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this week

CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER | SINCE 1929 | OCTOBER 16, 2020 | 28 TISHREI 5781

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14 Briefs

17 Crossword

18 Bulletin Board

19 Torah Portion

Going Public.................................... 5 This year, the public can vote on the winner of Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize from among 7 finalists: Sacha Baron Cohen, Barbra Streisand, Justice Elena Kagan, Gal Gadot, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Marc Benioff and Steven Spielberg.

Mob Rule........................................... 5 Throngs of Orthodox Jews protesting against New York’s crackdown on gatherings in their neighborhoods turned tense and at times violent. In response, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio were careful not to utter the words “Jewish community.”

Pray Tell........................................... 10 Should American Jews pray for the speedy recovery of President Trump from COVID19? Rabbis weigh in.

20 Obituaries

21 Business and Professional Directory

22 Classified

ELECTION 2020...................................................................... 9 The Jewish Democratic Council of America PAC released a powerful ad last week that juxtaposes the recitation of the mourner’s Kaddish with the President’s recent controversial statements about COVID19. Republicans aren’t pleased.

In the Kitchen......................................................................16 The Chicken Soup Manifesto is not just another cookbook – it’s the James Beard nominated chef Jenn Louis’ ode to beloved chicken soup dishes from around the world. Ess, mamele, ess.

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Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn stage protest against New York’s new COVID rules

As Genesis Prize goes to a vote, its impact on Jewish causes grows

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oron Almog, a former head of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Southern Command, was one of the heroes of Israel’s 1976 hostage rescue operation in Entebbe, Uganda, and winner of the 2016 Israel Prize for lifetime achievement.

But the thing he says he’s most proud of is ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran, a rehabilitation village he founded in southern Israel for 160 physically and mentally disabled children and young adults. It’s named after Almog’s son, Eran, who was born with severe autism and died in 2007, at the age of 23, from a rare disorder known as Castleman disease.

ALEH-Negev is one of 15 organizations, including nine in Israel, to receive grants derived from the 2020 $1 million Genesis Prize, often described as the Jewish Nobel.

Last year’s laureate, Natan Sharansky, chosen in December 2019, donated his prize money to Jewish and non-Jewish groups fighting COVID-19’s spread throughout the world.

“During this pandemic, we cannot do social distancing, but we do need lots of PPE,” said Almog, whose organization received a $50,000 grant. “You cannot keep two meters distance from these kids.

You need to hug them, wash them, treat them. A lot of the money we received will go to PPE as well as respiratory equipment and oxygen. We’ve also increased salaries for our medical staff because they’re doing double shifts and there’s more risk.”

This year, for the first time since the inception of the Genesis Prize, the Genesis Prize Foundation has opened up the laureate selection process to the wider public. More than 45,000 people worldwide sent in submissions for over 4,000 nominees, and seven finalists were selected.

Now the public will have a chance to vote on those finalists: actor Sacha Baron Cohen, singer Barbra Streisand, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, actress Gal Gadot, former U.K. chief rabbi jewishledger.com

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Jonathan Sacks, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg.

To cast a vote, visit the Genesis Prize website anytime between now and October 26.

“The Genesis Prize has evolved from an elite, committee-driven process to a more inclusive approach that seeks to engage the entire Jewish world,” said Genesis Prize Foundation President Steve Rakitt.

“The voice of the Jewish people from all walks of life, different demographic groups and across generations will now become an extremely important factor in the nomination and selection of our honorees.”

The prize, launched in 2013 and financed through a $100 million endowment, recognizes Jewish individuals with outstanding “professional

accomplishments, contributions to humankind, and pride in their Jewish heritage.” Previous winners have included former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor, actor Michael Douglas, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, actress Natalie Portman and musician Itzhak Perlman. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a lifetime achievement award in 2018.

After Bloomberg won the first prize, he announced that he’d donate all the proceeds to charity. All subsequent winners have followed suit, sending more than $16 million overall (other donors often match Genesis Prize Foundation funds) to myriad philanthropic priorities, including fighting CONTINUED ON THE NEXT PAGE

RUTH BADER GINSBURG RECEIVES THE GENESIS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN TEL AVIV IN 2018, FLANKED BY STAN POLOVETS, CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE GENESIS PRIZE FOUNDATION, ON HER RIGHT AND AHARON BARAK, FORMER PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL’S SUPREME COURT, ON HER LEFT.

(JTA) – Protests by Orthodox Jews against New York’s crackdown on gatherings in their neighborhoods turned tense and at times violent Tuesday night, Oct. 6, as throngs of young men demonstrated in the streets of Borough Park.

The late-night protest in a heavily Orthodox area of Brooklyn took aim at new restrictions that would close schools, limit attendance at synagogues services and close nonessential businesses in areas with upticks in COVID-19.

The protestors set fire to a pile of masks, at one point surrounded a city bus that was moving through the area and at another ran a reporter out of the area.

In a particularly violent episode, one man – the brother of Mordy Getz, a well-known Orthodox businessman who was outspoken about the need for masks and social distancing earlier in the pandemic – was beaten so severely by protesters after he took a video of the scene that he was taken to the hospital.

Onlookers could be heard calling him a “moser,” one who informs on fellow Jews to the authorities and who some Jewish legal authorities say can be killed as a result, an insult applied to his brother back in April, as he was placed on a stretcher to be taken to the hospital.

The protests laid bare the frustration felt by local Orthodox Jews who are now at the center of the first widespread resurgence of COVID in New York since the spring. Many in the community believe that city and state officials are unfairly targeting Orthodox Jews, who are already vulnerable to antisemitism, in their pandemic response. Local elected officials and community leaders on Tuesday, Oct. 6, vowed to resist the latest rules, through litigation and civil CONTINUED ON THE NEXT PAGE

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disobedience.

“We will not close,” radio host and local celebrity Heshy Tischler proclaimed to cheers from the assembled crowds. Later, he told protestors, “You are my soldiers. We are at war.”

Dov Hikind, the former state Assemblyman who is a leader in the community, said the form the protests took were regrettable.

“I’m ashamed of what happened,” Hikind said. “To raise your hand and touch another person, Jew or non-Jew, to injure someone and have them end up in the hospital, what a tragedy. … If there would have been a protest last night organized by community leaders and elected officials where everyone was wearing a mask, then of course there’s no problem. … There’s nothing wrong with expressing yourself.”

The protests came in response to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement Tuesday afternoon of new restrictions on a large swath of Brooklyn that is experiencing an uptick in COVID cases. His announcement followed a similar one by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who on Sunday, Oct. 4, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot when Orthodox Jews do not use cell phones or computers, said he would move to close schools on Wednesday, pending the governor’s approval. The governor then announced Monday that he would close the schools Tuesday. (Most Orthodox schools are in fact closed this week for Sukkot.)

In a statement Tuesday evening, local Orthodox lawmakers accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of “a duplicitous baitand-switch.”

“The governor informed Jewish community leaders in a conference call that synagogues in ‘red zones’ would

be permitted to operate at 50%, and he requested community cooperation (which he was assured would happen,” they wrote, referencing a call Cuomo held with Orthodox leaders Tuesday before he announced the new restrictions.

“Outrageously, just hours later, Governor Cuomo announced a draconian return to restrictions that would shutter thousands of New York businesses and limit houses of worship to a maximum capacity of 10 (no matter the maximum capacity of the building).”

A statement from Agudath Israel, an organization representing haredi Orthodox communities, also expressed frustration with the lack of notice given about the restrictions in a call earlier in the day and suggested the new rules might be unconstitutional.

“Governor Cuomo’s surprise mass closure announcement today, and limit of 10 individuals per house of worship in ‘red zones,’ is appalling to all people of religion and good faith,” they said.

They seemed to be considering the possibility of challenging the governor’s new restrictions in court. “Agudath Israel intends to explore all appropriate measures to undo this deeply offensive action,” they said. A federal judge issued an injunction blocking New York State from imposing stricter standards on indoor gatherings at religious services than those imposed on other gathering places, citing religious liberty concerns. Agudath Israel filed an amicus brief in that case.

The protesters in Borough Park were joined Tuesday night by Tischler and their City Council representative, Kalman Yeger, who encouraged the crowd to stand up for religious freedom.

“We are not going to be deprived of the right that we have in America, like everybody else in America, the right to observe our religion,” he said in a video

ORTHODOX RESIDENTS OF BOROUGH PARK BURNED MASKS AND BLOCKED CITY BUSES TUESDAY NIGHT TO PROTEST GOV. ANDREW CUOMO’S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WOULD IMPOSE NEW RESTRICTIONS ON AREAS WITH UPTICKS IN COVID.

posted to Twitter by local news outlet BoroPark24.

Tischler also appeared later Tuesday night in Crown Heights, another heavily Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhood where there are no new restrictions but where de Blasio has identified a slight uptick in COVID test positivity rates. Tischler appeared at a Simchat Beit Hashoevah, a gathering on the holiday of Sukkot that is marked by singing and dancing, and addressed the crowd.

“We have a court order, we won, our schools and shuls are open, we will not close,” he said, seemingly referring to a court injunction over the summer issued by a federal judge that blocked New York State

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anti-Semitism, supporting refugees, promoting innovation, improving the lives of individuals with special needs and advancing women’s equality.

When last year’s prize went to Sharansky – the onetime Soviet dissident turned Israeli politician and later head of the Jewish Agency – he initially planned to donate his prize money to projects that support human rights, according to Sana Britavsky, deputy CEO of the Genesis Prize Foundation.

“But when COVID-19 started, Natan generously decided that all his prize money should go to vulnerable populations here in Israel and abroad,” Britavsky said in an interview. “He chose to give to projects that would work for real people, where that kind of help would make a real difference.”

Britavsky added, “The unique partnership between the Genesis Prize Laureates and The Genesis Prize Foundation makes possible this type of philanthropic impact.”

Sharansky said in a statement, “Many people of good will around the world have given generously to help organizations and individuals who have been devastated

by COVID-19. I am grateful to have the opportunity to contribute to this humanitarian effort.”

Among the recipients was the European branch of the Jewish outreach organization Moishe House, which subsidizes homes throughout the world that serve as Jewish community hubs for Jews in their 20s. Moishe House is using the funding to expand its volunteer activities in support of isolated, elderly Jews affected by COVID-19 in Madrid, Moscow, Paris and Rome.

“We received this grant to increase the work we do fighting loneliness and isolation,” Alejandro Okret, chief global officer at Moishe House, said in a phone

from imposing stricter rules on religious gatherings than in other indoor venues.

“And here’s the deal, I’m filing a new court order, I’m holding Cuomo and the idiot de Blasio in contempt,” he said. “We will civil disobedience…our amendments, our first amendments, our rights, we will not close our shuls Simchas Torah!”

Other videos circulated of protesters chanting, “Jewish lives matter.”

At one point, protesters set fire to a pile of masks in the middle of a street.

And one photographer trying to capture the scene in Borough Park was videoed being chased and possibly assaulted by a crowd of Hasidic Jews.

interview from London.

When the pandemic hit Italy, Moishe House residents in Rome immediately set up donation points at three supermarkets where they encouraged people to donate food or take whatever they needed. They also launched an effort to record the stories of their grandparents, to keep them engaged and connected with others.

In Moscow, Moishe House volunteers made phone calls to isolated elderly people, and delivered them medication. In Paris, participants read for the blind.

Genesis Prize grants also went to the Association of Rape Crisis Centers of Israel, which has seen a 40% surge in domestic violence cases during the pandemic; the Weizmann Institute of Science, to help develop a coronavirus vaccine; and to Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering for coronavirus-related research.

The Genesis Prize organization is expecting at least 75,000 people to cast online ballots before voting concludes on Oct. 26. The winner will be announced in early 2021.

If this approach proves successful, Rakitt said, all future laureates will be selected this way.

“It’s a reflection of the way the world is going,” Rakitt said. “For years, the Genesis Prize was modeled on the Nobel and other prestigious prizes. It had a limited number of people who could nominate, and an even more limited number who could select. We want to hear the voices of the Jewish community around the world. That’s why we’re opening up the process.”

This article was sponsored by and produced in partnership with The Genesis Prize Foundation, which aims to foster Jewish identity, inspire Jewish pride and strengthen the bond between Israel and the Diaspora. This article was produced

by JTA’s native content team.

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Cuomo and de Blasio react – without naming Jewish community Following a night of unrest in Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods over coronavirus restrictions, Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio urged unity but vowed to enforce social distancing and mask-wearing regulations.

Speaking in separate and overlapping press conferences Wednesday morning, Oct. 7 Cuomo, New York’s governor, and de Blasio, New York City’s mayor, both avoided singling out the Jewish community or even using the word “Jewish.”

De Blasio has been criticized in the past for singling out New York Jews who violated regulations, and yesterday, Orthodox leaders accused Cuomo of misleading them regarding the scope of the new regulations.

Cuomo also faced backlash on Monday for showing a 14-year-old picture of an Orthodox Jewish event while criticizing recent mass religious gatherings.

“This is about all New Yorkers, and when you look at the communities in Brooklyn and Queens, it’s lots of different kinds of people,” de Blasio said when asked about Orthodox Jews. “We’re talking about two of the most diverse places on earth – Brooklyn and Queens. So within these areas are many kinds of people. We want to protect everyone. This is based on data and science.

The positive test rate in Borough Park on Tuesday was 10.6%, more than 10 times the overall rate of the state. Rising infection rates in those neighborhoods, officials fear, could trigger a second wave of the virus in New York City, which had, until these up-ticks, kept rates low after experiencing a severe outbreak in the spring.

Cuomo blamed the uptick on a lack of enforcement of social distancing regulations by local officials – an implied swipe at de Blasio, with whom Cuomo has a famously acrimonious relationship. New York City

and state put out different versions of new restrictions earlier this week in an attempt to curb a second wave of the virus.

“The reason we’re in this situation now is because the enforcement wasn’t done,” Cuomo said. “We had the rules. It wasn’t enforced in these areas. It wasn’t enforced in these areas because it’s hard to enforce in these areas, because they don’t want to do it.”

He added, “And now we see the infection rate go up and now we see more people go into hospitals from these communities.”

While “red zone” neighborhoods like Borough Park, where case rates are highest, will face strict restrictions. Neighborhoods in “orange” and “yellow” zones face fewer restrictions. The neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Williamsburg, which also have large Hasidic populations, are not included in the color-coded zones, but de Blasio said the city is concerned about their rising infection rates.

De Blasio said the city has 1,200 employees canvassing neighborhoods to notify residents in the zones about the new restrictions, which are set to last at least 14 days, and enforce them. Mass gatherings that congregate in violation of the regulations can lead to fines of $15,000 per day, while fines for not wearing a mask or C adhering to social distancing requirements M can be as high as $1,000 per day.

Y De Blasio said that though no arrests were made at the protests Tuesday night, CM police will not tolerate violence or property MY damage. He also said that the city will take enforcement of the new regulations CY seriously.

“We’re going to be enforcing across the CMY board,” he said. “If people refuse to wear K masks there will be penalties. Across the board, this is what we’re going to have to do. I understand the frustrations that people are feeling, because no one wants to see us have to go back towards the restrictions that we had in the spring, but unfortunately they are necessary.”

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IN THE SUKKAH Preschoolers at the B’nai Torah Nursery School in Trumbull say the bracha (blessing) over the lulav and etrog in the synagogue’s sukkah.

100+ Jewish cantors and Black ministers release solidarity music video

JEWISH AND BLACK FAITH LEADERS ARE FEATURED IN A MUSIC VIDEO OF THE GOSPEL SONG “TOTAL PRAISE.” (COURTESY OF CANTORS ASSEMBLY)

(JTA) – Three cantors from Connecticut are among more than 100 cantors and Black ministers to release a solidarity music video to benefit a Black music school in Pittsburgh.

The faith leaders – including Deborah Katchko-Gray of Congregation Shir Shalom in Ridgefield, Luis Cattan of The Conservative Synagogue in Westport, and Sandy Bernstein of Temple Sholom in Greenwich – sing the gospel song “Total Praise” in a video directed by the song’s author, Grammy Award winner Richard Smallwood.

“I pray that this will help to inspire, encourage and bring healing to all people everywhere,” Smallwood said in a statement.

The video, which was released last week, is introduced by Pastor Eric Manning of the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Both houses of worship were the targets of deadly shootings in the past five years by white supremacists.

“We want to show solidarity and support with our Black brothers and sisters, and believe our voices can be used to create positive change in the world,” Myers said. “Music is more important than ever.”

The project was organized by the Cantors Assembly, which is affiliated with the Conservative movement, and seeks to raise money for the Afro-American Music Institute.

At the end of the song, Manning and Myers discuss the historic relationship between the Black and Jewish communities in the United States, including Jewish involvement in the founding of the NAACP. “I think if we can tap back into that same spirit of unity, the same spirit of working together, I believe we can accomplish a lot more in this day and age,” Manning said.

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ELECTION 2020 Jewish Democratic Council releases ‘Kaddish’ ad, blasting Trump’s response to COVID-19

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(JNS) The political action committee of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, JDCA PAC, released an ad on Tuesday featuring the Jewish mourner’s Kaddish in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial actions and video statements about COVID-19 after he returned to the White House on Monday, Oct. 5. The president had spent three nights at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center being treated for symptoms associated with the coronavirus.

The jarring ad features a photo of a stone about to be put on top of a grave marker that already consists of stones on top of it, in accordance with Jewish tradition.

Alongside the Kaddish being recited is audio of Trump’s past statements on the pandemic, such as “It is what it is,” as an increasing number of COVID-19 deaths flash across the screen. To date, more than 7.5 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 with nearly 215,000 recorded deaths as a result of the highly infectious disease.

The ad ends with the word “VOTE” at the conclusion of the Kaddish.

Jewish voters mourn the more than 210,000 American lives lost to COIVD-19.

President Trump has shown he is incapable of protecting us from this pandemic.

We must vote for change.

– Jewish Dems ???? (@USJewishDems) “The Jewish community is in mourning due to the devastating human loss of from the coronavirus, and many of us are saying Kaddish. Each Saturday, my father and I attended shul together until he contracted and succumbed to the virus a few months ago,” said JDCA chairman and former Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.) in a statement.

“The Jewish community in South Florida, including my own family, has been deeply impacted by this devastating disease. The magnitude of this tragedy could have been avoided.”

Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks told JNS, “This ad does nothing to win over undecided voters; it’s awful. If a voter already feels Trump mishandled the virus, then they’re already voting for [Joe] Biden … couple that with the fact that they aren’t spending any money on it, and it all adds up to a big zero.”

The ad is actually part of a $250,000 ad campaign by JDCA PAC.

Our loss is magnified by the knowledge that this tragedy could have been avoided.

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Should Jews pray for Trump’s health?

Rabbis offer their guidance.

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(JTA) – When he heard about President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis on Friday, Adam Zemel felt many competing emotions: “fear, confusion, anger, guilt, and yes, satisfaction.”

Writing on Alma, Zemel, a former synagogue administrator and current writing student, said he was comfortable wrestling with his feelings and didn’t feel the need for rabbinic guidance. But our tradition offers a rich literature, and indeed debate, about how and when to pray for government leaders and for the health of those whom we do not like – relevant for the majority of American Jews who are not fans of Trump.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency asked rabbis to share the advice they would give a congregant seeking guidance about how to feel about Trump’s illness. Here’s what they told us.

Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles: “Judaism teaches we should pray for the sick, not for the sick whom we like, and I am mindful of Pirkei Avot 4:19, not to rejoice in the downfall of one’s enemies.

I appreciate the savagery of the political divide, but I hope no matter who is suffering with this dangerous disease, we can pray both that they will heal and also that they will learn from the experience, and grow more open-hearted and compassionate, as we hope for all of us in any trial or tragedy.”

Rabbi Jason Nevarez of Beth Israel of San Diego: “My job, as a spiritual leader, is to guide in prayer and model what it means to ‘do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God (Micah 6:8).’ In this moment, I believe our tradition calls for us to lift the anchors of the yetzer hara (evil inclination) which may be present in order to pray for the health of our leaders – in this case, those who serve the American people.

Along with our prayers of healing, I pray that our president and other government leaders learn from this moment in order to amplify the seriousness of this pandemic

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AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, PRESIDENT TRUMP LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE FOR WALTER REED NATIONAL MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER ON OCT. 2, 2020 (CREDIT: DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES)

with consistent (and necessary) guidelines and messaging meant to save lives.”

Rabbi Emily Cohen of West End Synagogue in New York City: “Last Thursday, I happened to go to bed early, which meant that I missed the news of President Trump’s diagnosis. As I scanned social media Friday morning, I kept seeing posts from people either celebrating the news or berating others for celebrating. What I wanted to know heading into Sukkot – our z’man simchateinu, time of rejoicing – was how Jewish texts might address the topic of taking joy in the suffering of one’s enemy.

“Being a rabbi, I made a study sheet, asking colleagues on Facebook to recommend texts and peppering screenshots of tweets from today’s sages amidst the traditional sources.

“The short answer? As usual, Torah is divided on exactly the correct approach, but it seems fairly clear that wishing for harm to befall another has the potential to harm the wisher on a moral level.

“We are all capable at every moment of listening to our yetzer hatov or yetzer hara – our instincts for good or for evil. Our sacred texts ask us to choose life. So let’s focus on life – on acting to preserve and improve life for ourselves and for all who

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dwell within our borders. Let’s not sully that choice by diverting energy into wishing for or celebrating somebody else’s brush with death.”

Rabbi Sara Zober of Temple Sinai in Reno, Nevada: “I had a conversation with a friend, also a rabbi, about whether to include Trump on our congregational Mi Sheberach list, like we included Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Our policy has always been to include anyone a congregant asks to include, and nobody had asked by the time our Friday night list was printed. I also discussed with a colleague the message it sends to those in marginalized communities to put his name on our list, especially when he is so directly responsible for so much suffering (in a way that has made others’ lives needlessly difficult). I didn’t get any real consensus about that one. We do definitely allow congregants to add names as we recite the Mi Sheberach prayer, and somebody did add the president’s name at that time.”

Rabbi Zach Fredman, formerly of The New Shul in New York City: With the news that Trump had tested positive for COVID, I couldn’t stop myself

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from wishing that the disease works strongly upon him, kills him even. … But is it OK to pray for the death of an evil person? Not just to think about it, but to actively enter a prayerful state and yearn for the disease to end his life in this body, that good may come to so many lives who have suffered on his account?

“Discussing that question with a friend, I was reminded of a midrash that appears in the commentaries on the Book of Esther, where Haman, the fascist villain, is the archetype of pure evil in the Judaic tradition.

“Two variants of the commentary appear. In one, all the trees of the world – the apple tree and the oak, the willow, the cedar, the olive and the palm – come before God and beg to be the vehicle for Haman’s death. They want to be the tree that Haman will hang from. In the other variant of the story, all the trees come before God, the same trees, and none wishes to be the tree upon which Haman will be hung. They don’t want to be proximate to evil, they don’t want to be contaminated by his vileness. In the end of both stories, the thorn bush is chosen to be the tree upon which Haman hangs.

“There are two instincts regarding evil – the desire to destroy it, and the inclination to flee its reign. Both live in us, and both yearnings have their place. If no one comes to fight Hitler, to protest Trump and the Proud Boys, evil thrives. If we come at him untethered to the wisdom that fighting evil carries the risk of being tainted by it, we are already undone. The line between these two yearnings is flimsy as a thorn. And living one without the other does not leave us whole.

“So yes, you can pray for his demise, but you will be changed by that prayer, and maybe not for the better.”

This piece was lightly adapted from Fredman’s email newsletter.

Rabbi Aaron Krauss of Beth El Synagogue in Margate, New Jersey: “It is more than appropriate for us to to pray for the health and recovery of President Trump. The bracha we recite in the presence of a country’s leader should extend to the leader’s wellbeing, so long as that leader is not clear and present danger.

Whether we are pleased with Trump as president or not, he has behaved very favorably to Israel.”

Rabbi Jonathan Singer of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco: “We added the president’s name to our Shabbat healing list praying for refuah shlemah for all in our government who are ill with COVID-19. Our clergy team understands that our response as a Jewish jewishledger.com

community must reflect our deepest values.

As Hillel said, ‘In a place where there is no humanity, we must yet strive to be humane.’”

Rabbi Mira Rivera of Romemu in New York City: “At our virtual morning minyan, we prayed for the healing of body and spirit of those who are ill, and that a sincere act of teshuva be their choice moving forward, leading this nation to care for each other – in this moment of national reckoning – by setting an example of wearing masks and practicing social distancing, upholding that the life of all human beings should be preserved.

We prayed that all may realize that we are connected in body, soul and breath of spirit.

In the spirit of Berachot 10A, as Rabbi Meir’s wife Beruriah reminded him, we do not pray for the sinners to cease, but for their sins to cease.”

This response was lightly edited for length and clarity.

Rabbi Yosie Levine of The Jewish Center in New York City: “Irrespective of what they think of our president, every American and every Jew should pray for his well-being. The office of the president is larger than any one person and there are times when personal feelings must give way to national considerations.

“But we pray for more than his recovery.

Because penitence is central to our faith, we believe that even those who may have acted badly are capable at any moment of repenting sincerely. In this particular case, it may be too much to hope that a brush with mortality will leave Mr. Trump chastened. He may not return to the oval office having undergone an epiphany about the gravity of this pandemic. And he may not drastically alter his view of mask-wearing. But when it comes to the health and safety of the American people, even the most modest change could save thousands of lives. As we do every Shabbat, we pray that God bless the president and “set in his heart a spirit of wisdom and understanding.” Sometimes a little wisdom can go a long way.”

If you are a Connecticut rabbi grappling with this question and would like to have your thoughts included, please email judiej53@jewishledger.com.

Laura E. Adkins is JTA’s opinion editor and an adjunct professor of journalism at Yeshiva University.

She was previously deputy opinion editor at the Forward, and has served as editor of Jewish Insider and an assistant blogs editor at The Times of Israel.

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On its 70th birthday, honoring generations of sound (JNS) If anyone in your family celebrated a bar or bat mitzvah, a wedding or the birth of a baby after Sept. 3, 1950, then the chances are good at least one Israel bond was received as a gift – one that for seven decades remains a gift that keeps giving.

It’s been exactly 70 years this month since Israeli Prime Minister David BenGurion announced the concept of Israel bonds to a group of leaders at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The following year (in 1951) he launched the U.S. campaign from the stage of New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Since that time, more than $45 billion has been invested in the State of Israel from the sale of Israel bonds, a flow of support in good times and bad. The organization continues to invite Diaspora Jewry, speaking with their investment dollars, to be a key partner in the blossoming of what was once a tiny beleaguered land into one of the world’s flourishing First World economies.

But how many of the millions on the receiving end of these bonds–and how many of those loving grandparents, aunts and uncles, second cousins (some once removed) and friends who purchased them could have known the miracles each bond performed?

And the ones that they continue to perform.

There is basically no area of Israel’s seismic growth and development that hasn’t benefited directly from bonds, the vast majority of them bought by Jews in the Diaspora over the last seven decades.

‘Surrounded by enemies who would not be trading partners’ Growing up in the Jewish state, Israel Maimon was surrounded with this very infrastructure – only years later did he realize how much of it was funded by Diaspora Jews’ purchases of bonds.

“In the beginning, Israel was an isolated island,” he says. “Unlike other countries, where they have markets in their neighboring countries, we were surrounded by enemies who would not be trading partners.”

In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, Israel Bonds “was a key resource in the building of roads, bridges and tunnels needed for industries to grow, for neighborhoods to grow, as well as the development of Israel’s entire economy,” says Maimon, who served as government secretary for prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert before moving to New York four years ago to take the job of president and CEO of Israel Bonds.

It was that initial infrastructure that the country’s phenomenal economic growth is built upon, he adds. “Made possible by the support Israel received in her first three decades, in the 1980s, she began to emerge into the economy you see today – a world leader in high-tech powered by outside investments and a developed Westernculture country alone in a region that does not share its values.”

“Bonds are the best of both worlds,” insists the 54-year-old. “They give people who care about Israel the opportunity to combine their loyalty and love for her with a financially rewarding investment for them and their children. Every dollar invested strengthens the only Jewish state on the planet.”

‘Dire needs of a new state with enormous demands’ By 1950, two years after its birth, Israel was still hobbled by the aftereffects of its long and painful War of Independence and deflecting ongoing Arab attacks. Add to the costs of self-defense the influx of needy refugees – many of them Holocaust survivors – a scarcity of food and subpar

health conditions, and the infant state’s economy was seriously stymied.

Ben-Gurion knew that. And though he met with some initial resistance – there were those who worried that the bonds wouldn’t be worth the paper they were written on – leadership took an aggressive approach of canvassing Diaspora communities to sell them, making every purchaser a partner in the growth of the state.

But as visionary as Ben-Gurion proved to be, 70 years later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Bonds supporters at last month’s virtual celebration that “even he, Israel’s founding prime minister, could not have foreseen the extraordinary success of Israel Bonds.”

And Ben-Gurion was not alone in championing the idea of a bonds campaign, says Ilan Troen, the Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies Emeritus at Brandeis University.

In a little-known piece of history, says Troen, “the person who imagined and should be credited with the concept of Israel Bonds is Henry Morgenthau Jr., the long-serving secretary of the treasury under [President] Franklin D. Roosevelt and head of the United Jewish Appeal after the war.”

Having had experience launching

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d investment America’s “war bonds” (now known as savings bonds) just a few years earlier, Morgenthau “brought this option to Ben-Gurion’s attention even before the establishment of Israel in May 1948. BenGurion ultimately adopted the idea and launched the first Israel Bonds campaign in 1951.”

Though the prime minister was at first resistant to the idea – his concern, explains Troen, was that making Israel an investment might water down the philanthropic momentum driving financial support by Diaspora Jewry – “it was only the dire needs of the new state with enormous demands on its inadequate resources for meeting development, immigration and defense needs that persuaded Ben-Gurion to accept Morgenthau’s repeated attempts at persuasion.”

Once launched, early Bonds enthusiasts included American labor unions, most notably during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, along with state and municipal publicemployee pension and treasury funds that have bought up billions of dollars’ worth over the years. And no less than investment maven billionaire and philanthropist Warren Buffett has purchased $5 million worth of the bonds, describing them as “a deserved endorsement of a remarkable country.”

“Golda [Meir] liked to use the line, ‘The day should come when Israel doesn’t need a handout, but the day should never come when Israel is not a good investment.’ ” So says longtime Bonds activist Susan Weikers, who was the first female national chair and currently serves on Bonds’ National Campaign Advisory Council and as treasurer of its international board of directors.

Though she lives in Baltimore, Weikers’ “second life is in Israel,” where for more than a half-century she’s made the trip four or five times annually.

Highlights of her activity with Bonds include sipping tea with Netanyahu in her home and the privilege, due to their last name’s alphabetical proximity, of being seated next to author Elie Wiesel at numerous events over the years.

The next generation: ‘They own this story’ But Weikers’ favorite audience remains not celebrities, but young people.

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ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER DAVID BEN-GURION CONVENES THE ISRAEL BONDS FOUNDING CONFERENCE.

and, with survivors leaving us every day and their memories fading from world awareness, they don’t realize what Jewish life was like in 1950, just a few years after the camps were liberated,” she says.

So how does one keep the Jewish passion for Israel alive for the next generation? One of Weikers’ favorite tactics is approaching young adults at events to share stories of Jews, Israel and survival.

“I want them to begin to feel they own this story and this place – that Israelis are our brothers. And, if anyone says anything derogatory, that we need to tell them you don’t insult my brother.”

Indeed, Maimon reports the organization is grooming its next generation of leaders through mentoring, leadershiptraining programs, Israel trips, socialmedia campaigns and events that cater to the young. Other attractors include the affordability (bonds start at $36).

Moreover, whereas other organizations are dealing with shortfalls in the wake of COVID-19, Israel’s Finance Ministry agreed to the request of Israel Bonds to extend its 2020 goal to $1.7 billion, which would be a record high.

The big difference? “We’re an investment,” states Maimon. “The economic forecast, despite temporary setbacks, is

that Israel will rebound more quickly and stronger than other countries so that although the debt is rising due to the pandemic, the ability of the country to repay it is better. And the will of the Jewish people to support Israel is strong, so it’s considered a good investment no matter what.”

As Netanyahu told the celebration audience: “Bonds played a crucial role in the founding years of Israel’s economy, helped make it a free-market economy of first-rate innovators, the startup nation of the world. … The passion for the State of Israel has been with us over the decades in good times and bad.”

One point of particular pride: Never once, even in times of war or recession or intifada, has Israel defaulted on its bonds.

“After 70 years, everyone knows we will always stand behind them,” says Maimon.

“And there’s no commission, so every penny is an investment in Israel’s strong future.”

In fact, bonds strengthen the bonds between Israel and Diaspora Jews, he notes.

“These invisible but powerful ties go both ways. When you invest in something, you always check to see what’s going on with it; it’s important to you. And Israelis know that much of what they have now has been made possible by Jews living very different lives

many miles away.”

So, when an Israeli Bond is given for a wedding or new baby or bar or bat mitzvah, “it’s a double mitzvah,” emphasizes Maimon. “You’re buying into the Jewish homeland and giving it as a gift to the next generation.”

For more information on Development Corporation for Israel/ Israel Bonds, visit: www.israelbonds. com or contact Barbara Starr, Israel Bonds representative in Connecticut, at barbara.starr@israelbonds.com or hartford@israelbonds.com.

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House resolution condems QAnon, including for its antisemitism

Homeland Security report: White supremacists the biggest terror threat in US (JTA) – A new report from the Department of Homeland Security names white supremacists as the biggest domestic terror threat in the United States. The Homeland Threat Assessment, released on Tuesday, Oct. 6, details an array of violent domestic threats in the United States. It also notes that, among other qualities, white supremacists are characterized by their hate of Jews, or by “their perception that the government is controlled by Jewish persons.”

The report comes a month after a whistleblower, Brian Murphy, alleged that in writing the Homeland Threat Assessment, he was asked by highranking Homeland Security appointees “to specifically modify the section on White Supremacy in a manner that made the threat appear less severe, as well as include information on the prominence of violent ‘left-wing’ groups.”

In the foreward to the report, Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said white supremacists are his main focus. “I am concerned about any form of violent extremism,” Wolf wrote. “However, I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years.”

Trump frequently stresses what he perceived as the dangers of antifa, a loose network of anti-fascist activists. The word “antifa” does not appear in the Homeland Security report.

According to the report, since 2018, white supremacist extremists have been responsible for more attacks and more deaths than any other ideologically motivated extremists. White supremacists have also conducted half of the sixteen total extremist attacks committed since 2018, killing a total of 39 people. Though not specified in the report, that number presumably includes the victims of the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway, California.

Among all domestic violent extremists, “racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists – specifically white supremacist extremists (WSEs) – will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland,” the report says. “WSEs have demonstrated longstanding intent to target racial and religious minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, politicians, and those they believe promote multiculturalism and globalization at the expense of the WSE identity.”

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(JTA) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the QAnon conspiracy theory, citing among other reasons its antisemitism. The nonbinding resolution passed 371-18, with all but one of the no votes by Republicans. The other was Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., who routinely votes against declarative resolutions. Reps. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., and Denver Riggleman, R-Va., sponsored the measure, which “condemns QAnon and rejects the conspiracy theories it promotes.”

Its preamble says that “many QAnon followers express antisemitic views, and the Anti-Defamation League has said that the movement’s central conspiracy theory includes antisemitic elements.” Conspiracy theories “have been a central driver of antisemitism for centuries,” the preamble adds, “and QAnon conspiracy theories are fanning the flames as antisemitism is on the rise in the United States and around the world.”

QAnon advances a baseless theory that President Donald Trump is seeking to rout a network of pedophiles deep inside the government. Trump has not denounced the theory.

Malinowski has been targeted for death threats by QAnon followers based in part on a false claim that he once advocated for pedophiles. An ad by the National Republican Congressional Committee made the false claim. Riggleman, a moderate Republican, was ousted this summer in a primary by a conservative challenger who made an issue of Riggleman’s support for gay rights. The passage of this resolution will be one of his final acts in his two years in Congress.

A number of Republican congressional nominees have been identified with the theory and one, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, is guaranteed election in her deeply conservative district.

Roman Polanski’s Holocaust saviors named Righteous Among the Nations (JTA) – Israel is set to honor the couple who rescued Jewish film director Roman Polanski from the Holocaust. A grandson of Stefania and Jan Buchała will accept the medal naming them posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations, a title that Israel confers on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis, Haaretz reported. The ceremony will take place in Poland next week.

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of the Krakow ghetto. Yad Vashem, Israel’s state Holocaust museum, recognized the Buchałas’ actions last year. The couple died in the 1950s.

Last month, Israel also presented the medal to the descendants of four couples in neighboring Lithuania: Stanislava and Juozas Gaižauskas; Palionė and Juozas Sturonai; Petronėlė and Pranas Šimka and Petronė and Vincent Pocius. The ceremony was part of a Sept. 24 conference in the city of Kaunas celebrating the actions of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who, along with his Dutch counterpart Jan Zwartendijk, gave life-saving visas to thousands of Jews fleeing the Holocaust.

Zwartendijk, who died in 1976, was also honored at a separate event in The Hague organized on Sept. 22 by the Lithuanian embassy to the Netherlands.

Polanski, 87, has been formally accused of raping a minor in 1977; he has evaded charges by living in Europe for decades.

Foreign ministers of Israel, UAE, Germany visit Berlin Holocaust Memorial (JNS) Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan visited the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin together on Tuesday, Oct. 6, during their first meeting together in the German capital. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who joined them on the tour of the site – officially called The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe – said during a “The willingness to deal together with the most horrific chapters of history is something that cannot be taken for granted, we know that also here in Germany. But it highlights how serious you are in your efforts for good bilateral cooperation and relations,” said Maas.

“This step has also got things moving in the region; Bahrain, which has now also decided to take up diplomatic relations with Israel, is one example. Saudi Arabia, which has opened its airspace for direct flights from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, is another. This momentum, and the same courage, will help us to create new momentum to overcome the impasse in the Middle East peace process,” said Maas.

Bin Zayed said that in the wake of the Abraham Accords, “the Middle East is witnessing a new chapter on its path towards freedom and peace.”

“I would like to assure you that the opportunities in our region for more cooperation in different sectors exist, in terms of security and also in terms of technology. On an international level, the Emirates is committed, together with its Israeli partners and its German partners, to fulfill this role,” he said.

Ashkenazi thanked his UAE counterpart for his initiative in setting up the meeting,

saying, “I would like to thank your country for the courage and the farsightedness and the vision you have for promoting peace through the peace accords,” he said.

Ashkenazi then turned to the joint visit to the Holocaust Memorial. Their presence there together symbolized the beginning of a new era of hope and peace, Ashkenazi tweeted.

“The three of us stood there in silence and we commemorated the victims, and for the first time in history, a representative – a foreign minister – of an Arab state was present. Together, we promised each other to never forget,” he said at the press conference.

At the press conference, Ashkenazi concluded his remarks by urging the Palestinians to resume peace talks. “I would like to take this opportunity to call on the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table,” he said. “Only through direct negotiations will we be able to find a solution to the conflict. The longer we drag this out and the longer we wait for negotiations to begin, the more complex it will be, and it will be transferred to future demonstrations. They will be faced with a difficult reality.”

US court: Iran must to pay $1.4 billion to family of former FBI agent (JNS) A U.S. court has ordered the Iranian government to pay more than $1.4 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to the family of former FBI agent and Jewish American Robert Levinson, who disappeared in 2007 while visiting Iran and working part-time for the CIA. He is believed to have died while in Iranian custody. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled last week that Levinson’s family be awarded $107 million in compensatory damages and $1.3 billion in punitive damages.

“Iran’s conduct here is also unique, given that – astonishingly – it plucked a former FBI and DEA special agent from the face of the earth without warning, tortured him, held him captive for as long as 13 years, and to this day refuses to admit its responsibility,” said Kelly in his ruling. “And his wife and children, and their spouses and children – while keeping Levinson’s memory alive – have had to proceed with their lives without knowing his exact fate.

These are surely acts worthy of the gravest condemnation,” he added.

Levinson’s family applauded the judge’s ruling. “This judgment is the first step in the pursuit of justice for Robert Levinson, an American patriot, who was kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable suffering for more than 13 years,” said his family in a statement.

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decision won’t bring Bob home, but we hope that it will serve as a warning against further hostage-taking by Iran,” said the family. “We intend to find any and every avenue, and pursue all options, to seek justice for Robert Levinson.”

Tehran has yet to respond to the ruling.

Jewish groups to Congress: Increase security funding for religious institutions (JNS) Three Jewish organizations joined almost a dozen faith groups calling on Congress to increase security funding for religious institutions.

The Orthodox Union, the Jewish Federations of North America and Agudath Israel of America joined eight other faith organizations to call on Congress to dramatically increase funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) so that synagogues, churches, mosques and other houses of worship, as well as religious schools and other at-risk nonprofit entities, can bolster building security against the threat of attacks.

In its letter to congressional leaders, the interfaith coalition called for quadrupling the annual allocation for the NSGP to $360 million for fiscal year 2021 so that more institutions can be covered under the program. The groups claimed that the program’s $90 million allocation for the past year left the majority of applicants empty-handed.

The NSGP provides grants of up to $100,000 each to nonprofits at risk of terrorist attacks so they may improve building security by acquiring and installing items ranging from fences, lighting and video surveillance to metal detectors and blast-resistant doors, locks and windows.

Funding may also be used to train staff and pay for contracted security personnel.

Facebook to ban pages supporting QAnon (JTA) – Months after beginning to remove QAnon content discussing violence, Facebook and Instagram are now removing all pages and accounts representing the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theory with antisemitic overtones. QAnon is a false but growing conspiracy theory that alleges that a cabal of liberal, globalist elites sexually abuses children and harvests their blood, and wants to take down Trump. It has been endorsed by Republican candidates for Congress, and Trump has declined to condemn it. Officials say that it is also influencing voters ahead of next month’s election. Scholars of antisemitism say the conspiracy theory is a new version of ageold antisemitic stereotypes regarding Jewish conspiratorial control of world affairs.

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Facebook first took action against QAnon in August, when it began removing 1,500 QAnon pages and groups that discussed violence. Now, it will remove all QAnon content, even if it doesn’t explicitly refer to violence. In August, before Facebook began taking action against QAnon, its affiliated groups had millions of members on Facebook, according to NBC. Its content is often created and spread by its adherents, which means that it has subsumed other conspiracy theories and expanded in scope as it has attracted more followers.

“While we’ve removed QAnon content that celebrates and supports violence, we’ve seen other QAnon content tied to different forms of real world harm,” Facebook said in a statement. “Additionally, QAnon messaging changes very quickly and we see networks of supporters build an audience with one message and then quickly pivot to another.”

The action by Facebook comes after a summer in which a coalition of civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, led an advertising boycott of Facebook to protest what they called its failure to adequately combat hate speech.

YouTube removes Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam channel (JTA) – YouTube has removed the video channel of the Nation of Islam, the organization led by Louis Farrakhan.

YouTube said it removed the channel on Oct. 2, citing its policies against hate speech. “We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies,” said the statement.

YouTube said it has removed 25,000 channels for hate speech. Some individual accounts of Nation of Islam members are still up, with tens of thousands of followers.

Farrakhan is a longtime, vehement antisemite who has railed against “wicked Jews,” praised Adolf Hitler, condemned the “synagogue of Satan,” likened Jews to termites and accused them of controlling the U.S. government. He also has a history of homophobia. This past summer, a string of celebrities defended or praised Farrakhan and echoed his antisemitic rhetoric. A July 4 speech in which Farrakhan called Jews the “enemy of God” has been viewed more than a million times, according to the Anti-Defamation League. That month the ADL called Farrakhan the “most popular antisemite in America.”

YouTube has also removed white supremacists from its platform this year, including Richard Spencer and David Duke.

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‘The Chicken Soup Manifesto’ features recipes from

BY RACHEL MYERSON FROM THE NOSHER

(JTA) – I fell in love with Jenn Louis’ latest cookbook The Chicken Soup Manifesto at first sight. The James Beard-nominated chef has curated a collection of over 100 beautifully photographed chicken soup recipes, which allowed me to vicariously travel the globe with my favorite comfort food as a guide. What more could an Ashkenazi gal with wanderlust wish for?

When I got a chance to chat with Louis, she was as vibrant as her book.

Like me, her prototypical chicken soup was her mother’s matzah ball soup, which she made on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

The recipe is there, on page 62, the matzah balls “exactly how she made them. I think everyone likes a different kind. Mine are really tender on the outside with a bit of chew in the middle.

If matzah ball soup is your starting point, too, Louis recommends branching out to the Romanian Supa de Pui cu Galuste de Gris (page 196) with semolina dumplings. The dumplings are fluffy with whipped egg whites and poached.

Some of the recipes come from Louis’ own travels. “I took a cooking class in Ethiopia and learned to make Doro Wat. Even though it’s more of a stew, I really wanted to include it.” But most of them were collected through expansive research.

“It’s not a creative book,” explained Louis, “it’s a documentary. It’s a shout-out to how cool these recipes are, and how much we all have in common.”

Some came from Louis’ periodic appeals on social media, “I’d put call outs on Facebook once in a while. Like, ‘Hey! Who’s got a chicken soup they grew up with in their family?’”

Others were told to her orally. Was it difficult to translate word-of-mouth instructions into quantifiable amounts?

I ask. “Somewhat. There’s a Palestinian recipe – it’s a really great story. This woman sat next to me on a plane and, halfway through the flight, she looked at me and said, ‘Hi, I’m Hanan. I’m a Christian Palestinian, the peaceful kind.’ She was super sweet. I didn’t tell her I was writing

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a book, but she told me about her mom’s chicken soup recipe and I wrote it down. It called for, like, a ‘handful of rice,’ so I tried my best to replicate it.” Their encounter ended after landing, and Louis never got Hanan’s details. “I’d love to send her a copy [of the book] but I don’t know where she lives!”

The research process was rich and fruitful. “Just when you think you’re done,” Louis explained, “you find this cool new recipe. It’s really fun to unfold all the layers.” And, she says, despite major differences in flavor, the functions of chicken soup are universal: comforting, often healing broths, intended to stretch a chicken as far as it can go.

Can she pick a favorite? “The South American soups are so unique because they have corn and yucca, which make them sweet and totally different to anything else.” Louis pauses. “Or the Kanjee from Sri Lanka. I made it in my Instant Pot on a rainy day then went for a walk with my friend. When we got back home, we opened the pot – it was so fragrant. We sat and ate the soup, then split the leftovers because they were so good.”

But, of course, much depends on your mood. Or the time of year. Louis is keen to assure me that chicken soup is not just for winter – “there’s a summer soup from Finland with green beans and baby carrots that you can eat chilled. It’s really lovely.”

Regardless of the recipe, Louis is full of tips to achieving the most flavorsome dish,

with an entire section dedicated to getting the most out of your chicken. “You always want to cook your chicken slow, on a really lazy simmer. If you cook a little slower, it keeps the meat tender,” she tells me. And if you want a richer broth, use homemade chicken stock, “it’s special… heartier and more luxurious than just using water.”

At the end of the day, Louis reiterates, exploring the diverse offering of chicken soups should be fun. “Make one recipe a week,” she urges, “and learn something new.”

This post originally appeared in The Nosher.

Afghan Chicken Soup (Yakhni) Recipe

BY JENN LOUIS

My friend Asya Ghafarshad’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Afghanistan in the 1960s. Asya was born in the U.S., and her mom tells her stories of growing up in Af-ghanistan wearing miniskirts and smoking cigarettes. Her parents own an iconic res-taurant in Claremont, California.

Called Walter’s, it serves delicious continental cui-sine, as well as Afghan favorites. This is her father’s chicken soup.

Asya likes to cook the chicken breasts on the bone to make the broth, then shred the cooked chicken and add it back to the soup just as it is nearly done. She does not peel the carrots and the vegetables are cut into larger chunks, just the way her dad made the soup.

Ingredients: 1/3 cup olive oil 1 large yellow onion, cut into 1/2” cubes 2 Roma or plum tomatoes, cut into 1/2” cubes 8 cups water or chicken stock 1 cup yellow or red lentils or 1 cup basmati rice 2 lb skinless chicken breast, bone in 2 large carrots, cut into 2 in pieces 2 large russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 1/2” half-moons 2 oz cilantro, leaves and stems roughly chopped, plus sprigs to garnish 1 Tbsp ground turmeric 1 Tbsp ground coriander 1 tsp cayenne pepper jewishledger.com

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1 Tbsp ground cardamom 2 oz fresh spinach 1 lemon, to serve Directions: Heat oil in a large pot over a medium–high heat. Add the onion and cook for 3–4 minutes until it begins to become translucent.

Add the tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes until the tomatoes release their juices.

Add the remaining ingredients, then bring to the boil.

Immediately reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 20 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender, the soup has thickened and the chicken is cooked – a thermometer will read 74°C (165°F) when inserted into the thickest part of the breast and the juices of the chicken will run clear.

When the chicken is cooked, remove from the pot and leave until cool enough to han-dle. Using your hands, shred all the meat and discard the bones. Add the meat back to the soup and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Squeeze the lemon juice into the soup, adding as much tangy flavor as possible with-out it becoming sour, and garnish with cilantro sprigs.

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BULLETIN BOARD Responding to COVID-19: A Community Panel, Oct. 13 On Tuesday, Oct.13 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford will host a panel of local leaders who will discuss how their organizations have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, and reflect on how the pandemic is reshaping Jewish life in our area. Panelists include: Dr. Anat Bergner of Hartford Hospital Rabbi Tuvia Brander of Young Israel of West Hartford, Katie Hanley of Jewish Family Services, Andrea Kasper of Solomon Schechter Day School, and David Waren of Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford.

Register at https://jhsgh.org/panel/ to receive a link to the program. For more information, contact the Jewish Historical Society at jhsgh@jewishhartford.org

Jews & the fight for women’s suffrage, Oct. 14 The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies of Fairfield University will present“Speaking in a Political Voice: Jews and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage,” a lecture by Judith Rosenbaum, PhD, historian and CEO of Jewish Women’s Archive. The free webinar celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Registration required at fairfield.edu/ bennettprograms. For questions, contact bennettcenter@fairfield.edu or (203) 2544000, ext.2066.

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m.

“Goring’s Man in Paris: The Stry of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World,” with guest speaker Jonathan Petropoulos, PhD, Jonn V. Croul professor of European History, Claremont-McKenna College.

Ticket required. Open VISIONSs/espresso, in affiliation with the Bennett Center and the Judaic Studies Program.

Events listed are virtual and hosted by Congregation Beth Israel unless otherwise noted. For details on viewing via Zoom , visit cbict.org/calendar.

In advance of the November election, the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford will host a community-wide 5th Congressional District Virtual Candidate Forum, to be presented via Zoom on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Pre-registration required. To register or get more information, go to bit. ly/JCRC5thDistrict1014.

Lectures at the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies All lectures in this year’s Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University are virtual and free of charge. Registration required at fairfield.edu/bennettprograms.

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“Speaking in a Political Voice: Jews and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage,” with guest speaker Judith Rosenbaum, PhD., historian and CEO of Jewish Women’s Archive.

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“Cantor Azi Schwartz in Concert: From Bimah to Broadway.”

Azi Schwartz is senior cantor, Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City, a performer and recording artist.

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“Loving the Jews: Philosemitism and Judaizing in Contemporary Christianity,” with guest speaker Rabbi David Sandmel, PhD, director of interfaith affairs, Anti-Defamation League.

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Introduction to Judaism Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. starting Oct. 14 The course curriculum includes basic Hebrew, Jewish history, liturgy, holidays and life cycle events, as well as the Jewish perspective on spirituality, values and community. Taught by reform rabbis of Greater Hartford. For more information, contact Wendy Berg at wberg@cbict.org, (860) 233-8215.

Red Cross Blood Drive Sunday, Oct. 18 To be held at Congregation Beth Israel, 701 Farmington Avenue in West Hartford.

Donors will be screened outside before they enter. Donor tables will be spaced at least 10 feet apart. Sign up at redcrossblood.org.

Kreplach & Dim Sum–Yes, There are Jews in China Sunday, Oct. 18, 5 p.m.

Vocalist-storyteller Robyn Helzner will perform and share her remarkable and uplifting story about serving as cantor for the United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong.

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Museum of Jewish Heritage upcoming virtual programs The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, continues to host virtual programs. All events take place at 2 p.m. Suggested donation for each event is $10. For more information or to sign up, visit mjhnyc.org/events.

Book Talk: Cultural Warlords: My Journey Into The Dark Web Of White Supremacy Thursday, Oct. 15 https://mjhnyc.org/events/culturewarlords-my-journey-into-the-darkweb-of-white-supremacy-book-talk/ Culture Warlords is the story of how Talia Lavin, a frequent target of extremist trolls, dove into a byzantine online culture of hate and learned the intricacies of how white supremacy proliferates online. Within these pages, she reveals the extremists hiding in plain sight online. By combining compelling stories chock-full of catfishing and gate-crashing with her own in-depth, gut-wrenching research, she also turns the lens of anti-Semitism, racism, and white power back on itself in an attempt to dismantle and decimate the online hate movement from within.

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Holley McCreary & Kristi Flagg in Sherman, Oct. 17 Singers Holley McCreary and Kristi Flagg will perform outdoors at the JCC in Sherman on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m.

McCreary has won the Unsigned Only music competition, as well as the Los Angeles Music Award (LAMA) for Female Singer Songwriter of the year. LAMA is an international competition showcases some of the best up-and-coming musical acts in the world. A native of Birmingham native, McCreary’s debut album “Leave” was released in 2015 (available on iTunes, Spotify and other digital outlets), after a battle with cancer motivated her to pursue her career with a vengeance.

Tickets are $20/members,$25/nonmembers, and must be purchased online prior to the event at jccinsherman.org.

Tickets will be limited to 55, and will not be sold at the door. For health and safety purposes, a list of rules for outdoor events is posted on the JCC’s website. Bring a mask and chair.

Speak Up Showcase featuring descendants of the Shoah, Oct. 25 Voices of Hope, an organization for second and third generation Holocaust survivors, and Speak Up Storytelling will host the sixth “Descendants of the Shoah Virtual Speak Up Showcase” on Sunday, Oct. 25 at 2 p.m.

The showcase will feature descendants of Holocaust survivors Jeff Bauer, Herb Borenstin, Lea Chayes, Stephanie Kupfer, Ruth Sack and Tracy Taback telling their family stories. For more information, visit ctvoicesofhope.org.

Applications for program to educate teens about Israel due Oct. 25 The Center for Israel Education’s (CIE) engagement with Jewish pre-collegiate teachers is hosting its fourth Teen Israel Leadership Institute (TILI) in November, with others in the months ahead. In partnership with Emory University Institute for the Study for Modern Israel, TILI will run over two Sundays, Nov. 8 and 15, from 1 to 4 p.m. ET. Applications from teens across the country are welcome. Space limited.

The interactive online sessions offer Jewish 10th- to 12th-graders activities and experiences that deepen their knowledge about Israel’s place in Jewish history and enable them to answer how Jews sought, made and are sustaining a state. Topics include Israel’s changing borders, the connection between Jewish identity and Israel, Israel in the media, Israeli culture and politics, and what to expect about Israel on college campuses. Following the institute, each participant is asked to deliver an Israel learning program for a community, synagogue, school or youth group.

Applications are due Oct. 25. Fee is $54.

Students who complete the program earn the CIE Teen Israel Leadership Institute Certificate in Israel Education.

For information, contact CIE’s teen program manager Michele Freesman at michele.freesman@israeled.org.

Registration open for book club exploring modern Jewish literature The Yiddish Book Center has opened registration for its 2021 Great Jewish Books Book Club, which offers readers around the world a unique opportunity to read and discuss great works of modern Jewish literature together in real time. Now in its fifth year, the Book Club sends four books over the course of a year–works selected from the vast trove of modern Jewish literature, focusing on Yiddish literature. jewishledger.com

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OU Women’s initiative starts weekly parsha program Building on the success of the Nach Yomi “Torat Imecha” series, the OU Women’s Initiative, a division of the Orthodox Union, is launching a podcast exploring ideas in the weekly parsha. The series will feature five female scholars who will each cover one sefer – book – of the Torah.

Starting with Bereishit (Genesis) on Wednesday, Oct. 14, the weekly series will go through all of Torah reading through end of the cycle. The 10 to 15-minute audio shiurim (classes) will be geared toward learners of all levels who want to learn a profound idea from the weekly Torah portion. The series will feature Michal Horowitz, Ora Lee Kanner, Rachel Besser, Shira Schiowitz and Elisheva Kaminetsky.

“Technology continues to enable us to expand the scale and scope of Torah learning in our community,” says Orthodox Union executive vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer. “This series has been specifically designed for women to participate in the weekly podcast and to then bring back insights and discussion points to share with their families over the Shabbos table.”

To subscribe to the weekly Torat Imecha parsha shiur, and to listen to archived podcasts visit ou.org/women/parsha.

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Contemporary Israeli Voices 2020 begins online, Oct. 22 The 18th annual Contemporary Israeli Voices, curated and organized by Dalit Katz, director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Wesleyan University, will open Thursday, Oct. 22. The 2020 series centers around Israeli artists who made their marks in Hollywood in cinema and TV. Live online multi-media presentations are followed by a Q&A session with the guest speaker.

Admission is free. To register for this virtual lecture, please visit our website at civ.site. wesleyan.edu.

Thursday, Oct. 22 “Acting and The Brain’s Plasticity” Speaker: Ayelet Zurer Actress Ayelet Zurer has studied neuroplasticity and the process that occurs in the brain while actors take on different roles and personas. Zurer will discuss her work in the films “Angels and Demons“ and “Man of Steel,” and the discipline required of actors in their commitment to their art.

Thursday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m.

“Why Hollywood Loves Israeli TV Shows” Speaker: Ron Leshem Award-winning screenwriter and author Ron Leshem will discuss the TV shows he is writing and producing, including “Valley of Tears,” “The Syrian Civil War” and “Euphoria.” The presentation will include video clips from some of his TV show.

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s the very first humans, Adam and Eve’s reactions to their surroundings and to each other had no precedent.

As the biblical narrative proceeds, we begin to learn about how Adam and Eve react to the world around them. They relate to each other fondly.

They yield to temptation, and, finally, they suffer the horrible pain of exile.

We eventually learn that they become parents, but we know nothing about how they went about the task of parenting.

The Torah provides no answers. Rather, the Torah proceeds to tell us a bit about their two sons, Cain and Abel, and about how Cain murdered Abel. But there is nary a word in the Torah about Adam and Eve’s reaction to this horrible event. After all, they had never experienced death.

They knew not what death meant.

A Midrash fills in the gap: When Abel was killed, Adam and Eve were stunned. They sat and wept and mourned but did not know what to do. The watchdog of Abel’s sheep guarded his corpse, protecting it from the beasts of the wild and from the birds soaring above. Then, a raven a raven that had himself experienced the death of its mate descended from the sky. The raven declared, “I will teach Adam what to do.”

He took the body of the dead bird, dug a small ditch in the earth, and proceeded to bury it before Adam and Eve’s eyes.

Adam then said to Eve, “Let us do what the raven did!” They took Abel’s corpse and buried it. (Yalkut Shimoni, 38) I first encountered this Midrashic passage in a masterful Yizkor sermon delivered by Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel, a former chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, who passed away in 1945.

This sermon is included in the first volume of Rabbi Amiel’s Derashot El Ami. There, Rabbi Amiel eloquently elaborates upon the story, stressing the helplessness that Adam and Eve experienced in the face of a phenomenon that they had never previously encountered. They cannot accept the finality of Abel’s death. That is, until the raven comes along.

Rabbi Amiel points out that Jewish tradition sees the raven as the very symbol of cruelty. He cites the verse in Psalms (147:9), which is part of a hymn to the Almighty who gives “to the raven’s brood what they cry for.” Apparently, the raven ignores even its own young. To which I would add the verse in Job 38:41, which reads, “Who provides food for the raven when his young cry out to God and wander about without food?”

The message of Rabbi Amiel’s sermon is this: Humans must not emulate the raven’s response to death. For humans, the dead are not merely “dead and buried.” The point of the Yizkor ceremony is to perpetuate the memory of the dead, to keep them alive in our own consciousness. Human life is too precious to be forgotten. The raven may be cruel to its young, but we must affectionately care for our young. The raven digs a grave and cruelly forgets what it buried there. But we remain aware of those who, although consigned to the grave, live on in our hearts and minds.

The late Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach noted that Judaism believes in techiyat ha’metim, that the dead will live again. He pointed out that in the relatively brief second blessing of the Shemoneh Esreh, we mentioned the concept of resurrection no less than six times!

Rabbi Amiel sees the raven as the irredeemable embodiment of cruelty. But I suggest that the raven appears more than once in scripture. In fact, it plays a role in next week’s Torah portion when Noah sends it out of the Ark on a futile mission. Moreover, much later in history, the ravens prove capable of a remarkably admirable task. I refer to the passage in Kings I 17:2-7. There, the story is told of the prophet Elijah who informs King Ahab that there soon would be “no dew or rain except at my bidding.” The Almighty then instructs Elijah to go into hiding by the Wadi Kerit, just east of the Jordan.

There, he will be able to drink from the wadi, and will be fed by the ravens.

Elijah obeys, and lo and behold, “the ravens brought him bread and meat every morning and every evening, and he drank from the wadi.”

Some commentaries insist that the ravens were chosen as the Almighty’s messengers to impress upon Elijah that he was as cruel as are ravens by prophesizing drought and famine. Others suggest this episode demonstrates that even ravens can overcome their instinctive cruelty and become noble benefactors of a starving human. The raven thus becomes a model for teshuva, for the human capacity to overcome even one’s darkest instincts. No longer need the raven represent callous disregard for the dead. After feeding Elijah, the raven is transformed into a symbol of heroic rescue, of life-sustaining forces.

We can all learn the dual lesson of eternal respect for the dead and compassionate regard for the living.

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OBITUARIES ALTSCHULER Cora Honigberg Altschuler, 82, of West Hartford, died Oct. 8. She was the wife of her Michael C. Altschuler. Born in Queens, N.Y., she was the daughter of the late Leon and Olga Honigberg. She was a long-time member of The Emanuel Synagogue. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her daughters, Lynne Altschuler of Newington, and Debra Altschuler and her husband Eric Hausman of Minneapolis; her grandchildren, Emma and Joshua Hausman; her sister-in-law Emily Honigberg of Athens, Ga.; and four nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brother Dr. Irwin Honigberg.

SATLOF David Michael Satlof, M.D., 84, of West Hartford, died Oct. 3. He was the husband of Judy (Ugelow) Satlof. Born in New York City, he was the son of Leo and Marcia (Lange) Satlof. He volunteered for the United States Air Force in 1965, serving as a captain at Misawa Air Base in Japan. In addition to his wife, he is survived his sons Mark Satlof and his wife Dana, Joshua Satlof and his wife Heather, and Phillip Satlof and his wife Erika; and his grandchildren, Leo, Lillian, Miles, Eli, Parker, and Nathan.

KROOP Steven Curtis Kroop, 61, died Sept. 27. He was the son of the late David and Harriet Kroop. He was also predeceased by his brother Larry Kroop. He lis survived by his daughter, Jenna Rodriguez and her husband Alex Rodriguez; his granddaughter Joliany Sanchez; his twin sisters Anne Kroop and Ilene Kroop; and his cousin Joy Cohen.

SETLOW Miriam Garber Setlow, 94, died Oct. 10. She was the widow of Mitchel W. Garber and Herbert D. Setlow. She was the daughter of David and Esther Lipman. She was also predeceased by her sons, Bruce Garber and Larry Garber. She is survived by her sister Faye Glass; her children Steve Garber and his wife Ruthie, and Marcy Fish and her husband David; her grandchildren, Trudy, Molly, Peter, Micah, and Jeremy Garber, and Emily Fish; and two greatgrandchildren.

Artist Marilee Shapiro Asher, who survived 2 global pandemics, dies at 107

BY BEN HARRIS

(JTA) – Marilee Shapiro Asher, an acclaimed artist who survived both the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and COVID-19, has died.

Asher died on Sept. 11 at her home in Washington, D.C., according to a statement from her family. She was 107.

Asher made national headlines in May when news broke that she had survived COVID-19, despite doctors telling her family that she had mere hours to live. Asher wound up returning home after five days in the hospital.

Her recovery came more than a century after she survived the Spanish flu, the 1918 pandemic that claimed more than 50 million lives worldwide.

Born in Chicago in 1912, Asher began studying sculpture in 1936. She took up painting a few years after she moved to Washington, in 1943, with her first husband, Bernard Shapiro.

Her first solo exhibition was held at American University in 1947.

In 1993, she married Robert Asher, who died in 2008.

Asher remained a working artist until she took ill from the coronavirus, with a solo exhibition scheduled for May at a Washington gallery that was canceled due to the pandemic.

In 2015, she published a memoir, “Dancing in the Wonder for 102 Years.”

Asher is survived by a daughter, Joan, of Washington, and a son, Harvey, of Florida. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Capital Caring Health Hospice in Washington, D.C., or the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

Holocaust survivor Richard Schifter later served as a US diplomat

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(JTA) – Richard Schifter, a Holocaust survivor who served as an American diplomat, has died at the age of 97.

Schifter was the American representative to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and deputy representative to the U.N. Security Council. He later headed the American Jewish International Relations Institute and the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe.

Schifter was born in Vienna to Polish parents. At the age of 15, he received a visa to go to the United States. The rest of his family died at the hands of the Nazis.

He served in the U.S. Army as one of the Richie Boys, a unit of young Jewish-German refugees who the U.S. Army trained in psychological warfare. He later graduated from Yale Law School.

Under Presidents Ronald Regan and George H.W. Bush, he served as assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs.

“Ambassador Schifter was an inspirational leader, accomplished diplomat, public servant, staunch advocate for human rights, a resolute defender of Israel, a strong proponent of transAtlantic relations and of America’s place in the world,” Bnai Brith International said in a statement. “Notwithstanding his immense achievements, Ambassador Schifter’s persona was one of humility and civility.”

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CT SYNAGOGUE DIRECTORY To join our synagogue directories, contact Howard Meyerowitz at (860) 231-2424 x3035 or howardm@jewishledger.com.

BLOOMFIELD B’nai Tikvoh-Sholom/ Neshama Center for Lifelong Learning Conservative Rabbi Debra Cantor (860) 243-3576 office@BTSonline.org www.btsonline.org BRIDGEPORT Congregation B’nai Israel Reform Rabbi Evan Schultz (203) 336-1858 info@cbibpt.org www.cbibpt.org Congregation Rodeph Sholom Conservative (203) 334-0159 Rabbi Richard Eisenberg, Cantor Niema Hirsch info@rodephsholom.com www.rodephsholom.com Jewish Senior Services Traditional Rabbi Stephen Shulman (203) 396-1001 sshulman@jseniors.org www.jseniors.org CHESHIRE Temple Beth David Reform Rabbi Micah Ellenson (203) 272-0037 office@TBDCheshire.org www.TBDCheshire.org CHESTER Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek Reform Rabbi Marci Bellows (860) 526-8920 rabbibellows@cbsrz.org www.cbsrz.org

COLCHESTER Congregation Ahavath Achim Conservative Rabbi Kenneth Alter (860) 537-2809 secretary@congregationahavathachim.org EAST HARTFORD Temple Beth Tefilah Conservative Rabbi Yisroel Snyder (860) 569-0670 templebetht@yahoo.com FAIRFIELD Congregation Ahavath Achim Orthodox (203) 372-6529 office@ahavathachim.org www.ahavathachim.org Congregation Beth El, Fairfield Conservative Rabbi Marcelo Kormis (203) 374-5544 office@bethelfairfield.org www.bethelfairfield.org GLASTONBURY Congregation Kol Haverim Reform Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling (860) 633-3966 office@kolhaverim.org www.kolhaverim.org GREENWICH Greenwich Reform Synagogue Reform Rabbi Jordie Gerson (203) 629-0018 hadaselias@grs.org www.grs.org

Temple Sholom Conservative Rabbi Mitchell M. Hurvitz Rabbi Chaya Bender Cantor Sandy Bernstein (203) 869-7191 info@templesholom.com www.templesholom.com HAMDEN Temple Beth Sholom Conservative Rabbi Benjamin Edidin Scolnic (203) 288-7748 tbsoffice@tbshamden.com www.tbshamden.com MADISON Temple Beth Tikvah Reform Rabbi Stacy Offner (203) 245-7028 office@tbtshoreline.org www.tbtshoreline.org MANCHESTER Beth Sholom B’nai Israel Conservative Rabbi Randall Konigsburg (860) 643-9563 Rabbenu@myshul.org programming@myshul.org www.myshul.org MIDDLETOWN Adath Israel Conservative Spiritual Leaders: Rabbi Marshal Press Rabbi Michael Kohn (860) 346-4709 office@adathisraelct.org www.adathisraelct.org

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NEW HAVEN The Towers Conservative Ruth Greenblatt, Spiritual Leader (203) 772-1816 rebecca@towerone.org www.towerone.org Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel Conservative Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen (203) 389-2108 office@BEKI.org www.BEKI.org

ORANGE Chabad of Orange/ Woodbridge Chabad Rabbi Sheya Hecht (203) 795-5261 info@chabadow.org www.chabadow.org

Orchard Street ShulCongregation Beth Israel Orthodox Rabbi Mendy Hech t 973-723-9070 www.orchardstreetshul.org

Congregation Or Shalom Conservative Rabbi Alvin Wainhaus (203) 799-2341 info@orshalomct.org www.orshalomct.org

NEW LONDON Ahavath Chesed Synagogue Orthodox Rabbi Avrohom Sternberg 860-442-3234 Ahavath.chesed@att.net

RIDGEFIELD Congregation Shir Shalom of Westchester and Fairfield Counties Reform Rabbi David Reiner Cantor Debora Katchko-Gray (203) 438-6589 office@ourshirshalom.org

Congregation Beth El Conservative Rabbi Rachel Safman (860) 442-0418 office@bethel-nl.org bethel-nl.org NEWINGTON Temple Sinai Reform Rabbi Jeffrey Bennett (860) 561-1055 templesinaict@gmail.com www.sinaict.org NEWTOWN Congregation Adath Israel Conservative Rabbi Barukh Schectman (203) 426-5188 office@congadathisrael.org www.congadathisrael.org NORWALK Beth Israel Synagogue – Chabad of Westport/ Norwalk Orthodox-Chabad Rabbi Yehoshua S. Hecht (203) 866-0534 info@bethisraelchabad.org bethisraelchabad.org Congregation Beth El-Norwalk Conservative Rabbi Ita Paskind (203) 838-2710 Jody@congbethel.org www.congbethel.org

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SIMSBURY Chabad of the Farmington Valley Chabad Rabbi Mendel Samuels (860) 658-4903 chabadsimsbury@gmail.com www.chabadotvalley.org Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation, Emek Shalom Reform Rabbi Rebekah Goldman Mag (860) 658-1075 admin@fvjc.org www.fvjc.org SOUTH WINDSOR Temple Beth Hillel of South Windsor Reform Rabbi Jeffrey Glickman (860) 282-8466 tbhrabbi@gmail.com www.tbhsw.org SOUTHINGTON Gishrei Shalom Jewish Congregation Reform Rabbi Alana Wasserman (860) 276-9113 President@gsjc.org www.gsjc.org

TRUMBULL Congregation B’nai Torah Conservative Rabbi Colin Brodie (203) 268-6940 office@bnaitorahct.org www.bnaitorahct.org

Congregation P’nai Or Jewish Renewal Shabbat Services Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener (860) 561-5905 pnaiorct@gmail.com www.jewishrenewalct.org

WALLINGFORD Beth Israel Synagogue Conservative Rabbi Bruce Alpert (203) 269-5983 richardcaplan@sbcglobal.net www.bethisrael/wallingford. org

Kehilat Chaverim of Greater Hartford Chavurah Adm. - Marcey Ginsburg Munoz (860) 951-6877 info@ kehilatchaverim.org www.kehilatchaverim.org

WASHINGTON Greater Washington Coalition Rabbi James Greene (860) 868-2434 admin@jewishlifect.org www.jewishlife.org WATERFORD Temple Emanu - El Reform Rabbi Marc Ekstrand Rabbi Emeritus Aaron Rosenberg (860) 443-3005 office@tewaterfrord.org www.tewaterford.org WEST HARTFORD Beth David Synagogue Orthodox Rabbi Yitzchok Adler (860) 236-1241 office@bethdavidwh.org www.bethdavidwh.org Beth El Temple Conservative Rabbi James Rosen Rabbi Ilana Garber (860) 233-9696 hsowalsky@bethelwh.org www.bethelwesthartford.org Chabad House of Greater Hartford Rabbi Joseph Gopin Rabbi Shaya Gopin, Director of Education (860) 232-1116 info@chabadhartford.com www.chabadhartford.com

The Emanuel Synagogue Conservative Rabbi David J. Small (860) 236-1275 communications@emanuelsynagogue.org www.emanuelsynagogue.org United Synagogues of Greater Hartford Orthodox Rabbi Eli Ostrozynsk i synagogue voice mail (860) 586-8067 Rabbi’s mobile (718) 6794446 ostro770@hotmail.com www.usgh.org Young Israel of West Hartford Orthodox Rabbi Tuvia Brander (860) 233-3084 info@youngisraelwh.org www.youngisraelwh.org WETHERSFIELD Temple Beth Torah Unaffiliated Rabbi Seth Riemer (860) 828-3377 tbt.w.ct@gmail.com templebethtorahwethersfield. org WOODBRIDGE Congregation B’nai Jacob Conservative Rabbi Rona Shapiro (203) 389-2111 info@bnaijacob.org www.bnaijacob.org

Congregation Beth Israel Reform Rabbi Michael Pincus Rabbi Andi Fliegel Cantor Stephanie Kupfer (860) 233-8215 bethisrael@cbict.org www.cbict.org

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