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Tucson’s Lions of Judah explore the Jewish side of Italy

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he Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Lion of Judah women’s group spent an action-packed nine days visiting the highlights of Italy on a recent tour. Tandy Kippur was instrumental in planning the late-April trip. “Italy was chosen because of the welcoming atmosphere, the beautiful people . . . and the food,” says Kippur, who was unable to accompany the group. The women’s trips strengthen their knowledge about global Jewish communities and history. “Every day was something really interesting,” says Jane Ash, one of 16 women on the journey, and a co-chair along with Kippur, Judy Berman and Ellen Goldstein. The itinerary began in Venice, moved on to Florence and Tuscany, ending in Rome. At each destination, the group visited synagogues and convened with Jewish community members to grasp insights into local life.

The travelers agreed that among the highlights of the venture was a private tour of the Jewish Catacombs at Vigna Randanini in Rome. Discovered in 1918, the ancient catacombs date back to the second century and were opened to the public only in 2016. What helped make it special was the guidance of a Jewish Ph.D. in archeology who led the tour, Sarah Procaccia. “Sarah’s family’s been in Rome for 500 years and she could trace her roots to before the Christian era. She knew the Jewish and secular history of everything,” says Ash. The group walked the Jewish Ghetto, home to Europe’s oldest Jewish community. Today, a diverse community of 15,000 Jews lives in Rome. Berman says the six-hour Vatican tour from a Jewish perspective was also made special by Sarah’s guidance, as she also is a Michelangelo scholar. “She knew so many things about him and about every different pope. It was like an insider’s tour. Unfortunately, it was an Italian holiday and they sold 60,000 tour tickets

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Tucson ‘Lions’ visit the Synagogue of Sienna. Back row (L-R): Deanna Evenchik-Brav, Leslie Glaze, Jane Ash, Ellen Goldstein; third row: Shelly Silverman, Deborah Oseran, Liz WeinerSchulman, Carol Sears; second row: Fran Katz, Karen Katz, Wendy Sandweiss, Melissa Goldfinger; front row: Karen Faitelson, Judy Berman, Shelley Pozez. Not pictured: Jody Gross.

that day,” Berman adds. In contrast, the women had a private, nighttime tour of St.

Mark’s Basilica in Venice. “We were the only ones inside the church See Lions, page 4

Local educators OK after firsthand rocket experience in Israel

he Weintraub Israel Center, in partnership with Tucson Hebrew Academy and local synagogues as part of its school twinning program, sent a group of educators to Israel this week. On Tuesday, the group was visiting the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s partners in Hof Ashkelon and Kiryat Malachi, which is near the Gaza border, when Islamic Jihad and Hamas launched over 120 rockets and mortars at several Israeli southern communities. This was the largest flare-up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

partner teachers with whom we had Skyped all year long. After a walk down the beach and a last round of coffee, we drove to 138 Hill, a hill that had played a huge role in the Independence Day War. This hill was also chosen by the partnership to plant trees and create a nature area for all to connect to the land. It was finally sinking in that we were really in Israel. The idyllic orchards and surroundings gave no hint as to the hostility that was literally on the horizon in Gaza. Next stop was Kibbutz Yad

in four years. The educators — Maya Nona Bakerman (Or Chadash), Mari Bangoura (Chaverim), Emily Ellentuck (Tucson Hebrew Academy), Brie Finegold (Temple Emanu-El), Crystal Lucha (Tucson Jewish Community Center), and Kim Spitzer (Anshei Israel) — and program coordinator Adi Olshansky, a native Israeli living in Tucson, collaborated on the report below. As we gathered at our first morning in the partnership region over a delicious Israeli buffet, we knew we would soon meet our

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Mordechai, where a tour guide told us about its history in the small museum. We were hearing about its namesake, Mordechai Anielewicz, who as a young man risked life and limb to lead the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Then a siren went off, and we felt a loud boom. The feeling was totally foreign. The tour guide laughed and said “Hamas is welcoming you.” We weren’t sure what was happening. We stayed in a safe spot where we continued to learn about the See Educators, page 4

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LOCAL Free JFCS seminars will examine effect of traumatic memories on older adults

ewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Arizona will present a free two-part training series this month for all those who care for older adults and want to understand how past emotional experiences affect both the people in their care and themselves. The target audience for “Person Centered Trauma Informed Care for Older Adults” includes caregivers, baby boomers caring for aging parents, behavioral health and medical providers, home health care agencies, senior service providers, clinical staff and administrators. The workshops will take place Wednesday, June 6 from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Wednesday, June 13 from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, 3718 E. River Road. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. The training is valid for three continuing education units. The first workshop will offer an in-

depth look at the components of “person-centered trauma-informed care,” understanding the science behind memory and psychological trauma, and how Kelly Burroughs traumatic memory can affect current functioning. Workshop participants will learn how to incorporate personal histories into caregiving strategies to avoid triggers or re-traumatization of the people in their care. As we age, memories and emotions from past experiences often resurface and intensify just as we are becoming less resilient and more dependent on others for our wellbeing and care. The training will provide a deeper understanding of the psychological trauma histories of older adults, drawing from JFCS’ expertise

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in providing support for the Holocaust survivors in our community whose hope, strength and resilience serve as guiding lights, says JFCS Vice President of Clinical Services Kelly Burroughs, MA, LAC, BHP, CCTP, who will facilitate the series. Exposure to others’ stories of psychological trauma is often referred to as “secondary or vicarious trauma.” The second workshop is designed to build awareness about caregivers’ exposure to stress and help them understand their own vulnerabilities and reactions

when working with older adults with trauma histories. Workshop participants will learn techniques for improving selfcare, and explore strategies for incorporating person centered trama informed care at an organizational level. Burroughs has more than 20 years of experience in publicly funded behavioral health and social services for children and families. She will be joined by Sharon Glassberg, M.C., a clinical therapist and Jewish community educator, and Raisa Moroz, both of whom provide Holocaust survivors with behavioral health and support services at JFCS. For more information and to register, visit https://tinyurl.com/JFCS-PCTI. The program is made possible, in part, by federal funds from a grant through The Jewish Federations of North America Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care. Funds also were provided by the Mel Sherman Institute.

Evenchik-Brav to be honored as woman of valor at Lion of Judah conference

e a n n a EvenchikBrav will be the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona recipient of the 2019 Kipnis-Wils on/ Friedland Award, which will be pre- Deanna Evenchik-Brav sented at the International Lion of Judah Conference in January 2019 in Miami, Florida. The award honors women who have set a high standard for philanthropy and volunteerism. It was established in rec-

ognition of Norma Kipnis-Wilson and the late Toby Friedland, co-founders of the Jewish Federation of North America’s Lion of Judah program. Winners are chosen by their communities as “women of valor” with a lifetime of commitment to the Jewish world. Evenchik-Brav has demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities and serves as a mentor and role model for multiple generations of women in our community, says Fran Katz, JFSA senior vice president. Evenchik-Brav is the current International Lion of Judah Conference recruitment co-chair. Her past leadership positions include JFSA Women’s Philan-

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thropy chair and campaign chair, JFSA board vice chair, and JFSA campaign chair. She was named JFSA Woman of the Year in 2010. Evenchik-Brav also represents JFSA on the National Women’s Philanthropy Board. She was an AIPAC of Southern Arizona council chair, a member of the boards of University of Arizona Judaic Studies, University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging Foundation and the Jewish Community Foundation, and a Brandeis National Committee member. She served as Tucson Symphony Women’s Association president and member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra board

of directors. A Lion of Judah since 2004, Evenchik-Brav established a Lion of Judah Endowment in 2008. Most recently, she and her late husband, Harvey Evenchik, made the lead gift to the JFSA Next 70 Capital Campaign, establishing the Harvey and Deanna Evenchik Center for Jewish Philanthropy, the new home of the JFSA and Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona. A delegation of local Lions of Judah will travel together to participate in the conference and honor Evenchik-Brav. For more information, contact Katz at fkatz@jfsa.org. JOIN THE NEWEST CHAPTER OF ® PJ LIBRARY FOR KIDS AGE 9-11

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when, during the day, there are literally thousands of people in there. We had this gorgeous historical building all to ourselves,” recalls Ash. At the InRome Cooking school, the ladies learned the art of pasta making, turning out ravioli and lemon sauce. “We’ll have a follow-up, after-party and recreate the recipes,” says Berman. “There were new lions on this trip and it was fun to show them our inclusiveness,” says Berman, who, with Goldstein, heads the Lions engagement committee. “Lions are the most inclusive group of women. They don’t have to be Jewish, just to care for the cause of helping people all over the world and in Tucson, and accept our Jewish values and culture.” In the last six months, the committee has recruited three new Lions, two of whom are not Jewish, says Berman. “I do a lot of other charity work but the Federation and the Lions are my top priority,” adds Berman. The Lions of Judah are a dynamic philanthropic group of predominantly Jewish women of all ages. It is an international sisterhood of thousands of global activists who care about the Jewish future. Lions of Judah play a vital role in creating social justice, aiding the vulnerable, preserving human dignity and building Jewish identity. Locally, Lions make a contribution of

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history of the kibbutz. The building around us was reinforced to withstand attack. Without saying it directly, the demeanor of the tour guide was that missiles weren’t going to stop us. We were continuing, just not in exactly the same path. Uneasy, but glad to be with people who seemed prepared and calm, we heard Adi Shacham [the partnership’s People2People coordinator in Israel] and Adi Olshansky busy making changes to our plans to make sure we were all safe. Our host families came to pick us up to stay with them for the evening. Some of us were to be hosted by families in the southern part of our partnership region nearer to Gaza, where the missiles were coming from. We were asked if we wanted to stay further away. Some said, “If you can stay, I can stay” to their hosts. Others decided to stay further north. The hospitality we were shown was incredible — one host had just become a grandmother, and she made time to take two of us to dinner at another host’s home, even while her extended family was visiting to see the baby. The table was full of delicious fresh salads, fruits, and desserts. After a delicious Kosher meal with other teachers, some of whom had come to Tucson last December, we carpooled home. All of us learned a new word, “mamad,” the safe reinforced room within the home or kibbutz where we stayed. We all woke up at some point in the night to a siren telling us to go to the mamad. You have anywhere from 15-30 seconds to get there. But after a few moments, we returned to bed. As teachers or as parents, we thought about how we would handle this with a young child. Some of us thought about whether our parents would hear the news and be worried. Would things escalate even more? We were surprised that what we were experi-

Tucson educators visit with Israeli partners in Israel on Tuesday.

encing was not featured more in the news. Then we realized that maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. The next day, when Adi [Olshansky] asked us how we were feeling, some of us spoke about having a responsibility to take back our experience and relate it to others, some talked about having a newfound understanding, if only a little bit deeper than before, of the lives of our Israeli friends. We all noticed that our Israeli hosts were saying something like “I’m sorry this is happening while you are here.” And we understood that they wanted us to feel safe, but also we knew that this was a possibility when we came. We all felt that our hosts should not need to say “I’m sorry” because they didn’t create this situation. Many of us feel like our experience in Israel is one from which we can learn and grow. We know Israel is a tumultuous place with a varied landscape: beautiful fields of fig, olive and nectarine trees, welcoming Jewish people, and also tensions and hostility. The bitter comes with the sweet, and we don’t need to pretend that there is only one or the other. So our hosts didn’t need to say “I’m sorry.”

LOCAL Jewish community agencies tap top volunteers for honors at awards event DEBE CAMPBELL AJP Editorial Assistant

his is part two of a series on the Jewish agency volunteers who received 2018 Special Recognition Awards at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Jewish Community Awards Celebration, held May 10. Ellis Friedman, Tucson Hebrew Academy A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, Ellis Friedman retired to Tucson after what he calls a “very fulfilling career” as an orthopedic surgeon at the ninth busiest U.S. emergency room, at the Reading Hospital & Medical Center. He began volunteering at Tucson HeEllis Friedman brew Academy in October 2000, twice weekly with second grade math enrichment. Ten years later, he moved to first grade reading skills, where all the eager readers wanted to work in “Dr. Ducky’s” one-on-one sessions. Friedman explains: “In my first year of medical school, the British secretary to the dean of the school of medicine made me her favorite, and always called me, ‘Ducky.’ My classmates quickly found out, and I’ve been Ducky ever since. I was always paged as ‘Dr. Ducky Friedman’ at the hospital — and was given over 200 silver, crystal, Venetian glass, and wood ducks by patients. My grandchildren call me ‘Papa Ducky’ while students love to call me Dr. Ducky, and find it non-threatening.” Outside the classroom, Friedman was a Congregation Anshei Israel member for 13 years and board member for eight years. A member of Congregation Bet Shalom for five years, he chairs its endowment committee. He is involved with the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and its Maimonides Society, a fellowship of medical professionals. “I’m also the longest-serving coach in The Reading Seed program, having done that for 18 years,” he says. He and his wife, Irene, have three children with 10 grandchildren scattered across New Jersey, California and Israel. “Friedman has been volunteering at Tucson Hebrew Academy for 18 years — this is his ‘Chai’ year of service! He dutifully shows up week after week to help our first graders learn and grow. For about a decade now he’s listened to them read, and read to them. He’s earned a special place in the hearts of every THA first grader and become part of what makes the year an amazing experience for our kids,” says Jon Ben-Asher, THA head of school.

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Nancy Koff, University of Arizona Hillel Foundation “Nancy Koff is quite possibly the most selfless person I have ever had the opportunity to call my friend,” says University of Arizona Hillel Foundation board chairman John Judin. “I remember for years hearing Nancy say Nancy Koff how she was going to be retiring from her job as the associate dean of the University of Arizona Medical School, and how after she went ‘part-time’ it seemed she was working 60 hours per week. Was full-time 120 hours, Nancy?” Koff retired in 2014, following a 24-year career at the University of Arizona College of Medicine as senior associate dean for medical student education. She also was active nationally leading medical school accreditation teams for the liaison committee on medical education. “Despite her workload at the university, she always managed to find the energy to tirelessly devote to our community as a volunteer, both inside and outside of the Jewish community. This is her second stint on the board of UA Hillel, she spent years on the Temple Emanu- El board of directors, and she continues to volunteer at the synagogue,” says Judin. During her current and fourth term on the UA Hillel board, Koff served as the chair of the strategic planning committee. “Her dedication and tireless efforts in this position provided the organization with a dynamic plan and direction toward the future,” says Judin. She actively participates on Hillel’s annual benefit committee, and is always ready and willing to help out with any number of projects, he adds. With the College of Medicine, Koff serves on the Education Leadership Council of the Center for Integrative Medicine and stays involved with the college through the Gold Humanism Honor Society and its Nancy Alexander Koff Award to Recognize Humanism in Medicine. She also administers the Theodore H. Koff Scholarship, established in memory of her late husband of 19 years. He was the founding director of Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging. Outside the university setting, she is a precinct committeeperson for the Democratic Party and served as the liaison between the College of Medicine and the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona since the establishment of the Cindy Wool Memorial Seminar for Humanism in Healthcare nine years ago. She currently serves as the seminar’s co-chair. “I truly enjoy working with Hillel and was very hon-

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ored by this special recognition,” Koff says. “I’ve enjoyed participating in the growth of the number and diversity of programs and activities connecting students to their Jewish identity and helping them develop leadership skills. I find it especially gratifying to contribute to something that so positively affects the educational experience of Jewish students and benefits the UA, which has been central to my life and that of my late husband for so many years.” “It has truly been a privilege to have had Nancy’s support, counsel, and friendship during my tenure as UA Hillel board chair,” says Judin. Ken Goodman, Tucson Jewish Community Center “We recognized Ken for his body of work on the building committee for many years,” says Todd Rockoff, Tucson J president and CEO. “He always makes himself available, when something goes wrong or something goes Ken Goodman right. He is generous with his time and always raises his hand to help. He’s been here forever and I hope he will continue to be.” Goodman is a general contractor and a carpenter by trade. With his former company, Environmental Strategies, and now with his son Jonathan’s company, SCBS, LLC, Goodman continues to help the Tucson and the Jewish communities on many fronts. In 2009, as the recession was deepening, Goodman’s philanthropy went from donating money to volunteerism, donating his time and expertise to the community. He has been a member of the J for more than 30 years, served on the board for eight years and was named the J’s Volunteer of the Year in 2010 and 2017. Since 9/11, he has served on the security committee, helping design security enhancements for the center. He was part of the construction oversight committee for the expansion of the sports and wellness wing, early childhood education and special needs area. He was the contractor for the Stone Avenue Temple reconstruction and the Community Mikvah at Young Israel renovation. Goodman served on the board of directors for Tucson Hebrew Academy and Temple Emanu-El and currently serves on the Jewish Family & Children Services board. He is chairman of the Pima County Small Business Commission. An avid runner, Goodman has completed over 20 marathons, breaking three hours three times. He’s been on the masters swim team at the J for nearly 10 years.

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COMMENTARY Congress wants to define anti-Semitism — here’s how that can get messy RON KAMPEAS JTA WASHINGTON epublican and Democratic lawmakers are lining up behind a bill that would define anti-Semitism. The measure introduced May 24 by Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., who is Jewish, and Pete Roskam, R-Ill., a leader on proIsrael issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, at first looks like a bipartisan slam dunk. The principal target is harassment of Jewish students on university campuses. But civil libertarians and some liberals hate the legislation because it includes a controversial definition of some anti-Israel expression as anti-Semitic. And at least one previous attempt to have a government body declare against anti-Semitism on campus was frustrated by conservative worries that it would impinge on Christian expression on campus. Underscoring both arguments: It’s dangerous when the government attempts to define dangerous thought. What the legislation says In 2010, the assistant attorney general,

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Tom Perez (now heading the Democratic National Committee), wrote a letter determining that anti-religious bias violates

the 1964 Civil Rights Act — specifically its Title VI section. A number of religious minorities — Jews, Muslims and Sikhs

among them — had longed for the legal protections afforded to racial minorities. The current legislation would codify the Perez letter and a subsequent instruction from the Department of Education to Title VI institutions. Making the Obama-era action law would protect it from rescission by future presidents. What are the objections? The Arab American Institute outlines most of the objections in some detail. The pro-Palestinian community worries that the law relies on a State Department definition of anti-Semitism that includes certain types of anti-Israel expression. Among these: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor; Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation; Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.” See Anti-Semitism, page 8

Writer Philip Roth’s greatest creation was a character named Philip Roth MIRANDA COOPER JTA AMHERST, MASS. hilip Roth lent to American literature a singular, unapologetic voice to which nothing was sacred. His fiction critiqued everything from fascism to Jewish bourgeois assimilation to politi-

cal puritanism to Jewish boyhood to the Israeli-Diaspora dynamic. His early work seemed to be evidence that a Jew could write the great American novel. When Roth died last week at 85, he left to American literature more than 30 books, each one containing a different blend of humor, wit, irreverence, pathos and trenchant social commentary. But

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he gave us even more than this. He gave American literature an unforgettable character: himself. In the mid-20th century, critics such as Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Karl Shapiro and others struggled to define the emergent Jewish American literature heralded by the likes of Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud. If there now existed a Jewish American literature, they asked, who was the Jewish American writer? The Jewish American writer was primarily defined, according to these critics, by a set of tensions: caught between the past and the future, between Yiddish and English, between tradition and assimilation, between the Old World and the New, between high culture and low culture. For the Jewish American writer, writing was a maddening compulsion, both a form of and a result of Jewish neurosis. Enter Philip Roth, who not only exemplified this burgeoning writer type but himself built upon these characterizations, turning the critics’ sketches into a full-color portrait. He achieved this primarily through the use of his writerly alter ego — the Newark-born, University of Chicago-educated Nathan Zuckerman, who shares Roth’s demographics and many of his biographical facts. Zuckerman, introduced in “The Ghost Writer,” both bears the burden of and the

desire to escape the past (whether it be the Holocaust, the experience of first-generation immigrants or the Jewish writers who came before). He is caught in the double bind of being alienated from his Jewishness because of his Americanness and alienated from his Americanness by his Jewishness; he is a hypochondriac obsessed with his own mortality; he is a philanderer who perceives a link between his sexual virility and writerly productivity, and often struggles with both. Roth’s work goes to great lengths to encourage readers to conflate the real Roth with his fictionalized alter egos. In many cases, he even reinforces this (known as the biographical fallacy) through the very act of seeming to reject it. In “The Anatomy Lesson” and “The Counterlife,” Zuckerman responds to family, friends, acquaintances and literary critics who attack him on the basis that he and his protagonists — especially “Carnovsky,” who bears a close resemblance to Roth’s infamous creation Alexander Portnoy — are one and the same. “The Anatomy Lesson” includes a cutting portrait of one Milton Appel, who writes an essay similar to the one Irving Howe published after the release of “Portnoy’s Complaint” complaining that Roth was “foolish” for trying to escape the claims of Jewish See Roth, page 8

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hilip Roth, a literary giant, passed away May 22 at age 85. As Charles McGrath wrote in his obituary in The New York Times, “he was drawn again and again to writing about themes of Jewish identity, antiSemitism and the Jewish experience in America.” But what Roth provided, of course, was a uniquely American Jewish male experience. As Shayna Goodman wrote in Lilith Magazine in 2014, “In his novels, Roth often writes about masculinity impaired by female sexuality; and this reveals something big and troubling about Roth’s attitudes towards women.” And as the Associated Press pointed out, “Feminists, Jews and one ex-wife attacked him in print, and sometimes in person. Women in his books were at times little more than objects of desire and rage, and The Village Voice once put his picture on its cover, condemning him as a misogynist.” As the Times obit said, “Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.” OK, great, but who is capturing and writing the American Jewish woman’s experience? A whole lot of talented writers, it turns out. Here are 10 of them. 1. Meg Wolitzer Wolitzer, the author of 12 novels (most recently, “The Female Persuasion”) is known for her über-readable stories of women’s friendships and relationships. In a 2012 essay on “women’s fiction” published in The New York Times Book Review — with the brilliant headline, “The Second Shelf” — she writes, “Some people, especially some men, see most fiction by women as one soft, undifferentiated mass that has little to do with them.” What makes Wolitzer’s work so powerful is that she unpacks the lives of women with skill and honesty. She told the Jerusalem Post in 2013, “Growing up Jewish is in me, in many ways that probably come out more subtly than in other writers.” Yet as a reviewer for the Independent put it in 2005, “Imagine Anne Tyler as a Jewish New Yorker and that is what Wolitzer’s narrative voice sounds like. A shrewd arbiter of the human condition, she writes fiction filled with worldly asides about first wives, bad restaurants and downwardly mobile offspring.” 2. Judy Blume Blume — the iconic young adult writer — weaves Jewish themes throughout her books, which address everything from puberty to having your parents get divorced. In “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” 12-year-old Margaret — born to interfaith parents — doesn’t identify as Jewish or Christian, but talks to God to ask for help in

figuring out her faith … and getting her period. “Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself” tells the tale of Sally, a young Jewish girl, who is trying to figure out who she is after her family moves from New Jersey to Florida. As Rahel Musleah wrote in Hadassah Magazine, “Even when Judaism is not overt, the unassuming way Blume presents the Jewish identities of many of her characters is a welcome surprise for Jewish readers, many of whom articulate their appreciation to Blume.” And don’t get us started on her immensely enjoyable adult books, which take on a very Rothian mix of relationships, sex, and New Jersey (albeit from the woman’s perspective). 3. Dara Horn Horn hones in on the intersections of American Jewish life; as she explained earlier this year for an article in Harvard Magazine, “In the 1980s and ’90s, when you told someone you were interested in Jewish literature, they’d hand you a book by Philip Roth. This whole generation of Jewish writers from the last century were really writing more about the first-generation American experience, the experience of Judaism as a social identity. And I was like, ‘This is so not what I’m looking for.’” So, she wrote her own Jewish American literature. Horn’s five novels (and counting) are contemporary stories that help “bring alive” ancient Jewish texts. Her first book, “In the Image,” ties together the story of a young Jewish woman living in a New Jersey suburb with her best friend’s grandpa, an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis. In “On All Other Nights,” she uses the Passover seder as a framing device to dive into Jews living in the South during the Civil War; in “A Guide for the Perplexed,” she magically weaves together the work of famed Jewish scholar Maimonides

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Opponents say the State Department language is too vague. “The proposed bill risks chilling constitutionally protected speech by incorrectly equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement May 24. The objectors have a notable ally in one of the co-authors of the State Department language: Kenneth Stern, who now directs the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation, has said the definition was meant to assist diplomats in identifying anti-Semitic trends in their host countries and was not crafted to the more stringent standards that a law should aspire to. Who are its supporters? Jewish groups backing the bill include the Anti-Defamation League, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America. The groups say that much anti-Jewish hostility on campus currently takes the guise of anti-Israel protests. They say the specifics of the definition precludes singling out students engaging in legitimate criticism of Israel. Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs at the American Jewish Committee, defended the legislation in a JTA op-ed earlier this month. He noted that the proposed bill recommends merely “taking into consideration” the definition of anti-Semitism. “We cannot let these extreme possibilities serve as reason to reject an important educational tool in these difficult times,” he said, referring to the doomsday scenarios predicted by groups on the left. “Instead they remind us that we must employ it with care and consideration.” The authors of the bill added a caveat at the end that they say will protect against speech freedom infringements: “Nothing in this Act shall be construed to dimin-

ish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.” Opponents say it is a laughable afterthought. “This clause addresses no actual concerns, it merely allows the passage of a law with language that will chill conduct, cause individuals to self-censor, and remain enforced by the government for years until legitimate speech is targeted, a suit is brought, and the slow machinery of the judiciary strikes down the legislation,” the Arab American Institute said. Who else might object? The last time something like this came up, in 2005, some conservatives objected that a bill could end up defining some Christian or political expression as anti-Jewish activity. “I am extremely nervous about administrative oversight on university campuses,” said Abigail Thernstrom, then the vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who has faced heat for for opposing remedies meant to enfranchise black and minority voters. “You do not want administrators walking into classrooms and deciding what a professor is teaching is acceptable or unacceptable.” Conservatives are not expressing opposition to the current bill. Others object that the bill singles out bias against Jews while it is ostensibly aimed at protecting all faiths. The bill “does not address the similar rise of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, or anti-Sikh discrimination that the bill itself notes in the Findings sections,” the Arab American Institute said. South Carolina will show the way. Is there room for abuse of a law regulating anti-Semitic speech and actions, or is it a necessary curative? Watch South Carolina. Backers of a similar bill in the state could not pass the legislation separately but wrote its language into a budget bill, which means it’s the law until the next budget is passed in a year. Ron Kampas is JTA’s Washington bureau chief.

the type. Lisa Halliday, too, confronts this difficult continued from page 6 dynamic in her recent critically lauded novel “Asymmetry,” in which a young female literary agent (modeled, of course, after Hallidistinctiveness. day herself) has an affair with a thinly veiled Through this and numerous other brilRoth. liant metafictional slights of hand (the entire These Roth characters — these “ghost novel of “Operation Shylock,” for instance, writers” — can be found beyond the pagin which a narrator named “Philip Roth” Phillip Roth es of books, too. In Daniel Goldfarb’s play confronts someone pretending to be Philip “Legacy,” which was staged in 2015 at the Roth), Roth blurred the lines between himself and the fictionalized versions of himself to such an Williamstown Theatre Festival, a neurotic, philanderextent that he turned himself into a literary character. ing Jewish writer (whose oeuvre includes novels about The success of this fictional project is evident in works a Zuckerman-like writer character and a shockingly by other writers. In Adam Levin’s mammoth 2010 novel sexual, “Portnoy”-esque novel called “Foreskin”) turns “The Instructions” and Sam Apple’s brilliant 2015 short to fatherhood as a substitute for a failing literary legacy. story “The Butcher of Desire,” for instance, Philip Roth And in Alex Ross Perry’s indie film “Listen Up Philip,” appears as not only a major influence on content and whose plot mirrors that of “The Ghost Writer,” the protagonist, played wonderfully unappealingly by Jason form, but as a character within the fiction. Similarly, in Elisa Albert’s “Etta or Bessie or Dora or Schartzman, is modeled on a young Philip Roth. To write about Philip Roth, to put him into various Rose” (2004), Albert contends with Roth’s legacy. On the one hand, she tips her proverbial hat to it as she writes, fictional situations, has become a worthy niche within in traditional Rothian style, from the perspective of a contemporary fiction. Roth may be gone, but if the writer alter ego also named Elisa Albert (“a lobotomized past decade is any indication, readers can expect to Philip Roth writing chick lit”). On the other hand, she continue to come across him in a context they know rails at it as she confronts Roth’s misogyny and ques- and love: in fictionalized form, within the pages of tions how to go about being a Jewish American woman novels and stories. Miranda Cooper is a fellow at the National Yiddish Book Center. writer in the wake of Roth’s gendered dominance over

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ries (“Kaaterskill Falls,” “Intuition,” “The Cookbook Collector,” “The Chalk Artist,” “The Family Markowitz,” to name a few) address Jewish themes on varying levels. Her first collection of short stories, “Total Immersion,” focuses on Jews living in Hawaii — where Goodman grew up. By telling stories of Jewish lives outside of the traditional American Jewish backgrounds, she captures the diversity of the American Jewish experience. 10. Lara Vapnyar Vapnyar, who emigrated from Moscow to New York in 1994, focuses on the lives of Soviet Jews in America. The Soviet Jewish experience has become a large part of the American Jewish experience, which is why Vapynar’s contributions to the literary landscape are so important. Her debut collection, “There Are Jews in My House,” tells the stories of Russian Jews living in Moscow and Brooklyn; “Still Here,” her novel published in 2017, focuses on Russian Jewish immigrants in New York. Vapnyar explained to the Birch Journal that she writes about the Russian émigré Jewish experience because she doesn’t know “about anything else.”

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“it’s limiting to describe myself as a Jewish writer,” she believes “there’s no getting around the fact that Judaism, Jewish history, Jewish texts are rich material for me as a writer and deeply important to me to engage with.” Krauss’ fourth novel, “Forest Dark” deals most explicitly with the Jewish diaspora and American Jewish relationships to Israel; the main character, Nicole, is an American Jew who moves to Tel Aviv, Israel. Her first novel, “The History of Love,” tells the story of Leo Gursky, a Jewish refugee who wrote a book about a woman he loved named Alma, and 14-year-old Alma, who sets out to find her namesake. Krauss distinguishes her generation of American Jewish writers from Roth; “I feel lucky to have that. I think in my generation it’s much easier than it was for, say, Roth, where there was just fury whenever he departed from the party line of how Jews wanted to present themselves in America. I haven’t found that to be the case.” 9. Allegra Goodman As Goodman wrote on Kveller’s sister site, My Jewish Learning, “I don’t always write about Jewish people, but I am always a Jewish author.” Her novels and short sto-

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INSIDER’S VIEW Israel has the right to defend its people even while yearning for peace AMIR EDEN Weintraub Israel Center

n 2014, after having moved to the States from Israel, my wife, Sharon, and I took our sons, Gahl and Neev, 14 and 10 at the time, to Israel for a visit. We were in a park in Kfar Saba having a picnic and playing soccer with friends. Suddenly, a siren went off and time froze. My boys looked at me with fear in their young eyes. We had been living in Las Vegas. Sirens and air attacks weren’t something they had ever experienced and something my wife and I no longer needed to think about daily. We didn’t know the area and had no idea where to find a shelter. My own heart was beating wildly in terror. Trying to protect my family, I grabbed my boys and my wife, and took whatever shelter we could find by a nearby wall. Our friends did the same as the Iranians shot a Fajr-5 rocket from the Gaza Strip. Luckily it was intercepted by one of Israel’s Iron Domes but it was the day my sons’ innocence was forever shattered. It is such instances that help explain why we have made it our vocation to share Israel’s history and struggles with those who live here in the United States. It is a rich history filled with tradition and terror that, in

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part, goes back 3,000 years to when King David made Jerusalem Israel’s capital. It is something that is important others understand about this sovereign nation. I sat and watched in horror and despair over the continuing unrest on the Gaza Strip border last month — the Hamas-inspired Palestinian protests during their annual Yawm an-Nakba (Day of Catastrophe), the commemoration of the displacement that preceded and followed the five Arab countries’ attack on the new State of Israel in 1948. These violent demonstrations seemed to become even more intense due to the timing of the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. It’s even more upsetting to turn on various news channels and hear self-proclaimed experts of the region expressing their belief that all of the death and destruction lies at the hands of Israeli soldiers and their disregard for the lives of so-called innocent Palestinians. It is true that 61 Palestinians were killed during these violent outbreaks but it is difficult to think that many of the 40,000 people, some of them attempting to breach Israel’s border, were simply innocent bystanders. A Hamas operative said on television that out of the 61 killed, 50 were Hamas operatives. Islamic Jihad stated that 80 percent who were killed were members of terror organizations. Objective videos show that one side attacks and the other defends.

One tries to get people injured and killed; the other makes every attempt to prevent it. It was painful to see the hate-filled faces of many of these demonstrators as they fired their rifles, used improvised explosive devices, burned Israeli flags, flew swastika-adorned fire kites with Molotov cocktails that destroy large swaths of field, and threw rocks from slingshots. It was even more horrifying to see the faces of women and children in those crowds — Palestinian children who likely did not even understand what they were fighting for or why they were a target of defensive tactics by Israeli soldiers protecting their border. This is a border that’s barely two miles from the homes of Israeli citizens! Is Israel a perfect country? No. However, what other country has been surrounded by Arab nations, many of whom have radical factions that have been trying to destroy it for decades? What other country has seen as many purported “peace agreements” broken before the ink has dried? Israelis even exited the Gaza Strip in 2005. Sadly, that still wasn’t enough for those who believe only in hate, want what another has and are willing to sacrifice their women and, yes, their children, rather than strive for peace that will serve all people of the region. Until that day arrives, Israel has the right to defend its people even when yearning for peace. Amir Eden is the director of Tucson’s Weintraub Israel Center. He can be reached at aeden@jfsa.org.

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an Tikvah, the Garden of Hope, will be a contemplative oasis designed with the concept of intentionality, and a healing extension from the Tucson Jewish Community Center Sculpture Garden. Designed for multigenerational use, the unique pocket park will provide a shady haven for all seasons in the daylight hours and an illuminating experience with distinctive lighting after sunset. Fitting with the Tucson J’s vision of holistic wellness, it will be a place of enduring beauty, a place to heal, to reflect, and to find peace, according to its visionaries. Inspiration for the space is a story of hope, celebration and gratitude. Bonnie Sedlmayr-Emerson was diagnosed with a melanoma 12 years ago that metastasized to her lung. “It was stage four and

Detail of an artist’s rendering of the ‘Gan Tikvah’ or ‘Garden of Hope’ at night. The garden is scheduled to open at the Tucson Jewish Community Center in 2019.

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marsupials from Down Under. Closer to home, the Sonoran Desert has one of the greatest diversity of pollinators in the world, in part because we are located in the intersection of a number of biomes or habitats, and because we have our “sky islands” — mountain ranges with pines on top and saguaros at the bottom. It’s the equivalent of going from here to Canada with a mere gain in elevation. All this diversity is great news for people who want pollinator gardens. One fascinating local group of pollinators to encourage are the gentle native bees. These bees are mostly solitary, and since they have no honey to protect, most are stingless. There are a vast array of these native bees, including bumblebees, carpenter bees, mason bees, miner bees, cactus bees, cellophane bees, leaf-cutter bees, ground bees, sweat bees, and the smallest bee on earth, Perdita minima, topping out at 2 mm long and living in just the right patch of soil in the desert, or in your desert yard. The easiest way to invite any of these friendly native bees into

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evidence of disease. “Hope became her mantra. We are grateful for her outcome and as a family wanted to pay back that gratitude.” “Randy was well into the concept and design before I learned about it, and not directly from him,” says Bonnie. “The Garden is, of course, extremely close to my heart since Randy conceived of the idea for creating a peaceful, colorful, meditative outdoor environment because, during my journey with melanoma, we so often found ourselves drawn to healing spaces, to being outside in nature, to being in gardens.” “The garden celebrates the arts, which is important to the JCC spiritually, emotionally and cognitively,” says the center’s CEO and president, Todd Rockoff. He describes the garden’s future location outside the café, overlooked by the fitness center, adjacent to the sculpture garden. “It will be a meditative space inspired by art and creativity, so it integrates into the master plan.” The design plan opens the existing wing wall to create an artistic gateway between the two spaces. Emerson contacted long-time friend and worldrenowned local artist Barbara Grygutis for the design. Grygutis has created more than 75 large-scale public art works throughout North America and is recognized internationally for her sculptural environments.

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ground-breaking anticipated in August and opening in the first quarter of 2019, says Emerson. Funding comes from a family gift and fundraising among Emerson family and friends, the community and corporate support. “It’s a quiet campaign for a niche project,” says Rockoff, describing it as an affinity project for the family under Emerson’s leadership. Emerson was a past chair of the J’s board and has remained involved as a leader and volunteer for many years. “Randy knew I would want the Garden of Hope not to be a garden about me or my journey with cancer, but inspired by healing times spent out-of-doors and a place for everyone’s journeys and everyone’s stories. That he chose to create a space for our community inspired by our story is so meaningful to me, our children and grandchildren,” says Bonnie. “Lady Bird Johnson said it so well: ‘Where there are flowers there is hope,’” says Bonnie. “The Garden will be a place for all of us, because we all have experiences, physical and emotional, which leave us in need of uplift and hope. Our garden will be a place for reflecting, remembering, and a place for refuge.”

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Sizzling Gourmet Tucson chefs reveal the spices and condiments that make their dishes sing PHYLLIS BRAUN AJP Executive Editor In celebration of all that makes Tucson’s food scene sizzle, the AJP recently asked several local chefs and restaurant owners to talk about their favorite spices or condiments. Tu r m e r i c , which gives dishes a lovely golden color and a delicious, pungent flavor, also is good for you, says Mintu Sareen, owner of Saffron Indian Bistro. Turmeric has been scientifically proven to be an anti-inflammatory, with other antioxidant benefits, he says. Saffron Indian Bistro uses organic turmeric, imported from India, in most of its dishes, with korma and Mughlai sauces among the most popular. At Tavolino, Chef Massimo Tenino says his favorite spice is nutmeg. “I like to use nutmeg when I make spinach

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FIRST PERSON Elaine Holstein, last surviving parent of Kent State shooting victims, dies at 96 STEVE NORTH JTA

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or nearly half a century, Elaine Holstein was periodically confronted with one of the most haunting images in modern American history: the bone-chilling picture of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller lying on the pavement seconds after being fatally shot in the mouth by an Ohio National Guardsman during an anti-war protest. Photographer John Filo later said, “The volume of blood that was flowing from his body was as if someone tipped over a bucket.” And, of course, there was the teenage girl kneeling over Jeff, screaming in horror, her arms raised in anguish. Most baby boomers remember that photo as a symbol of May 4, 1970, the day four unarmed college students were killed on their own campus. For Elaine Holstein, however, the photograph depicted the cruel death of her beloved 20-year-old son. Holstein died Saturday at age 96; she was the last surviving parent of the four Kent State victims. (Three of the four students were Jewish; nine other students also were wounded in the gunfire.) I’d known her since May 1980, when as news director of the Long Island, New York, radio station WLIR, I invited her to my studio to speak about Jeff on the 10th anniversary of what became known as the Kent State Massacre. I was immediately impressed with this tiny, typical Jewish mother. She had worked as a high school secretary in Plainview, New York, before returning to college, earning her master’s degree, and becoming a psychiatric social worker when she was nearly 60. As we began the interview, Holstein kvelled, proudly telling me about her boy. “He was a cute kid; dark curly hair, very bright and precocious,” she said. “He did very well in school and skipped first grade, which became a problem because he was

Author Steve North and Elaine Holstein, whose son Jeffrey Miller was killed in the 1970 Kent State shootings, in 2016.

short and always felt like a baby. “When he was little, he wasn’t that easy to get along with because I think he was a protester from the very beginning. Jeff had a kind of strong will. But his saving grace was he had a great sense of humor and a great intelligence, so he was marvelous company and I always enjoyed him. We had a very good, close relationship.” As a teenager, Holstein recalled, Jeff was typical of the times. “He liked the Mets, music, math and motorcycles. He had posters up all over his room: Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane. ... I don’t think that’s the group’s name anymore, right? I got a good education from him. He was very insistent that I share in what he loved so much,” she said. In early 1970, on a visit to New York City, she and Jeff strolled around Greenwich Village, and he bought a small leather ring with a peace insignia. He had been an anti-Vietnam War activist since the age of

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16, when he wrote a poem titled “Where Does It End?” It included the lines “A teenager from a small Ohio farm clutches his side in pain, and, as he feels his life ebbing away, he too, asks why, why is he dying here, thousands of miles from home?” At the time, Jeff had never been to Ohio and had no idea his own life would end in the state. In 1970, Jeff transferred to Kent State from Michigan State University. That May, Holstein received a phone call from her mother. “She heard on the radio there were protests at Kent State, and she was worried about Jeff. So I called Jeff and told him Nana was upset,” Holstein said. “He said it’s nothing to worry about. We talked about him getting a summer job in which he’d make those posters that said ‘War is unhealthy for children and other living things.’ “Two days later, Jeff called me in my office. He was concerned I might hear about

more demonstrations and get nervous about it, and he wanted to reassure me. He mentioned Nixon’s speech calling the anti-war students ‘bums,’ and the impression I got wasn’t so much of anger but of wry amusement. There was going to be a rally at noon, and he said ‘I think I’ll go over there; is that OK with you?’ I thought, what power do I have to tell him no, from Long Island?” Her voice breaking, Holstein said “And that was the last …” Miller took part in the May 4 protest against the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia and against the presence of the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State campus. The shooting of those unarmed protesters led to massive demonstrations across the country. A federal commission later determined that the shootings were unjustified, although no criminal convictions were obtained against any National Guardsman. Holstein, who was divorced from Jeff’s father, Bernard, heard about the shootings on the radio as she drove home from work and thought to herself, “I’m going to call Jeff and tell him to come home and wait until this blows over.” She dialed his number at college; a young man answered, and she asked to speak with Jeff. After a pause, he said, “He’s dead.” As Holstein sank onto her bed, thinking it had to be a mistake, her soon-to-be second husband, Artie, grabbed the phone and was given the name of the hospital where the victims had been taken. “I thought maybe somebody had borrowed Jeff’s wallet. This doesn’t happen to people you know,” Holstein said. “But then I heard Artie say, ‘Oh, he was wearing a leather ring with a peace insignia?’ And I knew it was Jeff.” Within hours, the entire country had seen the iconic photograph, which won the Pulitzer Prize later that year. I asked Holstein how she managed to deal with it.

drums. It was beyond heartbreaking. Holstein gave me a copy of Jeff’s 1966 poem that day, which I’ve had framed on my wall ever since. I began a tradition of calling or writing her every May 4, on Jeff’s secular “yahrzeit.” Three years ago, she emailed saying “It means so much to me that you still keep Jeff in your thoughts. It’s amazing, so long after his death, you and other people who never knew Jeff still think of him. How he would love that!” In 2016, at age 94, Holstein drove to my house for lunch, and for the first time I showed her Jeff’s poem on the wall; she beamed. This year, on May 4, I emailed her, as usual. The next day my phone rang. “Steve? It’s Elaine. Thank you for the email. I actually was planning to fly to Kent State this week to speak at the annual ceremony. But I was just diagnosed with terminal cancer, and I was about to call you

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“In the first year,” she remembered, “I was just running. We drove across country to California, and walked into a place, and there was that photo, wall-sized, of Jeff lying there. I felt like someone was hitting me on the head, just pounding me. I think what’s happened over time is that’s how Jeff looked when he was lying in bed, so the only way I can bear to look at it is to think that’s Jeff sleeping. “I kind of resent the fact that everyone knows Jeff as the figure on the ground and not as he really was.” We ended our interview, I shut off the mike and Holstein grabbed her pocketbook. “I don’t want you to only think of Jeff like that either,” she said, taking out a wellworn red wallet. “Come, look.” She showed me pictures of Jeff with her older son, Russell, photos from elementary school, of his bar mitzvah, of him playing

John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway, kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University, May 4, 1970.

and let you know,” she said. I expressed my sorrow and concern, but Holstein immediately said, “Really, I’m perfectly content to settle for this. I’m 96, a good age, and it looks like this will go

pretty fast.” And then, she sighed. “I had a good life. The only horrible thing that ever happened to me was Jeff ’s death.” Holstein raised her children in New York, first in the Bronx and later Plainview. After her 1969 divorce from Jeff’s father, she lived in Queens with her second husband, Artie Holstein, a high school principal, whom she married in 1971. Elaine remained in Queens after Artie’s death and spent the winters in Florida until her cancer diagnosis. She then moved to an assisted living facility in Wayland, Massachusetts, near her son Russell’s home. Elaine Holstein once told me that on May 4, 1970, she woke up as one person, and by the time she went to sleep that night, she was someone else entirely. I think many of us who remember that horrendous day can say exactly the same thing.

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WORLD Who killed a Polish Holocaust hero? His family may be close to finding out CNAAN LIPHSHIZ JTA

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osef Kopf survived Sobibor by killing a guard and staging the first successful escape from that death camp in Poland, where the Nazis murdered 250,000 Jews. But Kopf, whose unlikely escape in 1943 preceded by several months a fullscale uprising at Sobibor, did not live to see Nazi Germany’s defeat. After the liberation in 1944, he returned to his hometown of Turobin to reclaim some possessions — and was never seen or heard from again. “We always assumed Josef was killed by a local, but we never knew for sure. We never even knew where he was buried,” said Lea Hirsch, Kopf ’s niece from Israel. Her mother, Genia, and Josef Kopf were the only ones from their family of eight children who survived the Nazi death machine. Last year, though, the 75-year-old mystery was partially solved. A longforgotten testimony led Hirsch and other relatives to Kopf ’s presumed burial place, launching them into a murder investigation whose specifics lie at the heart of the debate in Poland about local complicity and resistance during the Holocaust. The testimony that triggered the investigation was on an old recording of Genia Hirsch, who passed away in 2011. She hardly ever spoke about the Holocaust to her children, Lea Hirsch said. But in the recording, which the family only recently discovered, Genia recounted in detail the last time she saw her brother alive and the story of her own rescue by her nonJewish neighbor. According to Genia’s testimony, Josef Kopf found her at the home of her rescuer, Antek Teklak, just days after the Red Army liberated Turobin and eastern Poland. But the siblings’ reunion was short lived, she said. Josef Kopf told Genia and Teklak that he would return to Turobin to “work out” some business that he had had before the war with a friend, whom he did not name.

Totko Teklak, gesturing, shows a visitor from Israel where his father hid her mother during the Holocaust in eastern Poland, June 2017.

Teklak warned Josef Kopf not to go, saying he would not make it out of his hometown alive. Trusting Teklak, Genia Kopf begged her brother to stay. But Josef Kopf “just laughed and said he’d be back the next day,” his sister said in the recording of their last meeting. This information last year led Lea Hirsch and her son, Amit, to Poland with a dual mission: Locate the Teklak family to honor his bravery and find Josef Kopf ’s grave and killer. “Something in me just woke up, an unstoppable drive to find out what happened,” said Lea Hirsch, a 65-year-old marketing and sales professional and mother of three children from the Haifa area. In Poland, she and other relatives hired an interpreter and a cameraman. Within a couple of days, witnesses told Hirsch that a former partner of Kopf had killed him, and that a friend of Kopf buried his body in a wheat field in the town of Żolkiewka, six miles north of Turobin. The witnesses provided partial information, claiming not to know who killed Kopf. But they led the family to the field where they say Kopf was buried. The

family is raising funds for an exhumation with the intention of bringing Josef Kopf ’s remains to Israel for burial. They will be returning for further interviews in July with the hope of finding out who killed him. “We don’t have a lot of time because the witnesses are old, but it’s a gradual process,” Lea Hirsch said of her talks with Polish villagers in the area. “People have to open up; if we rush it they’ll clam up. A bottle of vodka here, a conversation there — you have to pave their path to the truth.” For Hirsch, uncovering the identity of her uncle’s killer is secondary in significance to finding the place where he is said to have been buried. Reconnecting with the descendants of her mother’s rescuers also was important to Lea Hirsch and her family, she said. Risking a summary execution of his entire family, Teklak hid Genia for two years in what she described in the recording as “a hole in the ground.” Teklak took her in after she escaped the ghetto where the rest of her family was kept before they were murdered. Teklak’s son, Totko, and his family

met Hirsch, her son and other relatives in Turobin in an encounter last year that Hirsch said was “extremely emotional.” Her mother’s rescue and uncle’s murder left Hirsch with “mixed feeling” about the polarizing debate gripping Polish society in recent months about the behavior of the Polish people during the Holocaust. Thousands of Jews died at the hands of non-Jewish Poles; thousands more were rescued by them. In January, Poland’s parliament passed a law that criminalizes blaming the Polish nation for Nazi crimes. The measure triggered a diplomatic crisis with Israel amid criticism by the Jewish state and many Jewish organizations that it risked silencing public debate and research about the Holocaust. And the debate also unleashed a wave of anti-Semitic rhetoric. “I have an undying appreciation for the people who saved my mother,” Hirsch said. “I was shocked to stand on the ground under which a non-Jewish hero kept her alive for years.” But Hirsch also has “tremendous anger” over the murder of her uncle, who “survived the hell of Sobibor only to be killed and dumped at an unmarked grave because he was just a Jew.” Like many descendants of Holocaust survivors, Hirsch said grew up in a very small family. “I could have had an uncle,” she said. Amit Hirsch, Lea’s son, said his family history reflects “the complexity of the historical record on the Holocaust in Poland.” Poland has 6,706 Righteous Among the Nations – non-Jews who were recognized by Israel as having risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. And while this is the highest number of righteous in any nation, “there was also betrayal and deadly pogroms and anti-Semites,” Amit Hirsch said. He said the law on rhetoric about the Holocaust in Poland is designed to “manipulate history so that only the rescue stories are heard.” Rescue stories “indeed need to be heard,” Amit Hirsch said, “but alongside the terrible things that happened.”

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Sirens warning of rockets and mortars launched from Gaza stopped early Wednesday morning in southern Israel with an informal cease-fire agreement apparently reached. The sirens had sounded throughout the night Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, sending area residents running for bomb shelters and safe rooms. No one was injured in the barrages of projectiles fired overnight at southern Israeli communities. A private home in the southern city of Netivot was struck by a rocket fired overnight from Gaza, causing damage. Some 200 rockets and mortar shells are believed to have been fired from Gaza at southern Israel by the Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Tuesday morning until 5:17 a.m. Wednesday. Code Red rocket alert sirens were triggered at least 166 times there during that time, according to the Israeli military. Hamas on Wednesday morning announced that a cease-fire agreement had been reached, and no projectiles have been fired since the announcement of the informal cease-fire reportedly brokered by Egypt. The Israeli army said it would refrain from attacking Gaza as long as there is calm. Earlier in the morning, the Israeli military struck 25 Hamas targets in Gaza in retaliation for the rocket barrage. Among the targets were rocket-propelled launchers, a factory for rockets and rocket engines, advanced naval weapons, military compounds, training camps and sites for the manufacture of weapons, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. The strikes were in addition to the 35 targets attacked on Tuesday, including an extensive terror tunnel. “The IDF is prepared for a variety of scenarios and is determined to act against the terrorist operatives and will continue to carry out its mission to protect the citizens of Israel,” the statement said. The United States on Tuesday evening called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council over the firing of rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip. The meeting was slated to take place Wednesday. A 1957 letter written by Eleanor Roosevelt in which the former first lady vigorously defends Israel’s actions during the Suez Crisis is being auctioned off. Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles will start the bidding on Thursday at $22,500. The letter, written on her personal “Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt” letterhead, responds directly to criticism of her newspaper column “My Day,” in which she defends Israel’s actions in the 1956 crisis. It is addressed to Tom Dietrich of Brooklyn. Roosevelt wrote: “If you follow step by step in the UN and understand the difficulties, you will realize that Israel was not an aggressor. The Charter of the UN allows self defense and Israel’s case was purely one of self defense. I do not agree with you about the establishment of the state of Israel. The Israelis have a right to their land and I think it is nonsense to suppose that they plan to plunge us into a war. They want peace as much, if not more, than other nations. We lead in the United Nations, so it would not be a case of our falling for any plot.” The auction catalog calls the two-page letter

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A handwritten manuscript penned by author Franz Kafka fetched nearly $175,000 at an auction in Germany. The text sold Saturday in Hamburg to a private collector is an introduction to a novel that Kafka, a Jewish writer from Prague whose work is widely considered one of the most influential literary oeuvres of the 20th century, had intended to write in 1911 with his friend and publisher Max Brod, who also was Jewish. The novel, titled “Richard and Samuel,” was never written. But in the introduction, Kafka explains how the book he envisaged would detail a trip through Switzerland and Italy by protagonists styled after himself and Brod. Bids for the six-page introduction, which had been in the hands of a private collector from Switzerland since 1983, started at $105,000 at the Christian Hesse auction house, the NDR regional radio station reported. an “exceptional letter, with rare content by the First Lady showing her commitment and refusal to equivocate on the state of Israel.” Other items being auctioned on the same day include a Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Schelling in 2005 for his game theory; a bomber jacket owned by John F. Kennedy; and a Richard Nixon letter about Vietnam. A Russian journalist reported to have been killed in Ukraine said he faked his death to help police foil an assassination plot. Arkady Babchenko, a critic of the Kremlin, was said to have been shot dead in his apartment building in the capital city of Kiev on Tuesday. Ukraine blamed Russia for the “death” of Babchenko, whose maternal grandmother was Jewish and who had lived in Israel for a year. At a news conference Wednesday, Babchenko apologized to his wife and all those who believed he had been killed, but said the secrecy had been necessary, Ria Novosti reported. “I would like to apologize for what you all had to go through … because I’ve buried friends and colleagues many times, and I know it’s a sickening-emetic

feeling when you have to bury your colleagues,” he said. “Also I would like to apologize to my wife for the hell she went through in those two days. Olechka, I’m sorry, but there were no alternatives here.” Ukraine’s Security Service said it staged the murder in an attempt to foil a Russian plot to kill Babchenko. The chief of the security service, Vasyl Hrytsak, said the operation was planned for two months. Police have a Ukrainian man in custody in connection with the alleged plot. Neither the police nor Babchenko say how staging his death helped advance the investigation. Writing on Twitter, the security service said it decided to conduct the operation to collect evidence of terrorist activity by the Russian special services on Ukrainian territory. Russia’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed the allegation as a conspiracy. The Ukrainian police said they were searching for the man they believed to be responsible for the assassination and even released a sketch of the suspected killer. Russia and Ukraine and proxy forces were plunged into armed conflict following a revolution that began in 2013 in Kiev and ended with the toppling of Kremlin ally and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Nearly a quarter of British respondents to a poll on attitudes to minorities in Western Europe said they would be unwilling to accept Jews as family members. The Pew Research Center’s report titled “Being Christian in Western Europe” was published Wednesday and contains results from interviews with more than 24,000 randomly selected adults in 15 countries. In the United Kingdom, 23 percent of 1,841 respondents interviewed said “no” when asked “Would you be willing to accept Jews as members of your family?” It was the second-highest proportion of naysayers, directly after Italy’s 25 percent. The poll has a margin of error of up to 3 percent. The highest level of acceptance of Jews as family members was in the Netherlands, where 96 percent of 1,497 respondents said they would have no problem with a Jew joining their family. In Germany, 19 percent of 2,211 respondents said they would not accept a Jewish relative. In Austria, non-acceptance was at 21 percent. The mostly Catholic nations of Spain, Portugal and Ireland also had high non-acceptance levels at 13, 18 and 18 percent, respectively. The same question was asked about Muslims, and their acceptance was lower than that of Jews in all 15 countries surveyed, with a median difference of 10 percentage points. In Italy, 12 percent of 1,804 respondents said they would unwilling to accept even a Jewish neighbor. That figure was 10 percent in Ireland and Portugal, 9 percent in the United Kingdom and 8 percent in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The statement that “Jews always pursue their own interests and not the interest of the country they live in” received the highest levels of agreement in Portugal and Spain, with 36 and 31 percent of 1,501 and 1,499 respondents in those two countries, respectively. Next were Italy, Belgium and Norway, with 31, 28 and 25 percent, respectively. Trusted Advisors Since 1973

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR The calendar deadline is Tuesday, 10 days before the issue date. Our next issue will be published June 15, 2018. Events may be emailed to office@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 25 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 www.jewishsierravista.com. “Too Jewish” radio show with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon on KVOI 1030 AM (also KAPR and KJAA), Sundays at 9 a.m. June 3, Etai Benson, star of the Broadway hit “The Band’s Visit.” 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. 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. Temple Emanu-El mah jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m. 327-4501. Cong. Anshei Israel mah jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon. All levels, men and women. Contact

Friday / June 1 5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Tot Kabbalat Shabbat Service, followed by dinner at 6 p.m. Dinner $10 for adults, free for kids under 12. RSVP for dinner at 327-4501.

Saturday / June 2 9-10 AM: Cong. Or Chadash Torah Cantillation class, Saturdays through July 28. Basic Hebrew reading skills required. Members, free; nonmembers, $36. Register with Sarah at 900-7027 or sarah@octucson.org.

Sunday / June 3 10 AM-NOON: Tucson J Jewish Artists Coffee Group. Join other Jewish artists to schmooze and learn. Free. Contact Carol Sack at 299-3000 ext. 241. 11 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Women's League Brunch & Fashion Show. Fashion show by La Contessa, brunch by Handmaker Catering. $25 pre-paid reservation. RSVP for availability to Evelyn at 235-4826 or esigafus@aol.com. 3:30 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Summer Film Series. “Brighton Beach Memoirs.” Popcorn and lemonade. Free. 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.

Monday / June 4 1 PM-3 PM: Tucson J six-week Introduction to Ethics class, with Professor Jerry Gill, Ph.D., Duke University. $60. Register at www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000.

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ONGOING Evelyn at 885-4102 or esigafus@aol.com. Tucson J current events discussion, Mondays, noon-1:30 p.m. Members, $1; nonmembers, $2. Bring or buy lunch, 11:30 a.m. 2993000, ext. 147. 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. www.torahofawakening.com.

Wednesday / June 6 9-11 AM: Tucson J six-week Introduction to Philosophy class, with Professor Jerry Gill, Ph.D., Duke University. $60. Register at www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. 10 AM-1:30 PM: JFCS Mel Sherman Institute on Mental Health, “Person-Centered TraumaInformed Care for Older Adults.” Continues June 13, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Continuing Education Units available. Free. At the Jewish Federation, 3718 E. River Road. Register for one or both at www.jfcstucson.org. NOON-1:30 PM: Tucson J Spanish language workshop, “A Taste of Mexico,” with Myriam Barrientos. All Spanish levels. Followed by “Spanish Cognates” at 1:45-3:15 p.m., and “Basic Verb Workshop” at 3:30-5 p.m. Weekly through June 27, at the Jewish Federation, 3718 E. River Road. Members, $60; nonmembers, $65 for each 4-week workshop. Register at www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000.

Thursday / June 7 8-9:30 AM: Tucson J Spanish language workshop, “Análisis de Noticias y Novedades,” with Myriam Barrientos, followed by “Cuentos de Eva Luna y un repaso de gramática” (Eva Luna short stories by Isabel Allende) at 9:45-11:15 a.m., “Conquering Spanish Verbs” at 11:30 a.m-1 p.m., and “Fun with Spanish/Mexican Idioms” at 1:453.15 p.m. Weekly through June 28, at the Jewish Federation, 3718 E. River Road. Members, $60; nonmembers, $65 for each 4-week workshop. Register at www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000.

Tucson J social bridge. Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-3 p.m., year round. Drop-ins welcome. Meets in library on second floor. 2993000. Tucson J canasta group. Players wanted. Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon. Instruction available and a beginners’ table every week. Call or text Lisa at 977-4054. Cong. Anshei Israel Talmud on Tuesday with Rabbi Robert Eisen. Meets 6 p.m. 7455550. 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, 8-9 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 885-4102 or esigafus@aol.com. Chabad of Sierra Vista women’s class 5:30-8:30 PM: Tucson J six-week clay class, with Gerrie Young. Second option: Sundays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., begins June 10. Members, $85; nonmembers, $105. Register at www.tucsonjcc. org or 299-3000.

Friday / June 8 5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat service, preceded by 5 p.m. wine and cheese. Through mid-August. 327-4501.

Sunday / June 10 10 AM-NOON: CHAI Circle (Cancer, Healing and Inspiration for Jewish Women) meeting with schmoozing, sharing and noshing, at Tucson J library. RSVP to Irene Gefter at 795-0300, ext. 2271 or igefter@jfcstucson.org. 10 AM-NOON: Tucson J Integrated Pest Management class with Michael Ismail, expert gardener. Identify common garden insects and organic methods. $10. Register at www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. NOON-3 PM: Tucson J Syrian & Iraqi Cooking class with Shahd Beij, a Syrian refugee, and Azhar Jamal, an Iraqi refugee. Members, $65; nonmembers, $70. Register at www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. 3:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Summer Film Series. “The Prince of Egypt.” Popcorn and lemonade. Free. 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.

Tuesday / June 12 6 PM: Tucson J presents Inside the Writing of

with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, last Wednesdays, 2 p.m., 401 Suffolk Drive. 820-6256 or www.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/grandchildren, youth or adult, with special needs, third Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. at Tucson J. Contact Joyce Stuehringer at 299-5920. Temple Emanu-El Jewish novels club with Linda Levine. Third Thursdays, through June 21, 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. www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000. Tucson J Fine Art Gallery art exhibit, “Arts For All,” through June 28. 2–4 p.m. 299-3000. Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center closed through Aug. 30. Visits by appointment only; call 670-9073. “The Lost Letter,” by local author Jillian Cantor. Free. www.tucsonjcc.org or 299-3000.

Friday / June 15 5:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Family Shabbat Experience Service & Dinner. Followed by dinner at 7 p.m.: members, $25 family of 2 adults and up to 4 children; nonmember family $30; adult (13+) $10. RSVP by June 11 at 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.

Saturday / June 16 NOON: Cong. Anshei Israel “Zip Code” Kiddush. Mingle with neighbors; tables arranged by zip code. Free. 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org. 1:30-3:30 PM: Secular Humanist Jewish Circle Salon, "How Jewish was Turn-ofthe-Century Vienna?" with Thomas Kovach, UA Professor, Department of German Studies. Free. RSVP for directions to Becky at 296-3762 or schulmb@aol.com

Sunday / June 17 3:15 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Summer Film Series. “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.” Popcorn and lemonade. Free. 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.

Monday/ June 18 7 PM: Israel Scouts Tzofim Caravan free performance at Tucson J. RSVP at israelcenter@ jfsa.org.

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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. 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, 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 www. jewishorovalley.com.

Sunday / June 3 9-11 AM: Northwest Jewish Families with Young Children Get Together, includes bagel breakfast, kids activities, and event planning with representatives of PJ Library, JFSA Northwest Division, Tucson J, THA, Weintraub Israel Center and JFSA Young Leadership. Free. At JFSA-Northwest, 190 W. Magee Road, Suite 162. RSVP by June 1 at 505-4161.

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5550 E. Fifth St., Tucson, AZ 85711 • (520) 745-5550 Rabbi Robert Eisen, Cantorial Soloist Nichole Chorny • www.caiaz.org Daily minyan: Mon.-Thurs., 7:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; Fri., 7:30 a.m.; Sun. & legal holidays, 8 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. / Mincha: Fri., 5:45 p.m. / Shabbat services: Sat., 9 a.m., followed by Kiddush; Tot Shabbat, 1st Fri., 5:45 p.m.; Family Service, 3rd Friday, 5:45 p.m.; Holiday services may differ, call or visit website. / Torah study: every Shabbat one hour before Mincha (call or visit website for times) / Talmud on Tuesday, 6 p.m. / Weekday Torah study group, Wed., 11 a.m. beverages and dessert provided.

Congregation Bet shalom 3881 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718 • (520) 577-1171 Rabbi Hazzan Avraham Alpert • www.cbsaz.org Shabbat services: Fri., 5:30 p.m. (followed by monthly dinners — call for info); Sat. 9:30 a.m.-noon, Camp Shabbat (ages 6-10) 11 a.m.-noon, followed by Kiddush lunch and weekly Teen Talk lunch with shinshinim, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. CBS Think Tank discussion led by Rabbi Dr. Howard Schwartz and Dr. Howard Graizbord / Weekday services: Wed. 8:15 a.m. / Hagim 9:30 a.m.

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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.

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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: 6628 E. Calle Dened, Tucson, AZ 85710 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.

the institute For JudaiC serviCes and studies 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.

temple emanu-el 225 N. Country Club Road, Tucson, AZ 85716 • (520) 327-4501 Rabbi Batsheva Appel • www.tetucson.org Shabbat services: Fri., 7:30 p.m., June 8 through mid-August, 5:30 p.m. preceded by 5 p.m. wine and cheese; 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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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 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.

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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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OBITUARIES Herschel Kreloff, musician, conductor and educator, dies Herschel Kreloff, Ph.D., 86, was music director of the Civic Orchestra of Tucson for 38 years until his death on April 25, 2018. He brought years of experience as both educator and performer to his position as long-time conductor of the allvolunteer orchestra. Violinist Lori Fitzsimmons recalls, “The first thing I did when I moved to Tucson 36 years ago was find a community orchestra. It was the Civic Orchestra of Tucson, under the baton of Herschel Kreloff, that anchored me to this community. I attribute this to Herschel’s keen wit and humor, his challenging selection of music and extraordinary soloists, unwavering support of musical opportunities for young people, and passion for sharing his love of music with the orchestra and audience.” Born in Chicago, Kreloff played tuba, then trumpet, in high school. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Arizona State University, and his doctorate from the University of Arizona. He taught band and orchestra at every grade level in public schools in Phoenix and Tucson. As a performer he played trumpet in the Phoenix and

Tucson Symphony Orchestras, the Arizona Opera, as well as numerous pit orchestras, dance bands, and stage bands, where he backed such artists as Robert Goulet, Shirley Jones, and Sammy Davis Jr. Kreloff was assistant conductor of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra under Gregory Millar and conducted a chamber orchestra in Phoenix. He studied composition with Robert McBride at the University of Arizona, where he conducted his composition, “Evocation.” Kreloff also served as music director of the Tucson Concert Band from 1997–2012. Throughout his career Kreloff received many honors, including The Four Way Test Award in 2011 in recognition of “Service Above Self,” presented by the Rotary Club of Tucson. In 2015, he was inducted into the Tucson Musicians Museum. Orchestra members have planned a celebration of life gathering on Saturday, June 16, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Attendees will have an opportunity to share memories and view a slideshow about Kreloff’s life, browse through orchestra memorabilia, and enjoy refreshments and music by orchestra members and talented young musicians. RSVPs are requested at www.cotmusic.org or 730-3371.

Willard Gold Willard “Bill” S. Gold, M.D. 86, died April 22, 2018. Born in Chicago, Dr. Gold graduated from the University of Chicago and later from the College of Medicine at Northwestern University. He practiced psychiatry for 55 years, mostly in Texas, until 2017, when he moved to Tucson to retire near his children. Dr. Gold presented a paper at the 1970 World Health Organization assembly, “The Homestead,” a multi-generational project that was considered very progressive for that era. He also was active in his synagogue.

Dr. Gold was predeceased by his wife, Carol Ann. Survivors include his former wife, Marcia Gold; daughters, Sharon and Ruth, both of Tucson, Belle (Michael) of Reno, Nevada, Amy (David) of Omaha, Nebraska; son, Paul (Greer) of Tucson; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A celebration of life was held at Brookdale Santa Catalina. Memorial contributions may be made to Congregation Or Chadash, 3939 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85718 or www.orchadash-tucson.org, or to Tohono Chul Park, 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte, Tucson, AZ 85704 or www.tohonochulpark.org.

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OUR TOWN DR. JANIS WOLFE GASCH, founder and director of ARIZONA HEARING SPECIALISTS, is retiring after more than 35 years in private practice. She will transition the practice, which she founded in 1981, to two of her longtime staff, Greg Swingle, Au.D., and Kristi Hesse (Swingle), Au.D. Gasch has been active in the Jewish community since moving to Tucson in the mid-1970s for graduate school. She served on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, Tucson Hebrew Academy, and Jewish Family & Children’s Services, where she served as president in 1990-91. She has received numerous awards for her involvement in the Jewish, general and professional communities in Tucson and Green Valley. This year, she and her husband, Danny, were the THA Tikkun Olam honorees. For more information, contact Arizona Hearing Specialists at 742-2845 or visit www.arizonahearing.com.

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WINDY JONES received Tucson Hebrew Academy’s 2018 Temple Emanu-El confirmands with Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg (top right) and Rabbi Batsheva Appel (bottom right). Excellence in Education Award, presented on behalf of the JewTemple Emanu-El celebrated the confirmation of nine students at Shabbat services on Friday, May 18. The ish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona. Each year the confirmands are, alphabetically, Rachel Borrego, Javier Dittmar, Carter Mann, Samuel Ramirez, Bela Rein, Samir JCF asks students, parents fac- Rein, Sydney Ruskin, Eve Spiegel, and Katherine Zinn. ulty and employees to nominate a teacher for the award, established at JCF by Robyn Kessler and Martha Sampson through an endowment. Jones is an upper school language arts teacher at THA.

Temple Emanu-El confirmation

MARSHALL HERRON, licensed fiduciary at Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Arizona, received the Diane Lynn Anderson Memorial Award from the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona at the National Association of Social Workers Arizona Chapter 2 luncheon held March 23 at the YWCA. The award recognizes outstanding individuals who embody the qualities Anderson possessed: active acceptance, respect, compassion, devotion and caring for people with disabilities. For more than 40 years, Herron has devoted himself to transforming the lives of vulnerable community members, beginning with his community service as a young boy at B’nai B’rith. He rose through the ranks to serve as local president and district vice president of B’nai B’rith. Herron sang with the Tucson Boys Chorus for eight years and continued to be involved with the chorus as a volunteer for 25 years. While a student at the University of Arizona, he worked at the UA Medical Center assisting the psychiatric nursing staff with acute care services, continuing to work with psychiatric patients, their families and caregivers for the next decade. For the next 30 years, he worked on behalf of people with developmental disabilities as a case manager and guardian administrator for the Pima County Public Fiduciary. At JFCS, he is the lead in the Guardianship Division for people with disabilities and incapacitated individuals, serving as a surrogate for those unable to advocate for themselves. June 1, 2018, ARIZONA JEWISH POST

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