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FOXBORO — Fifty years ago, Stuart Ferency was a little brother in the Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters (JBBBS) program. Now 65, Ferency serves as a big brother to an 11-year old boy. “I felt it was a personal obligation,” said Ferency, who works for Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., but makes it back to Boston three days a week. “I was in the program, and felt the need to give back in the same way.” Ferency, who resides in Hull, meets with his little brother about three times per month. They have gone to Red Sox games, played pool, kayaked and even built a fence together. The duo will soon do a 15-mile bike ride, “which is quite a challenge for an 11-yearold,” Ferency said. In addition to riding with his little brother, Ferency will be cycling with other JBBBS volunteers in the Courtesy photo annual Rodman Ride for Kids on September 28. Tom Cheatham will bike in
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BRIDGEWATER — Maurice “Maury” Adkins is prisoner number W86295. A non-violent convicted felon, he is nearing the end of an 8-to-10-year sentence for grand larceny and identity theft, and is currently housed at Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) in Bridgewater, Mass. Adkins is also Adar Yosef ben Levi, an Orthodox Jew who wears a yarmulke and keeps kosher. The devout 54-year-old davens in his Courtesy photo jail cell and avidly reads the Maury Adkins Jewish Journal, which is sent to him in prison. Soft-spoken and gentle, with a light Southern accent, Adkins grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where there were not many Jews. He has become much more religious during his period of incarceration. Hungry for Jewish interaction, he eagerly awaits visits from a Chabad rabbi, who periodically comes to see him. Adkins, who has experienced profound spiritual growth during his time behind bars, is deeply remorseful about the actions that landed him in prison. He has turned to writing as a creative outlet, and a way to make peace with his past. In the coming issues, the Jewish Journal will present a series of “Musings From Maury.” The following piece by Adkins, on the subject of teshuva, is especially appropriate as we near Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
BOSTON — Boston has become a culinary hotspot. But where do the chefs go after they have spent the night slaving over their hot stoves? Many amble over to the South Street Diner, in Boston’s Leather District. As one of the few 24-hour eateries in Boston, the Diner has become a bastion for latenight revelers, regular locals and visiting celebrities. The silver bullet-shaped diner with the giant coffee cup on the roof has been featured in such films as “Hiding Out,” “Second Sight,” “House Guest” and “21.” The famed eatery is also one of the best places to find honest, simple food — no matter what you may be hankering for. Much of the credit goes to Glenn Spiro Solomon “Sol” Sidell, who has The South Street Diner will celebrate Customer owned the colorful restaurant Appreciation Day on September 22. since 1997. Sidell bought the eatery, which originally opened as the Blue Diner in 1943, because he “wanted to be part of the community.” One might argue that he has long been part of the community. Sidell’s family traces its Hub roots to 1920, when his great-great-uncle arrived from Eastern Europe and landed in the then-heavily Jewish West End. Sidell’s grandfather started a pushcart business in the West End that eventually became a grocery store in Brookline called The Green Bag. Sol is the first restaurateur in his family, but he doesn’t see anything unusual in that.
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NEEDHAM — In today’s hectic world, children are often rushed from activity to activity, when what they really need is a place to explore. Fortunately, youth in and around Needham have The Kid’s Place, now celebrating its 13th year in existence. Part drop-in art studio, part after-school hangout and always the perfect play date or party spot, the Kid’s Place is fully staffed and supervised. Guests are welcome to just come and hang out. Founded by nursery school teacher and mom Samara Helfman, the Kid’s Place is a converted home filled with everything from cotton candy to pottery, gem mining to tie dying, and always music and laughter. The studio is open seven days a week, and welcomes individuals and groups of all ages. The Kid’s Place is a popular place for birthday parties, as well as a place for parents and their kids to do pottery projects together, paint, decorate cookies and create edible art, such as candy sand and colorful slush, and enjoy performances by musicians and storytellers. “I love The Kid’s Place,” says long-time customer Lauren Barnel of Newton. “There are so many different things to do.” Helfman, who holds a degree in child psychology from Pine Manor College, and taught preschool for two years at Temple Beth Avodah, emphasizes that her guests do not need to be artistic in order to have fun. “I am a big fan of allowing kids to create open-ended projects,” she said. One of the things Lexi Freedman of Needham likes best about the studio “is that you can paint useful things like mugs, plates and bowls.” After being in business for
13 years, Helfman is now noticing former customers coming in with children of their own. “The Kid’s Place is great for all ages,” said Haley Eagle of Newton. “I still come with my friends, and I’m in high school.” Helfman is preparing to celebrate her shop’s “bat mitzvah” with a new offering for older individuals. “We are going to begin an adult night, once a month on Thursdays, for grownup pottery painting,” Helfman said. The Kid’s Place is located at 15 Highland Place in Needham. Visit www.kidsplace4fun.com or call 781-444-2325.
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In Greece, Synagogue Serves as Reminder of Jewish Life Phyllis Steinberg Special to the Journal
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ff the beaten path in the Jewish quarter of the Old City in Rhodes, I walked along the narrow cobblestone streets and located Kahal Shalom Synagogue, the last remnant of Jewish life on this picturesque Greek island. The most southern group of Greek islands, Rhodes is situated along the coast of Turkey, and is a popular tourist attraction because of its beautiful beaches and ancient medieval walled city. A city highlight is the Palace of the Grand Masters, built in the 14th century and Photos by Phyllis Steinberg surrounded by moats and miles of walls. There are also muse- Above, the interior of Kahal Shalom Synagogue in Rhodes. At right, a Holocaust memorial located on the Square of the Jewish Martyrs. ums displaying Byzantine and Ottoman treasures dating from regular services, but welcome could not be deported because “We don’t charge admission to p.m. daily in the summer. Winter the second century BC. visitors.” of treaties between Turkey and the synagogue,” Cohen said. hours vary. Located nearby in the Jewish Kahal Shalom, built in 1577, In 1997, the Jewish Museum Germany. “We just want people to know quarter is the Square of the is Greece’s oldest synagogue. It of Rhodes was established in In 2000, Kahal Shalom that we are still here.” has survived the Holocaust and the synagogue by Aron Hasson, made the list of the 100 Most According to Cohen, wed- Jewish Martyrs, a Holocaust it continues to survive, although a Los Angeles attorney whose Endangered sites, and was dings and other special occa- Memorial dedicated on June there are few Jews living in four grandparents were from awarded a World Monument sions are sometimes celebrated 23, 2002 in memory of the Jews of Rhodes and Kos who perRhodes. Rhodes, and immigrated to Watch Grant by American in the historic synagogue. Built in the traditional America between 1912 and Express. Years of water infiltra“People whose relatives lived ished in the Holocaust. The sixSephardic style, with a pulpit in 1920. tion had damaged both interior here sometimes arrange for sided black granite memorial is the center and accented “I took my children and exterior parts of the struc- weddings or other special cel- inscribed in six languages. The by exquisite black on a visit to Rhodes. ture. Funds were used to sup- ebrations in the synagogue,” she memorial is located in what is now a small park in an area that and white mosaWhen we entered port the waterproofing of the said. ic floors and the synagogue roof to prevent further water In the winter season, if there used to contain Jewish homes, GREECE elegant chanthere was lit- damage. The roof of the main are enough worshippers, servic- but was destroyed by bombs in TURKEY World War II. deliers, the tle informa- hall was rebuilt, and restora- es occasionally take place. synagogue tion about tions were made on other preThe synagogue also has a For more information on has two marthe Jewish viously damaged areas of the gift shop with hand painted ble arks conc o m m u n i t y synagogue. ceramics by local craftsmen. Rhodes, log on to www.visitH taining the of Rhodes, Guests are welcome to visit. Synagogue hours are 10 a.m. to 3 greece.gr. Rhodes sacred Torahs and not much Crete of the congrein English, so I gation. A passagestarted the Rhodes way between the arks Jewish Historical leads to a courtyard, where a Foundation so that people memorial lists the names of the visiting the area would know Jews of Rhodes who perished in more about the Jewish commuthe Holocaust. nity in Rhodes,” Hasson said. In the 1930s, Rhodes was The Foundation, a non-profit a center of Jewish learning. organization, also reaches out During its heyday, approximate- to descendants of the Jews of ly 4,500 Jews lived on the island. Rhodes scattered around the It had a college where Jews from world via programs, publicathroughout Europe came to tions and the website, www.rhostudy for the rabbinate. There desjewishmuseum.org. were six synagogues and Jewish Hasson collected Jewish day schools. memorabilia from Rhodian Jews, But that all came to an end and started the Jewish museum when the Germans gained con- in the former prayer rooms of trol of the island in World War the synagogue. The museum II. More than 1,673 Jews from contains documents, photoRhodes and the neighboring graphs and exhibits. Among island of Kos were deported the exhibits is the account of in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz. Selahattin Ulkumen, the Turkish Only 151 survived. Consulate General of Rhodes. Carmen Cohen, administra- He saved the lives of 42 Jews tive director of Kahal Shalom who were originally detained by Synagogue, talked about the the Germans and destined for Jewish community of Rhodes Auschwitz, but released prior today. to their deportation on July 20, 300 Salem Street, Swampscott, MA “We have about 30 Jewish 1944. Ulkumen demanded the families living in Rhodes,” release of the Jews, stating they 781-367-8150 Cohen said. “We do not have were of Turkish nationality and
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NEWTON — The merger of three religious schools from Conservative synagogues in the Newton area is the latest example of efforts by Jewish organizations in the Greater Boston area to creatively share resources and increase efficiency. This fall, Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Temple Reyim and Temple Emeth are merging their Hebrew School programs. The united program will be called Ma’or, Hebrew for illumination, and an acronym for the names of the three participating synagogues. The integrated program for children in grades K-5 will take place on Sundays and Tuesdays in the centrally located Leventhal-Sidman JCC in Newton. Approximately 50 children are already enrolled, according to Ma’or’s Director Samara Katz of Temple Emeth. Religious education for grades 6 and 7 will meet at Hebrew College in an even larger combined program. The three Conservative synagogues have a history of collaborating through youth programs such as USY. The decision to create a joint religious education program brings that collaboration to the next level. “This was a way to build community when each individual religious school had low enrollment,” Katz explained.
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“It was time to reexamine the old Hebrew School model and come up with something fresh and exciting,” added Congregation Mishkan Tefila’s Erin Gubert, Ma’or associate director. Ma’or’s innovative curriculum is organized around five pillars of study. Departing from a traditional grade level model, a key element of the new structure is a choice of integrative, experiential classes including: biblical heroes, living Jewish values, Israeli scavenger hunt (to gain familiarity with the map of Israel); Ten Commandments, ethics, genealogy of the Torah, and women of the Bible. Students will select courses from various pillars to fill requirements, and Hebrew will also be offered for every grade level. According to Guber, the hope is that the wide variety of classes will give students greater exposure to the Jewish world, and that students will take more owner-
ship of what they are learning because they have the freedom to choose the classes. Technology is a key component of the cutting edge program. Students and teachers will have access to laptops, and projects and lessons will integrate technology. Holding classes at the JCC is an enormous benefit, said Katz. The venue offers opportunities for dance in the dance studio and klezmer in the music room. The overall hope is that “on-going collaboration will provide the opportunity for students from the area’s three Conservative synagogues to get to know one another, learn together and enjoy rich life experiences, both in and out of school together,” Guber said. Questions can be directed to Erin Gubert at erin.mishkantefila@gmail.com, or Samara Katz at dcl@templeemeth.org.
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Refusal to Play on Yom Kippur Costs Israeli Tennis Team JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Tennis Association will have to pay more than $13,000 for refusing to play a Davis Cup match on Yom Kippur. The Israeli national tennis team was scheduled to face Belgium in Antwerp on September 14, which is Yom Kippur, in the international tournament. The Belgian Tennis Association turned down Israel’s request to postpone the match, but the International Tennis Federation, which sponsors the Davis Cup, intervened and changed the date to September 15. However, the International Tennis Federation ordered the Israeli national team to pay the Belgian team for the costs incurred by adding a day to the tournament, the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot reported. Yom Kippur is considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. “The Israel Tennis Association is a non-profit organization, which designates all of its funds to promote tennis in Israel and develop Israeli tennis players,” Israel Tennis Association Chairman Asi Touchmair said in a statement on the association’s website. “As a result, the high fine is a detrimental blow for the budget of the professional program for the Israeli tennis teams and to Israeli tennis in general.” Though Touchmair called it a fine, the International Tennis Federation said in a statement sent to JTA that it is compensation. The statement said the Israel Tennis Association “has agreed to compensate the Belgian Tennis Federation for any costs that may be incurred as a result of changing the schedule and days of play for their forthcoming Davis Cup play off tie.” In the Israel Tennis Association statement, Touchmair also said, “As an institution that represents the State of Israel and its values, we in the Israel Tennis Association stand proud before all those who refuse to recognize the importance of the Jewish tradition, on behalf of Israel and Jews the world over.”
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JBBBS is a non-profit mentoring organization. Each year, the organization participates in the non-competitive bicycling race that raises funds for many youth-focused, social service agencies assisting at-risk kids in Massachusetts. JBBBS volunteers are taking donations for rides of 25, 50 or 100 miles. All proceeds will benefit the kids. The rides start and end at the Rodman headquarters at Patriot Place in Foxboro. “We’re hoping to raise more than $30,000 for the cause, just for our team,” said Tom Cheatham of Swampscott, a team captain for Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters. The organization has six teams altogether, and a virtual team for participants who want to contribute but are unable to ride. The goal, according to JBBBS Vice President of Development Susan Gotshalk, is for JBBBS to raise more than $280,000 among its six groups. The Ride is just one of many JBBBS programs aimed at helping both children and adults. It is currently seeking volunteers for its children’s program and its Friend2Friend program, which supports adults with disabilities. Clients and their mentors come from all faiths and backgrounds. In the kids program, JBBBS matches volunteers with children aged 6-18 who have a need for an adult mentor. The Friend2 Friend program, which won this
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any of you are probably familiar with the Just One Thing environmental awareness campaign, which states that small adjustments made by many can add up to a big kind of change. For example, the campaign ads suggest that individuals switch the light bulbs in their homes to the LED variety, or use refillable water bottles rather than single-use plastic containers. Multiply that by hundreds or thousands, and that’s a whole lot less energy used or landfill needed. Let’s keep the Just One Thing idea in mind as we experience the High Holidays. Is there Just One Thing you can do to deepen your connection to Judaism? Here are some suggestions. At home, vow to light Shabbat candles, or invite a friend to share a Shabbat meal. When the morning paper arrives, either on your doorstep or electronically, make a point of reading an article or opinion piece about Israel and the Middle East. Spend a little more time with the Jewish Journal; we’re proud of the content we offer, and we think you will
be, too! Sign up for the newsfeed from the Forward, our publishing partner. Even the most well-informed among us are continually impressed by the depth and range of the material offered there. Have you ever built a sukkah? Perhaps this is the year to do so; eating and even sleeping under the stars might become a family ritual. Know a couple getting married? Consider giving them a mezuzah, which may be a more meaningful and memorable choice than a toaster. In your community, also pledge to do Just One Thing. Make plans to see one of the offerings at the local Jewish film festival, or attend a program or lecture at the JCC. If your synagogue supports a daily minyan, take a few minutes one day and go. Those in mourning will be grateful, and recognizing the need to help them may propel you to go again — and again. You get the idea. In the year 5774, choose Just One (Jewish) Thing. One small change may become a giant step in the right direction.
letters to the editor There is Nothing Left to Say
Blame it on the Republicans
I found Jack Stahl’s letter regarding “very intelligent right wing partisan” Charles Krauthammer’s column quite informative. (“A Lot on the President’s Plate,” Journal, August 29) He listed 14 liberal complaints, many of which I would never have thought of. There isn’t the space here to address each of his complaints, which the “new Republican right wing obstructionist party” is opposing. Indeed, it is the president himself who is “the worst thing that ever happened to our country.” “Single Payer” healthcare is simply socialized medicine, which has failed everywhere it has been tried. And there is no such thing as women’s right to choose — it is called abortion — the murder of the helpless. We Jews should always be vehemently opposed to that.
In his letter “A Lot On The President’s Plate” ( Journal, August 29), Jack Stahl asserts that “history would make our president one of the best ever, if he could get what he wants.” Typical for a liberal Democrat, he blames the Republican right wing obstructionist party for Obama’s failings. In my opinion, Obama will go down as the worst president in American history — chaos reigns everywhere. I would like to speak about the recent rally in Washington on the 50th anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream Speech.” It was organized by Al Sharpton and the NAACP. Who spoke to rile up the base? Obama, Clinton, Oprah, Sharpton and others. Where were the likes of Bill Cosby, Dr. Benjamin Carson and Allen West, conservative blacks who would tell the truth?
The president’s ideas of equal pay for women, immigration reform or gun control are simply the Democratic party’s way of controlling our lives. Fairy tales like global warming are ways for some in the Democratic party, who are more inclined towards socialism, to control and even destroy American businesses. We see them pretending there is a danger in fracking and the Keystone pipeline. In the end, he complains that 46 million Americans are living in poverty and asks, “Do I have to say more?” No, Mr. Stahl. There is nothing left to say — except perhaps, “Thank you President Obama and your fellow liberals. You have made us a country of takers. No longer a country of producers.” Al Jacobson Commerce City, Colo.
Writers, Academics and Musicians: Don’t Boycott Israel For months I have been reading of the many individuals who have succumbed to “Boycott Israel” pressure and cancelled plans to be in Israel. I am annoyed as hell at the writers, academics and musicians in Canada, the United States and Britain who are actively influencing writers, academics and musicians who are scheduled to visit and/or perform in Israel. They are being bullied by
“Israel Boycotters” who want to prove how detrimental it would be for their careers if it were shown that they support Israel in the Palestine-Israel conflict. How dare they! Sir Tom Jones is scheduled to perform on October 26, 2013 in Israel; however, he is being pressured not to. The Consul for Public Affairs at the Israel Consulate in New York sent an email to thousands of Jewish
and Israeli activists, asking them to send Jones encouraging messages to perform in Israel. Perhaps through the Internet and social networks, Sir Tom Jones will realize he has the freedom to choose, without the pressure of those who disagree with him. Human behavior never seems to change, but we can shift a brain cell or two. Heather B. O’Reilly Haifa, Israel
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They were not invited. Can you imagine MLK giving this speech in August 1963? I have a dream … a dream that in 2013, 73% of black babies will be born out of wedlock; single black mothers will begin having babies at 13 with different fathers, but with no fathers in the home (except when they make their nocturnal visits); black youths making a career in drugs, wearing hoodies because they are told by their leaders they will always be profiled and unsuccessful; prisons with disproportionate amounts of blacks and whites; white kids beating up blacks (big deal); black kids beating up whites (no comment). That is what we have today. MLK would never condone these goings on. Marvin Frank Marblehead
Democratic Failure If one wants to see how Democratic policies fight poverty and help the poor, look no further than Detroit. Every Democratic and social policy that went into effect, in the education system and the workplace, all ended in complete failure. Democratic policies create misery, unemployment, uneducated youth, unsustainable deficits and unsustainable promises to their union hacks. Detroit is only the first, but if you look at any big city controlled by Democrats, you will find the exact same story unfolding: Chicago, St. Louis, New York City. Obama’s policies mimic Detroit’s. If you want our children to have the prosperity and opportunities we have, you’d better wake up to the sinister policies that have created such misery as Detroit. Jerry Miller Swampscott
Dance Mom Gives Stamp of Approval “The (Real) Dance Moms” (Jewish Journal, August 26) was beautifully put and true — as I am a Dance Mom, and part of this “family.” Lisa Roberts Peabody
Sweet Memories I receive the Jewish Journal by mail, and enjoy reading its stimulating contents. As an 87-year-old East Boston native whose parents (of blessed memory) had been in America over 100 years ago, I recalled delivering the Yiddish Forward and the English Jewish Advocate as a teenager to the 100 or so Jewish families in the 1930s, until 1941. There were several synagogues and kosher butchers, plus two small kosher delis. As AZA youth, we had a basketball team that played local Catholic teams at the Paris St. gymnasium. There was little anti-Semitism, since East Boston had people from all parts of Europe, plus several Chinese. Rabbi Twersky of Lynn and Ralph Kaplan of Swampscott were also from East Boston. One final thought: perhaps the Jewish people of the North Shore could sponsor a kosher butcher in a store convenient to public transportation, such as Vinnin Square. It’s nine miles each way to the Butcherie in Brookline from Winthrop. From Swampscott, Marblehead and Salem, it’s about 25 miles. Maxwell Adelman Winthrop
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point / counterpoint Should the U.S. Take Action in Syria? President Obama Must Own His Syrian Mess David Suissa
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he U.S. Congress must reject President Barack Obama’s attempt to lay his Syrian mess at their doorstep. The president had two years to do the right thing in Syria, while more than 100,000 people were being killed and millions displaced, and he chose to drag his feet and do virtually nothing. This apathy and inaction allowed murderous jihadists to take over the opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime, and, guess what? Now it’s too late to pick a good side. There isn’t any. They’re both horrendous. Obama has been trapped by his own negligence. When Assad called Obama’s bluff two weeks ago and used chemical weapons, the president found himself in a real pickle. On the one hand, he couldn’t be made to look like fool, not after calling the use of chemical weapons in Syria a “red line” he wouldn’t tolerate. On the other hand, a “narrow and limited” military strike would also make him look like a fool, as Assad would certainly celebrate his heroic “victory” of surviving the wrath of the Great Satan. There are a lot of unknowns in the Syrian morass, but this much we know: Obama has neither the will nor the inclination to start another Iraq war. No boots on the ground. No regime change. No nation building. Obama knows that if we remove the
Assad regime now, we can As a result, “Syrian opposition has expect a chaotic terrorist state come to be defined, and to an extent that would make Lebanon look overcome, by its most extreme elements.” like Club Med. The effort to oppose Assad’s rule, So, by the perverted rules Young adds, was crippled by “discord of the Middle East, any limited between the more moderate opposition U.S. attack that won’t remove figures, the bankruptcy of the Arab states, the regime will only strengthen the futility of the Western Europeans,” the hand of the very regime we are trying and, most of all, by “the cowardice and to punish. lack of foresight of the United States.” Like a smart politician once said, This cowardice and lack of foresight “That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. came to a head when Assad murdered A rash war. A war based not on reason 1,500 of his own people with chemical but on passion, not on principle but on weapons and forced Obama’s hand. politics.” What statement That was Barack … if we remove the Assad will Obama make if Obama in 2002, he attacks now? That before he met the regime now, we can expect it’s okay to murder temptations of power, 100,000 people as a chaotic terrorist state that long as you use only passion and politics. It was the presiwould make Lebanon look regular weapons? dent’s passion for Try telling that to like Club Med. politics that made any of the thousands him naively push for of Syrian mothers a “negotiated solution” to the Syrian civil who’ve watched their children die from war, while tens of thousands were being regular bombs and bullets. murdered and while it was still possible When Obama says, as he did last for the U.S. to arm and strengthen a more Friday, that “the murderer of innocent moderate opposition. children must not go unpunished,” those “Obama’s efforts largely stopped grieving Syrian mothers have every right at calling for the Geneva II confer- to shout back at him: “Where were you ence,” Michael Young wrote recently in the past two years while our own children the Beirut Star. “The president never were being murdered?” sought to integrate a military strategy He was playing politics without a miliin Syria with his political aims…Early tary spine, something otherwise known on American officials said that President as negligence. Bashar Assad had to leave office, as if a Well, now that he wants to play G.I. mere statement would push him to book Joe, it’s simply too little, too late. a flight out of Damascus. Yet nothing was At this late and messy stage, any “limdone to turn that thought into a reality.” ited” U.S. military action would not only
risk a major conflagration in the region, but also demonstrate how little power the U.S. has these days to exert a positive influence in the roiling Middle East. As Fareed Zakaria wrote on CNN. com, “The manner in which the Obama administration has first created and then mismanaged this crisis will, alas, cast a long shadow on America’s role in the world.” Having painted himself into this very tight corner, on Saturday morning Obama went back to what he knows best — politics — by trying to draw Congress into a trap of his own making, or, as The New York Times put it, “into a box he made.” Congress must say no to Obama’s transparent search for political cover and hold him accountable for the strategic mess he’s created. At the very least, as Marc Thiessen writes in the Washington Post, it should demand that “Obama show he has a plan beyond firing a ‘shot across the bow’ in Syria — a comprehensive strategy to alter the balance of power by strengthening the secular, moderate pro-Western elements of the opposition, so that alQaeda-backed Islamic extremists do not come to power and the regime that eventually replaces Bashar al-Assad’s is not worse than Assad’s.” The message is not that military action is wrong, but that, at this point, the proposed action is too lame and too late. David Suissa is president of Tribe Media Corp. and the Jewish Journal Los Angeles. This article is reprinted by permission.
American Jewish Groups Set to Back Obama Ron Kampeas JTA
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ewish groups backing President Obama’s call to strike Syria are citing moral outrage and U.S. national security as primary considerations — but concern for Israel, however muted, also looms large in their thinking. A lingering sensitivity over misrepresentations of the role of the pro-Israel community in the leadup to the Iraq War in 2003 kept the groups from weighing in on Syria until it was clear that President Obama was determined to strike, and is now leading them to downplay any mention of Israel. Officials of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, finishing up a conference call Tuesday afternoon with top security advisers to Obama, waited until the White House staffers were off the call, and then urged constituent organizations not to make their statements “Israel-centric” because of the sensitivities. Notably, Israel was not mentioned in any of the three statements that emerged immediately following on the conference call, which was convened to solidify support for Obama’s call for a strike. “America’s allies and adversaries are closely watching the outcome of this momentous vote,” said an AIPAC statement. “This critical decision comes at a time when Iran is racing toward obtaining nuclear capability. Failure to approve this resolution would weaken our country’s credibility to prevent the use and proliferation of unconventional weapons and thereby greatly endanger our country’s security and interests and those of
our regional allies.” the president’s decision over the weekInstead, the statements end to seek congressional approval prior focused on the need to contain to any military move. a nation that has crossed a red “This is a limited, proportional step line by using chemical weapons that will send a clear message not only to against its citizens. the Assad regime, but also to other coun“Those who perpetuate such tries that may be interested in testing acts of wanton murder must some of these international norms, that know that they can not do so with impu- there are consequences,” Obama said nity,” said the Presidents’ Conference before the meeting. statement. “Those who possess or seek As he has done repeatedly since first weapons of mass destruction, particu- indicating his intention to strike Syria, larly Iran and Hezbollah, must see that Obama cited the potential threat to there is accountability.” Israel, among other American allies, as Israel nonetheless loomed large in the one of his concerns. off the record conference call between “This norm against using chemical Jewish officials and two top national weapons that 98 percent of the world security advisers to agrees to is there for a Obama. One Jewish reason,” he said. “We … concern for Israel, official asked whethrecognize that there er the United States are certain weapwould assist militar- however muted, also looms ons that when used ily should Syria attack cannot only end up large in their thinking. Israel. (The answer: resulting in grotesque Yes, but it is the U.S. deaths, but also can assessment that Syrian President Bashar end up being transmitted to non-state Assad is not that reckless.) actors; can pose a risk to allies and One of the White House officials friends of ours like Israel, like Jordan, repeatedly emphasized that acting to like Turkey; and unless we hold them keep Syria from using chemical weapons into account, also sends a message that was a critical step to keeping Iran from international norms around issues like obtaining a nuclear weapon — a key nuclear proliferation don’t mean much.” Israeli demand. A number of officials close to Jewish The White House staffers made clear organizations said a full endorsement why they were reaching out to the Jewish was a natural for a community that was community; they sought its influence in among those who were reviled by the garnering the congressional support for suspected chemical weapons attack a strike that Obama says he wants before last month by Syrian President Bashar going ahead. Assad’s government. Obama on Tuesday met with top “It’s hard to imagine there’s a rabbi congressional officials and repeated his alive who has a High Holiday service who appeal to support limited strikes on Syria is not going to talk about a Syria,” said to degrade its chemical weapons capa- one Jewish official. bility. The meeting came on the heels of Until Obama declared over the week-
end that he was ready to strike, however, Jewish groups had been reluctant to weigh in on American intervention, in part because of the hangover from unwarranted attacks in the last decade blaming Jewish lobbying for the Iraq War. “The president has made his decision and we’re not ahead of it,” Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s national director, told JTA. “He’s not doing this for Israel. This may have serious ramifications for Israel which are negative.” Administrations have traditionally sought Jewish community support for foreign policy initiatives, but in this case, congressional insiders say the influence of AIPAC and other Jewish groups may be limited. The Tea Party caucus among Republicans, which has an isolationist streak, has resisted AIPAC pressure to back a robust foreign assistance program without repercussions. Among Democrats, the insiders said, the progressives who are wary of another foreign war are likelier to heed anti-war voices than the pro-Israel lobby. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who is Jewish and has been a pro-Israel and progressive stalwart, has been a leader in expressing skepticism about a strike. Other Jewish lawmakers have robustly backed a strike, preeminent among them Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the top democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, and one of the highest profile Jewish lawmakers, invoked the Holocaust over the weekend in making such a case. “As a Jew, the concept of ‘Never Again’ has to mean something,” she told CNN.
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Musings From a Jew in Jail from page 1
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Musings from Maury Adkins
n the last eight plus years of incarceration, I have spent much time on my personal cheshbon hanefesh (accounting of the soul). I continue to work through the stages of teshuva, some of which cannot be completed until I am released later this year. Jewish tradition holds that teshuva consists of several stages: I must recognize my wrongs,
feel sincere remorse, undo any damage I have done and pacify the victim of my offense, and resolve never to commit the sin again. The choices I made, and the attendant actions that resulted in my incarceration, were a shanda un a charpeh (a shame and disgrace). My failure to live up to the image of our Creator was an offense against Him. I also wronged many people, and I am truly sorry. As a Jew, my actions reflect upon our people,
and I apologize for my wrongs. Part of the teshuva process for me has been brutal honesty with myself and with others. This reach for authenticity has
The choices I made, and the attendant actions that resulted in my incarceration, were a shanda un a charpeh (a shame and disgrace).
provided me the opportunity to raise the bar on the experiences of my life, resulting in a deepening of integrity. Authenticity is not something you have; it is something you choose. As I choose to take empowering and reparative action, Hashem strengthens me. As I bring things to the light, in moments of grace, they lose their power to haunt me. As I have journeyed through my soul accounting, I’ve found some very humbling insights into myself, some things that were not particularly attractive. On balance, there was good, too. Just as I was seeking for-
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giveness from G-d and from others, I realized the need to forgive myself. That is sometimes hard to do, is it not? I am getting there. I am grateful that the possibility of teshuva has been granted as a gift coming from profound divine compassion. Teshuva is ongoing. As my understanding deepens, so does the purity of my heart and my understanding that every transgression has a much deeper impact than initially thought. As I grow in understanding and awareness of the greatness of Hashem, it is my desire to become worthy of Kavod Hashem, and to continue to ascend up the spiritual ladder. Read more “Musings from Maury” in future issues of the Jewish Journal.
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CHA’s 25th Annual Gala to Feature Josh Groban Cohen Hillel school and the greater Academy will hold its community, is a per25th annual gala on fect way to mark the Monday, October 28, occasion,” said Hillel at the Josh Groban Head of School Noah concert at TD Hartman. Garden in Boston. The gala is the The Marblehead school’s major fundJewish day school raiser to support eduhas secured premium cational programs and club level seating for scholarship efforts. the event. It began in 1988 with The community is Peter, Paul & Mary, invited to support the and over the years school, while enjoyhas featured many ing the multi-platicelebrity entertainnum recording artist’s Courtesy photo ers, including Gregory music in a 360-degree Hines, Roberta Flack, Josh Groban concert experience. Bill Cosby, Joel Grey At the event, Karen and David Rosenberg will and Mandy Patinkin. CHA gala events have also be honored with the Dr. Bennett I. Solomon been held in conjunction with theatrical perCommunity Leadership Award. The award was formances of “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion established to honor the memory of the school’s King,” “Wicked,” “The Producers,” “Jersey Boys,” beloved principal, and recognizes extraordinary “South Pacific” and last year’s “Billy Elliot.” commitment made by individuals to the school and the community. For more about tickets, tribute book ads and “This year marks the 25th anniversary of the well wishes, visit www.cohenhillel.org or contact gala, and honoring Karen and David, who have Diane Knopf at 781-639-2880 or diane@cohenbeen strong supporters of Jewish education, our hillel.org.
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Your Celebration of Sukkot Could Land in a Movie! WNET, New York’s public television station, is inviting people to send in footage that answers the question: “What is sacred to you?” A selection of the footage received will become part of “Sacred,” a sweeping cinematic portrait of one year of spiritual and religious life on earth. Producers are currently looking for video of families observing Sukkot, which will take place this year September 18-26. “It’s a holiday about families coming together, and we feel the most authentic footage will come from the families themselves. That’s why we are reaching out to Jewish communities and asking them to film how they celebrate Sukkot,” said “Sacred” Executive Producer and Academy Award nominee, Julie Anderson. The film will premiere in 2015. Contribute footage at www. sacredthemovie.org.
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‘The Soul Doctor’ is In Shelley A. Sackett Special to the Journal
NEW YORK, N.Y. — “Soul Doctor” is a Broadway musical based on the life of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. The Rebbe, who died in 1994, was known as the “rock-star rabbi.” A colorful character, Carlebach transSTAGE formed liturgical music during the 1960’s, recording over 25 albums and performing with such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and the Grateful Dead. A brilliant Torah scholar, his progressive and unique views on everything from prayer to women inspired a generation to seek connection to God and to each other through his songs. The play starts with a flash-forward to its last scene: a 1972 concert in Vienna, at the height of Reb Shlomo’s Haight-Ashbury “House of Love and Prayer” commune phase. The actors enter from four aisles, singing and dancing, sporting vibrant hippie-era clothing and hairdos. I felt like I was seeing “Hair” again. The Jewish version. This playfulness is unfortunately short-lived, as we begin our plodding, chronological journey through the life of Shlomo, played with subtlety, warmth and charm by the stellar Eric Anderson. We start in 1938 Vienna, where we meet 13-year-old Shlomo and his middle class family. The heir to a dynasty of Orthodox rabbis, young Shlomo exhibits his rebellious, passionate and determined nature. His Rebbe father moves the family to Brooklyn, one step ahead of the
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Eric Anderson (left) portrays the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (right) in “Soul Doctor.”
Nazis. He starts a strictly Orthodox yeshiva in his strictly Orthodox shul. Both, Shlomo tells his father, “are bankrupt. The bank accounts are fine, but the seats are empty.” Shlomo sets off to find a different way to rekindle their passion of head and heart. He doesn’t have to go far. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has set up shop nearby, and Shlomo, as his father fears he will, “goes to the Hassidim as a tourist, and comes back as a tour guide.” Wandering New York’s streets late one night in 1963, Shlomo drifts into a lounge where the classically-trained Nina Simone is singing sultry, smoky blues and jazz. With Nina’s appearance (played by the polished and riveting Amber Iman, in her Broadway debut), the show wakes up and turns an important corner. She’s not exaggerating when she sings, “I Put a Spell On You.” Meeting Nina is the watershed event of Shlomo’s life.
‘Broadway Musicals, A Jewish Legacy’ HAVERHILL — On Sunday, September 22, Temple Emanu-El opens its season of adult education programs with a film screening and discussion series on “Broadway Musicals, A Jewish Legacy.” This film explores the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. It features interviews with some of the greatest composers and writers of
the Broadway stage, including Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony and grandson of noted Yiddish theater stars Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky. The free program begins with breakfast at 9:30 a.m. The film will screen at 10. Temple Emanu-El is located at 514 Main St., Haverhill. Email Nancy@ TempleEmanu-El.org or call 978-373-3861.
They are kindred souls, both unconventional children of clergy (a Baptist minister in Nina’s case). She plugs him in to his inner neshama (soul/spirit), giving him the tools to express his heart through his music. She is his muse; he is her cheerleader. Their 25-year friendship is a celebration of the secular and the sacred, of mutual respect and support, and of the limitless possibilities available to those of open hearts and minds. Their parallel rises to fame and popularity are as spiritual and uplifting as the songs each sings. Yet not all the songs are hits. Of the 35 musical numbers in the show, those saddled with new English lyrics feel long and monotonous. The jazz, gospel and Hebrew songs (especially “Ki Va Moed” and “Sim Shalom”) are infectious and stirring. “Soul Doctor” is not just a valentine to Shlomo Carlebad (although it is definitely that). It raises important questions such as: What are the roles of tradition and revision in modern American Judaism? How do we connect with one another and with God? When have we strayed too far from our roots, for the sake of filling the empty shul? The play doesn’t offer any easy answers. But it does, per Jewish custom, offer a question. As Shlomo said to his father, “You brought us to America. What did you expect?” Shelley A. Sackett writes from Swampscott.
Boston Pops Conductor Headlines Fundraiser ANDOVER — Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart will present a talk and perform with an ensemble on Saturday, September 28, at 7:30 p.m., at Andover High School. Lockhart will discuss composer Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale.” The 1918 Russian parable tells the tale of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil
for a book that predicts the future of the economy. The presentation will include periodic musical interludes performed by seven professional musicians. The event will benefit NECC’s Endowment Fund. Tickets are $35 each. Call 978-5563870 or visit www.mvarts.info.
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Boston Book Festival: An Appetizer of Delights to Come Shelley A. Sackett Special to the Journal
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he midnight chocolate buffet never tempts me. But set before me a table laden with books, and I am a goner. The aroma of fresh bindings, the presentation of colorful covers, and the texture of the printed page is the rush my senses crave. With the upcoming Boston Book Festival, my cup runneth over. From Thursday, October 17, through Saturday, October 19, the Boston Book Festival will gather authors for its fifth annual celebration of the written word. Some are also broadcasters (National Public Radio-affiliate fans are in for a treat), teen librarians and Pulitzer Prize winners. One even inspired a fatwa. For film fans, the festival features critic Ty Burr of The Boston Globe and filmmaker Wes Craven, known best for his “Scream” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies. Copley Square, with its park-like setting, easy MBTA access, and proximity
to that Grande Dame, the Boston Public Library, is the perfect location for the Book Fest. Throughout the three days, attendees can choose from 150 presentations, including adult keynote presenter Salman Rushdie, and children’s keynote presenter Nona Strega’s Tomie dePaola. There are workshops for aspiring authors, activities for children, and a street fair with exhibitors. Berklee College of Music students will perform. The best news is that all events are free. I’ve already started strategizing. Besides the well-known keynoters, these presenters intrigue me: Nancy Gertner Her recently published memoir is “In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate.” Her Jewish upbringing influenced her in her career as a judge and advocate.
Paul Harding Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2010 “Tinkers.” His newest is the sequel, “Enon,” which will become available in September. Joe Klein His controversial comments skewering American Jewish neoconservatives for their involvement in encouraging the Iraq war and their Likudist view of Israeli interests have incited much impassioned debate. He is the author of “Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You’re Stupid.” Najla Said A playwright and actor, she is the daughter of a prominent Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. She grew up as a Jewish teenager in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Her 2013 memoir, “Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family,” is on my nightstand.
Jessica Stern She is a social scientist, an expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress, and a petite Jewish woman. She has traveled alone to Pakistan’s mountains to interview Islamist extremists. Her 2011 memoir, “Denial: A Memoir on Terror,” details her adolescent rape in Concord, Mass., and its repercussions. Valerie Plame Wilson The former CIA operative and subject of the film and book (which she also co-authored) “Fair Game,” she has also co-written a spy thriller, “Blowback.” The woman definitely has street cred. This Boston Book Festival appetizer portion is meant to, as the French so sensuously describe it, “entertain the mouth” (amuse-bouche) before the meal begins. Stay tuned for more as the October 17 date approaches and the festival publishes its menu of events. Bon Appetit! Visit www.bostonbookfest.org.
Sounding the Alarm on Anti-Israelism Jeffrey F. Barken JNS.org
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nti-Semitism is on the rise. Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld’s new book, “Demonizing Israel and the Jews,” consults a book diverse selection of prominent authors, bloggers, politicians, psychiatrists, historians and other expert professionals, gauging the current climate. By highlighting his colleagues’ research, Gerstenfeld examines the roots of persistent old-world anti-Semitism, and demonstrates how new, hatefueled, and even genocidal ideologies propagate rapidly. In her essay, psychiatrist Dr. Daphne Burdman provides concrete evidence of systematic genocidal indoctrination. “In both the Palestinian
Authority and the important developHamas-ruled terments have taken ritory of Gaza place concerning there are carefully a n t i - S e m i t i s m ,” planned, wideGerstenfeld writes spread campaigns in his introduction. of incitement of “One major manichildren,” she festation of this can writes. be seen in Hungary. Grappling with The neo-fascist and the resurgence of anti-Semitic Jobbik anti-Semitism and Party received nearthe world’s willingly 17 percent of votes ness to embrace Demonizing Israel and in the 2010 parliaanti-Israelism mentary elections the Jews presents a dauntand became the Manfred Gerstenfeld ing puzzle. But RVP Publishers, 2013 country’s third largGerstenfeld casts a est party.” Similar wide net. Turn to any page; the political parties have seized short interviews reveal shock- power in countries like Greece, ing facts and offer gripping Norway, Sweden and Finland, analysis. The rapidly changing where economic conditions are religious and political ideolo- ripe for a revival of pre-war fasgies in Europe are of particular cist and racist ideologies. concern. Likewise, he writes, the “Since the Second World War, influx of Muslim immigrants to
Europe has changed the demographics there, paving the way for Holocaust denial, renewed nationalism, and the incorporation of fanatic anti-Israel perspectives into the national dialogue. How are these movements gaining momentum and access to power? Why has the world turned a blind eye? Gerstenfeld’s many sources connect the dots and provide definitive answers. Gerstenfeld spotlights the exhaustive efforts of organizations that directly challenge distortions in the media. “The Internet has changed the dynamic, adding countless new voices to the discourse — some for the better and others for the worse,” writes Andrea Levin, executive director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
“CAMERA’s staff continuously post critiques on the CAMERA website and blog, and write op-eds, letters, and articles that appear in newspapers, journals, and Internet sites, setting the record straight,” she said. “Demonizing Israel and the Jews” will intrigue and rattle audiences. Readers seeking a comprehensive explanation for the reappearance of virulent anti-Semitism will not be disappointed. The book’s essays and interviews coalesce as an eye-opening, convincing narrative that illuminates the history, philosophy and sociopolitical factors that confound the peace process and ignite so much hatred. Powerful and informative, Gerstenfeld’s work is a definitive academic source on the problem of modern antiSemitism.
Why ‘Princesses: Long Island’ Doesn’t Work Jana Banin
That, to me, sounded quite compelling. At first, Jewish viewers he debut season of may have recognized glimBravo’s reality show mers of the more privileged “Princesses: Long and materialistic among us Island” has finally come in Ashlee or Erica or Casey. to a close, and I think it’s But ultimately that fizzled. pretty safe to declare it a It wasn’t that we don’t know disappointment. a few real-life princessWho was this es who go shopping with Courtesy photo crew of materitheir dad’s credit cards. And TV The princesses of Long Island alistic, entitled, yes, likely there are Jewish daddy-dependent, marriage-obsessed 20-some- women out there who might label a perfectly fine things singing “Hava Nagila” and saying things neighborhood a “ghetto” upon seeing a sofa curblike “Shabbat Shalom, go f*** yourself”? Were they side awaiting bulk pickup. really willing to sell our people down the river in Ultimately, though, this is a reality show, which exchange for their 15 minutes? means the characters are required to be over the In devoting an entire series to Jewish American top to the point of being cartoonish. Any of Bravo’s Princesses, Bravo somehow failed to do justice to princesses could have been pulled from any of the Jewish American Princesses. other shows about women who seem to do nothAs Chanel, the show’s least terrible princess, ing besides shop, drink, say ridiculous, scripted might say in one of her rabbinical-sounding things during confessional interviews and get into voiceovers, “An old Jewish proverb says that ste- producer-manufactured fights with one another reotypes are usually somewhat based on reality.” at parties. Nobody does these things in real life. In other words, let’s be honest here: JAPs do And you know what nobody else does? Nobody exist. And while, of course, it was initially hor- drinks Manischewitz for fun or says “Shabbat rifying to think that our fellow Americans might shalom” and “mazel tov” so often and so inapsee this show and assume it is illegal for Jewish propriately it seems like a tic. But that’s what women to leave the house without a Louis Vuitton happens when the singular thing that separates a bag, Bravo had already put this thing out there. show from “The Real Housewives” franchise is its And once it was out there, would it be so ter- Jewish angle. rible to admit that deep down, a teeny, tiny part But as a great Jewish sage (or wait, maybe it of me was sort of excited to spend Sunday night was Homer Simpson) once said, sometimes somewatching the exploits of the FroYo-eating, bagel- thing is funny because it’s true. At least a little. scooping, elliptical-addicted, parent-sponsored Murray Hill high-rise apartment-dwelling sorority Jana Banin is a regular contributor to JTA’s blog girls-turned-event planners I went to college with? 6nobacon.com. Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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“In my Jewish family, all social occasions revolved around food. We were (and still are) always into eating,” Sidell said. Customer Appreciation Day Sunday, September 22, from 2-6 p.m., will be Customer Appreciation Day at the South Street Diner. The community is invited to enjoy a familyfriendly DJ, an ice cream truck, face painters, cartoonists and even pony rides down Kneeland Street. The annual tradition started five years ago, when Sidell’s customers rallied to maintain the 24-hour license of the Diner. “When they told City Hall what the Diner and I meant to them, it was very touching,” Sidell said. As a “thank you,” Customer Appreciation Day was born. “It gives the customers and staff an opportunity to come together, reminisce about the past year, and look forward to the new year,” Sidell said. It is interesting to note that the day always seems to fall around the High Holidays. Although Customer Appreciation Day is special, Sidell views every day at the Diner as a blessing. “It is my personal dream, [and] with blood, sweat, tears and cheers it has grown, and
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continues to grow,” he said. Sidell notes that his customers are very loyal, with regulars dropping by a few times a day to say hello and grab a nosh. Like the famous bar in Boston (“where everybody knows your name”), Sidell hopes that he has been able to provide a place where people “feel as though they are a regular, from the first time they come in.” The South Street Diner is located at 178 Kneeland St., Boston. Call 617-350-0028 or visit www.southstreetdiner.com/
Cocktails With a Touch of Class Anna Harwood Special to the Journal
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ummer is nearly over, yet there is still time to enjoy a few evenings outdoors. Wine-based cocktails such as sangria or merlot tea punch are refreshing, and will keep that summer spirit alive. Here are some recipes: Sangria Take an abundance of fresh fruits (cherries, peaches, apples, oranges, etc.) and chop them finely. In a big jug or bowl, mix the chopped fruits with a stick of cinnamon and other spices, if desired. Add a bottle of dry or semi-dry white or red wine, a cup of orange juice, some liquid sugar (according to your taste) and a dash of brandy (you can also swap this for orange liqueur or cognac). The wine itself does not need to be very expensive — it is actually preferable to use a young wine. Merlot Tea Punch In a deep glass, mix together 60 ml of Merlot wine, 20 ml of dark rum, 40 ml of peach-flavored ice tea, 20 ml of orange juice, and 10 ml of lemon juice. Add lots of ice, and garnish with a ginger star.
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Holiday Recipe Features Salmon and Pomegranates
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omegranates are a traditional food for the Jewish New Year. Joy of Kosher magazine editor Shifra Klein, who recently held a cooking demonstration and talk at Chabad of Peabody, shares a holiday recipe that incorporates this festive, seasonal food.
Pomegranate Salmon 1 whole side salmon, no skin, no bones, about 3½ pounds, trimmed 1 large red onion, sliced very thin (use the food processor) ¼ cup olive oil
1 cup pomegranate juice ¼ cup unfiltered apple cider vinegar 2 T. tomato paste Salt and pepper to taste 1 t. turmeric
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Place the salmon in a pan, just large enough to accommodate the fish in one layer. Scatter the onions on top and on the sides of the fish. Mix the oil, juice, vinegar, tomato paste, salt, pepper and turmeric in a bowl, and pour over the fish. Cook about 20 minutes, or a tiny bit more until the fish flakes easily and the liquids thicken. Serve hot or at room temperature.
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Family Tashlich Service
6:30 p.m. Join together for song, stories and prayer, and hear Rabbi Nechemia blow the shofar. Apples dipped in honey and honey cake will be served. Free and open to all. Meet at the lake on Lake Street, Peabody. www.jewishpeabody.com.
Fri, Sept. 6
‘One Man, Two Guvnors’
The Lyric Stage Company presents this award-winning play, through October 5. 140 Clarendon St., Boston. www.lyricstage.com or 617585-5678.
Hike and Brunch
9:30 a.m. Join Temple Beth Shalom congregants and clergy for an easygoing hike in the woods of Bradley Palmer State Park, or text study with Eric Feingold. Brunch will follow an outdoor shofar service. Brunch is $20. Willowdale Estate, 24 Asbury St., Topsfield. Email bsimons@templebethshalom.org or call 978-535-2100.
11 a.m.-noon. Interactive service for babies and toddlers features games, puppets and songs. Free, open to the public. Chabad of Peabody, 83 Pine St., Unit E, Peabody. RSVP to www.jewishpeabody.com.
Sat, Sept. 7
‘The Elephant Man’
Tony Award-winning drama runs through Sept. 29. $28-$60. Arsenal Center for Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown. www.newrep.org or 617-923-8487.
Sun, Sept. 8 Field of Honor
Noon. Ceremony honors those who serve in the military, fire or police departments, or as an EMT. Sponsored by The Exchange Club. Bartlet Mall, Newburyport. 978-4629623.
Open House
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5:30-7:30 p.m. Meet representatives and artists from more than 50 Greater Boston theatre companies, and get information about upcoming productions. Free giveaways. Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston. RSVP to www. stagesource.org.
7 p.m. Rabbis Mark Newton and David Finkelstein teach a class on the High Holidays. Temple Shalom, 287 Lafayette St., Salem. 978-7414880.
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6:30-8 p.m. Peer led weekly support group, meets through October 30. Registration required. Hospice of the North Shore and Greater Boston, 75 Sylvan St., Danvers. Email grief@hns.org or 978-744-5100.
Book Signing
7 p.m. Hilary Levey Friedman will discuss and sign copies of “Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture.” The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. www.thecoop.com.
Thur, Sept. 12 ‘Seminar’
Contemporary comedy, direct from Broadway, written by the creator of the TV show “Smash.” Runs through Sept. 29. Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham. www.stonehamtheatre.org or 781-279-2200.
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4 p.m. Tryout for the Honors Youth Choir of Chorus North Shore. Open to youths, ages 10-18. First Baptist Church, 2 High St., Rockport. Also 3:30 p.m. on Thurs, Sept. 19, at Ascension Memorial Church, 31 County St., Ipswich. Email mssepich@verizon.net or call 978-356-4713.
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Teen Advisory Board
7 p.m. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen will sign and discuss his book “The Devil that Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global AntiSemitism.” The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. www.thecoop.com.
Book Sale
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Trails & Sails
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n the most ambitious attempt to import American-style higher education to Israel to date, the country’s first liberal arts college will open its doors this fall. The four-year degree program at the new Shalem College, located on the Jewish Agency’s campus in the East Talpiot neighborhood in Jerusalem, will teach a broad curriculum like those found in American liberal arts colleges, and will use financial incentives to encourage students to be active in campus life. The program is a world away from that of most Israeli colleges. While Israel’s universities are well regarded internationally and their undergraduate degrees are respected, their courses of study tend to be far more specialized and career-oriented. Additionally, there’s less emphasis on a campus experience. Israeli undergraduates are older than their
The program is a world away from career-oriented Israeli colleges. U.S. counterparts, having typically completed three years of national service. They’re more likely to live far from school and they typically have jobs, meaning they are far less likely to hang around campus and contribute to a college social life. Shira Laurence, a 24-year-old Israeli who spent 13 years living in America, said that when she told her friends she had enrolled for the inaugural Shalem semester this fall, most of them said that they found the concept of the program alien. “Most of my Israeli friends said when they heard about it, ‘What are you going to do with this degree?’” she told the Forward. The core curriculum has a strong “great books” emphasis, and includes Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Durkheim and Einstein. Key texts from Jewish tradition are drawn from the Babylonian Talmud, Maimonides, Spinoza and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Sections of the Quran are also compulsory. “If we were just bringing the kind of curriculum from St. John’s College and the intensity of Princeton, that would be a nice thing to do,” said faculty member Daniel Polisar, who is the college’s executive vice president and provost. “But we are also creating a curriculum for Israelis, whose country sits on a crossroads between Western and Jewish civilizations.” Students will specialize after their first year — but the two courses of study offered are both broad in scope. One is Middle East and Islamic studies; the other is Israel’s first interdisciplinary program in philosophy and Jewish
thought. The college will be intimate, with an intake of just 50 people a year at first, and class sizes limited to around 25. Students will be asked to refrain from working more than eight hours a week, and will receive a stipend of 2,000 shekels ($550) a month to enable them to adhere to this limit. Fees are heavily subsidized by donations — Shalem is largely funded by American Jewish individuals and foundations — so students will only pay 6,000 shekels a year ($1,650), meaning that they will receive more money from the college than they will contribute. In addition to the monthly stipend,
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its class sizes to around 25. It also gives students financial incentives to live near campus.
students will receive another 1,000 ($275) shekels a month if they live within a kilometer of campus. This location-based incentive is designed to make the campus a lively venue even after classes — and to this end the college has kept Tuesdays SHALEM page
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David Coleman Sets U.S. Standards By Joy Resmovits
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s a boy growing up in downtown Manhattan with a college president for a mother and psychiatrist for a father, David Coleman often had lively and lacerating dinner table conversations. “My parents, while both working, were home every night at dinner,” said Coleman, now 43. The family wasn’t satisfied with easy repartee. If Coleman went to a movie or read a book, his parents wanted to know what he learned from the experience. Coleman often found himself arguing a point before he took the first bite, an eagerness that both charmed and aggravated his parents. “They cared more about the quality of what I did and the engagement with ideas than they did about other measures of success,” he said, speaking in his brightly-lit Columbus Circle office, where a black-and-white Martin Luther King Jr. photograph hangs on the wall. When Coleman heard stories about other parents who paid their kids to get good grades, he said, “I just thought how lucky I was.” Today, Coleman, a Jewish man with colorful socks who speaks at an urgent clip, is the most influential education figure you’ve never heard of. As president of the College Board, a national education company, he is redesigning the SAT, the standardized test that high school seniors take for college admission, and he is expanding the Advanced Placement program, which offers college-level classes and tests for high school students. He is perhaps best known as the architect of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, meant to bring divergent state learning goals into alignment. Public schools in 47
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Ideas Guy: Common Core author David
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states will begin teaching the Core in English Language Arts this fall. But as standardized testing increasingly comes under attack, and as teachers and politicians from both the left and right try to roll back the Common Core, it’s unclear what Coleman’s legacy will be. The controversy over Common Core has become particularly fraught as states adopt the learning goals. In Alabama, for instance, a Republican political activist recently compared the adoption of the core to Adolf Hitler’s
indoctrination of German citizens. While few states have dropped the Core entirely, several have distanced themselves from the program by withdrawing from the consortia charged with developing assessments to measure student achievement under the Core. Coleman said he’s hopeful the standards can succeed without full national participation in the consortia, but many Core proponents disagree. “You’re going to end up with a bunch of states doing different things,” said Andy Rotherham, a friend of Coleman’s who worked in the Clinton administration and now leads Bellwether Education Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm. “Some of the same issues will persist, which undermines the premise of Common Core.” How did Coleman wind up in the middle of the 21st century’s curriculum wars? His path started at his parents’ dinner table, and wended its way through selective New York public school Stuyvesant High, making an important stop at his bar mitzvah. Coleman gleaned many lessons from his bar mitzvah, said Jason Zimba, a Common Core cowriter and lifelong friend who taught mathematics at Bennington College, where Coleman’s mother Elizabeth served as president. “The idea that the child’s serious attention to this venerated, beautiful text is valued by the adults and even the rabbi is to David a beautiful thing,” Zimba said. “I’ve listened to him talk about that.” The Colemans held David’s bar mitzvah in their home instead of in a fancy hall. It sent Coleman a clear message: What mattered COLEMAN page
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most was his speech on his Torah portion, Joseph’s interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream. “I wondered why Joseph is so often humiliated, why Joseph is thrown down so many times before he interprets the dreams for Pharaoh,” Coleman recalled. “Three times before the interpretation, he’s thrown down. Why? If you read the text carefully what gradually emerges in Joseph is… a kind of achieved humility.” The experience of conducting a deep exegesis at age 13 framed Coleman’s thinking about education. “The idea that kids can do more than we think they can is one of Judaism’s most beautiful contributions,” he said. Asking 13-year-olds to give a prepared speech in front of people they love is a bold charge, not unlike encouraging disadvantaged kids who don’t see themselves as academically minded to take AP courses. “I wish kids could encounter more stretched opportunities like that in school — all kids,” he said. After graduating from Stuyvesant, Coleman attended Yale, where he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford. There, he studied English literature. Zimba, also a student at Oxford at the time, remembers hanging out in pubs and playing Risk with Coleman, who spent the rest of his time studying for
‘The right is using the Common Core as an example of government control.’ exams. Coleman had a competitive streak and often won at Risk. “He’s an astute observer of characters, so if he thinks you can handle it, he might celebrate [his victory over you],” he said. Upon returning to New York, he applied for a high school teaching job and was turned down. Instead, he worked for consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he advised public schools and became a fixture at New York City Department of Education meetings. That’s where he met David Sherman, who was then a vice president at the United Federation of Teachers. After one of these meetings, Coleman, then in his 20s, approached Sherman. “I don’t know you but I want to introduce myself, because you seem to be the only person who knew what he was talking about,” Sherman remembers Coleman saying. They stayed in touch. When Zimba and Coleman developed their education startup, the Grow Network, which sought to make the new testing data from No Child Left Behind useful to teachers, Coleman turned to Sherman to tap into the grassroots involvement of teachers. Sherman became a mentor to Coleman, and
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Lightning Rod: Coleman’s Common Core
standards, which are being adopted by the states, have received Republican blowback.
remembers teaching him several lessons. The first: “I always told him he was too nice, that you need to stand up for what you believe in,” Sherman said. Second, when Coleman began speaking to national audiences, Sherman chided Coleman for treating D.C. crowds as if they were New Yorkers. “I said, David, you can’t curse in front of a national audience — they get offended.” While working on the Grow Network, Coleman tried to “fill the promise that assessment results could actually improve kids’ lives,” he said. But he found that educational problems run deeper: The standards the tests were trying to measure “were so vast and vague, it’s hard to make high-quality assessments.” Coleman sold the Grow Network to McGraw-Hill, and formed Student Achievement Partners, a not-for-profit that now helps states implement the Common Core standards. In 2008, he and Zimba co-wrote a seminal paper calling for “math and science standards that are fewer, clearer, higher.” These ideas, Sherman speculated, stem from Coleman’s religious background. “He grew up in a family that extremely prioritized the value and importance of a deep, broad education,” Sherman said. “Those Jewish values toward education have a lot to do with his belief system: Every child should be a smart thinker, a deep thinker, someone who’s analytical and probing.” Coleman also believes that religious texts have a place in the public school curriculum. Before Coleman and Zimba published their paper, in 2008, the National Governors Association convened a group of governors who wanted to create a set of unified educational standards nationwide. Because states write their own standards and exams, students who move across state lines might find themselves passing math in one state and failing it in another. The governors sought to address
this problem by creating common standards. Attracted to Coleman’s idea of “fewer, clearer, higher,” they tapped Student Achievement Partners to write them. “While sometimes I’ve been called an architect of their standards, I think their true architecture is evidence,” Coleman said. “That’s the binding secret of the standards.” Coleman, Zimba and Sue Pimentel, an education consultant, made sure the standards reflect the skills students need to succeed after high school. While the standards were developed by representatives of the states, with help from the Gates Foundation, they received a new, powerful — but, in retrospect, potentially detrimental — boost in 2009. That year, the Obama administration incentivized higher learning standards with billions of dollars in its Race to the Top competition, and recessionstunned states signed on to the Core. “The states were so desperate for money they were willing to just do it,” said Andy Smarick, a Republican education policy expert who previously worked for the U.S. Department of Education. “So many states signed on so fast with a push from the federal government and there wasn’t a fuss — until now.” Now, as schools begin to implement the Core, far-right and far-left advocates are trying to roll it back. People like Ron Paul, the former libertarian-leaning Republican U.S. Congressman from Texas, are waging campaigns against the Core, making the fight a Tea Party priority. Reached by phone, Paul said that he sees
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worries that the Core will lead to overtesting.
the Core as an “encroachment” that increases the federal government’s control. “This is just another step, putting pressure on states to have a one-system universal curriculum,” he said. “This is the kind of thing that should not be permitted.” Paul said he had not read “all of the standards, but that’s in some ways irrelevant — because the principle is so bad.” On the left, advocates such as Diane Ravitch, a former George W. Bush education official
who is now a leading figure in opposition of the so-called education reform movement say that the Core could lead to more assessment when kids are already overburdened by excessive testing. “The conservative right is using it as an example of government control, a break with states’ rights — but it’s voluntary,” said Sherman, who now works as a special assistant to Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. “People like Ravitch are saying it has all of the testing and blah blah blah. I don’t go along with that either.” Coleman said that he thinks when people like Paul read the standards, they will support them. It’s the substance, he said, that’s brought Republicans such as Mike Huckabee and Jeb Bush on board. “Whatever missteps were made in the past with the administration and Race to the Top, the secretary has made very clear, this is and remains state-led,” Coleman said. “And any state can withdraw at any time, which is being demonstrated.” But if more states drop out, the effort could lose momentum. “If it’s adopted by a tiny number of states it ceases to have the meaning it once had,” said Tim Daly, president of the teacher placement firm TNTP. As the fight over the Core plays out in the states, Coleman now has a broader view on education. Last summer, the College Board announced they would hire Coleman to lead the organization. Since then, he has engaged the organization’s members in creating a redesigned SAT, which will be unveiled in 2015. He’s heard from members of the College Board that they want the SAT to test things that are relevant to college success. They’ve told him that students should be able to read and write clearly, and also master a core set of mathematical concepts. “The core aspiration is to build an exam that much more clearly focuses on the skills that matter most,” he said. Instead of obscure vocabulary words, students would be expected to show deep understanding of academic terms such as “synthesis” and “transform.” Overall, Coleman hopes to make the exam more relevant to high school learning. “It has to engage teachers more deeply,” he said. As students go back to school and stress over college applications this year, they probably don’t know about the man with the funny socks in the Columbus Circle office who, in a sense, influences their future. “He’s in this position to tie what kids are learning to what colleges are expecting,” Smarick said. “Very few people in America today are having a bigger influence on what kids are learning than David Coleman.”
Joy Resmovits is The Huffington Post’s education reporter. After graduating from Barnard College in 2010, she wrote for the Wall Street Journal and then worked for the Forward as a news fellow. She has also contributed to theS New York Daily News, Education Update and the St. Louis Beacon.
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free from classes and recruited Stephen Hazan Arnoff, a well-respected figure from New York’s Jewish cultural scene, to run extracurricular activities. Hazan Arnoff, executive director of the 14th Street Y community center for the last six years, will head the college’s Office of Culture, Community and Society. He will coordinate intellectual, cultural, artistic and volunteering programs that will dominate Tuesdays and run throughout the week. “The traditional research university is focused on frontal interaction with students,” said Hazan Arnoff. “We’re pursuing an experience where students are asked to learn in different modes for thinking about and experiencing ideas. The whole campus, city and country is our laboratory.” That said, students will be expected to knuckle down to traditional university demands, with heavier reading lists than in most Israeli universities and an expectation to write more essays. There will be specialist departments that help them work on their writing skills in both Hebrew and English. The aim of the college, according to Senior Vice President Daniel Gordis, is to produce students with broad and deep knowledge. “We would like our students to be people who have
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Student Union: Shalem’s Jerusalem campus will be host to a vibrant student culture,
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a different way of relating to things, a different way of appreciating an opera, and who can read about Egypt and discuss whether events there are more similar to the American or Russian
revolutions,” he said. The Shalem Center, the think tank that set up the college, has a reputation as being neo-conservative with a religious bent, and dominated
by immigrants from the U.S. However, the staff and student rosters of the new college span the religious and political spectrums and break out of the Anglo mold. For example, Omri Segev, a member of the leftwing Meretz party, planned to skip university and go in to local politics until he heard about Shalem College. Segev, a secular Israeli-born 23-year-old, said: “Before I was introduced to the Shalem program I wasn’t even considering going to university as I’d heard it was dull and flat — like high school for bigger children.” One demographic missing from the first group of students is Arabs, but Gordis said that the college is wide open to Arab applicants, and that while it generally looks for a national service record on applications, given that most Arabs don’t serve, those who haven’t would be at no disadvantage. Gordis wants the college to give students the skills to discuss political differences with a dignity that is sometimes lacking in Israel. “Part of what we want to model is a place where people feel very comfortable expressing what they are… because we want to model how you interact with and discuss with people with whom you deeply disagree,” he said. Nathan Jeffay is the Forward’s Israel correspondent. Contact him at jeffay@forward.com
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Can a Facebook Group Transform Jewish Education? At JEDLAB, Educators Brainstorm — and Air Grievances — About Day Schools and More By Emily Shire
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t all began at 5 a.m. one day in February 2013, in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. That’s when Ken Gordon and Yechiel Hoffman realized that the time was ripe for a grassroots overhaul of Jewish education. The two were guests at the North American Jewish Day School Conference, an annual event that brings together Jewish day school administrators and teachers across denominations and regions. Gordon, a social media and content strategist at the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, and Hoffman, the director of youth engagement at Temple Beth Am, a conservative synagogue in Los Angeles, began talking about their frustrations with the Jewish establishment. In particular, they chatted about its inability to innovate beyond what Hoffman called “crappy conferences with experts in the room talking at you.” “We were really able to articulate a hunger for something else. That sense we wanted to do something was born in that lobby,” said Gordon. And with that conversation, the seeds of JEDLAB were planted. JEDLAB (short for “Jewish Education Laboratory”) is a Facebook group made up of more than 1,300 teachers, rabbis, administrators, parents and concerned citizens eager to transform Jewish education. Though you may not have heard of it yet, its membership is growing every day. JEDLAB participants have begun organizing small in-person meetings and pilot projects throughout the country to brainstorm about the future of day schools, Hebrew schools and more. The group’s inception comes at a dire time for Jewish education: Many non-Orthodox day schools have stagnant and declining enrollment, and Hebrew schools have largely failed to engage Jewish youth beyond their bar and bat mitzvahs. The group’s mission was deeply influenced by Frank Moss’s “The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices,” a 2011 book about the MIT Media Lab. The book recounts how MIT researchers worked across disciplines — such as engineering, business, visual arts and soci-
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ology — to collaborate and create new inventions, like the Amazon Kindle and child-safe airbags. Inspired by the story, Hoffman and Gordon, along with Tikvah Wiener, a fellow Jewish educator with close to two decades of experience, decided to create a Jewish media lab for educators and others to explore and pioneer lessons and projects. Although JEDLAB has no physical lab space, it seeks to emulate the MIT Media Lab. As stated on the Facebook group’s page, its values include “creative freedom” to explore all areas of interest. “Anti-disciplinary work” is also key — “Just because you aren’t a biology major, doesn’t mean you can’t tackle a biology problem,” said Wiener. Another guiding principle is “hard fun” — “learners don’t mind activities that are [difficult] as long as the activities connect deeply with their interests and passions,” said Hoffman. There’s also “serendipity by design,” or taking advantage of the resources around you in the moment; “a focus on demonstration or iteration,” or, as the group says, “demo or die” — the underlying principle that you can’t improve a project until you try it out; “master/apprentice relationships,” or looking beyond titles to have teachers and students learn from each other; “big dreaming,” and “democratic creation,” stressing that every voice is equal. Utilizing these guiding principles, JEDLAB has started tackling some of the most challenging topics facing Jewish education, though in a rather anarchic way. Popular discussion questions range from the logistical, such as how to manage the cost of Jewish
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day schools and how to integrate Jewish history into general history lessons, to the philosophical, such as how to accurately measure Jewish engagement and get more parents more involved in the learning process. Discussions evolve and take unexpected turns on JEDLAB. One recent conversation on Hebrew school’s negative reputation turned into a philosophical discussion about whether a family’s influence on a child’s Jewish education trumps schooling. “In-home learning that is experimental seems best. [F]amily around the shabbas [sic] table, singing, learning, eating, being,” wrote one JEDLAB member. Another disagreed: “In-home learning is best... when the parents actually know something an[d] are interested in practicing. What about when they don’t? It’s all so nice to live in the ideal world, I have yet to teach in one.” The exchange above is typical of JEDLAB conversations, which are often frank. The online space, unaffiliated with any Jewish organization, frees educators to speak their mind in the way they can’t at other traditional institutions. “[On JEDLAB], I can say something controversial, and I’m not getting kicked out,” said JEDLAB member Valerie Lustgarten. “People aren’t afraid to say what they’re going to say.” Moreover, JEDLAB harnesses the power of the Internet to bring together Jewish educators who would never have otherwise had the opportunity to discuss and share ideas. Lustgarten had worked at a Jewish day school in Miami, but recently left to pursue freelance educational consulting. “I love it, but it’s very lonely,” she said. “Now in JEDLAB, I have hundreds of people in my office at all times that I can reach out to for conversation. I feel I’m accompanied on this journey of making things better.” At the same time, JEDLAB founders recognize that online exchange is no substitute for face-to-face conversation. Hoffman said that the group hasn’t gone deep enough yet. “Right now, the inquiry is lame. They’re regurgitating. We’re a baby; we’re learning to talk,” he said. Still, he is optimistic about JEDLAB’s potential. “It’s a baby, but it has a hunger that has momentum.” But JEDLAB is more than just online chatter. The group has been taking its ideas offline and into the classroom, the synagogue and the
community at large. At one New York gathering this past June, two early childhood education specialists got into a heated debate, Gordon said. One was a proponent of Montessoristyle education, which emphasizes self-directed learning, and the other of Reggio Emilia, which stresses collaborative projects to encourage group learning. A third JEDLAB member finally suggested creating a lab school, with one room for each approach, to test the merits of both systems. The educators stopped arguing and agreed that it was a great plan, though they have yet to implement it. “That freedom of thought is outstanding,” said Gordon. Wiener was inspired by JEDLAB discussions
as she refined plans for the Summer Sandbox, a three-day event in June in New Jersey where Jewish educators gathered to develop lessons and programs for the coming year. A number of innovations came out of the event, including lesson plans on how to relate Torah law to other types of legal systems and on teaching students about tzedakah by encouraging them to research charities — an exercise that also works to develop financial literacy. Despite the excitement surrounding JEDLAB, it is hardly the first attempt to revitalize the world of Jewish education. The past two decades have seen some major — and expensive — attempts to rejuvenate the field. When it was founded in 1997, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education sought to double the number of non-Orthodox Jewish children in day schools. But the numbers have barely changed, and in fact, some studies show a drop. In a 2011 Forward article, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, a founder of PEJE, admitted, “I was guilty of optimism.” So, what makes JEDLAB different from its forebears? Unlike some previous attempts to fix Jewish education that were often fueled by a few key investors, JEDLAB is strictly a bottomup endeavor, and it remains to be seen what it will accomplish. “We don’t want the elite controlling the conversation,” said Hoffman. “JEDLAB is an attempt to use a model that flattens the playing field.” And unlike other grassroots attempts, JEDLAB is a product of social media. “This is the first time in history when we actually have knowledge that is shared rather than isolated and contained,” said Hoffman. This, Wiener believes, is what makes it a truly unique innovation in the world of Jewish education. “Because of social media and things like Twitter and Facebook and this ‘hacker generation,’ things are very democratic and all these hierarchies are breaking down,” she said. “JEDLAB is all about democratic creation, and all these voices coming together.” Emily Shire writes about popular culture, sex and gender and religion. Her work can be found at emilyshire.com. Follow her on Twitter @eshire
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here are few, if any, options for teens in America who want a Jewish experience during their post-high school, pre-college gap year, but don’t want to spend time in Israel. That was a key incentive for Portland-based contracting carpenter Steve Eisenbach-Budner to create Tivnu, the first Jewish social-justice themed gap-year program in the U.S., which starts in August 2014. “Spending time in Israel is an important piece of Jewish identity for many, but not every kid wants to go to Israel at that point in their lives — or maybe their parents aren’t comfortable with it,” Eisenbach-Budner said. “The fact is, most of us will choose to live in the U.S., and if we are going to figure out our identity as Jews in social justice, America is the place to do the work.” Some teenagers take a year off after high school, before they dive into a serious college curriculum. But Tivnu is not your average Jewish gap-year program. Similar to AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps — which is geared toward the post-college demographic — and inspired by EisenbachBudner’s experience working as a carpenter with social justice groups in Portland, the program facilitates Jewish learning through affordable housing construction. Tivnu participants will explore the many aspects of construction, from learning how to use a saw table to reading architectural blue prints. Its curriculum will use Jewish texts and history to analyze social justice and communal obligation within Jewish tradition. Participants will also hold internships at advocacy groups that focus on human rights and housing. Eisenbach-Budner was moved to start Tivnu based on his own experience growing up in lowincome housing in New York City, where his parents were both teachers. He first launched Tivnu in a modified form in 2011 with weeklong and eventually daylong sessions. Nine months ago, he was awarded $100,000 as part of a Joshua Venture Fellowship, and began his plans for expanding Tivnu into a gap-year program. This spring, Tivnu will run a semester-length pilot with 10 participants — six have signed up so far — followed by the gap-year program in 2014 with 15 participants. The nine-month program will cost $26,000, which is similar in cost to other gap-year programs. The price will include room and board, and Eisenbach-Budner is currently working with a local Portland university to have the program accredited. The environment will be Shabbat-and kosherfriendly, although the organization is not associated with any specific denomination. The participants, Eisenbach-Budner said, “are treated as young adults.” They will live in Portland housing with a resident assistant and will cook for themselves. Tivnu’s board of directors is currently working on the gap-year curriculum. Board member and former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz is helping Eisenbach-Budner develop the educational programming. He said the texts will cover significant ground, from Rambam to poetry written about Jews working in the Lower East Side sweatshops during the 1900s. “We’ll be using Jewish texts to look at core issues. [The program] won’t just be about labor, but the
Power Tools: Participants in Tivnu’s week-
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meaning of it all. The texts will help [participants to] understand questions of communal responsibility that Jews have thought about since the beginning,” Deresiewicz said. Deresiewicz added that the textual learning will also focus on the various eras of Jewish history in which groups performed similar work to that of Tivnu participants, such as the kibbutz movement and the labor and social utopianism movements. Eisenbach-Budner said that the program is looking for participants who think outside the box and are seeking a challenge. “The program is for kids who want to work with their hands, and want to contribute to society in a way that doesn’t involve
‘The program is for kids who want to work with their hands, and want to contribute... ’ sitting in the office,” said Eisenbach-Budner. “Kids in our program will not be afraid to get dirty, and want to expand their physical capabilities.” Tamar Palgon, a 17-year-old Tivnu summer participant from Teaneck, N.J., said she is strongly considering Tivnu’s gap-year program. Palgon spent her Tivnu summer building makeshift outdoor libraries for the public and planting gardens in backyards. She said the planting and carpentry were challenging, but Tivnu leaders worked with the participants at their levels. “I’ve never done this type of volunteer work before, and the labor is hard, but I’m really enjoying it,” she said. “I’m learning about permaculture, giving back to the land and spreading resources as much as possible. It’s a great culture here and I can tell these people are really ready to make a change.” Chavie Lieber is a writer and photographer living in New York City. Follow her on Twitter @ChavieLieber
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ere are the numbers you need to know regarding the Yeshiva University sex scandal. Nearly two dozen students first told the Forward that they were physicially and sexually abused by staff members at Y.U.’s high school for boys. Eventually, 34 students sued the school. The university spent a reported $2.5 million on an eight-month investigation by the respected law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, in which about 145 people were interviewed and 70,000 pertinent emails reviewed. But in the end, the actual hard findings in the report released August 26, acknowledging abuse and cover-up in only vague terms, were contained in precisely 200 words. Two hundred words are no match for the years of pain suffered by students at the hands of their rabbis. Two hundred words are no answer to the haunting question of why multiple people in authority at America’s flagship Orthodox educational institution repeatedly ignored pleas by the students they were entrusted to keep safe. Two hundred words hardly explains how these abusers were allowed to quietly leave the school and take jobs with other Jewish institutions in the United States and Israel without ever being held accountable. The justification that Y.U. offers for its brief, public explanation of what went wrong for decades at various branches of the school is “pending litigation.” That is, the $380 million lawsuit brought by 34 former students who allege that university officials knowingly covered up the abuse, a suit that is now slowly winding its way through U.S. District Court. Simply put, that is an unworthy and unsupportable excuse. As our Paul Berger notes, even the mighty Penn State University allowed a scathing detailed report of sexual abuse and cover-up to be publicly released while individual lawsuits were pending. Y.U. President Richard Joel, who years ago presided over a far more forthcoming and honest investigation of a different instance of rabbinic sexual abuse, owes the university and its supporters more than 200 words. All the assurances he can offer, all the newly-revised reporting guidelines that make up the bulk of Sullivan & Cromwell’s report, do not obviate the need for a full, transparent accounting of how a pervasive culture of abuse was allowed to continue until the Forward exposed it through dogged, at times unpopular — and now entirely legitimated — reporting. Rabbi Irwin Kula, a celebrated, nationally known religious leader, acknowledged publicly for the first time in the pages of the Forward that he, too, was a victim of abuse as a Y.U. student. His alma mater’s paltry disclosure and lack of accountability, he wrote, robs us of a “public conversation” about the difference between legal categories of civil liability and true healing and repentance. That is a terrible lesson for this historic, important university to impart. But there it is. In 200 words.
A Truce in the Kotel Wars?
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he ongoing drama over who is allowed to pray at the Western Wall, and where, and how, and under what circumstances, encapsulates all that divides and distresses the Jewish people today, and all that can unify us. We understand the skeptics and cynics. We appreciate how difficult it will be to pry control over what many consider Judaism’s holiest site from the Haredim, who treat it as their personal synagogue, with government acquiesence. But at this auspicious moment — as one Jewish year transforms into another and we pray to be transformed, too — we are inclined to put skepticism aside and opt for a more hopeful vision. The latest chapter began on August 25, when a broad platform nearly 5,000 square feet in size was unveiled in the archaeological park at the southern end of the Kotel, near the ancient ruins of what is known as Robinson’s Arch. It is far larger than the platform erected some years ago as a half-hearted gesture to the Reform and Conservative Jews who won a court ruling allowing for egalitarian prayer. Far more accessible, too — open 24 hours a day, with no fee and with prayer books and shawls provided by the state. Immediately there was verbal strife. Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett insisted that the platform was only an interim step on the way to a more comprehensive plan to provide an egalitarian prayer space in equal size and stature at the Kotel. That’s what was in a press release in English, anyhow. In the Hebrew press release, the “interim” sounded more permanent, as if this were a token offering to forestall a much more profound compromise. The Conservative movement was cautiously welcoming, the Reform movement less so, and the Women of the Wall — who for decades have agitated to lead their own prayers in the women’s section — treated the new development as something between a bad joke and a spiritual cataclysm. Natan Sharansky, who has placed his considerable personal stature behind his own bold plan to forge “one Western Wall for one Jewish people,” was publicly positive. Privately, observers wonder whether he has been deftly excised by government ministers who don’t understand what he understands: Resolving this issue is important to so many of the Diaspora Jews on whom Israel relies for support. As the columnist Shmuel Rosner ruefully predicted, “the Kotel wars are going to continue.” Can that really be the only scenario? Women of the Wall and its indefatigable leader, Anat Hoffman, deserve mountains of respect. By diligently showing up, month after month, these women — mostly American-born, but including many more native Israelis (like Hoffman) than is credited — have forcefully and bravely changed the conversation. But it’s increasingly clear that WOW’s immediate goal is substantively different from that of the majority of American Jews who only wish to pray in Israel as they do at home, men and women together. WOW’s objective is more specific. They want a place at the Kotel itself where women can pray as they wish. Beyond the differences, however, there is room for common cause, because the underlying mission is the same: To break the monopoly of power over the Kotel held by the Haredim to ensure that this sacred place is governed by representatives of all Jews. And the Netanyahu government, if it truly wanted to find a solution, could strike a compromise that would maintain the status quo at the existing Kotel while creating an equally important space to the south for egalitarian Jews, with a shared plaza that modeled inclusion and tolerance, and with a promise to reserve a morning each month for the Women of the Wall. Utopian? Sure. Naive? Probably. Impossible? Well, that depends on your view of Jewish behavior, doesn’t it? As we prepare to greet 5774, let us for a moment imagine a Kotel in harmony with the Jewish people. L’shana tovah from everyone at the Forward.
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Praise for the JCCNS Every few years I am moved to write a letter expressing my deep appreciation for the JCC in Marblehead, with the hope of generating much-needed support for this worthy institution. This time, I am inspired to share my experience returning to the JCC fitness facility following a recent surgery from which I am rehabbing. I am enjoying the new cardio equipment that I snickered at when it arrived, because I saw it as an indication that the JCCNS was catering to the elderly and infirm. Clearly, I am now both older and in need of precisely the kind of equipment which the JCC offers! (At the same time, the extreme makeover of the JCC’s fitness facilities has successfully attracted a number of younger,
more athletic members who are training far harder than I have for many, many years.) Most importantly, I want to point out the warm, welcoming spirit, which I now realize had been absent from my life when I worked out elsewhere. I have reached a point in my life when personal interactions with longtime friends are more important than a newer building. The JCC has freshened up its fitness facilities, purchasing new cardio equipment with individual television monitors, and it offers a wider selection of classes. Kudos to all those who have kept the JCC going — including the staff — who are helping us to heal and stay healthy. Phil Sloan Swampscott
I have leukemia. I have learned to live with a debilitating and fatal physical condition for which there is no known cure. But, there are some benefits to be gained knowing that one’s time is probably limited. Just knowing almost when and probably how are important. It is hard to express how important seeing a caring face is. When one is necessarily separated from synagogue and community life, to be with a smiling face — one that really means the smile — and to be asked how one feels that day — from one who really means the question — are terribly precious minutes. No cab driver can supply these. They have to come from the heart. And for that, I have to thank (the ROFEH volunteers) who
Sylvia (Weisman) Glassman, 96, of Peabody and formerly of Chelsea Sylvia (Weisman) Glassman, of Peabody and formerly of Chelsea, passed away on August 5, 2013. She was 96. Sylvia was born in New Jersey and attended the Cambridge school system. She was a graduate of Cambridge High and Latin School, Class of 1934. Sylvia was a former resident of Chelsea for 50 years. She and her husband Ben were the former owners of the National D Store/Glassman’s Grocery Store on Highland Street in Chelsea. She was the past president of the Shurtleff Street Shul Sisterhood, a life member of the Hebrew Home for the Aged, a member of Peabody Jewish Community Cemetery, a member of the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home and a member of the Jewish War Veteran’s Ladies Auxiliary.
Sylvia was the beloved wife of the late Benjamin Glassman. She was the devoted mother of Arlene Rubin and her husband Jerome, and Cheryl Goldstein and her husband Kenneth. Sylvia was the loving daughter of the late Benjamin and Sophie Weisman. She was the dear sister of the late Dr. Bernard Weisman and the late Herbert Weisman. She was the loving grandmother of Barry Rubin and his fiancée Blanca Marquez, Eric Rubin and his wife Nicole, Dale Goldstein and her husband David Shapiro, and Todd Goldstein and his wife Gina. She is survived by her great grandchildren Zachary Rubin, Mia Rubin, Madison Goldstein, Isabella Goldstein and Rachel Shapiro. She is also survived by many cousins, nieces and nephews, brought together in
recent years by Lisa, Joe and Bennie Crowder. Sylvia will also be sorely missed by her extended family and many friends. She was everyone’s “Grammy.” In lieu of flowers, donations in Sylvia’s memory may be made to the Rosewood Nursing Home, Employee Fund, 22 Johnson St., Peabody, MA 01960 for their outstanding care and compassion shown to Sylvia.
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Maudslay Festival a Hit have gotten up so early to drive me to the Beth Israel Medical Center. My thanks to the many who have driven me early, knowing the traffic would be miserable or the weather would be difficult, or even on a Sunday or holiday. Most especially, I want to thank Mike Hirsh. He is the best man ROFEH could have for the job. Not only is he a great organizer, but also he has taken me home from almost every hospital session, always asks about the treatment and always offers to help me up my stairs. Like all who have driven me, he has become a sincere friend. I cannot thank everyone enough — I don’t know how to do that. You certainly have my blessings. Sheldon White Brookline Editor’s Note: ROFEH International is a non-profit, humanitarian organization, based in Boston, dedicated to assisting the sick and their families from around the world with referrals, hospitality and kosher meals.
As the 21st consecutive season of music and dance comes to a close in Maudslay State Park in Newburyport, we’d like to thank those that make this nonprofit outdoor venue a reality each summer. The Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank, The Institution for Savings and The Provident Bank have supported the center for many years. Thanks to publicist Carol Feingold, gardener Robert Schledwitz, the MAC Board of Directors and accountant Steve DeGuglielmo. A special thanks to volunteers Marjorie Anderson; the Rev. Michael and Edna Shirley; Tony Consalvo; Rena Roseman; Sue and Julie Tiernan; Jean Lambert and Jeanne Smith. We thank our patrons; the Mass. Department of Conservation & Recreation, particularly Ron Kovacs, and the Friends of the Maudslay State Park. We hope to see all of you again next summer. Check our website at www.maudslayartscenter.org. Nicholas C. Costello Executive Director, Maudslay Arts Center Newburyport
The devoted family of Arthur Zolot would like to publicly acknowledge and thank the many citizens of the North Shore community, including family and friends, the congregation of Temple Sinai, Marblehead, and others near and far for the outpouring of love, respect and appreciation for our beloved Arthur. He would have felt honored to be so recognized and to have the causes dear to his heart contributed to in his name and memory. We sincerely express our gratitude for your thoughtful expressions of sympathy and support.
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Helping Orphans in Israel Ruby Jacobs Special to the Journal
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y bat mitzvah was held on May 4, 2013. For my mitzvah project, I raised money for, and awareness of, the Rubin and Zefferen Home in Netanya, Israel. It is supported by an organization in the U.S. called Lev la Lev (Hebrew for Heart to Heart). Not many kids who raise money for an organiFIRST PERSON zation get to see firsthand where the money goes. I just returned from Israel, where I visited the orphanage. Director Bracha Runes gave me and my family a personalized tour. I was really nervous at first because it was an orphanage, and I thought I would feel sad. But I was really happy to see all the joy in the home. The building was like a dorm, with long hallways and lots of rooms. The younger girls, ages 6 to 14, were housed on the lower floor. The upper floor was for girls ages 15 to 18. There was a dining hall and a communal kitchen that had a dairy side and meat side, because they keep kosher. When we got there, some of the girls were experiencing a session with an animal therapist. They were petting bunnies and guinea pigs. Others were participating in an arts and crafts class where
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At left, Ruby Jacobs and Bracha Runes pose in front of photos of some of the children whom Zefferen Home has helped. Above, girls at the orphanage experience animal therapy.
they were making paper maché ducks. The home also offers music therapy. Although it’s called an orphanage, it’s not just orphans who are there. Girls sometimes can end up there through social services, if their parents are neglectful or not capable of taking care of their needs. The home was founded in 1961 by the Grand Rabbi of Sanz, the late Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstan. He lost his wife and 11 children in the Holocaust. He came to Israel and wanted to assist
Sukkot On The Farm PEABODY — Chabad of Peabody invites families to a free event on Sunday, September 22, from noon to 2 p.m. Enjoy a live petting zoo, balloons, face painting, pony rides, a moon bounce, music, make-your-own edible sukkah, and more. BBQ lunch will be available for purchase. All are welcome. RSVPs are appreciated. Chabad of Peabody is located at 83 Pine St., Unit E. RSVP to raizel@jewishpeabody.com or call 978-977-9111.
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children, especially those in need, because he saw them as the future of the Jewish people. Bracha told us that adoption is rare in Israel. That took me by surprise because I am adopted, and that’s one of the reasons I chose to raise money for an orphanage. Technically, the orphanage cares for children up to age 18. However, even after a girl turns 18, the people at the Rubin and Zefferen Home don’t abandon her. They will help her find a job, go to college, enter the military or get an
apartment of her own. If she is getting married, they might help by buying her furniture and clothing. They support all the girls’ milestones, such as birthdays and bat mitzvahs. I found the girls to be very friendly. When we first walked in, one stood up in the back of the room and screamed, “Shalom!” She seemed very happy to see us, and we were happy to see her. Talking with them, I was surprised to learn that not all the girls there are from Israel. I met one from Australia who lives there. All the girls were Jewish and dressed in Orthodox-style clothes. Most of the year they attend classes at a nearby school. After school, they get tutoring and help with their homework at the home. During summer break, they get to go to camp or visit relatives. It was a unique experience for me to visit the Rubin and Zefferen Home. I’m glad that I chose to support this orphanage because I could see that my donation went to a good cause. Ruby Jacobs, 13, attends Swampscott Middle School.
Magic Moments SWAMPSCOTT — Magic Moments is an interactive program for parents, caregivers and children, led by Jewish educator Marcy Yellin. Classes take place at Shirat Hayam Preschool; however, participants do not need to be members of the congregation in order to attend. Magic Moments will meet on Thursdays, beginning October 3. Mini Magic Moments (8-16 months) will meet from 9 to 9:45 a.m.; Magic Moments (17 months and older) will meet from 10-11:30 a.m. Shirat Hayam Preschool is at 55 Atlantic Ave., Swampscott. Call 781-598-3311 or email Leslie@shirathayam.org.
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In today’s issue of the Russian Chronicle we wish our readers, advertisers and supporters a happy and healthy New Year. We also remind our readers about the Russian-language tour of the Fabergé exhibition at the PEM, invite children to a dance studio, and list local cultural events and activities.
для настроения. Детская хореография Во время заниятий хореографией у детей развивается чувство ритма, музыкальный слух и вкус, укрепляются различные группы мышц, вырабатывается умение владеть своим телом, правильно и красиво двигаться, дети учатся свободно импровизировать под музыку, осваивают различные стили танцев. Занятия ведет педагог, доцент кафедры хореографии Восточно-Сибирской Государственной академии культуры и искусств, Заслуженный работник культуры Республики Бурятия, победитель Международных фольклорных фестивалей и конкурсов Любовь Сахина, имеющая более чем 30-летний опыт работы в России и Америке. Если вас заинтересовали перечисленные классы — звоните по телефонам 351201-1064, 978-739-2335. (после 8 вечера).
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THe sound of Music Ben Goldberg of Marblehead was recently chosen as one of two winners out of 200 contestants in the MKLM contest (MK loves music) on YouTube. Contestants were chosen on their ability to rap on one of three chosen beats. The son of Leslie Goldberg and Samuel Goldberg, Ben has been creating music since the age of seven. The Marblehead High freshman writes and verbalizes his own poetic lyrics, and is currently mixing and editing a CD of his own music. His stage name is Token and his music can be heard at YouTube.com/tokenhiphop. Bryn Taylor (pictured on left) of Topsfield is receiving vocal training from professional musician Lynne Jackson of Manchester-by-theSea in preparation for her role in Neverland Theatre’s production of “Les Miserable” this fall. Taylor will play one of the Gavroches.
New Youth Director
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Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott and Temple EmanuEl in Marblehead announced the hiring of Rachael Pass as their shared youth director. Rachael will be working with the teens in both communities, and coordinating events with NSTI, USY and NFTY. This will be the fourth year of the synagogues’ groundbreaking, cross-denominational partnership to provide the highest level of support for their teen and youth communities.
Irina Zhorov of Marblehead graduated from Union College on June 16 with a bachelor of science degree in psychology, and minors in economics and Russian. A Dean’s List student for 2012-2013, Irina is a member of two honor societies: the Eta Tau Chapter of the Omega Honor Society that recognizes leaders of Greek organizations for their scholarship, leadership and service; and the Psi Chi International Honor Society in psychology. Irina now works as a recruiting associate at Lynx, Inc., a software and information technology recruiting agency in Lexington. She is the daughter of Yulia and Eugene Zhorov.
ROFEH Celebrates Volunteers
Women to Watch Award Kathy Parker of Billerica will be honored at the Women’s Leadership summit on November 7 as an “Emerging Leader” and recipient of the Massachusetts Society of CPA’s fifth Annual Women to Watch Awards. Parker, a CPA, MST and partner at Rodman & Rodman, P.C., an independent accounting and tax firm with offices in Newton and Braintree, assists clients with tax and financial needs, and is on the board of directors for Invest In Girls, Inc. of Boston.
Rosh Hashanah Story Hour
Sandra Fenwick, the new incoming CEO/President of Boston Children’s Hospital, was the featured speaker on August 5 at ROFEH International’s Volunteer Appreciation Night at Young Israel, Brookline. Each year over 1,000 people from around the world use the services of ROFEH as they leave their homes to seek life-saving medical treatment at Boston’s prestigious medical centers, with an overwhelming percentage receiving treatment at Boston’s Children’s Hospital. Under the auspices of Rabbi Naftali Horowitz, ROFEH International provides a support system that includes medical referrals, housing, food, transportation, interpreting, respite care and social services — all at no cost.
Youth to Israel Award Winners Robert I. Lappin (top photo, pictured on the right), president of the Lappin Foundation, congratulates 2013 Lappin Foundation Youth to Israel Award recipients Dr. Harold and Zelda Kaplan of Beverly, and Professor Marvin Wilson
(bottom photo, pictured on the left). The awards were given in recognition of their work on behalf of the North Shore Jewish community at the recent Youth to Israel Welcome Home ceremony held at Temple B’nai Abraham in Beverly, before a crowd of more than 300. Ninety-four North Shore Jewish teens who recently returned from Israel on the Lappin Foundation’s 2013 Youth to Israel Adventure were also welcomed home. More than 25 children joined Chabad of Peabody at Barnes and Noble in Peabody, for a fun time singing songs, reading Rosh Hashanah stories and decorating New Year cards on August 29. Raizel Schusterman (left) shows the group a shofar.
Staff Changes at Synagogue Council The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts announced that Arnold “Arnie” Zaff (left) is its new president. Zaff, a retired lawyer from Newton, is a member of Temple Emanuel. Jan Moidel Schwartz (right) is the council’s new development director. With experience in community engagement, donor relations and communications, she will be responsible for the design and implementation of a new strategic plan.
Hartman Attends Harvard’s Principals’ Seminar Noah Hartman, Head of School at Cohen Hillel Academy, participated in “Improving Schools: The Art of Leadership,” a week-long seminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Principals’ Center for emerging leaders earlier this summer, part of a year-long program to enable day school leaders to improve their schools with special focus on their Jewish mission and vision. The program was sponsored and facilitated by the AVI CHAI Foundation, a New York-based private foundation dedicated to promoting Jewish commitment.
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ews traditionally end the Yom Kippur fast with a light dairy meal. Here are some delicious new recipes for concluding the High Holidays. Kassoff’s Sweet Noodle Kugel
½ cup golden raisins ½ pound broad egg noodles 4 T. unsalted butter, melted 16 oz. cottage cheese 2 cups crème fraiche 4 large eggs, beaten 1 t. vanilla extract ½ cup sugar 1 t. ground cinnamon 1 t. ground nutmeg Place the raisins in a small bowl. Add warm water to cover and set aside to soak for an hour. Drain in a mesh strainer
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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Lightly butter a 9 x 13-inch baking dish. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, stir in the noodles and cook for 6 minutes. Drain the noodles and transfer to a large bowl. Pour in the butter and toss until the noodles are coated. Mix the cottage cheese, crème fraiche, eggs and vanilla in a medium bowl; stir in the sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add to the noodles and stir until combined; stir in the raisins. Spoon the noodle mixture into the prepared baking dish. Bake until the filling is set and the top is golden brown, 30-45 minutes. Recipe serves 6.
Crepes: 4 T. unsalted butter, softened 1 cup whole milk 2 large eggs ½ cup all-purpose flour Cold unsalted butter to grease Filling: 2 cups dried black mission figs 1½ cups water 1 cup port wine 12 oz. cream cheese, softened ½ cup ricotta cheese 1 T. honey ¼ t. salt Pinch freshly ground black pepper Confectioners’ sugar and 4 finely diced fresh figs for serving Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter; let cool slightly. Whisk together the milk and eggs in a small bowl; then whisk in the flour until well combined. Pour the batter through a mesh strainer into another small bowl. Stir in the melted butter. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least one hour. Place the dried figs, water and port in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat; lower the heat and cook until the figs absorb the liquid, about 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside until the mixture is lukewarm. Transfer the mixture to a chopping board and finely chop it into pulp. Using a wooden spoon, blend the cream cheese and ricotta cheese in a medium bowl. Stir in the fig pulp, honey, salt and pepper. Line a 10-inch plate with paper towels. Heat an 8-inch nonstick crepe pan or skillet over medium heat. Rub the pan with cold butter and immediately add ¼ cup crepe batter. Cook until the crepe is slightly caramelized on the bottom about 2 minutes. Using a pancake turner, flip the crepe and cook the other side until slightly caramelized — about 2 minutes more. Transfer the crepe to the paper towel-lined plate. Repeat this process until all the batter has been used; place additional paper towels between the cooked crepes. Spoon a dollop of filling onto each crepe, covering about a third of the area nearest to you, but leaving an empty margin at the sides. Fold the margin at each side up and over the filling, then roll the crepe up like a cylindrical envelope. Turn “flap down” until ready to cook. In a skillet large enough to hold all the blintzes, melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat and then pan-fry the blintzes until they are goldenbrown on both sides, about 4 minutes per side. To serve, arrange the blintzes on individual plates, dust with confectioners’ sugar, and top with a spoonful of the diced fresh figs. Recipe makes 10-12 blintzes (6 servings).
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Potato, Egg, Olives and Fresh Herb Salad 2¼ lbs. baby potatoes, scrubbed 2 t. salt 2 hard-boiled eggs, quartered 1 small red onion, thinly sliced lengthways 1 t. capers ½ brined or oil-cured black olives, pitted ½ cup roughly chopped parsley ¼ cup roughly chopped fresh dill For the dressing: ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil ½ cup fresh lemon juice or white wine vinegar ½ t. sugar 1 t. Dijon mustard Sea salt Pinch of freshly ground black pepper
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Put the unpeeled potatoes in a large pan and cover with water. Add salt and bring to a boil over a medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer until knife tender, 20-25 minutes. Drain the potatoes; peel when cool enough to handle, and cut them in half. Transfer to a salad bowl. Whisk all the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl. Pour the dressing over the potatoes while they are still warm. Add the eggs, onion, capers, olives and herbs, and toss gently until the potatoes are evenly coated with the dressing. Cover Stella’s Sephardic Table with plastic wrap and let stand for Stella Cohen about an hour to absorb the flavors. The Gerald & Marc Serve at room temperature. Hoberman Collection, 2012
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What’s NEXT for Young Adults ? To help young adults create meaningful experiences during the High Holidays, NEXT, a division of Birthright, has created an interactive online map of holiday services and events around the country that can be accessed at birthrightisraelnext. org/highholidays. “Taglit-Birthright participants have returned from their summer trips with a personal connection to Judaism, Israel and the Jewish people,” said Morlie Levin, CEO of NEXT. “Now is the time to build on those feelings and help make Jewish opportunities more accessible. Birthright Israel alumni are particularly interested in celebrating holidays with their friends, and the High Holidays Initiative offers them the opportunity to create these experiences themselves, or to connect to services and events that they find meaningful,” she added. Users can find events in their cities, and filter results for things like egalitarian services, LGBT-friendly events, etc. They can also access resources such as traditional and modern insights on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, as well as Pinterest boards that feature recipes, table setting ideas and fun High Holiday themes.
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“Hopefully people go through this process of repentance, and they give charity, but what about prayer?” Wollheim asks. “People neglect that. How many people open the prayer book before Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and go over the davening?” Almost no one, Wollheim says. But he is looking to change
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everybody happy. My approach is to create a salad of styles and selections. I use classical cantorial music — “nice oldies” that everybody knows, and I also use Israeli songs. We have prayer books with an English translation, but it’s not the same as understanding the Hebrew. People sometimes don’t bother to look at the translations. For the High Holidays liturgy, we have a lot of poems — many written during the Middle Ages, that are not easy to understand. It’s a long day, people have been standing for hours, they’re fasting, they’re tired, and they don’t understand the text, in many cases. It is a challenge. Preparation is huge. This is the Day of Judgment. I think every cantor feels a huge responsibility because we’re praying not only on our behalf, we’re praying on behalf of the entire congregation. JNS: Which prayers are the highlights of the High Holiday services for you? Wollheim: Unetaneh Tokef, because the text includes the description of the process that goes on in Heaven. It gives us an idea of how God examines each case, so to say. From a musical perspective, this is your chance as a cantor to really shine, to show what you can do, especially because the text is so moving. This is your moment to try to inspire people, to really get them to try to feel something. There is also a prayer called the Hineni. It’s the first thing that the cantor says before Musaf. The cantor is the only one who recites that prayer. It’s really a personal prayer that reminds us cantors that at the end of the day, this is not about how we sing. It’s about this tremendous responsibility that we have of pleading on behalf of the congregation. JNS: When did you first lead a High Holiday service? Wollheim: I was 14. It was at a little synagogue in the town of Azor (a suburb of Tel Aviv). I led the services with my dad. Everybody knew me since I was born, so it felt like being amongst your family. It was a very supportive audience. JNS: Any other thoughts about High Holiday prayer? Wollheim: Don’t take a prayer as something obvious, that we’ve done every year, and that’s it. Take the machzor and go over the text. See what it means to you. Read the English translation, so you’ll know what you’re saying. I can guarantee that if you do some preparation, you will get much more out of the service — regardless of who is leading it.
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dinners, and in the preparation and clean up. We found it in new definitions of family, in healing long held sadness, and in newfound joy. And now we find it in our shared memories of a sacred place as yet unseen by our eyes. The gift, the sacredness, of Gamawakoosh is not inherent, but flows forth from what we do with it and what we make of it, and in the Presence that fills all space. May we all find places that become for us places that bring healing, laughter and new depths of love and relationship with those we know and with those we don’t know. As we journey through Elul, may our hearts and souls return to The Place, HaMakom, and to the spaces It fills.
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hen the Temple stood in Jerusalem, Rosh Chodesh Elul was a New Year for Animals, a day devoted to tithing for animal sacrifices. After the second temple was destroyed in 70 CE, there was no longer a need for this holiday, and today very few Jews have even heard of it. Jewish Vegetarians of North America is working to restore this holiday and transform it into a day devoted to increasing awareness of Judaism’s beautiful teachings about compassion for animals, and how far current treatment of animals on factory farms and in other settings is from these Jewish teachings. Jews are to be rachmanim b’nei rachmanim, compassionate children of compassionate ancestors, and to imitate God, whose “compassion is over all His works” (Psalms 145:9), JVNA hopes that restoring the New Year for Animals will lead to greater emphasis in the Jewish community in applying these and other Jewish teachings to the reduction of animal suffering. Since 2012, there have been celebrations of the renewed holiday in Israel and several US cities, and there is a major effort to get the holiday onto the Jewish agenda starting in 2014. JVNA hopes that restoring the holiday and increasing knowledge of Jewish teachings on animals will lead some Jews to shift to vegetarianism. JVNA believes that this diet is most consistent with Jewish teachings on preserving human health, treating animals with compassion, protecting the environment, and helping hungry people. It is hoped that vegetarianism will improve the health of Jews and also help shift our imperiled planet onto a sustainable path. For more about Jewish teachings on animals, visit JewishVeg. com. Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., is president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America and the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians.
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Shofar Blaster Marks Milestone Amy Forman Jewish Journal Staff
NEWTON — When Howard Breslau sounds the shofar at Newton’s Temple Emanuel this year during the High Holidays, it will be an especially momentous occasion since it will be the 36th consecutive year that he has been helping his temple community fulfill the mitzvah of hearing the shofar. A lifelong Temple Emanuel member, Breslau began the tradition in 1978, when there was a shortage of people to take on the role. Breslau was a trumpet player and had recently reached the requisite age of 13, so he was eligible to sound the shofar. And when his father Maxwell returned from a trip to Israel with a shofar that he had requested, the deal was sealed. Breslau, now 49, has been using that very same shofar, although he has several others, including one given to him by The Rashi School, where he works as director of development. Breslau has developed the skill to play some tunes on the ram’s horn, which he has done at Purim (though he says the sound is not music for everyone’s ears). His favorite sound to blow is tekiah gedolah. He has been known to hold the note for 30-40 seconds. “For 36 years, Howie has been inspiring our community not only with the longest tekiah gedolah known to humankind, but even more, with the obvious love, enthusiasm and passion with which he sounds the
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shofar,” said Temple Emanuel’s Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz. “It is not just blasts from a ram’s horn; not just sounds that stir our repentance; not just a climactic moment in a sacred service; it is a labor of love, received in love, year after year by a grateful community.” “It is humbling and an honor to be able to do this for so long,” said Breslau, who lives in Needham with his wife Jane and their two sons, Mitchell, 16, and Max, 13. “It is very special to be able to have my children share in this, and now they are of the age that they can do this, too,” he added. Breslau has been exposing his sons to the art of the sho-
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he shofar is mentioned frequently in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Historically, the shofar was used to announce holidays and the Jubilee year. The shofar was blown to signify the start of a war and was employed in processions as musical accompaniment. In the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, the shofar was sometimes used together with a trumpet. On Rosh Hashanah, the principal ceremony was conducted with the shofar. It was constructed from the horn of a wild goat. It was straight in shape, and ornamented with gold at the mouthpiece. On fast days, the shofarot were rams’ horns curved in shape and ornamented with silver at the mouthpieces. The shofar was blown in the times of Joshua to help him capture Jericho. The shofar was commonly taken out to war so the troops would know when a battle would begin. The person who would blow the shofar would call out to the troops from atop a hill. All of the troops were able to hear the call of the shofar from their positions because of its distinct sound.
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