November 23, 2018

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Here’s what it costs to put your synagogue under armed guard Manny’s iconic sign.

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NEW YORK (JTA) – After a mass shooting in a heavily Jewish area shocked the nation, Rabbi Yakov Saacks felt like his Long Island congregation was at risk.

Dispatch from Chicago: The kishke chronicles

BY M. CHARLES BAKST

CHICAGO – We are in the celebrated, cavernous Manny’s Cafeteria & Delicatessen and I’ll give this to you straight: I am eating kishke, an Eastern European sausage-like creation of stuffed beef intestine casings, and it’s great. It may not be a pretty picture – and it certainly can’t be healthy – but it is evocative of a metaphorical expression familiar from my childhood. Surely you remember your mother saying, “They’re taking the kishkes out of me.” Or, worse, “YOU’RE

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taking the kishkes out of me.” Those kishkes weren’t from a cow, they were within the speaker, and these were expressions of exasperation, annoyance, agony. I often seize on the metaphor to describe the torture my sports teams put me through before eking out a close win. During the most recent baseball playoffs, after an excruciating Boston victory, I posted on Facebook, “I am functioning today without one of my body parts. The Red Sox removed my kishkes last night.”

So the rabbi had 17 cameras installed on the synagogue’s exterior that can zoom in to read numbers on license plates, as well as indoor cameras at each entrance. He began covering the windows with Kevlar, at

about $800 each, making them shatterproof in case vandals hit them with rocks. And he hired armed security guards to protect the Hebrew school and Shabbat services.

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Local security on the increase

BY WENDY JOERING In Rhode Island the Jewish Alliance is working with synagogues, day schools, agencies, Chabad Houses and university Hillels to make sure security is at the highest level. Since Oct. 27, you may have noticed increased police patrols around the Alliance, synagogues, police details at several synagogues for religious services and heard talk about more armed intruder training that will take place in

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the next few months.

There are many measures that have been put in place in the past few years by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island as well as partner agencies. Many of these measures are not visible, but rest assured they are there.

As security liaison, I work closely with local law enforcement agencies on a daily basis. The Providence Police Department’s Homeland Security Bureau and Special Response Unit have been

instrumental over the past two years in providing guidance and resources that enable me to be a resource not only for the Providence Jewish community but for the Greater Rhode Island Jewish community. I also rely on the expertise of SCN, Secure C om mu n it y Net work , t he national homeland security initiative of the Jewish Federations of North America.

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INSIDE Business 24-25 Calendar 10 Community 2-6, 11, 16-17, 23, 25, 29-30 D’var Torah 7 Food 12-15 Hanukkah 18-22 Israel 27 Nation 27 Obituaries 26-29 Opinion 8-9 Seniors 28 Simchas | We Are Read 31

THIS ISSUE’S QUOTABLE QUOTE “For eight days we proclaim the power of light to overcome even the greatest darkness.”

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Double your impact on ‘Giving Tuesday’

BY SETH FINKLE Alan Hassenfeld has a challenge for the Rhode Island Jewish community … raise $18,000 in one day.

Tuesday, Nov. 27, typically known as “Giving Tuesday,” will be called “Giving Chai Day” at the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. On that day, Hassenfeld has agreed to double any increased donation or new donation, dollar for dollar, up to $18,000. Thus far in the Alliance’s Annual Campaign, more than $1.25 million from about 900 donors has been raised.

Hassenfeld’s challenge should further inspire donors as efforts are made to close the “100 Days of Giving” in December.

During the campaign event on Oct. 28, Classical High School Senior Sadie Gaffin shared the impact the Alliance has had on her life. “I am thrilled to be here tonight and to talk about the Jewish Alliance of Rhode Island’s role in my Jewish upbringing,” she said. “I began attending the Alliance’s Infant Toddler Care when I was 2 years old, and I have been a member here ever since. Between that time and now, I have accomplished a lot.

I was a camper at Camp JORI,

Sadie Gaffin, center, with her parents, Michael Gaffin, left, and Sue Robbio, right.

I went to Israel three times, I became a lifeguard, I became a swim teacher, I became the president of the Providence chapter of USY, and now I am getting ready to graduate and applying to college. Everything that I have listed is all thanks to my Jewish identity, which was nurtured here at the Alliance.”

Sadie ended her speech with a heartfelt thank you to the donors “I want to thank every donor here tonight. It is because of your generous support that I have been fortunate enough to have these experiences. With your backing, my life has been changed for the better. The Alliance and its donors have truly molded my Jewish identity, and I am so grateful to carry it with

me wherever I go and end up, so stay tuned for the next chapter.”

Sadie’s sentiments demonstrate why giving to the Annual Campaign is so important.

Each donation has the ability to impact the greater Jewish community including: • Providing a safety net for those in need with access to services that can offer self-sufficiency, greater financial security, food assistance, independent living and Jewish enrichment.

•Providing tuition scholarships to the David C. Isenberg Family Early Childhood Center.

• Creating leadership, social and networking opportunities for young adults through (401)j.

• Offering senior adults a Kosher meal and companionship

through Kosher Senior Café, a program in partnership with Jewish Collaborative Services.

• Cultivating Jewish life and learning through arts and culture programs, holidays and observances, and educational opportunities.

• Providing more than 600 children in greater Rhode Island the gift of literacy through PJ Library.

• Creating an engaging communal life at the Dwares Jewish Community Center for individuals and families in the greater Rhode Island area.

When asked his thoughts about “Giving Chai Day,” campaign chair Jamie Pious said “We are excited to bring the concept of ‘Giving Tuesday’ to the Jewish Alliance and our Jewish community here in Rhode Island. We hope this match will motivate the community to make a real difference. Please be a part of this initiative.”

In order to help meet the challenge, the Alliance will be hosting a phone-a-thon that evening, calling those who have not yet made a donation.

For questions, or to make a gift on Nov. 27, contact Seth Finkle, sfinkle@jewishallianceri.org SETH FINKLE is the development manager at the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island.

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Bernstein centennial to be celebrated in concert at Temple Emanu-El

BY PAMELA HANZEL On Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m., Arts Emanu-El welcomes Kol Arev, the chamber choir of Hebrew College, which will present a musical extravaganza in honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday. The program includes selections from “On the Town,” “Candide,” “West Side Story” and “Chichester Psalms,” as well as sacred and secular music by Bernstein’s colleagues.

Leonard Bernstein had a unique and multifaceted career. He was a conductor and composer of serious art music, as well as a composer of music intended for popular consumption. He was a respected pedagogue for young people’s concerts and a teacher in academic settings.

Bernstein grew up in Boston, where his family joined the Conservative synagogue Mishkan Tefila in 1923. This was the place where he learned the power of music. Under the leadership of the synagogue’s music director, Solomon Gregory Braslavsky, the services were each renown for their musical quality throughout New England. According to reports, in 1946 Bernstein wrote to Braslavsky, “I have come to realize what a debt I really owe to you … I shall probably never be able to estimate the real influence those sounds exerted on me.”

Bernstein graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1939, and then went to the Curtis Institute of Music for advanced study. While at Harvard, Bernstein befriended Aaron Copland, who became a lifelong friend and mentor. At Curtis, Bernstein formed a lasting friendship with classmate Lukas Foss, and with Irving Fine and Morton Gould, all acclaimed musicians, whose works will be performed.

With Copland’s support, Bernstein joined the first class of the Berkshire Music Center (now the Tanglewood Music Center). He studied conducting with the school’s founder, Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) conductor Serge Koussevitzky, and composition with Copland. He continued a lifelong relationship with Tanglewood.

Fancy Free, a ballet, was the result of a collaboration between Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins in 1944.

It broke box office records and was expanded into a full Broadway musical, titled “On the Town.” Kol Arev will perform “Some Other Time” and “I Can Cook Too” from this show.

In 1953, Bernstein transformed Voltaire’s satirical novella, “Candide,” into musical theater. In the 1750s, Voltaire charged society with puritanical snobbery, and inquisitional

“Chichester Psalms” was not a typical piece for the Anglican Church or for the 1960’s avant-garde music world. The work for boy soloist, quartet, choir and orchestra reflects the rich variety of influences that characterized Bernstein’s life and music. It was commissioned by the dean of England’s Chichester Cathedral, who encouraged Bernstein to include “a hint of ‘West Side Story’ ” in the sacred music. Bernstein used Hebrew text instead of English. The third movement is on the program.

Please join us as we honor this icon of American culture. Tickets ($18 in advance; $25 at the door) may be purchased at the following site: www.teprov.org/ form/bernstein PAMELA HANZEL is the chair of Arts Emanu-El at Temple Emanu-El in Providence.

attacks on the individual. Bernstein, who liked to question the status quo, believed that this was true in the 1950s. He created a show that would capture a contemporary Voltaire’s point of view. “Make Our Garden Grow,” from Candide, is on the

program.

“West Side Storys’ ” 1957 Broadway opening was the result of another collaboration between composer Leonard Bernstein, choreographer Jerome Robbins, playwright Arthur Laurents and a

young Stephen Sondheim, who signed on to provide the lyrics. Reactions ranged from passionate raves to s t u n n e d w a l k- out s . T h e musical selections that will be performed are “I Feel Pretty” and “Maria.”

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Adam Greenman and James Pious with Diane Bakst, from the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, and daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Bakst.

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Adam Greenman and Elie Katzman-Jacobson, a participant at Camp Szarvas and a graduate of JCDSRI, enjoy lunch at the camp.

From R.I. to Berlin and Budapest

Seeing contributions at work makes a difference

BY FRAN OSTENDORF A recent mission to Berlin and Budapest, Hungary, proved to be life-changing, life-affirming and more for two leaders of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island.

James Pious, chair of philanthropy, said the trip allowed them to see the real impact of some of the Alliance’s fundraising.

“When you go overseas and witness the needs, you can’t deny the importance of our support,” added Adam Greenman, Alliance president and CEO. Pious and Greenman were among 150 leaders of Jewish federations of all sizes who made the seven-day trip, which was sponsored by the Jewish Federations of North America.

While they traveled, learned and networked, with leaders from the U.S. and Canada, they also brainstormed on how to foster engagement by telling their stories.

“It’s important to understand where the dollars go,” said Pious. “It’s easy to see it locally.

We are the stewards. We need to look at where it goes [internationally]. Understanding the

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dynamics and being able to discuss it intelligently is important.”

Among the events they participated in was a “Kippah Walk” in Berlin. The walk, in partnership with the German Student Union, was designed to make a statement and show solidarity against the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Germany today.

It was a powerful moment, they said.

Both said they were impressed by Germany’s commitment to Holocaust education and “Never Again.”

“There’s a deep sadness, but also ownership. Not a whitewash,” said Greenman.

Pious added that anti-Semitism is not tolerated by the government, which also supports Israel.

The Kippah Walk was a response to the harassment of a young person who was wearing a kippah.

The second leg of the trip, in Budapest, was filled with proof of how the Alliance’s overseas partners, the Joint Distribution Council and Jewish Agency for Israel, benefit the Jewish community of Hungary.

Greenman and Pious got to see programs in action that the Rhode Island community supports, like Camp Szarvas, about two hours from Budapest, where Hungarian Jewish children as well as Jews from across Eastern and Central Europe, can come and celebrate their heritage.

They heard from partners such as JDC and JAFI about the impact of donations coming from local groups in the United States, including the Alliance.

Greenman and Pious said that learning about the Jewish communities in Germany and Hungary was energizing, and answered questions we frequently ask ourselves about the impact of our donations both locally and internationally.

“Supporting the broader Jewish community around the world is an important part of having a vibrant local Jewish community,” they said.

“One of the things that makes us Jewish is our connectedness to Jews around the world,” said Pious.

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

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Diplomat says innovation key to peace

BY LARRY KATZ Nadav Tamir, who served several years ago as Israel’s consul general to New England, spoke about the “Peres Legacy and Vision of Peace and Innovation – How Israel Became a StartUp Nation and How It Will Eventually Achieve Peace” during a return visit to Rhode Island on Nov. 14.

Tamir worked in the Foreign Ministry under Shimon Peres, as Peres’ senior policy adviser during much of his presidency, and is now at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.

Tamir discussed Peres’ vision, which Tamir is working to implement both at the Peres Center and at Peres & Associates Global Advisory LTD. Peres did not believe that peace can be imposed from the top leadership down; instead, he believed that peace begins at the bottom, between people, and works its way up to government, Tamir said. This philosophy has led the center to create many programs to bring diverse groups of people together.

Peres also believed in innovation and risk-taking, which are among the chief strategies Israel has used to become a success, Tamir said. Since these are also tools for creating peace, he added, the center will open a pub-

lic innovation center in Jaffa in February.

In response to a question about Israel’s vulnerabilities, as seen in the recent rocket barrage from Gaza, Tamir said he believes that Israel today is stronger than ever. An army officer and the father of an officer, he said he supports a strong military, and Israel’s army is already stronger than all the others in the Middle East combined.

The rockets, ISIS, Hamas, the Islamic jihad and Iran are all major irritants, he said, but they are not existential threats to Israel: The real threat would be losing its identity as a Jewish and democratic state. If Palestinians do not get their own state, the Jews could become a minority in a nation that is neither Jewish nor a democracy, he said.

Tamir said Israel is the homeland of all Jews, not just of Israelis or the ruling religious parties. Israel must not treat Jews of the diaspora and of Reform and Conservative backgrounds as second-class citizens, he said.

Tamir believes there are four main tribes in Israel: Haredi, light Orthodox/traditional, secular and Arab. The Peres Center tries to find opportunities for these groups – which have their own school systems and

neighborhoods – to come together. But, he said, this effort is as difficult as fixing the U.S.’s Electoral College.

To learn more about Peres’ vision, Tamir encouraged the audience to read Peres’ posthumously published book, “No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel.”

Tamir spoke at the Dwares Jewish Community Center, in Providence, to a group of about 50. This was the second event in the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s Israel Culture Series. These events are organized by Nir Cafri, the shaliach/Israeli emissary to the community, and are generally held at the Alliance’s Dwares JCC. The Dec. 12 program will feature games for adults that focus on Israel and Hanukkah.

The Nov. 14 program was co-sponsored by the Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative, which builds economic, scientific and academic ties between Rhode Island and Israel. For more information about RIIC, go to www.theriic.org.

LARRY KATZ (lkatz@jewishallianceri.org) is director of Jewish Life and Learning at the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island.

May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a brighter world for all humankind.

‫חג אורים שמח‬ From all of us at the Jewish Alliance...

We wish you a season filled with warmth, light, and miracles.

Adam Greenman President & CEO

Mitzi Berkelhammer Chair of the Board

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FROM PAGE 1

KISHKE It brought a blizzard of “likes” and appreciative comments.

To be sure, the word “kishkes” also can be employed in a more instinctive way. For instance, before embarking on a course of action you might say you need to feel in your kishkes that it’s right. But I digress. The topic at hand is kishke as food. I am lunching at Manny’s, founded in 1942 and featuring Jewishstyle cuisine in the city’s South Loop neighborhood.

My wife, Elizabeth, and our granddaughter, Isabella Zanobini, a University of Chicago student, are with me. Elizabeth orders a chopped liver sandwich and a towering slice of sweet noodle kugel. I have a prodigious corned beef sandwich. Isabella has corned beef and turkey. But while she complements her sandwich with a potato latke, I take the plunge and ask for a side of kishke.

The counter man takes a chunk and neatly slices it into four pieces and presents it with a small dish of gravy. Our food is wonderful, including the kishke. The casing is tough, but I set it aside and focus on the brownish crumbly stuffing. It is vaguely reminiscent of Thanksgiving stuffing but more textured: heavy, flavorful and fatty. In the world at large, traditional kishke is a fading

Manny’s with the cafeteria line in the background. item – you find many recipes for an alternative, often vegetarian – but co-owner Dan Raskin, 35, tells us it continues to be popular at Manny’s, especially around the Jewish holidays. He represents the fourth generation of the family’s ownership.

When he notices my corned beef and Elizabeth’s chopped liver, he says he likes to eat the two together. Indeed, one menu item, “WHAT AM I, CHOPPED LIVER?” combines the two. Of course, you might prefer “THE CHAZZER.” It combines the corned beef with pastrami, cole slaw, and cheese. Raskin gets a kick out of hearing of my Facebook post on the Red Sox and kishke. After we leave, as I mull writing this report. I email for details on what exactly goes into Manny’s kishke. My guess:

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beef intestines stuffed with breadcrumbs and chicken fat.

Raskin responds: “Our recipe is stuffed beef casings with matzo meal, onions and beef fat.”

I follow up: “Thanks for your quick response. I have seen a lot online about people using processed casings or substitute casings, but I gather your beef casings are the actual authentic traditional intestine skins.

It’s nice to know, and certainly delicious.” And Raskin replies: “Yes. We have the real deal.”So there you have it.

Next time you’re in Chicago, you might give it a try. That will cost you $4.50. No need to thank me. I do this as a public service.

M. CHARLES BAKST is a retired Providence Journal political columnist.

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Dan Raskin, co-owner of Manny’s and M. Charles Bakst.

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Realizing the power of light in a time of darkness

for all things Jewish.

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your loved ones a joyous Hanukkah.

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RABBI ADAM LAVITT serves as a spiritual director in Boston and Providence, and works as rabbi and chaplain at Hebrew SeniorLife. He graduated from the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in 2012, and served as assistant rabbi at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, and campus rabbi at Swarthmore College. He is an alumnus of the CLAL’s Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship, the JOIN for Justice Clergy Fellowship, and the Boston Bridges Fellowship. He lives in Providence with his husband, Alex.

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and supplication, he is willing to learn from the dark.

The Jewish day starts with night, based on the verse in Genesis that reads, “There was evening, and there was morning.” Before light can emerge from it, darkness must first be created. This is true of our societal darkness. We can all think of examples of the altruism, resourcefulness and generosity that arise from the very midst of disaster’s grief and disruption. When I went to synagogue a week after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the rabbi told us he had seen a group of Muslims walking to area synagogues to keep an eye out for trouble. Many of my rabbinic colleagues shared similar stories of neighboring faith communities offering care and support.

The story of Adam’s first solstice concludes, “Once he saw that the season of Tevet (i.e., the winter solstice) had arrived, and saw that the day was progressively lengthening after the solstice, he said: Clearly, the days become shorter and then longer, and this is the order of the world.”

Only after Adam learns from the darkness – understands the forces that created it, and the forces that will bring it to an end – does he institute a holiday. In this midrash, the rabbis imagine the origin of Hanukkah comes – not from the zealous Maccabeans – but from humanity’s faith that light will always emerge from the deepest darkness.

That is why we light the menorah at this darkest time of year.

For eight days, we proclaim the power of light to overcome even the greatest darkness. For eight days, we remind ourselves that the pendulum of history will swing back again, and this societal darkness will come to an end.

Against the chaos and confusion that threaten to unmake our world, we kindle one flame.

Then another. We gather our families and our friends to remake the world, light by light.

We grow this light in our living rooms, until it surrounds those we know. And we expand the circle of light until it pours out into the streets, enveloping the strangers who dwell in our midst. We don’t stop until it fills our world, and lengthens all of our days.

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The days are getting colder, the nights are getting longer.

We are approaching the winter solstice. We have begun to forget the feeling of the sun on our skin. Some of us can hardly believe the long hot days of summer will ever return. A midrash links these shortening days with the Festival of Lights. It imagines Adam, the f i r s t hu m a n , exper iencing his first solstice: “When RABBI Adam saw the ADAM days beginning LAVITT to get shorter, he said, ‘“Woe is me! Perhaps the world…is returning to chaos and confusion…’” (Avodah Zarah 8a).

Adam cries out in fear. He has never seen a darkness like this one. It threatens to throw the world back into the primordial chaos from which it emerged.

Our society, too, faces a great darkness that threatens to unmake the world as we know it. With the rise in right-wing populism, global anti-Semitism has increased. This last year the ADL recorded a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. alone. We are overwhelmed by the chaos that swirls around us. We, too, cry out in fear. The Holocaust survivors I work with could not have imagined anti-Semitic violence taking place on American soil, much less the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. As the spiritual darkness of hatred and xenophobia that fueled this event becomes manifest, we, like the first human, feel our world coming undone.

As the darkness deepens, the midrash says, the first human cries out in fear. But seeing that the stars are still hanging in the heavens above him, the earth still solidly anchored beneath his feet, he eventually realizes he is safe – at least for the moment.

Something shifts in him.

Adam no longer relates to his discomfort from a place of reactivity. The midrash tells us, “He arose and spent eight days in fasting and in prayer.” Perhaps some part of him knows he will not be able to overcome a force he cannot understand. So he steadies himself on the earth and rises. Hands open in prayer

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Jewish immigrants of New York through the eyes of our photographers On the weekend of Oct. 26-28, I once again traveled to the Yiddish Book Center, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While almost all of the previous weekend programs I have attended have IT SEEMS been devoted to Yiddish TO ME literature, this program RABBI JIM focused on a ROSENBERG different art form: “Beyond Naked City: Jews and Urban Photography.”

Deborah Dash Moore, a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, helped the 30 or so participants to see with new, more alert eyes the works that New York Jewish photographers produced, primarily during the first half of the 20th century.

In addition to their formal beauty, these dozens of blackand-white photographs told the stories of our Jewish forbears who passed through Ellis Island into the teeming immigrant community of New York City’s Lower East Side.

Moore’s first lecture focused on Arthur Fellig (1899-1968).

Fellig was born in Lemburg, in what is now Ukraine, and at the age of 10 came to New York with his parents. He gained fame as a freelance news photographer who called himself “Weegee,” documenting the grit and the gore of the “Naked City.” It is said that he often managed to beat the police to the scene of the crime, not infrequently a bloody murder.

While there are those who have questioned the quality of Weegee’s photographs, our program notes make clear that “no one challenges his role in shaping the noir aesthetic that flourished after World War II.” In other lectures, Moore drew attention to women photographers, such as Helen Levitt, Rebecca Lepkoff and Vivian Cherry, who produced vivid images of immigrant Jews in the crowded streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. They documented the daily drama in this poor, but culturally vibrant, community, shaping scenes of children playing on the sidewalks,

“The Steerage” shoppers filling small shops to overflowing, neighbors on the front stoop engaged in earnest conversation.

At the same time, these women managed to create pictures of considerable artistic merit, fashioning a visual architecture of light and shadow in a world of ever-present fire escapes and the haunting, sometimes deafening, presence of the el trains.

Sid Grossman, Morris Engel and Lou Bernstein took their cameras to the boardwalk, the sand and the sea of Coney Island, where – despite the multitudes who seemed to fill every inch of beach on the hottest summer days – they found ways to capture moments of surprising, close-up intimacy.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was the most gifted – and, in many ways, the most conflicted about his Jewishness – of the many photographers examined during the course of the weekend. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, he was the son of German immigrants. His father, who changed his name from Ephraim to Edward, became a very successful businessman in the new world of America; as a result, Stieglitz was free to pursue the art of photography

without financial worry.

In her provocative essay, “An Eternal Flame: Alfred Stieglitz on New York’s Lower East Side” (American Art, fall 2016), Tara Kohn argues that despite his financial security, “to become an American cultural leader, Stieglitz had to shed markers of his familial background and his cultural ties to Europe. He had to fight, continually, to become an American. …”

Kohn points out that Stieglitz had good reason to be concerned about anti-Semitic attempts to demean his artistic achievements. She quotes as an example American critic Thomas Craven, who called Stieglitz “a Hoboken Jew without knowledge of, or interest in, American historical background.” To which Kohn adds, “Craven reveals a xenophobic and pervasive strain of nationalism ….”

When Craven described the works of art at the 1913 Armory Show, in downtown Manhattan, as “immigrant stuff, senseless and degenerate,” he showed how deep are the pernicious roots of today’s anti-immigrant animus!

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The power of prayer and baseball

BY LARRY KESSLER Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha’olam shehecheyanu v’kiy’manu v’higyanu lazman hazeh.

Blessed are You, our God, Creator of time and space, who has supported us, protected us and brought us to this moment.

– The Shehecheyanu blessing The Jewish Virtual Library (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org) says the Shehecheyanu blessing “was introduced to encourage Jews to offer thanks for new and unusual experiences,” and notes that it’s “typically recited at the beginning of holidays and to celebrate special occasions.”

The definition doesn’t expand on exactly when the blessing can be recited, but it is said, for example, while lighting the candles on the first night of Hanukkah, eating the first piece of matzah at the seder and other milestone events.

There’s no mention of the appropriateness of reciting the Shehecheyanu during a World Series, but in 2004, I said the prayer, which has always been

a favorite of mine, when the Red Sox went up 3-0 against the St. Louis Cardinals. (I also could have said it after the Sox defeated the Yankees 4-3 in the American League Championship Series that year, to become the first baseball team to win a best-of-seven series after trailing 3-0, but not knowing for sure whether God is a Red Sox or Yankees fan, I refrained.)

My decision to turn to the Shehecheyanu prayer at that juncture of the 2004 World Series was a no-brainer, because I felt the criteria had been met: A 3-0 lead in the World Series was a special occasion since the Sox had never been in that position in the three previous World Series in my lifetime (1967, 1975 and 1986). I also said it the next night, when they swept the Cardinals to break the 86-yearold Curse of the Bambino.

I felt my prayer choice was appropriate until I mentioned it to some others, and was met with incredulous stares as if I had just landed from a planet in the far reaches of the “Star Wars” galaxy. In their view, praying over baseball was triv-

ial, if not sacrilegious.

I was a bit surprised at this reaction, because I viewed the outcome of the 2004 World Series as a miracle, but the non-baseball fans reacted as if I had acted blasphemously. At the time, we agreed to disagree, but years later, I conceded that they had a right to their viewpoint, since not everyone feels as passionately about the Red Sox and baseball.

For me, the Red Sox represent a form of religious-like devotion. Baseball is with us for nine months every year, and for many older fans, it’s long been a way of connecting with strangers. I have, for example, chatted with people sitting near me at Boston Red Sox and Pawtucket Red Sox games, folks with whom I was unlikely to strike up a conversation with in other settings.

In addition, baseball was a sure-fire way to connect with my father as a kid. Growing up in an Orthodox home in the late ’50s and ‘60s, it was extremely difficult to talk about religion with my parents.

It was expected, for example,

that I’d attend Hebrew School, which I did from age 6, go to synagogue on Shabbat and holidays, and become a Bar Mitzvah. That wasn’t a choice.

There was no free will for children then, as opposed to now, when kids think they can negotiate every parental demand. When I was growing up, parents ruled, and the expectation in most Jewish homes was that the kids would attend religious school and synagogue, even if it cut into “fun” or “leisure” time. That was non-negotiable.

Sports were a different matter, and my dad, being a huge baseball fan, instilled love for the game and the Red Sox in me. We’d spend Sunday afternoons enjoying doubleheaders at Fenway Park in the years before the 1967 Impossible Dream season, and he’d get box seats as a treat in the summer, when my sister and mother would join us.

In later years, even after I became less observant as a young adult, my dad and I never stopped talking, because baseball connected us. When

I worked in Florida, he’d fly down so we could go to spring training games, and he’d get Fenway tickets whenever I flew home.

After I moved back to New England, we saw more games, and in 1986, we came close to enjoying a Shehecheyanu moment before the Sox imploded in Game 6 of the World Series against the Mets. Unfortunately, Ike died before the Red Sox returned to the Fall Classic in 2004, which made that win a bit bittersweet.

So, yes, in case you were wondering, I still found it gratifying to say the Shehecheyanu last month, after the Sox recovered from that painful 18-inning loss in Game 3 to win Games 4 and 5 and beat the Los Angeles Dodgers for their ninth World Series title. After all, older Red Sox fans – who thought we’d go to our graves without seeing any championships – have now been blessed with four of them.

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

Why early elections are off the table for now in Israel

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) – “It’s Hard to Say Goodbye If You Won’t Leave” was the title of an old episode of “Frasier.”

It could also describe the latest chapter in a coalition crisis that threatens to bring down Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

The Israeli prime minister narrowly avoided having to call snap elections after, in a surprise turnaround, Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced that he would stand behind Netanyahu.

Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, a member of the government coalition, threatened last week to leave the government and take his eight right-wing Knesset seats with him. He was demanding to be named defense minister, re-

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placing Avigdor Liberman, who resigned over differences about how to deal with Gaza.

Liberman and his five lawmakers left the government on Nov. 14, leaving Netanyahu with the narrowest of Knesset majorities, 61 seats in the 120seat Parliament.

At least three ministers had called for early elections to be held as soon as possible. Interior Minister Arye Deri of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party backed down on Nov. 17, and Bennett followed suit the next day. Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, head of the Kulanu party, which holds 10 seats in the current government, met Nov. 17 prior to the prime minister’s announcement and are scheduled to meet again in the next couple of days.

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reflects his profound ambivalence toward his immigrant background more than his 1907 masterpiece, “The Steerage.” At first glance, the picture seems to highlight the “huddled masses” of poor immigrants in steerage sailing toward a new life in the new world of America – and this is how the picture has been “read” by many, if not most, who see it without prior knowledge.

In actuality, Stieglitz took this picture when he was a first-class passenger aboard

the Kaiser Wilhelm II, traveling with his first wife and their daughter away from America, to Bremen, Germany, to visit family and friends. The men, women and children whom Stieglitz photographs from his position of privilege on an upper deck were most likely not leaving America because they had been turned away at Ellis Island; in all probability, they were families of workers returning home, having completed their temporary jobs in construction in the booming United States.

Netanyahu met over the weekend with the heads of the parties in his government, including Bennett, in an effort to preserve the coalition. On Nov. 17, a visibly agitated Netanyahu announced in a televised broadcast that he would personally assume the defense minister position, saying that “I have a clear plan. I know what to do and when to do it. And we will do it.”

Netanyahu is currently in charge of the foreign affairs, defense, health and immigration absorption ministries. An unnamed senior government official told the Israeli media that he soon would appoint a foreign minister in an attempt to court allies.

The prime minister called on his coalition partners to remain in the government, predicting

that it could lead to the same type of government that arose after the fall of his Likud government in 1992 “that gave us the disastrous Oslo Accords.”

“In times like these, you do not overthrow a government.

It’s irresponsible,” Netanyahu said. “We have another full year until elections. We are in an intensifying battle, and in the middle of a battle we don’t abandon our posts. In the middle of a battle we do not play politics. The security of the nation is beyond politics, and the security of the nation is also beyond personal concerns.”

Bennett responded to Netanyahu in his announcement on Nov. 17.

“If the prime minister is serious in his intentions,” he said, “I am saying now: We are removing all political demands

and standing here to help Israel win again. It’s better that Netanyahu beat me in politics than [Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh beat Israel in the battlefield.”

Bennett was joined by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, the No. 2 in Jewish Home.

Shortly before the Bennett news conference from the Knesset, Netanyahu met with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He told its members that he had already met in his new position as defense minister with the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, and his designated successor, Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi.

“We are in a campaign that has not yet ended,” Netanyahu told the committee. “At this sensitive security time, it would

Despite its setting, “The Steerage” remains an iconic evocation of the immigrant experience, which, whatever his misgivings, Stieglitz felt compelled to document. As Kohn points out in her essay, a powerful proof of Stieglitz’s discomfort is that he delayed publishing the photo for four years – until the 1911 issue of Camera Work.

As we sat down for our Shabbat lunch on Oct. 27, people checking cellphones began to hear the first reports of the slaughter at Tree of Life synagogue. We did not know at the time that the death toll would

climb to 11 Jews murdered during their Sabbath prayers by a shooter screaming, “All Jews must die!”

I wish I could say that I was shocked by this anti-Semitic outrage, but given the current climate of rabble-rousing and the increasing tolerance of hate speech at the highest levels, the tragedy seemed preordained.

The only questions to be answered: When? Where?

Resuming our program following lunch, Professor Moore commented on how difficult it was for us to process what was unfolding in Pittsburgh. At the same time, left unspoken, was

our collective need and determination to continue to explore the richness of our Jewish roots in America.

As we examined the photographed faces and, by extension, the lives of Jewish immigrants in New York, we knew deep within ourselves that, despite the events of that day of immeasurable sorrow and pain, am Yisrael chai! The Jewish people live!

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JAMES B. ROSENBERG is rabbi emeritus at Temple Habonim in Barrington. Contact him at rabbiemeritus@templehabonim.org

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Ongoing Alliance Kosher Senior Café. Kosher lunch and program every weekday except holidays. (Closed 11/22-23.)

Dwares JCC, 401 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. Noon lunch; 1 p.m. program. $3 lunch donation from individuals 60+ or under 60 with disabilities. Information or to RSVP, Neal or Elaine, 401-4214111, ext. 107.

West Bay Kosher Senior Café. Kosher lunch and program every Friday except holidays. (Closed 11/23.) Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Ave., Cranston. 11:15 a.m. program; noon lunch. $3 lunch donation from individuals 60+ or under 60 with disabilities. Information or to RSVP, Steve, 401-743-0009.

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.

Game Night: Mah Jongg and Canasta.

6-9 p.m. every Wednesday. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Lessons available for Mah Jongg. Open to all. Free. Information, stephanie@toratyisrael.org or 401885-6600.

“Bridging the Gap” with Rabbi Raphie.

8-8:45 p.m. every Wednesday. Kollel Center for Jewish Studies, 450 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. Explore the development and refinement of personality through the eyes of the Mussar movement. Text is “Bridging the Gap.” Free. Information, rabbiraphie@gmail. com or 401-383-2786.

Introduction to Judaism. 7-9 p.m. Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Ave., Providence.

Thursdays through 2/28/19. The Reform temples of RI (Temple Beth-El, Temple Habonim and Temple Sinai) present an introduction to Judaism. Learn the fundamentals of Jewish thought and practice in 18 weeks through a mix of study and discussion. Perfect for interfaith couples, non-Jews considering conversion and Jews looking for an adult-level introduction. Faculty includes Rabbis Jeffrey Goldwasser, Howard Voss-Altman, Andrew Klein and Sarah Mack, and Cantor Judith Seplowin. Cost: $160 per person | $225 per couple (includes all materials and Joint Shabbat dinner on 3/1/19 at Temple Habonim in Barrington). Information, Judith Gilson at Jgilson@Temple-Beth-El.org or 401331-6070, ext. 113.

“The Tanakh: New Perspectives.” 7-9:30 p.m. Thursdays through 12/20. Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., Providence. A Delve Deeper course taught by Michael Satlow, professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at Brown University.

Explore various approaches to the Tanakh, highlighting the diverse ways in which this pivotal text has been, and continues to be, read throughout history. Cost: $200 (scholarships are available). Register at www.teprov.org/ institute/delvedeeper or 401-331-1616.

CALENDAR Children’s Shabbat Programs and Kiddush. 10-11:30 a.m. every Shabbat morning. Congregation Beth Sholom, 275 Camp St., Providence. Fun and educational programs, grouped by age and led by qualified teens, for ages 2 to 12 years. Kids’ Kiddush follows. Free.

Information, office@bethsholom-ri.org.

Saturday | November 24 ASDS/JCDSRI Thanksgiving Alumni Event. 8-11 p.m. Red Stripe Restaurant, 465 Angell St., Providence. Enjoy some drinks, snacks and friends – old and new. Spouses and significant others welcome. Share this information with your alumni friends and classes. Information, Alison Walter at awalter@jcdsri. com or 401-751-2470.

Sunday | November 25 Ocean State Clarinet Choir. 2-3:30 p.m.

Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Ave., Cranston.

This chamber group of 15 clarinets plays music written specifically for clarinet choir and also classical chamber music repertoire. Information, Dottie at dottie@templesinairi.org or 401-9428350.

Monday | November 26 Monday Night Meditation. 8-8:45 p.m.

Congregation Beth Sholom, 275 Camp St., Providence. Practice a variety of ancient and modern Jewish spiritual meditation techniques. Led by Rabbi Barry Dolinger. Free. Advance registration required. Information or to register, rabbi@bethsholom-ri.org.

Tuesday | November 27 The Jewish Way in Death and Dying.

10-11:30 a.m. Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Ave., Cranston. First of four classes in which Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser explores Jewish law and customs concerning the approach of death, rituals for burial and mourning, and the way we remember people and sanctify their lives long after they have died. Tuesdays thru 12/18. Information, Dottie at dottie@templesinairi.org or 401-942-8350.

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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 a light Kiddush.

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

NEAT High School Chagiga. 7 p.m.

Providence Hebrew Day School, 450 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. For women and girls. Information, Rabbi Scheinerman, pscheinerman@phdschool.org or 401-331-5327.

(401)j Vodka Latke. 7-10 p.m. CW Lanes & Games, Lincoln Mall, 622 George Washington Highway, Lincoln. Annual (401)j Hanukkah celebration. (401)j is a group of dynamic Jews, ages early 20s to mid-40s, who are dedicated to building a thriving Jewish collaboration in the “401.” Cost: $30 per person (50% of ticket proceeds will go toward a scholarship fund allowing a child to attend Summer J-Camp at the Dwares JCC). Includes 1 drink ticket | Kosher food | Unlimited bowling & shoe rental. Information, Lisa Maybruch at lmaybruch@jewishallianceri.org or 401-421-4111, ext. 111.

Sunday | December 2 Humongous Hanukkah Sale. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Ave., Providence. Free admission. Information, Temple Beth-El office at 401-331-6070.

Hope Street Winter Stroll. Noon-6 p.m.

Hope Street (from Rochambeau to Seven Stars), Providence. Festivities include live music, food trucks, fun activities and crafts for kids, and so much more. Take care of your holiday shopping and have fun. Presented by Hope Street Merchants Association.

Family Hanukkah Celebration. 4-6 p.m.

Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Ave., Providence. Celebrate with a dazzling Festival of Laser Light while bringing the Hanukkah story and philosophy to life for all ages. A breathtaking extravaganza of lasers, lights, Hanukkah and science. Funded by the Freda and Louis Kaufman Memorial Fund. Free.

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

The Jewish Way in Death and Dying.

10-11:30 a.m. Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Ave., Cranston. Second of four classes in which Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser explores Jewish law and customs concerning the approach of death, rituals for burial and mourning, and the way we remember people and sanctify their lives long after they have died. Tuesdays thru 12/18. Information, Dottie at dottie@templesinairi.org or 401-942-8350.

Wednesday | December 5 Walk-in Wednesday Parent Information Session. 8:30-10 a.m. Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island, 85 Taft Ave., Providence. Monthly parent information session to learn about JCDSRI’s progressive curriculum and joyful, nurturing environment. Free. Information or to RSVP (requested but walk-ins welcome), Naomi Stein at nstein@jcdsri. com or 401-751-2470.

Cranston Senior Guild Hanukkah Luncheon. Noon-2:30 p.m. Mesa Café & Grill, 100 Rolfe St., Cranston. Menu: chicken marsala or baked fish, rolls, chicken escarole soup, salad, pasta, green beans, carrots, tiramisu or fresh fruit cup and coffee or tea. Cost: $25 (includes tax and tip). A raffle follows lunch. The Guild welcomes men and women 55 or older. You do not have to live in Cranston. Annual membership fee: $12. Information, Sylvia at 401944-6812.

Maccabee Boot Camp. 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Dwares JCC, 401 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. Challenge your mind, body and soul and celebrate Hanukkah boot-camp style. Hosted by the Jewish Alliance of Greater RI, JCDSRI, Project Shoresh, PJ Library and PJOW.

Information, Michelle Cicchitelli at mcicchitelli@jewishallianceri.org or 401-421-4111 ext. 178.

PHDS Hanukkah Performance. 6:30-9 p.m. Providence Hebrew Day School, 450 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. An evening of drama, music and song, and Hanukkah fun. Free. Information, Miriam Esther Weiner at meweiner@ phdschool.org or 401-331-5327.

Friday | December 7 Family Shabbat Dinner and Worship Service. 6-8 p.m. Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Ave., Providence. Led by fifth-grade students. Dinner: chicken schnitzel, rice, salad and gluten-free vegetarian option. Free for registered RLYGRS families. Cost: Adults $15 | Children $8 | Family max. $50. Information or to RSVP, Temple Beth-El office at 401-331-6070.

Hanukkah Service and Holiday Dinner.

6-8:30 p.m. Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Ave., Cranston. Shireinu will sing familiar Hanukkah songs during services.

Holiday dinner follows. Cost: $5 per person | Max. $20 per family. Information or to RSVP, Dottie at dottie@ templesinairi.org or 401-942-8350.

Saturday | December 8 Holiday Concert. 6-8:30 p.m. Woodridge Congregational Church, 30 Jackson Road, Cranston. Shireinu, the community chorus of Temple Sinai, will participate with choruses from Cranston churches. Information, Dottie at dottie@ templesinairi.org or 401-942-8350.

Sunday | December 9 Congregation Beth David presents “A Hanukkah Music Delight.” 10:45 a.m.12:30 p.m. Narragansett Community Center, 53 Mumford Road, Narragansett. A fun-filled, family morning of song and games for all ages. Fishel Bresler and Friends, Rhode Island’s premier klezmer musicians, entertains. A light lunch, including latkes, will be served.

Free. Open to the public. RSVP to smchorney1@verizon.com.

Wednesday | November 28 An Evening at Domaine Designs with JCDSRI. 7-9 p.m. Domaine Designs, 18 Imperial Place, Suite 1A, Providence.

Join JCDSRI parents and friends in an atmosphere surrounded by lovely jewelry to purchase for you or for loved ones as gifts for Hanukkah. Information, Alison Walter at awalter@jcdsri.com or 401-751-2470.

Friday | November 30 Community Wraps. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Henry Bear’s Park, 736 Hope St., Providence.

Shop for gifts and/or volunteer to wrap presents. Through Henry Bear’s Park’s Community Wraps program, get your holiday gifts wrapped by volunteers for a small donation to the Jewish Alliance.

Henry Bear will match what is raised; all donations received that day will go toward future family programming events at the Dwares JCC. Information or to volunteer, Lyndsey Ursillo at lursillo@jewishallianceri.org or 401421-4111, ext. 141.

Kabbalat Shabbat Service. 7:30-8:30 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 1251 Middle Road, East Greenwich. Service followed

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

State House Celebration

Community members and political figures will once again light the menorah Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. in the rotunda of the Rhode Island State House. On Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m., celebrate Hanukkah with Chabad at a Hanukkah party, 360 Hope St., Providence. Rabbi Eliahu Klein will speak.

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Shabbat in Jerusalem Most everything in Jerusalem closes by 2:30 in the afternoon on Fridays. It was around 1:30 p.m. as we were making our way to the sup er m a rket one Friday afternoon.

Children had been let out of school, the traffic was terrible, people were rushing from here to MAY-RONNY there, and the ZEIDMAN sup er m a rket was jammed with folks trying to make their purchases and get home as quickly as possible.

The air was filled with excitement and energy, announcing the coming Shabbat.

When we arrived back at the apartment, I was both exhausted and joyous. It was at that moment that I fully realized I was in a city preparing for the Sabbath. Even if you did not observe Shabbat, you had to take care of tasks before the city practically shut down.

Later that afternoon, I heard the sound of a siren, which made me perk up my ears. I looked at the clock and realized that I was hearing the announcement that Shabbat was beginning. It was time to light the candles.

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Many people were walking in the park, children were playing and friends were visiting. A very pleasant scene indeed.

I began reading my book, hardly looking up to see what was happening around me. But at some point, I realized that the noise level had increased significantly. The park was now filled with more walking families, more children playing and more teenagers gathering in groups.

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We were also in Jerusalem for Sukkot. What an experience to see sukkot on porches, the tops of apartment buildings, on sidewalks and at most restaurants!

I have never been in a city or town where all the residents were aware that it was a Jewish holiday or Shabbat. No matter how observant you are or aren’t, it is impossible not to realize that the Jewish calendar is the guiding force in Israel.

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5 unique Kosher foods you’ll be eating soon

BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN SECAUCUS, N.J. (JTA) – Once a year, this swampy neighbor of New York City turns into Kosher food heaven. Jews from across the country gather at the Meadowlands Exposition Center for the world’s largest Kosher food trade show, Kosherfest.

There’s plenty of nosherai, Yiddish and kippot to go around at an event where attendees skew Orthodox and male. About 300 exhibitors showed their products on Nov. 13-14 to an audience of some 5,000 food industry professionals, vendors and journalists.

JTA has rounded up some of the more unusual products at the 2018 Kosherfest, from plantain croutons to dessert ravioli and a menorah-shaped ice cream cake.

Plantain croutons

Home cooks looking to spice up their salads need look no further. These plantain croutons, which are manufactured in Ecuador and won Kosherfest’s award for the best new savory snack, pack a salty crunch and are gluten free.

Feel free to pour on the dressing: The manufacturer claims they don’t get soggy.

H appy Hanukkah Order your Holiday desserts online, by phone or stop by any Gregg’s Restaurants.

Betterine is one of many new Kosher product soon to come to the market.

Plantain croutons are available in supermarkets throughout the U.S. for about $2.50 for a 5-ounce package. They are flavored with sea salt, but new flavors – including garlic, lemon and spicy – will hit stores soon.

“It’s all natural,” said Enrique Villacreses, general manager of TropicMax. “You can use it for soups, salads, and it always keeps crunchy.”

Sweet cheese chocolate chip ravioli

Craving pasta but also in the mood for something sweet?

These unique ravioli will satisfy your craving. The pasta is breaded and stuffed with sweet ricotta cheese and chocolate chips. They are sold frozen and can be heated up in the oven at home. For those seeking a savory version, New York Pasta Authority also sells more traditional flavors, such as spinach cheese, mushroom and pizza ravioli.

The raviolis retail for about $5 for 12 ounces; the sweet variety will be available in about three months in Kosher stores.

“It’s special because people don’t think that a ravioli would be dessert or sweet,” said Chavi Katzman, who founded New York Pasta Authority with her husband, Moshe.

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Klein’s Ice Cream gives sufganiyot a run for their money with a cake with slices that look like Hanukkah menorahs.

The pareve (non-dairy) and vegan dessert is made of cherry and passion fruit-mango sorbet and is topped with chocolate icing. The health-conscious can delight – or at least take solace – in the fact that the cake, which comes presliced, is made with real fruit.

(Another version has slices that look like candle flames.)

The menorah cake is only sold around Hanukkah, but those looking for a cold treat can buy other varieties of Klein’s Ice Cream year-round.

A 12-slice log costs about $30 and is available in Kosher su-

permarkets.

“If you buy it for your kids, your kids will love you,” said Victor Klein, manager of Klein’s Ice Cream.

Coconut-based butter substitute

Bett’erine positions itself as the perfect solution for consumers who are looking for a non-dairy and all-natural butter substitute. It is made from coconut oil and is vegan, organic and GMO-free.

Bett’erine sticks look similar to butter, have a neutral taste and can replace butter or margarine in recipes. The product will be available in two months in Kosher stores across the country at a cost of about $5.80 per pound.

“Most [butter substitutes] have chemical ingredients.

The ones that don’t taste horrible,” said Akiva Stern, president of Amarlane Foods, which produces Bett’er ine. “ T h is doesn’t have chemical ingredients and it tastes great, so it’s the ultimate solution as far as we’re concerned.”

Gluten-free cheese sambusaks

These sambusaks taste just like the traditional Syrian savory meat- or cheese-stuffed dumpling – except they are gluten free. The idea for the dish came to Esther Anzaroot when her son started dating his nowwife, who follows a gluten-free diet. Anzaroot wanted to share her family’s Syrian Jewish culture with her son’s significant other, but found that many dishes contain gluten.

“Syrian food is part of our culture, so I felt terrible that she couldn’t embark and taste and share,” Anzaroot said.

Her gluten-free sambusaks, which are sold under her brand GlutenFree.sy, beat out regular pastries to snag Kosherfest’s new product award in the breads and baked goods category.

They retail for $13.50 per dozen at Kosher markets in the New York-area and are available with a cheese or meat filling.

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Recipes from Tel Aviv win Holland’s best cookbook award AMSTERDAM (JTA) – A book of recipes from Tel Aviv won first prize in the Netherlands’ national competition for new contributions in the cookbook genre.

“TLV – Recipes and Stories from Tel Aviv,” by the Dutch-Jewish author and journalist Jigal Krant, was declared on Friday as this year’s winner of The Golden Cookbook Award.

The competition started with 64 submissions of cookbooks published in Dutch this year.

Janny van der Heijden, the chairwoman of the five-judge panel, said Krant’s book “teaches, pleases and entertains” its readers.

“It’s a cookbook, good reading material and a travel guide,” she said.

In his book, Krant explains that “Tel Aviv is a progressive city in a conservative region.

A melting pot where many cuisines fuse. In an area where religious rules often determine what ends up on the table, Tel Aviv has an innovative and free cuisine with no rules.”

Many of the recipes in Krant’s book are classic dishes served in Tel Aviv cafes and restaurants, such as green shakshuka, roasted eggplant with tahini,

various hummus dishes and the malabi dessert pudding. Some are extrapolations in which the author envisions what characteristically Dutch dishes like white asparagus would look like after receiving the Tel Aviv treatment.

An Israeli chef “wouldn’t cook it in water and serve with butter sauce or with ham,” Krant said in a video about the dish he called “grilled white asparagus with thyme zhug and pita bread croutons.” Zhug is a Yemenite sauce that resembles pesto but is based on coriander.

The award was created in 2015 by the CPNB association, which promotes Dutch-language literature in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Babka pairs with doughnuts for the perfect Hanukkah treat

BY CHAYA RAPPOPORT (The Nosher via JTA) – Babka is nearly a weekly occurrence in my house, and I can think of few things better. But it’s not just me: babka has really been getting the recognition it deserves all over the country, making appearances everywhere from artisanal bakeries to Jewish delis and even high-end restaurants.

My babka recipe is rich, buttery and loaded with eggs, which is what I wanted for these babka-doughnut hybrids. I increased the flour content and the eggs, making for a sturdier dough, and I reduced the amount of butter – just by a smidge so the dough would stand up better to frying To offset the sweetness of the filling and dough, I added cacao nibs, which impart a slightly bitter flavor and some nice crunch, too. Cacao (or cocoa) nibs are dried, fermented pieces of cacao beans – a very pure, intense chocolaty flavor. You can find them at Whole Foods, specialty food stores (like a health food store) or on Amazon.

With these doughnuts you get all the pillowy softness of babka, plus the moisture that deep-frying locks into the dough. The dark chocolate pastry cream would be lovely in a tart, cream puffs or on cake, but here, along with the cacao nib sugar, it serves to further complement the dough and turns the whole treat into something much more than just chocolate babka.

Both doughnuts and babka are

time-intensive kitchen projects – usually, it’d be either-or – and that choice would be pretty hard to make. But with these doughnuts both are possible at once.

And if that isn’t a Hanukkah miracle, then I don’t know what is.

Please note: You want to make the dough the night before you will fry, so plan accordingly.

Chocolate Babka Doughnuts Ingredients

For the doughnut dough: 3⁄4 cup whole milk 4 large eggs, lightly beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature, cubed 3 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour 1⁄2 cup sugar 1 tablespoon active dry yeast 1 teaspoon Kosher salt

For the chocolate pastry cream: 4 large egg yolks 1/4 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 1 1/2 cups milk 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces 1/2 stick unsalted butter, cubed For the cacao nib sugar plus frying: 6 cups vegetable oil, for frying 2 cups sugar 4 tablespoons cacao nibs

Directions

To make the cacao nib sugar:

In a food processor, grind the cacao nibs until fine. Combine the pulverized cacao nibs and sugar. Transfer to an airtight container until ready to use.

Make the pastry cream, since it needs to set before you fill the doughnuts.

Whisk together yolks, vanilla, sugar, cornstarch, cocoa powder and salt.

In a heavy saucepan, bring milk just to a boil over moderate heat and in a stream add 1/4 cup to egg mixture, whisking until smooth.

Transfer the milk-and-egg mixture to the pan with the rest of the milk and bring to a boil, whisking (the mixture will look curdled but will become smooth as whisked).

Boil the mixture, whisking vigorously, one minute and remove from heat. Stir in chocolate and butter, stirring until melted and combined well. Transfer to a heatproof bowl and chill, surface covered with plastic wrap, overnight, or until ready to fill doughnuts.

To make the doughnut dough: Heat the milk until warm to the touch, around 110 degrees F. Add the eggs to the warm milk mixture and whisk gently to combine.

Butter a medium bowl and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Add the milk mixture and mix just until combined. Switch to the dough

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hook and knead the dough on low speed, about three minutes.

The dough will be sticky – this is perfectly fine.

Increase the speed to medium and add the butter, a piece or two at a time. In the mixer, let the dough mix until completely smooth and elastic. To test the dough’s readiness, try stretching a piece of it. It should stretch easily to a point where it becomes translucent but doesn’t rip.

Put the dough in the buttered bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for minimum of 12 hours, or overnight.

The next day, when ready to make the doughnuts, line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Dust the paper well with flour. Tip the cold dough onto a lightly floured work surface and roll it into a 9 1/2- by 12 1 ⁄2-inch rectangle. It should be about 1/2inch thick.

Using a 3-inch round cookie cutter, cut out 12 dough rounds and set them on the prepared sheets. Lightly cover them with plastic wrap and set in a warm place to proof for about 1 1/2 hours. After proofing, the dough should look puffy and spring back slowly when pressed gently.

When you’re ready to fry, line a rimmed baking sheet with paper towels. Prepare the cacao nib

sugar in a bowl nearby. Spoon the pastry cream into a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip.

Add the oil to a medium, heavy-bottomed pot or to a deep fryer. Heat the oil to between 350 and 365 degrees F. Carefully add two to three doughnuts to the oil and fry them until golden brown, two to three minutes per side. Using a slotted spoon, put the doughnuts on the paper towels. After about one minute, when the doughnuts are cool enough to handle, toss them in the cacao nib sugar. Repeat with the remaining dough.

To fill the doughnuts, put the pastry cream in a pastry bag.

Using a knife or a chopstick, poke a hole into one side of each doughnut. Be careful not to poke through the other side. Insert the tip of the pastry bag into the hole and gently squeeze to fill.

Makes 12 doughnuts.

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Forget the Crunch – Try These Creamy Latkes (The Nosher via JTA) – Each Jewish holiday has its iconic food: For Passover it’s the symbolic matzah; for Rosh Hashanah it’s sweet honey and new fruits. For Purim we get the delectable hamantaschen; and for Hanukkah it’s oil. That purified olive oil, used to rekindle the iconic seven-branched candelabra that was eternally lit in the grand Temple in Jerusalem, has shown up in modern times in our Hanukkah lamps and in our foods.

Jews from North Africa traditionally ate some form of fried pastry or doughnut filled with fruit or coated with honey and sugar. In Israel, expect to see bakeries filled with flats and flats of sufganiyot, fried doughnuts filled with jam, for weeks before the start of the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah. But in the United States, while jelly doughnuts have grown in popularity, some sort of fried pancake is still de rigueur.

In our home, we eat what our Polish-born grandparents ate: potato latkes. Generally they are the classic ingredients: grated russet potatoes and onion, bound with matzah meal and egg, seasoned with salt and pepper, and fried in vegetable oil. We never use schmaltz, the chicken or goose fat that was often used in Eastern Europe

because of its ubiquity and low cost. We would like to! But we feel guilty enough eating any sort of fried food. Cooking our potatoes in schmaltz, while delicious, is simply a bridge too far.

But, even within my own family, there is a latke schism. Yes to potatoes. Yes to vegetable oil. But it’s the texture of those potato delights that causes the great divide. I like a crunchy latke, while my sisters prefer creamy. The difference between the two? How they’re prepared and processed – on a coarse or fine grate.

For a potato pancake that, while crisp on the outside, is memorable for its creamy texture within, and that requires lots of oil – a tip of the frying pan to Maccabean times – try my sister Cheryl Schildkraut’s simple recipe for potato latke straight from my family’s treasure trove of Eastern European foods.

Mix well.

Pour 1/2 inch of vegetable oil into 12- or 13-inch frying pan and heat on medium until the oil shimmers.

Using a slotted spoon, carefully place mounds of potato mixture into the hot oil.

Fry until brown on one side – about 3-4 minutes – and turn over and fry the second side until brown and crisp.

Place the browned latke on a plate lined with paper towels to absorb the excess oil then continue to fry the mounds of potato mixture until it is all used.

Serve with applesauce and sour cream if desired.

Divide into three batches and place in a food processor fitted with a stainless steel mixing blade.

Process each batch until there are no visible chunks and the mixture is smooth. Do not

overprocess.

Drain mixture using a sieve placed over a large bowl. Press down gently to release liquid.

Pour drained potato mixture into a clean bowl. Add eggs, matzah meal, salt and pepper.

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So much to learn, so many choices

BY FRAN OSTENDORF More than 250 people filled the Alliance’s Dwares Jewish Community Center, in Providence, on Nov. 17 for “An Evening of Jewish Renaissance.” The general buzz was that there were so many workshops, it was difficult to pick just one in each of the two sessions.

“It was an interesting, wellthought-out program,” said one rabbi.

The evening began with a keynote address by Martin Fletcher, an author and former NBC News Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv bureau chief. It was standing room only

in the Victor and Gussie Baxt Social Hall as Fletcher, who is Israeli, talked about his journey first as a cameraman and then as a reporter in Israel. He also spoke about what it’s like to live in Israel and to transition from writing nonfiction to fiction. Fletcher is the author of four books, including “Walking Israel” and “Promised Land: A Novel of Israel.”

“Israel and the Palestinians are pretty much in the same place” today as during the early ’80s, when he started reporting from there, Fletcher said. He has reported from all over Israel and in the West Bank Palestinian communities.

In terms of peace with the Palestinians, Fletcher said he personally believes that twothirds of all Israelis and Palestinians would accept any agreement that was on the table, but the leaders on both sides “are just not interested.”

After Fletcher’s talk, the crowd dispersed to rooms around the building to hear such diverse speakers as Liri Cohen Modechai, a fashion blogger who gave a history of Israel through fashion, and Udi Goren, a photographer who showed his photos and spoke about “A Walk of the Land: A Photographic Journey of the Israel National Trail.” Fletcher

also conducted a session, focusing on his reporting in the West Bank and his novel, “Promised Land.”

A break for a nosh was followed by more workshops, including one that screened short films by Israeli film students and a talk about breaking up with your cellphone, which generated a great deal of buzz.

“An Evening of Jewish Renaissance” is sponsored every few years by the Judge Marjorie Yashar and Dr. James Yashar Fund at the Jewish Federation Foundation.

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

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life – or light up the life of eight people. It could be through a note, a handmade gift, doing a chore for them, or just giving them your listening ear.

Set an example. Teach others what you are learning and need to learn. The principles of Judaism are rich and deep; share at least eight of them with others during Hanukkah … and all year long.

Make latkes! If you don’t like to peel potatoes or cook, get some help: Have a latke party, where several people bring the potato pancakes and you supply the toppings.

Practice self-care during this busy time. Take time to exercise, learn something new or practice a new skill, and do something that brings you joy.

When your cup of joy is filled, it’s much easier to bring joy to others.

Make a personal eight-miracle list. Think about last Hanukkah and eight miracles that have come into your life since then. It could be the birth of a child or grandchild, or even a big favor someone did for you.

Hanukkah celebrates an ancient Jewish victory and the reded ic at ion of the Second Temple through the miracle of a small amount of oil that burned continuously for PATRICIA eight days.

RASKIN Here are eight ways to bring your “light” to Hanukkah: Honor the meaning of the holiday. This is a great time to honor our Jewish history. As you read the story of the miracle, think of and give thanks for other miracles ha-Shem has brought to our people.

Write something special for your family. Make up a jingle or poem, or send a letter to your children, grandchildren and close relatives who celebrate Hanukkah and celebrate them. It will bring them joy and be remembered for years.

Make a list of eight intangible gifts you can give to others. These “gifts” could be, for example, kindness, compassion, openness and generosity.

Give one or more of these gifts to your family and friends at Hanukkah.

Do eight mitzvot. You can create miracles in the lives of others by finding ways to help.

As you light eight candles, find eight ways to light up someone’s

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In Holland, one of the world’s most expensive Hanukkah menorahs hides in plain sight

BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Nothing about the appearance of object MB02280 at this city’s Jewish Historical Museum suggests it is the capital’s priciest Hanukkah menorah, worth more than the average local price of a duplex home.

Shaped like the body of a violin, it is only 16 inches tall. Its base cradles eight detachable oil cups intended to function as candles on Hanukkah, when Jews light candles to commemorate a 167 B.C.E. revolt against the Greeks. They are set against the menorah’s smooth, reflective surface, whose edges boast elaborate rococo reliefs.

But for all its charms, the Nieuwenhuys menorah – its creator was the non-Jewish silversmith Harmanus Nieuwenhuys – doesn’t stand out from the other menorahs on display next to it at the museum. Far from the oldest one there, the menorah certainly doesn’t look like it’s worth its estimated price of $450,000.

The Nieuwenhuys menorah can hide in plain sight because its worth owes “more to its story than to its physical characteristics,” said Irene Faber, the museum’s collections curator.

Made in 1751 for an unidentified Jewish patron, the Nieuwenhuys menorah’s story encapsulates the checkered history of Dutch Jewry. And it is tied to the country’s royal family, as well as a Jewish war hero who gave his life for his country and his name to one of its most cherished tourist attractions.

The estimated price tag of the Nieuwenhuys menorah, which does not have an official name, is known because a very similar menorah made by the same silversmith fetched an unprecedented $441,000 at a 2016 auction. A collector who remained anonymous clinched it at the end of an unexpected bidding war that made international news. It was initially expected to fetch no more than $15,000.

Another reason for the more vigorous bidding: the menorah came from the collection of the Maduros, a well-known

Portuguese Jewish family that produced one of Holland’s most celebrated war heroes. The Nazis murdered George Maduro at the Dachau concentration camp after they caught him smuggling downed British pilots back home. In 1952, his parents built in his memory one of Holland’s must-see tourist attractions: the Madurodam, a miniature city.

“I imagine the connection to the Maduro family drove up the price,” said Nathan Bouscher, the director of the Corinphila Auctions house south of Amsterdam, which has handled items connected with famous Dutch Jews.

Besides the menorah on display at the Jewish Historical Museum, the Netherlands has another very expensive one in the Rintel Menorah: A 4-footer that the Jewish Historical Museum bought last year for a whopping $563,000. Far more ostentatious than the modest-looking Nieuwenhuys menorah, the Rintel, from 1753, is made of pure silver and weighs several kilograms.

The Jewish Historical Museum has no intention of selling the Nieuwenhuys, Faber said, although it could attract even more spectacular bids owing to its provenance: It was bought by the late queen of the Netherlands, Wilhelmina, as a gift for her mother and given to the museum by her grandson, King Willem-Alexander.

“We don’t know who commissioned the work, but from the reputation of the artist and the amount of labor it took, it was probably a wealthy Jewish family, perhaps of Sephardic descent,” Faber told JTA. At the center of the object is a round network of arabesque-like decorations “that probably contains the owner’s initials in a monogram,” Faber said, “but we haven’t been able to decipher it. It’s a riddle.”

The monogram was one of several techniques that Nieuwenhuys and other Christian silversmiths in the Netherlands had developed for their rich Jewish clients.

Before the 19th century, no

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Jews were allowed to smith silver in the Netherlands because they were excluded from the Dutch silversmiths guilds, which were abolished in the 1800s.

“This exclusion was beneficial [to the guild] because it kept out competition, but it meant that Christian smiths needed to become experts at making Jewish religious artifacts like this menorah,” Faber said.

Works like the menorah on display at the museum illustrate how some Jewish customers clearly were art lovers with sophisticated tastes.

Whereas the Maduro menorah is symmetrical, with Baroque highlights, the Nieuwenhuys is asymmetrical, with rococo characteristics that were “pretty avant-garde

for its time,” Faber said. The smooth surfaces are “another bold choice, showing finesse,” she added.

Whoever owned the menorah no longer possessed it by 1907, when Queen Wilhelmina bought it for an unknown price at an auction to give it as a gift to her mother, Princess Emma.

This purchase may appear inconsequential to a contemporary observer, but its significance becomes evident when examined against the backdrop of institutionalized anti-Semitism among other European royal houses and governments.

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, a contemporary of Wilhelmina, was a passionate anti-Semite who famously said in 1925 that “Jews and mosquitoes are a nuisance that humankind must get rid of some way or another,” adding “I believe the best way is Gas.” Belgium’s King Leopold III was more politically correct, stating magnanimously in 1942 that he has “no personal animosity” toward Jews, but declaring them nonetheless “a danger” to his country. He raised no objections when the Germans and their collaborators began deporting Belgian Jews to their deaths.

But in the Netherlands, where thousands of Jews found haven after fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition of the

15th century, royals not only refrained from such statements but were genuinely “interested in other faiths, including the Jewish one,” Faber said.

Wilhelmina’s gifting of a menorah to her mother “isn’t strange for her,” Faber said. “I imagine she found it fun, something to talk about with her mother, to see together how it works.” After all, “Jews have always been under the protection of the Royal House.”

Except, that is, during the years 1940-45, when Queen Wilhelmina and the Royal House fled to the United Kingdom.

Wilhelmina mentioned the suffering of her Jewish subjects only three times in her radio speeches to the Dutch people during five years of exile.

Whereas before the war “Jews always sought the Royal House,” during and after “it appeared Wilhelmina didn’t think too much about the Jews,” Faber said. This was “a stain” on relations between Dutch Jews and the Royal House, which underwent a “rupture.”

But this was gradually healed in the postwar years.

The fact that King Willem-Alexander, Wilhelmina’s great-grandson, in 2012 gave the Nieuwenhuys menorah on an open-ended loan to the Jewish museum on its 90th anniversary “symbolizes the healing of the rupture,” Faber said.

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Celebrate Hanukkah at the Alliance Three events to attend in December

BY IRINA HAWKINS Who doesn’t love Hanukkah?

A celebration of miracles, light and unity, the holiday is a favorite for young and old. Children gorge on Hanukkah gelt – chocolate coins wrapped in gold – while adults take advantage of an excuse to indulge in

oil-based foods. Mmmm… sufganiyot! It’s for a good cause, right? If you, too, are ready to celebrate the Festival of Lights, the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island has lined up some fun activities for the occasion.

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It’s an hour before sundown.

You realize you’re out of Hanukkah candles and must retrieve some from the storage room. When the door shuts behind you, you have to find the

menorah and the candles, not to mention the key to the door.

The trick? You have to do it all before the oil runs out. Think you have what it takes? Give it a try!

This event – held at the Dwares JCC for the very first time – is the brainchild of Adam Greenman, the president and CEO, who created the puzzles used in the game. The players solve various riddles to advance toward their next clue, and ultimately to escape.

Each reservation accommodates up to six people, so bring your whole family! Lisa Maybruch, director of adult programming, says, “The riddles are for all ages. Young participants will be able to help the adults.” To book your 45-minute time slot for $36, contact Lisa Maybruch at lmaybruch@ jewishallianceri.org or at 401421-4111, ext. 111.

and a dreidel competition.

Whoever can spin the dreidel the longest wins! Later, everyone will receive chocolate coins to gamble with during casino-style games, including bl ack jack a nd H a nu k k a h Roulette.

The evening will encompass not only fun, but also an educational aspect. “I want people to learn about Israel and Hanukkah in a fun and engaging way,” said Cafri.

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The group will have fun and make a difference at the same time – half of the proceeds of ticket prices will go toward the scholarship fund that helps children attend Summer J-Camp at the Dwares JCC. Lisa Maybruch invites young Jewish Rhode Island professionals to “network, engage, and give back to the community.” She says that the event is a great place to build relationships and socialize in a fun, casual atmosphere. And don’t forget – latkes and jelly doughnuts will fortify you as you bowl. For $30 per person, you’ll also get one drink ticket. L’chaim! To reserve your spot, contact Maybruch at lmaybruch@jewishallianceri. org or at 401-421-4111, ext. 111.

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Nir Cafri, the Israeli shaliach (emissary), is putting together this exciting event for all ages.

It will start with a short film about Hanukkah. Following the film, attendees will partake in an Israeli Trivia game, bingo,

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This event is perfect for those who want to celebrate Hanukkah in the style of Maccabee warriors. Attendees will enjoy such festivities as an obstacle course, a giant tzedakah box, and a dreidel-making activity.

And if anyone should get hungry, snacks and latkes will be on hand starting at 4 p.m. – at the hour your grandma called you to dinner. Make sure to stay for the candle lighting at 5:15 p.m. While the event is intended for children older than 4, crafts and PJ Library story time will be available for their smaller siblings. For more information, contact Michelle Cicchitelli at mcicchitelli@jewishallianceri. org or at 401-421-4111, ext. 178.

IRINA HAWKINS is a Providence-based writer.

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be irresponsible to topple the government. Whether our partners decide to topple the government or not, we will continue to take action to ensure the security of our state and of our people. We will do so sensibly, responsibly and with determination.”

The government’s four-year term ends in November 2019.

Elections are called early if a

government ruling coalition falls apart, usually over a crisis, such as the recent Gaza flare-up.

Ten of the 20 governments since the founding of the state have dissolved and moved to early elections. Recent governments have not served out their full terms. The last election was in 2015; the one before that was in 2013.

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What’s new for kids to read at Hanukkah?

Try a fresh take on the trailblazing ‘All-of-a-Kind Family.’

BY PENNY SCHWARTZ JTA – Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie. The names of the five fictional sisters bring a smile to generations of Jewish Americans who grew up reading “All-of-a-Kind Family,” the classic mid-century chapter book series by Sydney Taylor that followed the day-to-day doings and adventures of a Jewish-American immigrant family on New York’s Lower East Side.

The trailblazing series marked the first time that a children’s book about a Jewish-American family found an audience in both Jewish and non-Jewish American homes.

Now the beloved family comes to life in “All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah,” the first fully illustrated picture book based on the series, by Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky.

The dynamic writer-illustrator team will charm young readers with this delightful story that reflects the warmth and spirited character of the original and creates a new chapter for this generation.

It’s among eight new outstanding and engaging children’s books for Hanukkah, the eight-day Festival of Light that begins this year on Sunday evening, Dec. 2.

All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah Emily Jenkins & Paul O. Zelinsky Schwartz & Wade Books; ages 3 to 8

Jenkins, an award-winning author, grew up reading the “All-of-a-Kind” classics – over and over, she told JTA. “As an only child, I adored books about big families and their escapades,” she wrote in an email.

Jenkins read the books to her

children, who were just as smitten.

For this illustrated book, set on the eve of Hanukkah in 1912, Jenkins focused on Gertie, the spunky 4-year-old, as the family gets ready to celebrate the holiday. Adults familiar with the chapter books will spot various references to the original – such as the gingersnaps hidden in the bed, Ella’s favorite hymn and a special library book, Jenkins revealed.

Zelinsky said illustrating the Taylor classic was a chance to reconnect with the books his daughters adored. In a phone conversation, the Brooklynite, whose recognition for excellence includes the prestigious Caldecott Award for “Rapunzel,” said he immersed himself in the “All-of-a-Kind” world, down to the details of what the storybook family’s New York apartment looked like.

Zelinsky stepped away from his well-known finer, more detailed style and embraced bolder, less-polished illustrations that he said matched Gertie’s passion and reflect the soul of the stories. In one spectacular double-page spread, kids get a cutaway view of the family apartment: in the bedroom, Gertie is hiding under the bed after a tantrum while Mama

and her sisters are in the adjacent kitchen joyfully preparing potato latkes.

The back pages include notes from Jenkins and Zelinsky that fill in details about Taylor and the creation of this new book

Dreidel Day

Amalia Hoffman Kar-Ben; ages 1-4

Young kids will spin, bounce and tumble their way through Hanukkah along with a lively kitty in this delightful board book that glows like the colors of a box of holiday candles.

Little ones can count out loud with each double-page spread that features one word and one number and discover the corresponding number of colorful dreidels.

My Family Celebrates Hanukkah

Lisa Bullard; illustrated by Constanza Basaluzzo Lerner Publications; ages 4-8

This easy-to-follow illustrated story is perfect for families and classrooms. Kids learn about the Hanukkah tale and the miracle of how a small amount of oil lasted eight days. Families celebrate, light candles, play dreidel, and receive chocolate and coins as gifts. The book’s end pages explain the holiday and pose reading-based ques-

tions helpful for educators.

Light the Menorah!

A Hanukkah Handbook

Jacqueline Jules; illustrated

by Kristina Swarner Kar-Ben; ages 4-10 In this contemporary guide to Hanukkah, families discover unique ways to celebrate Hanukkah that give deeper meaning to the ritual of lighting the menorah, as well as easyto-understand explanations of the holiday. Jules, an awardwinning author, offers a short verse for each of the eight nights that can be read after lighting the menorah. They reflect the holiday’s themes of religious freedom, courage and miracles.

Swarner’s illustrations and border designs add warmth and glow. Songs, rules for playing dreidel and instructions for simple crafts such as a homemade coupon gift book make this book a welcome resource.

Hannah’s Hanukkah Hiccups

Shanna Silva; illustrated

by Bob McMahon Apples & Honey Press; ages 4-8

Uh, oh. Or make that Uh-hicoh! Hannah Hope Hartman, a spunky young girl who lives in a brownstone on Hester Street, is practicing for her religious school’s Hanukkah program when she suddenly gets a case of the hiccups – and they just won’t go away! Her brother Henry tries to cure her by making funny faces. The building’s diverse neighbors offer their own customs: drinking pickle juice backward, a Mexican red string cure and cardamom cookies.

Kids will relate to Hannah, who doesn’t want to be in the school program with the hiccups and finds a creative solution.

Silva’s heartwarming story – and the play on words that begin with the letter ‘h” – is perfectly paired with McMahon’s cartoon-like illustrations in this lively, laugh-out-loud yarn that shines with the light of a family’s Hanukkah celebration.

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The 32 pages of Ofanansky’s text, brought to life by Alpern’s photographs, explain the holiday and explore the many types of menorahs – from antiques to whimsical versions. Kids go behind the scenes with menorah-making artists.

Gifts, songs and blessings in Hebrew, English and transliterated from Hebrew are also included along with instructions for making candles and latkes.

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As Hanukkah draws near and we find ourselves daydreaming about Bubbe’s latkes, we know it’s also time to begin shopping.

Sometimes the older loved ones in your life are easy to overlook – after all, they have everything, right? But I can tell you from personal experience working with the elderly that even a small gift will mean more to them than you can imagine.

So get your children one fewer Shopkins, and spend a few minutes choosing a gift for Grandma, Grandpa and other beloved elderly relatives and friends.

Here are a few gifts some of my elderly clients would love – and maybe someone you know would love them too.

Electric menorah: Hanukkah centers around the nightly lighting of the hanukkiot, or menorah, to celebrate the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Sure, Mom probably has a cabinet full of gorgeous, sentimental hanukkiah. But this year, why not shift to a safer option without compromising style? For some, having an open flame is fine; for others, it creates an unneeded x factor.

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Holiday-themed clothes: The newest Jew on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Elena Kagan, recently set the record straight. When asked where she was on Christmas, she replied:

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“You know, like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.” So a “Hanukkah Christmas” sweatshirt showing a Chinese takeout carton might be just the thing for Her Honor – and all the VIPs in your family.

And we suspect that even RBG would approve of Hanukkah togs.

Check Amazon.com for an array of Hanukkah-themed apparel.

Kosher gift basket: Who doesn’t love a nosh? A favorite gift of mine during the Hanukkah season, to both send and receive, is a Kosher gift basket.

Filled with anything from pastries and chocolates to challah and fresh fruit, sending a thoughtful gift basket signals your love, appreciation … and willingness to overlook calories in the name of a joyous holiday season.

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Personalized calendars: When someone is feeling overwhelmed or lonely, I often counsel them to look at a calendar.

What’s ahead to look forward to?

Planning is a great way to re-focus and prioritize in a healthy and productive way, and a custom calendar is an extra-great way to do this.

Besides, all those photos of the grandkids are bound to bring a smile. You can even take it to the next level by adding in the birthdays and anniversaries of family members. It’s also a helpful tool for those working on memory care.

Search Amazon.com for “Personalized Photo Calendar.”

DIY customized activities basket: A great way to keep the mind young is stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles and brain teasers. Buy an assortment of games Bubbe or Zayde will love, and curate a customized basket or bundle.

Some ideas: Turn a beloved family photo into a jigsaw puzzle, Jewish-focused trivia, Hanukkah bingo and a custom deck of playing cards.

“Jerusalem: A Cookbook”: This gorgeous cookbook features 120 recipes and vibrant photos from Jerusalem-born chefs Yotam Ottolenghi, an Israeli, and Sami Tamimi, a Palestinian, documenting their unique cross-cultural takes on everything from creative and delicious vegetable dishes to sweet desserts. Even if your loved one is not cooking much these days, it’s a beautiful coffee-table book to flip through – and perhaps you can combine it with an offer to cook one of the ambitious recipes together.

Search for “Jerusalem: A Cookbook” at Amazon.com.

You’ve got mail!: Most everyone loves something fresh to flip through – that’s why we don’t immediately throw out those Ikea catalogues even when we don’t need a thing.

Buy your elderly loved ones a magazine subscription on a topic they’re interested in, whether it’s gardening, the news, celebrity gossip or something else. According to a study in Neurology, reading daily reduces the rate of cognitive decline in dementia patients.

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SECURITY for several years with local law enforcement and SCN, but with the rise of anti-Semitism in the past two years our partnership with these agencies has reached a new level, which enabled our community to be much better prepared recently.

We all know costs can be prohibitive when it comes to infrastructure for security plans.

One of the measures taken by the Alliance to help its partners was the 2017 security campaign, where almost $300,000 was raised thanks to the generosity of our community members.

This money enabled us to have a grant process. Many of the local agencies and synagogues applied, and were matched 50/50 to help increase safety measures.

It is difficult to estimate what costs will be going forward, but, they will be high. For example, a police detail eight hours a week costs $500, which is about $26,000 per year. That said, we all know eight hours a week doesn’t cover everything – weekly Shabbat Services, Sunday School, Hebrew School, special events, etc.

Long-term plans need to be put in place, with short-term action.

This is our new normal. We have no choice, but to be as proactive as possible with security, and to keep it in the forefront of everyone’s mind.

The Alliance will be providing some additional funding for security. If you are interested or have questions, please contact me. Agencies and synagogues that received a grant in the initial process are not eligible for additional funds.

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How to Celebrate Chanukah Kindle the Menorah on each of the eight nights of Chanukah. See below for the times, number of lights and the order of kindling. The Chanukah lights are kindled in the front window or by a doorway.

You may use olive oil or paraffin candles which are large enough to burn until half an hour after nightfall. Use the shamash (service candle) to kindle the lights and place it in its special place on the Menorah.

All members of the family should be present at the kindling of the Chanukah lights. Students and singles who live in a dormitory or in their own apartments, should kindle in their own rooms.

Friday afternoon, the Chanukah lights (which will burn until 1/2 hour after nightfall) are kindled before the Shabbat candles. The Menorah should not be relit, moved or prepared, from the time Shabbat candles are lit, until Shabbat ends and the Havdalah prayer is recited. After this time the Chanukah lights for Saturday are kindled.

Menorah Kindling Blessings

Before kindling the lights, recite:

1. Bo-ruch A-toh A-do-noi E- lo-hey-nu Me-lech Ha-o-lom A-sher Ki-di -sha-nu Bi- mitz-vo-sov Vi-tzi-va-nu Li-had-lik Ner Cha-nu-kah.

Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us by His commandments, and has commanded us to kindle the lights of Chanukah.

2. Bo-ruch A-toh A-do-noi E-lo-hey-nu Me-lech Ha-o-lam She- a-sa Ni-sim La-a-vo-sey-nu Ba-ya-mim Ha-heim Bi-z’man Ha-zeh.

Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who wrought miracles for our fathers in days of old, at this season.

The following blessing is recited on the first evening or on the first time one kindles the Chanukah lights this year: 3. Bo-ruch A-toh A-do-noi E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ha-o-lom She-he-chi-ya -nu Vi-ki-yi-ma-nu Vi-hi-gi-ya-nu Li-z’man Ha-zeh.

Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who has kept us alive, and has preserved us, and enabled us to reach this season.

2018 Menorah Kindling Calendar for Rhode Island Fri. Dec. 7, light before 3:55pm Shabbat Dec. 8, light after 5:01pm Other nights any time after nightfal approx. 4:50pm Sunday, Dec. 2 After Nightfall Monday, Dec. 3 After Nightfall Tuesday, Dec. 4 After Nightfall

Wednesday, Dec. 5 After Nightfall Thursday, Dec. 6 After Nightfall Friday, Dec. 7 Light Before Lighting the Shabbat Candles 3:56pm

Saturday, Dec. 8 After Shabbat 5:03pm

Sunday, Dec. 9 After Nightfall

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When the sanctuary is especially crowded – on the High Holy Days, for example – as many as three guards will patrol the building carrying guns and communicating by radio.

That was after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, nearly nine months ago. Following the attack last month on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Saacks said he feels vindicated in beefing up security. And he’s not finished. In addition to protecting the rest of his windows, he is planning to install a metal detector at the building entrance as well as a double-door vestibule called a “mantrap.”

“What can we do? What can we do?” said Saacks, whose Chabad synagogue, the Chai Center, occupies an acre and a half in the upscale suburb of Dix Hills. “This doesn’t make me happy. It doesn’t warm your heart. We still try and maintain its openness, but what happened in Pittsburgh can happen anywhere.”

The added measures have changed Saacks’ budget, of course. He estimates that all of the physical protections will cost $150,000 in total. That does not include some of the window and camera costs, which he paid for partly out of a $50,000 grant from New York state. And the armed guards, contracted from a private security company at $40 an hour each, cost about $360 per week.

It’s a cost more synagogues are considering after a gun-

man entered Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh several weeks ago and killed 11 worshippers. Since that shooting, the risk of a violent attack has felt all too real for congregants.

Thomas Ruskin, who runs the CMP Group, a private security company, already provides security for a handful of Jewish institutions in the New York City area. Since the Pittsburgh shooting, he says, dozens more have inquired about his services.

“Part of this has to do with the religious organizations’ budgets,” said Ruskin, a former New York police officer who is Jewish. “They’ve never put money aside or had a fund for just this purpose. ... We never really had to worry about this.

We always knew there was anti-Semitism, but we never knew someone would come into a shul in an upscale suburban community and shoot people in their backs.”

Ruskin charges $500-$1,000 for a written threat assessment and security recommendations; the price is deducted from the final cost if Ruskin’s team is hired to provide security.

For more than a decade, the federal government has provided funding to help synagogues bolster their security. The Nonprofit Security Grant Program and a related program run by the Department of Homeland Security have provided a total of more than $269 million to secure houses of worship and other institutions.

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co-founded by the Jewish Federations of North America that oversees the community’s security needs and liaises with law enforcement. Paul Goldenberg, the network’s former chief, said that a close relationship with local law enforcement can help synagogues be prepared when attacks happen.

He cautioned against turning houses of worship into fortresses, noting that many synagogues in Europe have an intense security presence along

“… what happened in Pittsburgh can happen anywhere.”

Senior Officer Frank Moody, Providence Police Department.

The money has gone largely to Jewish institutions, according to the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, which lobbies for the grants. In addition, in October 2017, New York state announced $25 million in grants to help secure private schools and other nonprofits. Since 2004, Jewish institutions have received resources and guidance from the Secure Community Network, an organization

with tight restrictions on who can enter and exit.

“Security has come with a tremendous cost to the Jewish community, not only here but abroad,” said Goldenberg, now a senior fellow for the Rutgers University Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience. “Our institutions should not be surrounded by copper or tin wire and bars.”

Still, some synagogues are opting for private security onsite. A consortium of 30 Chabad congregations on Long Island hopes to raise $1 million to provide armed guards once a week for a period of three years at an estimated cost of $50 an hour.

Union Temple, a Reform synagogue in Brooklyn, decided to increase its security after it was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti this month. It has hired a second security guard and is requiring visitors to sign in and

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show ID. It is also making its windows shatterproof.

“We want to be warm and welcoming, we don’t want to live in a police state, but that’s the line you have to find,” said Union Temple President Beatrice Hanks. “The parents have been most concerned about this. …

They’d rather be slowed down at the drop-off than not have security.”

Other synagogues have opted for volunteer security guards recruited from their own pews.

The Community Security Service, a Jewish nonprofit founded in 2007, has trained 4,000 volunteer security guards for synagogues, teaching them how to spot and respond to threats.

Jason Friedman, its executive director, estimates that 75 of its trainees are actively guarding their synagogues on any given week. For a synagogue with 500 member units, CSS asks for a suggested donation of $1,800.

Even if synagogues opt for a paid guard, he said, a community member should accompany them in order to help identify congregants and provide a reassuring face at the door for the people who are supposed to be there.

“Everyone in the Jewish community is thinking about security now,” said Friedman, who has also received a flurry of inquiries since the Pittsburgh shooting. “That couldn’t be said a few weeks ago. If their options are a guard or nothing, definitely go with the guard, but you have to give that guard a chance to be successful. That means pairing them with someone from your institution.”

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Harold Baron, 94

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Harold Rock Baron, of Providence, died, Nov. 15. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut on Oct. 22, 1924 to the late Nathan and Dora (Rock) Baron. Harold was also preceded in death by his son, Paul Lewis Baron.

Harold was a salesperson. He considered his job a gift and enjoyed every working day.

He was an avid golfer and was a member of the Metacomet Country Club.

Harold is survived by his wife of 71 years, Hoda Baron; daughters, Joanne Baron and her husband, David William Brown, and Debra Baron.

WARWICK, R.I. – Jason Lewis Blank died Nov. 16. He w a s t h e husband of Myra (Stein) Blank; they were happily married for 54 years. He was born in D o r c h e s t e r, Massachusetts, the son of the late Eli and Sadie (Skup) Blank.

He graduated from Harvard University and Boston University. He was a sociology professor at Rhode Island College for more than 50 years and was the president of the RIC AFT Union.

The Jewish Voice He was a Shriner and a Mason.

He was a member of Temple Beth Am Beth David.

He is survived by his sons David Blank-Edelman and his spouse, Cindy; Steven Edelman-Blank and his spouse; D eb or a h ; s i s t e r C h a rlot t e K at z; a nd g ra ndch i ld ren Elijah Blank-Edelman and Chloe Edelman-Blank; as well as many friends. He was the brother of the late Leatrice Chafetz and Frances Friedman.

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

Elizabeth D’Agostino, 75 JOHNSTON, R.I. – Elizabeth M. D’Agostino, of Johnston, died Nov. 4. She was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, to the late William and Emma (Wolfenden) Noyes.

Elizabeth is survived by her husband, Andrea D’Agosti-

no, Jr.; children, John Shanley, William Shanley, Stefanie Forte, Tracey Jackson and Andrea (Deanna) D’Agostino III; step-son, Matthew D’Agostino; siblings, William Noyes, Lilyan Masse and Greg Barden; 9 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Ross M. Feinberg, 82 CRANSTON, R.I. – Ross M. Feinberg died Nov. 14. He was the husband of Lotte (Wallach) Feinberg for 61 years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, a son of the late Joseph and Beatrice (Slafkes) Feinberg, he was a longtime resident of Cranston, previously living in Providence.

Ross was an educator in the

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Coventry School Department for 34 years and was as devoted to his students as they were to him. He also taught GED and special needs classes. He was a graduate of the University of Rhode Island, class of ’57, and received a master’s degree from Rhode Island College, class of ’63.

Ross was vice president of Coventry Teacher’s Association and a chairman of the Coventry Teacher’s Association Scholarship Committee. He was also a member of Touro Fraternal Association and an avid Giants and Yankees fan and loved Mel Brooks.

He was the father of Robert Feinberg and his wife, Janice, of North Kingstown, and Steven Feinberg of Cranston.

He was the brother of William Feinberg and his wife, Karen, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Alan Feinberg and his wife, Deb, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was the grandfather of Laura, Kurt, Benjamin and Samuel.

He was the great-grandfather of Shawn.

Contributions in his memory may be made to Coventry Teachers Alliance Scholarship Fund, 3 Hazel St., Coventry, RI 02816.

Eli Rubin, 71 NEW BEDFORD, MASS. – Eli J. Rubin, DDS, died at his home in New Bedford, Massachusetts surrounded by loved ones on Nov. 8, after a brief illness. Dr. Rubin was born on May 16, 1947 in Fall River, Massachusetts to Dr. Morris E. and Pearl (Ehrenhaus) Rubin.

Eli graduated from New Bedford High School in 1965.

He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, a MPH from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a DDS from Temple University School of Dentistry. He practiced dentistry in New Bedford for more than 40 years. On Aug. 24, 1974, he married the love of his life, Barbara, daughter of Hilda and Jack Wolitz. Together, they built a life in New Bedford and raisedtwo children.

Eli was very active in the Jewish community. He served two terms as president of Tifereth Israel Synagogue as well as being on several other committees. He volunteered at several organizations throughout the New Bedford community, including the Zeiterion Theater and most recently, St. Luke’s Hospital and the National Park.

He enjoyed the summers playing golf and going to Bakers Beach.

He is survived by his wife Barbara (Wolitz) Rubin, daughter Sarah Ross, son-in-law, Jonathan Ross, son Ben Rubin and fiance Caroline Sheridan, grandson Max Ross, sister Rebecca Rubin, nephews Aryeh and Eliezer Feinstein, brotherin-laws Dr. Richard Wolitz and OBITUARIES | 29

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Airbnb removes West Bank settlement listings JERUSALEM (JTA) – Airbnb will remove listings of rooms and homes for rent in West Bank Jewish settlements, the company announced Nov. 19.

The approximately 200 listings “would be removed in the coming days,” the company said.

Airbnb said in a statement that it consulted with experts to learn about the historical disputes in the region in order to make a decision about whether it should be doing business in “the occupied territories.” The statement did not say which experts it consulted.

The company arrived at a framework for evaluating how to treat listings in occupied territories that included assessing any potential safety risks for hosts and guests; evaluating whether the existence of listings is “contributing to existing human suffering”; and determining whether “the existence of listings in the occupied territory has a direct connection to the larger dispute in the region.”

“We concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the

dispute between Israelis and Palestinians,” a statement on the Airbnb website said.

“Our hope is that someday sooner rather than later, a framework is put in place where the entire global community is aligned so there will be a resolution to this historic conflict and a clear path forward for everybody to follow,” the statement said.

Israel’s tourism minister, Yariv Levin, called the decision “discriminatory” as well as “disgraceful and miserable,” according to a statement issued by his office.

Levin ordered his office to “formulate immediate measures to limit the company’s activity throughout the country,” the statement said. He also instructed his ministry to develop and implement a program to encourage tourism and boost vacation apartments in the West Bank.

Arvind Ganesan, the business and human rights director at Human Rights Watch, praised the Airbnb decision.

“Airbnb’s decision to end its listings in Israeli settlements is an important recognition that

such listings can’t square with its human rights responsibilities,” he said in a statement.

“For two years, Human Rights Watch has spoken with Airbnb about their brokering of rentals in West Bank settlements that are illegal under international humanitarian law and for which Palestinian ID holders are effectively barred from entering, and are issuing a report about this tomorrow. We urge other companies to follow suit.”

Airbnb operates in 191 countries and regions and more than 81,000 cities.

Handmade stars hang in Pittsburgh (JTA) – More than 2,000 handmade Stars of David were hung throughout Pittsburgh.

The stars, created by more than 1,000 volunteers from around the world, were hung on Nov. 16 by 40 volunteers. Each star – some crocheted, some knitted, some made with leather – all had a heart in the center.

The stars were the brainchild of Hinda Mandell and Ellen Dominus Broude, who created the Facebook page Jewish Hearts from Pittsburgh in response to the attack at Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood that left 11 worshippers dead.

The page called for donations of handcrafted stars to help strengthen the community in the wake of the tragedy.

On Oct. 28, Mandell, on her own Facebook page, provided patterns for knitters, suggested sizes and colors and deadlines of what she calls “Jewish Hearts.” On Oct. 30 she and Broude set up the Jewish Hearts from Pittsburgh page on Facebook.

The women, both from New York, opened a post office box to receive the stars. Stars arrived from 12 countries, including New Zealand and Qatar, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Stars were sent by Catholic school children from Little Rock, Arkansas, students from a Hebrew school in London, residents of Parkland Florida, a survivor of the Columbine High School shooting in Colo-

rado and a Quaker woman from Pueblo, Colorado, according to the newspaper.

“Three weeks ago, I met Ellen Dominus Broude online and we created Jewish Hearts for Pittsburgh. Today, with a team of volunteers, they are installing 2,000 hearts around Pittsburgh. More than 1,000 volunteers from Qatar to California poured their love into their crafted, collaged, painted and crocheted Jewish Hearts. Ellen spent the past week ‘bagging and tagging’ these creations, and archiving the notes that arrived in the mail,” Mandell wrote in a post on her personal Facebook page.

The group reportedly will accept more stars and hang them after Thanksgiving.

RICI gathers in memory of Pittsburgh victims

BY HOWARD BROWN On Oct. 27, at a private home in Wakefield, about fifty people, members and followers of the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel (RICI) and the Jubilee Sisters of Wakefield, met quietly to recognize the shooting victims at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Those who attended were there to express sympathy for their Jewish brothers and sisters, to say that their hearts went out to those families who

lost their loved ones.

Mary Greene, faith leader of the Jubilee Sisters and president of RICI, spoke about the tragedy and about the unbreakable connection between Christians and the Jewish people. She further explained how RICI, as a coalition of Christians and Jews, is working to support Israel and traditional Judeo-Christian values. She pointed out that Christians are at risk today as well as Jews,

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and that “after they come for the Saturday people, they will come for the Sunday people”.

RICI is offering to help congregations connect with law enforcement in order to improve their security measures. RICI can be reached at ricoalitionforisrael@g mail.com. Their website is www.ricoalitionforisrael.org.

HOWARD BROWN is executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel.

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A journey around the world … but not far from home We were visiting our daughter’s family in Silver Spring, Maryland, to explore their new home and to hug our granddaugh-

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Right there in the lobby, my wife saw a familiar face: Eddie Muller, the Turner Classic Movies host known as “The Czar of Noir.” We joined their troupe from Hollywood in the garden patio to discuss the concept of “noir” – you know, movies made on low budgets, shown as “B” fare to fill the bill, and which often give foreign or young directors a chance to strut their stuff for studio producers.

So, I could combine pleasure with business on this trip. That is, family fun plus “research” into the film-industry’s historical output, which TCM has renewed, restored and celebrated on television.

Our lodging at this inn overlooked the public library, which also holds an Ethiopian coffeehouse named Fema and has a teeny-tiny garden at the entrance with an odd bronze statue of a lion standing up in an uncomfortable pose and – look closely at the base – a mouse, of all things!

I knew at once what this was all about. It was a reminder of the Aesop’s Fable about the mouse that befriends a lion that is suffering from a thorn in its paw. The mouse saves the King of Beasts, which customarily dines on wee rodents – but not this time.

What does it all mean? I like Aesop’s Fables best when their meaning is mysterious, vague or about fate, not hope. Otherwise, they are too preachy for

Mike Fink, a regular columnist, visits a small garden in Washington, D.C. my taste. But this one is about unlikely rescuers, and the fragility of power. Plus, I had a chance to show off my lifelong interest in Aesop, the slave who mocked his masters and who was killed – thrown from a cliff into the Aegean Sea – for his writings.

Now, I believe that “Aesop” means “Ethiopian.” And that he was sold into slavery for being a Jew – a Falasha from the Semien Mountains of Ethiopia, where Jews had retreated after long-ago religious wars. (I can find Jewish meaning everywhere and in all things and events.)

I told the driver of The Courtyard tour bus this interpretation, and asked my wife to snap a shot of the dramatic storytelling sculpture. The driver, Alexander, escorted me to and from our daughter Lily’s nearby home, and we became friends.

“I want to thank you in print as well as in person,” I told him, which is partly why I’m tapping out this tale.

I somehow believe that if you are a proper traveler, you can sometimes wait for the culture that you seek in far-off lands to come to you, instead of going by air or sea to see the sights.

Right here in the nation’s capital, I visited the region and the realm of the Solomonic-era Queen of Sheba.

Decades ago, in 1985, I greeted new immigrants arriving from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at absorption centers in Israel. Now they are creating a community right here in our heartland, a mere hour’s flight from Providence.

Similarly, Hollywood’s Silver Screen has come to Silver Spring, just blocks from the White House. Not via a DVD, but in a huge palace that shows

original 35-mm films.

When the reels malfunctioned, forcing a break while the film was being taped together, I made conversation with the elderly couple ensconced a few seats from me. They turned out to be Holocaust survivors from Hungary.

What were the movies being shown? One was “I Wake Up Screaming,” starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis and the villainous Laird Cregar, and Ed Muller explained the background of each actor, all new stars in 1941. (My granddaughter Selma thought I was talking about a kids’ movie, like the way her baby sister wakes up screaming for “Nana.”)

So, I had a grand nostalgic time everywhere I went, even unto the final hour of our visit, when my friend and former student Gib, who married my wife’s friend and former classmate Carol, drove us from Silver Spring to the Baltimore airport.

Thanks, dear readers, for letting me go on and on about how you bump into yourself everywhere you roam, in delightful and surprising ways.

Coffee helps along the way, and a glass of wine, and the smile of a granddaughter. And a local Israeli/Yemenite bourbon sales rep, Jonathan Shair, “Distiller Ambassador” of Twin Valley, who poured sips of rum and bourbon at 11 a.m., at the farmer’s market next door to our Courtyard – and who earned my grin of gratitude.

This was a journey around the world, which spun in my head with every footstep.

MIKE FINK (mfink33@aol. com) teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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A taste of Israel in Warren

BY FRAN OSTENDORF Chef Eran Geffen brought a taste of Israel to the Hope & Main food incubator, in Warren, on Nov. 13 in a program designed to showcase Israeli cuisine and wine for Rhode Islanders.

About 40 people sampled the popular cuisine, along with Israeli wines, at “Israeli Fusion East to West.”

Geffen, an Israeli whose career as a chef has taken him to Spain and around Israel, now lives in the Boston area, where his young family is adjusting to life in the U.S., he said. He is working with Hope & Main to help culinary startups. He also has a catering business.

Those in attendance seemed to enjoy the modern takes on such classics as Israeli salad and goulash like grandma might make, only lighter. A sea fish stew was also popular, as was chicken in a freshly baked pita.

The evening was sponsored by the Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative, a group that promotes business and academic exchanges between Israel and Rhode Island, and Hope & Main. Avi Nevel, the driving force behind this partnership as president and CEO of RIIC, brought the partners together for the evening.

In welcoming the group to Hope & Main, Lisa Raiola,

“trip of a lifetime”

Rabbi Noach Karp of Shoresh/Kollel, center, and five other men from New England joined 200 other dads from across North America for the “trip of a lifetime” to Israel. They nurtured body and soul and traveled the country from North to South. They are pictured at the Kotel. For information about future trips, contact Rabbi Karp at rnoachkarp@gmail.com.

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Chef Eran Geffen founder and president, said, “Everybody eats and you can’t eat online. We are proud to support this partnership.”

Nevel says more RIIC events are planned in the spring.

For more information on the collaborative, check out its website, theriic.org.

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

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Dr. Stephen Follansbee and nephew of Abraham and Marilyn Ehrenhaus.

Donations in his memory may be made to the following: Tifereth Israel Synagogue, National Brain Tumor Society or Community Nurse Home Care & Hospice.

Evelyn R. Zuckerman, 72 BARRINGTON, N.H. – Evelyn R. (Cannavo) Zuckerman of Barrington, New Hampshire, died Nov. 10 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Providence to the late Peter John and Rose (Defusco) Cannavo.

She was a graduate of Mount

Ple a s a nt High School before going to work for Benny’s. She helped build her husband’s business, Brewster Hill Nursery, and eventually left Benny’s to devote her time to the business and to her family. She was a past president of B’nai B’rith Women and the Rhode Island Club of Pinellas County. She spent much of her time volunteering for organizations, helping to enhance the lives of others. Evelyn was

preceded in death by her husband, Fred Zuckerman, and her brothers, Peter John Cannavo Jr. and Ramon Cannavo.

Evelyn is survived by her daughters, Lisa Titus and her husband, Todd, of Barrington, New Hampshire, and Laura McCollum and her husband, Robert, of Florida. Her grandchildren, Benjamin Titus, Joshua Zuckerman, Robin McCollum and her great-granddaughter, Arielle Zuckerman. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and dear friends both in Rhode Island and Florida.

Donations in her memory may be made to Rhode Island Jewish Museum 24 Douglas Ave. Providence, RI 02908.

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Guest speaker dishes on food choices at Hadassah luncheon

BY JANE KONDON

Hadassah put out the welcome mat for members and guest speaker Rachel Herz at the annual Chai Luncheon, held on Nov. 11 at Wethersfield Commons, in Warwick.

After the delicious potluck buffet, Wendy Spellun introduced Herz, a neuroscientist who specializes in perception and emotion. Herz, who teaches at Brown University and Boston College, spoke on the topic of one of her books, “Why You Eat What You Eat,” providing insight into the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific and physiological factors that influence our eating habits.

The presentation began with a demonstration of how taste is the result of the interaction between our sense of smell and the brain. Hertz asked the Hadassah members to eat a jelly bean from bowls on the tables while pinching their nose to inhibit taste. While many people believe that the tongue determines taste, the group learned that it can only sense sweet, salty, bitter and sour flavors.

Often, when aging people complain that they have lost their sense of taste, they have really experienced a decline in the sense of smell.

Of special interest was the fact that a loss of the sense of smell at an early age can be an indicator of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease.

On a more positive note, smell is also involved when selecting

Author Rachel Herz speaks on “Why You Eat What You Eat.” one’s best possible mate!

Herz also spoke about how sugar and the color red play major roles in our experience with food.

Can eating sweets make us sweeter? According to Herz, just tasting sugar makes people kinder, gentler and more agreeable by releasing dopamine and endorphins. A little sweetness may also slightly relieve pain.

The color red often signals ripeness – think of strawberries and some apples – but can also signal danger. As a plate color, red draws our attention

and encourages people to eat less while being more mindful of their food choices.

The topic of comfort foods was also explored. In stressful times, we turn to these dishes because they remind us of our childhood, when our family took care of us.

On a different topic, Herz explained that the constant loud noise in an airplane impacts the nerve that goes from the tongue to the brain, affecting taste and enhancing the flavor of tomato juice.

A lively Q-and-A followed

The annual Hadassah Chai luncheon. the presentation, after which attendees applauded Herz for her enjoyable and informative talk. Sue Mayes, president of the Southern Region, and past president Sue Shikora thanked members for their support of Hadassah and its mission.

Members of the Chai Society received special recognition.

Before the end of the luncheon, upcoming events and programs were highlighted: Gift wrapping at the Warwick Mall in December; a Tu b’Shevat seder at The Phyllis Siperstein Tamarisk Assisted Living Residence, in Warwick, on Feb.

3, 2019; and an event to honor Karen Asher as an “unsung hero” of Hadassah on March 3 at the Blue Hills Country Club, in Canton, Massachusetts.

Additional information about Hadassah can be found on Facebook or at the Hadassah Rhode Island website, www.hadassah. org/regions/southern-new-england/rhode-island/Rhode-Island.html.

JANE KONDON is an educator and retired principal of Davisville Middle School in North Kingstown.

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ISRAEL – Ron Katz and his brother Gary Katz returned from the military base Lahav in Israel, which is within the base Tzrifin. This is a logistics Air Force base where they worked loading and unloading supplies needed between military bases. This was through the Volunteers for Israel program that works with the Israeli organization Sar-El. MAZAL TOV – Dr. Alysa Diane Redlich and Jonathan Shtaynberger were married at Crystal Plaza in Livingston, New Jersey on Oct. 7. The wedding was officiated by Rabbi Simcha Silverman. A reception followed.

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The bride, 24, graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a doctorate in pharmacy and an MBA. She currently works at Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The groom, 27, graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in biometry/ biometrics and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health with a master’s degree in biostatistics. He currently works at Parexel in Billerica, Massachusetts. The couple will honeymoon in Hawaii.

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