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Billy Crystal joins Jewish organizations in raising a glass to first responders and Los Angeles police departments were among the top law enforcement officers joining Crystal in an event dubbed “Virtual L’Chaim.”

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If you turn up for this Zoom cocktail event, you better look mahvelous.

Billy Crystal hosted as the Secure Community Network, the security advisory body to U.S. Jewish community, raised a glass on May 20 to the first responders who have been on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic.

Crystal, the comic who starred in movies such as “When Harry Met Sally,” in the 1980s coined the phrase “You look mahvelous” as Fernando, an oleaginous nightlife host on “Saturday Night Live.”

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The first kosher wine in a can has arrived Bartenura Moscato is the super sweet, bubbly kosher wine beloved

by Upper West Side Jewish gals and hip hop stars alike. It made splashy headlines back in 2005 when the rapper Lil’ Kim mentioned it in one of her songs.

From there, other performers (including Canadian-Jewish rapper Drake) were turned onto the drink, and some have mentioned the sweet wine in their music, too. Since then the kosher wine has just exploded (you can read an interesting history of Moscato here in Vinepair).

For those who have never tasted Bartenura Moscato, it’s sweet, smooth, and only slightly bubbly, like drinking alcoholic fizzy grape

juice. It may not be considered the most sophisticated wine, but who cares when it’s delicious and makes some great sangria too?

Now, the beloved sweet wine is making its appearance in can form just in time for the pandemic summer of 2020. That means it will also go down in history as the first kosher wine in a can. Sweet.

Royal Wine Corp, who produces the wine, says the cans are already available in many stores and will be available everywhere by June.

It’s sold in four-packs for $15. Good thing my local wine store delivers.

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High school program Shoresh closes after 20 years

By Carolyn Conte Special to WJW

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fter 20 years of trying to fill the educational gap for Jewish students between their b’nai mitzvah and college, Shoresh Hebrew High School will close next month.

The school’s board announced the closure May 6.

Neal J. Meiselman, president of the Shoresh board, cited dwindling enrollment and funding as the reasons the school, which emphasized intellectual, text-based Jewish study, will not reopen in the fall. About 21 students in grades eight to 12 were enrolled this year. The school, unaffiliated with any Jewish movement or organization, met on Sundays at the Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, in Rockille.

The decision to close was finalized at the start of 2019.

But this is not where the story ends.

Many Shoresh board members are affiliated with Ohr Kodesh Congregation, a Conservative synagogue in Chevy Chase, which had been Shoresh’s meeting place for most of its existence.

Last December, board members spoke to the synagogue’s cantor and education director, Hinda Eisen Labovitz, about starting a Shoresh-like high school program.

Students gather at Shoresh Hebrew High School, which will not reopen in the fall.

Photo courtesy of Shoresh Hebrew High School

“I didn’t think twice to say yes,” said Labovitz, who began meeting with Shoresh families in March.

The new program, called Tzohar, will begin on Sept.

13. Enrollment is open, at OhrKodesh.Wixsite.com/ Tzohar. Tuition ranges from $765 to $1,650, according to the program’s website.

Labovitz said she doesn’t know how many students the program will ultimately attract.

In addition to text study, Tzohar will offer a “moot beit din,” or moot court. Local afterschool program Moed, which also meets at Ohr Kodesh, will offer Hebrew instruction.

Rabbi Saul Oresky was one of two original teachers when Shoresh opened in 1999. “It’s a wonderful teaching environment. My kids were active and came up with great questions,” said Oresky, who is rabbi of Mishkan Torah Synagogue in Greenbelt.

“I would hang outside the open door listening to what debates they had,” said Meiselman, who was one of the school’s founders. “One student said they were happy to leave the class angry. It meant their ideas were challenged and their opinions strengthened.”

Dwindling enrollment was one reason Shoresh’s leaders decided to close the school.

“You can’t have those great discussions with just three kids in the room,” said Meiselman. “When you go

down to 21 students, and you can’t combine seniors and eighth graders, the first problem is educational — that we have really drifted below critical mass.”

The second issue was financial. “Fewer students mean lower revenue,” Meiselman said. Shoresh held fundraisers, but “there was never enough support from the organized Jewish community.”

When enrollment dwindled to 30, there were enough funds to pay teachers, but not a school director. So board members took on the director’s responsibilities.

Finally, the board used non-tuition funds to hire a director in a last attempt to save the school. However, the new director was not able to increase enrollment, Meiselman said.

“It’s really a tragedy, very much a shame,” Oresky said.

“I will miss the community of Jewish learners,” said Tamara Halle, a board member whose son will graduate with Shoresh’s last class. “We developed an incredible community.”

Shoresh will hold a graduation and school closing ceremony over Zoom on June 7 at 7 p.m. To receive the link, email Shoreshhebrewhigh@gmail.com. WJW Carolyn Conte is a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times, an affiliated publication of Washington Jewish Week.

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emple B’nai Shalom, a Reform congregation in Fairfax Station, has hired a permanent rabbi. Rabbi David S. Widzer will begin his tenure on July 1.

Widzer is a founding rabbi of Kol Dorot, a Reform Jewish Community, in Oradell, N.J. At Temple B’nai Shalom, he will succeed Rabbi Darryl Crystal, who has been interim senior rabbi since the retirement of founding Rabbi Amy R. Perlin in 2018.

Widzer attended the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, earning a master’s degree in 1999 and was ordained as a rabbi in 2000. Since then, he has served as rabbi in four congregations.

He is married to Karen Loewy, senior counsel at Lambda Legal, a New York-based civil rights organization. They have two children, Judah and Elisheva.

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ore than 1,000 Montgomery County children received free kosher meals last week thanks to a state-sponsored program facilitated by Yad Yehuda of Greater Washington, which provides families with financial and food assistance.

Operating out of Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring, the program first rolled out May 13, said Stephanie Savir, Yad Yehuda’s director of operations. On May 15 alone, volunteers distributed breakfast and lunch meals to 1,013 children.

The USDA Summer Food Program is distributing meals to children under 18 all over the country, said Savir. USDA funds, administered by the state, are used to reimburse the vendors providing meals.

Teach Coalition, a project of the Orthodox Union that lobbies for government support for nonpublic schools in North America, is an advocate nationwide for kosher meal options at public schools. Teach Coalition representatives helped Yad Yehuda navigate the state approval process and leverage connections with county stakeholders, according to Gabe Aaronson, the OU grants and systems specialist involved in the process.

Said Dan Mitzner, Teach Coalition’s director of state political affairs, “The kosher lunch program is an example of multiple local Jewish organizations coming together and deciding that they will not let Jewish children go hungry because of lack of kosher food.”

“In this crisis, I have been struck by how many community members in need refrain from seeking assistance for fear of taking it away from someone who needs it more,” said Nechemia Mond, Yad Yehuda’s executive director.

Volunteers wear gloves and masks. When drivers pull into the school’s circular drive, volunteers hand the number of meals the family needs through an open window. Savir described it as a “contactless operation.”

Yad Yehuda has a 60-day contract to distribute meals, said Savir, but that could be extended. “We’re in a wait and see position, like everybody else.” WJW rkohn@midatlanticmedia.com @RachelKTweets

Josh Katz, of Ben Yehuda Pizza, works as food service manager during the kosher food drive.

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Meir Samberg, left, and Benzion Kott sort bags of food to hand out.

Nechama Bieberfeld put kosher breakfast and lunch bags in vehicles at Col. E. Brooke.

Lee Middle School.

The Kabillio brothers prepare bag meals to hand out.

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Celebrate Shavuot with these virtual classes

By Carolyn Conte

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t’s traditional on Shavuot, which begins at sundown on May 28, to celebrate the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai by studying all night, This year, classes have gone virtual. Here are some of those classes, both based in the Washington area and all around the country.

Monday, May 25 One Community, Many Voices: A PreShavuot Zoom Celebration of Torah

The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, the Washington Board of Rabbis, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, and Hadar present an extended evening of Torah study. Join a diverse and cross-denominational group of 17 local rabbis. The event will explore how Torah addresses the human condition while providing inspiration for a healthy future. It will also be an opportunity to observe Memorial Day. Free, register for Zoom link. 6-9:30 p.m. Contact Mindy Berger at mindy. berger@shalomdc.org.

Wednesday, May 27 Cooking Class

The Edlavitch DCJCC and PJ Library in Greater Washington brings this class on eating dairy foods, a traditional part of celebrating Shavuot. At this children’s event, you will have the opportunity to make ice cream in a bag. You will need: 1 cup half and half, 1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 tablespoon sugar, ice, 1/4 cup salt, and two Ziploc bags (1 small, 1 large). 11-11:30 a.m. Register in advance for this meeting: Zoom.us/meeting/register/ tJYqceCtrTIoHN3FAqVOfoQMofhA9r3OwB_q.

Festival of Wheat

Join the Jewish Life and Learning department of the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center to prepare for celebrating Shavuot with an interactive challah-baking lesson. Form dough, braid and cover the basics of why the holiday celebrates the wheat harvest and what’s so great about wheat in the Jewish people’s history. 4-5 p.m.

Check the website for ingredients: Edcjcc.org/event/ festival-of-wheat/?instance_id=77068.

Thursday, May 28 The TEN: An Alternative Shavuot Experience with Priya Parker

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learning, laughing, dancing, reflecting, cooking, drinking (coffee) and merry-making with Sixth & I in Washington.

Priya Parker, author of “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” and host of The New York Times podcast “Together Apart,” will talk with Rabbi Shira Stutman. They’ll discuss the power of gathering, the role of religion in community and reflections on gathering in the future. Following the conversation, stay for a night of stories from Jewish tradition, take part in a late-night cooking class with Chef Vered Guttman, celebrate at an Israeli dance party and enjoy a restorative yoga session.

SixthAndI.org. 7 p.m.-5 a.m.

Tikkun Leil Shavuot 2020 Virtual Edition

Normally a holiday celebration at Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit would be out of reach, but this year, distance doesn’t matter much.

The synagogue is hosting its Seventh Annual Tikkun Leil Shavuot. Sessions will cover topics such as COVID Economics, Intro to American Sign Language, How to Build Your Rain Garden, Annexation, Jewish Ritual Music, and more. Participants must register for this event before May 22. Upon registration, you will receive the Zoom link for the event, and have the opportunity to sign up for preferred sessions.

Saturday, May 30 Up All Night

A public, live video by Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl. This year, as COVID-19 prevents gatherings, synagogues from cities across the country are virtually joining together for a late night of learning. Sessions include cooking workshops, text studies, panel discussions and skill shares. There will be a late night dance party, too.

It will also raise money for a number of causes and campaigns: Ezra Uganda Assistance Fund, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, Black Mama’s Bail Out. Sliding scale donations suggested. 6 p.m. - 6 a.m. Registration is required at bit. ly/upallnight5780register. For more information about the event, email info@hinenubaltimore.org. WJW

Carolyn Conte is a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times, an affiliated publication of Washington Jewish Week.

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Leonard Robinson

You’re a gay and African-American man — two minorities in any major American faith system. Has Judaism changed the way you think about identity?

Perhaps. It’s certainly added another layer to the entire puzzle of my being a young person still on a journey to figuring out who I am. Over the summer, I profiled Rabbi Sandra Lawson, who is perhaps the world’s first black, queer, female rabbi.

Something I gained from that conversation was that often sometimes the most powerful things that minorities can do to achieve their goals, in religious communities or elsewhere, is being present, engaged and bearing witness to our existence. And that’s certainly been a valuable lesson to learn and experience.

What kind of welcome have you found in the synagogue that you hadn’t found before?

I never had bad experiences in churches as much as I always felt that I didn’t belong. In Judaism, I found that I was desiring to engage in congregational life, enjoying being a part of the Jewish community, and often looked forward to attending weekly services, studying Torah and building a relationship with my rabbis that I had only had with very few clergy prior.

Where do you attend synagogue?

I’m in college at the University of Baltimore, so I float between two synagogues: Oseh Shalom in Laurel and Beth Am in Baltimore. Although, now, with COVID-19, I lean more toward Oseh Shalom in terms of online services and such.

By Emma Ayers Special to WJW

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eonard Robinson hasn’t always been Jewish.

The shift was a long time coming for the Washington native and former Catholic.

But even in his early years, the 20 year old was always asking the right questions. And as an aspiring journalist, freelance writer and all-around curious guy, it seems Robinson has finally found the answers he was looking for in the teachings of the Torah.

Photo courtesy of Leonard Robinson

What sparked your interest in Judaism?

When did you convert?

I began the process in late 2017, early 2018, but formally converted with a beit din and mikvah in March 2019.

When I was 12,I bought my first book on converting to Judaism. It was “Choosing a Jewish Life” by Anita Diamant. I don’t remember why I purchased it, but I guess that was my first subtle thought about it.

Perhaps it was that I was always adjacent to Judaism. Some of my favorite writers, S.Y. Agnon, for example, were Jewish and it just felt like something that was great to be a part of.

I had visited synagogues and Jewish book groups as well and had quite a few Jewish friends, too. The big catalyst was going to Israel and seeing how this commitment to Judaism and Jewishness impacted the history and culture of the state, and I became fascinated andt wanted to learn more, and then decided that I want my own stake in this peoplehood.

How did your Catholic foundation affect your view of the Jewish faith?

Much of what I appreciate about Judaism came because I found all of what I appreciated about Catholicism and more. I was not someone who really believed in Jesus, and simply found much of the New Testament narratives to either fail in compelling me or demand to be taken at face value.

If you don’t believe X, then you won’t receive Y. What if I don’t know about Y? Tough luck, kid.

However, what a Catholic education provided me was learning about faith in a way that embraced contextual thinking and possessed a certain amount of intellectual rigor and I knew even if I were not to remain Catholic that this was something that I wanted.

What has been the most affecting change you’ve noticed in yourself in the past year?

I have been really trying to find ways to remain disciplined in my continued learning and growing in Judaism. During the conversion process, you have these milestones and benchmarks that you’re supposed to achieve. Yet, once that process is over, you’re left to your own devices to figure that out and it can be a challenge. It’s also funny now too, considering that my college roommate is also going through the conversion process and I get to see almost a glimpse of what I was like on the outside looking in now.

What have you been doing with yourself in quarantine?

Quarantine has been quite a time! I’ve been catching up on some reading — both Jewish and non-Jewish. I’m almost done reading the Jewish literary classic “The Chosen,” after having loved the film, and will get started on “The Promise” soon after. I’m also reading “The Cellist of Sarajevo” as preliminary research for a long-term writing project about the Bosnian civil war that I’m flirting with. In between that and when I’m not studying, writing or doing more reading, I take walks with my roommates or nap. WJW — Emma Ayers, a Washington writer, is managing opinion editor at Young Voices. washingtonjewishweek.com

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Love doesn’t self-quarantine for Arlington woman’s 98th birthday

By Kayla Steinberg Special to WJW

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here was no skimping on Erika Robinson’s 98th birthday. Calls poured in from her adoring children, grandchildren and friends as Robinson noshed on a massive breakfast whipped up by her full-time caregiver, Zenaida “Zeny” Belcher. But that wasn’t all.

Robinson’s friend Beth Wolffe, a fellow member at Congregation Etz Hayim in Arlington, organized a surprise social distancing bash for the big day on May 17.

And Robinson’s daughter Marlene Schillinger, son-inlaw Jim, and grandson Aaron had driven from Petersburg, Va., to Arlington to spend the weekend with her.

Schillinger persuaded her mother to leave the house for a quick drive so Belcher could put the final pre-party touches on the exterior: a sign, banners and balloons.

It’s the same red brick house Robinson and her husband bought in 1952, 16 years after she fled Germany during the Holocaust.

Growing up, Robinson lived with her family above her father’s clothing and fabric shop in Hildesheim, Germany. In 1936, recognizing imminent danger, relatives arranged for Robinson and her sister to come to Virginia. Robinson created a new life for herself, raising her three children in her Arlington starter home.

When Schillinger and Robinson returned from their drive to that home at 4 p.m., it was almost unrecognizable. Twenty-five mask-clad visitors brought a mishmash of party gifts — signs, flowers, baked goods and balloons — and two TV cameras from local news stations. Schillinger was overwhelmed. And Robinson had no idea it was all for her.

“It looked like a fair!” Robinson said later by phone.

The party brought a Holocaust survivor, who defied the odds to reach 98, a brief hour of connection, positivity and joy in an escape from what feels to some like an endless social distancing saga.

Robinson sat behind a banner that Belcher had affixed to two trees in front of the door. One by one, her friends approached to wish her happy birthday, give her presents and reconnect after months apart.

“I was flattered,” Robinson said. “I feel like 81!”

She probably does, thanks to years of 60 sit-ups per day and loads of fruits and vegetables. Robinson is healthy: she walks unaided, takes few medications.

Every Friday afternoon, she had a standing date with Wolffe at Starbucks. And she cooked, cleaned and regularly attended Shabbat services until December.

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to be the flu, but was later diagnosed as heart failure.

After a stint at a hospital, she moved to a rehabilitation center, where she got shingles.

Her family worried she’d never recover.

Maybe it was a miracle — or all those sit-ups she’d done into her nineties — but Robinson gradually recuperated, inching toward 98. “I would love to know why she came back so strong,” said Schillinger. After Robinson left rehab, Schillinger hired Belcher to care for her and was able to visit in person. Then quarantine hit, and all they could do was FaceTime.

It was hard for the whole family, including grandson Aaron Schillinger who missed his grandmother’s long

further south toward Richmond so she could be closer, but she never wanted to leave Arlington,” Aaron Schillinger said. “That’s her living out her life the way she wanted to.”

While Robinson has filled her decades in the United States with vibrant connections, she has never forgotten her past. Robinson gives talks about the Holocaust, fearing that its memory will die with survivors. “When we are gone, the history may be forgotten,” she said.

After the party, Robinson received a phone call from an international number. It was the daughter of Robinson’s friend from Hildesheim, calling to say happy birthday.

The two chatted in German as Marlene Schillinger marveled at her mother’s popularity.

Erika Robinson with the chocolate birthday cake her daughter, Marlene Schillinger, baked for her.

Photo by Marlene Schillinger hugs. “We call it an Oma hug,” he said, using the German word for grandmother. “She squeezes everything out of you, and it lasts for a really long time. You actually have to pry yourself out of her arms.”

Robinson is the kind of person who is determined to create the best possible life for herself. As a newlywed, she lived a double life, working as a secretary by day and earning her bachelor’s degree in psychology by night.

Three children later, Robinson continued to work and strengthen her roots in Arlington.

“We had at one point tried to get Oma to move down

“She is loved by so many,” said Schillinger. “It’s really amazing.”

And Robinson continues to create new memories, like diving into the word search Belcher gave her for her birthday. “She’s gonna burn through this word search,” said Aaron Schillinger. “We’re gonna have to get a box of them.”

The next day, Robinson took an extra long nap in her old Arlington home, taking a pause from friends’ calls, Belcher’s homemade food and her word search for a moment of well-deserved rest. WJW

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Jewish groups advocate for the neediest during pandemic enough,” Gilden said.

To those who fear releasing prisoners into the general population, Gilden said there have been a few problems, but she called those people “outliers” who he novel coronavirus continues to alter lives, are “a tiny fraction of those who are released.” shutter businesses, schools and camps, and Josh Protas, vice president of public policy at MAZON, send many to food pantries. noted even before the virus outbreak, 40 million people But it has been particularly cruel to those in faced food insecurity. jail, living in refugee camps and detention centers or “We now are expecting millions more to be at without the means to feed their families. risk.

With skyrocketing unemployment rates, we will In a joint video conference call May 14, representatives probably see 70 million.” from HIAS, which aids refugees and asylum seekers; Military families, veterans, Native Americans, college Jewish Council for Public Affairs; and MAZON: A Jewish students and single mothers are especially vulnerable, Response to Hunger, described current problems and he said. “The pandemic has laid bare the hollow myth detailed how people could help. of the American dream.”

Naomi Steinberg, vice He urged the 230 people president of policy and on the afternoon virtual call advocacy at HIAS, explained to ask their legislators to that her organization “now support a 15 percent boost to works with people of all faiths” SNAP — the federal Supplein 16 countries, to help resettle mental Nutrition Assistance refugees in this country as Program. well as provide legal services “No one deserves to be for refugees stuck at the hungry,” Protas said.

Mexican border.

He addressed the current Her organization, headstatus of crops being quartered in Silver Spring, is destroyed, livestock slaughworking to enable refugees to tered and milk dumped due a enter this country rather than lack of buyers and supply chain remain in overcrowded camps. problems, noting there was litShe described the poor tle that could be done quickly. conditions in these “squalid Also during the hour-long camps,” which have limited call, Rabbi Victor Urecki of clean water and cleaning B’nai Jacob Congregation in supplies, as “vectors for Charleston, W.Va. , praised COVID-19.” the activists, saying they are The spread of the novel doing the heavy lifting during coronavirus “could be less if we reduce the population,” Even before the coronavirus outbreak, 40 million Americans faced food insecurity. according to Josh Protas the pandemic when so much is needed even though they are she said. of MAZON. “ignored by those in power” Steinberg said the vast U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jeffrey Parkinson and “have doors shut” on them majority of people in camps at in Washington. the border are there for immiJCPA is calling for states to “significantly reduce the He predicted, “What lies ahead may make today look gration violations and not for violent crimes. like a walk in the park,” adding their work has become “They don’t pose a threat to the public,” she said. She number of people in detention.”

It also has called for more soap products, virus testing Herculean. called on the elderly, sick and pregnant refugees to and free telephone calls for those who are incarcerated.

He warned that some might lose hope and give up, be released.

She cautioned that the virus will spread not just although “we are not free to desist from this,” adding, HIAS also provides legal services to the refugees.

Of the clients who have resettled here with the help among prisoners, but also to employees and others “Your holy work inspires me.” WJW of HIAS, Steinberg estimated that 61 percent “will who live in the community.

Many states have released prisoners, “but it is not Suzanne Pollak is a Washington-area writer. not be able to make their rent this month without

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assistance.”

Tammy Gilden, JCPA senior policy associate, spoke of her organization’s efforts to assist those in prison and detention centers and its other advocacy issues determined through 125 Jewish community relations councils.

Citing the importance to “stand up for the needs of the more vulnerable,” Gilden noted that there is no such thing as social distancing in these institutions, which enables “rampant disease spread.”

She listed poor ventilation, subpar medical care, lack of hygiene products, limited staff and not enough protective facial coverings as problems that will accelerate the novel coronavirus problems.

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Israel Maimon, Israel Bonds CEO, talks pandemic, uncertainty

By Jesse Bernstein

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he Israeli economy has contended this spring with a third national election in less than a year, a prime minister under indictment and a global pandemic.

And yet, on May 17, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s issued a report stating that Israel would retain its AA- rating. The forecast for the near future even expressed confidence in the country’s continued economic stability.

To Israel Maimon, president and CEO of Israel Bonds, that is a key point in continuing his work — selling individuals and foundations on the idea that an Israel bond is a sound investment.

Working from home, Maimon and his team can’t do their usual parlor meetings, speaking arrangements or galas. Though there was a steep learning curve, they haven’t slowed down in their mission.

“With humility, we’ve overcome this very quickly,” Maimon said.

What are the challenges to Israel Bonds that are unique to this period?

The first concern, or challenge, is the uncertainty that exists in the hearts and minds of the people, whether it’s a Jewish investor, or whether it’s an Israeli Christian supporter. How much liquidity do they need to have in their pocket? For how long are they going to invest?

And with what kind of instruments? Equity? Everyone understands that equity was hit so much.

So, whether bonds are the alternative, whether to keep it in the savings account in the bank, stuff like that. This is one concern.

It’s the mood. People that are at home, many of them unemployed, they don’t know what’s going to happen to them in the coming few months. In some of the places around the states, there is still a shutdown, and people cannot see when it is going to be lifted.

These are the two main challenges that we are dealing with. I don’t need to motivate anyone to invest in Israel; I don’t need to explain the importance of investing in Israel. I don’t need to give the Zionistic speech.

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government, we need to secure the additional capital for any eventuality. So I don’t need to give this speech.

However, we need to ease the fear, or the concern, of the individual, to explain why all is solid, why it’s still important, why it has a good yield compared to other financial instruments.

Does the way you make the case to investors, large and small, change?

The case is less about the importance of investing in Israel and more to ease the concern of investing in general. This is the way it shifted a little bit.

Of course, we have to explain and to give all the arguments and the messaging, which are also relevant to Israel. People need to know that Israel’s economy is great. It’s stable. There is not any liquidity problem.

What have been some other challenging periods for Israel Bonds? And how has thinking about them shapes the way you’ve approached your work in the last few months?

Let’s be honest: Nothing can compare to this period.

Nothing. Not in the size, not in the uncertainty, and not in the scale, I would say.

When you look at previous challenges, it’s a little bit different. One challenge, for instance, is that something is happening in Israel. A crisis, or a war in Israel.

Usually, it’s a positive impact on Israel Bonds, because immediately, the solidarity that the Jewish people want to show ... you see an immediate jump, on how many bonds we are selling.

If it’s a crisis that is happening outside of Israel — let’s say the 2008-2009 financial crisis — of course it had an impact on the investors that live outside of Israel. And then, you can see an impact again, people are seeing individual challenges, and you see a decrease in the investment in Israel bonds.

In general, Israel bonds, through the years, the growth of the selling of Israel bonds is steady, it’s good. I cannot say we took something out of those past challenges in order to implement now. WJW

Israel Maimon: “Let’s be honest. Nothing can compare to this period. Nothing.”

Jesse Bernstein is a writer for the Philadelphia Courtesy of Development Corporation for Israel/Israel Jewish Exponent, an affiliated publication of Washington Bonds Jewish Week.

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A Jewish camp in Maine is actually opening.

Here’s how it plans to keep COVID-19 away.

Campers play on the water at Camp Modin.

Photo courtesy of Camp Modin

By Ben Sales

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ere’s a story that would have been unremarkable until just a few months ago: A Jewish camp is planning to open this summer.

Camp Modin in Maine has announced that it will open July 9 — two weeks later than originally planned — despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. And it has set out a detailed plan to make it happen.

“COVID is something that’s going to be with us for the foreseeable future,” said Howard Salzberg, the camp’s co-director with his wife, Lisa Wulkan Salzberg. “The children have lost in-person learning and they have lost art and they have lost sports and being part of a team. How long is that acceptable for children? We felt we had to do what we could to give the kids a return to normalcy and to mitigate the risk as best we can.”

Dozens of Jewish summer camps across the country have announced that they will not be running this year because of the danger of spreading the disease and the challenge of navigating murky regulations. But Maine has allowed overnight camps to open beginning July 1 and plans to release detailed instructions for them on May 20, and other camps in the state have also said they will open.

Modin is perhaps the first Jewish camp to tell parents definitively that it will open, and to specifically describe how it will keep campers and counselors safe.

Modin plans to test every camper for the disease via at-home test kits before they arrive, and again throughout the summer. The camp has consulted on its measures with epidemiologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will expand its medical staff this summer. And it has laid out a list of measures aimed at ensuring campers’ safety — from abolishing a buffet line for meals to closing communal bathrooms.

An email to parents sent Friday said the camp relied on “facts not emotion” while making the decision, and said the disease “does not adversely affect children and young healthy adults. The hospitalization rate of children with COVID is 1 in 100,000.” It also said that the 14

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Kawasaki-like illness affecting young children has affected a minuscule percentage of U.S. kids.

Ron Hall, executive director of an umbrella organization called Maine Summer Camps that works with 145 camps in the state, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Modin will be able to ensure its campers’ safety.

“What camps like Modin will be doing is they’ll essentially create a bubble at camp,” Hall said. “Staff will be there and won’t be leaving the camp. They won’t be leaving the camp to do outside activities, so everything will be happening at camp.”

Modin defines itself as an independent, pluralist Jewish camp that practices Conservative Judaism. It was founded nearly a century ago and serves kids aged 7 to 16 primarily from the Northeast. It typically runs for seven weeks, but this summer will have a five-week session and, within that, a 3 1/2-week session. Modin serves around 300 campers each summer — a number that Salzberg said will stay the same this year.

The camp’s decision runs counter to those made by large American Jewish camp networks, which have announced — or are in the process of announcing — summer cancellations either because their states do not allow them to open or they are afraid that the coronavirus will spread in their camps and endanger campers, staff and others.

Modin’s list of measures to ensure those things don’t happen include holding campwide gatherings in large open areas, where groups of campers can socially distance; serving meals table by table rather than having campers line up at a buffet; using only disposable plates and silverware; and closing communal bathrooms.

Staff will be tested before they arrive and will be at camp “well in advance of the campers,” according to the email to parents.

The email encouraged campers to arrive by plane, possibly by charter flight arranged by the camp, whereupon camp staff would pick them up at the airport. Should parents drive their kids to camp, they will have to drop them off at a staging area outside the camp gates. Buses or vans will be available only from the nearby city of Boston.

International staff also will be working at the camp.

Also, the email said the camp would consider sticking to bunk activities for the summer and smaller outings as opposed to full camp trips to outside locations like an amusement park.

Is social distancing possible in the freewheeling atmosphere of camp?

Salzberg said that kids would be safer in the contained environment of camp than they would be running around a public park or beach. Even so, he said, the camp will have to impress on kids that they can’t be nearly as uninhibited as they are in a normal year, and will have to emphasize that no plan is foolproof.

“We have said to families, no matter what procedures we put in place, there are no guarantees,” Salzberg said.

“You’re going to have to have an understanding with your campers and staff that it’s going to be a different summer.

I don’t think there’s a parent that can guarantee you that their child, from now until they go back to school, there’s going to be no slip-ups.”

Salzberg added that if everyone tests negative for COVID-19 multiple times after a few weeks, the rules could be relaxed. He even floated the idea of a socially distanced bar mitzvah party for the kids who had to celebrate the coming-of-age ceremony virtually this year.

The camp has managed outbreaks of other diseases in the past, Salzberg said. Most recently, in 2009, more than 130 Modin campers were infected with swine flu.

It also experienced outbreaks of measles in 1992 and meningitis a few years later.

Salzberg recognizes that the risk of exposure to COVID19 is more dire for those who are older than their 20s — a group that includes himself, his wife and the camp social worker, who is in her 60s and has been working at Modin for decades. Still, she told Salzberg that she was coming back.

“We’re the ones that took the risk on opening,” Salzberg said of the older staff members. “They were given the choice to come or not come, and they’re all in.” WJW —JTA News and Features

BRIEFS Hundreds of layoffs with more to come

May 14:

60 laid off from Union for Reform Judaism The Reform movement laid off 60 full-time employees, constituting 20 percent of its workforce, and said other workers would be furloughed for three months this summer. The organization also announced pay cuts of 3-16 percent.

May 6: Deep cuts at Jewish Federations

of North America Dozens of people were laid off in early May, representing about 20 percent of the organization’s workforce. Executives also took temporary pay cuts.

JFNA is the umbrella group of communal fundraising and programming organizations across the country.

It is leading an emergency coalition to coordinate the Jewish response to the pandemic-induced financial crisis.

April 27: 20 percent of Hillel International employees laid off The organization that operates a network of campus centers for Jewish college students laid off or furloughed 30 people in late April. The cuts represented 20 percent of staff at Hillel’s Washington headquarters.

April 23:

Conservative Yeshiva in Israel lays off five people

April 1:

Virtually total layoffs at Philadelphia-area JCC The Kaiserman Jewish Community Center outside Philadelphia laid off 176 of 178 staff members just two weeks into the crisis. The JCC, like most others across the country, depends on fees paid for services such as day care and gyms that it could no longer deliver.

Jewish woman gives birth to sextuplets A Jewish woman in Strasbourg, France, gave birth to sextuplets.

The five girls and one boy were born very prematurely at the Hautepierre Hospital in Strasbourg, requiring the assistance of 30 medical staff members,

the daily LeParisien reported, citing the newspaper Les Actualités Nouvelles d’Alsace.

It took four minutes to deliver the babies, who were born at 24 weeks, after which they were taken to the neonatal intensive care unit. They weighed in at between 1.4 pounds and 1.6 pounds and likely will require a stay of many months in the hospital.

The couple have two other children.

The Hebrew-language news website B’haredey Haredim identified the father as Rabbi Ovadia Ben-Simon.

The last sextuplets in France were born nearly 30 years ago, in 1989 in Normandy. Sextuplets occur once in 4.7 million deliveries worldwide.

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State Dept: annexation should be part of peace process JERUSALEM — Israel’s annexation of West Bank settlements should be part of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians as part of the framework of the Trump administration’s peace plan, the State Department said.

State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus made the statement during a widely reported conference call with Israeli journalists.

“We really think annexation should be part of a peace process where Palestinians should have a say,” Ortagus said during the call.

Addressing the fact that the Palestinians have thus far refused to return to peace negotiations, Ortagus said, “We’re going to continue to push for this vision for peace that the president has. We have certainly by no means given up hope. In fact, it will continue to be a major part of our foreign policy to press for the Palestinians to come to the table as a part of this peace plan, as a part of this process.”

The call came on Friday, the same day that King Abdullah of Jordan said in an interview published in the German Der Spiegel weekly magazine that “if Israel really annexed the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict” with his country.

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Celebrating Jewish American Heritage E

llis Island. The Statue of Liberty. The promise of religious liberty and religious freedom. American Jewish history begins with these images and concepts.

From the first Jewish immigrants some 350 years ago to the significant Jewish migration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States offered opportunity, freedom and safety. While we have come a long way since then, the welcoming light of America still shines bright.

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. We have a lot to celebrate.

Our American Jewish history is rich and diverse.

Beginning with Sephardi Jews who emigrated as early as 1654, continuing with German Jews and followed by Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews, our Jewish American tradition has been nourished and energized by newcomers. And it was the mixture of those cultures, observances and backgrounds that created the engine that built today’s proud and successful American Jewish community. Soviet Jews, Israeli Jews and those who embraced Judaism through conversion came later, and added to our complex DNA, energizing American Jewry’s move toward diversity and pluralism.

Of the 18 opulent, jaw-dropping Jewish houses of worship featured on MyJewishLearning.com’s “The Most Instagrammable Synagogues in the World,” only two are in the United States. This is so, even as American Jewry has criticized its own “edifice complex.”

But since our democratic republic does not promote religion, does not elevate monarch-like religious leaders to roles in the state bureaucracy and doesn’t

Life disrupted

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he first jolt of the coronavirus pandemic hit young people just as the country was learning the scope of the danger. Schools were closed. Malls were closed.

Extracurricular activities were canceled. And kids were forced to distance from their friends.

Students spending the semester abroad were brought back home, and herded into quarantine — mostly with the family they just left. High school seniors, who looked forward to graduation, proms and other celebrations, face an anticlimax of “distance ceremonies.” So, too, with college seniors.Their final semester of idyllic college life and their send-off into the real world has been short circuited.

No celebratory pomp or star-studded graduation ceremony is planned, and their job prospects are dim.

There are myriad rites of passage scheduled into our lives. We have become accustomed to them. We anticipate them. We look forward to them. And now, for many of us, they are gone.

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build governmental houses of worship, we must promote our own religions and build our houses of worship as a means of self-expression, rather than as symbols of a ruling government.

American Jewish heritage celebrates the fact that religion in America is voluntary, decentralized, democratic and competitive. We live and practice our Judaism side by side with our co-religionists, looking with friendship to our neighbors and reaching out to each other in solidarity in times of threat or need.

Jewish heritage and Jewish life have flourished in America. We are a vital part of what has become — apart from the State of Israel — the most welcoming and embracing country for Jews in the world. Jewish life in the U.S. is vibrant and strong. We are the second largest Jewish population in the world, and are well-organized and focused. There is more Jewish learning, prayer, observance and pride in Jewish life, culture and communal well-being than at any time in our history. And we continue to care for each other and for others in a manner that helps us fulfill the mandate to be a light unto the nations.

Which brings us to one other aspect of Jewish life in America that distinguishes us: the elevation of tikkun olam — repairing the world — to a communal and cultural value, and the adoption of social justice as a quasi-religious mandate. These core values help define our Jewish American community and culture, and we celebrate them as part of our proud Jewish American heritage.

the blinding speed of technological change. Technology changes may “disrupt” our lives, but we consider those disruptions to be positive. The coronavirus disruption is different. It interferes with our lives, and has taken much of the joy out of many life-cycle celebrations.

In pointing this out, we don’t ignore or minimize the tragic loss of life that COVID-19 had brought — 88,588 Americans dead as of press time — or the financial ruin and deprivation it has brought to tens of millions of Americans. That bitter reality puts much of our life-cycle celebration lamentations into perspective. Not just because good health and financial stability are more important, but also because the celebratory graduations, proms, theme parties and destination weddings are just conventions — and often excessive ones — that we have adopted over time. They may be enjoyable, but they aren’t essential.

A high school senior graduates regardless of whether she walks across the stage when her name is called. A

Statue of Liberty, circa 1901 Public domain/ flickr

boy automatically becomes a bar mitzvah when he turns 13. A marriage is infinitely more important than the lavish wedding party.

All of that said, we want to take a moment to recognize the very real and significant accomplishments in each of the milestones and life achievements throughout our community — even if we cannot celebrate them now as we have in the past.

And we applaud the creative ways many in our community have developed to bring meaning and emotion to the recognition of life events we have listed. Thus, even though the coronavirus may have stolen parts of our lives from us, it has seeded an impressive creativity and resilience that we are proud to see.

And who knows? Maybe some of what we’re doing now will actually refine our focus and bring us to new, more meaningful celebrations — focused less on the pomp, and much more on the circumstance. WJW

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Israel and Egypt don’t need American peacekeepers in the Sinai

By Jonathan S. Tobin

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n May 1967, the withdrawal of peacekeepers from the Sinai Peninsula set in motion a series of events that led to war. But those who think such a move in May 2020 would have similar consequences, or really any at all, are living in the past.

Yet as far as some observers are concerned, a Trump administration proposal to withdraw American troops from the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) who are part of the peacekeeping troops that monitor the border between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula is a shocking move that could undermine the peace treaty they are tasked with enforcing.

For decades, such a move would have been unthinkable.

The Sinai was the staging ground for Egypt’s invasion of Israel in 1948 and the scene of battle between the two nations in 1956, 1967 and 1973.

The 1979 treaty signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sought to end that cycle of war, though the peace it created was

letters to the editor A divinely inspired mistake?

I differ with “Coronavirus and religious freedom” (Editorial, May 14). Contra this editorial, when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed “the Jewish community” for haredi violations of mass gathering public health regulations connected to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was simply echoing the haredi claims to being the sole authentic benchmark of Torah-true Judaism.

And, accordingly, the belief that divinely inspired traditional practices necessarily take precedence over man-made law.

Ironically, in this respect, the haredim are taking a page from their right-wing Christian evangelical brethren in employing the First Amendment as a venue in which to cloak claims of entitlement and privilege.

The term for this is “assimilation.”

STEVE WEISSMAN Baltimore

Annexation is Israel’s decision Why is annexation a mistake? (“Annexation is a mistake,” Editorial, May 14). Is it a mistake because Democrats (and I am a Democrat) and Biden support annexation.

The Arabs, Europeans and Israel’s critics

fragile and cold. Begin gambled not merely on Sadat’s sincerity, but on the idea that Egyptians were tired of fighting in a war to destroy Israel that was not in their interests.

Sadat’s successor, Hosni Mubarak, kept the bargain, if for no other reason than to keep receiving billions in American aid that was part of the treaty.

Throughout the last 40 years, American troops have been a big part of the MFO that guaranteed the peace.

The U.S. contingent is made up of several hundred soldiers in a unit that also contains forces from 13 other countries. However, the situation in the Sinai in 2020 is far different from the one that existed there in past decades when the MFO truly could be said to have kept the peace.

The current Egyptian government led by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is closely aligned with Israel. While the Egyptian people may still remain hostile to Jews, the military government that el-Sisi leads looks to the Jewish state as an ally against a mutual enemy: the Muslim Brotherhood. The Hamas terrorist movement that governs Gaza is an offshoot of the Islamist group whose leaders ran Egypt for a year following the fall of Mubarak during the Arab Spring protests of 2011. El-Sisi

everywhere have objected to annexation of Jerusalem, annexation of the Golan, recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and stopping payments to UNRWA. After decades of failed peace proposals, doing nothing is the real mistake.

Annexation doesn’t block a two-state solution. If Israel must wait for approval from the Palestinians and Europeans, nothing will ever change.

It is time to take a critical look at the so-called two-state solution and whether there is any solution to the conflict.

Regardless, it is Israel’s decision as they and not us will suffer any consequences.

We should stand with Israel and not lecture Israel, whichever direction they choose.

MELVIN FARBER Silver Spring

Banning Holocaust denial is a mistake

In response to “Louise Lawrence-Israëls on the dangers of being a Jew (Last Word, April 16): Yes, Jews have reasons to be afraid, but shouldn’t let that control our lives. Lawrence-Israëls mentions that she used her language skills to tell “her story to combat deniers and hatred” and that is exactly what needs to happen. If Holocaust denial was banned, hate wouldn’t go away; but

led the popular coup that deposed the Brotherhood’s government in 2013 and has brutally repressed the Islamists ever since.

Like other Sunni Arab nations, Egypt sees Israel as an ally since the United States abandoned its interests by agreeing to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Egyptians also not unreasonably blame Obama and America for the brief ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012-13 since it was he who helped push out Mubarak.

The Sinai peacekeepers are obsolete. The MFO is no long separating potential combatants, but is instead an innocent spectator to an Egyptian effort to eradicate terrorism while Israelis cheer them on. What the international community needs to do in the Sinai is to get out of the way of the Egyptians, not separate them from Israel.

It’s possible that a day will come in the future when Egypt might once again threaten Israel. But if and when that day comes, the MFO won’t do any more to protect the Jewish state than other peacekeepers on its borders. The only guarantee of Israel’s security is the strength of the Israel Defense Forces, not the presence of foreign soldiers who are far from home and have no stake in the conflict. WJW

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.

the cause for hate would be concealed and wouldn’t be able to be fought.

Banning Holocaust denial initially seems like a good solution, because it removes the problem. But banning denial doesn’t erase the issue of anti-Semitism and makes it hard to educate people. It also gives fuel to those who believe the Holocaust is some conspiracy. If the government bans it, deniers are going to turn around and think that the government is trying to hide something instead of just showing all of the horrific evidence that proves that the Holocaust did happen. To combat hatred, we must face it head on rather than hiding behind censorship.

MAREN BERMAN Brookeville

What would Tom Paine say about annexation?

Sadly, Daniel Pipes and the WJW Editorial Board (“Annexation is a mistake,” Editorial, May 14) have joined the ranks of Summer Semites and Sunshine Zionists, paraphrasing the words of the great American patriot, Thomas Paine.

WJW has shamefully forgotten that the Jewish state has a biblical, historical, moral and legal imperative to exercise sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. President

Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have explicitly supported and even encouraged the Israeli government to begin exercising its sovereignty over these areas as part and parcel of the Trump administration’s bold new Middle East peace plan.

Your use of inapt and misleading terms such as “unilateral annexation,” “the occupation” and “two-state solution” demonstrates a lack of credibility and balance.

Finally, your almost total reliance on views expressed by Israel’s fair-weather friends in the Democratic Party is truly pathetic. Although they may once have been trustworthy friends and allies, objectively speaking many if not most of them have caved to the “progressive” radical left wing of their party.

When it comes to determining Israel’s national borders, I would hope that WJW will do its part to help bridge the gap in knowledge, experience and understanding that exists between the majority of American Jews who blindly adhere to the Democratic Party platform and the majority of Israeli Jews who support the Trump “Peace to Prosperity” plan.

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Why we’re helping the Navajo Nation

By Rabbi Greg Harris and Faith Roessel Special to WJW

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ommunity is needed now more than ever and, in the time of COVID-19, community has no limits or geographic boundaries. We at Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County are extending our community far west to the Navajo Nation. When one of us is in need, we all are in need and have an obligation to help, especially with our unique relationship with Navajo culture through members of our congregation.

Carl Slater, who grew up at Beth El and, since his election in October, sits on the Navajo Nation Council, asked us to partner with Navajo communities who were trying to help themselves so they could buy food, supplies, PPE and water.

When basic human needs are not being met, we could not turn away. Drawing attention to the challenges facing the Navajo people is a role Slater is willing to assume.

He sees an opportunity to merge his Jewish and Navajo identities, too. “I have two homes. I grew up at Beth El. Rabbi Harris officiated my bar mitzvah,” he says. “And I grew up in my Navajo community. My parents raised us in both the Navajo and Jewish traditions. I know of no other way to be.”

The Navajo Nation has a death rate higher than any state in the country except New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The Navajo Nation has a death rate higher than any state in the country except New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Its infection rate is the third highest in the United States. The virus swept through Navajo communities close to reservation border towns and those in isolated areas only accessible by dirt roads. This puts a strain on local leaders to reach community members to prevent or mitigate the spread.

“It is a matter of survival,” explains Ramona Rogers, a community leader in Round Rock, Ariz. “We have elders who we must protect. Without them we lose who we are. Families need food, water and supplies. We are their lifeline.”

Navajo lands stretch across portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah,a high desert terrain and climate covering an area similar in size to West Virginia. With the largest Indian reservation in the country under nightly and over-weekend lock downs, Navajo residents are facing 18

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The flag of the Navajo Nation Photo by David/ flickr/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode challenges exacerbated by isolation, food insecurity, limited running water, electricity and broadband, high rates of chronic diseases and inequities in health care and access to it. Only five hospitals serve 178,000 residents reservation-wide. ICU beds are almost non-existent and critical care COVID-19 patients are regularly airlifted to metropolitan areas in Arizona and New Mexico.

Arizona state Rep. Arlando Teller (D), whose district includes the Navajo Nation and seven other Indian tribes, says that reservation residents do not have what most Americans take for granted. “Our country has failed our first peoples. The cracks are deep. How can you fight this virus when you can’t wash your hands because you have no running water? How can you keep students in school when they have no way to connect?

No computers, broadband and electricity. It is unconscionable. Tribes are resilient and resourceful. Even this they will overcome. But at a great cost.”

The Navajo Nation has set up a central health command center to coordinate tribal action to combat COVID-19. The Navajo Nation Council, an elected 24-member legislative body, has taken action to suspend in-person sessions and now legislates by remote means in keeping with social distance

guidelines. Navajo Council delegates risk their own health and safety as they travel throughout their districts assessing need, working with local officials and navigating the bureaucracy to get on-the-ground supplies delivered. Slater, one of the youngest members of the Navajo Nation Council, knows all too well what this has meant for his communities. “We had two communities that rely on a community well for domestic and livestock water uses. The well was closed until we got PPE for volunteers — some families went almost two weeks without water,” Slater says.

We could reflect as a congregation and ask why treat one area over another, the virus has hit all parts of the country. What compelled us is it came from within our community — a starting point for so many of our social justice and activism. Longtime members of our congregation asked if their community here could help their community back at Navajo. We said yes and joined as partners.

To learn more, visit www.navajorelief.fund WJW Rabbi Greg Harris is the senior rabbi at Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County, in Bethesda, and Faith Roessel is a congregant and member of the Navajo Nation.

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Technology makes Jewish education more accessible. We must ensure the tradeoff isn’t our values.

By Henry Abramson

values that are endangered in the virtual environment.

Fortunately, a few ancient techniques might be adapted to the virtual environment, such that we can get even Zoom to slow down a bit.

First, Jewish thought places value on “s’khar halikhah,” literally “the reward of travel,” for the effort expended while commuting to the house of Torah study. To my knowledge, there is no such reward for secular study, so from an academic perspective, it’s hard to see much of a downside to online learning. Moreover, anecdotal evidence suggests that many students actually prefer the virtual to the “real” classroom experience. Under our current circumstances, the social distancing potential for

The vast range of non-academic experiences that students absorb on campus are not accessible through distance learning, from intramural sports to late-night EW YORK — Jewish colleges and universities and philosophical discussions in the dorm. Yet even the viddepartments of Jewish studies may be guided by eoconference classroom is impoverished by the absence the core values of traditional religious texts, but their of living bodies: the hush that comes over the hall at the specific tools for survival in the post-COVID-19 era will beginning of the lecture, the scratching of pencils during probably be taken from the pages of the Chronicle of an exam or the furious clacking of keyboards as the Higher Education rather than the Shulchan Aruch. professor builds to a didactic crescendo, all contribute The challenges to higher education are serious, and to the gestalt of academic study, a shared vocabulary in some cases even existential. But least discussed is of experience that has built academic communities for the effect an increased reliance on distance technology generations. will have on the academic relationships that are To meet this challenge, we need to channel the middle essential to Jewish learning. part of Rabbi Hanina’s famous pedagogic credo: “I learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and from my students most of all.”

Institutions of higher education under Jewish auspices have to invest in online events that are not strictly tied to the narrow curricular needs of degree fulfillment. For example, if we host a prestigious guest lecture online, we’ve got to structure the event such that there are places for students to hang out and schmooze afterward.

Jewish colleges and universities will find a way to thrive in this online environment. If you were to pluck a student out of Sura, one of the greatest Babylonian institutions of Jewish higher learning in antiquity, and bring him forward in time to a Jewish college or university in the 21st century, he would have a hard time recognizing our modern campuses as educational settings, and the idea of learning online would probably reach far beyond his conceptual ability.

But the alienation of our Babylonian scholar (almost certainly a “he/him,” by the way) would not be limited to the 21st century: One might argue he would be just as flummoxed by the Touro’s Lander College of Arts and Sciences; Henry Abramson Photos courtesy of Henry Abramson medieval study circles in 12th century Ashkenaz, the holy society of medical students that formed around Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in 18th century Distance learning technologies allow Jewish higher online learning is certainly welcome.

Students who live far from the major centers of Jewish Italy, or even the mid-20th century cafeteria in Poland’s education to reach more students, but we can’t simply slap our courses online and consider ourselves done. If we life, as well as students who have disability issues that Hakhmei Lublin Yeshiva. The shape of Jewish higher do, we risk sacrificing cherished aspects of our pedagogy. make on-campus study daunting, also have dramatically education has endured many powerful transformations Take videoconferencing, for instance. Technology like increased access to academic Jewish education because over the centuries, and there seems to be no reason we Zoom has certainly served Jewish colleges and universities of distance learning technologies. It’s hard not to appre- cannot thrive under these unusual circumstances just as well, but it is far from perfect, what with occasional ciate what online learning can do for our diasporic and well. Maybe even better. WJW tincursions by anti-Semites and an even more insidious differently abled students.

But the downside of this great equalizer is that impact on learning through non-verbal communication.

Henry Abramson is a specialist in Jewish history We anticipate that this technology will improve over it removes many incentives to stay together. Jewish and thought who serves as a dean of Touro College in time, but I am concerned in particular about the loss of civilization requires erudition, to be sure, but even more Brooklyn, N.Y. communal learning and discipleship, two central Jewish basically, it requires Jews.

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What is the

Jewish American heritage?

May is set aside to celebrate ‘the rich history of the Jewish people in America.’ What does that mean?

By Arno Rosenfeld Special to WJW

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lack History Month was announced in 1969. Women’s History Month came about in 1987. Irish-American Heritage Month was created in 1990. Compared to its predecessors, May’s designation as Jewish American Heritage Month found recognition relatively late when President George W. Bush announced it in 2006 on the heels of national celebrations marking the 350th anniversary of Jews arriving on these shores.

“Its purpose is to both commemorate the contribution that American Jews have made to the fabric of our American culture, society and history — and also to mark the gratefulness of American Jews to America,” said Misha Galperin, interim CEO of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and a former CEO of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.

Galperin, whose museum leads a coalition that observes Jewish American Heritage Month each year, said the month can be thought of as part of the “philo-semitism” being promoted by the State Department’s special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, Elan Carr.

“Telling stories about what American Jews and Jewish people — Jewish culture — has contributed to this country is a way to combat anti-Semitism in a positive way rather than just a defensive way,” said Galperin.

While celebrations include events hosted by Jewish institutions, Galperin’s framing underscores the extent to which the month is meant for a nonJewish audience. In addition to a presidential proclamation, federally designated months often include instruction that government agencies provide relevant education to their employees.

American University history professor Pamela Nadell said she once delivered a lecture to a group of federal workers as part of one agency’s recognition of the month.

“This isn’t really meant for the Jewish community,” Nadell said. “It’s meant for America to learn more about Jews.”

Heritage or history?

The external audience — and desire to promote American Jews throughout history in a favorable light — may explain how the month got its name, emphasizing “heritage” over “history.” The distinction might seem trivial, but 20

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holds weight in academia.

“I have to say that I actually prefer the word history,” said Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University professor and author of “American Judaism.”

Sarna said that heritage is generally thought of as a fixed part of one’s past to be admired from a distance.

“People do genealogy and say, ‘Oh it’s part of my heritage,’” Sarna said.

“But you have no intention of raising your own children within that culture, you don’t see a need to internalize it — ‘It’s part of my heritage, I just want to know something about it.’”

Heritage is also often used to describe favorable stories that communities tell themselves about their shared past, said Nadell, noting that these stories are often used to make particular claims.

One example is that of 18th-century financier Haym Solomon. Solomon helped finance the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War and was arrested repeatedly by the British, dying penniless possibly due to his extensive purchases of government debt.

“His story really got elevated as a way of showing how Jews were patriots during the Revolutionary War,” said Nadell. “For a long time you would have heard a lot about him.”

No longer particularly concerned with overt displays of communal patriotism, Solomon’s story has largely faded from contemporary American consciousness.

Rooted in religious freedom

Regardless of which word you use, many scholars believe that American Jewry was significantly shaped by the nation’s early separation of church and state. That division not only allowed Jews to immigrate to the United States for much of its history and worship freely, but meant that the Jewish community and religious practice is far more diffuse than in many other countries with significant Jewish populations.

The absence of a chief rabbi or formal relationships between Jewish community leaders and government officials spawned an unprecedented diversity of denominations in the United States, Sarna said.

“Just as there were infinite ways of being a Protestant in America, so it

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The story of Haym Salomon, who helped finance the Continental Congress (on the right with George Washington at center), was elevated as a way of showing how Jews were patriots during the Revolutionary War, said American University history professor Pamela Nadell.

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natural the Judaism born here would be responsive to that.”

Krinsky said that the American Jewish community has distinguished itself in other ways as well, with many American Jews developing more progressive attitudes on, for example, women and gay rights.

An embrace of individual rights and identity fits well within the American Jewish story, said Nadell, the American University professor whose recent book “America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today,” won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award.

“Women — but this is true for men as well — saw themselves as Americans and as Jews and those identities informed one another,” Nadell said. “They were inspired by both their Jewish traditions and by America’s freedoms to think in very strikingly different ways.”

Nadell offered the example of Grace Nathan, a colonial-era woman who wrote an ethical will calling for her son to trim his beard seven days after her death, rather than keeping it for the 30 days or even full year that Jewish custom calls for. ”Even though she was a typical wife and mother she was also changing Judaism and adapting it to America,” Nadell said.

Nathan’s great-granddaughter was Emma Lazarus, the Jewish activist and poet who wrote the sonnet “New Colossus” inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus” is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Her great-grandmother, Grace Nathan, was already adapting Judaism to American life.

Public domain seems natural that there should be many ways of being a Jew in America,” Sarna said. “We have a kind of free market in religion and that is enormously important in understanding the distinctiveness of the entire Jewish American experience.”

Sarna added that while Jews were often the most prominent minority group in European nations, that wasn’t the case in America. Catholics, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Asian-Americans and many other groups faced periodic discrimination starting early in American history, and African Americans faced the brunt of sustained persecution.

“Jews have been one of many, many, many people over the course of American history to suffer prejudice and opprobrium,” Sarna said. “That’s very unfortunate, but it does mean that it wasn’t all focused on one out group — the Jews — as was common in many other countries where Jews previously lived.”

The freedom that diffusion of bigotry provided may have made American Jews more comfortable engaging in the political system. Rabbi Sarah Krinsky of Washington’s Adas Israel Congregation said that civic engagement is a part of American Jewish identity in a way that is not found elsewhere.

“There’s a particular version of how civic engagement is married to Jewish peoplehood and identity in the United States,” Krinsky said. “Part of that is because American has such a strong sense in its founding principles of civic participation and service that it’s only 22

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Value of the past Krinsky is skeptical of the premise that the defining traits of American Jews are exceptional.

“What the American Jewish community has done is what every Jewish community has always done,” Krinsky said. “American Judaism has taken particular forms, but in the broadest strokes that’s not so different from what’s happened in other places at other moments.”

But she understands why celebrations of Jewish heritage can be so meaningful, with a sense of the past often helping ground Jews in a larger identity. Krinsky first moved to Washington immediately following college for a year-long job, and found the city to be largely transient.

She didn’t return until taking the job at Adas Israel, one of the city’s original congregations, and has developed an appreciation for that history.

“This institution is not transient. It’s rooted and grounded and has a sense of a bigger expanse of time,” she said. “It’s the sense of something that existed before us and will exist after us and it provides a sense of home in a city that lacks a lot of those things.”

Galperin, the museum CEO, said that the month’s focus on heritage can provide a similar resource to American Jews who are proud to be Jewish but struggle to articulate why or tie their pride to a specific history.

“It gives American Jews the tools and information to understand what they’re proud of and what they can identify with.” WJW

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Review

This Israeli cop comedy on Netflix is the perfect pandemic pick-me-up

By Lior Zaltzman

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ocial distancing and staying inside is hard. Thankfully, accessing good things to watch during this time is not. This is the seventh installation of a weekly column on Jewish movies and TV shows that you should stream in quarantine.

Here I have to stop and say that Ivgy has been accused of sexual harassment by several women, and was convicted earlier this year of indecent assault. At first, this made me question whether I should write about this show.

But since the series takes on and dismantles toxic ideas about masculinity and sex, I decided it was still worth recommending.

The show’s brand of humor is heartfelt and infectious.

You can feel its spirit in the opening number, which has the troupe of cops do a silly dance across a hallway. It’s deceptively simple, but it’s one of my favorite openings to a show — the cast keeps straight faces and brings out the personality of their characters to a joyfully imperfect musical number.

“Hashoter Hatov” Streams for free on: Netflix Family friendly? Teenagers and up Israeli TV is all the rage right now. You’ve probably heard of “Shtisel,” the sensation about a haredi Orthodox family in Jerusalem that swept the world since it premiered on Netflix in 2019, or maybe you know “The Beauty and the Baker,” an enchanting Israeli comedic telenovela (streamable on Amazon Prime for all your romance lovers) which just got an exciting stateside adaptation by ABC. But one less hailed Israeli show that you definitely should be watching is called “Hashoter Hatov” — Hebrew for “The Good Cop.” This Israeli police comedy is a delight that turns the toxic masculinity associated with police work — especially in a macho country like Israel — on its head. It’s so great that it already got an American adaptation — one with Josh Groban and Tony Danza at its helm, no less. But the American show couldn’t fully capture the lightness and magic of its Israeli counterpart and fizzled after one season.

“Hashoter Hatov” stars comedy veteran Yuval Semo (known for being a member of Israeli comedy troupe “The Prozac Trio” and a cast member of the Israeli ensemble show “Eretz Nehederet”) as Danny Konfino, a gruff and successful cop who comes from a family of petty criminals.

Unsurprisingly, they don’t really respect his penchant for the law.

Konfino lives with his girlfriend and her son until he finds her cheating on him, with a woman. So he winds up back in his childhood home.

Konfino’s mother is played by Liora Rivlin, who is known as one of the leads in “Krovim Krovim,” Israel’s first sitcom from the ‘80s. She is absolutely spectacular as both a loving mom and sexuality empowered woman.Then there’s Konfino’s father, played by Moshe Ivgy, an Israeli acting legend.

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The cast of “Hashoter Hatov” Netflix In the push and pull between appearing authoritative and manly, or loving and gracious, Danny choses the latter, over and over again.

“Hashoter Hatov” was originally conceived as a “Reno 911”-inspired show, but it turned out to be its own creature, one that is a mix of moving and funny, that brings a heartfelt vulnerability to a profession normally thought of as macho. The show was conceived Erez Aviram, a former journalist and veteran writer for “Eretz Nehederet” (Israel’s “Saturday Night Live” equivalent) who has an almost anthropological knowledge of the comedic fabric of Israeli society. That in turn makes the show deeply and accurately Israeli.

Like many serialized police shows, “Hashoter Hatov” digs into the personal lives of its heroes, and how those intersect with their professional ones — but there’s nothing glamorous about the daily lives of these broke cops, in a country that also, well, is not exactly into rules and regulations.

Still, the show has a vision of justice, in which friendship and love triumph over being a stickler to the rules.

So if you’re looking to be moved, to laugh and to be distracted from the raging pandemic — “Hashoter Hatov” is your next binge. WJW —JTA News and Features

food & dining

Make the fattoush salad from this film about Jewish and Palestinian foods

By Gerri Miller

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o quote noted Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi, “Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.” That’s the premise of the new movie “Abe,” in which the young title character tries to blend the cuisines of his mother’s Jewish family and his father’s Palestinian parents to forge a truce between these feuding branches of their family tree.

Set in Brooklyn, the story follows the 12-year-old protagonist (played by Noah Schnapp of “Stranger Things”), whose passion for cooking leads him to a street fair and to Chico (Seu Jorge), an Afro-Brazilian chef who takes him under his wing and teaches him the culinary ropes. Abe applies what he learns to get his extended family to stop fighting over Middle East politics.

Brazilian-Jewish director Fernando Grostein Andrade personally related to the crisis of identity that children of interfaith marriages, like the fictional Abe, often face.

He’s the son of a Catholic father and a Jewish mother of Polish-Russian heritage, and he was raised on latkes, kasha varnishkes, and matzah ball soup. Food provides the backdrop of the film, and the recipes were chosen with just as much care as the actors and their wardrobes. In the film, historically Jewish fare is shown mixing with traditional Middle Eastern flavors, producing such hybrids as hummus tahini challah, yucca latkes, and fattoush salad with garlic matzah.

For research, Andrade and his production designer, Claudia Calabi, traveled to Israel and Palestine to interview chefs, farmers and people at food markets, documenting it for a forthcoming documentary called “Flavors” that he’s editing now. He had a food stylist on set, and the use of an industrial kitchen to prepare multiples of everything. He turned to Brazilian food writer, editor and teacher Monica Mortara to serve as his expert consultant, and she faced numerous challenges on her first film.

“Coming up with the recipes wasn’t easy. The cuisines of both cultures are closer than they might seem,” she said. “We chose the most popular dishes in those cultures and we made very daring interventions with iconic ingredients. For example, the fattoush salad, traditionally served with the pita bread, is modified and served with matzah.” Of all the movie’s recipes, Andrade pronounced it his favorite.

Each recipe was carefully concocted. Some of the dishes appear less than perfect because Abe is not a seasoned chef. The film depicts his failures as well as his triumphs. “The Thanksgiving lunch scene is Abe’s attempt at integrating both parts of his family. He uses the symbolism of Thanksgiving to support his initiative,” Mortara said. “He sets himself out to deal with family feuds with an intensity that does not give any room for perfectionism. His dishes are charmingly imperfect.”

“Abe” was well received at its premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and it won the audience award at the Washington Jewish Film Festival, proof that audiences are responding to its story and culinary message. “Food has healing powers, because it activates our memories of once being fed with comfort food by our mothers when we were sick,” Andrade said. “It’s a path to connect people, and connection is crucial in order to reach understanding and agreement.”

“Abe” is available On Demand and for rent on Amazon, GooglePlay and YouTube.

Fattoush salad with matzah was one of the recipes developed for the film. Here’s the recipe.

A scene from the film “Abe” Photo courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment Ingredients For the sauce 1 tablespoon sumac 1 teaspoon zaatar 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses Salt and olive oil to taste 1 garlic clove macerated with a bit of salt For salad 4 firm red tomatoes cut into ¾ inch cubes 2 Japanese cucumbers cut into ¾ inch cubes ½ medium-sized onion cut into ¾ inch cubes 5 semi-peeled radishes cut in quarters 10 hand-torn leaves of iceberg lettuce ½ cup fresh spearmint leaves 3 tablespoons chopped parsley To serve 2 rectangles of matzah, hand-broken and lightly oven-toasted 1 cup of pomegranate seeds to drizzle Directions Prepare the sauce mixing the pomegranate molasses, sumac, zaatar, garlic, salt and oil.

Separately, mix the salad ingredients and season them with the sauce.

Mix it well so that all the ingredients are soaked with the sauce.

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WHAT’S FOR DINNER? Smoked turkey bean soup!

By Keri White

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had a bunch of past-their-prime veggies in the crisper drawer, but not enough of any one to create a dish. An onion, a few carrots, a stalk or two of celery, some wilted herbs. Vegetable soup suggested itself, and then I recalled a smoked turkey breast bone that I had frozen after a dinner party.

I pulled out the frozen carcass, and it formed the base of a delicious, rich soup that warmed and fed us for days.

I had a bag of dried pinto beans in the cupboard, which I soaked and cooked in the soup. It was time consuming, but the beans absorbed a wonderful flavor and held up well. Canned beans are a perfectly good second choice, but they won’t pull in the flavor in the same way, and they may break down if they cook for a long time in the liquid.

And any beans would work fine — lentils, garbanzos, Great Northern, black. If you use lentils or split peas, you can skip the soaking step and reduce the cooking time; for larger beans, soaking helps accelerate the cooking time, but they will still need several hours.

We enjoyed this with some purchased whole grain sourdough bread that we toasted and spread with a variety of toppings. It was a simple, homey meal and was a hit with everyone.

Smoked Turkey Bean and Vegetable Soup Makes about 1 gallon, and freezes well If you wish to make this vegan, you can use vegetable broth instead of water to add flavor, and omit the turkey. Another option is to add vegan “bacon” or sausage and/or some robustly flavored vegetables, such as dried chipotles, fresh or dried mushrooms or sundried or fireroasted tomatoes in place of the smoked turkey bones.

Ingredients 1 pound dried beans and boiling water to soak Smoked turkey bones (I used the carcass left from a whole breast, but any combo of smoked turkey necks, wings, etc., would work) 2 tablespoons oil 1 onion, chopped 3 carrots, sliced 2 ribs celery, sliced 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 bunch fresh dill, chopped 26

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1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 3 cups kale, torn into small pieces Directions Place the beans in a large bowl and cover them with boiling water. Let sit for an hour.

Heat the oil in a large pot, and sauté the onions, carrots, garlic, celery, salt and pepper for about 15 minutes.

Place the turkey bones in the pot and sauté to coat.

Fill the pot containing the turkey and vegetables with water. Bring it to a boil, lower the heat, cover and simmer. This will create a flavorful, smoky broth.

When the beans have soaked for an hour, drain and rinse them. Pour them into the soup, bring it to a boil again, then lower the heat, cover and simmer for at least 2 hours — the longer the better.

When the beans are soft, remove the bones from the soup. Add the kale and stir; cook for another 20 minutes or so until the kale is cooked through. If there is meat on the bones, pick it off and toss it in the soup. Adjust for seasonings — it may need salt and pepper — and serve.

Toasts and Toppings You can be as creative as you like with these.

If you are serving a vegetarian version of the soup, consider a melted cheese topping or cream cheese or Greek yogurt sprinkled with chopped fresh herbs; for the turkey-based version, these pareve options are just the ticket: For avocado toast: Slice ripe avocados and sprinkle them with lemon juice, salt, pepper and crushed red pepper flakes, or sprinkle it with truffle salt or your favorite seasoning blend.

For garlic/dill toast: Slather the toast with toum or aioli. If you don’t have these condiments on hand, try a DIY version of ½ cup olive oil whipped in a blender with a clove of garlic, a spritz of lemon juice and a pinch of salt.

For an even simpler cheater version, mix ⅓ cup mayonnaise with a crushed clove of garlic stirred in. Spread the mixture on the toast, and top it with chopped fresh dill or the herb of your choice. WJW Keri White is a Philadelphia-area food writer.

obituaries

Martin Wenick, 80, leader of Soviet Jewry fight Martin Wenick, a leader of the fight to free Soviet Jews who was later instrumental in helping them resettle in the United States, died on May 7 due to complications of COVID-19. He was 80.

Wenick spent 27 years as a State Department diplomat before taking over in 1989 as the head of the National Conference for Soviet Jewry, a coalition of Jewish organizations working to support Jews struggling to survive

Beth Susan “Susie” Abramowitz

Beth Susan “Susie” Abramowitz Beth Susan “Susie” Abramowitz passed away on May 12 after a sudden illness.

She was 54.

Susie was born on Nov. 25, 1965, in Washington. A 1983 graduate of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Susie excelled both academically and

under Communism. A fluent Russian speaker, Wenick had been stationed in Moscow in the early 1970s, where he followed the plight of Jews denied visas to emigrate.

After his retirement from the State Department, Wenick spent three years leading NCSJ. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of restrictive emigration policies for Russian Jews, Wenick became the executive director of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the lead

athletically, despite being born with impaired vision, just one of the many obstacles that she would overcome during her lifetime.

After high school, Susie attended The George Washington University where, as an honors student, she earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical and computer engineering while also being captain of the gymnastics team.

After college, Susie attended the University of Southern California, where she completed a master of science degree in biomedical engineering/imaging technology. She went on to become a senior principal systems engineer for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems where she served as a lead analyst, developing equipment and technology that has saved lives.

Susie is survived by her parents, Rabbi A. Nathan and Dr. Barbara Abramowitz; her brothers, David (Allegra) and Daniel (Wendi); her nephews, Gadi, Rafi, Zack and Josh; her niece, Marli; and aunts, uncles, cousins and an amazing group of loving and caring friends.

Saul W. Brusilow

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Saul W. Brusilow complications of rare and often fatal genetic defects, died on April 19. He was 92, lived in Bethesda and taught at Johns Hopkins University for more 50 years. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.

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Dr. Brusilow was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1927. After graduating from Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, he enlisted in the Navy in 1945 and was honorably discharged the following year.

He graduated from Princeton University in 1950 and then received his medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1954, where he began his training in pediatrics. After completing both an internship and one year of his residency training at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, he completed his residency and a fellowship in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1959.

He is survived by his children, William (Cynthia) of Grosse Pointe, Mich., and Susan (Stephen) Solomon of Chevy Chase; his grandchildren, Evan Solomon and Nicholas, Samuel and Isabelle Brusilow. He was predeceased by his wife, Sallie (Evans) Brusilow, and his son Alexander Brusilow.

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obituaries Opportunity Commission, she litigated complex discrimination cases nationwide.

Ms. Millenson was a fellow emeritus of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers and longtime National Institute for Trial Advocacy faculty member.

After retiring from the Department of Labor, she was senior counsel at a prominent Washington firm and established her own practice. Ms. Millenson earned her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and her juris doctor degree from University of Michigan Law School.. The daughter of the late Morton B. and Judith Rehmar Millenson, Ms. Millenson grew up in Skokie, Ill. She is survived by her sister, Leslie Millenson of Chicago; by many loving cousins, including Janet Millenson (Herb Edelstein) and Elliott (Wendy) Millenson of Potomac; and a wide circle of caring friends. Donations can be made to National Institute for Trial Advocacy Foundation or Israel Cancer Research Fund.

Eric ‘Ric’ L. Okin Lenora Rita Lassen

Lenora Rita Lassen Lenora Rita Lassen, of Boca Raton, Fla., passed away on April 23, at the age of 84.

Born and raised in the Washington area, beloved wife of the late Raymond Lassen; devoted mother of Mitchell, Lori Albert (Leonard Dack) and Terri Gober; loving “Ooma” of Jaclyn (Ari Schwartz), Melanie, Brian, Brett and Madison; great-grandmother of Adrian. Donations can be made to National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Services entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.

Martin L. Lipso Dr. Martin L. Lipson, of Potomac, died on April 27. Marty was born in Detroit on March 27, 1942, the son of Beatrice and Jack Lipson. He finished his undergraduate work in three years at the University of Michigan, and then received his medical degree there in 1966. After an ophthalmology residency at the University of Colorado, he established a general ophthalmology practice in Frederick, Md., in 1970. He retired in 2017 after 47 years He was the beloved husband for 52 years of Wendy (Perlman) Lipson; devoted father of David Lipson (Amy), Marc Lipson (Jill) and Robyn Minkoff (Gregory). He adored his grandchildren, Rachel, Jamie and Spencer Lipson, and Hayden and Alex Minkoff. He is also survived by his brother, 28

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Laurence Lipson, his sister, Andrea Lipson, and nieces and a nephew.

Donations can be made to the ALS Association DC/MD/VA chapter or JSSA Hospice of Montgomery County.

Gloria Irene Lubin Gloria Irene Lubin, of Silver Spring, died on May 14. She was the beloved wife of Myer Lubin; dear daughter of the late Abraham and Rebecca “Babe” Jaffe Goldwater; devoted mother of Cheryl (Howard) Udoff and Brian (Melanie) Lubin; loving grandmother of Eric (Jennifer), Marc (Marisa) and Jason (Danielle) Udoff and Russell Lubin; and cherished great-grandmother of Olivia Udoff. She was predeceased by her brothers, Donald and Leonard Goldwater.

Contributions may be made to B’nai Shalom of Olney. Arrangements entrusted to Torchinsky Hebrew Funeral Home.

Debra Ann Millenson Debra Ann Millenson, of Bethesda, died May 12 at home. She was 72. A retired senior trial attorney at the Department of Labor, she oversaw significant employment discrimination cases for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance’s (OFCCP), winning $14 million from Harris Trust & Savings Bank, the largest monetary recovery in OFCCP history.

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Eric “Ric” L. Okin, of Rtockville, died on April 30, at age 75. While recuperating from surgery after a fall in March, he died of respiratory failure from COVID-19 pneumonia.

Born and raised in Arlington, the son of the late Jeannette and Julius Okin, he attended both Dean College in Franklin, Mass., High Point University in High Point, N.C., receiving a bachelor of science degree in accounting.

He worked at the Department of Education and for the Department of the Navy in the Naval Audit Service. His career with the federal government lasted more than 40 years.

Ric was the president of the Arlington Fairfax Jewish Congregation (now Congregation Etz Hayim) serving two terms. His family were founding members there and his bar mitzvah and wedding also took place there. Ric was the lifetime president of the Men’s Club.

He is survived by his best friend and wife of 53 years, Sonya M. Okin; and his daughters and sons-in-law, Deborah and Michael Gemma and Rebecca and Sam Levy. He leaves three grandchildren, each of whom he adored, Jacob and Alana Gemma and Ian Levy.

Madeleine Sigel

Madeleine Sigel, née Bartfeld, died peacefully at her home in Bethesda May 3. She was 96. She was born on Feb. 16, 1924,

Madeleine Sigel in Vienna, into a family deeply involved in Viennese cultural and theatrical life. She often described her childhood as a perfect fairy tale.

In 1939, just before her 15th birthday, the worsening Nazi threat forced Madeleine and her parents, Melitta and Albert Bartfeld, to flee Austria. They traveled through Italy, Switzerland and France before booking passage to Cuba, where the ship’s refugees were denied entry. The refugees were subsequently denied entry to several other Central and South American countries before being accepted on the Pacific coast of Panama, where they were quarantined on an American military base for 18 months. The Bartfelds finally arrived on Ellis Island in 1942.

Mrs. Sigel met her future husband, then an officer in the Navy, via pen pal. She was married to Stanley Jordan Sigel in 1947.

The couple settled in Washington.

Mrs. Sigel was active in local Democratic politics and served for almost 50 years as precinct chair of the Montgomery County 7-22. She also served in officer roles at the Montgomery County Women’s Democratic Club. Mrs. Sigel worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was first lady.

Survivors include daughters, Karen Sigel, M.D. (Harold Perl) and Joan Sigel; grandson, Benjamin Schwartz (Whitney Schwartz); and great-grandson, Sheffield. Mrs. Sigel was predeceased by her husband. The family wishes to express their gratitude to Bernadette Cole and Sandra Page for their care of and kindness to Madeleine Sigel.

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Shavuot is the holiday for want-to believers

By Clifford S. Fishman Special to WJW Shabbat Bemidbar, Numbers 1:1-4:20.

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his Shabbat we begin our annual reading of Sefer Bemidbar, the Book of Numbers or, in Hebrew, “in the wilderness.” In the biblical narrative, Sefer Bemidbar bridges the gap between Sinai and the Israelites’ arrival at the Jordan 40 years later. It begins with a census and contains a few significant events and a number of mitzvot for the Israelites to follow. But it actually tells us very little about what happened during those years, or about our ancestors’ daily lives. This Torah portion is always read on the Shabbat before Shavuot, which begins at sunset on May 28. Shavuot is the holiday celebrating God’s giving, and our ancestors’ receiving, the Torah — or at least the Ten Commandments. The confluence of Bemidbar and Shavuot reminds us that the law was given bemidbar, in a wilderness. And that is appropriate, because a society — or an individual — has the greatest need for standards and laws when wandering in a wilderness, whether physical, moral or spiritual.

We are proud that God’s gift at Sinai, this fundamental law of a just society, was given to our ancestors. And we are taught that this gift was not only to them, but to us — that we were with that generation at Sinai. This imposes on us a special obligation: To live up to that gift; to try to inspire others by our example. As Abraham Joshua Heschel put it in “God in Search of Man”: “Revelation’s purpose is not to substitute for but to extend our understanding. [We are obliged] to look for ways of translating Biblical commandments into programs required by our own conditions. The full meaning of the words was not disclosed once and for all. ... The word was given once; the effort to understand it must go on forever.”

Assuming, that is, that it happened at all.

Many people, including many observant Jews, doubt that the biblical narrative of the giving of the Ten Commandments is literally true. Heschel himself did not believe that. He believed that something happened at Sinai that changed the world forever, and that the Torah itself is a midrash, an interpretation, an attempt by our ancestors to understand and come to grips with that world-changing event.

That’s what I believe or, to put it more accurately, what I want to believe; what I try to believe. To me, Shavuot renews and reinvigorates my effort to believe that something world-changing actually occurred at Sinai. But not just that. Shavuot also renews and reinvigorates my desire to try to live my life as if I believed, even when the doubts outweigh the belief. Those of us who struggle with doubts must make that effort, because otherwise we might lose ourselves in a wilderness without hope or direction or standards to live by.

So this Shabbat, when we read about the census of the Israelites, let us try to imagine that we were counted as present alongside our ancestors. And next week on Shavuot, let’s try to do as our sages instructed. Let us try to imagine that we are standing at Sinai with our ancestors. And let us remember Heschel’s admonition: “The word was given once; the effort to understand it — and apply its teachings in our own lives and society — must go on forever.” WJW Clifford Fishman, a long-time member of Tikvat Israel Congregation, is a professor emeritus of law at Catholic University.

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is members are bravely manning the front lines in the battle against COVID-19, but they are being shortchanged, says a local labor leader.

“They are heroes, they are keeping our communities going,” says David Broder, president of the Virginia branch of the Service Employees International Union.

“They are heroes, but they are scared, scared about their health, about their financial security. Some of their partners have been laid off so there is a real sense of insecurity and an awareness that they don’t have PPE [personal protective equipment] and paid leave.

They are rightfully terrified.

“Health care workers are often forced to make a terrible choice: do they go to work if they’re not feeling well and get sick and infect their clients or stay home and not be able to pay their bills.”

Broder’s members include local public employees — nurses, librarians, social workers, child educators (for before- and after-school programs).

“They perform all the services that local governments provide,” says Broder, 41. The union also represents home-care workers, those who care for older adults and those with disabilities in their homes.

There are some 4,000 members in his branch of the union.

Nationwide, while unions have been under “political and corporate attack” for decades, he says, “we are seeing a resurgence of the labor movement in the last 10 years. Young people are driving real change.”

He also sees a change for the better in Virginia, which had been ranked by Oxfam America as the worst state for workers two years in a row. This ranking reflected a total lack of worker protection, notes Broder, a Vienna resident.

Photo courtesy of David Broder In 2020, the Virginia legislature passed reforms to permit bargaining for public employees. The state also is on the path to a $15 minimum wage, and has reformed Project Labor Agreements (PLAs), which allow government to set standards for wages, benefits and safety on big infrastructure projects.

“These were huge victories for working people that were 10 or 15 years in the making,” Broder says.

Broder’s choice of profession seems

to have come naturally. “I was born into movement,” he says. “My grandparents were union members and my mom, an elementary school arts teacher, was a rank-and-file member and leader.”

His Jewish identity also helped. “Union values are Jewish values,” Broder notes.

Looking at the Bible or Talmud, many of the teachings are not just about social justice broadly “but are explicitly about workers’ rights.” The Talmud speaks about not taking advantage of your workers,

their right to good wages, setting limits about how much they work. “Judaism is unique in that way of explicitly framing workers’ rights.”

In addition, when we think about Jews as immigrants in this country, the labor movement played a critical role in helping Jews come together, support each other and start to lift each other into middle class.

“That’s my family’s story and that of many immigrant Jewish families,” he says, hoping the labor movement will play a similar role for today’s newcomers.

Broder is optimistic about achieving change for his workers. “This coronavirus is really shining a light on the problems in our economy,” he says.

“We are trying to be very intentional about not just going back to normal. The normal before this crisis was not working for our members and for so many working families. The economy doesn’t offer paid leave to half the workforce. It is broken.”

His optimism is based in part on the elections this fall, believing that “there will be positive change this November and beyond.”

But at the same time, he is worried about layoffs by local governments if there is not another federal stimulus package to help states and localities.

And he is concerned about Virginia reopening prematurely. “The debate about opening up should be focused on the needs of workers on the front lines, who know what they need and are not getting,” Broder says. “Too often, it is driven by the needs of CEOs.” “The president [Trump] gets regularly tested, as does everyone around him. It is unconscionable that we not do the same thing for the health care workers who are caring for our loved ones.” WJW Aaron Leibel is a Washington-area writer. washingtonjewishweek.com 31

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Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102369 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of George Menefee a/k/a George Clifton Menefee Notice is given that Pamela M. Buzdygon, 510 East A Street, Brunswick, MD 21716 and John C. Menefee, 4160 Walnutwood Court, Mount Airy, MD 21771 were on April 21, 2020 appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of George Menefee a/k/a George Clifton Menefee, who died on March 5, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 21st day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Pamela M. Buzdygon John C. Menefee Personal Representatives True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11518-3T-05-28-20

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Lester Drazin Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11599-3T-06-04-20

Adam P. Swaim 7735 Old Georgetown Road Suite 1100 Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102495 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Louise Claire Drazin a/k/a Louise C. Drazin Notice is given that Lester Drazin, 8127 Brookwood Farm Road, Fulton, MD 20759 was on May 12, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Louise Claire Drazin a/k/a Louise C. Drazin, who died on January 27, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 12th day of November, 2020.

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Alan B. Frankle 751 Rockville Pike Suite #7 Rockville, MD 20852-1142 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102390 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Ava Hargis Mackay a/k/a Ava H. Mackay Notice is given that Lynne Margaret Mackay-Atha, 1078 Pipestem Place, Rockville, MD 20854 was on April 28, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ava Hargis Mackay a/k/a Ava H. Mackay, who died on March 3, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 28th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

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Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 7th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Mary McKnight Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11589-3T-06-04-20 Andrew Friedman c/o McMillan Metro, PC 7811 Montrose Road Suite 400 Potomac, MD 20854 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102443 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Gertrude Rogers Notice is given that Susan R. Fried, 204 3rd Street, Bethany Beach, DE 19930 was on May 7, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gertrude Rogers, who died on March 5, 2020 with a will.

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Susan R. Fried Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11590-3T-06-04-20

David A. Lucas 200-B Monroe Street Rockville, MD 20850 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102407 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Rita M. Klosky Notice is given that Patricia M. Klosky, 512 Soper Lane, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411 was on April 29, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rita M. Klosky, who died on February 10, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 29th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Patricia M. Klosky Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11463-3T-05-21-20

of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Michael C. Berman Daniel Levin Michael Wetmore Personal Representatives True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11516-3T-05-28-20

Charles S. Abell Furey, Doolan & Abell, LLP 7600 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102298 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Joyce Olivia Berger Notice is given that Marc Bluestein, 1402 Lake Norwood Way, Olney, MD 20860 was on March 13, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Joyce Olivia Berger, who died on January 27, 2020 without a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 13th day of September, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Marc Bluestein Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11446-3T-05-21-2020

David B. Torchinsky 25 West Middle Lane Rockville, MD 20850 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102307 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Alice N. Levin Notice is given that Michael C. Berman, 50 Bayside Drive, Somers Point, NJ 08244; Daniel Levin, 11500 Twining Lane, Potomac, MD 20854; and Michael Wetmore, 1950 Old Gallows Road, Suite #525, Vienna, VA 22182 were on April 30, 2020 appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Alice N. Levin, who died on December 11, 2018 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 30th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier

Diane K. Kuwamura, Esq. Kuwamura Law Group PA 11140 Rockville Pike Suite 500 Rockville, MD 20852 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102449 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Eric Griffel Notice is given that Jacqueline H. Boehme, 285 N. Washington Street, #1403, Rockville, MD 20850 was on May 7, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Eric Griffel, who died on February 6, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 7th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Jacqueline H. Boehme Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11588-3T-06-04-20

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Diane K. Kuwamura, Esq. Kuwamura Law Group PA 11140 Rockville Pike Suite 500 Rockville, MD 20852 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W93213 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Philip T. Calder a/k/a Philip Thomas Calder Sr. Notice is given that Andrew J. Calder, P.O. Box 41, Teton Village, WY 83025 was on March 13, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Philip T. Calder a/k/a Philip Thomas Calder Sr., who died on August 12, 2017 with a will.

There was a prior small estate proceeding.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 13th day of September, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Andrew J. Calder Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11444-3T-05-21-20

creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Michael A. Taylor Foreign Personal Representative Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication: May 14, 2020 11523-3T-05-28-20

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Sharon L. Pearce Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11520-3T-05-28-20

A verified written statement of the claim indicating its basis; The name and address of the claimant; If the claim is not yet due, the date on which it will become due; If the claim is contingent, the nature of the contingency; If the claim is secured, a description of the security; and The specific amount claimed.

decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Joseph E. Richard Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11519-3T-05-28-20

Notice is given that Gary Carswell, 451Hungerford Drive, Suite 515, Rockville, MD 20850 was on May 11, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William Pringle a/k/a William P. Pringle, who died on April 6, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 11th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Gary Carswell Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11596-3T-06-04-20

Elizabeth Forgotson Goldberg 6616 Radnor Road Bethesda, MD 20817 Notice to Creditors of Appointment of Foreign Personal Representative Estate No. W102348 Estate of Gertrude Novak Taylor Decedent Notice is given that the Circuit Court of Sarasota County, Florida appointed Michael A. Taylor, 7219 S. Cedarview Lane, Cedar, Mighigan 49621 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Gertrude Novak Taylor, who died on December 25, 1991 domiciled in Sarasota County, Florida, USA. The Maryland resident agent for service of process is Elizabeth Forgotson Goldberg, whose address is 6616 Radnor Road, Bethesda, MD 20817.

At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: 16621 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20905 (15% interest as tenant in common), Montgomery County, MD. All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Montgomery County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the

Gerald K. Gimmel, Esq. Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek, Blomberg & Lewis, PA 4 Professional Drive Suite 145 Gaithersburg, MD 20879 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102311 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Ruth Lewis Notice is given that Paul S. Lewis, 9428 Wooden Bridge Road, Potomac, MD 20854 was on March 16, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ruth Lewis, who died on February 29, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 16th day of September, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Paul S. Lewis Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11514-3T-05-28-20 Gerald K.Gimmel, Esq. Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek, Blomberg & Lewis, PA 4 Professional Drive Suite 145 Gaithersburg, MD 20879 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102416 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Elizabeth A. Pearce Notice is given that Sharon L. Pearce, 7557 Spring Lake Drive, Unit C2, Bethesda, MD 20817 was on May 1, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Elizabeth A. Pearce, who died on February 26, 2020 without a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 1st day of November, 2020.

Gilda M. Zimmet, Esq. Krauthamer & Stahl, Chtd.

5530 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 801 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Notice to Creditors of a Settlor of a Revocable Trust To All Persons Interested in the Eleanor Davidov Revocable Trust This is to give notice that Eleanor Davidov died on April 7, 2020. Before the decedent’s death, the decedent created a revocable trust for which the undersigned, Robin Davidov, whose address is 4830 Osprey Drive South, Apt. 206, St. Petersburg FL 33711, is a Trustee.

To have a claim satisfied from the property of this trust, a person who has a claim against the decedent must present the claim on or before the date that is 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice to the undersigned trustee at the address stated above. The claim must include the following information: A verified written statement of the claim indicating its basis; The name and address of the claimant; If the claim is not yet due, the date on which it will become due; If the claim is contingent, the nature of the contingency; If the claim is secured, a description of the security; and The specific amount claimed.

Any claim not presented to the trustee on or before that date or any extension provided by law is unenforceable.

Robin Davidov Trustee Date of first publication: May 14, 2020 11510-3T-05-28-20 Gilda M. Zimmet, Esq. Krauthamer & Stahl, Chtd.

5530 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 801 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Notice to Creditors of a Settlor of a Revocable Trust To All Persons Interested in the Dorothy A. Ricketts Trust This is to give notice that Dorothy A. Ricketts died on April 8, 2020. Before the decedent’s death, the decedent created a revocable trust for which the undersigned, Susan Timlin, whose address is 11034 Wickshire Way Rockville, MD 20852, is a Trustee.

To have a claim satisfied from the property of this trust, a person who has a claim against the decedent must present the claim on or before the date that is 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice to the undersigned trustee at the address stated above. The claim must include the following information:

Any claim not presented to the trustee on or before that date or any extension provided by law is unenforceable.

Susan Timlin Trustee Date of first publication: May 14, 2020 11511-3T-05-28-20 Holland & Knight LLP Philip T. Evans, Esq. 800 17th Street Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 Notice to Creditors of Appointment of Foreign Personal Representative Estate No. W102336 Estate of Leslie H. Goldberg a/k/a Leslie Harvey Goldberg Decedent Notice is given that the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria, Virginia appointed Merle G. Fabian, 4620 North Park Avenue, #1202W, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Leslie H. Goldberg a/k/a Leslie Harvey Goldberg, who died on October 14, 2019 domiciled in Virginia, USA. The Maryland resident agent for service of process is Merle G. Fabian, whose address is 4620 North Park Avenue, #1202W, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Montgomery County.

All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Montgomery County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Merle G. Fabian Foreign Personal Representative Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication: May 14, 2020 11522-3T-05-28-20 James A. Hyatt 13220 Executive Park Terrace Germantown, MD 20874 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102415 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Matthew Todd Richard Notice is given that Joseph E. Richard, 1551 Shoemaker Drive, New Oxford, PA 17350 was on May 1, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Matthew Todd Richard, who died on March 4,2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 1st day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the

James A. Mood Jr. 31 Wood Lane Rockville, MD 20850-2085 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102337 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Douglas M. Everett Notice is given that Mary Josephine Everett, 10500 Rockville Pike, Apt. 813, Rockville, MD 20852 was on April 27, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Douglas M. Everett, who died on January 28, 2020 without a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 27th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Mary Josephine Everett Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11467-3T-05-21-20 John Noble 451 Hungerford Drive Suite 616 Rockville, MD 20850 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102472 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of William Pringle a/k/a William P. Pringle

Julia O’Brien 7600 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102425 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Prabhakar R. Narvekar Notice is given that Medha Narvekar, 2047 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 on May 4, 2020 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Prabhakar R. Narvekar, who died on November 21, 2019 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 4th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Medha Narvekar Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850

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LEGALS Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11537-3T-05-28-20 Kathleen O. Li 7600 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102452 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Helen A. Reed Notice is given that Diana L. Reed, 140 Lemoyne Avenue, Washington, PA 15301 and Susan K. Reed, 16 Shelter Island Avenue, Sag Harbor, NY 11963 were on May 7, 2020 appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Helen A. Reed, who died on March 8, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 7th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Diana L. Reed Susan K. Reed Personal Representatives True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11597-3T-06-04-20 Kevin D. McCarthy PO Box 151756 Chevy Chase, MD 20825 Small Estate Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W83633 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Elizabeth Jackson Notice is given that Karen Jackson, 8559 Greenbelt Road, Apt. 204, Greenbelt, MD 20770 was on May 6, 2015 appointed Personal Representative of the small estate of Elizabeth Jackson who died on March 26, 2015 without a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within 30 days after the publication of this notice. All persons having an objection to the probate of the will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within six months after the date of publication of this Notice.

All persons having claims against the decedent must serve their claims on the undersigned personal representative or file them with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Thirty days after the personal repre-

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sentative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within thirty days from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Any claim not served or filed within that time, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter.

Karen Jackson Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Ave. North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850-2397 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11601-1T-05-21-20

Register of Wills on or before the 8th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Judith L. Wagner Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11594-3T-06-04-20

the Estate of Robert Adams Maxsell Notice is given that Robert Adams Maxsell II, 13663 Sam Hill Lane, Mount Airy, MD 21771 was on March 16, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert Adams Maxsell, who died on January 9, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 16th day of September, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Robert Adams Maxsell II Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11445-3T-05-21-20

Luann Battersby 20 W. Main Street Box 215 Fairfield, PA 17320 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102392 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Ellen Kelly Duggan Notice is given that Timothy E. Duggan, 301 E. 69th Street, Unit #10K, New York, NY 10021 was on April 28, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ellen Kelly Duggan, who died on November 6, 2019 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 28th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Timothy E. Duggan Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11468-3T-05-21-20 Marc R. Feinberg 4550 Montgomery Avenue Suite 775N Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102455 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Robert M. Moliter Notice is given that Judith L. Wagner, 6113 Goldtree Way, Bethesda, MD 20817 was on May 8, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert M. Moliter, who died on March 2, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the

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Mark W. Oakley, Esq. 1803 Research Boulevard Suite 401 Rockville, MD 20850 Notice to Creditors of Appointment of Foreign Personal Representative Estate No. W102134 Estate of Anthony John Salamone a/k/a Anthony J. Salamone Decedent Notice is given that the Circuit Court of Lee County, Florida appointed Joann Oleske, 9986 Horse Creek Road, Fort Myers, Florida 33913 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony John Salamone a/k/a Anthony J. Salamone, who died on October 2, 2019 domiciled in Lee County, Florida, United States.

The Maryland resident agent for service of process is Mark W. Oakley, Esq., whose address is 1803 Research Boulevard, Suite 401, Rockville, MD 20850.

At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Montgomery County, MD. All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Montgomery County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Joann Oleske Foreign Personal Representative Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication: May 21, 2020 11600-3T-06-04-20 Megan L. McGrew 141 West Patrick Street Suite 300 Frederick, MD 21701 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102300 To All Persons Interested in

Mindy G. Suchinsky 4550 Montgomery Avenue Suite 775N Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102451 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Lorraine Faye Goodman Notice is given that Charles I. Goodman, 6111 Montrose Road, Apt. 103, Rockville, MD 20852 was on May 7, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lorraine Faye Goodman, who died on February 6, 2020 without a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 7th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Charles I. Goodman Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication

LEGALS May 21, 2020 11598-3T-06-04-20 Nicole A. Slaughter 481 N. Frederick Avenue Suite 300 Gaithersburg, MD 20877 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102420 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Jose Carlos Kohout Notice is given that Trudy A. Kohout, 245 Barbara Avenue, Solana Beach, CA 92075 was on May 8, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Jose Carlos Kohout, who died on January 29, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 8th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Trudy A. Kohout Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11595-3T-06-04-20 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102255 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Huyen Huu Tran Notice is given that Huan Huu Tran, 9906 Renfrew Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901 was on March 13, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Huyen Huu Tran, who died on October 6, 2019 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 13th day of September, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the

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Huan Huu Tran Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11515-3T-05-28-20 Notice to Creditors of a Settlor of a Revocable Trust To All Persons Interested in the trust of Miriam D. Bobrow This is to give notice that Miriam D. Bobrow died on or about February 26, 2020.

Before the decedent’s death, the decedent created a revocable trust for which the undersigned, Sherry Ann Bobrow, whose address is 7401 Westlake Terrace, Apt. #1114, Bethesda, MD 20817, is now Trustee. To have a claim satisfied from the property of this trust, a person who has a claim against the decedent must present the claim on or before the date that is 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice to the undersigned trustee at the address stated above. The claim must include the following information: A verified written statement of the claim indicating its basis; The name and address of the claimant; If the claim is not yet due, the date on which it will become due; If the claim is contingent, the nature of the contingency; If the claim is secured, a description of the security; and The specific amount claimed.

Any claim not presented to the trustee on or before that date or any extension provided by law is unenforceable.

Sherry Ann Bobrow Trustee Date of first publication: May 14, 2020 11541-3T-05-28-20 Notice to Creditors of a Settlor of a Revocable Trust To All Persons Interested in the Lenore H. Shniderman Amended and Restated Revocable Living Trust This is to give notice that Lenore H. Shniderman died on April 10, 2020. Before the decedent’s death, the decedent created a revocable trust for which the undersigned, John A. Reddersen, whose address is 4600 East West Highway, Suite 900, Bethesda, MD 20814, is now trustee.

To have a claim satisfied from the property of this trust, a person who has a claim against the decedent must present the claim on or before the date that is 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice to the undersigned Trustee at the address stated below. The claim must include the following information: A verified written statement of the claim indicating its basis; The name and address of the claimant; If the claim is not yet due, the date on which it will become due; If the claim is contingent, the nature of the contingency; If the claim is secured, a description of the security; and The specific amount claimed.

Any claim not presented to the trustee on or before that date or any extension provided by law is unenforceable.

John A. Reddersen, Trustee Date of first publication: May 21, 2020 11587-3T-06-04-20 Notice to Creditors of a Settlor of a Revocable Trust To All Persons Interested in the Phyllis B. Cheng Revocable Living Trust This is to give notice that Phyllis B. Cheng died on or about April 7, 2020. Before the decedent’s death, the decedent cre-

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ated a Revocable Trust for which the undersigned, Carol E. Cheng, Margaret A. Cheng, and Lawrence M. Cheng are now Co-Trustees.

To have a claim satisfied from the property of this Trust, a person who has a claim against the decedent must present the claim on or before the date that is 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice to the undersigned Co-Trustees at their address as stated below. Any claim not presented to the Co-Trustees on or before that date or any extension provided by law is unenforceable. The claim must include the following information: 1.A verified written statement of the claim indicating its basis; 2.The name and address of the claimant; 3.If the claim is not yet due, the date on which it will become due; 4.If the claim is contingent, the nature of the contingency; 5.If the claim is secured, a description of the security; and 6.The specific amount claimed.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 29th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Sandy Spring Bank Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11464-3T-05-21-20

Steven W. Jacobson 4550 Montgomery Avenue Suite 775N Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102405 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Robert I. Lipsher Notice is given that Lisa Benjamin Lipsher, 9638 Eagle Ridge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817 was on April 29, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert I. Lipsher, who died on March 9, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 29th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Lisa Benjamin Lipsher Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11465-3T-05-21-20

Kevin Judd, Esq., whose address is 601 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 900South Building, Washington, DC 20004, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Betty G. Roberts, who died on February 7, 2018 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 21, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 21, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Billy C. Striegel Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11493-3T-05-28-20

Co-Trustees: Carol E. Cheng, Co-Trustee Margaret A. Cheng, Co-Trustee Lawrence M. Cheng, Co-Trustee c/o Diane K. Kuwamura, Esq. Kuwamura Law Group PA 11140 Rockville Pike, Suite 500 Rockville, MD 20852 Date of first publication: May 21, 2020 11586-3T-06-04-20 Notice to Creditors of a Settlor of a Revocable Trust To All Persons Interested in the Rolling Living Trust This is to give notice that Barbara Rolling passed away on April 12, 2020. Before the decedent’s death, the decedent created a revocable trust for which the undersigned, Gerald K. Gimmel, whose address is 4 Professional Drive, Suite 145, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, is now the sole Trustee.

To have a claim satisfied from the property of this trust, a person who has a claim against the decedent must present the claim on or before the date that is 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice to the undersigned trustee at the address stated above. The claim must include the following information: A verified written statement of the claim indicating its basis; The name and address of the claimant; If the claim is not yet due, the date on which it will become due; If the claim is contingent, the nature of the contingency; If the claim is secured, a description of the security; and The specific amount claimed.

Any claim not presented to the trustee on or before that date or any extension provided by law is unenforceable. Pursuant to section 14.5-508 of the Estates and Trusts Article of the Maryland Code Annotated.

Gerald K. Gimmel Trustee Date of first publication: May 14, 2020 11512-3T-05-28-20 Paul B. Cromelin III 4910 Massachusetts Avenue NW Suite 215 Washington, DC 20016-2001 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102406 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of John A. Cox a/k/a John Adam Cox Notice is given that Sandy Spring Bank, 17735 Georgia Avenue, Olney, MD 20832 was on April 29, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of John A. Cox a/k/a John Adam Cox who died on March 6, 2020 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

Sarah Moore Johnson 2233 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20007 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W101709 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Eve Robins a/k/a Eve Bailey Silverman Notice is given that Amanda Alter, 2820 Davenport Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 and Lena Robins-Faden, 1665 Bucksglen Court, Westlake Village, CA 91361 were on May 4, 2020 appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Eve Robins a/k/a Eve Bailey Silverman, who died on December 8, 2019 with a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment or to the probate of the decedent’s will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 4th day of November, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Amanda Alter Lena Robins-Faden Personal Representatives True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11538-3T-05-28-20

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D. C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 168 Estate of Patricia Marie Kessler Deceased Notice of Standard Probate Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Margaret M. Sulzbach for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representatives. Unless a responsive pleading in the form of a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of the first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate.

Appoint an unsupervised personal representative.

Lewis J. Saret 1025 Thomas Jefferson Street NW Suite 420 East Washington, DC 20007 202-965-7748 True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11500-2T-05-21-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2018 ADM 725 Betty G. Roberts Decedent Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 1143 Mary Arguello Decedent Rachell Long 80 M Street SE 1st Floor, Suite 02-277 Washington, DC 20003 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Rachell Long, whose address is 80 M Street SE - 1st Floor, Suite #02-277, Washington, DC 20003, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Mary Arguello, who died on May 31, 2018 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 21, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 21, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Rachell Long Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11579-3T-06-04-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 1287 Humphrey A. Rourk, Jr. Decedent Lilia C. Machado 5028 Backlick Road Suite A Annandale, VA 22003 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Billy C. Striegel, AFRH-W, whose address is 3700 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Humphrey A. Rourk, Jr, who died on October 31, 2019 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14,

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 1323 Delores B. Hope Decedent James E. McCollum, Jr., Esq. 7309 Baltimore Avenue Suite 117 College Park, MD 20740 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Clarence B. Hope, whose address is 916 Hollywood Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20904, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Delores B. Hope, who died on September 7, 2019 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment or to the probate of decedent’s will shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Clarence B. Hope Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11490-3T-05-28-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 1359 Rosine James Burroughs Decedent Mark G. Griffin, Esq. 1912 Sunderland Place NW Washington, DC 20036 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Mark G. Griffin, whose address is 1912 Sunderland Place NW, Washington, DC 20036, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Rosine James Burroughs, who died on June 3, 2002 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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LEGALS Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11494-3T-05-28-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 403 Sandra A. West a/k/a Sandra West a/k/a Sandra Ann West Decedent Suzy Eckstein, Esq. 1803 Research Boulevard Suite 401 Rockville, MD 20850 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Michael Fox a/k/a Mike Fox, whose address is 520 Garwood Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Sandra A. West a/k/a Sandra West a/k/a Sandra Ann West, who died on February 2, 2019 with a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment or to the probate of decedent’s will shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Michael Fox Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11489-3T-05-28-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 527 Brenda Jean Harris Decedent Robert E. Richards, Esq. 11253-B Lockwood Drive Silver Spring, MD 20901 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs James A. Harris, whose address is 2131 N. Anvil Lane, Temple Hills, MD 20748, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Brenda Jean Harris, who died on August 26, 2018 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 865 Elmer Ellsworth Brockman Decedent Jonathan Leo, Esq. 4550 Montgomery Avenue Suite 760N Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Jonathan Leo, Esq., whose address is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 760N, Bethesda, MD 20814, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Elmer Ellsworth Brockman, who died on November 27, 2014 without a will and will serve without Court supervision.. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 7, 2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 7, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Jonathan Leo Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11448-3T-05-21-20

and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Billy C. Striegel Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11496-3T-05-28-20

be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Thomas C. Gaspard Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11497-3T-05-28-20

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2019 ADM 878 Winnell R. Baker Decedent Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Kimberly K. Edley,Esq., whose address is 3192 Westover Drive SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Winnell R. Baker, who died on January 17, 2017 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 7, 2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 7, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Kimberly K. Edley Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11441-3T-05-21-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 120 Robert L. Goss Decedent Lilia C. Machado 5028 Backlick Road Suite A Annandale, VA 22003 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Billy C. Striegel, AFRH-W, whose address is 3700 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert L. Goss, who died on June 10, 2018 without a will,

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 121 James R. Martin Decedent Lilia C. Machado 5029 Backlick Road Suite A Annandale, VA 22003 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Billy C. Striegel, AFRH-W, whose address is 3700 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James R. Martin, who died on January 19, 2020 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 21, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 21, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Billy C. Striegel, AFRH-W Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11580-3T-06-04-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 143 Tadahiko Nakamura Decedent Tanya A. Harvey Loeb & Loeb LLP Suite 300E 901 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Thomas C. Gaspard, whose address is U.S. Fiduciary Advisors, LLC, 10305 Cutters Lane, Potomac, MD 20854, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Tadahiko Nakamura, who died on February 17, 2016 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 222 Robert L. Hunt a/k/a Robert Leland Hunt a/k/a Bob Hunt Decedent Morris Klein 4520 East West Highway Suite 700 Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Alan Monath, whose address is 9227 Briarchip Court, Laurel, MD 20708, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Robert L. Hunt a/k/a Robert Leland Hunt a/k/a Bob Hunt, who died on October 22, 2019 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment or to the probate of decedent’s will shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 21, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 21, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Alan Monath Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 21, 2020 11584-3T-06-04-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 259 James Andrew Jeter Decedent Patrick T. Hand, Esq. 149 West Main Street Orange, VA 22960 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Janice Wilson and Linda Anderson, whose addresses are 8916 Walkerton Drive, Lanham, MD 20706; 7309 Loanda Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of James Andrew Jeter, who died on December 19, 1984 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 21, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 21, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Andrea J. Sloan Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11495-3T-05-28-20 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 272 Marion Smith Williams Decedent Barbara Betsock 5028 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 100 Washington, DC 20016 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Robert Williams, Jr., whose address is 413 Ingraham Street NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Marion Smith Williams, who died on January 21, 2020 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment or to the probate of decedent’s will shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 21, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 21, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Joseph F. McHale Decedent Charles J. Kenny, Jr. 7100 Baltimore Avenue Suite 102 College Park, MD 20740 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Geraldine McPhee, whose address is 5300 43rd Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20781, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Joseph F. McHale, who died on October 15, 2019 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment or to the probate of decedent’s will shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 14, 2020.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 14, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Geraldine McPhee Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11491-3T-05-28-20

sonal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 27th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Richard Anthony Wilson Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11469-3T-05-21-20

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 2020 ADM 288 Lillie Odell Conner Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Felicia Brown, whose address is 1700 Farmgate Road, Kinston, NC 28504, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Lillie Odell Conner, who died on December 9, 2019 without a will and will serve without Court supervision.. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C., 20001, on or before November 7, 2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 7, 2020 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Felicia Brown Personal Representative True Test Copy Nicole Stevens Register of Wills Date of First Publication May 7, 2020 11425-3T-05-21-20 Susan Eleff 12305 Kemp Mill Road Silver Spring, MD 20902 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102385 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Gary Philip Wilson Notice is given that Richard Anthony Wilson, 312 Williams Street, Berlin, MD 21811 was on April 27, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gary Philip Wilson, who died on March 5, 2020 without a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the per-

Todd Bornstein, Esq. Selzer Gurvitch 4416 East West Highway Suite 400 Bethesda, MD 20814 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs Estate No. W102382 To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Louisa Rachel Rabb Corrado Notice is given that Alana G. Corrado, 25126 Tralee Court, Damascus, MD 20872 was on April 24, 2020 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Louisa Rachel Rabb Corrado, who died on February 19, 2019 without a will.

Further Information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objections to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 24th day of October, 2020.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2)Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Alana G. Corrado Personal Representative True Test Copy Joseph M. Griffin Register of Wills for Montgomery County 50 Maryland Avenue North Tower 3220 Rockville, MD 20850 Date of First Publication May 14, 2020 11517-3T-05-28-20

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