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Contents Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Up Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hal Sacks Jewish News Archives. . . . . 5 Ugandan rabbi calls on Israel to recognize his Jewish community. . . 6 Proposal to overhaul conversion in Israel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Dems and GOP argue over Jerusalem bash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Jewish response to Supreme Court Ruling on cake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Britain’s Prince William to make historic visit to Jerusalem in June

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rince William will travel to Jerusalem at the end of June, the British royal family said, during the first visit to Israel by a senior British royal.

The announcement about the visit sometime between June 24 and 28 was the first confirmation that William, whose official title is the Duke of Cambridge, will visit the Israeli capital, according to a report by The Associated Press.

The visit to Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authorities was announced in March, but it did not contain specific dates or mention Jerusalem. It did say that the prince’s visit “is at the request of Her Majesty’s Government and has been welcomed by the Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian authorities.”

William will also visit Tel Aviv, according to the report.

In Jordan, he will go to Amman and Jerash, and in the Palestinian Authority he will visit Ramallah, the seat of the government in the West Bank.

Like most of the world, the United Kingdom does not formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, pending the resolution of peace talks with the Palestinians, whose leaders also claim Jerusalem as the capital for their future state. The British foreign office’s official map of Israel lists no capital, describing both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as an “administrative center.” Unlike the March statement about William’s arrival, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office refers to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as “occupied Palestinian territories,” or OPT. Last month, the United States, Guatemala, and Paraguay moved their embassies to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv and recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In December, President Donald Trump made the decision to move the embassy, and the Latin American countries followed suit. The European Union, of which the United Kingdom is a founding member, has condemned the transfer as damaging to peace efforts.

No senior member of the Royal House has visited Israel in their official capacity in what many observers believe is a policy adopted following the Zionist movements’ use of violence against British nationals when the United Kingdom ruled the Mandate on Palestine—an area comprising modern-day Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority.

Whereas members of the British royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, have made state visits to Kenya and other countries where acts perceived as terrorism were committed against Britain and its citizens by anti-colonialist combatants, they have stayed away from Israel in their official capacity since the country was established in 1948.

In March, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in a statement: “We welcome the announcement on the arrival of Prince William to Israel. This is a historic visit, the first of its kind, and it will be greeted here with great affection.”

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briefs WWII-era Polish cardinal who was hostile to Jews is on the path to sainthood A World War II-era Polish cardinal who was hostile to Jews was recognized by Pope Francis as having “heroic virtues,” the first step to sainthood.

Cardinal August Hlond was one of 12 sainthood cases to be advanced last month by the pope.

In a letter to the Vatican, the American Jewish Committee warned that putting Hlond on the track toward sainthood “will be perceived within the Jewish community and beyond as an expression of approval of Cardinal Hlond’s extremely negative approach towards the Jewish community.” Rabbi David Rosen, the AJC’s director of international interreligious affairs, wrote the letter.

In his 1936 pastoral letter, Hlond condemned Judaism and called for a boycott of Jewish businesses.

“It is good to prefer your own kind when shopping, to avoid Jewish stores and Jewish stalls in the marketplace,” the letter said. It went on to say, “One should stay away from the harmful moral influence of Jews, keep away from their anti-Christian culture, and especially boycott the Jewish press and demoralizing Jewish publications.”

Hlond refused to meet with Polish Jewish leaders 10 years later over concerns about the accusations of ritual murder ahead of Passover and the danger of pogroms.

The community’s fears came true on July 4, 1946, when a mob attacked the building of the Jewish Committee in Kielce, leaving 42 Jews dead and more than 40 wounded. A week later, the AJC letter said, “Cardinal Hlond held a press conference but he did not condemn the pogrom nor urge Poles to stop murdering Jews. Rather, he pointed out that the Jews were all communists or supporters of communism and that the pogrom was their own fault.”

Hlond was the highest ranking church official in Poland from 1926 to 1948, and is credited with keeping the church strong and protecting its autonomy

during the Nazi occupation and postwar communism.

The Vatican must still confirm a miracle attributed to his intercession for Hlond to be beatified, and a second one for him to be canonized. (JTA)

Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz to step down Starbucks’ founder and executive chairman Howard Schultz is stepping down.

Schultz, who previously served as the coffee giant’s CEO, is leaving his position at the end of June, the New York Times reported.

In an interview with the Times, Schultz, a Democrat who has publicly criticized President Donald Trump, did not deny speculation that he was considering a political career.

“I want to be truthful with you without creating more speculative headlines.

For some time now, I have been deeply concerned about our country—the growing division at home and our standing in the world,” said Schultz, 64.

“One of the things I want to do in my next chapter is to figure out if there is a role I can play in giving back,” he added.

“I’m not exactly sure what that means yet.”

Under Schultz, Starbucks became a vocal part of the national conversation on issues such as gun violence, gay rights, race relations, veterans rights, and student debt. Its advocacy did not always run smoothly. A 2015 campaign, Race Together—which aimed to spark a national conversation about race relations in its shops— was seen as a public relations failure. Recently, the coffee chain came under fire after two African American men were arrested inside a store in Philadelphia in April after they asked to use a restroom without buying anything.

Schultz has written about his hardscrabble Jewish upbringing in New York, and about his transformative encounter in Jerusalem with Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, who headed the Mir Yeshiva.

He received an award from Aish Hatorah, a Jewish Orthodox pro-Israel group, in 1998. (JTA)

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Israeli intelligence firm reportedly collected info on Linda Sarsour A private Israeli intelligence-gathering firm collected potentially damaging information on Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, according to a report in Haaretz.

The firm, Israel Cyber Shield, was gathering the intelligence for Act.IL, a pro-Israel advocacy organization, according to the report. The goal was to use the information to persuade U.S. colleges not to invite Sarsour as a speaker on campus.

Sarsour, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, is a pro-Palestinian activist who advocates a boycott of Israel. She is a co-chair of the Women’s March, the liberal group that held large demonstrations across the country in January 2017 and again this year. She is a frequent target of right-wing pro-Israel activists.

Israel Cyber Shield is run by Eran Vasker, a former officer in the Israel Police’s international crime division. The firm compiled a dossier on Sarsour on behalf of Act.IL, which has a mobile app of the same name. The files included information on Sarsour’s parents, as well as a court case in which she was involved.

It also included some widely reported information, including controversial tweets by Sarsour.

Act.IL is a project of the Israeli American Council that says its goal is to “help support Israeli-Americans become effective advocates for Israel in their communities, workplaces, on social media and on campuses.” (JTA)

Louis Farrakhan attacks Jews and Judaism from his Chicago pulpit Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan attacked Jews and Judaism during a threehour sermon from his pulpit at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.

The May 27 sermon was his first major public speaking appearance since February, according to the AntiDefamation League.

During his sermon Farrakhan, a

known anti-Semite, warned his listeners about “satanic Jews who have infected the whole world with poison and deceit.”

Farrakhan also claimed that contemporary Jews are responsible for promoting child molestation, misogyny, police brutality, and sexual assault, among other social ills. In addition, he asserted that contemporary Judaism is nothing but a “system of tricks and lies” that Jews study in order to learn how to “dominate” non-Jews.

Farrakhan based some of his mischaracterization of Judaism on a distorted reading of the Talmud, according to ADL. He also said that “the false Jew will lead you to filth and indecency. That’s who runs show business. That’s who runs the record industry. That’s who runs television.”

Farrakhan alleged that Jews often force aspiring actors to submit to anal sex.

“Do you know that many of us who go to Hollywood seeking a chance have to submit to anal sex and all kind [sic] of debauchery [before] they give you a little part?” he asked. “It’s called the casting couch. See, that’s Jewish power.”

He used disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who is Jewish, as proof of his allegations.

Farrakhan also said that President Barack Obama was “under Jewish influence” when he advocated for the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Marriage equality, Farrakhan informed his audience, is “satanic.”

The day before his speech, Farrakhan appeared on Chicago radio station WGCI on a program titled The Morning Takeover and said that President Donald Trump has helped his cause by “destroying the enemies of the Nation of Islam. Included in this group are the Department of Justice and the FBI.” Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan Jr., the Nation of Islam leader’s son, died in his sleep Saturday, June 2 at a family home in Phoenix, according to the organization. He was 60 and had a heart condition, according to the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan, 85, has nine children. (JTA)

From the Hal Sacks Jewish News Archives

June 2, 2008 Members of the Tidewater Couples program took a fast-paced tour of Washington, DC. The day included visits and briefings at AIPAC, Senator Joseph Lieberman’s office, and The Israel Project, among others.

June 5, 1998 The Jewish Education Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater honored the achievements and excellence of its Jewish educators at Jewish Education Night at Beth Chaverim. Miriam Brunn Ruberg was selected Jewish Educator of the Year.

June 3, 1988 Tidewater Jewish Forum announces its 1988-89 series, which includes Vladimir Feltsman, Jules Feifer, Leonard Fein, Robert Klein, and Bernard Kalb. Tickets are: Patrons, $100; General, $35; Student and Military, $25. All seats reserved.

June 2, 1978 At its 31st Annual meeting, Jewish Family Service installed a new slate of officers. Installed as president was Mrs. Miriam Seeherman. Other members of the slate were Mrs. Stanley Samuels, first vice president; Mrs. Roz Landres, second vice president; Mrs. Marcia Moss, secretary; and Dr. Charles Goldman, treasurer.

June 1, 1968 During the week preceding the Poor People’s March in Norfolk, the emotional pitch of the Jewish community was at a peak.

Local rabbis asked each congregation, the Federation, and Community Center boards to offer hospitality to the Marchers with food and housing in synagogues and social service buildings. The religious leaders explained that it was a mitzvah to house people on the sabbath who are in need of shelter and humane treatment. The rabbis were answered in different ways. Many Jewish people extended themselves to offer assistance to Norfolk’s guests in any way possible. Others, motivated by fear or ingrained prejudices, acted without compassion.

The Federation buildings and some temples were voted by their boards of directors to be made available upon recommendation of the CRC.

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June 1, 1948 Over 1,000 Jews celebrated America’s recognition of Israel and contributed almost $50,000 to the United Jewish Fund at a rally sponsored by the Jewish Community Council at the Center Theater. This was the largest Jewish meeting ever held in the history of Norfolk.

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Israel Ugandan rabbi: ‘We as a Jewish community need to be treated like any other Jewish community’ Josefin Dolsten

(JTA)—A Ugandan rabbi called on Israel to recognize his community after the government ruled against allowing members to move to the Jewish state.

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu confirmed a report in Haaretz that the Israeli Interior Ministry had denied a community member’s immigration application. The Interior Ministry, according to Sizomu, said the decision represented its stance on the Ugandan Jewish community, not just the applicant, Kibita Yosef.

Sizomu, who leads the community of approximately 2,000 people, urged Israel to give Ugandan Jews the same rights afforded to Jews worldwide.

“We as a Jewish community need to be treated like any other Jewish community in the Diaspora,” he told JTA from Kampala, where he serves as a member of the Ugandan parliament.

Israel’s Law of Return gives anyone who has at least one Jewish grandparent, is married to a Jew, or has converted to Judaism the right to move there. Yosef, who is currently staying at a kibbutz in southern Israel, is the first Ugandan Jew to try to immigrate to Israel, according to Sizomu.

Sizomu emphasized that his community was not looking to immigrate to Israel en masse and that the decision would not change their practices.

“We are not Jewish for purposes of immigration,” he said. “We are Jewish because that is who we are, and we will never change that, whether they recognize us or not.”

The Ugandan community, also called the Abayudaya, traces its roots to the early 20th century, when a former leader read the Bible and embraced Judaism.

Most members were converted under the auspices of U.S. Conservative rabbis in the early 2000s and thus are not recognized as Jewish by Israel’s mostly haredi

Orthodox Chief Rabbinate.

In 2016, the Jewish Agency for Israel recognized the community for the purposes of the Law of Return, seemingly opening a path for its members to immigrate to Israel. However, the Abuyudaya have struggled to obtain government recognition to do so. In December, Israel denied a visa application by another member of the community to study at a yeshiva in Israel, leading to accusations of racism.

Today the community, which is based in the rural town of Mbale, has seven synagogues—including a 7,000-square-foot synagogue center that opened in 2016—a mikvah and two Jewish schools.

“We feel like we have an established Jewish community that deserves to be recognized by Israel,” Sizomu said.

Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, who leads the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, called the Israeli decision “unlawful.”

“This is completely inconsistent with more than two decades of Israeli practice of Conservative converts—who are by the way halakhically converted to Judaism under our auspices—who had been recognized as Jewish for the purposes of the Law of Return,” she told JTA, using a phrase meaning that something was done in accordance with Jewish law, or halakhah.

Schonfeld said that the movement and its allies were planning “to use all means at our disposal to see that this is reversed.”

Sizomu said that despite the latest decision he remained hopeful about his community gaining status in Israel. In August, 40 young Ugandan Jews will travel to the Jewish state on a trip organized by Birthright, an organization that provides free trips to Israel to young Jews around the world. It is the first time Ugandan Jews will participate in such a trip. (JTA)

Israel Israel sends aid to Guatemala in wake of deadly volcano eruption JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel has sent emergency aid to Guatemala following the eruption of the Fuego volcano.

The eruption Sunday, June 3 of the volcano, which is located less than 30 miles from the capital Guatemala City,

left at least 25 people dead and dozens injured, according to reports. It is not yet known how many people are missing.

The volcano, whose name means fire in Spanish, erupted twice: just before noon and again after 6 pm. Some two million

people were affected by its ash, according to the New York Times.

Israel announced that it had sent a delivery of food and medicine to the Central American country. Israel’s Foreign Ministry also discussed with local

authorities how else it could help.

Last month, Guatemala moved its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in a ceremony attended by President Jimmy Morales. The move came two days after the United States made its transfer.

Proposal to overhaul conversion in Israel would remove control from Chief Rabbinate JERUSALEM (JTA)—A proposal to overhaul the conversion system in Israel would remove its control from the haredi Orthodox-dominated Chief Rabbinate.

The chief rabbis of Israel and dozens of haredi and religious Zionist rabbis are objecting to the plan, which recommends the establishment of a new state-run Orthodox authority.

The final report and recommendations written by former government minister Moshe Nissim was submitted June 3 to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Under the recommendations, conversions in Israel must still be conducted under Orthodox Jewish law. The proposal also calls for recognition in Israel of conversions by the Conservative and Reform movements carried out in the Diaspora.

Nissim said at a news conference that the proposal must be implemented to prevent a “spiritual Holocaust.”

“There are some 400,000 people without a religion in Israel today,” he said, including immigrants from the former Soviet Union who are not recognized by the Chief Rabbinate as Jewish. “Every year, fewer than 2,000 people convert [to Judaism in Israel], while some 10,000 people without a religion are added.

Today, there is 10 percent assimilation in Israel—and if we do not act now, this figure will only increase. There is no other possibility but to describe it as no less than a spiritual holocaust.”

Upon receiving a copy of the report, Netanyahu said: “We are continuing our constant efforts to find solutions that strengthen unity among the Jewish People in Israel and the Diaspora.”

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, who heads the Sephardi Orthodox Shas party, said he opposes the proposal and will not advance it as legislation in the Knesset.

The interior minister is the lawmaker charged with submitting legislation for conversion.

Israel’s chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, convened an emergency meeting of haredi Orthodox and religious Zionist rabbis, calling on them to reject the proposal and saying it “must be buried.”

The rabbis signed a statement calling the plan “a danger to the unity of the Jewish people.”

“We, the rabbis of Israel, regard with

concern the danger to the unity of the Jewish people as a result of the proposals for reform in conversion which include the appropriation of conversion from the Chief Rabbinate and the recognition of Reform and Conservative conversion,” the statement said.

Non-Orthodox Jewish movements in Israel also

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reportedly rejected the proposal because their conversions still would not be recognized.

Under the proposal, a state body would oversee five conversion centers across the country run by Orthodox officials who would conduct conversions based on Orthodox Jewish law.

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Nation Why Democrats and Republicans are fighting over the Jerusalem embassy bash Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON (JTA)—A fight over who was and wasn’t invited to the U.S. Embassy dedication in Jerusalem last month is becoming yet another battle in the war between Republicans and Democrats over Israel. Top Jewish Democrats in Congress are suggesting the embassy bash was rigged to keep them out and make them look weak on Israel. David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, says that Democrats could have come if they wanted and if their party looks weak on Israel, it’s because, well, it is.

Israel and its supporters have long insisted that Israel remain a bipartisan issue, although that cardinal principle has taken a beating in recent years. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem, a move resisted by President Donald Trump’s Republican and Democratic predecessors, was bound to be divisive. The dispute over the guest list has

shown the administration to be more than happy to politicize support for Israel and put the Democrats on the defensive.

Let’s recap.

Days before the May 14 opening, the White House announced that the U.S. delegation to the ceremony would include a relatively short list of six: Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan would lead a celebration that included Friedman; Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin; Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser; Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and adviser; and Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s top Middle East negotiator. All but Sullivan are Jewish.

Also attending were 10 Republicans from the House Armed Services Committee and four Republican senators, who went of their own volition. All the senators are known for their closeness to the positions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Ted Cruz of Texas,

Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Dean Heller of Nevada, and Mike Lee of Utah.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who is running for the Republican nod for Senate in his state, was there, too.

Who was and wasn’t on hand quickly became political thanks to Cruz, who was quoted by the Times of Israel as saying on the morning of the event, “I don’t know why the Democrats will not be here, chose not to come. Every member of Congress had the option before them to come and be here. There was no way on earth we could have inaugurated this embassy without my being here to celebrate it. It’s too important.”

Friedman subsequently told Axios a week later, on May 23, that he would have been glad to assist any Congress member who wanted to come.

“We would have been delighted to host as many Democratic congressmen and senators as would have come,” he said,

adding that the absence of Democrats “concerned” him. “The invitation was open to all, or I should actually say we made it clear that everybody was welcome. We didn’t specifically invite anyone. The Republican congressmen and senators who came did not come on the basis of a specific invitation. They reached out and they came.”

A spokeswoman for Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., who organized the House trip, said his office reached out to 50 or 60 Democrats—but, according to the spokeswoman, many appeared to have legitimate conflicts. One reliably pro-Israel Jewish Democrat, Jerrold Nadler, told Jewish Insider that he did not hear from Wilson.

Six Democrats did make an issue of it in a May 28 letter to Friedman first obtained by Jewish Insider. Four are Jewish members of the House of Representatives and leaders in their party’s pro-Israel wing: Eliot Engel of New York, the ranking

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Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Ted Deutch of Florida, the senior Democrat on its Middle East subcommittee; Brad Sherman of California; and Brad Schneider of Illinois. All six have backed moving the embassy to Jerusalem.

(The other two signatories were Reps.

Albio Sires of New Jersey and Thomas Suozzi of New York.)

Their argument was that the White House should have, as other administrations have done before when planning Israel outings, assembled a delegation that included Congress members from both parties.

“On many previous occasions of importance to the United States and Israel, such as funerals or other national ceremonies, the White House has organized bipartisan participation of members of Congress,” they said.

Republicans lashed out, saying the letter was disingenuous.

“Rep. Wilson and Sen. Lindsey Graham, who organized the Senate [congressional delegation], made every effort to make the delegations bipartisan,” the Republican Jewish Coalition’s director, Matt Brooks. “Both have stated publicly that they wanted the delegations to be bipartisan in order to represent the traditionally bipartisan American support for Israel, but they were rebuffed by the Democrats that they reached out to.”

Nadler in his Jewish Insider interview said that going at Wilson’s behest would have been impracticable and against protocol, even if he had received the invitation. Traditionally such a request “goes through the Speaker’s office and the Minority Leader’s office, and somebody decides how big the delegation will be,” he said. Additionally, Nadler said, an ad hoc delegation would not have been guaranteed security clearance.

Engel in an email to JTA doubled down on his argument that protocol was not followed.

“The Administration planned this event,” he said. “If the White House wanted a bipartisan delegation, it would have been bipartisan. There would have been serious outreach to Democrats and Democrats would have attended. That didn’t happen. Saying after the fact ‘everyone was invited’ doesn’t cut it. I have

worked for 30 years to make sure support for Israel is bipartisan, and I’ll continue to do so.”

Deutch separately has said that he did reach out to the administration for an invitation.

“Congressman Deutch spoke personally with officials at the White House,” a spokesman said in an email, and was told there were no invitations to members of Congress.

“If Congressman Deutch was invited on the White House delegation, YES he would have attended,” the email said.

Contradictions appear to be packed into the competing claims: Despite Friedman’s insistence that Congress members should have understood it was open house, previous administrations had been careful to issue formal invitations to lawmakers from both parties on previous visits to Israel: Bill Clinton attending the funeral for Yitzhak Rabin in 1995; George W. Bush attending Israel’s 60th anniversary in 2008; Barack Obama’s 2013 visit and his attendance at the funeral for Shimon Peres in 2016.

On the other hand, Nadler’s concerns about protocol and security are belied by the fact that Wilson, Cruz, and others attended the event.

Friedman criticized the Democrats who complained about not being invited in an interview he gave to the Times of Israel, saying that Democrats should have called him instead of going public with their complaints.

“Where I come from, you want to accomplish something, you pick up the phone and you call,” he said. “You don’t write a letter to somebody and then publish it in the newspaper before they even have a chance to respond. I don’t do business that way.”

It’s not clear who leaked the letter to Jewish Insider.

Friedman didn’t appear interested in tamping down the partisan nature of the dispute.

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doing is looking at themselves critically and acknowledging the fact that they have not been able to create support within their constituency for Israel at the same levels that the Republicans have.”

It’s a credible argument and well articulated—were it made by a Republican or an analyst. Critics pointed out that Friedman is an ambassador with whom government officials of both parties are supposed to be comfortable. (He noted in the same interview that in March, he helped organize a successful visit led by House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi,

D-Calif.) “It is truly unprecedented for a sitting U.S. Ambassador to Israel to engage in explicitly partisan rhetoric and behavior,” Ron Klein, the chairman of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said.

“Ambassador Friedman must remember that he is not the head of the Republican National Committee or the Republican Jewish Coalition political organization. He is the U.S. Ambassador, as confirmed by the U.S. Senate, to represent all Americans in Israel—not just those of one party, or those who share his political views.”

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Nation Why an Orthodox group says the Supreme Court’s cake shop ruling is good for the Jews Ben Sales

(JTA)—Seven Supreme Court justices sided with a Colorado baker in his legal fight with a gay couple. And seven major Jewish groups weighed in on the decision.

Six of the Jewish groups disagreed with the decision. But one Jewish organization,

the Orthodox Union, dissented from the rest, calling the ruling a victory for religious freedom.

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Diament, the O.U.’s executive director for public policy, said in a statement. “Today, the United States Supreme Court sent a clear message: that the demonization of religious beliefs—especially in policymaking—is constitutionally unacceptable.”

The O.U. stance is significant because Jewish groups across the spectrum have long based their policy positions on a robust defense of religious freedom. For decades, that meant keeping religion out of the public square and promoting so-called “public accommodation” laws that require places open to the public to grant customers full and equal treatment. This was partly due to a fear that allowing religious exemptions would amount to a tacit government endorsement of Christianity.

But in recent years the O.U. has supported a number of efforts to allow more public religious expression, contending that expanding those rights would benefit religious Jews.

In Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the court ruled that a Colorado baker was allowed to refuse to bake a cake celebrating a same-sex marriage. The decision was relatively narrow: The baker was within his rights, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority, because a member of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had made comments hostile to his faith while initially ruling on the incident. “[T]hese disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market,” Kennedy wrote.

Conservative groups had hoped the ruling would be broader, allowing private businesses to refuse service to LGBT couples based on their religious beliefs. Liberal groups, likewise, hoped the court would ban such actions as illegal discrimination.

Liberal justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, who are Jewish, sided with the majority. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, with Ginsberg saying that the majority opinion did not take fully into account the baker’s unwillingness to serve customers because of who they are.

The six Jewish groups opposing the

decision, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Reform movement, were largely liberal. Their arguments all said the decision either effectively endorsed anti-LGBT discrimination or missed an opportunity to prohibit it.

“As Americans and as Jews, we affirm that discrimination is not ‘religious freedom,’ and pretending otherwise is an insult to those who have suffered religious persecution,” read a statement by Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc, a liberal Jewish activist group. “We are relieved this decision was not the sweeping negative ruling it could have been.”

But the O.U., employing similar ideas, reached the opposite conclusion: That the ruling strikes a blow against discrimination.

Codifying the notion that the government cannot disparage religious groups, Diament says, will be helpful to Jewish groups in the future.

Diament says the ruling could aid Jewish groups, for example, if a government body tries to pass a bill outlawing Jewish practices like circumcision. In a case like that, the bill could be unconstitutional if its sponsors make comments disparaging Judaism or Islam.

“Those are things that are based in religion that some people view as politically incorrect and want to have restricted,” Diament says. “Religious liberty jurisprudence is what’s going to be essential to preserving those practices for the Jewish community in the United States.”

Diament also appreciates a passage in Kennedy’s opinion stating that “a member of the clergy who objects to gay marriage on moral and religious grounds could not be compelled to perform the ceremony without denial of his or her right to the free exercise of religion.” He says that sentence will protect Orthodox synagogues that decline to celebrate Jewish same-sex marriages.

Orthodoxy is the only major Jewish denomination that opposes same-sex marriage.

The O.U. generally favors public policies that allow for broader practice of religion. It supports government aid to private religious schools, as well as federal vouchers for private education. It likewise supported a bill this year providing federal security grants to religious nonprofits.

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The evening began with a social cocktail hour, held in B’nai Israel’s atrium, and was followed by a scrumptious Chinese buffet. After the guests ate, the evening continued with a special performance by the Toras Chaim boys choir, who “once again knocked it out of the park.”

The evening’s master of ceremonies, Rabbi Gershon Litt, introduced Rabbi Sender Haber to share a D’var Torah.

Inspiring words from Ken Wilson, Harry Graber, and Yehuda Chakoff, who flew in from Monsey, N.Y. just for this special event, followed. After Chakoff presented Rabbi Loiterman with a beautiful award, the honoree spoke. Rabbi Loiterman took this opportunity to refocus everyone’s attention, and to acknowledge Toras Chaim’s excellent and devoted teachers.

The evening concluded with a special encouraging and entertaining video presentation, which allowed guests to see what goes on at Toras Chaim on a

Shari Berman presents Morah Chamie Haber with an award.

daily basis. Finally, Shari Berman presented a special award to Morah Chamie Haber, who has taught the Prek-3 class for nine years. Anyone whose child has gone through that class knows how much she loves her students and how she cares for each and every student. Her absence from Toras Chaim will be felt.

Rabbi Yisroel Stein, dinner coordinator and director of development for Toras Chaim, says, ”We all had a fun time while fundraising. Baruch Hashem, this year’s dinner raised over $65,000, tripling what has been raised in past years.”

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Despite personal tragedy, Chef Michael Solomonov soars in his field and helps others Stacey Neuman UJFT Society of Professionals co-chair

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nited Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Society of Professionals (SOP) held its annual spring event ‘An Evening at the Cavalier’ on Wednesday, April 25.

Sponsored by Insco Insurance Group, more than 100 people convened at the new Cavalier Hotel Crystal Ballroom to meet the 2017 James Beard Outstanding Chef, Michael Solomonov.

In a conversation led by local business leader and philanthropist Art Sandler, Solomonov shared the pivotal life experiences which have shaped him and led to his business success.

Born in Israel and raised in Pittsburgh, Art Sandler and Chef Michael Solomonov.

Solomonov developed a passion for cooking.

After dropping out of college, Solomonov threw himself into cooking, and five years later, without traveled to Israel to visit his brother, David, who was seeking help for his addiction, he opened his first restauserving in the Israel Defense Forces. In Israel, Solomonov rant, Zahav, with the support of his business partner learned to infuse exotic spices from North Africa and Steven Cook. The two tried to keep the restaurant afloat Yemen as he carefully crafted what would become part during the recession, but had only a few devoted patrons. of a culinary evolution of Israeli cuisine. After returnWith borrowed money from his father, Solomonov was ing to Pennsylvania, he continued experimenting with able to make the payroll for the 50 employees with 10 the spices and sauces he had found in Israel. During days to spare before Zahav would have to close its doors. this time, in 2003, his brother, just three days shy of What they needed was a miracle, and they got one. completing his military career, was tragically gunned Esquire magazine named Zahav one of the best down on Yom Kippur by Hezbollah snipers. Devastated, new restaurants in the country and business took off.

Solomonov knew his brother’s death was a turning point Meanwhile, Solomonov reflected on the people who had in his life. helped him through the hard times and knew he carried a While his life spiraled out of control with drugs, he responsibility to all who had saved him. This led to rehab, becoming sober, and never looking back.

With Zahav’s success, Solomonov expanded his creativity and humanitarianism. His recent cookbook, Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking, won two James Beard Awards. In addition, an acclaimed Netflix documentary In Search of Israeli Cuisine, features Solomonov. Over the last few years, Solomonov and his team have opened eight new restaurants in Philadelphia, including Federal Donuts, Dizengoff, and the Rooster Soup Company.

Profits from Rooster Soup go to feeding the homeless—a business model that has shaped Solomonov’s social entrepreneurship.

About the evening with Solomonov, Greg Zittrain, SOP co-chair, says, “I remember years ago speaking to Art Sandler about starting a Society of Professionals aimed at creating a community of Jewish professionals committed to Judy and Robert Rubin.

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Steve Waranch, Deborah Casey, and Rick and Janet Mercadante.

supporting one another’s success and supporting the Jewish community.

Art told me, ‘You should get together, support each other, and build lifelong friendships. Give back to your community.’” That is what SOP did that night and what it plans to do through future programming.

UJFT’s Society of Professionals hosts events Jay Klebanoff. throughout the year that bring together the professional community for networking, learning, and connecting to opportunities to give back and make the community and world a better place. To get involved or learn more, contact Dusty Heist-Levine at 757-965-6136 or dhlevine@ujft.org.

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hough small and mighty, the professional staff of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation is well equipped to help strengthen Tidewater’s Jewish community.

The team is led by Scott Kaplan, president and CEO, who moved to the area with his family in 2014. In less than four years, Kaplan has made a number of positive changes to the Foundation by increasing its asset baseand by expanding the breadth and reach of the programs and services it offeres. Last year, Kaplan earned his CFRE (certified fundraising executive) designation, a globally recognized credential for fundraising executives. He also received his 21/64 certified advisor credentials denoting expertise in facilitating multigenerational philanthropy and is a member of the LEAD Hampton Roads Class of 2016 and CIVIC Leadership Institute Class of 2018.

Barb Gelb, director of philanthropy, moved to Virginia Beach one year ago and has made an immediate impact on the team and community. In addition to a career in Jewish communal work, education, and nonprofit management, in May, Gelb received an honorary doctorate from Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles.

This was in recognition of her 25 years of service to the Jewish community since receiving her master’s degree in Jewish nonprofit management from HUC. In addition, as a 21/64 certified philanthropic advisor and certified facilitator, Gelb says she is excited to help TJF donors and agencies have the greatest possible impact through their philanthropy.

Randy Parrish, vice-president and CFO of the Foundation for the past nine years, has a diverse financial management background. In 2018, Parrish received the AEP® (Accredited Estate Planner) designation from the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils to recognize estate-planning professionals who meet stringent requirements of experience, knowledge, education, professional reputation, and character. Parrish is a

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TJF staff: Front: Scott Kaplan and Ann Swindell; Back: Randy Parish, Barb Gelb, and Craig Bailey.

Certified Public Accountant and has been recognized in his role as a “Super CPA” among financial managers, CFOs, and controllers by Virginia Business magazine.

As his recent AEP® designation indicates, Parrish is able to help facilitate complex charitable gift plans and understands the importance of working with professional advisors. Parrish serves on the board of the Hampton Roads Estate Planning Council and is currently board president of Primeplus, the Norfolk Senior Center.

For more than 10 years, Craig Bailey has diligently served as controller of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation and is the longest serving member of the staff. Bailey has a background in financial management and multi-unit accounting in both for profit and non-profit environments.

His dedication and thoughtful commitment to the organization serve as an example to the team.

Ann Swindell, the “glue” that holds the team together, joined the Foundation team two years ago as the administrative assistant and has since moved into the donor services coordinator role working more closely with TJF’s Donor Advised Fund holders while supporting the scholarship and grants processes.

The TJF team is well equipped to work in partnership with individual donors at all levels and in collaboration with each local affiliate organization and synagogue to help make the greatest impact on the community… now and in the future.

Happy Father’s Day A father-daughter trip to Israel

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temming from various moves to establish a holiday similar to Mother’s Day, the first Father’s Day took place in Washington State in 1910. It wasn’t until the

middle of the 1972 presidential campaign, however, that Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday—long after President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution for Mother’s Day in 1914.

One explanation given for the delay in making Father’s Day official was provided by a florist who noted that “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” Translation: The florist business wasn’t going to benefit from Father’s Day. Maybe the florist business doesn’t flourish on the third Sunday in June, but others do. In fact, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.

Of course, for most, honoring and appreciating fathers and grandfathers doesn’t take place just on one prescribed day on the calendar – as evidenced by two articles in this section.

The first, is a terrific story penned by Stephanie Adler Calliott. She and her two sisters recently returned from a trip to Israel with their dad, Beryl Adler. Talk about seizing the moment! I hope you enjoy reading about their adventures as much as I did.

Rabbi Sharon Forman’s piece begins with an issue that I’m most familiar with— having her name misspelled (she often gets an uninvited ‘e’ inserted, while for me, it’s an extra ‘n’). As her article unfolds, however, we learn about the origin of her name.

The revelation involves information from her dad (Rabbi Lawrence Forman) about her great-grandfather. Her article is on page 20.

This special Father’s Day section also includes articles about a Jewish baseball star, Alex Bregman (page 19), and a gift idea (page 22) that gets planted in Israel (and, no it’s not a tree).

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A trip of a lifetime: A father and his daughters in Israel Stephanie Adler Calliott

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veryone has a hero. For me, it’s my dad, S. Beryl Adler. From extraordinary tomato gardener to dedicated flounder fisherman to champion gelato eater to ODU founding father (Monarch Magazine winter 2016), the man has always held my heart. So, when we had lunch together in March and talked about summer plans, there was no hesitation on my part as my dad reflected, “You know, I never made it to Israel. Your mother and I have been a lot of places, but never Israel.

I guess I’ll never get there.”

“I’ll go with you,” I replied.

Six weeks later, my 89-year-old dad, my sisters, Dana Rosen and Anne Abraham, and I landed in Tel Aviv for a father-daughter adventure.

We visited just after the 70th anniversary celebration, so patriotism was especially high, with banners flying everywhere—along Independence Trail in Tel Aviv, at the old train station in Jerusalem, and places in between. People

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were jubilant, as were we.

It was somewhat ironic that I was the only one who had been to Israel. I went for the first time in 2007 on a Federation mission—sobbing—concerned I’d never see my college-bound son again (a true, but pathetic, story).

This trip, my third, was glorious. The four of us were filled with excitement over what we’d see and experience together— me, the seasoned Israeli (knowing how to count to four in Hebrew), and my sisters and father, in the promised land together.

My mother was thrilled for my dad and his girls.

We covered a lot of ground in our nine days: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Caesarea, Masada, and the Dead Sea. Nico, our Romanian Jewish tour guide and archaeologist, provided historical details of old Jaffa and put up with our shenanigans in Caesarea (a tug of war between his “there is a lot more to see” and our “we want to collect a few more seashells”). He lovingly called my dad Saba, shared hidden gems with us, and pointed out ruins as we walked.

My father (an attorney and former judge) had a keen interest in visiting the Knesset—we toured the chamber, admired the amazing Chagall tapestries, and took heed of the “don’t eat at the

cafeteria” warning. When we visited the Haganah museum, Dad shared his vivid memories of the formation of Israel as well as his Zionist summer camp experience when he and his cousin, Mort were 16. He recounted his mother’s impression from her visit 45+ years ago.

He’d finally made it to Israel.

We thought it would be cool to be a Foodie: we took a Carmel Market food tour (tasting as we went); we visited the Marzipan bakery in Jerusalem (eating warm rugulah from the oven); we mastered the hotel breakfast buffet each morning. We ate shakshuka, shawarma, falafel, halvah, Israeli salads, Nutella, babka (“chocolate crunch”), and hummus.

We tried burekas, Armenian cheese, and malabi; we ate popsicles on Rothschild Blvd. We did not leave hungry—sababa and mitzyun food was abundant!

There was a short period of torrential rain during our visit and the country mourned the loss of 10 hikers swept away in a flash flood. We went to Independence Hall, floated in the Dead Sea, took the cable car up to Masada, visited Hebrew University, and walked the amazing ruins of Caesarea. We went to the Kotel, took the tunnel tour, explored the underground passages of the City of David, and continued on page 18

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attended a Tchaikovsky concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. We toured Yad Vashem, walked Mahane Yehuda and Ben Yehuda Street, and visited our cousin who’d made Aliyah 30 years ago (a t-shirt wearing attorney in a large law firm).

We used our Gett apps and our 019 Sim cards. We bought dishes, mezuzot, spices, Maccabean coins, baked goods, and dried

fruit. We lugged our purchases and our photo-laden iPhones home with us, grinning from ear to ear.

When we returned home, we posed for a family photo: my mom, dad, and sisters and I all wearing our new Masada hats. It is my favorite Adler family photo, following a trip of a lifetime and one I will never forget—the perfect response to “I guess I’ll never get there.”

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Alex Bregman is baseball’s next Jewish star Hillel Kuttler

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA)—Sitting on a couch near his locker at the Houston Astros’ spring training facility, Alex Bregman reflected about an encounter his father had at the World Series last fall.

It was in Los Angeles, between innings of the opening game. Sam Bregman was headed for a Dodger Stadium concession stand to grab a nosh wearing his Astros jersey with the No. 2 and his surname stitched on the back—a facsimile of his son’s uniform. The young Bregman, a third baseman, had just slugged a home run off Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw.

A fan grabbed Sam Bregman’s arm.

“Are you Alex’s dad?”

“I am,” the elder Bregman replied.

“Is he Jewish?”

“Yeah.”

The man was a Dodger fan, but still he flashed what Sam Bregman described as “a look of great contentment” at the ballplayer’s heritage.

“I got such a kick out of it,” Sam Bregman says in a phone interview near his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “It made me feel so proud.”

Alex Bregman’s take on the encounter: “It’s definitely cool to have fans around the world give their support. It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your back.”

Bregman can expect to have more fans on his bandwagon, Jewish and otherwise, following a strong 2017 season and the first World Series title for the Astros—to which he contributed mightily. He knocked in a run in each of the first five games, added a second home run, threw out a runner at home plate to preserve a scoreless tie in Game 4 and had the run-scoring single that ended an epic Game 5 in the 10th inning, 13–12.

During the 2017 season, the former No. 2 overall draft pick out of Louisiana State averaged .284, pounded 39 doubles and 19 home runs, and stole 17 bases.

Two days after the Game 7 road victory, Bregman celebrated at the championship parade in Houston. Thousands of fans

lined streets in a city still recovering from Hurricane Harvey flooding a couple of months earlier.

“To see their pure joy,” Bregman says, “gave me the chills.”

The experience capped a memorable year for Bregman that began with his playing for the U.S. team that won the World Baseball Classic title in March.

Israel’s squad, which finished sixth overall in the WBC, had sought his services.

In retrospect, he says, “I probably should’ve” played for Israel “because I got [just] four at-bats” playing as a backup for the American team. Regardless of who comes calling in 2021, Bregman said, he’s unlikely to participate.

Astros manager A.J. Hinch says he expects Bregman to “build off the momentum he generated in the postseason and throughout the whole season last year.”

He calls Bregman “a true baseball rat,” someone who “loves the game, loves practice, loves being around his teammates.”

But his mother, Jackie, will tell you that her son is more than about baseball.

His foundation, AB for AUDS, provides computer tablets to children with autism and Down syndrome. Brady Columbus, a son of Bregman’s former hitting coach and Bregman’s godson, is autistic.

Jackie Bregman says of her son’s kindness: “Alex is so patient with people, and I’m really, really proud of him for that.”

She recalls her son defending elementary school classmates being bullied. And he was also on the other end: A boy made fun of Alex’s pending bar mitzvah as he was leaving school to meet with the cantor, and a Chinese-American teammate on Alex’s basketball squad stood up for him.

The experiences, she says, “taught him what it was like to be marginalized.”

Years ago, the family attended an appearance by several players of the minor league Albuquerque Isotopes. One player was aloof. “Sam and I said to Alex, ‘Don’t ever be like that,’ ” she recalls.

But Jackie Bregman also knows her son is driven to excel on the field.

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“Alex took that so literally that he’d hit in the batting cages until he got calluses,” recalls Sam Bregman, who had grown up on the field at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, where his late father, Stan, worked as a lawyer for the Washington Senators. It was Stan, “Grandpa Zayde,” who gave his

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“I know that the Jewish community around the country is so proud of him,” Jackie Bregman says. Referring to the card collection of Jewish players, she says, “I hope that one day he’s in that collection.”

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Why it really bugs me when you misspell my name Sharon G. Forman

(Kveller via JTA)— Earlier this year, my son’s elementary school hosted its winter band and choral concert.

While waiting for the fifth- and sixth- Sharon G. Forman grade musicians to finish tuning their instruments, I scanned the brightly colored program to find my son’s name misspelled. Instead of Ben Marx, he was now mistakenly dubbed “Ben Tharx.”

After the concert, I reassured my chagrined son that “The Tharx” sounded like a superhero—possibly one who seeks justice for the downtrodden using his “tharxian” powers, whatever they might be (but likely involving a saxophone).

I was empathetic to his irritation about the misprint. When I was growing up, my last name, Forman, was constantly misspelled with an additional vowel, suggesting that I might be related to a renowned boxer and grilling specialist. And although it might be exciting to be George Foreman’s relative, I trace my roots to a different family tree. (To this day, when I spell my name aloud, I automatically add, “No ‘e,’” as if warding off nuts offered to someone with food allergies.)

A few days after tucking away the concert program into my son’s box of keepsakes, I received an unexpected package from my dad, Rabbi Lawrence Forman. At 82, my father seems to be on a mission to divest himself of worldly goods. Every time he comes to visit, he produces artifacts from the trunk of his car: photo albums, diplomas, books, and last time, a small statute of a Roman centurion.

In his latest package, I discovered copies of passenger lists from steamships with names like The Patricia and The Lapland, which had transported my great-grandparents to this country. There were also

registration forms from the U.S Army draft during World War I, copies of pages from the 1920 census, applications for American citizenship and even a copy of my grandparents’ 1935 marriage license.

Nearly 105 years ago to the day, my great-grandfather arrived in New York City from an Eastern European region known as Bessarabia. His town, then called Vadul-Rascov, or even Wodrashchkow, is now a part of Moldova, though it may have belonged to Russia at that moment in February 1913 when he landed on these shores. While other passengers’ nationalities were registered as Slovenian, Lithuanian, Polish or German, my relatives were labeled as “Hebrews.”

After studying these documents, I realized that my great-grandfather, Nathan Forman—who lived as a boarder with a family in Portland, Oregon, for seven years before having enough money to bring his wife and two sons over to this country—did not start off as Nathan Forman without an “e.” Rather he was Nussen Fuhrmann—a 36-year-old man poor in money but rich in the letters “s” and “n.” By 1929, when he filed naturalization papers, he was calling himself Nathan Forman, which had morphed from the 1920 census report listing him as Nathan Furman.

Did my great-grandfather care one bit about how his name looked in English?

Probably not. He was a full-grown man when he came to the U.S. He was raised speaking and writing Yiddish, and probably had never written many letters in English.

For weeks after receiving the package, I stared at his signature on a 1926 declaration of intention from the Naturalization Service.

My great-grandfather was 49 at the time that he applied for permanent residency.

Described officially as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with brown hair and gray eyes, this humble man managed to save his family from almost certain death, as in 1941 the Jews of his homeland were murdered by fascists.

I keep examining his signature, with the painstaking twirls of the upper and lower

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Forman’s grandfather’s signature: Nussen Fuhrmann.

case “n.” His capital “F” falls below a line, and the name Fuhrmann ascends with each successive letter.

For him to leave his familiar life behind—to be apart from his young wife and two little boys for almost a decade, to start off fresh in a country without relatives, or a profession, or even a grasp of the language—his existence must have been pretty grim in Bessarabia. My dad told me that his grandmother—left on her own while her husband was in America— used to row the family across the Dniester River to escape from marauding bands of

raiders who would regularly antagonize the Jewish villagers. They would hide in the forest across the water until the raids had died down, then row back to their homes.

Therefore, it was worth it for my great-grandfather to make his way to America, to start at zero.

I think my great-grandfather, whom I never met, would have chuckled at the way Forman is frequently misspelled in English today. After all, we were “Hebrews”—and the name, using the Hebrew alphabet, was originally spelled Fey, Vav, Reish,

Mem and final Nun. I can imagine his bewilderment over my keeping the family name—with or without the “e” or “u” or extra “n”s— even after I married.

It never occurred to me to change my name, especially as I married in my 30s. Nathan Forman changed his name enough for all of us.

I think he would tell me to treasure this country, and to not let the door close behind us—rather to hold it open for the next guy who needs a safe harbor. It’s a big country. It’s a golden country. There is plenty of space for a family—and a name—to grow.

Rabbi Sharon G. Forman, a Norfolk native, has published Honest Answers to Your Child’s Jewish Questions (URJ Press), a

Sharon Forman’s grandfather Abe Forman, with his younger brother, George.

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She has served as the director of education at New York City’s Temple Shaaray Tefila.

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Father’s Day

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unning out of gift ideas for the dad in your life?

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After the grapevine is planted, the majority of the donation goes to charities doing important work in Israel. And, when purchasing five vines, in four years, dad can get a small bottle of wine made from his grapevine. Various purchase levels are available.

Some of the wineries Wine on the Vine works w ith include Carmel, Psagot, Tabor, Tulip, Yatir, Jezreel, and Gush Etzion, as well as other Israeli NGOs. C h a r it ie s include The Israel Innovation Fund, BINA, Darca Schools, Economic Empowerment for Women, Kolech, and others.

The goal is to create a way for people to support and help build Israel’s wine industry in both a meaningful and enjoyable way.

To learn about the wineries or the charities Wine on the Vine support, go to www. wineonthevine.org.

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Three Jewish teens plan travel to Israel with grants from Simon Family Passport to Israel program Barb Gelb

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helby Brown, Mattisyahu Loiterman, and Audrey Peck—three Tidewater teens—will head to Israel with the support of a grant from Tidewater Jewish Foundation’s Simon Family Passport to Israel program.

Brown, a rising senior at Norfolk Academy, will spend three weeks in Israel at BBYO’s International Leadership Seminar. She says she has “been itching to go to Israel” since learning about it as an elementary school student at Hebrew Academy. Brown says she looks forward to immersing herself into the experience and learning as much as possible.

Audrey Peck

Brown says she has “been itching to go to Israel” Loiterman, a senior at Yeshivas Aish Kodesh, will spend a year studying at Yeshivas Toras Moshe, an elite learning institution in Israel. Loiterman’s brother attended the same institution and he says he also looks forward to receiving an excellent Jewish education there.

Peck, a rising junior at Norfolk Academy, will travel to Israel with Camp Pinemere, where she has spent the past six summers. Peck hopes to gain a deeper connection with Israel through this trip and “leave wanting only to return to the Holy Land.”

The Simon Family Passport to Israel program was created to encourage and enable Jewish youth to go to Israel. Another opportunity for Passport to Israel grants will take place in the Fall. Visit http://jewishva.org/tjf-passport-toisrael or contact Barb Gelb at bgelb@ujft.org for more information.

Retirement celebration planned for Harry Graber Thursday, June 14, 6 pm, Sandler Family Campus

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festive celebration honoring Harry Graber for his decades of service to Tidewater’s Jewish community will take place this week. Months in the planning, the event promises to be meaningful, memorable, and entertaining.

Graber has served as United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s executive vice president for 15 years. Prior to assuming that position, he was Jewish Family Service’s executive director for 15 years.

That’s a combined total of working 30 years as a Jewish communal professional in Tidewater. Graber’s official retirement date is June 30, 2018.

The community will honor Graber for his life-long commitment to Jewish life in Tidewater, as well as to Jewish life around the world. The event will be an opportunity to show appreciation to him for his leadership, compassion, and dedication to the Tidewater Jewish community.

“Harry’s devotion to the local and global Jewish communities has inspired all of Tidewater—the secular community, the Jewish community, and the staffs of JFS and UJFT,” says

Betty Ann Levin, JFS executive director and incoming UJFT executive vice president. “We hope to build on his many accomplishments to Harry Graber. continue his legacy.”

“In addition to attending the event, another way to express gratitude to Harry is to contribute to the newly established Harry and Joyce Graber Family Fund at Tidewater Jewish Foundation,” says John Strelitz, UJFT president. “We hope to have as many people as possible celebrate with Harry on June 14, and just as many participate in the fund.”

Art Sandler, Harry Graber, and Abby Horowitz in Israel in 2006.

Harry Graber and Jay Klebanoff at a JFS celebration.

To learn more about the Harry and Joyce Graber Family Fund, or to make a contribution, go to http://jewishva.org/ harry-retires or contact Tammy Mujica at 757-965-6124 or tmujica@ujft.org.

The event, which includes kosher hors d’oeuvres, a cocktail reception, and a special program, is free and open to the community. RSVPs are required to Tammy Mujica at 757-965-6124 or tmujica@ujft.org.

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in memoriam

Philip Roth: enfant terrible turned peerless chronicler of American Jewish life JTA Staff

( JTA)—Philip Roth, whose notorious novels about the sex drives of American men gave way to some of the most probing examinations of the American Jewish condition in the 20th and 21st centuries, died last month.

He was 85.

Early in his career, Roth drew outrage with sometimes stinging depictions of Jewish life, as well as his graphic portrayal in his breakout 1969 novel Portnoy’s Complaint of the protagonist’s sexual desires. Some worried that his work would endanger American Jews, providing fodder for anti-Semites.

Roth, in his books, poked fun at the wrath he incurred from some in the Jewish community. One of his recurring protagonists, Nathan Zuckerman, is a novelist whose own writings have similarly upset many Jews.

But after decades as one of America’s leading literary lights, the anger Roth once evoked was eclipsed by acclaim. Long after lesser novelists embraced semi-retirement, Roth published three magisterial novels that came to be known as the American Trilogy. In American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist 1998) and The Human Stain (2000), Roth traced the upheavals of the 1940s Red Scare, the turbulent 1960s and the debates over political correctness in the 1990s.

His 2004 novel The Plot Against America imagines an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by the pro-Nazi demagogue Charles Lindbergh. In 2016, the book was much discussed as a prescient look at the populist tides that would sweep Donald Trump into the Oval Office over the more conventional Democrat.

In addition to winning nearly every literary award for writers in English, Roth was also embraced by the Jewish community over his long career. Three of his books were honored with the American Jewish Book Award, and in 1998 he

won the Jewish Book Council’s Lifetime Literary Achievement Award.

He was for decades considered a front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature; it is one of the rare honors he wasn’t able to claim.

In 2014, the writer whose works were once denounced as profane and even self-hating was honored by one of American Jewry’s sacred citadels when the Jewish Theological Seminary, Conservative Judaism’s flagship educational institution, awarded Roth an honorary doctorate at its commencement ceremony.

“From enfant terrible to elder statesman. Time heals all wounds,” Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles remarked to JTA via email at the time.

In 2012, Roth announced that he would not be writing more books. In 2014, he declared after a reading at New York’s 92nd Street Y that he was done with public appearances.

The seminary’s chancellor, Arnold Eisen, himself a sociologist, called Roth the “greatest sociologist on American Jewish life, without doubt.”

In an interview, Eisen noted his admiration for the Roth novels that examined the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora, such as The Counterlife and Operation Shylock, as well as works that explored the American scene, like The Human Stain and American Pastoral.

“We are a community that treasures someone who holds up such a penetrating and insightful mirror to who we are and reveals the dilemmas and contradictions and aspirations of the community,” Eisen said. “We are grateful for the mirror even if not everything you see in it is easy.”

Many Jewish leaders in the 1950s and 1960s found it hard to embrace Roth, who had emerged from his cherished Jewish Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey to wide acclaim with his first novella and short story collection, Goodbye, Columbus.

Although Goodbye, Columbus won the

National Book Award, older Jewish leaders objected to its portrayal of a conflict between a stuck-up, well-to-do Jewish family in New Jersey and a young working-class Jewish man from Newark. A short story in the collection—Defender of the Faith—was about a Jewish army officer’s conflict with Jewish soldiers trying to avoid combat duty. Jewish leaders’ outrage at Roth peaked a decade later with Portnoy’s Complaint and its exploration of lustful Jewish paranoia—including a scene where the protagonist pleasures himself with a piece of liver.

“What is being done to silence this man?” an American rabbi asked in a 1963 letter to the Anti-Defamation League.

In one notorious incident, Roth was shaken by a hostile reception he received at a 1962 literary symposium at New York’s Yeshiva University. Recalling being shouted at by hostile students after the event, Roth vowed to “never write about Jews again”—a promise, of course, that he did not keep.

“There is a certain amount of poetic justice, an aesthetically satisfying irony, in Philip Roth’s beginning his career with a brouhaha at Yeshiva University and ending it with an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary— an honor perhaps more significant than the Nobel Prize that eludes him,” Michael Kramer, associate professor of literature at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, wrote in an email to JTA in 2014. “Would Roth himself have imagined such a plot? His endings tend to the tragic.”

The president of the Philip Roth Society,

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Aimee Pozorski, once said of Roth, “From the very beginning of his career, he has been deeply invested in representing the lives and fates of Jewish youth.”

Roth, however, often demurred when it was suggested that he should be defined as an American Jewish writer.

“I did not want to, did not intend to, and was not able to speak for American Jews; I surely did not deny, and no one questioned the fact, that I spoke to them, and I hope to others as well,” Roth wrote in his essay Writing About Jews.

Roth was also criticized by some as a misogynist, owing to his frequent portrayals of women as sex objects (the protagonist’s romantic partners in Portnoy’s Complaint, for example, all have derisive nicknames) and allegations about his behavior in his personal relationships with women.

Nevertheless, appreciation abounded for Roth’s contributions to the Jewish world, including his championing of writers from Eastern Europe.

“If the Western world views itself through the lens of the modern Jewish experience, it is in large measure due to the novels, novellas and short stories of Philip Roth,” wrote David Roskies, a JTS Jewish literature professor, in a note to the class of 2014.

He added that Roth “has done more than anyone to further the literary exploration of the Holocaust, in his own writings, and by promoting great works and writers throughout the world.”

Beth Kissileff contributed to this article.

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July 1, Sunday YAD at the Tides. Come out for a Tides ball game with YAD friends. Tickets are $10 and available at http://jewishva.org/yadtides. Contact Carly at cglikman@ujft.org for more info.

Brith Sholom annual Indoor Picnic & Bingo at Beth Sholom Village at 12 noon. Join in for a bug- and heat-free picnic with chicken wings, hot dogs, hamburger, and regular picnic fare. Bingo with cash prices. $10 per member and $20 for per guest. Contact LeeAnne Mallory at 757-461-1150 or email Brith.Sholom1@hrcoxmail.com for information.

August 12, Sunday Brith Sholom Annual Club 50 Banquet at Beth Sholom Village at 5:30 pm. Club 50 Banquet honors couples married 50 years or more. Couples married 50 years or more may attend free of charge. All others are welcome for $10 per person and $20 for per guest.

Entertainment coordinated by Comedienne Susan Sussman and her sidekicks. Contact LeeAnne Mallory at 757-461-1150 or email Brith.Sholom1@hrcoxmail.com for information.

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WHO KNEW? Gal Gadot is producing and possibly starring in a Fidel Castro movie

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al Gadot is set to produce and possibly star in a film about how an American journalist became one of Fidel Castro’s closest confidantes.

Gadot’s husband, Yaron Versano, who is also Israeli, will co-produce the drama for Warner Bros., Deadline reported.

The idea is based on a recent Politico article by Peter Kornbluh titled, My Dearest Fidel: A Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro. It details how ABC journalist Lisa Howard helped establish a secret channel between Cuba and Washington after the Cuban missile crisis.

“When I first read Peter’s article, I was entranced by his thrilling account of a complicated, fascinating woman in the midst of a high-stakes, real-life drama. I knew immediately that I had to be involved creatively with telling Lisa Howard’s story, and am thrilled to be producing this film with Sue,” Gadot said, mentioning co-producer Sue Kroll. (JTA)

Roseanne sobbed and apologized about racist tweet in unaired interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

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oseanne Barr reportedly cried and apologized for her racist tweet in a podcast interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Barr “was sobbing and very apologetic about the whole thing,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, which cited an unnamed source. Boteach did not air the interview.

The call in to the podcast came two days after ABC canceled her show over the tweet mocking Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and an African-American. The tweet said the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”

The reboot of Barr’s immensely popular late 20th-century sitcom had drawn high ratings.

Barr later deleted the tweet about

Jarrett, which drew widespread criticism, and issued an apology, saying she had made “a bad joke about her politics and her looks.”

Barr, who is Jewish, and Boteach, a rabbi to several stars, have been friends for 20 years. She has not given any in-depth interviews on the tweets and her firing.

Boteach tweeted about the interview: “I did record a podcast with my friend @ therealroseanne & I have decided not to release it out of respect for Roseanne. I want to give her space to reflect on the recent events and releasing the recording is a decision she will make at the appropriate time.”

He also tweeted: “I have known @therealroseanne for 20 years. She has apologized for what she acknowledges is a violation of Torah values & in the spirit of Jewish repentance. It is time America learned to forgive so that we may together affirm the image of God, and equal dignity of all humankind.” (JTA)

Israeli pop star Shiri Maimon will make Broadway debut JERUSALEM ( JTA)—Popular Israeli singer Shiri Maimon confirmed that she will be debuting this fall on Broadway.

Maimon will play the starring role of Roxie Hart in the hit musical Chicago. Her run with the production will begin on September 21 at New York’s Ambassador Theater.

She announced her new role after appearing in Times Square as part of the March for Israel parade and the 70th anniversary celebrations for the State of Israel. She called her Broadway opportunity “proof that dreams are meant to be fulfilled,” and said she was “proud to bring an Israeli presence to Broadway,” in a statement.

Maimon, 36, recently starred in a production of Evita at Habima, the national theater of Israel in Tel Aviv, where she reportedly was seen by the Chicago producers.

She recently completed her third

season as a celebrity judge on the Israeli version of X Factor. She first rose to stardom as the runner-up in the first season of the Israeli reality show Kochav Nolad, which translates to A Star Is Born, in 2003. She then went on to take fourth place at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 with the ballad Hasheket Shenishar, garnering international acclaim.

Maimon, who sang with the Israeli Air Force Entertainment Troupe during her military service, has released four albums.

Israeli flag made of cookies in Atlanta breaks Guinness World Record

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he Atlanta Jewish community broke a Guinness World Record after creating an Israeli flag out of edible cookies.

The flag assembled by volunteers used

about 117,000 cookies and stretched to 3,224 feet across the plastic-covered floor of the Heritage Hall in Congregation Beth Jacob. It was created to celebrate Israel’s 70th birthday.

The previous record-holder was a flag to mark Pakistan’s 70th. The new recordholder is 32 percent larger, the Atlanta Jewish Times reported.

The flag was certified shortly before noon Sunday, June 3 by a Guinness adjudicator, Michael Empric.

Sponsors of the cookies at $10 each have raised more than $103,000 for the Cookies for Israel project, with the donations going to three nonprofit organizations in Israel: United Hatzalah, the volunteer emergency medical service; OneFamily Fund, which supports victims of terrorism; and the Jewish Agency’s Partnership2Gether program.

The cookies were donated to charities for distribution to be eaten. (JTA)

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obituaries Mona Lee Goldwasser Norfolk—Mona Lee Goldwasser, 89, passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 26, 2018 with her family by her side.

She was retired from Eastern Virginia Medical School as a standardized patient having served for many years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of the late Harriet Gerstman Garten and Saul Garten.

Mona Lee received her bachelor’s degree from New York University and her master’s degree from Brooklyn College.

She was a physical education teacher on Long Island for more than 25 years and a longtime member of Temple Israel.

She is survived by her beloved husband of 68 years, Norman Goldwasser; her daughter, Ellen Krieger and husband, David of Monroe, N.Y.; a son, Bobby Goldwasser and wife, Denise of Norfolk; a sister, Irma Scherz and husband, Michael Schwartz of Middletown, N.Y.; a brotherin-law, Eddie Goldwasser and wife, Iris of Florida; six grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Mona will be remembered as a kind, loving, caring woman. She will be missed by all.

A graveside funeral service was conducted in Forest Lawn Cemetery with Rabbi Michael Panitz officiating. H. D. Oliver Funeral Apts. Online condolences may be sent through www.hdoliver.com.

Norman Goldwasser Norfolk—Norman Goldwasser, 90, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 4, 2018 with his family at his side.

He was the recent widower of Mona Lee Goldwasser and was the oldest son of the late Pauline and Murray Goldwasser.

Norman worked as an accountant for many different corporations during his lifetime and completed many of his grandchildren’s income tax returns as recent as this past April.

Norman served as a corporate officer of the Algonquin House, where he and Mona resided, and was a longtime member of Temple Israel.

He is survived by his daughter, Ellen Krieger and husband, David of Monroe, N.Y.; a son, Bobby Goldwasser and wife,

Denise of Norfolk; brother, Eddie and sister-in-law Iris; six grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.

A graveside funeral service was conducted in Forest Lawn Cemetery with Rabbi Michael Panitz officiating. H. D. Oliver Funeral Apts. Online condolences may be sent through www.hdoliver.com.

Iris B. Goodman Virginia Beach—Iris B. Goodman, 91, died peacefully on June 2, 2018.

Beloved wife of Larry, loving mother of Jerilyn Goodman, Jeffrey and Jeannie Goodman and Rebecca and Ron Stone, grandmother of Jared Goodman and Becky Seel and Sarah Goodman and Umair Khan, great-grandmother of Lena and Jonah Goodman.

Born in Bayonne, N.J. to Judge David and Mary Berman, sister of Edward.

Loved by many for her warmth, intelligence, self-deprecating sense of humor and amazing culinary talents, Iris was a woman of many talents and unmatched energy who poured both into her family, friends, and community. After graduating from Cornell, Iris joined the staff of the Newark Star Ledger as a reporter, later writing a syndicated column on baby and child care under the pen name Iris Lane.

Iris and Larry raised their family in Springfield, N.J. and spent their last years in Virginia Beach, Va. Always reading and learning, Iris spent countless hours helping others do the same, teaching English to new immigrants, reading books for the blind, taking courses, joining book clubs, volunteering with the League of Women Voters and PTAs, and serving as president of the Springfield chapter of Hadassah.

Iris and her children are indebted to the staff at Beth Sholom Village and the many personal aides who cared for her with love and selfless dedication. Words can’t express how much their devotion, friendship and professionalism are appreciated. She will be remembered for the warmest embraces, the kindest gestures, the funniest words, the most delicious desserts, the smoothest tennis stroke, the greatest smile, and the inherent goodness that made her unique.

May her memory be a blessing to all

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who loved her. Interment in New Jersey.

Online condolences may be offered to the family at hdoliver.com.

Selma Posner Williamsburg—Selma (Cis) Epstein Posner passed away peacefully on June 4 at the age of 88 surrounded by her family.

The daughter of Benjamin and Helen Nachman Epstein, she was a native of Newport News and was graduated from Newport News High School and Virginia Commonwealth University.

She is survived by her husband, Marvin Posner; daughters Starr Zarin (Harry) of Rockville, Md. and Susan Becker (Jon) of Norfolk, Va.; grandchildren Lisa Klinger (Zamir), Amy Becker, Jennifer Friedman (Nachi), Katie Lazarus (Yoni), and Jordan Lanczycki (Mike); and 11 great grandchildren. She is also survived by her sisters Audrey Workman and Faye Feinbaum, and her brother, Dr. Arnold Epstein.

After graduation from college, Cis taught elementary education at the George Wythe School in Hampton. She was a tireless and devoted volunteer in the local Jewish community, serving as a board member and president of the Sisterhood of Rodef Sholom Temple, and was active in the annual Cabaret. She worked for many years on the United Jewish Appeal’s annual campaign, serving as chairman of the woman’s division and on the women’s cabinet.

Moving to Williamsburg in 1978, Cis and Marvin were early residents of the Kingsmill community. Cis became a longtime volunteer at the Kingsmill annual PGA tournament, serving in many capacities including press coordinator.

Cis had a sharp, insightful sense of humor. She was a welcoming and thoughtful neighbor and friend. She had a keen sense of fashion. Devoted to her family, Cis was a warm and loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She and Marvin shared 67 years of marriage, delighting in each other’s company and together bringing laughter to everyone.

Her warm heart and generous spirit will be missed by all of those she touched.

The funeral service was held at Rodef Sholom Temple. Burial followed in The Jewish Cemetery of the Virginia Peninsula.

Contributions to Rodef Sholom Temple, the Endowment of the United Jewish Community, or a charity of the donor’s choice. Peninsula Funeral Home.

Shoshana Cardin, Jewish leader who broke multiple glass ceilings

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hoshana Cardin, a Baltimore philanthropist who was the first woman to chair her city’s Jewish federation, the national umbrella body of the Jewish federation movement and the powerful Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has died.

Cardin, who was in failing health in recent years, was 91, according to JmoreLiving.com.

Known for her intellect and leadership capabilities, she was from 1988 to 1992 chairwoman of the National Conference of Soviet Jewry, during a time when the priorities of the Soviet Jewry movement shifted from campaigns to free Soviet Jews to efforts to help resettle them in Israel.

Prior to that she was president of the Council of Jewish Federations, the representative body of 200 community federations in the United States and Canada.

Cardin also gained prominence in the autumn of 1988 for spearheading opposition to efforts in the Israeli Knesset to amend the Law of Return.

The so-called “Who Is a Jew” amendment, which would have denied Israeli citizenship to immigrants whose conversion to Judaism did not meet Orthodox standards, was ultimately withdrawn in the face of overwhelming pressure from American Jews.

Born Shoshana Shoubin to Latvian parents in what was then British-controlled Palestine, Cardin arrived at age two in Baltimore, where she later became active in local Jewish affairs.

One of her first major leadership roles in the Jewish community was as president of the Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations of Maryland from 1965 to 1967.

She was the first woman to chair the Associated Jewish Charities and Welfare Fund of Baltimore, and she served on the boards of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, United Israel Appeal and United Jewish Appeal,

obituaries She was also president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from 1999 until 2001.

According to the Jewish Women’s Archive, she earned a B.A. in English at the University of California, Los Angeles, after three years at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins. She married Jerome Cardin, an attorney, real estate developer and first cousin to the current Democratic U.S. senator from Maryland, Benjamin Cardin.

She taught school in the Baltimore public school system.

“Pregnant women were not allowed to teach, so Cardin quit when she was expecting the first of her four children: Steven, Ilene, Nina, and Sanford,” according to the JWA. Jerome Cardin died in 1993 at age 69.

In addition to her involvement in Jewish affairs, she was heavily involved in state civic politics, serving in 1967 as a delegate to Maryland’s Constitutional Convention, and from 1974 to 1979 as chair of Maryland’s Commission for Women.

In 1984 she became the first woman elected president of the Council of Jewish Federations, a precursor to what is now the Jewish Federations of North America.

In December 1990, she was elected to head the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at a time when the umbrella body was working to secure Israel’s position with the U.S. administration, a task complicated

by President George H.W. Bush’s struggle to maintain good relations with the Arab partners in his international campaign to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

She was conference chair when, in November 1991, Bush offered what she described as a heartfelt apology for making statements that September that were perceived by the Jewish community to be a direct attack on the pro-Israel lobby.

Earlier that year, Jewish groups had been upset over his tough stand on an Israeli request for U.S. guarantees covering $10 billion in loans needed for immigrant resettlement. Referring to some 1,000 pro-Israel activists who had arrived in Washington to lobby on behalf of the loan guarantees, Bush angered critics by saying in September that he was one “lonely” guy “up against some powerful political forces.”

LGBT activist Connie Kurtz, who won equal rights for gay New Yorkers (JTA)— LGBT activist Constance Kurtz, whose lawsuit against the New York City Board of Education led eventually to domestic partner benefits for all New York City employees in 1994, has died.

Kurtz, known as Connie, died in the West Palm Beach, Florida, home that she shared with her life partner, Ruthie Berman, on Sunday, May 27. She was 81.

In 2017, then-U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida reintroduced the LGBT Elder Americans Act, which he renamed the Ruth and Connie Act in honor of Kurtz and Berman, in recognition of the battle they fought for LGBT rights for nearly 30 years.

Kurtz, a Brooklyn native, moved with her then-husband and two children to Israel in 1970, and lived there for four years.

When she returned to the United States, she reconnected with Berman, her longtime friend. They fell in love, divorced their respective husbands, and became a couple.

Kurtz, a bookkeeper and eating disorder therapist, and Berman, a guidance counselor and physical education teacher at Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn, along with two other couples, sued the New York City Board of Education for domestic partner benefits in 1988, eventually winning such rights for all New York City employees six years later. The couple went on The Phil Donahue Show, where in 1988 they came out, and Geraldo to talk about the case.

The couple, who are both certified counselors, started branches of Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG, in Florida and New York, and in 2000 they began serving as co-chairs of the New York State NOW Lesbian Rights Task Force. They founded The Answer is Loving Counseling Center and worked there for over 20 years. In 2016, they received the SAGE Pioneer Award presented by Services & Advocacy For GLBT Elders, the country’s largest and oldest organization for LGBT seniors.

Kurtz and Berman were married in a Jewish ceremony on May 20, 2000, when it was still illegal for lesbians to marry in a civil wedding. They were legally married on July 26, 2011, two days after marriage for same-sex couples became legal in New York

state. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, officiated at both ceremonies.

The couple were featured in a 2002 documentary about their lives titled Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House.

“Connie was a force of nature,” Kleinbaum said in a statement. “Everyone who encountered her—even for the first time and even briefly—felt her passion, her love, her fierceness and her humor.

Connie and her love Ruthie changed the world, and never lost the love of life, of art, and of all of her people. I am sending my love to Ruthie and all who are in grief over this terrible loss. A great light has gone out in our world. May her memory forever bless us and may our lives be forever a blessing to her memory.”

Kurtz is survived by Berman; a sister, Sally Silverman; a daughter, Eileen Ben Or, and a son, Moishe Kurtz, who live with their families in Israel; 14 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.

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Beth Sholom Rehab “Gets it right the first time” Joel Rubin

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he last thing anyone wants to hear after surgery or any other procedure that requires post-op rehabilitation, is that it is necessary to return to the hospital for more treatment.

Today, neither does the rehab facility. The healthcare landscape is evolving from a “fee for service” based reimbursement to a more value-based payment model. As opposed to providers and systems billing for individual, and sometimes duplicated services, the government now encourages collaboration to enhance outcomes.

The objective is to improve quality and reduce avoidable hospital readmissions while delivering care within an appropriate length of time and in the right place. That’s

why Wendy Burton, LPTA, Beth Sholom Village Rehab director, and her team of physical and occupational therapists know it’s important to “get it right the first time.”

“All downstream providers have to be accountable, which is why we work hard with patients to get them back on their feet after knee or hip surgery or relearn basic skills after a stroke,” says David Abraham, Beth Sholom Village CEO. “Our goal is to lower the cost and length of their stay with us while also ensuring that they will not have to go back to the hospital for reasons that could have been prevented.”

Local real estate agent Wendy Burton LPTA directs the Rehabilitation program at Beth Sholom Village.

Sandy Preiser saw all of that first hand after falling in a home she was listing in “We are committed to this valChesapeake, breaking her femur in ue-based shift so we can remain the process. “ I knew immediately it an integral partner to our local was a significant injury,” she recalls. health systems and most imporAfter a week in the hospital, tantly, our patients and residents,” Preiser was ready for rehab, but says Burton. “We offer full rehabilifaced the question of where to go. tative services seven days a week so She had options and previous expeour patients receive the treatment rience with other local centers, they need every day and transition but this time, it was Passover and to their next level of care, including that meant just one choice if she going home, as soon and as seamwanted matzah and kosher food: lessly as possible.” the Gifford Rehabilitation Pavilion “The days of automatic Medicare at Beth Sholom Village. covered 21-day rehab stays are a “I couldn’t have asked for better thing of the past,” adds Abraham. care,” says Preiser. “The physical “The government is more focused therapists were wonderful and so on the quality of the treatment, not encouraging. I thought it was going the length of it. Patients and famto take a while to be able to walk ilies need to know this and work again, but I was out of there in less than two weeks.” with us to help their loved ones in the recovery process.”

Not every rehab facility is making the grade. Hospital Rehab at BSV is about to get a rehab itself, with some systems are narrowing their collaborations to the most new equipment and a refreshed look as a result of the appropriate, high-quality partners, like Beth Sholom ongoing refurbishment of the Berger-Goldrich skilled Village, who are achieving favorable outcomes. Indeed care center. they are becoming more involved in informing patients of their preferred partner sites and agencies.

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Sandy Preiser was thrilled with the rehabilitation care she received at Beth Sholom Village following surgery for a broken leg.

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