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Camp & Summer Plans . . . . . . . . 14-15 Mind, Body & Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-18 Arts & Culture . . . . . . . . . . 10,11 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Community Calendar . . . . 20 Federation Together . . . . . . 10 In Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Local . . . . 2,3,4,5,9,10,11,14 National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Our Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Synagogue Directory . . . . . 9
JFSA ready to get its game on for Super Sunday fundraiser
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he Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona will hold its Super Sunday phone-a-thon on Jan. 29 at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. During the annual fundraising event, volunteers will reach out to members of the Jewish community for donations to the Federation’s 2017 Community Campaign, which supports humanitarian and educational programs in Southern Arizona, Israel and around the world. The theme of this year’s campaign is Better Together: Repairing the World … Building Tomorrow. “This is a very exciting year for Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of JFSA and watch the construction of the new building unfold. At Super Sunday we will have opportunities for all community members to get involved in various ways to help in our efforts in raising funds to support our community as we embark on the next 70 years,” says Amy Beyer, Super Sunday co-chair with Josh Silverman and Ilona Wolfman. Volunteers can make calls or provide general support; shifts are 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m., 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., and 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. The afternoon break will allow basketball fans to
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Shelly Silverman, chair of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona 2016 Community Campaign, left, with Super Sunday co-chairs Nina Isaacs and Julie Feldman at the Tucson Jewish Community Center on Jan. 31, 2016
watch or listen uninterrupted as the University of Arizona Wildcats take on the University of Washington. Volunteers are encouraged to wear their UA gear. Food and prizes will also contribute to a festive atmosphere.
A Red Cross blood drive will be held from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. To sign up as a volunteer, email campaign@jfsa.org, call 577-9393 or visit jfsa.org. To save the Federation a call, make your taxdeductible gift by Jan. 15 at jfsa.org.
New adventure brings director back to local Jewish film fest DAVID J. DEL GRANDE Special to the AJP
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A scene from “My Hero Brother,” a new film by Israeli filmmaker Yonatan Nir
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onatan Nir, an Israeli documentary filmmaker and producer, says making movies is an education unto itself. “Every film that I make is a window to a new world,” says Nir. “For me, the camera is a way to communicate, to learn more about the world and to experience it in a more intense way.” His latest production, “My Hero Brother,” follows a group of young adults living with Down syndrome who take on the daunting task of hiking the Himalaya Mountains in northern India with their siblings. Nir told the AJP spending time with people who are so openly affectionate, and live with such childlike wonder, is very affecting. See Film, page 2
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first responders. The partnership between the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and the Greater Tucson Fire Foundation facilitated their quick response. Special guests will include Sam Grundwerg, consul general of Israel to the Southwest United States, and Shmulik Friedman, chief of operations at Israel Fire and Rescue Services, who was part of an Israeli delegation that came to Tucson in October 2015. RSVP to Oshrat Barel, director of the Weintraub Israel Center, at obarel@jfsa.org.
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“My Hero Brother” will play in Tucson on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. as a pre-premiere sneak preview, and its official premiere will be at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Feb. 7. Another film showcased at this year’s festival is “Suited,” a documentary about Bindle & Keep, a New York-based bespoke tailor for gender-nonconforming clients, which will feature a local transgender teen, Liam Star Jones. Jones, now 14, visited the tailor to get a suit for his bar mitzvah. He and his grandmother, Judy Shephard Gomez of Tucson, chatted with Daniel Friedman, founder and head tailor at Bindle & Keep, and Jones was asked to play a role in the film. Although he felt a little apprehensive, he welcomed the new and exciting adventure. “I was nervous, but I knew it would be a once in a lifetime experience,” says Jones. Jones traveled to New York in August and November of 2015 for his custom fitting and to film the feature documentary, he explains, and the overall experience certainly boosted his confidence. “It helped me open up more and be more myself.” Although he searched for a suit in Tucson, the personal attention he received at Bindle & Keep felt fantastic, says Jones. “It was a lot more of a personal experience,” he says. “And it was my suit, not a suit that was made for anyone.” Jones is thrilled about the film screening in his hometown, which will give a larger audience the chance to take in its powerful message, he says. “The message is essentially confidence in oneself ... portraying that confidence to the world through what you wear, and how you present yourself,” Jones says. “Suited” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016 and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries. The HBO production will play at the Tucson J on Sunday, Jan. 15 at 3:30 p.m. Jones will introduce the film and talk briefly about his experience on set. For more information, visit tucsonjcc.org/programs/ arts/tucson-jewish-film-festival/.
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“I think there is something very special that happens to you when you spend time with people with Down syndrome,” says Nir. “Because these people are very open, they have no filters, they show so much love and compassion [for] others and they live in the moment.” Nir’s documentary will be one of more than 20 independent films featured at the 26th annual Tucson International Jewish Film Festival, which runs from Jan. 12 to 22. The 11-day event will kick off with a screening of “The Price of Sugar” at The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. All films after opening night will be screened at the Tucson Jewish Community Center’s main ballroom. Nir looks forward to returning to Tucson to present his film and touring the States. In 2012, his award-winning film “Dolphin Boy,” a documentary about a man who rehabilitates from a savage attack by swimming with dolphins at Dolphin Reef Eilat, was featured at the TIJFF. The “My Hero Brother” project was founded by Enosh Cassel and Itamar Peleg in 2011. Cassel took his brother, Hannan, who has Down syndrome, on a hiking trip through the Himalayas in Nepal, documenting their three-week personal journey. When they returned to Israel, Cassel’s footage was featured in a news story on Channel 2, which sparked national interest especially from siblings of people with special needs. After a year of fundraising, the organization took their first guided tour with Nir by their side. He’s excited to see how American moviegoers respond to the film. “[The film is] about relationships between human beings, it’s about relationships between brothers, it’s about trying to get out of your comfort zone in order to see the world and to experience it,” Nir says. “And to experience something difficult, but also very positive together with somebody you love.”
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arthe Cohn was crossing a field covered with ankle-deep snow. She was alone. There was no moon and she had no compass, no flashlight, nothing written down. As a French Jew, she had enlisted in the army to help defeat the Nazis. Her mission was to cross the border that night, Feb. 4, 1945, enter the village of Gundolsheim, mix with the German soldiers, assess their strength, and follow them as they retreated. She couldn’t see anything but the light of tracer fire, with German bullets whizzing above her head. She could hear voices and barking dogs. As she stumbled through the darkness, the voices became fainter, and suddenly she plunged into a canal. She struggled to get out of the icy water, but calling for help would alert her enemies. Finally, tufts of grass gave her leverage to climb out. Drenched and freezing, she tried to squeeze water from her clothes. She wanted to give up, lie down and sleep, but she knew that meant death. She forced herself to keep walking. As dawn approached she could see her footprints in the snow. She had been walking in circles all night. By then the Germans were gone, retreating to the east. She was bitterly disappointed to realize this mission was just another of many failed attempts. It would be on her 15th attempt that Cohn would infiltrate Nazi Germany as a spy and obtain priceless information.
Cohn, 96, has been awarded honors for her bravery, including the Médaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre from France and Medal of Valor from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. But she had been so reluctant to speak of her exploits that her two sons, Stephan Jacques and Remi Benjamin, didn’t know about her military achievements until they read her book, “Behind Enemy Lines,” co-authored with Wendy Holden and published in 2002. “They were surprised,” Cohn recalls, “but they just say that I am a good mother. This is more important to me than anything else they could say.” Cohn presented her story to about 170 people on Dec. 7 at the Country Club of La Cholla. The sold-out event was a joint effort of Chabad Oro Valley and the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Northwest Division. “We need to hear these stories of courage and bravery,” says Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman of Chabad Oro Valley. “When listening to these stories you get transported in time, and if you understand the past it can educate you for the future.” Cohn and her husband, Major L. Cohn, M.D., who live in California, have traveled across the United States and to France so she could speak to more than 100 Chabad groups, as well as at synagogues and book clubs. “We both feel that it is very important for Jews and non-Jews to hear Marthe’s talks,” says Major. “We feel that it is important to speak out against racism.”
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Brandeis expert to discuss American musicals Ryan McKittrick, assistant professor of theater arts at Brandeis University, will present “The American Musical from the 19th Century to ‘Hamilton’” Ryan McKittrick at the Brandeis National Committee’s University on Wheels breakfast on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 9:30 a.m. at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. McKittrick’s talk will feature scenes from famous film adaptations of American musicals and clips from more recent stage productions. McKittrick received his M.F.A. in dramaturgy from the American Repertory
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Congregation Or Chadash will hold a Texas Hold-Em poker tournament, plus a dinner and casino night, on Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Tucson Scottish Rite Cathedral, 160 S. Scott Ave. The poker tournament, limited to 150 players, will begin at 6 p.m., with onsite registration open at 5 p.m. Registration is $100. Players will receive $1,000 in chips, a dinner buffet, and compete for the grand prize of a $1,000 gift card. The casino night, with slot machines, blackjack, roulette and craps tables and
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LOCAL Cohon foundation to present two awards Temple EmanuEl will host the 2016 Cohon Memorial Foundation Awards at Shabbat evening services on Friday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Baruch J. Cohon Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon will present the awards to this year’s winners, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Federation of Christians and Jews, and Professor Tammi RossmanBenjamin, co-founder and director of the Amcha Initiative. Eckstein founded the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 1983, devoting his life to building bridges of understanding between Christians and Jews and broad support for the state of Israel. He’s recognized as the world’s leading Jewish authority on evangelical Christians. The Fellowship raises more than $140 million annually, making it the largest Christian-supported nonprofit working in Israel today. Rossman-Benjamin is a University
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here’s a striking difference between competing bids in Congress addressing last month’s U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements. It’s not that they differ on the United Nations — the two nonbinding congressional resolutions under consideration condemn the Security Council, as well as the outgoing Obama administration for abstaining and not exercising the U.S. veto. Here’s the difference: Missing from one of the resolutions are the word “two states.” In the other resolution, the twostate outcome features prominently. Sponsors said little on the record about the differences, but what the simultaneous introductions signal is a battle over whether it becomes U.S. policy to regard the two-state solution as dead or alive. In one corner is the mainstream pro-
Israel community, combining leftists and centrists and led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, seeking to preserve two states as a viable outcome for Israel and the Palestinians. In the other is a deeply conservative and often Orthodox minority of the American Jewish community that includes figures who are close to Presidentelect Donald Trump. They want the twostate solution declared dead in order to pave the way for Israel to annex portions of the West Bank it still controls. The winner in Round 1: AIPAC. The Republican leadership of the incoming U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled a vote for Thursday on the resolution being backed by the lobby. Reps. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the committee’s senior Democrat, Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., are the sponsors. The other resolution, brought out by Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla. — the House deputy majority whip and a member of Trump’s transition team — is in limbo awaiting consideration by the Foreign
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COMMENTARY In Congress, a new battle emerges: two states or not two states
Rep. Ed Royce participates in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Nov. 4
Affairs Committee. The two-state outcome appears high in the Royce-Engel resolution, in the second paragraph: “Whereas the United States has long supported a negotiated settlement leading to a sustainable twostate solution with the democratic, Jewish state of Israel and a demilitarized, demo-
cratic Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace and security.” That resolution calls on the United States to seek the repeal or alteration of the Security Council resolution, so that “it is no longer one-sided and anti-Israel.” But don’t count out the other side. See Congress, page 7
As a liberal Jew, I’m wearing a kippah now — for solidarity and visibility DAVID A.M. WILENSKY JTA SAN FRANCISCO
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do not like wearing a kippah. I grew up in a Reform synagogue where few people wore them, including the rabbi. The gendered nature of it bothers me. (Why, in some “egalitarian”
synagogues, are men forced to wear them but not women?) And, quite frankly, I don’t like being told what to wear. But two days after the election of Donald Trump, I put on a kippah. Since then, I’ve been wearing this visible symbol of my Jewishness all day, every day. I’m not wearing it to remind myself that God is above me — one of the explanations for
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the custom. This isn’t about God. It’s about this: Since the surprise of Election Day, members of the “alt-right,” white nationalist groups and racists, misogynists, Islamophobes, homophobes, ableists and, of course, anti-Semites of every stripe have been emboldened. As a Jew, I want the bigots and their victims to know that I stand with the outsiders. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there was a massive uptick in hate crimes following Nov. 8. By Nov. 11 — just about 72 hours into this new reality — the SPLC had counted 201 “incidents of hateful harassment and intimidation since Election Day.” About a month after Election Day, the New York Police Department reported a 115 percent increase in bias crimes in the city, with Jews being targeted in 24 of the 43 incidents. In a parking garage at San Jose State University, not far from where I live in San Francisco, a sophomore Muslim psychology student was attacked on Nov. 9 by a man who “grabbed her hijab from behind and yanked it backward.” In Los Angeles, a substitute teacher was recorded telling an 11-year-old Latina, “If you were born here, your parents got to go. They will leave you behind, and you will be in foster care.” Since Election Day, swastika graffiti
has been popping up all over, including dorm rooms and sidewalks in New York City. My friend and teacher Rabbi Francine Green Roston and other Jews in her town of Whitefish, Mont., have been the target of a call to “take action” published by the white supremacists at The Daily Stormer. In the so-called City of Brotherly Love, graffiti on a Philadelphia shop window spelled out “Sieg Heil” and “Trump,” with the “T” replaced by a swastika. There have been attacks on other groups, too. At a Veterans Day parade in Petaluma, Calif., some knuckleheads who really missed the point of the parade showed up with Confederate flags. And over the weekend, a group of LGBTQ activists coming out of an art space in Manhattan were accosted by men who identified as Trump supporters. The activists were physically attacked and verbally abused. The swastikas and other targeting of Jews, of course, should trouble us. But the incident in San Jose, the day after Election Day, is the one that sent me over the edge. Attacks on hijab-wearing women are happening elsewhere; there was one on a bus in Queens, N.Y., and in Ann Arbor, Mich., where a man forced a woman to remove her hijab by threatening to set her on fire. Violently forcing a person to See Kippah, page 12
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Trump has nominated as ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who has been a major donor to the settlement movement, and named as his top official dealing with international relations Jason Greenblatt, who has said that settlements are not an impediment to peace. The family of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has donated to settlements. Additionally, the Republican Party, in a platform revision this summer, removed explicit references to two states. The Republican fund-raiser who helped engineer that change, Jeff Ballabon, told BuzzFeed News over the long weekend that now, within the GOP, “you have to justify the notion of a two-state solution.” That might not be true yet, but the sponsors of the resolution competing with Royce’s is a who’s who of the party’s anti-establishment right wing. They have scored impressive wins in recent years, not least of which is backing the winning candidate for president. While the resolution disapproves of the U.N. resolution and the Obama administration’s abstention, it does not refer to the two-state solution. “Two states” was omitted, a Ross spokeswoman said, because the resolution was more narrowly focused. “The resolution is a very narrow response to the U.N.’s vote, specifically condemning President Obama’s instruction to abstain and abandon our closest ally,” Joni Shockey told JTA. Whereas the Royce resolution emphasizes backing Israel in its quest for peace, the Ross resolution stresses the alliance, saying that Congress “affirms its commitment to the State of Israel as our loyal friend and strong ally in the Middle East.” Senate versions of each of the House resolutions are expected to be introduced in the coming days. Ballabon told JTA that the Ross resolution made more sense, as it focused directly on the U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334. “Instead of focusing on the real crime of 2334 — its abandonment of Israel and its legitimization of ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Jewish homeland — Royce’s resolution laments the damage to the ‘Two-State Solution’ — the fetishized fantasy of a peaceful PLO state,” he wrote JTA in an email. U.S. administrations, Democratic and Republican, have embraced a two-state outcome since the early 2000s. It was the solution sought by President Bill Clinton at Camp David in 2000, and although George W. Bush seemed at first skeptical, he embraced the outcome by 2002. Three rounds of failed peace talks under Clinton, then Bush, then Obama have dampened expectations that the outcome is set to arrive anytime soon.
Whether the “two state is dead” crowd wins the bigger game depends on an overcoming a number of formidable obstacles. Congressional leaders, even in this most polarizing of eras, still seek bipartisanship. Whatever the tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama in recent years, congressional Democrats have shown they favor pro-Israel resolutions as long as they endorse two states. And Republican leaders like Royce and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the majority leader who announced Thursday’s vote, will always be willing to tweak language to get the overwhelming majorities that show they are bridge builders. Additionally, AIPAC’s role in this signifies the importance that the American Jewish establishment still attaches to a two-state outcome. “Simply calling for a demilitarized and democratic Palestinian state living side by side in peace and harmony with Israel doesn’t necessarily translate into enduring reality,” American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris told JTA. “We’re talking about the Middle East, after all. But given the weak alternatives, this approach still seems the most feasible, particularly if Israel’s Jewish and democratic character are to be preserved for future generations.” Then there’s Netanyahu, who still embraces the notion of two states, however much his party and governing coalition have abandoned the policy. David Makovsky, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Netanyahu may encourage the Trump administration to preserve two states as an outcome by reviving President George W. Bush’s 2004 approach. In an April 14, 2004 letter to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Bush essentially recognized settlement blocs bordering the 1967 lines as likely to remain in Israel, and opposed expansion of settlements beyond the security fence now bisecting the West bank. “A reaffirmation of the Bush letter would help establish U.S. policy at a time when a U.S. administration will be preoccupied with other more urgent priorities,” said Makovsky, who was a member of the State Department team that last tried to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace in 2013-14. “This would be convenient for Netanyahu and Trump and would retain the viability of two states.” Why would Trump defy his closest Jewish advisers and continue to bank on a two-state outcome? Trump has proven unpredictable. He said several times while campaigning that he would like to take a stab at this most knotty of American foreign policy challenges. And the AJC’s Harris and Makovksy, in separate interviews, cited another factor in the president-elect’s biography: He can’t resist the challenge of a deal that has so far defeated all comers. “He’s a lifelong deal maker,” Harris said of the author of the best-selling “The Art of the Deal.” “This one may at some point tempt him as the ultimate challenge.”
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SPY Born on April 13, 1920, Cohn grew up in Metz, France, near the German border. One of eight children in an Orthodox Jewish family, she learned to speak and read both French and German. When Cohn was 18, Hitler’s Third Reich launched its reign of terror against Jews, and her family helped many people fleeing Germany. But Cohn says she never thought that the Germans would invade France. After France and Britain entered the war in 1939, Cohn and her family relocated to Poitiers, southwest of Paris, 400 miles from the German border. By June 1940, Germany had conquered France. The Germans arrived in Poitiers in July 1940. Cohn’s fiancé, Jacques Delaunay, a medical student who encouraged Cohn to become a nurse, was executed in 1943 for his involvement in the French resistance. Her sister, Stephanie, also a medical student, was arrested by the Germans in 1942, and sent to an internment camp for political prisoners, where she gave medical aid to other prisoners. There was a plan for her to escape, but Stephanie refused because she feared that the Germans might arrest her whole family. Cohn’s sister was deported on Yom Kippur in 1942 to Auschwitz. She never returned. In November 1944, after the liberation of Paris, Cohn tried to join the French army. It took several tries. “I had to prove that I was not collaborating with the German army,” she says. “And I wasn’t accepted until Jacques’ mother, who had lost two sons in the war, vouched for me.” She was assigned to the 151st Infantry Regiment in Alsace, where an officer asked Cohn what she had done during the war. She told him that she helped people cross from the occupied to unoccupied area. “The officer looked at this 4-foot, 11-inch woman with blond hair and blue eyes, and initially thought I was just a bimbo,” she says. “When he asked me if I had killed any Germans, I said, ‘No, I am a nurse.’” The officer said she could serve as a social worker. In this role, she was able to get French troops much needed supplies, including food, socks and gloves.
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Martha Cohn was awarded the Medal of Valor from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in 2002. When her commanding officer discovered that Cohn spoke German, she was transferred to intelligence work. “I wondered what predicament I had gotten myself into, but it was too late,” she says. “I was a very unlikely spy.” She was effective at interrogating German POWs, obtaining information about troop locations and plans for attacks and retreats. Later, undercover as Martha Ulrich, a German nurse searching for her fiancé, she began her attempts to cross the front in Alsace. Working alone, she faced the prospect of capture and death with each mission. At times she had to listen impassively as German soldiers talked about the atrocities they had committed against Jews and Russians. On April 11, 1945, she successfully crossed the border into Germany near Schaffhausen in Switzerland, later relaying two major pieces of information to French intelligence: that northwest of Freiberg, the Siegfried Line had been evacuated and that the remnant of the German army lay in ambush in the Black Forest. After the war, Cohn served as a nurse in the French army in Vietnam until December 1948. In 1953 she went to Geneva to get a nursing degree. There she met her husband, an American who was studying medicine. She came with Major to the United States in 1956. They were married in February 1958, and worked together doing research from 1970 to 1999. “It used to be difficult for me to talk about my military service. I just did the job when it was needed. I was extremely lucky. I always met the right people at the right time,” says Cohn. Asked how she feels now that the world knows her story, she replies, “I don’t feel any different, it’s just my own little story.” Korene Charnofsky Cohen is a freelance writer and editor in Tucson.
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UA Cancer Center and Tucson J team up for education series The University of Arizona Cancer Center is partnering with the Tucson Jewish Community Center to deliver a free, four-part educational series on cancer starting in February. Classes will focus on trends in research and clinical care, from precision medicine to novel drug development to the new frontiers of immunology. They will be held at the Tucson J at 6:30 p.m. • On Feb. 2, Andrew S. Kraft, M.D. will present “From Bench to Bedside: Translating Cancer Research into Clinical Patient Care.” Kraft is the Sydney E. Salmon endowed chair and director of the UACC, associate vice president for oncology programs for UA Health Sciences and senior associate dean for translational research in the UA College of Medicine. • On March 2, Julie Bauman, M.D., M.P.H. will speak on “Head and Neck Cancer: The Emerging Epidemic.” Bauman is associate director of translational research at the UACC. • On April 6, Cindy Thomson, Ph.D., R.D., will discuss “Diet and Cancer: What’s a Person to Eat?” Thomson is associate director of cancer prevention and control at the UACC. • On May 4, Joyce Schroeder, Ph.D., and Pavani Chalasani, M.D., M.P.H. will present “Breast Cancer Research and Patient Care.” Schroeder is head of the metastatic breast cancer research initiative and professor of molecular and cellular biology at the UACC. Chalasani is assistant professor of medicine, hematology-oncology at the UACC. The UACC is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Arizona. For more information, visit uacc.arizona.edu or tucsonjcc.org.
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Area Congregations CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION ANSHEI ISRAEL 5550 E. Fifth St., Tucson, AZ 85711 • (520) 745-5550 Rabbi Robert Eisen, Cantorial Soloist Nichole Chorny • www.caiaz.org Daily minyan: Mon.-Thurs., 7:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; Fri., 7:30 a.m.; Sun. & legal holidays, 8 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. / Mincha: Fri., 5:45 p.m. / Shabbat services: Sat., 9 a.m., followed by Kiddush; Tot Shabbat, 1st Fri., 5:45 p.m.; Family Service, 3rd Friday, 5:45 p.m.; Holiday services may differ, call or visit website. / Torah study: every Shabbat one hour before Mincha (call or visit website for times) / Talmud on Tuesday, 6 p.m. / Weekday Torah study group, Wed., 11 a.m. beverages and dessert provided. CONGREGATION BET SHALOM 3881 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718 • (520) 577-1171 Hazzan Avraham Alpert • www.cbsaz.org Services: Fri., 5:30 p.m. (followed by monthly dinners — call for info); Sat., 9:30 a.m.-noon, Shabbat Experience includes free break-out sessions for children and adults, followed by Kiddush lunch and discussion led by Rabbi Dr. Howard Schwartz and Dr. David Graizbord 12:30-1:30 p.m. / Daily services: Mon.-Fri. 8:15 a.m.; Sundays and legal holidays, 9 a.m.; Hagim 9:30 a.m.
ORTHODOX CONGREGATION CHOFETZ CHAYIM/SOUTHWEST TORAH INSTITUTE 5150 E. Fifth St., Tucson, AZ 85711 • (520) 747-7780 Rabbi Israel Becker • www.tucsontorah.org Shabbat services: Fri., Kabbalat Shabbat 15 minutes before sunset; Sat. 9 a.m. followed by Kiddush. / Mincha: Fri., 1 p.m.; Sat., 25 minutes before sunset, followed by Shalosh Seudas, Maariv and Havdallah. Services: Sun., 8 a.m.; Mon. & Thurs., 6:50 a.m.; Tues., Wed., Fri., 7 a.m.; daily, 15 minutes before sunset. / Weekday Rosh Chodesh services: 6:45 a.m. CONGREGATION YOUNG ISRAEL/CHABAD OF TUCSON 2443 E. Fourth St., Tucson, AZ 85719 • (520) 881-7956 Rabbi Yossie Shemtov, Rabbi Yudi Ceitlin • www.chabadoftucson.com Daily minyan: Sun. & legal holidays, 8:30 a.m.; Mon. & Thurs., 6:30 p.m.; Tues., Wed., Fri., 6:45 a.m. / Mincha & Maariv, 5:15 p.m. / Shabbat services: Fri. at candlelighting; Sat. 9:30 a.m. followed by Kiddush. Mincha, Maariv and Havdallah TBA. CHABAD ON RIVER 3916 E. Ft. Lowell Road • (520) 615-9443 Rabbi Ram Bigelman • www.chabadonriver.com Shabbat services: Fri., Mincha at candlelighting time, followed by Maariv. / Sat., Shacharit service, 9:30 a.m. / Torah study: Women, Mon., 8 p.m. & Wed., 12:30 p.m.; men, Tues. & Thurs., 7 p.m. CHABAD ORO VALLEY 1217 W. Faldo Drive, Oro Valley, AZ 85755 • (520) 477-8672 Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman • www.jewishorovalley.com Shabbat services: 3rd Fri., 6 p.m., followed by dinner; Sat. 9:30 a.m., bimonthly, call for dates / Torah study: Sat., 9 a.m. FOOTHILLS SHUL AT BEIS YAEL 622 E. Placita Aspecto, Tucson, AZ 85750 • (520) 400-9626 Rabbi Billy Lewkowicz Shabbat services: Fri., 7 p.m. / Men’s Kabbalah study: Thurs., 5 p.m.
REFORM CONGREGATION CHAVERIM 5901 E. Second St., Tucson, AZ 85711 • (520) 320-1015 Rabbi Stephanie Aaron • www.chaverim.net Shabbat services: Fri., 7 p.m. (no service on 5th Fri.); Family Shabbat, 1st Fri., 6 p.m. / Torah study: 2nd Sat., 9 a.m., followed by contemplative service, 10 a.m.
CONGREGATION KOL SIMCHAH (Renewal) 4625 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718 Mailing Address: 2732 S. Gwain Place, Tucson, AZ 85713 • (520) 296-0818 Shabbat services: 1st and 3rd Fri., 7:15 p.m. CONGREGATION M’KOR HAYIM 3888 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85718 (Tucson Hebrew Academy) Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31806, Tucson, AZ 85751 • (520) 904-1881 Rabbi Helen Cohn • www.mkorhayim.org Shabbat services: 2nd and 4th Fri., 7 p.m. / Torah study, 2nd and 4th Sat., 9:30 a.m. CONGREGATION OR CHADASH 3939 N. Alvernon, Tucson, AZ 85718 • (520) 512-8500 Rabbi Thomas Louchheim, Cantor Janece Cohen www.orchadash-tucson.org Shabbat services: Fri., 6:30 p.m.; 1st Fri., Friday Night LIVE (Oct.-May); 2nd Friday, Tot Shabbat (Oct.-June), 6 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. / Torah study: Sat., 8:30 a.m. THE INSTITUTE FOR JUDAIC SERVICES AND STUDIES Mailing Address: 36789 S. Golf Course Drive, Saddlebrooke, AZ 85739 (520) 825-8175 Rabbi Sanford Seltzer Shabbat services: Oct.-April, one Friday per month at 7 p.m. — call for details. TEMPLE EMANU-EL 225 N. Country Club Road, Tucson, AZ 85716 • (520) 327-4501 Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon, Rabbi Batsheva Appel • www.tetucson.org Shabbat services: Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. / Torah study: Sat., 8:30 a.m. except when there is a Rabbi’s Tish. TEMPLE KOL HAMIDBAR 228 N. Canyon Drive, Sierra Vista • (520) 458-8637 http://kolhamidbar.tripod.com Mailing address: P.O. Box 908, Sierra Vista, AZ 85636 Shabbat services: Fri., 7:30 p.m.
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BETH SHALOM TEMPLE CENTER 1751 N. Rio Mayo (P.O. Box 884), Green Valley, AZ 85622 (520) 648-6690 • www.bstc.us Shabbat services: 1st and 3rd Fri., 7p.m. / Torah study: Sat., 10 a.m. CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM (Modern Orthodox) 686 Harshaw Road, Patagonia, AZ 85624 • (520) 394-2520 www.etzchaimcongregation.org • Rabbi Gabriel Cousens Shabbat services: Fri., 18 minutes before sunset / Torah study: Sat., 9:30 a.m. HANDMAKER RESIDENT SYNAGOGUE 2221 N. Rosemont Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85712 • (520) 881-2323 www.handmaker.com Shabbat services: Fri., 4:30 p.m., led by Lindsey O’Shea, followed by Shabbat dinner; Sat., 9:30 a.m., led by Mel Cohen and Dan Asia, followed by light Kiddush lunch. SECULAR HUMANIST JEWISH CIRCLE www.secularhumanistjewishcircle.org Call Cathleen at 730-0401 for meeting or other information. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HILLEL FOUNDATION 1245 E. 2nd St. Tucson, AZ 85719 • 624-6561 • www.arizona.hillel.org Shabbat services: Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and alternative services two Fridays each month when school is in session. Dinner follows (guests, $8; RSVP by preceding Thurs.). Call for dates/times.
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Young Leadership Hanukkah Celebration
The Jewish Federation’s leadership development cohorts, the Young Men’s Group and Young Women’s Cabinet, held their 2nd annual Hanukkah Celebration on December 22 at Ermanos Craft Beer and Wine. Over 30 participants celebrated L to R – Alex Stuchen, Melissa the holiday with friends and Landau, Shelly Kippur, Beth colleagues by playing dreidel and McGinnis, James McGinnis eating Southern Arizona-inspired latkes. For more information on these leadership development groups, contact Matt Landau at mlandau@jfas.org.
Maimonides and Cardozo Societies Hold Combined Event
On December 12, members of Tucson’s Maimonides and Cardozo Societies came together for a combined event featuring Judge Daniel Butler. Nearly 100 guests in attendance were able to hear Judge Butler’s inspiring Judge Daniel Butler presentation of his personal and professional experiences, which captivated both medical and legal professionals.
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Keith Wick in “Buyer & Cellar”
Live Theatre Workshop will stage “Buyer & Cellar” by Jonathan Tolins, a oneman show that begins with the premise of an underemployed actor going to work as a shopkeeper in the basement of Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home, ThursdaysSundays through Feb. 11. “This seriously
funny slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people,” says the New York Times, while the New Yorker lauds it “a fantasy so delightful you wish it were true.” For tickets, visit livetheatreworkshop.org or call 327-4242.
Taylor of ‘Nanny’ fame to talk diets, show biz Invisible Theatre will present Renée Taylor in “My Life on a Diet” at the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd., on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 8 at 3 p.m. Taylor, best known for her Emmynominated role as Fran Drescher’s Jewish mother on the television series “The Nanny,” will take audiences on a trip through her more than 60-year show business career, from Broadway to Hollywood, where dieting and her 50-year marriage to Joe Bologna have been the only constants. Bologna is her co-writer and director for this show. For tickets, visit invisibletheatre.com or call 882-9721.
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UPCOMING! On Tuesday, January 10, the Jewish Federation’s Northwest Division will unite for an inspiring and education evening presentation, “Understanding and Defeating the Terrorist Threat,” with terrorism expert Micah Halpern at 6 p.m. at Terrorism Expert Oro Valley Country Club. This year, we will Micah Halpern be remembering Irving Olson, our dearly departed friend and generous benefactor. Seating still available on a limited basis! Please contact northwestjewish@jfsa.org, call (520) 505-4161 or register online at jfsa.org under the “Events” tab to secure your seat.
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Northwest Division Annual Event on January 10
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Tucson J to host cellist for pop-up concert
Matt Haimovitz
The Tucson Jewish Community Center will join with UA Presents to hold a free “sneak peek” mini concert by cellist Matt Haimovitz on Friday, Jan. 13 at 3 p.m., one day prior to his Jan. 14 concert at 8 p.m. at Crowder Hall. Haimovitz will offer a musical varia-
tion on the concept of a moveable feast, performing the “6 Suites for Solo Cello” by J.S. Bach, each with its own commissioned overture from a contemporary composer. Three of the suites will be performed at the Crowder Hall concert while three will be performed on the previous day with pop-up concerts at the UA Bookstore at 11 a.m., the Hotel Congress lobby at 1 p.m., and the Tucson J at 3 p.m. Haimovitz made his debut at the age of 13 as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic. At 17 he made his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has gone on to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He has been nominated for two Juno Awards and a Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album and won a Grammy for Best Producer of the Year (Classical). For more information and tickets to the Jan. 14 concert, which will also feature music by Philip Glass, Vijay Iyer and Luna Pearl Woolf, visit uapresents.org.
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(JTA) A large menorah in the front yard of an Arizona family was twisted into the shape of a swastika. The Hanukkah candelabra was made of gold spraypainted PVC pipes and solar-powered lights. Parents Naomi and Seth Ellis told the Washington Post they built the 7-foot menorah in front of their house after their three sons, ages 5, 6 and 9, asked for lights in their yard like their neighbors’ Christmas decorations. The family discovered on the morning of Dec. 30 that the menorah had been tampered with. Police helped Naomi and Seth Ellis dismantle the swastika before their
sons saw it, according to the newspaper. The menorah was rebuilt and replaced. “We talk a lot about the importance of equality and tolerance, loving everybody no matter what,” Naomi Ellis told the Washington Post. “I had to tell them that not everybody feels that way. Some people are ignorant, and this is what they do.” The Chandler Police Department told local news stations that the vandalism will be investigated as a hate crime. Additional police patrols were set up in the area in response to the incident.
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out. To be ‘Jews on the street,’ as new Eastern European Jewish immigrants so strongly tried to hide and assimilate into white WASPyness,” a friend of mine wrote on Facebook the day before I first donned my kippah. “We need to be visible right now and shed this shame. People’s hijabs are literally being torn off.” I don’t know that it’s shame that has kept kippot off liberal Jewish heads. But it is time to put them on. For me, wearing a kippah is not just an act of solidarity and visibility; it is a reminder that none of this is normal. This is not normal. This is not normal. This is not normal. That will be my mantra in the coming months and years. I’m not the only person I know doing this. Since I first came out as a kippah wearer, I have heard from about a dozen other Jewish friends and acquaintances doing the same all over the country. Even my mom is doing it.
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remove an article of religious clothing should horrify you as a Jew. During the campaign I was disgusted by the social media attacks on my Jewish colleagues in the press, which featured disturbing imagery and language. Just a swarm of online trolls, I thought. Now, however, I can see that the United States is home to an environment of newly unabashed hate. As a white man, my minority status isn’t always visible. That’s why, a couple days after the election, I went to a local Judaica shop and bought two kippot. As a Jew, I am an outsider. And so I stand in solidarity with all outsiders. “Now is exactly the time to wear our kippahs and tsitsit
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Vandals twisted a menorah in a Chandler, Ariz., family’s yard into a swastika.
On Friday evening, Dec. 30, members of the family’s synagogue and their rabbi gathered in the Ellis front yard to light their rebuilt menorah, according to reports. It’s been about a month and a half since I started wearing a kippah. I’ve had a few interactions with strangers about it, none negative. The greatest effect has been on myself; I feel my Jewish otherness more sharply than ever. Join our movement. Be a Jew. Show the world you’re a Jew. Show our fellow minorities that we are with them, that we are in this together. The hate and the bigotry are real. It is vocal and it is visible. Things may get worse. And if they do, I will continue to stand with the Muslim woman in San Jose and others like her. Unlike the old kippah I wore when I visited synagogues that require it — small, black, as inconspicuous as it could be — my new ones have some color. You can’t miss them. I won’t be an invisible minority any longer. I hope you’ll join me. A version of this article originally appeared in J., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California, where David A.M. Wilensky is the assistant editor.
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ISRAEL Israel’s top security experts redraw West Bank map for the Trump era ANDREW TOBIN JTA TEL AVIV
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srael’s leading security think tank has published a plan to redraw the map of the West Bank in a bid to consolidate major settlements and prevent the spread of others. The plan, presented Monday to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as part of the Institute for National Security Studies’ yearly strategic survey, calls for the government to allow construction in West Bank settlement blocs and Jerusalem. At the same time, it recommends a halt to construction in the 90 percent of the territory outside the major settlements. In laying out the plan, researchers Assaf Orion and Udi Dekel argue that negotiations with the Palestinians are unlikely to lead to a final-status agreement. With relations deadlocked, they warn, Israel is drifting toward a single binational state with the Palestinians, which threatens its democratic and possibly Jewish identity. It is an analysis that echoes one put forth in a speech last month by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, although unlike Kerry’s plan it would proceed without direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians intended to reach a final-status agreement and without resolving what Kerry called “all the outstanding issues.” To preserve Israel’s options, including the possibility of a Palestinian state, the researchers say, the government should implement their plan in coordination with the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, which has already signaled that it will not pressure Israel on the settlements or negotiations. Amos Yadlin, the director of the institute and a former head of Israel’s military intelligence, told JTA that he endorsed the plan, saying Israel had a “window of opportunity” with Trump. “Israel should take this chance of a new administration with a new approach to promote the bottom-up independent shaping of its borders, even if the Palestin-
The West Bank security fence running near Jerusalem, April 17, 2016.
ians are still holding their extreme position,” he said. The main changes under the institute’s plan would be to Area C, the 60 percent of the West Bank under full Israeli control per the 1993 Oslo Accords. Besides carving out 17 percent of the area for the settlement blocs, where 86 percent of settlers live, Orion and Dekel suggest using up to 42 percent for development on behalf of the Palestinians and up to 33 percent for protection of “vital” security sites. The rest of Area C would keep its current status, and settlers would be encouraged to relocate to the settlement blocs. The Palestinian Authority would administer the major Palestinian population centers in Areas A and B, which comprise 40 percent of the West Bank and are home to 99.7 percent of Palestinians, as it already largely does. But the Israeli military would retain the right to act as needed. The status of Jerusalem, which Israel governs as its capital but the Palestinians also claim as theirs, would not change. Most of the world considers all Israeli building in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem illegal, but Israel disputes this. Orion and Dekel recommend that Israel and the world promote security and development in the West Bank. This could bolster the Palestinian Authority’s declining legitimacy on the West Bank street and help prepare the society for eventual finalstatus negotiations, they say. An alternative, they say, would be for Israel to take
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“independent steps” to politically separate from the Palestinians. The Hamas-governed Gaza Strip would be handled separately, ideally with a combination of military deterrence, border security and development. Yadlin said the Institute for National Security Studies had long preferred a negotiated final-status agreement with the Palestinians, but this year concluded that the prospects for success had gone from “very low” to “zero.” The plan has elements that could appeal to the right and the left, said its architects. Despite a rightward shift in recent decades, Yadlin said, the Israeli public was “ready to consider” the institute’s plan because the political left had given up the “illusion” that there was a Palestinian partner for peace and the right no longer supported the status quo. He cited Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s proposal that Israel annex Area C as an example of new thinking on the right, but said the Palestinians would need part of that territory to create a viable political entity. Israelis “basically want to see a twostate solution, with a Jewish, democratic secure country, but not according to the Palestinian parameters,” Yadlin said. Ideally, he said, the Palestinians would cooperate with the institute’s plan and eventually return to negotiations for a two-state solution. The government should leave open that possibility anyway to fend off international condemnation
like the United Nations Security Council’s anti-settlement resolution that the U.S. allowed to pass last month, he said. But if the Palestinians would not budge, Yadlin said, Israel could unilaterally draw its borders to exclude most of them. “I’m not among those who are terrified by the demographic threat [of Jews being outnumbered by Palestinians in a single state]. I think this is the biggest mistake of Kerry,” Yadlin said, referring to the Kerry speech last week in which he warned that without relinquishing control of the Palestinians, “Israel can either be Jewish or democratic — it cannot be both.” Shlomo Brom, the head of Israeli-Palestinian research at the Institute for National Security Studies, told JTA that he saw no chance the current Israeli government would accept the plan backed by Yadlin. Every right-wing government since 2000 has avoided drawing a line around the settlements, he said, and “none were as right wing as the one we have now.” Nor would the Palestinians be likely to cooperate if the plan were carried out, Brom said, since they would see their potential future state shrink with no real gains. He added that it would be problematic from the point of view of international law for Israel to change the terms of the Oslo Accords without Palestinian consent. The best hope to shake up the status quo and save the two-state solution, Brom said, was the rise of a viable centrist alternative to Netanyahu’s government and increased international pressure on Israel. The simplest option for a two-state solution would be to make the security barrier Israel’s provisional border — allowing settlement building to the west and prohibiting building to the east of it, Brom said. Israel could then begin taking steps toward a Palestinian state, unilaterally and in coordination with the Palestinians. Like Yadlin, Brom said he did not think the end of the two-state solution would spell demographic disaster for Israel. But he said terrorism would probably force the state into indefinite militarily rule over a stateless Palestinian population, which the world would view as a form of apartheid.
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CAMP & SUMMER PLANS
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Allison Richter (nee Lachter) and Michael Richter at Capital Camps in Waynesboro, Pa. in 1991.
KAREN SCHAFFNER Special to the AJP As a kid, Allison Richter of Tucson spent many happy hours canoeing, shooting arrows, hiking and crafting at Camp Pearlstein, now called Camp Daisy and Harry Stein, in Prescott. Her parents never thought she would bring home a husband. She didn’t, of course, but those summers began a beautiful relationship with summer camp that Richter has enjoyed over the years, first as a camper, then as a counselor when she met her husband and finally as an advisor to camp counselors. The effect of Jewish camp has been lasting. “A lot of times, Sunday school is just another thing you have to do. Although you may enjoy yourself when you’re there, it just isn’t the same as living every day in a fun Jewish atmosphere. (Camp) definitely made Judaism really fun and it made me feel really connected and solid in my Judaism,” says Richter, who is a teacher at Frances J. Warren Elementary School in the Tucson Unified School District. Along with enhancing her Jewish identity, camp let Richter trade the sizzling desert for the cool woods, at least for a
few weeks. “It was just a lot of outdoor fun with your cabin mates,” she said. “It was great, my favorite part of the summer.” Those outdoor experiences made her want to become a summer camp counselor when she was 19. She was recruited to work at Capital Camps in Pennsylvania by the owner, Steve Markoff, who had Arizona connections. It turns out he had recruited quite a number of counselors who were attending the University of Arizona, including Tucson attorney Michael Richter, who at that time was just a student. “We were at the counselor orientation and we were all talking about where we’re from and there were probably 10 of us from Arizona and we all connected and talked about where we went to school and I thought (about Michael), ‘Well, this is a nice guy,’” she says. “Then we did CPR training and he was my CPR partner and we just started talking more and more from there. It started out as definitely a really fun camp relationship.” The problem with camp relationships, however, is that eventually you have to go back to real life. “As the summer continued on we both were like, ‘I’m really glad we’re both going home to the same place and we can
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“The only Jewish kids I saw were at synagogue...so for me to be at summer camp and be able to say something like, ‘Oh, when I have my bat mitzvah…’ and not have to explain myself or to even have Jewish things as part of everyday conversation just made being Jewish really fun.” She has especially fond memories of Shabbats at camp. “There are a lot of song sessions at camp, which are really fun,” Richter said. “Shabbat turns into a big extended song session with the prayers and Jewish rituals. It just feels fun. And you’re outdoors and it just feels really different than sitting in a synagogue.”
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Yair Karni leads a workout at the Wingate army base in Netanya, Israel, Dec. 13.
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ne fit young soldier scales a rope. Two others practice handto-hand combat. A large group marches across the sand. But those were just the inspirational photographs on the walls. The actual soldiers crowded in the one-room building here on the Orde Wingate army base were mostly paunchy middle-aged officers. On a Tuesday morning before sunrise, several dozen of them stood around in socks and workout gear as they prepared to weigh in for a session of Changes in Shape, the Israeli army’s weight-loss program for officers. At least once a week during the sixmonth program, IDF officers — most of them high ranking — come from all over the country to this coastal Israel city to check their weight, exercise and learn about a healthy lifestyle. The program offers support for the rest of the week and throughout the year as well. Although celebrated for its Mediterranean diet and long-lived citizens, Israel is getting fatter. About half of Israeli adults are overweight or obese, the Health Ministry found in 2014. That compares to 71 percent of Americans over the age of 20 who are obese or overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2015, but a rise from 32.2 percent from a decade earlier. This year, Israel’s Health Ministry launched a campaign against unhealthy food. Health Minister Yaakov Litzman called for a ban on McDonald’s and the ministry sponsored a television advertisement against soft drinks featuring a Coca Cola-like bottle. Last month, Litzman urged Israelis to “avoid eating
sufganiyot,” the fried donuts traditionally eaten here during the Hanukkah season. Changes in Shape is the contribution of the Israeli army, one of the most powerful institutions in Israel, to the battle of the bulge. Unlike most health club “boot camps” — in which drill sergeantlike instructors push participants toward extreme diet and exercise — the Israeli army takes a very different approach to weight loss than it does to preparing its soldiers for war. The head of Changes in Shape, Maj. Shani Fonk, 33, said the secret to the program’s success is built into the army’s culture. “Everyone feels at home here,” she said. “They feel like we really want them to succeed, from the inside, with no connection to money or pride, because we care. We really, really care.” Yair Karni, 65, a fitness coach in the program who was one of Israel’s greatest marathoners in his day, expressed a less sentimental view of his work. “I take fat people and make them thin,” he explained. On Tuesday, after registering their weight and body fat percentages, the officers headed to the gym to walk and jog for an hour. Karni led the workout with help from friendly young female soldiers in black sweatshirts. Some of the officers chatted as they navigated the cones that had been set up. One took a call on his cell phone. At the front of the pack was Dror Gonen, 43, a chief petty officer in the Israeli navy, where he has served for 25 years. He struggled with his weight his whole life, and several years ago his weight started ballooning, reaching over 300 pounds. Along with his wife, he had bariatric surgery in 2013, and lost about 100 pounds. See Waistlines, page 18
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ing in charge, were not shy about interrupting, causing frequent outbursts of calorie-burning laughter. In a more serious moment, Gonen asked, “When the road we’re on ends, and we need to start a new one, how do we continue? Do you have tools to help us know what to do after we finish the program?” Fonk chimed in: “I know you caught the bug of wanting to continue, and that’s amazing. Take it to your units. I know people who have taken it to their units, and it’s easier if you get other people involved. You’ll be surrounded by support.”
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Then, last year, his weight began to creep upward again. Gonen joined Changes in Shape in November. He is to be discharged from the army in April, along with more than a dozen other officers, to make room for a younger generation. Gonen plans to work with at-risk youth and hopes to make a good impression at job interviews. Like Fonk, Gonen said the key to the program’s effectiveness is the sense of community in the army. In the first seven weeks of the program he lost more than 15 pounds. But he worried he would struggle to stay on track afterward. “It’s easier [in the program], because all of us are almost the same,” he said. “Our way of life is the same. We are eating almost the same food. Our daily routine is almost the same.” “It will be harder on my own, but I’m looking into local running groups,” he said. Gonen’s concern is backed up by research. A study of season 8 contestants on “The Biggest Loser,” a hit NBC reality show, found that six years later, most of them regained much if not all the weight they lost. Four of the 14 contestants in the study were heavier than before they went on the show. The researchers pointed to a slowdown in the contestants’ metabolism as well as constant cravings and binges, perhaps due to a reduction in hunger-regulating hormones.
Israel has its own version of “The Biggest Loser” called “Going Down Big Time.” But Fonk — who is in charge of the entire Healthy Lifestyle Department at Wingate — said that unlike ratings-driven reality shows, Changes of Shape’s communal approach helps participants shed pounds gradually by making long-term lifestyle changes. “Studies around the world show that 50 percent of the people who do these programs relapse,” she said. “The difference is other programs don’t make a holistic change. We intervene in all aspects of the officers’ lives: nutrition, physical fitness, psychology, family support.” She said research on the success rate of the program was not yet ready to be made public. Karni, however, offered that 60 percent of participants succeed in the sense that five years later they have kept the weight off and remain fit. “Fit means they can complete a 10-kilometer run,” he said. “You can’t fool a 10K run, you know?” Every Tuesday, after the workout - which is followed by a light breakfast of eggs, salads and coffee - Karni teaches the healthy living class. Before Hanukkah, he started by warning of a new temptation that is coming to Israel: A Burger King hamburger with sufganiyot for buns. “It’s the worst combination: white flour and white sugar and fried,” he said, standing at the front of a classroom. “And then of course there’s the hamburger they put inside.” He went on to explain the pitfalls of popular approaches to weight loss, including juice cleanses, diet pills and the Atkins diet. The officers, accustomed to be-
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR The calendar deadline is Tuesday, 10 days before the issue date. Our next issue will be published Jan. 20, 2017. Events may be emailed to localnews@azjewishpost.com, faxed to 319-1118 or mailed to the AJP at 3822 E. River Road, #300, Tucson, AZ 85718. For more information, call 319-1112. See Area Congregations on page 9 for additional synagogue events. Men’s Mishnah club with Rabbi Israel Becker at Cong. Chofetz Chayim. Sundays, 7:15-8 a.m.; Mondays and Thursdays, 6:15-6:50 a.m.; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 6:15-7 a.m.; Saturdays, call for time. 747-7780 or yz becker@me.com. “Too Jewish” radio show with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon on KVOI 1030 AM (also KAPR and KJAA), Sundays at 9 a.m. Jan. 8, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Jan. 15, Elizabeth Gellman, director of Florida Holocaust Museum, will discuss gravestone desecrations in Europe. Jan. 22, comedian Elon Gold. 327-4501. 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. Cong. Anshei Israel parent-tot class (9-24 months), Mondays, 9-11 a.m., facilitated by Gabby Erbst. Mandatory vaccination policy. Contact Lynne Falkow-Strauss at 745-5550, ext. 229. Temple Emanu-El mah jongg, Mondays at 10 a.m. 327-4501. Jewish Federation-Northwest chair yoga with a Jewish flair taught by Bonnie Golden. Mondays, 10-11 a.m., except Jan. 16. $7 per class or $25 for four. 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org. Cong. Anshei Israel mah jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon. All levels, men and women. Contact Evelyn at 885-4102 or esigafus@aol.com. Chabad Torah & Tea for women with Mushkie Zimmerman, Mondays, 11 a.m., through February, at Chabad Oro Valley, jewishorovalley.com or 477-TORA; 7:30 p.m., with Rabbi Yossie Shemtov of Chabad Tucson, 2411 E. Elm Street, chabadtucson.com.
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ONGOING Cong. Or Chadash Mondays with the Rabbi. “Ancient Wisdom to Modern Reform Practice.” Mondays, noon-1:15 p.m. Bring a sack lunch. 512-8500. Cong. Anshei Israel women’s study group led by Rabbi Robert Eisen. First Mondays, noon. Discussion based on “The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman’s Commentary on the Torah.” Bring dairy lunch; beverages and dessert provided. Contact Helen at 299-0340. Tucson J current events discussion, Mondays, noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch, bring or buy, 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. dc mack1952@gmail.com. Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework meets first Mondays, 6:30 p.m., at cosponsor, Jewish Federation-Northwest. Contact Barbara Esmond at 299-1197 or brealjs@gmail.com. “Along the Talmudic Trail” for men (18-40) at Southwest Torah Institute, Mondays, 7 p.m. 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. Tucson J social bridge. Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-3 p.m., year round. Drop-ins welcome. Meets in library on second floor. 2993000. 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@gmail. com or call 505-4161.
Sunday / January 8
11:30 AM: Jewish History Museum gallery chat, Thomas Sayler-Brown will lead discussion of the architectural meanings in the design of the Holocaust History Center. Attendees will receive a 2-for-1 lunch special at 5 Points Market or Cafe Desta valid on the day of the chat. 670-9073.
10 AM-NOON: JFCS CHAI (Cancer, Hope and Inspiration) meeting for women. Ann Baldwin, Ph.D., presents on healing techniques of biofeedback and Reiki, at the Tucson J. RSVP to Andrea Siemens at 795-0300, ext. 2365 or asiemens@ jfcstucson.org.
5 PM: Temple Emanu-El Tot Kabbalat Tu B’Shevat Shabbat followed by dinner at 5:30 p.m. Kosher chicken or vegetarian option and sides, and desserts on the playground. Adults, $10, children under 13 free. RSVP at 327-4501.
10 AM-NOON: Coffee Group for Jewish Artists, at Tucson J. Call Ori Parnaby at 299-3000, ext. 241.
Saturday / January 7 NOON: Cong. Anshei Israel book club discusses “The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman. Call Rayna at 887-8358.
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10:30 AM: Desert Caucus Brunch at Skyline Country Club, 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive, with Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO). Guests should be potential members. Call Jennifer Miller Grant at 490-1453 2 PM: Beth Shalom Temple Center of Green Valley presents “Blooming ? … Where We Are
Talmud on Tuesday with Rabbi Robert Eisen, Tuesdays, 6 p.m. 745-5550. Tucson J Israeli folk dance classes. Tuesdays. Beginners, 7:30 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15 p.m.; advanced, 9 p.m. Taught by Lisa Goldberg. Members, $5; nonmembers, $6. 2993000. Shalom Tucson business networking group, second Wednesday of month, 7:30-9 a.m., at the Tucson J. Contact Ori Parnaby at 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. Temple Emanu-El Talmud study with Dr. Eliot Barron. Wednesdays, 10-11:30 a.m. One-time $18 materials fee. 327-4501. Lunch and learn with Cantor Avraham Alpert of Cong. Bet Shalom, Wednesdays, noon-1 p.m. at the Tucson J. 299-3000. Jewish Federation-Northwest mah jongg, Wednesdays, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. 505-4161. Chabad Tucson lunch and learn with Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin, Wednesdays, 12:15 p.m. at Eli’s Deli. info@ChabadTucson.com. Weintraub Israel Center Shirat HaShirim Hebrew Choir, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., at the Tucson J. Learn to sing in Hebrew. Contact Rina Paz at 304-7943 or ericashem@cox.net. Jewish mothers/grandmother’s special needs support group for those with children/ grandchildren, young or adult, with special needs, third Wednesdays at 7-8:30 p.m. at Tucson J. Contact Joyce Stuehringer at 299-5920. Jewish Federation-Northwest Kibbitz & Schmear open house with bagels and coffee, Thursdays, 10-11:30 a.m. 505-4161. Cong. Bet Shalom Lunch and Learn,
Planted” reception for “Visiting Your Roots” exhibit, with Prof. David Graizbord of the University of Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. Refreshments. 648-6690. 2-4 PM: Temple Emanu-El Taste of Judaism introductory class at Tucson J. Continues Jan. 15 and 22, with Rabbis Samuel Cohon and Batsheva Appel. Free. Call 327-4501, ext. 27 to register. 3 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest and the Tucson International Jewish Film Festival present “Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love,” at DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Dr., SaddleBrooke. $5 per person, at the door. 505-4161. 5 PM: Tucson J Thank you event for greater Tucson firefighters who helped Israel during a major disaster. Israeli cuisine will be served. Free, at the Tucson J. RSVP at obarel@jfsa.org
“Appropriate Speech and the Wisdom of Ramban,” 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. Jewish Federation-Northwest mah jongg, Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. 505-4161. 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 exhibit, “Parts Make the Whole: A Journey Through the Aleph Bet” by Lynn Rae Lowe. Show will run through Jan. 29. Lunch with Lynn will be held on Jan. 11, 18 & 26 from 11:30 a.m-1:30 p.m. Closing reception, Jan. 29, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 299-3000. “This is Hunger” MAZON national touring exhibit through Jan. 8 at the Tucson J. Tickets are free; reserve your 45-minute time slot at thisishunger.org/the-tour/. Beth Shalom Temple Center Art Gallery in Green Valley exhibit, “Visiting Our Roots,” will include photographs and pamphlets from recent visits to Poland, Hungary, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, through Feb. 15. Contact Marcia Wiener at 648-6690.
Monday / January 9 4:30-5:15 PM: Tucson J meditation with Pamela Adler. Members, $10; nonmembers, $12. 2993000.
Tuesday / January 10 6 PM: Jewish Federation Northwest Division Campaign dinner. Syndicated columnist and author Micah Halpern presents “Understanding and Defeating the Terrorist Threat,” at Oro Valley Country Club. $39. RSVP at 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org
Wednesday / January 11 6 PM: JFSA Young Leadership Ben Gurion Society event at private home. RSVP for directions to Karen Graham at 577-9393 or kgraham@jfsa.org.
6:30 PM: Tucson J free college readiness workshop. Bryan Pisetsky of College Knowledge and Renee Bailey of Know Better Do Better Education discuss how to choose a college that’s right for you, tips on scholarships and financial aid, essay writing tips, and making the transition to college. Contact Pisetsky at 818-326-8867. 7 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel kindergarten information night for 2017-18 class. Contact Director Lynne Falkow-Strauss at 745-5550 ext. 229 or lynne@caiaz.org.
Thursday / January 12 9:30 AM Brandeis National Committee University on Wheels breakfast at the Tucson J. Ryan McKittrick, assistant prof. of theater arts, presents “The American Musical from the 19th Century to ‘Hamilton.’” $18 in advance or $20 at the door. RSVP to Arlene at zuck4@juno.com or 577-1457. 7 PM: Tucson International Jewish Film Festival opening night screening of “The Price of Sugar” at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $10. Festival continues through Jan. 22 with a variety of films at Tucson J. Visit tucsonjewishfilmfestival. org or call 615-5432.
Sunday / January 15 9 AM-4:30 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel 11th annual Mah Jongg tournament. $36 includes lunch, game, prizes for top three scorers and round winners. Benefits CAI’s United Synagogue Youth. RSVP with payment required by Jan. 8 at caiaz. org or call Kim at 745-5550, ext. 224. Bring new underwear and socks or gently used sweatshirts and sweatpants for Sister Jose Women’s Center. 3 PM: Hadassah Southern Arizona early dinner. Cathy Olswing presents report on recent mission, “Israel Through Our Eyes,” at Skyline Country Club, 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive. Members, $25; nonmembers, $27. Mail check payable to Hadassah by Jan. 10 to Marcia Winick, 7284 Onda Circle, Tucson, 85715 or call 886-9919.
Tuesday / January 17 NOON: Temple Emanu-El Café Ivri – come speak Hebrew with the Shinshinim (Israeli teen emissaries). Bring dairy/vegetarian lunch. 3274501.
Wednesday / January 18
3 PM: Tucson J sneak peek free mini-concert with cellist Matt Haimovitz, preceding UA Presents concert Jan. 14 at Crowder Hall. 299-3000.
NOON: Chabad Oro Valley lunch and learn. Guest lecturer Rabbi Yossi Friedman will explore the power of the singular mitzvah. $10. 1217 W. Faldo Drive in Oro Valley. RSVP at 477-8672 or office@jewishorovalley.com.
6 PM: Temple Emanu-El Northwest Shabbat dinner and service with Rabbi Batsheva Appel and soloist Lindsey O’Shea, at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo Del Norte. Members, $12; nonmembers, $14. RSVP at 327-4501.
NOON: Jewish Federation-Northwest Lunch and Learn. Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon of Temple Emanu-El will present, “Life After Death in Jewish Belief.” $5 includes pizza and salad lunch. RSVP at northwestjewish@jfsa.org or 505-4161.
7:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat service will include presentation of 2016 Cohon Memorial Foundation Awards to Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the International Federation of Christians and Jews, and Prof. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder of the Amcha Initiative. 327-4501.
6:30-8:30 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Parenting in Peace course, combines the Parenting with Love and Logic program and other parenting empowerment techniques. Course A will be held Jan. 18, 25 and Feb. 1, 8. Course B will be held March 1,8,15 & 22. Led by Naomi Weinberg, MSW. $88 per four-week course. Classes will be held at CAI. Mail payment to Naomi Weinberg, PO Box 17891, Tucson, 85731 or call 404-9300.
Friday / January 13
Saturday / January 14 10:30-11 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel K’Ton Time, lively 20-minute service which includes songs, stories and games for kids plus schmooze time for parents. Geared towards families with kids ages 1-6, but all are welcome. 745-5550
7 PM: Temple Emanu-El Sefer book club with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon discusses “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.” $7 327-4501.
Thursday / January 19 4:30-6:30 PM: JFSA Women’s Philanthropy Lion of Judah “Soul to Sole” event at Skyline Country Club, 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive, with philanthropist and shoe designer Jane Weitzman. Wine and hors d’oeuvres. $60 includes signed copy of Weitzman’s book, “Art & Sole.” RSVP to Jane Scott at 577-9393 or jscott@jfsa.org.
Friday / January 20
Manson at 529-1830. 10 AM-1 PM: Temple Emanu-El Jewish Camp Fair. Representatives from Jewish camps from all over the country will attend. 327-4501.
Monday / January 23 5 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest and Hadassah Southern Arizona book club discusses “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks. 5054161.
5:45 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Family Shabbat Experience Service, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Dinner $25 per family (2 adults and up to 4 children), or $10 per person (adults 13+). RSVP by Jan 17; call Kim at 745-5550 ext. 224 or visit. caiaz.org.
6:45 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest card making class with Anne Lowe. Tea bag folding. $20 includes supplies for two cards. RSVP by Jan. 20 at northwest@jfsa.org or 505-4161.
5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat Rocks! dinner and service. Dinner, $12 for adults, children under 13 free; rsvp at 327-4501. Followed at 6:30 p.m. by service with Avanim rock band and youth choir.
7-9 PM: JFSA Maimonides Society dessert reception at Tucson J. Prof. Ed Wright of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona will explore national and international attempts to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel and whether BDS movement will spread to the UA and Tucson. Health care professionals, $18; interns/residents, $9. RSVP at jfsa.org or call Karen Graham at 577-9393.
9:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Downtown Shabbat at Jewish History Museum, 564 S. Stone Ave., with the Armon Bizman band, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon and soloist Lindsey O’Shea. 327-4501.
Saturday / January 21 NOON: Cong. Anshei Israel Targum Shlishi following Kiddush. Understanding the Torah in form and function, led by Rabbi Robert Eisen. Call Eisen at 745-5550, ext. 230. 8 PM: JFSA Young Leadership Hava Tequila Masquerade at Scottish Rite Cathedral, 160 S. Scott Ave. Hors d’oeuvres, drinks, DJ, dancing, photo booth, raffle prizes. $36. Bring a mask. RSVP at jfsa.org.
Sunday / January 22 9 AM-2 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel blood donor drive with the American Red Cross. Donors ages 16+ and volunteers welcome. Call 1-800-REDCROSS for eligibility questions. To reserve a time slot or volunteer, contact Margo Gray 298-8831 or margocares@yahoo.com. 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
Wednesday / January 25
UPCOMING THURSDAY / JANUARY 26 5:15 PM: UA Hillel Foundation annual alumni and friends’ dinner and presentation by Joe Pasternack, UA associate basketball coach. Adults, $25; ages 12 and under, $10. RSVP by Jan. 19 at uahillel.org or 624-6561. SUNDAY / JANUARY 29 8 AM: JFSA Super Sunday fundraiser at Tucson J. Three volunteer shifts: 8 a.m-10:30 a.m., 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Red Cross blood drive, 8 a.m-2 p.m. Sign up at jfsa.org, 577-9393 or campaign@jfsa.org. SATURDAY / FEBRUARY 4 6 PM: Cong. Or Chadash Texas Hold-Em tournament, dinner and casino night at Tucson Scottish Rite Cathedral, 160 S. Scott Ave. Tournament, $100; casino night, $55. Cash bar. Register at texasholdemtucson.com or contact Mitch Karson at 577-7879.
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DR. MICHAEL FLEISCHMAN and RACHAEL SHULSKIE were married Dec. 3, 2016 at the Grand Velas Resort in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. Larry Fleischman, father of the groom, officiated. Michael grew up in Tucson and is the son of Shelley Heyman and Lawrence Fleischman and grandson of Doris Fleischman of Tucson and Charlotte Morris of West Palm Beach, Fla. He is an orthopedic surgeon. Rachael is the daughter of Pat and Dennis Shulskie of Clawson, Mich. She is a nurse anesthetist. They reside in Vancouver, Wash.
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Be part of a landmark event in our community’s history TH E N E X T 70:
A NEW HOME FOR THE JEWISH FEDER ATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA AND JEWISH COMMUNIT Y FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA Wherever there is a Jewish community, the Federation and Foundation are at work. Rebuilding. Supporting. Strengthening. Changing Jewish lives for the better in countless ways. Now, on the occasion of the Federation’s 70th anniversary, we ask for your help in creating a secure, unified, visible and professional facility that will enable the Federation to house all of its vital service arms and bring the Jewish Community Foundation back to the Campus. This new facility will bring together community members as we work together to ensure our community’s vibrant future. Support the Next 70 Campaign.
Gifts of any size are important and appreciated. Named recognition opportunities are available starting at $1,000. Pledges may be payable for up to five years. For more information, contact Stuart Mellan, stumellan@jfsa.org; Fran Katz, fkatz@jfsa.org; or Marlyne Freedman, marlynej@aol.com.
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Thank you to these community members who have already supported THE NEXT 70. We invite you to join them and be included in future recognition listings. Donate at www.jfsa.org or call 577.9393 LEAD GIFTS Deanna Evenchik-Brav & Harvey Evenchik* Diamond Family Sue & Saul* Tobin The Children of Shaol* and Evie* Pozez Mel & Enid Zuckerman Donald L. Baker* Endowment Fund Jane & Lee* Kivel Paul & Alice Baker BENEFACTORS Maizlish Family Ron & Kathy Margolis Herschel & Jill Rosenzweig Lex & Carol Sears Maltz Family Foundation Ron & Diane Weintraub Brina Grusin Family BUILDERS Gerald & Gail Birin Dick & Sherry Belkin Ed & Fern* Feder Ellis & Irene Friedman Danny Gasch & Janis Wolfe Gasch Eric Groskind & Liz Kanter Groskind Bobby Present & Deborah Oseran James Wezelman & Denise Grusin
CHAI Bruce & Jane Ash Audrey Brooks & Donna Moser Gary & Tandy Kippur Ken & Beverly Sandock Howard & Trudy Schwartz TZEDAKAH Anonymous Jeff & Dianne Grobstein Leonard & Marcelle Joffe Stephen Pozez CHESED Peter Evans Rob & Laurie Glaser Amy Hirshberg Lederman Stuart & Andy Shatken Gerry & Linda Tumarkin James Whitehill & Jane Rodda David & Kathryn Unger TIKKUN OLAM Marlyne Freedman Barry & Madeline Friedman Adam & Dana Goldstein Jeff & Fran Katz Fred & Sharon Klein Landau Family Stuart & Nancy Mellan Terry & Martha Perl Tracy Salkowitz & Rick Edwards Earl & Lee Surwit
CHAVERIM Jim & Ruth Barwick JR & Tamar Bergantino Amy Beyer Neil & Ilana Boss-Markowitz Keith Dveirin & Julie Feldman Esta Goldstein Carol Hollander Josh & Ashley Hurand Carole Levi David & Anne Lowe Todd & Jenni Rockoff Carol Sack Eric & Andrea Schindler Leonard & Sarah Schultz Ed & Robyn Schwager Kenny & Sandra Wortzel John & Kitty Wu CONTRIBUTORS Stephen & Ruth Dickstein Richard & Wendy Feldman Kate Sassoon Monique Steinberg Includes commitments received as of 12/12/16. Please contact the Federation to correct any omissions or errors. *Of blessed memory