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MARCH 2019

CAMPS

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The “Girl With No Job”

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FEATURES COVER STORY

Henry Winkler: Hollywood’s leading mensch 14

BUSINESS Biz Ins & Outs 12

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PURIM Hamantaschen go gourmet HEALTH JBI offers free braille, large print and audio books Wanted: Ashkenazi Parkinson’s patients for clinical trial

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JEWS WITH ATTITUDE The put the “POW” in Power Couple

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FOOD Chef’s Corner: Apple Nachos

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10 years = 10 reasons why overnight camp is important 20 Barrett Summer Scholars 22 Kid’s calendar 24 Everyone’s gaga for ga-ga 25 Young adults can play at camp for long weekend 26 Jewish summer camp’s X factor 28 Top 5 thing to know about Jewish day camp 29

To Life! The continuing journey of parenting 47 7th Genocide Awareness Week 48 Federation notes 49 Faces & Places 50 Preview 52 Calendar 54

HOME & LIFESTYLE Israeli designer’s 3D-printed shoes; outfits go global 42 ACTIVELY SENIOR Esther Schon’s journey of discovery Creative Aging classes

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PUBLISHER’S MESSAGE

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Results are in

It was very clear that 100% of the respondents

Before we put out our survey on anti-

Semitism – whether in public forums,

Semitism, I was secretly hoping that maybe,

online groups or spearheading actionable

since we are in Jewish media, we have an

responses. According to their answers, it was

exaggerated viewpoint on the rise of anti-

clear people do not want to sit on the sidelines;

Semitism. I hoped that we think it is more

they want to get involved. It was also evident

prevalent than the norm because we are

that many, many people suffer in silence or

bombarded daily with stories and videos about

don’t know where to turn.

want to help find solutions to fight anti-

anti-Semitism and other forms of hate. Maybe just maybe, the results of the survey would

We will be introducing some informal

surprise us and show us that many in our

initiatives and ideas over the next year so

community don’t think anti-Semitism is on the

people who want to get involved, can. We will

rise. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

also be writing about inspiring people who are making a difference already.

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results.

The vast majority – 93.5% of the respondents – felt that anti-Semitism is on the rise. And 100%

Thank you to everyone who did respond. And

of the respondents wanted to participate in

thank you to everyone who knows that if we

further discussions, meetings and action plans.

work together, what we can achieve is limitless.

The answers that people gave were thoughtful.

Many wrote about their own, or members of their families, experiences with antiSemitism. A sizable number of people had not experienced anti-Semitism personally, but knew of someone who had.

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Amanda Garcia appointed Arizona director for Take The Lead Take The Lead, a leading nonprofit dedicated to achieving gender parity by 2025, has hired Amanda Garcia as its Arizona director. Created by Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead provides critical leadership training programs, peer mentoring, role modeling and more to individuals, corporations and groups throughout the country. “It’s gratifying that Amanda is a stellar participant in Take The Lead’s groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change the World in Nonprofits program,” commented Gloria. “This is exactly what I aim to do – elevate women’s leadership skills and intentions. Amanda is well prepared to develop Take The Lead Arizona’s fundraising and volunteer leadership council so we can meet the enthusiastic response from this community for our mission of gender parity in leadership.”

Amanda graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in Liberal Arts. She has a decade of nonprofit fundraising, event and volunteer management experience.

Since 2014, Amanda has focused on leadership roles that create networks and engage donors in support of Arizona’s Jewish community.

“This new position is a dream come true as it allows me to capitalize on my passion for showcasing and contributing to female leadership and increasing gender parity,” says Amanda. taketheleadwomen.com

Paul Rockower named JCRC’s new executive director The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix is pleased to welcome its new Executive Director Paul Rockower.

Paul is formerly the executive director of Levantine Public Diplomacy, an independent public diplomacy organization.

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Abroad and Next Level programs in dozens of countries. He partnered with U.S. diplomatic posts to run cultural diplomacy programs in countries ranging from Algeria to Zimbabwe.

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He also previously worked with various foreign ministries including India and Taiwan.

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Chair of the Tucson Symphony Board of Trustees Autumn van den Berg commented: “Tom has been a positive force in the life of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for over three years. His inclusiveness brought us closer to the entire community and his energetic commitment to the TSO’s future propelled each pillar of our mission; programming, engagement, partnership and earning.”

Tom states: “To work with this city’s top music organization was an honor and allowed me to reach back to my roots in Up With People. I am so proud to have had the opportunity to renovate Tucson Symphony Center, increase donor participation and stewardship, and forge a multi-year agreement with our professional musicians. I will always treasure the TSO and the relationships I built here.”

The board is initiating a transition and search process. tucsonsymphony.org

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Laurence Kutler, Ph.D. was appointed interim head of school for Tucson Hebrew Academy on Jan. 8.

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Laurence is coming out of retirement from a 35-year career where he headed David Posnack Hebrew Day School in Fort Lauderdale, FL; Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, Virginia Beach, VA; and the High School of Jewish Studies, San Diego, CA. In the mid-’80s he founded Akiva Academy Jewish Day School in Youngstown, OH, serving as principal for 12 years.

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“No matter how difficult it is for you to learn as an individual, it has nothing to do with how brilliant you are. That is the truth.” ~ Henry Winkler

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COVER

STORY

HENRY WINKLER: Hollywood’s leading mensch

By Mala Blomquist

HENRY WINKLER will be in the Valley this month as the

featured speaker for the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix’s MEGA

2019 event. Though he doesn’t have a favorite spot in the Valley, he says, “I like that when I come there, I am always treated with enormous warmth.”

It’s not hard to treat Henry with enormous warmth. When you speak to

him or watch interviews with him on television, his gratitude and humility about his success are evident. You never hear anything negative about him,

which for someone who has been in show business as long as he has, proves that he is genuinely a nice guy – a real mensch.

Henry expresses the importance of speaking at events like MEGA. “I share

not only my Jewishness, but I share my struggle with dyslexia. What I have found, when I speak all over the place, people come up to me and they go, ‘Oh my God, I think I’m you … how did you understand me so well … I

think I didn’t catch that in my own child. So it seems to resonate, and as long as it resonates, I am going to travel.”

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❚ ❙ HENRY WINKLER ❚ ❙ THE REVELATION Henry always struggled in school, he would notice that he wasn’t keeping up with the other kids academically, but he suffered in silence. “I was in the bottom 3% academically in the country,” he remembers.

But an amazing revelation happened when Henry’s stepson, Jed Weitzman was diagnosed with dyslexia in the third grade. Henry was 31 at the time, and everything they were saying about Jed rang true about himself.

“The first thing is you get very angry because you think, ‘Oh my gosh, all of that yelling, all of that grounding, was for naught,’ ” says Henry. His parents always thought he was lazy and wasn’t applying himself and would punish him for poor grades.

He realized the problem was in the way his brain was wired

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Counterclockwise from top: Henry with British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald, receives an honorary OBE in recognition of his services for children with dyslexia in the U.K. PHOTO BY ZANYASAN TANANTPAPAT; Henry as a young boy; He received an MBA from Yale; Henry starred in the 1974 film “Lords of Flatbush”; “The Fonz” makes the cover of TV Guide; young hip Henry; the role that catapulted him to fame, Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli of “Happy Days.” Inset: The Fonz’s leather jacket resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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❚ ❙ HENRY WINKLER ❚ ❙ and that it was also something he had inherited, but he’s not sure from whom. “I never saw traces of it in my parents because they could spell; my father spoke 11 languages – it just seemed everything was easy for them – it just wasn’t easy for me,” he says. “(I thought) you gave it to me, and now you’re yelling at me.”

Henry also came to the realization that perhaps he was successful in his career because the struggle actually made him stronger, that he had to fight through it and figure it out.

He also had a 180-degree shift in his own parenting, as he realized that he too had accused his children of being lazy when it came to applying themselves at school. Henry has two biological children with his wife, Stacey. His daughter, Zoe, is a teacher, and son Max is a director. Both have dyslexia.

EXPLORING A DIFFERENT PATH Henry was experiencing a lull in his

acting career in 2003, when his then manager, Alan Berger, suggested that he write a children’s book. Henry replied, “I’m stupid. I can’t write a book.

I don’t know how to write a book.” Alan told him not to worry, that he was going to introduce him to Lin Oliver, who “knew everything about children’s literature.”

That was the beginning of the collaboration between Lin and Henry that has produced 28 chapter books for young readers. The first series followed the “everyday adventures of a bright boy with learning challenges” named Hank Zipzer. Kind of sounds like someone familiar, huh?

After 16 books in the “Hank Zipzer” series, Lin and Henry wrote 12 books under the “Here’s Hank” title, a prequel featuring the same character in second grade.

The title character isn’t the only thing special about these books. The publisher, Penguin Random House, used a font designed by a Dutch father who has a dyslexic son and is also dyslexic himself. “It makes reading so much easier,” says Henry. “The font literally helps you when you just can’t figure it out – it’s amazing. We were very proud of that.”

Since January, Henry has been on a book tour promoting what will be the last book in the series, “Everybody Is Somebody.” When asked why this is the last “Here’s Hank,” Henry replies, “The publisher said, ‘Hey, how about we call it quits,’ I thought that was a sign.”

Fans of Henry Winkler, the author, need not fear. He has begun work on a new series of three books revolving around the theme, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Like the Hank books, this series will be geared for children ages 8 to 11.

Fans of Hank can also watch the British show, “Hank Zipzer” on Universal Kids. Henry explains why Britain picked up the show. “I could not sell it in America for television because he has a problem, and we all know that children like aspirational – they don’t like kids with problems. But 1 out of 5 has a problem.”

The show ran for three years. . A related movie made called “Hank Zipzer’s Christmas Catastrophe” won the International Emmy Kids Award in the category for TV movie/mini-series. in April 2018.

Asked what he hopes children take away from the Hank books, Henry is passionate in his reply. “No matter how difficult it is for you to learn as an individual, it has nothing to do with how brilliant you are. That is the truth.”

THE FONZ – AND SO MUCH MORE Henry says he wanted to be an actor since he was old enough to reason.

He graduated from Yale University’s Drama School with a master’s degree in 1970 and started working as an actor. His first jobs were in commercials, as extras in movies and repertory theater.

Then in 1974, a new show called “Happy Days” invited viewers into the idyllic home of the Cunninghams and introduced Arthur Fonzarelli, “Fonzie” or “The Fonz” to America.

Before Henry was cast in that role, “Happy Days” creator Garry Marshall had a completely different image of Fonzie. “A taller character, an Italian, tougher character – and a short Jew walked in,” jokes Henry. “I just thought to myself – I am taller and Italian.”

It apparently worked, because Henry made that role his own. With his signature thumbs-up and “Ayyy!” he enjoyed 10 years on the series. Fonzie also made appearances on the “Happy Days” spin-off shows, “Laverne & Shirley,” “Mork & Mindy,” and “Joanie Loves Chachi.”

Is Henry still recognized as the Fonz? “Every day, a hundred times a day, in every country,” he says. “And I consider it to be a gigantic compliment.”

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❚ ❙ HENRY WINKLER ❚ ❙ Clockwise from right: Henry produced both the original and new versions of “MacGyver”; Rightor Doyle, Bill Hader and Henry in a scene from “Barry”; “Better Late Than Never” cast Terry Bradshaw, William Shatner, Jeff Dye, Henry and George Forman; Henry wins his first Primetime Emmy Award for “Barry,” and Henry with the Golden Globe Award for his portrayal as “The Fonz” on Happy Days (winner in 1977 and 1978).

the Fonz for so long, he replies, “Yes I was – but I just worked through it. I became a producer, something I didn’t even think I could do or wanted to do. And then it turns out I have produced, end-to-end, 23 years of on-the-air series.”

He has worked as executive producer on many television shows including “So Weird” on the Disney Channel, “Hollywood Squares,” “Sightings,” “Dead Man’s Gun,” “Mr. Sunshine” and “MacGyver.”

He is also an executive producer on the new “MacGyver,” which features Lucas Till as the young 20-something Angus “Mac” MacGyver. The original series ran from 1985 to 1992 and starred Richard Dean Anderson as the title character. Lucas was just 2 years old when the original show finished.

Henry says it was “fantastic” to see the show’s resurgence and it has been consistently leading the ratings in its Friday night time slot on CBS. Filming also just wrapped last December on the second season of “Barry,” which is scheduled for release this spring on HBO. “Barry” is a dark comedy that follows a hitman from the Midwest to Los Angeles where he follows his “mark” into an acting class and decides that he wants to become an actor.

Henry plays acting teacher Gene Cousineau, who is eccentric, fastidious and worshipped by the students in his class. “The challenge is to take this really big, kind of arch(etype) character and keep him real.”

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acting teacher that I’ve had or that I’ve heard about.”

On Sept. 17, 2018, Henry took home his first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy. “I have been nominated many times and stayed in that chair many times.

This time I got to stand up, and that was fantastic,” says Henry.

Asked where the Emmy statue resides, he replies, “On the dining room table! When you walk into my house, you see it. When you deliver a package, you see it. I’m installing a spotlight for it, and making a chain so that I can wear it as a necklace.”

FAMILY, FAITH AND THE FUTURE Henry’s mother, Ilse Anna Maria (Hadra) and father, Harry Irving Winkler, emigrated from Berlin to New York in 1939. His father was able to secure a work visa for six weeks. Harry was in the lumber business and imported and exported wood. At the time they left Germany, Harry knew they would not be returning, but he did not share his thoughts with his wife.

Henry’s Uncle Helmut had planned to leave with his brother.

Instead, he decided to wait an extra day for a dinner jacket that was being finished at the tailors. That night the Nazis came and took him. He was eventually sent to Auschwitz, where he died in 1942.

Henry’s first visit to Berlin was documented during an episode of the show “Better Late Than Never.” During the show’s twoyear run, Henry traveled the globe with William Shatner, George Foreman, Terry Bradshaw and “sidekick” Jeff Dye experiencing different cultures and checking items off of their bucket lists.

While in Berlin he was able to see the memorial plaque that bears his uncle’s name (called a Stolpersteine or “stumbling stone”) placed in the pavement in Nikolsburger Platz Park.

These small copper plaques, created by the German artist Gunter Demnig, are used to commemorate the individuals’ last place of residence or work before they fell victim to the Nazis.

❚ ❙ HENRY WINKLER ❚ ❙ “I was not prepared for the extraordinary emotion that came,” admits Henry. “It was pretty intense when I looked down, and I saw the plaque with my uncle’s name – who I never met – on it. That emotion that is on the screen was very true at the moment.”

Helmut was not the only relative to die in the Holocaust – the Winklers lost almost all their relatives. “Every relative I had mostly were faux,” says Henry. “They had come over also, and the German-Jewish community became my aunts and uncles.”

Henry says that his parents “talked about the journey, about how wonderful life was until it wasn’t. How everyone thrived, how they were Germans first and couldn’t believe what happened.”

In those first years in New York, the Winklers and other families founded a congregation, though it didn’t have a building for many years. They would rent out space in halls to hold services. Then they built a building on 66th Street between Broadway and Central Park.

“I just drove by it last week, because we were in New York on a book tour, and the building is no longer there,” says Henry. The name of the synagogue was Congregation Habonim – “the builders.”

Henry now observes certain holidays and is “observant with pride.” Last year he invited “Fauda” creator and star, Lior Raz to break the fast on Yom Kippur. “He came with his family, and I was late, and he was dismayed that they made me work on Yom Kippur.”

He also admits to often working on Shabbat, especially when making a television series.

His arduous work schedule over the years hasn’t seemed to affect his marriage. Last year, he and Stacey celebrated their 40th anniversary.

They married at the height of his fame during “Happy Days” – and he says the most important thing for him in those early years was to protect the children.

“At that time, the paparazzi had some respect, and they really listened,” says Henry. “I said, ‘Please, I’ll stand here, and you shoot me, but don’t shoot the children.’ ” That’s why his children were rarely seen in the press.

He talks with pride about all his children, but he ponders the fact that he has only worked with his son Max, the director, on student films. “He has never hired me professionally, and I am thinking of having a chat with him when we hang up,” says Henry.

This summer he is taking a break from his busy schedule to go fly fishing with Stacey. He enjoys the tranquility his favorite hobby brings. “You cannot do anything but concentrate on what you are doing at the moment,” says Henry. “It calms you right down.”

He jokes that he and Stacey must take separate boats.

“Unfortunately, I must fish in her water. If I see something that looks fishy, I cannot follow the (fly fishing) rule of that’s ‘her’ water.”

Clockwise from above: The stars of “Better Late Than Never” at Nikolsburger Platz Park where Henry found the memorial plaque for his uncle Helmut; Henry, with mother, Ilsa; Henry and Stacey on their wedding day, May 5, 1978; The Stolpersteine that bears Henry’s uncle Helmut’s name; Henry’s Uncle Helmut.

The Winklers also enjoy going to the theater together. Henry says he would like to do more live theater – winning a Tony Award is on his bucket list. “I love it so much,” he says. “I don’t have a dream role; I’ll put out in the universe to win a Tony.”

When asked if he put the thought of winning an Emmy out into the universe, he says, “I think I just put out in the universe it would be fun to win.”

The universe must be listening to Henry right now, and after having the honor of chatting with him on the phone, and feeling his sincerity, humbleness and positive energy coming through, I can understand why.

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10 years = 10 reasons why overnight camp is important

By Mara Friedman YESTERDAY, while

ALTHOUGH WE ARE JUST HEADING into the spring season, working parents are already thinking of summer – and how they will keep their children entertained during the months off from school.

But summer camp is about so much more than keeping children safe and happy. It is an opportunity for them to grow in so many ways: creating and nourishing friendships, learning new skills, building confidence and discovering new passions.

Our camp section explores the options and benefits of day camps, sleep-away camps and specialty camps.

INSIDE 20 10 years = 10 reasons 22 Barrett Summer Scholars

25 Gaga for ga-ga 26 Young adult camp

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28 Shabbat is cool at camp 29 Day camp facts

eating outside at the Phoenix Public Market Cafe, a gust of smoke blew over me. Whenever I smell a campfire, I am always taken back.

My eyes didn’t water from the smoke, but because its rustic smell triggers countless camp memories.

It’s funny. When I went to camp, the smell of fire used to drive me nuts. Campfire used to mean not being able to wear my sweatshirt Mara Friedman and Daniella Israelstam until the next laundry at Camp Wise in Chardon, Ohio. day, or having to live with its scent in my hair for the next few days. Yes, 2016 was the last summer of waiting on laundry day, but it was also the last summer that I got to experience my true “home away from home.” It’s not college, that’s for sure.

Years later, I still can’t get my 10 years of overnight camp out of my head. I often look through my old photos in an attempt to relive the most rewarding, high-energy days of my life.

So, why can a summer camp be so influential to somebody’s life?

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1. The community. Expanding your game of Jewish geography is always a good time. By going to camp, you form a community that’s yours. Camp is all about immersion. If you’re there, you’re a part of it.

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2. The energy. It’s hard to feel low in a place where people are constantly cheering and laughing over the simplest manners. I promise, you’ll never be more excited about a random food in your life than you will be at camp.

5. Lasting friendships. After living with my camp friends for months at a time, I can say they know me better than anyone. Living with people turned me into a more easy-going person. After enduring experiences with the same group of like-minded girls for years straight, you grow together. My camp friends and I have conquered a lot together. While living in a cabin with 10 people (minimum) may seem like an obstacle, it was the months between that was the hard part.

6. The stories. The stories you will come home with make the entire experience worthwhile. Though it may bother the people who don’t understand them, it’ll be that much more special for you and your friends.

7. Respect for nature and the great outdoors. Camp taught me how to utilize and appreciate the environment we live in. Some activities showed me trails to hike through, how to point out poison ivy, and how to build a fire. Living in a cabin in the forest brought me down to my roots. While being outdoors may be “trendy” today, people lack the dirty, hands-on experience. I don’t know very many people who can build a fire with a single match like I can!

8. My independence. I was forced to give up my dependence on my friends at camp because we don’t all have the same interests. While signing up for activities, I was not about to sign up for soccer with my one friend, and she was not about to climb the ropes course with me.

By separating, I was able to make new friends and try new things. Another way I gained independence was by leaving home. Sorry mom, but I learned how to make my bed and sweep the floor from my counselors…and only my counselors.

9. Gained creativity. At any camp you may attend, you’ll always have to tap into your imagination. Whether it be for a song, skit, dance, or cheer, your creativity is wanted.

Top: Eva Bogomolny and Mara Friedman.

Above: Halle Siegel, Mara Friedman, Eva Bogomolny, Lexi Stovsky and Eric Sterin at Shabbat services.

3. “Normal” is overrated. I kid you not, NOTHING at camp is weird. Camp is the time to be the extreme version of yourself. Being unique in encouraged and admired.

For example, one day I decided to walk around camp in a penguin suit, and nobody questioned me. Who needs to question a penguin when you can just give a high five?

4. There’s no pressure. Aside from Shabbat, looking “nice” at camp isn’t a thing. You’re spending weeks in a new environment. Take advantage of it and embrace the opportunities. Without social media or technology, people can bond in the rawest ways possible.

10. The importance of tradition. Knowing traditions make you feel like you’re a part of something. Aside from Jewish holidays with my family, attending camp every year was my first tradition of my own. Being able to rely on something that makes me happy and will inevitably happen is priceless. (aside from the 4th of July food fight) My favorite camp tradition was Shabbat. Shabbat’s tasty food and relaxing aura separated the rest of the week for me. Because of camp, I don’t go a week without doing something to recognize that it is Shabbat.

While I could keep going, I feel like my point is clear. My 10 years at camp may be over, but outgrowing the memories and skills I’ve gained from it is impossible.

Not to mention, listening to the song “Leaving on a Jet Plane” will NEVER get easier.

Mara Friedman is a junior at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Barrett Summer Scholars Academically talented and motivated teens can get a taste of college this summer PARTICIPANTS

in the Arizona State University Barrett Summer Scholars program experience college firsthand and prepare for enrollment and success at ASU and Barrett, the Honors College.

Participants live on campus, engage in college-level coursework and build a community with their peers.

Students participate in a critical thinking or human event course and an elective of their choice, taught by university professors, to prepare them for enrollment and success at ASU and Barrett.

The program is designed for academically talented and motivated students entering eighth, ninth and 10th grade in fall 2019.

Barrett Summer Scholars is a highly competitive program. While there is no minimum GPA or test score required

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for eligibility, eligible students should demonstrate a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Students entering eighth and ninth grade attend a one-week session. Those entering 10th grade attend for two weeks. The cost is $700 for one week and $1,400 for two weeks. The cost for each program covers tuition, books for each enrolled course, a room in a residence hall, three meals per day, and transportation and fees for field trips. The program fee, which includes a $25 nonrefundable deposit, is due after notification of admission into the program.

The program runs in June and will have participants at all ASU locations. Those entering eighth grade will participate at ASU’s West campus in Glendale and those entering ninth grade will participate at ASU’s Polytechnic campus in Mesa. and Depending on the week chosen, students entering 10th grade, will attend at either ASU’s Tempe campus or ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.

Completed applications are due by 5 pm on Monday, March 4.

Completed applications include the student’s most recent report card, responses to essay questions and a teacher recommendation.

For more information, visit eoss.asu.edu/bss.

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KIDS CALENDAR ONGOING: CLUB J AT THE VALLEY OF THE SUN JCC Provides after-school programming ranging from sports to cooking and crafts to Israeli culture and more for those in K-8. Transportation from nearby schools available. Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center, 12701 N Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale.

480-634-4949 or youth@vosjcc. org, vosjcc.org.

J-CARE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM AT THE TUCSON JCC Includes a variety of activities, Homework Hangout program (help from education specialists), arts, sports or teens can hang in the Youth Lounge. Bus transportation from schools available for K-12.

Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E River Road, Tucson. Contact Scott at 520-299-3000 ext. 256 or jcare@tucsonjcc.org, tucsonjcc.org.

MARCH 1 VALLEY OF THE SUN JCC ECC GOLF BALL DROP at The J’s soccer fields, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale. 2,000 golf balls drop from a helicopter 100 feet in the air onto The J’s soccer fields and the three that land closest to the pin win! Prizes include a two-year lease of a Toyota Corolla from Right Toyota, a much-coveted designated parking space for ECC drop-off and pick-up, and $2,000 cash! Proceeds support improvement’s to the nonprofit preschool’s playground and programs. Golf balls are $25 each or 5 for $100. Get them today at vosjcc.org/eccballdrop.

TOT SHABBAT AT CONGREGATION ANSHEI ISRAEL, 5550 E 5th St., Tucson from 5:45 to 8 pm. Special Kabbalat Shabbat Service for young families to welcome the Sabbath with stories and songs, followed by kid-friendly Shabbat 24 MARCH 2019 | JEWISH LIFE

dinner. $25 per family (2 adults & up to 4 children). Additional adults $10 per person. RSVP to Kim, 520-745-5550 ext. 224 or edasst@caiaz.org.

MARCH 3, 17 & 24 MUSIC, MEMORIES & MITVAHS - PURIM AT CONGREGATION CHOFETZ CHAYIM, 5150 E. Fifth St., Tucson from 11 am to noon. The congregation is looking for Jewish boys and girls of all backgrounds to join Rabbi Becker for a funfilled experience that incorporates songs, stories and learning about Jewish life and celebrations in conjunction with bringing joy to the elderly. For more information, visit tucsontorah.org.

MARCH 7 MOMS AND TOTS AT CONGREGATION BETH TEFILLAH, 6529 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale from 10 am to noon.

Discover Jewish life with your child through activities, story, craft, music and imaginative play. For more information, visit bethtefillahaz.org.

MARCH 8 TOT KABBALAT SHABBAT IN THE FOOTHILLS AT CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHA, 3001 E. Skyline Road #117, Tucson at 5:30 pm. Join our first Tot Kabbalat Shabbat in the Foothills at 5:30 pm, and then our main service at 6:30 pm as we celebrate Shabbat in our beautiful new sanctuary.

For more information, visit beitsimchatucson.org.

MARCH 11-15 & 18-22 SHEMESH SPRING BREAK CAMP AT THE J AT VALLEY OF THE SUN JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 9 am-3 pm, before- and after-care available.

No school, no worries. We have fun-filled days of STEM activities, sports, swimming, arts, games,

weekly field trip and more! Grades K-4. For pricing and additional information, visit vosjcc.org/ shemeshcamps.

MARCH 29

RIMON GADOL SPRING CAMP AT THE EAST VALLEY JCC, 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. 9 am3:30 pm; before- and after-care available. Grades K-9. Features games, special activities and field trips. For more information, contact the camp office at 480897-0588 or camp@evjcc.org.

TOT SHABBAT IN THE NORTHWEST AT JEWISH FEDERATION NORTHWEST, 190 W. Magee Road #162, Oro Valley from 5 to 6 pm. Join other Northwest families with young children and celebrate Shabbat.

Rabbi Batsheva Appel, from Temple Emanu-El, will lead the group in song and prayer followed by fun PJ Library Shabbat crafts. For more information, contact 520-9551518.

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MARCH 31

PURIM PANDEMONIUM PARTY ATCONGREGATION ANSHEI ISRAEL, 5550 E. Fifith St., Tucson from 5 to 8:30 pm. Enjoy fun & games, food & frolicking … everyone is invited to come dressed in costume for this festive occasion! This year’s theme: Dr. Seuss. Free admission with one can of food per person to benefit the Community Food Bank.

RSVP a must by Mar. 15. For more information, visit caiaz.org.

KIDS IN THE KITCHEN AT CHABAD OF THE EAST VALLEY, 875 N. McClintock Dr., Chandler at 12:15 pm.

Children in grades 1-6 will have the opportunity to roll up their sleeves, cook, bake, and decorate fabulous foods, take home their own handmade creations and collect delicious recipes in their own recipe book. $12/per class, RSVP to youth@chabadcenter.com.

MARCH 24 LITTLE SCIENTISTS STEAM SERIES AT PARDES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL, 12753 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 10 to 11:30 am.

Join Pardes Jewish Day School and PJ LIbrary for fun STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities as well as storytime. For ages 3-5, accompanied by an adult. RSVP to pardesschool.org.

COMMUNITY-WIDE PURIM CARNIVAL. SEE PAGE 52 Purim Carnival at Temple Emanuel of Tempe, 5801 S. Rural Road, Tempe from 11:30 am to 1 pm.

Enjoy a carnival with petting, zoo, games, Klezmer band, bounce house, food and more. For more information, visit emanueloftempe. org.

JEWS IN THE DESERT MISHPACHA (FAMILY) PROGRAM at Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, 5700 N. Sabino Canyon, Tucson from 3 to 5 pm. Enjoy a family-friendly hike through Sabino Canyon as we explore the Birchot Nehenin, the Blessings of Enjoyment. For more information, visit caiaz.org.

PURIM COSTUME RUN AT TUCSON JCC, 3800 E. River Road, Tucson.

Join us at The J for our Holiday Fun Run Series and participate in a 10K, 5K or 1K Run/Walk. The 10K/5K will be a timed run/walk, while the 1K is a non-timed fun event that you can run or walk.

Packet pick-up will take place starting at 6:30 am on race day at the Tucson JCC in the Sculpture Garden. Race day registration will also be available until 7:30 am.

Races start at 7:45 am. For more information, visit tucsonjcc.org.

Everyone’s gaga for ga-ga

By Mala Blomquist GA-GA HAS BEEN a favorite game at Jewish summer camps for decades. Recently, the game has gained mainstream popularity and can be found at camps and playgrounds around the world.

Deemed a “gentler version of dodgeball” the game is played in a ga-ga pit. The ga-ga pit is usually shaped like an octagon or hexagon with short walls atop a smooth surface.

The rules are simple and easy to follow, which makes the game ideal for even the youngest of players. The game begins with a referee throwing the ball into the center of the pit.

The players will scream “Ga!” for two bounces and then play begins.

A player can hit the ball with their hands, but picking up the ball and throwing it at another player B'nai B'rith Campers play ga-ga. is prohibited. A player is “out” when a ball hits them at or below the knee. A player who knocks the ball out of the pit is out. If a player catches the ball in the air, the last person to hit the ball is out. The last player standing is the winner.

A second ball can be added to speed up the elimination of players. Once the game ends, everyone is back in for the next round. Those are the basics, but rules, ball types, pit surfaces and sizes can vary widely.

The prevailing thought is that ga-ga originated in Israel and was brought to Jewish day camps by Israeli youth working as counselors. The name ga-ga translates from Hebrew to “touchtouch.”

Another theory says that the game originated at Camp Idylwold in upstate New York. John Crosley was the owner of the camp and a similar game called “Crosleyball” was played at that camp from the late ’50s until it closed in the late ’80s.

But in 2017, Stephen Silver wrote an update to an article he wrote in 2016 seeking the true origin of the game. He debunked theories that ga-ga started in the Israeli Defense Forces and that Sacha Baron Cohen had played it at a

championship level.

Stephen did unearth a theory that holds merit. A man from Maryland named Steven Steinberg said he invented both the game and the name.

In the article Stephen Silver writes: Steinberg was a counselor at Camp Milldale, then a JCC camp in the Baltimore area, as a 17-year-old in the summer of 1975, where his charges were a group of 6-year-old boys. He says he started the game for the same reason it’s still played today at countless summer camps: to keep campers busy on rainy days.

The game, Sternberg says, began when he would take the kids to a covered, wallless shelter near the woods.

They liked to play with a bouncing ball, and in order to keep it from rolling down a nearby hill, Steinberg would place benches on their sides, which kept the ball bouncing back. This led him to develop “a form of dodgeball,” in which the boys would hit the ball and knock out opponents by hitting them below the knee – the idea being that the kids’ shins were about the size of the ball.

As for the name? Steinberg says that during a moment of frustration, he told his campers that they “all look like a bunch of babies” – at which point some of the kids began chanting “goo-goo, ga-ga,” which soon became the name of the game. When Steinberg had to fit the name on a written activity schedule, it was shortened to ga-ga.

How to explain the theories that place the origin of the game prior to 1975? Steinberg says he doesn’t doubt that similar games may have been developed independently of his version, like the Crosleyball that was played as far back as the 1950s – “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to come up with a game like this,” he says – but he’s adamant that the name ga-ga was definitely his invention.

Steinberg’s story was also published in the Baltimore Jewish Times in July of 1992, long before the game gained the popularity it is enjoying today.

So, when you drop your child off at camp this year, and they tell you about the game they played with a funny name that was so much fun, you can smile and say, “Have I got a story for you.”

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Above: Bubble soccer at Camp Nai Nai Nai. Right: Zipline, one of the many activities.

Far right: Shayna Sigman was a counselor at the inaugural West Coast camp.

Young adults can play at

By Deborah Moon WHO SAYS SUMMER CAMP IS JUST FOR KIDS?

Now young adults can relive (or discover) the unwired fun, creativity and friendship of Jewish summer camp.

Presented by Moishe House, Camp Nai Nai Nai offers a weekend of adventure for young adults in their 20s and 30s.

(Minimum age 21 since alcohol will be served.)

The camp debuted on the East Coast two years ago and returns there for Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-27, at Capital Camps in Waynesboro, PA. Last year Camp Nai Nai Nai added a West Coast location. This year’s West Coast camp will be Aug. 23-25 at Kennolyn Camps in Santa Cruz, CA. Last year the average age at the West Coast camp was 30, with most being single.

Publicity for the camp promises the Shabbat experience of a lifetime among free-spirited friends (new and old) from around the country and against a picturesque backdrop of a campfire, lake and sprawling night sky full of stars. Campers are encouraged to make the most of their getaway weekend with creative Playshops (there is no “work” at Camp Nai Nai Nai), refreshing dips in the lake, spirited song sessions, color wars, cozy all-camp meals and more.

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study, sports, art and hikes.

Like the young adult events created by Moishe House residents around the globe, Camp Nai Nai Nai is open to all young adults whether they are affiliated, just Jewish or “Jew-ish.”

“It’s a really diverse crowd,” says Camp Nai Nai Nai Director Lisa Klig. “We run the gamut of religious observance and sexual and gender identity.”

“You can be the best Jewish version of yourself at camp in a way you can’t do in your day-to-day life,” she says.

A COUNSELOR’S EXPERIENCE Last year Shayna Sigman worked as a camp counselor at Camp Nai Nai Nai in California. As an inclusion coordinator at B’nai B’rith Camp on the Oregon coast, Shayna has plenty of experience working with campers. She also has lots of experience planning events for young adults since she lived in Portland’s Moishe House for two years. Residents of Moishe Houses in 27 countries get subsidized housing and a programming budget to host events for other young adults.

Of her experience last year, Shayna says: I really love the Moishe House professional staff, and it was great to have a chance to work with them. A great part of Camp Nai Nai Nai (and Moishe House in general) is how intentional they are about everything. The staff were very focused on helping

Far left: Participants at last year’s camp for young adults.

PHOTO BY YOAV MAGID

Left: Adam Dobrusin hangs out in a hammock with his girlfriend Anna Kernus at Camp Nai Nai Nai last year.

Above: Color war, à la Nai Nai Nai.

camp for long weekend create a warm welcoming environment for everyone.

We didn’t have cell service at camp, so it was really great seeing everyone connect without technology and without having to worry about work emails or whatever was waiting for them back at home. We see the same mental health benefits with our kids at BB Camp, who get to connect with each other over arts and crafts or playing soccer together instead of over video games or social media.

One of the most interesting parts of camp for me was that I had so many deep, personal conversations with people over the course of the weekend and yet, when I got home, I realized that we had never discussed what we did for work, our degrees or other topics that seem to come up in other settings where you meet adults for the first time. Being in a space where you can connect through play and shared experiences creates really amazing friendships.

Shayna says she would love to return this year, but isn’t sure her BB Camp schedule will give her enough time.

Pearlstein (now Camp Stein) and was on staff at Camp Newman for one summer. He attended Nai Nai Nai on the East Coast two years ago and was at last year’s West Coast inaugural camp.

Following are some of his experiences as a camper: The team putting together Camp Nai Nai Nai tapped into many of our nostalgic camp memories like color wars, bug juice and even Shabbat-o-grams from my counselor.

There was never a shortage of fun things going on at any time.

Running around in nature and making new friends from all over the country will bring out the best in anyone. Some of the highlights for me were riding the mechanical shark, mud-obstacle course, co-ed cabins, an aquatic spin class, live band karaoke, knockerball and a ’90s bar mitzvah-style party. There was even a flash mob!

The last two times I’ve been (to camp) have been some of the best weekends of my life.

Adam says he “most definitely” plans to return to camp this summer.

A CAMPER’S EXPERIENCE Adam Dobrusin started the Phoenix Moishe House with a couple of friends in 2013, and he lived there for two and a half years. Until last year, he worked for Moishe House as the national director of expansion. As a youth he spent summers at Camp

Registration for Camp Nai Nai Nai opens March 1. Fees are $375 to stay in a cabin of eight to 10 people (girls, boys or coed) or $525 for a private, hotel-type room. Early bird registration for the West Coast camp is $315 until June 9. First-time campers can sign up for $300. campnainainai.org | seeyou@campnainainai.org | 858-367-3684 JEWISH LIFE | MARCH 2019 27

Jewish summer camp’s X factor

By Jane Larkin SHABBAT AT CAMP is “cool” and adds a sense of

when we see or experience it, but can’t easily describe.

My husband thinks what makes Jewish camp different is personality and soul. He sees the experience that Sammy is having as one imbued with life and character beyond the rahrah kind of spirit depicted in shots of color war competitions and heard in the lyrics of official camp anthems.

An acquaintance of mine thinks the uniqueness comes from the experience of being with all Jewish kids, regardless of whether or not their parents are both Jewish, and engaging with Judaism in a way that makes being Jewish cool.

I think the specialness comes from the incredible sense of community that is embodied in the phrase “Welcome to camp” that greets you as your car enters the gates and is repeated

sacredness to the camp experience.

My son just returned from his second summer spent at the Union for Reform Judaism’s Greene Family Camp. While Sammy is glad to be reunited with his puppy, he misses his other home.

I know how Sammy feels. I was a diehard camper too, and I’m so happy that he thinks camp is as magical as I did many years ago. But having a deep attachment to camp is not unique to campers attending Jewish institutions.

I spent my summers at a YMCA camp, and as I watch the videos for religious and secular institutions alike I consistently hear children describe what makes their camp stand out with the same words I used almost 30 years In Jewish camps around the country, campers enjoy ago – lasting challah each week as Shabbat begins. friendships, PHOTO COURTESY OF B'NAI B'RITH CAMP great activities and a place to forget your worries.

All of these endorsements are of course tied to images of beautiful settings and examples of camp spirit.

But even though there are universal aspects to camp, I always suspected that there was something continuously by staff and campers alike. Immediately you special about Jewish camp. know that you are part of the larger camp family. You belong.

As a teen, I envied my fellow youth groupers who spent Curious to get a camper’s perspective, I asked Sammy what their summers at the URJ’s Camp Harlem not only because he thinks makes camp special. He replied, “It just is. It’s I longed for a Jewish camp experience, but also because their sacred ground.” camp connection seemed richer in a way that I could not Maybe that’s the best description of all. What do you think? explain.

Now that I’m seeing Jewish camp through adult eyes, I feel that there is truth to my teenage suspicions – there is This article is reprinted with permission from InterfaithFamily, something special, something different about Jewish camp. supporting Jewish interfaith couples and families. Learn more at Call it an X factor, an indefinable quality that we recognize interfaithfamily.com.

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Top 5 things to know about Jewish day camp

By Lindsey Silken & Jenni Zeftel

YOU’RE STARTING

to think about summertime and what on earth you’re going to do with the kids for two months – err – we mean, how to provide your darlings with a meaningful and fun summer experience.

And if it gets them out of the house? Win-win. Maybe you’ve only heard about Jewish summer camp in passing. Maybe you or your partner already think it’s a great idea but one of you isn’t quite sold.

Here’s what you need to know about how Jewish day camp can be an especially good fit for interfaith families. That’s not to say that camp is right for every kid or that every camp is right for every family.

InterfaithFamily – the experts on, well, interfaith families, and Foundation for Jewish Camp – the experts on, you guessed it, Jewish camp, have teamed up to give you the best tips, tools and resources for making this decision for your family. Here are the top five things we think you should know.

Jenni Zeftel (jenni@jewishcamp. org) is director of day camp and strategic programs at Foundation for Jewish Camp.

Lindsey Silken is the editorial director of InterfaithFamily based in Newton, MA. She can be reached at lindseys@ interfaithfamily.com.

This article is reprinted with permission from InterfaithFamily, supporting Jewish interfaith couples and families.

Learn more at interfaithfamily.com.

1. LOCAL EXPERIENCES = LOCAL FRIENDSHIPS. Because Jewish day camps are located much closer to home than Jewish overnight camps, the friends your child makes at camp are also close to home, making it that much easier for Jewish day camp friendships to last throughout the year. Likewise, because many Jewish day camps are tied to host organizations like JCCs, you may find your family invited to different program offerings at a conveniently located host organization throughout the year. These events can offer you and your family an entry portal into Jewish life and a Jewish community that aligns with your family’s priorities.

2. YOU HAVE OPTIONS. When it comes to Jewish day camps, there is a diverse spectrum of choices. There are Chabad camps, JCC camps, Conservative and Reform movement camps, independent camps and synagogue camps. Jewish day camps range in size, program, facility and mission. You might be thinking, great, more options. Where do I begin? Check out websites for Foundation for Jewish Camp (jewishcamp.org), the American Camp Association (find.acacamps.org) and the Jewish Community Center Association (jcccamps.org/jcc-day-camp) to learn more about the different kinds of Jewish day camp options available to you and your family.

3. TEST THE WATERS ON YOUR OWN TIMELINE. Many Jewish day camps offer short (one or two weeks) and flexible (all different points throughout the summer) sessions so that your child can try out the experience without a serious time or monetary commitment. You could even try multiple camp programs in one summer. You might quickly find, however, that you’ve found the right fit for your family, and you’ll want to stay put.

4. JEWISH DAY CAMP IS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. When you send a child to overnight camp, you say goodbye at the bus stop and don’t necessarily see them again until visiting day, but day campers come home every day. You’ll get to hear what they’re actually doing on a daily basis – not just when that weekly postcard comes in the mail. You’ll also see the same group of parents at pick-up and drop-off. In this way, the Jewish day camp experience impacts the whole family, and often, the grown-ups make friends just as easily as the campers do.

5. IT WILL HELP PREPARE YOU FOR OVERNIGHT CAMP. Many Jewish day camps have ties to Jewish overnight camps such as the new B’nai B’rith Day Camp in Portland, OR. The day camp opened last summer after the years of success and meaningful Jewish summers provided by the overnight camp widely known as BB Camp.

Older day campers are often provided “dip-your-toes-in” experiences at partnering overnight camps.

Liz Broberg, day camp and youth engagement director at BB Camp says that day camp offers a very easy entry point for Jewish interfaith families “because the ‘Jewishness’ is more integrated through the values practiced than a study of Torah or a celebration of a specific holiday.”

She explains that the Jewish values curriculum, which both the overnight and day camp use, “is accessible and relatable to everyone, whatever your faith or affiliation. It infuses Jewish values like tikkun olam (repairing the world), kehillah (community), simcha (joy), manhigut (leadership) and more into the everyday camp culture. These are values that many parents agree are important for their children to learn and practice. This makes it very easy for interfaith families to connect with the content and feel comfortable in a Jewish environment.”

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Purim

On Purim people gather to hear “the Megillah,” also known as the Book of Esther, which tells how the Jews in ancient Persia were saved from the wicked Haman through the leadership of Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai. The book is rather long, hence the phrase “the whole megillah” is humorously applied to situations that are longer and more involved than expected.

It is, however, one the mitzvot of Purim to be sure to listen to the entire text. When the name of Haman is read, people stomp their feet, hiss, boo or shake noisemakers called groggers to obliterate his name.

The holiday takes on a carnival-like atmosphere with many dressing in costumes.

The most well-known Purim treat is Hamantaschen, possibly named for its resemblance to Haman’s tri-cornered hat. In an article in Time, Rabbi Cheryl Peretz, of American Jewish University, says naming a pastry for someone “wicked” can “turn it into something sweet.”

Hamantaschen go gourmet

Purim is one of the most exciting holidays on the Jewish calendar, yet its signature food hamantaschen is not. Triangle shaped and traditionally filled with uninspired flavors, it’s no wonder this pastry is frequently disappointing.

Fortunately, pastry Chef Paula Shoyer is on a mission to transform hamantaschen from bland and boring to tasty and tantalizing.

This year Paula will tickle Purim taste buds with recipes for a vibrant selection of colorful and, at times, exotic hamantaschen.

“I want Jews to celebrate holidays with the desserts their ancestors ate, yet improve upon the traditional recipes,” says Paula. “Thanks to social media, bakers often showcase their creations, and hamantaschen have become an Instagram hit.”

She studied at the elite Ritz Escoffier School in Paris, which she attended for fun while her husband was serving as the legal advisor to the U.S. Mission to the World Trade Organization from 1993 to 1997. “I thought I’d go back to law,” says Paula, who was an attorney in Washington, D.C., before the family’s move. “But people kept asking me to cook for them.”

Paula is the author of Healthy Jewish Kitchen (Sterling Epicure 2017), The New Passover Menu (Sterling 2015), The Holiday Kosher Baker (Sterling Press 2013) and The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-free Desserts from Traditional to Trendy (Brandeis 2010).

“I take traditional recipes and make them easier, more modern and natural,” says Paula. “I write cookbooks so that I can bring my recipes into your kitchen

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to inspire you to try something new, to cook from scratch and enjoy eating with the people you love while creating food memories that you can remember for the rest of your lives.”

A self-described “healthy chef, with a passion for pastries,” Paula says “healthy” and “pastry” aren’t mutually exclusive.

Understanding that a family cannot survive on chocolate babka alone, Paula expanded her repertoire into the savory arena, with an emphasis on easy and healthy dishes that don’t sacrifice on tradition or flair.

Paula offers several tips to customize hamantaschen: • Find a recipe for the dough you and your family will love. Check out Paula’s recipes, including one for gluten-free dough, in The Holiday Kosher Baker.

• Add an extract or flavoring from high-quality liquors, coffee syrups or food coloring.

• Knead seeds, chopped nuts, sprinkles or nonpareils into the dough.

• Experiment with new and trendy fillings or those from your favorite desserts. Pies, sandwich cookies and almost any cream-filled dessert can provide inspiration.

For Purim, Paula has shared a variety of sweet and savory hamantaschen, including salted caramel, granola, vanilla bean and spanakopita. Following are the recipes for spanakopita and vanilla bean hamantaschen. You can see the other recipes on the online version of this article at orjewishlife.com and azjewishlife.com.

SPANAKOPITA HAMANTASCHEN Purchased puff pastry (freezer aisle of the supermarket) 1 teaspoon kosher salt 10 ounces baby spinach leaves 3 tablespoons finely chopped onion 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 teaspoon Za’atar spice 3 tablespoons soy cream cheese Salt and pepper 1 large egg, beaten Sesame seeds Thaw puff pastry according to package directions. Preheat oven to 400°F. Cover two cookie sheets or pans with parchment paper.

Bring a large saucepan of water to boil and add some salt. Add the spinach leaves and cook for 30 seconds. Drain. Once the spinach cools, squeeze out as much water as you can.

To prepare the filling, place the spinach on a cutting board and chop roughly. Place into a medium bowl. Add the chopped onion, lemon juice, oil, and Za’atar and mix well with a fork. Add the cream cheese and mash into the spinach. Add salt and black pepper to taste.

When the pastry is thawed, sprinkle a little flour on the parchment and unroll the pastry on top. Use a rolling pin to roll the pastry to smooth out the creases. Every few rolls, lift up the dough and sprinkle a little flour underneath.

Use a 3-inch drinking glass or round cookie to cut the dough into circles. Use a metal flatblade spatula to lift the circle and place on another spot on the parchment. Brush the circle with the beaten egg. Place a generous teaspoon of filling in the center and then fold in the three sides toward the middle to form a triangle, leaving a small opening in the center. Pinch the three sides together very tightly. Place on the prepared cookie sheets.

When all of the pastries are shaped, pinch the corners tightly a second time. Brush pastries with the remaining beaten egg and sprinkle the sesame seeds on top and on the sides.

Bake for 25 minutes or until golden.

May be made 4 days in advance. Store in the fridge; reheat in the oven until crisp.

VANILLA BEAN HAMANTASCHEN This is a variation on a recipe from my husband Andy’s grandmother, Celia Shoyer, from Romania. I like to fill this dough with raspberry jam, but feel free to use any filling you like.

Dough 3 large eggs 1 cup sugar ½ cup canola or vegetable oil Seeds of one vanilla bean 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting 1 teaspoon baking powder Dash salt Filling 1 cup raspberry or other jam In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla bean seeds and vanilla. Add the flour, baking powder and salt, and mix until the dough comes together. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for one hour to firm up. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two or three large cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats, or bake in batches. Divide the dough in half.

Take two pieces of parchment and sprinkle flour on one, place one dough half on top and then sprinkle a little more flour on top of the dough. Place the second piece of parchment on top of the dough and roll on top of the parchment until the dough is about ¼-inch thick. Every few rolls, peel back the top parchment and sprinkle a little more flour on the dough.

Use a 2- to 3-inch drinking glass or round cookie cutter to cut the dough into circles. Use a metal flat-blade spatula to lift up the circle of dough and place it on another part of the flour-sprinkled parchment paper. Place up to 1 teaspoon of jam in the center of the dough circle and then fold the three sides in toward the middle to form a triangle, leaving a small opening in the center.

Pinch the three sides together very tightly. Place the triangle on the prepared cookie sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough and scraps, making sure to sprinkle a little flour under and over the dough before you roll.

Bake for 14 to 16 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly browned but the tops are still light. Slide the parchment paper onto wire racks to cool the cookies. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to five days or freeze for up to three months.

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JBI offers free braille, large print and audio books

By Deborah Moon

Since 1931 the Jewish Braille Institute has provided free books and magazines to the visually impaired and reading disabled.

While the mission hasn’t changed, the format of the reading material has shifted. Initially the JBI offered many materials in braille, with raised dots representing letters that enable the blind to read by touch. Now about 80% of JBI’s patrons request one of the free library’s 13,000 Talking Books, which play on a free playback machine provided by the Library of Congress at JBI’s request. Large print books and magazines are second in popularity with braille requested by less than 9% of patrons.

The shift is the result of changing demographics explains JBI President and CEO Dr. Ellen Isler. “Due to medical advances, fewer children are born blind or become blind early,” she says.

“The older population who are visually impaired use talking books and large print.”

“New people are being diagnosed every day with macular degeneration, cataracts, etcetera,” says Ellen.

An estimated 20% of the American Jewish population aged 65 and older is dealing with vision problems caused by cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration or other age-related vision problems. The National Eye Institute recently reported that more than 3.6 million Americans over 40 are visually impaired.

“We want the library to be as widely used as possible,” says Inna Suholutsky, JBI outreach assistant/Russian liaison. “That is why we are reaching out.”

Some 35,000 individuals are using the free services. Library materials are mailed from JBI’s New York office to patrons across North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. In Russia and the Ukraine, materials are distributed through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, also known as JDC. In addition to the lending library, JBI provides liturgical materials and special publications such as annual calendars as permanent gifts.

“The Haggadah is a perennial hot item,” says Arlene Arfe, JBI’s head librarian. “We hear from people who don’t do anything else all year, but they do Passover.” To meet that need, JBI gives each client a braille or large print Haggadah. Clients can choose a Reform, traditional, Sephardic or other type of Haggadah. “We try to give people what they need to enjoy the holiday.”

Other frequently requested liturgical materials including a siddur (prayer book), machzor (High Holiday prayer book), Bible, Yizkor service and more are available in large print, braille and audio.

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Recently JBI finished braille and audio editions of the new Reform movement machzor.

“It was a huge task,” says Arlene. “Now we are getting ready to do the new Conservative siddur and machzor.”

The JBI does custom translations to enable blind, visually impaired and learning disabled children to participate in Jewish life. Every year parents contact JBI to turn Jewish textbooks, Jewish summer camp songbooks, bar and bat mitzvah materials, and other resources into braille, audio or large print formats for students who cannot read standard print.

“The custom projects are only 2% of our work, but in terms of labor and cost, they are about 20% of our budget,” says Ellen.

Arlene adds, “We use the latest technology, but there is still a lot of human involvement and time to produce every braille item. Hebrew braille has to be typed into the computer; it can’t be scanned.”

Once the text is entered in the computer, it is printed on a special printer that creates the raised dots and is then embossed.

“We can print one text for a student or produce 50 Haggadot – we just send the file to a braille printer,” says Ellen.

In the early years of JBI, braille books had to be created by hand. Many Reform movement sisterhoods had volunteer brigades to help in the work.

To learn more about JBI or to obtain services, call 800-4331531 or visit jbilibrary.org.

SISTERHOOD BRAILLERS

Women of Reform Judaism (formerly the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods) helped found the Jewish Braille Institute, and sisterhood women around the country volunteered to transcribe books into braille and record books on tape. The Reform movement took on serving the blind as part of its social action mission after Rabbi Michael Aaronsohn was blinded in World War I. NFTS created the Committee on Jewish Literature for the Sightless in 1927. When JBI was founded in 1931 to create a national library of braille books, two NFTS officers were among the representatives of all major Jewish denominations on the JBI board. According to Sisterhood: A Centennial History of Women of Reform Judaism, “Memoirs of sisterhood women recount their work in transcribing braille, and synagogue histories mention their braille committees through the 1970s.”

Wanted: Ashkenazi Parkinson’s patients for clinical trial

By Deborah Moon

A study targeting a type of Parkinson’s disease more prevalent among those of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry seeks study participants in Phoenix.

“The new drug study is to treat Parkinson’s disease in people with a mutant GBA gene, which is particularly common in Ashkenazim and is also prevalent in Gaucher patients,” says neurologist Dr. Richard Rosenbaum, who has focused much of his practice and teaching on Parkinson’s disease since he realized his father had Parkinson’s in 1993.

Now Dr. Rosenbaum is leading part of a national clinical study that will look at a drug that might delay and prevent progression of the disease for those with specific mutations on one of the GBA pair of genes.

The link between the GBA gene and Parkinson’s was discovered when researchers noticed that Gaucher’s patients and their relatives were more likely to develop Parkinson’s than the general population. The risk of carrying a single GBA mutation is less than 1 in 100 for non-Jewish populations, but about 1 in 18 for those of Jewish descent.

Mutations on the LRRK2 gene, also more common in Ashkenazim, are also linked to increased Parkinson’s risk, but that gene is not part of this clinical study.

“This is a gene-specific therapy,” says Dr. Rosenbaum.

More than 380 mutations in the GBA gene have been identified in people with Gaucher’s disease. A mutation on one of the pair puts individuals at increased risk of Parkinson’s.

Parkinson’s patients with a mutation on one of the GBA pair of genes are eligible for this study.

Sanofi US Services is conducting this Phase 2 clinical trial known as MOVES-PD. “This is cutting-edge medicine,” says Dr. Charles A. Pignataro, medical director/advisor-NA Clinical Study Unit, Rare Disease for Sanofi US. “Patients are not guinea pigs. We are trying to make people aware there is possibly an option available for them – this is a pioneering option.”

Dr. Pignataro explains that Parkinson’s patients with a GBA mutation tend to have earlier onset PD and more rapidly progressing symptoms.

GBA mutation-related Parkinson’s “is considered rare,” says Dr. Pignataro. “We are trying to fill the void and have treatment for these patients.”

Parkinson’s and Gaucher have a similar biochemistry.

“This specific mutation causes an enzyme that usually breaks down a certain compound or substance to be deficient,” he

explains. “As a result, this substance accumulates and causes the clinical presentation of the patient.

“That is the biochemical pathway we are trying to address,” says Dr. Pignataro.

“The standard of care that is used today is providing somewhat of a ‘Band-Aid’ approach that alleviates symptoms for some patients, but not others,” he adds. “We are developing alternative approaches to address these challenges.”

Having worked as a researcher for more than 25 years, Dr. Pignataro says finding treatments for rare diseases or rare forms of a disease is very rewarding. The letters of gratitude from patients and their families he has received over the years “warms your heart.”

Enrollment in this Phase 2 study is under way this month.

Since doctors do not routinely screen Parkinson’s patients for genetic mutations, Dr. Pignataro encourages anyone with Parkinson’s who is of Ashkenazi descent or who has relatives with Gaucher disease to consider participating in the study.

Applicants will receive a genetic screen as part of the process to see if they are eligible to participate. See the accompanying information box on requirements and how to get more information.

PARKINSON’S STUDY PARTICIPANTS To be eligible to participate in this study, patients must meet several criteria including the following: Ø Ages 18 to 80 years old Ø Has had symptoms of Parkinson’s disease for more than 2 years Ø Has been diagnosed with PD and is a heterozygous carrier of a GBA mutation Ø If taking Levodopa or any other PD medication, has been on a stable dose for at least 30 days.

All study participants will receive, at no charge, the investigational study medication and all study-related exams, procedures, laboratory tests and services throughout the study.

To learn more about the MOVES-PD study, or to see if you or someone you know may qualify for participation, visit clinicaltrials.gov or michaeljfox.org.

In Arizona, potential study participants can contact: Imaging Endpoints: 480-566-9090 Diana De Santiago: ddesantiago@imagingendpoints.com Kady Bentz: kbentz@imagingendpoints.com JEWISH LIFE | MARCH 2019 33

Jewswith

Attitude They put the

“POW” in Power Couple

By Leni Reiss

He is the dean of humanities at Arizona State University; she is the executive director of Experience Matters.

Jeff and Wendy Cohen, relative newcomers to the Valley, already are making a mark in their respective fields.

The couple met in 1986, both seniors at the University of Rochester. “It was kind of meant to be,” Jeff says. “We lived in the same dorm that year, with Wendy rooming with a former girlfriend of mine in the room right across the hall!” (Wendy had been studying abroad the year before.)

Wendy recalls, “We were friends first and really hit it off – even though I am much funnier!” she says with a grin.

After graduation, Wendy stayed in Rochester to earn her master’s degree in public health and bachelor of arts in health and society, and Jeff left for Harvard to earn his Ph.D. in English and American literature and language, “but we kept dating long-distance,” he says. They married in 1990 and Wendy began her professional career in Cambridge at the Harvard School of Public Health. Jeff joined the Harvard faculty as well, teaching classes in history and literature.

MOVING ON

They moved to Washington, D.C. when Jeff accepted a teaching post at George Washington University. He started in the English department and then added Judaic studies. A lifelong interest in Jewish studies and literature made this a perfect fit. “I was trained as a medievalist,” he says, “and couldn’t help but observe that literature historically emphasized the Christian world. Even in places like England, with a substantial Jewish population, it typically wasn’t part of a curriculum, although Jews were very present. This was an important story – and it wasn’t being told.”

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Jeff began to focus on “examining outsiders – not the mainstream,” and, he says, “Jews historically fit that category.” He went on to chair GWU’s English department and then, for a decade, directed its medieval and early modern studies institute.

When the ASU dean of humanities position opened up, Jeff was invited to apply and was hired. He and the family made the move to the Valley, and he has been in the post fulltime since July of 2018.

“It’s going very well,” Jeff says. “This was a good choice for me. ASU makes education accessible. There is a good sense of adventure in its mission. And I totally support the Jewish Studies Program.” He finds that there is a substantial number of non-Jewish students who take the courses, “and that is a good thing.”

EFFECTING CHANGE

Wendy also comes to the Valley with impressive credentials.

Most recently senior consultant for practice programs with the Maryland-based American Gastroenterological Association, she previously handled responsibilities as vice-president of practice and quality. Her experience also includes positions with the Harvard Community Health Plan and the New York State Department of Health. She brings this experience and more to her new role as executive director at Experience Matters, the Valley-based nonprofit “that engages retired professionals with nonprofit organizations to build capacity and support for meaningful social-purpose projects.”

Building on its foundation, she aims “to make an even greater impact throughout Maricopa County.” She cites the example of an INTEL retiree “with a passion for music. We found him an opportunity at the Musical Instrument Museum,” she says, “where he created a recording studio which now has become a revenue generator.”

FAMILY MATTERS

The Cohens’ son, Alex, 21, attends Lewis & Clark College; their daughter, Katherine, 14, is at Phoenix Country Day School. Reflecting on how their lives have evolved through different jobs and locations and a growing family, Jeff says “So far, so good! Wendy and I always have worked well together. We are good partners. We take turns, and that includes grocery shopping and cooking.”

“We have great kids,” Wendy says, “and we continue to try to set a good example and instill values. We are so blessed and so appreciative.”

“It was more challenging when the kids were younger,” she says. “I ran and won an election in Maryland and served as vicechair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County. We’ve depended on a Google family calendar!” she admits. “We both do it all, and that includes schlepping and shopping and supporting and respecting each other.”

At this point Jeff and Wendy are also involved in renovations on their new home, visiting synagogues and finding a Jewish community of friends. “Finding like-minded people,” Wendy says.

And one more thing: Their much-loved rescue dog, Wrigley, came to the Cohens with that name while they still lived “back east,” and Jeff says the pooch loves the desert and hates the rain. With that obvious tie-in to their new life and location, the family clearly was destined to wind up here in the Valley of the Sun.

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Apple Nachos Recipe and photo by Lucia Schnitzer

It can be challenging coming up with easy, healthy snacks for the family, especially when the schedule after school is overwhelming with baseball practice, lessons of some sort and planning dinner. Everywhere we go, there's a temptation to buy a sugar-loaded snack to feed “hangry” children, and trust me I've been guilty of doing just that.

Apple Nachos is a fun and easy snack loaded with protein, fiber and antioxidants. Cut apples ahead of time and squeeze lemon juice over them to preserve their healthy crispy flesh from turning brown; then make it on the fly. Also, it’s a great snack to make for movie night, game night or any night.

Ingredients 3 crispy and slightly tart apples (like Gala, Cameo or Jonagold) 1 teaspoon lemon juice 3 tablespoons creamy natural almond butter 1/4 cup sliced almonds

1/4 cup pecans 1/4 cup flaked unsweetened coconut 1/4 cup chocolate chips

Instructions Slice apples into thin slices.

Lightly spritz the apples with lemon juice to keep them from turning brown.

Put almond butter in a microwave-safe bowl and heat on high for 30 seconds, if not melted, return it to the microwave, checking at 30-second intervals, until very runny.

Drizzle the melted almond butter over the apples; reserving one tablespoon.

Top with almonds, pecans, coconut and chocolate chips.

Drizzle the remaining almond butter on top.

Note: You can be creative and use different toppings.

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Q&A with “Sisters in Law” playwright Jonathan Shapiro

By Mala Blomquist

OVER THE LAST 18 YEARS, Jonathan Shapiro has written and produced iconic television dramas, including “The Blacklist,” “Mr. Mercedes,” “The Practice,” “Boston Legal” and “Life,” as well as the upcoming HBO series “The Undoing” starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

Before he entered the world of show business, he spent nine years working as a federal prosecutor. Currently an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, he spent eight years teaching classes at Loyola Law School and the U.S.C. School of Law. In his latest role, he wears the hat of playwright for the show “Sisters in Law,” based on the 2015 book of the same name written by Linda Hirshman. The Phoenix Theatre Company is the first theater in the world to bring “Sisters in Law” to the stage.

The play features the relationship between two U.S. Supreme Court justices who are polar opposites and also modern-day legends: feminist idol Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Arizona native Sandra Day O’Connor. The play runs April 3-28.

Jonathan took time out of his very busy schedule to answer some questions about his part in “Sisters in Law.”

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Q: You’re both a writer and a lawyer – is that what attracted you to this project?

A: As a writer and lawyer, I can’t help but be fascinated by how the first two women on the U.S. Supreme Court related to one another, handled disagreements, supported one another, or didn’t. The fact is, writers and lawyers have the same job; we try to make sense of human beings in the midst of conflict, to understand their motives and desires, to think deeply about how their words and actions reveal their character, their truthfulness, their capacities and deficits. In the entire history of our country, I don’t believe there are two more consequential or complex women than these two. You couldn’t make up better characters or facts. The arguments they have, the conflicts portrayed, it’s all true.

Q: Is this your first foray into playwriting?

A: Actually, it’s my second, my wife and I co-wrote a play based on our marriage. And like any good marriage, we are still working on it. Her name is Betsy Borns-Shapiro (the Shapiro is silent; she hastens to add). She wrote for “Roseanne and Friends” and co-created the long-running CW series “All of Us” with Will and Jada Smith. Betsy is the reason I got into the show business. After our twins – Abraham and Sarah – were born, she said that if I could sell a script and get into the Writer’s Guild of America, we could double our health insurance coverage. Always marry a Jewish woman, this is my advice.

Q: What was the most challenging aspect of turning Linda Hirshman’s book into a play?

A: The book is a deeply researched, richly intellectual dual biography of two long and complicated lives. Figuring out how to tell the true story of their relationship on stage, in 90 minutes, meant distilling a vast amount of information into a taut, truthful, provocative narrative that reveals the essence of who they were, and who they were to one another. Humor helps. They are serious and driven women, but there are also very funny. Sometimes, even on purpose.

Q: On your website, you say, “I believe that the art of storytelling is the liveliest, most human of all the arts, and the most important one.” Was it difficult to apply your skills as a storyteller to a piece of work that you did not write?

A: Not at all. As a lawyer, I was always stuck with the witnesses and evidence fate delivered. I couldn’t cast new characters or make-up facts. Learning how to turn those pre-existing elements into a persuasive case is what makes being a trial lawyer its own form of art. So adapting a wonderful book like this was a terrifically enjoyable challenge.

Q: Was there something surprising you learned about the relationship between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor that you didn’t expect?

A: I didn’t expect to find how important, inspiring and relevant their relationship was as a model for Americans to make our democracy great again.

FRONT & CENTER

Jonathan Shapiro

Q: You’ve written and produced television shows for almost 20 years now, how did the creative process differ for producing a play?

A: Writing for television is a bit like working for a catering business, collaborating with a hundred people to make a huge number of pleasing meals that aren’t too spicy or otherwise challenging to a vast number of palettes. Writing a play is like making a home cooked meal with friends and new acquaintances for what you hope will be the best dinner party ever, where even the most serious arguments usually end up in laughter.

Q: What is the message that you want people to take away after seeing “Sisters in Law?” A: Women in power handle power in ways that should make us all want more women in power.

For more information or to purchase tickets to Sisters in Law, visit phoenixtheatre.com.

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CLAUDIA OSHRY is the creator of the breakout Instagram account @girlwithnojob.

She has more than 4 million followers online, including 3 million on Instagram.

She originally started with a blog called, “Girl With A Job,” while she was still in college at New York University and had some bad experiences while working as an intern.

“I started this blog as a journal to talk about life as an intern – the trials and tribulations,” says Claudia. “I got fired from one of my internships after only a few months, so I changed the name of the blog to ‘Girl With No Job’ because I liked blogging and I wanted to keep doing it.”

She found that the new title seemed to resonate more with her audience. “The second I changed the name, I started to gain traction a lot faster, and it started building into the brand throughout college,” she says. “By the time I graduated, I was making enough money and (had) enough work for it to be a full-time job.”

Claudia married the “Boy With No Job,” Ben Soffer, in 2017. She says that when they were dating, she was building her brand and would be on Instagram 24/7. “I said, ‘Babe you should get an Instagram too, and we can do it together – and you’ll stop yelling at me for being on my phone!’ ” Initially, Claudia was creating more gender-neutral content, but once Ben started his online presence, she was free to focus her energy into more femalecentric content and “make it more relatable for girls.”

Claudia also has shifted from just a social media presence to having her own show, “The Morning Toast,” alongside her

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sister Jackie Oshry. The show is streamed live on YouTube and Facebook Monday through Friday.

“The Morning Toast” is a morning show geared toward a millennial audience. “We talk about the news that millennials tend to care about more – which is like “The Bachelor,” “Real Housewives” and the Kardashians,” says Claudia. “It’s fun to just not be that serious for an hour a day and escape all the tragedies of the world and talk about things that make us happy.”

She jokes that when people meet her, the first thing they often say is, “You really don’t have a job?” The irony is – she works nonstop. After she does the morning show, she will work on sponsorship opportunities and merchandise creation; then she often boards a plane to travel to perform in the evening as part of her comedy tour.

“I started out announcing a couple of shows in New York, and I was deathly afraid that no one would show up, and that I was going to have to cancel them,” says Claudia. “Now we are hoping to go out through the fall – it’s a formal tour.” She will appear in Phoenix March 22 and 23 (see sidebar).

She says that performing is actually easier than she thought it would be since her humor is very improvisational. “I just talk a lot about pop culture, television, movies; integrating my life; universally relatable problems. You know?”

She firmly believes that, “A) Being Jewish, and B) Being from New York have made up 100% of who I am. There’s a very specific type of person in New York and even a more specific type of Jew, and it’s so much a part of my humor.”

She enjoys performing in New Jersey, Boston and New York where the audience is very much “her people.” But she also likes to travel to places where there is not a large Jewish population.

“Many times I’m the first Jewish person that someone has met because they live in a town that is not populated by Jews,” says Claudia. “I think that’s so cool. It’s an awesome opportunity to say, ‘We don’t have horns, and we’re funny, chubby and cute.’ ” In her show, she also likes to integrate being Jewish – like explaining what kosher means – in a way that’s funny, but also educational.

“Handling it with humor – it’s the Jewish way,” says Claudia.

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Ganit Goldstein

A UNIQUE COLLECTION of 3D-printed clothing and

Israeli designer’s 3D-printed shoes, outfits go global

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shoes by 26-year-old Israeli designer Ganit Goldstein has been getting attention across the globe.

Goldstein created the “Between the Layers” collection of seven outfits and six pairs of shoes for her senior project at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. She combined cutting-edge manufacturing techniques with traditional crafts such as hand weaving.

In September 2018, Goldstein was one of 11 designers – and the only one from Israel – invited to compete in the Redress Design Awards 2018 in Hong Kong, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition. She placed second overall.

Last December, Goldstein was the only Israeli student chosen among 50 finalists for the 2018 Arts of Fashion competition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, from among 340 applicants representing 104 schools in 32 countries. She was the first Bezalel Academy graduate ever to take part in the competition.

Goldstein said she was inspired to create “Between the Layers” while an exchange student at Tokyo University of the Arts. There she experimented with shredding secondhand fabrics and industrial textile leftovers and using a traditional Japanese textile technique called IKAT weaving to create unusual designs.

Deciding to focus exclusively on fashioning new items from textile waste, Goldstein then returned to Israel and began to

develop a weaving process using architectural software, an Original Prusa i3 Mk3 3D printer, Intel RealSense scanning technology and a flexible, biodegradable PLA (also called TPU) plastic polyester derived from renewable resources such as corn starch, cassava roots or sugarcane.

“3D printed technology has a sustainable effect because you print only what you need, without any waste,” Goldstein tells ISRAEL21c.

She even invented 3D-printed lace, using a nanoparticle material developed for her project at the Hebrew University’s Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry and the 3D Functional and Printing Center at the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

For her shoes, Goldstein now uses a Stratasys Objet 500 Connex3 color, multimaterial 3D printer. Its PolyJet technology deposits the material in layers and in varying hardness and softness for a personalized touch.

“With the knowledge I’ve gained while working with Stratasys, I’ve come to realize that 3D printing is increasingly becoming an integral part of design thanks to the unique design freedom achievable,” she says. “Not only does 3D printing accelerate the design process and enable reduced production costs, it also affords designers total freedom of design.”

This month, six of Goldstein’s outfits and three pairs of her 3D woven shoes – some of which are in the permanent collection at the Design Museum in Holon – will be highlighted at the Talente competition for young artists as part of the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades in Munich.

Starting in April, she will begin a threemonth residency in Germany at the Emma Creative Center in Pforzheim. Only three designers from around the world were accepted, one representing fashion, one jewelry and one industrial design.

“They give us everything we need to develop our own work and then we exhibit it there,” says Goldstein, who also worked with Intel in Jerusalem to develop an augmented reality app that visually describes the process used to create the “Between the Layers” collection.

The Jerusalem native said she hopes to develop a commercial line of shoes and 3D-printed jewelry.

“For me it’s not just about 3D printing, it’s more about developing new methods of combining craft and technology,” Goldstein tells ISRAEL21c.

This shoe is inspired by the traditional weaving technique called IKAT, where unique patterns are created following the dyeing of the threads prior to the weaving process.

Far left: Model wearing one of Goldstein’s 3D-printed outfits at Redress Design Awards in Hong Kong.

Left: Israeli designer Ganit Goldstein doing IKAT weaving in Tokyo.

Ganit Goldstein designed and 3D-printed these shoes that are now in the permanent collection of the Design Museum in Holon, Israel.

For more information, visit ganitgoldstein.com.

Article courtesy of ISRAEL21c.

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ACTIVELY SENIOR

Don and Esther Schon

Esther Schon’s journey of discovery

By Mala Blomquist

In July 2018, Don and Esther Schon were traveling with a Jewish Federations of North America mission to Berlin and Budapest. Being so close, the Schons decided to extend their trip and travel to Austria to try and find Esther’s place of birth.

Esther’s parents, David Silver and Fayga Yoffee Silver, met during World War II while they were both in prison camps in Siberia. After the war, they were released, but they were still in the middle of Siberia. “They had no clothes, no money, no food, no shelter,” says Esther. “They had to walk 1,000 miles; almost everyone that had survived the war died on that walk.”

They arrived in Poland, and stayed at the home of David’s parents for a short time and found out from the Red Cross that David’s two brothers, Godel and Leon, were alive and at a displaced persons camp in Austria for survivors from Auschwitz.

The brothers made arrangements for David and Fayga to come to the DP camp. “Most of my father’s family was killed in Auschwitz, and these two brothers survived,” says Esther.

Both sides of her family were originally from Poland. “My mother’s family was mostly killed. When she was leaving her village she saw them digging their graves,” says Esther. Fayga also witnessed the Nazis tear her sister’s baby from her arms and throw the infant into a river – then watched her distraught sister jump in after the child to her death.

The DP camp they moved to was in the countryside of Austria and was called Wiesenhof. “It had actually been a Hitler-Jugend (youth) camp during the war – where they trained young men to become Nazi soldiers,” says Esther.

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her to the general area.

The last night of the mission, the Schons were talking to Ed Serrota, a journalist and historian who had been hired to accompany the the mission as an expert on European Jewry.

When Ed asked if they were headed home, they explained that they were headed to Vienna.

Ed asked what they were going to be doing in Vienna and the Schons explained the story, including their frustration that the guide didn’t know precisely the location where the DP camp had been. Since Ed lives in Vienna, he said he would help them.

When the couple got to Vienna, they met Ed at his office and he assigned one of his interns to make arrangements for them. “As it turned out, he made arrangements for us to go to the exact right spot,” says Esther. The site of the former DP camp was now a police academy.

When Esther and Don arrived at the police academy, they recognized the small church on the property that had been built in the 1700s, from a photo they had found online of the camp. “We knew we were in the right place,” says Esther.

The commandant of the academy came out and greeted the couple. He offered to have one of his professors Hubert Juen, show them around. As it turned out, Hubert was a historian, and he made sure the police cadets knew the history of the property and what had happened there.

“He spoke English perfectly,” says Esther. “He canceled his afternoon classes and took us on a walk around the property and showed us where everything was. He was explaining how no one knew what had been there. It’s been lost. There’s nothing there to indicate it had once been a refugee camp.”

In his research, Hubert had discovered that the location had once been a lodge and that the Nazis had kidnapped the lodge owner’s children, and then started the youth camp. “We were

Outside the Wiesenhof DP center where Jews celebrate the declaration of the State of Israel. David Silver is in the second row from the top, third from left.

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almost all in tears because he had never met anyone alive who had ever been there at that camp,” says Esther.

They returned to Hubert’s office where he opened up a box of photographs from the time of the camp. “We were going through them, and I am looking at one, and there’s a picture of my father as a young man,” says Esther.

The photo had been taken on the first day that Israel became a state and the people in the camp were holding blue and white paper Israeli flags they had made in celebration. Esther doesn’t believe her mother is in the photo, but she recognized her father immediately.

“It was pretty dramatic to see that picture, and I also saw a few other people that I knew from growing up in the Detroit area,” she says.

“Their ticket to the United States was given to them by the JDC and HIAS, and they were put on a U.S. troop transport from Europe to Boston,” says Esther. “When they got off the boat in Boston they were given a train ticket to Wisconsin because they were told there were jobs in the cheese factories.”

On the way, her parents stopped in Detroit because they knew some people there and they just decided to stay. Her father found work in an automobile factory.

“I was happy to see it and to appreciate that they were in a place that was so beautiful,” Esther says of finding her birthplace. “It gave me a connection to that part of my family’s life to see it. It was a sense of closure and peace. In a time when they had had such tortured lives – there was a break.”

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ACTIVELY SENIOR

Creative Aging classes:

Participatory arts classes for older adults

Jewish Family & Children’s Service is offering a new 8-week session of its popular Creative Aging classes for the spring, beginning the week of March 18.

The program offers four classes in northeast Phoenix/ Scottsdale and one class in Sun City.

Story Telling meets Tuesdays, March 19-May 14, at Temple Solel, 6805 E. McDonald Dr. in Paradise Valley and Thursdays, March 21-May 16 at Temple Beth Shalom at 12202 N. 101st Ave. in Sun City. Both classes are from 10 am-noon. These classes are taught by Kim Porter, who is an award-winning playwright and performer, and was recently named Best Storyteller by the Phoenix New Times.

The Sunshine Singers, a senior Chorus, meets on Thursday mornings at Temple Chai at 4645 E. Marilyn Road in Phoenix, March 20-May 15. The chorus is led by Dan Kurek, who has 35 years’ experience teaching music and who has been the Temple Chai choir director for nine years. Dan also teaches a small group voice class providing individual attention, at Temple Chai on Wednesdays, March 20-May 15.

Israeli Dance runs March 19-May 14 on Tuesday afternoon from 2-3 pm at Congregation Beth Israel at 10640 N. 56th St. in Scottsdale. The classes are taught by Nancy Stone, a local dance instructor. “This kind of dance is great for both mind and body,” Nancy says, “plus it’s great fun!”

Creative Aging is a national initiative based on studies showing that older adults live longer and better if they are actively involved in the Arts. The movement is aimed at fostering an understanding of the vital relationship between creative expression and quality of life for older adults (creativeaging.org).

“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one in four people in Arizona will be over age 60 by the year 2020,” reports Janet Arnold Rees, JFCS director of the Creative Aging program. “We need to find innovative ways to keep our older adults actively engaged. Creative Aging is based on an ‘assets approach’ to aging, emphasizing what ‘can’ be done rather than what limitations there might be.”

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Creative Aging classes include Israeli Dance (above) and the Sunshine Singers (below).

classes. “We’ve gotten great feedback,” says Janet. “Participants appreciate the professionally-run classes, the chance to learn new skills and the time to connect with their contemporaries.

Classes are kept small to ensure quality.”

Partial funding for the classes is provided by the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Jewish Family & Children’s Service is a non-profit social service and behavioral health agency serving the greater metropolitan Phoenix area.

All classes are open to adults 60 or older. Registration fees vary. Registration is available on the JFCS website: jfcsaz.org/ creativeaging, by contacting janet.rees@jfcsaz.org, or calling 480-599-7198.

TO LIFE

The continuing journey of parenting

By Amy Hirshberg Lederman

The parenting journey is a long and arduous one that requires more physical stamina than Superman, more psychological expertise than Freud and the financial resources of Jeff Bezos.

At each age and stage of our children’s lives, we encounter and maneuver different joys, struggles and unknowns hoping that we can offer them the appropriate skills, tools and guidance necessary to become independent and self-sufficient human beings. And as they learn, so do we, although often not quickly enough, to feel competent or confident as parents.

My kids are no longer “kids” from an age standpoint, but they will always be my children. As adults in their 30s, they are off and running with relationships, careers, homes and even a dog. Our relationship is now long distance, marked by phone calls, texts, emails and the occasional visit, although my heart is always just a nanosecond away, connected by an invisible link called motherhood.

I worry about my children, not actively as I did when they were under my roof, but in a more amorphous way that takes into account the uncertainty of life and the turbulence of the world at large. I can’t ensure that their world will be as good as mine, that their air will be cleaner, their jobs more fulfilling, their neighborhoods safer or their relationships more meaningful. And while I diligently try to let go of what the outcome will be, I don’t always succeed.

There is a Hebrew concept dating back hundreds of years which sums up my emotions. Tzar gidul banim, which means “the pain of raising children,” acknowledges that part of being a parent is to experience emotional anguish and periods of stress, concern and fear about our children. Jewish parenting wisdom suggests that we can do no better than to teach our children what they need to become independent, and then place our faith in them, and God, that they will learn from their mistakes and find their true path.

Tzar gidul banim also means that children, as well as parents, must feel pain, discomfort and distress in order to become fully functioning human beings. As parents, it’s not our job to remove or eradicate all hurdles, disappointments or challenges from our children’s lives. In fact, we do them a disservice if we attempt to “sanitize” their lives because failure, stress and pressure are all part of life. It is through encountering these things that we learn to cope, accommodate, adjust and become stronger and more resilient.

There is another concept in Judaism that helps me in my relationship with my adult children called tsimtsum, which means “contraction.” Jewish mystics believe that in the beginning, God filled up the entire world such that there was not space for anything else to exist. In order for the world to come into being, God had to withdraw some of the Divine presence but in pulling back, God did not disappear. God withdrew but

remained involved, caring and engaged in the unfolding of the world.

Tsimtsum suggests an appropriate model for parenting adult children: That as parents, we must “contract” our presence in order for our children to become fully functioning adults. We must withdraw – our demands, our expectations and often our ideas and opinions – to give them space to create their own realities, pursue their own dreams, falter and make their own mistakes. But we need not disappear.

As parents of adult children, we can continue to offer our support and love and remain close enough to be there when they need us. We can offer perspective and affirm our faith in them. And, we can hold their space – without taking up their space – as they struggle to make their own decisions. The trick as a parent is in finding that balance.

Amy Hirshberg Lederman has written more than 300 columns and essays that have been published nationwide. amyhirshberglederman.com

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7th Genocide Awareness Week – “Not On Our Watch”

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Genocide Awareness Week is a series of lectures, exhibits and storytelling by distinguished survivors, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, humanitarians and members of law enforcement. This week-long event seeks to address how we, as a global society, confront violent actions and current and ongoing threats of genocide throughout the world, while also looking to the past for guidance and to honor those affected by genocide.

Topics covered include Respect and Tolerance in Our World, The Armenian Genocide, Rethinking Perpetrators and Survivors, Healing Hate in America, The Shoah and Its Aftermath, The First World War and the Jews and many more.

Genocide Awareness Week will be held April 15-20 and is hosted by Scottsdale Community College at 9000 E. Chaparral Road in Scottsdale and sponsored in part by local and national organizations. This event is free and open to the public.

In addition to the presentations, there are other events being held in conjunction with Genocide Awareness Week. These include an opening night reception, special exhibits on display, workshops and a memorial service.

OPENING NIGHT

Opening Reception in the Peridot Room April 15 at 5:30 pm This reception is hosted by Randy Nussbaum and Sacks Tierney.

Beyond Labels: The Girl Who Smiled Beads April 15 at 6 pm Clemantine Wamariya is an internationally renowned speaker, a New York Times bestselling author and a human rights advocate. Her memoir The Girl Who Smiled Beads debuted with Crown Publishing in April 2018 and is published in five languages and dozens of countries. This presentation is sponsored by Amy Cohn of the United States Holocaust Museum.

SPECIAL EXHIBITS

There are several exhibits on display before, during, and continuing after, the event: From Nuremberg to Hollywood ( Jan. 27-April 30) Student Center Lobby Filming the Camps by John Ford, Samuel Fuller and George Stevens. Exhibit provided by Memorial de la Shoah. Exhibit sponsored by The East Valley Jewish Community Center and The Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival.

Photography Essay: Holocaust and The Armenian Genocide (Feb. 10-April 20) Student Center Lobby near Bookstore Photography essay by Matt Cohen. Cohen is a Phoenix-based Travel and Fine Art Photographer whose award-winning work has been widely published in newspapers, magazines, and books. Cohen's images have been shown in galleries and exhibits throughout the Valley.

Before I Die Wall (April 15-20) East Patio Student Center The wall poses a simple question: What do you want to do before you die? Over 2,000 chalkboard walls have been created in more than 70 countries and more than 35 languages, inviting viewers to connect with profound personal truths about what is really important.

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WORKSHOPS

Workshop for Law Enforcement Officers and Prosecutors April 19 from 8:30 am to noon; sign-in begins at 8 am What You Do Matters: Lessons From the Holocaust Presented by Mr. Jason Kalish, Division Chief, Maricopa County Attorney's Office.

The study of the Holocaust provides an important insight into the consequences that can occur when the government shifts the mission of the police from protecting individuals to a policy of abusing basic human rights. Working with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, AZPOST and the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys’ Advisory Council offer a powerful teaching vehicle to ensure that the core values of our democracy are upheld. It is designated for law enforcement officers and prosecutors only.

Memorial de la Shoa Teachers’ Workshop April 20 from 9 am to 3 pm Teaching the Holocaust Presented by Christian Delage, professor at the University of Paris 8 and the Director of the Institute for the History of the Present Time.

Since the mid-1990s, he has worked on the history of the Holocaust, the filmed record of the liberation of the Nazi camps, and the Nuremberg trials. In 2006, his book La Vérité par l’image: De Nuremberg au procès Milosevic was published in France, and in 2007 his documentary "Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes" premiered at Lincoln Center. He also served as a policy advisor on the filming of the Khmer Rouge trials, and produced Cameras in the Courtroom, a documentary discussing the issues of filming trials. His last film, "From Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens," has just won an award from the French Documentary Filmmakers Association.

GENOCIDE MEMORIAL SERVICE

There will be a memorial service held at the Scottsdale Community College Genocide Memorial on Aril 24 at 9 am.

The memorial is located toward the center of campus between the Science Lecture (SL) and Applied Sciences (AP) Buildings.

This ecumenical ceremony remembers those of all: ethnicities, genders, religions and beliefs who have been murdered in genocides worldwide and throughout time. Religious and secular dignitaries speak and pray for the victims. It's held at SCC's genocide memorial monument, and on remembrance day for the Armenian Genocide. The artistic monument was donated by St. Apkar's Armenian Apostolic Church.

For more information on all of the events, visit scottsdalecc. edu/genocide.

FEDERATION NOTES Purim, Holocaust & Hope

By Marty Haberer

Purim is a celebration of Jewish deliverance. It recognizes Queen Esther’s courage to come forward as a Jew and convince her husband, the King of Persia, to spare her people from the extermination planned by the prime minister, Haman, who felt the Jewish leader Mordechai slighted him. As punishment, for his crimes, the bodies of Haman’s sons were hanged on the very gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai.

Thus, the Jewish people were saved.

There are many parallels made to the hate and genocidal intentions in the Purim story and the Holocaust. In fact, before he was hanged for his war crimes after the Nuremberg Trial, Julius Streicher, Nazi editor of Der Stürmer newspaper, proclaimed, “Purim Fest 1946.” In addition, of the 11 officers who were scheduled to be hanged with Streicher, one escaped and one committed suicide leaving only 10, the same number as Haman’s sons.

Enter the story of “Violins of Hope.” Amnon Weinstein has spent more than two decades locating and restoring violins from the Holocaust. Today, over 60 violins have been restored and are being played and displayed.

I am proud that this amazing collaboration is a project of our Federation, and that through the series of exhibitions, concerts and lectures planned through March 24, both young and old will learn about the Holocaust in a profoundly personal and emotional way. These instruments serve not only as powerful reminders of an unimaginable experience but also reinforce key lessons of valuing inclusion and diversity that are essential for today and future generations … and of hope.

To learn more, visit violinsofhopephoenix.com.

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FACES & PLACES READING IS FUNDAMENTAL – "Jewish Literacy: The Importance of the Page" took place at Temple Chai on Jan. 30.

From left: Rabbi Micah Caplan of Congregation Or Tzion, Judy Laufer of Little Egg Publishing Company (moderator), Rabbi Tracee Rosen of Beth Emeth Congregation of the West Valley, and Suzanne Swift of the Jewish Book Council. Photo courtesy Valley Beit Midrash EGYPT UNCOVERED - Guests stepped back in time at the Ancient Egypt Museum that was entirely planned, created and staffed by Pardes Jewish Day School’s fifth grade students.

WE'VE GOT THE BEAT – Jerusafunk (top) was one of four bands that performed at the East Valley JCC's Klezmer Music Festival on Jan. 13. The other bands were Chai Tones, Rural Street Klezmer Band and Yale Strom with Elizabeth Schwartz (bottom).

SUPER DAY – On Feb. 3, at the Arizona State Veteran Home in Phoenix, Scottsdale Post 210 of the Jewish War Veterans held its annual Super Bowl party for the veterans in residence.

MUSICAL LEGACY – From left, Judy Libby, Jan Dolin and Tricia Beran work the volunteer desk at a Feb. 10 showing of “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy.” Viewers of the documentary, one of 20 films presented at the 2019 Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival, filled three theaters at Shea 14 in Scottsdale. Photo by Leni Reiss

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RECENT WORKS – From the opening reception of the Tucson JCC’s art show “David Katz: Recent Works.” From left, Linda Ratcliffe, David Katz, Janet Rees and Cindy Hunt.

FACES & PLACES

BY THE BOOK – Linda Hirshman, author of the best-seller “Sisters in Law,” third from left, visits with Ahren and Barbara Sadoff and Marlene Ross at Sagewood where she spoke to an appreciative packed house. Hirshman’s next book is “Reckoning,” the history of the fight against sexual harassment. Photo by Leni Reiss CELEBRATING VIOLINS OF HOPE – Sagewood residents, from left, Shirley Levine, Raleigh and Gary Cohen, Gloria Raskin, Marlene Ross and Ahren and Barbara Sadoff were among audience members at Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center on Feb. 5 for a showing of “Amnon Weinstein, The Man Behind the Music.” Photo by Leni Reiss

K'VOD AWARD – From left, Marvin Berris, Jane Berris and David Katz received Temple Beth Shalom’s Kvod Award on February 1. This is the Temple's highest award and is presented annually to members who have provided exemplary service and contributions to the congregation.

A FAMILY AFFAIR – The Asners, from left, Ed, his son Matthew and daughterin-law Navah, shared information about The Ed Asner Family Center during Gesher Disability Resources’ Community Luncheon on Feb. 8.

FROM SILENCE TO SOUND – Attendees at the sold out Feb. 17 Bureau of Jewish Education Passages lecture and recital at Temple Chai included (from top) Enid Schulman and Judy Searle; Bernie and Libby Weiner and their son, David, center; Amnon, left, and Avshi Weinstein shared their stories of the violins that were silenced by the Holocaust. Photos by Leni Reiss and Charles Abrams.

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PREVIEWS

A HISTORIC EVENING WITH EVA SCHLOSS

Internal Affairs and Environment Committee and the

Chabad of the East Valley will present an evening

also chairs the Lobby for Medical Cannabis.

with Ann Frank’s stepsister Eva Schloss on March 13

There is no cost to attend this event, but you must

at the Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona

preregister. For more information, contact Dan Reback

Ave. in Chandler. The doors will open at 6:15 pm

at dreback@jnf.org or 480-447-8100 ext. 964.

Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. She

and the program will start at 7 pm.

Eva Schloss, a trustee of the Anne Frank Educational

COMMUNITY-WIDE PURIM CARNIVAL

Trust, has published two books and is the subject

The Valley of the Sun JCC is once again hosting its

of James Still’s play “And Then They Came For

annual Purim carnival on March 24, from 11 am to 3

Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank.” Like

pm on the soccer fields at 12701 N. Scottsdale Road in

her stepsister, Eva went into hiding in Holland, was

EVA SCHLOSS

Scottsdale.

betrayed, captured and send to Auschwitz-Birkenau

In addition to the traditional carnival rides and

death camp.

activities, there will be special attraction areas for tots

Listen to a first-hand account of the life of Anne

and for teens, superhero-themed costume parade, live

Frank and the discovery and printing of her famed

DJ and Jewish community organizations tent.

diary.

The J’s 2019 community-wide Purim Carnival is

Ticket prices are $25 or $36 with a discount prices of

presented by Flader Wealth Consulting Group – RBC

$18 if purchased before March 6; students are $10.

Wealth Management. Admission is free and everyone

For more information, visit chabadcenter.com/event

is welcome.

or contact 480-855-4333.

For more information, visit vosjcc.org/purim2019.

JNF BREAKFAST FOR ISRAEL The annual Jewish National Fund Breakfast for Israel

SHARREN HASKEL

OR TZION SOCIALIGHTS PRESENTS RABBI BOB ALPER

will be held on March 22 from 7:30 to 9 am at the

The Congregation Or Tzion Socialights (empty-nester

Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, 7575 E. Princess Dr.

group) is bringing rabbi and stand-up comic Bob

in Scottsdale. The guest speaker for the event will be

Alper to their congregation at 16415 N. 90th St.

Sharren Haskel.

in Scottsdale on March 30 at 7:30 pm. Tickets will

Member of Knesset Sharren Haskel is one of the

be $20 per person; $30 per person fro preferred

youngest members of the 20th Knesset. Described as

seating.

a “firebrand,” MK Haskel is a strong, passionate, and

Bob's unique background – he's an ordained

accomplished leader. Born in Canada to an Israeli

rabbi who served congregations for fourteen years

father and Moroccan mother, she moved to Israel as

and holds a doctorate from Princeton Theological

a young child. She is a humanitarian and a veterinary

Seminary – prepared him well for a 27-year comedy

nurse by trade. MK Haskel served as a First Sergeant

career with material presented in a way that's

class commander in the Border Guard during the

intelligent, sophisticated and 100% clean.

second intifada. In her current capacity, she serves

For more information, visit congregationortzion.org or

on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the

bobalper.com, or contact 480-342-8858.

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Come and Join Us! JWV Copper State Post 619 25th Year Celebration Luncheon April 7, 2019 – 11:30 AM Oakwood Country Club 24215 S. Oakwood Blvd. Sun Lakes

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Learn how ten Arizona veterans organizations used funds donated by Post 619 to help hospitalized and homeless veterans.

For more information and reservations, contact Adrian Bendick (480) 510-1733

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MARCH CALENDAR Through March 10 Jersey Boys at Phoenix Theatre, 1825 N. Central Ave., Phoenix. Times vary. “Jersey Boys” tells the rags-to-riches story of how four boys from New Jersey became a legendary sensation. Get behind the music and experience this Tony Awardwinning true-life musical phenomenon! For ticket information, visit phoenixtheatre.com.

relevant to Judaism in contemporary society. Bring your questions; he has answers! In partnership with Smile on Seniors. Free. For information contact Chani at 602-492-7670 or chani@sosaz.org.

March 13

“Violins of Hope” at various locations throughout the state. A two-month event that includes exhibits, lectures, concerts and educational programs. This is the first and largest collaboration of nonprofit organizations to be implemented throughout the state. Many events are free or low-cost to encourage participation. For more information, visit violinsofhopephoenix.com.

Meet the Author: The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 11am to noon. Author David Weinstein documents theater, film and radio star Eddie Cantor’s extraordinary life, including his courageous campaign against the Nazis in 1930s, in a multi-media presentation featuring rare photos, songs and film clips. Books available for sale and author signing following the presentation. Members: $5 | Guests: $15. Registration is required at vosjcc. org/cantor.

March 6

A Historic Evening with Eva Schloss. See page 52.

Throughout March

Current Events Discussion Group at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 2 to 3:30 pm. Bill Adler leads stimulating discussion each month on current events. Bring your ideas to share with the group. Free. For more information, contact Harriet at 480-481-7033 or harrietc@vosjcc.org.

March 7 MEGA 2019. See page 16.

Memory Café at Beth El Congregation, 1118 W. Glendale Ave., Phoenix from 10 to 11:30 am.

Jewish Family & Children’s Service presents its monthly Memory Café. March’s guest teaching artist is Shari Keith, a visual artist who is also known as “The Junk Lady!” There is no charge to attend, but registration is required. The Café is open to all backgrounds. To register or for further information, e-mail Kathy.rood@jfcsaz.org or call Kathy at 602452-4627.

March 10 Speaker Series - Lin Sue Cooney at Beth Ami Temple, 3535 E. Lincoln Dr, Paradise Valley from 2 to 4 pm. Hospice of the Valley executive and former longtime Channel 12 newscaster Lin Sue Cooney will speak about her transition from journalism to hospice care. Or more information, visit bethamitemple.org.

March 12 Discussion with the Rabbi at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 11am to noon. Gather together with Rabbi Levi Levertov for a stimulating discussion on an issue 54 MARCH 2019 | JEWISH LIFE

March 14 Front Row at Nuremberg and Miraculous Escapes from Germany at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 11am to noon.

Singer, composer, pianist and actor Lori Rosolowsky shares poignant and humorous stories of her relatives’ unlikely escapes from Nazi persecution and her aunt’s role as a translator at Nuremberg.

The great niece of renowned Jewish composer Herbert Fromm, Lori plays his music along with her own original works. Join us for this exceptional entertaining event. Members: $5 | Guests: $15.

Registration is required at vosjcc.org/nuremberg.

March 14-16 Peter Max – The Retrospective 1960-2019 at DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal, 7171 E. Main St., Scottsdale. This newly curated exhibition is a never-before seen collection of the artist’s most iconic work from six decades. All gallery receptions are complimentary but RSVP’s are required. Times vary. Please contact 480-941-6033 or phillip@ fineartofmetal.com.

March 19 Art All Around Us at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 11am to noon. Share the world of art with docents from the Phoenix Art Museum. This month, explore “Buenos Aires, Tango and Impressionism.” Free. For more information, contact Harriet at 480.481.7033 or harrietc@vosjcc.org.

March 20 Lunch & Learn at The J: Male Fitness After 65 Myths, Facts & Solutions at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. J Fitness Director Joe Green has a highly regarded approach to health and fitness with cutting-edge solutions. Bring your most pressing questions and learn the inside tips and strategies that he uses for continued success.

Bring a dairy lunch or stop at milk + honey. Free, but registration required by March 18 at vosjcc.org/ fit65.

March 21 Mature Mavens Dinner at 5 pm. Make new friends as you meet for dinner and socialize. Dinner is separate checks. Please contact Bunnye at 602371-3744 for our current schedule of restaurants and reserve your place!

March 22 JNF Breakfast for Israel. See page 52.

March 22 & 23 Claudia Oshry at CB Live. See page 41.

March 27 Love, Bill: Finding My Father Through Letters from World War II at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 11am to noon.

Author Jan Krulick-Belin’s award-winning memoir is a love story and war story. Join us as she shares the journey that led her to learn about the history of the Jews in the Maghreb and France, and the man that she thought she would never get to know. Members: $5 | Guests: $15. Registration is required at vosjcc. org/bill.

March 28 Cardozo Society/Chai Tech: Privacy and Data Security CLE at Perkins Coie LLP, 901 N. Central Ave., Suite 20, Phoenix from 2 to 3:30 pm. Learn from some of the country’s leading tech law experts! Panelists: Todd Hinnen, Perkins Coie (also serving as Moderator); Professor Derek Bambauer, U of A James E. Rogers College of Law; Amelia Gerlicher, Perkins Coie; and Dan Oseran, Intuit. $18 per person, includes light snacks - dietary laws observed. Register at 480-481-1752 or jewishphoenix.org/datasecurity.

March 30 Or Tzion Socialights present Rabbi Bob Alper. See page 52.

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