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President shares stage: Lillian Pinkus presented with King David Award ‘Conversation’ with President George W. Bush highlights his support of Israel

By Ben Tinsley TJP Staff Reporter

DALLAS — Lillian Pinkus and George W. Bush made for a fascinating double feature during Monday’s Israel Bonds King David Award Dinner at the Omni Dallas Hotel.

The event spotlighted Pinkus, pro-Israel advocate and enthusiastic president-elect of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, for her service to Israel. Former President Bush, staunch supporter of the state of Israel, was there as featured speaker.

The event ultimately helped sell $60 million in bonds for Israel projects, programs and improvements.

It is believed to be the largest Bonds event since an inaugural event at Madison Square Garden

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From left: Israel Bonds Board Chair Richard Hirsch, National Chairman Fred Zeidman, President George W. Bush, President and CEO Izzy Tapoohi, Texas Leadership Cabinet Chair Ken Goldberg, National Board Member Jason Schwartz

in 1951 — attracting as many as 1,500 people — children, teenagers an adults.

The program began with

powerful renditions of the national anthems of America and Israel by students of Booker T. Washington High School.

Texas Leadership Cabinet Chair Kenny Goldberg and National Board Member Jason Schwartz greeted the audience and officially

began the event.

There also was a videotaped presentation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

March 19, 2015 | 3 who delivered a tribute to Israel Bonds and commended the impact the bonds have on Israel’s economy.

Jaime Karakowsky, 26, from Monterrey, Mexico, spoke with the crowd about how he perceives Israel bonds as a way of promoting and strengthening the ability of the state of Israel to help the world Jewish community.

Karakowsky said the Monterrey Jewish community from which he comes is very close-knit — about 500 people. But in recent years people haven’t felt as secure there, so many have moved to Israel. Karakowsky said he developed his feelings for Israel as a result of this tight-knit community and because of time he spent at Camp Young Judaea, a Zionist summer camp in Wimberley, Texas.

There, Karakowsky met young people from around the world, which he said opened his eyes to

the world of Judaism beyond his small community.

Bonds Chairman of the Board Richard Hirsch and President and CEO Izzy Tapoohi were on hand to present the King David Award to Pinkus.

Pinkus is the child of two Holocaust survivors and the first of several Dallas-Fort Worth residents to be named to the national board of AIPAC. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis and an M.Ed. from Harvard.

Desire for safe homeland During her comments she spoke of family, unity, and the of keeping Israel a safe homeland.

“Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people,” she said. “It is a holy land for many great faiths.”

She said the Jewish people belong in Israel forever and their presence there is not “reparations for the Holocaust.”

Pinkus briefly touched on

the subject of the current U.S. negotiations that could limit Iran nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of political and economic sanctions — a move some fear could lead to a Middle East nuclear standoff.

She said AIPAC will continue, unequivocally, to foster the relationship between the United States and Israel.

Pinkus will begin her term as AIPAC president in March 2016.

Her voice, meanwhile, has reached a lot of people — many of whom have gone on to support the state of Israel by purchasing debt securities from its government.

As far as Israel bonds are concerned, Pinkus said investing in the security of Israel is an investment in a “country with a soul.”

President Bush was upclose, candid, warm and incredibly funny. Because of his administration’s close relationship

with Israel, he was very warmly received at the event.

During his remarks, President Bush spoke about his first visit to Israel, referring to it as one of his most meaningful experiences.

The president (who served the country from 2001 to 2009), recalled a 1998 visit to Israel — while he was still governor of Texas — during which he took a helicopter ride with then-Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon.

Looking straight down at Israel from the helicopter, Bush was astonished at how small and vulnerable the country seemed to him.

And after the 9/11 terror attacks, Bush said, he completely understood what it was like for Israel to be attacked.

That understanding strengthened his resolve to remain an ally of Israel — and to take on a certain responsibility for the country’s survival, Bush told the

audience of 1,500 Monday night.

“There is no doubt about the relationship between Israel and the United States,” Bush said.

The former president said when it comes to the foreign policies of the U.S. and Israel, “there is no daylight.”

President Bush’s presentation wasn’t as much a keynote address as it was simply a candid public conversation with an old friend.

Houstonian Fred S. Zeidman, former national chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — the person who actually helped recruit the former president to speak at Monday’s event — interviewed him onstage.

Zeidman is Israel Bonds’ national chair.

Bush commended Pinkus for her service to Israel and added to her point about Iran — that he believes Iran remains a threat to the U.S. and the entire Middle East.

Exit polls: Zionist Union, Likud still neck-and-neck TEL AVIV (JTA) — Exit polls in Israel showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party neck-and-neck at the top with the center-left Zionist Union led by Isaac Herzog.

The two parties had 27 seats each, according to the polls by the Channel 1 and Channel 10 television stations. Channel 2 had Likud with 28 and Zionist Union with 27.

The polls showed the ArabIsraeli Joint List finishing third with 13 seats, according to Channels 2 and 10, and the centrist Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid and currently the Knesset’s

largest party, coming in fourth.

The newly founded Kulanu, led by former Likud minister Moshe Kachlon, placed fifth.

Early returns show split According to the Channel 1 and Channel 10 polls, the rightwing haredi Orthodox bloc will hold 54 seats, with the center-left Arab bloc at 56 seats. Channel 2 has them at 54 and 57, respectively.

President Reuven Rivlin responded to the results by calling for a unity government.

Jewish Home, the pro-settler, religious Zionist party led by Naftali Bennett, placed sixth with

nine seats, according to Channel 1, down from the 12 it holds in the current Knesset.

The haredi Orthodox Shas party was seventh with seven seats followed by United Torah Judaism with six seats, though Channel 10 had them tied at seven apiece.

In a tie for ninth were the left-wing Meretz and right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu with five seats each, according to all the polls.

The far-right Yachad did not win enough votes to enter Knesset.

The next Knesset will have 10 parties, two fewer than the departing parliament.

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Rabbi’s car defaced with swastika

By Ben Tinsley TJP Staff Writer

DALLAS — To the Jewish people, the swastika represents the very darkest evil in living memory. In the words of Rabbi Yaakov Rich, it is the most vile and offensive of symbols.

Rich is leader of Congregation Toras Chaim, a small Orthodox Jewish community that worships privately at a home in the 7100 block of Mumford Court in the Highlands of McKamy subdivision in North Dallas.

The rabbi said he was shocked to discover Wednesday that the front of his 1997 Honda Accord had been defaced with a swastika made with white spray paint. (His 23-year-old son discovered the damage.)

“It sends a very, very powerful message,” the rabbi said.

The vehicle was parked by the home-synagogue at the time. The vandalism apparently took place while Congregation Toras Chaim services were being conducted.

“It happened in broad daylight,” explained Roberta Clark, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Dallas police were quickly called and the incident is under investigation as a “hate crime.”

This is believed to be an isolated incident. In an unrelated matter, someone tore the mezuzah off the front door of Congregation Toras Chaim’s previous home in the same Highlands of McKamy subdivision about a year and half ago.

Rabbi Rich said he will be looking into installing cameras around the synagogue and meeting with people who are experts in security.

News of the vandalism echoed through the city Thursday. After

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On the lawn of Congregation Toras Chaim, located in Far North Dallas, Rabbi Yaakov Rich comments on his car being defaced with a swastika the day before.

attending a news conference during which members of the Liberty Institute discussed the incident, D-FW area reporters swarmed around the Highlands of McKamy homesynagogue hoping to catch a comment from Rabbi Rich.

Now is kind of a vulnerable time for Rabbi Rich and members of Congregation Toras Chaim, who have been in the news quite a bit lately.

Dismissed lawsuit Orthodox Jews do not drive on the Sabbath and typically live within walking distance of a synagogue. A house in the Highlands of McKamy has been the active synagogue for the group since 2011.

But recently, there have been legal challenges. In February, a Collin County judge dismissed a longstanding lawsuit filed by a neighbor who alleged operation of a synagogue in the Highlands of McKamy subdivision

was forbidden under “private deed restrictions.”

On March 3, Rich and attorneys with Liberty Institute — which is representing CTC pro bono — announced that Dallas City Attorney Warren Ernst has filed a second lawsuit against Congregation Toras Chaim and homeowners Mark Gothelf and Judith Gothelf, alleging they have not complied with city ordinances addressing fire safety, accessibility for those with disabilities and parking while CTC has operated out of the synagogue home.

City officials have asked a district court judge to impose a $1,000-a-day fine against Congregation Toras Chaim and the house owners until they legally obtain a certificate of occupancy for non-residential use of that property.

Expensive change Congregation Toras Chaim members and attorneys from the Liberty Institute contend the city is trying to infringe on their religious liberty and that the changes they are being asked to make could total as much as $200,000. City officials say they have no intention of restricting the location of synagogues or any other places of worship.

As far as the March 11 vandalism is concerned, Clark said it is important to let Dallas police do their jobs and not to rush to judgment about who drew the swastika or why.

“It is important to make sure the facts are all lined up because this may very well be a random criminal act,” the ADL regional director said.

“Certainly any form of vandalism has a hateful message.”

Authorities, meanwhile, were very conservative in their comments about the incident.

“We have no official statement,” Dallas Police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said in an email response to a reporter’s inquiry. “The case is under investigation.”

But Clark said she contacted Dallas police and is confident authorities are taking the incident very seriously.

“They are pushing it quite aggressively,” she said. “The most helpful thing would be for anyone who might have seen this happen to call police and report it.”

Violence intolerable Justin Butterfield, Liberty Institute Senior Counsel said acts of violence against religious beliefs are being perpetrated around the world but should never be tolerated in America.

“We are horrified,” he said.

Rabbi Rich told reporters Thursday he has entertained the idea that the swastika was a prank by a youngster who might not have understood the full implications of what he was doing.

The rabbi said he was wiling to give a hug and, possibly, forgiveness if that person came forward.

Rich said he believes Dallas police will increase patrols around the synagogue.

After recovering from initial shock, the rabbi appeared to be in good humor when answering media questions on the lawn of the synagogue Thursday.

“I was able to wash off the spray paint with fingernail polish,” he said with a smile. “The paint job on my car is so terrible that the fingernail polish probably only enhanced it.”

Neighborhood support News travels fast, and Rabbi Rich said Thursday that many friends and neighbors in the McKamy subdivision know what happened and have been very supportive in the wake of the incident.

One motorist passing by noticed Rabbi Rich and stopped abruptly in the street to offer his condolences. The man behind the wheel of the car was very emotional and his eyes started to well up with tears as he spoke, the rabbi said.

“He said, ‘I just want to tell you I’m sorry it happened,’” Rabbi Rich said. “It was a wonderful gesture.”

Information about Congregation Toras Chaim’s legal battles can be found at: https://www.libertyinstitute. org/toras.

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FORT WORTH — Shimon Peres is considered by many to be the last of Israel’s true founding fathers.

The former president and prime minister of Israel has held every high office in the Israeli government. He has befriended numerous heads of state, cultural icons, religious leaders and visionaries. He is one of only a small handful of people who have ever been awarded the Presidential Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Peres will present and explain his vision for the Middle East region, the world and implications for the world’s future leadership during “A World View,” a special March 23 luncheon at the Fort Worth Convention Center Ballroom 1201 Houston Street. At least 700 people are expected to attend the event, which goes to benefit TCC Foundation scholarships and programs.

The acquisition of Peres as speaker is being hailed as a coup for Tarrant County College — which is using the event to mark its 50th anniversary. Tarrant County College, the nation’s 15thlargest higher education institution, serves more than 100,000 students each year, according to an issued statement.

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“We see this as our gift back to the community,” he said. “Here is history in the making — something that may never occur again.”

Bob Goldberg, executive director at Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, agreed. “[Peres] is a very well-respected world leader, a diplomat, and from a Jewish perspective — a hero of Israel,” Goldberg said. “There has been some excitement in

the community to know that someone of that magnitude will be speaking.”

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JFS Dallas 2015 Community Conference March 22-23 Jewish Family Service (JFS) and the UNT Health Sciences

Program will present “When the War Comes Home: Trauma and the Military Family,” a community

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Professional speakers and panelists will address the challenges that veterans and their families may face upon returning from the military — challenges such as traumatic stress, depression, substance abuse, family violence and other difficulties adjusting to everyday life.

The Dr. Sol Lurie Community Presentation, “It’s Our Time to Serve the Military Families,” will kick off the two-day conference beginning Sunday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas.

This evening presentation, which is open to the entire community, will focus on the difficulty many veterans and their families face as they readjust to everyday life and the steps that our community, education and mental health professionals can take to aid in their transition.

The 18th annual Janis Ablon Professional Conference will continue Monday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Congregation Shearith Israel.

Conference objectives include identifying clinical guidelines for assessing and treating military- related mental health issues; learning to understand the impact of sexual trauma in the military; describing

best practice treatments and resources for increasing awareness and competence; and specifying steps that every citizen can take in building a community of care.

Continuing education credits will be available for physicians, nurses, social workers, licensed professional counselors, psychologists and licensed marriage and family therapists.

Temple Emanu-El Couples Club has new officers Congratulations to Temple Emanu-El Couples Club’s new officers. The 2015-2016 slate was presented at the group’s most recent luncheon meeting at the Prestonwood Country Club.

Nelda Golden, founder of the club in 1989, conducted the program and installed the new officers, who are as follows: presidents, Edie and Paul Singer; vice presidents, Shirley and Maurice Nurenberg and Roberta and Donald Spector; vice presidents (social), Renee and Buddy Gilbert with their assistant committee, vice presidents (membership) Roslyn and Richard Polakoff and Phyllis and Paul Rifkin; secretaries, Lois and Alan Kohn; and treasurers, Sandra and Dan Gorman.

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March 19, 2015 | 7 also acknowledged. They are: parliamentarians, Carole and Barry Cohen; historians, Susan and Morris Hasson; sunshine, Joyce and Jerry Zellman; publicity, Renee and Buddy Gilbert; and communications, Elaine and Bernie Weil.

The Temple Emanu-El Couples Club, founded 26 years ago, is a social club open to Temple members as well as other Jewish couples in the community. One member of the couple should be 55 years of age or older. For more information or to join, call Roslyn and Richard Polakoff at 972-7018721, or Phyllis and Paul Rifkin at 972-380-2594.

RoughRiders Broadcaster Alex Vispoli speaking at Beth Torah Alex Vispoli, the voice of the Frisco RoughRiders and the team’s manager of broadcasting and media development, will be the guest speaker at Congregation Beth Torah Men’s Club Alex Vispoli S u n d a y m o r n i n g breakfast March 22.

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New Temple Emanu-El Couples Club officers sworn in for 2015-2016 are, from left, Vice Presidents Maurice and Shirley Nurenberg, and Presidents Paul and Edie Singer. (Not pictured: Vice-Presidents Roberta and Donald Spector)

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The Rangers’ opening game is April 6 and the RoughRiders start the season April 9.

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monthly lox-and-bagel breakfast, which begins at 9 a.m. and costs $10, $5 for students. Beth Torah is located at 720 W. Lookout Drive in Richardson, near the crossroads of Bush Turnpike and Central Expressway.

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For years, to me it seemed that most Jews expressed their love for Israel through two vital organizations: Hadassah and Israel Bonds. The Fort Worth and Tarrant County Jewish community has been stalwart supporters of both.

It was wonderful to see such a large turnout of folks at the Israel Bonds event Monday night.

In addition to hearing honoree Lillian Pinkus share her passionate remarks about the importance of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, the audience was treated to what felt like, to this writer, very candid and warm remarks from President George W. Bush, whose support of Israel is legendary.

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Members of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville trekked to Dallas recently for a Passover shopping trip at Tom Thumb. Pictured, from left, are Olivia Zelling, Sandy Silverman, Stacey Silverman, Michelle Salzman, Nora Bushlow, Tirzah Van Buskirk-Hodges, Camille LaDrew.

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Teaching the teachers:Akiba early childhood staff explain their Reggio-based system to SC Cutler

By Rosie Bernstein Special to the TJP

Walking down the hall of any preschool, one is likely to see bright colors and little feet. One is likely to hear giggles, nursery rhymes and gleeful songs. The most precious sight of all: that of teachers inspiring the curiosity of the blooming young minds in their classrooms and fostering the growth of the children. What is more unprecedented, however, is the sight of teachers teaching teachers. And walking down the hallway of the Akiba Academy of Dallas Early Childhood building over Presidents Day Weekend, that is precisely what was taking place.

Eight years ago, Rabbi Meir Muller, the head of school at the Cutler Jewish Day School, traveled to Dallas for a National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) conference. Every year at the NAEYC conference, the National Jewish Early Childhood Network (NJECN) hosts its own conference simultaneously in the same city. As part of one of their events, NJECN toured the Akiba Academy campus with a special focus on the Early Childhood Program. Muller was one of about 100 educators who toured Akiba that day.

Four years later, Muller

returned as an assessor for Akiba’s accreditation with the Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative (JECEI).

The Cutler Jewish Day School is a community school in South Carolina that offers dualcurriculum education to both non-Jewish and Jewish children of all denominations ranging from age 1 until fifth grade.

Reggio Emilia is an approach to early childhood education that influences both the program at Akiba and that of Cutler.

The Reggio philosophy believes the child to be strong, capable and resilient, rich with wonder, curiosity and knowledge.

Changes for Cutler Cutler is currently preparing to add onto its building, and the staff is trying to find ways to renovate both the physical environment and enhance their teaching practices.

Since Muller left Akiba in 2010, he planned for and thought about the day when he could return again with his staff at his side.

Visiting Akiba was a two-year plan for Cutler, using professional development funds from both this year and last year to make the trip to Dallas happen.

“I was extremely impressed by the environment,” Muller recalls.

“I have visited so many Jewish

schools across the country; Akiba just stood out in my mind as a really wonderful early childhood model, and I wanted to share that with the teachers in South Carolina.”

The much-anticipated trip began Sunday, Feb. 14 with a full tour of the Akiba campus as an introduction to the events that were to come. Next, Gail Mabel, Kochava Malka, Lindsey Silvis, Marissa Caspary and Miriam Nelson, the Akiba teachers who participated in the day, gave various training sessions. They discussed long-term project work in early childhood, creating an art studio both in the classroom and as its own space and the intentionality behind how Akiba sets up its classroom environments. Some of the teachers from Cutler were interested in taking a closer look at some lower school classrooms as they teach kindergarten through fifth grade. Following the sessions, more in-depth tours were given of the early childhood environments.

On Tuesday, the Cutler teachers saw the entire Akiba Early Childhood Program in action, as they observed a regular morning at Akiba and sat in the classrooms.

“At Akiba, we are very thoughtful and intentional with everything that we do, from setting up the environments as a third

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teacher to planning a curriculum that is designed to build on each child’s strengths and interests while supporting their growth and development,” Akiba Director of Early Childhood Jordana Bernstein explained. “We explore topics of interests through long-term project investigations and through handson experiences with a variety of interesting materials. The teachers and children engage with one another as researchers, developing the confidence in the children to think critically, ask questions and continuously find the wonder and joy in their learning.”

Cutler was looking to learn from Akiba about how to better implement Reggio-inspired practices in the classroom. A few of the teachers from Cutler that visited had never even seen the environment working as the third teacher that the Reggio Emilia philosophy encourages. As they look forward to the new addition to their building, the Cutler staff seeks ways to utilize it in the most effective manner.

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Chili connoisseurs make final preps

By Ben Tinsley TJP Staff Reporter

DALLAS — By all accounts, it’s the largest kosher chili cook-off on the planet.

Forty-nine teams. Twenty vendors. An expected 4,000 people in attendance. At least 1,300 pounds of beef and — according to current estimates — more than 900 gallons of chili to be prepared and consumed.

Some chili will be spicy and

some will not at the 22nd Annual Dallas Kosher Chili Cook-off — which runs from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 22, on the Tiferet Israel campus, 10909 Hillcrest Road in Dallas.

“The bragging rights that go to the winner are a really big deal for those who come to compete,” explained Ed Jerome, cook-off cochairman and past president of Tiferet Israel congregation. “But really, it’s an opportunity to get the community to come together.”

Chili judges

Judges for the 22nd Annual Dallas Kosher Chili Cook-off on March 22: • Steve Blow, Dallas Morning News columnist • Michael Beck, Omni Hotel • Robert Bifulco, Ex-Culinary Arts Program Chair, Remington College • Eduardo De La Cruz, TCA State Culinary Student Ambassador • Samir Dhurandhar, Nick & Sam’s • David Federer, Food Blogger and writer from Chicago • Morgan Miller, Bolsa • Pete Nolasco, Chef Pete Catering • Mico Rodriguez, MiCocina Restaurants • David Smith, Westin Hotel

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There will be concession stands, games, rides, live music, vendors and a silent auction, officials said.

The food will be evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges, many of whom hail from the food service industry.

Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow confirmed

Friday he will be one of the judges.

“As a Texan, I certainly know chili,” Blow said in email correspondence with a TJP reporter. “But as a Baptist, I don’t know the first thing about kosher.

I’m looking forward to seeing how these two ancient traditions combine.”

Blow said Frank X. Tolbert — a Texas journalist, historian, and chili enthusiast who died in 1984 — was one of the patriarchs of chili competition and a columnist predecessor of his at The Dallas Morning News.

“I know Frank would love that a kosher chili cook-off has flourished in Dallas for so long,” Blow said. “I’ll be thinking of Frank as I perform my solemn duties as a chili judge.”

The longtime success of the event is credited to the unwavering support of Title Sponsors Key Whitman Eye Center and Marsh McLennan Agency — known locally as Prescott Pailet Benefits.

Jerome said Dan Prescott, Mark Kleinman and Jack Baum first established the Kosher Chili Cookoff in 1994.

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on a social basis without arguing about anything,” he said.

In a news release, Prescott said he, Kleinman and Baum were simply looking to establish a quality family event.

“It is amazing how it has grown into an event that has become recognized on a national and international level,” he said.

Dr. Jeffrey Whitman, president of Key-Whitman Eye Center, said in the release that there is something for everyone at the event, including kids rides, PJ Library readings, face painting and great music.

“The best part is the sampling of 49 delicious and distinguishably different kosher chili recipes,” he stated.

The chili remains kosher under rabbinic supervision.

As many as 45 of the 50 teams are composed of various area Jewish organizations and the remaining five include participants from the Tom Thumb and Whole Foods grocery store chains, according to Jerome.

Six of the teams will make vegetarian chili, which in some Texas circles is verboten. But people can be persnickety chili eaters, he said.

“Some people say if it doesn’t have meat, it’s not chili,” he said.

“Others say if it doesn’t have beans it isn’t chili or if it does have beans it isn’t chili.”

For those concerned about navigation, officials say the easiest way to get to the cook-off is to park at

March 19, 2015 | 11 the JCC on Northaven road and take the free shuttle bus to the Kosher Chili Cook-off. Buses — arriving and departing every 15 minutes — run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

The JCC Maccabi Games and the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces will share a portion of the proceeds of the event.

The JCC Maccabi Games was first held in the United States in 1982 to provide Jewish youth with a supportive environment that fosters mutual respect and sportsmanship, according to the release. In August, Dallas will be a host city for the Maccabi Games — the first time since 2005. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, or FIDF, was established in 1981 by a group of Holocaust survivors as a nonprofit organization working with the Israel Defense Forces to meet the well-being and needs of the men and women serving in its ranks, wounded veterans and the families of fallen soldiers.

In addition to the festivities, the event helps support the food drive benefiting the Food Bank at Jewish Family Services.

Attendees can donate items, but the cook-off teams are also encouraged to donate any unused ingredients to JFS. These donations have made the cookoff a significant donor to the JFS pantry, which serves residents in 19 ZIP codes in North Dallas, officials said.

Admission to the kosher chili cook-off is $12 for adults, $6 for children over 3 years and under 10.

Children 2 and under are admitted at no charge. The overall cost includes “all the chili you can

Admission • $12 for adults, $6 for children over 3 and under 10 years of age.

Children 2 and under admitted at no charge.

• Cost includes all the chili you can taste.

• Tickets for food vendors and games are available for purchase at the gate and throughout the venue.

• To inquire about the event, call 214-691-3611 or visit http:// kosherchilicookoff.us/.

• As many as 4,000 people expected to grace the event • In addition to chili tastings, the cook-off includes concession stands, games, rides, live music, vendors and a silent auction.

Photo: TJP Staff SOURCE: Ed Jerome, cook-off Camp Young Judaea took home the co-chairman and top prize last year. past president of Tiferet Israel congregation.

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Tickets for food vendors and games are available for purchase at the gate and throughout the venue.

“The best thing about the chili cook-off is we bring the full spectrum of the Jewish community to one place and then we all eat the same food under the same tent,” Jerome said.

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the event looks like something for my kids and grandkids to enjoy as well,” the Dallas Morning News columnist said. “Terlingua may be a more famous name among chili-heads, but Tiferet Israel has a great tradition going with this 22nd annual Kosher Chili Cook-off. I’m honored to be a part of it this year.”

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Tips for hosting a special needs-friendly Seder

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(JTA) — I knew when we got to the drawing of the sad-looking lamb that I had exactly one page before showtime.

As the youngest daughter and cousin on both sides of my family, reading the Four Questions was always my job at the Passover Seder. Since my severe obsessivecompulsive disorder compelled me to recite everything exactly right, the job was so nerve-wracking to me that I often started panting days before.

For some children, the Seder means delicious jellied candies and afikomen hunts. For others it can mean terrifying public reading and unbearable amounts of sitting still

at the table. And for those special needs — whether psychological, developmental or language-based — it’s clear this night is different from all other nights. But can somebody slow down and please explain why?

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Seder in the living room. It’s a much more relaxed environment than sitting at the table, and guests can get up and walk around if they need to, or even have a few snacks.

Matan’s Polsky says it’s also good to set aside a “quiet space” to relax for guests who become overwhelmed by crowds or noise.

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a wheelchair who cannot get to the table, guests with disabilities often require some modifications in order to feel welcome and included at the Seder.

Fortunately, such modifications are not difficult and can make the Seder more enjoyable for everyone.

After all, who hasn’t at least occasionally experienced Seder table boredom?

Meredith Englander Polsky, co-founder of Matan, a New York nonprofit that advocates for Jewish students with disabilities, says the Seder is “the perfect opportunity for inclusion” because it involves multiple senses and learning styles: “taste, touch, acting things out, singing, speaking and listening.”

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Talk to children beforehand about what exactly the Seder will look like. They can also help prepare the Seder plate: a great opportunity to sniff the bitter herbs, taste the charoset or even crumble the matzah.

Both Matan and and Gateways, Texas Jewish Post 2015 Summer a Boston program that helps Jewish

day schools and congregational schools be inclusive of students with special needs, have numerous downloadable materials on their websites, including “Seder trackers” and Passover Bingo cards that spell out the order of events in bright pictures. Gateways has just published a colorful new Haggadah designed specifically for children with disabilities. Another possibility: Passover toys, like matzah juggling balls or plague finger puppets, which can be found in many online outlets and Judaica stores.

On the educational website w w w.c h a l l a hc r u m b s .c om , Devorah Katz suggests creating your own family Haggadah with your favorite photographs.

Whatever you choose to bring to yours, make sure everyone feels welcome to participate.

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The maggid (recitation of the Haggadah) is the longest stretch of time for children to be at attention, so it’s imperative to make it exciting and interactive. Some suggestions from Polsky and Ruskay-Kidd: • Pyramid building: You can set up stations in your home or on the table. Use Legos, Lincoln Logs, MagnaTiles or any other building materials you find. A delicious option: Try mini-marshmallows and toothpicks. Everyone gets to build a pyramid that can later be gobbled up for dessert.

• Schlep: Ask children to act out being a slave by carrying a heavy bag of books over his or her shoulder and pretending that it is bricks.

• Split the sea: Hold up blue sheets and have children walk through them.

• Play out the plagues: Act out the plagues such as jumping like frogs or falling over like cattle.

Download Matan’s visual Ten Plagues so everyone can see them and debate whether they’d rather be a grasshopper or a locust. You can “paint” the doorways with a paintbrush and water so the Angel of Death knows to pass over.

• Cut to the chase: If guests are getting too hungry or restless, it’s best to skip a few pages or cut to the songs. The maggid can be two minutes or two hours, but the message will only resonate

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8th Annual Zweig Family End of School Year Bash will strike a perfect score for charity April 19 Benefit to feature bowling, auction, trophies and prizes The eighth annual End of School Year Bash, sponsored by the Gladys Golman/Faye Dallen Special Needs Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation (GGFD), promises to bowl a perfect game for North Texas’ special needs community.

More than 200 bowlers are expected to converge from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, April 19 at Bowlmor Dallas, 3805 Beltline Road in Addison, for a day of fun and fundraising. Pizza and drinks will be served, and trophies and prizes will be awarded to the top bowlers across age groups. Also included will be a silent auction for valuable prizes, including a Cinco Vodka Martini Tasting and Party with the brand’s creators.

Participants are encouraged to arrive early to select their game balls and shoes. The event is open to the public and admission is $18, which includes bowling fees, shoes and snacks. Kosher food will be available.

The 8th Annual End of School Year Bash is presented to attract interest and generate funds to train educators on how to better teach and work with children with learning differences. During the past seven

years, the GGFD Fund has raised more than $450,000, gifting dozens of grants to Jewish Family Service, area schools and institutions to train religious, preschool and day school teachers to enable children with learning challenges to be successful because “every child deserves a quality Jewish education.” Louis Zweig, with his wife, Robin, founded the GGFD Fund in honor of their son, David, who has Asperger’s syndrome. Asperger’s is an autism-spectrum disorder that is characterized by social interaction difficulties and behavioral issues.

“Our goal for the program is to be a resource for every family with a child who has special needs and every teacher and staff person in the Dallas Jewish community,” said Michael Fleisher, chief executive officer of Jewish Family Service.

“With these efforts, students with special needs will reach their full potential through classes and activities that are inclusive, interactive and meaningful for all participants. Our objective is to ensure that every school, synagogue and organization can participate and succeed. We are very proud to be a partner of the Gladys Golman/Faye Dallen Special Needs Fund, who has provided invaluable leadership to this effort, created momentum, provided essential funding and made an overall positive impact,”

Fleisher said.

The need for awareness and resources in support of children with special needs continues to grow.

Schools seek the ability to foster growth for students in their schools with special needs, and to recruit students whose needs are not being met with their current schools.

Sponsorship opportunities are encouraged and are available at different levels for groups of team attendees: Platinum Sponsor ­ — $18,000; Title Sponsor ­— $10,000; Presenting Sponsor — $5,000; 300 Sponsor — $3,000; 7-10 Split Sponsor — $1,800; Gold Sponsor — $1,000; Silver Sponsor — $500; and Lane Sponsor — $250.

“We believe that one out of every 10 children has some sort of learning difference that is not properly addressed by preschools, day schools, and religious schools,” said GGFD Fund co-founder, Louis Zweig. “We are focused on programs and resources that not only help the teachers, but also the parents and other students that are impacted with learning differences.”

Past recipients of GGFD grants include: Jewish Family Service; Congregation Shearith Israel; Tiferet Israel; Jewish Community Center Kenny and Sherry Goldberg Early Childhood Center; Anshai Torah; Congregation Beth Torah; Temple Emanu-El; Temple Shalom;

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FILM REVIEW

Deli Man: Corned beef, hot pastrami and a very large ham

By Susan Kandell Wilkofsky

Don’t get too upset — the ham mentioned in the subtitle is not on the menu at Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen located in Houston, but instead refers to its affable owner, David “Ziggy” Gruber.

Ziggy is a third-generation deli man who serves as our chaperone through the world of Jewish delis with the same care and passion as he serves an overstuffed pastrami sandwich (with coleslaw or potato salad on the side, natch!).

The third film in a trilogy (A Cantor’s Tale, The Klezmatics — On Holy Ground) about Jewish culture by director Erik Greenberg Anjou, Deli Man is a delightful documentary that celebrates 160 years of tradition.

Deli Man Deli Man opens Lov ing ly Friday, March 20 presented by exclusively at the Jewish deli Angelika Film owners across Center / Dallas the United Rated: PG13 States and Runtime: 90 Canada and minutes some notable customers, Deli Man explores a historical perspective infused with wistful stories as told by deli-eating mavens. Jerry Stiller, Fyvush Finkel and Larry King wax nostalgic about the days when hot dogs were 2 cents and there were more than 1,500 kosher delis in New York City alone! Today, that number has dwindled to a mere 150.

Comeback of the deli?

According to Ziggy, this is one of the most significant points of the film — the disappearance of delis across the United States.

“If this film gets the word out and people realize that something important is disappearing, then maybe we’ll see a reversal. It tells them we are still here and that they can pay homage to their culture.

They will quit thinking that sushi is Jewish food.”

Ziggy, a graduate of the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in London, opened his first deli in New York, then another in Los Angeles before opening Kenny & Ziggy’s in Houston.

But besides his culinary skills, Ziggy brings so much more to the proverbial table. His famous deli presents huge pastrami sandwiches and other deli classics in an old-fashioned setting, with a hefty dose of culture and family

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He hopes that the film will “inspire families to go to the attic and dust off those old heirloom recipes and start cooking these old dishes again — not just for the holidays but all year long. It

preserves history and culture in a very exciting way.”

I do want to caution you about one thing — after you see Deli Man, you will crave a corned beef sandwich on rye with a knish and matzo ball soup. Road trip, anyone?

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Choo-choos, baa-baas ­­— and back to Sinai New children’s books crop up as Passover approaches

By Penny Schwartz

BOSTON (JTA) — When Deborah Bodin Cohen immersed herself in rabbinical school in the early 1990s, she expected to spend a year in Israel as part of her studies with Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion. What she didn’t know was that a decade later, the experience of living in Jerusalem would spark her inspiration for a children’s book that has become a popular award-winning series.

Engineer Ari and the Passover Rush, Bodin Cohen’s fourth book in Kar-Ben’s Engineer Ari series, is among a trio of new children’s books for the eight-day holiday marking the Jewish Exodus from Egypt.

Shahar Kober provides the illustrations.

Passover begins this year with the first Seder on the evening of April 3.

Other new books for the holiday include And Then Another Sheep Turned Up, by Laura Gehl, illustrated by Amy Adele, and a rare middle-reader Passover chapter book, Scarlett and Sam: Escape from Egypt, by the popular writer Eric Kimmel and illustrated by Ivica Stevanovic.

Bodin Cohen, the author of other

award-winning Jewish children’s books, including The Seventh Day and Nachshon Who Was Afraid to Swim, credits the idea for the Ari character to her daughter Ariana, who as a preschooler was a train enthusiast. Her daughter’s train play stirred memories of living near Jerusalem’s historic train station that dated back to the 1890s.

“I literally passed it every day,” she told JTA. Bodin Cohen, the director of congregational learning at Congregation Har Shalom in Potomac, Maryland, realized that she could create a story of a train adventure based in historic Israel — one that would also entertain her own daughter and her friends.

Each of the Engineer Ari stories has some historical element, she points out, with extensive research and consultation with a curator of the Israel Railway Museum in Haifa.

While the book is not about Israel, it is the backdrop, one of Bodin Cohen’s goals.

“The idea of an illustrated book exposes kids to some of the beauty of Israel, the wildlife and the agriculture,” she said.

Engineer Ari and the Passover Rush Deborah Bodin Cohen, illustrated by Shahar

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Engineer Ari is a friendly train engineer, an imagined character based on Jer u sa lem’s early railway system that transpor ted people and goods between Jaffa and Jerusalem dating back to the end of the 19th century in prestate Palestine.

Like the previous books in the series — for Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot and Hanukkah — this charming tale is set at the eve of the holiday.

In the Passover Rush, Engineer Ari is in a hurry to make his last run before the start of the Seder. The sense of urgency to keep track of time for the train schedule is a perfect pairing for the story of Passover, when the Israelites fled Egypt.

His ride to Jerusalem has neighbors offering him foods for his Seder plate, including a bowl of charoset made with almonds and dates, a traditional Sephardi custom. Ari promises that on his return route, he’ll deliver newly baked matzoh in exchange. As he arrives back in Jaffa in the nick of time, he and his neighbors swap the Jerusalem matzoh for

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Young kids will enjoy the fun adventure, which also introduces the elements of preparing the Passover Seder.

The cartoon-like illustrations by the Israeli artist Kober will delight young readers, with animated characters dressed in colorful native garb, and bustling scenes of city life and rolling hillsides and farms.

For some young readers, the biggest thrill will likely be the red locomotive, with its whistle cord that regularly announces “Toot, toot!”

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And Then Another Sheep Turned Up

Laura Gehl, illustrated by Amy Adele Kar-Ben ($17.95 hardcover; $7.95 paperback; $6.99 e-book); ages 3-8

As a friendly family of sheep prepares for Passover, one guest after another arrives, from Grandma with the macaroons and wine to uncles and friends who arrive unexpectedly. As the Seder progresses from

another unexpected visitor.

Gehl’s delightful rhymes will tickle young ones. Even non-readers will join the repeating refrain, “And then another sheep turned up.”

Kids will be entertained with page after page of Adele’s colorful, lively illustrations of adorable sheep having fun at Passover.

Scarlett and Sam: Escape from Egypt Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Ivica Stevanovic Kar-Ben ($15.95 hardcover, $5.95 paperback, $6.99 e-book); ages 6-9

When twins Scarlett and Sam bicker about who is going to recite the Four Questions at the Seder, their magical Grandma Mina cuts the squabbling short: “Tonight, at the Seder, we don’t just tell the story of Passover. We become part of it.”

So sets the stage for Kimmel’s time-travel Passover adventure that transports the duo to the Egyptian desert, back to the time of Moses and Aaron as they prepare to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. The Ten Plagues, Pharaoh’s palace, and the suffering and indignity endured

by Israelite slaves come alive for the siblings, who manage to make a podcast of their experience.

Older readers familiar with Kimmel’s hugely popular illustrated books (“Hershel

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It’s a terrific pairing with Kimmel’s earlier “Wonders and Miracles,” a lavishly illustrated Seder companion that explains and demystifies the customs and traditions.

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In Lithuania, Yiddish teacher becomes unlikely bulwark against far-right demonstrators Katz disheartened with fascist marches, continues speaking out

By Cnaan Liphshiz

KAUNAS, Lithuania (JTA) — Dovid Katz isn’t typically a hard man to miss. With his bushy charcoal beard, heavy physique and trademark all-black outfits, Katz, a New York-born scholar of Yiddish, resembles a character from a Harry Potter film.

But at one of Europe’s more unusual neo-Nazi marches, complete with ultranationalists clad in medieval armor and smoke blowing in the colors of the Lithuanian flag, even he could blend in temporarily with the crowd.

But halfway through the Feb. 16 procession traversing Lithuania’s second-largest city, Katz was spotted. One marcher walked up to him and blew a horn in his direction as others began chanting “Out with Katz.” Undeterred, he continued to flank the procession.

For Katz, 58, who moved to Lithuania in 1999 to take a professorship at Vilnius University, the incident was just the latest expression of hate he has endured since 2008, when he began to speak out against the country’s creeping legitimization of fascism.

“I came here in the euphoric post-independence years, when world peace was around the corner,” Katz said. “My own euphoria diminished with every neo-Nazi march after 2008 and attempt to justify and explain away the Holocaust, events that are becoming even more common and acceptable responses to Russian aggression.”

Lithuania has a long history of conflict with its Russian neighbor.

The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, which until 2011 did not even mention the more than 200,000 Lithuanian Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust, was established in 1992 to memorialize Lithuanians killed by the Nazi, but mostly Soviet, occupiers.

Lithuania is also one of the few countries where neo-Nazis are free to brandish swastikas on the street.

Its northern neighbor, Latvia, is the only European country where veterans of the Waffen SS are allowed each year to march on main streets and commemorate their comrades, who are venerated as freedom fighters against Russia.

Since 2008, Latvia and

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LEFT: Dovid Katz has become a target of scorn for speaking out against ultranationalist groups in Lithuania.

RIGHT: Nationalist demonstrators march during a Feb. 16 rally in Kaunas.

Lithuania have played host to three neo-Nazi marches annually. A fourth event began last year in the third Baltic nation, Estonia.

The Baltic nations, which have clashed frequently with Slavic peoples, share bitter memories from Soviet domination that have made them natural allies of Germany, according to Efraim Zuroff, a Nazi hunter and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office. The historic conflict led thousands of Lithuanians and Latvians to volunteer for armed Nazi groups.

“Now, Russian expansionism under Vladimir Putin is serving as the perfect pretext to push forward a false historical account that accuses the Russians of genocide, and at the same time conveniently portrays the local Baltic populations as victims instead of perpetrators,” said Zuroff, who shadowed the Kaunas march with Katz.

Those tendencies were in plain sight at the Kaunas march,

where dozens carried banners of Ukrainian nationalists alongside Nazi symbols. Tomas Skorupskis, a march organizer from the Lithuanian Nationalist Youth Union, said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year has helped swell the ranks of Lithuanian nationalists.

“Many Lithuanians find it hard to forgive Jews who, during communism, killed nationalist freedom fighters,” Skorupsis said.

“But I think we should leave it in the past and look ahead.”

Since he began denouncing these phenomena, Katz, the author of numerous books in the field of Yiddish, lost his position at the Yiddish institute he founded at Vilnius University. He says it was political retribution, but his former bosses deny the claim.

Far-right activists often denounce Katz as a Russian agent.

Some have published insulting caricatures of him and posted photographs of Katz at a cafe with a woman to the Facebook page of a

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Katz is not the only antifascist activist complaining about persecution in the Baltics. In Latvia, authorities last year refused to renew the residency permit of Valery Engel, a Russian Jew with dual Israeli citizenship who lives in Riga with his Latvian wife and child. Earlier this month, Latvian officials considering his appeal to remain in the country demanded Engel prove that he informed Russian authorities of his Israeli

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To help meet this need, the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas recently gave a $40,000 supplemental grant to The Legacy Senior Communities, parent company of The Legacy at Home, to provide seniors with personal care services in their homes. The Legacy Senior Communities will offer financial assistance to the program with matching funds of $40,000 raised at the 2014 Yes! Event.

This collaborative effort will allow The Legacy at Home, the largest not-for-profit home health care agency in Dallas, to start offering financial assistance on

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“Since when does Latvia enforce Russia’s laws on nationality?” asked Joseph Koren, a Latviaborn Jew who, with Engel, runs the Latvian branch of the World

a sliding scale for the service program based on a person’s ability to pay. The grant will support personal care services provided by certified nurses’ aides and personal care assistants such as companion services, transportation, shopping and help with other activities of daily living.

“Taking care of seniors in a dignified and Jewish way is our ultimate priority, and we are absolutely thrilled to provide funding to The Legacy at Home,” said Bradley Laye, chief executive officer of JFGD. “Our donors have always supported senior services through The Legacy Senior Communities, and it is an honor to help seniors receive care from the only Jewish-sponsored home health care agency in Dallas.”

The Legacy at Home is working with the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas and Jewish Family

Services of Greater Dallas to identify seniors who will benefit from the program. With referrals from these organizations, The Legacy at Home has already started providing services with the grant money.

“We are extremely thankful for the generous supplemental grant we received from the Federation,” said Carol Aaron, chair of the board of trustees of The Legacy Senior Communities.

“It is important to be there for the seniors in our community, and this is a wonderful opportunity to give them the support and care they deserve.”

“This is absolutely terrific, and we look forward to helping seniors with limited resources,” said David Eisenberg, chairman of the board of directors of The Legacy at Home. “Our mission is to assist seniors, and we will put this money

to good use.”

The funding will go toward assisting seniors who need personal care services at home but are in need of the financial means to pay for them.

Without Nazism group. “It’s an attempt to harass and to silence our opposition to the far right and the government’s support of it.”

the discrediting campaign against Latvia” through actions “carried out in accordance with Russian foreign policy.”

To Koren, a businessmen who says he is routinely detained at Riga’s airport and lives under constant surveillance, this shows that Baltic nations “may have ended Soviet rule, but the Soviet

techniques and mindset remain.”

Katz’s case, Koren says, “is classic silencing in academia, just like in Soviet times.”

The Latvian Foreign Ministry did not respond to questions about Engel and Koren.

‘Discrediting campaign’ Both Koren and Engel are mentioned several times in a 2013 report by the Latvia Security Police as having “played a great role in

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Lithuania, Katz largely avoided speaking out about politics. That changed in 2008, when Lithuanian prosecutors began probing three Jews who were declared suspects of war crimes allegedly committed during World War II. The investigation was abandoned amid an international outcry that Katz helped generate by lobbying Western embassies and founding his website DefendingHistory. com. But it came at a price.

“I was thrust into the spotlight of political activism at the expense of my reputation as a scholar,” Katz said in an interview in his Vilnius apartment, which he shares with thousands of 19th-century Yiddish books that he rescued from across Eastern Europe. “I could no longer remain silent.”

Katz says he was warned by his bosses at the Yiddish institute to cease lobbying in defense of the three Jews — Yitzhak Arad, Fania Brantsovsky and Rachel Margolis — who had fought as partisans against the Nazis.

But the institute’s director, Sarunas Liekis, a member of the state’s commission on Nazi and Soviet crimes, denies Katz’s politics factored into the decision not to renew his contract.

“Mr. Katz is prone to conspiracy theories,” Liekis said. “The truth is he hardly showed up for work from 2007 to 2010.”

Katz says he never missed a class during his time at the institute.

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Medicare strengthens rating system for nursing homes

By Bob Moos

You can now be more confident when looking for a nursing home for yourself or a loved one.

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Five stars mean “excellent.”

Nursing Home Compare already enjoys a solid reputation among consumers — 85 percent find what they’re looking for.

The latest revisions will make it even more trustworthy and userfriendly: First, Medicare will rate nursing homes according to two new quality measures, both involving the use of antipsychotic medication. This is an outgrowth of an ongoing campaign to discourage nursing homes from using such powerful drugs simply to calm dementia patients who become unruly.

Next, Medicare will do more to verify the quality data and the staffing levels that nursing homes now report themselves.

The government will inspect a sampling of nursing facilities and rely on payroll data to make sure operators aren’t overstating the quality of their care and the number of their caregivers.

Finally, Medicare will raise the standards for nursing homes to achieve a high star rating. This will encourage nursing home operators to step up their quality

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improvement efforts, as well as make it easier for consumers to distinguish the best performing facilities from the lesser ones.

Big increase in top scores Just three years ago, only 16 percent of nursing homes had scored five stars on quality measures. By this past January, 46 percent had reached that coveted rating. In fact, as many as 80 percent of nursing homes had scored four or five stars. Onestar homes accounted for just 8 percent.

Though the higher scores may be partially the result of the nursing homes’ self-reporting,

facilities.

New Medicare rating system What: Nursing Home Compare has made sweeping changes to its quality-of-care reporting Website: medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare Improving scores: In the past three years, regional nursing homes have improved from 16 percent receiving a 5-star rating to 46 percent.

they’re also an indication of real improvements in patient care. As just one example, more attentive care of bedridden nursing home patients has reduced the prevalence of pressure ulcers in recent years.

Continuous improvement in regional nursing homes As welcome as those caregiving reforms are, Medicare thinks more progress can and should be made. Quality improvement needs to be a continuous process.

The new, more demanding

thresholds for star ratings on the quality of care will challenge nursing homes to redouble their efforts.

A higher bar will lead to even better patient care.

The improved Nursing Home Compare website and the increased public scrutiny will help nursing home leaders pinpoint problems in their facilities and promptly correct them.

Owners who don’t will be left to explain to a prospective resident why their nursing home compares so poorly against other

Only screening tool, not definitive factor Still, the star ratings aren’t meant to be the final word on a nursing home’s quality of care.

They’re simply a screening tool that lets families focus on a few facilities that interest them. The families can then have an informed conversation with a nursing home’s staff when they visit.

Even under the best circumstances, choosing a nursing home can be trying.

There are always many emotions at work. But if you do both your homework and your legwork and take it one step at a time, you’ll be able to make an informed decision.

Bob Moos is a Southwest public affairs officer, US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Jewish Foodie Passover Seder: Main ideas

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Brisket and chicken. Chicken and brisket. After all the soup and fish and salad and whatnot, it’s time for Passover dinner. Once you’ve decided which kugels and potatoes and vegetables you will serve, there is barely room on the plate for the main dish. For most of us there will be brisket. And for others, chicken.

And for many . . . both!

My mother always made roast chicken pieces (on the bone). She still does. Her recipe is so easy. If I recall correctly, she just drizzles it with olive oil (on a rimmed baking sheet), sprinkles it with garlic powder (I use granulated garlic), salt, pepper, some dried dill and paprika. She roasts it over high heat (about 425 F) for about 25 minutes for white meat and 30 minutes for dark.

She sprinkles lots of toasted walnut halves and dried fruits over (apricots, golden raisins, prunes) and reheats the chicken, covered with foil, for an hour at 250 F. Delicious!

Here are some of my favorite recipes. They go so well with all those side dishes and will leave you ready for something sweet, which of course — somehow — you still have room for.

Chicken with Herbed Tomatoes and Mint Chicken: • 2 pounds boneless and skinless chicken breasts (about 6-8 breast halves) • Salt and pepper to taste • 2 tablespoons olive oil Tomatoes: • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil • 1 cup chopped red or Bermuda onions • 2 teaspoons chopped garlic • 3 pints grape or cherry tomatoes, any color • ¼ cup red wine vinegar • ½ teaspoon dried rosemary • ½ teaspoon dried thyme • 1 teaspoon kosher salt • ½ teaspoon fresh ground pepper • ½ cup fresh chopped parsley • 2 tablespoons fresh chopped mint leaves Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

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Trim chicken of excess fat. Season chicken with salt and pepper.

Great, easy meals Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add the chicken and sear on all sides until golden. Remove from skillet to a rimmed baking sheet and roast for 10 minutes more. Remove from oven and allow to rest.

Meanwhile, prepare the tomatoes.

Without cleaning the skillet, add oil, onions and garlic and heat over medium heat, stirring frequently, for 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes and remaining ingredients and sauté for about 10 minutes.

Slice chicken diagonally into ½-inch slices and arrange on a serving dish.

Spoon the tomatoes mixture over and serve; or, arrange the slices in a baking dish and spoon the sauce over. Warm for 20 minutes in a 250-degree oven before serving.

Garnish with fresh mint leaves if desired. Makes 6-8 servings.

These recipes go so well with all those side dishes and will leave you ready for something sweet.

Chicken with Mushrooms and Almonds • ¼ cup olive oil • 2 fryers (about 6-7 pounds total), cut into 8 pieces each • Kosher salt and pepper to taste • 1 tablespoon minced garlic • 2 pounds white or button mushrooms, sliced • 1 cup white wine • 1 cup chicken broth • 1 cup slivered almonds, lightly toasted

• Juice of 1 lemon, plus 1 lemon sliced thin for garnish • ½ cup minced fresh parsley Heat oil in a large pot over mediumhigh heat. Rinse the chicken and pat it dry before adding it to the hot oil.

Brown the chicken pieces on all sides (you will need to do this in batches).

Remove the chicken to a dish and set aside.

Add the garlic and mushrooms to the pot and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are soft and give up their liquid.

Add the browned chicken and any juices that have accumulated, wine, broth, almonds and lemon juice and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook the chicken, covered, for 30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.

Remove lid and continue to cook until the sauce is reduced by half (note that the sauce may already be reduced, so no further cooking may be required).

Adjust salt and pepper to taste and serve the chicken with the sauce, mushrooms and almonds spooned over. Arrange the lemon slices over the chicken and sprinkle the parsley over all. Makes 8-12 servings.

Brisket in Wine with Caramelized Onions If you love caramelized onions, you may wish to double the recipe below.

• 2 tablespoons olive oil • 1 brisket of beef (4-5 pounds), much of the fat trimmed • 2 cups chopped onions • 1 cup finely chopped celery • 1 cup finely chopped carrots • 2 tablespoons chopped garlic • Kosher salt and pepper to taste

March 19, 2015 | 25 around the beef. Squeeze the top and bottom layers of foil together very tightly to create a package (the bottom foil should be deeper so that the liquids don’t leak from the package during cooking).

Cook the brisket for 3 hours and chill for several hours or overnight.

Carefully remove the top foil and transfer the meat to a cutting board, being careful not to spill the liquids

• 1 can (28-ounces) diced tomatoes with juice • 2 cups red wine, any kind • 2 bay leaves • Water Caramelized onions: • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 4 cups thin sliced onion (about 2 very large onions) • 2 tablespoons brown sugar Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Heat olive oil in large pot or skillet over medium-high heat. Add the brisket and brown well on both sides. Place the browned brisket in a large baking dish. Season it lightly with salt and pepper. Combine the onions, garlic, carrots and celery in a bowl and toss well. Spoon this mixture around the brisket. Pour the tomatoes and wine over the meat and place a bay leaf on each side of the beef. Pour enough water into the pan to reach halfway up the side of the beef. Cover the baking dish tightly with aluminum foil and cook in the preheated oven for about 3 hours. Remove from the oven and cool for 30 minutes before placing the entire pan in the refrigerator for several hours to overnight.

Several hours or up to a day ahead, remove the chilled beef to a cutting board. Using an electric knife or other sharp knife, slice the brisket against the grain into thin slices, about ¼ inch thick. Transfer the meat to a baking dish and stack it horizontally, overlapping the slices slightly (you want to shape this to look like the roast again).

Use a spoon to remove the solidified fat that’s collected on top of the meat juices. Heat remaining juices in a large saucepan over medium high heat. Strain the juices and discard the solids. Cook the liquid until it is reduced by half (this may take up to an hour), stirring occasionally. Adjust the salt and pepper in the sauce to taste at this point. Pour the liquid

over the brisket. (You may freeze the brisket at this point and thaw a day ahead.)

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“Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, for the cloud rested upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle…” (Exodus 40:34-35) We saw in last week’s commentary the majestic words of the Ramban (Nahmanides), explaining how the Book of Exodus concludes the Jewish exile with the glory of the Lord resting upon — and filling — the Tabernacle. Was it not Moses who asked God to reveal His glory to him? Was Moses not

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Thus the sacred Book of Vayikra, the book which features our religious devotion to the Lord, opens with Moses’ reluctance to enter the Tabernacle of the Lord unless he is actually summoned to do so by God. His humility is even more in evidence when he records only in miniature the final letter alef in the word Vayikra, as if to say that perhaps the call he had received by God was more by accident than by design.

The Midrash (Tanhuma 37) teaches that the small amount of ink which should have been utilized on the regular-sized alef of the Torah (as it were) was placed by God on Moses’ forehead; that ink of humility is what provided Moses’ face with the translucent glow with which he descended from Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:33-35).

Fanatic zealots are completely devoid of humility; they operate with the fire without rather than the radiant light from within!

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if people are engaged. As Rabbi Dan Goldblatt of Beth Chaim Congregation in Danville, California, told Jweekly in 2000: “I encourage people to be freed from the tyranny of the Haggadah.”

4. Intermission Giving everyone a break is vital to the Seder experience. Ruskay-Kidd says, “We don’t want our kids to experience enslavement during the Seder.” After the intermission (and before things start getting messy with the Hillel sandwich, etc.) is a great time to get people seated.

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Passover toys, such as these Ten Plagues finger puppets, can help engage children in the Seder.

5. Invite questions The Passover Seder is full of timeless questions, and there is no one right answer. Encourage everyone to pose a question.

Polsky points to the maror as a jumping-off point.

She asks everyone to name something “bitter” they would like to fix in the world and how they plan to do it.

Rabbi Josh Feigelson, director of Ask Big Questions, a Hillel initiative to provoke positive change through conversation, encourages hosts to thank and engage the questioner. On the Ask Big Questions website, he writes: “Questions, when asked genuinely and coupled with real listening, are … seed-bearers of conversation and mutual understanding, of empathy and community.”

6. Get loud!

Whatever makes everyone join in singing is the way to go. Polsky notes that “Who Knows One” can be difficult for people with disabilities because there are so many verses and it is frequently sung fast.

Download Matan’s visual version of “Who Knows One” so everyone can follow along — percussionists and yodelers encouraged. Shouting is a form of singing, too.

In fact, Ruderman, of the Ruderman Family Foundation, says there’s an old story about a boy in Eastern Europe who couldn’t read or write. He came to the High Holidays services and kept on shouting in the synagogue while people were trying to pray. Many of the congregants wanted to have him kicked out but the rabbi stopped them and said, “Just listen. He’s expressing his

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The Middle East is one of three key international focuses that has shaped how U.S. citizens view the world — the other two being the Vietnam conflict and the Cold War. The point was elaborated upon in a recent TCC news release: “The relevance of the Middle East to our own local and state-wide economy is not lost on TCC as day-in-andday-out this institution prepares students for active participation in today’s world.”

TCC is no stranger to hosting world leaders. In September 2010, former President George W. Bush spoke to a crowd of more than 700 people at a similar luncheon

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“We asked ourselves, ‘how do we top that?’” McIntosh said.

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited Congress to denounce negotiations between the United States, five other countries and Iran on Tehran’s nuclear program. He said he feared President Obama’s proposed diplomatic initiative would result in a regional arms race.

McIntosh said he does not know if these developments will have any

prayer in the purest way.”

I think of this boy and his direct connection to faith.

I think of my younger self, trembling in my seat, reciting Mah Nishtanah under my breath.

I think of the 2 million Jews estimated to have disabilities who will hopefully be participating in Seders this year. And I promise this: I won’t be the youngest this year, but I do intend to be the loudest.

Most likely off-key too.

Abby Sher is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. She is the author of “Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying (Among Other Things)” and “Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery.” Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Elle magazine, among other publications.

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“We’ve been glued to the TV every moment of this,” McIntosh said. “We can’t help but presume it is on everyone’s radar.”

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YOUNG ISRAEL OF DALLAS [Seph]

TEMPLE BETH EMETH

CHABAD OF FRISCO

6504 Dykes Way, Dallas 214-774-9223, www.youngisraeldallas.org Rabbi: Ronen Shimon

306 N. Rusk St., Sherman 903-892-9326, www.temple-beth-emeth.org Rabbi: Ana Bonnheim

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AGUDATH JACOB 4925 Hillcrest Drive, Waco 254-772-1451, www.agudath-waco.org Rabbi: Gordon Fuller

CHABAD FORT WORTH/ TARRANT COUNTY 5659 Woodway Drive, Fort Worth 817-263-7701, www.chabadfortworth.com Rabbi: Dov Mandel

ANSHAI TORAH 5501 W. Parker Road, Plano 972-473-7718, www.anshaitorah.org Rabbi: Stefan Weinberg Assistant Rabbi: Michael Kushnick

CHABAD OF PLANO/ COLLIN COUNTY

BETH TORAH

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720 W. Lookout Drive, Richardson 972-234-1542, www.congregationbethtorah.org Rabbi: Elana Zelony

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7130 Campbell Road #204, Dallas 214-987-3282, www.datafarnorth.org Rabbi: Shlomo Abrams

DATA OF PLANO NISHMAT AM 2113 W. Spring Creek Parkway, Plano 972-618-2200, www.nishmatam.org Rabbi: Yitzchak Cohen

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MAGEN DAVID [Seph] SHEARITH ISRAEL 9401 Douglas Ave., Dallas; Beit Aryeh: 18011 Hillcrest Road, Dallas 214-361-6606, www.shearith.org Rabbi: William G. Gershon Associate Rabbis: David J. Singer, Adam E. Roffman, Shira E. Wallach

17631 Hillcrest Road, Dallas 972-386-7166, www.magendaviddallas.org Rabbi: David Moyal

6300 Independence Parkway, Suite A, Plano 972-491-5917, www.adatchaverim.org Rabbi: Ben Sternman

BETH-EL CONGREGATION

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4900 Briarhaven Road, Fort Worth 817-332-7141, www.bethelfw.org Rabbi: Ralph D. Mecklenburger Assistant Rabbi: Jordan Ottenstein

6930 Alpha Road, Dallas 972-661-1810, www.templeshalomdallas.org Senior Rabbi: Andrew M. Paley Rabbi: Ariel Boxman Rabbi Emeritus: Kenneth D. Roseman Cantor Emeritus: Don Croll

6821 McCallum Blvd., Dallas 972-380-1292, www.ohev.com Rabbi: Aryeh Rodin

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5821 McShann Road 972-877-4881, www.achdut-israel.org Rabbi: Binyamin E. Terenyo

CHABAD OF ARLINGTON 2136 Lindblad Court, Arlington 817-451-1171, www.arlingtonchabad.org Rabbi: Levi Gurevitch

6710 Levelland Road, Dallas

BETH EL BINAH John Thomas Gay and Lesbian Center 2701 Reagan St., Dallas 214-500-8304, www.bethelbinah.org Rabbi: Stephen Fisch

6715 Levelland Road, Dallas 917-678-0385, www.sephardictorahcenter.org Rabbi: Zecharia Sionit

6131 Churchill Way, Dallas 972-661-0127, www.shaaretefilla.org

Traditional TIFERET ISRAEL

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL 6100 Pleasant Run Road, Colleyville 817-581-5500, www.congregationbethisrael.org Rabbi: Charlie Cytron-Walker

BETH SHALOM 1212 Thannisch Drive, Arlington 817-860-5448, www.bethshalom.org Rabbi Emeritus: Ned J. Soltz Cantor: Sheri Allen

1887 Timber Creek Road, Flower Mound 972-539-1938, www.kolami-tx.org Rabbi: Geoffrey Dennis

10909 Hillcrest Road, Dallas 214-691-3611, www.tiferetdallas.org Rabbi: Shawn Zell

Other IRVING HAVURAH [Community] 1832 Cooper Drive, Irving 214-293-6515, www.rabbifrankjoseph.org Rabbi: Frank Joseph Please call for dates and times.

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SHIR TIKVAH SEPHARDIC TORAH CENTER OF DALLAS [Seph]

SHAARE TEFILLA CHABAD OF DALLAS

ADAT CHAVERIM

KOL AMI OHEV SHALOM

TEMPLE EMANU-EL 8500 Hillcrest Road, Dallas 214-706-0000, www.tedallas.org Senior Rabbi: David E. Stern Associate Rabbi: Debra J. Robbins Assistant Rabbis: Asher Knight, Kimberly Herzog Cohen

CONGREGATION AHAVATH SHOLOM 4050 S. Hulen St., Fort Worth 817-731-4721, www.ahavathsholom.org Rabbi: Andrew D. Bloom Cantor: Shoshana Abrams Kaikov

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LEGACY PRESTON HOLLOW 11409 N. Central Expressway, Dallas 214-363-5100, www.thelegacyph.org

TEMPLE BETH EL 208 S. 15th St., Corsicana 214-293-6515, www.rabbifrankjoseph.org Rabbi: Frank Joseph

LEGACY WILLOW BEND 6101 Ohio Drive, Suite 400, Plano 972-468-6200, www.thelegacywb.org

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Calendar THURS., MARCH 19 Peter Balakian on Raphael Lemkin, Cultural Destruction and the Armenian Genocide 6:30 p.m.

Peter Balakian is an award-winning author on many books about the Armenian Genocide. The topic will be Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin, who is a key figure on recognizing genocide as international crime. The goal is to raise dialogue and awareness, and there is no charge.

Info: Hamlet Sarokhanian, eushtsn@gmail.com or 469-203-2974 SMU’s Dallas Hall McCord Auditorium 3225 University Boulevard, Dallas Brite Divinity School Presents Prof. J. Cheryl Exum 7 p.m.

This Cristol Lecture will feature Professor J. Cheryl Exum, who will speak on “The Remarkable Achievement of the Bible’s Only Love Poem.”

Beth-El Congregation 4900 Briarhaven Road, Fort Worth Compassionate Fort Worth 7 p.m.

Join Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and Ahavath Sholom Rabbi Andrew Bloom.

Please bring donations of food which will be presented to Safe Haven, Jewish Family Services and the Arborlawn Methodist Food Pantry. The Ahavath Sholom children’s and adult choirs will sing.

Congregation Ahavath Sholom 4050 South Hulen Street, Fort Worth

Fri., MArCH 20 Congregation Beth Torah presents Scholar in Residence Vanessa Ochs 7 p.m.

As the 24th Mark A. Siegel Scholar in Residence, Ochs will speak on “Subversive Women in the Bible: Role Models for Social Justice.” Ochs will speak at services at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 21 on “Jewish Food — Eating As a Spiritual Practice,” and 7:45 pm. Saturday evening on “The Coconut on the Seder Plate: Reinventing the Haggadah.” Cost is $85 for CBT members and $100 for non-members.

Info/RSVP: Evelyn Utay, at 972-980-8228 evelynpaul@sbcglobal.net

Sun., MARCH 22 Kosher Chili Cook-off 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

The 22nd Annual DKCC at Tiferet Israel.

Chili teams, community organizations, children’s activities, music and more!

For more information visit www. kosherchilicookoff.us or email info@ kosherchilicookoff.us.

Info/RSVP: Jennifer Williams 214-691-3611, jennifer@tiferetisrael.org Tiferet Israel 10909 Hillcrest Road, Dallas Camp Gan Israel Open House and Fun Day 3 – 5 p.m.

Families are invited to learn about Camp Gan Israel and have a little fun.

Chabad of Plano 3904 W. Park Blvd. Plano 75075 The Dr. Sol Lurie Community Education Program for Professionals and the Greater Community 6:30 p.m. Registration 7 p.m.

“It’s Our Time to Serve the Military Family” is the topic. See more information on p. 6 of this week’s issue.

Register at jfsdallas.org.

Info: 972-437-9950 Shearith Israel 9401 Douglas Avenue, Dallas Cantor Albert Mizrahi Concert 7 p.m.

Temple Emanu-El’s Pollman Performing Arts Programs presents Cantor Mizrahi accompanied on piano by Caren Levine.

Info/RSVP: Becky Slakman 214-706-0000, bslakman@tedallas.org Temple Emanu-El 8500 Hillcrest Road, Dallas

MON., MARCH 23 18th Annual Janis Ablon

Professional Conference 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

The theme of this year’s conference is “When the War Comes Home: Trauma and the Military Family.” Registration and a light breakfast begin at 7:30 a.m. See more information on p. 6 of this week’s issue.

Register at jfsdallas.org.

Info: 972-437-9950 Shearith Israel 9401 Douglas Avenue, Dallas Third Annual JCRC Interfaith Seder Registration, 6:30 p.m.

Program, 7 p.m.

A Jewish Passover Seder-inspired interfaith program exploring the reality and impact of poverty in one’s community. The seder will be led by Rabbi Stefan Weinberg. Dinner will be served observing dietary laws. $18 per person.

Pre-registration required.

RSVP: https://dallas.secure-fedweb. jewishfederations.org/page/contribute/ jcrc-interfaith-seder-2015 Info: Jewish Community Relations Council, jcrcdallas@jfgd.org or 214-615-5293 Congregation Anshai Torah 5501 West Parker Road, Plano

WED., MARCH 25 SISterhood Membership Appreciation 7 – 9 p.m.

Each attendee will make and keep 2-3 fresh floral arrangements with help from local floral designer Andrew Barlow. $10 per person.

Info: Kathi Silver, kos722@yahoo.com or 469-384-8531 Shearith Israel Kaplan Auditorium 9401 Douglas Avenue, Dallas

THURS., MARCH 26 Day at the State: Mission to Austin Attendees will meet the new governor, talk to influential legislators and discuss important issues within the Jewish community.

Info: 214-615-5293 or jcrcdallas@jfgd.org Jewish Community Center of Dallas 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas

strengthening

Upstander Speaker Series featuring Michael Sam 6:30 p.m.

The first speaker of the second-annual Upstander Speaker Series, Michael Sam, is a free agent in the National Football League. After completing his college football career, Sam publicly came out as gay. He made history on Feb. 9, 2014 when he became the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL. Sam is the 2014 recipient of the ESPY Arthur Ashe courage award.

Tickets are available online at dallasholocaustmuseum.org.

Info: Jason Lalonde, 214-741-7500 jlalonde@dallasholocaustmuseum.org

Fri., MArCH 27 Anshai Torah Tot Shabbat Mishpacha Style 5:30 – 7:15 p.m.

Monthly Young Family Shabbat celebration for families with children ages infant to second grade. Evening includes dinner, family program, a Kabbalat Shabbat service and story time. Cost is $25 per family. RSVP required.

Info/RSVP: Debbie Butvin, 972-473-7718, receptionist@anshaitorah.org Congregation Anshai Torah 5501 W. Parker Road, Plano

Info/RSVP: Melissa Gendason 972-248-3032 mgendason@levineacademy.org Westin Galleria 13340 Dallas Parkway, Dallas

TUES., MArCH 31 Tycher Library Fiction Flicks 6 – 8:30 p.m.

A discussion of Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” followed by the movie based on the book. This group meets quarterly to discuss books made into movies.

Info/RSVP: Nina Stenzler, 214-239-7132, nstenzler@jfgd.org Jewish Community Center Tycher Library 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas

Wed., aprIL 1 JAPS Meeting 11:30 a.m.

The Jewish Association of Professional Salespersons is an industry-exclusive networking group that meets the first and third Wednesdays of each month.

Call to see if there is a seat open for your industry.

Info: Lorrie Semler, 972-416-3417, semler@kw.com The Egg and I 15203 Knoll Trail Drive, Dallas

Wed., april 15

Sat., MArCH 28 The Dove Flyer 7 p.m.

“The Dove Flyer” will be shown followed by a Q & A session with Dr. Ruth Levitz.

Congregation Beth Israel 6100 Pleasant Run Road, Colleyville

Sun., MArCH 29 Levine Academy Gala 5:30 p.m.

The 2015 Levine Academy annual gala will honor Veronique and Hylton Jonas. Kosher dietary laws observed. Tickets are $180 per person. Register online by March 20 at www.levinegala.org.

JAPS Meeting 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Join the Jewish Association of Professional Salespersons for their networking luncheon over at Sunnyland Patio Furniture in North Dallas. Larry Goldstein of Catering by Larry will be serving a gourmet lunch with a sampling of all of his most requested dishes and JAPS members will be showing their products and services. Lunch is $12 per person.

RSVPs are required no later than 10 a.m. on Monday, April 13. All guests are welcome at this luncheon.

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Columnists Play gives insight into Ann Landers The play is named “The Lady when the first “Ann” had to be with All the Answers.” The teaser replaced. Her winning technique I received touting it promised was asking experts for advice before to reveal the one and only time she gave any herself. Soon enough that Ann Landers couldn’t help she was challenged by her identical someone with a problem, because twin, Pauline Esther Friedman, the problem was her own. nicknamed “PoPo,” who struck out I wasn’t teased; I already knew on her own as “Dear Abby.” After what that problem was. Back in that, the sisters were never quite as late June 1975, I read the column close as they had been before. in which America’s The play, staged by leading adviser to the One Thirty Productions befuddled revealed that at Dallas’ Bath House she was totally befuddled Cultural Center, was a herself: Jules Lederer, her one-woman tour de force. husband of more than 30 Equity actress Gene Raye years, had taken up with Price worked from a a woman as young as the script liberally laced with couple’s daughter. The bits of Jewish lore and IN MY non-religious learning. one who had been writing for years about ways to MIND’S I She brought the late icon save every marriage at all to life using excerpts costs couldn’t save her

By Harriet from real readers’ letters, own.

P. Gross punctuated by musings I remembered that I on the marriage that wrote about Ann Landers and her Ann had honestly, but mistakenly, new life status myself, soon after thought would last “’til death do that, in the Illinois newspaper I us part.” In conclusion, she read worked for at that time. I even the entire brief column in which recalled that I had started my Landers touchingly revealed her column with something about personal pain to all her readers, poaching fish in the dishwasher. ending with a plea: “Just wish us I’ve always been big on making both well.” And then moved right connections between things that on with another letter, to solve don’t seem connectable at all, but another problem. what I couldn’t remember was So what was that elusive what the connection here could connection I couldn’t remember? have been. So I went to my files to Well, I’d just learned a strangefind out. sounding fish-cooking technique “Files” puts it kindly! Those from a neighbor, and since my were pre-computer days, and I’d column ran on what in those clipped and saved them — one olden days was always called The column per week for close to 10 Women’s Section, it seemed logical years. Do the math! Visualize the to me to pass on the “recipe” while box overflowing with dog-eared, at the same time noting that Ms. yellowed newsprint! But I found Landers “had gone down the drain, it, published in July 1975 under just like dishwater.” the title “Of Poached Fish and So now you know about the Broken Marriages.” I had to read it new play. And now, here’s how to to learn what kind of glue I’d used do that poaching: Take a nice-sized to stick those two disparate things slab of some firm fish (salmon together. And I found that, too. But is good), lay it on a large piece of first… aluminum foil, season it as you Ann Landers, born Esther wish, fold the foil to make a tight Pauline Friedman in Sioux City, seal, place the packet gently on the Iowa, used a combination of brains top rack of your dishwasher, and and chutzpah to become America’s run it through the entire cycle. leading advice columnist. Her Without soap and dirty dishes. nom de newspaper belonged to the I ended my column with a snide Chicago Tribune, and “Eppie” suggestion: Ann Landers “might Lederer was in the right place at the do well now to fish up some help right time with the right approach for herself from Dear Abby!”

Origins of the Jewish calendar Rabbi Fried, in Jerusalem would wait for We all get Jewish calendars at two witnesses to appear stating the grocery store or in the mail and they have observed a new moon. take them for granted; who actually After testing the veracity of the wrote the Jewish calendar and what witnesses, they would establish are its origins? I’ve been the sanctity of Rosh wondering this for years Chodesh by the and hope you can provide power vested in them, me some insight. and by proclaiming — Marvin G. “mekudash, mekudash,”

“it is sanctified, it is Dear Marvin, sanctified.”

The very first mitzvah For all the centuries which the Jewish people from the time that were commanded, while Ask the Joshua led the Jews into still in Egypt, was to Rabbi their land, the conditions sanctify the new month. existed to carry out the “This renewal [of the

By Rabbi sanctification of the new moon] shall be for you Yerachmiel months. As long as the the beginning of the D. Fried months were sanctified months, it shall be for in this Divinely you the first of the months of ordained manner, there could the year.” (Exodus/Shemos 12:1- not be an annual set “calendar.”

2) This means that the Jewish Since each new month required people are not to simply calculate new testimony of witnesses, no our dates; we need to sanctify the one could guarantee whether the first day of every month, which is current month would be 29 or 30 called Rosh Chodesh, or the “head days. Since the Jewish holidays, of the month.” From the time of such as Passover, depended upon Moses for nearly 1,000 years, the when the Sanhedrin proclaimed high Jewish court, or Sanhedrin, the new month, Jews would wait calculated and sanctified the new to be informed when Pesach month. Each month the Sanhedrin would fall out that year, an

uneasy feat in a pre-electronic communicative world. A system of bonfires, lit atop mountains across Israel, would announce from Jerusalem when the new month was established. When saboteurs maliciously lit fires on the wrong days to mislead the people, the Sanhedrin had to send actual messengers by horseback across the country to inform all of the new month.

This process continued until one of the last generations that its leaders still had actual smicha, or ordination through an unbroken chain from Moses. This type of smicha is a prerequisite to sanctify the new month. Because this smicha was in danger of cessation, the entire institution of Rosh Chodesh and Jewish months was in danger. In order to ensure the continuity of Jewish months, Hillel the Last and his court, who still held that form of smicha, calculated and sanctified all the coming months until the time of Messiah. By doing so, they established the first actual calendar, in the year 359 CE. From

see FRIED, p.31

Raising independent children Dear Families, hovering, overprotective maniac.

This article is a little different The truth is very different.” In from many that I write. As a her article, Ingall says, Judaism camp director and educator, I is pretty clear on the fact that keep up with all information, fostering children’s independence both formal and is vital. The Babylonian informal, about kids, Talmud tells us we have parents and families. three obligations when The big concept out in it comes to childrearing: the field is “Free-Range Teach your kid Torah.

Parenting.”

Please Teach your kid to earn Google it, but in short — a living. And teach a while back, scientist your kid to swim. Wait, Danielle Meitiv was what? “What is the found responsible for Shalom reason?” the Talmud from the “unsubstantiated child shabbat lady queries rhetorically. neglect” after letting “His life may depend her 10- and 6-year-old

By Laura on it.” If we take this as kids walk home from Seymour a metaphor, what this a neighborhood park. means is that you won’t Police were called and it has always be there to rescue your become a concern of all parents, kid. So, you need to teach a kid those on the side of letting to deal with adversity. For those our children have responsible of you who are not parenting freedom and those who do not young children and for those of let their children out unless adult you who are grandparents, think supervised. back to your childhood — most Today in the daily Tablet of us played outside and many update that comes direct to my walked to school! computer, the story came from The free-range proponents writer Marjorie Ingall titled have statistics on their side – the “Letting Go of Our Kids Isn’t a United States is safer now than it Form of Neglect: the stereotype was when we were children. Yet of the Jewish mother depicts a the media has us running scared

and our litigious society adds to that. So what are we to do? Two Jewish mothers, Danielle Meitiv and Lenore Skenazy, are leading the movement. They are arguing for all children and fighting against the Jewish mother stereotype as a Rottweiler protecting her turf. That was perhaps the mother of a certain era, however, Jewish mothers have always been strong and both loving and demanding with the goal of raising competent adults who can handle anything the world throws at them.

This is hard for parents — letting go is never easy and no one said you get to stop worrying.

However, our goal, as described today, is to encourage children’s “executive function” (the ability to coordinate complex tasks and meet goals independently).

Jewish families have been doing this for thousands of years and we have Torah role models to prove it.

Shalom ... from the Shabbat Lady.

Laura Seymour is director of Camping Service at the Aaron Family Jewish Community Center.

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Proportional representation means longer wait for prime minister

Akiba Academy Pre-Kindergarten teacher Gail Mabel explains the importance of classroom setup to teachers visiting from Cutler Jewish Day School.

AKIBA

continued from p.9 same: very nurturing, putting the children first, encouraging them to ask good questions. The difference is that Akiba has the space to grow and to allow the children to grow; the teachers have room to facilitate the learning and the best practices for young children. We are on the road to that, but we are not quite there,” Cutler Assistant Principal Kelly Stanton said.

The entire weekend was deemed very successful. Both Cutler and Akiba staffers learned valuable lessons that they will apply to their teaching going forward. Billie Green-Smith, a preschool floater

FRIED

continued from p.30 the establishment of the calendar and onward they no longer needed to wait for witnesses; they relied upon calculations sanctified with the smicha power vested in them.

The Torah established that our months be lunar, or moonbased, as opposed to the general, or Gregorian, calendar in use today in

from Cutler, and Becky Lourie, a Cutler kindergarten teacher, learned how to document the children’s work, something GreenSmith believed Cutler could do a better job of. Other reflections of the visit to Akiba included high admiration for Akiba’s use of the physical space.

After a full weekend of preparation and presentation, the Akiba Early Childhood staff gained more knowledge and pride in their program. Gail Mabel, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Akiba and a greeter and presenter during the weekend with Cutler, said she learned more about her program and the intentionality behind the environment she teaches in that she did not know or realize before;

most of the world. The Torah also commands that Passover always fall out in the spring. (Deuteronomy/ Devarim 16:1) For this reason, an extra month, or leap year, was established to synchronize the solar with the lunar calendar, seven out of every 19 years. In this way, the months have remained successfully synchronized for over 3,300 years since we received this commandment!

It is fascinating to further

teaching other teachers helped her learn more about herself. Akiba’s other participants echoed similar feelings. Overall, an affirmation of pride in Akiba, specifically Akiba’s Early Childhood Program, is what the Akiba staff took away from this experience.

“What we do every single day has just become second nature to us, while it is just fascinating to other educators who are coming to observe our program,” Bernstein reflected. “Sometimes we take for granted the wonderful experience that we provide for the children and families in our program. I learned about the things that are exciting for an outsider looking in and about the amazing experience that is being a teacher of teachers.”

notice the precision of our sages’ calculations. The Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 25a) and Maimonides (Code, Laws of Sanctifying the Moon 6:2-3) calculate the length of a solar month as 29.53059 days.

A number of years ago, NASA made the following statement: “After years of researched based on calculations using satellites, hairline telescopes, laser beams and supercomputers, scientists at NASA have determined that the

By the time you read this column, the Israeli elections will be over, the votes tallied and the results published. But unless a miracle happens, it could be days…or even weeks…before we know who the next Israeli prime minister will be.

This is because in the Israeli political system of indirect “proportionate representation,” voters elect members of the 120 seat Knesset (parliament) by voting for one of the more than 20 parties running in any given election.

After tallying all the votes, all 120 legislative seats are allocated in proportion to the percentage of the votes each party received.

So if Party X received 40 percent of the popular nationwide vote, it will get 40 percent of the seats = 48 seats; a lot, for sure…but not middle east enough.

Briefing Since the prime minister and government are elected and empowered by the Knesset in

By Gil Elan a simple majority vote of at least 61 members of Knesset, our hypothetical Party X would have to form a coalition with other parties to get the necessary minimum of 61 votes, and potential coalition partners, even those who are ideologically similar on most issues, will come with demands based on their own political and personal agendas. Let the horse-trading begin.

After a week or more, the Israeli president, a normally ceremonial and non-political office, performs his one and only political role: After non-binding consultation with all the parties that won seats in the recent election, he nominates a member of the new Knesset to try to form a coalition government that will have the minimum 61 seat backing for a vote of confidence in the new government, with the nominee as prime minister.

Usually the president’s nominee has been the leader of one of the larger parties: Labor and its earlier incarnations down to David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai Party in the first years of the state, or Likud and its predecessors down to Menachem Begin’s “Revisionist” Herut party. But … not always! By Israeli law, the only requisite is that the prime minister elect must be a current Member of Knesset.

And here’s where things get really interesting and unpredictable this time.

Agree or disagree, that’s my opinion.

Lt. Col. (IDF res) Gil Elan is President and CEO of the Southwest Jewish Congress, and a Middle East analyst. Email: gil@swjc.org. Upcoming briefings and SWJC events are listed at: www.swjc.org. DISCLAIMER: Opinions are the writer’s, and do not represent SWJC directors, officers or members.

length of the ‘synodic month,’ i.e., the amount of time between one new moon and the next is: 29.530588 days” (!!).

As we approach Pesach, the time of our redemption and the time we were first commanded this mitzvah of calculating the months, we have an opportunity to take a fresh look at the Jewish concept of time. We see, as explained above, that the Jewish dates don’t just arbitrarily fall out; they are calculated. We

don’t just follow along with the flow of time; the Torah, rather, empowers us to actually change time and dates. The Torah puts us above time! To live above time is to connect to the eternity of the Jewish people!

Rabbi Yerachmiel D. Fried, noted scholar and author of numerous works on Jewish law, philosophy and Talmud, is founder and dean of DATA, the Dallas Kollel. Questions can be sent to him at yfried@sbcglobal.net.

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