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A NEW CEO FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON

Blain’s goals: connect with community, secure financial future JANE KAUFMAN Akron Jewish News

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Daniel Blain, the new CEO of the Jewish Community Board of Akron, is settling into his position. | Submitted photo

s Daniel S. Blain looks to the future of Jewish Akron, he hopes to “broaden the definition of community” and build on its strengths, the new CEO of the Jewish Community Board of Akron told the Akron Jewish News.

Blain, who started his position Feb. 8, called Akron’s infrastructure “pretty amazing,” pointing to The Lippman School, Akron’s three synagogues and the Shaw JCC at the Schultz Campus. JCBA oversees both the JCC and The Lippman School.

Blain succeeds Todd Polikoff and interim CEO David Koch, the former JCBA CEO until he retired in December 2018 after 11 years and returned as a part-time independent consultant in July 2021. Polikoff stepped down in June 2021 to become COO of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County in Boca Raton, Fla. “The campus currently is a physical hub where there’s a lot of activity, but it’s not the only activity,” Blain told the Akron Jewish News. “I would hope people would recognize that JCBA brings value to the entire community.”

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Chabad preparing to open Twinsburg synagogue

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or the first time since 1986, Twinsburg will house a synagogue – at 9945 Vail Road.

Rabbi Mendy Greenberg and his wife, Mussie, have been running Chabad programming from their home since 2017, when the couple moved to Twinsburg to establish a Chabad presence there.

After receiving conditional use and building permits from the city of Twinsburg, construction started in November 2021 on the interior of the building, which had been an empty shell.

“There’s nothing like having an established space,” Mendy Greenberg told the Akron Jewish News. “It’ll open the way for a lot more growth.”

A grand opening coinciding with Purim is anticipated, although details are still being finalized.

Construction, designed by Huron architect Michael Meyer, will cost $50,000. About 25% of that has been raised thus far, with more in pledges. Major donors to the construction will have their names embroidered on the cover of a Torah that is now being commissioned in Israel for Twinsburg Chabad.

“This will be the first Torah scroll owned by the community,” Greenberg said in a news release. “Until now, we have been borrowing from other synagogues.”

The center in 1,500 square feet of leased space will have a sanctuary, classroom, kitchen, office and two restrooms. It will be used for smaller, everyday gatherings, with rentals still needed for larger celebrations and events, he said.

Greenberg said the space will accommodate “all the regular functions that the Chabad center does,” including CHABAD | CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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Rabbi Mendy Greenberg stands at the front door of 9945 Vail Road in Twinsburg, a 1,500-square-foot leased space that will become Twinsburg Chabad’s synagogue. | Photo / Mark Goldberg

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A rendering of what the sanctuary at Twinsburg Chabad might look like. | Submitted rendering CHABAD | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Torah study, Shabbat services, Hebrew school, a Jewish kids’ club, and Mom and Me, a program for mothers and preschool children that Mussie Greenberg, Chabad program director, has been running out of their home.

Greenberg said attendance at Chabad

events has grown in the past four years, necessitating the need for a central place to meet or drop by.

He said the new sanctuary will have room for about 40 people comfortably.

“That would be perfect for what we have right now,” Greenberg said.

He said functioning during COVID-19 was particularly challenging.

“COVID was very difficult because we thrive on personal connections,” Greenberg said, adding virtual gatherings helped but only partially. “You can continue a relationship on Zoom, but it’s very difficult to start one.”

Greenberg grew up in Solon, the son of Rabbi Zushe and Miriam Greenberg, who run Solon Chabad.

He attended Hebrew Academy of Cleveland in Cleveland Heights as a child and Chabad Yeshiva of Detroit for high school. He was ordained in 2016 at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, N.J. He said he hopes the new space will be a place for all the Jews of Twinsburg, as well as Jews in Aurora and the surrounding area.

Temple Beth Shalom of Hudson rented space in Twinsburg Public Library after forming in 1977, according to its website. In 1986, it moved to Hudson.

“There’s no permanent Jewish center in Twinsburg right now,” Greenberg said. “Our main goal is to create a place where Jewish kids can get together, learn about their Judaism and celebrate it.”

The 2011 Greater Cleveland Jewish Population Study by the Jewish Federation of Cleveland showed 15,300, or 19%, of the area’s Jews live in Solon and the southeast suburbs, which comprise Twinsburg, Auburn, Aurora, Bainbridge, Bentleyville, Chagrin Falls, Glenwillow, Hudson, Macedonia,

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Rabbi Mendy Greenberg, right, shows the first lines of a Torah that is being commissioned for Twinsburg Chabad, to Elani Markewitz, 10, and her sister Nora, 8. Behind the girls is their grandfather, Ken Solomon. Seated is Sofer, or scribe, Rabbi Joseph Heinemann. | Photo / Ilya Bederman

Reminderville, Russell Township, Russell, Solon, South Russell and Streetsboro. The area also had the second highest percentage of Jewish children in Greater Cleveland at 28%, according to the report.

Publisher’s Note: An earlier version of this story appeared in the Cleveland Jewish News.

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BLAIN | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 A second objective, he said, will be “to make sure we have the financial resources we need to do the things we want to do. And some of that is stuff that isn’t particularly fun, but it’s really important – like making sure that the pool roof isn’t caving in and ensuring that there’s adequate security on campus and in the community.

“I think the people who live here know what they have, although they might not appreciate how special it is. And I think of building on that and really making the Akron Jewish community a place where people want to be because it’s something very special, I would say is a prime objective,” Blain said.

Blain worked for the Jewish Federation of Cleveland in Beachwood for 23 years from 1989 to 2013. He served as annual campaign director for eight years in addition to other roles. He last worked as one of two senior vice presidents under then-President Stephen H. Hoffman.

He will be the point person for the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s population study in the Akron area. He estimates there are 1,800 to 2,500 Jews in Akron.

“And that’s, again, I think a really important step to get a better sense not only of the numbers and where people are added to the community ... but also what people in the community want, need or are looking for, how they want to connect,” Blain said. ”So I think being part of that demographic study is going to provide some really valuable data for us to use for planning.”

Having served in several roles at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Blain’s first exposure to Akron was when he was director of community relations and Kent State University brought in a controversial speaker.

Blain could not recall the name of the speaker.

“And the Cleveland community works together with the Akron community – because Kent State was kind of a shared

location – to kind of help figure out what’s the best way to respond,” he said. “So that gave me my first exposure to the Akron community.”

He then served as vice president for advancement at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown from 2013 to 2021.

While there, he learned “a lot more about Akron” and had the opportunity to meet leaders in the Akron Jewish community.

He said he learned that the Akron community has “a strong kind of community ethic, a strong philanthropic spirit” and is “a warm and welcoming place.” So, when the CEO position opened, “It definitely caught my attention.”

Thom Mandel, president of the JCBA board of trustees, said he was aware of Blain, but the two had never met until the search.

“He came to us with very good recommendations,” Mandel told the AJN. “I talked to his former employer in Cleveland, was told wonderful things about him. And so far, now that he and I are getting to know each other, I’m finding that all those things appear to be true, which is always good. And he is settling in, in a very organized way. …

He’s almost doing his own onboarding.

He just knows exactly what he needs to be doing, which is fabulous.”

Blain was hired from a pool of “about 15 serious candidates,” Mandel said, and he was one of three finalists interviewed.

Mandel said he hopes Blain will be able to solidify the organizational structure of JCBA “before we take on special projects.”

“We need somebody in charge of Jewish programs,” Mandel said. “We need somebody who can look after the needs of our campus. We need to have better communication with our community members. We need to tell our story better.”

Mandel said he hopes Blain can reinvigorate the annual campaign (for Jewish needs), which he said has “been stagnant for a number of years,” coming in at about $1.3 million.

In addition, Mandel said he hopes Blain

“The campus currently is a physical hub where there’s a lot of activity, but it’s not the only activity. I would hope people would recognize that JCBA brings value to the entire community.”

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“We need somebody in charge of Jewish programs. We need somebody who can look after the needs of our campus. We need to have better communication with our community members. We need to tell our story better.”

Thom Mandel “can bring our synagogues together so that we’re doing events with everybody involved and get the entire community interested in being a community.”

A Cleveland native, Blain is the son of Sylvia and Michael Blain. The family moved to Indianapolis when Daniel was 6. He attended Hasten Hebrew Academy and graduated from North Central High School and held his bar mitzvah at Congregation B’nai Torah, all in Indianapolis.

Growing up there, he said, might resemble the experience of growing up in Akron in terms of its “small but very active Jewish community.”

“Youth group was a big focus: USY, BBYO, NCSY to some degree became kind of a center of my social life,” he said. “So while my friends weren’t exclusively Jewish, many, many were.”

Blain graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in business. He completed a double master’s program in social work and Jewish communal service at Washington University and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.

While Blain said he is unaware of any personal experience with antisemitism, his father was born in Czechoslovakia and survived the Holocaust through “a series of very smart and sometimes fortunate decisions.”

“Even though he didn’t speak about it a lot in the family, that was always kind of an undercurrent, just a frame of who we were and who I would become,” Blain said.

Blain has been to Israel about 20 times.

His first time was prior to his senior year of high school on a United Synagogue Youth pilgrimage.

“Israel is kind of a prime source of Jewish motivation for me,” he said, adding one of his brothers made aliyah and became a rabbi there.

“Probably the seminal Israel experience that really changed things for me was before my senior year in college,” Blain said, referring to his second time in Israel.

“I spent the summer in Beit Shemesh, which was Indianapolis’ Project Renewal community. And I lived with Israeli families.

I worked in the day camp and with different kids’ programming, and it really kind of cemented for me both a love of Israel, but also that I wanted to do something Jewish community focused as a career.”

He said he appreciated the warmth and love of the families he met in Israel, many of them from Yemen and Morocco, and that he enjoyed seeing the country.

He also met his first cousins and aunt and uncle, who had grown up in the Soviet Union and later immigrated to Israel.

“Being caught behind the Iron Curtain had all sorts of impacts on their lives, generally not so positive ones,” Blain said. “And to be able to see them in Israel and experience kind of what Israel represented in a very personal way, was really also a very powerful experience for me.

And so there’s definitely a sense of familiarity and home when I go there, and I just find it incredibly uplifting.”

Blain met his wife, Miriam Rosenberg, at the Federation. They were married by Rabbi Joshua Skoff of Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights and Pepper Pike at the Manor House at Squire Valleevue Farm in Hunting Valley. They raised their two children, Max and Ruby, in Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights. The family lives in Lakewood and attends services at Oheb Zedek Cedar Sinai Synagogue in Lyndhurst.

Blain said he views his role of CEO as a facilitator.

“It’s not about what I’m going to do,” he said. “It’s what I can help the community define as goals and do together. And I’m excited because I’ve met so far, wonderful people who are committed to the cause, who are open to trying to elevate what we do. And I think there’s tremendous potential here. So even though it’s a small community, I think it’s a mighty community with great resources, and I think has the potential to remain something very special.”

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Super Sunday raises $50,000 for Ukrainian Jews STEPHEN LANGEL Akron Jewish News

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he Jewish Community Board of Akron made a last-minute change to its Super Sunday plans, shifting from its annual fundraising push to a campaign to provide support for Ukrainian Jews amid Russia’s current attack on the country.

As a result, the board has allocated $50,000 to support that community and is planning to raise even more in the days and Blain weeks to come, according to Daniel Blain, CEO of JCBA. To date, JCBA has raised about $1.2 million for its annual fundraising campaign.

Blain, the board’s new CEO, told the Akron Jewish News that JCBA’s executive committee, Brian Rolnick-Fox, the Israel and overseas chair, and the campaign co-chairs Dianne Newman and David Stock, convened Feb. 27, an hour before Super Sunday was set to begin, to decide how best to assist the Ukrainian Jewish community.

The group decided to make an emergency allocation of at least $50,000 to support the community. The funds are being allocated to four organizations: JDC; Jewish Agency for

Israel; ORT, the Jewish Federation of North America’s overseas partners and IsraAID, a nongovernmental humanitarian aid organization based in Israel.

“Our community has a responsibility to respond to this crisis which is impacting upward of 200,000 Jews along with millions of others caught in the crossfire,” board chair Thom Mandel and Blain wrote in an email to JCBA’s board members.

That same morning Blain sent an email to local rabbis and members of the community laying out the need to act. He also discussed his family’s personal history in Ukraine.

“This past week, the world has witnessed in horror Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s people and sovereignty,” he said in the email. “As Americans, we should be concerned about Russia’s intentions and the potential for a much greater conflict. But as American Jews, we have an additional concern – the fate of the 200,000 or so Jews living in the Ukraine including thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors. We not only need to make sure our voices are heard, but we have the collective responsibility to make a difference in saving the lives of our family there. We cannot stand idly by.”

As part of his outreach, Blain discussed his own family’s roots in the region.

“As Jews, while many of us have roots in Ukraine, all of us have family there. ...

My father, born in the Carpathian region of

Volunteers make calls for Super Sunday Feb. 27 under the watchful eye of Jewish Community Board of Akron CEO Daniel Blain. Callers are board of trustee members Janet Minc, from left, Stuart Glauberman and Debra Shifrin. | Submitted photo Czechoslovakia, which is now part of Ukraine, left his home village of Silce in 1942 to become an apprentice in Budapest. While he was gone, the Nazis stormed through his town – wiping his family away like so many others.”

JCBA will continue fundraising for the Ukrainian Jewish community, focusing on

those who haven’t made their 2022 pledge and making a broader pitch to the community through email, web, social media and phone, the email said. The board will also reach out to the International Institute of Akron and the city’s Ukrainian community to determine additional ways to be supportive.

Magic, mind reading, illusions on tap for Anshe Sfard Purim JANE KAUFMAN Akron Jewish News

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ichael Mage will take the stage at Anshe Sfard Revere Road Synagogue in Bath March 17, the day of Purim, to deliver magic, mind reading and illusions.

His appearance will cap an evening devoted to celebrating Judaism’s most raucous holiday.

The theme of the synagogue’s event this year will be “Marvelous Superhero Purim” subtitled “Super Jew A Night of Heroic Adventure.”

The event starts at 5 p.m. with a multimedia Megillah reading followed by a cocktail hour and Purim dinner.

The evening will also feature live music, dancing, an open bar, a costume runway show for children and adults and a buffet dinner.

Suggested attire? Purim heroes and superheroes.

Rabbi Moshe Sasonkin, spiritual leader of Anshe Sfard, said he is holding the event in the tradition of his parents, Kayla Sasonkin and the late Rabbi Mendy Sasonkin.

“When they started working with the shul, you know Purim was obviously in their eyes one of the very important programs to focus on. You know there’s a lot of joy, and a lot of happiness, and it brings a lot of vigor to the community. From the beginning, they started creating a very big program.”

Sasonkin said the family chose themes to make it interesting.

“We started calling it our annual Purim Around the World,” Sasonkin said.

In past years, the celebration has featured Purim in different countries.

“We did Purim at sea, like underwater,” he said. “We did Purim in outer space. So this year we were thinking of a nice Purim to do, and as we were talking about all the superheroes of Purim, we said, why not do superhero Purim?”

Sasonkin said he tries to “create the space

within that theme,” and this year will be no different.

“When you enter the building, you really feel like you’re connecting to the theme,” he said. “We decorate the whole place.”

Everyone will listen to the Megillah with a computerized slide show to illustrate the Megillah.

There will be crafts for children, followed by dinner.

“In general, we like to collaborate We invite everyone to participate,” Sasonkin said. “We’ve always had community-wide participation.”

In past years, the average attendance has been 200 to 300. In 2020, the week prior to Ohio’s shutdown for the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 150.

In 2021, Sasonkin said, the theme was Purim at the Circus outdoors with 100 people attending, due to the COVID-19 pandemic..

“It’s hard to know what to expect this year,” he said. “We’ve had very successful in-

person events recently that were done nicely and safely. We expect it to be a nice crowd.”

WHAT: Anshe Sfard Revere Road Synagogue’s Purim event “Marvelous Superhero Purim Super Jew – A Night of Heroic Adventure” FEATURING: Michael Mage performing magic, mind-reading and illusions WHEN: March 17, 5 p.m. Megillah reading; 5:45 p.m. cocktails; 6:45 dinner WHERE: 646 N. Revere Road, Akron SUGGESTED ATTIRE: Purim heroes and superheroes TO ORDER HAMANTASHEN: Visit akronshulcom/hamantash TICKETS: Adults $25 by March 10, $35 after; children 5-12, $15 by March 10, $18 after. For tickets, visit akronshul.com/ purim

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An AJN interview with:

Scott Newman | The Lippman School Board of Trustees President BOB JACOB Akron Jewish News

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cott Newman’s heart has been in Akron his entire life.

As he begins to wrap-up his two-year term as board president of The Lippman School in Akron, the 34-year-old Akron resident and member of Beth El Congregation, started his term as president in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and can now reflect on assuming his role during a most difficult and challenging time for all education leaders. As a part of his presidency, he is a member of the Jewish Community Board of Akron board of trustees, as well as a member of his synagogue board.

Newman grew up in Akron and returned after attending Rice University in Houston to attend The University of Akron School of Law. After passing the bar, he began practicing in the area and attended programming with the newly formed Rubber City Jews for young Jewish adults.

Little did he know that one day he would meet his future wife, Meghan, who is from Beachwood, at one of these events, a Shabbat dinner event held in Akron and hosted by Leora Cohen, a teacher at The Lippman School.

Newman is a judicial attorney/magistrate of the Medina County Domestic Relations Court, having previously serving as a judicial attorney for that Medina court from May 2014 to August 2017.

In between his courthouse jobs, he worked at Ruby & Associates in Fairlawn as an associate attorney.

Newman and Meghan have two children, Benjamin and Jacob.

Diana Ponsky will replace Newman in June when his term concludes.

Newman spoke about his presidency and his eight years on the board in an email interview with the AJN. AJN: When did your connection to The Lippman School start?

Newman: I attended The Lippman School as a child from kindergarten through fourth grade.

Even though I transferred to a different school for middle school, I remained close with the friends I made there, and most of my TLS friends and I attended high school together. TLS was a great experience, so when I was asked to be on the board, naturally I agreed. I joined the board prior to having children, and my children are still too young to attend the school. They go to the Mandel Early Childhood Education Center, which is located on the same campus as TLS. In fact, a few months ago my oldest was in the same classroom that I was in for kindergarten and was excited to be in “daddy’s old room.”

AJN: What is it about being president that is so important to you?

Newman: Education has always been important to me, so, when I was asked to be on the TLS board, I agreed. As a board member, I have been able to discuss and vote on issues that have an impact on children’s education. As president, I now lead the discussions. Being able to impact children’s education is something I do not take lightly and is by far the most important and rewarding aspect of being on the TLS board. I want to note, however, that the board’s job is made easier because of the work that Head of School Sam Chestnut and his faculty and staff do each

day. The board may discuss and vote on the issues, but those who work at TLS are the ones who are actually providing the education.

AJN: How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting your role as president?

Newman: It has made it challenging. I agreed to become president in 2019, a time when the school was doing well and it appeared that being president would be easy. Of course, that all changed in March 2020. In response to the pandemic, TLS shifted to remote learning with the goal to provide the same level of education as would occur with in-person learning. This brought its own challenges, as remote learning not only affected the children trying to learn but also their parents – parents who had to monitor their children while also attempting to work or find work themselves. Having two young children made it especially difficult for me to act as president – there have been numerous phone calls and meetings with my children in the background fighting, screaming, and/or vying for attention.

Another consequence of the pandemic is that it has affected the camaraderie of the board, parents and staff: meetings, functions and fundraisers held via Zoom do not foster the same socialization that pre-pandemic in-person events offered.

AJN: What do you hope to accomplish as president?

Newman: At the end of the day, TLS is a school, which means that its success relies on the success of its students. Parents send their children to TLS because of the information and skills that the faculty and staff teach. The mission statement says, “We provide a superior and individualized education steeped in Jewish values and a global

perspective.” I believe in this mission, and my goal as president was simply to ensure the mission remained the goal of the school. The pandemic created an opportunity for remote learning to occur and tested this goal in a manner that I do not believe any of us considered years ago.

Ultimately, I believe that the TLS faculty and staff, under the leadership of Sam and his team, successfully pivoted to a platform that, despite the challenges remote learning has, allowed the goal to be met. While the school has the ability to shift to remote learning if needed, I hope that we never need to again.

AJN: What are you most excited about as president?

Newman: When I first agreed to be president, I was excited with the opportunity to lead the TLS board. However, since becoming president, my excitement has shifted to being able to represent TLS in the Akron Jewish community.

Bober Markey Fedorovich adds to staff in Fairlawn

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The new team members include Cori Rich, who will be a manager in the firm’s tax practice division. Rich brings more than seven years of finance, leadership and Big 4 accounting experience serving a variety of clients, including real estate partnerships, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and trusts and served as champion for new technology implementation and process improvements, according to a news release. She specializes in tax

compliance and consulting for closely held businesses and their owners and has extensive experience serving partnership, S-corporation, individual and trust clients, the release said.

Other hires are: Connor Bast, Eden Copley, Kaitlyn Eades and Sarah Rexrode as staff accountants, assurance and advisory; Katelyn Garlitz and Dakota Dunwiddie, staff accountants, tax services, and Breanna Wilson, staff accountant, business advisory services.

The company is at 3421 Ridgewood Road, Suite 300.

Traci Hoffman, from left, Susie Shefner, Kevin Ford and Rebecca Sacks in ice bumper cars at Lock 3. | Photo / Leora Cohen

Rubber City Jews chill together Rubber City Jews hosted its first in-person event since last fall on Feb. 19 with ice bumper cars and ice skating at Lock 3 in downtown Akron. Eleven adults and two children were in attendance. Some of the group had dinner together after the event at a downtown restaurant.

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Shaw JCC offers variety of senior programming options BECKY RASPE Akron Jewish News

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he Shaw JCC of Akron offers programming options for all ages from preschool to senior adults.

For older members, senior adult program coordinator Julie LeFever told the Akron Jewish News that programming and clubs range from activities like bridge and mahjong to coffee and conversation, a retired men’s club and health talks facilitated by Brookdale, an assisted and independent living community in Akron. Akron seniors also can sign up for a monthly cooking class where they can take a dish home each LeFever month, or a spice club, where a monthly spice is chosen and members create a dish to bring to the next meeting to share using that spice.

“Some of these activities have been ongoing for many years,” said LeFever, who has been with the Shaw JCC for 23 years.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, she said programming used to be even more varied and included larger gatherings, trips and more hands-on activities. But, the benefit of Shaw JCC’s current senior programming is that group sizes can be easily limited and there is a level of flexibility in the chosen activities, she said.

“They’re easy to cancel if we need to, and I can limit group sizes,” LeFever said. “We’re trying to be extremely flexible right now. Up until all of this happened, we did trips too. I just don’t want to expose the seniors more than I have to.”

Shaw JCC also has a Silver Sneakers program, which offers expanded healthy living programs for older adults. Individuals who are age 65 and older and Medicare-eligible may qualify for Silver Sneakers and receive a free membership to the JCC. Silver Sneakers programming ranges from personal training, massage therapy and fitness to memory and concentration activities. Members are also able to enjoy other programming like hiking, dining out, playing cards and watching movies, according to the Shaw JCC website.

“The seniors come into exercise and just can’t believe what we have here,” LeFever said. “They’re just amazed we have so much going on. It’s about letting them get to know each other and form friendships. We’re so much more than a gym. We offer socialization for a great group of people at a great place.”

She said she does most of her recruiting from classes at the JCC, but said all interested Akron seniors can participate in any of their senior offerings.

“I’m just trying new things and seeing what works,” she said.

To learn more about senior offerings at Shaw JCC, visit shawjcc.org/senior-adults.

Shaw JCC of Akron’s current senior programming • Bridge: Mondays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. $1 donation to cover refreshments is appreciated.

• Coffee in the Lobby: First Wednesday of each month from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

• Health talks: Third Wednesday of each month from 11:10 to 11:40 a.m. Presented by Brookdale.

• Retired Men’s Group: Second and fourth Wednesday of each month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Bagels and coffee are served. $1 donation to cover refreshments is appreciated. Reservations to Julie LeFever at 330-8350027 is needed by Monday of the meeting week.

• Mahjong: Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m. $1 donation to cover refreshments is appreciated.

• Pots & Pans Cooking Classes: 1:30 to 3 p.m. March 22 (Irish Twist) and April 28 (Earthly for Earth Day). Make a meal with the class to take home. Six participants per class, reservations required. $12 per person.

• Spice of the Month Club: Third Tuesday of each month at noon. Meet at Shaw JCC to pick up a curated spice sample to take home. At the next meeting, bring a vegetarian dish to share with the class using the selected spice of the month. $3 a month for members.

Akron JFS planning to hold more COVID vaccination clinics BECKY RASPE Akron Jewish News

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n partnership with community pharmacies like Marc’s in Fairlawn, Sand Run Pharmacy in Akron and MAC Pharmacy in Akron, the Jewish Family Service of Akron plans to hold additional COVID-19 vaccination clinics for its clients and senior adult community members.

Similar to the clinics the organization held last fall, the clinics allow older adults access to COVID-19 testing in addition to initial vaccinations and boosters. The clinics included transportation endeavors with JFS caseworkers transporting clients to and from clinics. For those that didn’t have access to computers or a smart device to schedule an appointment, caseworkers also helped seniors access scheduling, according to a news release.

One of the fall clinics was in partnership with Summit Management, Inc., as well as Sand Run Pharmacy, at the Center Towers Senior Housing building. Seniors and persons with disabilities were offered boosters in their own homes, the release said. Additionally, two additional COVID-19 booster clinics were hosted at low-

income, senior housing buildings in the Akron area with MAC Pharmacy of Akron offering support throughout the city.

As a result, 61 community members received the COVID-19 shot, the release said.

“We assist by scheduling vaccine appointments and transporting clients to the vaccine,” Buffy Ramos, director of older adult services and support at the Jewish Family Service of Akron, wrote the Akron Jewish News in an email. “We also support our clients through assisting them in scheduling COVID tests online, as many don’t have access to technology/internet required to make COVID testing appointments.”

Akron JFS plans to hold more vaccination clinics in the future, she wrote.

“It’s highly likely that we will hold more booster vaccination clinics in the future, at the low-income buildings as additional boosters become recommended and available to folks,” Ramos wrote. “Currently, we are assisting tenants in the buildings and our JFS clients in accessing the vaccine on a 1:1 basis.”

For more information or if you or someone you know needs assistance accessing vaccines, call the Akron JFS office at 330-867-3388.

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Author Rose to speak at Holocaust commemoration, award ceremony April 26 BOB JACOB Akron Jewish News

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mma Kaufmann Rose will be the guest speaker at the Akron-Summit Holocaust Commemoration and Award Ceremony in honor of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. April 26 in the main auditorium of the Akron-Summit County Public Library at 60 S. High St. The event is free and open to the public.

It is organized by the Akron-Summit Committee on Holocaust and Genocide Education.

The program will honor the victims of the Holocaust, present awards to the winners of the 34th Akron-Summit Holocaust Arts and Writing Contest for students in Summit County and further explore this year’s contest theme: Lessons of the Holocaust: Undeniable Stories of Survival. Winners will be announced in two divisions and two categories – written arts and visual arts.

Entries for students in grades six to eight will be judged as Division I and entries for students in grades nine to 12 will be judged in Division II. Rose, the Cleveland author of “Saving Six Million; A Holocaust Memoir,” is the true story of two hidden children of the Holocaust, Ingrid Kennedy and Joseph Kennedy, as recounted by their granddaughter. The memoir’s main characters, Joszi Kaufmann (Joseph Kennedy) born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1928 and Ingeborg Hausen

(Ingrid Kennedy) born in Vienna, Austria, in 1936, are alive today and living in Akron.

The Akron-Summit Council on Holocaust & Genocide Education will sponsor the 34th year of the Akron-Summit Holocaust Arts and Writing Contest for students in Summit County in grades six to 12. The theme this year is “Lessons of the Holocaust: Undeniable Stories of Survival.”

For more information, visit akronsummitholocausteducation.org.

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Schultz Campus Gala May 12 at Shaw JCC

The 2022 Campus Gala at the Schultz Campus for Jewish Life in Akron will be held May 12 at the Shaw JCC Auditorium at 750 White Pond Drive in Akron.

The gala will honor the Schultz Campus employees. There will be a special commemoration for employees who have served the campus community for more than 20 years.

They are: Michelle Benvie, Rick Davis, Lawrence Hendershot, Julie LeFever, Elaine Terrell, Ayelet Torem, Debbie Zelin, Diane Galizio, Ceil Cohen, Susan Brady, Jody Faught, Elaine Morrison, Linda Brotsky, Lisa Pesantez, Janice Epstein and Sarah Greenblatt.

Cocktail hour starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 6:30. Babysitting will be available with activities, crafts and snacks.

General ticket is $125 and Heart & Soul Patron ticket $180.

For more information, visit shawjcc.org.

Fiume named Akron Arts Museum director, CEO

The Akron Art Museum Board of Directors recently unanimously appointed Jon Fiume as its new John S. Knight director and CEO. Fiume has been responsible for leading the museum since he assumed the role of interim director in May 2020. During that time, he focused on staffing several leadership roles and rebuilding the curatorial department, according to a news release.

“In choosing Jon, the board felt strongly that his achievements creating a healthy work environment for the staff, stabilizing the organization, and his continued focus on strengthening community relationships together with the museum’s growth were of the utmost importance,” according to the release.

Maplewood at Twinsburg honored by A Place for Mom

Maplewood at Twinsburg recently received a best of senior living award in 2022 by A Place for Mom, an online ratings and reviews site for senior care providers in North America.

The other two Ohio Maplewood Senior Living communities, Maplewood at Chardon and Maplewood at Cuyahoga, received the same honor. The three were among 11 Maplewood Senior Living communities to receive the distinction. The other eight are in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The company was also recognized as the 2022 best of senior living customer engagement award.

“Providing an unmatched care and service experience that far exceeds expectations is of utmost importance to the team at Maplewood, and receiving positive reviews from our residents and their families confirms we are fulfilling that commitment.,” Gregory D. Smith, president and CEO of Maplewood Senior Living and Inspīr, said in a news release. “We are deeply humbled to be honored with 11 Best of Senior Living award-winning communities and look forward to continuing our commitment to delivering an unparalleled level of service to our residents and their families.”

A Place for Mom is in its ninth year of hosting the best of senior living awards.

Five communities in Connecticut, Maplewood at Danbury, Maplewood at Newton, Maplewood at Orange, Maplewood at Southport and Maplewood at Stony Hill, as well as three communities in Massachusetts, Maplewood at Mayflower Place, Maplewood at Weston and Maplewood at Mill Hill, are among the awarded communities.

Akron golf event raises $840,000 for area charities

The Bridgestone Senior Players Championship and the Ambassadors Golf Event presented by FirstEnergy Foundation raised $840,000 for charities throughout Northeast Ohio last year. The annual Senior Players Championship is one of five PGA Tour Champions for eligible professionals age 50 and over.

The 2021 donation was the largest annual charitable contribution brought in by the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship, surpassing a total raised amount of $30 million since 1984.

The charities supported by the contribution include: Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron Police Department, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Akron Urban League, Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank, Boys & Girls Club of Northeast Ohio, Charity Inc., CHC Addition Services, Clearview Legacy Foundation, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Downtown Akron Kiwanis Foundation, Empower Sports, First Tee of Canton, First Tee of Cleveland, First Tee of Greater Akron, Grace House Akron, LeBron James Family Foundation, Merrick House, Newbridge Place, Northern Ohio Golf Charities, Pegasus Farms, Pregnancy Solutions, Safe Harbor Norton, Safety Forces Support Center, Summa Health, Tarry House Inc., The Akron Fire Department, The Final Farewell Project, The Well CDC, Tiretown Golf Club, Truly Reaching You Inc., United Way Summit Medina, University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Wentz Family Foundation and Youth Challenge.

The 2022 Bridgestone Senior Players Championship will take place the week of July 6 to July 10 at Firestone Country Club at 452 E. Warner Road in Akron.

For more information, visit bridgestoneseniorplayers.com.

AROUND THE COMMUNITY Akron Symphony Orchestra presents Confluence March 5

Akron Symphony Orchestra’s concert will feature The EarthQuaker Symphony at 8 p.m.

March 5 at E. J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall at 198 Hill St. in Akron.

While the playbill includes pieces by Haydn and Beethoven, the centerpiece of the program is the premiere performance of Confluence, a Concerto for Orchestra and EarthQuaker Devices, a newly commissioned work that explores traditional instruments and electronic effects. This blending of tradition and modernity is possible by using handmade effects pedals manufactured by Akron-based EarthQuaker devices. These effects range from subtle vibrato, distortions of various types, pitch and timbral modulations, echoes and reverbs.

Tickets start at $20. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit AkronSymphony.org.

Rubber City Jews to bake together virtually March 6

Challah baker and Rubber City Jews president Leora Cohen will lead a virtual challah baking workshop at 11 a.m. March 6 on Zoom. PJ Library families are also welcome to attend. Cost is free.

For Zoom link and ingredient list, email rubbercityjews@gmail.com.

Interfaith Justice Alliance Series begins March 9

Temple Israel in partnership with St. Hilary Parish, Faith Lutheran Church and New Hope Baptist Church will host the March 16 session of the 2022 Interfaith Justice Alliance Series, which will focus on “The Power of Awareness and the Art of Looking Within.”

The theme of the series is “Cultural Humility: Opening Hearts and Connecting Lives.” The four institutions will each hold a session with the goal of “having a humble and respectful attitude toward others, especially those who are different from us. At its core it is about empathy, avoiding stereotypical thinking, challenging our own cultural biases, reflecting on privilege, racism and living with diversity.”

The schedule of sessions is: “An Introduction to Cultural Humility and the Growth Process” March 9 at St. Hilary Parish at 2750 W Market St. in Fairlawn, “The Power of Awareness and the Art of Looking Within” March 16 at Temple Israel at 91 Springside Drive in Bath Township, “The Power of Empathy and the Danger of One Story” March 23 at New Hope Baptist Church at 1706 S Hawkins Ave. in Akron and “The four Dimensions of Racism and What You Can do About It” March 30 at Faith Lutheran Church at 2726 West Market St. in Fairlawn.

Jame L. Knight, the vice president for equity and inclusion at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, and Carey Dabney, a professor of systematic theology, will be presenters.

Sign-in and registration are at 6:30 p.m., followed by welcome and introductions at 6:45, with (interfaith) worship at 7, presentation, questions and discussion at 7:30 and additional questions at 8:30.

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‘Art Connects Us!’ art walk on March 11

Akron ArtWalk will celebrate Youth Art Month from 4 to 8 p.m. March 11 with its “Art Connects Us!” event at Summit Artspace, 140 East Market St. in Akron.

Resident artists and pop-up vendors will sell artworks and handmade items, and galleries will be open for visitors to view current exhibitions. Special programming will include an open house with student performances and artwork by visual art students at the Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts; artwork for sale by student artists in the National Art Honor Society chapter at Akron School of the Arts/Firestones CLC; hands-on art activities facilitated by University of Akron’s art education students; drop-in hours for Summit Choral Society’s new studio and classroom space; and pop-up theater performances by the Genesis Experience Theatre.

Local musician Andrew Izold will perform in the Taylor Main Gallery to accompany the FRESH exhibition, with a focus on electronic/ambient/experimental improvisation. Local bands Strings Attached, Bout Time and Celtic Flux will perform throughout the evening on the third floor.

Refreshments will be sold by Bereka Coffee & Kitchen and Rootless Bakery.

Festivities will also be held at other venues through the Akron Historic Arts District.

For a full list of other festivities, including at the Akron Art Museum, the Akron Summit County Public Library, the Nightlight Cinema, the Northside Cellar, the Zeber-Martell Gallery and Clay Studio and the Musica concert venue, visit summitartspace.org.

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Mandel ECE celebrates first 100 days of school The children in pre-kindergarten at Mandel Early Childhood Center at the Shaw JCC have been counting the days of school since their first day together in September, 2021. Leading up to the big day, the children have learned to count to 100 by counting in 10’s. Children enjoyed their 100th-day celebration by sharing their own collection of 100 items, stacking 100 cups, doing 100 exercises and counting out a 100-piece snack. “The 100th day of school is a much-anticipated milestone that represents progress, development and achievement,” Kim Garra, ECE director. said in a news release. | Submitted photos

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Students create Jewish club at Western Reserve Academy BECKY RASPE Akron Jewish News

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n a school of approximately 400 students, two Jewish students at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson have established a Jewish club.

Co-founders Sydney Grossman, 17, and Ben Sindell, 17, held the first meeting of the Jewish Student Union in September 2021 in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, along with the help of their chemistry teacher, Jon Butensky-Bartlett. The school has about 15 Jewish students and around 54 students signed up.

Jewish Student Union is now operating as an official club of the school. Since the first meeting, the club held a Chanukah get-together at the school’s Green Key meeting space, which was open to all students. They also lit candles at a nearby Jewish faculty member’s house to celebrate the Festival of Lights, said Ben who is a senior from San Francisco, but boards at WRA. Sydney, a junior who lives in Akron and attends Temple Israel in Bath Township, said conversation to establish the club started last year while consulting with Butensky-Barlett, who students call “Mr. BB.” “We went to Mr. BB that we wanted to bring the Jewish student union back, but better than

it was before,” said Sydney, referencing former iterations of the club that didn’t stick after the students involved would graduate. “We wanted to have more activities and be an active club.

Before they didn’t do too much, and part of that was due to COVID-19, but we wanted to bring it back and offer some opportunities to go to temple and do service trips.”

Sydney and Ben said they felt compelled to create a Jewish club and add to the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

“We have a lot of other DEI groups here at WRA, like the Black Student Union and the Asian American Club, and these are much bigger groups that a lot of students are part of,” Ben said. He sometimes attends services at Temple Beth Shalom in Hudson. “They are classified as affinity groups. So, we felt that starting one, even as a small minority, was important. We wanted students to be able to come out and feel that Jewish culture and be able to go on specialized trips.”

WRA used to have Holocaust education programming, said Ben, but the teacher who taught it left the school at the beginning of 2020.

So, the two students felt compelled to bring Jewish experiences back to their educational community any way they could, he said.

“A lot of the Jewish history and whatever she

tried to teach us left with her, so there is a lack of teaching within classes about the Holocaust and Jewish heritage,” Ben said. “It is important to recognize some of the important aspects of the heritage, besides just general lessons.

Something like this gives students the chance to learn more and to pursue that knowledge.”

Sydney and Ben are looking forward to making more trips as a group to temple, organize meetings, plan service outings, and establishing a recognizable presence at the school.

“It’s not an intensive, Jewish religiousleaning group, it’s more of a focus on the cultural aspect,” Ben said. “But, if students want to practice their Judaism, they can. Being able to do that is the goal.”

For the future of the group, the two upperclassmen hope to grow the group to the point where it will still function following their graduation. By mid-March, they plan to visit Kol Israel Foundation for a group field trip. On April 7, they are also going to host a coffee hour for WRA students and neighboring community members to hear from Kol Israel Foundation’s education director, Marianne Lax. “I hope to grow the club when Ben graduates, and I want to expand it to more than just services and learning,” Sydney said. “More

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Ben said, “The goal is to make a community on campus that can leave campus and find others outside of WRA. We want to make strong relationships with the temples and organizations close to us. We don’t want the club to die out when we leave.”

This story first appeared in the Cleveland Jewish News.

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We stand with Ukraine.

We stand with Ukraine as its people huddle in subway stations that turned into bomb shelters over night.

We stand with the old man standing outside his shattered home after Russian shells landed.

We stand with the man on the Kiev metro snuggling his cat to protect it from whatever happens next.

We stand with the father who said goodbye to his little girl so she would be safe somewhere else while he stayed to defend their country.

We stand with the old woman in the dirt floor basement bewildered by the bombs above.

We stand with families who woke to find their lives and futures turned upside down.

We stand with the children who fled schools and apartments pummeled by artillery.

We stand with the parents who packed suitcases, backpacks and trash bags to flee with their families on trains and buses and on foot.

We stand with those who cower from the high pitched whistles of incoming mortar shells, the breaking glass, the falling plaster, the stench of gunpowder.

We stand with those who can’t leave, who have lost power, running water, heat and hope.

We stand with those on the front lines who don’t have the power to flee.

We stand with the Ukrainian soldiers trying to defend David against Goliath. We stand with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

We stand with the protesters in St. Petersburg, Russia, who oppose their president’s cruelty.

We stand with the journalists risking their lives there to show us the truth.

We stand against tyranny.

We stand against Russian President Vladimir V. Putin. We stand against his violence. We stand against his tanks and artillery. We stand against this war to seize land, power and resources.

We stand against this phony and fabricated justification for war and all Putin’s propaganda and paranoia. We stand against his claim that Ukraine is not a sovereign nation. We stand against his lie that Ukraine was “created by Russia.”

We stand against former president Donald Trump for praising Putin, calling him “smart,” “savvy” and “genius” as the attack was carried out.

We stand with Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, who fear they might be next.

We stand with the European Union as it finds homes for war refugees. #WeStandWithUkraine in all our blue and yellow posts on social media.

In Cleveland, Terminal Tower was lit up in colors of the Ukraine flag. So were public buildings

and monuments in Sandusky, Cincinnati, Dallas, Buffalo, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum condemned the invasion with this statement: “As we stand at the AuschwitzBirkenau Memorial, it is impossible to remain silent while, once again, innocent people are being killed purely because of insane pseudo-imperial megalomania.” The museum warned that “any symptom of indifference is a sign of complicity.”

So what can you do from so far away?

You can share posts like this one: Elena Kovalskaya, director of the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theater and Cultural Center in Moscow, quit in protest of the invasion. She wrote on Facebook, “It is impossible to work for a murderer and collect a salary from him.”

You can find the courage and compassion to imagine yourself in Ukraine. Do you flee? What do you take? What do you leave? How much money do you bring? Will you have phone service to contact friends and family? What happens to your neighbors? Your parents? Your children? Your pets? Will you ever see your home again?

Then you take out your checkbook and donate. Choose a charity: UNICEF Ukraine, Save the Children, U.N. Refugee Agency, United Help Ukraine, Nova Ukraine, Voices of Children, the Ukrainian Red Cross. World Jewish Relief, Jewish Agency for Israel, Jewish Federations of North America, American Joint Distribution Committee.

You stay informed. You read real news.

The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Akron Jewish News. You donate to the GoFundMe created to support The Kyiv Independent.

You learn the history to understand the truth.

You watch the Netflix movie “Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom.” You boycott Russian goods and services.

You #StandWithUkraine After Germany invaded Poland and started World War II, poet W.H. Auden wrote “September 1, 1939.” Those words challenge us today: “All I have is a voice / To undo the folded lie …

“Defenceless under the night / Our world in stupor lies; / Yet, dotted everywhere, / Ironic points of light / Flash out wherever the Just / Exchange their messages: “May I, composed like them / Of Eros and of dust, / Beleaguered by the same / Negation and despair, /Show an affirming flame.”

Now is the time to show your affirming flame.

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Russian invasion may have consequences for Israel CLIFF SAVREN Akron Jewish News Columnist

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n the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine, the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement that went out of its way not to anger Russia – or even mention it.

“Israel shares the concern of the international community regarding the steps taken in eastern Ukraine and the serious escalation in the situation. Israel hopes for a diplomatic solution which will lead to calm, and is willing to help if asked,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said a day before the invasion. It did add: “Israel supports the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of Ukraine.”

Thankfully, following the invasion, Israel came down on the Ukrainian side. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called the Russian attack “a serious violation of the international order” and added that “Israel condemns the attack and is ready and prepared to provide humanitarian assistance to the citizens of Ukraine.”

Israel is also likely to see a wave of immigration from the Ukrainian Jewish community in the coming weeks.

I watched Russian President Putin’s venomous pre-invasion address last week in which he implied that Ukraine wasn’t a real country.

“Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood,” he said at one point. “Ukraine for us is not just a neighboring country. It is an integral part of our own history, culture, spiritual space,” he also remarked.

There is no political situation that I would analogize to Nazi Germany, but if you remove the antisemitism of Adolf Hitler, there were chilling elements in Putin’s speech that could have been straight out of a speech by the Nazi leader – grievances against the West for purportedly unfair treatment and most alarmingly, designs on the territory of neighboring countries.

Hitler demanded and received the Sudetenland, a German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, in talks in Munich in 1938 with British Prime Minister Chamberlain, an agreement that Chamberlain hailed as “peace for our time.” But in March 1939, Germany marched into the rest of Czechoslovakia.

It was only later that year, when Germany staged a false-flag border incident with Poland as a pretext for invasion, that Britain and its allies went to war to halt the German romp across Europe. What we are witnessing is a variation on Hitler’s false-flag border incident and a similar claim by Putin that all or part of Ukraine are rightfully Russian. In the height of doublespeak, Putin called his invasion of Ukraine an effort at denazification.

It’s good that Israel came down squarely in Ukraine’s defense, but Israel needs Russia.

On the map, at its closest point, Russia is about 1,500 miles from the Israeli border. In actuality, it’s on Israel’s doorstep.

Russia is Syrian President Bashar Assad’s military patron and as of last fall, it was estimated that there were as many as 13,000 Russian troops in Syria. When he was Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu wisely cultivated ties with Putin and received at least tacit Russian agreement to Israeli airstrikes in Syria to foil threats such as arms transfers to the Lebanese Hezbollah

militia. If Israel is now deprived of Russia’s acquiescence to freedom of action in Syrian airspace, it would complicate Israel’s ability to protect itself from future threats in Syria.

And then there is the Iranian nuclear issue. Israeli officials deem a nuclear Iran to be the greatest potential threat to the country. Russia is a signatory to the international nuclear accord that Iran signed with the major powers and that President Donald Trump withdrew from. After that, Iran sped ahead enriching uranium.

Ironically, if the United States is to come to agreement with Iran on a renegotiated agreement, as seems imminent as I write this, any new agreement would require the consent … of Russia.

Cliff Savren is formerly from Northeast Ohio who covers the Middle East for the Akron Jewish News from Ra’anana, Israel. He is an editor at Haaretz. To read more from him, visit akronjewishnews.com.

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We need to step up fight against anti-Asian hatred in America BEN COHEN

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n a recent evening, I was traveling on the New York subway in a car that was empty except for me, a woman and her child, and two men.

As I sat down, I realized that one of the men – a young guy dressed in gym clothes with the powerful build of a mixed-martial arts fighter – was hurling ugly racial invective at the other, who appeared to be a middle-aged Chinese man and was sitting directly opposite him.

“You people are like f------ rats,” he growled.

“You people are f-----poison. Dirty f------ people!”

Then the first man stood up, towering over his victim.

He spat at the trembling Chinese man before proceeding to kick with brute force the empty seats on either side of him.

Fearing that a physical assault was imminent, I did intervene, interposing myself between the two of them so that the Chinese man was shielded behind me. Fortunately, while I was subjected to a tirade of verbal abuse from this increasingly angry man, actual violence was not forthcoming. When we pulled into the next station after what seemed like an age, I quickly escorted the Chinese man off the train as our erstwhile adversary carried on screaming insults and waving his fists at us.

Once we were safely on the platform, I asked the man if he was alright and if he needed help getting to his destination. He didn’t speak a word of English, however, and so we were unable to converse. But before he walked off, he threw his arms around me in a hug, which I don’t mind admitting brought tears to my eyes.

When I later reflected on the incident, I realized that what struck me so deeply was the comparison of Chinese people to “rats” and “poison.” These are terms that Jews have been only too familiar with throughout their history, from the “blood libels” and accusations of wellpoisoning of the medieval period through to the genocidal racial program of Nazi Germany.

With the onset of the coronavirus, similar

tropes have emerged regarding Chinese people, transforming legitimate concerns about how much China’s Communist regime knew about the origins of the virus into racist “Kung Flu”type memes that effectively targeted anyone with an Asian appearance.

And just as there has been a surge of antisemitism triggered by the pandemic, so it is with racism towards Asian people. The falsehoods and accusations directed at both communities have accused them of secretly launching COVID-19 on an unsuspecting world and benefiting materially and politically from the pandemic’s spread, along with cruder messaging that the deaths of Jewish and Chinese people as a result of the virus are a welcome development.

Antisemitism and racism are never limited to rhetoric alone; the hateful words are inevitably accompanied by violent deeds. In New York City, there was a 361% increase in hate crimes targeting Asian people in 2021. Nationally, the figure spiked by 339% with record numbers of anti-Asian hate crimes reported in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In some cases, the results have been fatal – for example, the murder in the Atlanta area of eight people, six of them Asians, by a white-supremacist gunman in March 2021.

On Feb. 13, Christina Yuna Lee – a 35-yearold Korean-American woman who was active in combating hatred towards the Asian community – was brutally stabbed to death by an intruder who followed her into her apartment building in Lower Manhattan. A few days later, an improvised memorial to Lee outside her home, featuring flowers, candles and signs condemning hatred towards Asians,

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was vandalized overnight. Lee’s landlord, Brian Chin, told the New York Post that he had tried to reassemble the memorial as best he could.

“They try to desecrate her as much as they could, and we as a community are beyond fed up, we are beyond angry, and we are tired of being attacked,” said Chin. “We are tired of seeing this hatred, and we are not going to stand for it anymore.”

The attack on the memorial to Lee reminded me of similar outrages in Paris at the memorial to Ilan Halimi, the young French Jew kidnapped and murdered by an antisemitic gang in 2006.

The memorial to Halimi sits in a small garden, the Jardin Ilan Halimi, that has been vandalized with antisemitic graffiti on several occasions since it was erected in 2015. Almost exactly a year ago, when a small crowd of French Jews gathered at the garden to commemorate the 15th anniversary of his death, the sentiments expressed by some were similar to those of Mr. Chin in New York. “There’s a feeling that it’s all been for nothing – that we’re not learning from the past,” remarked one attendee at the Halimi commemoration. Another pointed out that since Ilan Halimi was murdered, other French Jews have lost their lives in antisemitic attacks that range from full-scale terrorist attacks to home invasions in which the Jewish victims are robbed, beaten and occasionally killed.

And just as antisemitism is a global phenomenon, so is anti-Chinese and anti-Asian sentiment. In other English-speaking countries, there has been a slew of social-media postings about the “Chinese virus,” while in many Asian countries with significant Chinese minorities, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, both hate speech and racist violence have escalated during the pandemic. Equally, both communities have been vilified for their alleged “privilege” even as they suffer from hate crimes that are becoming more common and more normalized. Currently, Asian American advocates are taking to the Supreme Court their fight with two elite colleges – Harvard University and the University of North

Carolina – claiming that both discriminate against Asian American applicants by scoring them lower in some categories while showing bias towards black and Hispanic applicants at the same time. A century ago, Jews would have told a similar story about this country’s leading academic institutions.

No two forms of prejudice are exactly alike, but whatever the historical and contextual differences between the discrimination encountered by the Jewish and Asian communities, there is no question that we need to be close allies at this point in time. At the end of January, John C. Yang, the president and executive director of the nonprofit civil-rights group Asian Americans Advancing Justice, said explicitly that the communities he advocates for actively welcome solidarity from other groups. “The support of our allies representing diverse communities of color and diverse faith communities has meant a great deal as our Asian American communities have been under attack,” Yang said.

Such solidarity needs to intensify. The depressing reality is that in the United States in 2022, antisemitism and anti-Asian hatred are rising precipitously. Jews must make common cause with Asian Americans to push back.

Ben Cohen is a New York City-based journalist and author who writes a weekly column on Jewish and international affairs for JNS. To read more from him, visit akronjewishnews.com.

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Israel to support UN resolution condemning Russia JNS.ORG

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sraeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Feb. 28 that Israel will vote in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine this week.

In a statement on Twitter, Lapid said Israel has the moral responsibility to both condemn Russia and provide humanitarian support for the Ukrainians.

“Israel was and is on the right side of history,” Lapid said in a statement. “We have a moral duty and historical obligation to be part of the effort.”

The move comes as Israel reportedly drew criticism from the U.S. last week for failing to co-sponsor a Security Council resolution condemning Russia. Israel has been walking a diplomatic tightrope between supporting Ukraine while being careful with Russia, which has a military presence in Syria that affects Israeli operations against Iranian forces there.

“Russia is the most significant military force in Syria, and our mechanism of cooperation with them is aiding our determined struggle against the establishment of an Iranian (presence) on our northern border,” Lapid said.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Feb. 28 that talks are underway at the Belarussian border between Russia and Ukraine, Reuters reported.

“President (Alexander) Lukashenko sincerely hopes that during today’s talks it will be possible to find solutions to the critical issues. And all Belarusians are praying for this,” tweeted Belarus’ Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei.

The Ukrainian president’s office said earlier that Kyiv’s goal in the talks was an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian forces from the country, according to Reuters. Moscow has not commented on its aims in the negotiations.

The move comes as the U.S. State Department suspended operations at the U.S. embassy in Minsk, Belarus, and authorized the voluntary departure of non-emergency employees and family members from the embassy in Moscow.

“We took these steps due to security and safety issues stemming from the unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces in Ukraine,” the State Department said in a statement.

Russia’s currency was down 30% against the dollar Feb. 28 amid stepped-up economic sanctions by Western countries, according to Reuters. Several countries have also increased arms shipments to Ukraine.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Feb. 27 with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, as well as the High Representative of the European Union, regarding the global

response to the Russian invasion, according to State Department spokesman Ned Price.

Blinken and the G7 ministers emphasized to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kubela that they were unified in their response to the Russian attack, which Price called “premeditated, unprovoked and unjustified.”

“Together, we are supporting the Ukrainian people and imposing severe costs and consequences to hold Russia accountable for its war of choice. We stand with Ukraine and recognize the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian people,” Price said.

President Joe Biden was expected to host a discussion with U.S. allies and partners Feb. 28 to coordinate a united response, according to the White House.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted 29-5 Feb. 28 to agree to Ukraine’s request to hold an urgent debate this week on the Russian invasion, according to Reuters. Those against included Russia and China.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the European Union Feb. 28 to immediately grant Ukraine membership, according to the report.

The European Union has closed its airspace to Russian planes, as has Canada, forcing Russian airline Aeroflot to cancel all flights to European destinations until further notice.

Toronto schools confront wave of antisemitism FAYGIE HOLT | JNS.ORG

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fficials with the Toronto District School Board are again investigating incidents of Jew-hate on one of their campuses after graffiti was found at a middle school where students performed a “Hitler salute” in front of classmates and a Jewish teacher.

“This is very upsetting and unacceptable,” George Bartzis, principal of Valley Park Middle School, wrote in a letter to parents.

“We take great pride in our school as a welcoming, safe, and inclusive place and this has always been our message to students. It is also not reflective of who we

are and what we stand for as a school and as a community.”

Officials with Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center have spoken with the teacher involved and said in a press release that she remains “traumatized” by the incident. According to the teacher, a student in her eighth-grade class shouted “Heil Hitler” from his desk as two other students stood on a filing cabinet and performed a Nazi salute.

“This wave of antisemitism at TDSB schools that we are seeing is unprecedented in terms of both number of incidents and their escalating gravity. This most recent incident involving a Jewish teacher is

Kentucky lawmakers apologize after caught on hot mic saying ‘Jew them down a little’

Two Kentucky lawmakers are apologizing after being called out for using an antisemitic trope during a recent committee meeting. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, Republican State Rep. Walker Thomas and State Sen. Rick Girdler of the state’s Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee used the phrase “Jew them down” as they discussed “bargaining for a lower price on a lease.” The paper said they were discussing the lease when “Thomas is heard faintly on a hot mic laughing after asking if the state could ‘Jew them down on the price.’” “The committee chairman then repeats Thomas’ words, shortly thereafter recognizing their impropriety,” the Herald-Leader reported. Girdler then said, “We’ve got a representative up here (asking) if you could Jew them down a little bit on the price” before saying “That ain’t the right word to use. ‘Drop them down,’ I guess.”

particularly horrifying,” Michael Levitt, FSWC president and CEO, said in a statement. “Antisemitism has reached epidemic proportions at TDSB, and it is time for the board to recognize this as the crisis that it is.

It is unfathomable and shocking that, in 2022, a Jewish teacher is faced with Nazi salutes and a ‘Heil Hitler’ chant in her classroom. Clearly, something is broken in Toronto’s public school system and requires immediate attention.”

In a tweet, Toronto Mayor John Tory also urged the school district to take action, saying the incident is “as sad as it is hurtful and obviously unacceptable. It is extremely

troubling to see antisemitic acts, especially among young people, happening in our community.”

Valley Park Middle School is located across the street from Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, a Toronto high school where last November, students staged a walkout during which they held signs and chanted “Free Palestine” as well as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

According to B’nai Brith Canada, neither school has a large Jewish population and that “while we are not aware of any direct link between these two incidents at this time, it certainly warrants further investigation.”

Abramovich commits more than $10M to support Israel’s Holocaust museum Billionaire Roman Abramovich made a more than $10 million pledge to Yad Vashem in Israel to support efforts in the realm of Holocaust research and remembrance, announced Feb. 22. The pledged funding will go toward enriching Yad Vashem’s world-renowned International Institute for Holocaust Research and the creation of two new Book of Names. It makes Abramovich the museum’s secondlargest private donor. Only Miriam Adelson and the late Sheldon Adelson provide more private funding.

The funding is meant to be contributed over a five-year period. “Yad Vashem’s work in preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust is instrumental to ensure that future generations never forget what antisemitism, racism and hate can lead to if we don’t speak out,” Abramovich said.

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NBA All-Star weekend prelude to ‘LeBron 3, The Final Chapter’?

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nce again, Northeast Ohio made its mark in NBA history. It was an extremely successful weekend for the Cavaliers, the NBA and the city of Cleveland. When you see Bill Murray, over 200 VIP parties and parking near the arena going from $30 to $50, it’s a big deal.

Outside of the slam dunk contest, things were extremely pleasing to the eye. It’s to the point the dunk contest needs a major boost.

They really need to up the ante and put more money on the line to get the top players to compete in the contest.

It was funny to hear Steph Curry get booed by the hometown crowd. I appreciated the fact he took it in stride and as a compliment, as opposed to his Golden State teammate Draymond Green, who ripped the city and fans of Cleveland. Curry said it was a great city. Green stepped in to let him know that Cleveland is “far from great” on television. Curry got the last laugh.

The Akron-born guard won the MVP trophy and set a record with 16 threepointers, hitting for 50 points in the All-Star Game that capped the Feb. 18 to Feb. 20 activities. Consider this, Curry took 27 of the 121 three-point attempts combined in the game. When Cleveland hosted the All-Star Game at the Richfield Coliseum in 1981, both teams took just one three-point attempt. It’s amazing how the game has changed.

The real story of the weekend is how LeBron James turned it into a homecoming.

His introduction during the announcement of the 75 best players to ever take the floor was described as “electric.” I’m not sure most people expected this to be a weekend dominated by James, but it turned out that way.

Here are the biggest headlines.

• James said Cleveland fans had Darius Garland, Jarret Allen and him as the city representatives. This was a head-scratcher.

This is the same James who left Cleveland twice. Right? The guy who made sure that there is a difference between Cleveland and Akron. Right? I’m not going to lie, he hooked me in when he said it. It made Cavs fans remember his playing days in Cleveland are special. It made me forget about “The Decision” and just think about the good times.

• The stories started brewing just prior to AllStar weekend that James’ management team was not happy with the Lakers’ front office for not making any moves during the trade deadline.

The big rumored trade was Russell Westbrook for John Wall of the Houston Rockets. It doesn’t sound like James and Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka are going to Swenson’s any time soon. Many took James praising Oklahoma City’s General Manager Sam Presti for being an “MVP” as a shot at the Lakers. It was fuel on the fire. In fact, ESPN and former Cavs beat writer Brian Windhorst said this might force the Lakers’ hand to trade LeBron this summer.

Never a dull moment with James. Makes you appreciate what former General Managers Chris Grant and David Griffin did while with the Cavs.

• Lastly, the James family reunion. James said he will play where his son, LeBron Jr., will play in the NBA. Wow, that is a ton of pressure on Bronny. He is just 17 years old and a junior in high school at Sierra Canyon High School in California.

He will get a chance to play in the NBA on name alone. Is he good enough? Time will answer that question. James said he will play his final season where his son plays.

Fans want to add two and two together and equal Cleveland. I really don’t think it’s that easy. The first factor is where will Bronny be drafted? Will he be drafted? And will a team need the James family on the roster?

A team may not have need for James at 39 years old. He said his paycheck will not be a factor at that point from the NBA team.

Now, it is a slam dunk for the marketing department. Just think about how much potential money would be on the table for the NBA team that pulls it off along with James.

Bring in a fleet of Brinks trucks to watch James’ final season with his son.

His movie script has him perhaps leaving the Lakers to ride off in the sunset with Bronny ready to take over the ranch.

Remember, this is Hollywood and anything can happen. I can even write a script where Cavs killer Michael Jordan gets a standing ovation in Cleveland. That happened, too. I guess time does heal all wounds. On paper “LeBron 3, The Final Chapter” is possible. I just don’t see it happening, and LeBron seemed to

dispel any such speculation in his post-game press conference following the Lakers’ loss to the Clippers on Feb. 25.

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Akron-born and raised LeBron James returns to Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland for the 71st NBA All-Star Game Feb. 20. | AJN Photos / Todd Adelman

Jarrett Allen watches teammate Evan Mobley throw down a dunk in the NBA Skills Challenge, which the Cavs trio won. Darius Garland was the third member of the team.

Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen of the Cavs at the press conference after the Rising Stars challenge.

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Shabbat Zachor: Remember not to forget

March 5 Pekudei Exodus 38:21-40:38 1 Kings 7:51-8:21

RABBI JEREMY LIPTON

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habbat Zachor (the Sabbath of Remembrance) always takes place in the week preceding the holiday of Purim. Each year on Shabbat Zachor, we conclude our Torah reading by recalling how Amalek ruthlessly attacked the Israelites in the desert after their departure from Egypt. This passage is connected to Purim because tradition identifies Haman – arch enemy of the Jews of Persia and the villain of the Purim story – as a direct descendant of Amalek.

In this short Maftir, we read from Deuteronomy (25:17-19) the following: “Remember (zachor) what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt … Therefore, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget (lo tishkach)!”

Why does the Torah instruct us to not only remember, but also not to forget?

In his early 20th-century commentary, Torah Temimah, Rabbi Baruch Epstein

suggests that there are profound differences between these double imperatives. Epstein reminds us that lo tishkach (do not forget) means that we should always be conscious of the story of Amalek, and keep that memory alive in our thoughts. In doing so, we cognitively acknowledge Amalek’s treachery as part of our personal story.

On the other hand, zachor (remember) means that we must not only recall what Amalek did, but also speak out about his malevolence, which will lead us to actively obliterate any hint of his presence and influence in our world.

Where else within our tradition can

we find an example of both cognitive and active paths toward fulfilling a mitzvah? I recommend that we consider one of the most familiar of the Ten Commandments – the mitzvah to observe Shabbat. You may recall that the Ten Commandments occur twice in the Torah – once in Exodus, and again in Deuteronomy. In Exodus, we read, “Remember (zachor) the Sabbath day and keep it holy,” but in Deuteronomy we read “Guard (shamor) the Sabbath Day and keep it holy.” Guarding Shabbat is a cognitive command, telling us that there are certain things from which we must refrain doing (i.e., creative work, igniting a fire, etc.) in order to separate Shabbat from the rest of the week. But remembering Shabbat is an active command, focusing on those things we must do in order to observe Shabbat (i.e., lighting candles before Shabbat, making kiddush, etc.). Clearly, observing Shabbat is a mitzvah that requires both our reflective COGNITION as well as our positive

March 12 Vayikra Leviticus 1:1-5:26 1 Samuel 15:1-34

CONSERVATIVE

Beth El Congregation 750 White Pond Drive, Akron Rabbi Jeremy Lipton 330-864-2105 bethelakron.com

REFORM

Temple Beth Shalom 50 Division St., Hudson Rabbi Michael Ross 330-656-1800 tbhudson.org

ORTHODOX

Anshe Sfard-Revere Road Synagogue 646 N. Revere Road, Bath Township Rabbi Moshe Sasonkin 330-867-7292 akronshul.com

Rabbi Jeremy Lipton is rabbi of Beth El Congregation in Akron.

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March 26 Sh’mini Leviticus 9:1-11:47 Ezekiel 36:16-38

ACTIONS to fulfill its mandate.

So, is the Maftir of Shabbat Zachor actually redundant? I would suggest that the Torah teaches us otherwise. Both cognition and action are essential partners. We may recognize the spiritual path that lies before us, but we must also move forward on that path to ultimately achieve our spiritual goals.

Zachor (Remember). Lo tishkach (Do not forget).

The Akron area is home to several local synagogues and congregations to meet the worship needs of all members of the community. For service times and additional information, including links and passwords to attend online services and requirements for attending services in person, visit the synagogue website or contact the synagogue office directly.

Temple Israel 91 Springside Drive, Bath Township Rabbi Josh Brown Cantor Kathy Fromson 330-665-2000 templeisraelakron.org

March 19 Tzav Leviticus 6:1-8:36 Jeremiah 7:21-8:3, 9:22-23

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Obituaries Axner, Stephanie

Stephanie Axner (nee Rabb), 83, died on Jan. 28, 2022. Beloved wife of Arthur; cherished mother of Marjorie Faas (Thomas), Michael Axner (Mindi) and James Axner (Karin); loving grandmother of Melanie and Laura Faas, Daniel and Matthew Axner and Sam and Emily Axner.

Sister of David (Mary) Rabb and the late Helen Paige (deceased) and James Rabb (Phyllis).

Stephanie was a graduate of Old Trail School and Flora Stone Mather College. She was a lifelong member of Temple Israel in Akron and its sisterhood, Jewish Welfare Fund of Akron and chair of the Young Matron’s Division. She was a member of Hadassah women’s group in its support of the state of Israel. Stephanie was a member of the women’s board of Akron Children’s Hospital and was instrumental in helping to form the Ronald McDonald House in Akron, and a past member of the United Cerebral Palsy Board of Akron.

Funeral service was held Feb. 1 at Temple Israel. A graveside service followed at Rose Hill Cemetery.

Donations may be made to Temple Israel in Akron or to a charity of one’s choice.

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TRIBUTES AND MEMORIAL GIFTS

The Jewish Community Board of Akron and the Shaw JCC acknowledge the following recent Tributes and Memorials made to the designated fund below.

The Rose & Lawrence Schwartz Holocaust Education Fund In Memory of

Rose & Lawrence Schwartz, from Eddie & Marla Schwartz Anne Duncan, from Eddie & Marla Schwartz

Jewish National Fund In Memory of

Phyllis Sugerman, from Daughters of Israel Thomas Zetzer, from Daughters of Israel Bernard Bear, from Daughters of Israel

The JCBA Endowment Fund

In Honor of

In Memory of

Erin Katz being named as Executive Director of Beth El Congregation, from Irene Adler Mazel Tov to Hal & Greta Foster on the birth of their grandson, Michael Taylor Foster-Smith, from Irene Adler

JCC Endowment Fund

Get Well Wishes to Sylvia Kramer, from Eddie & Marla Schwartz

The Jennifer Moss Scholarship Fund In Memory of

Phyllis Sugerman, from Herb & Ellen Moss Thomas Zetzer, from Herb & Ellen Moss Sonia Horvitz’s nephew, Peter, from Herb & Ellen Moss

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Stephanie Axner, from Jay & Marcy Becker

In Memory of

Bernard Schwartz from Janet and David Minc Phyllis Sugerman from Gloria Slavin Tom Zetzer from Gloria Slavin

Kerry Migdal Memorial Fund In Memory of

Stephanie Axner from Stan and Rhoda Migdal Phyllis Sugerman from Stan and Rhoda Migdal

Lila Marks Music Performance & Education Fund

Ronald Penner JCC Memorial Fund for Israel-centric BBYO Programming

Stephanie Axner from Marvin Rosenthal Joe Berman from Marvin Rosenthal

Stan Regal from Gloria Katz

Randy Recht Sports Camp Fund

In Memory of

In Memory of

In Honor of

Blake Gross’ Special Birthday from Lauren Weinstein Blake Gross’ Special Birthday from Grandie Recht Marriage of Skylar Gross and Andrew Dubin from Edith Barend Marriage of Granddaughter Skylar Gross to Andrew Dubin from Marjorie Recht Marriage of Skylar Gross and Andrew Dubin from Bernard Haberman

In Memory of Stephanie Axner from Marjorie Recht

COMING SOON

In Memory of

Soup for the Soul Fund Phyllis Sugerman from Phyllis Sugerman’s friends Phyllis Sugerman from Mary Ann Minster Bob Lefever from Gloria Slavin

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