Jewish Journal, Vol. 35, Issue 14, Feb. 17, 2011

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February 17, 2011 – 13 adar I, 5771

Israeli Consul General Kicks Off Y2I 2011

JCCNS Adopts New Biz Plan Amy Sessler Powell

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MARBLEHEAD — The transition now taking place at the JCCNS will be seamless, said Maria Samiljan, former president and chairwoman of the Atid (Hebrew for future) Committee, that announced a new business plan last week.

A centerpiece of the new plan is that the health and wellness programs will be outsourced to the New Jersey-based Medifit Co. “They bring a level of expertise, a knowledge of industry trends. They will help to deliver a high level of member experience,” Samiljan said.

Other parts of the new business plan include partnerships with Berlitz Language School, Jammin’ with You for music education, as well as increased opportunities for physical therapy with Spaulding Outpatient Center, and a satellite preschool at Temple B’nai Abraham in Beverly.

“We’re taking the JCCNS to a whole new level,” President Lisa Nagel said. “We’re improving our core businesses, and building new ones to ensure that the JCCNS is sustainable.”

With all the changes, Samiljan stressed that the JCCNS is still loyal to its core mission of being the central gathering place for Jewish life, learning and culture, offering enriching experiences to strengthen Jewish identity.

“The reason we have a business plan is for the important things in our mission. We need revenue so we can have Chagenu, Shabbat by the pool, a Purim Carnival. That mission has not changed, but we have to focus on how to sustain ourselves to be economically viable,” Samiljan said.

“This is really a three-year plan with targets built in,” Samiljan said. “Any business plan has risk factors. If something is not working, we will reexamine it and we will never make the mistake of sitting back. We can never afford to sit back again. We need to be very aware of how we will serve our community.”

PEABODY — The newest group of Youth to Israel teens, who will “usher the trip into its fifth decade,” were welcomed February 13 by Israeli Consul General Shai Bazak and community leaders.

This year’s 41st Y2I group includes 81 teens from 15 cities and towns. The Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, sponsor of the trip, raised $451,007 from 705 individual donors to make the trip a reality. The Jewish Federation of the North

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Shore funded $70,000 of that total.

The teens and their parents gathered to kickoff the pre-trip programming. Y2I is a free, two-week teen Israel trip open Jewish teens on the North Shore. The group will depart July 10.

“You will follow the 2,200 teens who came before you to a place that every Jew calls their ancestral home,” said Deborah Coltin, Lappin Foundation executive director.

Bazak spoke to the teens about the importance of the

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William Ross of Nahant, Amanda Monaco of Salem and Ethan Rosen (kneeling) of Swampscott, get ready for their summer trip to Israel.

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With Passion, Parents Advocate for Disabled Children Susan Jacobs Jewish Journal Staff

for those like her son, Jonathan Derr.

“My own greatest opportunity came when my son, Jon, was born,” Simons said.

With plenty of support and intervention from his loving family, Derr, now 31, has graduated from Swampscott High School and Cape Cod Community College, holds down two jobs, and is currently learning how to drive. A respected golfer, he has been inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Simons, author of “The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook” (Woodbine House, 2010), often uses Jo Ann Simons her son as an illustration of the many Jo Ann Simons and her son, things those with disabilities can

Advocating on behalf of those with disabilities is more than just a job to Jo Ann Simons of Swampscott. It’s her life work, passion and calling.

A nationally known expert, Simons chairs the National Down Syndrome Society and is president/CEO of the Cardinal Cushing Centers of Massachusetts, a $20 million organization that supports people with and without disabilities across their lifespans.

As the mother of a grown child with Down syndrome, she has spent the last three decades vigilantly fighting for rights, opportunities and acceptance Jonathan Derr.

Amy Sessler Powell Jewish Journal Staff

Editor’s note: This is part four in a series about living options for active seniors.

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CHELSEA — Like many older married couples, Meyer and his wife Marilyn “Beady” Katzman have different health needs. But they appear to have found a solution at the Cohen Florence Levine Estates, one of the assisted living facilities of the Chelsea Jewish Foundation.

Meyer, 80, is completely independent. His routine includes meeting his brothers for coffee in the morning and afternoon, getting some exercise, and doing some volunteer work for a few hours each day. Marilyn, who has been hospitalized several times, requires more assistance.

Although Meyer is totally devoted to his wife, he admits that her care became a burden when they shared an apartment in Chelsea.

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George Bush Delivers Candid Memoir Jessica Chmara

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During his tenure, there were many highs and lows. Bush or the first time since believes one of his highest honleaving the Oval Office ors was to serve as commandin January 2009, the 43rd er and chief of the men and president of the United States, women of the U.S. military. One George W. Bush, gives a candid of his biggest disappointments, and vulnerable glimpse into his he says, was not apprehending life and the choices he made Osama bin Laden. One of the as president that shaped our most hurtful accusations was nation and the being labeled a racist because of lives of millions his response to Katrina, someBOOK of people around thing he vehemently denies. the world. During Jewish readers will be interhis two terms in office, America ested to know that of all the faced some of its most challengopinions Bush received about ing and difficult crises ever. His whether or not to intervene in new book, “Decision Points,” Iraq in the winter of 2003, he shares his perspective on major says the wisest advice came Decision Points events which occurred during from Elie Wiesel. Wiesel comGeorge W. Bush those eight years. pared Saddam Hussein’s brutalCrown Publishers, 2010 In this brutally honest memity to the Nazi genocide, and oir, the former president shares intimate details told Bush, “Mr. President, you have a moral obliabout his personal life, family and friendships, gation to act against evil.” and the circumstances that led him to reach the This insightful memoir is a true glimpse into executive decisions he did. No subject seems the life of our former president, and the lessons taboo. He describes the embarrassing details that that shaped him into the man he is today. His led him to quit drinking at age 40, takes us vulnerability and strength are both evident. He inside the Texas governor’s mansion on the night admits that although he was a free spirit at times, of the contested 2000 election, and admits the his conscience always got the better of him. Yet costly mistakes he made with Hurricane Katrina. he takes full responsibility for the decisions he He candidly shares what he was thinking flying made. aboard Air Force One on September 11, 2001, and “I got some right, and some wrong. But I what happened inside the Situation Room hours always believed the decisions I made were for the before declaring war in Iraq. best for our country. Unfortunately, as president, With his Texas wit and charm, this natural there are no do-overs,” he writes.

Only time will tell how President Bush will be storyteller writes as he speaks — straightforward, blunt and with no ghostwriter behind the scenes. judged by history. For now, readers can make He is painstakingly open about his successes and their own assessment from this uncensored failures, his joys and disappointments, and his memoir.

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Lieberman Writing Book on the Joys of Sabbath WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman is writing a book on the benefits of the Sabbath.

Lieberman (I-Conn.), who recently announced he will not run again, is co-writing the book with David Klinghoffer, according to Howard Books.

“In this book, Lieberman will offer the gift of Sabbath observance — a gift that has anchored, ordered and inspired his life — to readers of all faiths,” said a release this week from

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The book will appear in August.

In 2007, Howard published “An Amazing Adventure” by Joe and Hadassah Lieberman, an account of the 2000 election, when Lieberman was the first Jewish candidate on a major presidential ticket.

Lieberman left the Democratic Party in 2006 when he lost its primary. He regained his Senate seat running as an independent.

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Barney Frank Will Run Again WASHINGTON ( JTA) — U.S. Rep. Barney Frank pledged to run in 2012 for his 17th term.

“While I would have preferred to put off a discussion about the next election until a later date, I have been asked on a number of occasions about my plans,” Frank (D-Mass.), one of the most senior Jewish members of the House of Representatives, said in a statement February 3.

Speculation about Frank’s future had arisen in his home state because Massachusetts is likely to lose a congression­ al seat in 2011 redistricting.

In his statement, Frank said his priorities would be to protect the banking reforms he helped pass in the last Congress, and to reduce defense spending.

Frank has been elected to Congress by wide margins since 1980.

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Patrick to Lead Trade Tour of Israel JTA — Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will lead a state trade delegation to Israel.

Patrick, a Democrat, will tour Britain and Israel from March 7 to 17.

Patrick’s statement noted that nearly 100 companies with Israeli founders or Israeli-licensed technologies employed 6,000 people and generated $2.4 billion in income in his state in 2009.

Robert Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots franchise in the National Football League, will be among the state business leaders accompanying the governor.

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Political Activity Ramps Up on Capitol and Beacon Hills Jack Zietman Special to the Journal

As Capitol Hill reorganizes after the Republican takeover of the House in November, the first month of the 112th Congress has been slow. Congress responded to the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others on January 8 by ceasing legislative activity for a week.

Little has happened in the Senate so far, though Republican efforts to repeal health care reform are under way. On February 2, the Senate failed to waive any concerns of budgetary discipline concerning said repeal, which Republicans hope to amend to the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act. On waiving budgetary discipline, Senator Scott Brown voted “Yea,” while John Kerry voted

On the Record “Nay.” The House passed resolutions to repeal health care reform, to reduce non-security spending to fiscal year 2008 levels, and to cut federal financing of presidential campaigns and party conventions. The House most recently failed to pass an extension of several controversial provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act. On passage of a repeal of health-care reform, Con­ gressmen Barney Frank, John Tierney and Edward Markey all voted “Nay.” To reduce non-security

spending, Frank did not vote, and Tierney and Markey voted “Nay.” To cut federal campaign and party financing, Frank did not vote, and Tierney and Markey voted “Nay.” To extend the PATRIOT Act provisions, Frank, Tierney and Markey all voted “Nay.” Pertaining to support for Israel in Washington, six Democratic senators sent a letter on February 1 to the Appropriations and Budget Committee in support of foreign aid to Israel. This followed Republican senator Rand Paul’s assertion to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that all foreign aid, including that to Israel, should be cut. Reporting on this letter, the Jerusalem Post did not provide the names of the six Democratic senators.

Also related to Israel advocacy, Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA), a pro-Israel

hard-liner, has resigned to head the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Ms. Harman served as a Democratic centrist from 1993 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2011.

In Massachusetts, Repre­ sentative Lori Ehrlich (D-Marblehead) and Attorney General Martha Coakley announced an anti-human traf-

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t is often easier to let things stay as they are. Change and progress require real work, and the outcome is unknown.

The unknown is uncomfortable, uncertain and even risky — three things we are wired to avoid. But when the status quo is literally killing us, we need not only strong leadership, but also the will and creativity of an entire region to ensure that the necessary change is achieved.

The time has come to transition the Salem Harbor Power Station, owned by Dominion of Virginia. With the strength of public officials and the public alike, we can explore a collective vision that is good for commerce, community and our health. It has been 60 years, but we now have an opportunity to create a new reality for our next generation.

Many of us have known for some time that we must transform this site — something confirmed

by Dominion’s CFO Mark McGettrick at the Edison Electric Institute Conference this past November.

McGettrick said, “In the near future, certainly in this five-year horizon, we would expect Salem Harbor plant to shut down. We will not invest any capital for environmental improvements at Salem Harbor.”

With these words, we are finally ready to think beyond our current reality and break free of the shackles of denial that have kept this region bound to an obsolete coal plant. At long last, we can stop accepting breathing, drinking and eating the pollution it expels — and embrace transitional planning for alternative visions.

It was a half-century of denial that kept coal waste at the bottom of Wenham Lake, the drinking water source for 80,000 residents of Salem, Beverly and Wenham. And it was denial that had to be broken before a massive and necessary cleanup could take place — a cleanup that saved this drinking water source for generations to come.

The process was not easy, but it was a vital and compelling model. Through community collaboration, Wenham Lake was restored, and I am con-

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the green building revolution In spite of the recent economic recession, there is one sector that seems to be flourishing. According Phyllis levin to a new report by McGraw-Hill Construction (who CRS GRI CBR tracks building industry trends), the U.S. green building market has expanded dramatically since 2008 and is expected to double its size by 2015. New green construction jumped from $42 billion in 2008 to $71 billion in 2010 and represents 25 percent of all new building activity.

Gasping For Air, Grasping For Vision Special to the Journal

ficking law aiming to eliminate sexual and labor exploitation.

Massachusetts is one of only five states without such a law. Rep. Ehrlich has also been named vice chairman of the Labor and Workforce Development.

This is great news for not only the environment (since single family homes account for about 21 percent of U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions), but it also means that the cost of green building materials is getting more affordable for the average homeowner and that more new green innovations are arriving on the market all the time.

fident we can utilize this same energy and spirit to chart a new course for Salem Harbor.

A couple of weeks ago, my family observed the 10-year yahrtzeit for my father, Harvey Litman, who was born and raised in Salem, and spent his life downwind from the plant’s emissions. When his surgeons at Mass General pulled me aside to let me know I should be relieved that the aggressive brain cancer that took his life (known as glioblastoma multiforme) was environmentally caused — in other words, not hereditary — I took little solace. We have all been exposed to the same environmental risks he was. The time for a new vision is now.

But beyond the residents of this region, the ratepayers deserve better than the false choice of “this plant or no plant.” Ratepayers have borne the burden of keeping this plant afloat for years, and now are paying above-market rates (to the tune of $20 million for the next two years) to import coal from overseas to burn here. Dominion’s CFO made it clear that the company will not invest their dollars in this plant — why should we invest ours?

With a just transition, local businesses and tourism can be bolstered without depleting our health, putting workers in harm’s way, and destroying our natural resources. Private citizens and several developers are coming forward with creative and potentially lucrative development ideas. It is important to note that any development will enjoy the benefit of a $6 million cleanup of onsite contamination. As a federally designated deep-water port, it’s not a stretch to imagine this 65-acre property hosting cruise ships or other maritime commerce.

There will no doubt be unique challenges transitioning this property, but it’s not the only coal plant in the country going by the wayside — just the oldest. Those naysayers who spend so much time and energy saying what cannot be done need to change their tune and join the air-breathing public in imagining other possibilities.

If you are planning to build a new home, be sure to incorporate green features into your plan. They may cost slightly more than conventional products, but they will save a lot on utility bills over time.

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accomplish. The book, which contains many stories detailing her personal experiences, is an inspiring resource for parents of children with any disability.

“I get calls every day from fearful, distraught, scared and overwhelmed parents about the future of their child’s life,” said Simons, whose expertise is on helping older youths with disabilities transition to adulthood.

In the state of Massachusetts, free and appropriate educational services cease after age 22.

“In high school, there is an order to life. After graduation, their peers prepare to enter college, or join the workforce or the military, but it’s more complicated for a child with a disability. This book is a roadmap to help equip parents to make decisions,” Simons said.

According to Simons, housing and employment are two of the biggest problems facing young adults with disabilities.

While those with disabilities are employable and often eager to work, companies are often reluctant to hire them.

“Jewish agencies could make 10 percent of their workforce people with disabilities,” Simons suggests. “There couldn’t be anyone more friendly greeting people at the JCC desk than a person with autism, who is great at remembering names. Many individuals with disabilities excel at repetitive work such as mowing lawns or filing. We need to take the gifts these individuals have, and create opportunities for them,” she said.

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Eric and Ivy Dorflinger, at left. Right, Marcy and Jacob Yellin.

Marcy Yellin, who is very active in the Jewish community, has gone to extraordinary lengths to create employment opportunities for her son Jacob, now 26, who is cognitively challenged.

For several years Jacob had a maintenance job at Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott. He was paid through The Tikvah (Hebrew for hope) Fund, which was established four years ago by philanthropist Arthur Epstein. Today, the fund is used to pay aides to assist children with special needs in the Hebrew school.

Yellin, an educator herself, is delighted that such a program exists. “When Jacob was younger, there was nothing.

They would let him hang out at Hebrew school, but there was no special program for him to participate in,” she said.

A separate but similar Tikvah work program was launched about a year ago at the JCC in Marblehead. Through that program, Jacob works every Friday in the preschool.

In addition to his job, Jacob takes classes at Life Choices in Beverly, a program originally founded by Jo Ann Simons.

This educational program is run

through EMARC, a non-profit that provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities.

Jacob leads a full and active life. During the summer he attends Camp Ramah, an overnight Jewish camp that welcomes children with special needs.

“We need to take the gifts these individuals have, and create opportunities for them.”

To the relief of his parents, Jacob has learned to live semiindepedently. For this milestone, Yellin credits the Cardinal Cushing Center, run by Jo Ann Simons.

“He went to live there at age 19, and stayed for almost three years. It is basically a college for kids with special needs. He learned a lot of important skills, including how to be away from us. But everything stops at age 22,” Yellin said.

After a brief stay in a group home in Lynn, the Yellins set Jacob up in a condo in Salem. A paid companion helps facilitate his life.

To some, Jacob has become a role model. Ivy Dorflinger would like to see her son Eric, now 19, achieve many of the same things.

“My dream is to see Eric in an independent living situation, with a job,” said the Lynnfield mother.

Dorflinger, like Simons and Yellin, has always been a vociferous advocate for her youngest child, who has been diagnosed as intellectually impaired.

Dorflinger immediately sprang into action after her son was professionally evaluated at the tender age of two. Contacting the special education department of the Lynnfield public school system, she arranged for early intervention services.

“He had a lot of needs and, but I felt he shouldn’t be given up on,” she said. She notes that, for the most part, Lynnfield has been very accommodating — providing speech, occupational, physical and supplemental therapies, Sports has been a saving grace for the athletic Eric. In addition to the Special Olympics, which he participates in year-round, he is a member of the track and swim teams at Lynnfield High School.

Eric is currently a high school senior. Dorflinger is focused on helping her son achieve the life skills he will eventually need to live more independently. He is involved in a school-to-work program through EMARC. “He is very responsible and enjoys working,” said Dorflinger, noting that Eric is employed at the Lynnfield Library reshelving books, at Huckleberry

Elementary School where he helps children check out books, and at Hannafords in Saugus.

Dorflinger, who is very active in the Jewish community, was pleased that the Robert I. Lappin Foundation made accommodations that enabled Eric to participate in last year’s Y2I trip to Israel. Executive Director Debbie Coltin arranged to have a young, male counselor accompany him around the clock.

But she feels the Jewish community can do even more. “Our religious schools need to be more inclusive; making exceptions when necessary to accommodate our most needy children. Our camps need to have accommodations so that all children can experience Jewish camping to the best of their ability. The JCC can have special programming if it’s warranted, or be willing to provide the necessary staffing so that no child is left out of their existing programs,” Dorflinger said.

All parents raising children with disabilities agree that it can be a challenge.

“It’s very difficult and lonely out there. Eric didn’t know the difference, but my husband, Peter, and I realized how isolated we had become,” Dorflinger said. She is committed to reaching out to others in the same predicament.

Like many others in that circumstance, Simons has devoted her life to advocating for change in the disabled community.

“Parents must become lifelong advocates. Changes won’t happen standing on the sidelines. We all have a responsibility,” she said.

BOCA RATON, FL – Swampscott’s Beth and Marc Andler (center and second from left, respectively) were presented with Theodor Herzl Commemorative Medallions by Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz (to Mr. Andler’s left) and Israel Bonds President and CEO Joshua Matza (Mrs. Andler’s left) at the Bonds campaign inaugural in Boca Raton on Sunday, January 30.

The evening also featured a tribute to Matza, who will be leaving the organization after serving 9 ½ years. During Matza’s tenure, Israel Bonds secured more than $11 billion in worldwide sales. Over $140 million in Israel bond sales and commitments to purchase were announced, reinforcing Finance Minister Steinitz’s declaration that the Bonds organization is “an anchor of stability.”

Also pictured: television icon Henry Winkler (left), the evening’s master of ceremonies; Frieda Andler; Bonds National Chairman Fred Zeidman (right); and Chairman of the Board Richard Hirsch (second from right).

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February is Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month Jay Ruderman

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annah’s mom never thought her daughter would find a Hebrew school that was right for her, much less have a bat mitzvah. But last June, after two years in an innovative bar/ bat mitzvah class, Hannah, an honor student with Asperger’s Syndrome, proudly chanted her Torah portion before 100 friends and family members.

Binny flashed a grin as he accepted his siddur at the ceremony with the other second-graders in his day school.

But this moment could never have happened a decade ago for a little boy with Down syndrome.

Third-grader Justin was usually exploding in anger during Sunday school. Two years later, he performed an original song in front of the entire school.

These three Boston-area children — and their Gateways: Access to Jewish Education journeys — have much to teach us about Jewish continuity.

What’s more, whether our generation engages — or fails to engage — the nearly 20 percent of Jewish children and their families who live with a disability, will determine how inclusive a community we will become.

We know Jewish education holds the key to our people’s survival, and always has. Making sure every one of our children receives that birthright is a driving force behind my family foundation’s partnership with Gateways, which makes Jewish education a reality for hundreds of children with special needs.

But as we mark Jewish Disabilities

Awareness Month across the country, we’re still up against a powerful enemy: ourselves. Although our tradition commands us to “teach a child according to his way,” we’ve developed another tradition: Closing our eyes and looking the other way when someone doesn’t measure up. The cost, we argue, is simply too high to include them.

For parents, learning to accept our children with special needs is hard enough. But when our Jewish community turns its back on us, when our schools and shuls aren’t welcoming, it risks alienating all of us.

Locally, we have services in place for people with special needs — not enough, but it’s a beginning. Our community demonstrates what a committed federation, foundations and other funders can do when we partner with direct service agencies to challenge the status quo of Jewish education for children with special needs in a broad range of educational settings.

Gateways, already Boston’s central address for special needs Jewish education, is beginning to share its innovative model with other Jewish communities across North America.

Anyone who contributes even small sums is a funder, and the best way we can invest our resources is in high-impact organizations delivering long-lasting, transformative change for our people.

When we begin to respect, accept and educate children with special needs, it reminds us of what we stand for, and we become the people our ancient tradition commands us to be.

Jay Ruderman is president of the Boston-and-Israel-based Ruderman Family Foundation.

Checking Out Library Shelves, Youth Finds Something Amiss

Carrie Cohen

Sarah Cohen is pictured with Mary Saunders, Howe Manning School librarian, and some of the Jewish themed books she donated.

Susan Jacobs Jewish Journal Staff

MIDDLETON — Browsing through the shelves in her middle school library, 10-year-old Sarah Cohen of Middleton could not find a good Jewish book. Her mother, Carrie, had a brilliant solution.

After checking with Mary Saunders, the librarian at Howe Manning Middle School, Sarah and her mother, Carrie, decided to buy an assortment of Judaica books, and donate them to the public school library.

The Cohens emptied the family tzedakah box, coming up with about $100. After consulting with a representative from the Lappin Foundation (which gives free books to Jewish chil-

dren as part of its PJ Library Program), they journeyed to the Israel Book Store in Brookline.

At the store, they purchased 17 titles including “Penina Levine is a Potato Pancake” (a Chanukah book), “Penina Levine is a Hard-Boiled Egg” (a Passover book), “Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost,” “Who Was Anne Frank?” “As Good as Anybody,” “Bagels From Benny,” “The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak”, “Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty,” “Mrs. Katz and Tush,” and “Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers’ Strike.”

Thanks to this mitzvah project, young readers at the Middleton middle school now have a plethora of Jewishthemed books to peruse.

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Federation Secures Additional Jim Joseph Foundation Grant Amy Forman Special to the Journal

Tuition assistance to those in need will continue to be available to North Shore families for two more years through a generous grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF), a Californiabased charitable organization devoted exclusively to fostering compelling, effective Jewish learning for young Jews in the United States. Funds totaling up to $225,000 were secured by the Jewish Federation of the North Shore as a part of JJF’s Jewish Education Challenge Grants program.

“The Federation is thrilled to be able to continue to offer needs-based tuition assistance through a JJF grant program once again,” said JFNS Executive Director Liz Donnenfeld, “For the last two years, the Jim Joseph Foundation has been the Federation’s largest donor with an Emergency Education Grant of $500,000. We are very grateful for JJF’s continued support.”

The first year of the Jewish Education Challenge, which begins July 2011, allows for grants up to $150,000. The Challenge portion comes into play during the second year, beginning July 2012, when JFNS will be eligible to receive up to $75,000 based on its own dedicated fundraising, with a oneto-one match from JJF. According to JJF Board Member Jerome Somers of Swampscott, the North Shore is one of five areas around the country to benefit from the Foundation’s Jewish Education Challenge Grants program,

which furthers JJF’s commitment to a sustained program of grant-making in pursuit of a vision that leads to everincreasing numbers of young Jews engaged in ongoing Jewish learning and choosing to live vibrant Jewish lives. The other areas include Boston, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

Based on need, tuition subsidies will be available for Jewish day and pre-schools for the 2011-2012 year, as well as Jewish overnight camp for the 2011 season. The grant oversight committee, comprised of Nate Dalton, Bob Goldman, Melissa Kaplowitch and Stephanie Simon, has determined that 61% of the available funds will be used for day school subsidies, 21% for preschool, 15% for camp and 3% for administration costs.

Participating institutions include but are not limited to: Cohen Hillel Academy, Gann Academy, Maimonides, Torah Academy, Congregation Shirat Hayam pre-school, JCCNS pre-school, NSJCC pre-school, Temple Beth Shalom pre-school, and camps Pembroke, Tevya, Tel Noar, Avoda, Bauercrest, Yavnah, Ramah, Kingswood, Eisner, Crane Lake and Young Judea. Grants are not available for day camp, day care or Hebrew school. Beneficiaries must be Jewish, with at least one Jewish parent.

Under the JJF Emergency Grant program, 180 North Shore children received assistance to attend three area Jewish day schools, one Jewish high school, four Jewish early childhood

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“The economy has certainly created challenges for many in our community over the past couple of years,” noted Jill Weiner, president of Cohen Hillel Academy in Marblehead.

“At Hillel, we have made a significant effort to soften the harsh impact of the economy as far as tuition is concerned, and the Jewish Federation’s JJF grant goes a long way toward that end. Thanks to the support provided by the JJF and facilitated through the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, Hillel has been able to provide tuition assistance to families who qualify for assistance and who are committed to providing their children with a remarkable day school education,” she added The Jewish Education Challenge Grant differs from the North Shore Teen Initiative’s “campership” program, which provides first time campers attending a Jewish camp a onetime incentive grant of up to $1,000.

Additional eligibility details for Jewish Educational Challenge Grants and application forms for pre-school and camp grants are available on the Federation’s website, JewishNorthShore.org.

Day school parents should apply for financial assistance directly through their school.

Completed forms are confidential and must be received

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Ikkarim Offers Timeless Wisdom Are you a Tiger Mom? A Helicopter Dad? As parenting trends change faster than the seasons, it is hard not to get caught up in the latest fad. For parents on the North Shore, “Ikkarim: Parenting through a Jewish Lens” offers a welcome alternative, drawing on Jewish sources of wisdom for guidance that is solid and timeless.

This past fall, Jewish Federation of the North Shore introduced Ikkarim (Hebrew for “core values”) to the area through a series of single sessions held in community institutions. Now, the full course will be offered at Temple Beth Shalom in Peabody and at the JCC in Marblehead beginning March 6 and running for six Sunday morning sessions.

In reflecting on the decision to work with JFNS to bring the Ikkarim course to Temple Beth Shalom, President Amy Sliva remarked, “I was thrilled to host one of the Ikkarim

introductory sessions. Now we are completely honored and delighted to host the six-week course.”

Although new to the North Shore, the program was developed eight years ago by Hebrew College and Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and enriched the lives of about 800 Bostonarea participants.

Sessions are led by Dr. Jacob Meskin and Dr. Ronit ZivKreger. Ikkarim on the North Shore is funded by a gift from the Jim Joseph Foundation, as well as by a significant contribution from Richard Schenkel of Swampscott, with the remainder coming from Jewish Federation of the North Shore.

Classes will meet at the JCCNS from 9:15 — 10:30 a.m., and at Temple Beth Shalom from 10:15 — 11:45 a.m.

Registration is now open, and space is limited. For information, contact Alanna Cooper acooper@jfns.org.

Caring for Your Family, Caring for the World Alanna Cooper

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wonderful perk of my position as JFNS Program Director of “Ikkarim: Parenting Through a Jewish Lens,” has been the enrichment of my own family life. A session we ran this past December had particular resonance for me.

“The world stands on three things — the Torah, the first [Temple] service, and acts of loving kindness. Why person did the sages name these as the three pillars upon which the world stands?” Instructor Ronit Ziv-Kreger asked, and “how might we personally contribute towards strengthening them?”

Discussion turned to acts we might do with our families. I was moved by the earnest dedication of the others in the room, and for a fleeting moment started planning to undertake one of these projects myself.

But that moment passed when I thought back to my long to-do list; diapers, laundry, carpools, play-dates, doctors, lunches… never mind work. Realistically, how could I reach out to repair the world, with so many needs inside of my very home?

Our discussion helped me find an answer to this question.

Judaism takes seriously the individual life-cycle. The sages teach that at different points in our lives, we are expected to concentrate on different sorts of endeavors. When I was single, I took advantage of opportunities to engage in acts of loving kindness that sent me traveling across the world. Now, however, as a mother of young children, it may be alright if I turn inward for a while.

This does not mean abandoning the task at hand. Rather, shifting focus to my three daughters by teaching them to treat one other with loving-kindness. Such educational moments present themselves in the most mundane household activities. Success, however, is not mundane at all. Like all of the work we do as parents, it is a noble task to instill in our children the ability to act toward one another with loving-kindness. For this character trait is basic and foundational. It ensures that our children will become adults who can contribute to strengthening the pillars upon which the world rests.

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We Shall Overcome ... Together Jason P. Stark

would know through the words and actions of the protestors that change was inevitable.

President Obama hosts a White House seder during Pesach, the first president to do so. What is clear is that the president identifies and honors the relationship that Jews and

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ne of my jobs as a history educator is to take events that might be abstract concepts to students, and facilitate some sort of connection to prior knowledge. This is not only good for Xbox and Kardashian-loving teens, but for Jewish adults as well. We can use our ancestral and personal histories to gain a deeper understanding of history, and therefore ourselves.

During February, Black History Month, it is important to consider the way segregationist policies have affected both Jews and African-Americans. That is why during the Civil Rights movement, these two parties gained such kinship.

While the history of AfricanAmericans encompasses over 400 years of both tragedy and triumph, events that stand out are the Montgomery Bus Boycott starting in 1955, and the efforts led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others to end the “Jim Crow” laws of the South.

From Egyptian slavery to Roman occupation, oppression has placed Jews behind physical, mental and legal walls for millennia. It is clear that the strife of both African-Americans and Jews is similar.

Many whites, including Jews,

marched during the Civil Rights movement. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the more famous.

At the time, Heschel said, “For many of us, the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling.

And yet our legs uttered songs.

Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.”

In Judaism, the act of prayer is about the relationship of the individual with God, though we pray as a community. I think Heschel was saying that the act of marching was not only the effort of a group fighting for a cause, but of a community asserting that the commandments and laws of the Torah would not be ignored.

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JCCNS Plans for the Future

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he JCCNS leadership is to be congratulated for coming up with an innovative, yet eminently practical, business plan to pursue. If finding a niche and filling it is the way to succeed, then the JCC in Marblehead may well be on the road to success. By outsourcing its physical fitness facilities to a company that focuses on life wellness, it is tapping into the burgeoning wellness market.

to help the infirm get from one activity to another, without risking a fall.

There are many reasons why people go to gyms. Some go to shape up, show off their glutes or socialize, while others grit their teeth and push themselves to exercise because their doctors have told them that their health depends on it.

Let’s hope the leadership stays focused, maintains a clear vision of who they want to service, and are not distracted by trying to be all things to all people. The JCCNS has been beleaguered for a long time by the high cost of maintaining its pool and gym. Perhaps this plan can steer them on the road to financial stability.

The JCCNS may have found a way to differentiate itself in a competitive market, while at the same time serving its core constituency. In our region, there is currently no fitness facility focusing on rehabilitation. We can imagine a gym with handrails

Spaulding Rehab’s commitment to double the size of its facility inside the JCCNS is an important spoke in the wheel. If many of its patients translate into members, the JCCNS will be on the road to economic solvency, and will be able to maintain its presence on the hill.

The JCCNS business plan is multifaceted. The Journal will address additional aspects of the multiyear plan in subsequent issues.

letters to the editor Thanks for the Accuracy Memories of Halperin

Not a Fan of Mubarak I am a dissenter on the general view that Mubarak was good for the United States and for Israel. He contributed greatly to the Gaza problem and eventually to the Gaza War by allowing the tunnels that carried rockets and weaponry from the Egyptian border to Gaza to be built and to function. These are the rockets that rained bombs on Israel for over a year, and which led to the Gaza War. My husband and I were living in Israel when the so-called “peace treaty” was signed between Israel and Egypt; we were the first tourist group to

go from Israel into Egypt — and to discover that Egyptians were being foiled in their efforts to go to Israel. A Coptic Christian told us that license plates were being photographed of Egyptian cars crossing the border, which put fear into the hearts of those who wished to go into Israel. The first ambassador from Israel to Egypt and his wife were given housing on the middle floor in a high rise — the only tenants permitted to live there. It was the most unique ghetto ever built.

Our government has given over $40 billion to the Mubarak government, a waste of money

Literacy Program Still Welcomes Volunteers I’ve been meaning for a while to thank you for the article you ran about the literacy volunteer program (“Helping Children Learn to Read is as Easy as A,B,C,” Journal, December 2).

We have gotten several new volunteers who read the article and became interested. This morning I got another call from a prospective volunteer who had seen the article and had made

a note to get in touch. Clearly you have a readership that pays close attention to what you publish.

We are always seeking more helpers. Potential volunteers can learn more by contacting me at 781-631-5796 or ruthcooper@alumnae.smith.edu.

Ruth Cooper Marblehead

Vigilance For Our Furry Friends In light of a cat who was nearly killed after being caught in a car engine in Springfield, I urge readers to protect animals by keeping their cats and dogs indoors and always banging on their vehicles’ hoods before starting the ignition to frighten out any animals who may be seeking warmth.

Being killed by car engines is just one of the many dangers animals face outdoors. Every day, cats and dogs are stolen for experimentation, used for target practice or bait for dogfighting, and worse after being left outside alone for “just a few minutes.” Attacks by other animals, extreme weather, traffic

and diseases claim the lives of untold cats and dogs each week.

Random acts of cruelty are also common. Most of the 300-plus new cruelty cases PETA receives weekly involve animals who were victimized while outside unattended.

Please protect cats by keeping them indoors and allowing them outdoors only on a leash and harness or in an enclosed area, under constant supervision. For tips on keeping cats content in the “great indoors,” visit PETA. org.

Martin Mersereau (PETA) Norfolk, Va.

that would have been better spent in a Marshall plan to alleviate the intolerable conditions in a country where 30% unemployment is the norm.

When the Sinai was given back to Egypt, Mubarak ordered that the Jewish settlement, Yamit, be dismantled. One woman living in the settlement, which had been her home for years, unfurled a banner that read, “If this is peace, why do we have to go?” I am still waiting for an answer to that.

Roberta Kalechofsky Marblehead

He’s Tired of Holocaust Stories Your February 3 edition carries another Holocaust survivor account (“Survivor Shares Holocaust Stories With Students”).

As a Jew, I am writing media outlets asking that they do not print more of these sad continual messages of horror and doom.

Some of the accounts almost vibrate with seeming nostalgia for being an important victim!

Let us step forward into sunlight, nonchalance and wellbeing.

Malcolm Miller Salem

Editorial Policy A letter (250 words or less) must be signed and include your name, address and telephone number for verification purposes. While we value robust debate, letters must be respectful, civil in tone and contain no presonal insults. Letters can be mailed to The Jewish Journal, 201 Washington St., Suite 14, Salem, MA 01970, or emailed to editor@jewishjournal.org.

The Journal may post letters online prior to print publication.

Thank you to Susan Jacobs.

Your article (“Survivor Shares Holocaust Stories With Students”) is the only one in my whole speaking career that I had nothing to edit or correct.

I asked you for a copy before it went to print because reporters and journalists that have attended my presentations, and even interviewed me, never wrote a perfect reproduction.

Not only are you an excellent reporter, you are also an excellent editor. For another Jewish paper I was interviewed for four hours, edited the article with red ink, and something else was printed. I made the writer aware that what was published was not what she wrote, nor what I added. She apologized and took the responsibility for it. I guess she protected the editor.

You have my compliments.

Edgar Krasa Newton

Hersh Goldman’s Letter to the Editor (Jewish Journal, January 6, 2011) brought to mind Bennett Halprin.

I was saddened when I read that Bennett Halprin was shot dead in Lynn. Bennett was my MBTA bus driver when oftentimes he drove me from the Lynn Campus of NSCC to my home in Marblehead. He enjoyed his work and seemed dedicated. He went out of his way to be helpful to his passengers, always with a cheery smile. I miss his friendliness and civility.

Bennett was truly a human being and mensch. I sincerely hope the one(s) responsible for his murder will soon be brought to justice.

Sheldon Brown Marblehead

Warts And All Rabbi David Wolpe

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rabbi is speaking with a doctor, who says, “You know, rabbi, I often treat patients without asking them to pay.”

The rabbi responds, “I do that too.”

The doctor, perplexed, persists: “You know, I often write prescriptions and cover the cost myself.” The rabbi muses, “Yes, I do that too.”

The doctor, frustrated, says, “I even do surgery and forgo my normal fee!” The rabbi nods, and says, “Yes, I do that too.”

“Wait a minute,” exclaims the doctor. “You aren’t a doctor — you don’t write prescriptions, do surgery and examine patients!”

The rabbi is startled: “Oh no, I didn’t mean that. I just meant yes, I say good things about myself too.”

When I conduct job interviews and ask people to name a fault, they often answer with a disguised merit: “Well, I can’t stand it if things aren’t perfect.”

But we all have real flaws, actual wounds, genuine deficiencies that are hard to admit. If we present perfection, we can never be loved because no one will know who we are. Our disfigurements and imperfections are part of us. They need not be all we show, or the first thing we show, but to deny them is to hide from ourselves and from each other.

God exists; the job description for perfection is already filled.

What a relief.

This column first appeared in the New York Jewish Week.

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Toward a Soft Landing in Egypt

Pioneers of the New Normal Sarah van Gelder

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mericans are facing a troubling reality. The economic recovery they were promised has not materialized. There’s growing talk about a “new normal”—a new way of life to take us through a long periods of failed recoveries.

There are, indeed, good reasons to believe we won’t go back to the old ways.

But this new normal doesn’t have to be a time of chaos and decline. Instead, many Americans are building stronger families and communities, rejecting the waste and greed that made our economy implode, and turning instead to self-reliance and the sort of neighborliness that embraces diversities of all sorts.

Why not go back to the consumer ideal that was the foundation of the American Dream?

Many who live paycheck to paycheck have lost jobs, homes and hopes for an education, retirement security and belief in a more prosperous future. CEO pay is on the uptick, as are corporate profits. But the anti-tax, anti-regulation fever that enriched some undermined the real wealth of our country — our education system, infrastructure, communities and natural resources. And much of our economy has been outsourced, making it difficult for stimulus spending to get growth going again.

So what are Americans doing about these very real threats to our security?

Some are exploiting citizens’ fears for their own political ends, blaming President Obama, immigrants or climate scientists for the bad news. These strategies not only distract us from the real threats, they divide our country while offering nothing that can help solve our challenges.

Others are choosing to ignore or deny the depth of these challenges.

But there are people across the political spectrum, in every part of the country, gathering with friends and neighbors to build sources of security close to home.

These folks are turning lawns into vegetable gardens and organizing their neighbors to start farmers markets. They’re getting together with neighbors to swap preserves and skills, and to relearn the skills their grandparents had. They are protecting local resources — water, land, forests and fisheries — that can offer sustenance into the future, and they are starting up energy and weatherization cooperatives.

They’re paying off their debt, moving their money out of big corporate banks to local banks and supporting local businesses. As they do, they are freeing themselves from the global corporate economy that moved jobs overseas and fueled the speculation that undermined the real economy of jobs, goods and services. These folks have chosen instead to use their resources to strengthen local economies and the small-and medium-sized businesses that are most likely to create the new jobs of the next economy.

These are the pioneers of the new normal, and you can find them building the foundations of a hopeful future in urban centers, small towns and suburbs. Maybe you’re one of them.

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Charles Krauthammer

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ho doesn’t love a democratic revolution? Who is not moved by the renunciation of fear and the reclamation of dignity in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria?

The worldwide euphoria that has greeted the Egyptian uprising is understandable. All revolutions are blissful in the first days. The romance could be forgiven if this were Paris 1789. But it is not. In the intervening 222 years, we have learned how these things can end.

The Egyptian awakening carries promise and hope and of course merits our support. But only a child can believe that a democratic outcome is inevitable.

Yes, the Egyptian revolution is broad-based. But so were the French, Russian and Iranian revolutions. Indeed in Iran, the revolution only succeeded — the shah was long opposed by the mullahs — when the merchants, housewives, students and secularists joined to bring him down.

And who ended up in control? The most disciplined, ruthless and ideologically committed — the radical Islamists.

This is why our paramount moral and strategic interest in Egypt is real democracy in which power does not devolve to those who believe in one man, one vote, one time. That would be Egypt’s fate should the Muslim Brotherhood prevail. That was the fate of Gaza, now under the brutal thumb of Hamas, a Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

We are told by sage Western analysts not to worry about the Brotherhood because it probably commands only about 30 percent of the vote. This is reassurance? In a country where the secular democratic opposition is weak and fractured after decades of persecution, any Islamist party commanding a third of the vote rules the country.

Sarah van Gelder is executive editor of YES! Magazine (yesmagazine.org) a national media organization based in Seattle fusing powerful ideas and practical action for a just and sustainable world. This article is reprinted courtesy of The American Forum.

Elections will be held. The primary U.S. objective is to guide a transition period that gives secular democrats a chance.

The House of Mubarak is no more. Mohamed ElBaradei has allied himself with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood has organization, discipline and widespread support. In 2005, it won approximately 20 percent of parliamentary seats. ElBaradei has no constituency of his own, no political base, no political history within Egypt at all.

He has lived abroad for decades. He has less of a residency claim to Egypt than Rahm Emanuel has to Chicago.

A man with no constituency, allied with a highly organized and powerful political party, is nothing but a mouthpiece and a figurehead, a useful idiot whom the Brotherhood will dispense with when it ceases to have need of a cosmopolitan frontman.

The Egyptian military, on the other hand, is the most stable and important institution in the country. It is Westernoriented and rightly suspicious of the Brotherhood.

The military is the best vehicle for guiding the country to free elections over the coming months. Whether it does so with someone at the top who arouses no ire among the demonstrators matters not to us. If the army calculates that Mubarak being gone will satisfy the opposition and end the unrest, so be it.

The overriding objective is a period of stability during which secularists and other democratic elements of civil society can organize themselves for the coming elections and prevail. The United States should say very little in public and do everything behind the scenes to help the military midwife — and then guarantee — what is still something of a long shot: Egyptian democracy.

Contact Charles Krauthammer at letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

Democracies Don’t Happen Overnight Richard Cohen

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very once in a while, I resurrect my Oveta Culp Hobby Award. Hobby was the Texas newspaper publisher who became Dwight D. Eisenhower’s secretary of health, education and welfare, who failed to order enough of the new Salk polio vaccine. When asked why, she said, “No one could have foreseen the public demand for the vaccine.”

This year’s Hobby Award goes to the Obama administration for failing to foresee the upheaval in Egypt.

I grant you that events in Egypt have been fast-moving. But it has been clear for many years that Egypt had all the ingredients for a revolution: a repressive regime, widespread poverty, lack of job prospects for the burgeoning middle class, an unpopular treaty with a loathed neighbor, significant underground political opposition and a leader who surrounded himself with flatterers and incompetents the likes of whom have not been seen since Louis XVI. The only revolutionary element missing was a rousing song. It has been replaced by the subversive sound of the Tweet.

What is happening in Egypt is like-

ly to happen elsewhere in the region.

There are no democratic regimes in the Arab world, nor has there ever been one (with the possible exception of Iraq).

Egypt is something of a Middle Eastern exception. It is an ancient culture, geographically contiguous, had a measure of self-government even under the British, and has been the intellectual leader of the Arab world. Yet it, too, lacked — and lacks — democratic institutions and traditions.

What is amazing is that the Obama administration had a detailed, if cockamamie, plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace, but seemed stunned that Egypt went haywire. Where was that plan? The ugly dilemma is that there is a conflict between our longheld principles and our immediate self-interests. A democratic Egypt that abrogates its treaty with Israel and becomes hospitable to radical Islamists is not in our interests.

Certain pro-democracy advocates in the Western media envision a transition period of months that will produce democratic bliss in the region.

Not likely. The Middle East must first pass through somewhat the same process as did Central and Eastern Europe. Before World War I, it had no democracies. The region was ruled by

monarchies.

After the war, nearly every state (the Soviet Union was the most prominent exception) was a democracy and one, the most culturally and politically advanced of them all, had an exemplary constitution and a resplendent bouquet of political parties. Nevertheless, this country reeled from Weimar Republic to Nazi dictatorship in virtually no time at all.

The rest of Central and Eastern Europe was different only in degree, not in kind. By the end of the 1930s, these countries were mostly rightwing dictatorships. It took another World War, a Cold War and lots of help for democracy to take root. Even so, some of these countries show twitches of recidivism.

To think that the Middle East will vault this process is endearing but dotty. The one advantage the region has is that it’s relatively homogenous, mostly Sunni Arab. Before the Middle Eastern countries can be put together as democracies, they will come apart as something else, possibly as Islamic republics. If Obama wants to know what will happen in the future, he need only consult the past. It is, just as the cliche says, prologue.

Contact Richard Cohen at cohenr@washpost.com.

Pundits on Pluto Rabbi Avi Shafran

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That’s not a value judgment. It was The New York Times columnist’s own self-assessment in a February 1 column, his inebriation the result of having been amid a crowd of Egyptian protesters against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s Tahrir Square at the end of January. No alcohol was involved, of course; the crowd was overwhelmingly Muslim. The contact high was, and remains, entirely political.

The square, Kristof recounted, which in the past had been a place of unruly behavior, had “lost its menace and suddenly become the most exhilarating place in the world.” And the reason was because of the hope he inhaled from “the brave men and women of Tahrir Square,” the “peaceful throngs pleading for democ-

racy.” Kristof’s colleague, Roger Cohen, nursed some optimism of his own, citing “the immense distance traveled by Arabs over the past month.”

“For too long,” he writes, perceptively enough, “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the great diversion, exploited by feckless Arab autocrats to distract impoverished populations.

“Now, Arabs are thinking about their own injustices.

With great courage, they are saying ‘Enough!’”

Not one to allow an opportunity to criticize Israel fall through his hands, though, he notes that the “fastgrowing economy and institution-building [in] the West Bank is an example to the dawning Arab world — and would be more so if Israel helped rather than blocked and hindered.”

But he sees hope all the same that a “representative Egyptian government” could emerge from the Cairene crowds, even if they turn out to be “less pliant to America’s will”; and that it might come to carry “a vital message for Arabs and Jews: Victimhood is self-

defeating and paralyzing — and can be overcome.”

The giddiness born of the sight of hundreds of thousands of angry Egyptians seemed to have spread even to the page’s “conservative” columnist, David Brooks.

In his column he kvelled at the “surge of patriotism” expressed by the Egyptian demonstrators, part of a “remarkable democratic wave.”

“More than 100 nations have seen democratic uprisings over the past few decades,” Brooks asserted, something about which, he contended, “we should be glad.”

The most prominent identities of those “more than 100 nations” are the 2006 Gaza elections that put Hamas in power there, the Iranian Islamic revolution of 1979 and the rise, a mere 50 years earlier, of the Nazi party in Germany.

Rabbi Shafran is an editor at large and columnist for Ami Magazine.

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‘America Saves Week’ Highlights the Importance of Saving for a Rainy Day

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o many expenses, so few dollars saved. That’s the dilemma faced by millions of Americans — everyone from struggling college students to young families saving for a down payment to baby boomers approaching retirement.

During severe recessions, people tend to curtail spending and increase saving as a hedge against potential — or

real — hardship. In fact, the average personal savings rate as a percentage of disposable income has risen to about 5 per-

cent, compared to an all-time low of negative 0.5 percent in 2005. Back then, the economy was booming and many people assumed that the stock market and home values would climb indefinitely.

How wrong we were!

Some worry that the strong 2010 holiday shopping season may signal a return to old spending habits. Here’s hoping we’ve learned our lesson about living beyond our means and the importance of saving for a rainy day.

There are many reasons why it’s important to develop and maintain sound savings habits during good times and bad: • You could lose your job or see your hours cut. Most experts recommend having at least six months’ income readily available for emergencies.

• Those approaching retirement need to boost their net worth slashed by plummeting home and retirement account values.

• Costs for high-ticket items like medical expenses, college and retirement continue to far outpace the rate of inflation.

• Many fear that future funding for government-provided benefits like Social Security and Medicare is at risk.

Although many believe that low- and moderate-income families cannot afford to save and build wealth, research shows that there are “savers” and “spenders” in all income classes. To help encourage people to learn sound saving habits, a broad coalition of non-profit, government, military and cor-

porate organizations formed the America Saves campaign in 2001 (americasaves.org).

Last year, some 2,000 of these member groups sponsored the fourth annual America Saves Week. Millions of Americans were reached through their campaigns — everything from educational events at military installations outside the U.S., to financial planning seminars hosted by participating employers, to free tax preparation assistance.

This year’s America Saves Week is slated for the week of February 20-27, 2011.

America Saves offers many tools for learning more about the importance of saving.

• Use the America Saves interactive personal wealth estimator to determine your current net worth, and then estimate your future net worth.

• Sign up to receive monthly savings messages from national financial experts on topics such as money management, investment basics, building wealth through home ownership, saving during tax time and ways to get out of debt.

• Test your savings knowledge by taking the “Test Your Savings Knowledge” quiz. Did you know that families that have a savings plan in place save about twice as much as those with no plan?

• Read tips for saving on everything from food and household items, to medications to banking and insurance products.

• Find links to numerous other websites that feature financial education materials.

Chances are that economic prosperity is still a ways off; but when it eventually comes, I hope we all remember the harsh lessons of the past few years and retain the thrifty habits learned out of necessity.

Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs.

To participate in a free, online financial literacy and education summit on April 4, 2011, go to practicalmoneyskills.com/summit2011.

Temple Ner Tamid Calendar Raffle PEABODY — Temple Ner Tamid is running a calendar fundraiser through the month of March. Each day from Monday through Friday, a raffle will be drawn. A cash prize ranging from $25 to $500 will be awarded on each of those days. All winning tickets will be added back into the pot for the final draw of March 31 of $500.

Raffle tickets are $10 each, or three for $25. There is a March Madness sale of 18 tickets for $100. Participants do not need to be present to win, as winners will be notified by phone, and prizes will be mailed out.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call 978532-1293 or visit templenertamid.org.

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Are Good Looking People More Employable?

BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL — Good looks are only sometimes a positive factor in consideration for a job, according to research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

In their paper, “Are Good-Looking People More Employable?” a pair of economics researchers from BGU proved that a double standard exists between good looks as a positive factor in the hiring of men and women.

The research involved sending 5,312 resumes in pairs to 2,656 advertised job openings in Israel. In each pair, one resume was sent without a picture while the second, otherwise almost identical resume, contained a picture of either an attractive male/female, or a plain-looking male/female. The dependent measure was whether the employer emailed or called back the candidate for an interview. Overall, the response rate was 14.5 percent.

“Unlike countries such as the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K., it isn’t taboo in Israel to embed a headshot of oneself in the top corner of one’s job resume,” said BGU economics researcher and lecturer Dr. Bradley Ruffle.

“The choice to include a photograph on one’s job resume is left to the candidate with the result that some do, while others don’t. This fact makes Israel an opportune location to explore the effect of a picture and its attractiveness, or lack thereof, on the likelihood of being invited for a job interview.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore beauty discrimination in the hiring process of an actual labor market, rather than a laboratory market or hypothetical decision scenario,” Ruffle added.

The resumes of “attractive” males received a 19.9 percent response rate, nearly 50 percent higher than the 13.7 percent response rate for “plain” males, and more than twice the 9.2 percent response rate of no-picture males.

However among women, the BGU study indicates that contrary to popular belief, “attractive” women are called back for a position LESS often than “plain women,” as well as women who had no pictures on their resumes.

“Among female candidates, no-picture females have the highest response rate, 22 percent higher than plain females, and 30 percent higher than attractive females. Our findings on the penalization of attractive women contradict current psychology and organizational behavior literature on beauty that associate attractiveness, male and female alike, with almost every conceivable positive trait and disposition,” said the authors.

Bible Quiz Offers Free Online Fun Those who enjoy games and are knowledgeable about the Bible may want to try their skill at bible-quiz. co.il.

The Israeli site, created by Jacob Richman, contains 4,327 multiplechoice questions about the Five Books of Moses and six books of Prophets.

Players choose one of 60 topics (Bereishit, Lech Lecha, etc.), select how many questions they would like to field (10 or 25) and how much time they want to allot themselves to answer each question (30 or 60 seconds) before a buzzer sounds.

The quiz, which has recently been updated, randomly selects questions from its database — thus no two quizzes are ever exactly alike.

In addition to playing the game, users can also browse the database to review and/or print the questions with the correct answers.

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Intermarriage is at the Very Center of the Purim Story Rabbi Rayzel Raphael Interfaithfamily.com

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he emphasis in the story of Purim, the Jewish holiday that falls this year on March 19, is usually on the costumes and raucous booing to drown out the villain Haman’s name.

Children parade in their alter egos — as everything from kings and queens to Batman. Jewish communities hold carnivals to revel in the victory of the Jews fighting against the decree of Achashverosh, the drunken king.

Friends send each other packages of food called mishloach manot based on the traditional celebratory ending of the reading of the Megilah, the Purim narrative. We eat hamantashen, tell jokes and write purimspiels, satirical and silly plays, to highlight the fact that the Jews get the last laugh.

But wait — aren’t we forgetting something? At the very center of this story is an intermarriage! It is about none other than our Queen Esther, named as one of the prophetesses in Israel.

She is such an important person that the entire book is named after her. The very fact that the Jews are saved is dependent on a Jewish queen married to a nonJewish king. Because of Esther’s position, she is able to intervene

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and save the Jews, and she does this without compromise to her religion.

Now, as we know, intermarriage has not been celebrated in our communities over the centuries. Parents have cut off children, and families have been shunned. We have lived with the fear of assimilation. However in this day, where the rate of intermarriage is close to 50 percent, it is time to look around and notice some of the benefits.

Here is a role model from our tradition that seems to indicate very clearly that marriage to a non-Jew has it advantages.

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Perhaps we now have a glimmer of hope coming from an unlikely place. Intermarriages, which up to now have been so troubling, offer us opportunities and new realties.

Perhaps in all the intermarriages that are happening today, we are acquiring allies for the Jewish people. Perhaps we now have hundreds of thousands of non-Jews who are also committed to the survival of the Jewish people, its customs and teachings, and to raising Jewish children. Perhaps we have fellow travelers who appreciate the richness of our heritage, and will step forward to help us combat the hatred that exists. Perhaps we will find it safer to live as Jews.

Perhaps, like the Purim story, there is and will be a silver lining to intermarriage — one that will become another reason to celebrate.

Rabbi Rayzel Raphael is rabbinic director of InterFaithways, the interfaith support network of Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia.

A graduate of Brandeis University who holds a Master’s in Contemporary Jewish Studies, she has a rich background in spirituality and feminism. Visit her website at shechinah.com.

NORTH ANDOVER — The Center for the Study of JewishChristian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College will screen ‘Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think’ on Tuesday, March 8, from 7-9 p.m.

The documentary film contains interviews with Muslims around the globe by professional researchers from the Gallup organization. It explores questions such as: Why is there so much anti-Americanism in the Muslim world? Who are the extremists, and how do Muslims feel about them?

What do Muslims like and dislike about the West? And what do Muslim women really want?

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Got Mitzvah? 2011 Expo and Volunteer Action Day MARBLEHEAD — Dozens of charities and volunteer agencies will pack the JCCNS on Sunday, March 13, from 1-4 p.m., for Got Mitzvah? 2011, a charity expo and volunteer action day.

The idea is to inspire people to find a cause that resonates with them, and make a connection. Learn from The Heifer Project about how buying a flock of chickens can

help families in a Third World country. Pet a rescued racing dog from Greyhound Rescue of Massachusetts. Find out more about Locks of Love, Habitat from Humanity, Cradles to Crayons, Jewish Big Brother/ Big Sister, and many more organizations.

During the expo, families can participate in a variety of live mitzvah projects. At the JCCNS,

people will make pies for local shelters and baby blankets for an orphanage in Russia. Teens can write letters to American soldiers overseas. Preschoolers will fill Passover baskets for needy families.

Out in the community, students from Hillel Academy will run a spring carnival for kids at Lynn’s Ford School. Art students from Marblehead’s Acorn

Gallery will paint a mural for the Crombie Street Mission. More projects are planned.

For more information or to register for an activity, call 781639-2880 x243 or visit jfns.org/ gotmitzvah2011. Got Mitzvah?

2011 is a cooperative endeavor co-sponsored by Cohen Hillel Academy, the JCCNS and NSTI. The program is generously funded by a JFNS Community Innovation Grant.

Teen Leadership Award Nominations Accepted The Jewish Federation of the North Shore is now accepting nominations for the Derek M. Sheckman Teen Leadership Award. This award is open to students in grades 10 and 11, and is given to the student who demonstrates a commitment to his/her Jewish community, works to improve the quality of life for others, possesses leadership qualities and is a role model for his/her peers.

In addition, this award encourages the award recipient to embrace continued participation in community life, and provides resources for the teen recipient to implement his/her “Make a Difference Community Project.”

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The award will be presented at the Jewish Federation’s annual meeting in September.

The nomination deadline is Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Teens may be nominated by teachers, high school principals, Hebrew school principals, local rabbis, teen program leaders, coaches, employers and other nonfamily adults. Contact Arlyne Greenspan at the Federation office at 781-631-8330 x506 or email agreenspan@jfns.org.

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Baking with Bubbe Amy Sessler Powell Jewish Journal Staff

SWAMPSCOTT — It may have been cold outside, but the warmth inside Congregation Shirat Hayam radiated from more than just the hot ovens.

Inside, on February 6, more than 55 children, grandparents and parents baked traditional Jewish rugelach together as part of the Family Life Committee’s winter program. After they baked, they decorated canvas aprons for future collaborations.

Then, there were opportunities

to play and schmooze in the preschool classrooms while everyone eagerly awaited the freshly cooked bounty.

Robin Mintzer of Swampscott, who organized the event with Catherine Jefferies, said the turnout exceeded expectations and turned a snowy and cold winter morning into a fun day.

“We thought it would be nice to tie the generations together,” Mintzer said.

Jackie Myerson of Marblehead, who brought her grandson Ezra, said she was so impressed with the patience of

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Sandra Goldstein of Salem invited her sister and grandnieces to join her from Southborough.

“This was a wonderful event, and the rugelach are delicious,” Goldstein said.

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Robin Mintzer, her mother Ida Freedman, and Mintzer’s daughters, Samantha, 9, Tess, 6 and Maxine, 20 months, formed three generations in the kitchen as they made rugelach and decorated aprons.

Jackie Myerson and her grandson, Ezra, 4, of Marblehead, baked rugelach together while Ezra sampled some chocolate chips.

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For Justin Bieber, ‘Scooter’ and the Shema Play a Major Role Edmon J. Rodman

The Bieber group will be there for the first night of Passover, and Braun plans on having a seder.

“Justin wants to be part of the seder,” he said.

Braun figures “Never Say Never” will do well in South Florida; his grandmother lives in Boca Raton.

“Opening day, if you see a group of seniors in the theater in Boca,” said Braun, “that’s my grandmother with her 26 friends.”

His grandmother, a survivor of Auschwitz, has watched his career, he says, and “I know she will be proud when she sees my name on the screen.”

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LOS ANGELES — Is “Never Say Never,” the biographical documentary and concert film that recounts the rise of Justin Bieber, also a message film of “Hear O Israel?”

The film, which opened February 11 in wide release, has a genuine Jewish backstory due to the onscreen presence and production involvement of Bieber’s Jewish manager, Scott Samuel “Scooter” Braun.

By all accounts Braun, who discovered Bieber on YouTube — a site where the teen phenom now has several songs with more than 100 million views — plays an important role in Bieber’s life, both on stage and off.

“On the road I take responsibility for him,” Braun, 29, told JTA in a recent interview, relating that his Jewish background helps Bieber to maintain a sense of balance.

Off stage, Braun also is a presence — a kind of a Jewish road dad helping the 16-year-old Bieber face the challenges.

“The girls chase the car, they’re in the lobby,” Braun said. “They know where we’re going before we know.”

On stage, as reported by various sources, Braun, Bieber and some of the crew members say the Shema before beginning a concert.

“Originally Justin and the crew just did a prayer circle before the show that ended with Jesus Christ. I wasn’t into that,” said Braun, who grew up in Greenwich, Conn.

With another Jewish member of the crew, “we started saying the Shema. About the third time, Justin chimed in,” Braun recalls. “He had memorized it. Now others say it with us, too.

“When you’re about to step out on stage with 10,000 girls screaming, it’s good to have faith.”

The fact that the Shema, a prayer that is said with “all your heart,” has become part of Bieber’s ritual in itself represents a change in heart.

In December 2009, The New York Times reported that upon meeting Braun, Pattie Mallette, Justin’s mother, said, “God, I gave him to you. You could send me a Christian man. A Christian label.”

“She’s a protective mother,” explained Braun when asked about his first encounter with Mallette. “If some-

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one called you up in the middle of the night and wanted to talk to you about taking your child on the road, what would you do?”

The scene with the Shema is in the film because Bieber’s mother wanted it there, said Braun.

“Originally it was left out and she said that’s not what we do,” he said.

As noted by Rabbi Jason Miller of Michigan, who writes at blog.rabbijason.com, “Based on the number of concerts at which Justin Bieber performs, I’m guessing that he’s actually said the most important statement of Jewish belief many more times in his life than the average 16-year-old Jewish youth.”

On April 14, Bieber is scheduled to bring the Shema to Israel.

“No matter what, we’re going,” Braun answered when asked about other performers like Elvis Costello who have canceled performances in Israel.

“Pattie and Justin are looking forward to visiting Bethlehem,” he adds, “and my sister is in med school there.”

JTA — Actress Natalie Portman, who is expecting her first child, announced she will marry the baby’s father.

The Israeli-American actress, 29, is expecting the baby with her fiancée, New York Ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, 33, according to an announcement made by her publicist.

The couple met last year while filming “The Black Swan,” a ballet drama for which Portman received a Best Actress Oscar nomination and received Golden Globe’s 2011 Best Actress Award.

Millepied is not Jewish, according to Hollywood insiders. Portman was born Natalie Hershlag in Jerusalem; her father is Israeli and her mother American.

She lived in the United States from the age of three.

Portman told the Israeli news site Ynet in an interview in 2006, “A priority for me is definitely that I’d like to raise my kids Jewish, but the ultimate thing is to have someone who Poponthepop.com is a good person and a partner.”

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Y2I Kicks Off

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trip. “It is not always easy to be a Jew, to be related to the state of Israel. This is not just a tourist trip. It is a mission, a mission to belong to this old nation. You will stand in exactly the same place King David stood and decided that this would be the capital of the Jewish people,” he said.

In addition to Bazak, the teens heard from trip alumni, Liz Donnenfeld, executive director of the Jewish Federation, and Wendy Roizen, chairwoman of the Y2I Committee.

Coltin asked Bazak to address the situation in Egypt. He said, “We have a wonderful country, but the neighborhood is not so great.”

Specifically, he fears the powerful Islamic extremists in Egypt. “We hope they can have a secular country, but it will be difficult with a strong Islamic force,” he admitted.

Dylan Woodrow of Marblehead, a 2010 Y2I alumnus, said, “Y2I completely changed me and really sparked my will to be Jewish, to want to search deeper into my Judaism.”

For more information on Y2I, visit rilcf.org.

“This place was a godsend,” he said, in reference to the Cohen Florence Levine Estates. “They give her the pills, and bathe and wash her.”

The Chelsea Jewish Foun­dation is the nonprofit umbrella of a network of senior housing options, serving a range of customers. They have a continuum of care ranging from assistance for those seniors who need help in their own homes, to end of life hospice care.

For a man like Meyer Katzman, there are so many advantages to the Chelsea model. After more than 65 years in the smoked fish and deli business, he wanted to keep working, but was uncomfortable about leaving his wife alone.

Now, while Beady rehabs at the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home under the care of specialists, Katzman can go to work unencumbered — making coffee in the coffee shop, bussing breakfast tables and folding napkins. The center is planning to open a deli counter soon, and Meyer hopes to land a job working there. Meyer also participates in many of the social and Jewish activities offered at the Cohen Florence Levine Estates.

Elliot Katzman, one of Meyer’s sons who lives in North Andover, said the facility has been a perfect fit. His father is a lifelong Chelsea resident who worked just 50 yards away from where he now lives.

“The facility allows those seniors to live in the community they have grown up in.

Each day, he comes across people with connections to the people and places in his life,” Elliot said.

The assisted living costs between $4,500 and $5,000 per month depending on the service package and apartment size, but the units within the building are divided into self pay and affordable units. When people need an apartment and cannot afford it, they can get one via

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The JCCNS has recently invested in new fitness equipment and renovated its facilities. It launched Summer on the Hill, offering programs for toddlers to teens. It has also initiated its Manhatttan in Marblehead series, which simulcasts famous speakers live from N.Y.C. “We have more going on now than ever before… there’s an excitement in the air, you can feel it,” said longtime member Jack Stahl. “And this new business plan makes sense. We have a lot to look forward to.”

a number of affordable housing opportunities.

“We specialize in caring for the most vulnerable individuals, without regard for their ability to pay,” said Barry Berman, CEO of the Chelsea Foundation. “When you run out of money, you don’t leave.”

Berman is proud of the low turnover

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among his staff of 550, and believes that if you “nurture the employees, they will nurture the residents.”

Meyer Katzman is the first to say he feels nurtured, and that the services given to his wife have changed their lives for the better.

Bob Richman: A “Sage” Volunteer Amy Sessler Powell

at the new Leonard Florence Center for Jewish Journal Staff Living. He listens to the concerns and ideas of CHELSEA — For the staff and residents, the last 20 years, Bob and reports back to the Richman has been voladministration. unteering for the Chelsea In many ways, Foundation, doing everyRichman brings the thing from acclimating right skill set to the new residents to serving work. A retired Everett as a liaison between resiteacher, coach, referee dents and the adminisand camp owner, he tration. suffered a spinal cord The title, “sage,” suits stroke 15 years ago Amy Sessler Powell him well. and has limited mobilBob Richman “Bob is a gift as far ity. After breaking a leg as we are concerned. He last June, he underwent is here for anything and everything,” rehabilitation at the Leonard Florence said Barry Berman of the Chelsea Center, the building for which he is now Foundation. responsible.

While there, he suggested improveRecently Richman and his wife Gilda, food service manager for the Chelsea ments, which have been implemented.

“Bob knows most of the residents Jewish Nursing Home, were honored when the new home care agency, Gilda and will do anything for the organizaand Bob Richman Personal Care, was tion. Because of the stroke, he understands where so many residents are named for them.

“They are both dedicating their lives coming from as far as limited mobility,” to the Chelsea Jewish Foundation,” Berman said.

Richman, who lives in Winthrop, Berman said.

Though he has served in many loves his work at Chelsea and said, “I capacities over the years, Richman’s probably get more than I give. I love seecurrent job as sage has him responsible ing how well this place works, and how for visiting the 10 green house-style it has affected so many people’s lives for nursing homes, each with 10 units, the better.”

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er father, the late Shlomo Carlebach, was the beloved Pied Piper of Jewish music. It was perhaps only natural that his daughter Neshama (Hebrew for soul) would follow in his musical footsteps.

Yet Neshama, a soprano who has been compared to such superstars as Sheryl Crow and Linda Ronstadt, can stand solidly on her own as a performer. The sultry songstress embraces her late father’s legacy, adding her own unique stamp.

“I was very influenced by my father,” said Neshama, who began singing profes-

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sionally with him at age 15. In fact, “Ha Neshama Shel Shlomo,” an album they recorded together in 1997, remains the best seller of her seven CDs. “Higher and Higher,” her newest release, is distributed by Sojourn Records/ Sony. She collaborated on it with Reverend Roger Hambrick and the Green Pastures Baptist Choir of New York.

Released in October 2010, two tracks from the album (“Higher and Higher” and “Brothers and Friends”) were considered for Grammy Awards in the Song of the Year category.

“The new record has received worldwide acknowledgment and is selling well — but not necessarily in the Jewish world,” Neshama said.

Neshama became acquainted with Reverend Hambrick through Rabbi Avi Weiss, her spiritual leader at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Weiss would invite Hambrick and his choir to sing at his synagogue at annual Martin Luther King Jr. gatherings.

“We really connected,” said Neshama, who is Orthodox. She was impressed to discover that Hambrick and his Bronxbased congregation regularly sang Shlomo’s song “Brothers and Friends” during their worship services.

Neshama believes her father would love the fact that she is currently performing with a Baptist choir. “In 1958 he put out a record that featured gospel singers. He would call everyone

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‘brother,’ even though that was a church thing. He wanted unity and oneness. He wanted the world to come together,” she said.

Neshama, who has returned to touring after the birth of her second son six months ago, will bring her show to Rockport on March 12. She predicts attendees “will sing, dance and cry together,” and that the event “will bring hope, light and life to people of all faiths.

“It’s a show with meaning and intention behind it,” she said. “It’s an amazing example of what could be if we open our hearts to each other, and allow ourselves to feel close to the person sitting beside us, regardless of their belief,” she added.

Neshama and her four-piece band (guitar, bass, keyboards and drums) will perform melodies in both Hebrew and English, vocally backed by members of the choir.

A globetrotter who was raised in Israel, Canada and the U.S., Neshama has not been in the Boston area since 2005 when she headlined a fundraiser for the Jewish Journal. Mark Arnold was editor/publisher of the Journal at that time.

“We have kept in touch over the years.

She called in July to tell me that she would be coming in mid-March to participate in the Boston Jewish Musical Festival, and was available to do a concert,” Arnold said.

Mark and his wife Judy had just relocated to Gloucester and joined Temple Ahavat Achim. He broached the idea of inviting Neshama to perform in Cape Ann with the Temple To hear samples of rabbi, education director Neshama Carlebach’s and president — all of whom songs and music, visit enthusiastically supported it.

NeshamaCarlebach.com, “They thought it would be sojournrecords.com/ a wonderful way to celebrate prod/artist/neshama_carthe completion of their new lebach, or our website at building, which had been jewishjournal.org, which destroyed in a fire. The Temple has links to her sites. board unanimously approved

the idea — under the condition that I had to chair the event,” Arnold said.

“Being handed a challenge like that right out of the gate actually turned out to be a great way for us as newcomers to meet people,” Arnold added.

The concert will be staged at the spectacular Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, a state-of-the-art facility that is acoustically perfect and architecturally breathtaking. General admission tickets are $50. Sponsor tickets at $100 include preferred seating, a program listing and a post-concert reception with the artist.

Neshama promises attendees a memorable experience. “My father always said that when we sing, it’s like we’re praying twice. When I am on stage, I experience prayer in the deepest sense. We are often too terrified to open our souls to our deepest prayers. When we don’t have the words to express all that we need, music says it for us. Music can somehow break our hearts, and allow us to feel so whole — all at the same time. This miracle is what I feel when I sing, and I thank G-d every moment of my life that I have the honor of praying and singing with the people I meet all over the world,” she said.

Neshama Carlebach performs Saturday, March 12, at 8 p.m. at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St., Rockport. Call 978-281-0739 or visit rockportmusic.org.

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Maintaining Religiosity in a Secular World

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‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Serves as a Learning Vehicle in Reading School Linda Snow Dockser Special to the Journal

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Jason Schuchman is the title character in “My Name Is Asher Lev.”

Sheila Barth Special to the Journal

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ou don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Aaron Posner’s one-act, 90-minute play, “My Name is Asher Lev,” but it helps.

The production is filled with poignant symbolism, Yiddish and Hebrew terminology, which the production’s three magnificent STAGE Jewish stars — Anne Gottlieb, Joel Colodner and Jason Schuchman — deliver with ardent passion.

The play is based on Chaim Potok’s beloved 1972 novel of the same title, but intensifies the author’s inner battle with his Orthodox upbringing, his artistic and literary creativity, and the Hasidic fear of “sitra achra,” an Aramaic term for secularism, or wandering away from the path of righteousness.

The underlying theme is “kibbud ov,” the Yiddish term for honoring or respecting one’s parents.

Herman Harold Potok, known by his Hebrew name, Chaim, was born into an Orthodox family with strong ties to Hasidism.

Like his primary character, Asher Lev, he started painting when he was a child, and experienced an inner tug-of-war between his love of religion and family, and his yearning to write and paint in a secular world.

Director Scott Edmiston has chosen Lyric Theatre’s three performers, who capture and captivate through monologue and interaction. Several powerful scenes rivet the audience’s attention.

As the play opens, composer/ sound designer Dewey Dellay’s music and lighting designer Karen Perlow set the somber atmosphere. Symbolic candles abound on stage, forecasting shadows of shabbos, yahrzeit, conflict and achievement.

A young artist (Schuchman) wearing a yarmulke, his tallit carefully tucked inside his shirt, shifts back and forth in time to when he was 12 years old and his father traveled frequently to Europe and Israel, establishing

yeshivas as part of the rebbe’s work. He explains that his father comes from a long line of travelers who performed good deeds.

As young Asher draws, his father Aryeh (Colodner) chides him — calling him a pagan, idly doing “narishkeit,” or foolishness, when he should be studying instead. As Asher insists that he can’t help himself or stop drawing, his father becomes increasing outraged, telling the boy he has a will.

At intervals, using a spotlit, suspended portrait frame, Asher, his mother Rivkeh (Anne Gottlieb) and father trace their ancestry in dramatic monologues.

During Asher’s childhood, his father’s kindly brother encourages him by complimenting and buying one of his pictures, leaving the boy conflicted.

Schuchman shifts back and forth in time, as a 6-, 10-, 13-, 16-year-old and beyond, to a climactic tragedy that changes his mother’s life. Her screams and agonizing grief pierce the air, her months of ensuing silence deadening their home.

When Asher is a bar mitvah, the rebbe speaks privately with him, introducing him to Kahn, 72, (whom Colodner also portrays, along with other male characters). Asher’s world and his art changes as he works in Kahn’s Manhattan studio and becomes increasingly visible to art notables.

As Asher and Kahn travel to Europe visiting major masterpieces, his work becomes increasingly controversial. The play hits a feverish pitch as he describes his most magnificent pieces of work that skyrocket him to fame — and shame among his community, his parents and the rebbe.

The play poignantly tugs at every religious Jew’s struggle to maintain his/her religiosity in a secular world.

‘My Name is Asher Lev’ is running through March 12 at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St., Boston.

Tickets are $25-$52. 617-5855678 or lyricstage.com.

rama has become a powerful vehicle for learning in Reading, as middle school students there get ready to present “Fiddler on the Roof Jr.” March 3-5.

Director Aaron Clark, a teacher at Parker Middle School, says he was “drawn to play because of STAGE this its strong message about faith, family, tradition, and change.”

“It is such a moving show that connects with so many people,” he said.

Through the play, students are learning about history, empathy, responsibility, teamwork and communication.

They are being challenged to ‘become’ characters from a historically charged conflict. In the largely non-Jewish community of Reading, they, their families, and their friends are being drawn into a story that broadens their purview.

The Fiddler story was initially unfamiliar to many students, including eighth graders Harry Kurker (ensemble), Duncan Dietz (Rabbi) and seventh grader Allie O’Brien (Hodel). To put the story in context, Clark provided a history lesson that has touched the middle schoolers.

Dietz learned “how the Tsar took over, kicking out Jewish people because he wanted to spread his own religion, and didn’t want other people around. He took all of their possessions and gave them to people of his own religion.”

Participating in “Fiddler” has become both a time and an emotional commitment.

O’Brien and Kurker feel a “responsibility to tell the story correctly and accurately.”

“Now that I know about some of the culture and what they have been through, it makes me feel sad because I didn’t know any of this before. It makes me feel different about Jewish families, knowing what their ancestors went through. I’m glad that we are doing this play so we can teach more people about

Photo courtesy of Tiffany Bradlee

Julia Popken (Golde), Jessica Stelluto (Shprintze) and Will Downing (Tevye) in the Reading school production of “Fiddler on the Roof Jr.”

In the largely nonJewish community of Reading, they, their families, and their friends are being drawn into a story that broadens their purview.

Jewish culture and Russian history,” O’Brien said.

Seventh grader Andrew Sack, who plays the role of Mendel, is glad to introduce others to this story: “I actually am Jewish,” he said. “It is a serious sad play.

And I treat it that way and I feel that way when I am acting in it.”

Dietz, who is not Jewish,

described how challenging it was for him to develop his rabbi persona. “We all had to write our character’s story. We had to decide where our character would go after the play. Me and my son, Mendel, (Andrew) disagreed on where we should go. Mendel thought we should go to America with Tevya but I thought we should go to Israel because that was our homeland.

We decided to go to Israel.”

“Fiddler on the Roof Jr.” will be staged at Parker Middle School Auditorium, 45 Temple St., in Reading on Thursday, March 3 at 6 p.m., Friday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 5 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $7-$9 and are available online at ticketstage.com, or call 781-944-1236 x374.

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6:30 p.m. Lecture by Dr. Phillip Glenn. $20. 22 Ida Rd., Marblehead.

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Impressionists perform through March 6. Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham. 781-279-2200.

Thur, March 3 Koffee with Kudan

10:30 a.m. Adult education with the rabbi. The topic is: The Holocaust and European Judaism in the 20th Century. Cong. Agudas AchimEzrath Israel, 245 Bryant St., Malden.

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Fri, March 4 Fun Friday

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‘People Like Us: Social Class in America’

5:30 p.m. Four-week course explores assumptions about social class. Free.

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10:30 a.m. Adult education with rabbi. The topic is: Anti-Semitism and the Rise of Zionism. Cong.

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Service at 6 p.m., potluck at 7:15 p.m.

Bring a vegetarian dish to share. All ages welcome. Workmen’s Circle, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline. keshetonline.org or 617-524-9227.

Sat, Feb. 26 Schmooze ‘N Shabbat

9:30 a.m. Attend morning services, enjoy lunch, and then schmooze with Scott Spicer who will share his experience of being an exchange student in Israel. Temple EmanuEl, 514 Main St., Haverhill. Email Nancy@TempleEmanu-El.org or call 978-373-3861.

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2 p.m. Children ages 8 and younger and their parents enjoy stories, crafts and snacks. Sponsored by the PJ Library. Free. Cohen Hillel Academy, 6 Community Rd., Marblehead. posher@rilcf.org or 978-740-4404.

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6:30 p.m. Deli dinner; followed by a fun evening of poker. Men and women 18 and older are invited. $25 includes dinner and poker chips.

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Helping Hands for Hunger — The Mitzvah of Mishloach Manot

9:30 a.m. Raise awareness of hunger in the North Shore Jewish community. Help put together and distribute Purim Mishloach Manot baskets. Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell St., Peabody.

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Jewish War Veterans

10 a.m. Members of JWV North Shore Post 220 and Ladies Auxiliary conduct their monthly meeting.

Chris Tighe will speak about veterans’ benefits. Cong. Sons of Israel, Park and Spring Sts., Peabody. 978236-8435.

Salem Theatre Benefit

6 p.m. Cocktail reception and bene­ fit to support their upcoming ninth season. $35. Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Square West, Salem. salemtheatre.com or 978-790-8546.

‘Wedding in Galilee’

7 p.m. The 3rd Annual International Jewish Film Festival features an Israeli film that details the allegory of marriage, tradition and national identity as two conflicting cultures attempt to put aside their differences for one long day of celebration. Temple Emanuel, 101 West Forest St., Lowell. temv.org or 978454-1372.

Sun, March 6 Haverhill Book Group

10 a.m. to noon. Read and discuss “Sarah’s Key,” by Tatiana De Rosnay.

Refreshments served. Temple Emanu-El, 514 Main St., Haverhill. library@templeemanu-el.org or call Paula Breger at 978-363-8846.

Mezuzah: Art and Prayer

1 p.m. Join JFNS’s Women’s Division for a day of art and learning with artist Nancy Rozen. Make your own mezuzah case, and learn about its history and significance. $36/ person; $45 for a parent and 1 or 2 kids. Cohen Hillel Academy, 1 Community Rd., Marblehead. laurasb@jfns.org or 781-631-8330 x507.

Open House

1-3 p.m. Learn about summer day camp options. Early bird and sibling discounts. JCCNS, 4 Community Rd., Marblehead. jccns.org or call Darren Benedick at 781-631-8330 x507.

Boston Jewish Music Festival

The second annual event takes place through March 20, with events held throughout the Boston area. jimball@bostonjewishmusicfestival. org or 617-322-9321.

Indoor Picnic and Game Day

Noon to 3 p.m. Kosher hot dogs, egg salad, tuna salad, coleslaw, popcorn and more. Please bring picnic blankets, games and toys. Temple Emanu-El, 514 Main St., Haverhill.

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On Jewish National Fund’s Culinary & Wine Mission taking place March 18-26, the JNF will demonstrate how Israel become a foodie destination.

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Adrienne and Elie Mazor of Peabody spent December traveling in Israel and Thailand. The globetrotters are pictured here with some four-legged friends at the Ruamitt Village on the Kok River, near Chiang Rai in northern Thailand.

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Памяти Ильи Соломина 30 Января 2011 г. на 90-м году жизни после тяжелой и продолжительной болезни ушел из жизни Илья Матвеевич Соломин. До сих пор трудно поверить, что его уже нет среди нас. Последний раз я его видел совсем недавно, когда навещал его вместе с Владимиром Гершовичем, известным правозащитником, профессором математики из Израиля, сыном Александром и невесткой Юлией в Линнском реабилитационном центре. Илья был полон планов написать книгу Воспоминаний. А Илье Соломину было что вспомнить... Илья Матвеевич Соломин родился в 1921 г. в Минске. Когда началась война, он, как и миллионы его сверстников, ушел добровольцем на фронт, где судьба свела его с будущим известным писателем и лауреатом Нобелевской премии А.И.Солженицыным. Под его командованием Соломин воевал в подразделении звуковой артиллерийской разведки. За доблестную службу Соломин был не раз награжден орденами и медалями. Несмотря на молодость Соломин стал для Солженицына не только подчиненным, но и боевым другом. Будучи начитанным с детства, Соломин был иногда советчиком Солженицына по многим вопросам, связанным с творчеством, поэтому тот не раз вспоминал о Соломине в своих произведениях и мемуарах. Когда сотрудники НКВД пришли арестовывать Солженицина, Соломин перепрятал архив писателя, тем самым фактически спас его от расстрела. Сразу после войны Соломин по договоренности с Солженицыным перевез

FOX, Myron — late of Swampscott.

Died January 30, 2011. Husband of the late Anne (Alper) Fox. Father of Janis Passanisi and her late husband Don Passanisi of Moncton, N.B., Canada.

Grandfather of Liza Passanisi. Brother of the late Annette Solovay, Freida Shanker, Celia Fox, Lena Friedman and Dr. Morris J. Fox. (Stanetsky-Hymanson) Gass, Marion — late of Salem. Died February 10, 2011. Wife of the late Zachary Gass. Sister of Rose Alpert

Никто не должен быть забытым и ничто не будет забыто. Президент Товарищества Украина-Америка Яков Глауберман Правление общества Хавейрим Прим. редакции: Русская Хроника публиковала два обширных материала о жизни и судьбе Ильи Соломина (см. номера 26 и 27 за 2008 год).

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Илья Соломин, Владимир Гершович, Юлия – невестка Соломина,, Александр – сын Соломина, Юрий Голков – друг семьи. архив к первой жене писателя Н.Решетовской в Ростов, где и остался, т.к. его дом был разбомблен, а семья погибла. В Ростове Соломин поступил в инситут, где по ложному доносу однокурсника-стукача был арестован вместе с будущим поэтомпесенником Михаилом Таничем. Соломин понимал, что если он возмет всю вину на себя, то он избавит себя и своих друзей от обвинения в создании антисоветской организации, за что могли дать и расстрел. Соломин получил 6 лет лагерей и был лишен всех воинских наград. Но ГУЛАГ не сломил Илью Соломина. После возвращения с Колымы Соломин поселился в Одессе, где достиг должности Главного Энергетика одного из обьединений, продолжал поддерживать

Ruth “Ruthy” (Gold) Paster, 57, of Swampscott Ruth “Ruthy” (Gold) Paster, 57, died February 11, 2011, at her home in Swampscott surrounded by her loving family, after a courageous fight with a long illness.

Born and raised in Swampscott, Ruthy was a lifelong resident. She was a graduate of Swampscott High School and later the Univ­ersity of New Hampshire. She worked locally as a real estate agent for the Sagan Agency for the past 20 years.

Ruthy was very active in the Swampscott community; she was a member of the board of

мом в Германии. До самого последнего дня Илья Соломин надеялся, что ему вернут его заслуженные боевые награды с официальным письмом о реабилитации.

30 января 2011г., в день его смерти, у Ильи Соломина родилась внучка Джейн. Жизнь семьи Соломина продолжается, подрастает внук Ален. Надеюсь, что хотя бы детям и внукам вернут награды и восстановят доброе имя их отца и деда.

directors at Aviv Centers for Living in Swampscott and served for two years as president.

She was also a member of the Friends of Swampscott Senior Center, the Anti-Defamation League and Temple Emanu-El. Ruthy is survived by her husband Marc Paster, a daughter Haley Paster, a son Matt Paster, her mother Beverly Goldman, a brother Jon and his wife Sharon Gold, and two nieces, Katie and Lindsey Gold. She was the dear daughter of the late Herbert Gold.

Services were held at Congregation Shirat Hayam of N.Y.C., and the late Harold Wilfand.

Aunt of several nieces and nephews.

(Stanetsky-Hymanson) HARRIS, Robert S., 93 — late of Swampscott. Died February 4, 2011.

Husband of Penny (Siris) Harris. Father of Susan Hirshberg and her husband Steven of Andover, and Douglas Harris of Swampscott. Grandfather of David Hirshberg. Brother of the late Stanley Harris. (Stanetsky-Hymanson)

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дружбу с Таничем, который жил в Москве. Когда Соломин уехал в США, к нему, как к боевому другу А.И.Солженицына, не раз приезжали тележурналисты, правозащитники, и он просил их помочь вернуть ему награды и реабилитировать его имя ради потомков и справедливости, но годы шли и о нем просто забыли. В мае 2005 г. по ходатайству президента Товарищества УкраинаАмерика и публициста Семена Резника посол России в США впервые переслал Илье Соломину памятную мадаль в честь 60-тия Победы в Отечественной войне. А в мае 2010 г. в Линн специально приехал из Нью-Йорка уполномоченный консул Украины в США Богдан Мовчан, чтобы лично вручить Соломину памятную медаль в честь 65-тия Победы над фашиз-

obituaries in Swampscott on February 14. Burial followed at Temple Israel Section of Shirat Hayam Cemetery in Peabody.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be donated to the Jamie Moore Scholarship Fund Attn: Denise Dembkoski, 22 Monument Ave., Swampscott, MA 01907; Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 10 Brookline West, 6th Floor, Brookline, MA 02445; or Aviv Centers for Living, 330 Paradise Rd., Swampscott, MA 01907. Arrangements were handled by Goldman Funeral Chapel in Malden. For online condolences visitgoldmanfc.com.

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Anne Mirochnick (Swartz) of Chelsea Anne Mirochnick (Swartz) of Chelsea died on January 28, 2011.

She was 94.

Anne was born in Malden and was a resident of Chelsea for most of her life. She was educated in Malden schools and graduated from Malden High School. Anne was retired from Schrafft’s Candy Company of Charlestown.

Anne was the beloved wife of the late Kiva Mirochnick.

She was the devoted mother of Carol Ginsburg and her husband Gerald, Barbara Mirochnick and her husband David Fucile, and the late Stephen Mirochnick. She was the dear sister of Pearl Suckney

Matorana, Helen (Swartz), 63 — late of East Boston. Died January 25, 2011. Daughter of the late Ethel (Marcus) and Jacob Swartz. Sister of Adrienne Joachim. Cousin of George Yeramian and Arlene Kaufman. (Goldman) Mazonson, Honey (Rosenblatt), 94 — late of Malden. Died February 9, 2011. Wife of the late Max Mazonson.

Mother of Linda and Dr. Alan Zalk, Larry and Marcy Mazonson, and Kenny Mazonson. Grandmother of Julie and

Barry Cohen, Adam and Teri Mazonson, Keri and Michael Beckerman and Jodie Zalk. Great-grandmother of seven.

Sister of the late Mary Bronstein, Ida Weinberg, Jean Bittelman, and Max, Samuel and Charles Rosenblatt.

(Goldman) Millman, Ruth, 82 — late of Revere, formerly of Chelsea. Died February 8, 2011. Sister of Charlotte Fisher. Aunt of Lance Fisher, Alan Fisher, Iris Smith and Judi Harrington. (Torf)

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and the late Lillian Kramer. Anne was the loving grandmother of Beverly, Rhonda, Sherry and Tammy.

She is the loving great-grandmother of Alyson, Kyle, Jarrod, Aaron, Spencer, Samantha and Zachary.

Funeral services were held at the Torf Funeral Chapel in Chelsea on January 31. Interment followed in Everett. Contributions in Anne’s memory may be made to a charity of your choice. For an online guestbook, visit the funeral home website, torffuneralservice.com.

Milstone, Patricia A. (Novins), 81 — late of Lawrence. Died January 28, 2011. Wife of the late Edward Milstone. Mother of Barry and his wife Tory Milstone, and Diane and her husband Scot Carleton. Grandmother of Zachary, Michael, Hannah, Sean, Megan and Keith. Sister of Barry Novins.

(Goldman) Rosenblatt, Steven, 67 — late of Malden. Died January 27, 2011.

Husband of Harriet (Locke). Father of Dana and Merlin Rosenblatt, and David and Marissa Rosenblatt. Brother of Burton Rhodes and Linda Katz.

Grandfather of Lia and Lucia Rosenblatt.

(Goldman) Ruthfield, Madeline (Spero), 97 — late of Wakefield. Died February 7, 2011. Wife of the late Abraham J. Ruthfield. Mother of Richard Ruthfield and Barry and Ruthann Ruthfield. Sister of the late Frances Zack. Grandmother of Mark and Lori Ruthfield and Steven Ruthfield. Great-grandmother of Joshua and Zachary. (Goldman) Due to space limitations we may be unable to print all obituaries received. Please visit our website jewishjournal.org for complete obituaries.

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В декабре 2010 года проходил первый тур международного конкурса юных музыкантов Сrescendo, где с большим успехом выступили ученики Школы игры на рояле под руководством Алекса и Татьяны Фоаксман. На фото слева направо: Кристина Фоаксман, 15 лет – 1 место; Мишел Чао, 10 лет – 1 место; Шерис Носэра, 14 лет – 2 место; Кристина Юу, 14 лет – 3 место. Победители занявшие 1 и 2 места играли в Carnegie Hall в Нью-Йорке, a лауреаты, занявшие 3 место, выступили в Longy School of Music в Бостоне.

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В воскресенье, 20 февраля в Кэмбридже, на Harvard Square, с часу дня будет проходить традиционный праздник - встреча Нового года по китайскому календарю.

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В воскресенье, 6 марта в Holiday Inn в Бруклайне состоится встреча-семинар с медицинскими экспертами. В программе — научно-популярные познавательные лекции на различные медицинские темы. Инициатор и организатор этого беспрецедентного события в нашей русскоязычкной общине – доктор Илья Гельфанд, директор Русской Клиники Сердечно-Сосудистых Заболеваний при Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “В своей практике я столкнулся с тем, что мои пациенты, а также их родственники, обеспокоенные или собственным здоровьем, или состоянием своих близких, не всегда знают какие именно вопросы следует задавать врачу во время приема, который, как правило, длится недостаточно времени, чтобы успеть обсудить все проблемы, — сказал в телефонном интервью Русской Хронике Гельфанд. — Самое главное, не все могут правильно интерпретировать ответы врачей или результаты тестов. Отсюда возникают многочисленные недоразумения, сомнения и страхи. Поэтому одна из основных задач предстоящего семинара — развеять, если можно так сказать, негативные тенденции у русских пациентов по отношению к американской медицине, которая имеет свою специфику, но ни в коей мере не игнорирует интересы своих пациентов.” Доктор Гельфанд считает, что этот семинар будет полезен не только людям, которых волнуют конкретные проблемы своего здоровья, но и тем, кто в среднем возрасте начинает серьезно задумываться о том, как сохранить и поддержать свое здоровье и здоровье своих близких. Собравшимся будет предоставлена уникальная возможность анонимно задать общие или конкретные вопросы на русском языке практически в любой области медицины. В семинаре помимо доктора Ильи Гельфанда примут участие: Лариса Энгельман, NP, доктора Евгений Ванинов, Виталий Пойлин, нефролог Александр Гольдфарб, психолог Евгений Филин. Будут затронуты темы: от раннего распознания сердечнососудистых заболеваний до профилактики желудочно-кишечной онкологии. Слушатели узнают более подробно, что такое сердечная недостаточность и как реагировать на возрастную симптоматику, получат рекомендации по здоровому образу жизни и как

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Доктор Илья Гельфанд и Русская Кардиологическая Клиника при больнице Beth Israel Deaconess проводят семинар для широкой русскоязычной публики. Приглашаются все

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Mazel tov to Alex and Jennifer Abrams of New York City on the birth of Nicole Iris Abrams on February 4. Nicole arrived weighing 7 lb. 6 oz. The proud grandparents are Izzi and Howie Abrams of Salem, and Susanne and Mel Young of Boca Raton, Fla. Nicole joins her brother, Sammy.

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Former North Shore resident Eunice (Aisenberg) Seeche celebrated her 90th birthday in mid-January at a dinner dance hosted by her children, Sharon and Howard Rich of Marblehead, and Steven Seeche of Newton. The party was held at the Devonshire at Palm Beach Gardens.

Over 60 relatives and friends, many from the North Shore, gathered to honor the self-proclaimed family ‘matriarch.’ Also celebrating her 25th anniversary of being a Lion of Judah in the JFNS Women’s Division, Eunice graciously accepted the toasts and accolades offered by her children and her grandson, Matthew Robinson, who wrote an original song in her honor.

On Campus Jennifer Stone, daughter of Lisa and Peter Stone of Peabody, made the dean’s list in her first semester at Lesley University.

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Liz Levin, who has served this year on an interim basis, will become the permanent religious school principal at Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead. She blends classroom savvy and professionalism with creative vision, and has the energy to make Jewish education happen at a high level, said Temple president Stuart Cohen. Levin recently returned from a trip to Israel with Hebrew language maps, movies, games and all the props she needs to make religious education and Hebrew come alive in the classroom.

Betsy Stavis (at right) of Hamilton, daughter of Kate and Jim Stavis and a junior at Boston University’s School of Communications and College of Arts and Sciences, made the dean’s list for the fall 2010 semester. Stavis is currently in London with Boston University on a study and internship program.

Leandra S. Cole (at left), grade 12, of Salem, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Cole, earned high honors for the fall 2010 term at Phillips Exeter Academy.

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The Board of Directors, Past Chairs and Staff of Aviv Centers for Living express our deep sadness on the passing of Ruth Paster.

We are eternally grateful for her tireless commitment to the mission of Aviv Centers for Living and treasure her many contributions as Board Chair, Board Member, supporter and friend.

Ryan C. Schrater of Marblehead recently completed a weeklong service trip to Guatemala sponsored by Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. In cooperation with Partners in Development of Ipswich, three faculty members and 17 students helped construct a medical clinic in the tiny village of Concepcion. Members of the group also cleared land for a new community park and volunteered in a local school. Ryan, a business major, plans to return this summer.

“This trip has definitely changed my thinking of how others live in various parts of the world,” he said. Ryan is the son of Steven and Debbie Schrater.

¡Olé!

We will miss her and treasure her legacy of caring.

Coutesy of Aviv

Residents of Aviv Centers for Living Jewish Rehabilitation Center recently enjoyed a fiesta at Acapulco’s Restaurant in Beverly, donning sombreros and enjoying the flavors of Mexico. Pictured above is JRC resident Anne Rosenberg.