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November 2018 - Cheshvan/Kislev 5779 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 10A Community Focus 14A Jewish Interest 21A Israel & the Jewish World 24A Commentary 31A Focus on Youth 35A Life Cycle 1B Jewish Happenings

2A A glimpse into generous donor Larry Greenspon and how he feels about the new campus

3A Stories of LIFE & LEGACY – Adrienne Cohen: Teaching us a “lesson” TM

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s we begin the important work of creating a truly new campus, The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, we remain committed to involving the community and creating a campus that will benefit all ages living in Sarasota-Manatee.

To that end, the Board of Directors of The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee has created a Utilization Committee that will conduct research and make recommendations regarding space for programming and activities as well as physical improvements and the best use of campus space for areas of interest.

Ian Black, former board president and current board member, is the cochair of the Utilization Committee.

“Members of the committee come from a wide cross-section of the community with particular expertise in real estate, construction, education, sports management, food management, Jewish/Israel programming, and capital campaigns,” said Black. “We are fortunate to have such a wealth of infor-

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The committee will be broken down into subcommittees that will concentrate on sports facilities, education for youth and adult learners, theater and McIn banquet space, and Israel, tosh Road Holocaust and social action Southwest view of Federation Campus and land offerings. of Jones Development Co, L.L.C., as In addition, the Federation has the Owner’s Representative for the hired the award-winning architectural campus project. Brian will act as the firm of Fleischman Garcia for renovaliaison between the Federation and the tion and building on the new campus. contractors eventually hired.

Among a portfolio of hundreds of projKeep reading The Jewish News ects around Florida, the firm recently and Federation weekly eblasts for concompleted the design and building of tinuing developments and more details the new South Tampa campus of the about the growth of our campus!

Jewish Community Center, transformFor more information on the ing a 1930s vintage Art Deco-style arcampus Utilization Committee or the mory into the new Bryan Glazer Family campus project, please email Howard JCC. Sol Fleischman, founder, chair Tevlowitz at htevlowitz@jfedsrq.org. and CEO of the firm, will work directly with the Utilization Committee.

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Rounding out the team, the FederRead all about him on page 2A. ation has contracted with Brian Jones,

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ave you ever been asked, or just wondered, how many Jews live in Sarasota-Manatee?

And, where they live, how old they are, what are they interested in doing, how connected do they feel, and are they satisfied with Jewish life in our area and the programs and services provided? With the documented growth in Sarasota-Manatee over the last decade or so, we don’t have definitive answers to these and other important questions about our Jewish community.

That is why the leadership of The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee has decided to conduct a very comprehensive study of our Jewish community. Through this study, we will learn much more about who we are and be better able to serve you, our community members. Federation Pres-

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ident Michael Ritter said, “The results of this study will not just help the Federation be more effective but will also be shared with other local Jewish organizations. They will learn about the demographics of Sarasota-Manatee, the community’s interest in and need for services, attitudes about topics important to the Jewish community and a host of other matters that will better facilitate our collective community planning in order to be more responsive to your needs.”

As the Federation embarks on plans to renovate and expand The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, it is even more important that we ensure our plans are in line with your needs and interests – both for today and for the future.

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Larry Greenspon is tickled pink!

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We recently announced the cornerstone lead gift to name the Federation campus as The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life. But who is Larry Greenspon and how does he feel about the plans for the new campus?

Here’s a short glimpse into this very generous donor. arry Greenspon and the State of Israel have something important in common. Both came into being at the same time. Larry was born on May 13, 1948. With the time change, it was already May 14, 1948, in Israel, the day the country gained independence. Larry says when he was approached to sponsor last year’s Israel @ 70 events at The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, it was a no-brainer. “I always supported Jewish life in Israel. The same can be done here,” he said.

That love of Israel really blossomed when he began playing tennis in the Maccabiah Games in 2001 in Israel, for which he won a silver medal. Larry recounts he thought he was playing at a tennis club but soon learned that the courts were part of the Israel Tennis Centers (ITC). ITC is one of the largest social service organizations for children in Israel, serving over 20,000 Israeli children every year.

Through the discipline of tennis, ITC strives to improve the lives of children in one of the most conflicted regions of the world. Many of its 14 centers are in underprivileged neighborhoods,

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ITC became the number one cause for Larry Greenspon and his fiancée, Mary Gratehouse. Soon after playing in the Maccabiah Games, Larry learned

Larry Greenspon and Mary Gratehouse

ITC was holding an exhibition and fundraiser on Longboat Key. “What could be better? Kids, tennis and Israel all together,” he exclaimed. The rest became history as Larry became ITC’s International Chair, and the premiere tennis center in Ramat HaSharon was named in his and Mary’s honor. “ITC provides kids with the tools they need for life. It’s so gratifying to see what they do,” Larry said.

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ness. What began as a small plumbing supply company on the south side of Chicago grew over the years into an international business, importing plumbing, kitchen and bath supplies for large home center stores such as Walmart.

Larry and his brothers renamed the business LDR Industries (the initials are for Larry and his two brothers, Dennis and Ron). Larry did much of the international travel, often visiting Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. The brothers sold the business three years ago.

“I have been very fortunate in my life,” Larry said.

“I’ve accumulated some shekels and thought, ‘I can’t take it with me.’” Enter The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.

After the success of Israel @ 70, specifically last year’s Shuk event which saw 2,500 people on the Federation campus, Larry noticed what he called ‘a diamond in the rough.’ “They have good management, good visionary people and wonderful grounds, but the facilities weren’t kept up. With a little financial help, the Federation could have a

major impact on the community, and not just the Jewish community.”

As a result, Larry met with his financial advisor and learned about the many tax advantages of estate planning. He made his cornerstone gift in May to name the Federation campus, The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life. In addition, he andBy S Mary are also naming the sports complex, The Larry and Mary Greenspon Sports Complex. The redevelopment of the campus will take place over the next three years.

Larry has big dreams for the campus and sees much potential with both Sarasota and the Jewish community growing. “I hope it’s a wonderful facility that people will want to come to. I envision a full sports facility and lots of rooms for speakers and classes. It will be interesting to see what we can develop.”

When Major Gifts Officer Rich Bergman first asked Larry to consider a major gift to the Federation, Rich knew that the Israel Tennis Center was Larry’s first love. “Rich asked if the Federation could be my number two charity,” Larry said. “I actually think it may be ahead now. I am just tickled pink!”

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If you have any questions, contact Keep an eye out for more informaLinda Silver at lsilver@jfedsrq.org or tion about this important project. We 941.706.0031. are currently working with CMJS to

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Stories of LIFE & LEGACY

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LIFE & LEGACY™ is a partnership of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and 10 local Jewish organizations that promote after-lifetime giving to benefit synagogues, social service organizations, Jewish day schools and other Jewish entities. Legacy donors, such as the one featured in the story below, are helping to secure the future of our Jewish community for generations to come.

Adrienne Cohen: Teaching us a “lesson”

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love serving the community because I’m passionate about outreach,” says Adrienne Cohen, a retired Special Education teacher from Miami, Florida. “If I can help others, I’m there.”

Since relocating to Sarasota in 2007, Adrienne has continued to give of herself relentlessly. Her words – matched by her notable career achievements and dedication to volunteering – speak volumes.

Miami and Sarasota organizations where Adrienne has left her mark include:  Girl Scouts as co-leader.  Association for Jewish Special Education (Miami), where she helped enhance the lives of developmentally disabled adults by participating in special events, including those for religious holidays and birthdays. Having begun as a volunteer, Adrienne became its co-secretary while on the Board of Directors.  Cat Depot, where she was a critter summer-camp counselor, involved in planning, organizing and participating in hands-on activities while teaching children about different animals. She also helped feed all the cats and kittens twice a week prior to the center’s opening.  Sheriff’s Animal Services Department, ensuring that the cats were adoptable by feeding them, cleaning cages and surrounding areas, and socializing with the felines.

Adrienne also followed up with phone calls in order to determine how individuals and their new pets were doing.  Lullaby League, where she aided teachers with logistics during lunch.  Sarasota Parks and Recreation Department, assisting in the cleanup of the Urfer Family Park and welcoming guests.

But Jewish Family and Children’s Service of the Suncoast (JFCS) appears to be Adrienne’s most favorite nonprofit for donating her time – and financial support.

A recent arrival to the JFCS data intake program, she says, “It’s amazing how many wonderful programs JFCS has for helping individuals with a variety of needs.”

Identifying with this organization, Adrienne considers it like family. “Elinor Burstein, who had trained me in the program, is an excellent team member.

Karen Wain, the volunteer director, is my role model. Staff and volunteers are dedicated to furthering JFCS’s compelling mission, which I believe in. I enjoy working there tremendously.”

A volunteer extraordinaire, Adrienne has many who are indebted to her, including her pet cat, Rocky.

Volunteering at JFCS for eight years, Elinor is grateful that Adrienne’s on the team. “In the short time I’ve known Adrienne, I can tell you that she’s very conscientious, taking

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her responsibilities seriously. In fact, she takes all responsibilities seriously.

She’s very concerned about obtaining all the necessary information and then making sure she can convey it in an understandable way. Most important, she’s empathetic to all.”

But Adrienne’s first love is helping children learn and celebrating in their achievements. Karen says that Adrienne will also be tutoring or mentoring at-risk children at Emma Booker Elementary in the JFCS school-based program.

“I’ve had an opportunity to serve on ‘Emma’s Dream Team,’ monitoring preschoolers on the playground, but now I’m looking forward to making more of a difference in children’s lives,” Adrienne says enthusiastically.

Former principals and other professionals affirm that Adrienne has been an exemplary model because of her special qualities: compassion, commitment to teaching and zest for learning.

Dr. Amy Dansky of Springview Elementary School in Miami Springs says, “I have known Adrienne for many years. One of her most notable qualities is her deep concern for her students. She truly believes in helping all children learn to their fullest capacity. And she’s always updating her skills.”

Adrienne’s credentials include: (1) K-12 Special Education certification in four areas of exceptionality, and (2) department chair for Exceptional Student Education and English Speakers of Other Languages programs – in addition to numerous accolades.

“What I love most about teaching is that I’ve been able to make a large impact on young children. Moving nonreaders to top-level readers in a

regular classroom, trying to help children reach a goal I set for them on their Individualized Education Programs, impressing their parents with progress, bonding with children – that’s been my ‘mission in life.’”

Other professionals, such as Charlotte Klieman, Education Coordinator for the Association for Jewish Special Education, captures Adrienne’s essence: “She’s a remarkable woman because of her energy, creativity and dedication.”

Gloria Smart, a retired musician, who has known Adrienne since her youth, sheds more light on this remarkable woman. “She was instrumental in turning children’s lives around.

She would choose art projects that she knew would make a difference.”

Gloria’s use of ‘instrumental’ is apropos. Continuing to reminisce about Adrienne, Gloria mentions that Adrienne also played the flute in her junior and high school band and orchestra.

What’s even more inspiring about Adrienne is that she has defied physical challenges in order to help children and adults, alike, improve their lives.

But in 2007, Adrienne had to rewrite her lesson plans.

“I passionately loved serving as an Exceptional Student Educator, but my mother, who had been suffering from dementia, needed all the support she could receive. She was such a great mother –always there for me. It was natural to be there for her.”

Regaining her composure, Adrienne says, smiling, “My mother actually taught me how to invest. Between my lucrative pension and financial knowledge, I’m more than happy to donate to LIFE & LEGACY. I’m also donating to my alma mater through the Florida State University Foundation.”

Not having a family of her own is one of the main reasons why Adrienne is donating to JFCS through LIFE & LEGACY. “Serving as a philanthropist can be fulfilling when the organizations you’re endowing have critical missions that you support.”

For more information about the LIFE & LEGACY program, please contact Gisele Pintchuck at 941.706.0029 or gpintchuck@jfedsrq.org.

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mbassador Stuart Eizenstat will address the greater Sarasota-Manatee community on President Carter’s conflicted relationship with Israel and American Jewry.

His presentation will take place at Temple Beth Sholom on Thursday, November 29 at 7:00 p.m.

Eizenstat’s talk will be based on his years in the White House and State Department, reflected in his latest book, President Carter: The White House Years, widely acclaimed by The New York Times, Washington Post and other major news sources.

Carter was one of the architects of the Camp David Accords 40 years ago, which helped bring peace that still persists between Israel and Egypt. Ambassador Eizenstat will discuss the interplay between Israeli Prime Minister Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, as well as the incredible tenacity and ingenuity that President Carter mustered to bring about the ultimate success of the Camp David Summit.

According to Eizenstat, Carter is also credited with championing the cause of Soviet Jewry and helping save tens of thousands of Iranian Jews from the radical Iranian revolution.

Eizenstat’s expertise stems from his serving as President Carter’s chief White House domestic policy advisor, and he helped set up a back channel to further the negotiations between Israel, Egypt and the United States. He

also held senior key positions as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration.

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In addition, Ambassador Eizenstat successfully negotiated billions of dollars in reparations for American and other Jewish Holocaust survivors, as reflected in one of his other major books, Imperfect Justice: Looted Art, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II. He was one of the principal founders of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In his presentation, Eizenstat will

explain why Carter’s presidency remains largely unappreciated, even though it is the most consequential series of accomplishments by any oneterm presidency in modern American history. He will provide an intimate, engaging firsthand account of these major historical events.

Eizenstat’s talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. After that, attendees will have an opportunity to interact one-on-one with him during a book-signing reception with light refreshments.

The event is sponsored by Temple Beth Sholom and its Men’s Club, Congregation Kol HaNeshama, The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and Rudd International. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m.; doors will open at 6:15 p.m. to facilitate prompt seating. Complimentary valet parking will be available.

Admission tickets ($10) will be sold at the door with no charge for high school and college students. Tickets in advance may be obtained by sending a check (prior to Wednesday, November 21), payable to Temple Beth Sholom Men’s Club, to 1050 S. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota, FL 34237. To reserve tickets or for more information, community members may contact Temple Beth Sholom at 941.955.8121 or info@ templebethsholomfl.org. Please see the ad on page 27A for more details.

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Editor’s note: The “Twice Promised Land and 100 Years War” series is included as part of our Federation’s year-long celebration of Israel @ 70. eace in our time.” Were there ever any four words that conveyed a sense of optimism, security and safety for a new world order than these four words? Everyone sat by the radio in the fall of 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, America reeling from a devastating depression, and the European Dr. Steven Derfler Jewish community threatened as it would be scapegoated for all of the world’s woes. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s naïve optimism would play directly into those virulently opposed to democracy and freedom.

But in the late 1970s, a new use of the words would come into play – this time in the Middle East. It seemed suddenly that everyone in Egypt and Israel was tired of war. They were all tired of the incessant drain on their economies and, above all, their most precious asset, their youth. As they say, out of all evil comes good. In this instance, the evil was the 1973 war. But it had a major impact on Egyptian governmental and societal perspectives.

For decades, Israel was seen as the Lesser Satan, the thorn in the side of the Arab world. And to make matters worse, no matter what the Arab world threw at her militarily, Israel parried, dodged and weaved, and then would throw its own knockout punch. The Arab world’s military, especially the Egyptians’, were the laughing-stock of all. But with the 1973 war, the perspective, in part thanks to incredible spindoctoring by the Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, allowed him to move forward in a position of strength.

Addressing the Egyptian parliament in a long and emotional speech on November 9, 1977, Sadat blamed Israel for sabotaging a peace conference the Carter administration was attempting to organize.

“I am ready to go to the Israeli parliament itself and discuss it with them,” he said. The declaration was interpreted (even and especially by Arab leaders, who included the Palestine Liberation organization’s Yasser Arafat, who was sitting in the Egyptian parliament as Sadat spoke) as a rhetorical flourish or an offhand expression of frustration, not a sincere offer.

On November 14, 1977, the unlikeliest of peace negotiators, CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite, inter-

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viewed Anwar Sadat via satellite. Sadat repeated that he was not only ready to go to Jerusalem and address the Israeli parliament directly, but that he was ready to do so within a matter of days. “I’m just waiting for the proper invitation,” Sadat told Cronkite, who asked, “You must get something direct from Mr. Begin, not through the press?”

“Right, right,” Sadat replied.

Cronkite asked, “And how would that be transmitted, sir, since you do not have diplomatic relations with Israel?”

Sadat: “Why not through our mutual friend, the Americans? … The only condition is that I want to discuss the situation with the 120 members of the Knesset and put the full picture and to detail the situation from our point of view.”

Cronkite: “If you get that formal invitation, how soon are you prepared to go?”

Sadat: “Really, I’m looking forward to fulfill this visit in the earliest time possible.”

Cronkite: “Would that, that could be, say, within a week?”

Sadat: “You can say that, yes.”

In the meantime, Cronkite interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin by satellite. “I asked him,”

Cronkite told the camera, “when he would take the necessary steps to move this new peace initiative from long-distance dialogue to a person-to-person meeting.”

Begin’s answer: “Tomorrow I will make a statement in our Parliament in the afternoon and I think that immediately after this statement I will get in touch [with the] American ambassador, and so find out. … But I can assure you, Mr. Cronkite, as we really want the visit of President Sadat, we really want to negotiate peace, to establish permanent peace. I will not hesitate to send such a letter.” Begin added of Sadat’s plan to go to Jerusalem, “Any time, any day he is prepared to come I will receive him cordially at the airport, go together with him to Jerusalem, also present him to the Knesset and let him make a speech to our parliament.”

On November 20, 1977, just six days after the Cronkite interview on CBS, Sadat went to Jerusalem. The discussions would start to create a framework for peace.

Dr. Steven Derfler is an international educational consultant, public speaker, archaeologist, historian, researcher, teacher and writer. He has been uncovering the histories of ancient civilizations for 40 years.

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Nancy Spielberg to speak at Women’s Day in December

By Su Byron

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ancy Spielberg is an accomplished businesswoman, film producer, fundraiser and philanthropist. She produced the documentary feature Above and Beyond in 2014 and is currently developing it as a narrative feature film. Spielberg is also the executive producer of Who Will Write Our History, with director Roberta Grossman, and On the Map, with director Dani Menkin.

Spielberg grew up surrounded by the film industry, where she worked on her brother Steven’s early films. She attended Arizona State University and UCLA and, after moving to New York, studied film at Sarah Lawrence College and the New School in New York. She is founder and co-founder of several charities, including A Bid for Charity, Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl, Project Sunshine, and the American branch of The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Spielberg will be sharing insights about her life, Judaism, the film business, and the art of living generously at The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee’s 2018 Women’s Day, Monday, December 3 at Art Ovation Hotel in Sarasota. For more information and to reserve seats, contact Lisa Feinman at 941.706.0034 or lfeinman@jfedsrq. org.

Even though you’ve been in the film business for most of your life, taking a lead role in filmmaking is relatively new for you. Your 2014 acclaimed documentary Above and Beyond, about the volunteer pilots who fought for Israel in the War of Independence, pushed you into the limelight. What drew you to produce this project?

It’s always about the story. It’s an incredible story on so many levels. For one, it’s a feel-good story about Israel.

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much Israel-bashing these days. It’s also an amazing story of heroism. It’s time to honor the heroes from this era – the veterans and the survivors. They’re leaving us, so you can’t wait around. If you want to talk to them, you have to move at breakneck speed. I also did it for my father – to honor his service in World War II. What moved you most deeply about this story?

I was struck by the aviators I interviewed. After surviving World War II, these guys left their comfortable life in America behind to fight in the skies over the new nation of Israel. They did it because they felt it was the right thing to do. They didn’t do it as Jews necessarily; they didn’t put themselves in the same boat as the Israelis. But in the course of their battles, they realized that those people were their people. That got to me. I was also moved by seeing the vulnerable side of these tough guys. They all felt sorry about making their mothers worry!

What did your big brother, Steven, feel about his kid sister’s first film production?

Steven was supportive, but not surprised. I called him before we started and told him that I wanted to make a documentary, but I wanted to make sure he wasn’t covering the same topic. He laughed and told me that I had his blessing, his bracha. At one point, I sent him a six-minute teaser reel that we’d created for our fundraising efforts and he told me that it made him cry.

I told him that he made me cry when we were kids – so now we were even!

Steven even recommended the documentary for the Cannes Film Festival.

He didn’t do that because I’m family.

With Steven, you have to earn it. His belief in the film meant a lot to me.

Granted your brother’s stature in the film industry, was entering the cinematic arena a challenge for you?

It was daunting, yes. Every now and then I’d panic. “What if he hates it?” But I’d shake those thoughts out of my head and keep going on. We had to make the best film we could make, and I just couldn’t worry about whether one of the greatest filmmakers on the planet liked it. I felt very uplifted when our promo reel was leaked on the internet. In a matter of days, I received thousands of supportive emails and was deeply touched. That gave me strength to keep moving forward.

What do you love about the documentary format?

There’s something very pure about it. The form is honest and direct. I try to find and share stories of people who do extraordinary things. I also have some feature film idea in the works – but I’m leery. Hollywood is such a huge machine run by big egos that I’m

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You served as executive producer for Who Will Write Your History, a documentary about the resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto. How did that happen?

It was director Roberta Grossman’s passion project. She bought the rights to Sam Kassow’s book, which

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is very academic. But the underlying story is incredibly moving. A group of 60 resistance fighters risked their lives to document life in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation. They gathered diaries, essays and thousands of documents, and buried them in milk cans before the uprising in 1943. They didn’t want the Germans to write them out of the history books and hoped that someone would uncover the truth one day. And that’s what happened. They discovered the archives after the war – the actual voices of the past. Roberta approached me about making a documentary. It was time to let them speak, she said. I immediately agreed.

What gripped you about this film?

Again, it’s all about the story. Every story about the Holocaust is important. It’s never “just another” Holocaust film. We’re all individuals, and each of us has a unique story. I’m thrilled that there’s so much energy surrounding this documentary. It was chosen to be broadcast on International Holocaust Remembrance Day throughout Germany and France. There will also be a global screening in synagogues and theaters on January 27. We’re starting with a bang!

Although you were born Jewish, you came to a deeper connection with Judaism later in your teens.

When I was very young, we were the only Jews in our neighborhood in Arizona where I grew up. I began to more deeply embrace my heritage when I was 19 and went with my sister, Sue, to Israel. We worked on a kibbutz and discovered Jews who were cool!

I eventually married a rabbi’s son and became more steeped in the traditions.

Recent documentaries produced by Nancy Spielberg: Who Will Write Our History (2018) – Director: Roberta Grossman. The story of the secret archive Emanuel Ringelblum created and hid during the Nazi siege of the Warsaw Ghetto. The miraculously surviving treasure trove of writings and photographs offers vivid documentation of how the Jews of the ghetto lived and died.

On the Map (2016) – Director: Dani Menkin. The stirring, against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1977 European Championship, when Israel’s underdog basketball team defeated the heavily favored Russian Red Army team and captured the heart of a nation.

It took me awhile to find and embrace my Jewish identity.

You’ve said that you’re “Jewish and proud.” It’s a bold assertion of Jewish identity. Why is it so important to you to say it?

Maybe because of rising anti-Semitism. Yes, I’m Jewish and proud! I refuse to hide it anymore. I’m ashamed of something that happened a year or so ago. I was in an airport headed to Arizona for Passover. The lounge was filled with Orthodox Jews who were also on their way to celebrate Passover.

As I gave my boarding pass to the gate attendant, she looked at me, rolled her eyes, and said, “It’s going to be some flight with them on board.” I said nothing. It happened so fast. But I won’t let that happen again! Next time, I’ll let her know those people are Jews and I’m proud to be one of them.

Philanthropy is a profound part of your life. How do you choose the causes and organizations you’ll help?

My husband and I have the same philosophy. We look first for efforts that support humanitarian needs – especially children. We’re very involved with Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl, an organization that evacuated 3,000 children from Chernobyl and brought them to Israel for care.

They literally saved their lives from radiation poisoning. We’re also doing more things with Federations and the Moishe House, which offers opportunities for young Jewish people to connect with other Jewish people and their own Jewish identities.

Could you give us a sneak peek about what you’ll share at Women’s Day in Sarasota?

It will be more of a schmooze than a lecture!

That sounds far more interesting. So what will you be schmoozing about?

My talk is really about empowering women, and honoring the strength of community. I’ll share how I started a new career later in life. I’ll be talking a lot about my amazing mother and how growing up with her shaped our lives. We all miss her desperately.

(Leah Adler died in 2017 at 95.) So many people knew her from her kosher restaurant, the Milky Way. Are you keeping the Milky Way open?

I’m happy to say that we’re in the process of renovation now and will be reopening the restaurant very soon.

I’m thrilled to be putting my mother’s dream back together. It will be a place where people can celebrate my mother and have some great food. We’ll be keeping what she loved alive.

Su Byron is a freelance writer whose regular columns and articles appear in a host of regional and national publications.

Above and Beyond (2014) – Director: Roberta Grossman. The moving story of a group of World War II pilots who volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence in 1948. The film was notable with the cinematography of Harris Done, special effects by Industrial Light and Magic, and an original score from Hans Zimmer’s Studio.

Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals (2011) – Director: Jonathan Silvers. Only a fraction of Nazi war criminals were captured and convicted in the Nuremberg Trials. Many war criminals of the Gestapo, SS and Wehrmacht had changed identities and gone into hiding to escape punishment.

The “Nazi hunters” brought thousands of them to justice.

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FEDERATION NEWS

The Melissa Wides Summer Camp Scholarship for children with special needs

By Andrea Eiffert

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he Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, in partnership with local philanthropists, is committed to sending kids to Jewish overnight camps. The impact of camp lasts a lifetime, and providing meaningful, lifelong experiences is a cornerstone of the Federation’s engagement objective.

We’re thrilled to announce that our camp scholarship program has just expanded to ensure that all Jewish children have an opportunity to experience summer camp. The Melissa Wides Summer Camp Scholarship will provide local Jewish families with a limited number of grants to attend camps

designed to serve children with special needs. Through the generosity of the Melissa Wides Foundation, and Brian and Joan Wides’ passion for helping children with emotional, developmental and physical needs, this scholarship was established to provide children with the opportunity to make wonderful memories, learn new skills and meet new friends in an environment that can address their unique challenges.

“We are absolutely delighted that the Federation will facilitate and promote this scholarship opportunity, and we’re honored that we can help fund it,” say the Wides.

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We commend the Wides for this generous grant designed to allow kids to participate in camp programs that accept them for who they are.

“Camp teaches kids that they can,” says longtime Federation camp grant committee member Lori Greenbaum.

“Camp helps children build self-confidence and self-esteem while removing

the structure of school. With diverse opportunities to succeed, camp life is a place where there is real accomplishment every day. It offers kids the opportunity to unplug from technology and get in touch with nature. Camp also helps them learn new social skills and become more independent.”

Families eligible to receive camp scholarships must reside in Sarasota County or Manatee County and identify as Jewish. Applications will be accepted November 1, 2018, through January 31, 2019. For more information or to apply, visit: https://jfedsrq. org/camp.

New film series to start in January!

By Rosann Black

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ilm fans, rejoice! There’s a new film series in town – just in time for the new year.

Just Reel Films, sponsored by Ian Black Real Estate in partnership with The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee, is a new monthly film series that starts in January. The films will be Jewish-themed and focus on real slices of life we can all relate to. They will be shown in venues across the Sarasota-Manatee region, including libraries, churches, synagogues and community centers. The series is free, but audience members are encouraged to bring cans of food, toys and school supplies, which will be donated to such community organizations as All Faiths Food Bank, Toys for Tots and Title 1 schools.

What kind of films can we expect?

Some will be biographies of great entertainers who have given us moments of joy, laughter and creative inspiration. Others are educational and will stimulate awareness of the history of the Holocaust and the emergence of the State of Israel. Others will touch on how racism and prejudice impact lives and communities.

We look forward to sharing more information about Just Reel Films with you in the weeks to come. For more information about Just Reel Films, contact Jeremy Lisitza at 941.343.2113 or jlisitza@jfed srq.org.

Rosann Black is the chair of the Just Reel Films Committee.

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Temple Beth Sholom presents Middle Eastern Sephardic Evening

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hat is a Sephardic Jew and in religious education from the Hehow does he or she differ brew Union College-Jewish Institute from a Levantine Jew? Find of Religion. Sabrina has been a Jewish out the answer to this question and eneducator for the past 31 years. She has joy an amazing evening of learning, served as the Director of Education at fun and socializing at Temple Beth Temple Emanu-El since 2001. She has Sholom’s Sephardic Evening on Sunbeen married to Bruce Silverberg since day, November 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 1985 and they have two sons, David p.m. in the TBS Social Hall (1050 S. and Sam. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota).

Learn about her cultural backHow familiar are you with Sepground and even some Middle Eastern hardic culture of the Middle East? SaSephardic superstition. Sample a vabrina Silverberg, Director of Education riety of Sephardic sweets and delicaat Temple Emanu-El, cies from an amazing will present a multi-medessert buffet. Sample dia program filled with Turkish coffee and music, visuals, humor have a coffee grinds and amazing stories. reader tell your fortune Silverberg was born and by looking at the grinds raised in Cairo, Egypt, remaining in your cup. until her family fled the This is an evening that country. Her maternal you and your friends ancestors can be traced will truly enjoy. The to Egypt; Aleppo, Syrentire presentation will ia; Rome, Italy; and be conducted in a cabmost likely from Spain aret-style atmosphere. before that. Her paterAl Treidel, Chair Sabrina Silverberg nal roots reach back to Izmir, Turkey; of Continuing Education at Temple Spanish Morocco; and Spain as well.

Beth Sholom, said of the evening, “We Hers is a tradition steeped in hundreds are very excited about this wonderful of years of Middle Eastern Sephardic cultural learning experience in an atcustoms, foods and practices. mosphere of warmth and camaraderie.

Sabrina attended Cuyahoga ComWe see this evening as an opportunity munity College in Cleveland, Ohio, for members of the Greater Sarasota and received a BA in Business AdJewish community to come together to ministration and Finance from Tampa learn about a rich subculture of world College. Pursuing her passion in Judaic Jewry that many of us know little Studies, she received a master’s degree about.”

A sukkah to call our own

The Sephardic Evening is open to the Sarasota/Manatee Jewish community. The cost is $12.50 and checks may be made payable to Temple Beth Sholom. The cost for those without a reservation will be $15 at the door.

Advance reservations will be accepted until Thursday, November 1. Space is limited, and it is suggested that you send in your reservation and check as far in advance as possible to Temple Beth Sholom, 1050 S. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota, FL 34237.

For more information, please call the temple office at 941.955.8121.

The Middle Eastern Sephardic Evening is co-sponsored by TBS Continuing Education, The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, TBS Sisterhood and Men’s Club.

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“Our Jewish Year” – take the calendar tour

By Marden Paru, Dean, Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva | This program is Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

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bigail Pogrebin, noted columnist and author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, has published an exceptional book on her experience exploring the full calendar of Jewish observances. As a Reform Jewish synagogue leader and journalist, Pogrebin concluded that she did not know enough nor understand the origins and background of all the Jewish festivals, fasts and other historic calendrical celebrations. Her book recounts a oneyear journey to learn.

How many of the 18 Jewish holidays can you name? Do you know their origins and why they prevail?

Judaism has flourished for three and a half millennia. Dare we attribute any of that longevity to Shabbat and

holiday observance which may have kept the Jewish community together and vibrant for all of that time?

Although Abigail grew up personally following some liberal holiday rituals, she realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and current significance. She wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and relevant throughout the centuries. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research, observation and writing about the milestones on the Jewish calendar. She immersed herself by participating in Orthodox, Conservative and Reform holiday services and practices, and has presented to us an engaging and personal roadmap of her journey.

Interspersed in her narrative are

commentaries by a broad spectrum of the most notable rabbis, academics, educators and other contemporary thinkers of our generation with whom she interacted and whose names will be very familiar to the reader.

Take a tour with us through the spectrum of the Jewish calendar year as Abigail Pogrebin does in her book.

The goal is to explore the rhythm and purposes of every holiday including all festivals, high holidays, fasts and contemporary commemorations. We will study the history and background of each. Holiday recipes will be included.

(You may also wish to meet the author, who will be in Sarasota on Sunday, November 11, by attending a community luncheon at Michael’s On East.

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The Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva operates, in part, under a grant from The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. Now in its ninth year, the Yeshiva is an independent, IRS 501(c) (3) non-profit adult Jewish education institute.

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Sting is over for two local Holocaust survivors

By Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz | This program is Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

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few months ago, Miron and Rita Grafman could only enter their home through a side entrance because a colony of Africanized bees had built a large hive just under the roof by the front door.

Around the same time, Miron’s health began to decline. As a Holocaust survivor, he is entitled to receive homecare as well as transportation to medical and other appointments. Rita does not drive.

When Jan Alston, Director of the JFCS Holocaust Survivor Assistance and Support program (which is sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee), went to assess Miron’s needs, she learned firsthand about the couple’s increasingly dangerous bee issue. Rita shared a disturbing photo of her face having been stung multiple times. The bees’ swarming made it impossible for the homecare worker and driver to safely do their work. Miron and Rita became

prisoners in their own home.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which administers compensation and provides social welfare services to survivors, does not pay for bee removal or roof

Rita and Miron Grafman

repair. The Grafmans were simply not in a financial position to take on these expenses.

Appreciating the urgency of the situation, Alston quickly contacted Cowboy Bee Round-Up and Removal. She then made a special request to the Federation to provide the required funds to cover the cost. The work required three weeks to be completed. The remover explained that the unusually large and aggressive assembly of bees had to be vacuumed out and relocated on three separate occasions, and the roof required repair.

“The couple was extremely happy to once again be able to go outside and not be attacked,” said Alston. “They also now have access to homecare services and transportation.

They are very grateful to the Federation for helping them.”

The Federation funds have also enabled survivors to obtain dental treatment and address other emergency needs.

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abbi Howard A. Simon has joined the staff of Toale Brothers Funeral Home as a liaison to the Jewish community. In this newly created, multi-faceted position, Rabbi Simon will provide counseling and outreach with a focus on serving the needs of Jewish families.

In making the announcement, Funeral Director Curt Toale said, “Rabbi Simon has established an impeccable reputation and is deeply respected by the Jewish community in Greater Sarasota. We consider it an honor and a great privilege to welcome him to our family.”

Howard A. Simon was ordained as a rabbi at the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to assuming leadership of Sarasota’s Temple Emanu-El, he had served congregations in Baltimore,

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Rabbi Simon is Vice President of the Sarasota Ministerial Association, and writes a monthly column for The Jewish News, the monthly newspaper of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. He was a founder and president of Knoxville’s Interfaith Health Clinic, served a number of years on the board of the Jewish Federation, led three Interfaith Missions to Israel sponsored by the Jewish Federation, and was the founding Chair of the Esther and Robert Heller Israel Advocacy Initiative of the Jewish Federation.

Rabbi Simon is the author of two books of poetry, Back From the Abyss: Thoughts About Life and Death and Memories, So Many, So Precious.

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He and his wife Rona share their lives with six children and eight grandchildren.

About Toale Brothers Funeral Home Toale Brothers Funeral Home has served the Greater Sarasota area for three generations. The Toale family purchased the original funeral home in downtown Sarasota in 1948. Under the leadership of second-generation funeral director Curt Toale, Toale Brothers continues to thrive as a locally owned and family-operated business, with a staff of highly experienced funeral

In partnership with the Claims Conference’s regional administrator, Gulf Coast JFCS in Clearwater, Alston assists survivors in documenting their status and completing applications for benefits. She also facilitates a havurah for survivors and organizes social occasions and Jewish holiday celebrations in Sarasota and North Port. Because of the instrumental role she plays in the lives of local survivors, Alston has become a beloved figure.

“We want to do as much as we can for them,” Alston shares. “They have been through so much in their lives.

They so deserve our caring and respect.”

Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz serves as a Community Chaplain and Director of JFCS’s Jewish Healing Program, a partnership between The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and JFCS of the Suncoast.

directors, administrators and counselors. Curt and Syndi Toale’s daughters, Tiffany Toale Holsbeke and Stephanie Toale Lynch, proudly represent the family’s third generation.

There are four Toale Brothers Funeral Homes to serve the Greater Sarasota area: Bradenton Chapel, Colonial Chapel, Gulf Gate Chapel, and the newest location, Ewing Chapel on Venice Island. Details about funeral home locations, funeral planning or pre-need arrangements, obituaries and other important information can be found by visiting www.toalebrothers.com.

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Temple Sinai hosts weekend of learning and community

By Gail Glickman

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emple Sinai is delighted to host Kehillah Kedoshah: Strengthening How Our Holy Community Connects, Grows and Celebrates on November 2-4. Nancy Bossov, RJE will facilitate a series of practical and thought-provoking sessions.

Nancy Bossov is nationally recognized for her advocacy and consulting work. She was instrumental in establishing the Union for Reform Judaism’s infrastructure for Jewish early childhood education (ECE) and in creating its ECE professional organization, ECE-RJ. Currently she serves on the Families with Young Children Team of the Strengthening Congrega-

tions professional group of the URJ. All events during this weekend are open to the community and promise to be both spiritual and educational. On

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Jewish War Veterans opens new Post

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he oldest U.S. war veterans organization, the Jewish War Veterans of America (JWV), has opened its newest Post, #941 in Sarasota County. The first meeting was held September 23 at the Jewish Congregation of Venice. Alan Paley, Commander of the Florida JWV organization, and Harvey Charter, 1st Jr. Vice Commander for Florida, conducted the “Institution” ceremony and installed Post 941 officers. Robert Aaron of Venice is Commander of Post 941, which currently has 18 members. The luncheon and ceremony included guests from JWV posts in Tampa, Fort Myers, Sarasota and East Coast Florida.

JWV was created in 1896 by a group of Jewish Civil War veterans responding to prevailing anti-Semitic comments that Jews never served in the American military and were unpat-

riotic. Actually, Jews fought for America since the Revolutionary War. Later, other veterans groups such as American Legion and VFW formed in the United States following the JWV model, supporting servicemen on active duty and actively pursuing veterans’ rights.

Membership in Post 941, as in all JWV Posts, is open to all Jewish veterans, male and female. No synagogue affiliation is required. The JWV Ladies Auxiliary is a very active service organization for non-military spouses and other interested women.

A “patron” non-voting membership is offered to men and women nonveterans who would like to support Post activities and join social events.

For information on membership and future meetings of Post 941, please contact Robert Aaron at rcaaron@ comcast.net.

Friday night, during Temple Sinai’s signature Rhythm & Jews service, Nancy will speak on “Connecting, Growing and Celebrating Through Audacious Hospitality,” and Gan and Religious School students will lead singing. A dairy/ vegetarian potluck dinner and an opportunity to reflect on how congregations move from good to great will follow the service.

Saturday’s Kiddush lunch and workshop will explore “Building

Our Future: Relationships + Meaning = Impact.”

On Sunday morning Nancy will lead a special assembly of students and parents from The Gan and the Religious School and guests, followed by an interactive parents’ session with Nancy and a light breakfast. The topic will be “21st Century Parenting: New Tools for Our New Reality.”

RSVPs at SinaiSRQ/events.org are required for the Friday night dinner, Saturday lunch/workshop and Sunday childcare.

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Mark your calendar to join in singing, meeting and greeting new people, and sharing in a sweet Oneg Shabbat.

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The training was brutal. There and Ethel Gross have chaired Veterans Shabbat for eight were nights I cried myself to sleep.

But it gave me something that has lastyears. For the past five years, they have also overseen Temple Emanu-El’s Soed a lifetime – structure, confidence, cial Assistance Buddy Program and the self-esteem, the ability to think and Summer Dining Series, in which temact quickly, and the belief that I can ple members patronize restaurants that achieve goals that may not seem attaindonate 10 percent of their proceeds to able. It taught me a positive outlook on the Overseas Military Assistance Prolife and to enjoy every day. It gave me gram of JFCS of the Suncoast. Over respect for my fellow comrades-in$3,600 has been raised. arms.

All are invited to honor Jewish vetI am fortunate to have survived the erans at Temple Emanu-El’s 5779/2018 Korean conflict, and I look forward to Veterans Shabbat on Friday, November sharing Veterans Day with my fellow 9 at 7:15 p.m. Patriotic music, a blessveterans.” ing for veterans and other features will highlight the service.

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Klezmer music

By Arlene Stolnitz

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n Monday, December 17 at 7:30 p.m., Sarasota will be privileged with the appearance of renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman in an evening devoted to klezmer music. The program, entitled “In the Fiddler’s House (A Night of Klezmer),” will be presented at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and will feature special guest artists, including the Klezmer Conservatory Band. The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee is the lead sponsor of Arlene Stolnitz the concert.

The Perlman Music Program has invited well-known Sarasota/Venice lecturer Baila Miller to present a program on “History of Klezmer Music to Modern Jazz” on Thursday, November 1 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota.

Coincidentally, during the past summer, I traveled to Upstate New York for a family reunion. I always knew I had come from a family of musicians but, until that weekend, I hadn’t realized my European-born grandparents and their children were a family of klezmer musicians. In an early column, I wrote about klezmer music as an art form. My intention to write about klezmer music again came at a particularly opportune time!

The term “klezmer’’ comes from the Hebrew words “klei” (vessel) and “zemer” (song). “Klezmer” literally means “instrument of song.” In Eastern Europe, the word “klezmer” referred to the traditional instrumental music of Yiddish-speaking people of Eastern Europe, whose origins can be traced back to the Middle Ages. Often played at weddings, bar mitzvahs and other joyous occasions, klezmer had its origins in the countries of Eastern Europe and was widely influenced by the Roma or gypsy population. Violins, clarinets and accordions were used to create the distinctive sounds that we identify as klezmer. These instruments were popular because they were easily transported by klezmer musicians as they traveled from village to village playing for weddings and other community events. Years later in America, klezmer had a huge impact on contemporary jazz music. Many Jewish American composers such as Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland were influenced by klezmer sounds heard during their youth. The opening notes of “Rhapsody in Blue” are a nod to the klezmer clarinet. Even some clarinet stylings of swing jazz bandleaders

Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw can be interpreted as having been derived from klezmer.

According to Miller, “The history of klezmer is full of surprises because it is rooted in 1800s European Nationalism, regional pride and individual identity. There is much more than meets the eye. Its history is long, deep and wide. Music is the soul of a nation. It reflects a nation’s tears, joys, fears and hopes. As such, it mirrors a culture’s humanity. Klezmer can be enjoyed as the folk music of the Jewish people, but its unique sound in the mid-1880s reflected cultural changes surfacing in Europe that focused on dissemination of democratic ideals.”

Miller, a lecturer in the Humanities in the Sarasota area, started her career as a social worker. In later years she pursued her interest in Art Appreciation and today presents college-level courses exploring the role of literature, paintings, architecture, sculpture, cinema and photography, as well as orchestral and operatic influences.

Born in Poland in the 1950s, her family immigrated to Israel when she was six. At the age of nine, her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where they were sponsored by a wealthy family member. Miller has taught at Road Scholar International, Longboat Key Education Center, Venice Art Center, Historic Spanish Point, Venice Performing Arts Center and the Ringling College of Art + Design. Under the name “Miller Music and Fine Arts Programs,” her lectures are received with great acclaim in the community.

Our community is indeed fortunate to have this great artist and well-known lecturer expand our appreciation and enjoyment of this unique art form.

Arlene Stolnitz, founder of the Sarasota Jewish Chorale, has sung in choral groups for over 25 years. A retired educator, she is a graduate of the Gulf Coast Community Leadership Foundation. A member of the Jewish Congregation of Venice, the Venice Chorale and the Sarasota Jewish Chorale, her interest in choral music has led to this series of articles on Jewish Folk Music in the Diaspora.

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British diplomats confront Kristallnacht

By Paul R. Bartrop, PhD

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nown as the “Night of Broken Glass,” the Kristallnacht of November 9-10, 1938, eighty years ago this month, was a sudden and widespread assault on Jews and their property in Germany prior to World War II. It legitimized violence against Jews by the Nazi state and foreshadowed AdDr. Paul Bartrop olf Hitler’s later attempts to exterminate European Jews through the Final Solution.

Reactions in Britain to the pogrom were swift. Arguably the first official comment to arrive at the British Foreign Office came in during the morning of Thursday, November 10. With the Ambassador to Berlin, Sir Nevile Henderson, in London on medical leave, the Embassy was left in the hands of the Chargé d’Affaires, Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes. On November 10 he sent a telegram to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, reporting that “anti-Jewish rioting on an unprecedented scale” had broken out late the night before in Berlin. Similar reports, he wrote, were “coming in from all over the provinces.”

On November 14 he reported that “many” Jews were “wandering about in the streets and parks afraid to return to their homes,” while measures were being introduced intended “to deprive all Jews of [the] means of earning [a] livelihood.” He could not contain his outrage at what he was witnessing, writing that “I can find no words strong enough in condemnation of the disgusting treatment of so many innocent people, and the civilized world is faced with [the] appalling sight of 500,000 people about to rot away in starvation.”

The next day came the first intimation that Kristallnacht might not have been an isolated event, when OgilvieForbes wrote about “grave apprehension here amongst Jews that there will be further excesses,” with the prospect of a second Kristallnacht being suggested.

In a long letter to Lord Halifax on November 16, Ogilvie-Forbes concluded that “The present position of the Jews is indeed tragic,” in which “They dwell in the grip and at the mercy of a brutal oligarchy, which fiercely resents all humanitarian foreign intervention.” No amount of condemnation would “have any influence over the insensate gang in present control of Nazi Germany.”

Robert Smallbones was the British Consul-General in Frankfurt. When the pogrom took place, he immediately sought out leading members of the Home Office in London to see what could be done to alleviate Jewish distress. He realized that the first thing needed was to facilitate the release of men who had been arrested and sent to concentration camps. Evidence that a British visa had been authorized could secure a man’s release, but Jewish women and children would not be permitted to emigrate from Nazi Germany without the male breadwinner of the family present.

Smallbones thereupon contacted the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, and presented a plan that would allow for a limited two-year transit visa for German Jews to come to the U.K. while awaiting an entry visa from a third country. Hoare accepted the pro-

posal, resulting in what became known as the “Smallbones System.” Under this, some 48,000 Jews from Germany would arrive in the U.K. by October 1939.

Enormous help came from Smallbones’s Vice-Consul, Arthur Dowden, who worked to ensure that the British visas were actually delivered to the threatened Jewish families. In addition, he provided practical help in the form of deliveries of food, given that Jews were not permitted to buy food for nine days after the pogrom. Dowden was remembered as driving through the streets, with food in his car, distributing food to those in want.

British diplomats in other locations were just as active in their response. John Carvell, Consul-General in Munich, issued certificates permitting 300 Jewish men to be released from Dachau to travel to British Mandate Palestine. His Vice-Consul, Frank Fulham, was particularly interested in saving children, while Donald St. Clair Gainer, the Consul-General in Vienna, reported faithfully and with horror to the Foreign Office of the destruction of synagogues in Salzburg and Linz, as well as in various locations in Vienna.

In London, concerns were expressed from an early date that what happened in November might be repeated as a way to hasten the wholesale Jewish exodus from Germany. On December 9, 1938, the head of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, Lord Winterton, wrote a confidential letter to Lord Halifax stating that there was every indication that the Germans “were about to make an even more drastic and brutal attack on the Jews,” and it was only on December 15 that it seemed the danger of an acute flare-up in persecution might have passed.

Throughout this time, the Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, had been in Britain. An arch-appeaser who favored acquiescing to every one of Hitler’s demands, his management of the Embassy staff upon his return in February 1939 provides us with a clue as to how differently the British diplomatic response to the Kristallnacht could otherwise have been. When Henderson returned to Berlin, his first act was to rebuke the assembled Embassy staff for the negative tone of their reports, accusing them of misinforming the government over Germany’s behavior. All future reports from the Embassy, they were instructed, “would be in strict accordance” with Henderson’s personal opinions. Two days later he sent a letter to Lord Halifax, stating “that Hitler personally had disapproved of the campaign against the Jews.”

What might have been the British diplomatic response to Kristallnacht had Henderson been present in November 1938? We can only surmise.

The reality was that his brave deputy in Berlin and his consuls outside the capital met and confronted the challenge head-on and in a compassionate manner that literally saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives. Their actions, thankfully, worked to the advantage of Germany’s Jews at a time when they needed all the help they could get.

Dr. Paul Bartrop is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University.

He can be reached at pbartrop@fgcu. edu.

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Book review by Philip K. Jason, Special to The Jewish News Returning, by Yael Shahar.

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eturning is an extraordinary and challenging book on many levels. It attempts to make the intangible as close to tangible as possible. It engages readers in a kind of time travel that has nothing to do with science fiction.

It might remind some of paranormal romance, but the stakes are much higher.

What genre does it belong to?

Author Yael Shahar once thought Phil Jason of calling it “fiction memoir,” but that does not capture enough of its essence.

The workings of dreams are central to the book’s technique and meaning, but what if you dream someone else’s dreams? What if someone else dreams yours and remembers your memories? Shahar’s artistry is to make these “what-ifs” credible and meaningful; in fact, inevitable and necessary.

She imbeds these actualized possibilities in a theological – or, at least, a biblical – context.

The primary character is an older man named Alex. He is a tormented, guilt-ridden soul who has lived in Israel for many decades following his escape from slave labor at Auschwitz-Birkenau. A Greek Jew from Salonika (“Saloniki” throughout this book), Alex, whose given name is Ovadya (servant of God), was part of a sonderkommando crew, mostly Jewish, who were worked to exhaustion day after day hauling away the bones and ashes of incinerated Jews and

and Rabbi Ish-Shalom. She other doomed prisoners. brings them together. In a literal All of his adult life, Alex has been sense, with her name given as trying, without much success, to resist author of the book, she is tellthe constant pressures of memories that ing Alex’s story – including take him back to his sonderkommando his dialogue with the rabbi. experience, a trauma that he would However, she seems as like to forget. As an unwilling witness well to be a recipient or conand assistant to the obliteration of his duit for Alex’s memories and people, Alex is a man with a diseased his paralyzing responses to soul. Part of him knows that he must them, which, like her own face his past and accept responsibility torturous memories, are confor actions taken and not taken. sequences of trauma. Through her role He seeks the help of Rabbi Ishin Alex’s story, Yael draws readers to Shalom (“man of peace”), a person sophisticated understandings of Postof remarkable learning, wisdom and Traumatic Stress Syndrome and apsensitivity. The rabbi becomes a spiripropriate therapies. tual coach who leads Alex on the path Part of the book, then, is the auof self-knowledge, atonement and rethor’s memoir – one in which she is demption. the subordinate But this is not a feelcharacter. good journey. It is filled In terms of with harrowing conJewish concepts, frontations with Alex’s the book is poised younger self. The rabbi on the relationinsists, through a series ships among the of questions and refutaacts of returning, tions of Alex’s answers, remembering and that there are times when t’shuvah, usually the giving of one’s own translated as relife may be the moral pentance. Laced choice. through the narraAlex’s resistance to Yael Shahar (credit: Rahel Jaskow) tive are references his job of making room to, and quotations from, the prophetic for the next victims to be pushed into books that deal with the destruction of the gas chambers would not have saved ancient Israel and the promised mesthose lives, but that defense is slowly sianic age of restoration. The place of taken away during his conversations modern Israel in this scheme is given with the rabbi. measured attention.

As Alex releases his memories, The graphic dimension of Shahar’s first by writing them down and later book is a typographer’s field day (or by speaking them aloud, he undergoes nightmare). Various sizes of various renewal and revelation that properly fonts are employed to signal the relaelevate his sense of self. He can take tionships among the book’s voices and back his given name because he earns concerns. There are also typographical his right to it. distinctions in headings and subheadYael Shahar, as a character in her ings that suggest hierarchical and other book, is an intermediary between Alex

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Aging Jewishly – What our traditions teach us about growing old

When parents outlive their children – a new dimension to the tragedy

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hen Bernie celebrated his 97th birthday, he was surrounded by friends and family – all but one. Bernie’s daughter Marsha was unable to make the trip from Boston to her father’s retirement home in Florida. Marsha had undergone debilitating rounds of chemotherapy and did not have the physical strength Rabbi Barbara Aiello to make the trip.

Three years later, at his 100th birthday party, Bernie remembered his beloved daughter who had passed away the month before.

Researchers, doctors, sociologists and psychologists have written extensively about the difficulties faced by parents when a young child dies. The effect on the family – parents, siblings and grandparents – can be devastating as mothers and fathers cope with the deep sense of loss felt when a parent buries a baby, a toddler or a teen. But as the population continues to age and as longevity becomes more the norm than the exception, more and more seniors are outliving their adult children.

Journalist Allison Gaudet Yarrow agrees. In an article that appeared in the Forward (August 2011), “May You Live Until 120: DNA Uncovers Secrets to Jewish Longevity,” Yarrow points out that general life expectancy is on the rise and remarkably, Jews are living even longer than those among the general population. Yarrow cites British data that indicate that “Jews live an average of five to six years longer than their gentile counterparts, and there

may be nearly three times as many Jewish centenarians as in the general U.K. population.”

For us Jews this means that the possibility of our “oldest of the old” outliving their adult children could become a reality for many families. Along with Bernie, mentioned earlier, Ida also has had firsthand experience with outliving not only a child but all of her children.

Ida says, “I’m 107 years old and have no idea why I’m still here, especially since my three children have passed on. My two sons died in their 70s and my daughter was 82 when she passed.

All three were a big help to me. I am so sad and don’t know what I’ll do without them.”

Ida’s plight was front and center recently when the country shared its grief with Roberta McCain, who, at 106, outlived her 81-year-old son, Sen. John McCain. And although Allison Yarrow reminds us of our biblical ancestors when she notes, “According to Genesis, Noah’s grandfather, Methuselah, lived the longest, at 969 years of age … Abraham reportedly lived to 175; Moses to 120,” many elderly Jews acknowledge that living to 120 like Moses brings on its own set of problems, especially if their adult children pre-decease them.

Dr. Winifred Rossi of the National Institute on Aging, reports that “(the) Ashkenazi Jewish population… tends to live longer.” Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who has spent years studying Ashkenazi Jews who have lived into their 90s and beyond, reports that their “exceptional longevity” is substantiated by recent genetic findings.

As the population ages, what can

be done for an elderly parent who has lost an adult child? In a study that appeared in the journal Death Studies (2016), researchers addressed the crisis. In the article, “The suffering in silence of older parents whose child died of cancer: A qualitative study,” the authors encourage gerontology professionals to become aware. They write that “When an adult dies, the social support system nearly automatically directs its care toward the bereaved nuclear family. Parental grief at old age is therefore often not recognized and/ or acknowledged.”

What can be done? Health care providers need to be aware of the silent grief of older parents and offer services such as support groups specifically designed for parents who have lost an

adult child. In a CBC interview, Canadian chaplain Betty Silva, whose adult daughter died of colorectal cancer, describes the grieving process and agrees that support services must acknowledge the special dimension of grief and fear felt by aging parents. “Listen and be available,” she says, and make sure support services are in place to deal with elderly parents who now find themselves steeped in sadness and fear of facing a future alone.

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K’zohar Ha-Ivrit Tuv – Goodness

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The Thanksgiving holiday is just this kind of special day. Families and friends take the time to gather around the table to dine, enjoy the best foods of the land and appreciate the blessings of fellowship and Dr. Rachel Dulin love. In honor of Thanksgiving let us briefly discuss the Hebrew word tuv, which I think articulates best the meaning of the holiday.

The noun tuv means “goodness,” “wealth,” “welfare,” “blessing,” “grace” and “beauty.” It is derived from the word tov, which in most Semitic languages means “to be good,” “pleasant” and “happy.” In the Bible, tov is mentioned almost 600 times, sometimes as a verb, at times as an adjective (masculine tov or feminine tovah) and at times as an adverb. We will return to the word tov in a separate discussion.

At this juncture I wish to discuss the uniqueness of the word tuv, for as we said, it best encapsulates the meaning of Thanksgiving.

The word tuv appears 32 times in the Bible to describe the plentiful blessings, the goodness and welfare bestowed upon a household, a country or a person. Most importantly, tuv Adonai, “the goodness of the Lord” as

mentioned by poets (Ps. 27:13; 145:7, et al), prophets (Jer 31:12; Hos. 3:5; Zech 9:12) and scribes (Ex 33:12; Neh. 9:25) alike, is the force behind all blessings. So, to describe prosperity at home we find the phrase batim me-leim kol tuv, literally “houses filled with all the goodness” (Dt. 6:11; Neh. 9:25).

To describe the best qualities of human beings, the expressions tuv ta-am, “best of taste” (Ps.119:68), and tuv lev, “gladness of heart” (Is. 65:14), were used. And, to describe “the bounty of the land of Israel,” tuv ha-aretz was the phrase of choice (Jer. 2:7; Isa. 1:19).

Interestingly, tuv ha-aretz was also used to describe the “fat of the land” of foreign lands, like Egypt (Gen. 45:18, 20) or Damascus (2Kgs. 8:9). Moreover, from a biblical perspective there was no city in the world compared to Ye-ru-sha-la-yim. Thus, the welfare of Ye-ru-sha-la-yim, tuv Ye-ru-sha-layim, was paramount in the eyes of the psalmist, and the temple in her midst was graced with tuv bai-te-kha, “the blessing of your house” (Ps. 128:5; 65:5).

It is not surprising that to this day, if we want to wish one “all the best,” we resort to the biblical expression of goodness and wellness where tuv is at the center. So, as we are about to celebrate Thanksgiving, I wish all our readers the blessing of kol tuv, that is to say, “the best of everything.”

Hag sa-me-ach. Happy holidays!

Dr. Rachel Zohar Dulin is a professor of biblical literature at Spertus College in Chicago, and an adjunct professor of Hebrew and Bible at New College in Sarasota.

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Oslo at 25: What might have been

By Mitchell Bard, September 5, 2018

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eptember 13 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Oslo agreement. Most commentators see it as something between a well-intentioned failure and a catastrophe that provoked more Palestinian terrorism, and gave the Palestinians roughly 40 percent of the West Bank and 80 percent of Gaza in exchange for nothing.

Though skeptics never believed in the Oslo process and now delight in saying, “I told you so,” the approach was based on a successful precedent that could, in theory, still work.

Those who were quick to criticize Oslo ignored the precedent of negotiations with Egypt. Like Oslo, those negotiations began with incremental territorial compromises after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Israel tested Anwar Sadat to see how he would behave after each withdrawal. When he kept the peace, Israel saw that it could afford to make additional compromises.

Sadat did not get all he wanted when he wanted it, but rather than return to war or terror, he continued to negotiate.

Had he responded differently, Israel would have gone no further.

It took 14 years before Egypt was completely satisfied (when Israel withdrew from Taba in 1988), but even before then, Sadat signed a peace

treaty. Israelis took a tremendous risk throughout the talks because they gave up tangible, valuable assets for little more than a verbal promise. They gambled that Sadat was a man of his word and would keep the peace without any guarantee that his successors would do the same. Sadat’s speech directly to the Israeli people at the Knesset, though a hardline one, broke a psychological barrier and persuaded the Israeli public that he was sincere. The land for peace formula, negotiated incrementally, ultimately succeeded.

Oslo failed because the Palestinians interpreted every Israeli concession as a sign of weakness, emboldening them to demand more. They were unwilling to negotiate over differences of opinion. When they did not get what they wanted, they resorted to terrorism – all of which strengthened the psychological barrier that Israelis felt against betting their future on the hope that the Palestinians would trade land for peace.

Oslo was premised on Yasser Arafat’s paper promises to recognize Israel, cease terrorism and negotiate over the two sides’ differences. Arafat was no Sadat. Though he was the dominant figure in Palestinian politics, he did not have the dictatorial powers of

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the Egyptian president. He could not or would not stop Palestinians who rejected the idea of co-existence, particularly those driven by Islamic fervor who became Hamas loyalists.

Yitzhak Rabin never trusted Arafat, but he still agreed to Oslo because he understood the demographic dilemma that Israel faced and had no interest in “Greater Israel.” He wanted out of the territories and was therefore willing to ignore Palestinian violations of the Declarations of Principles and sign the Oslo II agreement just weeks after two suicide bombings killed 10 Israelis.

Had Rabin lived and completed the withdrawal from all of Gaza and most of the West Bank, the Palestinians and their supporters could no longer claim to be under “occupation.” More important, Israel would no longer face the choice of democracy or remaining a Jewish state.

Rabin knew that the Palestinians would still demand full sovereignty, a capital in Jerusalem, and would dream of liberating the rest of “Palestine.”

Rabin was also aware of the danger of a Palestinian state, and never agreed to create one, but he was willing to give up sparsely populated territory of little or no significance to the Jews for the establishment of a Palestinian “entity.” Rabin knew that Israel was strong

enough to defend itself against any Palestinian threat. Meanwhile, he made no concessions on Jerusalem, never accepted Palestinian demands regarding refugees, and did not agree to stop building settlements.

Many people have forgotten the optimism of Oslo. I had Israeli friends talking about not having to send their young children to the army when they grew up. But the Palestinians literally blew up the peace process. Shimon Peres likely would have continued the unilateral withdrawal, but the terror attacks preceding the 1996 election led to the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu, who had no intention of pursuing the Rabin/Peres policy.

Nevertheless, the supposedly antipeace, right-wing fanatic did not abandon Oslo. Netanyahu met with Arafat, which he said he would never do, agreed to the redeployment of Israeli forces in Hebron, and was prepared to withdraw from an additional 13 percent of the West Bank, albeit under pressure from the Clinton administration.

Yet neither the compromises of Oslo nor the offers of statehood (and the evacuation of nearly the entire West Bank and all of Gaza) by Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert placated the Palestinians. Violence escalated after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. continued on next page

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Could a new Oslo approach change When Oslo was signed, approximately the dynamic?

130,000 Jews lived in the territories.

Not likely.

Had the Palestinians kept the peace The only chance would be if a Paland negotiated a final deal, that number estinian leader, with a clear mandate would have been frozen and ultimatefrom his people, traveled to Jerusalem ly reduced after Israel evacuated the and stood before the Knesset and said communities outside the large blocs. in Arabic that he recognizes Israel as Instead, thanks to Palestinian irredenthe Jewish state, is prepared to live tism, the Jewish population of the West in peace, and does not seek to divide Bank has increased in the last 25 years Israel’s capital or overrun the country by 300,000. with millions of refugees. Those words Despite this history, some people would have to be followed by action: ending all incitement in textbooks and are angry that Netanyahu is not begthe media, and dismantling all terror ging to talk to Mahmoud Abbas, and groups. That and a determination to does not extol the virtues of a twostate solution that the Palestinians have resolve all differences through negotiations is what it would take for the Oslo proven to have no interest in achieving. model to have any chance of revival or Hamas openly calls for Israel’s destrucsuccess. tion, while Abbas has refused to negoMitchell Bard, Executive Director of tiate for nearly a decade, giving up all AICE and Jewish Virtual Library, has pretense of a desire for peace. Abbas written 24 books, including The Arab has put his faith in the fantasy that the Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical international community will coerce Islam’s War Against the Jews and AfIsrael to capitulate to his demands. But ter Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine. that strategy has no more chance of success than the Palestinians’ previous

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BRIEFS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ADOPTS NEW DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM IN SCHOOLS

The U.S. Department of Education is changing how it investigates allegations of discrimination against Jewish students. Kenneth Marcus, who leads the department’s Office for Civil Rights, outlined the policy change in a letter last month in which he re-opened a 2011 investigation into Rutgers University in connection with alleged discrimination against Jewish students.

Marcus wrote that the Education Department would adopt the “working definition” of anti-Semitism that is “widely used by governmental agencies” including the State Department.

That definition includes examples in which demonizing or delegitimizing Israel, or holding it to a double standard not expected of other democratic nations, are deemed anti-Semitic.

In 2016, the Senate overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that would have forced the department to use the State Department definition in evaluating discrimination complaints.

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PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU AT UN: ISRAEL WILL DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST IRAN’S AGGRESSION

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday, September 27:  “Israel openly opposed the nuclear deal with Iran. We oppose it because it threatens our future, even our very survival. We oppose it because the deal paved Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal. And by lifting the sanctions, it’s fueled Iran’s

campaign of carnage and conquest throughout the Middle East.”  “Last February, Israel conducted a daring raid on Iran’s secret atomic archive. We obtained over 100,000 documents and videos that had been stashed in vaults in an innocent looking building in the heart of Tehran... Israel shared this information and even more damning evidence that we found with members of the P5+1, and with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Months have passed. The IAEA has still not taken any action... It has not demanded to inspect a single new site discovered in that secret archive.”  “Iran has another secret facility in Tehran – a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and materiel from Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program...in the Turquz-abad district of Tehran. Iranian officials...have been busy cleaning out the atomic warehouse. Just last month, they removed 15 kilograms of radioactive material...and they spread it around Tehran in an effort to hide the evidence....This site contains as much as 300 tons of nuclearrelated equipment and material.”  “Why did Iran keep a secret atomic archive and a secret atomic warehouse? Because, after all, when South Africa and Libya gave up their nuclear programs, the first thing they did was to destroy both the archives and the material and equipment... The reason Iran didn’t destroy its atomic archive and its atomic warehouse is because it hasn’t abandoned its goal to develop nuclear weapons.” continued on next page

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Go inspect this atomic warehouse, immediately, before the Iranians finish clearing it out. Do you remember when we were promised that inspections could take place anytime, anywhere?... Well, how about inspections right here, right now. And Mr. Amano, while you’re at it, inspect the other secret sites we told you about. Once and for all, tell the world the truth about Iran.”  “Israel will do whatever it must do to defend itself against Iran’s aggression. We will continue to act against you in Syria. We will act against you in Lebanon. We will act against you in Iraq. We will act against you whenever and wherever we must act to defend our state and defend our people.” (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

TEL AVIV WILL HOST THE 2019 EUROVISION

Several Israeli cities have actively been vying to host the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, a privilege the country won by virtue of Israeli singer Netta Barzilai’s first-place finish in the most recent contest last May, held in Portugal.

On September 13, it was announced that Tel Aviv-Yafo was chosen as the venue. It is the first time ever that Tel Aviv is hosting the show (now entering its 64th season), which most recently attracted 186 million viewers and around 20,000 tourists.

The European Broadcasting Union and the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) selected Tel Aviv because “it is Israel’s financial and cultural center, an international hub

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The three main events – two semifinals and the final live broadcast – will take place at the EXPO Tel Aviv International Convention Center.

The opening ceremony and red carpet event will take place at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the official Eurovision key handover ceremony and semifinal allocation draw will be held at historic Town Hall on Bialik Square; and the largest-ever Eurovision Village will be on display at the Tel Aviv boardwalk overlooking the Mediterranean.

“Dozens of events will take place throughout the city on top of the main events, turning the city into one big Eurovision celebration,” said Gidi Schmerling, project director of the 2019 Eurovision on behalf of the Tel AvivYafo municipality.

This will be the third time Israel will host Eurovision. The other two times – 1979 and 1999 – the event was held in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. (ISRAEL21c)

TEN-YEAR U.S.-ISRAEL SECURITY AGREEMENT BEGINS

On October 1, “the ten-year period of the $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the United States and Israel in 2016 began.

Under the terms of the MOU, the United States will set funding for Israel at levels of $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing and $500 million for cooperative programs for missile defense over each of the next ten years.”

“The MOU was negotiated under the previous Administration, reflecting the bi-partisan nature of this commitment. Israel is a valuable and capable

ally to the United States that today faces dangerously escalating regional threats, first and foremost from the Iranian regime’s sponsorship of terrorist groups seeking to attack not only Israel but also American interests.”

“The United States unconditionally affirms Israel’s right to self-defense, and this MOU is a concrete demonstration of our commitment to Israel’s capacity to defend itself with a qualitative military edge over all potential regional adversaries.” (Spokesperson Heather Nauert, State Department)

U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER BOLTON: “WE WILL NOT ALLOW THE ICC TO CONSTRAIN ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE”

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton told the Federalist Society in Washington on September 10, “I am here to make a major announcement on U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court, or ICC... In theory, the ICC holds perpetrators of the most egregious atrocities accountable for their crimes, provides justice to the victims, and deters future abuses. In practice, however, the court has been ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed, outright dangerous. Moreover, the largely unspoken, but always central, aim of its most vigorous supporters was to constrain the United States.”

“The International Criminal Court constituted an assault on the constitutional rights of the American people and the sovereignty of the United States... In November of 2017, the ICC

prosecutor requested authorization to investigate alleged war crimes committed by U.S. service members and intelligence professionals during the war in Afghanistan... Any day now, the ICC may announce the start of a formal investigation against these American patriots, who voluntarily went into harm’s way to protect our nation, our homes and our families in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.”

“The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court.

We will not cooperate with the ICC...

We will let the ICC die on its own.

After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us... The International Criminal Court’s authority has been sharply criticized and rejected by most of the world. Today, more than 70 nations, representing 2/3 of the world’s population, and over 70% of the world’s armed forces, are not members of the ICC.” “While the court welcomes the membership of the so-called ‘State of Palestine,’ it has threatened Israel – a liberal, democratic nation – with investigation into its actions to defend citizens from terrorist attacks in the West Bank and Gaza... The United States supports a direct and robust peace process, and we will not allow the ICC, or any other organization, to constrain Israel’s right to self-defense... If the court comes after us, Israel or other U.S. allies, we will not sit quietly.” (Lawfare Institute-Brookings)

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hed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager jailed for assaulting an Israeli soldier, says that she supports violence against Jews and seeks the destruction of Israel.

I believe her.

And I believe that groups such as J Street, which have defended Tamimi and claimed that she is non-violently resisting “the Israeli occupation of the West Bank,” owe the Jewish community an apology for refusing to believe her.

When Tamimi was arrested last December for assaulting an Israeli soldier, some on the Jewish left leaped to her defense. J Street president JeremyBen Ami wrote an op-ed arguing that Israel has been “illegally taking over” the land of her village, and that her assault of the Israeli soldier “results quite naturally … from the human impulse to resist injustice against one’s community and family.”

The J Street website posted an essay by a Washington, D.C., rabbi named Hannah Goldstein, declaring that that she could “understand why” Tamimi’s father sent her and her siblings to throw rocks at Jews since “under occupation, their opportunities are limited” and “putting children [or allowing them to put themselves] in harm’s way for the sake of greater change seems worth the risk.”

But as soon as Tamimi finished her jail sentence, she began issuing statements making it clear that for her, the issue is not the village’s land, but rather the very existence of Israel. And far from being some kind of Palestinian Gandhi, she supports terrorism and terrorists.

In an interview with a Lebanese television station on August 22, Tamimi praised Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah. That’s right, Hezbollah – bombers of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, murderers of hundreds of Americans, hijackers of TWA flight 847. That’s right, Nasral-

lah – the Holocaust-denier and virulent anti-Semite. Tamimi thanked Nasrallah profusely for boosting “not just my morale, but the morale of many people,” and wished him a happy holiday (Eid-al-Fitr).

In an interview with the French television station France24 on September 17, Tamimi was asked if she had any regrets about publicly praising Hezbollah. “No absolutely not,” she declared, pointing out that Nasrallah “stands against the United States and Israel, so I agree with him on this particular point.”

The France24 interview was revealing in other ways, too.

Look at this exchange: Interviewer: You are calling for a peaceful resistance.

Tamimi: I call for a people’s resistance, of any kind. To me, it’s important for the people to be able to choose how they would like to resist against this occupation. To me, there are different manners to fight this occupation.

To each his own. Some may choose poetry, others slapping a soldier, others might choose throwing stones or drawing. I respect every type of resistance.

She specifically refused to say that she supports “peaceful” actions. And she specifically said that she supports assaulting Israeli soldiers and “throwing stones” – meaning, trying to stone Jews to death. She also specifically said that she “respects every type of resistance” – obviously including the other kinds of “resistance” in which Palestinians engage: knives, guns and bombs.

Tamimi has never explicitly condemned stabbing, shooting or bombing Jews. And she never will. Because she believes in stabbing, shooting and bombing Jews. Her words are clear: “Every type of resistance.” I believe she means it.

And what is “this occupation” to which Tamimi refers? Again, she made it very clear to the France24 in-

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terviewer. He asked her how she can justify slapping an Israeli soldier. She replied: “These soldiers are occupying my country – Jaffa, Haifa, Akko.”

Those parts of “occupied Palestine” are not in the “West Bank.” They are nowhere near her village of Nabi Saleh. They are within pre-1967 Israel.

Tamimi could not have been clearer.

She was saying that she considers all of Israel “occupied territory.”

It takes a certain kind of hubris (some would call it racism and sexism) to say that Palestinian girls should not be believed – to pretend that they don’t mean what they say when they support violence against Jews and the destruction of Israel.

I call on Ahed Tamimi’s Jewish defenders to believe her words and apologize to the Jewish community for trying to deceive us about her beliefs and intentions.

Stephen M. Flatow is an attorney in New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iraniansponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. His book A Father’s Story – My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror will be published this month.

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COMMENTARY BRIEFS WILL PALESTINIANS FINALLY SIT AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE WITH ISRAEL?

Long-term indulgence of the PLO’s recalcitrance has allowed a toxic and reflexive anti-Israel sentiment to build in international institutions and on U.S. campuses.

The U.S. Congress said in 2015 – before Donald Trump became President – that the Secretary of State was required to certify that the PLO wasn’t trying to use the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel. Last November, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the UN, called for the investigation and prosecution of Israeli officials by the ICC. The point of recent U.S. moves and funding cuts isn’t to be vindictive but to show Abbas and the PLO that they can’t continue to underwrite anti-Semitic textbooks and anti-Israel terrorism without consequences. If the Palestinians want to be treated with the respect of a peace partner, they have to first show a desire for peace. (Editorial, Wall Street Journal)

Ever since 2008, Palestinians have refused to negotiate with Israel. Palestinian leaders repeatedly have shown that they will not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Every time they negotiated with Israel and the process was nearing a tangible chance for peace, they aborted negotiations to abort the peace process, and instead reverted to violence and terror. Every time Israel made concessions, the Palestinian leadership found a new excuse to avoid talks.

Israel remains committed and willing to engage in meaningful negotiations without any preconditions in order to reach a stable and long-lasting peace. (Lior Haiat, consul general of Israel in Miami, Miami Herald)

SHUTTING DOWN THE PLO

The Palestine Liberation Organization was allowed to open an office in Washington, D.C., in 1994 after the Oslo accords produced hope for a new era of reconciliation between the PLO and Israel. That hope has never been fulfilled, notably since Yasser Arafat began the second intifada after walking away from the generous Israeli peace offer brokered by Bill Clinton in 2000.

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NETANYAHU DESCRIBES ISRAEL’S REALITY

In his speech at the UN, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out in excruciating detail the growing security threats against the Jewish state, his supporters didn’t see fearmongering, they saw reality. Even Haaretz continued on next page

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It’s difficult for Americans to fully comprehend the transcendent importance Israelis place on their security.

From a safe distance, while we may see conflicts to resolve, Israelis see enemies at their doorstep sworn to their destruction. They see their democracy in a continuous state of war.

The real miracle of Israel is precisely that it has managed to create a thriving and open civil society despite being under siege from genocidal enemies. This is a resilient society whose

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COMMENTARY

“Fire on the bimah” From the Bimah Rabbi Michael Shefrin Associate Rabbi, Temple Emanu-El

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ot long ago, I was reminded of an important lesson by some great sages – a group of fouryear-olds from our preschool. I was leading them on a “field trip” from the school building to the Temple EmanuEl sanctuary.

“Oh, look a piano!” one child adorably exclaimed as we entered the sacred space. Another said, with bigeyed wonder, “Rabbi Michael, is this your house?” Such insight to realize that we had entered a house; a house of prayer, a house of learning, a house of God. Together, we ascended the bimah and I spoke to them about being respectful and not jumping off. The young children were very attentive and interested.

We stood in front of the beautiful dark wood of the ark. The doors are adorned with brass and illuminated flames. I was ready to teach them about standing when the ark doors are opened, when suddenly, a heavenly voice called out from one of the young people: “What is behind those doors with the fire? I don’t want to open them. It’s scary!”

I tried to reassure them the ark was not something to fear. I even showed

them that the fire on the doors wasn’t real by causing the lights of the flames to go off and on. I told them it was safe, and that behind the doors was a special treasure. They came close. I slowly and dramatically opened the doors.

That same fearful child saw what was behind the doors and immediately had a changed tone in his voice. Now, unafraid, this beautiful little soul confidently exhaled with relief and cheered, “It’s Torah,” The children were mesmerized by the Torahs and their silver adornments.

Instinctively, one of them reached out her hand and kissed the Torah. One by one, each child gave the Torah a sweet kiss. I stood there, with tears of joy in my eyes, and quietly smiled.

These sweet young souls showed a willingness to look deep into the unknown and lovingly embrace Jewish tradition. They showed how chinuch, Jewish learning and exploration, helped change fear into open-heartedness and appreciation. They asked important questions and shared their own insights.

All this was surrounding our Torah.

On that day, the children of our preschool were my teachers. They were my rabbis.

They reminded me that no matter our age, no matter how much we know, no matter our skill level or experience, each of us has something to learn and something to teach. Each of us can grow and develop our intellect and compassion when we are willing to ask respectful questions, share our truths, and come close to Torah.

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Was Nietzsche right?

By Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz, Community Chaplain

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rabbinical school class discussion more than 30 years ago centered on how the biblical Joseph, having barely avoided being slain by his jealous brothers and then sold into slavery by them, subsequently rose to become Egypt’s second most powerful leader. To, perhaps, explain his remarkable ascension, I referenced Nietzsche: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

The comment prompted our august and also, at times, intimidating professor, Dr. Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz Eugene Borowitz z”l, one of Judaism’s foremost modern thinkers, to disdainfully reply, “Jonathan, try telling that to a quadriplegic.”

“Whoa,” I recall thinking. Maybe Dr. Borowitz got up on the wrong side of the bed that morning or had a bad train ride in from Long Island. At least, I knew I’d captured his attention.

This scorning didn’t crush me. The thought of trying to crawl under the table never entered my mind because I was just trying to generate debate about qualities that made Joseph so resilient, something I continue to reflect on to this day.

Since that interaction, Nietzsche’s view has become quite popular, often mentioned in movies, plays and even rap music. But does it actually hold up?

In 2011, when author Christopher Hitchens struggled with the esophageal cancer that would take his life, he wondered why he’d ever been enamored of Nietzsche’s perspective since the disease made him weaker, not stronger. “I can remember thinking of testing moments involving love and hate, that I had, so to speak, come out of them ahead, with some strength accrued from the experience that I couldn’t have acquired any other way,” he shared. “And then once or twice, walking away from a car wreck or a close encounter with mayhem while doing foreign reporting, I experienced a rather fatuous feeling of having been toughened by the encounter. But really, that’s to say no more than ‘There but for the grace of God go I,’ which in turn is to say no more than ‘The grace of God has happily embraced me and skipped that unfortunate other man’… one can dispense with facile maxims that don’t live up to their apparent billing.”

Hitchens noted others who’d only become more debilitated by illness, including Nietzsche himself, who went crazy from syphilis and died in agony.

Echoing Hitchens, journalist Michael Sigman claims Nietzsche’s sentiment isn’t just foolish, “but can also do damage to those who believe it and yet find themselves failing to be strong,” which leads “to another dumb idea: that we must fail – and fail big – to succeed.”

To assuage suffering we may seek to endow it with transformative power.

However, according to clinical psychologist Dr. Noam Shpancer, “The bulk of psychological research on the topic shows that, as a rule, if you are stronger after hardship, it is probably despite, not because of the hardship…

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notwithstanding, we are not stronger in the broken places… Research has shown convincingly that traumatized children are more, not less, likely to be traumatized again. Kids who grow up in a tough neighborhood become weaker, not stronger. They are more, not less likely to struggle in the world.”

Shpancer maintains that “another reason we think trauma may be transformative is that we see variants of this process around us.” For example, bacteria not killed entirely by an antibiotic will mutate and become resistant to it. Yet, he emphasizes, human beings aren’t bacteria; the notion of survival of the fittest often depends on myriad factors such as place, timing and circumstance that have little do with superior fitness. Can we really say that those who survived the Holocaust were simply more fit than those who didn’t?

There were many factors at play.

While the school of hard knocks appears to spur the resourcefulness required to overcome adversity, there are many, for reasons having nothing to do with their character or determination, who don’t successfully graduate. We tend to hear only about the heralded stories of those who cheated death, conquered abject poverty or prevailed over disability than the legions who couldn’t.

Rabbinic Judaism offered various responses to account for seemingly unmerited suffering. For example, it may result from sin. Not necessarily that of the affected person but transgressions committed by a deceased relative which had gone unpunished. Another explanation is that suffering is a yissurin shel ahavah, a chastisement of love that God initiates to identify and test the righteous. So too, it was suggested, unjustified suffering indicates an individual will merit the World to Come.

Like all of us, I have endured suffering in life, from the suicide of a sibling, the random murder of a dear family friend, a car accident that took the life of a close neighbor, and the shocking, dread-evoking diagnosis of a golf ball-sized tumor in my left kidney.

I never rationalized these events were somehow meant to be part of a Divine plan that carried purpose beyond my comprehension. No, I simply endured them as best I could.

More than acquiring surpassing meaning as a consequence of these predicaments, I came away with a deeper acknowledgement of hard truths: there are no guarantees, we cannot predict the future, existence is fragile, bad things can happen to us. However, I also more fully recognized how the loving support of family and friends, health insurance and expert medical treatment can make such a consequential difference. Additionally, I valued even more the utter beauty of life and the need to embrace it as profoundly as possible in the time granted to us. What hasn’t killed hasn’t made me stronger as much as it has, I’d like to think, made me more empathic and human.

Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz serves as a Community Chaplain and Director of JFCS’s Jewish Healing Program, a partnership between The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and JFCS of the Suncoast.

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Saving the transatlantic partnership

By David Harris, CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), September 24, 2018

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hese days, I consider myself an endangered species. I am a committed transatlanticist. Until just a few years back, that was rather unexceptional. No longer.

The gap is widening, mutual suspicion is growing, accusations are being leveled, and calls for unilateralism are being heard, especially coming from Washington.

Call me hopelessly, irredeemably naïve, but, as a son of America and grandson of Europe, I remain convinced that Americans and Europeans are joined at the hip by common foundational values and common existential threats, and thus by a common agenda.

Our shared values emanate from the building blocks of our respective societies: democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human dignity.

The ties that link this precious, ever-so-fragile community of freedomloving nations must never be permitted to fray; they represent the best hope for the ultimate realization of a genuinely peaceful and prosperous world.

After all, these countries have renounced war as an instrument of resolving disputes among themselves.

The weapons of choice when disagreements arise are diplomats and lawyers, not armies and suicide bombers.

Take Europe, historically, perhaps, the most blood-soaked continent on the planet. Since the inventive genius of France’s Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet in the postwar years to conceptualize a structure that would prevent future wars with Germany – namely, the process that led to today’s European Union – war has become unthinkable among member states. Indeed, the EU is the most ambitious and successful peace project in modern history, and, at its core, is not about the standardiza-

tion of light bulbs but the protection of democratic values and mutual dependence.

In the same spirit, NATO has been the most effective collective defense pact in history. Given the charges leveled against it in Washington, it is important to remember that the only time Article V was invoked to support a member state under attack was immediately following 9/11. That member state was the United States.

The challenges facing us are, to an ever-increasing degree, transnational in nature – from terrorism to proliferation, from failing states to fanaticism in the name of faith, from climate change to mass migration, from pandemics to cyberattacks.

None of these challenges is unique to any one nation. Rather, they are as often as not overarching, requiring maximum intelligence-sharing, coordination and cooperation.

And none of these challenges is likely to be solved by any one nation or bloc going it alone, no matter how large or powerful. It may have become a cliché to speak of an interconnected world, but that’s our present – and foreseeable – condition.

An economic crisis in Greece reverberates in the United States. The 9/11 jihadists wreaked havoc in America, but some of them spent a lot of time moving around Europe beforehand and a number of the victims on that fateful day were European (and other foreign) nationals. Russia interferes with elections here, while also casting a long shadow on elections in European states.

Foreign fighters flock to Syria and Iraq from both sides of the Atlantic.

To be sure, there are, and always will be, differences between Europe and the United States rooted in politi-

cal rivalry, economic competition and divergent assessments, including today regarding Iran, Israeli-Palestinian issues and NATO. In the larger scheme of things, however, and with a measure of goodwill rather than rancor and recrimination, these differences ought to be quite manageable. They certainly should not be permitted to overshadow our commonalities.

That’s why the American Jewish Committee launched a new transatlantic initiative – a pledge of unity and resolve – that notable European and American leaders have endorsed.

To quote from the text: “We rise in defense of the precious alliance of democracies – and its treaties, institutions and norms – that has sustained peace and generated prosperity from the Cold War to the present day. As students of history, we know all too well the terrible price that has been paid when these principles were not respected and protected. ... We are united in reaffirming our commitment to the rules-based international order ... our confidence in NATO ... our respect for the European

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Some would argue that the transatlantic partnership served another era and should be seen as a time-specific alliance that largely has outlived its usefulness. I beg to differ. The partnership’s future is not behind us. It needs to be very much in front of us.

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COMMENTARY

Anti-Semitism and Britain’s Labour Party

By Rabbi Howard A. Simon

Mr. Corbyn call Hamas terrorists, “brothers,” and link Jews and Israel together as part of racist thinking, one wonders what will come next. How will our children be treated? Where will it all end?

Such beliefs and expressions of hate should cause Jews around the world to speak out in support of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

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Jews living in the United KingAddressing the concerns within the dom, representing 0.5% of the Jewish community, Rabbi Lord Jonatotal population. Many of these people than Sacks, the former chief rabbi of have become decidedly worried about the commonwealth, recently described the rise of anti-Semitic beCorbyn as “an anti-Semliefs emanating from Jerite who has given support emy Corbyn, the leader of to racists, terrorists and the Labour Party. dealers of hate.” Sacks Things became so sethen went on the BBC rious that, several months stating that “the prospect ago, Britain’s three main of Mr. Corbyn as prime Jewish newspapers jointly minister is a danger to published the same editorial British Jewry.” addressing this worrisome What is taking place concern. The editorial obin Great Britain regardRabbi Howard A. Simon serves Mr. Corbyn’s antiing anti-Israel sentiment is also spreading throughout the maSemitic beliefs as “an existential threat to Jewish life in the country.” Then, to jor capitals of Europe. It has led to make their position even clearer, the the migration of thousands of Jews editorial stated, “With the government from France to Israel, where they feel in Brexit disarray, there is a clear and safe and more secure. The same phenomenon could take place in other present danger that a man with a default blindness to the Jewish commuEuropean cities because the reality of nity’s fears, a man who has a problem anti-Semitism is growing, and the fears of Jews become more real with the passeeing that hateful rhetoric aimed at Issage of each day. When leaders such as rael can easily step into anti-Semitism,

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Such political strategizing must not become the norm for any country in the world.

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By Chanie Bukiet

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n the next few weeks, the Torah portions that are read, narrate stories of the birth of our Jewish nation. From Isaac marrying Rebecca, to the birth of Jacob and Esau, from Jacob’s marriages, to the birth of the tribes of Israel to Rachel’s death, this month is replete with stories.

We are told that the word “Torah” stems from the word Hora’ah, which means lesson. The stories of the Torah are meant as more than mere historical anecdotes. They impart us with valuable lessons for our day-to-day life.

There is a lesson to be taken just from that. The power of a story to impart lessons is invaluable.

Recently at our Shabbat meal, our boys were asking my husband and me to tell them stories of their grandparents. We told them about my paternal grandfather’s refusal to pronounce Gd’s full name to the Nazis on the way to Dachau under the penalty of death and his miraculous rescue. We told them about my husband’s grandfather’s escape from Europe during the Holocaust via Shanghai. We told them about my maternal grandfather’s studies in an underground cheder (Jewish school) at the age of five in Communist Russia.

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It was so incredible to watch our children absorb these stories. It was like seeing the events unfold through their eyes and hearing them for the first time myself. As they went sleepily off to bed, I know that their young, impressionable minds were absorbing and internalizing the lessons from the well-lived lives of their grandparents.

Storytelling is imbued in Judaism.

A good Jewish story or parable always ends with a takeaway, a lesson. We don’t need to go too far back to ancient times to tell stories. We all have stories about our parents and grandparents.

They don’t need to be major heroic moments. Telling children stories of our parents and grandparents, of times

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in their lives where they struggled, persevered, acted courageously, and of times they modeled good values, connects our children to a rich past. It grounds them in something bigger then themselves and gives them something to aspire to.

I remember growing up how my mother used to tell us stories of our childhood antics. We would feel so loved as she affectionately remembered our childhood and baby years.

I don’t think she recalled the aggravation our mischief caused!

Stories can transmit love, values and so much more. So next time you have a family dinner, tell your children a story and see their eyes light up in the knowledge that they are loved and their hearts touched with cherished teachings.

Chanie Bukiet is the program director at Chabad of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch.

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This month weinvite you to BBYO’s Fire & Ice event on Saturday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Chloe Colburn’s house, 7307 Captain Jessica Zimmerman Kidd Cir., Sarasota.

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ho doesn’t love a day at the There was also a giant memory board beach? We miss going to the for the children to play a match game. beach so the children at the As with all Gan functions, the children Gan at Temple Sinai planned a beachwere learning while they were having themed family fun day called We’ve so much fun.

“Gan” to the Beach. On September 29 Laura Freedman, Director of Early at Temple Sinai, in a clean, safe enviChildhood Education, exclaimed, “It ronment, children and their families wouldn’t be a Sarasota beach event created crafts, played games, listened without a drum circle.” Just like at to stories and so much more.

Siesta Beach, the Gan children particThe children’s eyes lit up as they ipated in a rhythmic drum circle mimentered Temple Sinai’s transformed icking musical patterns with maracas, ballroom, the perfect beach setting with bells and drums. palm trees, umbrellas, waves, sharks, Everyone “shore” had an amazing dolphins, turtles, crabs and all-things time! beach. As the children slid down the jumbo slide and jumped in the bounce house, you could hear their giggles and exclamations of joy.

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here wasn’t an empty chair as the Hershorin Schiff Community Day School hosted its inaugural Interfaith Family Shabbat Dinner, attended by more than 200. Long tables lined the hallways in all directions as school administrators, faculty and families of all religious backgrounds with children of all ages socialized and enjoyed a communal meal together early in the 2018-2019 school year.

Many children swarmed the playground and others watched a movie in the Panther Den while adults mingled.

All enjoyed potluck food, including homemade gazpacho prepared and served by lifetime board member Richard Hershorin. Traditional Shabbat blessings were offered by Rabbi Michael Werbow followed by the “Superman Prayer” led by new Community Day board member Pastor Kelly Fitzgerald.

“Even as we reach record levels of enrollment, we never want to lose that

‘small school’ feeling. Events like this help to keep families connected with the staff and each other,” said head of school Dan Ceaser. “We are grateful to our co-chairs, Brenna Wilhm and Lindsay Sweeting, for coordinating this event, as well as everyone who contributed food and time to ensure this evening was a success.”

The mission of Community Day School, which serves students in preschool through eighth grade, is to impact the world by creating a community where children of all faiths demonstrate integrity, academic excellence and a desire to improve the world. Community Day offers a rigorous, project-based academic program in a diverse and vibrant learning environment rooted in the Jewish values of honesty, integrity, mutual trust and respect.

For more information, please call 941.552.2770 or visit www.community day.org.

Event co-chairs Lindsay Sweeting and Brenna Wilhm with head of school Dan Ceaser

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Temple Emanu-El Religious School launches another school year with exciting program

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he first day at Temple EmanuEl Religious School (TEERS) is always exciting, and this year was no exception. Nearly 200 students, parents and family members congregated on September 16 to launch a year of meaningful Jewish learning, friend-

ship and joy.

The program commenced in the sanctuary with a welcome and a blessing from Senior Rabbi Brenner Glickman. Director of Education Sabrina Silverberg shared words of welcome with TEERS students and encouraged

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PJ Library helps families on their Jewish journey by sending Jewishcontent books and music on a monthly basis to children from age six-months to eight-years. This program is completely free for families, thanks to the generosity of The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and our incredible donors.

please contact Sabrina Silverberg at them to be mensches (good people) 941.378.5567 or teers@sarsotatemple. in 5779, a year themed as the Year org. of Hachnasat Orchim (Hospitality) at Temple Emanu-El. Children then joined their teachers for a get-to-knowyou activity in the school building while parents remained for an address

by Temple President Ken Marsh, Associate Rabbi Michael Shefrin and STEEMY (youth group) President Tayla Rosenthal. All expressed the temple’s commitment to Jewish education, community building and tikkun olam. The program concluded with a social hour in the school building that Students Zachary Heller and Leo Schwimmer included a bagel breakfast, a Yom Kippur activity and a special dessert surprise – a visit from a Kona Ice truck!

Parents and students enjoyed reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. As seventh-grade mom Lauren Hofing expressed, “We’ve only been here for a year, but when we walk in the building to a room full of people, we may not know everyone but we feel comfortable. We feel that in the room, some people will become like family in the years to come, and that is what it’s all about.”

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Annual Membership Meeting 3:30 – 4:00PM Federation Celebration 4:00 – 6:00PM

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Hatikva (Hope) Award Larry Greenspon & Mary Gratehouse Halutzim (Pioneer) Award Esther & Robert Heller The Betty Schoenbaum - Give While You Live Award Nelle Miller Acharai (Follow Me) Award Julie Green Ahava (Love) Award Gerri Aaron Atid (Futures) Award Paulette Samowitz

Avodah (Service) Award Millie Cole & Jacki Levin Ayshet Chayil (Woman of Valor) Award Debbie Haspel Chinuch (Education) Award Geri & Ron Yonover Doris Loevner Memorial Young Leadership Award Camryn Cohen Ish Chayil (Man of Valor) Award Bruce Udell

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Jewish Happenings THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3

“A History of Klezmer Music to Modern Jazz”

“25 Years at the St. Petersburg Holocaust Museum”

Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

The Congregation for Humanistic Judaism (CHJ) which meets at Unity Church (3023 Proctor Road, Sarasota), will introduce Sandy Mermelstein at 11:00 a.m., following its 10:30 a.m. service. Sandy has been part of the museum since its inception in 1992. She is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and speaks regularly to both adults and children about her parents and other survivors’ experiences. An Oneg will follow. This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please call the CHJ office at 941.929.7771 or email www.annpolo66@gmail.com.

Join us from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. for a lecture by Baila Miller in the Zell Room on The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. The event is presented by The Perlman Music Program Suncoast and sponsored by The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. Tickets are available online at PMPSuncoast.org.

Women of Sinai Fashion Show and Lunch Temple Sinai’s Women of Sinai presents Designs by Soft Surroundings, My Time, My Place, My Self featuring the “Temple Sinai Fashionistas” displaying clothes, jewelry, accessories and skin care. Come to this annual special event and enjoy the delicious catered luncheon. The event begins at noon at Temple Sinai, 4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota (enter off of Proctor Road only, between Beneva and Swift). For reservations, call Karen Worobow at 941.755.9306.

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Rhythm and Jews Erev Shabbat Service Join Rabbi Geoff Huntting at 6:00 p.m. for the Rhythm and Jews Erev Shabbat Service and hear the Bruno Family Musicians as they join the rabbi and chazzan for an uplifting service with a variety of traditional, Israeli, Sephardic and Chassidic melodies. A welcome reception begins at 5:15 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota (enter off of Proctor Road only, between Beneva and Swift). For more information, contact the temple office at 941.924.1802 or office@sinaisrq.org.

Temple Sinai Educator-in-Residence Weekend Educator-in-Residence Nancy Bossov will facilitate the weekend Kehillah Kedoshah: Strengthening Holy Community. Educator, innovator, advocate, pioneer and nationally recognized for her advocacy and consulting work, Bossov was instrumental in establishing the Union for Reform Judaism’s infrastructure for Jewish early childhood education. The weekend kicks off at 6:00 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota (enter off of Proctor Road only, between Beneva and Swift). For more information, contact Steve Weintraub at 941.922.0322 or sweintraub@ SinaiSRQ.org.

Temple Emanu-El Family Shabbat Service Come to Temple Emanu-El (151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota) at 7:15 p.m. for a happy, special way to spend Shabbat with your family. All ages are invited to celebrate with this joyful, warm, meaningful, welcoming service featuring a family atmosphere, familiar prayers, a story told by Rabbi Glickman and Rabbi Shefrin, and lively music with the Family Shabbat Band. Children are invited on the bimah for the Torah service and to parade with the holy scrolls through the congregation, and to participate in special crafts and activities. For more information, call the temple office at 941.371.2788.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

The Federation’s Annual Membership Meeting

The Tefillin Club

Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Get your week off to a great start at 8:00 a.m. with the Monday morning Tefillin Club! Shacharit will be followed by a coffee and bagels, and a 15-minute “Living Torah” film. Each week, Rabbi Sholom Schmerling will expound on a different prayer, thus enabling each participant to really learn how to pray. No prior experience necessary. (If you don’t have a pair of tefillin, we have one for you!) The club meets at Chabad Education Center, 21560 Angela Lane, Venice. For more information, contact Rabbi Sholom Schmerling at 941.493.2770 or info@chabadofvenice.com.

Join us from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. in the Beatrice Friedman Theatre on The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, 582 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. RSVP online at jfedsrq.org/events.

Federation Celebration Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Following the Federation’s Annual Membership Meeting, celebrate with us from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Beatrice Friedman Theatre on The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, 582 McIntosh Road, Sarasota.

RSVP online at jfedsrq.org/events.

A Sephardic Evening with Sabrina Silverberg Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Join us for an incredible evening as we explore the exotic sounds, tastes and sights of Sephardic and Levantine Jewry. We will learn about the Jews of Spain and the Middle East, enjoy baked goods from a Sephardic bakery, and Turkish coffee. The multi-media presentation will include some of the more obscure topics such as mysticism, taboos and superstitions. The event takes place from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, MultiPurpose Room, 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota. Cost: $12.50 for advance reservations (through Thursday, November 1); $15 at the door. For more information, please contact the temple office at 941.955.8121 or info@ templebethsholomfl.org.

Sports Night at Temple Emanu-El The Brotherhood of Temple Emanu-El will present its second edition of Sports Night featuring the awesome Doug Fernandes, senior sports columnist and reporter for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. With wit and insight, Doug will reflect on the 2018 World Series and an array of other sports happenings and opinions. A silent auction of sports memorabilia, a delicious sports-themed supper, and friendly mingling and conversation will make this a terrific sports dining experience for everyone! Join us at 5:30 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. The cost to attend is $20 for adults and $10 for kids under 13. For more information, call the temple office at 941.371.2788.

I B L ERAL YESHIVA a t o s a r a s PRESENTS DECEMBER – JANUARY COURSES

HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA FRIDAYS 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Starting December 7 (Eight weeks) If your parents or grandparents came from Russia or the Pale of Settlement, you might be interested in tracing your roots or participating in a journey through time. Russian Jewish presence goes back over two millenia. Since the Middle Ages, the rapid and expansive growth of Eastern European Jewry established the Ashkenazi experience familiar to us: a rich literary and Yiddish cultural tradition, Talmudic erudition, the enlightenment, Zionism and other social movements. With so many paths leading back to Russia, join our entourage as we explore this vast history. Instructor: Marden Paru; fee $60.

OUR JEWISH YEAR (This course is based on the popular new book by Abigail Pogrebin “My Jewish Year”)

MONDAYS 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM Starting December 10 (Eight Weeks) Take a tour with us through the entire Jewish calendar year as the noted author and columnist, Abigail Pogrebin did in her new book. My Jewish Year will be used as our text and guide with many ancillary embellishments. The goal is to explore the rhythm and purposes of every holiday including festivals, high holidays, fasts and contemporary commemorations. We will study the history and backgound of the full calendar. Holiday recipes are included.

Instructor: Marden Paru; $60.

MAIMONIDES FOR THE AGES TUESDAYS 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Starting December 11 (Eight Weeks) The name Maimonides strikes a responsive chord for his many contributions to Judaism a millennium ago but very much alive today. First and foremost, Maimonides was a scholar and a rationalist. He served as the court physician to the Caliph of Egypt. His medical and science background influenced his Jewish philosophy and outlook on Judaic practice, changing long-standing views on the coming of the Messiah. He negated popularly-held superstitions about sorcery and dybbuks in favor of rational thought. His most complicated work is the Moreh Nevukhim – The Guide for the Perplexed. Better known for his codes and liturgical contributions, the RAMBAM was truly the “renaissance man” of his generation a millennium ago. Instructor: Marden Paru; fee $60.

Inquire about multi-course discounts. Scholarships are also available.

Classes are held at The Jewish Federation on The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. To register or seek more information, please contact Marden Paru, Dean and Rosh Yeshiva at 941.379.5655 or marden.paru@gmail.com. Please make checks payable to the Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva and mail to Marden Paru, 5445 Pamela Wood Way #160, Sarasota, FL 34233.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS: The Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.

The Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva is a 501(c)3 non-profit agency. It is funded, in part, by a grant from The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.

Zionist Breakfast Club What could be more enjoyable than spending the morning meal with fellow Zionists? This is a rhetorical question, of course, and it reminds the Jews of Sarasota-Manatee that the State of Israel is always on our minds and in our hearts. At breakfast, discuss Israeli current events and urgent issues, since Israel always has an overabundance of pressing matters to resolve. Thousands of miles away, there is much everyone can do to benefit the Jewish homeland. Join us at 9:00 a.m. on Mondays, November 5 and 19 at the Al Katz Center, 5710 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $10 per adult; $5 per student; breakfast included. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

Kabbalah & Coffee Start your week with a spiritual boost! Discuss, explore and journey through the world of mystical teaching and learn how to apply these profound teachings to your daily life. This ongoing Tanya class will probe the esoteric through a unique program of English text-based study. No prior Kabbalistic experience required. This event is free and walk-ins are welcome. Join us at 9:30 a.m. at Chabad Education Center, 21560 Angela Lane, Venice. For more information, contact Rabbi Sholom Schmerling at 941.493.2770 or info@chabadofvenice.com.

NCJW’s “The Blankee Bee” The National Council of Jewish Women has an ongoing project called “The Blankee Bee.” The project has involved its members in making nosew fleece blankets which have been distributed to various agencies, such as Manatee Community Action Agency, HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters), residents of Anchin Pavilion, patients at the Florida Cancer Center, and children at Camp Mariposa as a joint venture with JFCS. Join us from 10:00 a.m. to noon on The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life (580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota) to make these blankets. For more information, contact Joan Bour at 941.281.2133 or joanbour5@yahoo.com.

NCJW Book Club The National Council of Jewish Women Book Club will discuss The Bridal Chair by Gloria Goldreich at the Gulf Gate Public Library (7112 Curtiss Ave., Sarasota) from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. The NCJW Sarasota-Manatee section website (http://ncjwsarasota-manatee.org/what-we-do/ncjw-bookclub/) has information about the Book Club, the title selections and dates for the current season. You will also find Goodreads reviews of the books.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Caffeine for the Soul

BOWLS OF HOPE

Join the most popular Jewish Women’s book club in town, Caffeine for the Soul, at 10:00 a.m. at Chabad Education Center, 21560 Angela Lane, Venice. Get your weekly social and spiritual boost over a roundtable discussion led by Chaya Rivka Schmerling. Delve into the book for this year, Simple Words by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (hailed by Time magazine as a “once-ina-millennium scholar”). Enjoy coffee and homemade pastries. This event is free and walk-ins are welcome. For more information, contact Chaya Rivka Schmerling at 941.493.2770 or rivka@chabadofvenice.com.

Mah Jongg at Temple Beth Israel Join us on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. for mah jongg games for beginners who want to improve their game and ask questions in a casual environment. Temple Beth Israel is located at 567 Bay Isles Rd., Longboat Key. The cost is $10 per class; free for TBI members. For more information, call the temple office at 941.383.3428.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Temple Emanu-El “Lunch with the Rabbis” Are you looking for a great lunch date? Join Rabbi Brenner Glickman, Rabbi Michael Shefrin and friendly, interesting companions for lunch, socializing and a discussion of current events and subjects of Jewish interest.

All are invited to this popular, stimulating and enjoyable program at noon at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. Attendees are asked to bring a brown-bag lunch and are also welcome to bring a newspaper article for discussion. Homemade dessert and terrific company are provided! For more information, call the temple office at 941.371.2788.

The Original Brown Bag with Rabbi Geoff Huntting Temple Sinai has a longstanding tradition of Rabbi Geoff Huntting hosting a brown bag lunch and discussion of timely topics. Join with congregants, friends and neighbors in spirited conversations surrounding worldly events. Bring a bag lunch and an open mind to discuss important issues.

This free workshop is open to the community. Participants are encouraged to introduce ideas for discussion, analysis and/or debate. Meet at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesdays, November 7, 14 and 28 at Temple Sinai, 4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota (enter off of Proctor Road only, between Beneva and Swift). For more information, contact the temple office at 941.924.1802 or office@sinaisrq.org.

JFCS Bereavement Support Group Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

JFCS of the Suncoast’s Bereavement Support Group will meet for six Wednesday sessions at its 2688 Fruitville Road, Sarasota location from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. from November 7 to December 12. The impact of loss, sharing coping skills and cultivating resilience are major areas of focus.

Other topics, depending on the interests of group members, will also be addressed. The cost is $36 and pre-registration is required. For more information and to register, please contact the Jewish Healing Program at JFCS at 941.366.2224 x166. The Bereavement Support Group is sponsored, in part, by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.

Dec 2, 2018

Join All Faiths Food Bank and Event Chair Susan Malloy Jones for Bowls of Hope, 2018 Sunday, Dec 2, 2018, 11am-2pm Ed Smith Stadium, Sarasota • handcrafted bowls made by local artists • delicious soups, breads, desserts, and more

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Book Review at Temple Beth Sholom Please join us as Benita Stambler reviews My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq. In this book, journalist Ariel Sabar has crafted a fascinating and moving account of both Aramaicspeaking Jews of Kurdish Iraq and of his relationship with his father.

Light refreshments will be served. This free event is open to the public and begins at 1:15 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, Chapel, 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota. For more information, please contact the temple office at 941.955.8121 or info@templebethsholomfl.org.

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This course acknowledges the often unspoken doubts and fears that all people share, and seizes their invitation for us to dig deeper for the answers. Join us at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, November 7, 14, and 21 at The Chabad House (5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton) to tackle the “big issues” that keep people from an intimate relationship with G-d. A special thank you to The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee for sponsoring all JLI 5779 courses. The course fee of $75 includes textbooks.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Kristallnacht Commemoration Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Please join us to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and honor Holocaust survivors living in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Speaker and Federation Board member Simone Knego will tell a beautiful story about her father’s life as a German/Israeli along with her own experiences traveling to Germany in recent years. Music will follow with the Sarasota Jewish Chorale. This free event begins at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, 1050 S. Tuttle Ave, Sarasota. For more information, please contact Jessi Sheslow 941.343.2109 or jsheslow@jfedsrq.org.

Fluid Dance at Temple Emanu-El Fluid Dance is a movement-practice that relaxes nervous systems, energizes bodies and awakens souls through powerful, free-flowing dance repertoires set to world music and American classics. The class is especially good for women who experience tension and stiffness, and want a gentle way of bringing free flow back into their body. Instructor Linda Joffe draws on expertise in modern dance, yoga and more in creating these wonderful classes. Join us at 10:00 a.m. on Thursdays, November 8 and 29 at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. The fee is $10, and the class is for women only. For more information and a full schedule of classes, please contact Linda Joffe at 941.376.5162 or lfjoffe@aol.com.

“Kristallnacht: A Brave Thanksgiving Plan to Save Europe’s Jews” On Thanksgiving Day 1938, just after the horrors of Kristallnacht destroyed Jewish lives, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes vociferously promoted an American haven for endangered Jews in the seriously underpopulated wasteland of Alaska – a proposal Congress rejected. Kristallnacht had officially begun the mass violence against Jews in Nazi Germany that became the Holocaust. The world’s total unwillingness to help the Jews gave the Nazis license to murder Jews by the millions, while the nations watched passively or antagonistically. Join us at 10:00 a.m. at the Al Katz Center, 5710 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $10 per adult; $5 per student; brunch included. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

Temple Sinai Veterans Erev Shabbat Service Join Rabbi Geoff Huntting and Chazzan Cliff Abramson at 6:00 p.m. for an uplifting Erev Shabbat service with a variety of traditional, Israeli, Sephardic and Chassidic melodies as congregants, friends and family honor our veterans. A welcome reception begins at 5:15 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota (enter off of Proctor Road only, between Beneva and Swift). For more information, contact the temple office at 941.924.1802 or office@sinaisrq.org.

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Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution explores the extraordinary life of renowned music promoter Bill Graham (1931 - 1991) who helped launch and promote the careers of countless rock & roll artists. It also traces the indomitable spirit of a man brought to the United States as an eleven-year-old Jewish refugee fleeing the Nazis, fueling a lifelong passion and advocacy for justice.

Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution is now open at The Florida Holocaust Museum.

TBS Shabbat Goes to the Ranch Mark your calendars to join in singing, meeting and greeting new people, and sharing in a sweet Oneg Shabbat. Usher in Shabbat at these warm and welcoming services, led by Cantors Neil Newman and Aaron Marcus, and Sharon Strassfeld. Temple Beth Sholom members and nonmembers are welcome at 7:30 p.m. at The Windsor, 8220 Natures Way, Lakewood Ranch. The Shabbat services in Lakewood Ranch are in addition to the regular Friday night Shabbat services at Temple Beth Sholom on Tuttle Avenue. For more information, please contact Saranee Newman at 612.220.2382.

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Abigail Pogrebin Presents “My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays”

Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution is organized and circulated by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, in association with the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation, and made possible by the support of Alex Graham, David Graham, and Danny Scher.

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The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and ORT America present author Abigail Pogrebin speaking about her book, My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, at 12:30 p.m. at Michael’s On East, 1212 S. East Avenue, Sarasota. Men and women are invited. Choose from misoglazed salmon or spiced chickpea cake. Tickets: $65 includes your meal and book; $100 includes your meal, an autographed book and your name in the program. Mail your check (payable to ORT America) to Ethel Gross, 3919 Panola Lane, Sarasota, FL 34232, and include your name, phone, email address, seating preferences and amount enclosed. RSVP by Thursday, November 1. For more information, please contact Kim Sheintal at klapshein@aol.com or 941.302.1433.

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“Jews in Jail” Breakfast Lecture Program Join us for this fascinating lecture with Rabbi Ari Shapiro as he discusses “Jews in Jail.” Rabbi Shapiro currently serves as the Chaplain at Desoto Correctional Institute. Enjoy a delicious breakfast, provided by the Men’s Club of Temple Beth Sholom. The event takes place from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, Sainer Social Hall, 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota. Donation: $5. For more information, please contact the temple office at 941.955.8121 or info@templebethsholomfl.org.

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Tuesday, January 8 • 5 -7pm

Jewish Music Community Concert

BOATHOUSE, HYATT REGENCY 1000 Boulevard of the Arts, Sarasota, FL NEW TO THE AREA? NEW TO FEDERATION? • You are invited to a Newcomers Reception • Connect with other members of the Jewish community • This event is FREE, but reservations are required ___ Space is limited ___ Co-Chairs: Joy Moravitz and Sheree & Larry Zaslavsky

RSVP via jfedsrq.org/events or Jeremy Lisitza 941.343.2113 | jlisitza@jfedsrq.org

Theveterans, Bridge Group meets Thursday In honor of our American and Israeli the Al Katz Center proudly afternoons from 1:00–4:00 pays tribute to them with a special community concert featuringpm beloved the Federation Campus Jewish music performed by theon Suncoast Jewish Music Ensemble. All ages (582 McIntosh Road). are cordially invited to listen and sing along with the songs that must be Openthrough to intermediate passed on to future generations community gatherings. Join us at 4:00 p.m. at the Al Katz Center, 5710 bridge Cortez Road West, Bradenton. and advanced players.

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Join CTeen at 7:00 p.m. for its popular Friday Night dinners at Rabbi Mendy Bukiet’s home featuring delicious food, a sing-a-long, Shabbat games such as “Spin a Story” and much more. The CTeen annual membership is $180 and includes all trips and activities except the International CTeen Shabbaton in New York. Special thanks to The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee for sponsoring CTeen 5779. For more information, please contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 or rabbi@chabad ofbradenton.com.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15

“History of Zionism”

SaBra Chapter of Hadassah Membership Luncheon

Since their expulsion from the Holy Land by the Romans in the first century, the Jewish people longed to return to their homeland. In the 1800s, the great aliyahs began, repopulating a wasteland with Jewish pioneers who drained the swamps, built communities and made the Holy Land green again. Led by Theodore Herzl, the Zionist Congresses worked and planned for the re-establishment of the Jewish state, culminating in the Declaration of the State of Israel in May 1948. Join us at 7:00 p.m. at the Al Katz Center, 5710 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $10 per adult; $5 per student; healthy kosher foods included. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

Hadassah members, Associates and guests are welcome to join us at 11:30 a.m. at Meadows Country Club, 3101 Longmeadow, Sarasota. Author Marcia Rudin will discuss one of her novels, Hear My Voice. RSVP by Thursday, November 8 to Marilyn Stark at 941.925.1853 or 16pilcher@ gmail.com, or Lee Ruggles at 941.924.1338 or lruggles.sabra@gmail. com. Couvert: $40 in advance or $48 at the door. Send your check for $40 (payable to SaBra Hadassah) to Marilyn Stark, 122 Altesino Court, Venice, FL 34292. Indicate your choice of entrée: salmon or vegetable quiche.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Mitzvah Knitting Group at Temple Emanu-El Are you a knitter or crocheter interested in using your talent to brighten the lives of others while making new friends? If so, please come to the Mitzvah Knitting Group sponsored by Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood. We gather monthly to craft and socialize, and our beautiful handiwork has been donated to local new parents as well as needy families in SarasotaManatee and in Israel. Bring your needles or crochet hook and a favorite pattern – we’ll supply the yarn and great company! The group meets at 10:00 a.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. For more information, email Susan Bernstein at susanhope22@comcast.net.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 PJ Library Presents: Thankfulness Art with Your Heart Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

In honor of Thanksgiving, celebrate Hakarat Hatov with expressions of appreciation. Spend quality time with your child at various craft stations, creating ways to express heartfelt thanks to everyday heroes, including garbage collectors, teachers, firefighters, mail carriers, police officers, IDF soldiers and more. The event takes place 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. Co-sponsored by PJ Library of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. For more information, contact Sara Steinmetz at sara@chabadofsarasota.com or 941.925.0770. Please register

by Friday, November 9 at jfedsrq.org/events.

Volunteer Open House

Rosh Chodesh Society Course Women are invited to join RCS’s latest course, “Larger Than Life – Weaving G-d in the Details.” This first class is entitled “Hide & Peek, a Right to Privacy.” Lunch will be served. Join us at noon at The Chabad House, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton. The course fee is $75 (textbooks included) or $18 per class. For more information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 or rabbi@chabadofbradenton.com.

AJC’s 2018 Civic Achievement Award Dinner AJC is proud to honor David Verinder, President and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, with its 2018 Civic Achievement Award at a Tribute Dinner. The event takes place from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Michael’s On East, 1212 S. East Avenue, Sarasota. This prestigious award is presented to individuals for their professional achievements and civic-minded leadership. The event includes a cocktail reception with dinner following.

The Dinner Chairs are Bob & Beverly Bartner, Dr. Dean & Lizzie Hautamaki, and Matt & Lisa Walsh. For sponsorship and additional information, contact AJC’s Brian Lipton at 941.365.4955 or liptonb@ajc.org.

WE’LL MEET AGAIN NOV 13 • 8PM

Join Ann Curry for a new season of dramatic reunions of people whose lives crossed at pivotal moments.

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Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Come and learn about opportunities for joining a Federation committee or participating in an event! The Open House takes place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Zell Room on The Larry Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. For more information, contact Jeremy Lisitza at 941.343.2113 or jlisitza@jfedsrq.org. RSVP online at jfedsrq. org/events.

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November 2018 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Kristallnacht Speaker

Chabad of Sarasota Men’s Club Breakfast Meeting

The Congregation for Humanistic Judaism (CHJ), which meets at Unity Church (3023 Proctor Road, Sarasota), will introduce Holocaust survivor Erna (Ernie) Kent at 8:00 p.m., following its 7:30 p.m. service. Ernie was born in Vienna, Austria. In 1940, her family had very little hope of getting U.S. visas. They finally made it to New York City in 1941. Her life has taken many turns, which she will discuss. An Oneg will follow. This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please call 941.929.7771 or email chjsarasota@hotmail.com.

Enjoy the best kosher breakfast in Sarasota, including bagels, lox, cream cheese, scrambled eggs and onions, and whitefish salad, followed by an informative presentation entitled “What’s New in Sarasota City Governance?” by Hon. Liz Alpert, Mayor, City of Sarasota. Men and women are welcome at 9:00 a.m. at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. RSVPs appreciated, but walk-ins welcome. Cost: $7 for Club 770 members, $10 for nonmembers. To RSVP or for more information, call 941.925.0770 or email info@chabadofsarasota.com.

Jewish War Veterans Meeting

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 “Get Thankful” Tot Shabbat at Temple Emanu-El Young Jewish and interfaith families are invited to get thankful at this Thanksgiving season Tot Shabbat sponsored by Temple Emanu-El. Enjoy a relaxed, welcoming Shabbat celebration featuring socializing, outdoor playtime, and Shabbat prayers, songs, movement and a story. We’ll also participate in a Thanksgiving craft, some family cooking, and ageappropriate activities focused on gratitude, giving thanks – and giving back. Although Tot Shabbat is designed for children ages 1-5, all are invited. This free event begins 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.

Jewish War Veterans, Sarasota/Manatee Post 172, will hold its next meeting in the Kretzmer Center at Aviva, 1951 North Honore Avenue, Sarasota.

The lox-and-bagel brunch will begin at 9:30 a.m. and will be followed by this month’s guest speaker, Ron Pollack. Ron is a civilian employee of the Logistics Management Directorate at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He will speak on “Challenges of Equipping the Modern-Day Deploying Soldier.”

The cost for brunch remains $7 and is payable at the door. Active military, spouses, significant others, snowbirds and guests are always welcome and also pay the $7. For further information or directions, please contact Stan Levinson, Commander, Post 172, at 941.226.7185 or stanlevinson172@ gmail.com.

Jewish Genealogical Society of Southwest Florida Share your genealogy discoveries and/or tips at this “Show and Tell.” Is there a first cousin, once removed, that you met by chance? Have you found a great Family Tree program? Did your DNA test direct you to any new family members? Depending on the number of presenters, each person will get 15 to 30 minutes. This free event is open to all and begins at 1:00 p.m. on the Aviva campus in the Kobernick building, 1951 N. Honore Ave., Sarasota. To RSVP or for more information, contact Kim Sheintal at 941.302.1433 or klapshein@aol.com by Tuesday, November 6 with your name, email address and topic.

CTeen Sarasota Cookies for Cops Teens in grades 7-12 are invited to thank our local Police Department by baking and delivering homemade treats. Open to all teens. Join us at 4:00 p.m. at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. To RSVP or for more information, call 941.925.0770 or email ella@chabadofsarasota.com.

Lecture: “The Last Jewish Gangster” Join us at 7:30 p.m. at The Chabad House (5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton) for an exciting lecture with guest speaker Myron Sugerman. Learn about the details of the Jewish Mob’s impact on the American Nazi party in the 1930s and the Mob’s role in supplying money and weapons to the underground armies during Israel’s fight for independence. Cost: $10 prepaid, $18 at the door or be a sponsor for $180. For more information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 or rabbi@chabadofbradenton.com.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 The History of the Jewish Mob

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The history of the Mob and the history of Jews in America are intertwined.

It’s a history that Myron Sugerman, author of the recently released book, The Chronicles of the Last Jewish Gangster: From Meyer to Myron, traces from the earliest days of the Mafia to the present day. Sugerman tells the Mob story from a Jewish viewpoint, with stories gleaned from his firsthand experiences and family connections with some of the most infamous Jewish mobsters. Sugerman will share how the Mob fought the American Nazi Party in the 1930s, how they provided vigilance on the piers of New York during World War II and much more. There are two events to choose from: 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at Chabad Education Center, 21560 Angela Lane, Venice. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For more information, contact Rabbi Sholom Schmerling at 941.493.2770 or info@ chabadofvenice.com, or visit www.chabadofvenice.com.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Traditions in the Kitchen Class

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Join us in the kitchen as Julie Friedman teaches us how to make a delicious dairy kugel. This class is sponsored by the Temple Beth Sholom Continuing Education Committee, TBS Men’s Club and TBS Sisterhood.

The class begins at 10:00 a.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota. For more information, please contact the temple office at 941.955.8121 or info@templebethsholomfl.org.

Temple Beth Israel Community Thanksgiving Service Join us at 6:00 p.m. for an interfaith service, followed by refreshments.

Temple Beth Israel is located at 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key. For more information, call the temple office at 941.383.3428.

CTeen: Chanukah Emoji Party Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Enjoy Chanukah emoji-themed food, activities and games at 7:00 p.m. at The Chabad House, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton. Come and show your humanitarian side by cheering up those who are not well. The CTeen annual membership is $180 and includes all trips and activities except the International CTeen Shabbaton in New York. Special thanks to The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee for sponsoring CTeen 5779.

For more information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 or rabbi@chabadofbradenton.com.

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JEWISH HAPPENINGS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Temple Sinai and Church of the Palms Interfaith Worship Service

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Join Rabbi Geoff Huntting, congregants of Temple Sinai, members of the Church of the Palms and Senior Pastor Dr. Stephen D. McConnell at a warm and welcoming interfaith Thanksgiving service. Open to the community, the service begins at 6:00 p.m. at Church of the Palms, 3224 Bee Ridge Rd., Sarasota. For more information, contact the temple office at 941.924.1802 or office@sinaisrq.org.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Traditional Jewish Thanksgiving Celebration Do not spend Turkey Day without a delicious kosher turkey and all the traditional trimmings. This year is the time to make space on the calendar to thank our Creator and our country for boundless blessings, gather together as a cohesive community, and add new meaning to the holiday officially proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1854, declaring, “a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe.” Join us at noon at the Al Katz Center, 5710 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $12 per adult; $30 per family. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Babyccino This exciting program at Chabad ventures into a place where motherhood and childhood happily intersect, creating and offering ways to engage both parents and children at the same time. Babyccino provides a chic meet for mod moms and their tots, and features centers for creative art and expression, Judaic discovery, music and movement, sensory stimulation, dramatic play, parallel play and social interaction. Join us from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at The Chabad House, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton.

Suggested donation: $10 per class. For more information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 or rabbi@chabadofbradenton.com.

Family Erev Shabbat Join us for our fun and lively family-friendly Erev Shabbat at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Beth El Bradenton/Lakewood Ranch, 5150 Peridia Blvd. East, Bradenton. All young people will be incorporated into the service as Rabbi Sternfield and Cantor Bard create a warm service for all. The evening will end with a wonderful Oneg provided by the TBE Sisterhood. For more information, please call the temple office at 941.755.4900. Please note the new time for services.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat on President Carter Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Ambassador Eizenstat will discuss President Jimmy Carter’s positive and negative stances toward Israel and give us an insider’s view of the Camp David Accord between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, as well as many other deep insights and experiences during his many years serving as a presidential advisor. His latest book is President Carter: The White House Years. The evening will conclude with a Q&A, followed by a book-signing reception with coffee and refreshments. Join us at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota. Tickets are $10. Make checks payable to TBS Men’s Club. For more information, please contact the temple office at 941.955.8121 or info@templebethsholomfl.org.

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Dazzling Chanukah Gifts and Decorations Chanukah time is here again. Sunday, December 2 is the first night of Chanukah, so rush to the Al Katz Center for your final preparations and decorations. A popular Chanukah gift is the Center’s exclusive “Chanukah in a Bag,” which provides you with a variety of beautiful Chanukah necessities, from decorated plates to Chanukah candles, all in a hand-painted collectible canvas bag for just $36, including edibles. Join us at 10:30 a.m. at 5710 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Healthy kosher refreshments will be served at this free event. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

Cong. Kol HaNeshama Reception and Musical Service Join Congregation Kol HaNeshama for its “Wine-Cheese-Shmooze” at 5:30 p.m. at Southgate Community Center, 3145 Southgate Circle, Sarasota. The informal reception will precede a special Kabbalat Shabbat service, starting at 6:00 p.m. Upbeat and musical, the service will combine chanting with the beautiful sounds of drum, guitar, piano and harp to offer an especially spiritual experience. For more information, please email office@congkh.org or call 941.244.2042.

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NOVEMBER 11

Author Abigail Pogrebin, My Jewish Year Luncheon in partnership with ORT

DECEMBER 3

Women’s Day Featuring Nancy Spielberg

DECEMBER 17

In the Fiddler’s House – A Night of Klezmer Featuring Itzhak Perlman in partnership with The Perlman Music Program/Suncoast

JANUARY 8

Newcomers Reception

JANUARY 15

25 Years After the Oslo Accords Featuring Abe Foxman, former National Director of the Anti-Defamation League

JANUARY 20

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Honoring the Greek Community

FEBRUARY 7

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Conductor Zubin Mehta Lead sponsor of Van Wezel program

FEBRUARY 11

Community Lecture with Author Daniel Gordis

FEBRUARY 24

Celebrating 60 Honoring Federation’s 60th Anniversary

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