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World premiere in Nashville this month will feature work of Israeli choreographer Idan Sharabi and two others

By CHARLES BERNSEN

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bout mid-way through their public rehearsal of Israeli choreographer Idan Sharabi’s contemporary dance piece, “Ella,” members of Nashville’s New Dialect ensemble got a surprise: Sharabi stepped out of his role as coach/choreographer and joined them on the floor as a dancer.

“It was a risk. It’s not what we planned,” Sharabi explained afterward to about 30 people who had come to watch the in-studio showing of “Ella” as well as a solo performance by Sharabi himself.

But it was exactly the kind of thing Sharabi likes to do to promote collaboration and challenge dancers to expand their emotional and physical boundaries.

New Dialect, a three-year-old nonprofit contemporary dance collective and

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training program, will perform “Ella” as part of a dance triptych titled FOCO on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11 and 12 in the Polk Theatre at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

In addition to the Sharabi’s piece, FOCO will premier works by choreographers Yin Yue of China and Banning Bouldin of Nashville, the founder of New Continued on pages 3

Idan Sharabi (foreground) coaches members of the New Dialect ensemble during a public rehearsal of his work, “Ella,” which will premier this month in Nashville. (Photos

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Rabba Epstein, visiting Global Day scholar, says event’s focus on creation and nature “incredibly relevent in today’s world”

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n her presentation this month in Nashville for Global Day of Jewish Learning, visiting scholar Rabba Yaffa Epstein plans to speak about the Jewish theological doctrine that human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. “There is something incredibly powerful about the Rabba Yaffa idea of the human Epstein being as being a creation of God, and as inherently Godly,” said Rabba Epstein, director of education in North America for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Learning in Jerusalem. “We’ll explore the concept of human dignity, and how each human is deserving of our respect – just by being God’s creation.”

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communities around the globe to study the same sacred texts on the same day.

This year Global Day is on Sunday, Nov. 20, with local events schedule to begin at 10:15 a.m. at West End Synagogue.

“The Global Day of Jewish Learning is an incredible event that has at its core the values of Jewish learning, and Jewish Unity,” said Rabba Epstein. “Rabbi [Adin] Steinsaltz, who was the creator of the event, famously stated, ‘Torah is the shared inheritance of all the Jewish people.’ And this is such an important message today – when so many Jews feel alienated and estranged from the Jewish community, and from each other.”

Rabba Epstein said she is particularly excited by the 2016 Global Day theme: Under the Same Sky: “The Earth is Full of Your Creations,” which makes reference to an often cited verse from Psalm 104 about the awesome beauty, Six young adults prepare to join Federation’s Community Relations Committee page 5

sanctity and goodness of the divinely created world.

“I think that the question of God’s creation is incredibly relevant in today”s world,” she said. “There is a real movement in the world towards turning back

to the land, and to the human being’s connection with the earth.

“The issues of environmental responsibility, and food justice, are core values of the Jewish tradition, and I am excited Continued on pages 3

Global Day of Jewish Learning Theme:

When: Where: Cost:

Under the Same Sky: “The Earth is Full of Your Creations” 10:15 a.m.-3:15 p.m.

West End Synagogue, 3810 West End Ave. $5 for entire day (includes kosher lunch), $10 for afternoon sessions (includes lunch), free for morning sessions only (no lunch)

Pre-register online at www.jewishnashville.org/global-day or by contacting Barbara Schwarcz at (615) 354-1630 or Barbara@jewishnashville.org

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Aside from teaching Talmud, Jewish law and liturgy at Pardes for more than a decade, Rabba Epstein has served as the director of the Dorot Fellowship Beit Midrash in Israel and has taught at a number of Jewish institutions, including Yeshivat Maharat, where she received her Rabbinic Ordination. She also has a law degree from Bar-Ilan University and has studies at Pardes Kollel, the Advanced Talmud Institute at Matan and the Talmud Department of The Hebrew University.

Rabba Epstein, whose Global Day visit is underwritten by Libby and Moshe Werthan, was in Nashville last April as a scholar in residence at Congregation Sherith Israel. During that visit she taught sessions for leaders of the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, its young adult group NowGen Nashville, local religious school educators and students at Vanderbilt Hillel.

“I loved being in Nashville, and I am incredibly impressed by how warm and welcoming the Jewish community was to me,” she said. “I was also excited by the desire of people to learn, and to build community. I am very excited to be returning to Nashville, and having the chance to keep learning with this wonderful community.”

Schedule for Global Day of Jewish Learning 10:15 a.m.: Registration 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.: Plenary session with Rabba Yaffa Epstein: “Back to the Beginning: Is Being Created in the Image of G-d a Given or Earned?”

Local Global Day events are sponsored by the Nashville Federation in partnership with Akiva School, the Gordon Jewish Community Center and the GJCC Early Childhood Learning Center, Jewish Family Service, NowGen Nashville, Get Connected, PJ Library, Vanderbilt Hillel, Congregation Beit Tefilah Chabad, Congregation Micah and the Micah Children’s Academy, Congregation Sherith Israel, The Temple-Congregation Ohabai Sholom and The Temple Preschool, West End Synagogue, B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO), Chabad Jewish Student Center at Vanderbilt University, Hadassah Nashville Chapter, National Council of Jewish Women Nashville Chapter, B’nai B’rith Social Unit and B’nai B’rith Maimonides Lodge #46. •

Dance Continued from page 1 Dialect. The program also features original music by Nashville-based experimental group Christina Spinei + Sound Riot.

Both performances begin at 8 p.m.

Tickets, which range from $15 to $55, can be purchased online at https://patron. tpac.org/.

A graduate of the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts in Israel and The Julliard School in New York, the 32-yearold Sharabi has won numerous international dance and choreography awards and competitions. He performed with the Dans Theater in the Netherlands and the Batsheva Dance Company in Israel before founding his own company, Idan Sharabi and Dancers in 2012.

Though based in Jaffa, Sharabi spends much of his time traveling the globe, creating and choreographing works performed by companies in Europe to the Americas to Asia.

“I’ve reduced everything I have to four suitcases,” said Sharabi, who was in Nashville from Sept. 26 through Oct. 14 working with the New Dialect dancers in preparation for the premier of “Ella.”

Sharabi is known for his unique dance “language” or style, which he describes as “balling.”

“I ask the dancers to imagine a ball passing through their bodies – from the shoulder to the hips or the left arm to the right leg,” he said.

Rather than choreographing set pieces, however, Sharabi uses teaching techniques that encourage the dancers he works with to “evoke new shapes every

11:20 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Breakout sessions with local moderators • Green Torah Wisdom (moderated by Vanderbilt University professor and Rabbi Phil Lieberman) • Planting for the Future (moderated by Risa Klein Herzog, foundation development director for the Jewish Foundation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee) • Healing: A Natural Practice? (moderated by Dr. Frank Boehm, vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Vanderbilt University Medical School) • Ruler, Steward, Servant: Humanity’s Relationship with Nature (moderated by Rabbi Shlomo Rothstein of Vanderbilt Chabad) • Shmita: A Cycle of Rest, Release and Ownership (moderated

by Rabbi Aaron Finkelstein of Congregation Sherith Israel) • A Time for Rain: “It’s Just a Box of Rain; I Don’t Know Who Put it There” (moderated by Mark S. Freedman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee) 12:30-1:15 p.m.: Kosher lunch and informal learning session with Rabba Epstein 1:20-2:15 p.m.: A series of “TextTalks,” short presentations by local scholars, educators and special guests, including Rabbi Laurie Rice of Congregation Micah, Rabbi Joshua Barton of West End Synagogue, Devon Barnard of the Urban Green Lab, Dorie Bolze of the Harpeth River Watershed Association, Abbie Wolf, community relations director for the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, and Jack Simon, director of Camp Davis and youth programming at the Gordon Jewish Community Center. (The lineup for speakers is tentative and subject to change.)

1:20-2:20 p.m.: A special session for Jewish educators with Rabba Epstein: Seeing the Wonder of G-d’s Creation: How Can I Bring Out the Best in My Students?”

2:20-3:15 p.m.: “Meet the Rebs,” a roundtable discussion featuring Rabba Epstein and Rabbis Mark Schiftan of The Temple, Laurie Rice of Congregation Micah, Joshua Kullock West End Synagogue, Aaron Finkelstein of Congregation Sherith Israel and Yitzchok Tiechtel of Beit Tefilah Chabad.

Sharabi gives a solo dance performance following the public rehearsal of “Ella.”

time they perform a dance” and to draw on their emotions to vary the “texture” of each performance.

“Instead of me sculpting everything in advance,” he said, “it never turns out the same every time.”

Sharabi grew up in the small town of Mazkeret Batya about 16 miles from Tel Aviv, the youngest of three sons in a traditional Jewish family. He recalls being fascinated by movement as a young child, even before he began dancing at the age of 12.

Asked if there is an Israeli influence on his choreographic style, Sharabi

Watch Idan Sharabi Want to get an idea of Idan Sharabi’s choreography? Here’s a link to a YouTube video of a performance of “Adar,” a work he created for the Nederlands Dans Theater workshop. This performance by Sharabi and Ema Yuasa was at the Lucent Dans Theater in 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBaD88v2gM

After the rehearsal, Sharabi sat down to talk with audience members about the piece and his choreographic style.

pointed to its openness to – even insistence upon – surprise, innovation and emotion in each performance.

“I’m asking dancers to expose not only their brain but their heart,” he said.

“It’s daring and risky, even scary, for them and for me. I think that is an Israeli influence.”

Like Sharabi, Bouldin is a graduate of Julliard and has been following his career for years. When she founded New Dialect in 2014 as a resource for contemporary dance performers, choreographers

and teachers, one of its first events was a workshop featuring Sharabi.

“We’ve been looking for the opportunity to bring him back,” Bouldin said.

That came when the Israeli Consul General of Atlanta provided funding to commission a piece by Sharabi and underwrite his visit to Nashville. Other sponsors of this month’s performances include The Rich Foundation, Ed Lanquist Jr., the Dance Network, Green Pea Salon, David and Rebecca Klements and David and Libby Patterson. •

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Community Relations Communiqué Bringing new voices to the table

By LESLIE KIRBY and ABBIE WOLF

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ne of the questions every organization asks itself is how to bring new voices to the table. The Community Relations Committee (CRC) asked itself the same thing, and in the past four years has made enormous strides in diversifying the committee. We know how essential it is for the CRC to reflect the gamut of views in our community regarding issues like Israel, anti-Semitism and domestic social concerns.

Our first efforts were four years ago, when we focused on making the CRC a big tent, where all voices were welcome. We asked each local congregation as well as all chapter-based local

Jewish organizations to send a delegate to the CRC. This expanded our membership and increased the diversity of voices represented.

As far as we’ve come in terms of adding a more robust range of views, however, we were still largely missing an important part of our community – members of the young adult community. With more people moving to Nashville every week, it’s important we include this important, vital, active demographic. The research bears this out. The 2015 Nashville and Middle Tennessee Jewish Community Study specifically recommended the use of young adult programming as a model for engagement.

To this end, we submitted a New Initiative grant request to the Jewish Federation’s Grants Committee. The committee quickly recognized the need

to create a pipeline for young leadership onto the CRC. The program – dubbed the Emerging Leadership Institute (ELI) – will train a cadre of young leaders and will enhance their interest and knowledge of critical CRC issues while providing a powerful and enduring volunteer opportunity.

CRC Vice Chair Leslie Kirby, who joined the CRC during our first expansion several years ago, led the recruitment effort. We scheduled recruitment meetings in a variety of locations including East Nashville and Germantown - locations that are generally easier for young professionals to get to.

We are tremendously excited about the six young leaders we’ve chosen for the first cohort of fellows, and you can read more about them in the feature story in this issue. Our program kicked off with a Sukkot dinner in the GJCC

sukkah, and we will meet monthly for leadership development between now and March.

In early March we’ll be taking the fellows on a mission to Washington, D.C., to learn about how issues faced by the Nashville Jewish community interface with the national and international Jewish community and meet partner organizations that support our work locally. After the mission trip, the fellows will formally join the CRC for a two-year term.

Familiarize yourselves with these six inspiring young people; you’ll be seeing a lot more of them in years to come!

Leslie Kirby is vice chair of the Federation’s Community Relations Committee. Abbie Wolf is community relations director for the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee.

Hasidic musical group Simply Tsfat will play at Akiva on Nov. 13

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he renowned musical group Simply Tsfat will perform a concert on Sunday Nov. 13 in the auditorium of Akiva School.

Simply Tsfat is a trio of Israeli Hasidic musicians who, through their music, seek to reveal the heavenly mysticism of Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslev.

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The group consists of acoustic guitarist and vocalist Elyahu Reiter, violinist Yehonason Lipshutz, and classical guitarist Yonatan Tzarum, all of whom now live in Tsfat, a center of Israeli art and Jewish mysticism.

They have released three CDs and performed around the globe with the goal of bringing “the joy of Breslev Hasidim to their listeners,” according to their website. •

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Corrections and Clarifications The name of Alex Heller, adult programming director at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, was incorrect in a story last month about this month’s Kosher Hot Chicken Festival.

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Six young adults begin training for service on the Federation’s CRC

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he Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee has chosen six young adults to participate in a new program to recruit and train the next generation of leaders for its Community Relations Committee.

Meeting for the first time last month for the first time for dinner under the sukkah at Gordon Jewish Community Center, the six participants in what the Federation calls its Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) will take part in a series of monthly program aimed at familiarizing them with the Federation and the CRC. Their training will culminate in a spring mission to the nation’s capital in Washington.

The participants are Arielle Doochin, Lindsay Goldstein, Daniel Reches, Josh Segall, Avi Spielman and Mara Steine. Each has agreed to serve on the CRC for at least two years following their training. Here are short bios of the ELI participants: Arielle Doochin has a creative eye, a love for the arts and nature, and a mission to contribute her skills to help others. She grew up in Nashville and recently returned, and can’t think of a more meaningful activity than working with ELI to support growth in the Jewish community. In her profession, Doochin is a learning experience designer who has created materials for a diverse range of learners. Her academic background in the principles of education, neuroscience and emotions informs her work in enhancing comprehension and promoting a sense of exploration and play in the design and facilitation of educational materials.

Doochin has worked and lived in Spain, Chile, Washington, and Boston. She received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Washington University in St. Louis, and a master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

“I look forward to collaborating with the other ELI members and the community to learn, contribute and grow together,” Doochin said.

Lindsay Goldstein works as a bilingual account representative at Bridgestone and is relatively new to Nashville, moving here in 2014. She grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb south of Pittsburgh, and the Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology movement science and French and Francophone studies. Goldstein enjoys traveling and is passionate about learning about other cultures. She had the opportunity to travel to Israel twice, once on Birthright Israel and once as a student leader/recruiter for Mayanot.

Her experience in Israel inspired her to take part in the Sinai Scholar program to further her knowledge of Judaism.

Upon graduating from Penn State, Goldstein returned to Paris for a year where she worked at Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) as human resources assistant while taking classes in international human resources at the CIFFOP-Sorbonne. Locally Goldstein is involved with NowGen Nashville, the Federation’s young adult group, as well as the United Way. She said ELI is a unique opportunity that will allow her to develop her leadership skills

In their first meeting, the six participants in the Federation’s Emerging Leaders Institute – Arielle Doochin, Lindsay Goldstein, Daniel Reches, Josh Segall, Avi Spielman and Mara Steine -- dined together under a sukkah. With them were Ron Galbraith and Leslie Kirby, the chair and vice chair of the Federation’s Community Relations Committee, along with Abbie Wolf, community relations director, and Harriet Schiftan, Federation associate executive director.

and connect with other leaders and get feedback from community members to improve Jewish cultural awareness. She said she is looking forward to using ELI as a platform to share her experiences, her passion for Israel with others, and to build a stronger Jewish Community.

Daniel Reches was born in Israel and spent his early years just outside of Jerusalem. Shortly after his bar mitzvah, he and his family relocated to California and shortly after moved to Oklahoma. This non-typical path, along with many other unique experiences, ingrained in Reches an understanding of the diversity, value and challenges facing Jewish communities. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, Reches became the interim executive director of that university’s Hillel foundation. After leaving that position, he worked for an Israeli start up for a while and eventually found his way to Nashville, where he studied business at Vanderbilt University, taught Sunday school at Congregation Sherith Israel and has been serving on the Vanderbilt Hillel board of directors. These days, Reches is happily employed at Cracker Barrel.

Josh Segall, a graduate of Brown University and the University of Alabama Law School. is CEO and general counsel of Space Inch, a mobile game development company. He recently moved to Nashville from Alabama, where he was a member of the board of the Jewish

Federation of Central Alabama. Prior to mobile gaming, Segall worked on political campaigns around the country and practiced law. He is married to Nashville native Quin Evans Segall, who practices law at Baker, Donelson. They have two children, EB, 5, and Samantha, 1.

Avi Spielman is founder and president of Joon Properties, a boutique real estate development company. Spielman holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and a

master’s degree in real estate development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves as associate editor of the Harvard Real Estate Review, vice president of the Alumni Association of MIT’s Center for Real Estate, board member of Vanderbilt Hillel and committee member for the Federation’s Best Jewish Nashville 2.0 committee. He returned to Nashville this summer with his wife, Rachel, a Nashville native, and their 8-month-old son. It has been their dream to raise a family in Nashville and build a home on the principles of yiddishkeit. As descendants of Holocaust survivors, halutzim and Iranian Jews, the Spielmans believe in embracing cultural traditions, supporting Jewish education, and stand with Israel.

Mara Steine grew up in Nashville and attended Akiva School and University School of Nashville before graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in public relations. After graduation, she worked and interned in Tel Aviv for almost six months through the Masa Israel, which offers immersive experiences in Israel for young adult Jewish professionals. Upon returning to Nashville, she has launched her career in hospitality. “I am excited to be part of ELI because it is a way for me to be involved in the Nashville Jewish community as an adult,” Steine said. “Being part of the CRC is also an opportunity to be active in programs that help strengthen ties with other communities in Nashville and in Israel.” •

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Congregational News & Events @ Chabad Chabad begins course this month on happiness and Jewish positive psychology Chabad of Nashville is offering a four-week course on happiness developed by the Israeli-born psychologist and Harvard University lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar. “Happiness: Roadmap to a Happier Life,� which became one of Harvard’s most popular courses, will be offered on four consecutive Mondays beginning Oct. 31. It will be taught by Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel on the Genesis Campus for Jewish Life in Bellevue.

Rabbi Tiechtel said the course will explore the degree to which surroundings and circumstances affect one’s overall happiness, the potential challenges to living a joyous life, and the question of whether G-d cares if people are happy or not. “Being happy can depend on one’s perspective,� said Rabbi Tiechtel. “The course is based on the premise that to be happy you can either change the world, or you can change your thinking.�

Aside from exploring the challenges that get in the way of happiness – stress, grief and one’s self-image – the course “will offer techniques to boost our happiness such as humility, gratitude and meaningful living ‌ and delve into Jewish perspectives on positive psychology,â€? said Rabbi Tiechtel.

The course is open to the public regardless of Jewish knowledge or religious affiliation. For more details or to register go to www.Chabadnashville.com or call (615) 646-5750.Â

Lecture by Kabbalist Rabbi Wolf will focus on “transforming negative emotions through Jewish mindfulness�

Australian Kabbalist, Rabbi Dr. Laibl Wolf, will give a presentation “Kick The Habit: Transforming Negative Emotions Through Jewish Mindfulness� on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at Chabad of Nashville’s Genesis Campus for Jewish Life.

In the 7:30 p.m. lecture, Rabbi Wolf will delve into the relationship between Kabbalah and neuro-plasticity, explaining how people can change their minds by changing their brains. He also will lead a practical meditation to shift thoughts and feelings.

Rabbi Laibl Wolf has been a teacher of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, for more than three decades but also incorporates and modern knowledge about the human brain and consciousness.

His presentation, underwritten by a grant from the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, is free, but seating is limited. Reservations can be made at www. chabadnashville.com

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Celebrity chef and kosher cookbook author Elizabeth Kurtz presented a demonstration on preparing High Holiday meals at Chabad of Nashville, where participants enjoyed a four-course meal. Shown here are (front row, from left) Andrea Lemkin, Jenny Michaeli, Laurel Orley, Amy Goldstein and (back row, from left) Kurtz, Lana Pargh and Esther Tiechtel.Â

Chabad will host the “Pickle Rabbi� on Dec. 1 What makes a pickle kosher?

That question and others will be addressed when the Kosher Pickle Factory visits the Genesis Campus for Jewish Life at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1.

The traveling program and workshop will be headed by Rabbi Mendy Margolin, also known as “the Pickle Rabbi.� “This evening will offer a unique opportunity for Jews of all backgrounds to come together for Rabbi Mendy Margolin will demonan entertaining and educational evening,� said strate how to make kosher pickles.

Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel, who co-directs Chabad of Nashville with his wife, Esther. Participants will discover the pickle’s amazing history and learn the art of making their own kosher pickles, he said.

The event will include a tasting bar offering a variety of pickles, and each participant will take home a jar of freshly made pickles.

Rabbi Margolin’s visit is underwritten by the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Attendance is free, although there is fee -- $10 in advance, $15 at the door – to cover the cost of materials for those who wish to make a jar of pickles to take home. Reservations can be made at www.chabadnashville.com.

@ Sherith Israel Rabbi Farber, “pragmatic idealist� on issues of Jewish identity, will be scholar in residence Nov. 11-12 Rabbi Seth Farber, founder of a nonprofit group aimed at making Judaism accessible to all Israeli Jews, will be the scholar in residence at Congregation Sherith Israel on the weekend of Nov. 11-12.

On Shabbat evening Rabbi Farber will deliver a lecture “Who will be a Jew?� The next day his talk is entitled “The Crisis of Jewish Life in Israel.�

Rabbi Farber, who was ordained at Yeshiva University and received a Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is the founder of ITIM: The Jewish Life Information Center in Israel, which Rabbi Seth provides assistance to Israelis going through the conversion process as Farber well as education material on Jewish life and tradition.

The New York Times has called Rabbi Farber, an advocate of reconciliation between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews on issues of Jewish identity and practice, “a “pragmatic idealist� who is transforming Jewish life in Israel.

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WES program builds Jewish knowledge and peace as well as sukkot A whole lot of building went on last month at Beit Miriam’s Sukkot program, “Building a Shelter of Peace.

The West End Synagogue religious school convened a unique, three-pronged event designed to teach, celebrate and share on Oct. 16, the eve of Sukkot. Concurrent arenas served families with children in sixth grade and under and teens in seventh grade and up. After a kosher food-truck lunch, several lucky synagogue members left with the know-how, lumber and supplies to assemble a guest-ready sukkah at home, complete with lulav and etrog.

The sukkah kits were the idea of Sharon Paz, WES director of lifelong learning, who wanted to “spread the shelter” of Sukkot observance beyond the immediate environs of synagogue neighbors. This is why four families from target communities – Smyrna, Murfreesboro, West End Synagogue Rabbi Spring Hill and East Nashville – received a sukkah to Joshua Kullock and Cheryl Lane show Micah and Jacob use at home during the holiday. Each family was encour- Karlin how to wave the lulav aged to invite guests for a meal in the sukkah, to use the and etrog. donated lulav and etrog, and to help foster a wider net of hospitality and community.

Another highlight of the morning was “Sukkah City,” a walking tour through big-scale examples of Talmudic rules of sukkah construction as built by fourth, fifth and sixth graders. The project-based curriculum was devised by Joanna Brichetto, WES experimental educator, who said she was pleased “the kids learned as much about tools and materials as they did about Sukkot.” The students had been set the task to ponder meaning and function behind the rules found in the Talmud, and then to create an illustrative model using supplies at hand: lumber, PVC pipe, appliance boxes, bamboo, shipping pallets and upcycled scrap.

What is the smallest possible sukkah? The largest?

Can you build a sukkah on a roof? On a boat, a wagon, West End high school students a camel? How much schach (the “covering” of branch- assemble sukkah kits for famies) is required and from what can it be made? Kosher lies in outlying areas. and non-kosher examples brought the rules to life. (Two examples of the latter were a bamboo teepee and sukkah built under a leaning tree.)

Sukkot enrichment stations filled the building: Families could make Ushpizin puppets and dramatize stories in a sukkah theatre (led by Jenny Nissenson), craft tabletop sukkah kits, make edible sukkot, learn about the Shalosh Regalim with a Temple Toss game, bob for harvest apples, hear a Sukkot story, and free-build with giant blocks and construction toys with real schach.

In the synagogue sukkah, visitors could assemble and practice waving a lulav, learn Sukkot blessings, taste etrog marmalade, win free lulavs and etrogs in a drawing, and see old and new ways to re-purpose the “four species” after Sukkot. Sukkot’s ancient water-libation ceremony (Simchat Beit haShoeivah) got a post-modern update as a wildly popular dunk tank.

Meanwhile, the high-school agenda focused on the realities of temporary and permanent shelter. Program directors and students from Safe Haven Family Shelter helped facilitate a poverty simulation exercise so Beit Miraim teens could experience the uncertainties and choices people are forced to consider when money is scarce.

From playing roles to drilling holes, teens segued to hands-on construction.

Volunteer WES carpenters helped students assemble four complete, life-size sukkah kits in the parking lot. This was the first experience with 2x4 construction for most students, and the first time to build a sukkah for many. They also disassembled each sukkah and loaded materials for immediate delivery to sukkah recipients.

The program was made possible by a grant from the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, and the parents, grandparents, alumni, friends and members who donated materials, assisted in class and staffed volunteer stations.

Camp Ramah Darom director in Nashville for annual reunion on Nov. 12 Geoffrey Menkowitz, director of Camp Ramah Darom, will be in Nashville on Friday-Sunday, November 11-13.

All Ramah alumni and anyone interested in attending Camp Ramah Darom for the summer of 2017 are invited to the annual Camp Ramah Recruitment and Reunion Havdalah at 5:45 p.m. Saturday Nov. 12 at the home of Ruthi and Gene Sacks, 1584 Ragsdale Road, in Brentwood. For more information and to RSVP email spaz@westendsyn.org .

This still of Michael Ochs is from the music video of his composition “A New Year’s Prayer,” which was commissioned by the 92nd Street Y in New York City. (Photo courtesy of the 92nd Street Y)

Video of Michael Ochs High Holiday composition for 92nd Street Y has been viewed by millions The music video of “A New Year’s Prayer,” a Rosh Hashanah song composed by longtime Congregation Micah composer-in-residence Michael Hunter Ochs, has reached millions of people via social media since its debut last month during the High Holiday season.

The work was commissioned last spring by the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and the video that accompanied its debut features performances by synagogue choirs, rabbis and cantors from around the world, including Ochs himself, Micah’s High Holidays choir and its cantorial soloist, Lisa Silver. By the middle of last month, it had received 5.6 million Facebook views, 131,000 shares and reached more than 12 million people.

To see the video and learn more about the composition, visit the 92nd Street Y website at https://www.92y.org/NewYearPrayer.

First annual Micah Uncorked will be an evening of fundraising and “friendraising” for children’s academy The first annual Micah Uncorked will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19 in the Micah social hall.

The event will benefit Micah Children’s Academy and will include a silent auction, wine tasting, hors d’oeuvres, and music. Adults only. The cost is $18 per person.

For more information or to RSVP visit www.congregationmicah.org.

A Woman’s Circle will meet on Nov. 18 for lunch, learning and conversation Adele Stein will host A Woman’s Circle on Friday, Nov. 18 at her home in Nashville.

The casual afternoon of lunch, learning, and conversation will be led by Rabbi Laurie Rice. The lunch will be from noon-12:45 p.m. and will be followed by learning and conversation from 12:45 – 2 p.m.

The event is free and open to all women. Please RSVP directly to Adele at steinadele@hotmail.com by Nov.14 to ensure a spot at the table.

To access the Community Calendar, go to www.jewishnashville.org and click on “Calendar.”

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Congregational News & Events @ The Temple Three-part series will examine “enduring spirituality” of Maimonides Dr. David Barton will lead a three-part series that begins this month on the spirituality of the great Medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides.

“Searching for God-Maimonides: Spiritual Brilliance that Endures” will be from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Nov. 13 and 20 and Dec. 11. Temple Rabbi Mark Schiftan also will contribute commentary.

Barton is a retired psychiatrist who remains a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and adjunct professor at Meharry Medical College.

Mayor Barry will be guest as town hall series kicks off this month The Temple will begin an ongoing series of Town Hall meetings this month with a discussion on race and criminal justice featuring Nashville Mayor Megan Barry.

Race, Policing and Criminal Justice: Confronting the Uncomfortable Realities of Poverty, Homelessness and Race Relations will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30 at The Temple.

The series, moderated by Dr. Frank Boehm, is intended to present a variety of views on current issues of communal concern in spirit of an open, civil, respectful and honest dialogue.

Temple organizing group to attend musical about Leo Frank The Temple is organizing a contingent to attend the Nov. 20 performance at Belmont University of the touring Broadway production of “Parade,” a Tony Awardwinning musical based on the story of Leo Frank, the Jewish factory owner who was falsely accused of murdering a young girl in Atlanta in 1913.

The show is a provocative retelling of Frank’s trial and conviction in the murder

of one of his employees, Mary Phagan, and his subsequent lynching by a mob after his death sentence was commuted to life in prison. The play explores issues related to social class and race relations, prejudice, and injustice in the South in the early 20th century.

For more information, please see contact Cantor Fishbein at cantorfishbein@ templenashville.org.

The Boulevard Bolt returns on Thanksgiving The 23rd annual Boulevard Bolt will take place on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24.

Since its inception in 1994, the 5-mile run on Belle Meade Boulevard has raised more than $2.7 million for services for the homeless. It is organized each year by volunteers from Immanuel Baptist Church, St. George’s Episcopal Church and The Temple.

For more information, visit www.boulevardbolt.org. To volunteer call The Temple.

Program will offer advice for parents on dealing with anxious children Leslie Marnett, a local certified child life specialist and creator of The Punch Pillow, will present a program this month at The Temple about helping anxious children.

The event, part of The Temple’s ongoing Emotional First Aid Kit program led by Felice Apolinsky, will be from 9:30-10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13. It will provide tips and tools for parents to help their children manage worry and anxiety.

Hike and Havdalah set for Nov. 5 The Temple’s Worship and Music Committee is holding a special Hike and Havdalah Nov. 5 at Percy Warner Park.

Those who wish to participate should meet at 3:45 p.m. at the top of the steps at the end of Belle Meade Boulevard. The group will hike the 2.5-mile white trail beginning at 4 p.m., then hold at Havdalah service at 5:30 p.m. at the park’s stone gate entrance.

Special Shabbat and Onegs • 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4, celebrating the Securing Tomorrow Today endowment campaign.

• 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, celebrating newest members to the congregation.

Nashville area teen one of 31 from North American taking part in NFTY high school program in Israel

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Students who take part in NFTY Eisendrath International Experience high school program are based at Kibbutz Tzuba in the Judean Hills about 15 minutes outside of Jerusalem. Along with their regular studies to fulfill requirements of their high schools back home, they take advanced course in Jewish history and Hebrew.

The students spend about three days a week on field trips related to their Jewish history studies and take several longer trips, including one to Poland to study the Holocaust, a week in Gadna for a simulated Israeli army training experience, and a hike across the country from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea. “I choose to participate in EIE because I knew it would be a great experience spiritually and educationally,” said Zack, 16, the son of Missi and Michael Carinia and a sophomore at Bowling

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Green’s Greenwood High School. “It is important because I have always wanted to travel to Israel and to do so for four months was a big step in my life.”

The semester-long program for students in grades 10-12 is named for the late Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, past president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, now the Union for Reform Judaism. Registration is open for EIE sessions in the spring and fall of 2017. More information can be found at www.nftyeie.org. •

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Nashville Trunk & Bag: High quality merchandise with numerous price points

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Located in the heart of Green Hills in Grace’s Plaza, the store touts its high quality merchandise in numerous price points. Leather wallets, journals, shave kits, passport covers, brief bags, handbags, wine carriers, duffles, valet trays and garment sleeves are just a few of the items that can be monogrammed free while you wait. Free gift wrapping is offered year round.

Featured prominently is a vast array of pens ranging in price from $20 to $1,000, including well-known brands such as Diplomat, Waterford, Aurora, Lamy, Monteverde, Conklin, Pelikan and Montegrappa. We have inks by Private Reserve and Pelikan.

Whether you’re a road warrior or an infrequent traveler, you will find accessories such as converters, adapters, neck pillows, locks, travel-size bottles, eye masks and many more items located in the travel section.

If you’re purchasing a gift and need a card to go with it or just need a card for a special occasion, one of a kind handmade cards are also available. Each card is individually crafted and exclusive to Nashville Trunk & Bag, which is open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

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Cute and Comfy Shoes: Comfortable footwear for women with serious style

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Locally owned and operated in Green Hills, Cute & Comfy Shoes offers chic but comfortable footwear for women. Not only has their selection grown immensely, but also the customer service is truly outstanding. They offer brands that have comfort features such as arch support and padding and are high quality with some serious style. During the fall, many of their shoes will accommodate various types of inserts, so bring your orthotics with you if you have them. Most of the shoes do not need them, but if your body feels better using them, bring them.

Many of their customers are world travelers, so Cute and Comfy is prepared to help you and your feet walk the world!

Their number one brand in the store is Naot from Israel. These shoes have soft leathers, wonderful support, beautiful colors, and will take you miles and miles.

Many customers have said they are as good as traveling in tennis shoes!

In the last year, they have also ventured into travel-friendly clothing and accessories that are light and pack easily.

The Krazy Larry pants, which is their top-selling item, are a slip-on, relaxed-fit pant that has an easy and friendly tummy control. They are sharp. The store also offers two travel handbag lines that will get you through the airports and streets of your destinations!

Don’t forget to stop by before your trip and let them take care of you!

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Get Connected Israel Teen Tour If you are looking for a meaningful and affordable way to visit Israel, consider becoming a delegate on our teen educational tour!

We are looking for Jewish 10th and 11th graders who would like to participate in our Summer 2017 tour.

TRIP: June 6 - 20, 2017 COST: $1,600 (scholarships available) CLASSES BEGIN: January 7, 2017 (preparation for trip consists of 1 overnight retreat and 4 two-hour classes) TRIP REGISTRATION DEADLINE: January 10, 2017 (Receive a $25 discount if you register

by December 15, 2016)

For on-line application link, email Rachel Koch at Rachel@JewishNashville.org

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Born in the Caribbean islands, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived most of my life in Nashville  I believe my passion for my job was developed, in part, due to my Caribbean heritage. In the islands, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customary to offer assistance to elder neighbors. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until I was in college on a full academic scholarship in electrical engineering that I realized the joy that working with the elderly brought me. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I decided to align my passion with my career. I believe all those whom I care for feel the joy and love I bring to my work.

I am honored to be offered the opportunity to care for your loved ones with loving hands and a warm heart. Please contact me today at (615) 290-8148 for your complimentary shift.

Synergy Realty: Helping you buy the perfect home Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to move into your next house. But not just any house. You want to find the right place, one special enough to call home. Maybe you love to travel, or perhaps youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a homebody and love to entertain. You are looking for a realtor who understands your lifestyle and the home that would be the perfect fit. Franklin and Lana Pargh are just that.

In this business, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no speed limit, which is why Franklin and Lana work so well together providing excellent customer service with outside-the-box thinking.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why they call themselves home consultants, not just realtors. Franklin is a third-generation real estate professional and a fifth-generation Nashvillian. Lana has a background in architecture and design. Her years of experience help bring the vision of your home to life. If you can dream it, Franklin and Lana can find, renovate or design the home to fit your needs. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to buy, sell or invest in real estate in Tennessee, please contact Synergy Realty Network. Franklin Pargh: (615) 351-7333 or fpargh@me.com Lana Pargh: (615) 504-2685 or lanapargh@gmail.com Â

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Strength to Strength Counseling: Drawing on strengths to overcome struggle

When my kids were very little, one of the book series they loved was Toot and Puddle. The books were about two pigs who had amazing adventures around the world. Actually, one had amazing adventures; the other stayed at home. It always struck me that while these two pigs were so different when it came to travel and adventure, they remained very close and seemed to have an appreciation and love for what brought the other joy.

In my psychotherapy practice, I work with children and families, couples and individual adults. I emphasize a strengthsbased approach, drawing on inner and relational strengths and resources to develop new strengths when overcoming conflict and struggle.

In my work with married couples, I see how differences that may be a source of conflict and breakdown in the marriage are often the same differences that initially attracted one to the other. One person who is more introverted may fall in love with a person who is extroverted and vice versa. One embodies an exciting sense of adventure and an ability to stay calm in the face of discovery. One manifests thoughtfulness, stability and reliability. Over time, these once endearing and attractive qualities now seem tiresome and even threatening.

Rediscovering that many of our core differences are actually complementary strengths can help to get us back on track toward an experience of the other as our bashert, or other half. Notes author Holly Hobbie, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Although Toot likes to travel and Puddle likes to stay at home, they still enjoy being friends.â&#x20AC;?

Contact me, Adam M. Horn, at 615-624-9000 or AdamHorn@STSCounseling. com or visit my website at stscounseling.com.

TPAC: Give the gift of the performing arts Giving the gift of the performing arts is a great idea for any occasion, and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center can help. With gift certificates in a variety of denominations, everyone can give the thrill of a live performance.

TPAC gift certificates can be used to buy tickets for any show at TPAC or War Memorial Auditorium including comedy and concerts, family favorites, and the stunning performances of Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, and Nashville Repertory Theatre.

Of course, you can always give the best of Broadway with upcoming shows like the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Gentlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to Love & Murder,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sound of Musicâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bodyguardâ&#x20AC;? starring R&B superstar Deborah Cox. Trouble deciding? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry. Gift certificates donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expire until two years after their purchase. Just redeem them when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready by phone, online, or in person at the TPAC box office at505 Deaderick Street.

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Whether shopping for the holidays, a birthday or a Wednesday, TPAC gift certificates are the perfect way to share the arts with your friends, family, and loved ones.

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Embassy Suites Midtown: A the center of Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dining and entertainment The Embassy Suites by Hilton Nashville at Vanderbilt is a full service, all-suite hotel located in the heart of Midtown and Music Row, less than two miles from downtown Nashville. This beautiful Hotel is within walking distance to over 30 restaurants and venues. Rates include a complimentary made to order breakfast each morning featuring omelets, waffles, a full array of fresh bakeries, fruit, coffee and juices along with a complimentary evening reception featuring assorted cocktails, beer, wine, soft beverages and light snacks. Each suite features a separate bedroom and living room area along with a wet bar, small fridge, microwave, two cup coffee maker and pull out sleeper sofa.  The hotel offers complimentary shuttle service within two miles of the hotel, based upon availability at the time of booking from 7 a.m. to 12 a.m. daily, plus a 24-hour business center and fitness center, a a whirlpool and sauna.

Green Hills Hampton Inn: Making your out-of-town guests feel at home Complete confidence that out-of-town guests will feel â&#x20AC;&#x153;right at homeâ&#x20AC;? is a primary concern for every host or hostess, no matter what the social event. Hampton Inn & Suites-Green Hills specializes in just that: making our home their home-away-fromhome while they attend your special event. We are a boutique-style select service hotel in the heart of Green Hillsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fantastic shopping, dining and entertainment district. We can offer both comfortable standard rooms and spacious residential king suites with fully furnished kitchens. We provide your guests with complimentary cost saving services and amenities that other hotels often add to their bills. Our rate includes free parking, internet access, local calls and our highly praised daily breakfast buffet with hot items. The facility offers a computer center, fitness facility, and laundry services for the convenience of guests during their visit.  The atrium-style sixth floor Belle Meade room offers a dynamic view of the Green

Hills area, perfect for bridesmaid luncheons, rehearsal dinners, receptions and birthday parties. To keep your visitors entertained during those free times of your special event, we are in walking distance of the Mall at Green Hills, 15 restaurants and a 16-screen cinema. Contact our sales department to learn how we can help relieve some of the responsibilities so you can better enjoy your next social event. Find out more at www. nashgreenhillssuites.hamptoninn.com. Â

Get Connected: The Israel teen tour turns 10!

Jewish children are often taught that in Israel they will always have a homeland and refuge. Nine years ago, Rabbi Philip Rice along with area synagogues decided to find a way to introduce our children to Israel first-hand and created Get Connected, the Israel Teen Tour.

Thus far, 200 students have participated in the Get Connected program and new participants are currently registering to join Get Connectedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017 delegation that will take place from June 6-20. This is a highly-subsidized trip offered to Jewish 10th and 11th graders through the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, with additional scholarship opportunities available.

An overnight retreat, held in January, and several pre-trip meetings help the students get to know one another, enrich their understanding of the land of Israel, and solidify the expectations of a group trip.

In addition to touring the holy land, the trip includes spending four days and three nights in the homes of Israeli teens in our Partnership2Gether region of Hadera-Eiron.

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Grant Smith is back protecting GJCC after special Army Reserve assignment

By CHARLES BERNSEN

t 6-2 and 205 pounds, Grant Smith is a hard guy to miss, which made his absence at the Gordon Jewish Community Center over the past 10 months or so all the more noticeable.

But the GJCC’s director of security returned to his post last month after wrapping up a long special assignment for the U.S. Army Reserve in which he helped plan and conduct a military police training exercise.

Smith, whose E6 rank is the equivalent of a sergeant first class, has been in the regular Army and Army Reserve since 1997, serving first as a mechanic before switching to military police in 2005. He has served three combat tours – two in Iraq and another in Afghanistan – and been on training assignments in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

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Based with the 290th Military Police Brigade in Nashville, Smith was picked to help plan and execute the training exercise for 1,200 military police officers last summer at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin because he has experience in all facets of military police duty – intelligence, law and order and combat support.

While it was tough being away from home so much, Smith said it was a rewarding experience “to be able to use my own training and experience to help so many soldiers, to show them the standards, train them on the standards and then test them on the standards.”

To top it all off, he got to take part in a 23-day protective services training course in Missouri.

Still, Smith is happy to be back home with his wife, Shana, and their children, 12-year-old Krystina and 7-year-old Christopher – and to have time for his favorite hobby, fishing.

Meanwhile, no one at the GJCC was surprised that on his first day back there was a security drill. •

Shown hear talking with Ruth Johnson and James McDowell at the front desk, Grant Smith, director of security for the Gordon Jewish Community Center, is back after spending 10 months on special assignment for the U.S. Army Reserve.

How Jacob Neusner brought Jewish studies into the mainstream

By ALAN J. AVERY-PECK WORCESTER, Mass. (JTA) — Jacob Neusner, the almost mythically prolific scholar who died Oct. 8 at the age of 84, almost singlehandedly created the modern study of Judaism, and in doing so he revolutionized our understanding of the history of Judaism and our perception of what Judaism can mean to Jews today.

His career, which spanned more than

50 years and famously included the publication as author or editor of almost 1,000 books, brought him national and international recognition. But most important, it created a model of Jewish life and learning that adheres to the heritage of Torah and tradition with an intellectual and historically honesty that is at home in 21st century America.

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scholars had long questioned and sought methods of analyzing everything from the Hebrew Bible’s account of the history of early Israel to the New Testament’s claims regarding what Jesus had said and done. But it remained routine in Jewish history simply to accept as fact what Jewish texts, written hundreds of years after the events they reported, said had happened or claimed what certain rabbis or other figures had said.

Instead, Neusner insisted that ancient Jewish writings be examined according to the same norms of analysis that were routinely applied to the Bible and New Testament.

In his earliest writings, Neusner showed conclusively that rabbinic books — the Mishnah, the two Talmuds, collections of Midrash — expressed distinctive ideologies uniquely suited to the time and place of their authors and editors. This meant that Jewish history, just like Israelite and early Christian history, could not be expressed in terms of what had actually happened, but only as the history of the ideas and ideologies of those who compiled and edited the later literary evidence.

A first implication of this discovery was that we could no longer speak simply of some single and monolithic “Judaism.”

Individual rabbinic books, rather, needed to be understood in the context of the specific and diverse Judaic systems in which they arose.

Second, Talmudic texts could not be studied as they always had been, with every text, early or late, being used to illuminate every other text.

And third, accurately interpreting this literature required academic methods.

This meant that the Talmud, to be truly understood and for it to take its rightful place among the world’s great literatures, could no longer be in the sole purview of the yeshiva and yeshiva-trained scholars.

The last point is perhaps the most significant. Through critical examination, massive projects of translation and commentary, and his application of disciplines ranging from literary study to anthropology, Neusner brought the study

of Judaism — and the university-trained scholar of Judaism — into dialogue with scholarship throughout the academy.

Talmudic literature, previously viewed as neither accessible nor, because of its superficially arcane content, as worth accessing, would now contribute to the work of humanists and social scientists throughout the academy.

This had another important implication. Even as Jews and Judaism came of age and became increasingly at home in the America of the 1960s and beyond, Jacob Neusner assured that Jewish history, literature and tradition would take their rightful place within the academy, benefiting from critical study while also demonstrating how Jews and their literary and intellectual legacy contribute to human learning overall.

In this work, Neusner defied entrenched religious and academic monopolies, whose approach to these texts and commitment to a traditional reading of Jewish history and religion was now challenged exactly as, a century before, academic study had challenged regnant, fundamentalist readings of the Hebrew Bible. Strikingly, today, just as a critical approach to the Hebrew Bible has begun to enter even the world of Jewish Orthodoxy, Neusner’s critical methodology is standard, even among scholars who no longer are conscious of where these approaches came from and who take issue with Neusner’s specific conclusions.

The irascible Neusner was a fierce defender of his own work and often tussled publicly with rivals and critics of his academic work. But even those who disagreed with him acknowledged the depth and breadth of his scholarship, and whether he wins or loses on the specific details, Neusner won the battle over how Talmudic texts would be studied and how they would be regarded in the contemporary academy. • Alan J. Avery-Peck is the Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the co-editor of A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner [Brill, 2014].

Life in Israel They came on the wings of an eagle

By LIBBY WERTHAN

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f the Yemenites in their colorful robe and headdresses were a unique addition to the young Israeli population, the arrival of the Ethiopians was even more startling.

Airlifted from Ethiopia on jumbo jets that had been stripped of seats, thousands arrived in the mid 1980’s to the early ‘90’s.

The origins of these African Jews are not fully understood. Many Libby think they were a part of Werthan the lost tribes. What is known is that they had been isolated from the rest of the Jewish world for thousands of years. They call themselves Beta Israel and follow Torah law – kashrut, circumcision on the eighth day, Shabbat. Their children bear biblical names.

Their practice of Judaism predates rabbinic Judaism. There are no rabbis.

Their spiritual guides are called qesim and are easily identified by the ritual umbrellas they carry. Most of the newcomers were uneducated and very primitive. Some had to be taught to use a doorknob and, of course, a toilet. Fires were sometimes built in the middle of a living room.

Over the centuries they had maintained a dream, the dream of coming to the Promised Land of the Bible. According to the Torah they would be borne there on the wings of an eagle. And they were, in a jumbo jet in an airlift named Operation Moses. What they went through to get to the plane was a story in itself, wearying foot travel, robbery, rape, starvation and sometimes murder.

Imagine their shock when they finally arrived and the pastures and shepherds of their dream turned out to be the skyscrapers and taxi drivers of modern Israel. Talk about diversity! It is difficult to get more diverse than this.

The Ethiopian aliyah presented an enormous challenge to the country.

One of the many problems was what to do with the young unmarried women ages 18 to 21. They were too old to be in the school system, uneducated, and in culture shock. Left alone they would fall through the cracks of society and end up on the streets. Five campuses were set up to address this issue, one just outside of Jerusalem.

The director of this campus was putting together a volunteer group to help him cope with this enormous, poorly funded challenge. So I joined a small group of women to try and work out a way to be helpful. The school was located in Beit HaShoeva, a small village about thirty minutes away from my home on the Jerusalem/Tel Aviv highway.

Today there are stoplights, turn signals and off ramps, but back then, to get to the school, I had to cross two lanes of a heavily trafficked highway. Perilous but nothing to compare to what these young women had been through.

When we first met them, they were very shy. Their heads were lowered and they placed their right hand on their left forearm in the traditional Ethiopian greeting. Since they only spoke Amharic, we communicated via a translator. We asked them if they could have anything

they wanted, what would it be. To our surprise, it was an Amharic/Hebrew dictionary. We could see right away that these young women were very motivated to assimilate into Israeli society.

The first step was to get them healthy. Most were undernourished and had never seen a doctor. Teeth, eyes, skin, internal diseases, all needed treatment. In addition to the dictionaries, we were able to get donations of soap, shampoo, and other toiletries. I wrote to my friends in Nashville and asked them each to “adopt” one of the girls and send a small amount of money so we could buy them things like tote bags, watches, gloves and other items – everyday items that we take for granted but meant so much to them.

The first year was spent learning to read, write and do basic math as well understanding life in Israel. The second year was spent job training in childcare, restaurant work, and jewelry making.

They rotated between these areas over the year. The third year they selected one of these areas in which to specialize and obtain a work license.

I attended the closing exercises along with their families (many had lost family members along their journey) and the proud faculty. The qes was there with his parasol to put his stamp of approval on the ceremony. The girls were chattering away in Hebrew, excited and lively. All had jobs and a few were even going on to a dental assistant program.

This was a very successful endeavor

and I enjoyed playing a small part in it.

But as a group, the Ethiopians have had a difficult time of it. They can be strikingly beautiful, slim with narrow faces, delicate features and large brown eyes, but their color sets them apart. As you can imagine, family units broke down as the children quickly became Israeli and lost respect for the old ways of their parents.

The Ethiopians are making strides, but it is a slow process and they have a long way to go.

Next time – Arabs and Anglos.

Libby Werthan and her husband, Moshe, lived in Israel for 25 years before returning in 2014 to their native Nashville. “Life in Israel” is a regular column about what it was like living in the Jewish homeland.

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Nobel Laureate Bob Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five most Jewish moments

By GABE FRIEDMAN (JTA) Last month Bob Dylan became the first person considered primarily a musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Bard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as he is known affectionately by fans, underscoring how he is often seen equally as a poet and musician â&#x20AC;&#x201D; became the 15th Jew to win the literature prize, joining the ranks of Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Patrick Modiano. He even beat out fellow Jew, Philip Roth, who has long been seen as one of the favorite to win the Nobel.

Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious trajectory has been interesting, to say the least. Born Robert Zimmerman and raised in a tight Jewish community in Hibbing, Minnesota â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he spent summers at Herzl Camp, a Zionist camp in Webster, WI â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dylan became a born again Christian in the 1970s. After releasing a couple of polarizing gospel music albums, he returned to his Jewish roots in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s. In recent decades he has even participated in holiday services at Orthodox Chabad synagogues.

So in honor of Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic achievement, we give you his five most Jewish moments.

Holding his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bar mitzvah at the Western Wall Not too long after releasing the last of his Christian music albums in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, Dylan made an extremely Jewish statement: He held his eldest son Jesseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. Jesse, born to Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first wife Sara

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(nĂŠe Shirley Marlin Noznisky), went on to become a music video director and founded the media production company Wondros.

Playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hava Nagilaâ&#x20AC;? at a Chabad telethon After his mysterious â&#x20AC;&#x153;returnâ&#x20AC;? to Judaism, Dylan studied with Chabad rabbis in the 1980s. His appearance on the Chabad telethon fundraiser in 1989 wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his first endorsement of the movement (or his first telethon cameo) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but it might have been his Jewiest. A yarmulke-clad Dylan accompanied songwriter Peter Himmelman (his Jewish son-in-law) and Harry Dean Stanton on harmonica as the group played â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hava Nagila.â&#x20AC;?

Releasing the pro-Israel anthem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighborhood Bullyâ&#x20AC;?

Just after his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bar mitzvah at the Kotel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a year after Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversial first Lebanon War â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dylan released the song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighborhood Bullyâ&#x20AC;? as part of his 1983 album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Infidels.â&#x20AC;? In what is arguably one of the most pro-Jewish rock songs ever recorded, Dylan describes Israel as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;exiled manâ&#x20AC;? unfairly labeled a bully Bob Dylan, third from left, at the bar mitzvah of his for fending off constant attacks son Jesse, in the white tallit on right, at the Western from his neighbors.

Wall in September 1983. (Facebook) One verse goes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well the neighborhood bully, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just one Holding a seder with Marlon Brando man/His enemies say heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on their land/ By 1975, Dylan had released many of They got him outnumbered a million to his seminal albums, such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Times one/He got no place to escape to, no place They Are Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Changinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Highway 61 to run/Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the neighborhood bully.â&#x20AC;?

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Marlon Brando had already starred Endorsing an Israeli directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music in most of his iconic films, from â&#x20AC;&#x153;On video â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like a Rolling Stoneâ&#x20AC;? the Waterfrontâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfather.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like a Rolling Stone,â&#x20AC;? one of So the 1975 congregational seder at Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular songs, was released Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Temple Israel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which in July 1965. Forty-eight years later, Brando crashed, and where Dylan played Israeli director Vania Heymann â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a his anti-war anthem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blowinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art Windâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was not your grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Design â&#x20AC;&#x201D; created an interactive festive meal. music video for the song. The video According to the JTA story on allowed viewers to change â&#x20AC;&#x153;channelsâ&#x20AC;? the event, Rabbi Haskell Bernat, the and choose from an array of celebrities congregationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior rabbi, said that singing the songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lyrics.

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lifecycles B’nai Mitzvah Mya Schwartz will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 5 at Congregation Micah.

She is the daughter of Elizabeth and David Schwartz and the sister of Ben. She is the granddaughter of Burton and the late Sharon Schwartz Mya Schwartz of Minneapolis and David and Nancy Ott of Hancock, WI. Mya is a seventh grader at Brentwood Middle School. She is very active in competitive cheerleading and competed with her team at Disneyworld last year.

She is also a music lover and enjoys playing piano, guitar, and ukulele as well as attending concerts with her friends.

Mya is a lifelong animal lover, and for her project she is raising money and collecting supplies for Metro Animal Care and Control.

Owen Doochin Shaffer will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at 11 a.m.

Nov. 5 at The Temple.

Owen was born in Nashville on September 30, 2003. His parents are Karen and Brian Vingelen and Amanda and Preston Shaffer. His Owen Doochin Shaffer grandparents are Lanie and Bill Cook of Nashville, Bob and Alberta Doochin of Nashville, Jimmy and Eric Shaffer of Georgetown, KY, and Paige Prewitt of Lexington, KY. Owen is in the seventh grade at The Ensworth Schol. He enjoys tennis, canoeing, robotics, Boy Scouts, reading, technology, and hanging out with his friends.

For his mitzvah project, Owen is raising money to purchase equipment for Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital through the Children’s Play organization.

Carson Lewis will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at 11 a.m. on Saturday Nov. 12 at The Temple.

His parents are M. Scott and Rebecca Lewis.

His grandparents are Douglas B. Lewis of Brentwood, Jane Lewis of Smyrna, and Ed and Carson Lewis Mary Honeyman of Murfreesboro.

Carson is in the seventh grade at Siegel Middle School. He enjoys soccer, taekwondo (currently a black belt), Xbox and spending time with family and friends.

For his mitzvah project, Carson has created “blessing bags” that include daily

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necessities and food items to be handed out by Carson, his family, friends and guests of his bar mitzvah to people in need in the Greater Nashville area

Jacob Dimitry Viner will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19 at The Temple. Jacob was born in Nashville on Sept. 22, 2003.

His parents are Jessica and Daniel Viner. His Dimitry grandparents are Gary JacobViner Gutow of Nashville, Barbara Viner of Fairfield, CT, Nicholas Viner of Westport, CT, and the late Kathryn H. Gutow.

Jacob is in the seventh grade at Montgomery Bell Academy. He enjoys soccer, skiing, skateboarding, rowing, drawing, and spending time with family and friends Jacob is a four-year camper at Camp Timberlane in Woodruff, WI, and for his mitzvah project, he will be making a donation to Camp for All Kids, allowing other kids to experience summer camp.

Sympathy … to the family and friends of Peggy Ann Lightman Cohen, 90, who died on Sept. 27. Born in Nashville on March 24, 1926, she was the daughter of Edward and Edna Lightman. She is preceded in death by her husband, P. Millard Cohen; daughter, Melanie Dee Cohen; sister, Rowena Levy; daughter-in-law, Amy Michelle Cohen, and other in-laws including, Morris David and Sara Cohen, Harold Cohen, Dr. Lawrence Cohen, Bernice and Hugo Marx, Eileen Sloan, and other members of the Lightman and Gross families. She is survived by her son, David Samuel Cohen; granddaughter, Rachel Melanie Cohen; sister, Justina (Shelly) Goldstein, and many nieces and nephews, neighbors and friends.

Peggy was a graduate of West End High School and Peabody Teachers College. She retired after 45 years from the Metropolitan School System, where she taught at Parmer, Ransom and McCann elementary schools and was a Career Ladder 3 teacher. She was a member of Hadassah, National Council of Jewish Women, The Temple (Congregation Ohabai Sholom) and Congregation Sherith Israel, where she also served as a Sunday school teach-

er. She was a supporter of the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee and Akiva School.

The thanks friends and family for their love and support during this time and an extra special thank you to long term friend and caregiver Rafaela Joachin.

Graveside services were on Sept. 30.

Memorial donations may be made to Akiva School or a charity of the donor’s choice. … to the family and friends of Doris ‘Dooley’ Gross, who died in Nashville on October 3, the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Born Doris Moskovitz on August 12, 1922 in Nashville, Dooley was the youngest of seven children. She graduated from Hume Fogg High School and worked for Vultee Aircraft during World War II, where she and her future husband Charles Gross sent love messages to each other through the vacuum tube communication system. Married in 1942, the couple lived a wonderful and full life together for almost 70 years, working hard, raising four children, giving to their community, and traveling the world.

Dooley was an exceptional person who loved and cared for her family and her many friends, whom she considered a part of her family. She always gave to others without asking or wanting anything in return. Many can recall Dooley slipping a dollar bill into their pocket, sending a birthday gift, or visiting them when they were sick.

She is preceded in death by her soul mate, Charles Gross; her parents, Lilly and Max Moskovitz; her sister, Esta Loventhal, and brothers, Sol Moskovitz, Willie Moskovitz and Harry Moss. She leaves two lovely sisters, Sara Rosenstein and Rachel Kornman whom she also considered close friends; four children, Ronald (Ellen) Gross, Richard (Michelle) Gross, Sharon Satterfield, and Randy (Michael) Gross; seven grandchildren, Avi, Isaiah, Jordon, Lauren, Lilia Claire, Sara Beth, and Shoshanna; 13 great-grandchildren, and one great-greatgrandchild. She also leaves behind loving nieces, nephews, cousins and a multitude of close friends of all ages.

Funeral services were on Oct. 6 at West End Synagogue with burial at KKAI Cemetery. Donations can be made in her memory to West End Synagogue. … the family and friends of Dr. Phillip I. Levitan, who died on Oct. 9.

Born in Nashville to Ida Towbin Levitan and Martin Levitan, he also was preced-

ed in death by his former wife, Evelyn Alpert Levitan, and uncle, Ben Towbin.

He is survived by wife, Sue Levitan; son, Kenneth (Gloria Dumas) Levitan; daughter, Ilene (Alfred) Dobler; grandchildren, Kimberly Levitan, Stephanie Miles, Rebecca Dobler and Amanda Dobler; great-grandchildren, Evie Stack and Lealand Stack, and his dog, Abigail.

Phillip earned both his bachelor’s and medical degrees from Vanderbilt University and served internships and residency at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine.

He was a diversified, multi-talented surgeon with more than 30 years of experience as a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon and serving as president of the New York State Society of Surgeons. Phillip held an impressive array of elective offices and responsibilities within organized medicine. He was the associate medical director for Xantus Corporation and Med Solutions and a member of the Suffolk County Medical Society and Suffolk Academy of Medicine in New York. He held various positions within the hierarchy of organized medicine ranging from chairman of the Society’s Graduate Medical Education Committee, secretary of the Society, President of the Suffolk Academy of Medicine, president of the Medical Society of the State of New York Second District Branch, Suffolk County Medical Society delegate to the MSSNY House of Delegates, and chairman of the New York State Workers’ Compensation Arbitration Hearings.

He utilized his in-depth knowledge and skills as a surgeon to launch a simultaneous career in broadcast video production. He co-produced a training film for Searle Laboratories and hosted and produced a New York weekly syndicated radio show called “Here’s to Your Health.”

Phillip developed and co-produced the NBC Mini Series, “Wallenberg,” which won several Emmy Awards and the prestigious Christopher Award. He also produced movies, including the CBS movies “A Special Friendship” and “Labor of Love” and NBC’s “The Amy Fisher Story.” Phillip also served as the keynote speaker at the Can-Pro Festival of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Emmy Awards in 1999 in Canada.

Services were on Oct. 13 at Congregation Micah. Donations can be made to the American Red Cross at (615) 250-4300 or www.redcross. org or to WillowBrook Hospice, 1451 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville 37217 (www. willowbrookhealth.com).

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around the town Puppet Truck will perform Twainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jumping Frogâ&#x20AC;? at Akiva The Nashville Public Library Puppet Truck will be at Akiva School this month to perform Mark Twainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for a performance based on Mark Twainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous short story, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.â&#x20AC;?

The event, which is free and open to the entire community, will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6.

For more information or to RSVP contact Christina Evans, director of admissions at Akiva, at (615) 356-1880 or curiosity@akivanashville.net.

at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, Schroeder will discuss how, using robotics to overcome the limitations of the human hand in surgery, he has restored movement to people with paralyzing back injuries. The talk will be followed by a dessert reception. Those who plan to attend are asked to RSVP by Nov. 10 to hadassahnashville@gmail.com.

Schroeder was born at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus and is a member of the Young Hadassah International Board and past chair of Young Hadassah Israel. He is part of the trauma team of Jewish and Arab surgeons who deal with terror attacks and road side accidents, treating patients from all backgrounds.

Hadassah Hospital orthopedist will discuss use of robotics in back surgery

GJCC Early Childhood Learning Center will hold Election Day bake sale

Dr. Josh Schroeder, an orthopedic surgeon at Hadassah Hospital in Israel, will discuss his ground-breaking work in the use of robotics in back surgery in a visit this month to Nashville. In his presentation

The Gordon Jewish Community Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Early Childhood Learning Center will hold a bake sale on Nov. 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Election Day. The sale will run from 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the lobby of the GJCC. All proceeds will go to support the ECLC. For more information contact renee@ nashvillejcc.org.

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I like to come here, Fra nz. As I have for nearly twenty years now.

And the rose bush has turned into a lovely little tree.

GJCC will host TACA art show and pre-holiday â&#x20AC;&#x153;pop up shopâ&#x20AC;? by Israeli artisan in November The Gordon Jewish Community Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s November art exhibits will feature the work of members of the midstate chapter of the Tennessee Arts and Craft Association.

The exhibit will run from Nov. 1-29, and a reception for the artists is scheduled for 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Nov. 9. There will be live music by Joseph Harris along with food and beverages.

Also in November, the GJCC will host a special holiday â&#x20AC;&#x153;pop up shopâ&#x20AC;? by visiting Israeli artist Moshe Monzon and his wife Goldie. It will feature original art, Israeli jewelry and Judaica. The shop will be located in the Old Lobby of the GJCC from Nov. 1-4. The Monzons also will give a free talk about their familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history, life, work and journey from Europe to Israel called, â&#x20AC;&#x153;From Monzon to Jerusalem and Beyondâ&#x20AC;? on at 2:15 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 3 in the Senior Lounge.

For more information, contact the GJCC at (615) 354-1699, Curator Carrie Mills at carrie@nashvillejcc.org, or go to www.nashvillejcc.org.

Jewish teens invited to Election Day party at Dave and Busterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jewish teens from across Middle Tennessee are invited to an Election Day party at Dave and Bustersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to share a night of fun, friends and food â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and learn a little about civic responsibility.

The event is open to Jewish youth in grades 8-12 and is part of a national campaign aimed at bringing teenagers together in 30 communities around the country to watch the presidential debates and encourage civic engagement.

Supported locally by the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, the event is sponsored by BBYO, the Gordon Jewish Community Center, and NFTY and USY, the youth groups for Reform and Conservative Judaism.

The cost is $10 a person, which includes transportation, dinner and a game card. Transportation will be provided from the GJCC at 5 p.m., and participants will return at 8:45p.m.

To RSVP or for more information, contact Sheri Rosenberg at sherirosenberg@nashvillejcc.org or (615) 354-1659.

Annual NCJW fundraiser will honor members Fisher and Zander and Buz-A-Bus operators Bishop and Riley The Nashville chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women will hold its Ways & Means Fundraiser this month where it will honor members Lori Fishel and Barbara Zander as well as BuzA-Bus driver and scheduler, Doug Bishop and Mo Riley.

The event â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Celebrataion 36: A Final Ride on the Buz-A-Bus, will be at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 16 at Hillwood Country Club. For more information, please contact Jamie Brook at nashvillencjw@gmail.com.

Fishel and Zander will be receiving the Hannah G. Solomon Award. Named after the NCJW founder, it is awarded by local chapters to members who have demonstrated awareness of community needs and been involved in working to meet them.

Bishop and Riley will be honored for their many years of service to NCJW through its Buz-A-Bus program, which provided rides to seniors for more than 40 years. The program ended this fall because of changing demographics and needs.

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then that means a little bit of you is in the blossoms and you can see the summer every year.

The people who run the cemetery said that the rose bush can stay when the lease on the plot runs out.

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