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Local milliner pins family tradition and current practice in museum winning piece
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The design was Copeland’s second entry in the competition. In 2011 the selftaught milliner was asked by museum to submit a hat. In response, I sent in a “very large and pink” hat, she said. “It was, I think, more of what people consider of traditional Derby hats. It had a large brim with little sequins and a large bow.” That submission, which did not win, came from Copeland’s Squirrel Hill studio and by her own admission, “wasn’t [specifically] made for the competition.” In contradistinction, this year’s entry was designed and crafted with a specific purpose in mind: the museum’s 2018 fashion exhibit, “It’s My Derby.” “As an artist, your ideas change and grow, so this one was a lot different,” said Copeland. Copeland estimated that the piece took a “minimum of 16 hours” to complete. Spending such time on a creation is not uncommon, as factors such as the
hen Jonathan Weinkle opted to go to medical school instead of becoming a rabbi, he struck an internal bargain. “I made an agreement with myself that I wasn’t going to be a professional Jew, but I was going to be a Jewish professional,” said the primary care physician and author of the newly released book “Healing People, Not Patients” (Healthy Learning, 2018). “And I was not just going to be a professional who happened to be Jewish; I was going to be a professional Jewishly — ‘Jewish’ was my adverb.” Jewish values permeate the practice of Weinkle, a Pittsburgh native and physician at the Squirrel Hill Health Center: the notion that everyone is created in the Divine image and deserves to be heard and respected as an individual. In his book, Weinkle offers suggestions on how to form deep connections between patients and doctors, so that patients become more than just “the 3:15 or Room 3307,” he said. After 10 years of treating people from all walks of life, Weinkle has created a guide that he hopes will help to improve not only the doctor/patient relationship, but other types of relationships as well. The kippah-wearing physician, who often can be seen leading the congregation in prayer at Congregation Beth Shalom, said he had “three audiences in mind” when writing his book, which is chock full of stories and anecdotes gleaned from his
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ip your cap to Jennifer Copeland. The local milliner is a winner of the 2018 Kentucky Derby Museum Hat Contest. Copeland’s selection, along with those of 20 others, was preceded by a request from the Louisville, Ky., museum to professional and amateur hat makers for entry into this year’s competition. “The hat contest is a signature element of the exhibition which strives to capture the spirit associated with the landmark sport and cultural event that is the Kentucky Derby,” noted the museum. Copeland’s piece, a “balibuntal straw beret,” paid homage to the fashion-forward Derby “with its repurposed horse bridle and red silk rose detail,” explained Copeland. “Each element of this hat has been handcrafted, from the blocking of the hat form, to constructing the silk flowers and hand stitching each piece of fabric and straw.”
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Headlines Breast cancer survivor finds joy with others ‘in the same boat’ — LOCAL — By Toby Tabachnick | Senior Staff Writer
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en years ago, Naomi Herman had never heard of a dragon boat. The then 63-year-old resident of Upper St. Clair did not even know how to swim. But when she got a call from one of her daughters telling her of an advertisement for a dragon boat team looking for new members who had survived breast cancer, Herman thought: “Why not?” “I was sitting in my car in the Giant Eagle parking lot when I got that call,” she recounted. “I thought, ‘Well, cancer has led me down one path, and maybe this will be another path.’ But I had no idea what dragon boating was.” She was about to find out. Just a few months following her breast cancer diagnosis — and the consequent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — Herman found herself in the living room of a stranger at an organizational meeting for dragon boat racing, along with “women of all shapes, sizes and ages” interested in learning about the Pink Steel Dragon Boat Team. “In my head, I thought we were going on a boat ride, and that it would be just a nice boating opportunity,” Herman recalled. “Little did I realize I would have to paddle.” She did paddle, though, and although her lack of stamina at the time caused her to take breaks that first time out, she was not deterred. By the end of the season, she was able to complete an entire hour of practice without pulling her oar out of the water. “I could see myself getting stronger,” she said, noting that she has been a proud member of the Pink Steel Dragon Boat Team ever since.
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A dragon boat team is comprised of 20 paddlers, sitting in two rows of 10, in a long boat typically flanked by the head of a dragon on one end and its tail on the other. The crew includes a sweep, or steerer, and a drummer, who pounds out a beat and issues commands. The paddlers work in unison to propel the boat forward. Dragon boating had its origins in China more than two millennia ago, but has had a resurgence in popularity, with some sources
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claiming that it is the fastest growing aquatic sport. During a typical race, up to six teams traverse 500 meters, with the fastest crew taking first place. The Pink Steel Dragon Boat Team competes against other teams of breast cancer survivors. It is affiliated with Steel City Dragons, another team comprised of both men and women who are not necessarily breast cancer survivors. Herman is a member of both teams.
Practices are held three times a week at the Fox Chapel Yacht Club. Meets against other teams in the region are scheduled a few times each season. “It’s cool exercise,” said Herman, now a decade-long veteran of the sport. “And I meet women from all over the area I wouldn’t have met otherwise. It’s a wonderful community.” Being a dragon boat team member also motivates her to keep in shape during the off-season. “In the winter, I exercise not only for myself but for the team,” Herman said. A grandmother of 18, Herman, 73, wears a gold necklace with “Bubbe” written in script. She is young for her years and busy. She hosts her large family for dinner each Shabbat, creating unique dishes from countries all over the world, and taking the time to deliver short reports to her guests on the culture of the land of origin of each week’s special. She eschews more traditional bubbie pastimes such as mahjong or cards in favor of dragon boat racing, exercising, running forums on healthy eating and maintaining a blog called the Mindful Files, issuing practical advice about “our responsibility as adults in keeping our affairs in order.” She hosts a “Death Café” at the Upper St. Clair library, providing an open, confidential space for people to share their views on death. And she serves on the governing board of South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh. All of her endeavors, though seemingly disparate, have something in common, she noted. “It’s all about finding community,” she said. “This is what Jews do. We find community.” PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org
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Headlines Squirrel Hill JCC begins $1.5 million renovation — LOCAL — By Toby Tabachnick | Senior Staff Writer
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he Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill began work last week on a $1.5 million renovation project that officials say will improve its security and accessibility, and create a more welcoming space for gathering and socializing. The project, dubbed “Town Square,” will include upgrades to both the exterior and interior of the 31-year-old Irene Kaufmann Building. The Town Square, located on the main floor of the building, is framed by two public entryways — at Forbes Avenue and Darlington Road — with the corridor running from one end to the other. It spans one full city block and meets in the middle to form an atrium-lit indoor courtyard. Access for those entering the building will be improved with the installation of turnstiles and automatic glass doors, according to Cathy Samuels, the JCC’s senior director of development and communications. The addition of the turnstiles will also enhance the building’s security, “making it easier for our customer service teams to monitor who is coming in.” Upgrades to the interior space, known as the Ostrow Palm Court, will include new energy-efficient lighting, upgraded flooring
and furniture groupings intended to create a “softer feel” and encourage social interaction, said Sherree Hall, senior director of facilities and wellness. The space will also provide computer and phone charging stations. “Our goal for the aesthetic is that the space will be a gathering place for young families to seniors,” said Samuels. “We like to describe it as the community’s living room. We’re really excited. We think this will change how people feel about the building.” In addition to serving its 18,000 members, the JCC hosts many community programs throughout the year, including political p Plans call for a more inviting lobby area. events, programs sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and clergy meetings, The walls and banisters within the space according to Samuels. will also be upgraded, said Hall. “There are thousands of people in the The scope of the exterior improvebuilding every day,” she said. “It’s time for ments will include raising the portico on us to have a warmer, more contemporary Darlington, replacing the sidewalks and atmosphere. And we have a lot of inter- pavers at both the Forbes and Darlington generational activities in that space, so the entrances, and new ramps. upgrades will enhance that experience.” While some entrances will be closed during
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hedding happy tears is a confounding human experience perhaps akin to seeing a sun shower or finding a quarter-less shopping cart at Aldi’s. Reading “In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times” is equally baffling. Billed as a “children’s middle grade book” for readers ages 10 and up, the composition is accessible even though the narrative is often not. Collected and edited by David Stromberg, a Jerusalem-based writer, translator and literary scholar, “In the Land of Happy Tears” is a 192-page aggregation of 18 translated Yiddish stories. Divided into four sections — bravery, rebellion, justice and wonder — the book (published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books) presents pieces which collectively “show us what it means to put these powers into effect, both in the realm of the spirit and in the world where we live,” Stromberg writes in an informative opening section titled, “What is Yiddish, anyway?” After sharing an evolution of Yiddish storytelling, which began in the 18th century with Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov) and continued on through the 19th century with Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (the
Baal Shem Tov’s grandson) and into imagination of Eastern Europe — the 20th century with the writings of which America inherited and nearly S.Y. Abramovich, I.L. Peretz and S.N. forgot — offering a chance to experiRabinovich (better known as Sholem ence the world in which these stories Aleichem), Stromberg describes the were created.” wane of Yiddish culture: “The death There is a bit of a journey involved blow to Yiddish culture, which was in accessing substance within the already threatened by cultural adaptascript, as Stromberg’s collection is a tion in America, came with World War riddled read geared for a particular II, when the Holocaust — also called demographic. Getting through “In the the Shoah, or “catastrophe” in Hebrew Land of Happy Tears” is not a terribly challenging endeavor; understanding — destroyed millions of lives and decimated most of the Yiddish-speaking its stories is a bit more cumbersome. communities in Europe.” In attempting to grasp each Immediately following such cultural myth’s meaning, I was reminded chronology are the stories, each of of Katherine Woods’ translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The which appear in English for the first Little Prince” (1943): “Grown-ups time, explains Stromberg. Included never understand anything by themfables address a sleep-stealing moon selves, and it is tiresome for children that seeks children as playmates; a to be always and forever explaining boy whose refusal to turn over his things to them.” sandovar generates “an end to all war”; For juvenile readers, “In the Land of a diamond-skinned prince whose Happy Tears” is a worthwhile volume, dermatological disorder can only be which may very well illumine a world remedied (seemingly) by bathing in seemingly lost to assimilation and the tears of needy children; and other genocide. Those a bit older should be short sagas which rely on anthropomorphism as well as allegory. lucky enough to have someone eluci“These tales reveal the mind-sets date the text. PJC of their writers and readers, and the culture of resilience exemplified by Adam Reinherz can be Yiddish,” writes Stromberg. “The reached at areinherz@pittsburgh JC ReSound 9/28/18 jewishchronicle.org. 9:50 AM Page 1 collection puts flesh onto the Jewish p “In the Land ofWomenLookingHillsREV18_Eartique Happy Tears” Courtesy photo
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Calendar >> Submit calendar items on the Chronicle’s website, pittsburghjewishchronicle.org. Submissions will also be included in print. Events will run in the print edition beginning one month prior to the date as space allows. The deadline for submissions is Friday, noon. q EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING Heal Grow and Live with Hope, NarAnon meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Beth El Congregation, 1900 Cochran Road; use office entrance. Newcomers are welcome. Call and leave a message for Karen at 412-563-3395. q SUNDAY, OCT. 7 Social Seniors will meet at 10 a.m. at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, room 204. Contact Marcia at 412731-3338 for more information. Keystone Mountain Region BBYO will hold the free J-Fest on Darlington from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill. J-Fest on Darlington is for the teens, by the teens and is open to all 6th-12th grade Jewish teens. Visit bbyo.org/bbyo-near-you/ regions/keystone-mountain-region/j-fest-ondarlington for more information on the event, transportation and to register. q MONDAY, OCT. 8 The Jewish Healthcare Foundation, UPMC Magee-Womens Research Institute and the Women’s Health Activist Movement (WHAMglobal) will hold a daylong Maternal Health Leaders Symposium from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 650 Smithfield St., Suite 2600. Experts and activists will identify cutting-edge research and evidence-based programs that address the causes and conditions related to maternal and infant mortality, and identify action strategies. Contact Kate Dickerson, dickerson@jhf.org or visit whamglobal.org/symposium for more information and to register. Beth El Congregation hosts its monthly lunch program with Rabbi Alex Greenbaum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. featuring guest author and foreign correspondent Lynda Schuster presenting her book “Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix.” Visit bethelcong.org for more information and call 412-561-1168 to make a reservation; there is a $6 charge. Knowledge & Nosh is a new program created in partnership with Women’s Philanthropy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Jewish Women’s Foundation. Knowledge and Nosh: Israel at 70: What about the Women? Part 2 will be a discussion on Nivcharot, a group of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) women, working to end women’s segregation and attain equal representation in the Knesset, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at The Center for Women, 1620 Murray Ave. Esty Shushan, founder, and co-CEO of the Nivcharot Organization, will lead the program. Contact Judy Cohen at jcohen@jwfpgh. org, Samantha Dye at sdye@ncjwpgh.org, or Rachel Lipkin at rlipkin@jfedpgh.org for more information. RSVP by Friday, Oct. 5. Chabad House on Campus will hold its 30th anniversary celebration at 6 p.m. at the University of Pittsburgh O’Hara Student Center Ballroom, 4024 O’Hara St. Rabbi Leon Morris, president, Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, will be honored. Visit chabadpgh.org/celebrating30 for more information and to purchase tickets.
q SUNDAY, OCT. 14 The Women of Rodef Shalom invite the community to its Sisterhood Movie Night Series at 7 p.m. for the Israeli comedy, “The Women’s Balcony,” a favorite of 2017 Jewish film festivals around the country and also circulated in mainstream theaters. The movie was written by Shlomit Nehama, directed by Emil Ben-Shimon and acted by an ensemble of Orthodox Jews with some relaxed liberal tendencies. The film is in Hebrew with English subtitles. Light refreshments and socializing will follow the showing. South Hills Coffee and Conversation with Congressman Conor Lamb (D), currently representing Pennsylvania’s 18th District and a candidate for reelection in Pennsylvania’s new 17th District, will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at the South Hills Jewish Community Center, 345 Kane Blvd. The program is free and open to the entire South Hills Community. South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh is partnering with the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, the South Hills JCC, the JCC’s Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement and the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP) to present this special event. Register at southhillsjewishpittsburgh.org/ lamb; there is no charge.
Instrumentalists are Janet Stivanson, piano; Janice Coppola, clarinet; and Rachel Berger, flute. Song selections draw from the liturgical, Yiddish, Sephardic, classical and other traditions. The recital is free and open to the community.
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Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Discussion Series on Our Immigration Experience, a six-week program presented with Duquesne University and Jewish Family and Community Services, features documentary films designed to encourage an informed discussion of immigration issues. The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh is one of 32 sites nationwide to host this series. Visit becoming-american. org for more information. On Oct. 8, 15 and 22 the program will be held at 6:30 p.m. at JCC Katz Performing Arts Center, Robinson Building, 5738 Darlington Road, Squirrel Hill. On Oct. 29, Nov. 5 and 12 the program will be held at Duquesne University College Hall at 6:30 p.m. The series is free and open to the community. No RSVP is required. Visit duq. edu/BecomingAmerican for directions and film details or Melissa Hiller at mhiller@jccpgh.org or 412-697-3231 for film details. q TUESDAY, OCT. 9 Tuesday Musical Club will present A Celebration of Jewish Song: Sacred to Secular at Congregation Rodef Shalom at 1 p.m. Cantor Michele Gray-Schaffer put the concert together and will feature her, lyric soprano Catherine Bomstein and soprano Margaretha Levinson as soloists.
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Melton Pittsburgh 2018-19, an international organization for adult Jewish learning, will begin classes on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The classes are sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. To register, visit foundation.jewishpgh.org/melton-adulteducation. For more information, contact Jan Barkley at jbarkley@jfedpgh.org or 412-697-6656. q WEDNESDAYS, OCT. 10 AND OCT. 17 Beth El Congregation will host two current event evenings at 7:30 to 9 p.m. that are free, open to the public and begin with a wine and cheese reception. Session 1 is on Major Technology Breakthroughs and the Implications for the Future, led by Mt. Lebanon educators Joshua Bilak and Drew Haberberger. Session 2 is on Moral Implications of Technology, an ethical discussion led by Rabbi Alex Greenbaum. For more information and to RSVP visit bethelcong.org or call 412-561-1168. q THURSDAY, OCT. 11 Community members Samantha Stern and Etai Dvora are getting married. Help them #etaitheknot by participating in the Pittsburgh cookie table tradition with
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Moishe House from 7 to 9 p.m. by baking a variety of cookies. Come with your favorite recipe or just bake one available. Contact moishehousepgh@gmail.com for more information. Chabad of the South Hills will host a Torah and Tea for Women at 1701 McFarland Road at 7:30 p.m. The event will look at “Eishet ChayilWomen of Valour,” the age-old wisdom of King Solomon sung as a tribute to Jewish women. Hot tea and refreshments will be provided. Visit chabadsh.com for more information. q THURSDAY-SATURDAY, OCT. 11-13 “In The Tunnel” is a North American premiere and part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts. Direct from Israel, the Gesher Theater brings their new production to Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Hailed by the Israeli press as, “An extraordinary production. Stunning for right and left, Arabs and Jews, natives and immigrants, soldiers and civilians, religious and secular.” The production will be shown at various times at the August Wilson Center. Get a discount of $5 by entering the code CWBFIRSTS. RSVP at classroomswithoutborders.org/events. q SATURDAY, OCT. 13 Shabbat on the Ark aboard the Gateway Clipper will be held for families with children up to age 12 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 350 W. Station Square Drive. A dairy breakfast will be served. The cost is $20 per family for up to six members; space is limited. Contact Katie Whitlatch at kwhitlatch@jccpgh.org or 412-697-3540 for more information and to RSVP by Oct. 5. Congregation Emanu-El Israel’s Festival of the Jewish Arts will present a klezmer music concert with Cantor Henry Shapiro & the Steel City Klezmorim from 7 to 9 p.m. at 222 North Main St. The concert is free Please see Calendar, page 6
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Calendar Calendar: Continued from page 5 and open to the community. RSVP to the congregation’s office at 724-834-0560. The event is co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. q SUNDAY, OCT. 14 Cantor Julie Newman will lead Jewish meditation from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at Congregation Dor Hadash, 5898 Wilkins Ave. at the corner of Shady Avenue. Newman will provide an introduction to Jewish meditation that will include some discussion of meditation in general, how Jewish meditation differs from other types of meditation and an opportunity to practice. There is no charge. RSVP is suggested at admin@dorhadash.net or 412-422-5158. q MONDAY, OCT. 15 Temple Emanuel will host a downtown lunch and learn featuring Rabbi Don Rossoff and a conversation on current events from noon to 1 p.m. Free and open to the public. Bring your own lunch. For more information, locations and to register, contact Temple Emanuel at templeemanuel@templeemanuelpgh.org or 412-279-7600. q TUESDAY, OCT. 16 Ever been told that you wear your heart out on your sleeve? Want to make that literal? Moishe House will be hosting a button-making class from 7 to 9 p.m. led by community member
Ardon Schorr. Turn your passions, hobbies, or best puns into art. Contact moishehousepgh@ gmail.com for more information. Classrooms Without Borders will hold a lecture, “Operation Finale: The Real Story of the Capture of a Nazi War Criminal,” by former Mossad agent Avner Avraham. Avraham was instrumental in the creation of the film “Operation Finale.” Serving as a senior consultant on the production, Avraham ensured the movie’s accuracy in portraying the Mossad and their operation to capture Nazi Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. Avraham also curated an Operation Finale exhibit, which pre-dates the movie, displaying espionage artifacts and recently declassified Mossad materials. This was the first time the material was seen outside of Israel. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. at Duquesne University Dougherty Ballroom, Power Center and will run about 90 minutes and include a questionand-answer session. There is no charge. q WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17 South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh presents “Nosh & Know with Rabbi Danny Schiff” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. In this five-part series, held at The Artsmiths of Pittsburgh, 1635 McFarland Road, Schiff explores “Judaism & The Holy Body.” Limited to just 40 people, “Nosh & Know” sells out quickly each year. Registration is $50 for all five sessions and includes lunch. Dates and topics: Oct. 17, Tattooing and Piercing; Oct. 24, Cosmetic Procedures and Enhancements; Oct. 31, Visiting the Sick; Nov. 7, Exhibiting Bodies;
q TUESDAY, OCT. 16 The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh will host the exhibit “Stitching History from the Holocaust,” on loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee at 6:30 p.m. The exhibit features reconstructed dress patterns from Hedy Strnad, a woman whose talent was cut short by the Holocaust. Helen Epstein, a journalist and author, will talk about Jewish women in the fashion industry. Registration is $10 and is free for survivors and students (with valid ID). and Nov. 14, Extending Life. Sessions are presented in partnership with Beth El Congregation, The Carnegie Shul, Jewish Community Center South Hills and Temple Emanuel. Call 412-278-1780 for any questions and/or help with registration. To register visit southhillsjewishpittsburgh.org/events/noshknow-with-rabbi-danny-schiff.
Squirrel Hill AARP will feature the New Horizons Band of Greater Pittsburgh following their general meeting at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha, 5898 Wilkins Ave., at 1 p.m. The band’s repertoire includes standards, sing-alongs, patriotic, folk, swing, jazz and holiday music. Attendees are asked to bring Please see Calendar, page 20
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Headlines A year after the Mexico City earthquake, many Jewish organizations still don’t have a home hood of Tecamachalco. “Up until today I still have this vivid image of an old man — I don’t know who it was — standing outside, crying at the sight of the building falling apart.” Chmelnik was especially impressed that people were going into the building despite the quake, which fell on the same day as one in 1985 that killed thousands and left Condesa completely destroyed. Since the catastrophe of 43 years ago, a nationwide drill is held in the morning on that date both to honor the dead and prepare for any earthquakes to come. During the simulation, Rabbi Tuvia Krawchic, whose offices were on the fourth floor of Acapulco 70, was told that he had to go down to the third floor and help with the “evacuation” of the kindergarten. Two hours later, when the real quake struck, he knew what to do. Although Krawchic was at the exit when the floor started shaking, he turned around and made his way to the children on the floor below. There he met with Ricardo Silva, who worked on the sixth floor in the Kashrut Department and could not move because of the whip-like movement of the ground. The earthquake was accompanied by a thick rumbling sound, but the most deafening
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EXICO CITY — This capital city has yet to recover from last September’s earthquake, which killed over 300 people and left many more homeless. In the trendy Condesa neighborhood, once a predominantly Jewish area here, many buildings have been demolished and others are in a state of abandonment and disrepair. Among the most affected structures is the cherished Nidje Israel Synagogue, known locally as “Acapulco 70” for its street address. The massive building, used by generations of Jews — including my great-grandparents, grandparents and father — has suffered irreparable damage and most likely will be demolished. But Acapulco 70 was much more than a synagogue: It served as the surrogate headquarters of the Ashkenazi community, hosted a kosher supermarket, kindergarten and small Holocaust museum. Inside also were the offices of the International Jewish Film Festival and the Ashkenazi Documentation Center, with its thousands of books, photo-
p Rescuers work in the rubble after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, Sept. 19, 2017. Photo Rafael S. Fabres/Getty Images
graphs and newspapers documenting 100 years of Jewish life in Mexico City. “I was downstairs at the supermarket when it started to shake,” Enrique Chmelnik,
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Headlines Nazis’ aerial photography is helping map and preserve Jewish cemeteries But after the murder of the area’s 10,000 Jews during the Holocaust, By Cnaan Liphshiz | JTA the forest adjacent to the cemetery was UBLIN, Poland — When German air allowed to swallow it force pilots took aerial photographs up, leaving exposed of western Ukraine in 1941, they did only a few dozen headit to help Nazi Germany defeat the Soviet stones. Fragments of Union in a war that saw the genocide of others used to lie in 6 million Jews. piles on the shoulBut in a twist of fate, the German govern- ders of the potholed ment has recently started funding an effort asphalt road that that uses the photographs to identify and snakes along Buchach’s preserve Jewish cemeteries. Torgova Street. The effort, in which the Luftwaffe archives The forest’s progresare only one of several ingenious tools, sion and the destruction began in 2015 with the establishment of an caused to the headstones organization called the European Jewish — locals throughout Cemeteries Initiative, or ESJF. The larg- Eastern Europe steal est-ever international project of its kind, them to use as sharpESJF has since fenced more than 100 Jewish ening stones or building cemeteries in seven countries on a modest material — compliannual budget of approximately $1 million. cated efforts to map the And in Eastern Europe, fencing Jewish cemetery. The Luftwaffe p Photographers capture a ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Frampol, Poland. cemeteries is “not as straightforward as it aerials show its borders may sound,” according to Philip Carmel, a clearly, explained Carmel, British former journalist, the organization’s who last year oversaw its demarcation. It is with well over 10,000 Jewish cemeteries in a small and cheap plot of land in a small CEO since its creation. now set for fencing later this year, complete various degrees of risk. And it is by far the Ukrainian town so it could serve as a Even determining the location of such with retaining walls. most transparent, as per stringent reporting Christian cemetery. It was the simplest way graveyards can be challenging in towns ESJF recently began using engineering demands by the German treasury. of getting the local Orthodox church, which with entire Jewish populations that were drones that can map a Jewish cemetery in a Whereas the bulk of the damage to Jewish did not want to bury Seventh-day Adventists murdered and cemeteries plundered for fraction of the time and cost that a team of cemeteries happened during World War II in its Christian cemetery, to stop burying construction material and then stolen surveyors would require. and under communism, they are still being them atop older graves at a disused Jewish for development. Fencing is crucial, Carmel said, because degraded today at an alarming rate due to cemetery, Carmel said. That’s where the Luftwaffe aerial photo- it prevents further damage. While it neither unregulated construction and vandalism. When it comes to halachah, or Jewish law, graphs enter the picture, Carmel said. helps restore damage nor prevent people Earlier this month, the construction of ESJF is strict in observing its rules on burial, “Obviously they were taken to help the who are determined to get in from climbing a state-funded sports complex in the town Carmel said. But whenever possible, he German war effort,” Carmel said of the the fence, “It shows ownership, it indicates of Klimontow, Poland, was completed atop said, the organization tries to compromise, prints and negatives that he pulled from interest and it vastly reduces the chance of what activists say was a disused Jewish ceme- keeping with its view that local partnerships German state archives. “But they were accu- vandalism,” he said. tery. Last year, a judge in Belarus cleared the are the only guarantee for the organization’s rate enough to help us identify some Jewish Jewish communities in Eastern Europe way for the construction of apartments atop long-lasting impact. cemeteries right before the destruction.” are struggling to maintain crumbling heri- two former Jewish cemeteries in Gomel. And “The cemeteries we fence, they are not In the western Ukrainian town of Buchach tage sites from an era when the local Jewish in Lithuania, the government is ignoring an being guarded,” Carmel said. “Ultimately the — the birthplace of the Jewish Nobel Prize population was many times greater than it international outcry over its plan to build a only way of making sure these places don’t laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nazi is today, as are activists working to preserve conference center on what used to be one get destroyed is to get the local population to hunter Simon Wiesenthal — Jews for genera- Jewish cemeteries. of Vilnius’ largest cemeteries, which the think of their local Jewish cemetery as part tions buried their dead atop a mound that in But ESJF is the best-funded and first inter- communists razed. of their own heritage.” 1941 stood on the town’s northern margins. national effort of its kind, active in an area About a quarter of all Jewish cemeteries in One success has been in Frampol, Poland, Eastern Europe were destroyed during the where dozens of schoolchildren joined Nazi and Soviet periods, according to Rabbi ESJF’s fencing and cleanup of the local Isaac Schapira, the Israel-based founder and Jewish cemetery. chairman of the ESJF board. Another is the story of Katy Kryvko, a “Most of those that have remained 17-year-old high school student from the lie neglected principally because their Ukraine village of Derazhne, located about communities were wiped out in the 100 miles north of Buchach. Two years ago Holocaust,” he said. Kryvko, who is not Jewish, contacted ESJF This is also the reason the German about a Jewish cemetery behind her home government decided to bankroll ESJF, that the local children used as a playground. according to Carmel. “I was shocked when I realized that kids As a rule, ESJF does not get involved are playing literally at the cemetery,” she said. in cemeteries featuring a legal or territo- “I didn’t understand why it was neglected rial dispute, like the ones in Klimontow, and nobody cared about it.” Gomel and Vilnius. Her interest in the cemetery led Kryvko to “Our objective is to fence as many Jewish study the tragic history of the region’s Jewish cemeteries as possible in as little time as population, and to ESJF, which cleaned it up possible for the lowest cost,” Carmel said. and fenced it last year. Instead of duking it out with local “It’s so important for me because I know authorities and developers, ESJF tries to that I’m the only one person who can save find compromises. the cemetery,” she said. “I mean, who can p Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are struggling to maintain crumbling On a recent project, ESJF even purchased take care of it.” PJC heritage sites from the prewar era. Photos by ESJF
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et’s face it: Sitting through services can feel long, arduous and not so interactive for worshippers. Congregants tend to talk with seatmates and neighbors to help pass the time. But not at Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff ’s High Holiday services. There, you could hear a pin drop. Worshippers had all eyes focused on the prayer leader for hours on end, enjoying it so much that they wound up spending the entire holiday sleeping in the shared apartment/synagogue space of the newly married Chabad rabbinical couple in Israel. Rabbi Yehoshua, 27, and his wife, Cheftziba, both deaf from birth, recently hosted Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services in their Rishon Letzion apartment for members of the deaf community. “Twenty came and slept in our home. We had services and meals together. It was really wonderful,” Soudakoff said in a phone call from Israel with the assistance of an interpreter. When asked how it was advertised in Israel, Soudakoff quickly (and playfully), replied: “Word of hand!” “The deaf community in Israel is very close and connected,” related the executive director of the Jewish Deaf Foundation (JDF) and director of Chabad of the Deaf Community, based in Kfar Chabad, “and Israel is a small country. Word spreads like wildfire.” The rabbi’s main goal is to create an accessible prayer experience where “people don’t feel deaf, where they feel like regular people.” He noted that in typical services, members of the deaf community are
constantly wondering, “What is going on? What’s happening?” Soudakoff ’s services resemble a more conventional, cantor-led service in many ways. But perhaps out of necessity, they are also more interactive. “We have a hard-of-hearing person who davens at the amud [prayer platform], and he signs parts of the tefillah so that the rest of the group can follow along,” described Soudakoff. “Another person stands directly across and tells the congregation when to answer, and indicating the page number on the machzor, as well as signing part of the davening [when the chazzan isn’t signing]. So it was more of an interactive experience, with the chazzan, the gabbai and the congregation all davening together, and knowing where everyone else is holding. Which is the whole point of the experience — so that a deaf person doesn’t feel like he or she is catching up or totally lost in prayer.” He further describes some of the inner workings of the service. “There is singing in the sense that there is a sound, but also signing out the words of the tefillah. For example, we would all read ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ together, or ‘Unetaneh Tokef.’ ” During Sukkot, he drove a mobile sukkah from Metula, in the northernmost town in Israel, all the way down to Eilat at Israel’s southern tip, meeting with deaf people along the way to shake the lulav and the etrog. Moishy Wertheimer, a board member of the Jewish Deaf Foundation who met Soudakoff many years ago when they were roommates in yeshiva, served as cantor for the High Holidays. “The crowd sings through signing, following the chazzan, with assistance of Rabbi Soudakoff,” he clarified. “There is also shofar-blowing.” Please see Deaf, page 11
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Swedish officials shutter Malmo’s only kosher meat shop, citing health reasons The health department in Malmo has shut down the Swedish city’s only supply of kosher meat, citing food sanitation reasons. Inspectors this week raided the ICA Kvantum Malmborgs Limhamn shop, which for the past 20 years has sold frozen kosher meat per an agreement with the leaders of Malmo’s Jewish community of about 800 people, the Sydsvenskan daily reported last week. The reason given, according to Ilana Edner, a prominent member of the community, was that the Jewish community is not licensed to import food products. The inspectors cleaned out the small kosher department at ICA Kvantum and confiscated the products. Sweden is one of only five countries where the slaughter of animals without prior stunning — a requirement for producing kosher and halal meat — is illegal. Since 2013, Sweden has also seen attempts to outlaw the import of kosher meat. Some Swedish opponents of slaughter without stunning say it’s cruel, while others, often opponents of Muslim immigration, decry it as a custom that is foreign to
Swedish traditions. Malmo, where a third of some 350,000 residents are immigrants from Muslimmajority countries, has a disproportionately high prevalence of anti-Semitic attacks. Its anti-Semitism problem, which began in the early 2000s, has led hundreds of Jews to leave the city. Financial and employment considerations have also contributed to this trend. Until the mid-1980s, the Jewish community sold meat products directly in a kosher shop it had in the city’s center. Amid downsizing, however, the shop was closed and the arrangement with ICA Kvantum reached. “It was convenient to go to Limhamn and buy kosher products there,” Edner said, naming the Malmo district where the shop that was raided sold meat. “Now we can’t do that anymore.” Edner, a teacher, added that she has “no problems eating vegetarian, even vegan” in the absence of kosher meat. “What I have a problem with is being forced to do so,” she said. Adelsons’ $55 million for national GOP races makes them ‘biggest spenders’ in all of American politics Casino mogul and Jewish megadonor Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have given $55 million in the last few months to groups working to ensure Republican
control of the House and Senate after the midterm elections. The donations make them the “biggest spenders on federal elections in all of American politics,” The New York Times reported last month, citing publicly available campaign finance data. The couple are very involved in how their money is being spent, meeting with the consultants and political strategists at Adelson’s office in Las Vegas, the newspaper reported. They ask pointed questions and demand campaign plans, preferably in writing, according to the report. The article noted more than a dozen people who know the Adelsons who were interviewed for the article say that Sheldon Adelson’s relationship with President Donald Trump is not about personal affinity but based on a “mutual appreciation for something both men have built their careers on: the transaction.” The Adelsons declined to be interviewed for the Times article. The Adelsons have given much of the money to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC allied with House Speaker Paul Ryan, and the Senate Leadership Fund, which has close ties to Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader. In the 2014 midterm elections, when Republicans were in a much stronger political position nationally, the Adelsons donated $382,000 to federal campaigns and gave $5.5 million to election efforts overall.
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Safed to be moved to the city of Famagusta in Cyprus in the hope that they will spur economic development on the island. An additional 500 Jews from Safed are forced to move a year later.
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Oct. 5, 1941 — Brandeis dies
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the high court, dies at age 84. His embrace of Zionism made its support more acceptable among American Jews, and he helped secure U.S. support for the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the British Mandate in Palestine in 1922.
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Oct. 7, 1985 — Achille Lauro hijacked
Oct. 11, 1938 — Arab Congress rejects partition
Oct. 8, 1576 — Safed Jews ousted EOE
Sarah Aaronsohn, a resident of Zichron Yaakov and a leader of the Nili spy network sending information from Palestine to the British, dies eight days after being captured by Turkish authorities and four days after shooting herself to avoid further torture and interrogation.
Oct. 10, 1983 — Shamir named Premier
Members of the Palestinian Liberation Front seize the Achille Lauro off the Egyptian coast four days into an 11-day cruise out of Genoa, Italy, with 748 passengers. The terrorists fatally shoot wheelchair-bound American Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer. They surrender Oct. 10.
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Oct. 6, 1914 — Jewish aid reaches Palestine
Gold worth $50,000, raised by American Jewish leaders in response to a plea from Henry Morgenthau, arrives in Jaffa on the U.S.S. North Carolina to help the Jewish community in Palestine. Morgenthau, the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, had raised concerns that World War I would cut off the community.
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In the 2016 election, they donated $46.5 million by this point in the election cycle. Adelson, a major giver to Jewish and pro-Israel causes, was among the biggest givers to President Donald Trump’s campaign and his inauguration. The couple has not yet given to Trump’s reelection efforts, though representatives from America First Policies, the super PAC that currently is handling Trump’s 2020 reelection effort, recently made a pitch to the Adelsons for financial support with a strategic plan that the Adelsons called “too vague and unformed,” the newspaper reported. They have not ruled out such support, however, according to the article, citing an unnamed source briefed on the meeting. The Adelsons, strong supporters in the past of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were seated in the front row for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in May, the newspaper noted. The embassy moves and other recent decisions of Trump’s regarding Israel have been in line with the Adelsons’ worldview, according to The Times. “Mr. Trump respects Mr. Adelson’s success as a global casino, convention and hotel mogul — businesses that the president has bought into on a smaller scale. And Mr. Adelson has long demonstrated the kind of bare-knuckles business approach that Mr. Trump identifies with,” according to the article. PJC
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Yitzhak Shamir becomes Israel’s seventh prime minister after fellow Likudnik Menachem Begin resigns for health and personal reasons. Shamir serves until elections in July 1984 result in a national unity government, with Shimon Peres as prime minister for two years, followed by Shamir for two years.
Arab leaders in Cairo adopt the Resolutions of the Inter-Parliamentary Congress, a response to the proposal of the British Peel Commission to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. The Arabs reject partition and call for an end to Jewish immigration but accept the “sacrifice” of allowing Jews already in Palestine to remain. PJC
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of all noises was the tumbling of the gigantic metal screen that decorated the synagogue’s facade. The facade fell on top of a car, whose driver had the instinct to flee. No one was killed, but a woman coming out of the kosher supermarket was injured. She had to be hospitalized and eventually lost a finger. Since the earthquake, the congregation that met at Acapulco 70 is dispersed and attending other synagogues that are part of the Ashkenazi community, including Agudat Ahim, Beth Itzaak and Ramat Shalom. The rabbi — who now works at the Agudat Ahim synagogue — and the film festival have found temporary homes. But others, like the Holocaust museum and the kosher supermarket, have not. The Kashrut Department relocated to an office in the nearby neighborhood of Lomas de Chapultepec, preserving its client database. “We provide kashrut certification for over 500 clients,” Silva told me, “some of them are very big, like Jumex or Bimbo,” the food conglomerates. The kindergarten recently re-established itself in a new home — until a couple of months ago, the children were being sent to the Jewish recreation center. The documentation center was preparing to move when the earthquake hit. A new Jewish documentation center — extending beyond the Ashkenazi experience to celebrate more than 100 years of Jewish immigration from Syria, Turkey, the Balkans, Morocco, Iraq and Eastern Europe — will open soon in the Roma neighborhood. The collection will have a library with 16,000 books in Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Yiddish, Ladino, English, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian, many of them rescued by the Allies during World War II. But the biggest transformation brought by the earthquake has been in the Jewish humanitarian agency Cadena, which has gone from providing first-response and disaster relief to managing reconstruction and economic empowerment programs across Mexico. After the quake, Cadena
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Those who have cochlear implants can hear it; others can feel the vibrations, and some put their hand right on the shofar. Wertheimer shared some of the challenges of leading services for a community that doesn’t sing. “To be a chazzan leading a deaf crowd is a challenge because they cannot hear me, but Rabbi Soudakoff interprets the prayers into Israeli sign language,” he said, acknowledging that it was definitely different than usual. “Rabbi Soudakoff is a real shliach tzibbur [‘public messenger,’ per Wertheimer’s translation]. I learned no matter if they don’t need my voice to lead the prayer, they still need to ‘feel’ the voice of a chazzan.” Wertheimer said he’s proud of what the Soudakoffs have accomplished so far. “For many deaf people, our shul is very accessible for them; they can participate without any [communication] barrier.”
p Rescuers from the Mexican-Jewish aid agency Cadena inspect damage in Mexico City following the earthquake last year.
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distributed essential goods and medicine, and deployed experts who specialize in rescuing victims from toppled structures. It quickly organized an international campaign to build temporary housing for those who lost their homes in Oaxaca and Chiapas. In the towns of Miguel Hidalgo, in the state of Chiapas, and Jojutla, in the state of Morelos, Cadena has built 46 houses and a school. “We have never done anything like this,” Benjamin Laniado, the CEO of Cadena said in an interview, “but the earthquake
has helped us gain visibility and extend programs that will help build resiliency throughout the country.” I visited Miguel Hidalgo, a remote town of 2,000 located on the slope of an idyllic mountain range, as part of volunteer work for Cadena. Immediately after the 2017 quake, as well as one that struck there about two weeks earlier, the state had promised up to $6,000 per person to those whose houses had been destroyed, yet the funds have not arrived. In the meantime, the clay huts in this enclave of poverty (reachable only by
a long and winding dirt road a two-hour drive from Mexico City) are falling apart. Residents are worried that the next earthquake will be their last. Two months after the earthquake, Cadena was among the few NGOs to receive a badge of recognition from Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, recognizing their labor during the disaster. But there is still work to be done. “In Third World countries like Mexico,” Laniado said, “civic society needs to go step in and fill in the void.” PJC
Soudakoff would next like to build a synagogue and community center. “We have a lot of dreams. With a physical space, we can do more activities and hold more services.” He already has an impressive record of determination and success in the world of Jewish learning, education, outreach and camping. Soudakoff was born deaf to two deaf parents. His two brothers and his sister are also deaf. He had a very rich Jewish experience growing up in Los Angeles. “My mother started an organization in Los Angeles for the Jewish deaf,” he said. “It was in our living room. I always saw events there. I grew up with that exposure.” Soudakoff then attended Yeshiva Nefesh Dovid, a Jewish deaf high school in Toronto. “There are not many deaf people who have the same opportunities that I had growing up,” he acknowledged. After three years of studying Jewish texts, he graduated and returned to Los Angeles — thirsty to continue pursuing Jewish learning and his involvement in the Jewish
community. Soudakoff quickly learned that the Jewish world offers very few resources for the Jewish deaf, including access to the Jewish community and functions. “I wanted to change that,” he said. So he began blogging and making online videos about Jewish holidays and ideas. “My sister would make videos of herself making latkes or matzah ball soup, and I would sign and later add captions.” (See “Jewish Deaf Multi Media” on YouTube). Soudakoff then started summer camps for Jewish children who are deaf. The camp met in the Poconos one summer, then in California the next summer. This past summer, the two-week camp took place in Italy; it was a travel camp with one week in Tuscany, and the second week visiting the north and Rome. Jeremy J. Fingerman, CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Camp, said, “We admire Rabbi Soudakoff ’s dedicated efforts. His inspired work reminds us of the importance of making Jewish camp — and indeed,
our entire Jewish community — accessible for everyone.” Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation that works to promote and support inclusion worldwide, is similarly impressed with Soudakoff and his work. “How great that we are living in a time when people are proud of who they are and teaching us that people of all abilities have the right to be equal members of our society,” he stated. Wertheimer, the prayer leader, is pleased with what the Soudakoffs and the deaf community have accomplished so far. “We are working together to bring accessibility for the deaf community into the Jewish world,” he said, pointing out that a great deal of work still lies ahead. “They have a big responsibility for making sure that any deaf Jew has access to Jewish life. I think there has been a lack of Judaism in the Jewish deaf communities because there is no awareness and sensitivity for deaf people in Judaism world.” PJC
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Opinion Kuwait’s unfriendly skies — EDITORIAL —
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n a networked world, attempting to separate friends from foes can be messy. The High Court of the German state of Hesse last week tried to make some legal sense of the mess that is Kuwait’s non-recognition of Israel in an era of near-seamless interconnection. The result was unsatisfying. At issue was an Israeli student who in 2016 bought a ticket on Kuwait Air, known as a bargain carrier, to fly from Frankfurt to Bangkok, with a stop in Kuwait City. When the airline learned of the passenger’s Israeli citizenship, it canceled his ticket, citing a law barring Kuwaiti carriers from providing service to Israeli passengers. The High Court of Hesse upheld a November 2017 ruling by a district court in Frankfurt, which held that it is unreasonable to expect an airline to fulfill the non-discrimination provisions of a contract if doing so violated the laws in its home state. Kuwait, which doesn’t recognize Israel, bars contact and commerce with Israelis. In reaching its
latest ruling the High Court observed that while it was not within its jurisdiction to decide whether Kuwaiti law was reasonable, the reality of that law had measurable consequences that impacted the plaintiff ’s case: “As Israelis in practice are not allowed to enter the transit areas of Kuwait’s airport, the plaintiff cannot demand transportation by the Kuwaiti airline from Frankfurt to Bangkok with a stopover in Kuwait.” While the High Court observed that the Kuwaiti policy is “incompatible with German values” because it discriminates against a customer because of his Israeli nationality, its ruling did nothing more than pay lip service to that public policy. In contrast, the U.S. Transportation Department reached the same underlying legal and public policy conclusions in 2016, but unlike the German legal system, acted on those public policy concerns and demanded that Kuwait Air cease discriminating against Israelis on its New York to London route or cease operating on the route. Kuwait Air chose the latter. Admittedly, the two cases are not entirely
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analogous. In the German case, the Israeli passenger was to land in Kuwait, while in the U.S. case he wasn’t. If the Hesse High Court had overturned the lower court ruling, it would have opened the possibility of an Israeli flying the Frankfurt-Bangkok route and being arrested upon landing in Kuwait, opening up potentially steep liability for Germany. The German court may have reached the technically correct decision under German law. So, it is now up to the German legis-
lature to tighten discrimination laws to the point where discriminatory airlines like Kuwait’s can be told: You must carry everyone or no one. It wasn’t that long ago that U.S. forces, in a coalition that included the United Kingdom, liberated Kuwait from the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein. We wouldn’t even be having this discussion if the coalition had not acted in the defense of liberty. Now it’s time for Western nations to back their own non-discrimination policies. PJC
Should Bill Clinton have shared a stage with Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin’s funeral? Guest Columnist
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ormer presidents recently served as eulogizers for Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, and U.S. Sen. John McCain, the “maverick.” Barack Obama and George Bush spoke for McCain, a former rival of both, while Bill Clinton did the same for Franklin, who performed at his 1993 inauguration. Neither funeral escaped controversy. Liberals quickly rebutted the notion that for all the high-minded rhetoric about bipartisanship, McCain’s memorial represented a meaningful rebuke of Donald Trump. Conservatives — and Jews of various political stripes — slammed Clinton’s willingness to share the stage with the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan, a guest of the Franklin family. Although his Nation of Islam has been praised for promoting self-reliance and instilling pride within the black community for years, Farrakhan is a vicious anti-Semite, not to mention anti-LGBTQ. In 1984 he called Adolf Hitler a “very great man”; his now de-verified Twitter profile is bannered with a pinned tweet in which he boasts of “Thoroughly and completely unmasking the Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan.” Farrakhan at an event in February deemed Jews to be “the mother and father of apartheid” and “have control” over some agencies of government. He argued that Jews have induced black male homosexuality through the “weaponization” of marijuana, portraying Jews as opponents of black
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masculinity. Among those on hand were progressive Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory, who refused to apologize for her attendance or repudiate Farrakhan. Clinton did not comment on sharing a stage with Farrakhan, although his daughter, Chelsea, defended him on Twitter. After condemning Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism, Chelsea argued that “Aretha’s family had every right to invite whomever they wanted to celebrate her life.” But would the former president been as comfortable sharing a stage, if requested by the mourners of a similarly respected figure, with an unalloyed bigot like David Duke or Richard Spencer? Several figures on the left appear to tolerate and tacitly endorse the Nation of Islam leader — an ideological inconsistency that enables anti-Semitism to be tolerated even when other forms of bias, including anti-black racism, are roundly condemned. The Congressional Black Caucus still maintains ties with Farrakhan. According to The Daily Caller, the caucus held a secret meeting with him in 2005. Contacted recently, all 21 current members of the caucus who met the minister in 2005 declined to denounce him. Some, including Barbara Lee and Gregory Meeks, eventually did so. The popular firebrand congresswoman Maxine Waters, who has long embraced Farrakhan and still does, did not. There may be simple calculus in this: Politicians don’t want to alienate constituents for whom Farrakhan is still a hero. And minority groups, including the Jews, are reluctant to take marching orders from the establishment about whom they should and shouldn’t condemn. Yet for many progressives, and increasingly the left at large, anti-Semitism is funda-
mentally different from and less serious than anti-black racism or Islamophobia, among other forms of bias. Progressives and liberals — from Melissa Harris-Perry to Linda Sarsour — embrace a hierarchical definition of racism that places importance on power. According to this formula, only the powerful can be racist and powerful people cannot have racism wielded against them. Within this paradigm, white-on-black bias, due to the power gap, is racism; black-on-Jew bias — anti-Semitism — in which the weak attack the strong, becomes simple bias rather than racism. Without a power gap, anti-Semitism becomes less concerning than anti-black and other racism. “The thing I’m always worried about in the world is power, and how power is wielded in ways that cause inequity,” Harris-Perry, explaining why she declined to condemn Farrakhan, said earlier this year. “So if you can show me that Minister Farrakhan has taken his position and used his position to create inequity and inequality for Jewish people, then I will denounce that tomorrow.” By embracing this definition of racism — and relegating anti-Semitism to some lesser form of bias — the left has enabled the continued normalization of bigots like Farrakhan within their ranks. “If Jews are seen as ‘white’ (which, in this permutation of progressivism, they are), and ‘whites’ cannot be subjected to racist attacks, then anti-Semitism becomes a trivial concern,” K.C. Johnson, a history professor at Brooklyn College, former Fulbright instructor at Tel Aviv University and regular Washington Post contributor, told me in August. Jews in Great Britain have had a taste of
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that dynamic this year amid accusations that the Labour Party has crossed the line from deeply critical of Israel to outright anti-Semitic. Jews who have cried foul over party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s cozy relationship with Palestinian terrorists and heated anti-Israel rhetoric have been told that they are both too powerful and too comfortable to have any real complaint. “Astounding, isn’t it,” British novelist Simon Maginn tweeted in July, “that a group which claims to be silenced, oppressed, powerless manages to keep the [Labour anti-Semitism] story running day after day, week after week, month after month, in every Tory paper and on the Tory BBC. Must be terrible to be so oppressed, so silenced.” While the Trump White House has been and should be excoriated for encouraging white supremacist and far-right groups in the pursuit of far-right votes, it goes without saying that the left should be similarly condemned for fraternizing with and continuing to legitimize Farrakhan and his ilk seemingly in the pursuit of black votes. Of course, Aretha Franklin’s family had every right to invite whomever they saw fit to her funeral. Nobody, however, forced Clinton to appear on the stage itself. Clinton could and should have opted not to attend without a change in the dais, thereby refusing to share a stage with, and implicitly elevating, a bigot. PJC Charles Dunst will soon begin as an intern reporter at Southeast Asia Globe in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is a former editorial fellow at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and his writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The American Prospect and The Hill, among other publications.
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Opinion Eastern Europe is changing — how we deliver care to Jewish elderly has to change with it Guest Columnist David M. Schizer
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n business, an effective planning process is essential for success. During the just completed High Holidays, Jews are urged to engage in this sort of process for our own lives. We reflect on the past year, seeking lessons to help us in the coming year. Are we committed to the right ideals? Are we living up to them? When others need us, do we answer the call? As we look for opportunities to help others in the new year, and consider the best way to do so, we should remember a group that too often is forgotten: elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union. They have lived unimaginably difficult lives. Most endured the devastation of World War II, and nearly half survived the Holocaust. All lived under a communist regime that discriminated relentlessly against Jews and dismantled Jewish institutions. They are also the world’s poorest Jews, unable to buy basic necessities. Even retired engineers and doctors have government pensions as low as $2 per day. While the elderly population of post-Soviet states generally rely on their children for care, elderly Jews often are alone. Many of their relatives left the region decades ago when more than 1.5 million Jews immigrated to Israel, Western Europe and the United States following the fall of communism.
For almost three decades, my organization has mounted a historic humanitarian effort to provide life-saving care to these elderly Jews. The impact of this support is incalculable. It is no exaggeration to say that thousands would die without it. To save over 90,000 lives, we are spending approximately $115 million this year on food, medicine, winter relief and home care. The Claims Conference provides approximately $90 million for Holocaust survivors, and another $25 million comes from the Jewish Federations of North America, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, World Jewish Relief, the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Charitable Foundation and other partners. Although these sums are large in the aggregate, the cost per person is astonishingly low. On average, for clients who do not receive Holocaust restitution, $21 pays for food and medicine for an entire month. On average, $4 pays for an hour of home care. Unfortunately, providing this care is becoming more difficult. Our costs are rising. Inflation in Ukraine is 9 percent, and wages for care workers have increased significantly. We also face a major long-term challenge: the end of Holocaust restitution. This year, restitution covers approximately 80 percent of the program’s budget. But this funding is available only for Holocaust survivors. Even though restitution dollars increased in 2018 — since survivors need more care as they age — this funding level will decline inevitably over the coming decade as survivors pass away. But after this funding is gone, elderly
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Jews who are not survivors will still need life-saving care, and we have over 45,000 of those clients today. Caring for them will be much more difficult, since restitution has helped fund our infrastructure: a network of welfare centers to provide supervision, training, financial oversight, and places for elderly and others to gather. In the spirit of the High Holidays, my organization has responded to these challenges with an extended period of self-reflection and analysis over the past two years. We know we cannot abandon these elderly Jews. We are committed to maintaining life-saving care. But we cannot keep providing it in the same way that we have before. So we have resolved to modernize and streamline our operations to get the most out of every dollar. For example, instead of delivering food, we provide bank cards to those who can buy food themselves. We also are consolidating welfare centers in places where the number of elderly we care for has declined significantly. To be clear: Clients are continuing to receive the individual care that has sustained them all these years, but the supervisory and administrative functions are taken up by larger welfare centers in the region. Heartbreakingly, the elderly we serve in these places have to adjust to changes that can take an emotional toll, ones we are trying to alleviate as best we can. Such changes have attracted attention in the media recently when we closed large buildings — expensive to maintain and often where community gatherings traditionally take place — to
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ensure ongoing care for those who remain. To alleviate this stress on people who have already suffered so much, we made accommodations where we could to continue the same or similar activities. Indeed, for Rosh Hashanah this year, thousands of elderly still celebrated the holidays in a series of festive lectures and concerts, cooking workshops and cultural performances. They were also visited in their homes by volunteers who delivered apples and honey. By dispatching more volunteers like these around the region — especially young people — we will combat loneliness, a critical issue facing these elderly. In addition to comforting lonely seniors, this program builds a sense of obligation among the volunteers themselves. Over time, these future communal leaders will help shoulder more of the responsibility of providing care. In Ukraine recently, an elderly woman called the help she received from us “the sunshine in my window.” In the coming years, there will be tens of thousands of seniors just like her, desperate for the warmth of that same sunshine. But it’s only together that we can can provide this aid. In doing so, we elevate our concept of community to a global scale. By helping those most in need, we’re being true to our best selves, not just in 5779 but for future generations. PJC
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Life & Culture On the grill: healthy burger dinner — FOOD — By Keri White | Special to the Chronicle
Kofta-style burgers Serves four
These are quite versatile: You can use the ground meat of your choice, and swap different herbs or flavors to suit your crowd. This version has a Greek feel with the dill and onion, but you could go in any direction. I added some breadcrumbs to bind the mixture together, but if you are being strictly low/no carb, this can be eliminated. 1 pound ground beef, lamb, turkey or chicken 1/4 cup fresh dill, chopped finely 1/3 cup chopped onion 3 cloves garlic, crushed
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fter the indulgences of summer (Ice cream! Barbecues! Cocktails!) and the High Holidays (Matzah ball soup! Challah! Bagels! Whitefish salad! Honey cake!) many of us feel the need to reduce. With that in mind, I crafted this lower carb but still delicious grilled dinner. If burgers without the bun seem just wrong, you can shape these any way you want. They are basically a riff on kofta kebabs, so feel free to form them into links on skewers if that helps you sacrifice the bun. And if you are slender as a skewer yourself, then serve these in pitas and live it up. Many Mediterranean restaurants serve these with tzatziki, which is a yogurt-based sauce. Toum, aioli, horseradish sauce or any favorite condiment are suitable kosherfriendly workarounds. We now are moving to the in-between season where fall veggies are emerging while we are still enjoying the last of summer produce. This menu attempts to straddle the seasons while using the best of both. And, for the record, I recognize that sweet potatoes are most definitely a carb, but they are a natural, wholesome, unprocessed carb that pack a lot of good nutrients and are supremely satisfying.
1 egg 1/4 cup broth, water, wine or beer 1/4 cup seasoned bread crumbs Juice of 1/2 lemon 1/2 teaspoon salt Lots of fresh cracked pepper
Mix all ingredients well. Using an electric mixer ensures even distribution of flavors and textures. Form the mixture into patties; I kept mine on the small side, about ⅓ cup of the meat for each one. Heat a well-oiled grill to high, and carefully place the patties on it. Cover and cook for about 3 minutes then flip. Repeat for another 3 minutes. Turn the heat off, or push the burgers to the outer edges of the grill and cover for one minute to let them rest. Serve immediately.
Sweetest sweet potatoes Serves four
Using the microwave is a clever shortcut, and finishing these on the grill adds plenty of sweet, caramelized smoky flavor. Start these before you cook the burgers, and time it so both dishes finish at the same time. The sweet potatoes are not time-sensitive; they can stay on the grill longer than indicated below, they will just get softer and sweeter. 4 small or 2 large sweet potatoes
Rinse and prick the sweet potatoes. Place them on a microwave-safe plate and cook for 5-8 minutes, rotating once, until done and soft through the middle. Wrap the sweet potatoes in foil, and cook them on a medium-hot grill for about 20 minutes. Remove, unwrap, slice in half and serve. Summer-fall salad Serves four
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This salad showcases the best of summer and early fall. Tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are still available, while fall carrots, beets and cabbage are arriving at local markets. 1 head lettuce 1 large tomato, chopped (or 1 pint cherry tomatoes) 1 cucumber, peeled and sliced 1/2 bell pepper, seeded and chopped 2 small raw beets, peeled and sliced 3 carrots, shaved 1/4 head cabbage, chopped Dressing: 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon honey
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1 clove garlic, crushed 1/4 cup olive oil Salt and pepper to taste
Place all the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Place all the dressing ingredients in a blender and puree until creamy. Toss it over the salad and serve. Grilled peaches Serves four
Late season peaches — or freestones — are ideal for this recipe because the pit removes easily. And if the fruit’s texture is less than ideal this time of year, roasting it on the grill makes that a nonissue. These can be cooked at the same time as the sweet potatoes and set aside until needed for dessert. Top them with crushed nuts, sorbet or cookie crumbs. If your meal is dairy or pareve, serve with ice cream or a mild, fresh, creamy cheese such as mascarpone, ricotta or chevre. 4 ripe peaches, halved and pitted Juice of 1/2 lemon 3 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons melted margarine or butter A few drips of your favorite liquor: rum, bourbon, brandy, Kahlua, etc.
Place each peach half on a square of heavyduty foil (or a double thickness of standard foil) and spritz with lemon juice. Melt butter or margarine and mix it with the sugar and liquor. Pour this mixture equally over each peach, allowing it to pool in the middle. Wrap the peaches up, sealing each packet at the top, and roast on a medium-high grill for about 15 minutes. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature. PJC PITTSBURGHJEWISHCHRONICLE.ORG
Life & Culture In J.K. Rowling’s new novel, a villain is an Israel-hating anti-Semite — BOOKS — By Yvette Alt Miller | JTA
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or months author J.K. Rowling has been warning about the dangers of anti-Semitism in England, sparring on Twitter with critics who either downplay the phenomenon or say its proponents are confusing criticism of Israel with Jew hatred. Now, in her newest book, she includes a character whose obsessive anti-Zionism morphs into anti-Semitism. “Lethal White,” the fourth book in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike mystery series, written under the pen name Robert Galbraith, features a pair of hard-left political activists who believe “Zionists” are evil and have a stranglehold on Western governments. Extortionist Jimmy Knight’s extreme hatred of Israel has led him to hate Jews. “I wouldn’t trust him if it was anything to do with Jews,” Knight’s ex-wife tells a detective. “He doesn’t like them. Israel’s the root of all evil, according to Jimmy. Zionism: I got sick of the bloody sound of the word. You’d think they’d suffered enough,” she says of Jews. Rowling’s depiction of a far-left anti-Semite comes at a time of record high anti-Semitism in Britain, where she lives. Britain’s Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have been accused of insensitivity to Jews and condoning anti-Jewish sentiments within the party’s ranks. Corbyn previously defended a grotesquely
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anti-Semitic London mural depicting Jewish bankers, and referred to his “friends” in terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, though he’s said he now regrets these positions. A September 2018 poll found that nearly 40 percent of British Jews would seriously consider emigrating if Corbyn became prime minister — as polls show he might. The latest novel isn’t the first time the author of the Harry Potter series has commented on the dangers of anti-Semitism. “Most UK Jews in my timeline are currently having to field this kind of crap, so perhaps some of us non-Jews should start shouldering the burden,” she wrote in April, in response to a critic who said Judaism is
a religion, not a race. “Antisemites think this is a clever argument, so tell us, do: were atheist Jews exempted from wearing the yellow star?” Rowling, who is not Jewish, also shared with her 14.4 million Twitter followers examples of posts she’d received that denied anti-Semitism was a problem. To a commenter who posted that Arabs cannot possibly be anti-Semitic because Arabs are Semites too, Rowling tweeted a photo of a dictionary definition of anti-Semitism: “hostility to or prejudice against Jews.” She also included a spirited defense of Jews: “Split hairs. Debate etymology. Gloss over the abuse of your fellow citizens by attacking the actions
of another country’s government. Would your response to any other form of racism or bigotry be to squirm, deflect or justify?” When a Jewish mother tweeted Rowling to say her son had faced anti-Semitic bullies in school, Rowling tweeted back “so sorry” and wrote “Know that you aren’t alone and that a lot of us stand with you xx.” A few months later, on Aug. 26, after a fellow mystery writer, Simon Maginn, tweeted that British Jews’ outrage over Corbyn’s views were “synthetic,” Rowling defended the Jews. “What other minority would you speak to this way?” she posted, before quoting from Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay “Anti-Semite and Jew.” In 2015, Rowling declined to endorse open letters calling for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel and signed by over 1,000 British authors and opinion leaders. Instead, she joined 150 other writers and artists in penning an alternative letter opposing singling out Israel for opprobrium. “Israelis will be right to ask why cultural boycotts are not also being proposed against ... North Korea,” her Oct. 23, 2015, letter declared. Instead of boycotts, the letter said, “Cultural engagement builds bridges, nurtures freedom and positive movement for change.” Rowling has been critical of the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but is adamant that Israel, its people and its supporters should not be subjected to a double standard by their opponents. PJC
In Argentine film, a Holocaust survivor leaves home to find the man who saved him in WWII — FILM — By Curt Schleier | JTA
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hen the Argentine-Jewish filmmaker Pablo Solarz was 5 or 6 years old, he asked his grandfather if he was Polish. On the phone recently, in heavily accented English, he described his grandfather’s reaction. “He gave me a very dead face,” Solarz recalled. “My father said that [Polish] is a very bad word, and I don’t want to [talk about] it with my grandfather again. My grandfather never wanted to talk about his life in Poland.” Solarz’s grandfather didn’t spend time in a Nazi concentration camp, but he left his native Poland in the 1930s as conditions worsened for Jews. He settled in Buenos Aires and, over time, heard stories from the local Jewish community and the occasional news report about survivors who wanted to return to their roots and thank righteous gentiles who saved their lives. That return narrative became the genesis of Solarz’s “The Last Suit,” a Jewish film festival favorite that opened Sept. 21 in New York and Sept. 28 in Los Angeles prior to a wider national release. The film tells the story
p Manuel Angel Sola appears in a scene from “The Last Suit.”
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of Abraham Bursztein, a Holocaust survivor who leaves Argentina to find his savior, who hid him in a basement following World War II. Bursztein is played by Miguel Angel Sola, a famous Argentine actor whose career dates back to the 1970s.
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In the film, Bursztein is on his last legs, almost literally. One of them, which he nicknames “tsores,” or “troubles” in Yiddish — may need to be amputated. Meanwhile, his family wants to put him into a retirement home, sell his house and divide up his things. While cleaning out his closet, a maid discovers a suit that Bursztein, a tailor, made to fulfill a pledge to the boy who saved his life after the war. Without telling anyone, Bursztein buys a ticket to Europe to find him. Bursztein is a humorously stubborn curmudgeon, yet strangers on his journey — it includes stops in Madrid and Paris — ignore his often nasty behavior to befriend and help him. It’s a tribute to Sola’s nuanced performance: He somehow convinces those around him that there’s more to him than the surface bluster. There’s also his tearjerker story that makes it hard to hate him. In flashbacks we see the immediate aftermath of the war and a young, gaunt Bursztein struggling to walk while trying to reach his family’s home in Lodz — only to find himself turned away by its occupant, a former employee at his father’s business. But the man’s son, a former friend of Bursztein, defies his dad and takes Bursztein into a basement room and nurses him back to health. This is the man Bursztein now seeks, not knowing whether he is still alive 70 years later or even if the neighborhood still exists.
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The film is affecting, but not perfect. Bursztein’s daughter Gail had fled to Madrid a decade ago, when the pair became estranged. In need of cash, he visits her, but it is unclear why he let her go in the first place, or how he can so easily ignore the granddaughter he sees on a staircase but has never met. Gail has her father’s concentration camp number tattooed on her arm to keep his memory alive, but even that does not move him to seek a rapprochement. The plot line raises too many unanswered questions and slows the film. Making the film changed his life, Solarz said. Growing up, he learned about Polish figures such as Chopin and Paderewski and could not understand his grandfather’s hatred of an entire nation. “I thought my grandfather was crazy, and that it was impossible for an entire people to be anti-Semitic,” he said. But shooting scenes in contemporary Lodz neighborhoods, including the ghetto where his grandfather once lived, and seeing several graves with his last name deeply moved the filmmaker. His research for the film included studying the ways that the Nazis were “able to kill 11,000, 12,000 people in the same place in the same day, leave everything clean and be able to do the same thing the next day.” “That wasn’t the first Holocaust,” Solarz said, “and it won’t be the last.” PJC OCTOBER 5, 2018 15
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embellishments, “how complicated the silhouette of the hat is” and whether or not the hat, or any elements relating to it, is hand dyed can all lengthen the process, she explained. Years of practice, as well as an early introduction to the arts, have aided Copeland’s dexterity. “These are just natural things in my family,” she said. “Everybody did something, even if not professionally. Somebody was drawing, somebody was painting, somebody was in metal. That’s what everybody did. That’s what I grew up around.” As a child, Copeland learned to embroider from her mother, Sandra Schneider. Later, Copeland studied art education at Pennsylvania State University, where she graduated in 2000 with a studio focus in metal arts and a minor in art history. Following graduation, she worked as an art teacher for approximately five years before attempting a new artistic endeavor. In 2009, after failing to find a hat that “really fit, I started making them for myself,” she said. With encouragement from her family, Copeland began her business: Jennifer L. Copeland Millinery. Initially, it operated as a strictly made-toorder enterprise. “A client came to me and we did a custom hat,” she said. “Then after a year, we started doing wholesale, selling to boutiques.” From there, the business expanded and sold men’s hats. These days, apart from sales,
Copeland provides repair services. “So you don’t have to necessarily go out and buy a new hat,” she said. Both in becoming a milliner and an entrepreneur, the learning curves were steep but worthwhile, she explained. “With this business, I had no idea what I was doing when I started. Now I’m a businesswoman.” Finding a balance between creating art and appreciating commerce runs in her blood. Copeland’s maiden name, Schneider, means “tailor” in German. Two of her great-grandfathers were tailors, and her great-aunt, Esther Heiss, of Pittsburgh, was a milliner (Heiss’ ads, under the name “Esther Shore,” appeared in several editions of the Jewish Criterion in 1960). “When I started doing this, it really brought back a lot of memories for her daughters who live here and have always been very close,” she said. Copeland’s aunts would “talk about her. She did a lot of bridal work from their home, and really when I got into the business my aunt gave me her [mother’s] stash of embellishments and things, so I have some of my great-aunt’s stuff from when she was a milliner.” Included in Copeland’s inherited collection are the white gloves her great-aunt would use when working on bridal hats so the creations themselves would not get dirty. When these and the other materials were transferred between the generations, it was an emotional moment, said Copeland. “I started crying when they gave it to me. “It’s a very sentimental thing for my family, me doing this very much reminds them, they think of her,” she added.
p The ‘Its My Derby’ exhibit at the Kentucky Derby Museum Photo by Benjamin Copeland
With Copeland’s inclusion in the Kentucky Derby Museum, the generational memories are sure to continue, as she was accompanied by a supportive bunch to see the exhibit. “It was nice because I got to share it with my family and kids who only see me in my home studio work environment,” she said. “They don’t see me in a store pitching my brand, they only see me making the hats at home.” While traveling to Louisville and seeing the displayed hat was “a wonderful expe-
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personal experiences. That first audience, he said, is other physicians. “Most people still say they go to medical school because of the love of what they are doing and really wanting to help people,” he said. “But a lot of people, especially by the time they get to mid-career, feel really frustrated that there are so many walls preventing them from doing that.” There is a “hidden curriculum” in medical schools, he said, that thwarts even the best of intentions. Physicians, Weinkle explained, “might have really wanted to help people, but they learned a sort of behavior of being brusque, or being really speedy, or of turning their attention away from personal connection because it slows down the encounter and gets in the way of them doing what they have on their agenda,” he said. The second audience for “Healing People,” Weinkle said, is “those who have a strong religious background” and would like to apply their spirituality in a practical way in the world. Those seeking health care, and who are unsatisfied with the level of personal attention they receive, comprise Weinkle’s third intended audience. “If you talk to a lot of doctors and find out how frustrated they are practicing, you’ll also find how incredibly frustrated [those seeking treatment] are with the health care 16 OCTOBER 5, 2018
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system for a variety of reasons,” he said. “All of them say the same thing: They don’t feel like they — the person — are being seen at any point in the encounter, that they are a number or just a customer, that they are something other than a human being when they go to the doctor. And a lot of them are really angry.” Weinkle’s authorship of “Healing People”
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was facilitated by a collaboration with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, a relationship begun more than a dozen years ago. He has served as the JHF’s advisor to its Closure initiative, helping to “infuse ethical and spiritual considerations” into fellowships “which train young professionals to have difficult conversations around end of life,” according to Nancy Zionts, chief operating officer and
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rience,” the entire ordeal has been “a little surreal,” she said. “So much of what I do is commercial. I associate artwork in a museum not with a hat. It’s not something I ever expected I would try to do. I didn’t think milliners could do that. “A lot of what I do is preserving an art that is dying a little bit,” she added. “I feel very fortunate to do what I do.” PJC Adam Reinherz can be reached at areinherz @pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.
chief program officer of the JHF. Weinkle, “is a unique individual — someone who has found a way to balance his talents in the sciences/medicine with his strongly held personal beliefs and philosophy,” Zionts said. “I recall that when Jonathan was in medical school he sent me a piece he had written that expressed the two paths he was considering: physician or rabbi. They were both right for him but there was a choice to be made, career-wise. Jonathan, in a very Solomon-esque way, pursued medicine as a career, but brought to that field his deep and lived beliefs that every human is unique, and every person and patient has value.” “Healing People,” which can be purchased from healthyliving.com as well as other sellers, is a launching pad for its author’s continued efforts to improve the doctor/ patient relationship, Weinkle said. He also has created a website, with a blog, in an effort to “try to deepen the practical impact of what I’m writing about.” The blog includes lessons from the Torah as well as from other sources. “We are all human beings — created in the image of God, infinitely valuable, having a spark of the Divine in us, however your philosophy or faith tradition phrases that idea,” Weinkle writes on that website, healerswholisten.com. “When two people meet to discuss how one of them can help the other to heal or to stay well, it needs to be a meeting of two human beings forming a covenant to achieve that goal, nothing less.” PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.
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sarily see the blessings of their good deeds. In fact, the Talmud declares, “there is no reward for the fulfillment of commandments in this world,” leaving Divine reward and punishment for the afterlife. In effect, Divine compassion allowing for free will and ultimate repentance must enable individuals to do even what God, in a perfect world, would not allow them to do! In accordance with this theology, a Chasidic teaching provides an alternative way of reading the first three words in the Torah, bereishit bara elohim, usually translated, “In the beginning, God created.” Since there is an etnachta (a “stop” sign, a semicolon) cantillation underneath the third word in the phrase, the words can also be taken to mean, “Beginnings did God create.” This reading provides hope and optimistic faith even in a world devoid of reward. Anyone who has experienced significant lifestyle changes — whether repentant Jews, recovering addicts, or marriages between widowed and/or divorced people — understands the significance of the challenge and opportunity of “another chance.” Free will, the concept of making your own choices,
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granted the choice to wield either a murderer’s knife or a physician’s scalpel, with human beings not as powerless puppets but rather as potential partners with the Divine, God must hold back from immediate punishment. Compassion (rachamim) must be joined with justice (din) so that the Almighty will grant the possibility of the wicked to repent, the opportunity to those who have fallen to rise once again, and offer the challenge to a fallible humanity to perfect an imperfect world. Indeed, Rashi, the biblical commentator par excellence, notes that the first verse of Genesis, in describing the world’s creation, uses not the Divine Name “Y-H-V-H” (more commonly known as Hashem), associated with the Divine attribute of compassion, but rather the Divine Name Elohim, associated with the Divine attribute of justice, because initially the Holy One, Blessed be He, intended to create a world of strict justice. However, the Almighty realized, as it were, that the world could not endure in such a mode, and therefore gave precedence to Divine compassion, uniting it with Divine justice. This explains, says Rashi, why Genesis 2:4 utilizes the Divine Names Hashem and Elohim, combining the Divine attributes of compassion and justice. There is, however, a steep price we must pay for this Divine compassion and human freedom of choice: the suffering of innocents. If people have the free will to act, then some people will take actions that harm others. And even those who act appropriately will not neces-
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implies that sometimes mistakes will be made and tragedies will occur. But instead of Divine justice descending as a bolt of lightning, Divine compassion emerges to absorb the lethal voltage. Holding off Divine justice is saying we always have another chance to better ourselves, to redeem the tragedy, to try again. And is this not what beginnings are all about? True repentance means carving out a new beginning for oneself. Beginnings, therefore, go hand in hand with Divine compassion, and Divine faith in the human personality to recreate him/herself and to forge a new destiny. The sinner isn’t shut out forever; he is always given another opportunity through repentance, another possibility of re-creating for himself and his immediate environment, a new beginning. Thus, in the Torah’s opening word, bereishit, we find not only the theme of the Torah, but of the entirety of existence: God created an imperfect and sometimes unjust world to allow the possibility of change and growth. If change weren’t possible, if human behavior were as fixed as that of all other mammals, then there would be no need for, and no uniqueness within, human beings. The glory of God and humanity is to be found in the opening phrase of the Bible: “God created beginnings” — new opportunities and manifold re-awakenings. PJC Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is the chief rabbi of Efrat.
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Obituaries AARON: Rita Aaron on Friday, September 21, 2018. Beloved wife of the late Louis Aaron. Beloved mother of Rosalie Aaron, Marvin J. Aaron, Beth S. (Paul) Baldwin, Hal S. Aaron and Barry N. Aaron. Sister of Buddy (late Eleanor) Roth and Melvin Roth. Grandmother of Steven, Valerie, Timmy (Caroline) and Benjamin Baldwin, Samantha and Matthew Aaron and Lindsay (Bryce) Mouchet. Greatgrandmother of Jackson and Mackenzie Mouchet and Timmy Baldwin, II. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. Interment Pliskover Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Jewish War Veterans, Allegheny County, 921-977 Washington Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15208. schugar.com GOLDSTEIN: Jerome (Jerry) L. Goldstein, on Monday, September 24, 2018, peacefully, surrounded by family. Beloved son of the late William and Rose Friedman Goldstein. Brother of the late Stanley Goldstein. Beloved husband of 62 years to Marianne Abeles Goldstein. Beloved father of Paul, Richard (Marlene), and Warren Goldstein. Loved by Diane, Margie, and Amanda Goldstein. Grandfather of Samantha, Julie Filonuk (David), Rebecca, Kimberly, Evan (Megan), Jamie, Max, Tessa and Jorji. Jerry excelled in baseball and basketball at Allderdice before serving overseas in the Navy during World War II. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he became president of the family lighting business and oversaw its expansion. Though a dedicated Pirates fan and successful businessman, Jerry found his greatest joy in life spending time with his wife and family. Children had a special place in his heart and his warmth and generosity extended to all. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. Interment Temple Sinai Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Parkinson’s Foundation of Western PA, 575 Lincoln Ave, Bellevue, PA 15202. schugar.com LOBL: Jacquelyn “Jackie” (Peters) Lobl, on Tuesday, September 25, 2018. Loving and loved wife of Larry Lobl. Loving and loved stepmother of Andy (Stacy) Lobl, Jeff (Stacie) Lobl, and Sarah (T Eric) Allan. Loving and loved grandmother of Ben, Ellie, Tim, Jayna, Becca, Tyler, Janie and Rylee.
Sister of the late Jerry Peters. Daughter of the late Fred and Ethel Peters of Michigan City, Indiana. Contributions may be made to the Womens Cancer Center of Magee Hospital, 300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or the Unity Foundation of La Porte County, Jerry Peters Memorial Fund, 422 Franklin Street, Suite C, Michigan City, IN 46360. Arrangements entrusted to Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., family owned and operated. schugar.com SHAPIRO: Michael D. Shapiro in Aventura, Fla. Michael, 97, husband of 63 years of the late Marion Greenwald Shapiro. Adored father of Joyce Steckman (Walter) of Manhattan and Alan Shapiro (Emily Greenspan) of Brooklyn. Loving grandfather of David Shapiro, Vanessa Steckman Finger (Michael), and Deborah Shapiro, and grandfather of Lucian Finger. Michael was a World War II combat veteran of the Army Air Corps. After one season of professional basketball with the Pittsburgh Ironmen, Michael operated Michael’s Men’s and Boys’ Wear and Michael’s Boutique in Pittsburgh. After moving to Aventura, Michael was a police aide at Miami City Hall. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. Interment Poale Zedeck Memorial Park Cemetery. Contributions in memory of Michael Shapiro to Vitas South Florida Community Connection, 255 East Fifth Street, Suite 1200, Cincinnati, OH 45202. schugar.com
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THIS WEEK’S YAHRZEITS — Sunday October 7: William Abrams, Mary Astrov, Peter Davidson, Edward A. Feinert, Abraham Hansell, Harry D. Linder, I. Edward Plesset, Jesse Rogers, Sara Sadie Sobel, Anna Sokol, Dr. Daniel Solomon, Fannie Stein, Mary Stoller, Harry Ulanoff, Donald Eli Witkin, Rose Zasloff Monday October 8: Jack Caplan, Morris Chaimovitz, Isaiah Cooper, Laurel B. Devon, Rose K. Freed, Pauline J. Isaacs, Sarah Jacobson, Rose Bigman Kalmanowitz, Dr. Paul Kaplan, Anna Klee, Ethel I. Krauss, Ida Magdovitz Krouse, Jacob Joseph Kurtz, Allen Lebovitz, Milton Lehman, Dr. Leonard M. Monheim, Roger E. Resnick, Emanuel Rosenthal, Edith F. Simon, Joseph Weintraub, I. Leroy (Lee) Yahr Tuesday October 9: Emma G. Allen, Harry Barash, Bernard M. Bennett, Hannah Blaufeld, Ruth Mermelstein Cramer, Rhoda Fisher Jonas, Charles Monheim, Traci Michele Perilman, Sadie Schnitzer Wednesday October 10: Fagie Cohen, Oser Cohen, Edward Dobrushin, I. Louis Eckhouse, Pearl Fishkin, Morris Freeman, Israel Gershon, Dorothy Goldstone, Marlene Harris, Albert Hendel, Jacob Katz, David Miller, Eugene Moskovitz, Morris Pechersky, Peter Pink, Sarah Ruth Saul Rosenberg, Sarah Sable, Myer Skirboll, Louis Stern, Rose Wyatt, Bertha Cooper Young Thursday October 11: Gabriel Abramovitz, Morris Beck, David Cohen, Evelyn Hepps Cushner, Fanny Davidson, Sarah Samuels Finkelhor, Bertha Handelman, Meyer Jacobs, Adolph Klein, Louis Klein, Bertha Kruman, Rhea K. Landau, Ruda Bella Rose, Mollie Finegold Ruttenberg, Israel Samuel, Jacob Schnitzer, Abe Shulman, Tibie Verk, Sigmund Yahr Friday October 12: Yetta Angel, Herman Brown, Sarah Schnitzer Elling, Mollie Goldenberg, Sorly Cukerbaum Gordon, Jay Helfant, Miriam Shifra Heller, Benjamin Herskovitz, Jacob Kaufmann, Samuel Levinson, Anne B. Litman, Belle Rosenson, Meyer Rosenthal, Samuel Shire, Morris Shulgold, Ben Spokane, Meyer VeShancey, Jacob Weinstein Saturday October 13: Phillip Americus, Claire Ann Block, Fanny C. Caplan, Ethel Epstein, Ida Sadowsky Frankel, Feige Gottlieb, Rae Hadburg, Nachame Levine Horvitz, William I. Isaacson, Krash Lois Snyder, Alvin S. Mundel, Gertrude Palkovitz, Morris Pattak, Frank Silverberg
SWARTZ: Colette (Serveaux) Swartz on Monday, September 24, 2018. Beloved wife of the late Stanley Swartz. Daughter of the late Henry and Marie Serveaux. Sister of the late Serge Serveaux. Sister-in-law of Betty Mae (late Barris) Siegel and the late Edith (late Martin) Zober. Aunt of Fern Siegel, Lee Siegel, Norman Zober, the late Janet Zober and Neil Siegel. Great-aunt of Eli and Nathan Siegel. Colette was born in Troyes, France. She came to the United States as a war bride, having met Stanley Swartz, when he was serving in the military during World War II. Graveside services and interment were held at Workman’s Circle Cemetery, Branch #45. Contributions may be made to Sivitz Hospice, 200 JHF Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15217. schugar.com PJC
JFCS receives award to help residents in the naturalization process
.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) awarded $9.425 million in grants to 40 organizations across 19 states to help prepare lawful permanent residents for naturalization. Of the $9.425 million, a grant of $225,000 has been awarded to Jewish Family and Community Services. The grants, which run through 2020, aim to promote prospective citizens’ assimilation into American civic life by funding educational programs designed to increase their knowledge of English, U.S. history and civics. U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) wrote a
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letter supporting the JFCS grant application in August 2018. The USCIS’ Citizenship and Assimilation Grant Program is a competitive grant program that provides resources to community organizations to support lawful permanent residents in the naturalization process. JFCS intends to use the awarded funds to assist 200 lawful permanent residents in enrolling in citizenship instruction classes offered by Literacy Pittsburgh, screen 300 lawful permanent residents for eligibility to naturalize and file naturalization applications for 220 lawful permanent residents. PJC
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Headlines Calendar: Continued from page 6 donations of used eye glasses, cell phones/ chargers, new travel size toiletries and caps for men and women who are undergoing cancer treatments. Items will be donated to the Veterans Administration, Children’s Hospital, Hillman Cancer Center and Family House. For more information contact Marcia Kramer, 412-731-3338. Chabad of Squirrel Hill will host “Sweet Beginnings,” a kick-off event for the Love and Knaidels program, which brings women together to cook for others in need. Women will make two pans of rugelach, one to bring home and one to donate, at the event, which will be held at 7 p.m. at Chabad, 1700 Beechwood Boulevard. Admission is $18 per person; a table of 10 can be purchased for $180. Reservations are required by Oct. 14 at chabadpgh.com/sweetbeginnings. THURSDAY, OCT. 18 The Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh will celebrate and recognize the importance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at SPACES in Bakery Square (East Liberty), 6425 Living Place (2nd floor). Learn more about the updated RUSafe app and help welcome the new president and CEO, Nicole Molinaro Karaczun. Wear purple and receive two free raffle tickets. Visit donatewcspittsburgh. networkforgood.com/events/8699-domesticviolence-awareness-month-happy-hour for more information. There is a $25 donation. Beyond the Buzzwords, a kindergarten information session, will be held at Community Day School from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at 6424 Forward Ave. Free babysitting will be provided. Visit comday.org/buzz for more information and to RSVP. There is no charge.
“South Hills Healthy Living: A Blueprint for Tomorrow” series will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the South Hills Jewish Community Center, 345 Kane Blvd. Dr. Keith Somers, a pediatrician and co-founder of One World Eating, will explain the benefits of plant-based diets for both adults and children in his talk on “Plant-Based Diets for a Healthier Family.” Register at southhillsjewishpittsburgh.org/jewishveg. FRIDAY, OCT. 19 Newcomer Shabbat will be held at Repair the World Workshop, 6022 Broad St. beginning with services at 6 p.m. followed by schmoozing and dinner at 6:30 p.m. with a kosher catered Shabbat dinner in partnership with Shalom Pittsburgh, J’Burgh, Jewish Graduate Student Initiative, OneTable and Repair the World. This is the perfect time to bring friends who are new to the city. Contact moishehousepgh@ gmail.com for more information. There is a $5 charge; registration is required. SUNDAY, OCT. 21 Temple Sinai’s Brotherhood will hold a brunch featuring a conversation with Pittsburgh native and The New York Times op-ed staff editor and writer Bari Weiss from 10 a.m. to noon. Weiss was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal before joining The Times. She has also worked at Tablet, the online magazine of Jewish politics and culture and is a frequent panelist on “Real Time with Bill Maher.” She has written extensively on the #MeToo Movement and on issues related to social justice. The charge is $10 per person before 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11 and $18 per person at the door. Register online in your Temple Sinai account or mail a check payable to Temple Sinai Brotherhood, by Thursday, Oct. 11 to Temple Sinai, 5505 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217. Contact Todd Miller at toddprmktg@gmail.com or 412-848-1082 for
more information or visit templesinaipgh.org/ brotherhood-brunch-special-guest-bari-weiss. Congregation Beth Shalom’s Volunteer Awards Brunch will be held at 10 a.m. to celebrate the accomplishments of valued volunteers. The cost is $25.00 per person. RSVP by Friday, Oct. 12. Visit tinyurl.com/ BethShalomVolunteers2018 for more information and to RSVP.
genealogist and historian Tammy Hepps of HomesteadHebrews.com, at 10:30 a.m. at the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Heinz History Center. The presentation will begin with a brief introduction by a member of the JGS leadership team with time at the end for questions and JGS business. Refreshments will be served. Contact pghjgs@gmail.com for more information.
“Cabaret Spectacular” is the theme of the benefit concert by the East Winds Symphonic Band at Rodef Shalom Congregation in Shadyside at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but attendees are encouraged to bring donations of nonperishable food or cash contributions as they arrive to hear the 70-member ensemble, taste light refreshments and enjoy BYO wine. All donations received will be used to support the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry.
Chabad of the South Hills will hold its fourth annual Jewish Comedy Night at 7 p.m. at the Music Hall at the Carnegie Free Library, 300 Beechwood Ave. in Carnegie, featuring Sarge, a singer, comedian and pianist. Enjoy wine, cocktails and hors d’oeuvre. Visit chabadsh. com or contact mussie@chabadsh.com or 412344-2424 for more information and to register. The cost is $36.
SUNDAY-TUESDAY, OCT. 21-23 The National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill University will hold the 2018 Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference on “Women, the Holocaust and Genocide.” Contact Tim Crain at tcrain@ setonhill.edu or 724-830-1855 for more information. Register at alumni.setonhill.edu/ lefrakconference. THURSDAY, OCT. 25
MONDAY, OCT. 29 Members of the Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium will discuss whether environmental stewardship is a religious duty within the respective faith traditions. Panelists will include representatives of the Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Unitarian Universalist and Sikh communities. The event is free and open to the public and will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Monroeville Public Library, 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd. TUESDAY, OCT. 30
Rabbi Barbara Symons of Temple David will discuss the book “The Assistant” by Bernard Malamud from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and again from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Monroeville Public Library at 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd. The community is invited; no registration is required. Visit MonroevilleLibrary.org for more information. SUNDAY, OCT. 28 The Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh presents “Top 10 Things I Learned About My Family From My Couch” with local
The Stand Up for STANDING FIRM luncheon will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Omni William Penn Hotel. Be part of the leading edge of business leaders that is defining new standards for a safe and productive workplace free of partner violence. Join to discuss Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh’s program Standing Firm and recognize and learn from the forwardthinking employer of the year, KOPPERS, and keynote speaker Janine Latus. Visit standingfirmswpa.org/about/annual-event for more information and to register. PJC
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Community Chabad of the South Hills Mega Challah Bake 4Kids
Building a sukkah at Congregation B’nai Abraham
p Chabad of the South Hills held a Mega Challah Bake 4Kids at the South Hills Jewish Community Center on Sept. 16. The holiday program also featured a “Build-a-Torah” workshop in which children and adults were able to see how a Torah is written. Co-sponsors were South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh, Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh and PJ Library. p Parent Ben Binus illustrates how the PVC pipes will fit together in the new sukkah he designed. t Students fit together the pipe frame.
p Natalie Lichtman, Mayah Morrisey and daughter Ayvah Morrisey
Photos courtesy of Chabad of the South Hills
Class of ’66 reunion at Temple Emanuel u Decorating the new sukkah
Photos courtesy of Congregation B’nai Abraham
p Members of Temple Emanuel’s Confirmation Class of 1966 came together for a reunion Shabbat service and luncheon on Saturday, Sept. 22. Many were in town for their 50th Mt. Lebanon High School reunion. They are pictured here with their original class composite photo. Photo courtesy of Temple Emanuel
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Community Hillel Academy Happenings
Sukkah on the Go
Runners from Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh’s cross country team joined more than 400 runners from across the city to compete in a Sept. 16 meet hosted by Carlow Campus School at Boyce Park.
p From left: Varsity and junior varsity girls runners Sima Reinherz, Yehudis Kanal, Kayla Weinberg, Lori Ziff and Tahara Reinherz
p Rabbi Moishe Mayir Vogel (center) and his son Yechiel (left) man a portable sukkah outside the Squirrel Hill Giant Eagle so that passersby could fulfill the mitzvah of lulav and etrog. Rabbi Yisrael Altein paused at the sukkah while on his shopping rounds. Photo by Jim Busis
A mighty wind
p From left: Hillel Academy junior varsity and novice boys runners Gavi Poznanski, Akiva Sunshine, Yinon Leibovich, Caleb Knoll, Shmuel Kanal and Coby Shaw t Chana Katz enjoys the warm weather by getting wrapped up in a book outside.
p A storm knocked Beth Shalom’s sukkah down ...
Photo by Angela Leibowicz
Photos courtesy of Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh
p … but valued volunteers and maintenance staff helped to rebuild it. Photo courtesy of Congregation Beth Shalom
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