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Jewish and Arab Israelis do not want to live in same neighborhoods, survey finds JERUSALEM (JTA)—A majority of Jewish and Arab Israelis feel comfortable living in Israel as “who they are,” but do not think they should live together in the same neighborhoods, according to a new survey.

The second annual Pluralism Index, released Wednesday, April 19 by the The Jewish People Policy Institute, or JPPI, also found that a majority of Jews think secular and religious Jews should live together, but not secular and haredi Orthodox Jews. It is the self-identified most secular groups that most objected to the idea of living together.

The index, according to JPPI President Avinoam Bar-Yosef, “shows once again that the greatest success of the Jewish state is the integration of Diaspora Jews, from more than 90 different countries, in one thriving society. They wish to live together, form families together, and build a common future.”

“The fact that many Arabs living in the Jewish state define their primary identity as Israeli and feel comfortable and at home in Israel is very encouraging. Having said that, there is still much to be done to ensure full equality.”

Meanwhile, a significant majority of Muslim Arabs and the vast majority, or more than 90 percent, of Christian Arabs in Israel do not think it is wise for their respective groups to live together, according to the index.

“What is worrying is that what we see here is that in Israel, basically the majority is happy, but they are not ready to live together. So you have a few groups that feel at home here but

separately,” Bar-Yosef says.

“Pluralism in Israel is different than pluralism in the Diaspora Jewish communities because you have a new kind of identity that is based on Judaism, but it’s also influenced by having a Jewish state. As long as you have one system [the Chief Rabbinate], you can keep one society. If you divide the system, it means that you create different communities that can’t build their future together.

“Those problems do not exist between left and right. They do not exist between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. These groups feel they belong to the same major community, and they want to build a future together. When it comes to the fringe religious groups and fringe secular groups, then we have a completely different approach,” he also says.

Public perceptions about which sectors of Israeli society “contribute” more or less to the success of the country show that soldiers are perceived most positively, significantly more than any other group, according to the survey, which found the same result last year.

Muslim Arabs and haredi Orthodox Jews, whose children do not serve in the military, are seen as contributing the least.

Some 1,300 Jewish Israelis and Arab Israelis were surveyed by phone or internet panel group for the index by the independent Panels Politics survey company. The JPPI pluralism project is supported by the William Davidson Foundation and led by senior fellow Shmuel Rosner.

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Briefs Palestinian sisters crossing into Israel for cancer treatment caught smuggling explosives Two Palestinian sisters attempting to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip so that one could receive cancer treatment were caught smuggling explosives.

The explosives, used in the production of homemade bombs, were hidden in tubes carried by the women labeled “medical materials,” the Shin Bet security service said in a statement, hours after the women were stopped at the Erez Crossing.

The sisters were approved for entry into Israel so that one could receive potentially life-saving treatment for her illness.

According to the Shin Bet statement, a preliminary investigation showed that the explosives were sent by Hamas to be used in a terrorist attack on Israeli targets in the “near future.”

The incident “attests to the ongoing efforts by terrorist organizations based in the Gaza Strip, especially Hamas, to exploit Israel’s humanitarian initiatives and the medical assistance that it provides to residents of the Gaza Strip, in order to perpetrate attacks in Israel,” the Shin Bet said.

The women are being held for questioning.

Defense Ministry Crossings Authority Director Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Kamil Abu Rokon praised the Erez Crossing security inspectors for thwarting the smuggling bid.

“To our regret, it has been proven again that Gaza Strip-based terrorists are continuing their efforts to exploit the humanitarian channel in order to carry out attacks in Israel,” he said in a statement. “The security inspectors acted exactly as expected, with exemplary professionalism.” (JTA) Zara removes skirt printed with image resembling Pepe the Frog hate symbol The international clothing chain Zara removed from its website and stores a distressed denim miniskirt printed with an image that resembles the “alt-right” hate symbol Pepe the Frog.

The skirts were withdrawn last month following a social media backlash, The New York Times reported.

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Oil-on-Denim collection, which was created through collaborations with artists and is only available in selected markets,” a Zara spokesman told the Times. “The designer of the skirt is Mario de Santiago, known online as Yimeisgreat. There is absolutely no link to the suggested theme.”

Santiago is a Spanish artist who told Zara that the frog face “came from a wall painting I drew with friends four years ago.”

In September, the Anti-Defamation League added the internet meme Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that has become a popular symbol for white supremacists, to its online hate database. Images of the frog, variously portrayed with a Hitler-like mustache, wearing a yarmulke or a Ku Klux Klan hood, proliferated in hateful messages aimed at Jewish and other users on Twitter in the weeks leading up to its inclusion in the online hate database.

In 2014, Zara apologized for selling a blue-and-white-striped shirt with a six-pointed yellow star on the chest for toddler boys that resembled a Holocaust concentration camp inmate’s uniform. In September 2007, Zara removed a handbag with embroidered swastikas that was manufactured in India and inspired by commonly used Hindu symbols, which include the swastika. (JTA)

Israeli military officials: US gave 2-hour warning before striking Syria The United States gave Israel two hours warning before it fired on a Syrian airbase from which a chemical attack had been launched on Syrian civilians the day before, according to Israeli military officials.

Senior Israeli military officials also told reporters that Syrian President Bashar Assad still has up to three tons of chemical weapons, despite agreeing to eliminate his country’s stocks of chemical weapons in 2013, The Associated Press reported.

Assad has denied responsibility for the April 4 attack on Idlib, an area in southern Syria held by rebels in the country’s six-year civil war. At least 90 civilians were killed in the attack using sarin gas.

Israel has remained on the sidelines of the civil war, though it has treated Syrian injured, both government troops and rebels, on the border and responded

when rocket and artillery fire from the fighting has landed on Israel’s side of the Golan Heights.

In the wake of the attack, Israeli lawmakers from the right and left called for the international community to get involved in Syria’s civil war. (JTA)

At UN debate, some Arab states heed US ambassador’s plea to focus more on Iran A number of Arab states heeded the plea

by Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to focus more in a Middle East debate on the threat posed by Iran than on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Haley, the president by rotation last month of the U.N. Security Council, convened a council session on the Middle East. “How one chooses to spend one’s time is an indication of one’s priorities,” she said in her opening remarks.

“The same is true for the United Nations Security Council. The Israel-Palestinian issue is an important one, deserving of attention. But that is one issue that surely has no lack of attention around here. The incredibly destructive nature of Iranian and Hezbollah activities throughout the Middle East demands much more of our attention. It should become this council’s priority in the region.”

All U.N. member states—not just the 15 on the council—were invited to deliver short addresses on the Middle East.

The plea appeared to resonate with a number of states joining the debate, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, as well as European states and some in Africa, including Ethiopia.

These states did not ignore the IsraeliPalestinian issue, and were often critical of Israel, but the greater part of their addresses looked to the threat posed by Iran and its allies in the region, with a special focus on Syria.

The UAE envoy, for instance, said that Iran’s involvement in other regional conflicts posed “an existential threat to the Middle East.”

Other nations, including leftist governments in South America like Venezuela, as well as South Africa, focused more on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The South African envoy said the Security Council

“should not stray away from the core issue” when discussing the region.

Haley has said repeatedly that the United States will no longer tolerate anti-Israel bias at the body, a key difference between the Trump administration and its predecessor, the Obama administration, which sought to tamp down anti-Israel bias through quiet diplomacy.

Haley was behind successful efforts earlier this year to get the U.N. secretary-general, António Guterres, to withdraw a report by a U.N. affiliate that likened to apartheid Israel’s occupation in the West Bank. (JTA)

Sebastian Gorka walks off stage at Georgetown conference, calls protesters ‘victims of fake news’ Presidential aide Sebastian Gorka walked off a stage at Georgetown University after facing questions from students about allegations that he is a member of an anti-Semitic Hungarian group and White House infighting.

Gorka, a cyberterrorism adviser to President Donald Trump, left a cybersecurity conference with about a half hour left of the question-and-answer session on Monday, April 24, saying his presence was detracting from the other panelists at the conference, which was titled “News, Alternative Facts, and Propaganda: The Role of Cyber in Influence Operations.”

Protesters held signs reading “Gorka’s gotta go” and “Hate has no place here.”

Gorka called student protesters “victims of fake news” and news of White House infighting “click bait.”

“The people who write fake news definitely jeopardize stability all around the world,” Gorka also said before leaving.

Gorka is accused of being a member of Historical Vitézi Rend, a namesake of Vitézi Rend, a defunct order of merit that had existed as a state entity for 20 years until 1944 under the rule of Miklos Horthy, Hungary’s Nazi-allied leader.

Vitézi Rend was disbanded, outlawed and ceased to exist in the 1940s following the World War II defeat of Nazi Germany.

Gorka previously served as national security editor for the conservative Breitbart News. He has denied being a fascist or anti-Semite. (JTA)

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May 11, 2007 A benefit concert for the people of Darfur and southern Sudan, DARFEST will highlight stories of Lost Boys living in Hampton Roads between musical sets performed by four local high school rock bands.

DARFEST is a concept developed by 10 area high school students who are participants in Panim, a program sponsored

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May 9, 1997 Panim teens.

A Tay-Sachs screening will take place at the Jewish Community Center in conjunction with JCCT’s Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration.

May 1, 1987 Former Governor Charles Robb and Ralph Nurnburger, legislative liaison for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, will present an in-depth briefing on the status of U.S.-Israel relations and the current mood on Capitol Hill.

The event is being held at the Norfolk Airport Hilton.

May 27, 1977 Jewish Family Service of Tidewater is sponsoring a three-session symposium for the children of senior adults. The purpose of the program is to educate and sensitize children to the needs of their parents and to promote greater self-awareness of the relationship between children and parents.

May 1, 1967 Miss Barbara Unger was voted the 1967 Queen Esther at the 15th Annual Purim Coronation Ball, sponsored by the Tidewater Jewish Youth Council of the Norfolk Jewish Community Center. Nancy Nusbaum crowned the new queen.

May 1, 1957 The Jewish Community Center will sponsor its first Annual Men’s Golf Tournament at Stumpy Lake Golf Course. Open to all Center members, the tournament has been arranged by a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Adolph Lombart and Martin Sherman.

May 1, 1947 Headed by Archie J. Harris as general chairman and supported by co-chairmen Phillip Barr, Albert Hofheimer, Ralph Margolius, and Ellis J. Strelitz, plans are now in the process of being evolved for the 1947 United Jewish Fund Campaign in Norfolk.

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Global surges of anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic incidents in US surging in ‘17, rose by a third in ‘16 Marcy Oster and Ben Sales

( JTA)—Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States soared 86 percent in the first three months of 2017 after rising by more than one-third in 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

There has been a massive increase in harassment of American Jews, largely since November, and at least 34 incidents linked to the presidential election that month, the ADL said Monday, April 24 in its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents.

This year has seen preliminary reports of 541 anti-Semitic incidents through March. One reason for the jump appeared to be the bomb threats called in to Jewish community centers and other Jewish institutions across the country. An IsraeliAmerican teenager is accused of calling in most of them, and he has been charged in Israel and the United States. He is in

custody in Israel.

The 2017 incidents include 380 for harassment, including the 161 bomb threats, an increase of 127 percent over the first quarter of ‘16; 155 for vandalism, including three cemetery desecrations, an increase of 36 percent, and six physical assaults, a decrease of 40 percent.

The increase in anti-Semitic acts comes despite a low level of anti-Semitic attitudes among Americans. While there was a 34 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2016, an ADL survey last month found that only 14 percent of Americans hold anti-Semitic views.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s national director, says that the numbers reflect growing assertiveness among a hard core of anti-Semites.

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Greenblatt and Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, say that a global wave of populism and corresponding backlash against elites is fueling anti-Semitism. Kantor adds that resentment of globalization coupled with economic struggles born of the 2008 recession are also contributing factors.

Greenblatt says populist demagogues have been a boon to the extreme right, as “much of their rhetoric has been normalized in the past 12 to 18 months.”

“The social contract that worked well for the past 50 years is no longer in place,” Kantor says. “We as citizens of the developed world believed every new generation would live better than the previous one, so it is not surprising that well-to-do European societies are dominated by fear rather than values – fear of poverty, fear of migrants, fear for their lives amid terror attacks.”

A study last month from the European Jewish Congress found that violent anti-Semitic incidents worldwide fell to 361 in 2016 from 410 in 2015, a decrease of 12 percent. Kantor attributes the decrease, which was most dramatic in Europe, to ramped-up security at Jewish institutions and more government funding for Jewish communal safety.

In 2016, the ADL report showed a total of 1,266 acts targeting Jews and Jewish institutions, with a 34 percent increase of incidents of assaults, vandalism and harassment over the previous year. Nearly 30 percent of those incidents, or 369, occurred in November and December.

The states with the highest number of incidents were those with large Jewish populations, including California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Massachusetts.

The acts included 720 harassment and threat incidents, an increase of 41 percent over 2015; 510 vandalism incidents, an increase of 35 percent; and 36 physical assaults, a decrease of 35 percent.

Incidents more than doubled in non-Jewish elementary, middle, and high

schools. The rise to 235 incidents in 2016 from 114 the previous year represented a 106 percent increase. Ninety-five incidents were reported in the first quarter of 2017.

The ADL numbers do not include online anti-Semitism, including a wave of anti-Semitic harrassment on Twitter.

A 2016 ADL report tallied 2.6 million tweets containing anti-Semitic language between August 2015 and July 2016.

Greenblatt says that the anti-Semitism statistics would be “off the charts” if cyber hate were included.

“At ADL, we will use every resource available to put a stop to anti-Semitism,” Greenblatt says. “But we also need more leaders to speak out against this cancer of hate and more action at all levels to counter anti-Semitism.”

The ADL has been tracking anti-Semitic incidents since 1979. In the past 10 years, the number of reported anti-Semitic incidents peaked at 1,554 in 2006.

Separately, Tel Aviv University’s watchdog on anti-Semitism reported that the number of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide has decreased by 12 percent in 2016 despite the spike in the United Kingdom and the United States.

According to the report by the Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses increased 45%, and the incidence of anti-Semitic hate speech, particularly online, rose dramatically worldwide.

“It has been a year of contradictions,” says Prof. Dina Porat, head of the Kantor Center and chief historian of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. “On the one hand, an overall decline in violent anti-Semitic attacks; on the other, a dramatic rise in online manifestations of anti-Semitism— and Twitter is the worst for anti-Semitic hate speech. This, along with concern over the possible impact of the refugee crisis and extreme right nationalist groups striving for power, are causing growing anxiety among Jewish communities around the world.”

Global surges of anti-Semitism Trump vows to combat Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism WASHINGTON (JTA)— President Donald Trump pledged to combat anti-Semitism and Holocaust denialism, and to defend Israel in a speech marking the national days of Holocaust remembrance.

“Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this horrible evil,” he said Tuesday, April 25 at the annual ceremony

organized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the Capitol Rotunda. “And we’ll never be silent—we just won’t. We will never, ever be silent in the face of evil again.”

Trump described anti-Semitism “on university campuses, in the public square and in threats against Jewish citizens.

Even worse, it’s been on display in the most sinister manner when terrorists attack Jewish communities, or when aggressors threaten Israel with total and complete destruction.”

He pledged to “stamp out prejudice.”

“As president of the United States, I will always stand with the Jewish people—and I will always stand with our great friend and partner, the State of Israel,” he said.

The speech and a series of statements Trump has issued in recent days differ considerably from his first week in office, when a Jan. 27 statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day neglected to mention Jews. Trump’s spokesmen subsequently said they were aiming at an “inclusive” statement to cover Jews and non-Jews murdered in the Holocaust, although the term is applied by historians solely to the Jewish genocide.

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world Why Marine Le Pen is confident she will be France’s next president Cnaan Liphshiz

(JTA)—Supporters of Emmanuel Macron were not alone in cheering his victory Sunday, April 23 in the first round of France’s presidential elections.

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who finished second in the voting, saw it as excellent news. The two will face off in the final round after the centrist Macron won 23 percent of the vote, 2 points ahead of Le Pen. She has called Macron her “ideal” adversary—Macron is relatively inexperienced and without the infrastructure of an established party, and despite running as an independent, is nonetheless widely seen as a continuity candidate of the deeply unpopular government of President Francois Hollande.

“A runoff between a patriot such as myself and a caricature of a diehard globalist like him is ideal,” Le Pen, the leader of the Eurosceptic and anti-establishment National Front party, told the AFP news agency on Jan. 17. “It’s a gift.“ To be sure, the sharp-tongued and gravel-voiced Le Pen has also spoken dismissively of other candidates.

But when it comes to Macron, she is not alone in assessing his perceived weaknesses. Nor is she alone in believing that her anti-Muslim party, with its rich record of anti-Semitism, raw nationalism and xenophobia, is closer to the presidency than at any point in its history.

Macron, 39, a youthful-looking former banker who has never held elected office, has generated a huge following among professionals in France’s more affluent cities and regions. A supporter of corporate tax cuts and competitiveness in the job market, he has appealed to voters with a cosmopolitan worldview. He backs the European Union and promotes tolerance toward minorities while acting against radicalization.

But these very characteristics, as well as Macron’s image as an aloof wunderkind who owes his success to a corrupt establishment, make him deeply unpopular to a class, largely low-income, that feels disenfranchised by immigration, globalization and the European Union. Politically this

is a perilous position, as witnessed in the 2016 vote in Britain to leave the European bloc and Donald Trump’s election.

Conservative writer Guy Millière is a Trump supporter who opposes Le Pen, but says Macron is an “inflatable doll” who, if elected, will guarantee “five more years of Hollande” and a continuation of the rule of a “clique that knows nothing about the difficulties of ordinary Frenchmen,” he wrote on the rightist news site Dreuz. “He’s a candidate made up by billionaires.”

Macron’s supporters say that although he served two years as a Cabinet minister under Hollande, a socialist, Macron is in fact an outsider to the political establishment and the only candidate who stands a chance to transcend bipartisan divisions in a deeply polarized society. Macron also was inspector of finances in the French Ministry of Economy under Jaques Chirac, a center-right president.

Yet that, too, could be an Achilles heel in a country where no independent candidate has won a presidential election since the 1970s.

Relatively inexperienced in politics and lacking the support of established party mechanisms, Macron is now up against one of France’s shrewdest and most seasoned politicians in Le Pen, a career lawmaker who heads one of her country’s most dynamic and hierarchical parties, and whose life partner and father both have devoted their adult lives to politics.

Le Pen’s family legacy, however, may play in Macron’s favor.

The daughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust denier and open anti-Semite who she succeeded as party leader in 2011, she and her party are widely regarded as extremist and borderline neo-fascist despite her efforts to rehabilitate its image.

Francis Kalifat, the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, has called Le Pen “a candidate of hate.” Last month, he called on voters to vote for Macron in the second round, just to keep Le Pen out of power.

Known in France as a “republican front,” such mobilizations, in which voters set aside their differences and vote for the

candidate likeliest to keep National Front out of power, have cost the party many elections. In 2002, the only time National Front participated in the second round of a presidential elections, the republican front resulted in Chirac beating JeanMarie Le Pen with 82 percent of the vote.

Since then, Marine Le Pen has kicked out of the party dozens of members who were caught making anti-Semitic statements—including her father in 2015 after he said a Jewish singer should be put “in an oven.”

But in a remark that critics say echoed her father’s revisionism, she said last month that France was not responsible for how its police rounded up Jewish Holocaust victims for the Nazis.

Marine Le Pen has also vowed to outlaw the wearing of the kippah in public, explaining she does not regard it as a threat, but will ban it nonetheless to facilitate imposing similar limitations on headgear worn by Muslims, whom she flagged as a “threat to French culture.”

Kalifat said she was a “threat to French democracy” and Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Congress, wrote that she is “no less dangerous than her Holocaust-denying father.”

Many in the French political establishment concur, and most of the losing candidates urged their supporters to vote for Macron, including Benoit Hamon of the Socialist Party and Francois Fillon of The Republicans of former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

But this year, that front has at least one major gap: Jean-Luc Melenchon, the communist candidate, who is also a Eurosceptic, did not call on his supporters to vote for Macron.

In light of the challenges facing Macron, even some of his ardent supporters spoke openly of their concern ahead of the final round.

“I don’t consider today as a victory,” Michael Amsellem, one of Macron’s many Jewish supporters, wrote on Facebook.

“Having Le Pen in the second round is a tragedy.”

“The French people are full of surprises,” he added. “This is not going to be so simple.”

Yom Ha’Atzmaut

Seven incredible new things the world can thank Israel for Andrew Tobin

TEL AVIV (JTA)—To build a Jewish state in the Middle East, Israelis had to be innovators.

Some of what they’ve come up with has been used mostly by their fellow citizens—think Hebrew slang, Bamba snacks and the Iron Dome missile defense system—at least so far.

But many other Israeli creations have changed the world: drip irrigation, the USB flash drive and actress Natalie Portman, among them.

Just in time for Yom Ha’atzmaut— Israel’s Independence Day, to be celebrated on May 2—here are some incredible things Israel gave the world this year, its 69th year of independence.

marijuana-related innovation. In 1964, Raphael Mechoulan, a chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discovered tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive constituent of cannabis. He went on to identify the endocannabinoid system upon which cannabinoids act on the body.

Last summer, the government approved a plan by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman to relax some requirements for obtaining medical cannabis. And in March, it decriminalized recreational marijuana use.

other Israeli films and TV shows, including Prisoners of War, from which the hit U.S. show Homeland was adapted.

Reviewers and fans have lauded Fauda for offering an unusually complex and humane portrayal of Arab characters, even terrorists, and for capturing the

reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule. Loaded with Arab actors, the show has won fans on both sides of the Green Line that demarcates the territories that Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. continued on page 10

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A weed inhaler Puff, puff, pass the inhaler.

In November, the Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva announced it would begin marketing a medical cannabis inhaler in Israel that delivers precise doses of the drug. Rambam Hospital in Haifa had already been using the device for more than a year, making it the first medical center in the world to prescribe cannabis as a standard medical treatment.

Perry Davidson, the founder and CEO of Syqe Medical, which developed the inhaler, said his company plans to eventually offer it around the world.

“Israel is clearly just the start,” he told Bloomberg. “We expect to be approved for use in other countries in due course.

The U.S., as the biggest medical cannabis market, is an obvious target.”

The inhaler is far from Israel’s first

A binge-worthy series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict The Israeli TV drama Fauda has given the world a compelling look inside the conflict at the heart of the Jewish state.

Nearly two years after the show became a mega-hit in Israel, Netflix in December began streaming the first, and so far only season, in 130 countries. In the United States and elsewhere, English subtitles were added over the Arabic and Hebrew dialogue.

Fauda—Arabic for “chaos”—was informed by the Israeli military experiences of co-writers Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz. The show follows undercover Israeli soldiers as they pursue a fictional Hamas terrorist in the West Bank and also delves deep into the lives of the Palestinian characters.

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A popular sport for middle-aged women Popularized by Israeli moms in 2005, the women’s sport of catchball has recently gone global.

Catchball is like volleyball, but easier, because catching and throwing replaces bumping, setting, and spiking. Israeli women adapted the sport from Newcomb, which some Americans may know from summer camp or gym class.

Meanwhile, catchball leagues in Israel boast more than 12,000 female members, almost all of them over 30. That is twice as many adult women as belong to basketball, soccer, volleyball, and tennis leagues combined, according to data from Israel’s Culture and Sport Ministry.

“It’s like a disease among middle-aged women here,” says Naor Galili, the director-general of the Maccabi sports association in Israel. “We like it. We love it. We fully support it.”

The Israeli Catchball Association in recent years has promoted catchball in more than half a dozen other countries and helped launch a sister association in the United States. At the July Maccabiah Games, an Olympics-style event for Jewish athletes held every four years, an exhibition tournament will features dozens of teams from Israel, along with squads from Boston, London, and Berlin.

Richard Gere playing a Jewish schlub Richard Gere, a famously suave gentile,

stars as a schlubby Jewish schemer in Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.

Perhaps only Israeli director Joseph Cedar could have given the world such a gift. The bitingly funny film follows Norman Oppenheimer as he aspires to serve as a fixer between New York’s Jewish community, into which Cedar was born, and Jerusalem, where he was raised.

Cedar knowingly—and often humorously—navigates the gaps between the two worlds. As NPR’s pop culture critic John Powers put it, “Cedar cheerfully skewers Israeli politics and its emotional relationship to American Jewry in a way that U.S. directors dare not.”

The director doesn’t worry whether the film is “good for the Jews,” Powers notes.

Treatment for thousands of wounded Syrians Officially, Israel has maintained a policy of non-intervention in the Syrian war and has not taken in any refugees. But the Jewish state has still managed to offer some help to its northern neighbors.

Since early 2013, the Israeli army has taken in some 3,000 wounded Syrians for treatment. Generally working at night, soldiers have provided initial medical care and then evacuated the wounded to nearby hospitals.

The numbers are a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands who have been killed and wounded in the fighting between soldiers loyal to President Bashar Assad and rebel groups. But they are significant to those whose limbs and lives have been saved, including hundreds of children.

During a visit last month to the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin

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promised the country would “continue to do everything it can with responsibility and wisdom in order to alleviate the suffering of the people who experience daily slaughter here on the other side of the border.”

Israeli civilians have donated hundreds of thousands of shekels to help Syrian refugees, and there has been official talk of accepting 100 orphans, though nothing has come of it.

Self-driving cars Your next car may very well come with an Israeli driver, though it won’t be human.

The U.S. chipmaker Intel last month bought Israel’s driverless technology company Mobile for $15.3 billion, the largest-ever purchase of a high-tech company in this country. In a joint announcement, the companies said the deal “is expected to accelerate innovation for the automotive industry and position Intel as a leading technology provider in the fast-growing market for highly and fully autonomous vehicles.”

Founded in 1999, Mobileye has supplied integrated cameras, chips and software for driver-assist systems—the building blocks for self-driving cars—to more than two dozen vehicle manufacturers. The company has already taken over 70 percent of the global market for driver-assistance and anti-collision systems.

Mobileye was a supplier of vision systems to Tesla until the companies broke up last summer after a man died in a crash while his Tesla Model S was on autopilot.

Co-founder and CEO Ziv Aviram has said Mobileye, with its 660 employees, will remain centered in Israel, from where it will develop Intel’s first driverless car.

A Wonder Woman with weapons training After first playing Wonder Woman in last year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Israeli actress Gal Gadot will appear in her own DC Comics film this summer.

As a former Israeli soldier, Gadot has brought some unique skills to the role of Amazonian superhero. In March 2016, she talked to ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel about how her army service, saying, “The military gave me good training for Hollywood.”

In her previous Fast and Furious appearances (in which she plays an ex-Mossad agent), the one-time Miss Israel impressed director Justin Lin with her knowledge of weapons and performed her own stunts for the franchise. She also showed off her fighting abilities in last year’s Keeping Up with the Joneses as the better half of a suburban secret agent couple.

While Gadot’s films haven’t exactly been critically acclaimed, she has remained a national hero. Israelis have widely admired her for fulfilling her mandatory military service while fellow Israeli swimsuit model Bar Refaeli has taken some heat for avoiding enlistment.

Gadot is the first to play Wonder Woman on the big screen. Since superhero franchises never seem to end, Gadot —who has two daughters with husband Yaron Varsan, an Israeli real estate developer—is set to play the character in at least two more films this year.

Celebrating Women and Mothers Day

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unt, grandmother, daughter, mother, niece, wife, sister, friend—these words describe just the basic everyday roles for women. Then, there’s executive, rabbi, attorney, doctor, chef, teacher, student, journalist, commander,

actor, therapist, designer, and so, so, much more. While that list is meant to highlight the myriad professions that women assume today, I bet that plenty of moms would argue that they engage in all of those roles as a mother! Just a guess.

And, so, less than two weeks from Mother’s Day, this feels like the perfect time for Jewish News to celebrate women.

Within these pages, three very different women are profiled.

Devorah Ben-David Elstein’s heart-felt tribute to Renee Heyman, the powerhouse behind Temple Emanuel’s Pink Tea, is equal parts inspirational and informational. A 42-year breast cancer survivor, Heyman died last year following a heart attack. Her story and her legacy are packed with important life lessons. Page 16.

United States Naval Cmdr. Elaine G. Luria is about to transition from 24 years of life in the U.S. Navy to civilian life in Tidewater. How many Jewish women do you

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Moving away from profiles….

What Jewish woman doesn’t have a thing or two to say about food? The article, “Stop telling your daughter she should eat less cream cheese” provides much food for thought.

“Honoring my mom with seven fabulous Yiddish words,” is an article that I’m certain many of us can relate to—if not the part about having a mom who spoke Yiddish, perhaps the value of that precious language, where words always seem to perfectly match the situation. Check it out on page 13.

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Women Honoring my mom with seven fabulous Yiddish words Linda Pressman

(Kveller via JTA)—It’s 1968, or 1978, basically anytime I’m with my mom in her lifetime and we’re out in public.

Finicky about fabrics and proper attire, my mother always offered a choice opinion in Yiddish. If they don’t speak the language, no big deal, she just mutters her criticisms to me in that tongue under her breath, criticisms so precise that they take my breath away: someone’s dress is plotzing (too tight), or it’s ongepotchked (over-ornamented), or it’s just drek (junk).

We were an immigrant family, more immigrant in spirit when the first child was born and less so with each subsequent child until, by the time there were seven of us, my parents spoke English to their Yiddish-illiterate children.

Of course, they tried to speak Yiddish to me but, as an American-born child of the 1960s, I wasn’t listening.

I scorned Yiddish as the old country language used by my parents to keep secrets from me and as the language of a million uninteresting grown-up conversations. I couldn’t imagine why I’d be interested in Yiddish.

Of course, I changed my mind later, too late, long after my brain had frozen onto English. But I discovered something amazing and colorful, something I could not live without linguistically: Yiddish adjectives and exclamations, which describe characteristics and behaviors so well.

While English flails around, always somehow missing the mark, Yiddish nails it, just as my mother demonstrated so long ago. And this ability to get things “just right” has a Yiddish term—punkt.

In honor of my mom, and her

under-the-breath comments, here are seven of my favorite Yiddish words.

1. Drek—Garbage or substandard junk.

You can eat something and pronounce it drek, or you can buy something shoddily made and declare it drek. This one comes in handy.

2. Potchke—Fussing with, or messing with inexpertly. After being served this drek, you try to potchke it into something delicious but just end up making a mess of it. [poch-key]*

3. Goniff—the jerk who sold I you the drek—literally, a thief. A person who steals discovered you blind. A pronouncesomething ment on his soul for being a thief. [gah-niff] amazing and colorful, something 4. Ongeblozen—Full of him/herself, conI could not live ceited. You try to get without linguistically: your money back from the ongeblozen Yiddish adjectives goniff for the drek he sold you when you’re and exclamations, unable to potchke it which describe into something edible. [ung-eh-bluh-zen] characteristics and 5. Schlmozel—You for behaviors so being a hopeless dupe who well. got swindled by the ongeblozen goniff who sold you the drek. [shl-mah-zle] 6. Schpilkes—How you feel inside now with your guts churning after you were such a schlmozel for buying such drek from that ongeblozen goniff. [shpill-kiss] 7. Meshuganah—Crazy, insane. How you feel when you think about the ongeblozen goniff who gave you such schpilkes when he sold you the drek and made you into such a schlmozel. [mesh-u-gah-nah] I can’t live without these Yiddish words.

I’ve taught them to my children and to my Americanish Jewish husband. I’ve taught

them to my non-Jewish friends who are thrilled that they will never again have to futilely search English for a word that just doesn’t exist. Search no more. The word exists. It’s in Yiddish. *All pronunciations by author. Official

pronunciations at www.yivo.org.

—Linda Pressman is a freelance writer, editor, blogger, and speaker. She was the blog editor of Poetica Magazine and is the author of Looking Up: A Memoir of Sisters, Survivors and Skokie, which won the Grand Prize in the Writer’s Digest 20th Annual Book Contest.

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nited States Naval Cmdr. Elaine Goodman Luria appears at ease when there’s a new adventure, opportunity, or challenge to be seized. Whether it is operating ships for the U.S. Navy, imagining, starting, and expanding a new business, or raising a family, Luria calmly and efficiently takes it all in stride.

While she doesn’t appear to make a big deal about it, this Jewish woman from Birmingham, Alabama was, until last month, responsible for approximately 400 personnel as a Surface Warfare Officer. On April 27, Luria was relieved as Commanding Officer of Assault Craft Unit Two in a ceremony held at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. The ceremony marked the completion of a successful tour for Luria who served as the unit’s executive officer and commander from July 2014 through April 2017. The Change of Command also marked Luria’s retirement from the U.S. Navy after 20 years of service (24 years, when including her education at the U.S. Naval Academy).

Luria and her husband, Cmdr. (Ret.) Robert Blondin, who retired after 27 years of naval service, have lived in Norfolk since 2000. With three children: Chloe and Claiborne (who are adults) and Violette (who is in elementary school), the couple plans to remain here.

“This will be home,” says Luria. “We will stay here permanently. The community has so much to offer and we’ve developed lots of friendships over the years.”

Settling in Norfolk seems natural for Luria, because, as she notes, “my family has passed in and out of Norfolk since World War II when my grandmother’s sister was married to a Navy doctor stationed here.”

Although both of her grandfathers served in the Navy, that wasn’t her life plan until she attended U.S. Naval Academy Summer Science and Engineering

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Seminar, a high school program on the historic campus in Annapolis, Maryland.

Luria decided right then and there that a career in the Navy was for her. She applied—and naturally, she was accepted.

“I am proud to have taken the oath to serve our country when I was 17,” Luria says. In 1997, she graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in physics and history.

Since then, her assignments have included five deployments to the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Western Pacific areas of operation and two assignments forward-deployed to Japan in USS O’Brien, USS Harry S. Truman, Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet embarked in USS Blue Ridge, USS Mason, USS Enterprise, and as executive officer of the guided missile cruiser, USS Anzio.

Under Luria’s leadership, Assault Craft Unit Two supplied combat-ready landing craft in support of all amphibious forces on the East Coast, including five Amphibious Ready Group deployments to the Mediterranean and Middle East areas of operations, humanitarian assistance to Haiti during Hurricane Matthew relief,

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multi-national exercise Cold Response in Norway, and support for United States Marine Corps assets in Honduras and Panama.

Jewish and female in the U.S. Navy While there is a large Jewish community at the Naval Academy, Luria says that was not the case on the six ships on which she served. Not one to allow obstacles such as no nearby rabbi or no convenient source of Passover foods to interfere with plans, Luria managed several times to help coordinate Passover Seders and volunteered to serve as a lay leader.

“On the ships, we used a military version of the Jewish prayer book for services,” recalls Luria. “On Passover, we had Haggadahs and received care packages of matzo and gefilte fish and had the meal prepared as close as possible to what would be served at a Seder.”

When asked if it was difficult being female and Jewish in the U.S. Navy,

Luria’s response is without hesitation.

“I believe that over the decades, that the Navy has been a step ahead of society in terms of integration and acceptance,” she says. “The Navy embraces diversity.

I never felt that I was treated differently.”

Retirement and mermaids As Luria enters retirement, she’s moving full throttle into another sort of seabased adventure. This one, however, is not made of steel or based on foreign affairs, but rather on fantasy, city spirit, and creativity.

In 2013, she and her husband opened Mermaid Factory in Ghent. “A place to paint your own mermaid,” the couple had the idea for the shop, approached the city of Norfolk and obtained a license agreement. One stipulation of the agreement was that a portion of the cost of each mermaid be donated to organizations that support youth and the arts. ForKids, Norfolk Public library, and Chrysler

Museum are among the many recipients of the funds. Now, with an additional location at the Oceanfront, 10 employees, and more than 43,000 mermaids already painted, Luria says her focus will be Elaine Luria and Robert Blondin. to help grow the company, alongside her OST community and have felt welcomed,” husband and Chloe and Clairborne.

Luria says.

But, for Luria, there’s more than the “My mother was the president of Mermaid Factory on the horizon. For the local chapter of National Council example, she’s one of 25 enrolled in the of Jewish Women in Birmingham. Both University of Virginia Sorensen Institute my mom and grandmother were active Political Leader’s Program. in NCJW, Hadassah, and Sisterhood at And, she says she plans to get involved Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, as in the Jewish community. well as with the Birmingham Jewish The first step on that journey was to Federation,” she says. join a temple. “We joined Ohef Sholom Now, she says it’s her turn to get active.

Temple and enrolled Violette in Religious School,” she says.

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hen Renee Heyman, founding mother of The Pink Tea Initiative at Temple Emanuel, invited Paula Krukin Levy to help her organize her first fundraiser in 2012, she had no way of knowing the event would outlive her.

A cancer survivor for 42 years, Heyman made a solemn vow to never let cancer get in the way of living her life.

“Renee was such a positive person,” says Joy Kaps, a member of the Pink Tea committee. “When life threw her a lemon, she just made lemonade and then invited the whole neighborhood over for a drink.”

Heyman credited her father, a radiologist, for saving her life. He advised they proceed with a treatment of combined chemotherapy and radiation to treat her massive tumor; a treatment unheard of in 1975.

In 1974, when Heyman was told she had breast cancer, a diagnosis of cancer was synonymous with a death sentence.

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“My mother—and my family—believe that her diagnosis happened for a reason,” says daughter Joanne Heyman. “My mother started going to breast cancer support meetings and championed many worthy cancer causes as a volunteer and event organizer.”

Heyman made it a priority to reach out to newly diagnosed breast cancer victims, overcome with fear, with her message of hope and personal empowerment.

According to friends, Heyman would caution the newly diagnosed that, “No one with cancer should ever be alone.”

Her other motto, “Your good health is in your hands.” was a lesson she learned, in the School of Hard Knocks, after initially being misdiagnosed by a physician in a nearby town in New York.

Born in Lithuania, Heyman grew up in New York City. She earned her degree in early education from Hunter College and made it her life’s mission to educate cancer victims about their disease.

This year’s Pink Tea is on Sunday,

3. The support of family and friends is important, as everyone needs an advocate in their corner. But don’t be intrusive.

4. Be a person who happens to have cancer. Not a cancer patient who happens to be a person.

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2. Don’t let your helping a chronically ill family member become your whole life.

3. Ask for help, from family and friends, when you need a break.

4. Don’t ignore getting your yearly physicals, etc.

5. Let your family member tell you when treatment is no longer worth undergoing. Respect their wish.

6. Be the best patient-advocate you know how.

Renee Heyman

May 7 (See page 25) The annual-fundraising event benefits the Beach Health Clinic (BHC) in Virginia Beach. For 31 years, BHC, a non-profit organization, has provided uninsured, working women in Tidewater (who fall below the 200% Federal poverty level) free, comprehensive health and dental care.

“Renee believed in our life-saving mission of helping uninsured women, who have no other opportunity to get mammograms,” says Susan Hellstrom, who volunteered at BHC for six years, prior to becoming its executive director. “Our budget is lean…just under $300,000,” she says. “But since we don’t pay any of our health care professionals, we are able to provide over $4.245 million in health care.”

The upbeat Pink Tea was so close to Heyman’s heart that she would literally break into song. Her face would beam from the podium as she k’velled at the sweet sound of cancer victims, families, and friends celebrating life.

At this year’s 6th annual Pink Tea, congregant Leslie Siegel will again transform Temple Emanuel’s social hall into a magical oasis, and Sue Adler, Temple Emanuel’s “Chef de Cuisine,” will call upon her decades of culinary creativity, to deliver an English-style tea that even the Queen of England would envy. A minimum donation of $10 is requested.

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The Heyman family in 2015: Richard Heyman, Joanne Heyman, Charles Heyman, Renee Heyman, and Bev Marks.

This year’s keynote speaker is Marni Siegel, a Temple Emanuel member who recently earned her PhD in Breast Cancer Genetics from the University of North Carolina. She has also just completed her second year in medical school. Her father, Dr. Gary Siegel, a long-time patient advocate, will introduce his daughter.

“In the last 15 years, the whole field of studying genes and cancer have been revolutionized by new technologies,” says Marni Siegel, who became smitten with the field of genetics while studying biology in the ninth grade. “We can now study the entire DNA in a cancer, so we can better understand what is causing the cancer.”

Siegel will share the hope cancer researches feel because of new information.

“We (researchers) really think we can change the trajectory of cancer treatment within the next few decades,” says Siegel.

“And I think it’s only through supporting agencies who fund research, like the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society (to name a few), that we’ll see those advances.”

Siegel lost her 58-year-old mother, Robin, to pancreatic cancer in 2013. Now, she dedicates her efforts to studying the DNA of breast cancer to unlock its secrets.

“The one thing I can say is that the treatment my mom received, over 12 years of having cancer, has dramatically changed,” says Siegel who, like Heyman, thrives by helping people. “It changed because of the research that was done in the field.”

Heyman’s son, Richard Heyman, PhD, is a pioneer in cancer research in honor of his mother. He integrates science in his quest to discover new drugs to help cancer patients.

“I was a freshman in college when my mother was diagnosed and had her surgery,” says Richard Heyman, who serves on the board of trustees of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. “It was a life-changing moment for me when I realized my parents were mortal.”

Jean Ford, a long-time friend of Heymen’s, met her in a breast cancer support group at Sentara Leigh Breast Cancer clinic in 1991. The women bonded over their desire to help patients. Ford, a cancer survivor, remains an active volunteer.

“I’ve had cancer four times,” says Ford, who attends monthly cancer support groups. “I go to give scared women hope, by letting them know I’ve lived with cancer for 25 years.”

“There are 3.2 million breast cancer survivors today and that number is growing,” says Sharon Laderberg, executive director, Susan G. Komen Tidewater.

“When diagnosed in the early stages, a woman in the United States now has a 99% relative survival rate after five years.”

Lisa Chacon, special projects and development manager, Susan G. Komen Tidewater, was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram at 42. Many people know her by her T-shirt that reads, “These are fakes. The real ones tried to kill me.”

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making healthy lifestyle choices and knowing what’s ‘normal’ for you,” she says.

Forty-two years of medical mitzvoth really adds up over a lifetime. Renee Heyman now lives in the minds and hearts of all she has met and in those who follow in her footsteps.

Some remember her love of cooking…her fabulous flank steak and her “secret family recipe” for mashed potatoes (her one vanity). Others hear her voice, resounding in their minds, at a breast cancer support meeting, saying

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Renee Heyman died of a heart attack on June 28, 2016.

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arly in her teen years, Zoe Martina Siegel knew that all was not right with the world. Her consciousness rose and she began to speak out. In fact, her Norfolk Academy senior speech was about reproductive rights and how politicized they are.

It’s not so surprising, then, that this Tidewater native, who will graduate this month with a bachelor of science degree in Applied Psychology and Global Public Health from New York University, is the recipient of the Social Justice Award from the NYU Steinhardt Department of Applied Psychology. The award is presented to a student for her contribution to improving the life conditions of vulnerable individuals or communities. Siegel was nominated for the award by the faculty.

“I knew since I was in ninth grade that I was not happy with the status quo and it was possible to make a difference,” says Siegel. “I saw it in the work my parents did everyday and knew I needed to follow their lead.”

Siegel is the daughter of Lisa Bertini and Dr. Jack Siegel.

Passionate about helping others, Siegel is apt at identifing places where she can contribute her efforts, packing her bags and traveling to pitch in. Siegel has worked in remote locales in underdeveloped nations, as well as in communities of need in bustling U.S. cities.

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Women doesn’t always make us thin, and that thin isn’t what makes them valuable, and that their bodies aren’t anyone else’s concern.

They need parents who have conversations with them about how to enjoy and celebrate food, not why they would enjoy fitting into a smaller dress size. Even more, they need parents who are curious about how their daughters feel about their bodies, without judgment, without shame. They need accomplices in understanding and dismantling the sexism that undermines their personhood.

Of course, if your daughter does have a medical issue associated with her weight, it’s important to get the right care for her.

But parents, please, please don’t make things worse than they already are. Those silent eye rolls you throw her way when she reaches for another latke don’t help either. If you feel genuinely concerned about your daughter’s health, offer her love and support and be curious about how she feels. Offer to spend time with her doing something she likes to do.

And communicate, above all else, that you want her to be happy, not skinny.

Everyone is affected by sexism. Everyone has body issues. But Jewish women (and

queer folks, people of color and differently abled folks, while we’re at it) often experience it differently. I can speak from my own experience as a former Jewish teenager with disordered eating, as a clinician who completed her master’s thesis on “Jewish Women and Our Bodies,” and as a veteran Jewish youth educator when I tell you: Your daughter should eat however much cream cheese she wants to, and she will figure out for herself, when she is ready, how she feels best in her own body.

And if you find yourself, parent or aunt or grandma with feelings of disapproval or judgment when you watch your daughter slather her bagel in the morning, I urge you to process your feelings on your own with a spouse or a trusted friend. Do not take them out on your daughter.

Because chances are, your feelings aren’t actually about her. They are about you. And you deserve the same compassion, curiosity and attention your daughter does.

—Stephanie Goldfarb works as the director of youth philanthropy and leadership at the Jewish United Fund in Chicago, where she specializes in Jewish youth experiential education.

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Hotline for women’s questions on Halacha-Jewish Law extends hours for American women Nishmat’s Golda Koschitsky Women’s Halachic Hotline (1-877-YOETZET)— which assists Jewish women seeking woman-to-woman advice on personal questions related to Jewish Law (halacha) and women’s health—recently extended its hours of operation in the United States and Canada: Sunday-Wednesday 11 am to 5 pm Thursdays: 11 am to 9 pm Saturdays, beginning one half hour after Shabbat for three hours A new callback feature invites callers to leave a phone number if the line is busy and a Yoetzet Halacha will return calls in the order they are received.

This will allow more women from more locations nationwide to reach out to Yoatzot Halacha trained individuals with questions that they may feel otherwise embarrassed to ask or just do not know how to ask.

The Women’s Halachic Hotline, staffed

by Yoatzot Halacha—women halachic consultants—educated at Nishmat, The Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women in Jerusalem, is supervised by Rabbi Yaakov Varhaftig and Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin in Jerusalem and Rabbi Kenneth Auman in New York.

Nishmat’s Yoatzot Halacha provide observant women the chance to address questions about taharat hamishpachah

(an area of Jewish Law relating to marriage, sexuality and women’s health).

Yoatzot provide information, respond to queries and teach women how Jewish law applies to their personal situations.

Women who call Yoatzot often ask questions relating to: • Gynecological problems and procedures • Pregnancy, prenatal testing, and childbirth • Fertility treatments • Family planning • Menopause Yoatzot Halacha are employed by 37 communities and Orthodox synagogues in

North America, where they work with community rabbis.

The Hotline offers women the opportunity to speak with a Yoetzet discreetly and anonymously.

Yoatzot Halacha are also accessed on-line through Nishmat’s website, www. yoatzot.org, which features 1,000 articles on taharat hamishpacha and some of the 350,000 questions that women have asked Yoatzot Halacha in the past 18 years.

For further information call the Hotline (1-877-96-8938 or 1-877-YOETZET) or visit www.yoatzot.org.

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Lag B’Omer Bash: Bonfires and Family Fun Sunday, May 14, 5–7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Free for Moms in honor of Mothers’ Day Sherri Wisoff

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ore than 400 people, young and old, gathered last year to light up the night sky with a blazing bonfire for an Israeli inspired Lag B’Omer Bash at the Sandler Family Campus. This year’s celebration of the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer, promises to be another joyous night of community family fun. The event is sponsored by the Simon Family JCC, United Federation of Tidewater’s Young Adult Division, and the Chabad Lubavitch of Tidewater.

All festivities will take place in the campus’ backyard making easy access for the children to use the playground equipment and the Gaga pit for rousing Israeli dodge ball games throughout the evening.

Israeli music will add to the spirit of the Lag B’Omer Bash, along with a cookout that will include corn on the cob, hamburgers, hot dogs, and veggie burgers.

Since Lag B’Omer lands on Mother’s Day this year, moms will get free entry. Moms can sit around the flickering bonfire and enjoy the magical drum circle jams while their children have their faces painted, eat cotton candy, or crunch on colorful snow cones from the Kona Ice Truck.

The evolution of this enigmatic Jewish holiday is debated, but it has become associated with ancient traditions and events that have now defined its meaning and unique community celebration.

Between the time of the liberation from Egypt celebrated during Passover, to the

receiving of the Torah at the foot of Mount Sinai on Shavuot, it became a mitzvah to count each one of these 49 days (known as the counting of the Omer), and present an omer, a sheaf of barley or wheat, to the temple as an offering.

Some say that the 33rd day refers to a day of redemption when a terrible plague that killed thousands of students of Rabbi Akiba in the 2nd century, suddenly ceased. Others connect this day with the death of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a great teacher of Jewish mysticism, with the light of the bonfire symbolic of the wisdom of his teachings. Modern Jewish tradition sometimes links the holiday to the Bar Kokhba Revolt against the Roman Empire (132-135 CE). In Israel, it is celebrated as a symbol for the fighting Jewish spirit.

Regardless of the beginnings, the 33rd day marks a break in a time of mourning during which weddings, parties, and dinners with dancing and music are not conducted and even haircuts are forbidden. However, on this 33rd day, all mourning practices are lifted for a spirited night of celebration.

This event is open to the community. To register or for more information, visit www.simonfamilyjcc.org/lagbomer. $5 per person* or $25 per family by May 7. $8 per person* or $40 per family after May 7. *Children under 2 are free. $0 for moms.

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pring means it’s time for Jewish Family Service’s m o s t anticipated event of the year: the 13th Annual Run, Roll or Stroll. In addition to the 8K run, 5K run or walk, and 1 mile run/walk, plenty of fun family activities are planned.

Synagogues, schools, businesses, and other organizations are encouraged to form teams. Prizes will be awarded for the largest teams in each category.

Prior to each race, runners and walkers can warm up their muscles with a trainer from J-Fit, capture the moment in a photo booth, play a little corn hole, visit some vendors, and enjoy music from the New 101.3 2WD. Kids can have their face painted and everyone can visit the vendors—Neighborhood Harvest, Oberweiss Dairy, and Cold Pressed Express. Spring cleaning? Don’t throw out those athletic shoes. Recycle them by bringing them to the bins for MORE Foundation Group.

Spring Into Healthy Living with James Young, MD, world-renowned physician from Cleveland Clinic Wednesday, May 10, 7 pm Chrysler Museum, Norfolk This year’s Spring Into Healthy Living speaker is again from the Cleveland James Young, MD Clinic. Renowned physician, James Young, MD, will speak at the George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Theatre at the Chrysler Museum of Art. “With the changing landscape of the healthcare profession,” says Young, “we must change how we educate our future

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physicians. We must demand knowledgably skilled, compassionate professionals who understand the need to put patients first and develop teamwork. No longer is the physician a gladiator alone fighting disease. We must change the old-fashioned medical education paradigm.”

A cardiologist, Young will also answer questions on medical current events.

The evening is generously made possible by Linda H. Kaufman.

The program is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. To register, call 757-321-2235 or visit http:// tinyurl.com/JFSevent.

Tempt taste buds at No Frill Grill Monday, May 1–Sunday, May 7 Visit the No Frill Grill (Hilltop location only) any time between Monday, May 1 and Sunday, May 7 and order the “JFS Tuscan Salad.” No Frill Grill will donate the proceeds from this salad to JFS. The restaurant is located at 1620 Laskin Road, Virginia Beach.

Visit www.nofrillgrill.com.

Sponsorship opportunities for the 13th Annual Spring Into Healthy Living are still available. Contact Betty Ann Levin or Sue Graves at 757-321-2222 to learn more.

The presenting sponsor of Spring Into Healthy Living is Towne Bank. Lead sponsors are the Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Fund of the Tidewater Jewish Foundation.

The Copeland/Klebanoff Families are the Diamond sponsor. *Of blessed memory

Participants in the Run, Roll or Stroll or Mitzvah Miles, enable JFS to help more people.

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Run, Roll or Stroll, Mitzvah Miles participants simply ask family and friends for monetary donations of any amount to help JFS provide many vital services. To learn more, contact a synagogue office or visit www.jfsrunrollorstroll.org.

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Racers warm up before the 2016 race with a JCC trainer.

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Holocaust Commission’s 13th Biennial Educators’ Conference Words Matter: Now More Than Ever Wednesday, July 26, 7:30 am–4 pm, Norfolk Academy Batten Library Thursday, July 27, 7:30 am–5 pm, trip to the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond

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he Holocaust Commission’s 13th Biennial Educator’s Conference, which continues a tradition of enabling teachers, administrators, student advocates, humanitarians, and history buffs to better understand the tragic events of the Holocaust, is now open for registration.

Participants will learn new methods of teaching challenging material and discover ways to make Holocaust education relevant in today’s world.

During the information packed twoday event, participants will hear from two keynote speakers, Alexandra Zapruder and Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger; participate in a Combating Bullying workshop with Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities; and receive a special educators’ tour of the Virginia Holocaust Museum, including the traveling Auschwitz exhibit created by the VHM, and a lecture from Dr. Charles Sydnor, the museum’s senior historian.

This year’s keynote speakers bring valuable insights and information to the expanding spectrum of Holocaust history

and education.

Alexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In 2002, her first book, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. In 2005, she wrote and co-produced a documentary film for young audiences, I’m Still Here, which aired on MTV and was later nominated for two Emmy awards. Having expanded her original book into an interdisciplinary education tool for middle and high school teachers, Zapruder travels the country to share the message in Salvaged Pages.

Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, a board‑certified family physician, was 14 years old when he discovered that his “war hero” father had been a highly decorated tank commander and Nazi officer involved in murdering Jews and other civilians during the war. This knowledge sent him on a quest to understand the legacy of his father and his nation, leading him to move to Israel,

become a citizen, convert to Judaism and serve in the IDF. Renouncing his father, Wollschlaeger authored three books including, A German Life: Against All Odds Change is Possible, his 2007 memoir, which describes his struggle growing up in Germany in the shadow of this chilling

Alexandra Zapruder

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truth.

Full two day Conference: $75 (includes meals, transportation to Richmond and all class resources) Keynote presentations only: $50 For more information and to register, email info@holocaustcommission.org, visit www.jewishva.org/holocaust-educator-conferences, or call 757-965-6125.

Learn about the Technion — Sunday, May 21, 10 am, Beth El

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multi-media program featuring Irv Elenberg, MidAtlantic regional director for the American Technion Society (ATS), will be presented by the Men’s Club of Congregation Beth El and Avraham and Patricia Ashkenazi.

Elenberg has transformed the Washington, DC office from a minor presence to a thriving region of support for the ATS, which exists to support the Technion and raise more than $100 million each year.

A graduate of The Wharton School of Business of University of Pennsylvania, Elenberg will speak about The Technion— Israel Institute of Technology.

The Technion is a major source of

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innovation and brainpower that drives the Israeli economy, and is a key to Israel’s reputation as the world’s “Start-Up Nation.” Technion makes immeasurable contributions to the world in the areas of medicine, energy, computer science, water conservation, and nanotechnology. Its founders patterned Technion after MIT, but on a ”shoestring” budget.

Annual tuition at the Technion is $3,000 vs $40,000 at MIT. Israel has 72 companies listed on NASDAQ and 49 of them were founded or are led by Technion alumni. In addition, more than 80% of the engineers at Rafael (makers of the Iron Dome and Arrow Missile

protection systems) are Technion alumni.

Technion researchers and alumni have: • Created Google’s “suggested search” feature • Invented drip irrigation • Created the Flash Drive • Created PDF format • Created the Pentium, Centrino, and Core 2 Duo chips • Invented the Rewalk robotic exoskeleton.

Admission to the event is free, but reservations are required as a lox and bagel brunch will be served and seating is limited. Call the Beth El office at 757- 625-7821 or email noelle@bethelnorfolk.com no later than 12 pm, Wednesday, May 17.

Note: This is not a fundraiser.

what’s happening A Taste of Israel comes to Tidewater with Puzzle Chefs’ Israeli Kitchen Encounter

Lynne Seagle to speak at Temple Israel’s Annual Disability Awareness Shabbat

Tuesday, May 2, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus

Saturday, May 20, 9:30 am

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uy Marom and Nir Margalith, Israeli chefs and founders of the tour group Puzzle Israel, will share their love of fresh, authentic Israeli food in a fun, hands-on Israeli Kitchen Encounter.

At this culinary workshop, participants will be able to enjoy a glass of wine while working side by side with the chefs to create gourmet Chefs Guy Marom and Nir Margalith will prepare food for Israel Fest, as cuisine. The evening will com- well as present a hands-on cooking demonstration on Tuesday, May 2. bine delicious food and drink, entertaining stories, and the opportunity to learn new cooking skills.

Israeli Kitchen Encounters is the final event for this season’s Israel Today series, presented

by Simon Family JCC, Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, and community partners, which offers cultural and educational programs aimed at highlighting the diversity of talent and people that comprise Israeli life.

Limited space is available. Individual tickets are: $41 or $36 for JCC members; Couple tickets are $72 or $60 for JCC members. To purchase tickets, visit www.jewishva.org/israeltoday#kitchenencounters or call 757-321-2304.

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emple Israel’s Annual Disability Awareness Shabbat will feature Lynne Seagle, executive director of the Hope House Foundation, as the guest speaker.

Seagle began her career at Hope House Foundation in 1978 as director of residential services. She has served as executive director for more than three decades. Under her leadership, Hope House has become internationally known for its innovative, person-centered approach. She says that one of her proudest accomplishments was guiding the agency through the transition from group homes to supporting people in their own apartments in the early 1990’s.

In 1986, Seagle was honored as the Virginia Administrator of the Year by the Virginia Community Living Association (CLAMR), and also received an Innovation Award from the same organization.

Passionate about social justice and equality for all people, particularly those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, in 1990, she received the Leadership Award from the American Association on Intellectual Disabilities, and in 1998, she received the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation’s

International Future Leader Award.

In 2011, she was appointed to the Arc of Virginia’s board of directors.

She has also served Lynne Seagle on the President’s Commission on Intellectual Disabilities and is on the Advisory board of the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation.

The Hope House Foundation supports adults with a primary diagnosis of a developmental or intellectual disability such as Down Syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, traumatic brain injury, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and more. Many of the people they serve also have physical disabilities and emotional issues.

Hope House continues to serve their clients as they grow older or are faced with difficult medical challenges. It currently serves 123 people.

Temple Israel is located at 7255 Granby Street in Norfolk. For more information, call 489-4550

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New Israel Fund luncheon

Temple Emanuel celebrates its 6th Annual Pink Tea

Saturday, May 6, 1 pm

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conversation and luncheon with the New Israel Fund will take place at the home of Susan Feit and Eitan Stern.

The New Israel Fund, Israel’s leading progressive organization, has been working to advance equality, pluralism, and democracy for almost 40 years.

The event will take place at 413 Raleigh Ave., Norfolk. Open to the community. RSVP to eitanstern8@gmail.com or 757-559-2499.

Sunday, May 7, 2–4 pm

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he keynote speaker for this annual event to benefit the Beach Health Clinic to support under-served women with free cancer screenings and mammograms is Marni Siegel.

For information, call Paula Krukin Levy, event chair, at 757-4676677; Devorah Elstein, co-chair, at 757-619-6236, or the temple office, 757-428-2591.

Minimum donation is $10.

Temple Emanuel is located at 424 25th St. in Virginia Beach.

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Vivid docudrama, In Our Hands, retells the modern battle that returned Jerusalem to Israel

May 2, Tuesday Israel Today with Chefs Guy Marom and Nir Margalith. Celebrate Yom Ha’tzmaut through the taste and culture of Israel. A fun, hands-on, culinary adventure. Limited space.

Visit www.JewishVa.org/IsraelToday or call 757-321-2304. See page 25.

Film marks 50th Anniversary of Israel’s Six-Day War

May 7, Sunday Run, Roll or Stroll. Jewish Family Service. 24th Street Park at Virginia Beach Boardwalk. www.jfsrunrollorstroll.org. See page 23.

CBN and Fathom Events present theatrical screening, Tuesday, May 23

Brith Sholom board meeting 10 am, regular meeting at 11 am, followed by brunch. Beth Sholom. $3 for members; $10 for guests. Speaker will be Bill Outzs, with the true story of the Titanic. Contact LeeAnne Mallory at Brith.Sholom1@hrcoxmail.com or at 757-461-1150.

Pink Tea at Temple Emanuel. Benefit for the Beach Health Clinic to support under-served women with free cancer screenings and mammograms. 2–4 pm. See pages 16 and 25.

May 10, Wednesday 13th Annual Spring Into Healthy Living with James Young, MD, world-renowned physician from Cleveland Clinic. Chrysler Museum. 7 pm. See page 23.

May 14, Sunday Lag B’Omer Bash. Join Simon Family JCC, Young Adult Division of UJFT and Chabad of Tidewater for a BBQ dinner, beer, music, a magical drum circle, and a bonfire. It’s Mother’s Day, so all moms are free. 5–7:30 pm. Sandler Family Campus. Individual: $5; family: $25. www.simonfamilyjcc.org/lagbomer.

June 5, Monday Simon Family JCC’s Presidents’ Cup Golf Tournament. Heron Ridge Golf Club. simonfamilyjcc.org/about-us/support-your-jcc/presidentscup/. Call 757-321-2337 or email Corrie Lentz at clentz@simonfamilyjcc.org.

Send submissions for calendar to news@ujft.org. Be sure to note “calendar” in the subject.

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n the 50th Anniversary of the ArabIsraeli Six-Day War comes the gripping new docudrama In Our Hands: The Battle for Jerusalem. This CBN Documentaries film brings to life the battle of paratroopers’ hard-won victory at Ammunition Hill that reclaimed Jerusalem’s Old City and the Western Wall.

Packed with interviews, archival footage and historic reenactments, In Our Hands will screen in movie theaters nationwide for a one-night Fathom Events presentation.

“To know this story is to have to tell it, particularly on the 50th anniversary of the event,” says CBN CEO Gordon Robertson.

“From the very Israeli paratroopers who fought it, In Our Hands unveils the surprise victory that returned to the Jews the Old City of Jerusalem and the Western Wall of the old Temple. One soldier called it ‘the returning to the nation its heart.’”

In Our Hands tells the story of Israel’s

55th Paratrooper Brigade and how Israel Defense Forces risked everything for the sake of their homeland. With firsthand interviews and historical reenactments, this docudrama focuses on the commitment and sacrifice of the soldiers who reunited Jerusalem, and announced to the world, “The Temple Mount is in our hands.”

Shot in Jerusalem on the actual battle sites, more than 100 actors (extras are real Israeli paratroopers) reenact the deadly fighting at Ammunition Hill and the Old City. “Most accounts of the Six-Day War are straight documentaries, and The Battle of Ammunition Hill is a sentence or two,” Robertson says. “No film we know of actually recreates these pivotal scenes and events with such intense accuracy. For new generations of Jews and Christians, In Our Hands is a must-see.”

C A R E E R O P P O RT U N I T Y H O LO C AU S T CO M M I S S I O N PRO G R A M C O O R D I N ATO R The United Jewish Federation of Tidewater seeks candidates for the position of Holocaust Commission Program Coordinator.

This part-time position (approximately 20 hours/week) is responsible for the administrative and program support of Holocaust Commission activities. A minimum of 1-2 years of administrative experience is required.

Associate's Degree in business, Public Administration, Jewish Communal Service, or other related and appropriate field, preferred. Candidate must be proficient in using MS Office Suite; have an understanding of social media and its usage; excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written. Must be available for flexible working hours.

For tickets, visit InOurHands1967.com.

Contact Taffy Hunter, Human Resources director, at 757-965-6117, resumes@ujft.org or submit resume to: United Jewish Federation of Tidewater Attention: Human Resources 5000 Corporate Woods Drive Virginia Beach, 23462

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Book Review

It’s a wrap

An ardent peace activist’s latest novel Judas Amos Oz Translated by Nicholas de Lange Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 305 pages, $25

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mos Oz, Israel’s premier author, is the very embodiment of Eretz Yisrael Hayafa, Rabbi Israel Zoberman that beautifully inspiring Israel—particularly in its early pioneering phase—a reborn nation increasingly tested in a challenging and chilling environment from without and within, while accomplishing so much in all fields of human endeavor.

Oz, whose books have been translated into 37 languages, is a member of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism. The group’s center/ left views are reminiscent of a less polarized Israeli society before the ascension into power of the political right; when the labor block dominated life in Israel and the Kibbutz, to whom Oz was exposed to as a teenager, was a leading social force.

His latest book, Judas, winner of the prestigious International Literature Prize, returns to that foundational socialist phase in Israel’s young history. Many look back at that time with nostalgia, often overlooking the inner tensions that have continued to impact the Israeli scene with unresolved issues of war and peace, acerbated by the acquisition of territories following the 1967 War. The soaring book’s saga focuses on divided Jerusalem, of which Oz is a native, at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s. The book’s protagonist, 25-year-old Shmuel Ash, who is originally from Haifa, studies for his master’s degree in history and the science of religions at Hebrew University. He struggles with his thesis on “Jewish views of Jesus.” Suddenly his girlfriend leaves him, his Socialist Renewal Group disbands due to an ideological rift, and his father unexpectedly can no longer support him.

Forced to abandon his education and get a job, Ash helps elderly Gershom Wald who resides in a house with heart-breaker

45-year-old Atalia, whose husband for a brief year and a half, Micha, Wald’s only child, was brutally murdered in the 1948 War of Independence. Thirty-seven-yearold Micha, a math whiz, volunteered to fight despite his age, health issues, and the opposition to the war of both his wife and her father, Shealtiel Abravanel.

Wald, though mourning his beloved son’s death, praises him and all who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the nascent Jewish state, while admiring David BenGurion for his foresight and unwavering leadership.

The late Abravanel, a renowned lawyer, orientalist, and top Jewish leader, broke away from Ben-Gurion and the majority who sided with creating a Jewish state, arguing that it would only lead to endless wars with the Arabs and being far more numerous, they would win in time. He opposed both a Jewish or Arab state since Jews and Arabs, both victims of Christian Europe, should first learn to live together so that the Arabs would eventually cease fearing that the Jews plot to control the Arab world through their qualitative superiority. Ideally, Abravanel envisioned a world without borders, along with separate and separating national symbols contributing to incessant conflict and bloodshed.

Surely Oz, a great Israeli patriot and world class author, is aiming at those in the current religious and nationalistic camps in Israel who call him a traitor for his liberal perspective, just as Shealtiel was called one and was thought to have lost his mind, without bothering to discuss the issue with him.

Ash’s grandfather who worked for the British mandatory police, was murdered

by Jewish extremists for being a traitor; though he was a double agent.

Ash is convinced that ironically and tragically, Judas, whose name is synonymous with betrayal in the Christian-Western mindset promoting Jew-hatred, was the one most faithful to Jesus from all of his disciples; and being a man of stature, was sent by Jerusalem’s priesthood establishment to spy on Jesus, yet became captivated by his unique

Seniors’ Seder was filled with children and gratitude Sherri Wisoff

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ne of the most beloved songs in the Passover Seder is Dayenu, meaning “it would have been enough.”

At this year’s Senior Seder at the Academy of Tidewater students perform at the Senior Seder Simon Family JCC, Hebrew at the Simon Family JCC. laughter filled the room as a line-dance of Hebrew Academy the traditional Seder plate. Since Passover of Tidewater students proceeded to launch celebrates liberation from Egyptian bondinto their renditions of three Passover age, Panitz said, “Celebrating the Seder songs, including Dayenu. with our seniors is always a moving With every stanza, the music’s tempo experience. Many of the participants are increased as the students added hand and immigrants from the former Soviet Union. dance moves to illustrate the lyrics. The They have personally experienced relichildren’s musical performance elevated gious discrimination. They relate strongly the audience with joy and gratitude, as to the story of the exodus because they 68 seniors from Jewish Family Service, have heard its echo in their own lives.”

JCC Seniors’ Club, Beth Sholom Village, With Cantor Flax chanting each blessand others gathered to celebrate an early ing, the room was filled with soulful Passover Seder led by Rabbi Michael hearts, delicious traditional Passover Panitz of Temple Israel and Cantor Elihu foods, and warm community connections.

Flax of Beth Sholom Village.

Dayenu!

Rabbi Panitz eloquently explained the historic significance of Passover, describThe event was made possible by the generous ing it as a “Feast of Freedom” and shared support of the Joseph Fleichman Memorial the symbolic meaning of each item on Fund.

personality. Thus, Ash regards Judas as the true founder of Christianity.

Though Ash appreciates Israel’s essential need and obligation to be militarily strong, he points out the limits of military power to bring peace with the Arabs, so ironically following centuries of physical powerlessness of a people so tragically discovering the limits of its coveted spiritual power which purported to substitute for the loss of its sovereignty—to protect Jewish life. He is also concerned of triumphant military hubris by a people finally gaining military prowess after a long hiatus.

I well remember the understandable

allure and needed reassurance of the Yom Ha’atzmaut military parades in Israel of the 1950s, with my father, Yechiel, a Polish Holocaust survivor, rejoicing in “Jewish tanks” and “Jewish airplanes. “ Oz remains the ardent peace activist who advocates for a two state solution to the far too long and tragic IsraeliPalestinian conflict. A great humanist, he bares his tormented soul in the prophetic tradition of a lover’s quarrel who chastises, warns, and hopes against hope with an emerging pessimistic note that should concern us all.

—Dr. Israel Zoberman is the founding rabbi of Congregation Beth Chaverim.

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obituaries Joseph Milton Collector Norfolk—A guardian angel must have accompanied Joe Collector during his numerous bombing missions over Nazi Germany, while stationed in England during World War ll. A belly gunner, his B-17 Fly Fortress was shot down twice over the English Channel requiring him to parachute to safety. During his active duty in the Army Air Force, Joe received the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Purple Heart for injury in battle.

Joseph M. Collector passed away peacefully at DePaul Hospital on Sunday, April 23, 2017 following an illness.

After WW II, Collector married Evelyn Axelrod and left his father’s business to start his own as a general contractor. He spent several years teaching construction techniques at Old Dominion College later in his career, and also, for a time volunteered at the Hermitage Museum. Voted Man of the Year at Beth El Temple, he was preceded in death by his wife, Harriet.

Joe is survived by his three sons, Robert (of Montecito, Calif.), Stephen and his wife, Leigh, (of Boulder, Col.) and Joseph Jr. (Skip of Redondo Beach, Calif.) along with his eight grandchildren, and one great grandson.

A graveside funeral service was held in Forest Lawn Cemetery with Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz officiating. H. D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel. Online condolences may be offered to the family through www.hdoliver.com.

Nancy Leitman Forman Norfolk—Nancy Leitman Forman, 83 of Norfolk, died peacefully April 19, 2017

in Virginia Beach.

Mrs. Forman was born in Norfolk and graduated from Maury High School. She was the daughter of the late Jacob Leitman and Florence Sachs Leitman.

Mrs. Forman retired from the City of Norfolk with 30 plus years of service. She dedicated many years as a volunteer at Norfolk General Hospital. Mrs. Forman loved to play Canasta and Rummikub.

She was a loving and devoted mother, grandmother, sister, and daughter. She will be sorely missed.

Survivors include her son Rick Forman and wife Janet of Virginia Beach, two grandchildren Dani Michelle Forman and Jake Baydush Forman. She is also survived by her brother, Joel Leitman and his wife Anne of Virginia Beach, and a nephew James Leitman and his wife Linda.

A graveside service was conducted at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk by Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz of Congregation Beth El. Memorial donations may be made to the Children’s Hospital of The Kings Daughters.

Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.hdoliver.com.

Martin E. Silfen VIRGINIA BEACH—Martin E. Silfen, an entertainment lawyer and Professor of Law, died unexpectedly on April 21, 2017 at the age of 81.

Martin is survived by his loving wife, Dory S. Silfen; his children, Jane, Lisa and Larry; six grandchildren, Jennifer, Bradley, Danielle, Jeremy, Andrew, and Benjamin; stepchildren, Erik and Heidi; step-grandchildren; Sam, Jack and Sofia; his siblings, Stuart and Judy.

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On May 16, 1993, he married his beloved Dory and then moved to Virginia Beach, where he worked with Mays Valentine, Troutman Sanders as well as taught law at William & Mary, and University of Virginia. As a Fulbright Scholar, he lectured in South America.

He will be deeply missed by his friends, family, and all who know him.

A funeral service took place at the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York.

Donations in his memory are requested to Temple Emanuel in Virginia Beach.

Express condolences to the family at www.altmeyerfh.com.

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, a newspaper publisher and civil rights activist in Tennessee, has died at 96.

Holmberg, a member of the family that controls The New York Times, challenged racial barriers, political skulduggery and environmental adversaries as publisher of The Chattanooga Times for nearly three decades, the newspaper reported. She died in Chattanooga.

Growing up in a newspaper family in New York, Holmberg would lead the Chattanooga daily to become known for aggressive, analytical reporting and editorials that denounced racial segregation, exposed government corruption and demanded cleaner air in a city of heavy industry, according to the Times article.

For years she was a pariah in a city where many regarded her as an Eastern liberal interloper, also because she was Jewish, according to the article.

Holmberg served as publisher of The Chattanooga Times from 1964 to 1992, then stayed on as publisher emeritus and chairwoman until 1999, when it was sold to a small chain and merged with a rival newspaper.

She was a granddaughter of Adolph Ochs, who bought The Chattanooga Times in 1878 and The New York Times in 1896, and the second of four children of Iphigene Ochs and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961.

Her brother, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who died in 2012, became publisher of The New York Times and chairman and chief executive of the Times Company.

One sister, Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, became a New York civic and philanthropic leader. Another, Judith Sulzberger, who died in 2011, became a doctor affiliated with the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

A Red Cross volunteer in England and France during World War II, she had four children with her first husband, Ben Hale Golden, before they were divorced in 1965. She replaced her husband as

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obituaries publisher of The Chattanooga Times in 1964.

The Chattanooga Times championed the racial integration of schools and universities, supported civil rights legislation in Congress and backed clean-air laws, provoking anger in a city where industrial pollutants shrouded scenic mountain backdrops and whose air, according to a 1969 federal report, was the dirtiest in the nation.

The Times also endorsed reforms to root out corruption in government, expand the voting franchise and give black residents, a third of the population, a larger voice in municipal affairs.

In 1972, she married Albert William Holmberg Jr., who oversaw the production, advertising, and circulation departments at the paper. He was later named its president.

In 1987 she became the second woman, after Katharine Graham, the longtime publisher of The Washington Post, to be elected a director of The Associated Press, the dominant news service in the United States. (JTA)

Anne Frank’s final days, as told by her former classmate Cnaan Liphshiz

(JTA)—Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette Konig could barely recognize her friend and classmate from Amsterdam, Anne Frank.

Both girls had been caught by the Nazis in the Dutch capital and were sent to starve to death in a place Konig describes today as “hell on Earth.” Both were emaciated when they saw each other again in different sections of the same German camp in 1944.

“She looked like a walking skeleton, just like me,” Konig, one of the few living friends of the teenage diarist, told JTA in a video interview from her home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 6, which was her 88th birthday.

As more and more Holocaust survivors die each year, Konig was compelled a decade ago to break her long silence and join a diminishing group of witnesses

who now tell their story in the media and at schools. Her lectures, which Konig says she has delivered to thousands of students on three continents, are something that “survivors owe to the victims.”

But it’s also her way of repaying Anne Frank’s father, Otto, who comforted Konig in the aftermath of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, even as he was grieving for his own two daughters and wife.

Otto Frank, who edited the diaries his daughter wrote while the family was in hiding into the best-selling The Diary of a Young Girl, met Konig in 1945 at a rehabilitation center in eastern Holland.

Konig, who was 16 and weighed only 60 pounds, was brought there following the Allies’ liberation of Bergen-Belsen—“a hell where people were not exterminated immediately, but died from hunger, dysentery, typhus, cold, exhaustion, beatings, torture and exposure,” she says.

Yet Konig was one of the lucky ones to survive. Anne Frank and her older sister, Margot, were among the estimated 50,000 who perished at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 after arriving there from Auschwitz.

Their mother, Edith, died at Auschwitz a month before her daughters, just three weeks before the Red Army liberated the death camp.

Otto Frank, the sole survivor from his family, already knew his daughters and wife were dead when he came to the rehabilitation center to visit Konig, who is also the only survivor from her family.

Konig says he wanted to know as much as possible about his family’s last weeks.

Listening to her stories and seeing her emaciated physique “visibly caused Otto Frank a lot of pain,” Konig recalls.

But despite his grief Frank, who died in 1980, “gave me support, encouraged me at a point in my life when I had no one,” she said. “He was a very special man and I will always be grateful for the consolation he offered me.”

Like many of Anne Frank’s schoolmates and friends, Konig recalls the diarist as a “sunny, smiley child.”

But unlike most of them, Konig also witnessed Anne “change into an adult” in a matter of weeks at Bergen-Belsen, she says.

“We had a childhood and then we had

no adolescence,” she says. “We simply became grown-ups overnight. It was the only way to survive.”

During their meeting, Otto Frank told Konig that he intended to edit his daughter’s diaries—there were three of them—into a book. During their conversation, he said he was still thinking of omitting some of the personal details that Anne included in the diaries, including her tense relationship with her mother and her account of getting her first period.

Ultimately, though, he included these details—countless readers of Anne Frank’s book regard them as crucial to achieving the personal connection many of them feel to her.

The Diary of a Young Girl is perhaps the world’s most-read manuscript about the Holocaust; it has been translated into 70 languages in dozens of countries.

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Albert Einstein was a sex magnet?

Four surprising facts about the Jewish genius

Einstein in 1947

Gabe Friedman

NEW YORK ( JTA)—Think “Albert Einstein,” and certain images or phrases likely come to mind: “genius,” “kooky,” “wild hair,” “theory of relativity,” “E=mc2”—maybe even “Zionist.”

Sex and violence? Not so much.

Then there’s Genius—National Geographic channel’s first scripted show—that provides a healthy dose of both. Within the first few minutes, viewers witness the bloody murder of a Jewish politician (Einstein’s friend Walter Rathenau) in tense Weimar Germany.

The action then shifts dramatically to a 50-something Einstein (played by Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush), without pants, being intimate with his assistant.

The goal is immediate and obvious: To delve into the personal life—apparently sometimes steamy—of the larger-than-life scientist.

“Albert Einstein is a name and a figure everyone thinks they know, but when I began to dive into his story, I was fascinated by how much was new to me,” Ron Howard, an executive producer of the show and director of the pilot, recently told Vanity Fair. “When you move past his scientific contributions, Albert’s life story—what his youth was like, who his friends were, who his enemies were, his tumultuous love life—is a story people don’t know.”

Genius alternates between the scientist’s daydreamy teenage years and the early decades of the 20th century, when the accomplished scientist deals with rising anti-Semitism in his native Germany. The show’s content, which deals with everything from scientific inspiration to young love to sinister Nazi rallies, is rich and compelling—it is Einstein, after all—even if the dialogue occasionally lapses into cliche.

Here are some non-scientific things that viewers learn about the iconic Jewish physicist from the pilot.

He failed his first college entrance exam (badly).

When the teenage Einstein (portrayed by Johnny Flynn) opens the booklet for the entrance exam for his dream school, the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, he is shocked. He coasts through the math and physics sections, but hadn’t prepared for any other subjects, such as zoology and

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French. He fails every non-scientific section of the exam and goes to live in Aarau, Switzerland, where he would complete his secondary studies and prepare for his second try at the test. (Don’t feel too sorry for young Einstein, however: He was only 16 at the time and he passed on his second attempt.)

his day. The first episode introduces his two wives: Elsa, played by Emily Watson, and Mileva, whom young Albert meets at college in Zurich.

But “Genius” demonstrates—along with a trove of letters uncovered in 2006—that Einstein had multiple mistress over the course of his adult life.

The show’s content, which deals with everything from scientific inspiration to young J. Edgar Hoover had His high school tutor the FBI keep tabs on was his first love. love to sinister Nazi Einstein.

While living in Despite his stubSwitzerland, Einstein rallies, is rich and born insistence on lived with a teacher, staying in early 1930s Jost Winteler, and his compelling—it Germany, Einstein, family. From the second fearing for his safety, Einstein awkwardly is Einstein, eventually is forced to meets Winteler’s daughleave. He tries to flee to the ter, Marie, it’s clear they after all. are headed toward romance.

Marie becomes Albert’s tutor and, along with the rest of the Winteler family, expands his mind, introducing him to history, literature and other topics he had previously ignored. Albert and Marie become fast friends and, soon enough, lovers. Alas, the relationship ends with tearful goodbyes when Albert leaves for college.

He married two times— and had several mistresses.

The sex scene near the beginning of the episode was not much of an exaggeration—Einstein apparently got around in

United States under the guise of a visit to Princeton University, but the American embassy gets suspicious. In a tense scene that feels particularly relevant today, an embassy employee (Vincent Kartheiser of Mad Men) interrogates Einstein and wife Elsa about their proposed trip. FBI chief Hoover has been watching him, the agent explains.

Hoover and other agencies would continue to watch Einstein for the rest of his life­ —monitoring his mail, phone calls, even his trash—in part because of his enthusiasm for socialism.

Genius premiered last month on the National Geographic channel.

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