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SUMMER HEALTH and WELLNESS

Alliance annual meeting recognizes community leadership Reports offer glimpse into the future

BY FRAN OSTENDORF

Tslil Reichman

Israeli emissary Tslil Reichman says le’hitraot

On June 13, the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island gathered for its annual meeting, recognizing the past and looking to the future.

For the seventh time, the group met as a combined organization to install leadership and to honor members of the community with several awards. For only the second time, the meeting took place in the renovated Gussie and Victor Baxt Social Hall at the Dwares Jewish Community Center in Providence. The crowd listened to Rabbi Noach Karp’s d’var Torah, which was followed by the presentation of the awards. Karp focused his message on the need to recognize the individual. “We need each other,” he said.

Three awards were presented this year.

Sharon Gaines, chair of the board of the Jewish Federation Foundation and immediate past chair of the board of the Jewish Alliance, received the Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award. It honors extraordinary women who have set a high standard for philanthropy and volunteerism. Recipients are chosen by peers

PHOTO | LEAH CAMARA

Joan Ress Reeves with Rabbi Wayne Franklin for being “women of valor” who have dedicated their lives to the Jewish world. Current chair of the board, Mitzi Berkelhammer, presented the

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‘Terror kites’ shake residents in southern Israel, but not their resolve to stay put

BY TSLIL REICHMAN I can’t believe it really is time to say le’hitraot (not goodbye, just see you soon).

Two years ago, I left everything I knew behind to embark on a journey to an unknown place called Rhode Island. I had so many questions, fears, dreams.

When I arrived in Providence, I was completely in shock, not sure what to expect or what exactly I was thinking moving thousands of miles away from my family, my friends and my mom’s cooking.

I’ll be honest, the beginning was not easy for me – I was just out of college, so far away from home, with a foreign language

award to Gaines, whom she called a dear friend. “She is a leader and a doer,” said Berkelhammer. “I am pleased to honor her tonight.”

Emily Dennen, a general studies teacher at the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island (JCDSRI), was the first recipient of the Rabbi Alvan and Giveret Marcia Kaunfer Day School Educator Award. Dianne Newman, along with her husband Martin, established the award, which she presented, saying “Teachers are at the core of day school or any other education.” The award honors the Kaunfers, longtime community members, educators, and among the founding families of JCDSRI when it was known as the Schechter School. Dennen received $3,000 toward a professional development learning opportunity in Israel; she will return to JCDSRI to continue teaching there. She said she sees herself as a “Jewish educator” although she teaches general studies, and she is working to incorporate more Hebrew into her classes.

Rabbi Wayne Franklin, senior rabbi at Temple EmanuEl in Providence, received the Joseph W. Ress Community Service Award. Serving the congregation since 1981, Franklin will retire in 2019.

BY SAM SOKOL

PHOTO | SAM SOKOL, JTA

An Israeli holds a “terror kite” and the incendiary materials attached to it

NAHAL OZ, Israel JTA – Dani Ben David fiddles with his radio, switching between it and his cellphone as he drives through the Beeri Forest, a nature reserve located on the border of Israel and the Hamascontrolled Gaza Strip.

As his Jeep jolts over the dirt road, he quickly and calmly jumps between multiple conversations, coordinating efforts to extinguish the multiple fires that have sprung up across his territory. As regional director for the Western Negev for Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund, Ben David is responsible for maintaining

the forest’s tens of thousands of acres in the face of Palestinian efforts to torch them and the surrounding farmland.

Since April, more than 450 open-air fires have been set along the border region by kites and balloons carrying incendiary materials launched from Gaza. Flying aimlessly over the kibbutzim, they have turned large swatches of what was once an oasis of green in a dry and dusty south into a charred landscape.

Many of those kites have landed in the wheat fields of farmers, causing millions of shekels in damage to the local KITES| 20

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Meet Tal Hirsh, J-Camp shaliach

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BY SETH FINKLE

Community 2-5, 11-12, 14-15, 26-27 D’var Torah 7 Food 13 Health & Wellness 19 Israel 7, 20 Nation 25 Obituaries 24-25 Opinion 8-9 Seniors 22-23 Summer 16-18

THIS ISSUE’S QUOTABLE QUOTE “… we have an obligation to welcome, love and protect the stranger …”

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Ruth Paige Levin (left), recipient of TMHWA’s 34th annual recognition award with Lisa Nulman (center), co-chair, TMHWA annual meeting committee, and Judy Siegel, chair of TMWA annual meeting.

Women hold annual meeting, honor volunteer The Miriam Hospital Women’s Association (TMHWA) held its 121st annual meeting June 6 at Ledgemont Country Club in Seekonk, Massachusetts. The meeting included the installation of new officers and board members and the presentation of the 34th annual recognition award to Ruth Paige Levin.

Guest speaker was Maria

Ducharme, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, senior vice president, Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer, The Miriam Hospital, who spoke on “Soaring to Six: Nursing Excellence in Motion.”

Sherry Cohen was honored as outgoing TMHWA president by incoming president Susan Guerra.

This summer at J-Camp at the Alliance’s Dwares Jewish Community Center, we are so excited to welcome a new Israeli shaliach (emissary). Tal Hirsh is from Bat-Yam, a city five minutes south of Tel Aviv.

Tal is the youngest of five children. He is a proud uncle to two beautiful nieces. While Tal is not religious, he says enjoys having a Shabbat meal with his entire family every other week.

His favorite foods are Chinese food and hamburgers.

He says he loves to hang out with friends, go to the movies, go to the beach, see live shows, listen to music, see live plays, train in kickboxing and TRX. He also likes to visit new restaurants and try new things.

He is excited to come to Rhode Island and be a part of the community.

Eight months ago, he finished his army service where he served as an IDF unit spokesperson and was in a commando unit.

When asked why he wanted to come to camp, he said, “In Israel, after army service, many Israelis go on a trip. Many of them go to South America or Asia. My trip is to come to you and be part of the Jewish com-

Tal Hirsh munity in the U.S. It’s a dream come true for me to take part in the JCC camp this summer. I’m so excited and can’t wait to see and meet everyone.”

Tal arrived on June 15. JCamp begins June 25.

SETH FINKLE is director of Camp Haverim at the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island.

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JCDSRI honors Eileen Ellis at annual meeting

BY THOMAS J. DOYLE Although the main purpose of the Jewish Community Day School of RI (JCDSRI) annual meeting on June 6 was to appoint the board of trustees and provide updates, the community-wide acknowledgement of Eileen Ellis’s dedication was the highlight of the evening. Ellis, who has worked for JCDSRI for 25 years in several capacities, currently holds the position of the executive assistant to the head of school.

To honor her service, the school has created the Eileen Ellis Children’s Scholarship Fund for JCDSRI families in need.

Ellis said that she hopes that the Children’s Fund will allow Jewish families “to choose this wonderful school for their children” and thanked everyone who has contributed to it and, in advance, all who will give to the fund in the future.

To thank Ellis for her years of service, Allison Walter, development director, presented her with some gifts, including a bronze mezuzah made by JCDSRI fourth graders with the help of Josh Hyman, a parent volunteer. The warm words that Ellis’s friends and current and former colleagues bestowed upon her served as additional gifts. Solid. Supportive.

Positive. Clear-thinking. Indispensable. Welcoming. Nurturing. Trustworthy. These were just some of the accolades Ellis heard that evening.

Eileen Ellis’s influence on the JCDSRI community is undeniable. During her 25 years’ tenure at JCDSRI, she contributed to the school’s progress, always displaying positivity and reliability in her role.

Dianne Newman, a parent of the school’s graduates and a former board president and chair of the Educational Policy Committee, identified Ellis as the “in-house historical memory of the school.” Newman praised Ellis’s skill in helping to ease the transitions and administrative changes that JCDSRI experienced over the years. “Eileen is such an honest, straight-thinking, no-baggage person! There’s not anyone – former teachers, administrators, parents, kids – who would have anything but a kind word to say about her.”

Barbara Feldstein, a former administrator who hired Ellis, said, “She was an excellent assistant to me, as well as always being there for the entire staff. With her warm personality, she very quickly became a member of the school family and was wonderful with the children and their families. The school has been blessed to have her.”

Giveret [teacher] Marcia Kaunfer gave a D’var Torah that discussed the can-do attitude of the women in the week’s portion and linked them to Ellis, praising her contributions.

“I could not possibly count the number of things you have done for our school,” she raved.

Kaunfer added that she also couldn’t measure the effect of Ellis’s positive attitude on the school, complimenting her ability to anticipate what needed to get done and willingness to take on the task. Kaunfer said she has always felt a spiritual kinship with Ellis. “As the Book of Proverbs says, ‘A woman who is God-fearing is worthy of praise.’ That’s you, Eileen.

As I’ve told you before, you’re a class act.”

Dr. Penney Stein, former head of school, honored Ellis’s service with heartfelt words of appreciation and thanks. She said, “Your kindness, wisdom and dedication have helped make sure that this wonderful school and its dedicated leaders and supporters continue to thrive. You have been a talented, valued, honest, trusted colleague and friend to all of us who have worked with you and have felt your caring and your love.”

Ellis thanked the JCDSRI community for its support during a particularly difficult time when tragedy struck. She recalled how, in 1996, when her husband Leonard died of a heart attack at the age of 42,

Celebrating 25 years at JCDSRI, Eileen Ellis, Barbara Feldstein and Ruti Adler.

Ellis became a single mother of two sons in high school. She said she is grateful to the community for pitching in and helping her through the crisis.

“You, my extended family, came to the aid of my immediate family… parents, board members, rabbis, teachers, friends, so many from this Jewish community.”

In a separate part of the evening, JCDSRI teachers Ilana Kapach (Pre-K and Kindergarten Jewish Studies) and Rhonda

Mills (Judaic Studies Coordinator and second- and third-grade Jewish Studies) received the Charles Samdperil Award for Dedication to Jewish Education. Andrea Katzman, head of school, acknowledged more than 20 community volunteers for their support. She praised several longstanding staff members, including Harshita Lahkiani (20 years’ service, business manager), Peter Smith (15 years’ service, security and physical plant), Sue Sugarman

Sitting Down with Eileen Ellis

Ellis kindly agreed to answer some questions about herself.

Q: Where did you grow up?

Where did you go to school?

A: I’m a native Rhode Islander, grew up in Coventry, went to Coventry High School, then to CCRI. Back when I graduated from high school, not too many students went to four-year colleges. We usually went to a trade school or a junior college, because you could find employment then at that stage of your life, which is so unusual now. Now you have to have a four-year degree. I just had an associate’s degree and the school of hard knocks… .

Previously, I worked at a Catholic school, the Father John V. Doyle School in Coventry, for six years as a classroom assistant.

Q: How many children and grandchildren do you have?

A: I have two sons, Ryan and Matt, and five grandchildren.

Ryan lives in Virginia with his wife, Sandy, and three daughters: Molly, Lucy and Katie.

Matt lives in Cranston; he and his wife, Jennifer have two sons: Will and Jake.

Q: What event or day at JCDSRI have you always looked forward to?

A: Special Visitors Day has become my baby through the years. Each year you get older, your family gets older and your life situation gets older. So I relate to many of the grandparents who visit here. And the repeat visitors are always so happy when they come back – it’s always like a reunion. Everyone leaves happy – they’ve spent time with the children; they’ve watched Zimriyah the night before. It’s just a wonderful day, and I really enjoy it.

Q: What are your current responsibilities at JCDSRI? A: I’ve been nicknamed “the quilt maker” because I have

my hands in many areas. My first and foremost role is to help the head of school. But then I need to be anywhere and everywhere in the school and make myself available to the administrators. I also meet and greet the families and the children every morning.

Another main job I have is during the summer; we work four days a week, and I choreograph the cleaning of all three floors of the building. We tear it apart, clean it and put it back together.

And I, the little Catholic girl, consider myself the mashgiah [a guard against any Kosher violations] of the school. I have been doing that for years and years. I’m the person who

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(15 years’ service, physical education and scheduling coordinator), Jill Davis (10 years’ service, director of General Studies and second-grade General Studies) and Alison Walter (5 years’ service, development director).

THOMAS J. DOYLE M.D. and his wife AMY GOLDBERG M.D. are parents of JCDSRI graduates Annabelle (2014) and Grace (2017). Doyle is secretary of the JCDSRI Board of Trustees.

checks to make sure the food that comes into the school is Kosher; through practice, I have learned how to do that.

Q: Why is the Eileen Ellis scholarship fund important?

A: Scholarship is so important to me because of the way financial support has affected my life and my sons’ lives. If it weren’t for the scholarships they received, they wouldn’t have been able to go to the schools of their choice. So I became the queen of financial aid when my boys were in college. I want students to be able to come to JCDSRI no matter what their family’s income is.

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Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer talks at Emanu-El about the Jewish obligation to help refugees

BY MAIA BRUMBERG-KRAUS On June 6, members of Providence’s Jewish community met at Temple Emanu-El to honor the memories of Jews who died in 1939 when the S.S. St. Louis was forced to return to Europe after being denied entry to Cuba, the United States and Canada.

The group of almost 60 met to learn how and why we as Jews must work to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.

Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer, the director of Education for Community Engagement at HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), presented a heart-stirring and informative talk about the current refugee crisis and an overview of the work HIAS is doing to address it.

Many readers may recognize HIAS as the agency that helped resettle families in the United States starting in the 1880s.

During its first 120 years, HIAS resettled 4.5 million Jews in the U.S. HIAS is the world’s oldest refugee resettlement agency, and their work continues to this day, helping people of all races, religions and ethnicities who are fleeing persecution and violence. Their task today is daunting. The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates the total number of displaced persons and refugees at more than 65 million, 51 percent of whom are children. The largest single ethnicity represented among this group is Syrian, but the group also encompasses Rohingya Muslims, people escaping violence in Sudan and Eritrea, and

The program at Temple Emanu-El. people fleeing Central America where gang and sexual violence are rampant.

Meyer described four ways in which HIAS is responding to the crisis. First, they are providing on-site services internationally, support that includes legal services, psychosocial support and job training. The term refugee was not officially defined until the Refugee Convention of 1951, in response to attempts to force displaced Jews from World War II to return to the lands of their persecution.

A refugee was termed, “anyone persecuted for their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particu-

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lar social group.” Participants in the conference committed to never send refugees back to the country of their persecution, but instead to find “durable solutions” for such people.

One of these solutions continues to apply to the second part of HIAS’s work: domestic resettlement in the United States. This includes helping people to find housing, enroll in schools and other educational programs and access health care. Sadly, Meyer told the group, this process of resettling refugees has become more difficult over the last 18 months as fewer and fewer refugees have been allowed into the United

States. Beginning with President Donald Trump’s executive order in January 2017, numerous policies have been enacted designed to prevent refugees from entering the U.S. She said the consequences have been catastrophic. For instance, during the last year of the Obama administration, 86,000 refugees were resettled. As of May 17 of this year, only 13,785 refugees have been resettled, of whom only 11 are Syrian.

The third part of HIAS’s work involves advocating for refugee rights directly on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and mobilizing American Jews to fight for refugee-friendly policies and laws. In a departure from previous efforts, HIAS has taken legal action, adding its name to three appeals questioning the constitutionality of the current administration’s policies.

The fourth part of HIAS’s work involves promoting advocacy and action from the Jewish community. Tens of thousands of Jews throughout the country are responding to this call for action, Meyer said.

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Their response includes giving tzedakah, volunteer work, attending rallies and political advocacy. More than 400 synagogues have signed onto the HIAS Welcome Campaign, committing themselves to take action in this struggle. Although Rhode Island’s elected officials are strong advocates of welcoming refugees, Meyer pointed out we should continue to call them and thank them for their support.

In closing, the rabbi said, “More than anything else that the Torah teaches, this holy text tells us that we have an obligation to welcome, love and protect the stranger… that for us, ‘never again’ means never again for EVERYONE.” So start right now! Go to HIAS.org and take action.

Don’t find yourself regretting in years to come that you did not do everything you could to save the thousands of people needing your help.”

MAIA BRUMBERG-KRAUS is the chairperson of the Social Justice Committee at Temple Emanu-El in Providence.

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Dwares JCC Golf Classic a success

BY STEPHANIE HAGUE

PHOTO | STEPHANIE HAGUE

Jamie Pious and Susan Froehlich

Judy and Robbie Mann

On June 11, the Jewish Alliance’s 33rd annual Dwares JCC Golf Classic took place at the Warwick Country Club.

The event was sponsored by nearly 40 local businesses and individuals, with Bonnie and Donald Dwares as the Double Eagle Sponsor. Chaired by Jeanie and Wayne Charness, the event raised approximately $70,000. The money will support the Dwares Jewish Community Center in Providence, a central hub for educational, wellness, cultural and engagement programming for the local Jewish community. The funds will go a long way toward providing scholarships for children to attend the David C. Isenberg Family Early Childhood Center (ECC) and J-Camp, as well as paying for initiatives such as PJ Library, Eides Family J-Space Afterschool Program and social programs for seniors.

Jamie Pious, philanthropy co-chair at the Alliance, asked participants to donate to support camp scholarships to ensure that more children can attend camp despite their families’ socio-economic backgrounds.

Wayne Charness shared his connection to Jewish camps, one that started with his par-

ents’ meeting at a Jewish camp in Maine.

Adam Greenman, president and CEO of the Jewish Alliance, spoke about his daughter’s exceptional first summer at the Dwares JCC Summer J-Camp, and Seth Finkle, director of JCamp and Teen Programming coordinator, gave an overview of the camp. Finkle emphasized the important role that camp plays for the youngest members of the community. He said, “Emotional maturity has declined, and there are fewer opportunities for positive risks and personal growth. Generation Z [those born from the mid1990s to the early 2000s] also faces the worst mental health crisis in decades, with rates of teen depression and suicide skyrocketing since 2011. Summer camp provides the essential tools and remedy to combat this.”

Despite the wind picking up throughout the day, golfers enjoyed the spectacular golf course and participated in contests, such as the Straightest Drive and Hit the Green. After the foursomes completed their rounds, participants met for cocktails and dinner. The day’s success was an inspiring way to conclude the Jewish Alliance’s 2018 campaign year.

The results of the day were announced during dinner:

1st Gross

David Katzen, Norman Gordon, Richard Gold and Scott Todder Jamie Michael Plosker

1st Net Men

and Daniel Pious, Evans and Matt

2nd Net Men

Bob Greenbaum, Todd Goldenberg, Rick Granoff and Anthony Landi

3rd Net Men

Rob Sherwin, Ted Hague, Steve Wolf and David Goldstein

1st Net Mix

Mark and Cindy Feinstein and Bob and Cathy Oresman

2nd Net Mixed

Mindy Wachtenheim, Lois Robbin, Samantha Goldberg and Robbie Lasser

Closest to the Pin Men

Steven Gower

Closest to the Pin Ladies

Cindy Feinstein

Straightest Drive

Samantha Goldberg

Hit the Green

Stuart Schneiderman

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(Left to right) Wayne Charness, Adam Greenman, Mitzi Berkelhammer and Jeanie Charness

Stanley Wachtenheim and Ralph Posner

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Miriam the Prophetess Parashat Chukat

Every Saturday night, my husband, my toddler, and I gather around our dining room table for havdallah. We sing the standard prayers to mark the end of Shabbat: verses of psalms that assure us proRABBI tection and RACHEL redempt ion; ZERIN blessings over grape juice, sweet spices and the flame of a candle to help us bring joy, sweetness and light into the coming week; and the final blessing that praises God for making distinctions between the holy and the mundane. We sing Shavua Tov, and Eliyahu Hanavi, classic songs for the end of Shabbat that help us wish each other a good week and invoke the presence of Elijah, in the hope that he might bring redemption in the coming week. We sing an additional song, identical in melody and purpose to Eliyahu Hanavi, but instead of invoking the prophet Elijah, we invoke another prophet of redemption, the prophetess Miriam.

Miriam, one of only seven women in the Bible who is identified as a prophetess, plays a key role in the redemption of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. It is Miriam who watches guard as her baby brother Moses floats down the

Nile. It is Miriam who has the courage to speak to the daughter of Pharaoh, who has just found baby Moses, and encourages the princess to hire a Hebrew nurse for the infant, thus ensuring that Moses will be raised to know who he is and where he comes from. And decades later, it is Miriam who leads the women in song and dance after crossing the Sea of Reeds, finally safe from Egyptian slavery.

There is another way in which Miriam plays an essential role in this story of redemption, one that is not explicitly discussed in the Torah but rather alluded to by this week’s parashah.

The first verse of Numbers, chapter 20, states simply “All of the community of Israel came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and they stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.” Nothing else is stated about her death. Unlike her brothers, her passing is not marked by any fanfare. We do not even read that she was mourned. She simply dies, and is buried, and the story moves on. The next verse is already concerned with other matters: “The community was without water, and they joined against Moses and Aaron” (Numbers 20:2). Another day in the desert, another complaint. Miriam is already forgotten.

Or is she?

The rabbis of the Talmud saw these two verses not as separate episodes but as part of one narrative. Maybe they were trou-

bled that Miriam’s death was not more significant, or maybe they wanted to explain why, after so many years of wandering in the desert (39 years, to be precise), it was only now that the people complained of having no water. Whatever the reason, the rabbis saw that the people only complained about a lack of water immediately after Miriam died. They held this up as proof that Miriam had a miraculous well that followed her wherever she went. Why a well? Miriam helped bring redemption at the waters of the Nile, and she celebrated redemption at the waters of the Sea of Reeds. It was only proper, then, that Miriam would merit a well of water that followed her throughout the desert, providing yet another form of redemption for the people of Israel. But when Miriam died, the well disappeared.

That is why Miriam’s death is followed not by mourning but by the people complaining of a lack of water.

And what does all of this have to do with havdallah? The end of Shabbat has long been considered an auspicious time for redemption. Shabbat itself is thought of as a taste of the redeemed world to come. Just as havdallah symbolically brings the joy, sweetness and light of Shabbat into the work week, so too are we encouraged to bring the taste of redemption of Shabbat into the rest of the week as well. For these reasons, many people sing Eliyahu Hanavi during havdallah, since tradi-

tion holds that Elijah will herald the era of redemption.

In the mid-1990s, out of a desire to elevate the voices of women in Jewish text and tradition, Rabbi Leila Gal Berner wrote a companion song to Eliyahu Hanavi, with new words to the same familiar tune. Her song focused on the female prophet who is most closely associated with redemption, Miryam Hanevi’ah, Miriam the Prophetess. These words celebrate the song and dance that Miriam brought into the lives of those around her and look forward to a day when Miriam will bring us to the waters of ultimate redemption.

A few years after learning this song, I learned about another connection between Miriam and havdallah. In the mid1500s in the Shulchan Arukh, Rabbi Mosheh Isserles records a fascinating tradition that had arisen in some Ashkenazi communities. He wrote: “There are those who say that one should draw water after Shabbat every week, because Miriam’s well travels around on Saturday nights to every other well, and whoever runs into her well and drinks of its waters will be healed from all illnesses.” How beautiful and how powerful that the legend of Miriam’s well is not only part of our past and future redemption but perhaps is also part of our own taste of redemption in the present day.

Having learned about the healing waters of Miriam’s well that are available to us at

the departure of Shabbat, my family and I developed a new custom. Each week, we sing the song that Rabbi Berner wrote about Miriam the Prophetess.

But we make one small modification to include this tradition of Miriam’s waters of healing. I share these words with you, in the hope that maybe you, too, will incorporate this song into havdallah or your Passover seder or any other time when you sing Eliyahu Hanavi.

Perhaps by elevating these traditions surrounding one of our prophetesses, we will bring our world a little closer to the redemption we all seek.

Miryam hanevi’ah Oz v’zimrah b’yadah Miryam tirkod itanu l’hagdil zimrat olam Miryam tirkod itanu l’takkein et ha-olam Bimheirah v’yameinu hi t’vieinu El mei harefu’ah El mei hayeshua Miryam the prophetess Strength and song in her hand Miryam, dance with us to increase song in the world Miryam, dance with us to repair the world Soon, in our day, she shall bring us to the waters of healing; to the waters of redemption RACHEL ZERIN is a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Providence.

5 must-know facts about Prince William’s visit to Israel

BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN JTA – Prince William will soon embark on a historic visit to Israel. During the trip, which also includes stops in Jordan and the West Bank, Britain’s Duke of Cambridge will visit important sites in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.

William is set to arrive June 25 in Israel on a trip that is sure to be closely watched by the British and Israeli media, as well as fans of the royal family around the world, even though he will not be accompanied by his wife, Duchess Catherine of Cambridge.

Ahead of the trip, JTA compiled some interesting facts relevant to the royal visit.

William’s visit to Israel is not the first by the royal family.

In March, some media outlets reported that the visit would be the first by a member of the royal family. That is not the case, though William’s visit is being billed as the first official one. Prince Phillip, William’s grandfather, visited the country

in 1994 for a ceremony honoring his mother, Princess Alice, for her sheltering of a Jewish family during World War II (more on that later). Phillip accepted the Righteous Among the Nations award on behalf of his late mother and planted a maple tree in her memory at Yad Vashem.

Prince Charles, William’s father, visited Israel to attend the funerals of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 and President Shimon Peres in 2016.

His schedule is already stirring up conflict.

Though Israeli leaders were quick to praise Prince William after the trip announcement in March, everyone wasn’t as happy upon the release of the official schedule, which listed Jerusalem as being in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

Zeev Elkin, the Israeli Cabinet member in charge of Jerusalem and a mayoral hopeful for the city, called on William’s staff to correct the itinerary.

“United Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years and no distortion in the tour itinerary can change that reality,” Elkin said in a state-

ment that also was posted June 18 on Facebook. “I expect the prince’s people to correct the distortion.”

William will visit his greatgrandmother’s grave on the Mount of Olives.

Princess Alice of Battenberg has a special connection to the Jewish people. Alice, who was married to Prince Andrew of Greece, helped shelter three members of the family of a late Greek-Jewish politician in her palace in Athens during World War II. The Gestapo was suspi-

cious of Alice, even questioning her, but the princess, who was deaf, pretended not to understand their questions. Alice later became a nun.

Before her death in 1969, she said she wanted to be buried at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, near where one of her aunts, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, was laid to rest. Her wish wasn’t immediately realized; Alice was buried initially at Windsor Castle. However, in 1988, her remains were transferred to Jerusalem. In 1993, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Israel named her a Righteous Among the Nations for her warera bravery.

Prince William will stay at the historic King David Hotel.

Opened in 1931, the King David has played a pivotal role in Israel’s history. The hotel has hosted royalty and heads of state, including King George II of Greece, who set up his government there in 1942 when the Nazis occupied his country.

During the British Mandate, the hotel’s southern wing was

turned into British administrative and military headquarters.

In 1946, the hotel was the target of a bombing by the Irgun Zionist paramilitary group that killed 91, including 15 Jews.

Two years later the hotel became a Jewish stronghold, as Israel declared its independence.

There’s a tattoo parlor in Jerusalem’s Old City where several royals are said to have been inked.

If William has any desire to get a tattoo, Razzouk seems like the obvious choice. King Edward VII, King George V and Prince Albert are all said to have been inked there with Jerusalem crosses. The shop, run by the Razzouk family for some 500 years in the Christian Quarter, is popular among visitors to the city.

The family uses wooden block stamps, some of them hundreds of years old, to stamp religious symbols onto the skin before the tattooing process begins. Tattoo artist Wassim Razzouk offered to do the tattoo should William be interested, telling Haaretz “it would be a great honor.”

OPINION

8 | June 22, 2018

Our personal seasons

The Boston Jewish Food conference last Sunday provided an opportunity to learn about food insecurity, food injustice and general issues surrounding food and community. A full day of workshops related modern day issues back to Jewish teaching, learning and tradition.

Food and community might be one EDITOR of today’s hot button issues, FRAN but they’ve OSTENDORF always been central to our Jewish tradition. Food brings people together, whether at Shabbat dinner or when welcoming a stranger with a plate of cookies or when we gather for our community event.

Who doesn’t have memories of a holiday table surrounded by friends and family? Many of us think of traditional foods that trigger a story or memory of a grandparent or older relative baking a particular treat or special dish for family gatherings.

Again and again, we might lament that we never took the time to watch as that dish was prepared with love, the recipe lost as its owner is of blessed memory.

The opening session featured Rhode Island’s Rabbi Aaron Philmus of Temple Torat Yisrael, along with David Epstein, a Boston meteorologist and horticulturalist, and Leora Mallach, co-founder and director of Beantown Jewish Gardens, the group that organizes this annual conference. Together they discussed the question of what calendar cycle grounds us, from both personal and Jewish perspectives. As Mallach posed the question, she mentioned a number of cycles including a sun or moon cycle or a school year cycle.

Each speaker had a personal perspective on what makes a year. None really goes according to the traditional Jewish or secular calendar.

To Philmus, the year flows according to a mixture of the Hebrew calendar, seasons and the cycle of his animals and the garden at his home next to Torat Yisrael in East Greenwich.

To Epstein, his calendar is

focused on changing light, a meteorological perspective.

The year begins with the least amount of light in December, he said.

And to Mallach, a new homeowner, her calendar focused on what she has done in the past year as she has taken ownership of her home and its land, thinking about how it interacts with her life directing Beantown Jewish Gardens.

This was a fascinating look at how we personalize a year.

A calendar, whether Hebrew or secular, doesn’t necessarily define our personal cycle. The original calendar was based on seasons according to what happened in a place far from New England, so much of our personalization is based on where we live.

This really got me thinking about how my family calendar has come to be stamped in a unique way. When we were younger and childless, we lived according to work deadlines and vacations. With children, we added the school calendar to the cycle. Once the children were grown and no longer in school, I still marked the passing of the seasons when I saw school starting and ending in that way parents do when they transition to the next life stage.

We have many traditions that relate to food that have always included all family members, such as strawberry picking with its accompanying jam-making and applepicking that usually results in everyone’s favorite pink apple sauce. Those mark late spring and early fall. We are still drawn to that cycle whether our now grown children participate or not.

Gardening is another tradition. Responsibilities have evolved, and now, if my husband is outside designing fabulous planters on our decks, it must be spring.

And he always plants herbs and tomatoes, so there’s food involved with all these traditions.

The idea of the life cycle was only one component of the Boston Jewish Food Conference. I came away with a lot of food for thought about food waste, recycling and composting, and community. Perhaps fodder for articles in future issues of the Voice.

For now, I’m going to take a little break and sit in the garden. We’ll see you in August!

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‘Road to Valor’ is a thrilling read about a righteous man Though its authors insist that “Road to Valor” is “a work of nonfiction,” the book reads like a novel.

Its pages are filled with vivid descriptions and the pacing and suspense that mark gifted storytellers.

The book’s IT SEEMS subtitle, “A TO ME True Story of World War II Italy, the RABBI JIM Nazis, and a ROSENBERG Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation,” suggests its vast scope. The authors, the brother-and-sister team of Aili and Andres McConnon, spent almost 10 years’ researching their subject; they examined a wide range of texts, videos and voice recordings in Italian, French and English. In addition, they conducted more than 200 hours of interviews in Italy, France and Israel.

Despite the book’s broad reach, the center of the story remains the life of world-class Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-2000) – three-time winner of the Giro D’Italia (1936, 1937, 1946) and two-time winner of the Tour de France (1938, 1948), Europe’s two most prestigious bike races. The McConnons present what amounts to a “you are there” account of Bartali’s come-from-behind victory in the 1948 Tour de France, where he overcame the odds to prevail in the grueling Alpine stages of the race.

The authors supply the kind of details that keep readers riding along with Bartali. Just as he is close to passing out from hunger on his seemingly neverending uphill climb in an icy hell, “someone reached out and handed him three bananas ….

Gino made quick work of all three bananas. His body responded almost immediately.”

As exciting as Bartali’s cycling exploits are, the deepest drama unfolds in his clan-

destine work with the underground resistance. Once the Nazis moved into Italy in the fall of 1943, all Jews in Italy – be they foreign or native born – became subject to immediate arrest … and far worse.

At the request of Cardinal Elia Della Costa, archbishop of Florence, Bartali became a courier of forged documents that provided fake identities for threatened Jews.

On his frequent arduous trips between Florence and Assisi, Bartali hid these papers and photographs in the hollow tube under the seat of his bicycle.

On one occasion, Bartali was summoned to the Florence office of the notoriously sadistic Fascist Maj. Mario Carita, who accused him of collaborating with the resistance. That Bartali managed to avoid torture and death can be attributed to his cunning, his courage and lady luck.

As Giorgio Goldenberg – whom Bartali hid during the Nazi occupation, along with Goldenberg’s mother, father and sister – told the authors, “There is no doubt whatsoever for me that he saved our lives.

He not only saved our lives but he also helped save the lives of hundreds of people. He put his own life and his family’s in danger in order to do so.”

As an epigraph for their book, the authors chose a short excerpt from “Tristia,” by the Roman poet Ovid, the last line of which reads: “The road to valor is built by adversity.” Not only do these words provide the book with its title, but in a larger sense, they suggest its overriding theme: the deepening of our humanity through our ongoing struggle against adversity.

Last February, a lifelong friend, a maid of honor at my wedding, urged me to read and review “Road to Valor.” Her doctor, having read and reviewed the work, felt it merited a far greater readership. I told my friend that I had a number of columns for The Jewish Voice already in the hopper,

but that I would make every effort to write about the book for one of the June issues of the paper.

Little could I have known in the depths of last winter that Bartali would make headlines in the May 2, 2018, online edition of The Times of Israel, at timesofisrael.com: “Legendary cyclist Gino Bartali gets honorary citizenship ahead of Giro Israel.”

The accompanying article pointed out that in 2013, Yad Vashem had already designated Bartali as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, Chasidei Umot Ha’Olam, for his efforts in helping to rescue hundreds of Jews in Italy. Bartali was to be further honored by Israel’s hosting the first three stages of the 21-stage Giro D’Italia, beginning on May 4; this was to be the first time in the Giro D’Italia’s 101year history that the event was to begin outside of Europe.

Moreover, on May 3, the Jewish National Fund dedicated a new bike path in the Jerusalem Forest in the cyclist’s honor.

But perhaps the greatest posthumous honor that Israel bestowed upon Bartali came on May 4, just before the beginning of Stage I of the Giro: the nation granted him a certificate of Commemorative Citizenship, which a tearful Gioia Bartali accepted in memory of her grandfather.

Were he to come back to life, I wonder how Bartali would respond to all these honors, given his adamant refusal to ever consider himself a hero.

His son Andrea remembers his saying: “If you’re good at a sport, they attach the medals to your shirts and then they shine in some museum. That which is attained by doing good deeds is attached to the soul and shines elsewhere.”

JAMES B. ROSENBERG is rabbi emeritus at Temple Habonim in Barrington.

Contact him at rabbiemeritus@ templehabonim.org.

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June 22, 2018 |

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Reflecting on the past, looking toward the future

BY ADAM GREENMAN These remarks were presented June 13 at the seventh annual meeting of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. They are slightly edited for publication.

Last year I sat in the audience of this event with the not-yet public knowledge that I’d be joining the Alliance as its next president and CEO. Sitting in this room, which at the time had just reopened after an extensive renovation, I could not help but think about the concept of renewal and that the Alliance had such a strong foundation to build from. As we said goodbye and thank you to Jeffrey Savit for all that he had done, I thought about the challenges we would face as an organization and as a community, and that there was just so much to accomplish.

One year later, there is still much to do, but I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved. In the past year, we came together to develop a strategic plan that set goals for the Alliance through the end of the decade.

We raised more than $3 million to support the community here in Rhode Island and overseas.

We have nearly completed the $6 million renovation of this building, ensuring its continued use for the next half centu-

Adam Greenman ry and beyond. And in the last year more than 200,000 people have walked through the doors of the Alliance. Last summer, 154 children made lasting memories at summer J-Camp.

Fifty-four children had fun throughout the year in our safe and structured Eides Family J-Space Afterschool Program.

Our community sent teens on the life-changing trip March of the Living, and even more will be experiencing Israel this summer. We helped vulnerable individuals and families with our partners at Jewish Family Service and Jewish Seniors Agency (soon to be Jewish Collaborative Services) along with our synagogue and congregation partners through Access Jewish Rhode Island.

That is just a fraction of what we have accomplished at the

LETTERS Re: Memories of the old JCC (May 25) I read with interest May-Ronny Zeidman’s article, “Memories of the old JCC.” To me, the “old” JCC was the one on Benefit Street where I taught nursery school children so many years ago. I had to laugh when I realized May-Ronny was speaking about the JCC on Elmgrove Avenue before the renovations just recently completed. We do think about “old” in many different ways.

Yes I too share the memories when the building was a police

station, the purchase of it, the remodeling, the nursery school there and when the teenage children had dances and young children had baseball games where we as parents were there to cheer them on, and those people who worked there to teach the young and younger children. So many other memories from both of the “old buildings.” As it is said, “Those were the days.”

Adele G. Espo West Palm Beach, Fla.

Why do Palestinians deserve statehood?

Once again violent Palestinians with Hamas are seen rioting against Israeli ‘’occupiers” of their land. This time it’s because Israel declared “Jerusalem is our capital” – after losing it for about 3,000 years. (Jews were a timid minority of people then.)

History tells us: in the settlement after WWI, England gave Ottoman empire Arabs the land of Palestine – just 100 years ago. Then, in 1948, the U.N. partitioned part of Palestine for a Jewish homeland as compensation for the Holocaust.

In the past 70 years, Israel has created a very productive Democratic country, even turning desert sand into green farmland. What has Pal-

estine accomplished in 70 years? Teaching children to hate Jews, digging tunnels to kill them, rewarding families of suicide bombers.

How can anyone think they deserve statehood? The answer is one state for Israel in Palestine.

Here’s how it could be done: The U.N. supports the Palestinians. Somehow they must convince violent anti-Israeli Palestinians to emigrate to various Arab nations (there’s about 20). Without any Jews there, resettled Palestinians should be able to learn to live a prosperous and peaceful life.

Leon Sloane Boynton Beach, Fla.

Alliance over the past year and only a fraction of what our community has achieved through the work of our partners, who truly help sustain and enrich our Jewish community here in Rhode Island. This is just the beginning. There is so much more we can do when we come together.

I have thought a lot about our name: Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. There is so much meaning to dissect.

For a long time, I thought about the name through the lens of our past. The Alliance was a coming together of three organizations into one. Out of the Federation, JCC and Bureau of Jewish Education merger came the Alliance. But during our strategic planning process, someone said something that made me think about our name in a whole new light.

When the name was created, it may have been focused on organizations coming together.

But moving forward, let’s redefine its meaning. An alliance is people coming together working toward a mutual goal.

Our Alliance is one where the entire community can come together. Whether you are Jewish, Jew-ish or not Jewish, the Alliance is a place where everyone is welcome to learn, grow, celebrate and inspire.

We’ve taken steps to make

sure we live up to this promise.

We’ve partnered with Keshet, a national organization that works for full LGBTQ equality and inclusion in Jewish life.

We’ve revised policies like our anti-harassment policy to make it clear that harassment in any form will not be tolerated. And we’ve made ourselves more visible to the larger community, so that people know that this is a place where everyone can feel welcome.

Coming together helps our community, but it also spurs innovation. Together we can do things big and small. Let’s dream big. Over the last 10 months I’ve asked people for ideas on how we can strengthen the Alliance and our community. Some ideas have been practical, some have been grand, some have been truly out of the box, but they have all come from a desire to strengthen and grow our community.

It does not matter whether we implement all of these ideas, because the creative juices in our community are flowing. From thinking about how Jewish values can be instilled through Drivers Ed or an SAT prep course to a Hanukkahthemed escape room. From a mobile JCC to a venture fund for new Jewish start-ups.

From partnerships with nonJewish organizations to new

platforms to ensure local Jewish agencies have the resources they need to strengthen our community. We may not do it all, but I assure you we will try new things. These new ideas will only be successful if we come together.

When we come together, we can pool our shared resources: time, energy, talent and, yes, financial resources toward a stronger community. We can come together and face those challenges that affect not just our Jewish community in Rhode Island but communities around the country and around the world. When we come together, our capacity for a strong, more vibrant Jewish community in Rhode Island may be limitless.

The work of building our new Alliance begins tonight. It begins with all of us. I’m so happy to be here tonight with all of you to celebrate not just what was but what will be. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell your fellow congregants that the Alliance is where we can all come together, where we can create the community that we envision for ourselves and where anything is possible.

ADAM GREENMAN is president and CEO of the Jewish Alliance of Greater RI.

Jewish Community Leaders Call for Action The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island are horrified and outraged by a recent policy that compelled the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to separate parents from their children when they cross the United States border, many of whom are doing so legally, seeking refuge and asylum. Like many across our nation, we have been deeply disturbed and alarmed seeing the faces of screaming parents and crying children being ripped apart. We will not sit idly by.

Although the administration is considering [at press time] an executive order to end the practice of family separation, it is unclear how such a change in policy will be implemented and whether separated families will be reunited.

As representatives of the nearly 20,000 Jewish community members in our state, we are emboldened to call out these despicable acts and demand change. We applaud Rhode Island’s Congressional delegation for disputing these policies. We join with millions across our nation to call on the President, the Attorney Gen-

eral and Congress to put an immediate end to this policy and to guarantee the humane treatment of all.

A guiding origin story of the Jewish people is our migration from Egypt. This Exodus story seeps into our traditions, customs and values. In Deuteronomy it is written, “You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” We are taught to model our ethics and lives around this story, and that our compassion for others must be ever present. More so, our tradition commands us to “welcome the other,” and to empathize with “the widow, the stranger and the orphan” because we ourselves were strangers once too. The inhumane treatment of migrant children and parents is reprehensible compared to the values we are taught to live by.

But as the Jewish people, we don’t need to go back thousands of years to recount why this horror is so profound; we only need to look back 80 years. We remember a time, not so long ago, when Jewish parents were forced to watch their children taken away.

These memories haunt us and deepen our determination that no family should ever en-

dure this kind of separation again.

We call out in protection of human dignity and the sacredness of each person, to reverse this policy and ensure the swift reunification of these families. Ripping families apart is cruel and inhumane, a practice associated with authoritarian regimes, not democracies that respect human rights.

Ours is a nation of immigrants, and how we treat these individuals should reflect our values of respect and fair treatment for all human beings. We call on the Administration, Congress and our elected officials to put an immediate end to the policy of separating families and to guarantee humane and compassionate treatment of all.

Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Cranston, Representative, The Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island Mitzi Berkelhammer Chair, Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island

10 | June 22, 2018

Ongoing Alliance Kosher Senior Café. Kosher lunch and program every weekday.

Dwares JCC, 401 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. Noon lunch; 1 p.m. program. $3 lunch donation from individuals 60+ or under 60 with disabilities. Neal or Elaine, 401-421-4111, ext. 107.

West Bay Kosher Senior Café. Kosher lunch and program every weekday.

Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Ave., Cranston.

11:15 a.m. program; noon lunch. $3 lunch donation from individuals 60+ or under 60 with disabilities. Steve, 401743-0009.

Duplicate Bridge. Dwares JCC, 401 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. Mondays noon-2 p.m.: 0-20 masterpoint game.

For less-experienced players. $5 per day. Mondays and Wednesdays noon-3 p.m.: Open stratified game for experienced players at all levels. $7 per day.

Tuesdays and Fridays 11 a.m.-2 p.m: Open stratified game for players at all levels. $7 per day. Thursdays 1:30-3:30 p.m.: Guided play. Beginners and those seeking to hone skills play under the guidance of nationally known instructor Bart Buffington. $6 per day. Information, Bart Buffington at abarton295@ aol.com or 401-390-9244.

“Bridging the Gap” with Rabbi Raphie.

Wednesdays 8-8:45 p.m. Kollel Center for Jewish Studies, 450 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. Explore the development and refinement of our personalities through the eyes of the Mussar movement. Text is “Bridging the Gap.” Free.

Information, rabbiraphie@gmail.com or 401-383-2786.

Through June 28 Diverse Creative Approaches. Bunny Fain Gallery, Temple Habonim, 165 New Meadow Road, Barrington. Works of Nickerson B. Miles, Karen Murtha and Mural 5778 created by the Religious School classes are featured. Gallery hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and by appointment. For information, call 401-245-6536 or email gallery@templehabonim.org.

Friday | June 22 Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-9 p.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

by Oneg. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Saturday | June 23 Taste of Shabbat. 9-11 a.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. 9 a.m. Torah discussion and 9:45 a.m. Service followed by light Kiddush.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Children’s Shabbat Program and Jr. Kiddush Club. 9:30-11:15 a.m. Congregation Beth Sholom, 275 Camp St., Providence. Weekly program and Jr. Kiddush Club for children. Activities include prayer, parashah, play time and special Kiddush. Three age groups: Tots, Pre-K thru 1st grade and 2nd grade and up.

Located in Kids Room, Social Hall and Chapel on the lower level. Information, office@bethsholom-ri.org.

Sunday | June 24 Judah Touro Lecture Series: “Convinced: Quaker Women and Liberty of Conscience in Early New England.”

4-5 p.m. Touro Synagogue, 72 Touro St., Newport. Providence College Pro-

CALENDAR fessor Dr. Adrian Chastain Weimer will explore how Quaker women in colonial New England understood prophetic faith and liberty of conscience. $8.

Ticket may be used at a later date to tour Touro Synagogue and the Loeb Visitors Center. Information or to RSVP (required), tours@tourosynagogue.org or 401-847-4794, ext. 207.

Wednesday | June 27 Game Night: Mah Jongg, Canasta and Table Tennis. 7-9 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Free. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Friday | June 29 T.G.I.F. Thank God It’s Friday. 5:45-7 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Shabbat songs and story with Rabbi Aaron Philmus followed by a free kid-friendly Shabbat dinner. Information or to RSVP, Torat Yisrael Office at 401-885-6600.

(401)j Shabbat Barbecue. 6:30-9 p.m.

Briarwood Meadows, 940 Quaker Lane, Warwick. Enjoy an evening of fun and summer weather. $10 (includes a Kosher meat meal) | Bring someone new (anyone age 21-45 who has attended two or fewer events) and they pay only $5. To register, visit jewishallianceri.org/401j-shabbatbarbecue. Information, Dayna Bailen at dbailen@jewishallianceri.org or 401421-4111, ext. 108.

Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-9 p.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

by Oneg. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Saturday | June 30 Taste of Shabbat. 9-11 a.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. 9 a.m. Torah discussion and 9:45 a.m. service followed by light Kiddush.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Children’s Shabbat Program and Jr. Kiddush Club. 9:30-11:15 a.m. Congregation Beth Sholom, 275 Camp St., Providence. Weekly program and Jr. Kiddush Club for children. Activities include prayer, parashah, play time and special Kiddush. Three age groups: Tots, Pre-K thru 1st grade and 2nd grade and up.

Located in Kids Room, Social Hall and Chapel on the lower level. Information, office@bethsholom-ri.org.

July Friday | July 6 Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-9 p.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

by Oneg. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Saturday | July 7 Taste of Shabbat. 9-11 a.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. 9 a.m. Torah discussion and 9:45 a.m. service followed by light Kiddush.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Tuesday | July 10 Communities of Rhode Island. 6 p.m.

Touro Synagogue, 72 Touro St., Newport. Second in a series of talks on historic Jewish communities in R.I. by Rabbi Schochet, rosh kollel of Kollel/ Shoresh. 45-60 minute presentation

The Jewish Voice followed by Q&A and a chance to share memories. Two later presentations will focus on Congregation B’nai Israel in Woonsocket and Congregation Beth David in Narragansett. Times to be scheduled. For information, contact rabbiraphie@gmail.com

Wednesday | July 11 Game Night: Mah Jongg, Canasta and Table Tennis. 7-9 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Free. Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401885-6600.

Friday | July 13 T.G.I.F. Thank God It’s Friday. 5:45-7 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Shabbat songs and story with Rabbi Aaron Philmus followed by a free kid-friendly Shabbat dinner. Donations welcome. Information or to RSVP, Torat Yisrael Office at 401-885-6600.

Temple Habonim’s Beach Erev Shabbat Service. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Barrington Beach, 87 Bay Road, Barrington. In case of rain, outdoor services move inside to the THB sanctuary. Notice is posted on the Temple website and on Facebook and a message is left on the Temple phone system. Information, Jodi Sullivan at office@templehabonim.org or 401-245-6536.

Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-9 p.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

by Oneg. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Saturday | July 14 Taste of Shabbat. 9-11 a.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. 9 a.m. Torah discussion and 9:45 a.m. service followed by light Kiddush.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

(401)j Shabbat in the Park. 1-3 p.m. India Point Park, 840 Indian Pointe, Providence. Eat, relax, hang out and have some fun. No RSVP required. BYOSL (Bring Your Own Shabbat Lunch).

Upcoming Shabbat in the Park: 8/4.

Information, Dayna Bailen at dbailen@ jewishallianceri.org or 401-421-4111, ext. 108.

Wednesday | July 18 Game Night: Mah Jongg, Canasta and Table Tennis. 7-9 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Free. Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401885-6600.

Friday | July 20 Shabbat Under the Stars. 7 p.m. Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Ave., Providence.

Gather on the Julie Claire Gutterman Biblical Garden patio to greet Shabbat with song and stories. Following the service, celebrate summer birthdays and enjoy special summer treats.

Information, Temple Beth-El office at 401-331-6070.

Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-9 p.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

by Oneg. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Saturday | July 21 Classic Shabbat Service. 9-11 a.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

by a Kiddush luncheon. Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401885-6600.

East Greenwich. Service followed

by Oneg. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Monday | July 23

Saturday | August 4

Temple Beth-El’s 9th Annual Golf Tournament & Summer Celebration.

11:30 a.m. Kirkbrae Country Club, 197 Old River Road, Lincoln. Proceeds benefit the Rabbi Leslie Yale Gutterman Religious School. Daytime: 25 foursomes play the beautiful Kirkbrae golf course. Enjoy an afternoon on the tennis courts with clinics offered by the club pro. Play mah jongg, canasta or bridge in the card rooms. Kids have a pool and game party. Evening: Cocktails and dinner, with silent and live auctions.

Kids have their own dinner and movie party. To sign up or for information, Ruby Shalansky at 401-331-6070 or rshalansky@temple-beth-el.org.

Taste of Shabbat. 9-11 a.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. 9 a.m. Torah discussion and 9:45 a.m. service followed by light Kiddush.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Temple Sinai’s Golf Classic. 11:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Valley Country Club, 251 New London Ave., Warwick. Registration and lunch begin at 11:30 a.m.; golf follows at 1 p.m. Dinner after the tournament.

Funds raised support programs in the religious school, help to build a strong and vibrant temple community, and help with the cost of maintenance of the temple. Information, Temple Sinai office at 401-942-8350 or dottie@ templesinairi.org.

Wednesday | July 25 Game Night: Mah Jongg, Canasta and Table Tennis. 7-9 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Free. Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401885-6600.

Friday | July 27 Temple Torat Yisrael’s Beach Shabbat.

6-7:30 p.m. Goddard Park, 1095 Ives Road, Warwick. Experience Kabbalat Shabbat with an informal, interactive family service with lots of singing. A beautiful way to say goodbye to the work week and welcome in Shabbat.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Saturday | July 28 Taste of Shabbat. 9-11 a.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. 9 a.m. Torah discussion and 9:45 a.m. service followed by light Kiddush.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Congregation Beth David’s Summer Series: Tom Chapin. 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Narragansett Community Center, 63 Mumford Road, Narragansett. Grammy winner Tom Chapin, called “one of the greatest personalities in contemporary music” by the New York Times, is praised for his appeal to adults and children. Cost: $40. Upcoming Summer Series event on 8/25: folk and country singer Jonathan Edwards. Information, Frank Prosnitz at frank.prosnitz@gmail. com or 401-935-9890.

August Wednesday | August 1 Game Night: Mah Jongg, Canasta and Table Tennis. 7-9 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Free. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Friday | August 3 Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-9 p.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road,

(401)j Shabbat in the Park. 1-3 p.m.

Lippitt Memorial Park, Hope St., Providence. Eat, relax, hang out and have some fun. No RSVP required. BYOSL (Bring Your Own Shabbat Lunch).

Information, Dayna Bailen at dbailen@ jewishallianceri.org or 401-421-4111, ext. 108.

Wednesday | August 8 Game Night: Mah Jongg, Canasta and Table Tennis. 7-9 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Free. Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401885-6600.

Friday | August 10 T.G.I.F. Thank God It’s Friday. 5:45-7 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Shabbat songs and story with Rabbi Aaron Philmus followed by a free kid-friendly Shabbat dinner. Donations welcome. Information or to RSVP, Torat Yisrael Office at 401-885-6600.

Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-9 p.m.

Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

by Oneg. Information, stephanie@ toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Saturday | August 11 Taste of Shabbat. 9-11 a.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. 9 a.m. Torah discussion and 9:45 a.m. service followed by light Kiddush.

Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401-885-6600.

Sunday | August 12 A Night Under the Stars with The Reggie Centracchio Quintet. 6-7:30 p.m. The Phyllis Siperstein Tamarisk Assisted Living Residence, 3 Shalom Drive, Warwick. Enjoy outdoor musical entertainment. Bring your own refreshments, lawn chairs and blankets. Parking available at Wave Federal Credit Union, at Girl Scouts of RI and on Shalom Drive.

Rain date: 8/19. Information, Susan Adler at susana@tamariskri.org or 401732-0037, ext. 104.

The Jewish Voice takes a short hiatus in July. Alhough we don’t publish in July, continue to send us your news, simchas or other items of interest to the community. We will be back in your mailbox Aug. 10.

Contact us via email: editor@jewishallianceri. org. By mail: Editor, The Jewish Voice, 401 Elmgrove Ave., Providence, RI 02906.

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Students listen to and learn from a Fire Department representative.

PHDS students learn about safety This year’s Providence Hebrew Day School Academic Fair was all about safety. The annual event took place on June 12 and was held in partnership with the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Displays and interactive activities were designed by students in Kindergarten to Grade Eight, based on the “Save-A-Life: Teaching our children the A-B-C’s of saving

a life” curriculum developed

by Vaad Refuah. The 10 lessons include “How to Recognize an Emergency,” “First Aid for Nosebleeds” and “Basic House Fire Safety.”

In addition to the student-created displays, there were displays and presentations by the Providence Fire Department, Providence Police Department, Dwares JCC Fitness Staff, The

Jewish Alliance Staff, Providence Bicycle, a Certified Child Passenger safety technician, an eye glasses Gemach, and others. The first 34 students (Kindergarten to Grade Eight) who attended received a free bike lock compliments of the Jewish Alliance, PHDS and Providence Bicycle.

Submitted by the Providence Hebrew Day School

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Make the most of your years

FROM PAGE 1

REICHMAN and a whole new culture to get used to.

The main thing that helped me get through it all was this community: you have all made my time in Rhode Island amazing. While I didn’t know what to expect before coming here, this experience has exceeded anything I could have imagined.

As part of my position as Israeli emissary, I have had the opportunity to work with many organizations in the community: Day schools, Hebrew schools, synagogues and so many other places and groups that have welcomed me. I’ve had the opportunity to talk about my family, my family’s history, culture, food and issues that are very close to my heart.

But the content and the topics were only the frame; the valuable part of it all has been the special relationships and connections that were created – which I will forever cherish.

I’ve been able to share a little bit of my home and myself, and I will take so much back to Israel. The people and the organizations I was fortunate enough to collaborate with were nothing but the best. And time and time again, I have witnessed the friendship and the support you give Israel daily. The way in which this community supports the shlichut program and allows Israel to be such a tremendous part of your daily life is amazing to me.

It is hard to believe how

Over the course of three decades, I have interviewed more than 3,000 authors, experts and celebrities who focus on positive living.

Here are some tips based on what I’ve learned:

Tslil Reichman says goodbye at a going away reception. quickly time went by, so many programs, conversations, experiences, friendships. I feel so privileged to have been part of the Rhode Island Jewish community for the past two years – and so grateful for all of you who allowed that.

Although I came to teach and to bring Israel to you, you have given me much more than I could have hoped for. My time here has been among the most meaningful experiences in my life. So many of you opened your hearts and homes to me.

Shabbat dinners, weekend trips, great food and amazing company, checking in or offering soup when I was sick at home (or just homesick), and even making sure I was OK during the too-many snowstorms we’ve had. For all that, I will always be grateful.

As I write, this week is my

last at the Jewish Alliance.

Next week, I will move to Camp JORI for another amazing summer before I fly home at the end of August.

I return to Israel with mixed emotions, knowing that I’m going back home but also leaving home. I will carry my time in Rhode Island and each of you in my heart always. Thank you for allowing me into the Rhode Island family and for just being the best community in the world. This is definitely not goodbye. I look forward to seeing you all when you come to Israel and when I return to Rhode Island to visit.

TSLIL REICHMAN has been the Israeli emissary (shlichah) at the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island since August 2016. She returns to Israel this August.

• Have a strong viPATRICIA sion. Identify RASKIN your passion, which will lead to your purpose. Do what brings you meaning and joy as often as you can. Look beyond the surface of the job or business to what you gain, like peace, recognition, security, acceptance, connection, etc.

• Choose supportive friends.

Have a network of positive and active people to enhance your life and help keep you healthy.

These are the people you know you can count on in both good and hard times.

• Seek joy daily. Find new things you enjoy or try a variation of what you know, like traveling, playing a sport or volunteering. The summer, in particular, offers so many options, including golf, boating, kayaking, swimming, biking, hiking and nature walks.

• Be proactive about your mental, physical and spiritual health. Keep moving your body; find the right exercises and activities for you; eat whole, unprocessed foods; get enough sleep and keep a positive attitude. At aish.com, in the article “Judaism and Healthy

Eating,” Rebbetzin Feige Twerski writes, “In describing its healthful approach to life, the Torah says, ‘Only beware (take care) of yourself and greatly beware of your soul’ (Deut.

4:9). The Jewish position does not negate or marginalize the importance of attending to the needs of our bodies. On the contrary, Judaism views the body and soul as inextricably linked partners, interdependent in a joint effort to successfully negotiate life’s journey.”

• Keep learning and growing. Protect your mental and physical health by keeping your brain active and learning something new.

I found a great article at Chabad.org, by Chana Weisberg, called “What’s Your Favorite Season?”

She compares Rachel’s life to the summer, based on the mystics’ descriptions of the Matriarchs.

Weisberg writes, “I like to compare Rachel’s life to the exhilarating season of the summer. Her life and deeds were ‘beautiful and shapely’ both inside and outside. Her sunny, charismatic personality was adored by Jacob and by whomever she met.”

Happy summer!

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Your summer needs this Israeli slushie

BY CHAYA RAPPOPORT THE NOSHER VIA JTA – Limonana is a classic Israeli drink that combines freshly squeezed lemon juice and mint leaves for a unique Israeli-style lemonade treat that’s beloved throughout the country.

Limonana is a combination of the Hebrew and Arabic words “limon” and “nana,” which mean lemon and mint, respectively. While the drink may have originated elsewhere in the Middle East, it’s an Israeli advertising agency that provided the catchy portmanteau of a name in the 1990s. In an attempt to get public bus advertising off the ground in Israel, the agency advertised a new soft drink called Limonana in sprawling ads across the sides of buses and reported that local athletes and celebrities couldn’t

get enough of it.

Although the drink was advertised on buses only, the ad campaign was a huge success.

Customers begged for the drink and stores pleaded to carry it until the advertising agency was forced to admit the truth: no such drink existed.

Undeterred, soft drink companies began to manufacture the flavor – the drink that had existed only as a marketing ploy was now a reality. Restaurants and cafés quickly followed suit, reimagining the drink in iced, slushed and alcoholic variations. It’s been a nationwide hit ever since.

The ubiquitous drink is peddled by vendors on nearly every street in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but those of you across the ocean can make this simple, invigorating version at home.

Creating a simple syrup with

the sugar and water, which turns the sugar liquid, means it’s much easier to blend into a cold drink, and steeping mint in the simple syrup infuses the drink with an extra layer of flavor.

It’s delicious as is, but you can make it alcoholic (look below for my margarita-inspired variation) for a fun, adult twist on the classic.

Or if you’re feeling really adventurous, substitute Arak, an anise-flavored spirit that’s popular in Israel, for the tequila and see where it takes you.

With or without alcohol, you’re going to want to make these icy, cooling, sweet and tart slushies all summer long.

Frozen Limonana Ingredients

3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, about 3 lemons

1/2 cup loosely packed mint 6 tablespoons sugar 1 cup water 4 cups ice cubes

Directions

Combine water, sugar and half of the mint leaves in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Simmer for 1 minute.

Remove from heat and let syrup steep, about 30 minutes.

Discard the mint leaves and refrigerate the syrup to let it cool.

Combine the mint simple syrup, the rest of the fresh mint leaves and the fresh lemon juice in a blender. Blend at high speed until well mixed.

Add the ice and blend until the ice is thoroughly crushed.

Pour into glasses and serve immediately. Serves 2.

Brighten and awaken summer flavors FAMILY FEATURES – Summer provides an abundance of delicious, fresh-picked flavors, giving home chefs plenty of opportunities to use them in both classic recipes and newfound favorites. From sides to salads to smoothies and everything in between, summer is all about creating dishes that taste tempting, bright and balanced.

Using seasonal ingredients, like peaches and other sun-ripened fruits, can help play up the bounty of summer for all types of eating occasions. However, with a wide variety of available choices, it can be a dizzying task to select recipes you’ll want to make again and again.

This summer, Nature’s Intent Organic Apple Cider Vinegar and celebrity chef Candice Kumai – also known as the “Golden Girl of Wellness” – recommend these make-at-home recipes to help brighten and awaken the best flavors at your table.

“Apple cider vinegar is my favorite natural way to cook, look and feel my very best for all of summer,” Kumai said. “These recipes feature its powerful benefits and bright taste, which awaken summertime cooking.”

Kumai recommends her Carrot Beauty Noodles as a showstopping side dish to accompany main courses throughout the summer, while a light and savory Miso Kale Caesar Salad can curb and satisfy appetites before dinner. Meanwhile, the fresh-and-fruity versatility of this Peach Smoothie means you can enjoy it at breakfast, as a nutritious midday snack or even for dessert.

All three recipes feature Nature’s Intent Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, which is raw, unfiltered, made with the mother and can be a chef’s secret ingredient to brighten and awaken

taste buds to the true flavors of food by enhancing your favorite recipes any time of year.

Because it’s crafted with care, the clean, crisp flavors provide a difference you can see and taste while helping add a perfect sweet-and-sour balance to traditional meals as well as new favorites.

With so many fresh, delicious choices, summer is the perfect opportunity to make the most of flavors in almost anything you’re making, but selecting the right recipes and ingredients can be the first step toward truly soaking up the brightness of the season.

Carrot Beauty Noodles Recipe courtesy of Candice Kumai Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Servings: 2

Ingredients 2 cups cooked brown rice or quinoa 3 tablespoons organic red miso paste 3 tablespoons Nature’s Intent Organic Apple Cider Vinegar 1/4 cup rice vinegar 2 tablespoons roasted sesame oil 2 teaspoons honey 2 teaspoons freshly grated ginger 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium tamari or soy sauce 9 cups spiralized carrots 2 cups shelled organic edamame 1 avocado, cubed 2 tablespoons fresh mint (leaves removed from stems) 2 tablespoons ground sesame seeds

Directions Cook rice or quinoa according to package directions.

Miso Kale Caesar Salad Recipe courtesy of Candice Kumai Cook time: 20 minutes Servings: 2

Dressing

Carrot Beauty Noodles In medium mixing bowl, add red miso paste, apple cider vinegar, rice vinegar, roasted sesame oil, honey, ginger and tamari or soy sauce. Whisk well to combine. Add spiralized carrots, edamame and cooked rice or quinoa. Toss well to coat.

Garnish with avocado cubes, fresh mint leaves and ground sesame seeds.

Peach Smoothie Recipe courtesy of Candice Kumai Prep time: 5 minutes Servings: 2

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups unsweetened almond milk 1/2 frozen banana 3/4 cup sweet potato puree 3 cups frozen organic peaches 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 scoop collagen powder 1-2 tablespoons Nature’s Intent Organic Apple Cider Vinegar

Directions

In blender, combine almond milk, banana, sweet potato puree, peaches, ginger, cinnamon, collagen powder and apple cider vinegar; blend until smooth.

Serve immediately.

1/4 cup tahini paste (ground sesame seed paste) 1/4 cup organic red or white miso paste 1/4 cup rice vinegar 1 teaspoon honey or maple syrup 3 tablespoons Nature’s Intent Organic Apple Cider Vinegar

Salad 1 large bunch finely chopped curly kale, destemmed 1/2 cup (about 1 ear) raw white corn, shaved off cob 2 cups daikon radish (about 1/2 radish), peeled, halved and thinly sliced into half-moons 2 ripe avocados, halved, pit-

ted, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch cubes 2 tablespoons baked hemp seeds

Optional toppings 8 ounces wild salmon, grilled 8 ounces organic tofu, grilled and cubed

Directions To make dressing: In medium mixing bowl, whisk tahini paste, organic miso paste, rice vinegar, honey and apple cider vinegar.

Add kale, corn and daikon radish. Toss well to coat with dressing.

Serve topped with cubed avocado, hemp seeds and salmon or tofu, if desired.

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Rabbi Wayne Franklin and Rabbi Noach Karp

ANNUAL MEETING

The Ress Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exemplary leadership at the Alliance, local or national Jewish agencies and in the general Rhode Island community. Joan Ress Reeves, Joseph’s daughter, presented the award with a dose of history and glowing words for Franklin.

“Wayne is especially worthy,” she said, pointing out that the award is not given each year. In addition to serving his congregation, Franklin has chaired the Community Relations Council, RI Interfaith Commemoration of the Holocaust, has been a leader in the Rhode Island interfaith community, and is a member of The Miriam

Susan Leach DeBlasio, left, Marilyn Kaplan and Sara Goodwin

Adam Cable

Adam Greenman

Hospital’s Ethics Committee and Jewish Traditions Advisory Committee.

“You have given of yourself not just to the Jewish community but to the community at large,” Reeves said. “Above all, you are a mensch. Joe Ress would be proud.”

In his remarks, Franklin pointed out that he had learned that Joe Ress always said that it “was all right to disagree, but one must not be disagreeable in one’s disagreements.”

“Strengthening our community requires all of us to listen respectfully with open hearts and minds to what others with points of view extremely different from our own are saying,” said Franklin.

“We must acknowledge all our fellow Jews as authentic Jews though our beliefs and our forms of worship… are not identical.”

Rabbi Sarah Mack, president of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island, oversaw the installation of officers. Afterward, Mitzi Berkelhammer, chair of the board of directors, reported on the annual campaign fundraising. She said that more than $3 million has been raised so far in the 2018 campaign, which will end on June 30. “This is where our community comes together as one,” Berkelhammer said.

And she stressed the importance of increasing the numbers of those leading Jewish lives in our community. “We are working on new programs, and we will succeed [in this goal].”

In his remarks, President and CEO Adam Greenman, who is closing in on his first anniversary at the Alliance, took a look at the year’s achievements and spoke about what’s in store for the future, including a new strategic plan and new goals.

He said nearly 200,000 people had walked through the doors of the JCC, which houses 154 children at summer J-Camp, 54 in the Eides Family J-Space Afterschool Program, and sends teens to Israel and on the March of the Living.

“This is just the beginning.

There is so much more that we can achieve when we come together.

“Our capacity for a stronger, more vibrant Jewish community in Rhode Island may be limitless. We celebrate what was and what will be,” he said.

“The Alliance is where we can all come together... and where anything is possible.”

To read Greenman’s entire speech, see page 9.

FRAN OSTENDORF (fostendorf@jewishallianceri.org) is the editor of The Jewish Voice.

Emily Dennen with Dianne Newman

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Berkelhammer congratulates Gaines.

Donna Evans and Elissa Felder

Harold Foster

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Area rabbis talk summer and vacation Most take a break and remind us to do the same

BY LARRY KESSLER Summertime, And the livin’ is easy; Fish are jumpin,’ And the cotton is high …

– The first stanza from ‘Summertime’ from ‘Porgy and Bess,’ written by George Gershwin The living is supposed to be easy during the summer, but for the area rabbis The Jewish Voice talked to about their vacation plans, “livin’ easy” will compete with work.

Rabbi Marc Mandel of Newport’s historic Touro Synagogue said his schedule doesn’t give him the luxury of an extended break.

“The summer months are very busy at Touro Synagogue, so I don’t really take a summer vacation,” Mandel, 56, said.

“I do hope to get away for a few days in August (with his wife Jacqueline) for a family wedding in New York, and also for a day or two, to visit my son (Carmi) at camp in the Poconos,” he said.

But that doesn’t mean he won’t relax.

“Maybe I will find an afternoon or two to go down to Providence to unwind and enjoy the scenery there, and the kosher restaurants… ” he said.

Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser,

Rabbi Ethan Adler

Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser

Rabbi Anne Heath

55, the spiritual leader of Temple Sinai in Cranston, also will mix business and pleasure.

“I will be spending most of the summer in Rhode Island. I will be making plans for next year’s religious school program at Temple Sinai, which will be going through some significant changes,” he said.

“The religious school is shifting to a model of group learning in which students in the whole school will do a number of learning projects together. I’ll be working with teachers and lay leaders over the summer to make final plans for the program.”

Goldwasser, though, will still set aside some free time.

“Both of my children (Talia, 19, and Eliana, 13) will be at summer camp in Vermont, my older daughter as a counselor

and my younger daughter as a camper, so it will be a time for my wife (Jonquil Wolfson) and me to enjoy some relaxing time for just the two of us.

We plan on a family vacation in August during the week following summer camp.”

Goldwasser stressed the importance of taking it easy.

“The English word ‘vacation’ comes from the Latin ‘vacatio,’ which means ‘respite from work.’ The Hebrew word is ‘chufshah,’ which comes from a root meaning ‘freedom.’ In keeping with those definitions, I do not do any work over my vacation.”

He advises readers to do the same.

“Our culture is particularly bad at resting. We tend to determine so much of our personal value and our identity

based on the work that we do that we are frightened or embarrassed not to be working.

This is a dangerous situation,” he said.

“Rest from work is not something that has to be earned by laboring hard the rest of the year. Rather, rest is an innate human need. We cannot be our best selves if we don’t allow ourselves to rest. We cannot do any good work at all if we don’t renew ourselves with rest.”

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Rabbi Ethan Adler, of Congregation Beth David of Narragansett, is located in a prime leisure spot, which makes for a hectic summer.

His congregation holds three Friday evening services on Narragansett Beach in addition to regular Sabbath morning services in July and August, compared to only monthly Saturday services the rest of the year.

“Since Narragansett is a vacation destination, we often are joined by folks who visit the area during the summer months,” Adler, 68, said.

But even with his full schedule, and with preparing for the High Holy Days, he still will catch up on reading and “spend as much time as my schedule allows to relax on the beach.“ Adler, who is married to Lori, also unwinds by “gardening, going on mini-trips and going for long walks, and watching the Red Sox – which at times admittedly is not that good for the spirit,” he said.

Rabbi Anne Heath of Congregation Agudath Achim in Taunton, Massachusetts, urged people to relax yearround. “Don’t wait until the summer to take a break. Sabbath comes once a week,” she said.

Heath, who said she’ll be busy organizing the synagogue and religious school calendars and preparing for the High Holy Days, nonetheless will visit relatives in Georgia, Michigan and Kansas.

Rabbi Aaron Philmus of

Rabbi Marc Mandel

Rabbi Aaron Philmus Temple Torat Yisrael in East Greenwich will also be traveling. He’s going “to Romania to do family history research and order headstones for family members buried there.”

Philmus, 40, his wife Valerie and two children are also planning two getaways.

“Every summer, our family goes to Long Beach Island on the Jersey shore, and we also like to spend a few days in the Berkshires,” he said.

Not that he’ll completely abandon work. “When I am on vacation, I try to unplug, but usually I spend the down time reading books for my High Holiday sermons. The summer is an excellent time to commune with God in nature,” he said.

His advice is to follow the example of the Sabbath and “fix in time for rest and reflection.

“Some people like gardening, others like to go for a walk.

Whatever gets your body moving and your senses tuned in to the spirit that moves in all things” is fine, he said.

LARRY KESSLER is a freelance writer who can be reached at lkessler1@comcast. net.

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Renewal in the Relay for Life

BY LARRY KESSLER “To find a cure … to fight back … for friends and survivors … to honor survivors … in memory of loved ones … for those who can’t …”

Those were some of the 20 “reasons to relay” that appeared in the program book and on commemorative T-shirts for this year’s 20th anniversary Greater Attleboro Relay For Life for the American Cancer Society.

They’ve always served as motivation for those dedicated to the event.

The national Relay For Life began in 1985 when Dr. Gordon “Gordy” Klatt walked and ran for 24 hours around a track in Tacoma, Washington.

He covered 83.6 miles and raised $27,000. Klatt died Aug. 3, 2014, from heart failure and stomach cancer, but what he started has exceeded all initial expectations, raising more than $5 billion worldwide.

Klatt left a legacy of giving back and showed what believing in miracles can do. No one who has participated in the relays will dispute that.

Over the last two decades, I’ve participated in this worthy cause, serving as a team captain, team member and, this year, a member of the organizing committee. The relay always leaves me spiritually renewed.

This year, we adjusted to a new location, Norton High School, instead of the longtime site at North Attleboro High. A new method of lighting the luminaria that line the track in memory of cancer victims and in honor of survivors was also tried.

Instead of candles, held down with sand, a cumbersome combination, we switched to anchoring the bags with canned goods and adding glow sticks.

This proved easier to handle, and the cans were donated to food pantries.

That donation was in keeping with the Jewish traditions of charitable giving (tzedakah) and making the world better through volunteering (tikkun olam), which have always been an integral part of these events.

And this year, it was a good feeling to know that the food cans had served a dual noble purpose: anchoring the luminaria – yahrtzeit lights in the purest sense – and helping to feed the needy.

Donating the cans also reinforced my long-held belief that the Relay For Life is a fundraiser where mitzvahs and miracles reign, a realization that I came to years ago. From that point on, I knew that this event, which is held for a secular reason – raising money for the cancer society – makes me far more spiritually fulfilled than most other experiences.

One year, for example, I was moved to tears while walking around the track during a “silent lap” when the walkers, led by a lone bagpiper, were urged to honor the names on the bags by thinking about them. During that moment, I did what came naturally: I recited parts of the mourner’s Kaddish.

That action may not sit well with those religious leaders who strictly adhere to the requirement of a minyan being present before saying Kaddish, but I didn’t mind. Saying Kaddish while memorializing loved ones worked for me as I’ve always considered those walking next to me to be friends who give me comfort.

During another year, we were lifted spiritually when it seemed a miracle had occurred after the rain let up just enough to allow the candles to be lit, and in other years, rainbows lifted our spirits.

As I jogged around the track on the Saturday morning of this year’s relay and saw the food pantry volunteers remove the cans from the luminaria, it dawned on me why I keep coming back: All of the participants are true menschen, which is what we’re supposed to be striving for as human beings.

Their example should be emulated because the world would be a much better place if more of us took the concepts of tzedakah and tikkun olam to heart.

Participants rest while doing laps around the Norton High School track during the Greater Attleboro Relay For Life to benefit the American Cancer Society held June 8-9.

Participants light the luminaria in memory of cancer victims or in honor of cancer survivors, at the Greater Attleboro Relay For Life. The bags were illuminated with glow sticks.

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Meet the authors at Hadassah’s annual Books on the Beach in Newport Hadassah Rhode Island’s eighth Annual Books on the Beach Authors Luncheon and Hadassah Medical Organization Fundraiser is scheduled for Aug. 7 at OceanCliff in Newport. This year, guests will be entertained by award-winning authors Rachel Kadish, author of “The Weight of Ink,” and Tova Mirvis, author of “The Book of Separation.”

Books on the Beach was the brainchild of Hadassah Rhode Island member Karen Asher of West Kingston. Over the past eight years, the event has featured interesting and entertaining authors whose books span genres from mysteries,

memoirs, cookbooks and selfhelp to childrens’ literature and historical fiction. This year, the chapter also welcomes guest speaker Marlene Edith Post, past president of Hadassah National.

Post of New York, New York, is a distinguished leader and prominent member of the Jewish community in the United States and in Israel. Her 47-year volunteer career working on behalf of humanitarian causes has placed her at the pinnacle of vital new initiatives for the 21st century. Post is a past president of Hadassah National, a past president of Hadassah International and is currently the chair of Hadassah Magazine.

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has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times. “The Weight of Ink” is set in London in the 1660s and in the early 21st century. It is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi just before the plague hits the city, and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. It is a 2017 National Jewish Book Award winner.

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in Residence at the HadassahBrandeis Institute at Brandeis University and a Visiting Scholar at The Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. “The Book of Separation” is a memoir of a woman who leaves her orthodox faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly map-less world.

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You already know that the best way to be healthy is to stay healthy. Then why is that so hard to do? Exercise plays a huge role in the successful achievement of this goal. Just think of your health in terms of the domino effect, with the lack of exercise representing the domino that’s knocking down all the others.

Following its fall, down go: mobility, muscle mass, balance, strength, endurance and cognitive performance. Fittingly, all these fallen dominos increase your chances of a fall, which causes its own domino effect, knocking over functional independence. But before you pick up a copy of “The Fall of the House of Usher,� don’t plunge into despair just yet – it’s never too late to reverse the cycle, and a little bit of effort goes a long way. Follow this quick roundup of senior exercises to stay agile.

Senior Dodgeball: This idea was inspired by Asphalt Green, a New York City non-profit that developed Skills in Motion. The training program, designed to improve functional balance, features playground games for seniors. A 2017 New York Times article describes how they play volleyball with colorful balloons; hold hands and pass around a hula hoop using only their bodies; beat rhythm sticks in the air; dance to their favorite songs; and play dodgeball, tag and fireball (rolling a ball around a circle using their hands as paddles).

The RBG Workout: Judicial Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also now known as the Notorious RBG, has recently garnered significant attention for her activity on the bench ‌ bench press, that is. Last year, Bryant Johnson, her personal trainer, whom she considers “the most important personâ€? in her life, released “The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too!â€? – a book outlining her rigorous twice-weekly workouts. Considering that, at age 85, she has one of the sharp-

Go Dutch for Fall Training: If falls are inevitable, then why not be prepared? The Netherlands offers hundreds of courses geared solely toward avoiding falls and taught by registered physio- and occupational therapists. Older adults train to navigate potentially dangerous circumstances, including walking on tricky sidewalks, transitioning from standing to sitting or climbing steep staircases. In addition to becoming more physically agile, the seniors become more confident in their movements, which helps to prevent falls. They also practice falling the right way – gently, on gym mats. If you think you might fall for it, visit jasperjuinen.com to learn more.

Chair Yoga: This seated version of the ancient practice has gained a recent following.

Also, it happens to be naturally suited to seniors who want to build mobility and strength,

est minds in the country, with grace and wit to match, we’ll happily fall in line with whatever her trainer tells us to do.

The Feldenkrais Method: This form of movement education originated in Israel and has attracted a cult-like following, especially in the senior community. Think of it as “physical meditation�; after all, it is equal parts mental to physical.

Founder Moshe Feldenkrais said, “We move according to our perceived self-image.� By expanding your perception and increasing awareness of your body, you become more attuned and develop ways of improving your habits and navigating around your tensions. Thousands of Feldenkrais followers have said that the practice has helped them live life more fully, efficiently and painlessly. And it is super relaxing. For more

even if starting from a place of limited mobility. Interested?

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If you’re not already moving on a regular basis – what are you waiting for? We all know you’re not getting any younger!

In addition to the above-mentioned options, the Jewish Alliance offers Forever Fit classes almost daily (see full schedule on jewishallianceri.org).

NAOMI FINK COTRONE runs the Right at Home, an agency that provides care to elderly and disabled adults throughout Rhode Island. She is a loyal devotee of Crossfit and invites clients and their families to join her for a class.

information, visit feldenkraismethod.org.

Ageless Grace: The name of this global practice, which is focused on the senior community, embodies the entirety of our aspirations. Founder Denise Medved attests, “These exercises, based on everyday movements that are natural and organic, focus on the healthy longevity of the body and mind.� Ageless Grace employs a suite of “tools,� with each emphasizing a different anti-aging technique, such as “joint mobility, spinal flexibility, right-left brain coordination, kinesthetic learning, cognitive function, systemic health, balance, selfesteem, confidence and playfulness.� Practitioners claim that incorporating these tools into a regular routine promotes one’s ability to “respond, react and recover efficiently and safely.�

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damage there,� she told reporters. Ms. Phillips had just put a bumper sticker on her truck when the incident occurred. It read: “Women who behave rarely make history.�

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KITES agricultural sector as well as to the area’s vast nature reserves.

“Look over there,” Ben David says, pointing to a pillar of smoke in the distance. His finger sweeps across the horizon, noting the locations of several other fires in the distance. “We see three, four, five fires. There are eight fires now.”

“It’s like this every day,” he continues, describing how more than 4,000 dunams, or nearly 490 acres, have already gone up in smoke over the past two months. “It’s doing great damage to the forest, to the plants and animals. Everything here is burned. We don’t really see a solution, either from the government or the army, against this kite terror.”

Ben David says KKL-JNF employs 12-13 private firefighters who are responsible for the forest, a number bolstered by volunteers from local communities and Israel’s overstretched Fire and Rescue Services.

“If we had 10 more it would be good, but we don’t have 10 more,” he says. “We are doing what we can. You extinguish one and you move on to the next one.”

At another site nearby, a tractor puts out the flames by driving over them followed by a man carrying a hose attached to a small water tank on his back.

Siren blaring, a firetruck pulls up and a regular-duty firefighter gets out and starts spraying a flaming clump of trees.

Over the course of less than an hour, Ben David visits more than five fires, one of which blazes alongside a small onelane road, completely obscuring visibility.

“At the end of the day, we are succeeding at extinguishing everything,” he says, but adding it would help if he had access to firefighting planes. Ben David explains that such aircraft are prohibited from taking part in the battle due to the proximity to the Gaza border.

“These kites aren’t toys, they’re weapons,” he says. “If the IDF or government will understand that, I hope they will do something.”

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Flaming kites sent from Gaza have caused thousands of shekels of damage on Israel’s western border.

In nearby Nahal Oz, Yael Lachyani walks along pointing out the damage done to her kibbutz’s farmlands. She points to a small patch of burnt ground on which small shoots are already beginning to sprout.

Lachyani, the agricultural collective’s spokeswoman, says that on the festival of Shavuot each year, a small ceremony is held here for the community’s children, but this year it was set ablaze only hours before the gathering.

“We put out the fire and held the ceremony anyway. We are proud that we didn’t let them destroy our holiday,” she says, noting that 600 dunams, or almost 150 acres, have already gone up in flames.

“We try to be optimistic. It’s all about resilience,” Lachyani says. “We don’t complain. We don’t let them run our lives. You burn, and we plant. Our morale is high. There is something about tragedy that connects you more to the people you live with.”

While acknowledging that the damage has only been to vegetation, she says it is only a matter of time until someone

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gets hurt in the community of fewer than 500 residents next to the border fence. The Israel Defense Forces and the government have not responded to the fires in the same way in which they act in the wake of a rocket attack, she says, and this “sends a message” to Hamas.

Lachyani says that despite the rocket attacks and fires, Nahal Oz is thriving, with residency at capacity, in part due to the “new secular Zionism of living wherever it’s necessary and wherever it’s meaningful.”

But while the community has grown since the last flare-up with Hamas in 2014, it does not mean the residents are totally sanguine about the situation.

“We are thriving under fire … for the moment,” she says, complaining of the feeling that “no one cares.” Citing Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi’s statement that he was “not excited by the kite terrorism” – that is, that people shouldn’t overreact to what he called a “pathetic” enemy – Lachyani asserts that the “government isn’t doing anything.”

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has pledged to strike back in response to the kites “when it is convenient for us.”

The army is testing two types of drones for use against the kites as “part of a comprehensive response, which includes cooperation with firefighting forces and the activity of combat forces on the ground,” an IDF spokesman told JTA. According to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, bomb disposal experts have responded not only to to kites dragging alcohol-soaked rags but also explosive devices, “which is a much more serious threat to both soldiers and civilians.”

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firefighters with 10 fire engines to deal only with fires near the fence,” Israel Fire and Rescue Services spokesman Yoram Levy says. “In order to respond quickly we opened five temporary stations in kibbutzim. We have a volunteer unit at Kfar Aza with a fire truck and equipment, and we are about to establish two more units. When we receive intelligence that there might be mass demonstrations [like last Friday], we are reinforcing our staff as needed.”

Levy says the fire service has used airplanes twice, near Kibbutz Or Haner and Kibbutz Karmia, after receiving permission from the Israeli Air Force.

One resident of Nahal Oz sees the attacks as an opportunity to give something back. Only weeks before the fires started, Raymond Reijnen immigrated to the kibbutz with family from Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

A 16-year veteran of his city’s fire brigade, Reijnen – a tall, thin blond with tattooed arms – saw no future in Europe and decided to make aliyah so his children could grow up in a Jewish state.

Assigned to the kibbutz dairy, where he tends cows, Reijnen threw himself into agricultural work and learning Hebrew. Teams of firefighters from across the country have converged on the south, taking shifts on duty before returning to their home cities. Nevertheless, each kibbutz maintains its own volunteer team, and Reijnen joined the one at Nahal Oz immediately.

He says he felt good that he could “give something back to the kibbutz with my skills as a firefighter. I can pay them back for all the things they do for me here. I was kind of useless for the kibbutz, and I’m not used to

that.”

Kibbutz Saad, located three miles away, has had to deal with far fewer fires than Nahal Oz, and the fields that burned were already harvested, says Buki Bart, a member of the kibbutz administration. While expressing frustration, Bart says he understands that “everybody is doing the best that he can” and that the damage thus far has been minor enough that he doesn’t feel he has to report every small fire to the kibbutz members. Residents have come under fire for years, he says, especially during the last three wars in Gaza.

According to Adi Meiri, a spokeswoman for the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council, whose territory includes Sderot, extinguishing the fires is not the only struggle for residents of the region. While the state has pledged reparations for farmers who have lost crops, local representatives also have been pushing hard for additional payments for those forced to harvest early, losing part of the value of their produce, as well as for those who have lost agricultural equipment.

Aside from the financial side, Meiri says the constant fires have caused stress for residents, especially children, many of whom are receiving help from psychologists at a local “resilience center.” She describes how she has gone to great lengths to shield her own children from the reality of the past two months.

Picking up on Meiri’s theme, council head Alon Schuster told JTA that it is important that the IDF, when attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, announce that the strikes are in part in retaliation for the kites. He says “it is important for the internal psychological resilience of our residents.”

The authorities have been somewhat slow “to assimilate, to integrate, the reality” of what is happening, Schuster says.

“They are concentrating now on the threat of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians entering into Israel to sabotage or kidnap people, and they underestimate the threat of fire,” he says.

While many residents have called for increased strikes against Hamas, others believe that only an improvement in conditions in Gaza will bring true peace.

“We have been relatively lucky,” Adele Raemer of Nirim says. “It hurts to see the land being ravaged by fires – the same land that those who are doing it claim to love, claim to be theirs.

“I’m hoping to hear that the government will make decisions today that will alleviate the impossible conditions in Gaza and enable the Gazans to have some hope. People who have nothing to live for only have reasons to die for.”

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The found Magen David – and its long heritage Repairs sometimes bring unexpected items to light

BY RUTH BREINDEL Larry Parness, the treasurer of the Rhode Island Jewish Museum, which is housed in the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, was concerned about the synagogue’s roof. He and the contractors went to the roof to check the buttress at the back of the building. On the way, in a corner of the attic, they discovered a Magen David, 22 inches tall and covered in silver oxide.

After some investigation, Parness realized that the star had originally been placed on the parapet of the Providence synagogue, over the outside staircase. And now, the serendipitously “discovered” Magen David is being restored. One day, it will again grace the outside of the building.

But why a Magen David?

What is its history? In the ancient world, going back as far as the Babylonians, both six- and five-pointed stars were in common use, perhaps at times as magical symbols.

The oldest known use of the six-pointed star by Jews is on a seal from the seventh century B.C.E. that was found in Sidon (modern-day Lebanon). It continued to be used by many cultures – Jews, Christians and Muslims – up through the Middle Ages and all over Europe.

In fact, it was called the Seal of Solomon by Christians and was

believed to have been used by Solomon to keep demons under his control.

In the early 1300s, the symbol was first called the Magen David by Jews, but it was not a common name. According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, “The emblem of David’s shield was not the image known by this name today, but Psalm 67 in the shape of the menorah.

This became a widespread custom, and the ‘menorah Psalm’ was considered a talisman of great power. A booklet from the 16th century says: ‘King David used to bear this psalm inscribed, pictured and engraved on his shield, in the shape of the menorah, when he went forth to battle, and he would meditate on its mystery and conquer.’ ” The star (Seal of Solomon)

The Magen David atop the synagogue. Top left, on the way to be repaired. and the menorah (shield of David) eventually merged, with the star pattern, whether with straight or curved sides, winning out. It took on the name Magen David. While it was first used as a symbol of Judaism by the Foa family, printers in Italy from the mid-1500s, it was adopted and spread from Prague throughout Europe in the mid-1600s. Again, according to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, “The prime motive behind the

wide diffusion of the sign in the 19th century was the desire to imitate Christianity. The Jews looked for a striking and simple sign which would ‘symbolize’ Judaism in the same way as the cross symbolizes Christianity.”

Nowadays, the Magen David is used as a symbol among Jews everywhere – on the Israeli flag, on jewelry, on notecards and on religious buildings.

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For more information about the museum, visit the website at RhodeIslandJewishMuseum. org.

RUTH BREINDEL is a past president of the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association.

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Tales of long ago – with a Yiddish twist

More than 29 years ago, my husband Rubin, my father and I were taking a ride through some part of southern Florida outside of Miami.

We came to a red light and Rubin cut a man in a truck off. Now, it is important to know that Rubin’s son ArMAY-RONNY thur told me ZEIDMAN many years before, that his dad was not the greatest driver and not to think it was a function of age, he was never a good driver.

As we came to the next light, Rubin cut the same man off again. This time the man was very angry. He jumped out of his truck and was approaching our car. All I could see was this

young, angry face with red hair and a red beard and tzitzit flying from under his shirt.

I looked at Rubin and said, “Red tsu im Yiddish.”(speak to him in Yiddish) As the young man approached the car, Rube opened his window, looked at the man and said, “Vas vilster fun mir? Ich bin an altar man.”

(What do you want from me? I am an old man.)

When the man heard these words, he threw up his hands and walked back to his truck.

My dad said, “May-Ronny, that was brilliant.” To this day, I have no idea of how speaking in Yiddish came to mind.

I want to thank Geraldine Foster for helping me with the transliteration of the Yiddish words.

MAY-RONNY ZEIDMAN is the executive director of the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center.

The following readers sent their reflections of the JCC These letters were received by May-Ronny Zeidman after her column of May 25.

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remember playing basketball on the third floor of the JCC at the corner of Potters Avenue and (I think) Hamilton Street in South Providence.

The ceiling was about 9 feet tall. Indeed, it had been a police station. I also taught target shooting with BB guns. I had to join the NRA to qualify as an instructor.

My first paying musical gig when I was 14 was at the old JCC on Sessions Street. We were a quartet and earned $5 each. Larry Perlman played the trombone, Everet Schiffman played the drums, Bob (I forget) played the piano and I played the clarinet and saxophone.

Good times!

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go back to even an earlier day when the JCC was on Benefit Street near Halsey Street. I can remember my dad, Norman Feinberg, taking me in the late 40s every Sunday morning to

the Gym at the JCC on Benefit Street. There was a basketball league that included JCCs from around New England, and the games were played on Sunday mornings. (Some of the players besides my dad were George Katz, Harry Platt, Maxwell [Muddy] Waldman, two dentists who were brothers-in-law, Dr. Chester and Dr. Nelson and others who this old mind cannot remember!)

Regarding the JCC on Sessions Street, my father’s brother Saul Feinberg was very much involved in securing the site and arranging for the move from Benefit Street to Sessions.

Like you, I remember “hanging out” there weekends and evenings after school.

Do you remember the old TOPPS DINER across from the Old RI Auditorium?

Keep up the good work. Hope you don’t mind me putting in my two cents!

Joel Feinberg Cranston, R.I.

Consul General of France Valery Freland, left, Dr. Mel B. Yoken exhibiting the French Legion of Honor Medal, and his wife Cindy Yoken.

Dr. Mel B. Yoken receives the French Legion of Honor award

On May 26, UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Professor Emeritus Dr. Mel B. Yoken was presented France’s highest honor for his career studying French language and literature. Yoken received the French Legion of Honor award from Consul General of France Valery Freland on behalf of French President Emmanuel Macron at the Residence de France in Cambridge.

“This award brings me even closer to France,” Yoken said “This country has given me so much. I met my wife of 42 years at an American Association of French Teachers conference

and have met people and made friends all over the world due to my connection to the French language.”

The Legion of Honor award was created by Napoleon in 1802.

Yoken retired from teaching French language and literature at UMass Dartmouth, but is still actively helping students studying French and is the director of the Boivin Center of French Language and Culture as well as the current program chair and former president of The Claire T. Carney Library Associates. “I’ll be doing this forever,” he said

He began his career in teaching in 1966 at UMass Dartmouth, then called Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, and has been with the institution for 52 years. Yoken states that he has directly taught and interacted with over 16,000 students at UMass Dartmouth, and many still contact him decades after they graduate.

The French Legion of Honor is awarded to select individuals who have made an impact on France and French culture.

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Marion Davis, 94

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WICHITA, KAN. – Marion Davis passed away on June 10.

Marion was born in New York City and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father, the late Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, was a professor at the Hebrew Union College. The only child of Abraham and Rose Cronbach, Marion was educated at University School in Cincinnati, Franklin Junior College in Massachusetts, and at the Cincinnati Art Museum School of Fine Arts.

In 1944, she married Maurice Davis, of Providence, then a student at Hebrew Union College.

As her husband was invited to serve congregations in Cleveland, Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky, Indianapolis, Indiana, and White Plains, New York, she involved herself in each city teaching arts and crafts as well as serving on the boards of the Council of Jewish Women, Temple Sisterhoods, and other volunteer organizations, teaching in Religious Schools, and volunteering and doing occupational therapy at multiple hospitals.

She is survived by her sons, Rabbi JayR (Hedvah) Davis of Boulder, Colorado, and Rabbi Michael Davis of Wichita, Kansas; grandchildren, Talia (Daniel) Haykin, Ronin, Ben, Zahava, Jonathan and Miriam Davis; and great-grandchildren, David and Eva Haykin.

While always being “her own person,” Marion has also deeply been involved in the world of Judaism. As daughter, wife and mother of rabbis, she has been to her family and friends a living example of an “eshet chayil,” a valorous woman, who exemplifies the human and ethical values of Judaism.

Contributions may be made to the Rabbi Maurice Davis Confirmation Class fund, Congregation Kol Ami, 252 Soundview Ave., White Plains, NY 10606.

Barnet Fain, 86

BARRINGTON, RI – Providence businessman, artist and community leader Barnet “Bunny” Fain died peacefully on May 4 at his home in Barrington.

Born in P r ov id e nc e , the son of Irving I. Fain and Miriam Grossman, Bunny Fain spent most of his life in Rhode Island.

He graduated from Classical High School and received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Colby College in Maine. While at Colby, he met his wife of 54 years, Jean Segal, an art major at Bennington. Jean passed away in 2010, after sharing with her husband an impassioned lifetime of gallery going, art collecting and printmaking.

Upon graduation from college, Bunny served in the Army, running a YMCA and children’s theater group in Germany after the end of the Korean War. When his tour of duty was up in 1956, he returned to Providence and joined the wellknown family business, Fain’s Floorcovering, at its original iconic Art Deco storefront, opened in 1927 by his father and uncle, on North Main Street.

Over the next 38 years Bunny, his cousin, Barry Fain, and his son, Ken, grew the business together. When the company was acquired in 1994 by New York Carpet World, it had grown to a position of industry prominence with 14 stores in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Bunny was a director of the National Retail Floorcovering Institute and a founder of the National Floorcovering Alliance. In 1983, he was honored on the cover of Flooring Magazine, receiving its award for merchandising achievement.

Service to the communities he loved was a way of life. Bunny was the founding president of the Barrington Jewish Center at a time when the Jewish community in that town numbered just a few families. The “BJC” went on to become Temple Habonim. Most recently he was instrumental in establishing an art gallery at the synagogue.

Last year, the gallery was named in his honor.

The arts community also received his energy, enthusiasm and talent for problem solving and bringing people and ideas together. Largely inspired by his wife Jean’s lifelong activity as an accomplished visual artist, Bunny became an early and leading advocate of the arts in Rhode Island. In the 1960s he was a founder of the Rhode Island Arts Festival held on Kennedy Plaza, and many aspiring RISD artists found affordable studio space upstairs in the Fains’ building.

Bunny was the first chairman of the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, chairman of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and a panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts. He was an early trustee of Trinity Rep and the RI Philharmonic, and a member of the RI Film Commission. He was the first recipient of the RI Governor’s Arts Award in 1973.

Bunny was a chairman of the Brown Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology as well as a director on the boards of the Newport Art Museum, the Colby College Art Museum, the Art League of Rhode Island, and his beloved Rhode Island School of Design Museum. His longtime commitment to RISD and its museum culminated in a term of service as chairman of RISD’s board. He was the recipient of RISD’s President’s Medal.

In his later years, Bunny also devoted himself to two additional communities: health care and education. He served as chairman of The Miriam Hospital, chairman of Lifespan and as a member of the Coastal Medical Advisory Committee.

He became co-president of what began as the Brown Community for Learning in Retirement, now known as Lifelong Learning Collaborative of RI. As an advocate of this program, Bunny took and taught many classes over a wide range of subjects.

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cised to remain vital – a credo he modeled his whole life.

Bunny was most proud of the career he began late in life as prolific artist, first as a way of sharing a mutual passion for drawing with his wife Jean, later developing sophistication and skill as a printmaker. He was a member of the Goddard Partridge Studio in Pawtucket, and an artist member of the Providence Art Club. His work has been shown at the Providence Art Club, the Spring Bull Gallery, and the Newport Art Museum. Bunny took and taught drawing classes until the end of his life, and for many years, even at board meetings, was seldom seen without a sketchbook and pencil in his hand.

Though seriously ill over the last three years of his life, Bunny was cheerful and deliberate about using his time to the fullest. With the help of a friend, he produced a line of silk scarves based on his artwork. With another, he produced a beautiful book depicting his and Jean’s lives as artists and collectors.

He taught drawing to small classes of novice students. And he reveled in hosting his annual summer Plein-Air art program, bringing together Lifelong Learning students to paint the flowers, trees and fields around his home.

He is survived by his son, Kenneth (Lisa Gim), his daughter, Jill Fain Lehman (Philip Lehman), his three grandchildren, Alexander Gim-Fain, Charles Fain Lehman and Sarah Lehman, and his sister, Judi Kanter (Buz Kanter).

Donations may be made to the Bunny and Jean Fain Art of Nursing Program at The Miriam Hospital, c/o Dr. Fred

NEWS BRIEFS JTA – Jewish young adults in the U.S. and Israel are, on average, just as religious as their elders, even though young people worldwide are largely less religious than their parents, a new study has found.

The study, released June 13 by the Pew Research Center, also found that Israelis are far less religious than citizens of other Middle Eastern countries.

If the findings seem to contra-

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Albert Feinstein, 97

WARWICK, RI – Albert “Al” Feinstein died June 13 at Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center. He was the beloved husband of Miriam “Mimi” (Davis) Feinstein. Born in Providence, a son of the late Bernard and Bessie (Teller) Feinstein, he had lived in Warwick for 11 years, previously living in Cranston for 55 years. He was a partner in Davis Dairy in Providence, retiring in 1981.

Al was a WWII Army Infantry veteran. He was a member of Touro Fraternal Association, Providence Hebrew Free Loan and Jewish War Veterans Post #23, and a life member of Disabled American Veterans. Al was also a former member of Crestwood and Ledgemont Country clubs. He was a former president of the RI Bridge Club and a Bridge Life Master.

He was the devoted father of Dr. Bernard Feinstein and his wife, Judith, of Vineland, New Jersey, and Roberta Gilstein and her husband, Barry, of Warwick. He was the brother of the late Gladys Fritz. He was the loving grandfather of David (Debbie), Stephanie (Jeff), Michael (Joy), and Robert (Maya). He was the cherished great-grandfather of Adam, Alex, Jake, Elana, Ari and Kyle.

Contributions in his memory may be made to Hope Hospice & Palliative Care, 1085 North Main St., Providence, RI 02904 or Tamarisk, 3 Shalom Dr., Warwick, RI 02886.

Lotta Jagolinzer, 87

PROVIDENCE, RI – Lotta Jagolinzer died June 10 at Bethany Home. She was the beloved wife

of the late Norman Jagolinzer.

Born in Providence, a daughter of the late Harry and Fannie (Borod) Lawrence, she had lived in Providence for 4 years, previously living in Barrington.

She was a first-grade teacher at Norwood Elementary School in Warwick for almost 50 years.

Lotta was a member of Temple Beth-El. She was the cherished aunt of Susan and Jeffrey Shapiro of Marlborough, Massachusetts, and Barry and Pam Schiff of Cranston. She was the adored great-aunt of Bennett Schiff of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Contributions in her memory may be made to the Brotherhood of Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Ave., Providence, RI 02906.

Dolly Misch, 92

WAYLAND, MASS. – Dolly Misch, of Wayland, died on May 31 after a short illness. Born Dolors Elayne White, she was a native Rhode Islander and longtime resident of Pawtucket and Warren.

She was the wife of the late Richard Misch, the daughter of the late Samuel M. and Ida (Tcath) White, and the sister of the late H. Berrick White.

She graduated from Hope High School, where she met her husband of 69 years, and attended Boston University College of Liberal Arts.

Mrs. Misch was especially proud of her community service and work with charitable groups. She was a life member of The Miriam Hospital Women’s Association, and as a volunteer established the hospital’s patient library. She was also a life member of Hadas-

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sah and the Brandeis National Women’s Committee.

She loved Scottish Terriers, musicals, knitting, crossword puzzles, bicycling, ice skating, bowling, and fishing with her husband on Narragansett Bay. She derived the most pleasure from spending time with her family.

She is survived by her daughter, Judy (Wayne) Keseberg, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, and son, Gary L. (Rose) Misch, of Syria, Virginia; three grandchildren, Jonathan (Tali) Keseberg, Joanna Keseberg (Joseph) Welch, and Noah Misch; and three great-grandchildren, Raya and Benjamin Keseberg and Beorn Welch.

Memorial donations may be made to Temple Shir Tikva, Music Fund 141 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA 01778.

schools of Brooklyn, New York.

She was a member of Hadassah and was active in the League of Women Voters.

A resident of East Greenwich since 1972, she supported environmental causes including Save the Bay. Mrs. Spraragen played the piano and was an avid reader, theater-goer and supporter of live classical music. She devoted her life to her children and imbued in all of them a love of learning and the arts. She volunteered her skills as a speech teacher to special needs children, Soviet Jews and other immigrants. Donations may be made in memory of Barbara Lee Spraragen to her favorite summer music festival: Kingston Chamber Music Festival, PO Box 1733, Kingston, RI 02881.

Barbara Lee Spraragen, 86

NAPLES, FLA. – Stephen M. Woolf died June 14 at Naples Community Hospital after a short illness. Born in Providence, son of the late Reuben and Anne (Bazar) Woolf, he had lived in Bonita Springs and Naples, Florida for more than 15 years, previously living in Staten Island, New York, and Cranston. Stephen attended the University of Rhode Island.

He was highly skilled in mathematics and computer sciences and worked for many years as a computer programmer for IBM and later, while living in Staten Island, as a computer programmer for the New York City Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union.

He is survived by his three children, Robin, Sheila and William; a brother, Carl, and his wife, Susan; a niece, Rachel and her husband, Neill; and many grandchildren.

Contributions in his name may be made to the charity of your choice.

EAST GREENWICH, RI – Barbara Lee (Fox) Spraragen, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, born on July 4, 1931 in Schenectady, New York, to Mary Fox (Cramer) and George A. Fox, passed away on May 29. The first in her family to attend college, she graduated from Syracuse University as a drama major, and received a master’s degree in speech from Teachers College, Columbia University.

She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Dr. Sanford C. Spraragen; her children, David, Lisa, Susan and Joseph; grandchildren, Avraham, Eliana, Nechama, Yaakov, Bruria, Deborah, Tamar, Shalom and Ezra; and her sister, Regina Schwartz. In the 1960s she taught speech in the public

Stephen M. Woolf

Young Jews as religious as their parents dict a perception of slipping religiosity among Jews in the U.S. and Israel, the study explains that is partly due to higher birthrates among Orthodox Jews than other denominations: “Orthodox Jews – who tend to have more children – make up a growing share of both Jewish populations, and thus a larger percentage of young Jewish adults,” it said.

The study’s main finding is

that across continents, economies and religions, adults under 40 are less religious than those older than 40. Judging by four criteria – attending worship services, praying daily, affiliating with a religious group and considering religion “very important” – young citizens of only two or three countries scored higher than their elders.

As a whole, the study found younger Christians and Mus-

lims are less religious than older ones.

But in the United States and Israel, Jews under and over 40 scored roughly the same on the four criteria. There were not sufficient data to evaluate Jews from other countries.

When comparing it to the rest of the Middle East, Pew attributed Israel’s relatively low levels of religiosity to its higher per-capita GDP. The study

Buffett raises $80M for Israel Bonds JTA – Warren Buffett helped raise $80 million in Israel Bonds investments.

The billionaire businessman and philanthropist hosted a dinner reception last week in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska – his third such event for Israel Bonds in 18 months. Over 70 Israel Bonds investors from the United States and Canada made a minimum purchase of $1 mil-

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lion in bonds to attend the event at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Israeli dignitaries and members of the diplomatic corps on hand included Shai Babad, director general of Israel’s Finance Ministry; Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations; and Dani Dayan, the consul general of Israel in

New York.

“I’ve lived through Israel’s entire 70-year history, and I believe it is one of the most remarkable countries in the world,” Buffett said at the event.

“I’m delighted to own Israel Bonds.”

He also said: “I have nothing but good feelings about what I am doing. The United States and Israel will always be linked.

It is a good thing for Israel that there is an America, and it is a good thing for America that there is an Israel.”

The three Israel Bonds events hosted by Buffett in the past 18 months have raised investments totaling $290 million, according to Israel Bonds.

The Israeli tool company ISCAR Metalworks was Buffet’s first major overseas acquisi-

found that the higher a country’s per-capita GDP, the lower its level of daily prayer. Israel is the only country in the Middle East and North Africa where fewer than 50 percent of citizens pray daily.

While nearly all Israelis affiliate with a religion, only 30 percent attend weekly services, 27 percent pray daily and 30 percent consider religion “very important” in their lives.

tion in 2006; he purchased the remaining 20 percent of the company in 2013. Buffett holds several million dollars in Israel Bonds, as does his company Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies.

Buffett was third on the Forbes World Billionaires list with a worth $84 billion.

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End of the year fun!

Children in the David C. Isenberg Family Early Childhood Center wrapped up the school year with tons of fun activities including ice cream on the playground, an art show displayed by classroom and an auction of artwork done by the children and their teachers.

A good time was had by all, and some funds were raised to benefit the children.

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New England Academy of Torah (NEAT) graduates, left, at their graduation on June 13 with members of the NEAT administration.

Providence Hebrew Day School (PHDS) eighth-grade graduates, above and at right. The eight-graders graduated June 20.

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