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Tucson’s Next Gen men gain insight on Israel exploration trip DEBE CAMPBELL AJP Editorial Assistant
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he recent Next Gen Men’s Group trip to Israel was no run of the mill tour. Participants returned believing that Israel-Palestine issues are far more complicated than they thought before the journey, says participant Larry Gellman. What defined the trip for Gellman and others was the unique opportunity to spend time on the ground with both Palestinian and Israeli leaders and people. The trip was an engaged learning experience for the small group of five men to understand the big picture, addressing many of the vexing issues facing Israelis and Palestinians today, says trip leader J. Edward Wright, Ph.D. “The goal was to help them inform our community and become more aware of the breadth of views and why Israelis and Palestinians are passionate about those views.” Wright is a University of Arizona professor of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism who has directed the university’s Arizona Center for Judaic Studies since 2000. As a past president of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in East Jerusalem, Wright has access and indeed friendships with some preeminent national leaders and scholars. That’s why this year’s Next Gen trip coordinators, Bobby Present and Gary Kippur, recruited Wright to develop the concept of a political mission of understanding. The group encountered not only leaders on both sides but regular Israelis and Palestinians as they live their daily lives in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramallah, and Hebron. Afternoons were spent debriefing, digesting and analyzing the issues absorbed through-
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Next Gen Men’s Group travelers in the Old City of Jerusalem, overlooking the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, (L-R): Stuart Gross, Tom Warne, J. Edward Wright, Bobby Present and Larry Gellman
out the day. Travelers included Wright, Gellman, Present, Stuart Gross and Tom Warne. Co-chair Kippur was unable to attend due to his brother’s passing. The pivotal stops on the tour were a day in Hebron, reviewing attitudinal surveys conducted around citizen support for a peace initiative in Ramallah, and some chilling predictions in Tel Aviv of escalating conflicts in the region this month (see sidebar). Visiting Hebron, the men had a first-hand view and feel for the invisible borders delineating the city’s H1 and H2 sectors. Dr. Anwar Abu Eisheh, the former Palestinian minister of culture and a Hebron community leader, introduced the group to life in the city since the sectors were cordoned off in 1995 and settlers moved into the center of town. “We could feel
what it is like to walk the streets there,” recalls Gellman. “It was the most visceral, emotional experience. Living for decades under that situation (in Hebron) can’t be described.” Present called the visit a disturbing experience. “Visually and the stimulation of the experience was unsettling.” He recalled settlers living next to Palestinians, throwing garbage down from their windows onto the people below in the market place. “But I felt less sympathetic,” Present adds, after spending two hours with Palestinian radio personality and blogger Lubnah. “She sees a one state solution of Palestinians, and Jews not living there anymore.” He notes the woman is very well respected, articulate and passionate, “but this is completely failed leadership.”
Khalil Shikaki, Ph. D., is director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, a think tank on domestic politics and government and strategic analysis and foreign policy. He is a senior fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and frequent lecturer at UA. He shared results of public opinion polls and survey research on Palestinian attitudes toward peace. Conducted in dangerous, contested areas, the survey asks what it would take to support a peace initiative. Despite initial opposition by respondents to any peace initiative, the survey shows that, with proper incentives, Palestinians will support a peaceful resolution with Israel, Wright explains. Present calls that See Insight, page 2
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“a glimmer of hope.” Among leaders visited was journalist and Knesset member Nachman Shai, who shared the issues surrounding security matters. “He was honest and direct in his assessment,” Wright recalls. A tour of Shrine of the Book and the Dead Sea Scrolls, dated from 3rd century BCE, brought focus to the depth of Judaic presence in Israel. Curator Adolfo Roitman, a former classmate of Wright’s, discussed the shrine and museum history. The group also visited Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel’s answer to America’s Ivy League universities, aimed to produce Israel’s next generation of leaders, Wright says. Present underscored this effort for “pursuing education and improving lives of people through the education process,” noting that many Muslim students attend the college. Matt Adams, Ph.D., guided a tour of the old City of David excavations. He directs the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, the oldest American research center for ancient Near Eastern studies in the Middle East. The center also documents the depth of Judaic presence to between 1st century CCE and 12th century BCE, Write adds. Later, at the institute, the group examined artefacts including 2,800-year-old pottery and a Crusader’s skeleton. Shifting to Tel Aviv, two leaders wrapped up the visit, providing a 360 degree perspective. Retired Tel Aviv University professor Asher Susser was a visiting professor at the UA for four years. A Middle Eastern historian, he relayed how Israel has related to Palestine in conflict issues surrounding the settlements and how it can remain a democratic and a Jewish state with a two-state solution. Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Itamar Rabinovich addressed regional issues relating to Syria. In a visit to American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Jerusalem office, arranged by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, the group saw how the JDC helps Jews around the world during emergencies. The Next Gen Men’s group was initiated by long-time community benefactors Donald Diamond and Paul Baker, in reflection on their involvement and connection to a men’s trip to Israel decades ago. “The idea was to inspire the next generation to take community leadership and inspire them to connect with each other and the Jewish community,” says JFSA CEO and President Stuart Mellan,
who helped bring the group fruition 13 years ago. Subsequent bi-annual trips, sponsored by JFSA, included Cuba, Argentina, Morocco, Mexico City and Washington, D.C., all destinations where the Federation movement is active. Each trip has a strong Jewish-informed itinerary, with visits to senior living centers, Jewish day schools, along with sites of Jewish and general interest, Mellan says.
Former intelligence chief predicts Israel’s ‘Miseries of May’
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embers of Tucson's Next Gen Men’s Group met April 30 with Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Amos Yadlin, director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies. Yadlin had more than 40 years of experience in the IDF and was chief of military intelligence from 2006-2010. He gave a point by point assessment of the current situation in Israel, calling his prediction of emerging issues “The Miseries of May,” according to the group’s Israel trip organizer, J. Edward Wright, Ph.D. Yadlin was featured on national news broadcasts later that day, making the same statements as he did earlier to the group, Wright says. The following issues would be keys to escalation of regional conflict in May, according to Yadlin: • Ramadan, regarded as the holiest month of the year for Muslims, begins this year in mid-May. This coincides with the culmination of Gaza’s “Great Return March” on May 15, which the Palestinians call Nakba Day (Catastrophe Day) — Israel’s Independence Day, says Wright. “It is not Ramadan itself that he saw as the problem, but that some extremist groups sadly use that important holiday as an excuse or opportunity to do something,” Wright says. • Moving the United States Embassy to Jerusalem. • U.S. President Donald Trump’s exit from the Iran nuclear deal. [During the course of this interview on May 9, Wright received a news alert about the Iranian bombing on the Golan Heights, directly confirming this prediction. - Ed.] • Iran’s continued involvement with Russia and Syria, which will lead to conflict between Israel, Iran and Hezbollah in Syria. See related stories, pages 8 and 10.
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ome 65 people attended Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging’s third annual three-rabbi panel lecture on Sunday, May 6, on “What is the Purpose of Prayer?” Rabbi Yossie Shemtov of Chabad Tucson said our connection to G-d is through prayer, and that davening (praying) before reciting the Shema is like dating, and the Shema is the connection, says Nanci Levy, community outreach coordinator at Handmaker. Rabbi Thomas Louchheim of Congregation Or Chadash talked about the difference between public prayer, which provides us with a sense of community and of G-d’s presence, and personal payer, which is more about what is happening in the present moment. Rabbi Robert Eisen of Congregation Anshei Israel believes prayer is more effective when it is shared. For him, prayer is a way to pause and make himself listen to G-d, to pay attention to signs from G-d, and to help establish a bond with G-d. “We were all relieved to hear from Rabbi Eisen that it is OK to fall asleep during services,” adds Levy. “He said that rabbis are supposed to comfort their congregants, and if you fall asleep, you must be really comfortable.”
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he Women’s League of Congregation Anshei Israel will host its annual brunch and fashion show on Sunday, June 3 at 10:30 a.m. at the synagogue. Handmaker will provide the catering and fashions will be presented by La Contessa. Father-daughter team Bob Couchman and Kara Moeller own La Contessa, located in Plaza Palomino, where they have offered a diverse selection of women’s casual and formal wear for 33 years. The show will include a printed program and a dozen models (with three outfit changes) featuring clothing by designers Joseph Ribkoff, David Cline, Pure Amici, Up!, Simpli, and others. RSVP by May 25 with a $25 check to Women’s League of CAI, 5550 E. Fifth
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Arizona, U.S. chambers pledge to advance ties with Israel
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he Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.Israel Business Initiative signed a memorandum of understanding on May 9 pledging to work together to support ongoing initiatives and activities to strengthen the economic and commercial ties between Arizona and Israel. “I am so pleased that the Arizona Chamber and the U.S. Chamber have entered into this agreement to memorialize Arizona’s business relationship and friendship with Israel, which sets the stage for additional collaboration on priorities we share,” Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry President and CEO Glenn Hamer said. “Israel is the startup nation, and Arizona is the startup state. We both welcome innovators and technology, and we’re committed to solving 21st century challenges faced by both regions. This pairing is a natural one.” The Arizona Chamber and the U.S. Chamber will target four sectors for collaboration between Arizona and Israel: water, financial technology, technology and startups, and defense and aerospace. Under the MOU, the Arizona Chamber and the U.S. Chamber will work together to: • Organize an Arizona-Israel water summit for later this year; • Develop new joint R&D programs promoting research exchanges and information sharing in water technology; • Secure a memorandum of understanding between Arizona and the State of Israel focused on expanding trade and building new commercial partnerships; and • Host conferences, delegations, and visits to Arizona and Israel that facilitate relationships between government, business, and universities. Remember to recycle this paper when you are finished enjoying it.
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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
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LOCAL Community volunteers recognized for outstanding work DEBE CAMPBELL AJP Editorial Assistant This is part one of a series on the Jewish agency volunteers who received 2018 Special Recognition Awards at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Jewish Community Awards Celebration held May 10. Max Cohen, Jewish Family & Children’s Services President and CEO Carlos Hernandez attributes much of Jewish Family & Children’s Services’ recent fiscal management success to board member Max Cohen. A retired account, Cohen “used his skills and knowledge Max Cohen in finance to help revamp and streamline JFCS’s accounting procedure,” says Hernandez. “As such, the organization receives positive feedback from its financial auditors, and the agency is operating in the black.” But what drives Cohen to contribute so much of his free time is his commitment to JFCS’s mission is his advocacy for mental health and social services and his recognition of the community’s most vulnerable people, notes Hernandez. “The staff and board of JFCS are truly grateful for all of Max’s contributions.” The retired CPA has lived in Tucson for 34 years, moving from upstate New York where he was a partner in a large, regional accounting firm, providing services for small- and medium-size businesses, nonprofits and individuals. Since arriving in Tucson, he’s concentrated on providing services to small businesses as a part-time controller. “In this role, some of my clients grew to where they could support a full-time position and I moved on to other clients,” says Cohen. He also worked as a real estate broker in his late wife’s residential property management business. Cohen began volunteering at JFCS in 2010 as a member of the audit committee, joining the board as treasurer in 2013. Since, he has served on numerous committees and assisted the accounting department and management with budgeting, staffing and other matters. “Participating as part of the JFCS has been one of the most rewarding things I have ever done,” he says. Eric Rudner, Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging A University of Arizona graduate in business administration with emphasis in accounting and finance, Eric Rudner has been with Ludwig Klewer & Co. PLLC since graduation in 1993 and was promoted to partner in Eric Rudner 2010. Having developed expertise across several industries, his income tax experience includes corporations, partnerships, LLCs, trusts and individuals. Rudner is a past president of the Jewish Education Tax Credit Organization board of directors and a former member of the Arizona Blind and Deaf Children’s Foundation, Inc. and the University High School Alumni Association boards. Currently serving as vice president of the Handmaker
board, he also serves on their audit and finance committees. It was about four years ago, he says, that he decided to get more involved with Handmaker and joined the board. “Eric stepped up by filling the position of treasurer when that position opened up unexpectedly,” says board chair Phil Bregman. “As vice chair of the Handmaker board, Eric has involved himself in as many aspects of the organization as he has been able to ... regularly attending finance committee meetings, tax credit meetings and events.” “Handmaker has always been special to me as I remember visiting there when I was a young student at Tucson Hebrew Academy,” says Rudner. “My grandfather was treated with excellent care there while he was recovering from a fall. Then, about five years ago my grandmother moved there to live, progressing through all the different services they provide until she passed away in February. I love what the organization stands for and the people they help, and have seen the great service that they provide first hand. The employees really care for the residents and their families.” Evan Mendelson, Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Evan Mendelson has over 40 years of experience working in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, including consulting and executive roles for local and national organizations, in small cities and Evan Mendelson large, and for mainstream and grassroots organizations. Those roles included Jewish Funders Network founding executive director, Diamond Family Philanthropies senior program officer, Casa de la Luz Foundation interim executive director and David and Lura Lovell Foundation executive director. She became involved with the Jewish Community Foundation when her friend and colleague, Tracy Salkowitz, arrived in Tucson to lead the Foundation. “It was important for me to find a volunteer opportunity that I was passionate about,” says Mendelson. That passion is making a difference through grantmaking. “Evan is a planner, and a big picture person who takes every opportunity to educate those with whom she is working, and encourages those around her to do the same and act accordingly,” says Robyn Schwager, the Foundation’s grants and legacy officer. Mendelson also is involved with the Foundation a as a board member and chair of the grants committee. She founded the Jewish Fund for Justice and serves as president for both the Arts Foundation of Tucson and the Traveling Jewish Theatre. “Evan’s energy and wealth of information make her an invaluable asset to the Foundation and any organization she works with,” adds Schwager. “Giving away money seems easy, but it is actually quite challenging to give it away well. As a volunteer, I learned about the many important programs in the local Jewish community, the local general Tucson community, and in Israel. It makes me a more strategic funder in my personal philanthropy and allows me to have a small role in helping our Jewish community fulfill its responsibility to tikkun olam (repair of the world),” Mendelson says.
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COMMENTARY In #MeToo era, summer camps pay heed to issues of gender, sex, power DEBORAH MEYER AND JEREMY FINGERMAN JTA
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he #MeToo movement has empowered women to speak up against harassment and abuse. It is heartening to see many men standing as allies and organizations beginning to hold themselves accountable for establishing policies, procedures and transparency and for changing the workplace culture. For those of us working in youth-serving spaces, it is difficult to think that even one of the people charged with keeping kids safe is capable of doing harm, but we cannot change what we do not acknowledge. The firing of once-beloved camp leaders facing credible accusations is painful. Removing offenders feels dramatic but it is a critical next step forward in building a healthy culture around gender, sex and power at Jewish summer camp. Summer camp is where many of us form our deepest and longest-lasting relationships. It is often rightly held up as a
healthy oasis, an alternative to the social pressures of popular culture, including a much-needed break from life driven by screens. And yet, we bring all of our cultural norms and expectations with us to camp. Normative discriminatory or biased attitudes toward gender, sex and power can lead to inappropriate behavior mirroring the outside world, from all levels — ad-
ministration, counselors and campers. According to research conducted in 2017 by Moving Traditions and Foundation for Jewish Camp involving staff from 25 camps, even at camps with strong policies, many pre-teens and teens still feel intense pressure to conform to rigid codes of dress, speech and behavior based on gender. Even at camps with excellent policies, sexist shaming and sexual pres-
sure are unfortunately commonplace and are too often ignored or even encouraged by young staff. Despite efforts and intentions otherwise, camp is a microcosm of the larger world outside and these behaviors are ingrained in the culture. While for many youth camp is a safe place to explore emerging desires and romantic interest, for others the camp environment brings harmful pressure to “hook up” for acceptance, and reinforces painful heteronormativity for questioning youth. In an effort to open the discourse around sex, gender, power and violence and create a community of practice for prevention and response in the Jewish camp field, FJC launched the Shmira Initiative. Shmira will be a robust multiyear program to create common language and policies around consent and respect at camp. Camp professionals will train with experts like Moving Traditions, which offers training and curricula around healthy sexuality, gender norms, and resisting sexism through a Jewish framework. Moving Traditions has brought its programs to summer camps as well See Camps, page 7
Why leave Iran deal now? Three reasons from supporters of Trump’s move RON KAMPEAS JTA WASHINGTON Donald Trump may have expected fanfares when he announced the U.S. would be leaving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and certainly Israel, Saudi Arabia, a number of Jewish groups and some foreign policy
hawks exulted. But some of that support was tempered by Republicans and Democrats who agreed with Trump that the deal was a bad one, but were wary about leaving it with no backup plan. Ed Royce, the California Republican who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said at
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a May 8 hearing he worried a withdrawal “would actually set back” efforts to toughen the existing deal and add pressures on Iran. Indeed, according to The Associated Press, European allies were ready to ink an agreement with the United States to fix the deal when Trump pulled out. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, who opposed the deal made under President Obama, irked Trump by criticizing the decision to withdraw. “Undoing this agreement makes it harder to deal with” nonnuclear threats from Iran “because we need new sanctions aimed at those threats, which are not addressed in the original agreement,” Schumer said. Reporters pressed administration officials on what it meant to leave the deal and whom Trump had consulted. The Europeans say they’ve been getting radio silence from the Trump administration, one reporter said. “That’s not true. That’s not true,” a senior Trump official said. “I have already had, since the president finished his remarks, two calls with foreign counterparts. I have one today at 6:00. It’s just not true.” At the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a reliable opponent of the Iran deal, analysts were baffled. JINSA held a conference call May 8 with two figures who were against the deal: Yaacov Amidror, the former Israeli national
security adviser, and Stephen Rademaker, who handled the Iran nuclear issue for President George W. Bush. “We don’t want to be in this position in which America is out but nothing clearly happens on the ground,” Amidror said. Still, search a little and you could find folks who were defending the pullout whole-heartedly. Here’s a sampling of the reasons they gave for pulling out now. America can fully flex its muscles Despite what the deal’s opponents said, the United States was able to continue to sanction Iran for non-nuclear activities, and did so. Both Obama and Trump — Trump, more robustly — continued to impose sanctions on Iran’s missile program and on its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. But those who are eager to thwart Iran say the nuclear deal robbed the United States of its most effective sanction target, Iran’s Central Bank. “By reimposing our toughest sanctions, now including sanctions on Central Bank that lock down Iran’s foreign reserves, we might accelerate Iran’s currency crisis to the degree the regime will face very soon a stark choice of economic collapse or behavioral change based on President Trump’s demands,” said Rich Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for the See Iran, page 10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR USHMM exhibit misses mark According to your May 4 news report, “Exhibit shows ordinary Americans knew a lot about Shoah as it was happening,” the new “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibit at the United States. Holocaust Memorial Museum claims that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was unable to grant haven to Jewish refugees because of strong public and congressional opposition to more immigration in the 1930s. But that assumption ignores the many ways in which President Roosevelt could have aided Jewish refugees without any public controversy or fight with Congress. For example, he could have permitted the existing immigration quotas to be filled — 190,000 quota places from German and Axis-occupied countries sat unused during the Holocaust years, because the administration suppressed immigration below the levels allowed by law. Or FDR could have permitted Jewish refugees to enter a U.S. territory such as the Virgin Islands. In fact, after the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, the governor and legislative assembly of the Virgin Islands publicly offered to open their doors to Jews fleeing the Nazis. Another option would have been to make use of immigration categories that were not limited by the quota laws. For example, clergy (rabbis), professors, and students were allowed by law to immigrate in unlimited numbers. But the Roosevelt administration permitted only a handful of them to enter. The curator of the aforementioned exhibit, Daniel Greene, was quoted as pointing out that polls in the 1930s consistently showed the public was strongly against admitting refugees. The article continued: “Even until after the war ended, the percentages opposing refugee intake
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as to teens in their Rosh Hodesh, Shevet, and Tzelem groups. Starting this month, more than 90 camps will be represented at the FJC-sponsored day-long trainings in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Moving Traditions’ faculty will share new tools and approaches to address these issues proactively, and camp professionals will share strategies and challenges with each other. These meetings will open the conversation on gender, sex and power at camp — removing the stigma and fear so that we can adequately address issues head-on. Good policy doesn’t always beget good behavior. As Peter Drucker once noted, “Culture eats strategy.” We need to take time to nourish a healthier culture.
consistently hover in the low 70s — a substantial majority. ‘Public opinion doesn’t move,’ Greene said…” Yet the fact is that it DID move. By the spring of 1944 — once the tide of the war had turned, and once Americans learned more about the mass killings — there was a significant shift in public opinion. An April 1944 Gallup poll — commissioned by the White House itself — found 70 percent of Americans supported giving “temporary protection and refuge” in the United States to “those people in Europe who have been persecuted by the Nazis.” That poll was taken more than a year before the end of the war. It was late, but it was not too late, to rescue a significant number of Jewish refugees by granting them temporary haven in the United States or its territories. There was ample public backing for such humanitarian action. Sadly, President Roosevelt agreed to admit just one token group of 982 refugees. Making excuses for FDR’s abandonment of the Jews should not be the mission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. — Rafael Medoff, Ph.D., director, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, Washington, D.C.
Tucson BNC honors Lisberg The Tucson Brandeis National Committee mourns the loss of a special friend and mentor, Elaine Lisberg, who passed away April 29. Elaine had a long-lasting love of Brandeis University and was a good friend of its founding president, Abram Sacher. She was a national president of Brandeis National Women’s Committee, now the Brandeis
To identify where and how to set healthy boundaries to protect all campers. To foster healthy conversations about personal and communal values on body image, gender codes, sexual identity and sexuality. To make it clear that sexist, misogynistic and homophobic humor at camp can create a hostile environment. To help staff to challenge expectations based on gender, reduce communal pressures of “hook-up” culture and create an environment conducive to building friendships. And ultimately, for those camp leaders who are seeking to create an environment that supports healthy romantic relationships, we need to explore the best practices for teaching consent, and the Jewish values that guide sexual decision-making. Camp staff and counselors need to develop a common language of consent and a clear process for reporting and dealing with concerns as they arise. Systemic change takes time.
National Committee, and a past president of the Tucson Chapter. Elaine’s presence and guidance carried the Tucson Chapter forward. With her leadership, the Tucson Chapter flourished, bringing outstanding Book & Author events to the Tucson community. She paved the way to bring Brandeis professors to Tucson to speak. Elaine believed that Brandeis and “books” went together. She helped to promote a thriving online international book business. Her belief in life-long learning was an inspiration for the formation of dozens of study groups for community participation. Through her leadership and motivation, Tucson Chapter members not only support Tucson with community service, they donate to the libraries on campus at Brandeis University, fund scholarships, and support medical research in neurodegenerative diseases. It was Elaine’s idea to launch an endowed scholarship for an eligible student from the greater Tucson area to attend Brandeis. To honor her memory, the Tucson Chapter’s scholarship has been renamed the Elaine Lisberg Tucson BNC Endowed Scholarship. In addition to donations going to this local scholarship fund, Brandeis plans to place her name on a wall of the university. Scholarship donations in her memory can be made by sending an email message to BNCTucsonbooks@yahoo.com. — Marcia Rosenblum, president, BNC Tucson Chapter Submit letters to the editor at localnews@azjewishpost.com or mail to Arizona Jewish Post, 3718 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718. Letters should be no more than 250 words; the writer's name and a daytime phone number must be included.
Now is the time to stand together — lay leaders, professionals, funders and parents — in support of these leaders. It takes courage to engage in this discourse and some of the interim results may lead to painful decisions. We need to give camp leaders the space to share the challenges that they have encountered, to implement new forms of training, and to create healthier ways of relating at camp. This effort will take time, but it is, without question, an effort that will positively contribute to the lives of the thousands of college students who work at camps each summer and the tens of thousands of campers who are in their care. Deborah Meyer is the founder and CEO of Moving Traditions, which trains Jewish educators and emboldens teens by fostering self-discovery, challenging sexism, and inspiring a commitment to Jewish life and learning. Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Camp. FJC works to highlight the value and importance of the nonprofit Jewish camp experience to parents, leaders, and communities.
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sraeli leaders and citizens responded with euphoria as the Trump administration moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem on Monday, designating a pre-existing consular building as the official U.S. diplomatic mission to the Jewish State. Hundreds of revelers, many wearing Trump’s signature red baseball caps commemorating the move, sat on bleachers outside the new embassy in Jerusalem’s Arnona neighborhood on Monday afternoon as an honor guard of U.S. Marines paraded the national colors and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and First Daughter Ivanka Trump unveiled the building’s seal carved into an outer wall. The crowd, which included both chief rabbis, the IDF chief of staff, the mayor of Jerusalem and the head of the Jewish Agency, stood and applauded for at least half a minute after U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman welcomed them, in a booming voice, “to the dedication and opening of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel.” Inevitably, perhaps, the images of pageantry vied with darker news out of Gaza, where at least 50 Palestinians died during violent clashes with the Israeli military along the border. The West Bank and East Jerusalem were mostly quiet on Monday; outside the new embassy, dozens of demonstrators, including several Arab members of Knesset, held up signs calling Jerusalem the capital of Palestine. Fourteen protesters were arrested following skirmishes with police. At the ceremony itself, meanwhile, local politicians vied with each other to see who could offer the most expansive plaudits as their constituents posted memes on social media describing the president in almost messianic terms. Addressing the dedication ceremony via video, President Donald Trump asserted that “for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious, the plain reality that Israel’s capital is Jerusalem.” He bragged that “on my direction, the United States finally and officially recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel.” Likely responding to Palestinian assertions that such recognition hampers efforts at a negotiated settlement to the conflict, Trump asserted that the United States was “committed to facilitating a lasting peace agreement” and to the maintenance of the status quo on the Temple Mount. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked his American counterpart effusively, saying that Israel had “no better friends in the world” and that “by recognizing history” Trump had “made history.” “Thank you, President Trump for having the courage to keep your promises,” he continued. “Thank you for making the alliance between Israel and America stronger than ever.” Despite the violence accompanying the embassy move, Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner told attendees at the ceremony that “previously unimaginable alliances are emerging” and that the U.S. would support a peace agreement in which “both sides can get more than they give.” Last week, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain welcomed Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions
Jared Kushner speaks at the opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, May 14.
on Tehran. Kushner also laid the blame for the fighting in Gaza squarely on the Palestinians, stating that “those provoking violence are part of the problem and not part of the solution.” Likewise, Netanyahu, who juxtaposed Trump’s Embassy decision with the Balfour Declaration promising British support for a Jewish homeland, called Monday a “great day for peace.” “The truth and peace are interconnected. A peace built on lies will crash on the rocks of Middle Eastern realities and the truth is that Jerusalem will always be the capital of the Jewish state,” he said. “May the truth advance a lasting peace between us and our neighbors.” Both administration figures and Israeli politicians heaped praise on the president in response to the embassy move. At a reception organized by the Orthodox Union at Jerusalem’s Waldorf Astoria hotel on Monday morning, former Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., one of the architects of the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, told JTA that it had been “very frustrating and disappointing every time a president of the United States suspended the implementation of that act” and that he was “thrilled” by Trump’s decision. The Jerusalem Embassy Act recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and called for the relocation of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but Trump’s predecessors declined to implement it, citing foreign policy concerns. Asked if he believed that Trump’s involvement would turn Israel into a partisan issue, Lieberman replied that his bill had been bi-partisan and “support for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is broadly supported by members of both parties.” Others present were unrestrained in their praise. U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman extolled the president’s “courage, vision, strength and moral clarity.” The O.U.’s Mark Bane called Trump “God’s messenger on this important day.” Citing his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked called Trump “the [Winston] Churchill of the 21st century.”
This rhetoric was off-putting to some attendees, who decried what they saw as excessive. While there was no question that the embassy move was significant, “the focus needs to be on the essence and not about Trump,” opposition MK Pnina Tamano-Shata of Yesh Atid told JTA. “To compare him to Churchill or to Balfour is a little exaggerated. The state of Israel and the people of Israel know that our capital is Jerusalem and the transfer of the Embassy is [correct] but let’s take things in proportion. I am for our nation celebrating but we also need to be careful that we don’t excessively praise in an exaggerated sense of euphoria … and not to raise up a man in an exaggerated way,” she said. Asked about how Israeli leaders were addressing Trump, Dan Shapiro, who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama, told JTA that it was understandable that they were engaging in “hyperbole” because “it’s become accepted in international circles that the way to gain favor with President Trump is to engage in excessive flattery.” Shapiro said he supported the embassy move but harbored reservations about how it was implemented. He explained that Israel was doing “everything possible to have
the best possible relation with the president of the United States” and that this was “completely legitimate.” However, he cautioned, “it would be advisable to bear in mind the significant number of Americans ... who are alienated from this president on other issues” and to work on “maintaining the historic bi-partisan nature of this relationship.” MK Ayman Odeh, an Arab Israeli who heads the Knesset’s Joint List, linked the killing of Gaza protesters — who are engaged in a six-week series of demonstrations to coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary celebrations — to the embassy dedication. “The opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem and its grand ceremony is part of the same policy that has claimed the lives of dozens of Gazans,” Odeh said in a statement. “Today, there is nothing to celebrate. The opening of the embassy is yet another provocative step that signals the destruction of the notion of peace. The NetanyahuTrump alliance continues to deepen the conflict.” Meanwhile, in East Jerusalem, the mood was subdued. Near the Damascus Gate, tourists and Arab shoppers mingled, watched by dozens of police officers clad in body armor and carrying automatic weapons. Local
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residents, while unhappy with the American decision, seemed apathetic in the face of a reality they couldn’t change. Inside the Old City’s Arab market, a man who identified himself only as Yassir sat in his dress shop, watching news footage from Gaza. “Trump is playing with fire,” he said. “There could be war all over. The people of Gaza don’t care if they die.” Asked why there wasn’t any significant unrest in East Jerusalem, Yassir replied resignedly that it was “very difficult living directly with the Israelis” and that any young man who went out in the street would end up with a police record that would follow him for life. “It’s different in Gaza, the authorities support the protests,” he said. In a nearby restaurant, a man named Tawfik expressed similarly fatalistic attitude, asserting that the Israelis had Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states in their pockets. Trump, he said, was “more Jewish than the Jews.” The Palestinians “have to be smart,” he continued, claiming that if Jerusalem residents took to the streets “the Jews will kill us and say we are against peace.” “I’m not ready for my son to go out and die,” he said.
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NATIONAL Feinstein blasts Haley on nixed U.N. Gaza query JTA WASHINGTON en. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she was “deeply disappointed” in Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, for stopping the U.N. Security Council from investigating Israeli actions on the border with the Gaza Strip. “I’m deeply disappointed in Ambassador Haley’s decision to block a U.N. inquiry into yesterday’s events,” Feinstein, who is Jewish, said Tuesday in a statement. “Without question there should be an independent investigation when the lives of so many are lost.” Israeli troops killed some 60 Palestinians attempting to breach the fence between Gaza and Israel on Monday, the same day that the United States dedicated its new embassy in Jerusalem. The protests at the fence have been held weekly for close to two months, but intensified on the day of the embassy opening, leading to condemnations worldwide of Israel and the United States. Haley used the threat of the U.S. veto on the Security Council to block proposals for an inquiry and berated the council for even considering the issue. “I ask my colleagues here in the Security Council, who among us would
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accept this type of activity on your border?” Haley said. “No one would,” she said. “No country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has. In fact, the records of several countries here today suggest they would be much less restrained.” Haley said that those who blame the embassy opening for the Gaza violence are “sorely mistaken.” “The violence comes from those who reject the existence of the state of Israel in any location,” she said. “Such a motivation — the destruction of a United Nations Member State — is so illegitimate as to not be worth our time in the Security Council, other than the time it takes to denounce it.” Feinstein called on protesters to “remain peaceful,” but appeared to lay much of the blame on the embassy opening and what she suggested was a lack of restraint by Israel. “While protests must remain peaceful, Israeli forces must exercise greater restraint in the use of live ammunition,” she said. “President Trump’s decision to move the U.S embassy was a serious mistake that will reverberate throughout the region. U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital should have been resolved in the context of broader peace negotiations where both sides benefit.”
that Iran, Russia and China — also parties to the deal — would adamantly refuse. Pulling out of the deal returns the parties to zero and may facilitate getting the sunset clauses removed, Goldberg said, noting that businesses in the three European countries in the deal — Germany, France and Britain — want their governments’ help in doing business in Iran. “European businesses no longer have those investments available, their trade is winding down,” he said. “And the businesses are coming to their governments and saying ‘What do you need to do to get President Trump to get sanctions relief — I’m willing to deal.’” A strong signal to North Korea Trump is entering denuclearization talks with North Korea, and he needs to show he’s serious about ending the prospect of nuclear arms, not just rolling them back, said Harley Lippman, the president of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. “It sends a strong signal vis a vis North Korea, that Trump is serious about denuclearization,” said Lippman, who recently met with the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, countries that, like Israel, backed Trump’s pullout.
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alya Simha Fanger-Vexler fell in love one day with a fluffy puppy in a pet shop window. It had sparkling blue eyes and a calm, composed demeanor. Talya pictured long hikes and active adventures with the bouncy sable Sheltie at her side. Five years later, the lovable fur ball named Sapphire is indeed by her master’s side, but with a purpose neither one of them could ever have imagined five years ago. Today, Sapphire is a certified service dog, trained locally to work and perform tasks. And her master is an amputee. In a motorcycle accident in California at age 23, Talya’s right foot was crushed. Fighting through dozens of surgeries over the course of three years to save the foot, Talya finally gave in to the inevitability of amputation, but not until she also was diagnosed, post-trauma, with spinal and head injuries that led to epileptic seizures. Sapphire was her constant and often only companion while Talya was trying to recover from the trauma and surgeries. That’s when Talya began to notice uncanny behavior in her little canine. Confined to a second-floor apartment and in constant, excruciating pain, she saw the dog become her intuitive caregiver. She’d wedge herself against Talya’s right leg or lie on it and almost wrap her little legs around it and apply pressure. “It was amazing that she somehow knew what to do and it helped,” recalls Talya. When the seizures began, Talya had no idea they were happening. She just got sleepy and nauseous and had to sit or lie down before she fell down. As the frequency increased, she began to notice odd behavior in Sapphire about 20 minutes before she herself felt anything at all. “She would get anxious and put her head on my bed and whine,” says Talya. “I told the doctors about the dog and they thought I was crazy. Finally they did a functional magnetic resonance image and electroencephalograph and tried to induce seizures before they found the epileptic activity.” “Dogs are very sensitive and able to pick up on changes happening in your body—electrical impulses, smells,” says JoAnn Turnbull, president and CEO at Handi-Dogs, a Tucson service dog training center. She is certain Sapphire had been predicting Talya’s seizures as the pup herded her master to a chair or seat for safety. It wasn’t until Talya moved to Tucson from California two and a half years ago that she agreed to the amputation. “Sapphire knew immediately. She changed her way of being around me,” Talya says. “She had stuck with me through all of those surgeries when I was in bed 24/7.” But as she gained mobility with a prosthesis, the dog began hovering on her right side as if to protect her master from any harm. “She wanted to help me.” That’s when Talya discovered Handi-Dogs which, fortuitously, is located just blocks from her condominium. Her brother came from China to assist with her post-amputation recovery and together they went to Handi-Dogs to check it out. “We were very nervous,” says Talya of the initial evaluation process. Turnbull says pets are evaluated to see if they are good candidates to become service dogs. They must have the
Talya Fanger-Vexler trained Sapphire to be a service dog with the help of Handi-Dogs, a Tucson nonprofit organization.
right temperament, confidence and work ethic. Sapphire showed all the signs she wanted to work, Turnbull recalls. “Everyone wanted to make it work for me and Sapphire,” Talya says, adding that the dog is now calmer. “Having tasks to do makes her happy.” Sapphire smiles up adoringly in agreement. “It’s like a game. The dog is getting satisfaction from what it’s doing,” Turnbull agrees. “It takes a special small dog to help with mobility.” Sapphire assists daily with retrieving her socks and shoes. She knows a sandal from a tennis shoe, can pull open and close doors, and retrieve keys or the ever necessary tool kit, which Talya uses to adjust the prosthesis. But the prosthetic leg is too heavy for Sapphire to carry. “She can retrieve things by name or by pointing. She can even throw things in the garbage,” notes Turnbull. “Because we are teaching Talya how to train Sapphire, she finds more applications that she can teach the dog at home. She has to have the skills to teach the dog how to do more. That’s one of the benefits of an owner-trainer rather than matching a person with a trained dog. The training is customized for what you need and with the dog’s ability.” Besides pets, rescue dogs also are often evaluated for service dog training. After the accident and its aftermath, Talya felt like her See Handi-Dog, page 12
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identity was gone. “You have to pick up all the pieces of life, rebuild who you are . . . Sapphire was constantly with me all these years. Sapphire loves training and learning. She’s still barky but she is so much more comfortable and confident.” “We have to be diligent with our students. There are people out there with dogs they call service dogs and they jeopardize it for those who really need service dogs,” says Turnbull. On a recent flight to California, Talya says, she received extra scrutiny of her personal health documents that the clerk had no right to review. Apparently the airline had experienced an instance with a so-called “service dog” that bit a passenger. “Certified service dogs must be mannered and behaved,” notes Turnbull. “Without a disability, the law does not allow service certification. But the laws are very ambiguous.” The U.S. Department of Justice defines a service animal as “one trained to take specific action when needed to assist the person with a disability.” Other categories — emotional support and therapy dogs — are not guaranteed public access rights under the Americans with Dis-
abilities Act. “People abuse the law and think their dogs are wonderful. We don’t have a clear understanding of how other people perceive our dogs. A lot of people drop out of our program because it is too rigorous,” Turnbull says. “Every day is training, that’s a constant in your life now,” says Talya of the commitment. “We certify through Assistant Dog International, the leading world organization. Certification is valid for a year with recertification annually if the dog is still helping and still healthy to do that,” Turnbull says. “I can’t believe how lucky I am to have this dog,” says Talya. “She naturally has the urge to help and picked up on the seizures. Humans try to sympathize but she can look at me with those eyes like she really knows what I’m going through. They are so connected to us in a special way,” she says about canine companions. “She brings me peace of mind.” For more information about the 40-year-old HandiDogs nonprofit, contact Turnbull at 326-3412 or www. Handi-Dogs.org or attend the 3rd Annual Furry Film Fest fundraiser of short videos from around the world featuring dogs, Sunday, May 19 at 2 p.m. at The Loft Cinema, 3223 E. Speedway. Online ticket purchase at www.DoggieShorts. org benefits Handi-Dogs and The Loft Cinema.
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mately 10 to 15 minutes. A garden hose works well for a large dog, while the water sprayer on your kitchen sink works well for smaller dogs. Use a gentle water pressure and point the stream of water across the mouth. Do not point the water flow toward the back of your pet’s mouth, as doing so may cause inhalation of water resulting in aspiration, pneumonia or drowning. Once you have rinsed your pet’s mouth thoroughly, seek immediate care at your primary care veterinarian’s office or an emergency veterinary clinic. Further intervention such as IV fluids and medications may be needed to counteract the less common signs of poisoning, such as an irregular heartbeat, seizures and shock. Immediate action by you and your veterinarian enables most pets to respond positively within one to two hours after treatment begins. Tucson’s summer desert holds many dangers. Your pet depends on you to keep him or her safe from heat, wildlife and swimming pools. Careful monitoring of your pet while outside can prevent many accidents from happening. This article from 2014, one of the most clicked-on posts at www.azjewishpost.com, bears repeating. Courtesy of Veterinary Specialty Center of Tucson, located at 4909 N. La Cañada Drive. Contact them at 795-9955 or www.vscot.com.
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ARTS & CULTURE / LOCAL Artists from Arts for All exhibit varied works at Tucson J May 23, at 1 p.m., and a gallery talk by Matthew Katz, a direct support professional and art teacher at Arts for All, Inc., will be held Sunday, June 24, at 2 p.m. Arts for All also will have a show in June at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library downtown. Steven L. Sles began Arts for All, a nonprofit corporation, in 1979. Marcia ‘Wall’ by Michelle Buscemi Berger, a pediatric physical therapist, founded Third Street Kids in 1985 to provide an afterschool program in the performing arts for children with and without disabilities. In 1986, Sles turned Arts for All over to Berger and the two entities merged, keeping the Arts for All name. Students, ages two through adulthood, come from throughout the greater Tucson area. Arts for All currently provides special considerations in its planning and programming for persons with physical disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, emotional disturbances, mental illness, behavior problems, autism, and seizure disorders. Arts for All currently has three programs that merge the arts with human services: daily out-of-school time classes, summer/winter arts camps and a day program for adults with disabilities. For more information, visit www.artsforallinc.org.
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orks in acrylics, watercolors and ceramics by artists from Arts for All, Inc., will be on display at the Tucson Jewish Community Center Fine Art Gallery through June 28. The artists include Bryan Briggs, Michelle Buscemi, Antonio Childress, Julian Dombrowski, Brooke Foster, Kevin Charles ‘Mo swimming’ by Michelle Buscemi Judith, Brenda Lewis, Stephanie Lopez, Abby Love, Evan Martin, Olga Michaels, Brian Mondeau, Anthony Orozco, Brent Quihuis, Sydney Roberts, Brianna Ruiz, Stacy Stokes, Shekitha Strong and Colin Whetsel. There is great variety in the artists’ choice of media, size, subject and style. Buscemi creates both abstract and realistic paintings using Laser Art Technique, which was devised for artists with limited mobility. With a laser mounted on custom headgear, the artist directs a tracker, who is trained to be her hands. The tracker becomes the paintbrush as the artist directs the laser. “I love the feeling and look of gel and other acrylic mediums,” says Buscemi. “I am very conceptual and portray my thoughts in symbols. I paint from the heart. … I feel that abstract is easier for me to accomplish but realistic painting is more rewarding.” A reception with the artists will be held Wednesday,
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he Hotel Congress Lobby Gallery is presenting the artwork of Samantha Fein through June 4. Hotel Congress is at 311 E. Congress St. Fein is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Tucson. Her pieces incorporate elements of ethnography, nonlinear storytelling, magical realism, and absurdist humor. Fein earned a master of fine arts from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and studied abroad at universities in Cuba and Argentina. She has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to the Philippines, a fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and was the James Rosenquist artist in residence at North Dakota State University.
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Aimee Pichardo, activities director at Villa Hermosa, says about 25 percent of their residents are Jewish, and Villa Hermosa has celebrations for High Holidays, Hanukkah, Purim, and Passover. There also is a Shabbat service on the last Friday of each month led by Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin of Chabad Tucson, and members of Temple Emanu-El come to give presentations about holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Passover or other Jewish-related topics. “Our residents get very involved in celebrations from planning the service to selecting the menus,” says Pichardo. “We value their feedback and involvement because we feel that these are their holidays and traditions, and we want everything to be as they wish.” She says usually about 30 to 40 people attend these events. Many times residents invite family members and friends to participate in holiday activities, with the Passover seder being one of the most well-attended,
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haring ideas and family recipes enables Jewish residents of senior living communities to keep up family connections and traditions. Staff members appreciate their input, saying that coordinating Shabbat and other Jewish holiday celebrations is part of how they help residents to be happier and healthier.
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says Pichardo. She adds that non-Jewish residents often attend the holiday celebrations since “many of our Jewish residents openly invite their non- Jewish friends to join them during these programs and services.” Villa Hermosa welcomes people from the Tucson community who want to volunteer to help with services and celebrations, says Pichardo, explaining that potential volunteers go through the same process as employees, such as a background check, as a protection for working with their residents. “I feel that providing these celebrations benefits our residents because they are able to participate in their traditions
and cultural observances,” says Pichardo. “Their families are invited to all of these religious programs and ceremonies, which in turn keeps them involved and connected to family and community.”
Fairwinds Desert Point
“This is a hamish (homey) place to live,” says Irma Sankman, a four-year resident of Fairwinds Desert Point in Oro Valley. “The staff here is not only very cooperative, they are friendly and caring.” Sankman experienced this cooperation when she volunteered to organize and lead the community’s Passover seder this year. “It happened by default that I orga-
nized and led the seder because ‘Rabbi’ Zohav and his wife Rita were going to be in Israel, and I couldn’t let Passover go by without having a seder,” Sankman says. Pinchas Paul Zohav is an ordained rabbinic pastor who serves as a community chaplain for the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Northwest Division. The Zohavs usually lead the seder as well as the Shabbat service held one Friday a month at Desert Point. Sankman says she prepared diligently for the seder, assisted by her friend Marion Rosenbaum, also a Desert Point resident. Zohav provided them with copies of a shortened version of the Haggadah, but she also looked at other versions for comparison. “The management is very helpful, even though we have a small Jewish community at Desert Point,” says Sankman. About 4.3 percent of the residents are Jewish, according to Frank Vidal, programs supervisor. Vidal says the 26 people who attended this year’s seder included family and friends of the residents. Non-Jewish residents also attended the seder, including some who had never been to a seder, and others Sankman says come each year because they enjoy the service and want to show respect for their Jewish friends. The staff provided a beautiful room for the seder, with white table cloths, fresh flowers, and a seder plate on each table, says Sankman. She worked with the chef to create the menu, and says See Connections, page 20
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the matzah ball soup, gefilte fish, brisket, potatoes, asparagus, macaroons, and flourless chocolate cake with raspberry topping were all delicious. Rosenbaum read most of the leader’s portion of the Haggadah, and Sankman called upon individuals to take turns doing the rest of the readings. “The seder was outstanding,” says Rosenbaum. “I am glad that we have these celebrations here because I have always celebrated all the main holidays.” “I really enjoyed doing this — I had never been in charge of a seder,” says Sankman, “but because it was a lot of work, I told [Zohav] that he’d better be here for Passover next year.” For Hanukkah, the staff places an electric menorah and decorations in the lobby, and provides chocolate gelt (coins) for everyone. Each night a resident “lights” the candle and recites the prayer, and this past Hanukkah Sankman and Rosenbaum both participated in the candle lighting. Sankman says anyone can attend the menorah lighting, and her Christian friends come each night. She also said the residents enjoyed the potato latkes the chef put on the dinner menu for two nights during Hanukkah. With a smile she recalls the time Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman of Chabad Oro Valley came with his children for Hanukkah. They brought donuts, told stories, sang songs, and the children gave everyone cards they had made for the occasion. Desert Point staff members also coordinate a Shabbat service on the second
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Friday of the month. The staff provides wine and challah, and Zohav and Rita bring prayer books and lead the service. Sankman says the Zohavs tell stories and sometimes ask residents to share stories from their childhood about Shabbat or holidays. Some Christians also attend, she says, because they enjoy the Shabbat service and listening to the stories. “The Shabbat services and the holiday celebrations here benefit me because I am Jewish and I enjoy observing the holidays and Shabbat,” says Sankman, “but it also brings back childhood memories.”
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“We are very community oriented here at The Forum, and we encourage input from the residents about celebrating holidays,” says Liesen Clemons, director of sales and marketing. About 25 percent of The Forum’s residents are Jewish, and on average about 50 people attend holiday celebrations. The holidays celebrated are Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, and Passover, although Clemons says they are considering including additional holidays. Once a month there is a Saturday morning Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Stephanie Aaron of Congregation Chaverim. Clemons says many residents take an active role, to each person’s comfort level. They also welcome volunteers to help with celebrations and services. Passover is their biggest celebration of the year, with a traditional seder and dinner. Residents invite family or friends, Jewish and non-Jewish, and the seder is often led by a resident and/or a family member. “Many times people from Tucson have no place to go for the seder, so our seder is open to
non-residents, but they must call for a reservation,” says Clemons. This year’s seder was led by Jennifer Selco, director of Jewish life and learning at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Besides helping to plan celebrations, residents suggest topics for talks on Jewish-related themes presented at The Forum. They also make requests for certain foods, even sharing family recipes. “We have printed up some of these family recipes to share with others, and this has a lot of meaning for our residents,” Clemons says. “Providing the celebrations for holidays and Shabbat services offers the benefit of continuing to provide a good quality of life,” says Clemons. “We want our residents to remain active, and to continue to relate to family and friends. The more active the resident, the more engaged they will be in the celebrations. This allows them to continue their traditions, and when people are happy, they are healthier.”
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Mickey-Miles Felton has been active in lacrosse in both Tucson and Israel.
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ickey-Miles Felton told the Tucson Citizen in July 1977 that his physical condition would determine how long he remains active in lacrosse. At that time, he couldn’t imagine that he would spend another 40 years as Tucson’s “Mr. Lacrosse” or become a catalyst for Israel’s national team. To recognize his significant contribution as a player, coach, manager, promoter, organizer and ultimately an icon of the sport, Felton, 74, will be inducted in mid-October into the Southwestern Lacrosse Conference’s Hall of Fame. Felton grew up in a multi-generational, Orthodox home in Brooklyn, New York. He recalls being taught to give openly to others in a variety of ways. In his 30s, he moved to the Old Pueblo and initially reached out to a couple of University of Arizona club team lacrosse players in 1976 whom he’d previously met back East. “I thought I’d go throw the ball around for a little exercise,” he recalls. Pete Schlegal was the coach and all the players were UA students. Recruited to the club team, Felton soon balanced playing defenseman with coaching. By his second year, the club had played 11 regional team tournaments. “When I began to get involved with lacrosse here, it became apparent to me the university players, a club team, worked as hard as any athletic program on campus without much help from the school,” Felton recalls. “I was about seven to 10 years older than everyone and it seemed like these men deserved a better experience for their efforts.” “Mickey-Miles is one of the most important influences in my life,” recalls former player Jeff Cady. “I decided to transfer to
the UA from a D1 lacrosse program; one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Not only did I learn a lot about lacrosse from Mic, I learned about hard work and life. As a nonvarsity team, players run the financials, logistics, and marketing of the program. Under Mic’s tutelage, I learned how to run a small organization. I still apply the skills he taught me today.” Lacrosse was little known in the West. Felton wanted to spread his love for what he calls “an addictive sport.” “I knew if I could get local junior high youth ‘all jacked up,’ they’d want to play. And, as parents got involved, they’d want their kids to continue playing in high school.” By 2002, he had conducted 13 summer Arizona Holiday Lacrosse Camps for youth. “Truth be told, after working with young kids in several countries around the world, my age aside, I sometimes think I relate better to young people because they’re like sponges and not judgmental,” says Felton. Felton was co-founder and past president of the Western Collegiate Lacrosse League, coaching more than 10 WCLL allstar games. Today, across Arizona there are 17 junior varsity teams, 13 varsity Division I and 10 varsity Division II teams — and countless youth leagues. Before 1975, there were no college teams west of the Mississippi River, says Felton. Now there are 383 National College Athletic Association teams in American colleges and 8,500 players across the nation. But lacrosse is not a new sport. It was played by the Iroquois Nation as a religious ritual called baggataway, from the early 1400s. Settlers adapted and adopted it, and it spread across Canada, the U.S. East Coast, Britain and Australia. Other countries only began adopting it at the turn of this century. Israel put together a team that debuted in
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2012 and Felton was among those tapped to help coach that team. Ranking seventh out of 38 teams that played in the 2014 World Games in Denver, Israel looked to field a national team in 2017. Felton again went to Israel to coach and help evaluate 142 players from around the world trying out for the team. For another three weeks, the resident team picks were divided into eight teams to train and play. Felton coached the northern Herzliya city team. These teams now practice and compete in training for the 2018 World Games July 12-21 in Netanya, Israel. For the first time since the World Games’ inception in 2002, they will be held outside the United States-CanadaBritain-Australia core lacrosse countries. Felton is itching to attend, but is awaiting a formal invitation. “Initially, my involvement here in Tucson and then nationally, wasn’t anything I consciously planned,” says Felton. “I had a ball in the early days improving the development of lacrosse in the West and at the same time improving the quality of life for young men. “In fact, [it wasn’t] until I was nominated for the U.S. Lacrosse National Hall of Fame, requiring me to fill out a lacrosse resume, that I truly began to understand what had been accomplished. Naturally, working with our youth, as many other people began to contribute their time, money and energy, was a smooth addition to my efforts.” Almost every bit of play, coaching, organizing, travel, promoting and growing the sport of lacrosse locally, nationally and internationally, Felton has done as a volunteer. Coaching on and off at the UA fields between 1976 and 2013 was voluntary. Only during a four-year stint, Felton was paid to coach UA’s Laxcats. His coaching of Catalina Foothills
Falcons, Tucson Xtreme, Tucson Scorpions, USA world team tryouts, and dozens of other efforts around the country were done for the love of the sport, from the heart, and his own pocket. Over the course of his unexpected career, Felton has reaped some rewards. He’s been named Coach of the Year five times; played, coached and managed the UA team off and on for nearly four decades; had more than 300 game wins, placing him in the exclusive U.S. Lacrosse Century Club 300; was inducted into the UA Lacrosse Hall of Fame; and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arizona Chapter of U.S. Lacrosse. “Mic is a living legend. He’s tirelessly and enthusiastically been a force in putting lacrosse on the map in the West for almost 40 years,” says Cady, who went on to coach youth lacrosse himself. “Most importantly, he is one of the most genuine and sincere people I’ve ever meet. His relationship with his players doesn’t finish at the end of their careers. I graduated over 10 years ago, and Mickey came to my wedding last summer... actually, I think this was one of four weddings of former players he went to that summer!” Felton’s volunteerism wasn’t limited to the playing field. He raised more than $20,000 for Tucson charities, earning a copper letter from the Tucson mayor in 1983; he co-chaired an $18,000 Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser, and has “coached” kids in reading with Literacy Connects. “I believe my upbringing of witnessing all of my family role models, by giving in whatever capacity I could, combined with the positive, fun loving attitude of our players, contributed to the direction of my future,” says Felton. Former player Jed Godsey calls his onetime coach “one of the finest ‘big picture’ minds I’ve ever come across. A man with a true desire to give back and leave the world a better place than he found it.” JOIN THE NEWEST CHAPTER OF PJ LIBRARY® FOR KIDS AGE 9-11
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benefits associated with these outdoor hobbies: • Multiple studies have shown that regular exposure to “green areas” can cause our bodies to relax and let go of stress, as well as ease anxiety. One study found that people who got out in nature to exercise had slower heart rates and lower levels of the “stress hormone” cortisol than those who spent all of their time in the city. • Walking or exercising outdoors has also been proven to strengthen short-term memory. Of two groups that walked in a natural or urban setting, the nature walkers performed nearly 20 percent better on a brief memory test. • Studies have linked time spent in nature with lower levels of inflammation, reduced hypertension, and even a stronger immune system. • Research comparing outdoor runners with those on treadmills found that people who run outside exert more energy than the treadmill runners. So the next time you feel anxious or pressured, lace up your walking shoes and head for the hills!
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FIRST PERSON On Yizkor, realizing that if ‘life is with people,’ in Judaism, death is too GILA S. SILVERMAN Special to the AJP
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y mother died a day before Shavuot, two years ago. Three months later, at Yom Kippur services, I knew that I was finally an adult (at age 49) because, for the first time ever, I stayed in the sanctuary for the Yizkor memorial service. A year ago, at Passover, after making her recipes without her, I sobbed through Yizkor, painfully aware that I was sitting in her seat at her synagogue and she should have been there. This year, during Passover Yizkor, to my great surprise, I found myself crying again, because it hit me — yet again, but as if for the first time — that for the rest of my life, I will be staying in the room for Yizkor, that I will always now be among the mourners. In an article reflecting on her 50-year career as a bereavement researcher, my mother wrote: “It became simpler when I stopped thinking of grief as an illness that ends.
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In its own way, grief lasts a lifetime. There is no universal or fixed schedule for grieving.... Children tell us that their grief changes as they mature. However, the death of a parent is with them for the rest of their lives.” My mother knew this from her research; she also knew it from Jewish tradition. Jewish mourning is guided by two principles — kavod hamet and nichum aveilim — honoring the dead and comforting the mourners. Neither of these can be done alone. Like so much of Jewish life, we need other people to respond Jewishly to death. A well-known book describing life in the shtetls is called “Life is with People.” And from a Jewish perspective, death is also with people. Mourning is by definition a lonely experience, as we try to adjust to a life without someone who was important to us. But Judaism ensures that we are not alone throughout this process. From the moment of death, actually from the moments preceding death, through the funeral, and the shiva, through the month or year of saying kaddish, and to the ongoing rememberings of yahrzeit and Yizkor, if we mourn as Jews, we don’t do
so alone. In fact, we can’t do so alone. This week, as I mark the completion of my second year without my mother, I will light a yahrzeit candle and make my way to a minyan to say kaddish. Then, a few days later, I will go back to the synagogue and, once again, stay in the room for Yizkor. The Yizkor prayers remind us that even after someone dies, they too are still “with people” — their memories are still with us and they are still part of our communities. On this day, as we celebrate receiving the Torah that made us a people, we will also remember those who have come before us, and those who are no longer with us. We will recite the names of our dead, and give them a place in the community and in our prayers, knowing that who we are, and who we will be, incorporates them too. My mother spent her professional life studying the mourning process. She taught that grief is not a process of letting go or of moving on; rather, it is a process of accommodating to a new life, and finding a way to continue a relationship with someone who is no longer physically present. We are lucky that Judaism provides us with a clear guide for how
to do that. Five times a year — on the yahrzeit, and during the Yizkor services at Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzeret, Pesach and Shavuot — we officially pause to acknowledge those continuing relationships, and to bring them into our community’s sacred gathering. In our quiet moments alone at home, most of us remember, every day, those who have died. But because Jewish life is with people, we also need to remember them when we are together. Unlike mainstream America, where grief is supposed to be a private process, from which we “recover” quickly, Judaism recognizes that grief is a normal part of human life, which lasts throughout our lifetimes, and which we do not try to hide or run away from. As we come together this week, to celebrate the Torah and to remember our ancestors, both personal and communal, may those relationships continue to enrich and guide our lives. May the souls of all those we love be bound up in the web of life, and may all of their memories be a blessing to us.
Gila Silverman is a research associate at The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, and a visiting scholar at the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies.
P.S. Students seek answers in Middle East; centenarian gets encore celebration SHARON KLEIN Special to the AJP
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Sarah Cassius, finishing her junior year at George Washington University with a dual major in international affairs and geography with a concentration in sustainability, traveled on a Building Bridges trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories over spring break. The trip was sponsored by GWU’s Hillel and underwritten by a donor; participants were GWU student leaders selected through an application and interview process. The Building Bridges mission is to equip young people with the communication and leadership skills necessary to transform divisive attitudes in their communities. Their vision is a more just and inclusive world, where global citizens learn to understand different perspectives, rather than perpetuate their own. A 2015 graduate of Catalina Foothills High School, Cassius had been active locally in USY, Hebrew High, B’nai Tzedek, Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing!, and as a Camp Ramah counselor in California. Her previous Israel sojourns included Birthright and Ramah Israel Seminar. The purpose of this journey was to gain a better understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From March 8-18, a diverse group of 25 students became close friends. According to Cassius, their mantra was to accept the feelings, not the facts. This meant that however uncomfortable something made them, they had to listen to the narrative without judgement, because this was someone’s real-life story. “Our group had the privilege to speak with everyone from experts on a topic, to a representative from the Palestinian Authority, to the mayor of Efrat, a settlement in the West Bank. We had conversations that made us uncomfortable and took us out of our comfort zones. Daily, we would hear the phrase, ‘Listen to understand, not to respond.’ We practiced active listening and empathy when speaking to each other and while listening to the brave people who shared their stories with us,” Cassius says. She continues: “In many group reflections, we wondered aloud why we were able to have such different conversations abroad — about gay marriage, religion, politics — but couldn’t have these conversations at home. I’m going to make a gross generalization here – that students at GWU don’t know how to disagree. I am guilty of it myself.” Back on campus, while journaling and reflecting, she posted on social media: “This is
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Pam Weston (left) joins her mother, Yeta Weston, at the 2018 Salute to Centenarians on May 4.
(L-R): Gavin Gondalwala, Sarah Cassius, Patrick Neuner and Yunny Seo visit Rawabi, the first planned Palestinian city.
a commitment to honor the people I met during this trip, to share their stories, and to engage in constructive discourse. If you disagree, then let’s talk!”
The gift of longevity
For the fourth year in a row, beginning in 2015, Yeta Weston, 102, has attended the annual Salute to Centenarians. Co-sponsored by the Pima Council on Aging and Tucson Medical Center, this year’s May 4 event filled TMC’s Marshall Conference Center with celebrants, their families, friends and/or caregivers. The event is held during Older Americans Month, with seniors, 99 years and older, invited to celebrate their longevity. Statistically, these centenarians are overwhelmingly female. According to the last census, they numbered 240 in Pima County. The program included the celebrants’ biographies and photos highlighted on a screen, along with greetings, acknowledgements, a boxed lunch, cake, and musical entertainment. Weston’s background: Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Weston has three daughters, six grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. A first-generation American, she grew up as the oldest of three daughters. Besides being an accomplished artist, as a young woman, she and her friends would visit the beaches of Rockaway, New York, swimming the length of 30 or more blocks each
way in the strong waves and ocean current. Yeta met Aaron Weston, her late husband of 67 years, while both worked at a camp in the Catskills. It took her seven years to say “yes” to marry that young man! Following Aaron’s WWII service, the couple raised their family on Long Island. Aaron practiced family medicine and Yeta worked as his nurse and office manager. She was active in charities and continued to paint and draw. In her 60s, she became a stone sculptor, working with large blocks of marble and granite using power tools, She writes prose and poetry and is noted for the fantastic costumes she created for herself and Aaron when some party, play or event called for it. The handcrafted greeting cards Yeta sends to friends and family are cherished. In 1998, when the couple retired to Green Valley to be closer to family, Aaron, who had aspirations of becoming a rabbi, acted as lay rabbi for the newly formed Beth Shalom Temple Center; Yeta became the lay rebbetzin. Now residing at a local senior living community, Yeta still leads an active life, participating in water and aerobics exercises, reading, traveling, and attending local events such as this. The theme question at this year’s event: What do you do to celebrate life? Theme answer: Our matriarch enjoys speaking with family and staying informed on world events.
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RABBI’S CORNER
STRONGER TOGETHER
Mount Sinai’s true location may surprise us RABBI YEHUDA CEITLIN
A Monthly Look At The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Work In Our Community
MEN’S GROUP EVENT AT TOPGOLF
The Jewish Federation’s ChaiLife Men’s Group held one of its biannual events at TopGolf Tucson on Sunday, April 29. The ChaiLife Men’s Group was created as a way to engage and provide leadership opportunities to the graduates of the Federation’s Young Men’s (L-R:) Adam Goldstein, Nolan Group. The group’s events provide Shifren, Jeff Wortzel, Michael Shiner, Barry Baker, Alex Chaffin, social, leadership development, Scott Goorman, Matt Landau, Josh and community engagement Silverman, and Michael Wexler opportunities for these young leaders. Earlier this year, the ChaiLife Men’s Group partnered with the Men’s Next Gen group for a leadership development weekend retreat in San Diego.
SISTER JOSE TIKKUN OLAM GARDEN DEDICATION
In recognition of the Federation’s 70th anniversary, the Federation and its donors aided in raising funds to assist with the relocation of Sister Jose Women’s Center to an expanded and more adequate facility. On Sunday, May 6, JFSA celebrated the completion of the project by dedicated the center’s (L-R:) Len Kronman, Stuart Mellan, outdoor space, named the Tikkun Steve Tofel, Jean Fedigan, Olam Garden, which includes a Jane Ash, and Bruce Ash custom designed mural, raised-bed planters for growing vegetables, and lovely seating areas.
NORTHWEST NEEDLERS DONATE SHAWLS
On Tuesday, April 24, members of the Northwest Division of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Needlers group delivered handmade shawls for dialysis patients to the Da Vita Dialysis Clinic. The group worked on the shawls for about three months before delivering them. The Needlers meet every Tuesday (L-R:)Judith Feldman, Sandra afternoon at the Northwest Lacther, Da Vita Dialysis Clinic Director Kathy Griffin, and Sheila Division office and work on Tepper (not pictured: various knitting and crocheting Shannon Getzner) projects to donate throughout the community. The next project members are working on are hats for chemotherapy patients. For more events in the Northwest see page 29.
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earch online for “Mount Sinai” and Google Maps will swiftly point you to a marker in Jabal Mousa, Arabic for Mount Moses, located in the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Consult with a biblical scholar or geographer and you will hear about other locations such as Mount Sin Bishar and Mount Helal in the peninsula, Jebel al-Madhbah at Petra in Jordan, Jabal al-Lawz in northwest Saudi Arabia, and Hashem el-Tarif near the Israeli city of Eilat. But review the Torah itself, the actual document given by G-d on Mount Sinai, and you will find no reference to the exact location. You will learn what happened when G-d spoke directly to the Israelites, but not where. What is more, the many commentators on Torah seldom discuss it either. This anomaly was troubling for an Israeli soldier named Dr. Moshe Berhab, and he examined the issue further when he had the opportunity to visit the Jabal Mousa location in 1956. This was after Israel captured the Sinai during the Suez Crisis, when Egypt had closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipments. Berhab was excited to stand on the ground where our forefathers gathered some 3,300 years ago. He was possibly walking on the same earth where our people became a nation and received the Ten Commandments. Upon climbing up the mountain, he expected to feel spiritual enlightenment or divine energy. Instead, he felt none of that and was left with deep disappointment. Upon his return home, he wrote a letter to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, in search of an explanation. The Rebbe wrote back a letter (pub-
lished in Igros Kodesh 14, page 495) alluding to the fact the word Torah is rooted in the Hebrew word hora’ah, meaning instruction and a roadmap on how to live life. That is why it is called the Torah of life and the eternal Torah, the Rebbe explained. This means that it is an eternal teaching that is binding for every Jew in every generation at any time and location. Had the Torah been given in an urban and perhaps more appropriate setting such as the holy city of Jerusalem or Hebron, it could have been reduced to a specific class in society, period and space. Instead, it was given on a mountain surrounded by open land, to teach that everyone has equal access to follow its timeless wisdom and the right to practice its divine teachings. Once the Torah was given, Mount Sinai went on to live through us. “The importance of Mount Sinai is the Torah that we received upon it, once the Torah becomes part of our life,” the Rebbe wrote. “But the physical identification of the mountain does not have any special significance.” My friend, author Rabbi Eli Wolff, commented that if you are asked what is the exact location of Mount Sinai, you can easily point to its precise location: Your own heart. That is where your soul resides and your soul is intrinsically bound to the Torah. On the upcoming holiday of Shavuot, commemorating the date when G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai, the custom is for every man, woman and child to hear the reading of the Ten Commandments at synagogue. Why? Because we need Mount Sinai there and you are the only one who can bring it. Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin is the outreach director of Chabad Tucson, and associate rabbi of Congregation Young Israel of Tucson.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR The calendar deadline is Tuesday, 10 days before the issue date. Our next issue will be published June 1, 2018. Events may be emailed to localnews@azjewishpost.com, faxed to 319-1118, or mailed to the AJP at 3718 E. River Road, #272, Tucson, AZ 85718. For more information, call 319-1112. See Area Congregations on page 4 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. May 20, Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference, on the new Survey of Holocaust Knowledge in the United States. May 27, David Hirshberg, author of “My Mother’s Son.” 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 / May 18 5:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Family Shabbat Experience Service & Dinner. Farewell to Shinshinim, Chen Dinachi and Tamir Shecory. 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 for availability at 745-5550 or www.caiaz.org.
Saturday / May 19 9:30 AM: Handmaker Erev Shavuot Shabbat morning service. Study session, 6:30 p.m., free, but RSVP to nlevy@handmaker.org. 10 AM: Cong. Chaverim Erev Shavuot Shabbat morning service. 320-1015. 12:30 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Erev Shavuot Mincha service. 745-5550. 7:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Tikkun Leil Shavuot service, “all-night” Torah study on the Book of Ruth and cheesecake bakeoff. With Rabbi Batsheva Appel, Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg, and Dr. Abby Limmer. 327-4501. 7:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Tikkun Leil Shavuot: A Guide to the Evening of Shavuot. Includes service 7:45 p.m., dairy dinner, 8 p.m. “Shavuot Secrets,” with Rabbi Robert Eisen, 8:45 p.m., “The Mitzvah of First Fruits,” with Rabbi Ruven Barkan, 9:40 p.m., dessert,
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. 299-3000, 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 (1840), 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. Temple Emanu-El Needlecraft Group with Ariana Lipman and Rosie Delgado. Second Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m. 327-4501. 10:30 p.m. and reading of the Book of Ruth, 11 p.m. Late night study with topics in 40-minute segments coordinated by Scott Lewis, 11:30 p.m. Dinner, $8 per person. Service, study sessions and dessert, free. RSVP for space availability at 745-5550.
Sunday / May 20 9:30 AM: Handmaker Shavuot service. Yizkor service 11:15 a.m. followed by Kiddush lunch.
Monday / May 21 10 AM-NOON: JFCS Ethical Will Train-theTrainer Workshop, presented by Rabbi Stephanie Aaron of Congregation Chaverim, at JFCS, 4301 E. 5th St. Learn to facilitate an ethical will workshop. RSVP to Irene Gefter at 795-0300 ext. 2271 or igefter@jfcstucson.org.
Saturday / May 26 11 AM-NOON: Cong. Bet Shalom Tot Shabbat with PJ Library, led by Lisa SchachterBrooks. Free. 577-1171.
Sunday / May 27 9:15 AM: Jewish War Veterans FriedmanPaul Post 201 breakfast meeting at B'nai B'rith Covenant House, 4414 E. 2nd St. Contact
tact Joyce Stuehringer at 299-5920.
Tucson J social bridge. Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-3 p.m., year round. Drop-ins welcome. Meets in library on second floor. 299-3000. Cong. Anshei Israel Talmud on Tuesday with Rabbi Robert Eisen. Meets 6 p.m. 745-5550. 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 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.
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. 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. Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center art exhibit, “Invisibility and Resistance: Violence Against LGBTQIA+ People,” 564 S. Stone Ave., through May 31. Wed., Thur., Sat. and Sun., 1-5 p.m.; Fridays, noon-3 p.m. 670-9073 or www.jewishhistorymuseum.org. Jewish History Museum exhibit, “Subtle Apertures: Leo Goldschmidt’s Early Photographic Record of the Sonoran Borderlands,” through May 31. 564 S. Stone Ave., Wed., Thur., Sat. and Sun., 1-5 p.m.; Fridays, noon-3 p.m. 670-9073 or www.jewishhistorymuseum.org.
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. Con-
Tucson J Fine Art Gallery art exhibit, “Arts For All,” Through June 28 with artists’ reception Sunday, May 27, 2–4 p.m. 299-3000.
Seymour Shapiro at 398-5360.
at 299-3000, ext. 241.
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.
Sunday / June 3 10 AM-NOON: Tucson J Jewish artists coffee group. Join other Jewish artists to schmooze and learn. Free. Contact Carol Sack
11 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Women's League brunch and fashion show. Fashion show by La Contessa, brunch by Handmaker Catering. $25 pre-paid reservation. RSVP by May 25. Make checks payable and remit to: Women’s League of CAI, 5550 E. 5th St., Tucson, AZ 85711. Contact Evelyn at 235-4826 or esigafus@aol.com. 3:30 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel summer film series presents “Brighton Beach Memoirs.” Popcorn and lemonade will be available. Free. 745-5550 or www.caiaz.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.
UPCOMING Sunday / May 20
10 AM: Chabad of Oro Valley Shavout service and dairy buffet. Includes service, 10 a.m., reading of the Ten Commandments, 11:30 a.m., followed by dairy buffet. Children’s service and dinner, 4 p.m. Free. 1217 W. Faldo Drive. RSVP to office@jewishorovalley.com or 477-8672. May 18, 2018, ARIZONA JEWISH POST
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Photo: Steve Shawl
Photo: Steve Shawl
Temple Emanu-El celebrates adult b’nai mitzvah
Eleven adult students celebrated their b’nai mitzvah together at Temple Emanu-El’s Shabbat service on Saturday, May 5. Back row (L-R): ElianaKeena Powers, Laura Kravec, Amy-Susan Young, Mellissa Davis, Jesse Davis, Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg; front row: Rabbi Batsheva Appel, Amy Ruskin, Kim Westenskow, Erika Mitnik, Ana Bynes, Nat Wisneski, Bette Sayre
Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, right, presents Temple Emanu-El’s commemorative plaque to Rabbi Richard Safran.
Rabbi Richard Safran honored with ‘Love and Laughter’ tion to being a congregational rabbi, Safran was a chaplain at veterans’ hospitals for 20 years and has been a hospital chaplain for more than 40 years. He was first certified by the Association of Mental Health Chaplains and later by the National Association of Jewish Chaplains. Recently retired from his official Tucson duties, Safran was a chaplain in Tucson for more than 13 years, bringing comfort, inspiration, and his collection of jokes to thousands of patients, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.
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Temple Emanu-El held a brunch with the theme “Love and Laughter” on Sunday, April 29 to honor its adjunct rabbi and Tucson’s longtime community chaplain, Rabbi Richard Safran. The event, held at Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort, included entertainment from comedian Avi Liberman. Safran was ordained by the Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion in 1960. He and his family settled in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Safran retired in 1995 as the rabbi of Congregation Achduth Vesholom. In addi-
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Congregation Or Chadash youth philanthropy Congregation Or Chadash’s seventhgrade class made a Noah Cohen Memorial Youth Philanthropy Program presentation at the COC annual meeting on Monday, May 7. The class chose helping refugees as its focus this year and presented a check for $1,500 to Literacy Con-
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nects for a program that trains tutors to teach English to refugees. The congregation also honored Brenda Landau, who is stepping down after being the adult advisor of the program for the last 13 years. In that time, COC youth philanthropy has contributed $75,000 to the community.
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GABRIELLE ERBST has been named director of admissions at TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY. A native Tucsonan and the first alumnus in this role, Erbst has been THA’s director of student support services for the past four years. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s in speech and hearing sciences. She earned her master’s in special education from Hunter College in New York City and worked at The Stephen Gaynor School, which specializes in techniques for children with learning disabilities. Erbst is a co-leader of Congregation Anshei Israel’s K’ton Time program and is chair of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Young Women’s Cabinet and a member of the engagement and social action committee for the JFSA Young Leadership Team.
David A. Berk, son of Debbie and Bill Berk, will celebrate becoming a bar mitzvah on Saturday, May 26 at Congregation Or Chadash. He is the grandson of Arlene and Marty Zuckerman of Tucson, and Sally and Mike Berk of Bonita Springs, Florida. David attends Orange Grove Middle School where he plays ultimate frisbee. He enjoys water skiing, reading, hiking and going to Camp Timberlane for Boys each summer. For his mitzvah project, David volunteered at Tucson Village Farm as a Healthy Living Ambassador, giving tours and teaching people how to pick fresh organic vegetables.
MIRIAM ARDEN placed as a semifinalist at the 35th Annual National Shakespeare Competition in New York City on April 23, Shakespeare’s birthday, competing against 55 students from around the country. Arden, the daughter of Susan Brish and Scott Arden, and a junior at Catalina Foothills High School, won the all-expenses paid trip and a first place trophy with her monologue from “Much Ado About Nothing” at the 33rd annual regional English-Speaking Union Tucson Branch Shakespeare Competition held March 3 at the University of Arizona Tornabene Theatre.
GERALD N. GOLDBERG, M.D., founder of PIMA DERMATOLOGY, has transferred ownership of his practice to his existing partner, MATTHEW W. BEAL, M.D., and new practice partner, SARAH E. SCHRAM, M.D. Beal, who specializes in general dermatology with special interest in cutaneous oncology and psoriasis, joined Pima Dermatology in 2013 and became a partner in 2016. Schram joined as the practice’s full-time Mohs surgeon for skin cancer in 2015. Goldberg, who has led the practice for more than 30 years, will serve as the cosmetic and laser surgical center director. The practice will expand its physical space with a new laser center opening in early 2019.
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