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Southern Arizona’s Award-Winning Jewish Newspaper Volume 72, Issue 17

6 Elul 5776

September 9, 2016

pages 12-17

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Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Community calendar . . . . 24 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Letter to the editor . . . . . . . 9 Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3, 5 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 26 Our town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Rabbi’s corner . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Synagogue directory . . . . . 4 Last chance to send in your Rosh Hashanah greetings ... 28

PHYLLIS BRAUN AJP Executive Editor

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he Arizona Theatre Company pulled off a fundraising feat this summer, raising $2 million in pledges from Tucson and Phoenix supporters in less than three weeks.

That effort staved off concerns that ATC would have to suspend operations, despite the success of its past three seasons. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, the nonprofit arts organization has faced mounting debt and flagging contributions from individual and corporate donors, philanthropic foundations and government agencies.

But the recent fundraising triumph means the theater can go ahead with its 50th anniversary season, which is also Artistic Director David Ira Goldstein’s 25th season.

And it means that Goldstein, who has decided to leave ATC after this season, gets to fulfill a long-cherished ambition: to bring “Fiddler on the Roof ” to the ATC stage.

“It’s always been one of my favorites,” says Goldstein, who directed the iconic musical a few years ago as a guest director in Seattle.

“It certainly speaks to my heritage, since all four of my grandparents came out of the Pale around the same time that ‘Fiddler on the Roof ’ takes place,” he says, referring to the Pale of Settlement, territories of Imperial Russia where Jews were allowed to settle.

“Fiddler” is set in the Pale in 1905.

While “Fiddler” speaks to his Jewish soul,

“also it’s such a wonderful, universal work of art,” Goldstein says.

With 27 cast members, it’s the largest production to be mounted at ATC during his 25-year tenure. Goldstein likes that “Fiddler” is an intergenerational piece, with roles from the young to the “quite elderly,” he says delicately.

Responding to brisk ticket sales, ATC has already added extra weeks. “Fiddler” will run Dec. 3-31 in Tucson before moving to Phoenix for a three-and-a-half week run.

ATC’s season, which boasts six shows, opens here next week with “King Charles III,” which imagines that Prince Charles has finally ascended the British throne, Camilla at his side. “It’s like a big old Shakespearean play but in modern language,” says Goldstein.

For the first time, the cast includes an actor from Sedona, says Goldstein, who explains that people in Tucson or Phoenix sometimes grumble that a cast isn’t “local” enough, forgetting that as the state theater, ATC draws from both metros and beyond.

ATC does have a close relationship with the University of Arizona theater department, says Goldstein, which he hopes his successor will continue.

For Goldstein, working with the only major theater in the country that serves two cities has been both a joy and a challenge. He and his wife, KJZZ radio announcer Michele Rogers, have a home in Phoenix, but Goldstein also keeps an apartment in Tucson and has logged countless hours on I-10 commut-

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Homage to his roots to mark Goldstein’s final season at ATC

David Ira Goldstein

ing. After 21 years of marriage, “my wife and I are looking forward to not spending half our lives apart,” he says.

The tale of two cities also played a part in ATC’s recent fundraising push. Tucson business leader Mike Kasser, who committed to raising $1 million in Tucson if the second million could be raised in Phoenix, was happy the goal was reached. “With over 700 small-to-medium size donors, it was like a crowd-funding campaign without the internet,” he says, adding thanks to Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and several large donors for their support.

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Exploration of justice kicks off Jewish History Museum chats DAVID J. DEL GRANDE AJP Intern

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riving one of Tucson’s new Israeli teen emissaries, Leah Avuno, from a lunch and learn on the University of Arizona campus to her next destination, Cantor Avraham Alpert found his talking point. Avuno, originally from Ethiopia, told him Ethiopian Jews would never have made it to Israel if it weren’t for the American Jews who funded their aliyah. Then she asked why American Cantor Avraham Alpert at the Holocaust History Center at the Jews cared about the plight of her people.

Jewish History Museum Sept. 2 He answered by telling Avuno about the Photo: David J. Del Grande/AJP

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role of U.S. Jews in the civil rights movement and the parallels between blacks and Jews as victims of discrimination. They spoke about Jews of color in Israel, Ethiopia and Uganda. It was only later that Alpert, the spiritual leader of Congregation Bet Shalom, came up with a simpler answer: The Torah has always tasked the Jews with bringing justice to the world.

Days after that fruitful conversation, Alpert examined the question of justice as host of the Jewish History Museum’s first gallery chat on Friday, Sept. 2. He spoke about the quote from Deuteronomy that adorns the entrance of the

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Fun in the Sun Day planned to connect Jews in Northwest Project Isaiah food drive to start

The covered playground at Cañada Del Oro Riverfront Park in Oro Valley

A Jewish community “Northwest Fun in the Sun Day” will be held on Sunday, Sept. 25, 1-4 p.m. at Cañada Del Oro Riverfront Park in Oro Valley, hosted by the Tucson Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Northwest Division.

The free event, open to all, will include a DJ, inflatable bounce houses, interactive sports activities and craft tables. Many Jewish organizations will host informational tables, including PJ Library (free Jewish bedtime storybooks), Jewish Tucson’s Concierge, the Arizona Jewish Post and Chabad Oro Valley. Complimentary water and popcorn will be available, along

with food trucks from Cold Stone Creamery and Luke’s Pizza. The park, at 551 W. Lambert Lane, features shaded ramadas and a shaded playground.

“The Jewish community in Tucson is growing, as are the programs, events and activities for families and people of all ages. The Northwest Fun in the Sun Day is a great way to make sure our friends in the Northwest community are connected to the [program] information and each other, while having lots of fun!” says Scott Zorn, Tucson J director of children, youth and family engagement.

Programming throughout the event will include a certified instructor-led Zumba dance demo, an instructor-led Israeli dance party, sing-a-longs with the J’s Scott and Julie Zorn, and a shofar-blowing demonstration by Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman of Chabad Oro Valley.

“We want to make sure that people know all the exciting services and opportunities our community can provide, no matter what stage of life,” says Phyllis Gold, executive director of the Jewish Federation’s Northwest Division, which is headquartered at 191 W. Magee Road, Suite 162 (at the corner of Oracle and Magee Roads) and serves the growing Northwest Jewish community in Catalina, Marana, Oracle, Oro Valley, SaddleBrooke, Sun City and beyond.

For more information, contact Sarah Chen, associate director of the Jewish Federation’s Northwest Division, at 505-4161 or schen@jfsa.org.

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The Tucson Jewish community will hold its annual Project Isaiah food drive benefiting the Community Food Bank from Sept. 15-Oct. 15.

The project, timed to coincide with the High Holy Days, is named for the Prophet Isaiah, who when asked why we fast on Yom Kippur, responded, “Is it not to share your bread with the hungry?” (Isaiah 58:6). The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona coordinates the project in collaboration with local synagogues and Jewish agencies.

Food donations for Project Isaiah can be dropped off at any synagogue or Jewish agency. The most needed nonperishable items include canned meats and vegetables, cereal, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter, powdered milk, rice, soups, tuna and kosher foods. Monetary donations, payable to JCRC, may be mailed to the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, Attn. Jane Scott, 3822 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718. With each donation of $1, the food bank can distribute food for more than four meals.

To schedule a volunteer date at the Community Food Bank for your organization, call Kristen Hershberger at 622-0525, ext. 204. Friends and families welcome.

For more information, call the JCRC office at 577-9393.

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The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Women’s Philanthropy will hold its annual welcome, “Making Our Mark in Tucson, Israel and around the World” on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. at Hacienda del Sol

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The guest speakers will be Leah Avuno, one of two Israeli teens who are doing a year of service as volunteers in the Tucson Jewish community, and Jean Fedigan, executive director of the Sister Jose Women’s Center, which has been chosen as the focus of the Federation’s 70th anniversary mitzvah project.

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Lynne Wood Dusenberry, ATC board of trustees chair, says the outpouring of support, “even from those who were unable to contribute to the effort, has been simply overwhelming,” adding that “there is still much work to be done on both the fund-raising side and organizationally to ensure ATC’s long-term financial and artistic stability.”

Goldstein had intended to leave ATC in 2013, but agreed to stay on as the theater underwent some management changes. His plans for life after ATC are nebulous. “I’ll probably sleep for a couple of months,” he says, and then he’ll likely do some directing.

But first there’s the 50th anniversary season to produce, which will follow up “King Charles III” with “An Act of God” by David Javerbaum, who won multiple Emmy awards as a writer and producer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

“It’s a wonderful play, it just closed on Broadway last week,” Goldstein told the AJP Aug. 31, explaining that Javerbaum started “tweeting humorously as God,” then turned those divine commentaries on contemporary American culture into a book and a play. “It’s hilarious” but not sacrilegious, Goldstein says.

ATC’s production of “An Act of God” will be directed by Marsha Mason, best known as an actress in “The Goodbye Girl” and other films. “God will be a woman in this production, and David Javerbaum is all on board with that,” Goldstein says, unwilling to divulge the name of the celestial actress until her contract is signed.

It’s hard for Goldstein to name favorites among 25 years of plays — “they’re all your babies,” he says — but some stand-outs include August Wilson’s “Fences” last spring, the world premiere of Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner” in 2009 and “M. Butterfly” in 1993, which featured nudity. “We got threatened with being thrown in the hoosegow over that one” in supposedly liberal Tucson, he says, but had no trouble in Phoenix.

Looking back, Goldstein says he’s “proud of the diversity we’ve put on our stage, both in terms of style and tone and theme, and racial diversity,” calling the Temple of Music and Art “a gathering place for so many communities.”

In 1995, Goldstein told the AJP he’d once wanted to be a rabbi. It’s true, he says now; “I was very involved with my shul” growing up in a suburb of Minneapolis.

He was in a kosher Boy Scout troop at the shul, he says, recalling a canoe trip where the Scouts had to portage with two sets of dishes, for milk and meat meals.

As for that long-ago rabbinic ambition, “I decided to do my preaching in a different way,” he says, with just the trace of a laugh.

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LOCAL Tucson Jewish Community Center partners with Federation on JPride The Tucson Jewish Community Center has added JPride to its programming roster.

JPride, then known as the LGBT Jewish Inclusion Project, began in 2005 when the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona became one of the first federations in the country to create an outreach program for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews. JPride is now a joint program of the JFSA and Tucson J. In recent years, JPride has partnered with local agencies, including the Coalition for Jewish Education, the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies and the Holocaust History Center, on programs fea-

turing nationally-known Jewish authors, entertainers and activists. Among these are Joy Ladin, Ph.D., the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox institution (Yeshiva University); Masha Gessen, award-winning journalist; and Michael Kagan, J.D., former director of a refugee rights clinic at the University of Tel Aviv Law School.

“The J is honored to include JPride in the mosaic of programs and services that we offer to the community. We look forward to a great relationship,” says Todd Rockoff, president and CEO of the J. Ann Markewitz, chair of the JPride steering committee, says the committee

“is excited about working under the wing of the Tucson Jewish Community Center.

Our collaboration will open new opportunities to serve the LGBTQ community, friends and allies throughout Southern Arizona.”

Lynn Davis, the J’s director of arts and culture, welcomes this addition to her department.

“The Tucson Jewish Community Center is a welcoming, inclusive place, open to all,” she says. “JPride not only offers us an opportunity to make our values more visible in the community, but I believe that JPride’s lay leadership will help influence many of our other programs and

programming decisions here at The J.” Davis notes that the timing couldn’t be better, as the JCC Association recently formalized a nationwide alliance with Keshet, an organization that works for full LGBTQ equality and inclusion in Jewish life. In addition to webinars and policy development, Keshet offers inclusion training, action planning and year-long coaching through the Keshet Leadership Project, as well as leadership development for LGBTQ teens and allies to implement in their JCC teen programs and camps.

For more information, visit tucsonjcc. org or contact Davis at 299-3000.

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Gloria Goldman, a local lawyer who is a child of Holocaust survivors, attended the gallery chat with her son, lawyer Mo Goldman. During the 1980s, she was involved with a volunteer community outreach program that brought Holocaust survivors living in Tucson to local high schools to speak to students.

Pointing to local artifacts and the video of local survivors’ testimony playing in the background, Goldman says that what she appreciates most about the center is that it is concurrently dedicated to the past and focused on today.

“Knowing the people that lived in this community, it’s an important memorial to them, but it’s important in light of what’s happening in the world today,” says Goldman. “It’s important that as many young people come and see this, and understand the dangers of hate.”

Ben Lepley, founder of local architecture design firm Tectonicus Constructs L.L.C., was involved with the construction of the site. He spoke about the concepts used in creating the Holocaust History Center.

Upon entering the museum, guests are forced into a confined space with open, unfinished steel. The claustrophobic design was intentional, in order to recreate the atmosphere of the freight cars that transported Jewish prisoners to concentration camps, Lepley says.

The large gate that opens up to the exhibit was built with wood dating back to the 1880s that was salvaged from the original house where the museum stands today.

Davis says the most precious materials, and resources, are the individuals who’ve shared their family histories here.

The gallery chats, he says, are “a way to give 18 different people this year, and hopefully again next year, the opportunity to share a part of their family history with the community in a museum setting.”

“It was wonderful” how Alpert crafted his speech around an age-old piece of text, Davis says, making “the connections across centuries, into today, here and in Israel.”

Steve Kozachik, Tucson City councilman for Ward 6, attended the opening chat to show his support for the important work the Jewish History Museum does.

Kozachik, who has co-sponsored community events with the JHM and local mosques, says projects like the gallery chats have an important impact on Tucson, rooted in social justice.

“When Bryan tries staging events like this, I understand that it really helps to speak to the broader community,” Kozachik says.

As Kozachik toured the museum, he

noticed how the rhetoric aimed at the Jews during the Holocaust mirrors some of the language being used in the current political cycle.

Sadly, we have not learned how to stop hating, Kozachik says, adding that it is gratifying to see an organization remain committed to building partnerships as well as reminding the community of the importance of respecting every religious and ethnical background.

“We’re all in this together,” he says.

“That’s what this place is about, and that’s what these talks are about.”

The gallery chats are free and open to the public. Those who attend will receive a buy one get one free lunch coupon, good for that day only, for either 5 Points Market, 756 S. Stone Ave., or Cafe Desta, 758 S. Stone Ave. The next chat, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 16 at 11:30 a.m., will be hosted by Rabbi Ruven Barkan, who will speak about the Hans Spear memorabilia, commemorating the late Tucsonan, who was one of the U.S. Army’s “Ritchie Boys,” German immigrants who carried out counter-intelligence operations in Germany during World War II. For a listing of future dates, hosts and other events slated for this season, visit jewishhistory museum.org. Also look for the re-launch of the museum’s Facebook page and new Instagram account.

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Holocaust History Center at the Jewish History Museum, “Justice, justice you shall pursue.”

“Racial concern for equality is a manifestation of our mandate as Jews, to be just and fair,” he told the 20 or so participants gathered for the chat, arguing that the way to justice lies in looking past appearances into the heart of a matter.

Fairness and justice are generated by practical human actions, Alpert says. If we work toward kindness, applying justice in everything we do, we can allow God’s divine presence to grow and prevail.

“If we want to live in a just world, then we have to make it happen,” Alpert says.

“It’s not going to happen in the celestial realm.”

These new bi-weekly, 15-minute talks will focus on specific artifacts at the museums. The host of each event will be a community member with a personal connection to the subject matter.

Bryan Davis, executive director of the Jewish History Museum, says the turnout for the inaugural chat far exceeded his expectations. The intimate gallery chats are designed to end the week on a positive note by attracting new visitors, he says.

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COMMENTARY Jewish pride on campus is under siege — here’s what kids can do to fight back ARNOLD M. EISEN JTA NEW YORK

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ver 300,000 Jewish college students have arrived or will arrive shortly on American campuses — and what they experience there is likely not only to broaden their minds and uproot long-held assumptions, but shake their Jewish selves to the core.

They will contend with powerful faculty and student voices accusing them of complicity in a regime of privilege and oppression here in America and of colonialism, genocide and apartheid in Israel.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and its campus allies have far had little impact thus far either on the investments made by universities or the policies of the governments of Israel or the United States. They are, however, diverting enormous time and resources from important work of Jewish education and community building. No less important, they are causing untold numbers of students to keep their heads down where Israel — and Judaism — are

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concerned, and to feel ashamed when they have every reason to be proud.

I am not afraid that Jews or other college students will fall for the Big Lie

about Israel. The world is a dangerous mess right now, nowhere more than in the Middle East. Simplistic narratives of good and evil like those propounded by

the BDS movement are unlikely to prove persuasive to anyone who reads up on the matter or exercises their minds.

But I do fear growing doubt among some Jewish undergraduates that the Jewish community and tradition are worthy of their involvement and commitment. I worry about increased suspicion — thanks in part to language endorsing BDS positions in the platform released by a coalition affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement — that students can stand up for justice as Jews, and can fight mass incarceration and racism as supporters of Israel. I want all to know that they can and should maintain deep ties to the Jewish community and tradition at the same time as they claim membership in larger communities and work alongside others for universal causes of justice and peace.

My message to students, this fall in particular, is this: Have pride in your Judaism. Learn about its history and Israel’s. Keep your minds and hearts open. Maintain the moral courage to reject claims that Israel practices apartheid and genocide — because they are See Campus, page 7

As African Israeli, I find claims of state racism against Falash Mura outrageous SHIMON MERCER-WOOD JTA NEW YORK

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ter in Africa.”

“In America, race has been a central area of Jewish concern historically.”

These are all statements that have been made in the course of a well-orchestrated public relations campaign to hasten the implementation of an Israeli government decision, reached in 2015, allowing the

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immigration of a number of Ethiopian citizens. These Ethiopians claim Jewish lineage as Falash Mura, descendants of converts to Christianity, and family ties to Ethiopian Jews.

While the Israeli Cabinet decided that members of the community be brought to Israel, and this week sent a senior official to Ethiopia to begin implementing that decision, advocates for the community protest that the process has been delayed.

As the statements cited above clearly show, the campaign has become steeped in the language of the struggle against racism. The dog-whistle message of this language is unmistakable: “Israel is delaying the implementation of this decision because the people in question are black. Had they been white, they would have long been living in Israel.”

In an op-ed for JTA, and in remarks to journalists and community leaders, one of the leaders of the campaign, Dr. David Elcott, left the unequivocal impression that the question is one of racial discrimination.

I also met with Dr. Elcott, who presented his initiative as an heir to the civil rights movement. I was consumed with anger, literally unable to sleep for several

days. I was surprised by the intensity of my emotional reaction. After all, having represented Israel in diplomatic missions across the world for over 10 years, I had already become accustomed to hearing many such calumnies against the Jewish state.

So why was I so enraged by this one?

It eventually dawned on me that I was outraged not as an Israeli but as an African. My own father came to Israel from Africa with the Ghana Embassy in 1965, at the height of the “love affair” being rekindled today between the Jewish state and the African continent. On the eve of the Six-Day War of 1967, my father threw in his lot with the embattled Jewish nation and was subsequently witness to its miraculous salvation. He went on to convert to Judaism, join the Israeli army and make Israel his one and only home.

Always having been proud of my African heritage and lineage, I was incensed by the assumption implicit in the racial tenor of this campaign: “If it involves Africans, it’s probably about race. Race is, after all, the essential, defining property of Africans, isn’t it?”

The racial framing of their supporters’ campaign is not only in language but in See Racism, page 8

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unequivocally false. Work to create spaces on campus where one can openly, and lovingly, question choices and actions made by Israel’s leadership, and America’s, without giving up attachment to either. As Jews, we must stand beside those fighting against inequality and injustice, and should do so regardless of the incorrect views that others hold of Judaism and Israel.

As a committed Jew, I am commanded to have unceasing concern for both Jewish learning and the struggle for justice. That same passion attracts me to the State of Israel, which I view as an attempt to translate age-old Jewish values into policy. This attempt, which will always fall far short of perfection, deserves our enduring support — and, when necessary, our critique.

Like any nation, Israel requires such challenge and correction if it is to remain true to its founding ideals. Israel has a lot to figure out, many wrongs to make right, incredible achievements on which to build, deep-seated currents of bigotry to overcome, a proud tradition

of democracy (the only one in the Middle East) to develop, and the hopes of many millions and many centuries that it dare not betray.

But history shows that whenever people say that Jews (or any other group) are largely to blame for significant portions of the world’s ills, or that things would be perfect if only Jews stopped insisting that we, too, have a right to live in the world, or that the Jewish state, or the Jewish community, has no right to exist unless it conforms to allegedly “universal” ideals demanded of no other people as a condition of legitimate survival — something is dangerously wrong. That point of view, which sadly has a long history behind it, must be resisted.

Though they will hear its rhetoric and see its demonstrations, few students will ever visit the BDS website, where one learns that the movement is avowedly part of the Palestinian national struggle against the very existence of the State of Israel. BDS materials say nary a word about the partial responsibility of the corrupt Palestinian government in the West Bank or the murderous Hamas regime in Gaza for the failure of the peace process thus far. One hears a great

deal from BDS and affiliated groups like Jewish Voice for Peace about Jewish and Israeli culpability — but nothing about mistakes made on the Palestinian side, oppression committed by it, the blatant antiSemitism built into its policies and publications. BDS is silent about the many countries that are guilty of abuses far worse than those charged to Israel.

Much of the Middle East is in flames. The Syrian death toll has passed 400,000. And not a single Middle Eastern society guarantees equality and justice for all its citizens — women and men, Christian and Muslim — to anything like the degree that Israel does, however imperfectly.

As we approach Rosh Hashanah, my hope for the new year is that no Jewish students leave Judaism behind in the name of universal ideals — or leave Israel behind in the name of Judaism. The world desperately needs the skills and knowledge they will acquire on campus. Judaism needs their passion, perspectives and engagement.

Israel needs their voices, proud and strong.

Arnold M. Eisen is the chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary.

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argument. Advocates have claimed that Israel is applying a standard to black Africans that it did not apply to Europeans who were welcomed as olim even when questions arose about their Jewish lineage. This is simply and factually false. The one and only criterion for making aliyah, which in Israel is a legally binding term, is the Law of Return. It speaks not of being a Jew according to halachah, or rabbinic law, but of having been born to a Jewish grandparent.

The law has always applied and will always apply equally and unwaveringly to any human being — of any race and of any persuasion.

The fact that the government of Israel has had to make, and is in the process of implementing, a special ad hoc humanitarian decision to facilitate the immigration of these communities in the first place is precisely because the Africans were found not to meet the criteria for aliyah set out in the Law of Return.

Nonetheless, in view of the hardships they face and on account of family ties to Jews in Israel, the Israeli government unanimously decided to facilitate the naturalization of people from these communities and even grant them full benefits as olim.

This demonstrates that Israel is not less sensitive to the community in Ethiopia, but in fact more sensitive to their plight than to that of any other such group in the world. Once this fact is obfuscated, the spotlight turns naturally and unjustly to the question of race.

Moreover, in the public debate in Israel over the Falash Mura and their relations, the staunchest voices against their immigration were often those of Ethiopian Jews. They complained that Ethiopian Christians, who had come to Israel by claiming Jewish lineage, had no intention of identifying as Jews and were even continuing to use the same antiSemitic slurs against the Ethiopian Jews — “Falasha” and “Buda’” — as they had done in Ethiopia. Some even reported attempts by such groups to convert Ethiopian Jews to Christianity.

One can criticize these voices for holding the many responsible for actions of the few and for bearing longstanding grudges. Indeed, it is to the great credit of the Israeli government that it decided to allow immigration from Gondar and Ad-

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and compassionate decision by the government of Israel is a noble one.

Their campaign is welcome and praiseworthy. Jews in America are and must always see themselves as stakeholders in the Jewish state and as rightful partners in its decisionmaking process. This government decision, as well as others, must certainly be followed through with ef-

New Jewish immigrant children at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport after arriving on a flight from Ethiopia, Oct. 29, 2012.

truly grateful, I have encountered this attitude on numerous occasions, an experience not always pleasant.

At so many dinner tables, speaking engagements and social gatherings, I have been met with incredulous stares and blinking eyes.

“Aren’t you going to talk about your ‘background’?” the question rings time and again.

For some in the U.S., there is something inherently puzzling about an African Jew discussing, say, Middle Eastern geopolitics and not making any reference to race relations. Again, it is assumed, if there is an African involved, it must somehow relate to race.

To be clear, I am not ascribing this attitude to straightforward racism. More often than not, the positions articulated toward me qua “racial issues” are supportive and sympathetic. But that does not make any less alienating the perception that everything I do, everything I am involved in and everything that concerns me must somehow be in the context of race. Even in the case of the current campaign for those claiming to be Falash Mura, one of its advocates, while trying to exhort me to come on board, quoted from the Book of Esther, saying “maybe this is the moment for which you got to where you are.”

Really? I thought to myself. The culmination of my diplomatic career necessarily predicated on the color of my skin?

The desire of American Jews to see the implementation of a humane

fective and determined action. The 50 rabbis and community leaders who initially attached their names to a petition on the Ethiopians’ behalf, several of whom I know and cherish, were expressing the best of the ethical legacy of Judaism. This campaign could be a true blessing to the community and to the State of Israel.

But wrongly invoking racial conflict, misappropriating the language of the the struggle for racial justice in America and insinuating that the decisions of the Israeli government are informed by racism are harmful, hurtful and unjust. Propagating the perception that Israel is on the wrong side of the fight against racism introduces a toxin into the relations between American and Israeli Jews — a toxin that will take many years to expunge. Who can expect young American Jews to want anything to do with Israel if they are systematically led to believe it is racist?

Moreover, such language threatens to taint and discredit a cause that could otherwise be a beautiful example of the sincere and caring conversation within the Jewish people.

The implementation of the Israeli government’s decision concerning remnants of the Falash Mura community with family ties to Israel will continue, and so must the campaign supporting it. But for the sake of all of us, let us not make this one a question of race.

Shimon Mercer-Wood is spokesman and consul for media affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York.

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ost Israeli Jews would prefer Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump as the next president of the United States — even though more of them think Trump would be better for the “Israeli government’s policy.”

According to a poll released Wednesday, 43 percent of Israeli Jews prefer Clinton as president, compared to 34 percent who want Trump, when asked to choose between the two candidates.

But 38 percent say Trump would be better for Israel, compared to 33 percent who say Clinton would be.

On both questions, a large number of people don’t pick a candidate.

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Still, Trump does not have a plurality of Israeli Jewish support. Even on the political right, only 49 percent support him, with 23 percent preferring Clinton, according to the survey. The left (86 percent) and center (57 percent) have an “overwhelming preference” for Clinton, according to the Israel Democracy Institute.

“I expected the right-wing voters to support Trump in bigger numbers, but we can see less than half did,” said Cohen. “I know that in the United States, the right has concerns about Trump’s personality, and we can see this also on the Israel right.”

Among Israeli Arabs, who make up about 20 percent of Israel’s population, 58 percent prefer the Democratic nominee and 11 percent the Republican.

The poll also probed other issues.

Asked about Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier who is standing trial in a military court for shooting dead a downed Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, most Jewish Israelis “justify” what he did (42 percent strongly and 23 percent moderately). Just a quarter of Israelis “do not justify” the shooting (14 percent strongly and 11 percent moderately).

Jewish Israelis are almost evenly divided on executing captured Palestinian terrorists. Forty-seven percent lean toward killing such a terrorist on the spot, “even if he has been captured and clearly does not pose a threat.” Fortyfive percent say he should be handed over to legal authorities.

Support for killing terrorists is highest among right-wingers (62 percent),

young people (69 percent ages 18-24) and observant Jews (63 percent of haredi Orthodox and 72 percent of religious or traditional Jews). In April, the Peace Index found that 67 percent of Israelis agreed with the Sephardi chief rabbi’s assertion weeks earlier, which he later took back, that it is a religious imperative to kill Palestinian terrorists.

“We phrased the question differently this time, so you can’t say support has gone down,” Cohen said. “It’s more or less the same I think. It is a really high amount actually to be supporting an illegal action that every soldier is taught is against the army’s rules.”

Though many Israelis disagree with the army’s prosecution of Azaria, the Israel Defense Forces remains by far the most trusted official body in the country. Eighty-seven percent of Israeli Jews put “a lot” or “quite a lot” of trust in the army. Forty-seven percent of Israeli Arabs feel the same way. But Arabs put the most trust in the Supreme Court (64 percent “a lot” or “quite a lot”) — even more than Jews (54 percent).

Amid the controversy over dozens of French towns banning Muslim women from wearing the burkini, a full-body swimsuit, 62 percent of Israelis are against regulating what people wear in public, “including in the case of traditional and conservative clothing,” the survey found. Just 26 percent support the French bans.

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW Meet the accent coach who taught Natalie Portman to sound Israeli BEN SALES JTA

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hile making the film “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” Natalie Portman had to put her palm in front of her mouth, repeat Hebrew words and feel how the air hit her skin.

If Portman felt her breath, it meant she was saying the words in an Israeli accent — or something close to it. Along with directing, writing and starring in the 2015 Hebrew-language film, which opens at Tucson’s Loft Cinema on Friday, Sept. 23, Portman had to learn how to speak like an Israeli housewife in the 1940s.

Portman was born in Jerusalem but grew up in the United States, so her fluent Hebrew came with a heavy American inflection. In the movie, an adaptation of Amos Oz’s 2002 autobiographical novel of the same name, Portman plays Oz’s mother, Fania, a Russian immigrant living in Jerusalem during the time surrounding Israel’s independence in 1948.

To study the accent, Portman hired Neta Riskin, 39, an Israeli actor known for her role in “Shtisel,” an Israeli show about a haredi Orthodox family. For three months during filming, Riskin and Portman practiced daily, covering vowels, consonants, syllable emphasis and sentence flow.

Riskin said she read the film’s script 200 times.

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Natalie Portman stars as Amos Oz’s mother in her adaptation of “A Tale of Love and Darkness.”

guage,” said Riskin, who spoke to JTA while on an acting stint in Germany, where she was performing in both German and English. “It’s like walking with crutches.

They’re not your legs. They’re artificial. To do a full movie in that is amazing.”

What made the project more difficult was that prestate Israelis spoke differently 70 years ago than their descendants do today. Back then, Riskin said, the population had a “mixed multitude” of accents, from local Middle Eastern pronunciations to different shades of

European. The contemporary Israeli accent, Riskin said, emerged as a composite of all those.

To be true to her character, who originally is from present-day Ukraine, Portman would have had to adopt a Russian accent. But Riskin thought that would sound like a parody next to the neutral accents of the other actors, who were native Israelis.

“The problem with Natalie is that there were Israeli Russian, Polish, Arabic accents that were legitimate accents, [but] there was only one accent that wouldn’t work and it was American,” Riskin said. “We decided to leave something that sounded foreign, but you don’t know where it comes from.”

Most observers, said Riskin, assume the hardest part of an Israeli accent is pronouncing guttural consonants like the het and resh, which aren’t so much pronounced as gargled. But Portman had no problem with that; she got hung up on the vowels.

While American English has an array of vowel sounds, the Israeli vowel range is limited. So when Americans pronounce a Hebrew word that features the same vowel twice, like “keshet,” which means rainbow, they tend to change the second “e” into a short “i,” so the word almost becomes “keshit.”

“You need to know how to connect the words in a way that it sounds natural, so you don’t sound like a robot,” Riskin said. “In Israel it sounds much simpler to have one vowel, but for Americans it’s a lot harder to get used to.”

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Israeli vowels are pronounced near the front of the mouth, Riskin said, while American sounds come from further back. By putting her palm in front of her lips, Portman could tell how her breath was flowing and where the sounds were coming from.

Riskin also made sure Portman was emphasizing the right syllables and parts of a sentence. While English intonation tends to stay level, Hebrew words and sentences have the emphasis on the last syllable and word. To coach Portman through her word flow, Riskin would have her move her hand along with the word’s undulations, as if she were a symphony conductor.

When a word in the script was difficult for Portman to pronounce correctly, she and Riskin would try to find an easier synonym. The changes fit with Portman’s character, who was meant to speak a relatively basic Hebrew. Her husband, a librarian and author, used more complex words.

Language itself is a theme of the movie.

Portman’s character tells stories throughout the film, which also focuses on how words are related. The narrator, Fania’s son Amos, notes the similarity between the Hebrew words for earth (adamah), man (adam), blood (dam), the color red (adom) and silence (d’mamah).

“We wanted her Hebrew to not be at a

high level,” Riskin said. “We wanted everyone to have something a little strange in their language.”

This isn’t the first time Riskin has helped an actor perfect an Israeli accent, but she said the job isn’t in high demand. Hebrew isn’t a widely spoken language outside Israel, and some other actors who portray Israelis don’t seem to care whether they get it right. Riskin was particularly irked by Adam Sandler’s turn in “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” a 2008 comedy in which he plays a Mossad agent.

“That drove me crazy,” she said. “That was a Yiddish accent, not an Israeli accent. They speak that way in Brooklyn or in a shtetl, but not in Israel.”

Native speakers of a language, said Riskin, have a quality called Sprachgefuhl in German, which means a natural feel for the language’s idioms. It’s impossible to get anyone there in a matter of months, Riskin said, but Portman came close. Riskin said she was “in awe” that Portman not only acted but directed a full film in her second language.

“She needed superpowers to do this all together,” Riskin said. “Even if we cleaned up all of the American characteristics, there would still be a shade of foreignness. If Natalie had stayed in Israel another year, she would have sounded like a sabra.”

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW Gene Wilder, star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and other classic comedies, dies at 83

Gene Wilder in “Blazing Saddles”

(JTA) — Gene Wilder, 83, a comedic actor known for playing wild-eyed eccentrics such as the titular characters in “Young Frankenstein” and “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” died Aug. 28 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.

Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1933, Wilder later adopted his stage name, saying he couldn’t imagine a marquee reading “Jerome Silberman as ‘Hamlet.’”

He worked closely with Jewish director Mel Brooks. In addition to starring in Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” as the

American grandson of the creator of the famous monster, he portrayed accountant Leo Bloom in “The Producers” opposite “Fiddler on the Roof ” star Zero Mostel’s Max Bialystock, and a hard-drinking, pot-smoking gunman, the Waco Kid, in the satirical Western “Blazing Saddles.”

The New York Times called Wilder’s performance in “Young Frankenstein,” which he cowrote with Brooks, a “marvelous addled mixture of young Tom Edison, Winnie-the-Pooh, and your average Playboy reader with a keen appreciation of

beautiful bosoms.” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein,” were, respectively, the top and fourth-highest grossing movies of 1974.

In 1972, Wilder appeared in the Woody Allen film “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).”

Wilder also starred as Avram Belinski, a rabbi who befriends a bank robber played by a young Harrison Ford, in the 1979 Western comedy “The Frisco Kid.” He and the late comedian Richard Pryor also teamed up in a series of black-Jewish buddy

movies, including “Stir Crazy” and “Silver Streak.”

Wilder was married four times, including to Jewish comedian Gilda Radner in 1984.

Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989.

Following her death, Wilder became active in promoting cancer awareness and research, co-founding “Gilda’s Club,” a nonprofit organization providing support to those affected by cancer.

In 1991, he married Karen Webb, a speech therapist, and the couple was together until Wilder’s death.

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW Oscar nod for Israeli student film LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A Tel Aviv University graduate has won a top Student Academy Award and her documentary will be automatically entered in the Academy Awards competition.

Maya Sarfaty will also receive a gold medal for her film, “The Most Beautiful Woman,” it was announced Monday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Beneath the appealing title lies the story of a love affair between an SS guard and a young Jewish woman at the Auschwitz death camp.

Among the list of student nominees, Sarfaty’s film was the only one to make the cut in the foreign documentary category and is therefore guaranteed a gold medal when the final winners are announced on Sept.

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A native of Netanya, Sarfaty earned an undergraduate and master’s degree at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University and also graduated from the Nissan Nativ Acting School, which conducts classes in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

“The Most Beautiful Woman” is based on the actual story of Franz Wunsch, the guard who fell in love with Helena Citronova, a prisoner from Slovakia. In return for Citronova’s affection and sexual favors, Wunsch saves her and her sister Rosinka from certain death, though he is unable to save Rosinka’s two children.

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wo essential parts of preparing for Rosh Hashanah, our clean slate for the year, are asking forgiveness from anyone we wronged and making a list (mental or written) of the ways we fell short since the last time we heard the shofar.

Ideally that hard work of going to friends, family and anyone else deserving of our forgiveness happens in the weeks leading up to Rosh Hashanah. By the time Yom Kippur rolls around 10 days later, we should be ready to confess our mistakes as a community, having already considered our personal paths to teshuvah, repentance, and how we will do better this year.

I find the exercise of writing down all my regrets before Rosh Hashanah rather easy. If, like me, you’re the kind of person with a high capacity for guilt, you probably find that task easy, too, since we already felt badly about it during the year. I regret contributing to any gossip. I regret listening to any gossip. I regret not helping individuals or organizations more. I regret not calling more. I regret not answering the phone. I regret resorting to texts and emails. I regret the rudeness of looking at my phone in the middle of a conversation. I regret all the times I rolled my eyes. I regret any time I spoke more than I listened, both in person and online.

I find that my kids, perhaps through nature and nurture, also have no problem (OK, after some prodding) coming up with people deserving of apologies and ways they could have behaved better during the year. Surprisingly, the more challenging task for all of us is remembering the times we could have made the wrong choice but didn’t.

In Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s book “A Code of Jewish Ethics Volume I: You

Shall By Holy,” he suggests that in addition to focusing on our transgressions before Rosh Hashanah, we also make a list of the good we did this year. He provides a sample prayer modeled after the Al Chet (“For the sin I committed by …”) recited on Yom Kippur. Instead of “For the sin I committed,” he starts each line with “For the mitzvah we (or I) performed.”

He ends the prayer with these encouraging words: “All these things, God, please remember and inspire us to do more acts like these in the year ahead.”

I find the “For the mitzvah I performed” exercise difficult because it feels like a brag sheet and encouraging our kids to similarly “brag” can be confusing for them, too. But the power of focusing on both the mistakes and the positive actions we performed this year is about as powerful of a Rosh Hashanah preparation that you can get.

By considering all the good I did in a year, I am reminded of my capacity to make the right choices, and it provides hope that I can do even more good in the year ahead. Perhaps one day the “mitzvah list” will look longer than the regret list, but I don’t believe God expects perfection. Think about the wisdom of the fact that the one major mitzvah (commandment, not “good deed”) for Rosh Hashanah is to hear the shofar. The shofar is our spiritual wake-up call. It would not be required every year if we were expected to have lived flawlessly.

I challenge everyone to make a list of all the good you did this year, even if it’s something you only did one time and fell short every other time the situation presented itself. That is the point of this prayer, to remind us that if we were able to avoid, for example, contributing to gossip during one conversation, then we have the capacity to make that same good choice again. I’ll give you a few sample ideas. Remember, even if I only made the

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Epic fail defines most of the sins I contemplate during the High Holidays. I should have been able to succeed, but I didn’t because I’m human and I have weaknesses. I spend the period that begins with the Hebrew month of Elul and culminates with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur thinking of the many times when I easily could have been more kind, patient and optimistic.

It’s not that I’m incapable of those behaviors; I have a normal psyche and can be a good person. However,

as a human I failed to be my best self during the past year on numerous occasions.

I know I’m not alone in my epic fail. Look at the stories we’re told about the Jewish people in the Torah.

The epic fail of the Jewish people was worshipping the Golden Calf, and the epic fail of Moses was smashing the Ten Commandments carved with God’s own finger. All the people had to do was wait until Moses returned with God’s law, but they panicked during their leader’s absence and sought security in a golden image. All Moses had to do was reprimand the people. Instead he flies into a rage and smashes the holy tablets. They were capable of doing better.

Here’s the good news. Elul, the month leading up to the High Holidays, is one of contemplation. According to the midrash, on the first day of Elul Moses began carving a second set of tablets with his own hands. Carving the second set of tablets is about starting over again after failure.

The High Holidays cycle demands that we examine the ways we have failed, but it also gives us the strength to start anew. On the first of Elul (Sept. 4 this year), we begin re-carving our own smashed tablets.

It’s hard work to hew meaning out of stone, but the effort leads to renewed relationship and hope for the future.

Some choose to gather in small groups before the holidays, using the time to spiritually prepare. Find out if your local synagogues offer Elul classes. If a class isn’t possible, check out websites to help with your preparation for the High Holidays during Elul, including Jewels of Elul and Ritual Well.

On Rosh Hashanah, if I see the blisters on my friends and family’s hands, I’ll point to my own. We’ll nod knowingly and smile at one another.

We’ll affirm the hard work that went into re-carving ourselves. Together, we’ll celebrate the New Year as an opportunity to start all over again.

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y mother died on the morning right before Yom Kippur two years ago, and my sister and I were not at all surprised. Irreverent, quirky and eccentric, my mother always kvetched about Yom Kippur and would have done anything to miss it. Dying right before the fast day, the holiest day of the Jewish

The author as a child with her mother.

year, meant my mother was up to her old tricks until the very end.

It wasn’t because she was anti-Jewish; she was fiercely Jewish, but she’d made up her own brand of Judaism.

She always said that Jews should never apologize to God: God should apologize to the Jews. On Yom Kippur, instead of following a traditional fast, she sat at the kitchen table all day as if on guard, manning the telephone, reading the newspaper and watching the news on TV in case something bad happened, primarily to her people.

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her Polish-born mother’s traditions because she viewed them as a blend of superstitions and limitations. Yet she was still my best teacher when it came to understanding what being a Jew was all about. To my sister, Cynthia, and me, she passed on an enormous sense of pride. Freud was Jewish! Ralph Lauren was Jewish!

All the really talented people on “Saturday Night Live” were Jewish!

On Sunday mornings, armed with a cup of her strong, black coffee from her CorningWare percolator that seemed about as ancient as the Dead Sea Scrolls, a sesame bagel with the insides pulled out and a cigarette burning, she’d comb the Style section of The New York Times, studying the names and faces in every wedding announcement, making her own calculations. She counted how many Jews she thought were lost (if the couple was married by an officiating minister), who was gained (if there was only a rabbi) or if it was a tie (both a minister and a rabbi or a judge).

When Yom Kippur rolled around each autumn, her anger at God was reignited. On a macro scale, God let Hitler get away with the Holocaust. On a micro level, God caused her father to die of a heart attack when she was 5, forcing my grandmother to raise five children on her own in the Bronx. Despite her outrage, my mother still trooped into the kitchen and followed my grandmother’s recipes for brisket, stuffed cabbage, matzah ball soup with matzah balls so light they defied gravity, and kasha varnishkes. But she cooked while doing a dozen other things, so Cynthia and I held contests each holiday about who found the oddest item in her dishes: Besides the usual stray hairs, we discovered cigarette ashes, a fake fingernail and a rubber band.

My mother claimed her belonging to a people who had lost so much to the world and who, despite it all, gave so much back. She was convinced that a Jew’s inheritance was the task of setting things right, and took Cynthia and me out of school to attend demonstraSee Lessons, page 22

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right choice once, it counts!

For the mitzvah I performed by happily donating money to a friend’s race.

For the mitzvah I performed by consciously focusing on someone’s positive traits even when I was angry, or at least

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tions and marches for civil rights and liberal causes. There’s a Jewish saying, “If you save one life, you save the world,” and my mother taught me that with just your own life, you can try to at least improve something.

With her pulse on Jewish American culture, she offered her scathing critiques to anyone who happened to be within the circumference of her cigarette smoke. She railed against the stereotypes of the Jewish mother and the Jewish American Princess because she sensed, far earlier than most social commentators, that these caricatures of Jewish women would push Jewish men away from Jewish women. Intermarriage sta-

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not exaggerating the incident that made me mad.

For the mitzvah I performed by not passing on information that was not mine to share.

For the mitzvah I performed by admitting to my spouse or my children that I was wrong.

For the mitzvah I performed by graciously hosting friends for Shabbat.

For the mitzvah I performed by introducing friends to each other and introducing professional contacts to each other rather than hoarding the people in my life.

For the mitzvah I performed by remembering not to “reply all,” thereby avoiding wasting everyone’s time.

For the mitzvah I performed by donating my time even when I would rather be

watching something on Netflix.

To repeat Rabbi Telushkin’s concluding line, “For all these things, God, please remember and inspire us to do more acts like these in the year ahead.”

tistics proved her right. That Jewish men laughed at Jewish women, distancing themselves, outraged her. She taught me that words have power.

She wasn’t too thrilled, to put it mildly, when I picked up and moved from New York to Israel, leaving her behind, even though she was the one who sent me to Israel when I was 16 in the first place. She ranted each time she called me, but she still paid for my four kids and me to fly back to visit her each summer. What was the lesson? You can — you must — rail against what is bashert, or fated for you, and then you have to do whatever you can to make things better.

The last conversation I had with her was right before she slipped into unconsciousness, the night before I flew back to New York to be with her. Cynthia —

who took care of her better than the best of caretakers in her house — had set up Skype for her and I got to see her in her favorite armchair, the whirl of her oxygen machine stopping only so that she could smoke another cigarette.

“I love you and I’ll always love you,” she told me into the camera. Then she shouted, “Cynthia! How do I shut this damn thing off?”

Rain pounded the roof, lightning flashed and the thunder was louder than fireworks the night she died. It was the perfect theatrical exit for my subversive mother. In the morning, after her soul left for who knows where, after the rains moved on, and the sky went back to empty and blue, a rabbi came to the house to make funeral arrangements.

He stood at the foot of her bed, talking quietly to Cynthia and me. I said politely

to the rabbi, “I don’t think my mother would have wanted you seeing her when she’s dead.” And then I heard my mother’s voice, and I could have sworn I heard her grumbling I didn’t want to see him when I was alive.

So, nu, as she would have said, she didn’t instill in me how to be a Jew in the conventional way. She didn’t teach me how to believe, but she taught me how to question. And is there anything more Jewish than that?

Nina Badzin is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer and mother of four. Her essays, short stories and book reviews have appeared on numerous sites and in literary magazines. She is the co-founder of The Twin Cities Writing Studio, blogs weekly at ninabadzin.com and tweets @NinaBadzin.

Diana Bletter is the author of the novel “A Remarkable Kindness” (HarperCollins), the intertwined stories of four American women who are friends and members of a burial circle in a small beach village in Israel. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Forward and other publications.

Diana lives with her husband and children in a real beach village in Israel, where she is a member of a burial circle. She can be found at diana bletter. com. Follow her @dianabletter.

RABBI’S CORNER Take the speech improvement challenge RABBI ISRAEL BECKER Congregation Chofetz Chayim

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early 2,000 years ago, the Talmud taught us that when a person leaves this world, he/she will be shown their entire life. Our private showing will include audio and video playback of every single conversation of ours. Every single word that we uttered during our lifetime will be presented. In fact, our Rabbis specifically tell us that even the smallest, lightest conversation between a husband and wife will be repeated to us at our time of judgment.

Why is every single seemingly unimportant conversation between a husband and wife repeated to us? Why not just repeat the major aspects of our speaking, the major aspects of our communications?

There is a profound message in the answer to this question. Our Rabbis are teaching us that despite what we might think, there is no such thing as a light use of the gift of speech. There is no such thing as an insignificant word, because every word that we utter has the potential to be Holy, has the potential to be beautiful, has the potential to be generated with feeling and caring and love.

With this concept in mind, we can understand a Biblical directive in the Book of Numbers 30:3, “He shall not profane his words.” The commentary of Rashi (1040-1105 C.E.) explains that “he shall not make his words profane.” Our choice of words as well as the way the words emerge determines their spiritual quality.

In fact, in framing the value and import of our words, the famous Onkelos (90 C.E.) commentary explains Bereishis (Genesis) 2:11, “and G-d formed man

from the dust of the earth and blew into his nostrils the soul of life.” Onkelos defines the soul of life as the gift of speech.

Our ability to speak is the manifestation of the presence of G-d’s soul within us and actually defines us as humans.

Some people might define profaning speech as using foul language. However, the teachings of the Torah go much further. There is no such thing as an insignificant word. Words uttered without significance are like banging notes on a piano. Conversely, every word uttered with a sense of respect, with a sense of moral direction, with a sense of positive purpose, is a Holy word.

During the coming High Holiday season, we are called upon to make very positive use of the gift of speech, through prayer and through greeting each other and asking each other for forgiveness, and blessing each other.

May I suggest a self-examination for all of us: Take the Speech Improvement Challenge. Challenge yourself every day, with every word you speak.

Prior to saying anything, review your internal dialogue, several times a day.

Muster the courage to review any conversation that you have had. Ask yourself, what exactly was the point of the words I said? What feelings do they evoke for me or for others? Ask yourself, could that conversation have been expressed with more love, more feeling, more concern, more care, more foresight?

This process only takes a few seconds and is well worth the effort.

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JFCS Holocaust Survivors group meets Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Contact Raisa Moroz at 795-0300.

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Jewish Federation-Northwest Story Time with PJ Library, first and third Tuesdays through Dec. 20. In October, story time will be held Oct. 11. Songs, snack and craft. 505-4161.

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Northwest Knitters create hand-stitched items for donation in the Jewish community. Meets at Jewish Federation Northwest Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. RSVP to judithgfeldman

to Justice in Israel-Palestine,” $10 donation requested, includes dinner, music and silent auction.

St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church , 3809 E. Third St. tucson@jewishvoiceforpeace.org 1:30-4 PM: Secular Humanist Jewish Circle lecture, “What Century Are We In? Women’s Rights and Access to Healthcare,” by Dr. Eve Shapiro, at Atria Bell Court Gardens, Academy Hall, 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. RSVP to Dee at 299-4404 or deemorton@msn.com.

8 PM: Henry Gross: One Hit Wanderer concert, sponsored by Next Gen Men’s group to benefit JFSA, at Tucson J. $65. Snacks, hosted bar. Doors open 7 p.m. RSVP to Karen Graham at 577-9393, kgraham@jfsa.org or visit jfsa.org.

Sunday / September 11 9:30AM-4 PM: Cong. M’Kor Hayim “Pre-High

Jewish Federation-Northwest playgroup, first and third Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org.

Holy Days Retreat: Renew Our Days As Of Old,” with Rabbi Helen Cohen explores themes of repentance and renewal through prayer and poetry using new prayer book, which is provided. Register at mkorhayim.org.

NOON: Temple Emanu-El Cub Scout Pack 613 formation meeting, ages 5-10 ½.. Contact Herbert Cohn at shofarman@aol.com.

2-4 PM: Temple Emanu-El Taste of Judaism family class at Tucson Hebrew Academy, 3888 E. River Road. Children have separate program with THA teachers. Continues Sept. 18 and 25. Free.

Call 327-4501, ext. 27, to sign up.

2-4 PM: Tucson J artists’ reception, “Discoveries Unfinished,” works by Christine Zabramny and “Peaceful Delight,” paintings by Betty Seery. 2993000.

Cong. Bet Shalom “Lunch and Learn — Pirkei Avot, Wisdom from the Talmud for Today,” with Cantor Avraham Alpert, Thursdays, noon-1 p.m. at Eli’s Deli. 577-1171.

Tucson J canasta group. Players wanted.

Thursdays, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Instruction available and a beginners’ table every week. Call Rhoda at 886-4334.

Tucson J Shabbat Stay and Play/Shabbat on the Go program for families, Fridays, 10 a.m.

Once a month, celebration taken to various offsite locations: Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18, Dec. 16. Contact Julie Zorn at 299-3000, ext. 236, or jzorn@tucson jcc.org.

Tucson J “Keep Tucson Warm” knitting group creates afghans for local shelter. All skill levels. Yarn donations welcome. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon in the art gallery. Contact Tanya at 299-3000, ext. 147.

Jewish History Museum gallery chats.

15-minute programs led by members of the community. First and third Fridays, 11:30 a.m.

670-9073.

“Biblical Breakthroughs with Rabbi Becker” at the Southwest Torah Institute. Fridays, noon, for men and women. 747-7780 or yzbecker@ me.com.

Jewish History Museum and Holocaust History Center, open Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. and Fridays noon3 p.m. 564 S. Stone Ave. Adults, $7; members and students, free. No admission charge on Saturdays. 670-9073.

Tucson J Fine Art Gallery exhibits, “Mapping Q” by LGBTQ+ youth, in main hallway through Sept. 29, and “Discoveries Unfinished,” works by Christine Zabramny and “Peaceful Delight,” paintings by Betty Seery, through Oct. 11. 299-3000.

Beth Shalom Temple Center Art Gallery in Green Valley, “Israel Today 2016: Photography and Mementos” from the Weintraub Israel Center 2016 trip. Through Dec. 2. 648-6690.

Monday / September 12 NOON: Cong. Or Chadash Lunch with the Rabbi. “Ancient Wisdom to Modern Reform Practice.” Bring your lunch. 512-8500.

5:30 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest evening mah jongg at 190 W. Magee Road, #162.

505-4161.

5:30-7 PM: Temple Emanu-El class, “Intermediate Hebrew II” with Margaret Kendle.

Uses “The First Hebrew Primer.” Through May. Members, $95, nonmembers, $115. Register at 327-4501, ext. 27.

6-8 PM: Temple Emanu-El Taste of Judaism class at Nanini Library, 7300 N. Shannon Road.

Continues Sept. 19 and 26. Pre-register at 3274501 or mila@tetucson.org.

7-8:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El class, “Introduction

to Mussar” with Reb Sandra Wortzel. Uses “Everyday Holiness” by Alan Morinis. Through Dec. 5.

Members, $95, nonmembers, $115. 327-4501.

Tuesday / September 13 10:30-11:30 AM: Temple Emanu-El class, “The Genesis Project: The Soul of the Torah” session I with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon. Continues Sept.

20, 27; Oct. 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8. Members, $55; nonmembers, $70; full year, $150/$200. 327-4501.

7 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest Rosh Chodesh women’s group invites entire community to hear Oro Valley Mayor Satish Hiremath on “Town of Oro Valley: Present Growth and Future Outlook” at the Jewish Federation-Northwest, 190 W. Magee Road, #162, followed by Q&A. RSVP at 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org.

Thursday / September 14 6:30 PM: Cong. Chaverim book club discusses “Second Person Singular” by Sayed Kashua. 3201015.

Friday / September 16 8 AM: JFSA JCRC Project Isaiah annual food drive, through Oct. 15. Food donations for Community Food Bank collected at local synagogues and Jewish agencies. Mail checks payable to JCRC to Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, Attention Jane Scott, 3822 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718. 577-9393.

5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat Rocks! dinner (kosher chicken or vegetarian option and sides). Adults, $12; children under 13, free. Followed at 6:30 p.m. by Shabbat Rocks! service with the Avanim rock band and youth choir. RSVP for dinner at 327-4501.

5:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel “Rhythm and Ruach” family Shabbat service will begin with a “drum circle.” Percussion instruments available for all participants. Followed at 7 p.m. by dinner, $25 per family (two adults and up to four children).

Additional adults (13+), $10. RSVP by Sept. 12 to Kim at 745-5550, ext. 224, or visit caiaz.org.

6-7:30 PM: Tucson J garden fall Shabbat potluck. Bring dairy garden dish for 10 to share. Prepaid, $3; at the door, $5. RSVP to 299-3000, ext.

236, or jzorn@tucsonjcc.org.

9:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Downtown Shabbat at the Jewish History Museum, 564 S. Stone Ave., with the Armon Bizman band, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon and Lindsey O’Shea. 327-4501.

Saturday / September 17 8 AM: Northwest Wandering Jews Shabbat morning hike and service at Catalina State Park with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon. 327-4501.

5 PM: Temple Emanu-El family Selichot Havdallah at the Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way, with Rabbi Batsheva Appel, Kurn Religious School and the Babies and Bagels Club.

RSVP at 327-4501.

Sunday / September 18 9:30 AM–3 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest mah jongg tournament and silent auction. $36 registration fee includes breakfast, buffet luncheon, prizes and favors. RSVP with payment by Sept. 9 at 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org.

10-11:45 AM: Temple Emanu-El class, “On Wings of Awe: Understanding and Enjoying the High Holy Days” with Rabbis Samuel M. Cohon and Batsheva Appel. Continues Sept. 25. Free CD of High Holy Day music and honey cake. Members, $35; nonmembers, $45. 327-4501.

10:30 AM-NOON: Desert Caucus brunch with Rep. David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island, 1st) at Skyline Country Club, 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive.

Guests should be potential members. 299-2410 or desertcaucus@gmail.com.

11 AM: Cong. Or Chadash pet blessing and fair. Pets must be current on immunizations and leashed/caged. Pet selfie photo booth. Donations of dry pet food or new pet supplies will be given to Woofs Without Roofs and the Humane Society.

512-8500.

NOON-2 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing (grades 6-9) begins. Contact Rabbi Robert Eisen at 745-5550, ext. 230.

1-3 PM: PJ Our Way “Escapes and Adventures Party,” at Tucson J youth lounge. RSVP to Hannah Gomez at 577-9393, ext. 126, or pjourway@ jfsa.org.

Monday / September 19 9-11 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel parent-tot class with guest Debra Jacobs, a local occupational therapist. Contact Lynne Falkow-Strauss at 7455550, ext. 229.

Tuesday / September 20 5-7 PM: Jewish Business Networking Group happy hour at Five Palms Restaurant, 3500 E. Sunrise Drive. Contact Ori Parnaby at 299-3000, ext. 241.

Wednesday / September 21 7 PM: Temple Emanu-El Sefer book club discusses “Feeling Smart” by Eyal Winter. Coffee provided. Members, $55; nonmembers, $70 for entire series. 327-4501.

Friday / September 23 4:30-6:30 PM: JFSA CJE teen intergeneration-

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6 PM: Temple Emanu-El Northwest Shabbat dinner and service at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo Del Norte, with Rabbi Batsheva Appel and northwest soloist Lindsey O’Shea. Vegetarian option available upon request. Members, $12; nonmembers, $14. RSVP at 327-4501.

Saturday / September 24 9 AM: Cong. Or Chadash presents “Eat, Study, Pray: Preparing for the High Holy Days.” Lox and bagel breakfast. 512-8500.

9:30-10:30 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Neshamah Minyan: A Service of and for the Soul led by Jordan Hill, storyteller and founder/director of The Mindfulness Education Exchange. 745-5550.

10AM-NOON: Cong. Chaverim Shabbat and Sandwiches. 320-1015.

1 PM: JFCS book reading, “To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona.” Survivors will read excerpts at Bookman’s, 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. jfcstucson.org or 795-0300.

7:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Selichot program includes Havdallah, film “Son of Saul,” study session and desserts with Rabbis Samuel M. Cohon and Batsheva Appel. Followed at 10:30 p.m. by Selichot service. 327-4501.

8 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Selichot program includes wine, cheese and dessert reception, Havdallah, changing of the Torah covers and honoring our Minyan. Followed at 10 p.m. by Selichot service. No charge. RSVP by Sept. 19 to Debra at 745-5550, ext. 242.

8:30 PM: Cong. Or Chadash Selichot program includes Havdallah, examination of themes of forgiveness and repentance, changing of the Torah mantles and Selichot service. 512-8500.

Sunday / September 25 9:15 AM: Jewish War Veterans Friedman-Paul Post 201 breakfast meeting at B’nai B’rith Covenant House, 4414 E. 2nd St. $4. Contact Honey Manson at 529-1830.

10:30-11 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Kever Avot memorial service at Evergreen Cemetery, Anshei Israel section. 745-5550.

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1-4 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest Fun in the Sun Day at Cañada Del Oro Riverfront Park, 551 W. Lambert Lane, Oro Valley. Israelii dancing, crafts, sports demos, bounce house, relay races, live DJ, food trucks.Co-hosted by Tucson J. 5054161 or jewishtucson.org.

2 PM: Temple Emanu-El Sunday Salon. 3274501.

UPCOMING MONDAY / SEPTEMBER 26 5 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest and Hadassah Southern Arizona book club discusses “The Boston Girl” by Anita Diamant at 190 W. Magee Road, #162. 505-4161.

6:45-8:45 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest Cloisonne cardmaking class with Anne Lowe. Four to six cards; all materials, including envelopes, provided. $20. RSVP by Sept. 24 to 505-4161 or loweflyingbooks@gmail.com.

TUESDAY / SEPTEMBER 27 5:30-8:30 PM: JFSA REAP (Real Estate and Allied Professions) event at Hacienda del Sol, 5501 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. Contact Karen Graham at 577-9393, ext. 118, or kgra ham@jfsa.org.

WEDNESDAY / SEPTEMBER 28 7 PM: JFSA Women’s Philanthropy annual meeting at Hacienda del Sol, 5501 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. Speakers, Israeli teen Leah Avuno (one of the Tucson shinshinim) and Jean Fedigan, exec. dir., Sr. Jose Women’s Center.

Hors d’oeuvres and dessert. No host bar. $25.

RSVP by Sept. 21 to Jane Scott at 577-9393, ext. 114, jscott@jfsa.org., or visit jfsa.org.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29 1:30-3 PM: Tucson J Financial Times series presents “Annuities 101” with Mark Silverman, CFP. Pre-register at 299-3000.

6 PM: Temple Emanu-El class, “Taste II, Another Bite: Jewish in America” explores “Jewish in America: Movements, Assimilation, Creativity,” “From Davening to Rock: A Jewish Way to Pray” and American-Israeli Relations.

Includes tastes of Jewish food and CDs of liturgy music. Continues Oct. 6 and 13. $25.

327-4501.

7-10 PM: Jewish History Museum Stone Avenue Block party in collaboration with the consul general of Mexico. Music, food trucks, 670-9073.

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She received her undergraduate degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago. The Feders moved to Tucson in 1988. Mrs. Feder had been a Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Lion of Judah for 15 years and established a Lion of Judah Endowment in 2005.

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co-chair of the JFSA Women’s Philanthropy social action committee. She was active on JFSA’s Women’s Philanthropy board, past Women’s Division president and was the 2009 JFSA Woman of the Year. Mrs. Feder represented JFSA on the National Federation/Agency Alliance. She was involved with the Tucson Chapter of the Brandeis National Committee, Desert Caucus and Hadassah.

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Survivors include her husband of 67 years, Ed; sons, Mark (Beverly) Feder and Mike (Pattie) Feder; sister, Beverly Matulef; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY has promoted KENDRA CITRON to assistant principal. Previously an instructional coach at THA, Citron has more than a decade of teaching experience. She earned her Master of Education in bilingual and multicultural education from Northern Arizona University and also holds an English as a Second Language endorsement. She is a recipient of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification.

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Liliana attends Tucson Hebrew Academy. She enjoys soccer, swimming and reading.

For her mitzvah project, she is organizing a community mah jongg game night on Oct. 30 to raise money for the Frances Sydney Scholarship Fund, which was established by the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation to honor Liliana’s late grandmother and her contributions to the establishment and growth of the IOCDF throughout her life.

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