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NOTEWORTHY LOCAL Squirrel Hill classmates remember renowned poet Lucie BrockBroido, who passed away at the age of 61, had earned a worldwide following.

JFCS refugee resettlement includes Shmurah after-school programming matzah taste test reveals best bread of affliction

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Even though these kids are placed in classrooms with “peers their age or close to their age, education-wise they may be way behind because of gaps in their education because of their experience in refugee camps,” said Golin. “So not only do they have to struggle with the language and become competent in studying a new language, but they also have an educational gap that they have to overcome.”

Homework assistance and academic support are critical, said the organizers.

The Crafton Heights After School Program occurs within walking distance from participants’ homes, noted Van Treeck.

“That was a really important part of the program, because existing after-school programming usually requires some sort of transportation or additional sign-up costs.

But this program, because it’s being held at a Pittsburgh Public Schools building and is working with Pittsburgh Public Schools students, it’s free of charge for enrollment.”

Dinner, which often consists of either

atzah is a meal best eaten at dark.

So as the sun set and a wall of cardboard containers reflected my dim dining room lights, I approached a challenge only laxative-lovers could appreciate: Eat 10 types of shmurah matzah — the typically round, handmade matzah that tends to grace seder tables, but can be the only matzah consumed over the entire course of the holiday for some groups — examine their overall appeal and crown one champion for a perhaps less-adventurous readership.

This pleasantly “crumby” assignment, like the horseradish contest from two weeks ago, was the brainchild of our editor-in-chief, apparently in cahoots with our publisher and CEO, who when arriving at my doorstep several mornings back with a sack of presents slung over his shoulder apologized that only eight boxes had yet been delivered.

Shmurah matzah, which is often pricier and more challenging to acquire than its more familiar machine-made counterpart, is a specially guarded item. From the time that the matzah’s wheat is harvested, supervisors ensure that no water or moisture encounters the substance.

Prior to opening any of the boxes, I carefully stacked them and deliberated how best to approach the task. After acute contemplation and considerable wasted time online, I determined that replaying various renditions of the main theme from the 1960 film “Exodus” was a seasonally appropriate accompaniment to my duodenal delight, so like Roberta Flack, I “set the night to music.”

Shmurah matzah number one was from Mishmeret Hamatzot. What I discovered inside the regally decorated burgundy bin was a thin and easy to chomp piece whose subtle taste ironically offset its

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LOCAL Words matter, board learns Gateway official mocked rabbi.

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 A JFCS volunteer helps Syrian native Aisha complete her homework.

Photo courtesy of JFCS

France’s lost world

By Adam Reinherz | Staff Writer

N Temple Emanuel exhibit showcases work of dedicated historian.

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early four miles west of the city’s center, Jewish Family and Community Services is having a broad impact on the region’s newest residents.

Every Tuesday and Thursday evening, approximately a dozen volunteers travel to Crafton Heights to mentor, teach English and offer cultural orientation to roughly 50 area youth. The children, who range in age between 5 and 20 years old, hail from Syria, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan.

Their parents “wanted to come to America for a better life for their children,” said Andrew Van Treeck, JFCS’ refugee and immigrant volunteer coordinator, “and they view education as the best way to that better life.”

That makes the interventions offered by JFCS so vitally important, explained Jordan Golin, the organization’s president and CEO. Many immigrant children struggle to keep pace with their Pittsburgh Public Schools classmates.

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Headlines Poet with unique flair remembered as a Pittsburgh youth — LOCAL —

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ere days before memorialization by The New York Times in a piece that praised her poetry and pictured her iconic tresses crowned by a fur cap, Lucie Brock-Broido was similarly lionized by The New Yorker for possessing a “sly, baroque diction” vaulting her among the historic American voices.

That encomia should come for the professor and director of Columbia University’s poetry concentration, who at 61 died after “a brief illness,” is not uncommon.

Neither is the reawakening of childhood memories by those who knew the magnificently radiating girl from Maynard Street in Squirrel Hill.

“I can picture her perfectly,” said Jill Silverman, of San Francisco. “She had long flowing light brown hair. She had freckles, a big smile. She was very pretty, very friendly.”

Silverman and Brock-Broido, both of whom were born in 1956, became friends at the Wightman School, located on Pittsburgh’s Solway Street.

“It was probably around third grade that I knew that she was exceptional,” said Tracey Goldblum, of New York. “We were in the library and we were reading our stuff aloud,” and it came time for her classmate to share her composition. With poise and projection, Brock-Broido recited her crafted tale of Py-Co-Pay the Toothbrush.

“I will never forget the response I had of both jealousy and awe that she was such a good and entertaining writer even at that age,” said Goldblum. It was “visceral.”

Early on it was clear that “she had a flair for artistic things,” agreed Silverman.

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“Lucie was probably In 1971, Bennett and more dramatic than most Brock-Broido created a little girls, but not in a bad text, titled “Peoplings,” way,” offered Wightman for a nint h-grade classmate Kim Teitelbaum English assignment. (née Righter).

“When I say we wrote Brock-Broido came by a book together, it was her talents honestly. Her [actually] a pastiche of mother, Virginia “Ginger” collages, very bad poetry Greenwald, performed in on my part, not too bad George Romero’s films, did on her part, illustrations, voiceover and on-camera song lyrics, all sorts of commercial work, studied provocative things ripped to be a playwright, served from the headlines of Life on the board of the PittsMagazine and Weekly burgh Playhouse and World News and other directed the City Theatre. things because she really But it was a residenliked to be provocative,” tially staged achievement explained Bennett. that still strikes sentiment, Whether it was cutting recalled Teitelbaum. class at Allderdice, skip“When we were younger, ping Saturday school at middle school age, Lucie synagogue or swimming in Brock-Broido was having a big sleepover p LuciePhoto her family’s outdoor pool courtesy of Lou Weiss with a lot of girlfriends and at all hours of the night, it was late and we were all sprawled out over Brock-Broido had no shortage of adventures, the floor and beds in the bedroom trying said those who knew her. to settle down for the night,” she said. “And “We all had quirks,” said Goldblum. “She suddenly the door opened and in came a just seemed so interesting all the time.” person with a nylon stocking over her head, One winter, “Lucie had wanted a and we all started screaming bloody murder. Christmas tree in the worst way,” rememAnd here it was her mother purposely trying bered Teitelbaum. She eventually got one to give us a fright. She definitely succeeded. for her bedroom, but when the two decided I’ll never forget that.” to take it down, “it was shedding all of the Teitelbaum thought that Brock-Broido needles all over the floor.” would go on to be an actress like her Ginger was downstairs entertaining mother. “But then she was drawn to friends and “Lucie was trying to dispose of poetry,” she mused. this Christmas tree,” continued Teitelbaum.

“She was pretty self-aware. I mean, she “We didn’t want to go down and make a had … a career path already at the age of fuss in front of all of the ladies” so Brock14 mapped out pretty well,” said Wendy Broido decided that it would be best to push Bennett, a friend of Brock-Broido’s from it through the window. “We opened up the Taylor Allderdice High School. window and pushed and pushed” until the

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tree finally fell two stories down. It “plopped right beside where Ginger and her friends were playing mah-jongg.”

It wasn’t the only time the pair cooked up mischief. Frequent class-cutters, as teenagers Teitelbaum and Brock-Broido would head up Darlington Road, “near the top of the hill,” park on Serpentine Drive in Schenley Park, play the radio and smoke cigarettes.

“We thought we had a good hiding place,” until “we were busted,” said Teitelbaum.

One day, Ginger, who was in the car with “some other women who she played mah-jongg with,” drove past. “I still remember the look on her face as she went by and shook her finger at us,” said Teitelbaum. “We had a lot of laughs.”

After high school, Brock-Broido earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia before joining the latter’s faculty. Her accolades include the Witter Bynner prize for poetry from the Academy of American Arts and Letters; Harvard University’s Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award; the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching; the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review; two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her 2013 work, “Stay, Illusion,” was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

“She was obviously very bright,” said Silverman. “She could do whatever she wanted to, I think, but she had a flair for artistic things so it makes sense that she went in that direction.”

Added Bennett: “Lucie was in every sense of the word unique.” PJC Adam Reinherz can be reached at areinherz @pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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Headlines Gateway school board member accused of anti-Semitic comments resigns, apologizes — LOCAL —

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Gateway school board member who was accused last week of making anti-Semitic comments to Rabbi Barbara Symons, spiritual leader of Temple David of Monroeville, has apologized after initially refusing to do so.

Steve O’Donnell spoke to Symons by phone on Monday, telling her he was sorry for making comments which she, and others, interpreted as anti-Semitic. Those comments included asking Symons twice, “Do you know you have a thing on your head?” and addressing her as “Barb” rather than calling her “Rabbi” following a zoning meeting several weeks ago.

Symons wrote a letter to O’Donnell criticizing him for those comments, to which he did not respond. Then, at a school board meeting last Thursday, Rev. Dr. David Morse of the Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium publicly read a letter from the organization chiding O’Donnell for those comments as well as his failure to apologize. O’Donnell responded to that criticism in a tirade captured on video in which he steadfastly refused to apologize, said he was being “bullied,” and twice told the rabbi: “And

the only thing I can the rabbi’s yarmulke, declined assume in respect to refer to her as ‘rabbi,’ and to your letter is that suggested that she felt supeyou judge yourrior to him because she is self to be superior Jewish. When asked to apolto me. Perhaps it’s ogize, O’Donnell refused and because you’re a Jew.” insisted that Rabbi Symons On Friday, O’Donowed him an apology.” nell announced his On Saturday, O’Donresignation from the nell left a voicemail message for Symons school board — on wishing to apologize. which he has served In a phone interview with for the past six years Rabbi Barbara Symons was target of tirade. .

File photo the Chronicle on Monday, — but said it is unrethe now-retired school lated to the criticism he board member said that the comments he received for his comments regarding the rabbi. made to Symons regarding her kippah at the Rather, he said, he resigned because he and zoning meeting were intended to “lighten his wife are moving to the city of Pittsburgh. things” after what had been a “contentious Also on Friday, O’Donnell gave interviews to local media defending the comments he made meeting.” But instead, those comments went to Symons, including a televised interview on “horribly wrong.”

“I didn’t know she took umbrage to that until WTAE in which he said he was not obliged to I received her letter on March 13,” said O’Donaddress Symons as “rabbi,” and denying that he nell, a former social worker and politician who is an anti-Semite. ran as the Democratic candidate for District 18 The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsof the Pennsylvania House of Representatives burgh’s Community Relations Council in 2008.

“I was hurt first, then angry. I have condemned O’Donnell’s remarks. never been accused of being anti-Semitic.

I “We are appalled by the actions of Steve didn’t know how to respond to that letter. ” O’Donnell, who has since resigned from the O’Donnell acknowledged that his reacboard,” the CRC said in a prepared statement. tion to being publicly criticized by the “On separate occasions Mr. O’Donnell mocked

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ministerium at the school board meeting was “strong, unkind and inappropriate. That response was generated out of anger.”

But sometime after that meeting, O’Donnell reflected on his comments to Symons and concluded that “it really didn’t matter what my intention was, but how it was perceived — and it was perceived as a slight.

I knew I had to man up and apologize. I made a mistake, and it was compounded at the [school board] meeting.”

O’Donnell was finally able to connect with Symons on Monday.

“He was contrite,” Symons said. “He apologized and said he would take other steps to publicly apologize.”

His apology, she said, “starts to sew up the tear in our community but does not go back to where our community had been.”

Although O’Donnell is working on making amends for his actions, the incident has nonetheless prompted one community member, calling himself “John Doe,” to send the following message to Symons via email last Saturday: “If what I read in the paper is correct …

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Headlines CHATHAM UNIVERSITY at Tree of Life Congregation

Scholar commemorates Holocaust-era French Jews in Temple Emanuel exhibit — LOCAL —

By Toby Tabachnick | Senior Staff Writer

Created with the enrichment of the community in mind, Chatham University and Tree of Life have created a lifelong learning event series featuring lectures, discussions, musical performances, workshops, and film screenings that deepen knowledge, broaden connections, and expand horizons.

7:00 P.M. at TREE OF LIFE and free to the public unless otherwise noted.

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Workshop: Creating a Vessel of Felted Wool, 3:00-6:00 p.m., Juliane Gorman, Chatham University, $50

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The Significance of Souvenirs, Dr. Bill Lenz, Chatham University Professor Emeritus

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Workshop: Watercolor Technique: A Hands-On Exploration, 3:00-6:00 p.m., Robin Menard, Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, $50

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avid Rosenberg first set foot in Amiens, France, in 1974 when he was doing research for his dissertation on 16th-century Protestants in a predominately Catholic city.

But when Rosenberg, a labor archivist at the University of Pittsburgh, returned to Amiens in 2010 upon his retirement, his research interest pivoted from Protestants in the 1500s to the Jews of the Sommes during the Nazi occupation of France.

For the last eight years Rosenberg has returned often to Amiens, delving into archival records, and discovering “new resources unexploited by local scholars” concerning the fate of the estimated 200 or 300 Jews living in the area prior to World War II, he said.

The product of some of his research is currently on display at Temple Emanuel of South Hills in an exhibit titled “Who is a Jew? Amiens, France, 1940-45.”

“Who is a Jew?” focuses on a set of photo identification cards of French Jews from the region, exploring how they self-identified when forced to register during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Most of the 42 photo-identification file forms (or fiches) in Rosenberg’s exhibit, which was designed by his daughter, Lydia Rosenberg, can be traced back to approximately June 1942, and were compiled in Amiens at the police station before they were sent to the nearby Prefecture of the Somme.

“I wanted to commemorate the lives that were lost that I have come to know something about through the research,” Rosenberg said about the exhibit. “I wanted to give people a little bit of the experience of looking at the documents, having discovered these photos, so people can see the faces of over 40 people who had been subjected to the program, so to speak. I am trying to help make the truth of those lives inescapable.

“When you see the people, in addition to knowing about some of their experiences and their words, that cries out to you — not to be forgotten, not to be turned away,” he added.

Rosenberg will head back to Amiens this summer to continue his research. In addition to his academic interest in the subject, he is hoping to make the town “more aware of this history.”

“I’m hoping that this exhibit may be translated to French and displayed in Amiens,” he said. “That’s really my goal. To make people see what was.”

Of the 42 individuals in the group represented by the fiches, 27 were arrested, deported and perished in Auschwitz.

In 2013, Rosenberg was named “knight in the order of arts and letters” by the French Culture Ministry for his research, and he has worked with leaders of the Jewish community in Amiens to encourage the city to erect a commemorative plaque at the site of the town’s former synagogue.

“Who is a Jew” will run at Temple Emanuel through May 31, 2018. PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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p Patrons peruse David Rosenberg’s research on the exhibit’s opening day.

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Calendar  SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Game Day at Moishe House from 1 to 4 p.m.

Come over for snacks, Scrabble, and the Moishe squad. Play one of our games or bring your own and teach us how to play.

Contact moishehousepgh@gmail.com for more information.  SUNDAY, APRIL 8

 TUESDAY, APRIL 10 Weeks of Jewish Flourishing through April 20. During the weeks between Passover and Shavuot — a time for reflection and self-examination — Pittsburgh’s most innovative teachers are curating an experimental series of discussions, classes, services and concerts to stretch comfort zones. You can expect to explore new ways to connect, find belonging, (re)discover enthusiasm and challenge yourself.

How Can Jewish Wisdom + Practice Deepen Human Flourishing at 7:30 p.m. at Rodef Shalom. This is the opening plenary panel to the Weeks of Jewish Flourishing: Local and national teachers discuss how Jewish wisdom can serve humanity.

Visit facebook.com/jewishflourishing for the complete schedule. >> 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. The deadline for submissions is Friday, noon.  FRIDAY, APRIL 6 Beth El Congregation will host a free rededication event at 6 p.m. with dinner to celebrate its newly renovated Sufrin Family Chapel. Friends in the community are

welcome to attend. Visit bethelcong.org for more information and to RSVP.  FRIDAY, APRIL 6 TO APRIL 14 The Seton Hill University Theatre Department, in partnership with the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, will hold performances of “Letters to Sala” at its Performing Arts Center on Harrison Avenue in Greensburg. Visit setonhill.edu/tickets or call 724-552-2929 for more information.

Temple Sinai’s Rummage Sale will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The sale will have housewares, kids’ items, sporting goods, crystal, jewelry, art, small furnishings and more. Proceeds benefit the Nathan & Hilda Katzen Center for Jewish Learning. Visit templesinaipgh.org/rummage-sale for more information.

The community is invited to attend “Lost Worlds Found” at 10:30 a.m. at the Senator John Heinz History Center. Pittsburgh-based photographer David Aschkenas will tell stories behind a selection of his work focusing on photographs of the grand synagogues and Jewish cemeteries of Europe and his ongoing documentation of Pittsburgh.

Students from the University of Pittsburgh will complement Aschkenas’ work as they present new research about Western Pennsylvania Jewish history. Their work stems from professor Rachel Kranson’s “Jews and the City” course, which follows the migration of Eastern European Jews to urban centers around the world, including Pittsburgh.

This program is free and open to the public but does not include museum admission.

An open house with student researchers will begin at 11:30 a.m. Contact Eric Lidji at eslidji@heinzhistorycenter.org or 412-4546406 for more information. Visit tinyurl.com/ y9fs2vu4 to register.

Women of Reform Judaism Atlantic District Pittsburgh Area Sisterhood Day will hold a lunch and panel discussion about human trafficking from noon to 2 p.m. at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Speakers include Alison Hall, executive director of PAAR; Liz Miller, chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and professor of pediatrics at UPMC School of Medicine; and Brad Orsini, community security director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. Attendees are invited to bring travel sizes of shampoo, conditioner, soaps, toothpaste, toothbrushes, K-cups, instant creamers, paper coffee cups with lids, and nonperishable food snacks to be used at PAAR’s drop in center for victims of trafficking. This is a women only event.

There is an $18 charge and lunch is included.

RSVP to Shirley Tucker at 412-420-3411.

Beth Shalom’s Adult Education Committee invites the community for a free presentation

by Sarah Kreimer as she discusses her book, “Vision and Division in Israel: Forty Years of Activism Along the Seam” at 3 p.m.

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Join in the celebration of Rabbi Jamie Gibson’s 30th Anniversary with Temple Sinai: Sunday, April 29, 2018 5:30 PM • 6:00 PM dinner, followed by program Temple Sinai 5505 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA An evening of much fun and entertaining festivities!

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Calendar q SUNDAY-MONDAY, APRIL 8 AND 9 Classrooms Without Borders will present the screening of “Nana” followed by Q&A with director Serena Dykman.

Dykman retraces her grandmother’s Auschwitz survival story, and investigates how her lifelong fight against intolerance can continue to be taught to new generations, against the backdrop of current events. Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant, born in Poland, survived Ravensbruck, Malchow and Auschwitz, where she was the forced translator of the “Angel of Death,” Dr. Joseph Mengele. She dedicated her post-war life to publicly speaking of her survival to younger generations, so that it would never be forgotten or repeated. Alice and Serena, her daughter and granddaughter, explore how Michalowski-Dyamant’s fight against intolerance can continue today, in a world where survivors are disappearing, and intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism are on the rise. There is no charge and the community is invited.

On April 8, 7 p.m. at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Visit classroomswithoutborders.org/events/ show.php?185 for more information. On April 9, 6:30 p.m. at Cranberry Library, 2525 Rochester Road Suite 300.

Calendar: Continued from page 6 colleague for 14 years. The Center overcame numerous obstacles, both legal and cultural, to advance business development in the country’s Arab sector and to catalyze economic cooperation between Jews and Arabs throughout the Middle East. Awarded the Speaker of the Knesset’s Award for Quality of Life in the Field of Tolerance in 2002, she remains a bridge-builder between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Contact Chris Hall at adulteducationcbs@gmail.com to RSVP. q MONDAY, APRIL 9 Rabbi Alex Greenbaum and Beth El Congregation will host a lunch and presentation with Michael Walter, Nationality Rooms tour coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hear how the Nationality Rooms came to be, the principles that guided their design and interpretation, and how they are used today.

There is a $6 charge. Visit bethelcong.org for more information.

The Women of Temple Sinai invite the community to learn about Tapas & Easy Appetizers with Barbara Gibson at 6:30 p.m.

Anyone age 16 and older is welcome. The cost for this class is $10. RSVP by Friday, April 6.

Visit templesinaipgh.org/wots-cookingclass-6 to RSVP and for more information.

Adulting Public Speaking from 7 to 9 p.m. at Moishe House. Learn how to wow the crowds during the interactive public speaking workshop, led by our very own CB Chernomorets. Come prepared with questions or just come to learn. Contact moishehousepgh@gmail.com for more information. q TUESDAY, APRIL 10 The Women’s Philanthropy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s 2018 Spring Event will feature Elad Shippony and “The Wandering Israeli” at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, preceded by a pre-reception for Lion of Judah Society, Lion of Judah Endowment members or Pomegranate Society. The presentation of the Natalie Novick Woman of Philanthropy Award will be given to Elaine Krasik.

There is a charge. Contact Mia Alcorn at malcorn@jfedpgh.org or 412-992-5222 or visit jfedpgh.org/spring-event for more information and to register.

The Squirrel Hill Historical Society free

meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Church of the Redeemer, 5700 Forbes Ave., on the topic Streetcar Days in Squirrel Hill with speaker George Gula, Port Authority (retired) and Western Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.

The meeting is open to the community. Visit squirrelhillhistory.org for more information. q WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 The Waldman International Award Ceremony will be held at the East End Cooperative Ministry, 6140 Station St. at 6:30 p.m. The Waldman International Arts and Writing Competition allows students in grades six to 12 to submit original art and compete for academic scholarships. There are categories in creative writing, visual arts and short film. The theme for 2017-2018 was Children in the Holocaust, 1933-1945.

Participants come from across Allegheny County and from Israel. Israeli winners are brought to Pittsburgh to meet American winners and tour the city. Visit hcofpgh.org/ waldman2 for a full list of winners and to register for the event.

The 30th annual Westmoreland County Interfaith Holocaust Memorial Service will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Latrobe. Yolanda Avram Willis, who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child in Greece, will speak. A reception will follow the service. This event is sponsored by Congregation Emanu-El Israel in Greensburg, Seton Hill University’s National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, the Greensburg Ministerium, the Greater Latrobe Ministerial Association, the GreensburgJeannette NAACP, YWCA of Westmoreland County, Westmoreland Diversity Coalition and the Westmoreland Jewish Community Council. The program is free and open to the community. q WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

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Heal Grow and Live with Hope NarAnon meeting and NA Meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Beth El Congregation of the South Hills, 1900 Cochran Road. Use the office entrance. Newcomers are welcome.

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on the CDS campus. The event will include lighting of remembrance candles by local Holocaust survivors and their families, as well as a flag-lowering ceremony. The theme will be “The Power of Words,” focusing on the impact that words had in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides and how the words that we choose shape both our views and history.

Keynote speakers will be Rup Pokharel, who came to the United States as a refugee from Bhutan and is now the service coordinator for Jewish Family and Community Services in Pittsburgh, as well as Leslie Aizenman, director of JFCS Refugee and Immigrant Services.

Contact 412-521-1100, ext. 3207 or Jenny Jones at jjones@comday.org to reserve seating.

The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh will present its Yom HaShoah Commemoration, 20 Years of “Flares of Memory,” at 6:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh Katz Auditorium on Darlington Road. The program will honor local survivors and their families and will include selections from the Center’s publication, “Flares of Memory.”

The event is free and open to the community; registration is encouraged. Visit hcofpgh.org/yom-hashoah or call 412-9397289 for more information and to register. q FRIDAY, APRIL 13

Park becoming a reality. Enjoy exclusive access to the museum’s collection as well as unique activities featuring behind the scenes specimens while listening to music and drinking with friends. Proper identification is required, and all guests must show ID at the door. Tickets will cost $5 for the first 15 who sign up, $15 after that.

Contact moishehousepgh@gmail.com for more information. q SUNDAY, APRIL 15 The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Volunteer Center will hold Good Deeds Day, an international celebration of doing good.

This year the Volunteer Center is partnering with almost 50 different neighborhood associations, religious institutions, and nonprofit organizations to have more than 900 volunteer spots all across Pittsburgh.

Visit jfedvolunteer.org/good-deeds-day-2018 for more information and to register.

MoHo Does Good Deeds Day from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year, Moishe House will be sponsoring two sites with the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Volunteer Center.

Lunch at the house is first. Visit tinyurl.com/ moishehousegooddeeds to register. Moishe House projects will be at Observatory Hill and the New Hazlett Center for the Performing Arts.

Contact moishehousepgh@gmail.com for more information.

Moishe House goes to Jurassic Park after Dark at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History at Beth El Congregation will host South Hills 7 p.m. Learn more about dinosaur museum Genealogy Day, a free day of genealogy specimens with docent-led tours. Watch “Jurassic Park” with our dinosaur expert and pick his brain about the likelihood of Jurassic JC ReSound 3 guysbasketball_Eartique 4/2/18 3:41 PM Page Please 1 see Calendar, page 20

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Headlines French Jews see a ‘lesson learned’ in handling of Holocaust survivor’s slaying — WORLD —

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ast April, Traore Kobili threw his Jewish neighbor to her death from her thirdstory home in Paris while calling her a demon and shouting about Allah. French authorities waited 170 days before they declared the killing of Sarah Halimi an antiSemitic hate crime — and that was after unprecedented lobbying by French Jewish groups. “We need to let the judiciary do its job,� Magali Lafourcade, president of the French government’s National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, said in an interview at the height of the campaign, which united Jewish organizations across the political spectrum.

Nearly a year after that incident, a similar case prompted authorities to do the job a lot faster. The murder of Mireille Knoll, a Holocaust survivor who was stabbed and set on fire allegedly by a Muslim neighbor on March 23, swiftly led to an indictment against her neighbor and an alleged accomplice on murder and hate crime charges.

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Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was “appalled� by her murder, which he linked to the murder of a French police officer, Arnaud Beltrame, by an Islamist last week in southern France.

The following day he attended Beltrame’s funeral, and then Knoll’s in the Paris suburb of Bagneux, where Macron said she was “killed because she was Jewish.�

The same day, at least 10,000 people, including many Jews, some wearing Israeli flags, participated in a memorial march to Knoll’s home from Nation Square. The march, amid intensive coverage by the French media of the affair, was greeted as

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One participant, Holocaust survivor Nicole Friedman, said that she came to the march “because I’m Jewish, and because I lived through the war.� Flanked by her daughter, Friedman marched slowly with the aid of a cane.

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Judge Reinhardt, ‘liberal lion’ of 9th Circuit, dead at 87 Judge Stephen Reinhardt, dubbed the “liberal lion” of American jurisprudence and an outspoken advocate on Jewish as well as legal issues, has died at 87.

Reindhardt died of a heart attack during a visit March 29 to a Los Angeles dermatologist, according to a spokesman for the U.S. 9th Circuit of Appeals, on which Reinhardt served from his 1980 appointment by President Jimmy Carter until his death.

“Reinhardt was deeply principled, fiercely passionate about the law and fearless in his decisions,” Chief Judge Sidney Thomas of the 9th Circuit — whose jurisdiction includes the Western United States, Alaska and Hawaii — told the Los Angeles Times. “He will be remembered as one of the giants of the federal bench.”

His rulings were frequently overturned by a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court, to which Reinhardt responded that he was not about to help the Supreme Court take away the rights of citizens.

Among his more controversial decisions was that the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance were unconstitutional, as were bans on same-sex marriage and physician-assisted suicide.

Reinhardt was born in New York as

Stephen Shapiro, but changed his name when his mother divorced his father and married Gottfried Reinhardt, a screenwriter, director and producer (“The Red Badge of Courage,” “Town Without Pity”) who introduced the boy to the Hollywood community.

Stephen Reinhardt’s even more famous grandfather was Max Reinhardt, who revolutionized the German stage and then created Hollywood Bowl spectacles after fleeing Hitler.

The trauma of those days also deeply affected Stephen Reinhardt, and he spoke passionately about Jewish issues.

His first wife, Maureen Kindel, told Citizen Magazine in an interview that her husband “thinks about his Jewish heritage a lot, very much so. He also thinks about the discrimination against Jews that he suffered when he was younger. I’m sure that has formulated his views about being protective of people’s rights.”

In 1990, in an address to the City Club of Los Angeles that was labeled “provocative” by the media, Reinhardt maintained that Jews were drastically underrepresented on the U.S. Supreme Court, adding that if some were added, “the result would be a better, kinder and gentler nation.”

According to the Times, Reinhardt was close to former 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, a conservative. Kozinski retired under pressure in December in response to a sexual harassment allegation.

Reinhardt is survived by his wife, Ramona Ripton, the longtime former head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern

California; three adult children — Mark, a political science professor; Justin, a musician; and Dana, a novelist — and seven grandchildren.

Netanyahu officially cancels African migrants deal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially canceled an agreement made with the United Nations that would have relocated thousands of African asylum seekers to Western countries.

The cancellation on Tuesday afternoon came a day after the agreement was first announced and hours after the prime minister said he would freeze the deal in order to consult with members of his government coalition as well as the residents of southern Tel Aviv, where many of the migrants live.

“In the past 24 hours, I have held many consultations with Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, with professionals and representatives of residents of southern Tel Aviv,” Netanyahu said Tuesday in his announcement. “I listened attentively to criticism of the agreement. As a result, and after evaluating a new balance of advantages and disadvantages, I decided to cancel the agreement.”

He also said: “Despite the growing legal and international difficulties, we will continue to act with determination to exhaust all the possibilities available to us to remove the infiltrators. At the same time, we will continue to seek additional solutions.”

Under the agreement announced earlier Monday with the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, Israel would have allowed thousands of African migrants to stay in the country on a temporary residency permit for up to five years. The rest, some 16,000 or so, would have been settled in countries such as Canada, Germany and Italy.

The deal put Netanyahu under fire from several conservative politicians, including some in his own Likud party. Naftali Bennett, head of the right-wing Jewish Home party, said the agreement would “turn Israel into a paradise for infiltrators.”

It is not known what will happen now to the up to 40,000 African asylum seekers in Israel; an Israeli government plan to deport them this month was put on hold following the announcement of the U.N. deal.

Israel had been scheduled to begin deporting the migrants next week under a plan and budget approved by the country’s Cabinet in January. The Supreme Court had frozen the deportations in mid-March after a petition filed by opponents, and had been waiting for the government to respond to the petition.

According to the government plan, migrants who had chosen to leave by March 31 would receive a payment of $3,500 as well as free airfare and other incentives.

The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement Monday that the original mass deportation plan was canceled “because of legal considerations and political difficulties on behalf of third-party countries.” PJC

This week in Israeli history April 9, 1921 — Yitzhak Navon is born

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Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s fifth president, is born in Jerusalem.

April 6, 1923 — Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Shoshana Netanyahu is born in Danzig, Poland

April 10, 2005 — NATO holds first international workshop in Israel

April 7, 1977 — Maccabi Tel Aviv wins its first European basketball championship

April 11, 1961 — Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Jerusalem

Retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Shoshana Netanyahu, the second woman to serve on Israel’s highest court, is born in the free city of Danzig (Gdnask, Poland).

Maccabi Tel Aviv defeats Mobilgirgi Varese 78-77 to win its first Euro-League basketball championship.

April 8, 2006 — Israel hosts first international dance sport competition in Ashdod

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The trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Nazi Final Solution, begins in front of a special panel of three judges at the Beit Ha’am community center in Jerusalem.

April 12, 1984 — Egged Bus 300 kidnapping and hostage affair takes place

More than 3,000 spectators attend the Ten-Dance European Cup, the first international dance sports competition to be held in Israel.

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Headlines Mega-donors are taking over Jewish philanthropy, new study says — NATIONAL —

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EW YORK — Large donors and foundations are responsible for an increasing share of American Jewish giving, and are exercising greater influence on Jewish communal priorities than they were in previous generations, according to a new study.

The mega-donor trend was quantified in the study of American Jewish philanthropy published March 8 by the Avi Chai Foundation and written by Jewish historian Jack Wertheimer. The study found that as the total amount of money donated to Jewish causes has declined in recent decades, the number of donors is plummeting.

Jewish federations, for example, receive only 30 to 40 percent of the number of donations they got in the early 1970s while relying on a small pool of deep-pocketed donors.

The study refers to the “rule of 80/20 or even 90/10: between 80 and 90 percent of the funds they raise come from a small minority of their donors.”

This growing reliance on big donors means that Jewish organizations are not as accountable to rank-and-file Jews as they once were, Wertheimer said, and that smaller donors can claim less of a stake in those institutions than they once did.

“The Jewish community is becoming even less of a representative democracy than it ever was,” said Wertheimer, an American Jewish history professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary. “Jewish organizations are going to be far more beholden to a smaller number of donors. This consensus-driven approach to Jewish communal life is endangered by that because these larger donors want what they want.”

Wertheimer also observed that big donors want more control over where their money goes and how it is spent. In the past, big donors would give to umbrella communal organizations like a local Jewish federation or a social service agency. But nowadays, he said, donors are focusing less on where to give and more on how to impact causes they support. That means they are less loyal to specific institutions — like a Jewish community center or nursing home — and instead care about, as the report said, “achieving a social aim or addressing a systemic problem.”

“Some of the larger funders are thinking of making a greater impact,” Wertheimer said.

“The way you make a greater impact is not by supporting institutions but by supporting new kinds of programming addressing systemic challenges and innovation. It’s a trade-off between supporting the tried and the true versus supporting innovation.”

Based on his observations of the history of American Jewish philanthropy, Wertheimer

“Some of the biggest givers are convinced that most Jews, especially Millennials and intermarried families, will not become active participants in synagogues, Federations or other established institutions,” the report said. “To reach them, it is necessary to offer opportunities for Jews to gather, even if it is on an infrequent basis. In a related shift, programs to build Jewish identity have now superseded social services as favored causes.”

Wertheimer said that despite the shrinking number of donors, the report made him optimistic that successive generations are still invested in funding Jewish causes. He did not find conclusive evidence that millennial donors are not giving to Jewish groups. The number of Orthodox donors, he said, is also increasing. p Jack Wertheimer Courtesy photo “It rests upon a smaller base of said that donors are now focused on outreach support,” Wertheimer said of Jewish philanand engagement of unaffiliated Jews rather thropy. “But there are new people coming than funding social services. The report does out, who are coming into this area, who want not include overarching data showing such to become players and have an impact.” a shift. But Wertheimer cited several large Total American giving to Jewish causes engagement-driven initiatives that have in the United States and Israel amounted to sprung up in the past 20 years — like Birth- $5.5 billion to $6 billion in 2015, according right, the free 10-day trip to Israel, and the to research Wertheimer cited from the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Educa- Forward. That represents a decline of some tion — along with an emphasis on Jewish 15 to 20 percent since 20 years earlier, campus programming and summer camp. according to an analysis of the data. PJC

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Opinion Words have meaning; so too do interfaith alliances — EDITORIAL —

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s last week’s Gateway school board meeting demonstrated, Pittsburgh is not immune from religiously insensitive or offensive speech coming from its elected officials — if not outright anti-Semitism.

On the heels of Washington, D.C., councilman Trayon White’s outrageous accusation that the “Rothchilds control the climate to create natural disasters” came Gateway school board member Steve O’Donnell derisively questioning Rabbi Barbara Symons twice about her kippah while at a public zoning meeting: “Do you know you have a thing on your head?”

O’Donnell also chose to address the spiritual leader of Temple David as “Barb” — they had never before met — rather than using her title as a cleric as he did for male clergymen of other faiths.

But it was what came later that really took the cake. Responding to a public chiding

by Rev. Dr. David Morse, who read a letter from the Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium presided over by Symons, O’Donnell

The official accused the rabbi of judging herself to be “better” than he, “perhaps because [she’s] a Jew.” chose not to apologize and instead accused the rabbi of judging herself to be “better” than he, “perhaps because [she’s] a Jew.” He repeated the accusation soon thereafter.

That O’Donnell later resigned amidst

the hubbub — he maintains that he did so because of an impending family move to Pittsburgh — is a welcome development.

So too is the apology to Symons that finally came this Monday.

But things should have never gotten this far. When Symons originally reached out to O’Donnell by way of a letter expressing her displeasure at the cavalier attitude and lack of respect he showed her, he should have put the issue to rest. Had he done so, it wouldn’t have become an agenda item at a school board meeting.

And when called out for the slight at that meeting, O’Donnell should have simply said, “I’m sorry,” expressed remorse and moved on. By impugning Symon’s religion and ethnicity, he instead dragged the entire community into the gutter.

Whether White’s remarks or those of O’Donnell rise to the level of anti-Semitic speech depends on the intent of the speaker and by how those comments are perceived by those hearing them. Either way, the Gateway school board incident provides a

lesson in the value of interfaith relations.

When Symons took offense, her colleagues at the ministerium came to the defense of a leader who has worked for years nurturing interfaith relations in Monroeville, which Symons describes as a “diverse community.”

The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s Community Relations Council is also invested in building bridges to other faithbased communities, as are many other local organizations and rabbis.

The importance of these relations played out in real time, leading quickly to O’Donnell’s newfound contriteness.

We are living in a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise. Last year, the FBI reported that despite constituting just 2 percent of the American population, Jews were subject to 54.4 percent of religiously motivated hate crimes. While we are not arguing that a comment about a kippah rises anywhere near the level of hate crime, words do matter. And it’s nice to have friends in the wider community who recognize that as well. PJC

‘Engaging’ millennials is all the rage, but is it the best use of Jewish philanthropy?

Guest Columnist Jack Wertheimer

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ngaging young people in their 20s and 30s, the so-called millennial generation, is a high priority for Jewish philanthropists.

Some funders have banded together to create new initiatives, including free trips to Israel, with the express purpose of drawing members of this generation into Jewish life.

Others have gravitated to the so-called innovation sector, supporting millennials who dream up new programs to entice their peers into some form of Jewish participation.

But for all the energy and money expended on such programs, one question remains unanswered: Will these efforts move people from shallow engagement to actively live a Jewish life or deepen their knowledge?

What fuels these efforts are surveys showing that millennial Jews tend to be less affiliated with Jewish institutions, less observant of Jewish religious rituals and more distant from Israel than were previous generations of Jews at the same age. Much ink has been spilled to analyze why this might be so, with explanations focusing either on this generation’s unique historical experiences; the unprecedented disruption in the job market created by new technologies that force younger people to chart a new course and thereby extend their “odyssey years”; and the present cultural milieu, which places a high value on individualism but disdains anything resembling “tribal” allegiances.

In response to these developments, a

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number of the largest foundations with Jewish interests are investing heavily in initiatives designed to kindle what in a previous time was described as the pintele yid, the little flicker of Jewishness waiting to be lit. The most ambitious — and bestknown — such effort is Birthright Israel, the 10-day free trip to Israel. Since its inception in 1999, it has sent over 600,000 young people from around the globe at a cost nearing the billion-dollar mark. By virtue of its intensive and immersive programming, Birthright differs from most other programs aimed at millennials.

Funders have also invested significantly in Moishe House, a network of some 58 houses scattered throughout the United States offering programs geared to millennials.

Begun in 2006, Moishe House subsidizes rents for residents who organize everything from Shabbat dinners and Purim parties to social action activities and Jewish study circles. Most participants, notes an observer, “are ‘not Jewish in the rest of their lives’ in the traditional sense. They may not be celebrating holidays on their own; they may not be attending Shabbat services at a synagogue. … Moishe House is the surrogate that provides these experiences for them.”

OneTable, still another creation of funders, works to entice younger Jews to attend Friday night Shabbat dinners hosted by peers. Having drawn positive reviews in such disparate publications as Vogue, The New York Times and BuzzFeed News, OneTable has been described as “a social dining app that helps people of all religious backgrounds celebrate inclusive Shabbat meals.” Since its founding, One Table has subsidized over 30,000 Friday night dinners.

Younger Jews are also taking the initiative by founding dozens of startups designed to

appeal to their peers. Often with the help of funders, startups meet in unconventional spaces, such as clubs, bars, performing art spaces, lofts and bookstores. They may offer a Friday night social gathering, a musical program or lecture series. Meeting in offbeat venues is part of the allure.

Events designed for millennials usually are free or require only a modest admission fee. Participants attend episodically and are treated to programming that is light on Jewish content and heavy on socializing. The rationale, no doubt, is that first you have to attract young people who tend to be suspicious of events that seem “too Jewish” or too similar to what an older generation might prefer. As a result, these funder-supported efforts must find a way to move participants from Jewish lite to something more contentrich, let alone demanding, without turning people off — a fine line not easy to walk.

One wonders, though, whether these episodic and mainly social gatherings will lead to lifelong engagement unless participants grow as Jews, deepen their Jewish knowledge, connect with the richness and complexity of Jewish civilization, and grapple in a meaningful way with their Jewish identity. Episodic connection is unlikely to educate individuals about how to live as Jews, and certainly is not a recipe for building commitment to Jewish community.

The heavy investment in millennial engagement, furthermore, usually comes with no comparable funder commitment to improving Jewish education for children.

Which raises the question: Why not educate Jewish youth properly when they are young?

That way they won’t need engagement programs to remediate for the shallow education most have encountered in their Jewish schooling and informal Jewish education.

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To be sure, local funders are supporting Jewish education, as are a few national foundations, but for the most part the big dollars are going for millennial engagement. It’s not as if the field of Jewish education presents no large systemic challenges requiring ambitious funding and creativity.

The most obvious needs are in the arena of supplementary schooling. Funders have shied away from investing in the so-called Hebrew school, the vehicle educating the largest proportion of Jewish children, on the grounds that the field is diffuse, housed in synagogues of various denominations and lacking in national operators. All the more reason, then, for national funders with the ambition to make a big impact to invest in this educational arena.

Several other large challenges persist: One is the affordability crisis in Jewish day schools, which could benefit from new thinking. Another concerns the still too-low proportion of Jewish children experiencing Jewish overnight camp and teen programs that could do even more to infuse their offerings with serious Jewish content. By finding solutions to these challenges, national funders can make a large difference in the education of Jewish children.

Within a generation, today’s school-age children will become the new cohort of 20and 30-somethings. Wouldn’t it be wise to invest in their Jewish education now so as to reduce the need to “re-engage” them when they enter their post-college years? PJC Jack Wertheimer is a professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His report, “Giving Jewish: How Big Funders Have Transformed American Jewish Philanthropy,” was prepared under the auspices of the Avi Chai Foundation.

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resumably, David Ben-Gurion would have disagreed with John Bolton on a number of issues. But the Israeli founding father likely would have appreciated the incoming National Security Advisor’s strong skepticism regarding the United Nations.

Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations back in 2005-2006, once remarked: “The [U.N. headquarters] in New York has 38 stories. If it lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” (“Fifteen might be better,” New York Times columnist Bret Stephens quipped last week.)

Ben-Gurion’s famous assessment of the world body came in the form of a remark he made at an Israeli cabinet meeting in 1955. He was responding to a suggestion that the United Nations’ 1947 plan for partitioning Palestine brought about the creation of the State of Israel. “No, no, no!” Ben-Gurion shouted. “Only the daring of the Jews created the state, and not any oom-shmoom resolution.”

“Oom” is the Hebrew acronym for “United Nations,” and the use of “shm” as a prefix is, of course, a well-known Yiddishism indicating contempt for the subject. The phrase “oom-shmoom” became a fixed part of the Israel political lexicon and has been invoked by other Israeli leaders over the years.

When the United Nations in 1997 condemned Israel for building homes in the Har Homa section of Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked (in Hebrew), “If this is all the ‘Oom’ is good for, then truly it is ‘Shmoom.’”

Every Israeli adult instantly understood his reference to the unforgettable words of the country’s first premier.

American Jewish organizations had high hopes for the United Nations and actively promoted its establishment in 1945. It wasn’t long, however, before its limitations and biases began to emerge. In a landmark address in 1956, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik — one of the most important and influential rabbinical authorities in American Jewish history — declared that aside from the 1947 Palestine partition plan, “one cannot point to any other concrete accomplishment on the part of the United Nations.”

In fact, even the 1947 plan was a just a recommendation, not a concrete achievement. The world body took no action to bring about the implementation of the plan, nor did it intervene when five Arab armies invaded the newborn State of Israel in defiance of that resolution.

Not six months after Rabbi Soloveitchik’s remark, the U.N. General Assembly held its first emergency special session — in order to rebuke Israel for taking action in response to Egypt’s massive military buildup and sponsorship of terrorist attacks from Gaza.

That led to the creation of the first U.N. peacekeeping force, which was stationed in the Sinai; its mission was to prevent Egyptian aggression against Israel and ensure that the Suez Canal remained open to Israeli shipping.

The hope that those U.N. “peacekeepers” would actually keep the peace soon proved illusory. When Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser began preparing for war against Israel in the spring of 1967, he demanded the withdrawal of the U.N. troops from Sinai — and they meekly complied. The United Nations’ abdication of its responsibility “destroyed the most central hopes and expectations on which we had relied on withdrawing from Sinai in 1957,” Israeli statesman Abba Eban later wrote in his autobiography. “What had for 10 years appeared to be a stable international reality turned out, within two hours, to be as unsubstantial as a spider’s web.”

Subsequent Israeli experiences with U.N. peacekeepers, especially the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, likewise proved to be profoundly disappointing. UNIFIL has become notorious for its failure to prevent Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists from operating under its nose in southern Lebanon.

For decades, U.N. agencies have been competing with each other over which one can adopt the most vitriolic anti-Israel resolutions. Absurdly extreme declarations against Israel are issued with such regularity that you can practically set your watch to them. This week alone, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed five separate anti-Israel resolutions. And the votes were not exactly close. A resolution calling on all U.N. member-states to refuse to sell weapons to Israel was adopted by a vote of 25-4. Even a resolution calling on Israel to surrender the Golan Heights to the maniacal regime in Syria passed, 25-14.

All of which makes you wonder about the decision by some Jewish or Zionist organizations to spend so much of their time wringing their hands about the fact that Israel is excluded from various U.N. committees and the U.N. Security Council. Even if Israel were to somehow gain membership on one of those bodies, the Jewish state inevitably would find itself overwhelmed by a large majority of hostile Arab, Marxist and Third World member-states.

Rather than seeking to change the culture of an organization whose culture will never change, Jewish officials could put their time and resources to better use by concentrating on matters of greater consequence. As indicated by this week’s five resolutions — and the many hundreds that preceded them — some biases are simply too deeply entrenched to be dislodged. Acknowledging that fact may be uncomfortable. But it’s a reality that has been apparent since Ben-Gurion’s time. PJC

— LETTERS — Now is the time to travel to Poland I could not agree more with continuing to bring Jewish groups to Poland (“Local trips to Poland will continue despite new Holocaust law,” March 16). Amazing Journeys, a Pittsburgh-based travel company, is also moving forward with our trip to Poland in October.

We understand this is a highly emotional issue, but by not bringing groups to Poland, we would be defeated and silenced; that is definitely not what we want to portray. We plan on having open and frank conversations about the issues this law is presenting, and it a will be an interesting educational topic that will be addressed during the trip.

Travel is about exploration and having meaningful experiences, dialogues with locals and building bridges. Boycotting Poland means isolating the Polish Jewish community, which is counterproductive and silences the possibility of dialogue with well-meaning Poles. We think now is an important time to go to Poland and learn about the history of our people.

Erin Herman Amazing Journeys, Pittsburgh We invite you to submit letters for publication. Letters must include name, address and daytime phone number; addresses and phone numbers will not be published. Letters may not exceed 500 words and may be edited for length and clarity; they cannot be returned.

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Life & Culture Alex Bregman is baseball’s next Jewish star — SPORTS —

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the U.S. team that won the World Baseball Classic title in March.

Israel’s squad, which finished sixth overall in the WBC, had sought his services.

In retrospect, he said, “I probably should’ve” played for Israel “because I got [just] four at-bats” playing as a backup for the American team. Regardless of who comes calling in 2021, Bregman said, he’s unlikely to participate.

His Astros started defending their championship last week in Arlington, Texas, against the Rangers. Bregman turned 24 the next day.

“There are a lot of things I want to accomplish in this game. Winning is right there at the top,” Bregman said. “We have a great team to repeat as champs.”

Astros manager A.J. Hinch said he expects Bregman to “build off the momentum he generated in the postseason and throughout the whole season last year.”

“While he’s established himself as a major league player … he’s not even close to what he’s going to be,” Hinch said.

He called Bregman “a true baseball rat,” someone who “loves the game, loves practice, loves being around his teammates.”

But his mother, Jackie, will tell you that her son is more than about baseball. His foundation, AB for AUDS, provides computer tablets to children with autism and Down syndrome.

Brady Columbus, a son of Bregman’s former hitting coach and Bregman’s godson, is autistic.

Jackie Bregman spoke of her son’s kindness.

“Alex is so patient with people, and I’m

EST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Sitting on a couch near his locker at the Houston Astros’ spring training facility here in mid-March, Alex Bregman is reflecting about an encounter his father had at the World Series last fall.

It was in Los Angeles, between innings of the opening game. Sam Bregman was headed for a Dodger Stadium concession stand to grab a nosh wearing his Astros jersey with the No. 2 and his surname stitched on the back — a facsimile of his son’s uniform. The young Bregman, a third baseman, had just slugged a home run off Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw.

A fan grabbed Sam Bregman’s arm.

“Are you Alex’s dad?”

“I am,” the elder Bregman replied.

“Is he Jewish?”

“Yeah.”

The man was a Dodger fan, but still he flashed what Sam Bregman described as “a look of great contentment” at the ballplayer’s heritage.

“I got such a kick out of it,” Sam Bregman said in a phone interview near his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “It made me feel so proud.”

Alex Bregman’s take on the encounter: “It’s definitely cool to have fans around the world give their support. It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your back.”

Bregman can expect to have more fans on his bandwagon, Jewish and other wise, following a strong 2017 season and the first World Series title for the Astros — to which he contributed mightily. He knocked in a run Alex Bregman’s manager expects the young slugger to in each of the first p get even better.

Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images five games, added a second home run, threw out a runner at home plate to really, really proud of him for that,” she said preserve a scoreless tie in Game 4 and had in a phone interview. the run-scoring single that ended an epic She recalled her son defending elemenGame 5 in the 10th inning, 13-12. tary school classmates being bullied. And During the 2017 season, the former No. 2 he was also on the other end: A boy made overall draft pick out of Louisiana State aver- fun of Alex’s pending bar mitzvah as he was aged .284, pounded 39 doubles and 19 home leaving school to meet with the cantor, and runs, and stole 17 bases. a Chinese-American teammate on Alex’s Two days after the Game 7 road victory, basketball squad stood up for him.

Bregman celebrated at the championship The experiences, she said, “taught him parade in Houston. Thousands of fans what it was like to be marginalized.” lined streets in a city still recovering from Years ago, the family attended an appearHurricane Harvey flooding a couple of ance by several players of the minor league months earlier.

Albuquerque Isotopes. One player was aloof.

“To see their pure joy,” Bregman said, “Sam and I said to Alex, ‘Don’t ever be like “gave me the chills.” that,’” she recalled.

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pizza, pasta salad, tacos or fruit salad, is provided by the Attawheed Islamic Center.

The programming and curricular aspects are handled by the Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education, and JFCS “recruits

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ornately adorned case.

Although shmurah matzah number two (Jerusalem Shmura Matzos) also weighed a single pound, it came in a smaller carrier than number one. Though scientifically inconclusive to me, I speculated whether diminution affected comminution. Nonetheless, number two provided ample char and an introduction to a flavor that would become more familiar as the evening progressed.

Before beginning shmurah matzah number three, which came from Lakewood Shmurah Matzoh Bakery, I amplified my tunes. Ferrante & Teicher’s “Theme From Exodus” forcefully filled the air. Acoustically inspired, I crossed my personal sea and split the achromatic carton. Before ravenously devouring the New Jersey nosh, my 9-year-old daughter asked what I was doing.

After proudly explaining my professional duties, I invited her to join me. Perhaps intrigued by my obligation, or maybe because she was merely hungry, she bit into the shmurah specimen.

“It’s plain,” she said.

No further explanation was offered before she, like her ancestors, wandered off.

Shmurah matzah number four (Holyland Hand Made Shmura Matzo) showed some serious ink with multiple fonts cut across a scene of Jerusalem’s city walls. The boldness of the package’s design mirrored the ferocity of its content’s crunch. The sound of such cracking could only be likened to a setting in which, after being narrowly edged out by an adversarial den-mate in the pinewood derby,

and trains mentors,” said Van Treeck.

Since the program’s inception last fall, Jennie Schulze, an assistant professor of political science at Duquesne University, and 23 of her students have regularly volunteered as mentors.

“It’s a really enjoyable way to spend a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon,” she said.

But more so, engaging in such endeavors is

critical, said the professor. “It’s really fundamental, especially for upper level poli-sci students triangulating between research and scholarship in the classroom but also learning from community partners and populations that our policies are intending to target.

“If policies are going to have any hope of being effective and targeting communities it’s important to get out in the community and

talk to community members and the people they are going to affect,” added Schulze.

While there are intellectual benefits afforded from the enterprise, there is also a certain advantage to leaving campus confines, she said. “Civic empathy is really difficult to teach in a classroom. Not many students have

a Boy Scout breaks the code of conduct and snaps his opponent’s car by slamming it over his knee like Bo Jackson with a bat.

Haddar’s Chabura Shmura Matzos served as the fifth selection. Like selection number two, the material arrived in a similarly sized square paper vessel. Although a side panel read “old fashioned,” the taste was far from stale. From the 15 packaged pieces a particular smoothness captured my palate, and as The Vagrants performed their rendition of “Theme from Exodus,” a particular coolness arose. Immediately disrupting my moment of suavity was the realization that several samplings of shmurah matzah remained.

Number six was another Lakewood matzah but with a twist. This “fresh and tasty gourmet” Seder Table Matzoh was made with USDA organic spelt. The ancient wheat necessitated little grinding of the gums and netted minimal flavor. Whether rejecting potential pesticides means freedom from bloating, I’m not sure. But kudos to the makers of number six for an enjoyable creation.

Number seven was from the same manufacturers. For some reason though this one was enclosed in transparent wrap and marked with the words “sealed for freshness.”

After removing that layer and a subsequent sticker, I opened the thick repository and discovered multiple matzahs packed within.

Following careful extraction and sequential consumption, I determined that piquancy is most likely an acquired taste which I lack.

The shmurah matzah taste test almost ended at number eight. Described by matzahdepot. com as “cheap shmurah matzah from Israel,” this Visnitz-baked item possessed a seal almost impossible to puncture. After utilizing a knife to bust the mark, I found the casing equally challenging to unlock. There was a white sticker beside the title, reading, “whole wheat,” which given my difficulties encountered, I interpreted to mean, “Rest assured, no ‘half wheat’ permitted.”

Once I finally pried the package free, I found an immediate slew of broken pieces — most likely caused by my wrestling with the box. But despite the shards of shmurah spilling out, the fragments elicited a not-obnoxiously noticeable crunch and with minimal aftertaste. They honestly reminded me of tam tam crackers, which is about as culinarily astute as saying, “Seltzer tastes like water with carbonation.”

Shmurah matzah number nine (Tiferet Hamatzot) offered the nicest packaging yet.

A stunning yellow box included a blurred photograph of five cups of wine, a decanter and a full bottle. Given that the Passover seder is typically highlighted by four cups of the red drink, these artists were clearly envisioning some sort of after party with Elijah the Prophet. Along with the bevy of beverages were three kosher certifications and a side panel that not only delivered a tale of “Matzah — The Food of Faith,” but a thorough explanation of shmurah’s characteristics.

Lest one fret that little attention was paid

to interior splendor, number nine boasted the only matzah wrapped in brown tissue paper. But alas, I should have remembered the classic adage: “Don’t judge a matzah by its box.” If my tongue could create a char factor, this one would have registered somewhere between blackened toast and coal. It was a shame, because not only did I really want to like it, I kept ingesting more bits to alter my assessment. Ultimately, however, although my eyes said, “Yes,” my mind said, “No.” Coincidentally, my final shmurah matzah (Seder Table Matzoh Gluten-Free Oat) arrived just as French singer Édith Piaf had completed her stirring turn at “Exodus.”

After removing the minimally restrictive wrapping, I found several small circular matzahs inside the pale colored pouch.

Although the exterior writing noted that only three “handmade round” discs would be included, there was actually an extra half. What an unexpected treat. Equally surprising was how doughy the substances were; they were actually quite delightful.

Prior to undertaking this shmurah matzah taste test, I was brazenly reminded by two readers that relishing requires choosing.

Fair enough, so in coupling such admonition with the words of the estimable Emily Dickinson, who wrote, “The heart wants what it wants,” I select number nine (Tiferet Hamatzot), which despite delivering a superior aesthetic experience granted a somewhat less than Lilliputian savoring. Don’t judge me. Perhaps I’m a slave to superficiality, or maybe I’m truly enjoying the bread of affliction. PJC

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t is challenging to propel momentum through the eight days of Passover, as for many the taste of matzah has worn when the concluding days arrive. The first two days are joyous, with the excitement of the seder on each evening. The intermediate days, chol hamoed, slowly lose enthusiasm. While there are special Torah readings on the last two days, such as the thrilling shirat hayam and the beautiful piyyut yom layabasha on the seventh day, and this year, the chanting of Shir

has no hereditary portion as you have.”

We are commanded to celebrate by purchasing any food and beverage that we wish, and celebrate in G-d’s presence. The Mishnah tells us explicitly that “anything you may desire” refers only to items that you will consume at this feast, and may not be spent on things such as clothing. However, amid the festivities, we must not forget the Levite in our midst.

This law probably was created to encourage ancient Israelite farmers to travel to the Holy Temple more frequently than the three pilgrimage festivals. While the traditional roles of the Levites do not exist due to the destruction of the Temples, we

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Hashirim in addition to Yizkor on the eighth, these observances are anticlimactic to the first two seders. Where can we find a bit of extra enthusiasm to end the festival joyously?

The Torah reading for the eighth day of Passover provides us with encouragement.

Taken from the portion Re’eh, we read in Deuteronomy 14:22 that the farmer is to set aside a tithe to be brought to a place chosen

by G-d. If the place chosen is too far, the farmer is permitted to convert it to money.

We then read the following: “Wrap up the money and take it with you to the place that the Lord your G-d has chosen, and spend the money on anything you want — cattle, sheep, wine or other intoxicant, or anything you may desire. And you shall feast there, in the presence of the Lord your G-d, and rejoice with your household. But do not neglect the Levite in your community, for he

can find suitable people in need within our community and beyond that would value our beneficence. Perhaps you asked all the guests at your seder to contribute a certain amount per person to an appropriate charity, or send you that sum so that you could then contribute an even larger amount to the charity that you deemed proper. This act of tzedakah is no doubt pleasing to G-d and will perhaps speed up the day when Elijah the Prophet will appear.

May your concluding days of Passover be joyous and celebratory, and may those in need also find a reason to celebrate.

Chag sameach! PJC Jeffrey Myers is the rabbi/hazzan of Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha in Squirrel Hill. This column is a service of the Greater Pittsburgh Rabbinic Association.

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Obituaries EPSTEIN: Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Melvin Epstein died on Wednesday, March 28, 2018.

He was born on April 23, 1923. He was predeceased by his parents, Lena and Louis Epstein, his brother, Irving, his sisters, Frieda and Gladys, and his beloved wife, Masha, to whom he was married for 67 years. Larry is survived by his and Masha’s four children, Kenneth (Margaret), of Arlington, Va.; Elizabeth (Dale) Huffman, of Pittsburgh; Ralph, of Philadelphia; and Laura (Ronald) Schlatter, of Minneapolis; grandchildren Micah (Anna), Jonah (Heather), Rivka (George) Whitten, Dena, Emma, and Eli (Reed) Sherlock; and great-grandchildren Eliana, Obadiah and Ridley. One of the few remaining World War II veterans, Larry served in the U.S. Navy. He and Masha first moved the family to Pittsburgh after Larry received his doctorate in chemical engineering so that he could take a position at Mellon Institute. He moved from Mellon Institute to Westinghouse Research, where

he pursued research in physical chemistry, ultimately leaving Westinghouse to join the faculty in the chemistry department at the University of Pittsburgh. Larry touched many lives running the freshman chemistry program at Pitt, where he trained and inspired many young scientists. His classes were referred to fondly by admiring students as “Laughing Larry and his Loony Lecture Series,” reflecting the sense of whimsy that infused his teaching and his life. Larry was also a gifted musician, who played the harmonica on the radio in his native New York at the age of 11, for all of his adult life played the viola in chamber music groups, sang in numerous local choirs, and was known in his later years to provide entertainment at local assisted living facilities, singing popular standards of his own youth.

Larry and Masha were devoted to their four children, later welcoming their children’s spouses into the family as their own. Their home was always a place where all were sure to receive hospitality, perhaps an impromptu concert, and, not infrequently, an incidental chemistry lesson. Larry touched many lives and will be deeply missed. The family suggests contributions to Sivitz Jewish Hospice and Palliative Care, the American

Chemical Society, and the Jewish Association on Aging of Pittsburgh/Weinberg Terrace.

Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. Interment Homewood Cemetery.

HORVITZ: Martin “Marty” Horvitz, on Thursday, March 29, 2018. Beloved husband of Crissy (McKee) Horvitz. Loving father of Trevor and Julia Horvitz. Brother of Wendy Halley. Uncle of Solomon (Gabriella) Horvitz and Eliana Halley. Also survived by many extended family members who love and cherish Marty’s memory. His loving and generous ways will be sorely missed.

Services were held at Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home, Inc. Interment Poale Zedeck Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Animal Friends, 562 Camp Horne, Pittsburgh, PA 15237 or Mario Lemieux Foundation, Two Chatham Center, Suite 1661, 112 Washington Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Arrangements entrusted to Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. SWARTZ: Stanley “Sonny” Swartz, on Monday, March 26, 2018. Beloved husband of Colette Swartz. Brother of Betty Mae (late Barris) Siegel and the late Edith (late Martin) Zober. Uncle of Lee H. Siegel, Fern

E. Siegel, Norman A. Zober, the late Neil F. (late Pam Wiles) Siegel and Janet Zober.

Great-uncle of Eli C. and Nathan F. Siegel.

Stanley owned and operated “Stanley’s Pharmacy” in Oakland (across from the Falk Building) for 40 years. He also coached little league baseball in Squirrel Hill for many years. Stanley was a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, in which he was juried into the annual showing for many years. Graveside services and interment were held at Workmen’s Circle Branch #45 Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Sivitz Hospice, 200 JHF Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.

SWIMMER: Marilyn Winsberg Swimmer, on Friday, March 30, 2018. Beloved wife of the late Herbert Swimmer. Beloved mother of Alan Jay (Linda K.) Swimmer and Howard Ross Swimmer (Dr. Caroline Simard). Grandmother of Allison, Jamie and Hillary Swimmer. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. Interment Beth Shalom Cemetery. Contributions may be made to National Council of Jewish Women, 1620 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or Phipps Conservatory, One Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. PJC

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Beth El Congregation will host an annual All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Festival from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Brunch includes special toppings and eggs with pancakes for $8/adults, $5/ children ages 4-12. Visit bethelcong.org for more information.

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Israel & Overseas Commission will hold a ceremony to honor the soldiers who gave their lives in defense of the State of Israel and to honor victims of terrorist attacks from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, Katz Theater. q WEDNESDAY APRIL 18 AARP Squirrel Hill Chapter 3354 will hold its monthly meeting on at 1 p.m. at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha, located at Shady and Wilkins avenues. There will be bingo sponsored

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reading the story of her misplaced outrage (and that of the so-called ‘ministerium’), my whole outlook on people like her has changed.

I am certainly not a Holocaust denier, but I can see more clearly the reasons people perpetrated it. Having recently seen ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ I can understand much better the Russian desire to be rid of the troublemakers.”

It is “sad,” Symons said, that “once words go out they cannot be taken back and one of the effects is to inspire emails like the one I received on Saturday.”

On the other hand, Symons praised the backing she has received from the ministerium, which she described as “not only comforting, but reflective of the relationships we built,” and from many community members who left supportive comments on Facebook.

“We commend the Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium for speaking out against anti-Semitism and supporting Rabbi Symons, president of the ministerium,” said the CRC statement. “We are appreciative of Rev. Dr. David Morse, a member of the ministerium, who stated to the board of school directors: ‘An insult to any one of our religions is an insult to all of our religious faiths.’”

O’Donnell acknowledged to the Chronicle that “words have consequences,” and said that he sent a letter of apology to the school board which he hopes will be read publicly.

“This is not who I am,” O’Donnell said. “I created a mess and I have to clean it up.” PJC

far-right National Front party shouting “Marine is with us” as others shouted “N for Nazi,” referencing the first letter of her party’s name in French.

Before its start, the march was marred by issues connected with the deep divisions that continue to bedevil French society. Despite his call for “everyone” to attend the march, the head of the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities, Francis Kalifat, also said that neither leaders from the National Front nor the Insubmissible France far-left movement were welcome due to their history of perceived anti-Semitism.

Le Pen and her Insubmissible France counterpart, Jean-Luc Melenchon — between them they garnered more than a third of all the votes cast in both rounds of the 2017 elections — said they would come anyway. Kalifat, in turn, faced criticism even from people sympathetic to his cause, like the philosopher Raphael Enthoven, who accused Kalifat of compromising his own message of unity by saying who was welcome and who was not.

Kalifat ultimately backed down, saying “we need to put the controversy behind us” to avoid the march becoming a political issue.

“It’s certainly an encouraging sign,” Ghozlan said of the high profile of Knoll’s case. Macron’s statements and actions make for “a strong gesture,” he added.

Ghozlan was among those who accused the judiciary and the media of downplaying the Halimi case for political reasons, saying they were wary of playing into the hands of the National Front. The anti-Islam party clinched

Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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But Jackie Bregman also knows her son is driven to excel on the field.

“He would not mince words. ‘I don’t just want to play baseball; I want to be the best,’” Jackie Bregman remembered her son saying.

“He was determined.”

In junior high in Albuquerque, Bregman attended a University of New Mexico baseball camp. The Lobos’ baseball coach, Ray Birmingham, preached dedication to greatness.

“Alex took that so literally that he’d hit in the batting cages until he got calluses,” recalled Sam Bregman, who had grown up on the field at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, where his late father, Stan, worked as a lawyer for the Washington Senators. It was Stan, “Grandpa Zayde,” who gave his grandson a card set of Jewish baseball players.

Someone else who witnessed that commitment was Darvin Ham, who coached the New Mexico Thunderbirds, an NBA Development League team the Bregmans owned.

In postgame conversations and at the Bregman home, Alex Bregman “was like a sponge” of information about the makings of athletic achievement, said Ham, now an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks.

“He was a very good listener. He took mental notes,” said Ham, who considers Alex Bregman “a little brother.”

Bregman explained his early competitive drive.

“Coach Birmingham said you have to decide,” he recalled. “I woke up at 5 a.m. to go to the cage to school to the cage: defense and hitting. I did that every day for years, [beginning at] probably age 12 or 13. I never went to the school dance.”

On this day, Bregman departed for a practice field and chatted in Spanish with fellow infielders Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa, natives of Venezuela and Puerto Rico, respectively, at second base during a running drill. Bregman is fluent in the language.

Jerick Paquinto, a 19-year-old from Houston wearing a Bregman jersey, was among hundreds of fans watching.

“I like that he’s not the biggest guy and he has a lot of heart,” Paquinto said of the 6-foot Bregman, words similarly applicable to the 5-foot-6 Altuve, last year’s American League MVP. “I liked him since he was at LSU [where Bregman was a first-team All American at shortstop]. I saw him hit a homer, and I fell in love with him as a player.”

The trio jogged toward a batting cage, Bregman stopped to sign autographs after he finished hitting. He’ll be signing plenty more when the Astros come home next week for their opener at Minute Maid Park. His parents will be there.

Sam Bregman joked about guarding the championship ring his son will receive.

“I know that the Jewish community around the country is so proud of him,” Jackie Bregman said. Referring to the card collection of Jewish players, she added, “I hope that one day he’s in that collection.” PJC

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more than a third of the vote in the second round of the presidential elections that were held a little over a month after Halimi was killed.

But in their handling of the Knoll case, he said, authorities “showed an understanding of the great psychological effect” that the omission of hate crime charges had on French Jews.

The neighbor accused in the murder, a 29-year-old man whose name was not released and whom the BNVCA said is Muslim, knew her since he was a small child, Knoll’s son, Daniel, told The Associated Press. His mother escaped a 1942 roundup of Parisian Jews, moved to Canada and returned to France. Her children left for Israel and beyond. She suffered from Parkinson’s disease that left her largely housebound. She did not have much money, he said.

Whereas the Knoll case demonstrates “greater resolve” on the part of authorities, Ghozlan suggested it also demonstrates their inability despite major efforts to prevent the recurrence of brutal anti-Semitic violence and the devastating effects it is having on French Jewry.

“The community is as guarded as it can be,” he said, referring to thousands of French troops who were posted outside synagogues, Jewish schools and neighborhoods following an Islamist’s murder of four Jews at a Paris kosher market in 2015. “On the security level we are at capacity. And that’s a good thing, but it also shows that no amount of policing will prevent the reality of homicidal anti-Semitism in France unless we also address the root cause.”

To Ghozlan, this cause is how hatred of Israel both conceals and amplifies hatred of Jews.

In July, Macron became the first French president to say that anti-Zionism “is a reinvention of anti-Semitism.” Nevertheless, local municipalities regularly name streets for Palestinian terrorists, Ghozlan said.

“Each case like Halimi or Knoll prompts more Jews to leave their homes either for Israel, abroad or inside the Paris area to safer areas,” Ghozlan said, noting that neighborhoods like La Courneuve and Saint-Denis, which once had thousands of Jewish residents, are now seeing empty synagogues.

According to BNVCA, at least 60,000 Jews have left suburbs and neighborhoods with many Muslims in eastern Paris for western ones in what the group is calling “internal aliyah” — a Hebrew word that means immigrating to Israel. At least 26,000 French Jews have moved to Israel since 2013 — nearly three times the number who came in the previous five years.

One of them is Noa Goldfarb, a granddaughter of Knoll.

“I was saved,” she wrote on Facebook about her aliyah following the killing of her grandmother, whom she described as a “kind and gentle soul full of light.”

Goldfarb left Paris “knowing that neither my future nor that of the Jewish People is to be found there,” she wrote from Herzliya, where she now lives. “But who would’ve thought that I was leaving my relatives where terrorism and cruelty would lead to such a tragedy.”

The killers, she said, “left us not even one object, a letter, a photograph, to remember her by. All we have are our tears and each other.” PJC

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Community Laurence Juber at Temple Emanuel More than 300 people enjoyed a performance by Laurence Juber, two-time Grammy winner and former guitarist with Wings, at Temple Emanuel on Saturday, March 24. The free concert, in honor of Rabbi Mark Mahler’s upcoming retirement, was sponsored by the Diskin Music Fund.

p Rabbi Jessica Locketz, two-time Grammy winner Laurence Juber, and Rabbi Mark Mahler after the concert t More than 300 people enjoyed the free concert sponsored by the Diskin Photos courtesy of Temple Emanuel Music Fund.

ELC model seder Children in the Early Learning Center at Yeshiva Schools prepared for their model seder in anticipation of Passover.

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Community Hillel Academy Passover experience In honor of Passover and the celebration of the Exodus from Egypt, Hillel Academy students experienced a little bit of what it was like to leave Egypt. The students left Egypt with a “fire” and a “cloud.” They then ran in between the waves of the Sea of Reeds. They became thirsty and went searching for water in Midbar Shur, continued traveling through the “desert” and came to Midbar Sin, now hungry.

It rained popcorn and the students enjoyed a nice snack before continuing their journey. They received the Torah at Har Sinai before returning to class to learn Torah with their teachers. p Traveling through the desert

p Students “leaving Egypt”

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Passover at Temple David’s Weiger School

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On Sunday, March 25 Temple David’s Weiger School focused on Passover — telling the story, repairing the world, inviting the hungry and celebrating freedom. A special tzedakah project was preparing “tie pillows” to be donated to the JFCS’ Refugee & Immigration Services.

Mitchell Dubin, a sophomore at Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School, joined musicians from across the nation as part of Music for All’s 2018 Honor Orchestra of America. Mitchell is a member of the CAPA 6-12 Orchestra under the direction of Bernie Black and plays bassoon and contrabassoon as well as piano. He was selected as a member of the Honor Orchestra of America by audition. The orchestra performed in concert as part of the Music for All National Festival, presented by Yamaha, March 15-17 in Indianapolis.

Music for All is a nonprofit educational organization that has a mission to create, provide, and expand positively life-changing experiences through music for all and to be a catalyst to ensure that every child in America has access and opportunity for active music making in his or her scholastic environment.

Photo courtesy of Amy Dubin

p Pati Eisenberg, Natalie Keough, Sara Pechersky and Anya Bakaturski check their haggadot for the words to “Eliyahu HaNavi.”

p Callie Sloan, Jacob Carney and Anya Bakaturski “tie” pillow covers.

Photos courtesy of Temple David

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