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Rabbi’s Corner ......................27 Synagogue Directory...........30 World .............................. 21, 24

Tzuza Dance Company, which delighted the crowd at Tucson’s Israel festival in 2010, will return to perform at the Israel @ 70 Festival next month. The community-wide festival will be held Sunday, April 22, from 1-6 p.m. on the Jewish community campus at River and Dodge Roads. It is organized by the Weintraub Israel Center, a joint program of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Shlomi Elimelech, the dance company’s owner, manager and choreographer, was just 16 when he founded Tzuza, which means “motion,” in Tucson’s sister city of Kiryat Malachi in 2005. Tzuza’s main repertoire is diverse but the focus is on modern dance, folk dance, hip-hop and ballet. In the last 13 years, Tzuza has become a leading dance troupe with more than 2,000 students across Israel, ages 3 to 50. The high quality of its performances, nationwide, has brought Tzuza media attention and invitations to take part in many official government ceremonies including the opening ceremonies of the Israel Independence celebration in Jerusalem and the Maccabiah Games, Israel’s “Jewish Olympics.” See Tzuza, page 4

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Historian Lipstadt to keynote JFCS gala DEBE CAMPBELL AJP Editorial Assistant

minent Holocaust historian, scholar and author Deborah Lipstadt, Ph.D., will be the keynote speaker at Jewish Family & Children’s Services 9th annual Celebration of Caring, Sunday, April 8. Lipstadt gained international recognition for defending the historical truth of the Holocaust in a precedent-setting lawsuit, tried in a British court. The celebration is a fundraiser for JFCS, which supports mental health and human services to Tucson’s children and families, first responders, older adults, Holocaust survivors and others dealing with trauma, anxiety, conflict at home or work, and other life challenges. “We are thrilled to have Dr. Lipstadt join us,” says Carlos A. Hernández, JFCS President & CEO. “Not only is JFCS committed to pro-

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viding expert mental health and community services, we believe that — now more than ever — we have to take a stand against anti-Semitism, racism, hate and violence.” At this year’s event, Hernández adds, “we are honoring the Holocaust survivors who live in Tucson and come to JFCS for emotional support and care management.” Lipstadt’s award-winning book, “Denial: Holocaust History on Trial,” inspired the 2016 big-screen movie of the same name, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson. Both are based on the libel suit in which Lipstadt proved the historical truth of the Holocaust in a court battle against infamous Holocaust denier David Irving. “There are facts, there are opinions, and there are lies,” says Dr. Lipstadt. “And most See Lipstadt, page 4

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Festival will honor COC education director “The Or Chadash Religious School is the only Reform AJP Intern school to currently hold acdecade as the direccreditation in Arizona and tor of education at the smallest school to ever Congregation Or achieve accreditation. The Chadash has flown by for process took almost two Rina Liebeskind. The conand a half years to accomgregation will honor her plish, and it really forced us for her years of dedicated to evaluate the way we were Rina Liebeskind service with a “Flying Chai” doing things, and brought tribute festival at the Tucson Jewish us together in ways that were missing Community Center on April 15. before.” “As the oldest of six children, I pracOr Chadash’s Rabbi Thomas Louchtically raised my youngest two siblings heim has had the opportunity to brainwho are 16 and 18 years my junior,” storm creative ideas for the religious says Liebeskind. “I believe that I didn’t school with Liebeskind. “Rina has been so much choose the field of education, a fantastic presence for our community rather education chose me.” by trying to integrate families into the Liebeskind’s career in education has process for religious education,” says spanned 30 years — and counting. Louchheim. “We focus on getting the Born and raised in Jerusalem, she parents more involved in the religious served in the Israeli Defense Forces for school process by having programs not two years before meeting her husband, only for the kids but having components Jim, and moving to Tucson, where his for the adults to relearn their Jewish edparents lived. Upon her arrival, she be- ucation from generations ago.” gan teaching at the Tucson J in the early An accomplished educator, Liebeschildhood program. Liebeskind stayed kind also relishes her role as Jim’s wife with that program for 20 years, ending and mother to their two daughters, Shaas senior lead teacher before taking the ron and Eve, and her stepson, Etai, all position at Congregation Or Chadash. of whom are raising families in Tucson. Many members of the community “Each one of us have been a part of the have had their lives touched by Liebes- Jewish community in Tucson in one way kind either through personal interaction or another and we are extremely proud or through their children’s education. to be members of the Or Chadash famDana Narter has had the opportunity ily,” says Liebeskind. for both as she was on the search comNow she’s looking to the future. She mittee that hired Liebeskind as the edu- will be graduating from Northern Arication director, co-chaired the accredi- zona University in December with a tation committee with her, and both of Bachelor of Science in education, and her children attended Or Chadash’s re- Or Chadash recently offered her the ligious school. position of executive administrator and “She totally wowed us at her inter- director of youth engagement. “In this view,” says Narter. “You need to find a new role I will not only continue to run director who knows what to look for in the educational side of Or Chadash, but a classroom environment, what to look I will also put my administrative skills for in a teacher, is interactive and has all to work in the hopes of bringing a new the necessary skills. Rina has all these perspective to the business side of the qualities and has gone on to run a reli- congregation,” says Liebeskind. gious school program that kids like and “Flying Chai, a tribute festival hondoes a good job of keeping kids on post- oring educator Rina Liebeskind” will bar mitzvah.” be held April 15 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., In her 10 years as director of educa- with entertainment by comedian/vention, Liebeskind has had her hands on triloquist Chuck Field, Israeli dancing many different projects. “My greatest and lessons, an Israeli-themed dinner, a achievement as the director of education DJ, children’s games and a raffle. Tickets is the accreditation that our school re- are available at https://events.orchadashceived from the Association of Reform tucson.org/events/flying-chai. For more Jewish Educators,” says Liebeskind. information, call 512-8500.

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importantly, truth and fact are under assault. The job ahead of us, the task ahead of us, the challenge ahead of us is great. The time to fight is short. We must act now. Later will be too late.” “JFCS is committed to standing with the truth, and we are honored that Dr. Lipstadt will join us for our Celebration of Caring to help raise funds for important programs that help people who have been victims of personal or historical trauma, face mental health challenges, and lack basic human services,” says Liz Hernández, JFCS director of marketing and communication. As an Emory University professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies, Lipstadt created the Institute for Jewish Studies and was its director for a decade. She directs the website “Holocaust Denial on Trial” (hdot.org), which catalogs legal and evidentiary materials from her trial, and contains answers to frequent claims made by deniers. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs awarded Lipstadt its highest honor, the Albert D. Chernin Award given to “an American Jew whose work best exemplifies the social justice imperatives of Judaism, Jewish history and the protection of the Bill of Rights, particularly the First Amendment.” Previous winners included Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Profes-

of staying in hotels. “The dancers are my family,” says Elimelech. “We visited Tucson eight years ago and we are excited to come back to celebrate Israel @ 70 with old and new friends.” To inquire about hosting a dancer, contact Amir Eden, director of the Weintraub Israel Center, at 702-465-9244 or aeden@jfsa.org. sor Alan Dershowitz. She’s also a member of the American Academy of Jewish Research, the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America. With a bachelor’s degree from City College of New York, Lipstadt received her masters and doctorate from Brandeis University. She has received honorary doctorates from Ohio Wesleyan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yeshiva University, Bar Ilan University, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Hebrew Union College. In service to the nation, Lipstadt was a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum consultant, served on the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council and consulted with the U.S. Congress on responses to Holocaust denial. She was a member of the U.S. State Department advisory committee on religious freedom abroad and was with a White House delegation at the 60th anniversary commemoration of Auschwitz’s liberation. Lipstadt’s other books include “The Eichmann Trial,” “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory,” “Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust,” and “Holocaust: an American Understanding.” The Celebration of Caring dinner is $200 per person. It will be held at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive on April 8 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. To register, go to tinyurl.com/JFCSCOC18, or contact Kate Kelly at kkelly@ jfcstucson.org or 209-2435.

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COMMENTARY Why I led my Orthodox Jewish classmates on the national gun control walkout JACOB MILLER JTA CHICAGO

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’m a sophomore at Ida Crown Jewish Academy, the largest Modern Orthodox high school in the Chicagoland area. When I heard about the #ENOUGH national school walkout, I immediately wondered how my school could participate. Our school motto is “Inspiring Bnei and Bnot Torah to thrive in the modern world”; here was a chance to put that dictum — emphasizing that we students are meant to bring Jewish values into the wider world — to the test. My friends and I followed the news reports about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in horror, read the biographies of victims with distress and discussed the event at length. We felt a burning rage about lax gun laws in the country. I approached my classmate Bayli Alter and together we decided to speak with our school dean, Rabbi Leonard Matanky, about how our school could get involved in the walkout. Word about the walkout spread quick-

Students at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Skokie, Ill., during their walkout to protest gun violence, March 14.

ly, and many students approached me and volunteered to help plan the event. The nationwide walkout on March 14 was organized by high school students and the Women’s March Youth Empower in response to the shooting at Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, in February. The 17-minute (to commemorate the 17 victims) walkout was designed to demonstrate against gun violence and show support for stricter gun legislation. As an Orthodox Jewish school, our

needs were a little different. We needed to ensure the program was Jewish in character, and we didn’t want to align ourselves with the wider Women’s March movement, which has been criticized for, among other things, its feeble response to one of its co-chair’s embrace of the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, an avowed anti-Semite. Our student body also runs the gamut of political opinion, from right to left, and we needed to ensure our walkout did not offend or alien-

ate anyone. We tried hard to design programming that emphasized bipartisan political activism and memorialized the victims of the shooting. At 9:50 a.m., the entire school assembled in the gym, where Bayli and I spoke for a few minutes about the Parkland tragedy and gun control proposals. We hoped to provide context for the walkout by educating students about the national conversation about gun legislation without forcing any political beliefs. We also stressed the memorial component of the demonstration. We then invited students to join us in our walkout. Outside, we handed out sheets with Tehillim, or Psalms, on one side and the names and contact information for our local and national representatives on the other. We read out names of the Parkland victims, recited Tehillim and read short biographies of four of the people killed. Afterward, we encouraged students to phone Congress and urge their political representatives to support reasonable gun legislation. “It was emotionally uplifting that See Walkout, page 8

Collaboration is a must to keep Tucson Jewish institutions strong for the future GARY KIPPUR AND BARRY BAKER Special to the AJP

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meeting at Hebrew High and check the Arizona Jewish Post and the Jewish Federation of Southern website to see what’s up for tomorrow for our incredible Jewish community. Whew—another great day for Jewish Tucson! Now imagine some date in the future: driving past a closed Jewish facility, shuttered due to too many other facilities providing the same services. Existing synagogues, schools, and facilities strained due to underfunding. Searching for congenial living arrangements for aging parents. Wondering whether the Jewish needy will be able to celebrate the holidays. Scanning the internet to find factfilled information about the Middle East, all while feeling alone and disconnected. Bleak? Yes. But that is the path we find ourselves on. Why? We will always achieve more and do better when we do it together. Does anything better reflect ideal Jewish values than the kibbutz? A team approach to life, committed to Jewish values. At the heart and soul of the kibbutz is community betterment, where people contribute their skills, effort, and resources for the advancement of themselves as individuals and for the community. The kibbutz shares values with the concept of the sharing economy. In an age where AirBnB allows you to

share extra room in your home or where you can easily rent out your unused car, the Tucson Jewish community should consider where we can share existing buildings or services and utilize them better to preserve capital for helping people in need. As our community strives to meet and to anticipate the needs of the young, the unattached, our families, seniors, those with special needs, and the unaffiliated, both our communal services and our institutions expand and proliferate. While our desire to meet the “wish list” of services and opportunities for Jewish engagement is boundless, our resources are not unlimited. Unless we find new ways of meeting our communal needs and wants, our local institutions simply may collapse under their own weight. How then can we, as a community, identify administrative, programming and physical plant synergies that can be achieved among our Jewish and broader community institutions? First we must recognize that while there may be as many ways to be Jewish or to connect to the Jewish community as there are those wishing to do so, our common goal is the preservation of Jewish values and Jewish communal life, and meeting the needs of the most See Collaboration, page 8

COMMENTARY Rebranding efforts miss spirituality inherent in Judaism ARTHUR YAVELBERG Special to the AJP

et during the Spanish Civil War years before World War II, Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” tells the story of a valiant, but ultimately doomed, attempt by a group of republican rebels to launch an attack against the Fascist powers in Spain. Their heroism is often magnificent, but the tragic results seem to mock their defiant courage as they fail to recognize just what they are up against. That image came to mind as I read Rabbi Deborah Waxman’s “From being to doing: Why the Reconstructionist movement is rebranding” (AJP, 2/9/18). She accurately describes the problem: how so many Jews today no longer “meaningfully take part in most expressions of organized Jewish life.” She goes on to articulately recount the theoretical teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan and how the “golden years” of the 1950s and ’60s may have had large houses of worship, but failed to truly engage Jews in Jewish life over the longer term. To address this situation, Rabbi Waxman calls for us to “focus our energy on doing Jewish,” which means “observing Jewish law, attending synagogue or sharing a Shabbat meal … studying texts ... learning Hebrew or Yiddish ... immersing oneself in social action…” etc. Honestly, it is a theme that many rabbis have echoed over the years in many non-Orthodox synagogues, albeit to steadily shrinking congregations. I kept reading, hoping for the “and” that, unfortunately, never came. I realized the key statement was: “The point of being Jewish is that we are here on earth to live lives of meaning and connection to each other, Jews and non-Jews alike.” Really? That is the point of being Jewish? Simply put, and incredible as it may sound — or maybe not — there are absolutely no references to “God” throughout the entire article. There are references to “religion” and “experiences” and even “spirited prayer,” but not a word about the point of these activities. There have

been studies and studies about how Jews for years have been looking elsewhere for spiritual inspiration. There are countless demographic analyses that, despite numbering only about 6 million out of 320-plus million, Jews — especially young Jews — make up 40 percent and more of eastern religious groups and a host of New Age movements in the United States. Jews have been “voting with their feet” for years and, when we bother to ask, these Jews have been candid about their longings for something missing in their spiritual lives. Of course, the absurdity is that Judaism has a wealth of spiritual, mystical resources. The Kabbalah has sustained Jewish communities throughout centuries of pogroms and indescribable hardship. The tefillot of siddurim [prayers of the prayerbook] are replete with images taken from the writings of such as Isaac Luria. Our Martin Bubers and Aryeh Kaplans speak eloquently about dimensions of relationship to God and each other that are powerful and intense. That so many Jews think they need to go to Hinduism and Buddhism if they are interested in meditation or reincarnation would be hysterical if it wasn’t so tragic. Yet our leadership routinely ignores these sources and, if it teaches them at all, does so with the intellectual objectivity of a Wissenschaft worldview (a systematic pursuit of knowledge) that does to Jewish spiritual life what a scientific pin does to the wonder and beauty of a butterfly. None of this is meant to reject Jewish study, practice, or mitzvot, but it is meant to cry out that, when it comes to Jews desperately seeking for meaning, we need to stop scoffing at them and lecturing that they need to return to the edifice complex they have found so unsatisfying to begin with. If we do not start listening and answering with very Jewish spiritual answers, we will all too soon be forlornly repeating Ezekiel’s question of God, “Can these dry bones live?” In the meantime, we need not ask “For whom the bell tolls.” It is tolling for us. Arthur Yavelberg is retired and living in Tucson. He was most recently dean of students at Sir Manasseh Meyer International School in Singapore.

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students could gather for a common cause in the hope of achieving something positive out of this horrific tragedy,” said English teacher Sheri Goldstein. “The handouts with prayers on one side and phone numbers on the other side represented what Ida Crown is about.” Rabbi Matanky told me, “I think one of the most important things we can teach our students is how to respond to injustice and how to channel their energies to make the world a better place. We are very proud of our students who took the initiative and used the opportunity to remember those who were murdered via traditional Jewish responses and prayer.” Olivia Friedman, a Bible teacher at Ida Crown, added, “I think it’s essential that students recognize that their religious identity and modern identity should be one and the same. ... The fact that students in our school feel strongly about the preservation of life, and are able to participate in a national walkout while integrating their Jewish beliefs, is a testament to this principle.” Some students chose to sit in during the walkout. Junior Ben Krohn explained, “I think the left is using this tragedy as a platform to push for gun control, which

I am not in favor of. Criminals will get guns no matter what; gun control only affects law-abiding citizens. I respect memorializing victims, but I didn’t want to push for gun control.” The walkout inspired many students to continue their activism. Bayli Alter said, “I’m not the kind of person who will sit down and let other people do things for me: I like to stand up for what I believe in. After having organized the walkout, I feel more empowered to do more.” Tova Oliff, a student who volunteered to help lead the program, said that she and many of her friends had heard about the walkout, but had thought the school would be opposed to such programming. “The walkout was a wake-up call for the school to get involved,” she said. “I think many people in the future at ICJA will become more active.” Tova is intent on starting a political activism group in the school next year to continue student involvement in activism. In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, student voices are being heard and taken seriously by politicians. It’s important for us as Jewish high school students to stand with our peers and to advocate against hate and violence to ensure atrocities like Parkland never happen again. Jacob Miller is a sophomore at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Skokie, Illinois.

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t Tucson’s Israel @ 70 Festival next month, Tucsonans can try out a pair of smart glasses created by an Israeli company that enable blind or visually impaired people to read written words and recognize objects and faces. “Basically they point with their figure to a street sign or a menu and they hear what they don’t see. It’s amazing,” says Amir Eden, an Israeli-American who on March 1 became director of the Weintraub Israel Center, which is organizing the festival. OrCam’s artificial intelligence glasses are just one of the recent Israeli advances that will be highlighted at the festival’s Israel Science & Technology Pavilion, which is sponsored by Raytheon. The festival will be held Sunday, April 22, from 1 to 6 p.m. on the Jewish community campus at Dodge and River Roads. “We reached out to the Innovation Center of TaglitBirthright Israel, and asked them if we can bring their exciting, engaging center in Tel Aviv to Tucson. And we were very happy that they agreed,” says Eden. With short videos on Israeli innovations in science, medicine, security, space, and agriculture, the tech pavilion will focus on “what Israel is doing for the world and humanity. It’s innovation that will change lives, better lives, everywhere in the world,” says Eden. One cutting edge example is WaterGen, a portable generator that produces water from air. “We have billions of individuals in the world, especially in the Third World countries, who just don’t have access to fresh water, clean water,” says Eden. A technology Arizonans will particularly appreciate, Eden notes, is GreenIQ, which allows homeowners to control their irrigation system using a smartphone. Also on display will be a durable all-terrain vehicle from TOMCAR, which supplies military, commercial and consumer markets. Other transportation innovations include Electroroad, which uses energy directly

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from the road to power electric vehicles, and Mobileye, a system to prevent road accidents that combines a camera with radar. SoftWheel, another Israeli start-up, has literally reinvented the wheel, using a spoke-less design to create a more shock-absorbing wheel for wheelchairs and bicycles. ReWalk, which made the news in 2011 with a robotic exoskeleton that enables people with spinal cord injuries to walk, is now working on the next generation of that technology, a soft “exosuit” that can help stroke patients regain a more natural walking gait. Richard Shecory, a program manager at Intel in Israel — and father of Tucson shinshin (teen emissary) Tamir Shecory — will be a guest speaker. Raytheon, which partnered with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to produce Israel’s “Iron Dome” rocket defense system, will have a team from the Tucson plant at the festival to conduct workshops for children, including a rocket launch and games using virtual reality goggles.

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ikaron V’Tikvah. Remembrance and hope. These are the words that best reflect the meaning of the Butterfly Project. The Butterfly Project aims to remember the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust and the hope that through education, nothing this hateful will ever occur again. The original ceramic Butterfly Project began at the San Diego Jewish Academy when artist in residence Cheryl Rattner and educator Jan Landau Price sought a way to engage students and bring to life the memory of the children. Individuals and groups who participate in the project, both nationally and internationally, fashion ceramic butterflies, each complete with a name of a child whose life was stolen. Amy Gould made it her mission to introduce this project to Tucson. She and her husband decided to bring the project here after being introduced to it in Charlotte, North Carolina. “I found the project there very touching and

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Wayne and I saw it wasn’t present here,” says Gould. “I thought that, based on what has gone on even still in the world

today, that bringing this here would help remind the people in this city of the importance of standing up and speaking

out.” Since it was first introduced to the city, the Butterfly Trail, created to connect all Tucson Butterfly Project locations, has been heavily trafficked by the community. The first Tucson installment of the Butterfly Project was created at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation. Now the UA Hillel is home to a meaningful array of ceramic butterflies that welcome visitors. Executive Director Michelle Blumenberg worked closely with Gould to start the project. “Honestly, it all started with Michelle saying yes,” says Gould. “Amy came in at the perfect time,” says Blumenberg. “We had just stopped doing the art project we had always done with the annual Holocaust vigil and needed a new one so when she came in, it was really yes and?” In April 2015, the project was installed, and UA Hillel Foundation students and staff have continued to create more butterflies to keep and to share with other Tucson installations. Tucson Holocaust survivors were some of the first to paint their own ceramic butterflies in memory of their siblings and friends for this particular

installation. While there are common aspects to all of the installations around Tucson, like the maps pointing patrons on the path to all seven locations, Hillel’s eye-catching installation has the butterflies back-to-back, connected with a bead displaying words of hope. “They’re paired like that so no child is alone,” says Blumenberg. “It’s so important to have this installation outside. Students, faculty and visitors can see it all the time and the building doesn’t have to open for people to admire it.” Rabbi Stephanie Aaron of Congregation Chaverim worked closely with Gould on the vision of this project. She also dedicated most of the installations. “The project has two folds to it,” says Aaron. “One is about being a ‘rememberer’ and pledging to tell the story of survivors and being steadfast in my truth of that. Two is saying I will live my life to the best of my ability as an unprejudiced person and stop prejudice in others and myself. Going to the butterfly installments is showing the willingness to say that this is what matters in my life.” The Tucson Botanical Gardens is home to one of the most public installations in Tucson. Michelle Conklin, the executive director of the gardens, loves housing it there. “When Amy and Wayne first shared with me the vision and messaging of the Butterfly Project, I was all

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ost of us need few excuses to make a batch of chocolate truffles, especially when coffee is involved. My take on chocolate espresso truffles combines a velvety chocolate base with just enough espresso flavor to give you your caffeine fix. The fact that this version is vegan, kosher for Passover and healthy (no added sugar!) is just icing on the cake. I make these truffles with whatever nuts I have on hand (hazelnuts are to die for and make them taste like Nutella). Roll them in cocoa powder, unsweetened shredded coconut, shaved dark chocolate — or all three! Ingredients: 1 cup cashews 1/2 cup almonds 1 cup pitted medjool dates (roughly 10-12, depending on size) 1/4 cup cocoa powder, plus 1/2 cup for coating 1 teaspoon ground coffee Directions: 1. Combine the cashews and almonds in a food processor and process until very finely ground. With the motor running, add the pitted dates one by one until a consolidated dough begins to form. Add the cocoa powder and ground coffee, and process until fully incorporated. 2. Working with 1 tablespoon of dough at a time, roll the dough into balls. Pour 1/2 cup cocoa powder into a shallow dish and roll the balls around until coated. Serve at room temperature or place in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Makes 15. Izzy Darby is a vegan food blogger at Veganizzm. The Nosher food blog offers a dazzling array of new and classic Jewish recipes and food news, from Europe to Yemen, from challah to shakshuka and beyond. Check it out at www.TheNosher.com.

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PASSOVER Here’s a Passover menu that’s low on calories and carbs MEGAN WOLF JTA

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’m a big fan of whole grains, but they can easily become heavy — even the healthy ones. I’m offering a lighter, lower calorie and lower carbohydrate option for Passover meals this year. I love cauliflower as a stand-in for potatoes and rice. Not only is it delicious, it’s now incredibly easy to find already riced. And who can’t use a time saver in the kitchen? Frozen riced cauliflower works better than fresh, because there is already some water in the cauliflower and it helps the vegetable to cook more evenly. I love how these dishes come together in color, taste and texture. The sweet and crunchy aspects of the broccoli play off the creamy cauliflower and punchy salmon.

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4. Place salmon skin side down on the hot sheet pan, roast until cooked to your liking, or about 8-10 minutes. 5. Serve salmon by topping the fish with the remaining oil mixture and sliced lemon. SEARED MUSHROOM CAULIFLOWER RISOTTO Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 10 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped 4 cups frozen riced cauliflower 1/2 cup dry white wine 2 cups water or more 1/3 cup shredded Parmesan cheese 1 lemon, juiced 1 pint crimini mushrooms, quartered See Menu, page 21

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1 tablespoon olive oil Salt to taste Directions: 1. Sauté onions and garlic over low heat until cooked through and translucent. 2. Add frozen cauliflower and mix to combine. Add white wine and continue stirring. 3. Add water 1/2 cup at a time, stirring frequently and adding more water as each batch is absorbed. 4. While the cauliflower is cooking, sauté mushrooms in olive oil in a separate pan, set aside. 5. Once the cauliflower is soft and resembles risotto, add Parmesan cheese and stir to combine.

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hat is the essence of Passover? On the one hand, it seems obvious: Passover is about gathering together with loved ones to recall, through sumptuous home rituals, the exodus from Egypt. We gather round our seder tables and quickly become engulfed in the warmth of family and friends, the culinary delights of a delicious meal, and the comforting, vaguely familiar words and songs we recite year after year. Passover is, indeed, a beautiful opportunity for rejoicing and celebrating. But it also can be much more. When looking closely at the Passover Haggadah, we can see that the rabbis who crafted it did not choose to make Passover a holiday solely focused on celebrating the past. Like the Fourth of July (or Hanukkah), Passover could have been a day to recall passively our independence from an oppressive regime as a historical remembrance; to commemorate the past and salute our Founding Fathers (or Maccabees). Instead, Moses (as Founding Father of the Israelites) is largely shut out of

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The end of the Maggid section reveals why. It says: “In each and every generation people must regard themselves as though they personally left Egypt, as it says, ‘Tell your child on that very day: “This is what God did for me when I left Egypt.’” The Holy One of Blessing did not redeem only our ancestors, but God even redeemed us with them, as it says, ‘God brought us out of there in order to bring us to and give us the land that God swore to our ancestors.’” The seder specifically and Passover more broadly are about remembering God’s deliverance of the Israelites not as a one-time, historical event but as something that is perpetually happening in the present. Redemption from slavery to freedom is intended to be an experience that we, too, can and should have during our seders. But why? I believe that the seder is a literary means of experiential education. The Haggadah wants each of us to recall that we were once estranged, disenfranchised and marginalized, so that each of us will cultivate a sense of empathy for the estranged, the disenfranchised and the marginalized in our society today. We honor our past by acting in our present. So as we get ready for Passover, cleansing our houses of hametz, preparing our

Haggadah selections and invite lists, may we also take action to cleanse our society of poverty, bigotry and hatred. There has been an explosion of new and creative social justice-themed Haggadahs and seder inserts created in recent years by Jewish organizations. Last year alone, there were new additions about global justice (American Jewish World Service), LGBTQ rights (Keshet), hunger and military families (Mazon), wealth inequality (RRC), racial justice (RAC), mass incarceration (T’ruah), and refugees (Repair the World/HIAS), to name but a few. So please consider using any of these, tweet at #ActOnPassover or make use of other resources that speak to you and help you concretize our ongoing mandate to seek out freedom and redemption for all of God’s children. And may each of you be blessed with a happy, fulfilling and meaningful Passover. Chag sameach (happy holiday)!

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or most matzah bakeries, Passover is their lifeline and only claim to financial viability. After the weeklong holiday, during which Jews are commanded to consume matzah to commemorate their ancestors’ hurried flight out of Egypt, demand for the famously tasteless cracker drops sharply. Except, that is, in the Netherlands. A centuries-old and proud Jewish community here has made matzah a household product that is sold in supermarkets and consumed year-round by millions of non-Jews who swear by it as their breakfast bread of choice. That’s one reason why Pieter Heijs, a co-owner of Hollandia Matzes in this eastern city, is probably the only matzah maker in the world who braces for losses, not earnings, during Passover. Almost all the profits of his matzah bakery — the only one in Holland — comes from sales to non-Jews of a product that lacks the “kosher for Passover” certification. However, for four weeks ahead of Passover, Hollandia also produces kosher-for-Passover matzah, which “costs more to make than what we get for it,” Heijs said. The factory, which produces about 40 million matzah crackers annually, also makes small amounts of shmurah (watched) matzah — a specialty variant that is even costlier because of its stringent adherence to the kosher rules. To prevent even the hint of leavening, the wheat and flour never come into contact with moisture from the time of the harvesting until the dough is kneaded and the sheets are baked. Still, Heijs remains committed to making matzah that is kosher for Passover. “It’s a matter of tradition, and it means a great deal to me,” said Heijs, who is not Jewish. “Even if it comes at

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the expense of our profit margins, we will continue to produce Passover kosher matzah for as long as we can.” The losses, however, are dwarfed by the boom in Hollandia’s sales during Easter, which often coincides with Passover. On the Christian holiday, millions of Dutch buy and eat matzah as part of a nationwide tradition that testifies to centuries of Jewish influence on the general population. A liberal nation that was home to one of Europe’s most illustrious Jewish communities before its near annihilation by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust, the Netherlands has other examples of interfaith borrowings (take the oliebol, a deep-fried winter snack in Holland that many trace back to the Hanukkah doughnut called sufganiyah). Such carryovers were perhaps possible in the Netherlands partly because many Protestant Christians here emphasize the Hebrew Bible over the New Testament.

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But Heijs said “it’s because Dutch Jews were so integrated into the fabric of society.” The matzah became a year-round household food in recent decades as supermarkets replaced smaller grocery stores, according to Jonah Freud. He published a book in 2012 about the Dutch Jewish cuisine based on his research for the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. “I think it may be connected to how matzah is perceived as healthy,” Freud said. Heijs concurs. “Many of our clients want matzah because it’s such a pure product,” he said. “No additives, no conservatives, highly nutritious. What more can you ask of a health food?” In an overture to the health-food crowd, one of the first moves by Heijs and his business partner, Udo Karsemeijer, who also is not Jewish, after they bought Hollandia in 2004 was to add an organic matzah product to the lineup. It includes matzahs in two sizes, a whole wheat variety and one with herbs and spices. Hollandia now exports products to Scandinavia, Germany and even France, where several matzah bakeries compete for a market with 500,000 Jews. Heijs and Karsemeijer bought the Hollandia factory from a Jewish family named Woudstra. The founding family built the factory in Enschede because it had a large Jewish community, and because of the arrival to the eastern Netherlands of thousands of Jews who fled the Nazis in nearby Germany. When the Nazis invaded in 1940, the Woudstras went into hiding and the Nazis closed down Hollandia. Before the invasion, the Netherlands had several matzah bakeries, according to the Dutch Bakers’ Museum. Among the best known and oldest was the De Haan bakery in the picturesque fishing village of Marken, north of Amsterdam. It operated only ahead of Passover, and after the baking of the last matzah each year, De Haan employees would march to music through the village dressed in white sheets and ceremoniously extinguish the ovens. One of the production line machines inside Hollandia, a state-of-the-art factory with 18 employees who

A shopper browsing for matzah at the Amsterdam Noord branch of the Jumbo supermarket chain, March 17.

work year-round inside a three-story building, dates back to 1924. Inside the room where it now operates, the local Jewish community briefly ran a Jewish school for the children who were expelled from the general education system under the Nazis. The factory reopened after World War II, during which the Germans killed 75 percent of the prewar Dutch Jewish population of 100,000. The community never replenished its numbers. By then, however, matzahs had developed a non-Jewish following. The eye-catching and instantly recognizable packaging of Hollandia matzah boxes — an orange-colored octagonal cardboard box with a nifty camera-aperture opening — was a marketing coup cooked up by the Woudstras, Heijs said. The matzah became even better known to the Dutch immediately after the war because the Hollandia factory received generous subsidies under the Marshall Plan for financial aid to rebuild war-torn Europe, according to Heijs. He said the funding was meant also as a gesture acknowledging Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. See Matzah, page 26

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“But it was also a practical decision: Matzah requires no eggs, no salt, no sugar — all commodities that were in very short supply immediately after the war,” Heijs said. Whatever the reason, he added, the reality was that Hollandia was “one of the first bakeries that were restored” after the war, thus entrenching its status as a household brand. Heijs, 55, remembers enjoying Hollandia matzah as a boy ahead of and also directly after Easter. “I understand that matzah is not considered a delicacy exactly among Jews, who substitute bread for matzah for [eight days] each year,” he said. “But for us, who had it in addition to everything else, it was a treat that went very well with chocolate and butter.” Karina Ahles-Frijters, who lives in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, wrote in 2016 on her parenting blog, Trotsemoeders, that her three children like to experi-

ment with matzah toppings (her eldest prefers whole wheat matzah with butter and sugar-coated anise seeds, she wrote). One day a year, the Hollandia factory is open to anyone interested in making their own matzahs. But not everyone is a fan of the matzah. “Frankly I couldn’t tell you why so many Dutchmen like matzah — I don’t think it’s tasty at all,” said Roger van Oordt, the director of the Netherlandsbased Christians for Israel group, which organizes matzah-baking activities in solidarity with Israel and the Jews. “If I have to think about eating nothing but matzah for two weeks, it makes being Christian look easy.” Although he is not Jewish, Heijs regards matzah as much more than a commodity. “After 14 years of making matzahs, of course I developed friendships and bonds with many Jewish people,” said Heijs, who on Passover eve this year will attend his first seder dinner with his wife at the invitation of a Dutch Jewish community in northern Holland. “But matzah is part of the Dutch story regardless.”

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RABBI’S CORNER Giving tzedakah is about more than numbers RABBI YOSSIE SHEMTOV CHABAD TUCSON

here was a wealthy Jewish merchant in London who would frequently invite individuals soliciting charitable donations to his home. He would invite his child to come to those solicitations to listen to the charitable request. After the request was made, he would ask his son to bring his checkbook from the other room. An individual soliciting on behalf of a charity once asked the generous donor, “You have people visiting you on a regular basis. Why do you always leave your checkbook in the other room?” The donor answered: “I do it for the same reason I ask my son for his ‘help’ each time. I want him to learn how to give tzedakah (charity). It should be done often and it should take a little effort.” Giving charity has become more widespread in recent times and has become an almost effortless transaction. Between automated monthly giving and endowment funds, giving today can be as quick as clicking a button or emailing a staffer at a foundation. But, as that father was trying to teach his child, charity should be a special and frequent chore. In the words of the 12th-century sage Moses Maimonides (“Rambam”), “How often is more important than how much.” Why? Because when you write a check for $365, a good cause gets another $365. But if you give a dollar every day for 365 days — then your hand becomes a giving hand, the author Tzvi Freeman explains. An anonymous Jewish sage wrote, “A person is more influenced by the things he does than by the knowledge he is taught.”

This is why the Lubavitcher Rebbe suggested making a pushka (charity box) a permanent fixture in your home or office. Affix it to a wall for daily giving in the morning. Or more correctly: Affix your house to it. “A charity box in a home or office,” the Rebbe taught, “redefines the entire space. It is no longer just a home, just an office. It is a center of kindness and caring.” Despite our regular or annual giving, this season on the Jewish calendar comes and reminds us how to give. On the joyous holiday of Purim that we just celebrated, we are told to give “gifts to the poor.” It means that on that specific day, we should come face to face with someone who doesn’t have the financial abilities that we do. That requires a determined attempt to find such a person, recognize their need and assist them. This is applicable even for those who already donated the “south wing” of a non-profit’s building. A similar type of giving is required for the upcoming holiday of Passover. The opening paragraph of the Haggadah recited at the seder reads, “All who are hungry, let them come and eat.” There is an age-old Jewish custom called kimcha d’pischa, which means “flour for Passover” in Aramaic. Its observance aims to provide local individuals and families in need with the essentials to properly celebrate Passover. The collection for this charity (also called ma’ot chitim, “the wheat fund,” in Hebrew) begins 30 days prior to the holiday and continues until the funds are distributed, right up until the holiday. Giving should take effort, and it is something that we should do with our heart and soul. Let’s continue the Jewish season of giving with a warm embrace and do it with intention and effort.

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NW DIVISION AND HADASSAH CO-SPONSOR BUS TRIP

The Northwest Division of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and Hadassah Southern Arizona co-sponsored their annual spring bus trip earlier this month. Forty participants traveled to Douglas to visit and learn about Participants visit Bisbee-Douglas the restoration of the BisbeeJewish Cemetery Douglas Jewish Cemetery with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov of Chabad of Cochise County. Afterward, the group travelled to Bisbee for shopping and lunch. They were joined by Bisbee Jewish merchants and residents at Café Roka. For more events in the NW, please visit page 29.

FEDERATION REACHES OUT TO GREEN VALLEY RESIDENTS

The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and Beth Shalom Temple Center in Green Valley hosted a joint event featuring Tucson Desert Song Festival Director George Hanson. More than 100 people attended the event earlier this month to hear Hanson speak about his work with Leonard Bernstein. If you would like more information on upcoming Federation events in Green Valley, please email Fran Katz at fkatz@jfsa.org.

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PJ LIBRARY AND PJ OUR WAY VISIT THE TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

PJ Library and PJ Our Way set up shop for the 10th Annual Tucson Festival of Books earlier this month. With help from generous volunteers and staff, kids participated in crafts and learned more about the wonderful programs. To learn more about getting free Jewish books for kids ages 6 months to 11 years visit www.jfsa.org.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR The calendar deadline is Tuesday, 10 days before the issue date. Our next issue will be published April 6, 2018. Events may be emailed to localnews@azjewishpost.com, faxed to 319-1118, or mailed to the AJP at 3718 E. River Road, #272, Tucson, AZ 85718. For more information, call 319-1112. See Area Congregations on page 30 for additional synagogue events. Men’s Mishnah club with Rabbi Israel Becker at Cong. Chofetz Chayim. Sundays, 7:15 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 6:15 a.m.; Saturdays, 8:15 a.m. 747-7780 or yzbecker@me.com. Chabad of Sierra Vista men’s tefillin club with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, first Sundays, 9 a.m., at 401 Suffolk Drive. 820-6256 or jewishsierravista.com. “Too Jewish” radio show with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon on KVOI 1030 AM (also KAPR and KJAA), Sundays at 9 a.m. Mar. 25, Tova Mirvis, author of “The Book of Separation.” April 1, Rachel Laser, executive director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State. April 8, comedian and attorney Elliot Glicksman, Comedy for Charity. Beth Shalom Temple Center of Green Valley bagel breakfast and Yiddish club, first Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Members, $7; nonmembers, $10. 648-6690 or 399-3474. Women’s Academy of Jewish Studies “Women's 40-Day Program,” at Cong. Chofetz Chayim. Free weekly 45-minute class; topic: “Make Happiness Happen.” Newcomers welcome. Meets most Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Contact Esther Becker at 591-7680 or ewbecker@ me.com. Southern Arizona Jewish Genealogy Society, second Sundays, 1-3 p.m. at the Tucson J. Contact Barbara Stern Mannlein at 731-0300 or the J at 299-3000. Tucson J Israeli Dance, taught by Brandi Hawkins, 2nd and 4th Sundays, partners, 4:45-6 p.m., open circle, 6-7 p.m. Members, $8; nonmembers, $10. 299-3000.

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Cong. Anshei Israel mah jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon. All levels, men and women. Contact Evelyn at 885-4102 or esigafus@aol.com.

Tucson J current events discussion, Mondays, noon-1:30 p.m. Members, $1; nonmembers, $2. Lunch, bring or buy, 11:30 a.m. 2993000, ext. 147. Cong. Or Chadash Mondays with the Rabbi, with Rabbi Thomas Louchheim. Mondays, noon1:30 p.m. Bring a bag lunch. This year's topic: “Judaism’s Departure from the Bible to Influence Contemporary Life.” 512-8500. Cong. Bet Shalom yoga. Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. $5. 577-1171. Jewish sobriety support group meets Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. at Cong. Bet Shalom. dcmack1952@gmail.com. “Along the Talmudic Trail” for men (18-40), with Rabbi Israel Becker of Cong. Chofetz Chayim. Includes free dinner. Mondays, 7 p.m. Call for address. 747-7780 or yzbecker@me.com. Spouse Bereavement Group, cosponsored by Widowed to Widowed, Inc. at the Tucson J, Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Contact Marvin at 885-2005 or Tanya at 299-3000, ext. 147. JFCS Holocaust Survivors group meets Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Contact Raisa Moroz at 795-0300. Integral Jewish Meditation with Brian Schachter-Brooks, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m., at Cong. Bet Shalom, free. torahofawakening.com.

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and sale. At Young Israel-Chabad, 2443 E. 4th St. chabadtucson.com or 881-7956.

NOON-1:15 PM: Tucson J Shabbat Lunch & Learn, “Experience Israel with Tucson Shinshinim, Chen and Tamir.” $10, lunch included. 299-3000. 5:15 PM: Tucson International Jewish Film Festival screenings at The Loft Cinema, “Bar Bahar” (“In Between”), about three Palestinian women sharing a Tel Aviv apartment. Additional showtimes through March 29. loftcinema.org.

Saturday / March 24 8 AM: Temple Emanu-El Wandering Jews Shabbat hike. Join Rabbi Batsheva Appel at Wasson Peak. Bring a picnic lunch and water. 327-4501. 11 AM-NOON: Cong. Bet Shalom Tot Shabbat with PJ Library, led by Lisa Schachter-Brooks. Free. 577-1171.

Sunday / March 25 9:15 AM: Jewish War Veterans FriedmanPaul Post 201 breakfast meeting at B'nai B'rith Covenant House, 4414 E. 2nd St. Contact Seymour Shapiro at 398-5360. 11 AM: Chabad Tucson kosher wine tasting

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12:30-2 PM: PJ Library & Keshet Passover celebration. At Whole Foods, 5555 E. River Road. Free. RSVP requested but not required. Contact Mary Ellen Loebl at pjlibrary@jfsa.org or 647-8443. 1-3 PM: Tucson J “Family Passover Cooking Class,” with Jennifer Selco. Members $10; nonmembers $12. Register at tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. 2-4 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Passover Painting Party, led by Arte Bella Painting. Paint Miriam and/or Elijah wine glasses. Two glasses, apron, brushes and paints provided. $36. RSVP to 7455550 or caiaz.org. 2-4 PM: “Talking Tachles with Chen and Tamir.” “Straight talk” from the Weintraub Israel Center’s shinshinim (Israeli teen emissaries) on “Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Everything in Between.” At Temple Emanu-El. Part of a series hosted at various organizations. 327-4501. 6 PM: Tucson J Desert Melodies presents “A 1950s Sock Hop.” $10. Visit tucsonjcc.org or call 299-3000.

Ariana Lipman and Rosie Delgado. Second Tuesdays, through May 8, 2-4 p.m. 327-4501. Tucson J social bridge. Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-3 p.m., year round. Drop-ins welcome. Meets in library on second floor. 299-3000. Cong. Anshei Israel Talmud on Tuesday with Rabbi Robert Eisen. Meets 6 p.m. 745-5550. Weintraub Israel Center Shirat HaShirim Hebrew choir meets Tuesdays, 7 p.m., at the Tucson J. Learn to sing in Hebrew. Contact Rina Paz at 304-7943 or ericashem@cox.net. Tucson J Israeli dance classes. Tuesdays. Beginners, 7:30 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15 p.m.; advanced, 9 p.m. Taught by Lisa Goldberg. Members, $8; nonmembers, $10. 299-3000. Shalom Tucson business networking group, second Wednesdays, 7:30-9 a.m., at the Tucson J. 299-3000, ext. 241, or concierge@ jewishtucson.org. Cong. Anshei Israel gentle chair yoga with Lois Graham, Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Members of Women’s League, $6 per class; nonmembers, $8 per class. Contact Evelyn at 8854102 or esigafus@aol.com. Chabad of Sierra Vista women’s class with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, last Wednesdays, 2 p.m., 401 Suffolk Drive. 820-6256 or jewishsierravista.com. Chabad Tucson lunch and learn with Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin, Wednesdays, 12:15 p.m. at Eli’s Deli. info@ChabadTucson.com. Jewish mothers/grandmothers special needs support group for those with children/

Monday / March 26 6 PM: Temple Emanu-El WRJ Women’s Seder. Rabbi Batsheva Appel will be honored with the Miriam’s Cup Award. Temple Emanu-El or WRJ members $30; nonmembers $35. Contact Norma Cohen for availability at 575-9576.

Wednesday / March 28 10 AM: Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging lecture, “Some Things About Passover and the Seder That May Surprise You,” with Rabbi Sanford Seltzer. 2221 N. Rosemont Blvd. Contact Nanci Levy at nlevy@handmaker. org or 322-3632.

Thursday / March 29 7 PM: Ninth Annual Cindy Wool Memorial Seminar on Humanism presents “One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die” with Dr. BJ Miller. $18 includes coffee and dessert (free for medical students). RSVP for availability at jfsa.org or call Karen Graham at 5779393, x 8469. Preceded at 5:30 p.m. by VIP Reception. $108 includes dinner, seminar and parking in 2nd Street Garage. At UA Student Union, 1330 E. University Blvd.

grandchildren, youth or adult, with special needs, third Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. at Tucson J. Contact Joyce Stuehringer at 299-5920. Tucson J canasta group. Players wanted. Thursdays, noon. Instruction available and a beginners’ table every week. Call Debbie Wiener at 440-5515. Temple Emanu-El Jewish Novels Club with Linda Levine. Third Thursdays, through May 17, 2-4 p.m. 327-4501. “Biblical Breakthroughs with Rabbi Becker” at the Southwest Torah Institute. Fridays, noon, for men and women. 747-7780 or yzbecker@me.com. Thrive & Grow Vegetable Gardening Workshops, with Michael Ismail. Fridays from 2-3:30 p.m. at Tucson J, through June 15. $10. No class April 6. tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. Tucson J Fine Art Gallery art exhibit, “My Connection to the Jewish People.” By Tucson Hebrew High students. April 5-April 22. 299-3000. Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center art exhibit, “Invisibility and Resistance: Violence Against LGBTQIA+ People,” 564 S. Stone Ave., through May 31. Wed., Thur., Sat. and Sun., 1-5 p.m.; Fridays, noon-3 p.m. 670-9073 or jewishhistorymuseum.org. Jewish History Museum exhibit, “Subtle Apertures: Leo Goldschmidt’s Early Photographic Record of the Sonoran Borderlands,” through May 31. 564 S. Stone Ave.,. Wed., Thur., Sat. and Sun., 1-5 p.m.; Fridays, noon-3 p.m. 670-9073 or jewishhistorymuseum.org.

Friday / March 30 7 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Erev Passover Minyan service with Siyum for First Born. For complete holiday schedule, call 745-5550 or visit caiaz.org. 5-7 PM: Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging first night Passover Seder, led by Meme Aguila. Adult $40; child 4-10 $15. 2221 N. Rosemont Blvd. To reserve, call Colleen Kulpa by March 23 at 322-3622. 5:30-8:30 PM: JPride Seder in private home. $18 suggested donation. RSVP by March 27 at jpride@tucsonjcc.org for address. 6 PM Cong. Or Chadash First Night Community Seder. Members: adult $45; child $36; nonmembers: adult $65; child $45. Register with Eileen Cook at 512-8500 or eileen@octucson.org. 7 PM: Chabad Tucson Community Seder. Adult $45 ($54 after March 25); child $25. At Young Israel Chabad, 2443 E. 4th St. Register at chabadtucson.com or 881-7956.

Saturday / March 31 9:30 AM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat and Passover Festival Morning Services. For

complete holiday schedule, call 327-4501 or visit tetucson.org. 10 AM: Cong. Or Chadash Passover service. For complete holiday schedule, call 512-8500 or visit orchadash-tucson.org. 11:30 AM-2:30 PM: Secular Humanist Jewish Circle Passover Seder. Humanistic Haggadah with traditional seder plate and lunch. Members $25; nonmembers $35. For directions, RSVP by March 26 to Becky at 296-3762 or schulmb@aol.com. 5-7 PM: Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging second night Passover Seder, led by Maya Levy. Adult $40; child 4-10 $15. 2221 N. Rosemont Blvd. To reserve, call Colleen Kulpa by March 23 at 322-3622. 6 PM: Temple Emanu-El Passover Seder. With Rabbi Batsheva Appel and Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg. Members: adult $45; nonmembers: $55; college students and active military $35; child aged 4-12 $15. RSVP required at 327-4501. 6:30 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Ma’ariv followed by Second Night Passover Seder at 7 p.m. Family participation; supervised children’s play; traditional dinner. Members: adult $45; child $30; nonmembers: adult $55; child $40; college and military: $38. Call for availability at 745-5550.

Wednesday / April 4 6-7 PM: Tucson J Mariachi concert with the UA’s Mariachi Arizona. Will include arrangement of Hava Nagila. $10. Visit tucsonjcc.org or call 299-3000.

Friday / April 6 9:30 AM: Temple Emanu-El Passover Yizkor service. 327-4501. 10 AM: Cong. Or Chadash Passover Yizkor service. 512-8500. 5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Tot Kabbalat Pesach Shabbat service followed by dinner at 6 p.m. Dinner $10 for adults, free for kids under 12. RSVP for dinner at 327-4501.

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Saturday / April 7 9 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Passover Yizkor and Shacharit service. 745-5550.

Sunday / April 8 8:30-10 AM Cong. Or Chadash post-Passover pancake breakfast. Proceeds benefit eighth grade trip to Jewish L.A. $5. 512-8500. 10 AM-NOON: Tucson J Sculpture Garden new exhibition opening and brunch. Meet the artists and dance performance by Hawkins Dance. Before March 26, $50; after March 26, $60. Register at tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. 2-4 PM: Tucson J Fine Art Gallery artists’ reception, “My Connection to the Jewish People.” Tucson Hebrew High students. 299-3000. 5:30 PM: Jewish Family & Children’s Services Celebration of Caring 2018, with historian Deborah Lipstadt, Ph.D. At Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. For tickets visit jfcstucson.org or call Kate Kelly at 209-2435.

Monday / April 9

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Jewish Federation-Northwest chair yoga with a Jewish flair taught by Bonnie Golden. Mondays, 10-11 a.m. $7 per class or $25 for four. 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org. Chabad of Oro Valley Torah and Tea for women, with Mushkie Zimmerman, Mondays, through March 26. 477-8672 or jewishorovalley.com. Northwest Needlers create hand-stitched items for donation in the Jewish community. Meets at Jewish Federation Northwest Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. RSVP to judithgfeldman@ gmail.com or 505-4161. Jewish Federation-Northwest mah jongg, Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. Also meets Wednesdays, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., 505-4161. Chabad of Oro Valley adult education class, Jewish learning with Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman. Wednesdays at 7 p.m., at 1217 W. Faldo Drive. 477-8672 or jewishorovalley.com.

Monday / March 26

5 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest and Hadassah book club discusses “The Orphan’s

Tale” by Pam Jenoff. At 190 W. Magee, #162. 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org.

Friday / March 30 7 PM: Chabad of Oro Valley Passover Seder. Adult $36; child $20. At Oro Valley Recreation Center, 10555 La Canada Dr. 477-8672 or jewishorovalley.com.

UPCOMING Wednesday / April 11

1-2:30 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest Yom HaShoah Remembrance. Kaddish with Rabbi Sanford Seltzer, and Berndt Wollschlaeger video talk about his father’s Nazi history. At Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 13500 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd. RSVP at 5054161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org.

Friday / April 20

6 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat dinner and service in the Northwest at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo Del Norte. Kosher Shabbat dinner (vegetarian option upon request). Dinner: members, $12; nonmembers, $14; under 13 free. RSVP at 327-4501.

11:30-1 PM: U.S. Army Fort Huachuca Annual Holocaust Days of Remembrance Observance. Keynote address by Dr. Gil Ribak, assistant professor of Judaic studies at UA. Featuring Holocaust survivors from Tucson and a candle lighting ceremony. Visitors without military or DoD-issued ID card must stop at the Visitors Control Center at the Van Deman Gate to apply for a visitors pass. Contact Fort Huachuca public affairs office at 533-1284. 7-8:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El “Warning: Border Ahead,” Israel and its boundaries 50 years after the Six Day War, with Oshrat Barel and Yoni Green. Members $55; nonmembers $70. Register at 327-4501.

UPCOMING

2 PM: The Tucson J Celebration of Heritage concert, “Celebrating the Music of Hungary with Love,” with the Arizona Symphonic Winds. $10. Register at tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000.

Thursday / April 12

10:30 AM: Jewish History Museum interactive genealogy workshop. With author and genealogy expert Joel Alpert. Free. 564 S. Stone Ave. 670-9073. NOON: JFCS, “To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona,” with local survivors, at Joel Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave. Contact Raisa Moroz at 7950300, ext. 2214 or rmoroz@jfcstucson.org.

Friday / April 13

5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat Rocks! dinner followed by service at 6:30 p.m., with kindergarten and first grade classes, Rabbi Batsheva Appel, Avanim Rock Band and youth choir. Traditional service follows at 7:30 p.m. Dinner $12 for adults, free for kids under 13. RSVP for dinner at 327-4501.

Sunday / April 15

5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat Passover Experience in the Desert. Join Rabbi Batsheva Appel at Saguaro National Park East. 327-4501.

10-11:30 AM: Tucson J Books, Bagels,

& Brunch with cookbook author Emily Paster, “The Joys of Jewish Preserving.” Discussion, cooking demonstration, and signed copy of book. Members $95; nonmembers $100. Following at 1-3:30 p.m., hands-on cooking class of preserving techniques. Members $65; nonmembers $70. Register at tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. 2 PM: Community-wide Yom Hashoah Commemoration, “Resistance and Resilience, Marking 75 years After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” with Dr. Gil Ribak, assistant professor of Judaic studies at UA. Free. At Cong. Anshei Israel. 670-9073. 4:30-7:30 PM Cong. Or Chadash Flying Chai spring fundraiser tribute festival honoring educator Rina Leibeskind. Ventriloquist/comedian Chuck Field, Israeli food, DJ, games, prizes and raffle. Adult $45; child $18. Visit flyingchai.org or call 512-8500.

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Congregation ChoFetz Chayim/southwest torah institute 5150 E. Fifth St., Tucson, AZ 85711 • (520) 747-7780 Rabbi Israel Becker • www.tucsontorah.org Shabbat services: Fri., Kabbalat Shabbat 15 minutes before sunset; Sat. 9 a.m. followed by Kiddush. / Mincha: Fri., 1 p.m.; Sat., 25 minutes before sunset, followed by Shalosh Seudas, Maariv and Havdallah. Services: Sun., 8 a.m.; Mon. & Thurs., 6:50 a.m.; Tues., Wed., Fri., 7 a.m.; daily, 15 minutes before sunset. / Weekday Rosh Chodesh services: 6:45 a.m.

Congregation young israel/ChaBad oF tuCson 2443 E. Fourth St., Tucson, AZ 85719 • (520) 881-7956 Rabbi Yossie Shemtov, Rabbi Yudi Ceitlin • www.chabadoftucson.com Daily minyan: Sun. & legal holidays, 8:30 a.m.; Mon. & Thurs., 6:30 p.m.; Tues., Wed., Fri., 6:45 a.m. / Mincha & Maariv, 5:15 p.m. / Shabbat services: Fri. at candlelighting; Sat. 9:30 a.m. followed by Kiddush. Mincha, Maariv and Havdallah TBA.

ChaBad on river 3916 E. Ft. Lowell Road • (520) 661-9350 Rabbi Ram Bigelman • www.chabadonriver.com Shabbat services: Fri., Mincha at candlelighting time, followed by Maariv. / Sat., Shacharit service, 9:30 a.m. / Torah study: women, Wed., 2 p.m.; men, Tues. and Thurs., 7 p.m. Call to confirm.

ChaBad oro valley 1217 W. Faldo Drive, Oro Valley, AZ 85755 • (520) 477-8672 Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman • www.jewishorovalley.com Shabbat services: 3rd Fri., 5 p.m. Oct.-Feb., 6 p.m. March-Sept., all followed by dinner / Sat., 10 a.m. study session followed by service.

ChaBad sierra vista 401 Suffolk Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 • (520) 820-6256 Rabbi Benzion Shemtov • www.jewishsierravista.com Shabbat services: Sat., 10:30 a.m., bimonthly, followed by class explaining prayers. Visit website or call for dates.

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Congregation Kol simChah

(Renewal) 4625 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718 • (520) 296-0818 Mailing Address: 2732 S. Gwain Place, Tucson, AZ 85713 Shabbat services: 1st and 3rd Fri., 7:15 p.m.

Congregation m’Kor hayim 3888 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718 (Tucson Hebrew Academy) Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31806, Tucson, AZ 85751 • (520) 904-1881 Rabbi Helen Cohn • www.mkorhayim.org Shabbat services: 2nd and 4th Fri., 7 p.m. / Torah study, 2nd and 4th Sat., 9:30 a.m.

Congregation or Chadash 3939 N. Alvernon, Tucson, AZ 85718 • (520) 512-8500 Rabbi Thomas Louchheim, Cantor Janece Cohen www.orchadash-tucson.org Shabbat services: Fri., 6:30 p.m.; 1st Fri., Friday Night LIVE (Oct.-May); 2nd Friday, Tot Shabbat (Oct.-June), 6 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. / Torah study: Sat.,8:30 a.m.

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CONGREGATION CHAVERIM 5901 E. Second St., Tucson, AZ 85711 • (520) 320-1015 Rabbi Stephanie Aaron • www.chaverim.net Shabbat services: Fri., 7 p.m. (no service on 5th Fri.); Family Shabbat, 1st Fri., 6 p.m. / Torah study: 2nd Sat., 9 a.m., followed by contemplative service,10 a.m.

ARIZONA JEWISH POST, March 23, 2018

Michael Sattinger

Michael Charles Sattinger of Show Low, Arizona, 62, died March 5, 2018. Survivors include his wife, Lorese; mother, Joyce Sattinger, and father, Irwin Sattinger, both of Tucson; stepchildren, Frank (Amy) Russell and April Russell, both of Show Low; brother, Stephen (Rachel) Sattinger of Tucson, and sister, Kim Sattinger of Los Angeles; and three grandchildren. Services were held at Evergreen Mortuary with Rabbi Thomas Louchheim and Cantor Janece Cohen of Congregation Or Chadash officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the White Mountain Humane Society.

Mailing Address: 36789 S. Golf Course Drive, Saddlebrooke, AZ 85739 Rabbi Sanford Seltzer • (520) 825-8175 Shabbat services: Oct.-April, third Friday of the month at 7 p.m. — call for details.

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225 N. Country Club Road, Tucson, AZ 85716 • (520) 327-4501 Rabbi Batsheva Appel • www.tetucson.org Shabbat services: Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. / Torah study: Sat., 8:30 a.m. except when there is a Rabbi’s Tish.

temple Kol hamidBar 228 N. Canyon Drive, Sierra Vista • (520) 458-8637 kolhamidbar.tripod.com Mailing address: P.O. Box 908, Sierra Vista, AZ 85636 Shabbat services: Fri., 7:30 p.m.

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Beth shalom temple Center

1751 N. Rio Mayo (P.O. Box 884), Green Valley, AZ 85622 (520) 648-6690 • www.bstc.us Shabbat services: 1st and 3rd Fri., 7 p.m. / Torah study: Sat., 10 a.m.

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Congregation etz Chaim (Modern Orthodox) 686 Harshaw Road, Patagonia, AZ 85624 • (520) 394-2520 Rabbi Gabriel Cousens • www.etzchaimcongregation.org Shabbat services: Fri., 18 minutes before sunset / Torah study: Sat., 9:30 a.m. handmaKer resident synagogue

2221 N. Rosemont Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85712 • (520) 881-2323 www.handmaker.com Shabbat services: Fri., 4:30 p.m., led by Lindsey O’Shea, followed by Shabbat dinner; Sat., 9:30 a.m., led by Mel Cohen and Dan Asia, followed by light Kiddush lunch.

seCular humanist Jewish CirCle REFORM

Richard H. Love, 95, died Feb. 27, 2018. Mr. Love was born in Detroit. He flew a B24 Liberator in World War II as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Force. He was a manager at the Michigan branch of Dominion Risk Management, an insurance provider. Mr. Love was a member of the bridge club at the Tucson Jewish Community Center and the Wednesday Romeo (Retired Old Men Eating Out) Club. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy; children, Cynthia Castle of Michigan, Elisa Gugerty of Arizona, Howard Bisgeier of Tucson and Diane Tate of California.

www.secularhumanistjewishcircle.org Call Cathleen at (520) 730-0401 for meeting or other information.

university oF arizona hillel Foundation 1245 E. 2nd St. Tucson, AZ 85719 • (520) 624-6561 • www.arizona.hillel.org Shabbat services: Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and alternative services two Fridays each month when school is in session. Dinner follows (guests, $8; RSVP by preceding Thurs.). Call for dates/times.

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OUR TOWN Business Briefs OSHRAT BAREL, the Weintraub Israel Center’s first woman director and its sixth shlicha (emissary from Israel) completes her transition this month to vice president of the JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA’s community engagement department. The new department will facilitate collaboration among three existing program areas: the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Coalition for Jewish Education, and the Weintraub Israel Center. Barel earned her bachelors’ degree in economics and management from the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo and her MBA from Netanya Academic College. She worked for the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel, and ran educational programs to train community leaders. Barel was director of the Beit Shean-Emek HaMaayanot-Cleveland Partnership2Gether for five years before arriving here in 2013. AMIR EDEN has been named director of the WEINTRAUB ISRAEL CENTER, a joint project of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Eden recently served as director of Israel education at the Dr. Miriam & Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas. Prior to that, he was principal of the Jess Schwartz Academy High School in Scottsdale. In Las Vegas, he also founded branches of the Israeli American Council and Tzofim (Israeli Scouts). RABBI RUVEN BARKAN has been appointed by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona to the part-time position of Tucson Hebrew High director while continuing his position as education and youth director at Congregation Anshei Israel. Barkan, who was born and raised in Tucson, has 11 years of experience as rabbi-in-residence at the Chicagoland Jewish High School, his first position after rabbinical school. His background includes study in Israel, working as a counselor at Camp Ramah in California and undergraduate work at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He was ordained in 2001 at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. THE GREGORY SCHOOL sent a physics team to the Shalheveth Freier International Physics Tournament at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, this week. Team members are Yonatan Weiner, Benjamin Manninen, Chiara Gloesslein and Byron Panrudkevich, with Erika Gallo, Ph.D., as faculty advisor. Team coach and advisor Dennis Connor is unable to travel with the team this year. This is the second year The Gregory School has attended the tournament. In 2016, its inaugural team placed fourth in the international event.

MARC and TRACY FRANKEL have opened PIZZA LUNA at 1101 N. Wilmot Road. The Frankels, who had a vacation home in Tucson, recently moved here full-time from Portland, Oregon, where they ran an 18-location restaurant group, including the awardwinning Pizzicato and Lovejoy Bakers. For Pizza Luna, they created a dough akin to the slow-fermentation country breads made at their Portland bakery. Their “neo-Neapolitan” pies also include house-made mozzarella and artisan toppings. More information is available at pizza-luna.com and on Facebook. JANICE AUERBACH, a graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a marketing veteran, has launched Page A Day Math. Focused on early elementary math (ages 3-9), Auerbach’s math facts series provides stepby-step practice to promote confidence, independent learning, and lasting math facts fluency. Auerbach’s experience as a student abroad and her many hours volunteering, tutoring, and teaching, showed her the necessity for early math exposure that encourages children to enjoy math right from the start. More information is available at pageadaymath.com or 780-1079.

In focus

A sample of goods donated by the Jewish community for children who had been removed from their adoptive parents’ home.

Community aids children in distress Members of the Tucson Jewish community provided clothing and funds to help four children from the Flowing Wells School District who were recently removed from their adoptive parents’ home. After reading about the children’s plight in local media, Mary Ellen Loebl, coordinator of “Making A Difference Every Day: The Homer Davis Project” for the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, contacted the principal of Homer Davis Elementary School, Lyle Dunbar. He said the children, who range in age from 6 to 12, needed clothes; teachers at the school had provided school supplies for them. New clothes, stuffed animals, and books bought with funds donated by Homer Davis supporters and staff at JFSA and the Jewish Community Foundation were delivered on March 2. More new and gently used clothing for the children, as well as gift cards, are also being provided for the children. Additional funds collected will benefit all needy students at the school.

ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY has announced three new staff members. SUE DEBENEDETTE has been appointed as director of marketing. DeBenedette most recently was chief marketing and development officer at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Her many years Sue DeBenedette of marketing experience includes positions with Arizona Public Media, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Polygram Records in Australia and A&M Records in New York and Los Angeles. JULIA WATERFALL-KANTER has been named director of development. She has led fund development efforts for more than 20 years for organizations that Julia Waterfall-Kanter include Arizona Opera, Tucson Jewish Community Center, Up With People and Social Venture Partners Tucson. One of her first jobs was as ATC associate director of development. JOHN GEERSTEN is ATC’s new company manager. He served for seven years as managing associate and company manager John Geersten at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. For three seasons, he produced the collaborative Utah charity event, Utah Theatre United. His stage management experience includes the 2009 U.S. Tour of the Royal Ballet School and The Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes for George Lucas. His television associate producer credits include the “MTV Movie,” “VH1 Fashion,” “My VH1” and “Big In” award shows, and Paul McCartney’s “Driving USA Tour.”

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The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies

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