheese, fruit and juice, and celebrate Shabbat with age-appropriate prayers, songs, movement, and a story with Rabbi Brenner Glickman. An “oneg” of popsicles concludes the “Splash Shabbat” experience. All are invited to this free event at 10:30 a.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. For more information, call Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman at 941.379.1997.

MonDAY, JUNE 11 Mini Gan Izzy six-week summer camp The Kaplan Preschool’s six-week summer program for children ages 2-4, also known as Mini Gan Izzy, begins on June 11 and runs through July 20 at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. The program includes fun summer themes, water play, face painting, cooking, challah making, popcorn parties, dress-up days and so much more! Camp hours are from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. For further information, please call the Chabad office at 941.925.0770.

N’shei Chabad Women programming meeting N’shei Chabad Women has just completed a successful year of programming which included social and holiday events, the Rosh Chodesh Society and the Tehillim Circle. The slate of future events will be compiled at the annual programming meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. All women are invited to attend and share their leadership, enthusiasm and energy to make the upcoming year an exciting one. To RSVP for the meeting or for more information, call the Chabad office 941.925.0770.

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Join Chanie Bukiet from noon - 1:00 p.m. at Chabad Jewish Center, 5712 Lorraine Road, Lakewood Ranch, for a Lunch & Learn. Feast on a delicious lunch and learn Tanya, psychology of the soul, based on the Kabbalah. No cost. Call 941.752.3030 for more information.

Enjoy tea time with cucumber sandwiches, pastries, scones and more while celebrating the past and planning future programs for the Jewish Women’s Circle of Chabad of Bradenton. This free event begins at 7:30 p.m. at Chanie Bukiet’s home. For more information, call 941.752.3030.

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AJC (American Jewish Committee) West Coast Florida is proud to present Marc D. Stern, AJC’s General Counsel and Director of Legal Advocacy, as the Keynote Speaker at its Summer Lunch & Learn program at 11:00 a.m. at The Polo Grill and Bar (10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch). Mr. Stern will discuss “Forward to the 19th Century? – Florida, Religion, and the Schools.” This program is the first of a three-part series this summer, generously sponsored by the law firm of Williams Parker. $25 includes the lecture and luncheon. Reservations required. RSVP to 941.365.4955 or sarasota@ajc.org.

The Temple Beth El Bradenton Men’s Club will celebrate Father’s Day and Erev Shabbat at its annual Erev Shabbat Service. We will welcome Shabbat with special readings and prayers. All are invited to attend at 7:30 p.m. at the temple, located at 4200 32nd Street West. For more information, please call the temple office at 941.755.4900, Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. - noon.

2nd Summer Game Day – “All Hands on Deck 2” National Council of Jewish Women, Sarasota-Manatee Section, invites you to enjoy the start of summer with a day of cards and other board games and lunch at 11:00 a.m. at the beautiful Heritage Oaks Golf and Country Club (4800 Chase Oaks Drive, Sarasota). $25 includes lunch. Come with a foursome or we will place you at a table. Call Cookie at 941.706.3957 to register or for more information.

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June 2012

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Join the TBE family at 1:30 p.m. as we celebrate Father’s Day with music and a delicious barbeque. Enjoy the afternoon on the covered patio behind the temple, located at 4200 32nd Street West. For more information, please call the temple office at 941.755.4900, Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. - noon.

Join the Yiddish Culture Center for conversation, singing and schmoozing in Yiddish and English at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Congregation of Venice, 600 N. Auburn Road. Enjoy multi-media presentations on Jewish History, Family, Art and Music, and the pleasure of kvetching. Cost: $3 for JCV members; $5 for nonmembers. For more information, contact Baila Miller at 941.416.4362 or baila@bailamillerprograms.com.

monDAY, JUNE 25 Chabad of Bradenton’ s Camp Gan Israel Burst into summer with Camp Gan Israel! Summer break is right around the corner and Chabad is preparing a fantastic, exciting time for your children, grandchildren and neighbors. Funshops, swimming and field trips to Bounce U, Ellenton Ice & Sports Complex, AMF Bowling, Mote, MOSI, Stardust and more. The camp runs Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., from June 25 to July 20 at Chabad House, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton. $150 per week, $525 per four weeks. Visit www. cgibradenton.org for more information and to register.

Chabad SRQ Camp Gan Israel Sports, dance, swimming, challah making, silly dress-up days, arts and crafts, and field trips to MOSI, Ellenton Ice, Bounce U and Tropicana Field, are all integrated into four weeks of outstanding programming for Camp Gan Israel campers. Shevy (Bat Sheva) Hershkovich of Chicago, who has served as a counselor for two summer seasons, is returning as head counselor. For 15 years, Chabad of Sarasota has enriched children’s summer vacations with fun and lots of Jewish pride. The camp program serves children ages 5-11 at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. Camp hours are 9:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. For further information, call the Chabad office at 941.925.0770.

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RECENT EVENTS

June 2012

At the Temple Beth El Religious School pre-Passover seder: Mallory Rosenstein, Jacob Lescallet, Rabbi Harold Caminker, Susie Konicov (Education Chair), Spencer Rosenstein, Jarod Zamikoff, Kevin Rosenstein, Erik Polin

The Temple Beth El family had a community seder with United Methodist Church: Cantor Alan Cohn, Pastor Adam Zele, Sheila Kovalsky (TBE Sisterhood Pres.), Rabbi Harold Caminker, Cindi & Dr. Irv Zamikoff (event chairs)

At the Temple Beth Israel/Jewish Federation Russian Community Seder, Rabbi Jonathan Katz shows off a modern seder plate from Israel, with help from the Russian translator

Rabbi Goldie Milgram leads the Kol HaNeshama Community Seder with musical accompaniment by Ismael Katz and Susan Slack (not in photo)

Hannah Benjamin, Gloria Wieand and Nochum Wieand light candles ushering in Passover at the Chabad of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch seder

Temple Beth Sholom’s annual Passover classic, the Men’s Club/Sisterhood Barbecue, was attended by 75 hungry adults and children. At left: Grillmeister Ben Berman; above center: Ben and Sam Weber (center), flanked by two friends; above right: Maddie Freshwater, volunteer face painter, with the Alpert boys (photos by Joel Servetz)

Congregation Ner Tamid members served Easter dinner to homeless families at Our Daily Bread

Congregation Ner Tamid honored five generations of the Halperin family at its annual seder. Brianna Raine (generation four) and her son, Aidan (generation five), enjoy the Hillel sandwich.

Congegation Ner Tamid’s annual Pesach tradition – “The Telling.” The cast: Meg Durshimer as Miriam, Dayna Henry as Yocheved, Cassidy Jones as the sheep, Michele Jones as Batya, Art Durshimer as Pharaoh, and David Jacobson as Moses.

TBS Schools Kindergartner Alysa Gulyansky performs at the Living Green – Creating Safer Environments for Future Generations program, where school families learned about creating safer environments from beekeepers, farmers and gardeners

RECENT EVENTS 7B June 2012

June 2012

Nola Theiss, Executive Director of Human Trafficking Awareness Program and guest speaker for the Temple Beth Israel Women’s April Luncheon, with BIW President Nessa Levine

KlezMania on the Gulf visited Kobernick Anchin, courtesy of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. There was plenty of clapping, singing along, and foot tapping, and some folks got up and danced. Above: Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing residents at Anchin Pavilion enjoy the performance; above right: Elisa Miro on violin and Bob Felman on clarinet; at right: KlezMania on the Gulf entertains residents

Stephanie Warrenbrand, Lana Tudin, Vivien Kalvaria and Shelley Waldman of N’shei Women, the women’s group of Chabad of Sarasota, enjoy a talk on Emotional Healing Through Self-Actualization

Micki Sherin Evans and Ron Bellamy at the Temple Sinai Sock Hop with DJ Raul Weinstein spinning 45s from the ’50s and ’60s

The Sarasota Jewish Chorale in rehearsal for the Yom HaShoah Service at Epiphany Cathedral in Venice

Susan and Marty Friedman lit the Shabbat candles at the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism’s celebration of Israel Independence Day

A recent Judaica unit of study at the Kaplan Preschool taught students practical ways to help their families. Above: Chana learns to peel vegetables At left: Isaac learns how to set the table correctly

Several members of the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism’s Digital Camera Club had their best works on display at a recent showing. Pictured are Sidney & Alice Shapiro and photographer Barry Shapiro (not related).

Mardi Skoegard, Program Chair (at podium), installs the 2012-13 Jewish Congregation of Venice Sisterhood Board. New President Lynda LaRocca is 4th from left.

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RECENT EVENTS

June 2012

The 2012-2013 Board Officers were installed at the JFCS 26th Annual Meeting: (front) Joe Mendels, Barbara Brizdle, Marie Monsky, Gerri Aaron, (back) Rich Segall, Larry Eger, Malcolm Candlish

JFCS welcomed new Board members Karin Grablin, Mike Harshman and Nora Patterson at its 26th Annual Meeting

Rabbi Brenner Glickman of Temple Emanu-El, Father Fausto Stampiglia of St. Martha Catholic Church, and Hassan Hammami of the Islamic Society of Southwest Florida sign a pledge of mutual tolerance and respect at the Feast of Abraham

Event chair Beth Vandroff and daughter Ava hit the lanes at Temple Emanu-El’s Religious School Family Bowling Party. Sixty kids and parents enjoyed the great afternoon.

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At NCJW’s Chai Tea and Kugel, Lucia Blinn read her poetry to guests whose contributions totaled $6,000. Above: Lucia Blinn, Lynnie Siegal, Marge Ellin, Phyllis Dreyfuss, Barbara Berkowitz, Marilyn Shapo At left: At the home of Lynnie Siegal are Gerry Nussbaum, Millie Fisher, Ruth Kornman, Sylvia Kupferman

JFCS recognized retiring Board members Pamela Reiter and Harold Joels at its 26th Annual Meeting

Harriet Goldstein and Judilee Sterne examine the merchandise at Temple Emanu-El’s Second Annual Estate/Rummage Sale, sponsored by the Brotherhood and Sisterhood and chaired by Bruce and Laura Zalkin

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