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NOTEWORTHY LOCAL Interfaith project celebrates 50 years in the South Hills

Money pours in after former CDS teacher’s home flooded

Urban Affairs Foundation, Vibrant Pittsburgh offer grants for civic engagement

SHIM, founded amid national turmoil, looks to the next 50 years of its legacy.

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by the outpouring of support from CDS affiliates.

“I can’t stress enough how moved I am by the response of the school community, and especially — and maybe I shouldn’t signal anyone out — but especially my … former students,” he said. “It’s very, very gratifying that I had some positive impact on them and they are feeling like they wanted to help out.”

State and county officials have visited the area to assess damages from the storm, which left one Bridgeville resident dead.

Depending on the extent of the damages, FEMA could get involved in the relief efforts.

Jennifer Bails, director of marketing and communications at CDS, who helped organize the GoFundMe page, said she was not surprised at the generosity of the community.

“I felt very humbled and proud to be part of the community that stepped up in this way, but I wasn’t surprised,” Bails said.

“I think that the incredible response to the crowd-funding campaign is a testament to Lin and his work as a teacher and the impact that he’s had on so many children and families over the many decades that he taught.”

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he Urban Affairs Foundation — an arm of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh — is partnering with Vibrant Pittsburgh to offer a total of $50,000 in mini grants to support inclusion and diversity in the Steel City.

This is the sixth year the two organizations have joined forces for the Mini Grants Initiative, each committing $25,000 to fund projects that increase the civic engagement of diverse and immigrant communities.

This year’s theme is “Language Access through the Use of Technology,” which the grantors hope will inspire projects that “emphasize services for those who may not be able to read or write English fluently,” according to Josh Sayles, CRC director.

Because the focus is on language access, the FAQ section of the grant website can be read in English, Spanish, French, Mandarin and Nepali. (Pittsburgh has a large Bhutanese immigrant population whose first language is commonly Nepali.)

Vibrant Pittsburgh is a nonprofit organization that supports Pittsburgh’s growth and economic competitiveness “by engaging the region’s employers; attracting, retaining and elevating a diverse talent pool; and positioning the region nationally and internationally as an inclusive and welcoming place for people of all backgrounds,” according to a press release.

Melanie Harrington, CEO of Vibrant Pittsburgh, is happy to be partnering again with the Urban Affairs Foundation.

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Please see Grants, page 15

Globes promote awareness

 Tzippy Mazer, head of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Community Day School, with Lin St. Clair in Israel. St. Clair frequently chaperoned the school’s annual 8th grade trip to the Jewish state.

Photo courtesy of Lin St. Clair

Combatting climate change behind art installation.

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ormer Community Day School math teacher Lin St. Clair no longer teaches algebra, geometry and life skills to middle school students each day. Yet his impact on dozens of pupils, teachers, parents and administrators throughout the 18 years he taught at CDS was on full display this week after St. Clair suffered devastating property damage in a June 20 storm.

The storm — which brought torrential rains to the region — led to significant flooding in his hometown of Bridgeville, a borough eight miles southwest of downtown Pittsburgh.

St. Clair lost his car, washer, dryer, water heater, furnace, multiple pieces of furniture and other items in the flood waters, which reached nearly five feet in the first floor of his house. Now, the munificence of the community could help offset at least some of the restoration costs.

In less than a week, a GoFundMe page set up by a CDS administrator raised $23,478 for St. Clair from 255 donors, easily surpassing its $20,000 goal.

The former teacher said in an interview that he is in good spirits and is “humbled”

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Headlines SHIM celebrates 50 years of interfaith collaboration in South Hills — LOCAL —

By Toby Tabachnick | Senior Staff Writer

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t almost sounds like the beginning of a familiar joke: there was this rabbi, this reverend and a monsignor.

But 50 years later, the South Hills Interfaith Movement — begun in 1968 by Rabbi William Sajowitz of Temple Emanuel, Rev. John Galbreath of Westminster Presbyterian Church and Monsignor Francis Rooney of St. Thomas More Catholic Church — is still going strong, continuing to help those in need as well as fostering interfaith collaboration.

Celebrating a half century of service to the community is “pretty wonderful,” said James Guffey, SHIM’s executive director since 2007. The organization held a celebratory dinner in May honoring supporters Becky and John Surma (former CEO of U.S. Steel), but Guffey said the tribute to SHIM will continue by planning ahead for the next 50 years.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about our work,” he said. “We want to look at what we do well, and how we can make more of an impact.”

America was in a state of flux in 1968, a consequence of such events as the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, violent riots and, on a more promising note, the enactment of the Civil Rights Act. Changes were also afoot in Pittsburgh’s South Hills at that time; its population continued to increase along with the number of underserved residents requiring various forms of assistance.

The time was right for the launch of SHIM, which was then known as “South

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Counseling and other supportive services were added in the 1970s and ’80s, as well as interfaith programming, including an annual Holocaust Observance, one of the longest-running interfaith Thanksgiving services in the country, and interfaith dialogue events.

By the late 1990s, with an influx of refugees being resettled in South Hills neighborhoods, SHIM launched programming to aid those new to the United States, including educational and childcare support.

Throughout its history, SHIM has partnered with Jewish organizations in the South Hills, as well as Greater Pittsburgh, in realizing its mission, including Jewish Family and Community Services.

“JFCS has been extremely fortunate to have a partner like SHIM,” said Jordan Golin, president and CEO of JFCS. “Our partnership with them has allowed individuals in the South Hills to more easily access critical services, such as our Career Development Center, right in their own community. SHIM has also worked closely with JFCS to serve the foreign-born residents of the South Hills. We share their vision of inclusion and of giving all people the opportunity to thrive.”

The South Hills is home to the largest group of refugees and immigrants in the Greater Pittsburgh area, many of whom came from refugee camps. And 20 percent of families in the South Hills make less than $35,000 a year, qualifying for free food and clothing provided by SHIM. Meg Abrams, a member of Temple

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p Volunteers from the South Hills Jewish community prepare food for SHIM’s food pantries on Mitzvah Day. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Emanuel of South Hills, has been volunteering to help with SHIM initiatives, such as food and clothing drives, since she moved to Pittsburgh 16 years ago.

“I’ve always found SHIM’s broad humanitarianism very inspiring,” Abrams said. “It’s about helping those who are hungry and welcoming the immigrant. Working through SHIM is almost like welcoming someone to your own table.

“Its mission speaks to all churches, to all synagogues, to all mosques, and that’s the appeal to me,” Abrams added.

About 280 people volunteer with SHIM on a regular basis, with additional volunteers helping out with special projects.

In addition to its current offering of services and programming, Guffey hopes to include a partnership with the

Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh’s Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement, to encourage discourse in the South Hills on issues affecting the fabric of society.

“What kind of community do we want to leave for our kids?” is a question which Guffey said he would like to address.

“How can we come together to talk about our different perspectives and not in a confrontational way?”

Guffey also intends to work more closely with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh in developing programming for SHIM’s annual interfaith Holocaust Observance.

“It takes collaboration,” he said. PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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Headlines Federation to slightly decrease some allocations — LOCAL —

By Adam Reinherz | Staff Writer

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he Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh will decrease allocations to several of its beneficiary agencies and international partners, including the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).

The decision to reduce allocations — following a year-long planning process in which volunteers and staff considered competing communal needs — was made with an eye to changes in fundraising, said Adam Hertzman, the Federation’s director of marketing.

“One of the most important discussions that came out of our planning and funding committee that does the allocations is a recognition that the Jewish Federation has

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really arrived at a point where the community campaign is only one part of the funding that is provided to Jewish organizations,” he explained. “It’s a super important part, especially because for our core beneficiary agencies those are unrestricted dollars and that provides important flexibility for our beneficiary agencies — but that is one part of the funding.

“At this point it doesn’t represent the majority of dollars,” Hertzman added. “It’s the largest single piece of it, but it’s not the majority anymore.”

The annual campaign, which is slated to close on June 30, has raised more than $13 million dollars. Nonetheless, the Federation has estimated the sum will be $200,000 less than last year’s total.

“Our conservative estimate is that the community campaign will be down slightly.

Obviously that results in some challenging funding decisions,” said Hertzman. “One that was fairly straightforward, because we’ve been talking about it for a while, is to bring the Jewish Federation more in line with the national average for funding our overseas partners JAFI and JDC.” Despite the decreases, the Federation will deliver almost $28 million in allocations and grants to programs and agencies domestically and abroad in the next fiscal year.

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Headlines Beth Shalom leads way among institutions contemplating solar energy — LOCAL —

By Jonah Berger | Chronicle Intern

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t was May 2017 and Beth Shalom board member Bruce Rollman had just been presented with a rundown of the synagogue’s expenses. The congregation’s building, a large five-story structure sitting on the corner of Beacon Street and Shady Avenue, had once again used an enormous amount of electricity, leading to an energy bill upwards of $70,000.

“I was just thinking after looking at the budget numbers, what could we do, what could Beth Shalom do, to cut operating expenses without cutting services?” he recalled. “And one thought that hit me was, how could we use the roof?” Specifically, could the roof hold solar panels?

A year later, Beth Shalom is on its way to breaking ground on a $250,000 solar installation project, which could save the congregation at least 20 percent on electricity costs.

The interest in installing solar panels is not unique to Beth Shalom, though: Other Jewish institutions and individuals in Pittsburgh are increasingly looking towards solar energy as not only a cost-saving measure, but a way to cut emissions and to educate children about the implications of alternative energy.

In addition to the cost-saving benefits, installing solar panels at Beth Shalom could provide a myriad of other rewards to the congregation and the community at large.

To start, a reduction of 85 tons of carbon dioxide a year would support the city’s Climate Action Plan 3.0, a series of goals announced in May 2017 by Mayor William Peduto. The plan calls for the city to cut energy and water use in half citywide by 2030.

“It would be a visible symbol of Beth Shalom’s commitment to the environment and it represents Jewish values, like tikkun olam and environmental stewardship,” said Rollman.

Daniel Gilman, Peduto’s chief of staff, who is advising Beth Shalom on its solar initiative, said the project is a “powerful opportunity” to show the community that even an old building can adapt to changing times.

“We’ve had some really successful solar projects, both residential as well as newer construction,” Gilman noted. “But to do it on a building the age of Beth Shalom, owned by a non-profit, a religious institution, that is more groundbreaking.

“And I think it can be a model that’s applicable not just in the East End but regionally,” he added.

Rabbi Seth Adelson suggested that the project fulfills a religious imperative.

“The creation story in [Genesis] teaches us to ‘till and to tend,’ that is, to be responsible for what God has given us; by building a solar roof, we will put that imperative into action,” Adelson wrote in an email.

Beth Shalom leaders have already laid out a full timeline for the project, which could see solar panels on the roof by summer 2019 if all steps are successful.

This month, the congregation will estab-

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p A rendering of the Beth Shalom roof, replete with solar panels

lish a “solar committee” to assist with education, fundraising and grant writing, as well as kick off an adult education program — taking place on July 28 and 29 at Beth Shalom — in conjunction with Solar United Neighbors and Prepared PGH, a city government climate initiative. The program will seek to convince local homeowners and small businesses to join the Allegheny County solar co-op.

About a dozen homeowners have already signed on to be a part of the local co-op, according to Henry McKay, program director of Solar United Neighbors of Pennsylvania, a non-profit that organizes the co-ops. “[Beth Shalom is] looking for this broad engagement around solar, not just the institution itself going solar,” McKay said, adding that in many cases, organizations with large buildings such as Beth Shalom opt to negotiate with solar installers on their own instead of with a co-op.

The most difficult — and uncertain — portion of the project, though, will most likely come in August, when the fundraising campaign, which will look to raise $125,000, will commence.

Assuming the congregation can raise sufficient funds to get the project off the ground, state aid will be crucial in further reducing the overall cost of the endeavor, said Rollman.

A new grant program established by Gov. Tom Wolf in November 2017, under the state’s Solar Energy Program, offers one-to-one matching funds for solar installation, which could help to alleviate the fundraising burden for the congregation.

Receiving grant money from the state is not a foregone conclusion, though. The application, due in mid-November, could be rejected or sent back to the congregation for revision and resubmission.

‘Nothing is off the table’

Costs and structural barriers still pose obstacles to many Jewish institutions in the area in installing solar panels.

Nearly every synagogue and Jewish school in Pittsburgh that responded to a request for comment said it either had considered solar

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panels and concluded that installing them was not practical financially or had simply not looked into the prospect at all.

“I mean, it has come up,” said Leslie Hoffman, executive director of Temple Emanuel of South Hills. “We just haven’t taken the next steps to really pursue it.”

Jerry Katz, building manager at Temple Sinai, said solar panels would be one of many ideas — including LED bulbs — that the congregation would look at as it moves forward with a review of its expenses.

“As part of the overall package, I think we will look at solar and some other things that maybe would be more sustainable,” he said.

“But no, we haven’t done anything actively.”

Because much of the roof is old, though, he questioned whether it could support solar panels.

At Community Day School, efforts have been underway for months to use solar energy, but have repeatedly run into concerns about costs.

“The rates that were quoted were just not within our budget to install an array of that size,” said Jennifer Bails, director of marketing and communications at CDS. “So we started to reevaluate what our goals would be for the project in terms of the education value and what were other creative opportunities for installing solar.”

The school later looked at a smaller-scale solar project — either on a bike rack station or in the parking lot — but again, the numbers simply didn’t add up.

“Nothing is off the table, but we haven’t figured out the funding to make any of it a reality to date,” Bails said.

Bails added that CDS would appreciate the opportunity to partner with Beth Shalom, potentially giving students the ability to learn first-hand the impact of solar panels on the local community and the world. The school has already moved forward with solar education, even without the potential for hands-on exposure. Last year, Kyle Ison, the school’s middle school science teacher, taught an elective last year on solar power, according to Bails.

And as CDS and Beth Shalom look to integrate solar energy into their curric-

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ulum, they may have a guiding light: Shady Side Academy will open a new $11 million science building replete with solar panels this fall, which could serve as a model for local schools, noted Rollman.

While individual homeowners face similar barriers as larger institutions to going solar, some in the East End have already done so.

The Friedlanders, who live in Squirrel Hill, have reaped the benefits of solar panels for multiple months.

“It’s cut our electric bill in half,” said Eric Friedlander.

The upfront costs of solar panels, though, could be prohibitive for many families.

According to Friedlander, the purchase and installation of panels was as expensive as a “very nice car” and it will most likely take decades before the costs are recouped.

Friedlander said the environmental benefits, not the potential cost savings, ultimately swayed him and his wife, Mary Pat, to go through with the project.

“I think [of] the long-term economic advantage, especially as electricity prices go up, and trying to be more environmentally friendly so we’re not using power from coal and whatever else Duquesne [Light] is using,” Friedlander noted. “So hopefully, the long-term effect is beneficial.”

Friedlander said the panels also served an educational purpose for his two kids, who have gained a more heightened sense of awareness around energy waste.

Rollman argued that Beth Shalom’s project, if successful, could spur local homeowners and businesses to consider solar power, due to the centralized location of the building and its iconic place in the Jewish community.

“It would be in a really highly visible area that could potentially help flip the rest of the neighborhood,” Rollman said.

And should the Allegheny County solar co-op convince dozens more homeowners to join — as McKay hopes — solar panels could soon become a regular sight on the streets of Pittsburgh. PJC Jonah Berger can be reached at jberger@ pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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Headlines ‘Cool Globes’ offers colorful solutions to climate change — LOCAL —

By Toby Tabachnick | Senior Staff Writer

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f you’re wondering about the origin of those enormous, funky globes that appeared downtown last month, the answer lies with a Jewish environmentalist from Chicago who is passionate about promoting local solutions to climate change.

Wendy Abrams is the founder of “Cool Globes, Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet,” a public art installation that has made its way around the world since its launch in 2007, including stops in Jerusalem, several European cities, and in the United States from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. Pittsburgh is its 20th stop.

Each of the 30 globes that are in the Pittsburgh exhibit represent a different solution to climate change, and each was created by a different artist. The exhibit opened in June and will be on display in Market Square, PPG Plaza and Gateway Center through early October.

Abrams was inspired to create the project

in 2005 after participating in the Clinton Global Initiative conference, when all those involved were asked to take action to help combat climate change.

Abrams had spent the previous five years advocating for climate change legislation and was disappointed with what she saw as the governmental leadership’s lack of progress on the issue as a result of yielding to public opinion. She realized that to make a difference, she would have to “engage the public,” she said.

Inspired by a parade in Chicago, with “quirky public art on the sidewalk,” she thought that by putting large, colorful globes outside, people would be “forced to stop and take notice. And the symbolism is, we have to take notice of climate change, because it is right here in front of us,” she explained, speaking by phone from her office in Chicago.

Each globe depicts a different solution to climate change — rather than the problems climate change presents — showing that “the solutions are right here in front of us as Please see Globes, page 16

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The Holocaust and the 21st Century: 2018 Summer Teachers’ Institute is a weeklong seminar that addresses a variety of topics to help educators gain the knowledge to teach about the Holocaust more effectively.

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Moishe House will hold a game night from 7 to 9 p.m. Feel free to bring your own games to teach everyone. Contact moishehousepgh@gmail.com for more information.

q TUESDAY, JULY 10 Squirrel Hill Historical Society’s next free program will be “A History of Freemasonry.”

Austin Shifrin, a long-term member of the FreeMasons, will give an overview of FreeMasonry in the U.S. and abroad at 7:30 p.m. at Church of the Redeemer, 5700 Forbes Ave. Visit squirrelhillhistory.org for more information.

q THURSDAY, JULY 12 NA’AMAT Pittsburgh Council Mahj and Martini from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Tree of Life at 5898 Wilkins Ave. Bring a friend and come learn, teach or play Mahj. Share your favorite munchie or special cocktail. All are welcome.

RSVP at naamatpgh@hotmail.com by noon on July 12 to make sure there are have enough tables, nosh, wine and martinis.

The Jewish Women’s Foundation 2018 call for proposals is offering two programs: Small grants up to $10,000 to fund innovative programs that impact women and girls; and Start-up grants between $2,500 and $5,000 to fund pilot programs and small nonprofits working to improve the lives of women and girls. For more details, visit JWF’s website at jwfpgh.org; or contact Judy at jcohen@ jwfpgh.org or 412-727-1108 PJC

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Beth Shalom’s Sisterhood Book Club will meet to discuss National Jewish Book Award winner “And After the Fire” by Lauren Belfer at 7:30 p.m. at Paula’s house. Contact the office for more information at 412-4212288 or visit bethshalompgh.org/events-

The official book launch of “The Seventeenth Generation: The Lifework of Rabbi Walter Jacob,” a book authored by Eric Lidji, Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives director. Born into a rabbinic lineage that encompasses hundreds of years in Europe, Jacob spent four decades as Rodef Shalom’s rabbi, and now Rabbi Emeritus and continues to be a Jewish scholar of international renown. He founded the Abraham Geiger College in Germany and ordained the first rabbis in the country since the end of World War II, his 17th Generation.

A program featuring a reading by Lidji and remarks by Jacob will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. with a reception to follow at Rodef Shalom Congregation.

A cover of $36 includes a signed book. RSVP at rodefshalom.org/17gen.

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Headlines This Jewish man survived World War II — in Axis-era Japan — NATIONAL —

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EW YORK — Growing up in Imperial Japan during World War II, Isaac Shapiro’s best friend was a member of the Hitler Youth.

The friend wore the organization’s brown shirt uniform to their international school every day, but not because he wanted to — he was German and Japan was an ally of the Nazi regime, so he was expected to project support for the Fuehrer.

Instead of instilling fear into his classmates, however, the uniform had the opposite effect — his non-German peers gently teased him.

“We made fun of him — everybody at school made fun of him,” Shapiro said. “We didn’t support the German Reich.

“He was obviously not very enthusiastic about being in the Hitlerjugend,” Shapiro added, using the German word for Hitler Youth.

Countless Jews have harrowing stories of growing up under the terror of Nazi rule, but Shapiro has a different tale of growing up under the Axis — he was one of the few Jews living in Japan at the time. He was born in 1931, the year Japan invaded Manchuria, and was living there when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.

Shapiro, now 87, is the author of “Edokko: Growing Up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan,” a childhood memoir that first came out in 2010 and was republished late last year. The title is a term that refers to someone born and raised in Tokyo.

While Shapiro’s story contains elements of World War II-era totalitarianism — the police state, the pervasive propaganda — it is unique because it’s not a tragedy.

Shapiro wanted the U.S. to win. He survived American bombings in Japan. He had some idea of what was happening to Europe’s Jews. But he also has fond recollections of his Japanese neighbors and his wartime childhood friends.

“We didn’t feel we were living among the enemy,” Shapiro said last month, sitting in the living room of his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. “Our neighbors were pleasant, decent people. We got the same food rations the Japanese got. They were very fair.”

Shapiro’s family came to Japan after a whirlwind of international travel. His parents, both Russian Jewish musicians, met and married in Berlin. They sensed danger early, immigrating to what was then Palestine via Paris in 1926 to escape the prospect of Nazi rule. When they found life difficult there, they moved to Harbin, a city in northeastern China with a large Russian Jewish immigrant population. In 1931, the year Shapiro was born, his father took a job at a music conservatory in Tokyo.

Shapiro was born in Japan but lived back in Japanese-occupied Harbin from 1931

p Isaac Shapiro in 1950

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to 1936 because his parents had separated.

While there, his family got a traumatic taste of the Japanese police state. One day in 1933, while he was at home with his brothers, the Japanese military helped a gang kidnap his mother and a family friend, Simon Kaspe.

His mother was released in a matter of hours, but Kaspe was killed. The incident was scary enough to prompt his parents to reunite the family in Japan.

“The Japanese military were unusually autocratic and difficult,” Shapiro said, though he allowed that in general he “didn’t feel any oppression or any change because of the Japanese taking over.”

His life was shaken up again by the escalation of World War II and the abolition of any vestiges of democracy in Japan. After the United States and United Kingdom declared war on Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, Shapiro’s British school was closed. His family needed to obtain permission whenever they wanted to leave Yokohama, the coastal city where they lived and received all their news from a heavily censored English newspaper.

“It made us much more conscious of the role of the military,” Shapiro said of the start of the war. “Military police were much more visible everywhere. They would call on us every now and then. We felt we were under surveillance.”

Despite the tight government control, Shapiro spent the early years of the war in the bubble of an international school. At home, he and his family would talk about their hopes for an American victory and a defeat of Germany, which Shapiro wrote about privately in his diary.

His father played a role in helping Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews.

When some of those Jews reached Japan in 1941, before Japan and the U.S. were at war, Shapiro’s father would translate for them at the American consulate in Yokohama. Those survivors relayed news of the Holocaust to Shapiro’s family.

The family also managed to maintain some private Jewish practices while living within a Nazi ally. They would eat Shabbat dinners at home on Friday night, and his father wore a kippah at those meals. They

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p A view of Tokyo in 1936. Life there under Axis rule was radically different than it was in Europe.

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p Middle: The Shapiro family in Yokohama in 1941; above: Isaac Shapiro, now 87, lives in New York.

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Headlines Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Jewish legacy ment seeks to implement valuable policy goals — it must do so without trampling upon the conscientious beliefs of American citizens,” the Orthodox Union said following the Hobby Lobby decision, adding that “there are many other ways to meet the policy goals without infringing on religious liberty.”

Kennedy, who will be 82 when he retires effective July 31 and is the 14th longestserving justice in history, decided countless

as prevent public schools from requiring student prayer and bar the government from endorsing a particular religion, among others.

“On church and state he was persuadable,” Stern said, but adding, “He was more or less on the conservative side of Establishment [Clause] issues.”

Kennedy, as reflected in his invention of the famed “coercion test,” believed that reli-

liberty for those of all faiths. Even in his same-sex marriage opinion, which was lauded by liberals, Kennedy extended a

By Charles Dunst | JTA rhetorical olive branch to social conservatives. He wrote that people opposed to EW YORK — Not an hour after same-sex marriage, including Agudath Anthony Kennedy announced his Israel, which filed a brief to the Supreme retirement as associate justice on Court in opposition, “reach that concluthe Supreme Court, the National Council of sion based on decent and honorable reliJewish Women tweeted its dismay. gious or philosophical premises, and neither “Justice Kennedy’s retirethey nor their beliefs are ment could drastically shift disparaged here.” the balance of the Supreme Kennedy’s most notable Court, and threaten the liberal votes — on same-sex very rights and liberties marriage and abortion — we’ve fought so hard to were in line with left-wing protect,” NCJW tweeted and centrist Jewish organizaWednesday. “We need a tions. Thirteen Jewish groups, justice who will stand up for among them organizations all of our rights – not just the representing the Reform, wealthy and powerful.”

Reconstructionist and NCJW’s is a voice of the Conservative streams, joined Jewish liberal majority, an amicus brief supporting which tends to support aborsame-sex marriage. Several tion rights, a strong divide national Jewish organizabetween church and state, an tions applauded the Supreme extensive social welfare safety Court’s 2016 decision striking net and a liberal approach down a Texas law that to immigration. restricted abortion access.

For that majority Kennedy In 2015, Kennedy wrote was, at least since 2005, the the majority opinion in essential and persuadable Zivotofsky v. Kerry, which swing vote on an ideologically ruled that a boy born partitioned court. He was to American parents in responsible for the 5-4 rulings Jerusalem did not have the that legalized same-sex right to have his birth nation marriage and preserved Roe listed as Israel on his passv. Wade. Although prone port. Kennedy’s opinion to disappoint liberal and declared that the executive centrist groups — upholding branch, at the time headed President Barack Obama’s

by Obama, maintained the policy of warrantless wiretapexclusive right to decide the ping, voting to limit campaign sovereignty of any territory, finance restrictions in Citiincluding Jerusalem. zens United and removing p Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is shown at a White House ceremony in 2017.

Kennedy’s thinking, Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images although focused on execukey provisions of the Voting Rights Act — he was nevertive power, not Jerusalem’s theless seen as the last check on what is likely status as the Israeli capital — “This case is to become a deeply conservative court. confined solely to the exclusive power of the “In the last few years, Justice Kennedy has President to control recognition determiloomed large at the Supreme Court because nations,” he wrote — provoked anger from he so often cast a deciding swing vote, often diverse swaths of the American Jewry. in historic ways, as in [same-sex marriage] or “Many Jews, not all, did not welcome Citizens United,” Marc Stern, general counsel the Jerusalem decision,” Stern said, careat the American Jewish Committee, said. fully refusing to speak for the panoply “While he was not the liberal justice many of American Jews. The Anti-Defamation Jews would no doubt have preferred, he League, American Israel Public Affairs served as a reminder that constitutional law Committee, Hadassah, the Jewish Council and the Supreme Court can be something for Public Affairs and NCJW, among other than pure predictable partisan politics.” others, signed a brief expressing displeasure And as a swing vote, Kennedy’s rulings with the decision. on religious liberty also won him support “Whether he was good or bad for the Jews from conservative Jewish groups. His vote depends on where you think the Jews ought proved decisive in the Hobby Lobby case, to be,” Stern said, also noting, however, that — MARC STERN which found that family-owned corpora“he’ll be missed.” tions need not pay for employee contraOn both sides of the political divide, ception insurance if doing so violates their cases regarding religious liberty, many of gious liberty, based upon the First Amend- activists increasingly value judicial partireligious values, and earned praise from which were important to — and divided — ment, while expansive, did not mean the sanship over Kennedy’s ability to cross Orthodox groups like the Orthodox Union American Jews on all sides. government could make certain religious ideological lines. and Agudath Israel of America.

The cases include the decisions to legalize behavior mandatory.

When the next justice is appointed, Stern “The Court’s ruling stands for the same-sex marriage, preserve Roe v. Wade Throughout his three-decade tenure, said, “demands in ideological partisanship proposition that — even when the govern- and deregulate campaign finance, as well Kennedy was a fierce defender of religious will be very strong.” PJC

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Headlines How the US pressured Poland into softening its law on Holocaust speech — WORLD —

By Cnaan Liphshiz | JTA

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fter the prime minister of Poland announced a major retreat on his country’s controversial Holocaust speech law, many of his right-wing critics accused him of capitulating to Israel.

The concession presented by Mateusz Morawiecki was an amendment passed hastily Wednesday in parliament altering a law from February that was meant to punish those who blame the Polish nation for Nazi crimes. The amendment essentially makes it a civil offense rather than a criminal one.

Jewish groups and organizations reacted with cautious optimism to the amendment of a law they believed would stifle scholarship and free speech. In Poland, some critics of the new legislation said it did not go far enough.

To Polish nationalists, however, the original law was essential to defending the country’s honor and preventing scholars and journalists from using terms like “Polish death camps” or portraying Poles as anything but victims of the Nazis. And they knew just who to blame for softening it: Israel.

Marek Markowski, a nationalist activist, said the amendment was a “disgraceful surrender” to “Israel’s extortion and strongarming that apparently mean that this foreign nation is interfering with our internal matters,” he wrote on Twitter.

Markowski and others seized on Israel’s unusually vocal opposition to the law. But behind the scenes, many Polish analysts said, the real reason for the concession appeared to be pressure by the United States, not Israel.

In March, the Onet news site said it had obtained documents showing that Morawiecki and President Andrzej Duda would not be received by President Donald Trump or any other member of the U.S. administration if the law was not revised. Onet said it did not publish the documents to protect the source.

Staff from the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw also threatened to suspend funding for joint military projects between the United States and Poland, according to the Onet report.

Polish and U.S. officials denied the claims.

But Trump and Duda did not meet once during the Polish leader’s five-day visit to the United States last month, while Trump did meet with the president of Uzbekistan at the White House.

Pundits in Poland also noted American pressure. Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, a former Polish ambassador to Russia, blamed “brutal, political blackmail by the United States” for the decision to amend the law, she told the Tok FM broadcaster on Wednesday.

In an op-ed for the Opinie news site, columnist Maciej Deja wrote that the amendment came “when it turned out that, despite the Polish position, the United States also stood on the Jewish side.”

Even Krzysztof Bosak, a far-right activist who promotes conspiracy theories about Israel, acknowledged that the pressure to defang the Holocaust law came primarily from the United States. Calling the amend-

p Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland visits the Ulma Family Museum. Right-wing critics in his country accused Morawiecki of capitulating to Israel in softening a law on Holocaust rhetoric. Photo by Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images

“ Correcting this counterproductive measure is an important step to restore confidence and advance ties among Poland, the Jewish world,

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and the United States.

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ment “disastrous,” he blamed Poland’s “blind and one-sided alliance with the United States” in an interview with the Dziennik Zachodni daily. But Israel did play an “inspirational role,” he also said.

A source close to Morawiecki confirmed the claim.

“The Polish government ideologically sees eye to eye with the Trump administration and with Israel,” said the source, who spoke under condition of anonymity. “The only hurdle was this law, and eventually all sides saw it just had to go already.”

Israel’s clout over Poland appears to be far less than the far right in Poland believes.

Trade between the two countries came to $500 million in 2015 — about a third of Poland’s trade volume that year with other non-EU partners like Belarus or Saudi Arabia.

By contrast, Poland and the United States carry on more than $10 billion in trade, and talks are underway about opening a huge $2 billion U.S. military base on Polish soil.

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Under attack by his party’s nationalist base, Morawiecki attempted to downplay the amendment’s scope. Because of the law, “no one in the world will now say ‘Polish death camps’ with impunity,” he said in parliament.

He also vowed to “continue to fight for truth” over World War II. In another fiery speech in parliament, Morawiecki revisited the perceived injustice of blaming Poles for the death of Jews.

“When a Jew met a German, the Jew died.

When a Jew met a Pole, he had a chance to live and tell the story,” he said.

During World War II, Poles saved thousands of Jews. Other Poles killed thousands of Jews or betrayed them to the Nazis. The Nazis killed 3 million Jewish Poles and another 3 million non-Jewish ones.

Even after the amendment, newspapers in the West will “think twice” because writing the wrong thing about Poland will mean “paying compensation of $50 [million] or $100 million, which we can now direct in

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some lawsuit,” Morawiecki said.

In a joint statement with Netanyahu, Morawiecki took a more conciliatory tone.

While reiterating his rejection of the term “Polish death camp,” the Polish leader acknowledged the existence of “collaborators” in Poland and that “some people” revealed their “darkest side” during the Holocaust.

“The governments of Poland and Israel call for a return to civil and respectful dialogue in the public discourse,” the statement read.

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, whose chief historian in February blasted the law and some of Morawiecki’s past statements as “morally and historically flawed,” said the amendment was a “positive development in the right direction.” Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said that despite lingering issues with the law, the amendment “would resolve much of this dispute.”

The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, which this week wrote to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal to complain about the law’s punitive provisions, said it was “elated” at their removal.

David Harris, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, noted how the law affects U.S.-Polish ties.

“Correcting this counterproductive measure is an important step to restore confidence and advance ties among Poland, the Jewish world and the United States,” he said.

Back in Poland, however, some critics of the law are not celebrating.

Even after the amendments, a government agency will decide if it’s interested in “initiating legal cases on behalf of ‘the nation’ in the civil courts,” said Rafal Pankowski, a spokesman for the Never Again watchdog on racism in Poland, which has been an outspoken critic of the law. “That’s my worry.” PJC JULY 6, 2018 9

Headlines — WORLD — From JTA reports

NC Republicans withdraw support for anti-Semitic candidate The North Carolina Republican Party withdrew its support for a candidate for the state’s General Assembly over his racist and anti-Semitic statements.

Russell Walker, 75, won the Republican primary in May for the General Assembly seat in District 48. He faces Democrat Rep. Garland Pierce in November.

“The North Carolina Republican House Caucus and our members will not support Mr. Walker’s campaign given his comments and actions,” Rep. John Szoka, the conference chairman of the caucus said in a statement. “While Mr. Walker won the Republican primary, his rhetoric and actions have no place in the Republican Party, and he should strongly consider withdrawing his candidacy.”

A website that Walker has claimed to own includes essays that say God is a racist white supremacist and Jews are descended from Satan. Walker has authored multiple essays and other articles on the site and has said it belongs to him, the Raleigh-based News & Observer reported.

An article on the site written by Walker also says that “all jews are the children of Satan. Cain being the first jew as a result of Satan raping Eve in the Garden of Eden and

Cain being the first seed of Satan,” and that “the I.R.S. and most other ‘taxing’ systems of the world are controlled by and are just an appendage of jewish institutions. In the case of the United States it is the Federal Reserve Bank, one of many Rothschild controlled central banks. The Federal Reserve Bank is owned by 9 European jewish banks, all ultimately being Rothschild controlled.”

In 2017, Walker filed a lawsuit in South Carolina to have Confederate flags and portraits of Confederate generals remain in the main courtroom of the York County Courthouse. A judge threw out the case for lack of standing.

The home page for Walker’s campaign website features a photo of him with a white mule titled “My little white ass and me.” What he terms his “Populist Platform” includes calls to “End Compulsory Fascist Auto and Moped Insurance,” “End rigged for conviction Criminal trials,” “End compulsory vaccinations” and to “Make English the official State language.”

New Jewish Agency head walks back intermarriage comment The new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel said his remarks comparing intermarriage to a “plague” had been misunderstood.

On June 24, Isaac Herzog had used the Hebrew word for “plague” to describe marriages in the Diaspora between Jews and those of other faiths and said there must be “a solution” to the issue.

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But in an interview with the Forward, Herzog said he was using it as a slang word and “didn’t mean it in any negative terms.”

Negative reactions to his original remarks had “distorted the meaning and intention of what I said. A Jew is a Jew is a Jew, no matter which stream he belongs to, if he wears a skullcap or not,” Herzog said.

The Israeli opposition leader was approved to succeed Natan Sharansky as the head of the quasi-governmental organization.

The Jewish Agency for Israel, founded in 1929, is the largest Jewish nonprofit in the world and is primarily known for fostering the immigration of Jews to Israel. Under Sharansky, however, the agency moved away from its traditional mission of bringing in and settling the new immigrants and focused more squarely toward building global Jewish identity.

Part of that effort has been finding ways to engage interfaith families; 60 percent of American Jews aged 25-54 (not including Haredi Orthodox Jews) are currently married to people of other faiths.

At the same time, some Jewish leaders and demographers argue that interfaith families are far less likely to engage with Judaism or Israel.

Ties between Israel and Diaspora Jewry have been strained recently over issues like creating egalitarian prayer spaces at the Western Wall and the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on Jewish marriage and conversion in Israel.

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July 6, 1989 — Bus 405 suicide attack kills or wounds 33

When Bus 405 passed a ravine near Jerusalem, a Palestinian terrorist seizes control of the wheel and runs the bus over the cliff, killing 16 passengers and injuring 17 others.

July 7, 1957 — Eliezer Hoofien passes away

Tzipi Livni is born in Tel Aviv to two prominent figures of the Irgun. A graduate of Bar-Ilan University’s school of law, she later serves in the Israeli Army, Mossad, and works as an attorney before entering politics.

July 9, 1967 — Mount Scopus concert takes place

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American-Israeli basketball coach David Blatt has signed a two-year deal to coach a Greek team amid rumors that he would return to the NBA. Blatt, 59, signed with Olympiacos Piraeus for a reported $1.8 million. He coached Darussafaka Istanbul for the past two years.

In April, Blatt reportedly was interviewed for the head coaching job with the NBA’s New York Knicks, but did not get the post.

He was fired in 2016 by the Cleveland Cavaliers after leading the club, powered by the return of superstar LeBron James to his hometown team following a stint with the Miami Heat, to the 2015 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Warriors in six games.

His six years as head coach of the Russian national team included a bronze medal at the London Olympics in 2012. PJC

July 10, 1895 — Leading Zionist Nahum Goldmann is born in Lithuania

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July 8, 1958 — Prominent Israeli politician Tzipi Livni is born

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Serving in various financial positions, Eliezer Siegfried Hoofien provided the Yishuv and then Israel with nearly 50 years of banking and financial expertise.

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million annually in funds from the North American Jewish federation system largely earmarked for specific purposes and programs and partners with Birthright Israel, runs the MASA umbrella for longer-term stays in Israel and other programs to strengthen Diaspora Jewish identity and connections between Israel and Jews worldwide.

Herzog, who will step down from the Knesset to assume the new position, will start his four-year term on Aug. 1.

A packed audience fills the amphitheater on Mount Scopus to celebrate the end of the June 1967 War and to mark the cultural unification of Jerusalem.

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Nahum Goldmann is born in Visznevo, Lithuania. He is later a founder of the World Jewish Congress and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, as well as President of the World Zionist Organization.

July 11, 1920 — Conference of Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) is founded

WIZO is founded in L on d on by Rebecca Sieff, Vera Weizmann and Edith Eder. Women from Palestine, England, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Russia and South Africa are present at the inaugural conference.

July 12, 1938 — Weizmann expresses dismay over Britain’s Pro-Arab position to MacDonald

As part of the Zionist strategy to engage the British government in political negotiations, Chaim Weizmann airs his grievances against the British government for reversing its pro-Zionist policy. PJC

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Headlines This woman is studying to be the first female rabbi from Uganda — WORLD —

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rowing up in Uganda, Shoshanna Nambi was active in her small Jewish community. She taught songs and the Torah portion to younger children and was a member of her community’s youth group. Learning Hebrew also seemed to come easily. So it seemed obvious to her that she would consider becoming a rabbi.

But even though her community is egalitarian and affiliated with the Conservative movement, some were not aware that a woman could be a rabbi.

“One kid said to me that she would want me to be a rabbi, but I’m a woman,” Nambi, 29, recalled in a phone interview from Mbale, a rural town in Uganda’s east.

That incident was one of the reasons she decided to attend rabbinical school, Nambi said.

“I just feel like it’s something that we should have in the community,” she said.

“We should have different leaders and people should know that women can be rabbis, and men can be rabbis.”

Nambi believes the community is now “open to having a woman rabbi.”

This fall, she will start her first year of studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform movement’s seminary. She hopes to return to her community one day and serve as a role model for other women and girls, but anticipates that she won’t be able to do so in the near future.

Her home community struggles with issues such as access to clean water and electricity, and Nambi worries whether they

would be able to financially sustain a rabbi.

The current rabbi, Gershom Sizomu, is a member of the country’s parliament who works in Kampala during the week and travels home to Mbale on the weekends.

The Ugandan Jewish community, which is called the Abayudaya, traces its roots to the early 20th century, when a former leader read the Bible and embraced Judaism.

Most of the community’s 2,000 members were converted under the auspices of U.S. Conservative rabbis in the early 2000s and thus are not recognized as Jewish by Israel’s Orthodox Chief Rabbinate. Nambi says her grandparents started practicing Judaism, and her immediate family has been doing so ever since.

Nambi’s journey to rabbinical school wasn’t straightforward. After graduating from the University of Kampala in 2011 with a degree in business administration, she worked in health care and for an agricultural company.

She applied to study at Hebrew Union College last year, but says she was rejected because her Hebrew skills were not sufficient. So she spent the past year studying Hebrew and Jewish texts at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, a nondenominational yeshiva in Jerusalem. That meant living with a host family in the Israeli city and leaving her 9-year-old daughter, Emunah, with family members in Uganda — an experience she described as “hard for both of us.”

This time Emunah will join her both for her first year of studies in Jerusalem — HUC requires all its students to spend their first year at its campus there — and her remaining studies at the New York campus.

The rabbinical school is covering her tuition and providing a living stipend, and she and

p In anticipation of the construction of a new synagogue in Nabagoye, Uganda, the women and children there were given the honor of transferring the Torahs from the old synagogue to a temporary home.

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p Shoshanna Nambi wants to teach her rabbinical school colleagues about Ugandan Jewish traditions.

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her daughter will live with the same family that hosted Nambi last year.

Nambi hopes to arrive in Israel in July, when the HUC semester starts, but she is still waiting to hear back from Israel about her visa application. Members of her community have faced problems entering the country, and last month its Interior Ministry said it did not recognize the community as Jewish for the purpose of immigration. Nambi said she was “very disappointed” at the decision, which prompted an outcry from the Conservative movement.

“I just hope that the situation changes, but probably we have to fight a little more,” she said.

Many in her home community are “surprised” that she is attending a Reform institution rather than a Conservative one, but that they are welcoming nonetheless.

“People are really happy that somebody is going to study to be a rabbi,” she said.

“They’re always very excited that somebody is pursuing and taking more Jewish education.”

Nambi said she was drawn to the Reform movement because of its openness to questioning Jewish tradition, such as the idea of Jews being God’s chosen people and the observance of matrilineal descent.

That differs from her home community, which is more rigid in its practices. “[In] my community a lot of things are, ‘This is the right thing to do, this is the right prayer, and this is how you memorize this one,’” she said.

The Reform movement’s embrace of diversity in its communities also resonated deeply.

“I think it’s one of the greatest things that they do,” she said.

In addition to learning more about Reform practice, Nambi hopes to introduce her fellow students to Ugandan Jewish traditions, such as the melodies used for prayers.

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have a lot of tunes of our own that we have composed to the various Hebrew songs,” she said. “I think it’s really nice, and I would like to bring together these two worlds.”

The majority of Ugandans are Christian, but the country has a significant Muslim minority. The Jewish community makes up only a tiny portion of the country’s population, which is about 40 million. But visits by Jews from other parts of the world made her feel more connected to the global Jewish community.

“We were always so happy,” she said, “and it was [a source of] pride for us that there are other Jews in the world, this community is not alone.”

Nambi was also able to meet Jews from other parts of the world through participating in various programs in the United States.

Kulanu, an organization that supports Jewish communities in the developing world, paid for her to attend the American Jewish University’s Brandeis Collegiate Institute, a California-based program that brings together young Jewish adults from around the world, and brought her to the U.S. twice on fundraising speaking tours to synagogues. Kulanu also helped cover some of her expenses to study at Pardes.

Nambi had visited Israel prior to attending Pardes last year, but staying longer and living there was eye opening: It helped expand her view of the country beyond what she had learned in Uganda.

“Israel is not what you think of when you’re back home,” she said. “It’s a modern-day reality, it’s a day-to-day living situation, and people and stuff. It’s not only the Bible.”

Nambi can’t wait to start her new journey there.

“I’m just so excited to start,” she said. “It’s something that I’ve been looking forward to for a really long time.” PJC JULY 6, 2018 11

Opinion A narrow, important ruling — EDITORIAL —

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he Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold President Donald Trump’s travel ban was a narrow ruling, but an important one. By deciding not to consider Trump’s anti-Muslim statements while a candidate and not to address the public policy concerns relating to the ban, but instead to analyze the issue from the standpoint of presidential power, the court correctly upheld the principle that as commander-in-chief the president is responsible for protecting U.S. borders.

That is the simple reading of the actual text of Trump’s executive order, which restricts immigration to the United States by citizens from seven countries, including five with Muslim majorities. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that the ruling was a narrow one, regarding only the prerogative of the executive: “For more than a century, this Court has recognized that the admission and exclusion of foreign nationals is a ‘fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the Government’s political departments largely immune from judicial control.’”

His emphasis that the decision was not a judgment on the wisdom of the president’s

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travel ban was perhaps a bone thrown to those, like ourselves, who view some of Trump’s immigration policies as kneejerk — poorly conceived and poorly executed. The decision was certainly far from a “profound vindication” for the president.

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, focused more on emotion than law, and read into the case Trump’s antiMuslim campaign pledge to impose “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims

entering the United States.” In the face of such animus, the administration’s national security concerns were a “facade,” a “repackaging [that] does little to cleanse [the proclamation] of the appearance of discrimination that the President’s words have created.”

This was the third travel ban the administration proposed, after two earlier executive orders were struck down by the courts.

We believe the Supreme Court correctly concluded that while the ban under consideration may be lipstick on a pig, it is not a religious ban — according to the Pew Research Center in 2010, there were 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world, significantly more than the five this travel ban includes.

Indeed, if the court had considered candidate Trump’s anti-Muslim campaign comments, it would have set a dangerous precedent of viewing a president’s policies through what he says as a candidate in order to get elected.

Like many of the court’s decisions late in the term, this one was measured, which is exactly how the court should function.

Noting that just a day after the ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his impending retirement, we hope that whoever replaces this most balanced of voices on the highest bench in the country will not veer very far from his measured path. PJC

What a Hindu family from New Delhi taught me about Shabbat Guest Columnist Elchanan Poupko

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nviting people we don’t know to our Friday night Shabbat dinner leaves little room for us to be surprised. Getting ready for Shabbat, my wife and I rarely know who it is that will walk through our door. And yet, when a Hindu family walked through our door a recent Friday night, we were surprised. Why? Because they came all the way from New Delhi, India, and wanted to see what a Shabbat meal is like.

From the moment they entered our home to the moment they left, they wanted to know more about Shabbat.

Since our dinner was scheduled a half an hour before sunset, the meal began with my wife striking a match, igniting the Shabbat candles. Resting peacefully on beautiful silver candlesticks, the lights radiated an aura of peace and holiness. We went on to learn that even in New Delhi, lighting candles for Shabbat was a known custom. Everyone at the table was learning new things.

After singing “Shalom Aleichem” with the classic Jewish tune, surrounding ourselves with serenity and a deep sense of spirituality, we went on to make Kiddush — but not before learning that Hindus may not drink wine, but may drink grape juice. It turns out we can all take part in this ceremony and that Kedem grape juice can serve as a great middle ground for all.

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Discussing the concept of Kiddush being a celebration of creation, remembering that the Almighty created the world and rested, resonated with our guests, who immediately connected to this sacred belief. It was as if the full cup of fruity grape juice reflected our beliefs right back at us.

Going on to wash our hands, we learned that in India it is common practice to ritually wash hands before eating. I later learned that this may have to do with the Indian tradition of using hands to eat. In fact, it may be considered impolite to insist on not doing so in Indian company. Somewhat different, yet somewhat like our own Jewish customs.

After making the Hamotzi and eating the challah, we went on to have a delicious meal full of taste, aroma, smiles and conversation. Our Jewish guests and Hindu guests loved hearing about our shared, yet different cultures.

We learned about a culture that has one of the most ancient traditions in the world and one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. Jews have been living in India

from the days of the Second Temple, or perhaps from the days of King Solomon — all without a hint of anti-Semitism, hate or discrimination.

We saw with our own eyes the remarkable admiration the people of India have for the Jewish people and the State of Israel. We spoke about the outstanding cooperation between Israel and India on water technology and irrigation, which to many in India is a lifesaving cooperation.

We spoke about the concept of rest, about the Torah, about creation. Perhaps the most appealing idea we shared with them is that we don’t use our phones, internet and other forms of electricity on Shabbat. We found the attractiveness of being able to hit the “off ” button — just for one day a week — to be universal and very much shared by all of us.

So, there we were, sitting around the table on a Friday night at the pleasant light of the flickering Shabbat candles, a few Jews from New York and a few Hindus from New Delhi. There we were, enjoying deli-

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cious food, disconnecting from the hustle of the Big Apple and reconnecting to our shared humanity.

Seeing how universal the concept of Shabbat is — the idea of rest, time with family, disconnecting from the world of commerce — helped me, a Jew, better understand the meaning of Shabbat.

I was reminded of the words of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: “The Sabbath is not simply a day of rest. It is an anticipation of ‘the end of history,’ the Messianic age. On it, we recover the lost harmonies of the Garden of Eden. We do not strive to do; we are content to be. We are not permitted to manipulate the world; instead, we celebrate it as God’s supreme work of art. We are not allowed to exercise power or dominance over other human beings, nor even domestic animals.

Rich and poor inhabit the Sabbath alike, with equal dignity and freedom. … The Sabbath is a full-dress rehearsal for an ideal society that has not yet come to pass, but will do because we know what we are aiming for — because we experienced it at the beginning.”

And so, as we said goodbye to our friends from New Delhi, my eyes teared up. I thought of the beauty of the Sabbath, its universality — possible only through its particularity and the Jewish people’s commitment to it — and of a world that can be. A world, that one day will be. PJC Rabbi Elchanan Poupko is a rabbi, teacher and writer. He is the president of EITAN-The American Israeli Jewish Network, and lives with his wife in New York City.

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Opinion Jew hatred sneaks up at you in the most unexpected places Guest Columnist Barry Shaw

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t’s surprising — some would say shocking — where you find little incidents of anti-Semitism. They sort of sneak up on you in sublime places, leaving you in a quandary whether to address it or walk away from it.

This happened to me on the final sea day on the home leg of our fjord cruise aboard the Norwegian Jade, heading southward to Southampton ahead of our flight back to Israel.

I went for a late self-service lunch in the Garden Café with my wife and one of our daughters. The place was still crowded at 1:15, and we joined a table occupied by a tiny disheveled, elderly man. He wore a mismatched pair of trousers and jacket that had seen better days, that covered an ancient shirt from which a scrawny neck poked out of an oversized stained collar. He must have been one of the only passengers on the ship who wore a tie at lunchtime.

He peered at us through his George Burns spectacles as he told us he was 89 and travelling alone in an inside, windowless cabin.

We congratulated him on his independence and health to enjoy travel.

He had emerged from his cabin at around nine o’clock that morning and gone to the Garden Café at around 9:30. It took him so long to eat his breakfast that the waiters had changed the menu for lunch. So he decided to stay where he was for his mid-day meal.

This was apparent by the multiple stains on the white napkin he had thrust down the collar of his old shirt.

His lips were stained by something brown he had eaten, and odd bits of food were ejected from his thin lips as he told us he ate lots of porridge. My wife nodded, eyeing me, when he told us his role in life was avoiding pneumonia. “It can kill you, you know.”

After the usual pleasantries, I hazarded a guess that he came from New York. I was wrong. He surprised me by telling us he was from some place in Texas. I congratulated him on the extraordinary long distance flights he had taken on his own from Texas to London and then the road travel down to Southampton to meet the cruise ship.

Then I said we lived in Israel. He stared at me.

“Why do your neighbors hate you?”

I didn’t see that coming but, experienced in hasbara, I made some reference to being surrounded by people who want to kill us.

If I didn’t see that coming I certainly didn’t expect what came next.

“All you people want is our money.”

Momentarily off-balance, I asked him what he was talking about. He answered, “You Jews keep coming to our Congress begging for our money.”

Trying to maintain a jovial atmosphere, I attempted a weak but pointed joke.

“I thought you people accuse us of controlling the banks and world global economy. Now you accuse us of begging for your money.”

The old man came back. “Yes, that’s all you want from us, our money.”

My wife glared at me to keep quiet. That’s what Jews usually do when confronted by a Jew-hating dinner guest. But I wasn’t prepared to take it without some sort of response. I don’t let these low level, deep-seated, anti-Semites go unanswered. You can’t win them over, but the new Jew should not sneak away. It didn’t require much added provocation, but it came.

“Why are you people so stubborn?” he asked. It was more a statement than a question.

“I’ll tell you why, old man,” I ventured.

“It’s because for 2,000 years we had to put up with snide little Jew-haters just like you, and much, much worse. You ask why we are stubborn. It’s because we don’t take crap from people like you anymore.”

There is no way you can convert a person from a decades-old anti-Semitism, someone in the late stages of his octogenarian period.

It’s far too late in his life for that. He will go to his grave with that biased chip scarring his soul. But there is an advantage to being on the way to 76 and no longer duty bound to respect your elders any more, particularly those with a life-long, built-in, ignorant hatred of Jews.

I remember many such people from my days in England — people living in places who rarely met a Jew, yet who still had this false negative myth of us.

This is not contemporary anti-Semitism.

It is the same old nasty, petty, ignorant Jew hating that many of us experienced when venturing out of our comfortable communal shtetls into areas in the north of England, or somewhere in Texas. Places that were miles away from Jews, many years ago.

Apparently, it is still alive and hating in silence today. Just scratch the surface, and there it is. PJC Barry Shaw is the author of “Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism.” He is also the senior associate for public diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

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— LETTERS — ZOA donation was legitimate A recent article about Zionist Organization of America President Mort Klein is filled with inaccurate allegations (“Qatar spat is latest example of Klein’s combative ZOA leadership,” June 29). Here are the facts.

On Nov. 2, ZOA innocently and legitimately accepted a Jewish businessman’s generous donation for tables at the ZOA gala. The donor gave every indication that he was donating his own funds: The checks listed his private home address, and he told Klein he was donating because he “loved ZOA’s pro-Israel work,” wanted to become “active, one of our top five donors, join ZOA’s board,” and urge his “wealthy Jewish friends to donate.”

When a filing last week indicated his funds had possible links to Qatar, ZOA promptly returned the donation to eliminate any hint of impropriety. There were no conditions, either expressed or implied, attached to the donation. Ever.

This donor advised that Qatar was moving to change its policies to become more pro-Israel and pro-American, and Klein’s meeting with them could boost such progress, benefitting Israel and America. Klein refused to visit Qatar, despite the donor’s requests, before and after receipt of the checks.

After major Zionists Malcolm Hoenlein, Alan Dershowitz, Mike Huckabee and others agreed to visit Qatar, and after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin praised Qatar for “improvements made in fighting terror,” and after turning down an invitation for four months, Klein decided to visit in January 2018. He went armed with ZOA’s 50-page report detailing Qatar’s troubling policies and ZOA’s demands to benefit Israel and the Jewish people. Significantly, Klein was instrumental in obtaining cancellation of Al Jazeera’s anti-Israel documentary scheduled to run last February, and removal of anti-Semitic books from Qatar’s book fair.

Notwithstanding this, Klein continued to criticize Qatar. In a Feb. 2 interview, Klein stated, “I was and will be tough on Qatar and until they change … I won’t be supportive of Qatar,” and “my feelings will remain negative until they have taken substantial steps for an extended period of time.” He also condemned the emir’s U.N. speech blaming Israel for lack of peace and Qatar’s Jerusalem positions.

Mark Levenson Chair, Zionist Organization of America John Rosen Executive Vice President, Zionist Organization of America

Immigrant policy is cruel and inhumane

The Trump administration’s practice of separating immigrant children from their families and detaining them is cruel, inhumane and flies in the face of Jewish values (“Local leaders at interfaith rally protest family separations,” June 29). The president’s new executive order on this matter doesn’t solve the crisis he created; it continues to criminalize immigrants, including people exercising their legal right to seek asylum, detains immigrant families in jails unsafe for children and provides no plan to reunite thousands of separated children.

As a Jewish American, I know all too well what it looks like for a government to criminalize the most vulnerable, to lie and obfuscate to justify grossly immoral practices under the banner of “the law,” to interpret scripture as a cover for human cruelty and to normalize what can never be made normal. We have seen this before.

Too many of us repeat the words “never again” and think too narrowly about the murder of Jews in Europe. That narrow interpretation ignores the painful and thorough acts of dehumanization and terror that people are living through today at our southern border.

The president’s agenda can only be realized if good people remain silent. Jews must organize to demand that he end his “zero tolerance” policy and urge members of Congress to call for the same. If we don’t speak out, the president and his ilk will only be empowered to take his anti-immigrant policies to even more dangerous, violent extremes.

Shiri Friedman Pittsburgh

‘Muslim ban’ might not go far enough

Regarding a recent op-ed about the Trump administration’s immigration policies (“The Muslim Ban and my Jewish Mother,” June 29): The ban covers only five of the 51 Muslim-majority countries in the world. The five countries have less than 10 percent of the world’s Muslim population. Therefore, it is hardly a ban on all Muslims entering the United States.

The ban also covers non-Muslims in North Korea and Venezuela.

After the American Revolution, Barbary pirates started attacking American ships. In 1786, the U.S. ambassadors to France (Thomas Jefferson) and Britain (John Adams) met in London with the ambassador from Tripoli in order to negotiate a treaty to protect American ships. The U.S. delegation asked for an explanation as to why the government of Tripoli was so hostile to the United States, even though the Americans had done nothing to provoke an attack. The Tripolitan ambassador, who technically was a representative of the caliph, explained that it was the right and duty, based on the Koran, of Muslims to wage war on non-believers.

Islam hasn’t changed since 1786. Maybe the United States should ban Muslims who don’t reject the part of their law obligating them to wage war on non-believers.

Jim Silverman Pittsburgh

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Headlines Homebrewing a boozy recipe for friendship turns grapes into wine, grain into bread and milk into cheese. There’s something fascinating about the transformation of those ingredients that’s really cool,” he said.

For two hours we moved between Camp’s kitchen (where we drank), basement (where we drank) and garage (where we did not drink). We learned about the history of American homebrewing — Charlie Papazian’s founding of the American Homebrewers Association and the Association of Brewers in the late 1970s followed H.R. 1337, a 1978 act signed by President Jimmy Carter legalizing homebrewing on the federal level for “personal and family use” — and discovered the constitution of a beverage so often causing crapulence.

Camp, who dabbled in homebrewing in 1995 but delayed a more serious immersion until 2012, said, “I like beer. I like the mixture of chemistry and cooking, artistry and science.”

For us, such passion was evident with each sip. Following a single-batch unblended Lambic, which he brewed in September 2012 and bottled in June 2015, we enjoyed a Berliner weisse, also started in September 2012 but bottled in January 2013.

“Geoff has the patience of a Trappist monk,” said Dan Gelman, our second host.

Before venturing to Gelman’s abode, a trek of little less than a mile, we drank more.

After a doppelbock, rauchbier, Belgian dubbel and Trappist single, we consumed an altbier, Vienna lager, British dark mild, Irish stout, American pale ale and American barleywine.

Each brew possesses a particular style, thus necessitating a certain rigor in makeup.

Honoring those traditions, many of which date back generations, is motivating, explained Camp.

“It’s neat to think this is the same thing they were doing,” he said. Whereas some crafters like creating drinks complete with exotic ingredients and trendy names, “I’m more interested in making beer for a classic style.”

Since 2012, the Squirrel Hill resident has brewed more than 43 batches, of which he’s

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n a sticky summer evening in Squirrel Hill, my Chronicle colleague and I strolled south on Shady Avenue thirsting for a story. At 10 minutes to 6 p.m., it was still early enough to see the sidewalks askew by century-old oaks, the shade sheltering those retreating from the summer sun. Though some swings at Blue Slide Park were still occupied on Beechwood Boulevard, many recreational denizens had ventured indoors, as on eves like these the humidity stamps every move with sweat — picture fingers aimlessly sliding across a cell phone screen while trying to click a circle or damp hands pressing against a reporter’s pad as the pen slides.

If ever there was a night for cold beer this was it.

Our assignment was to capture an epic craft crawl. Aiding us with insights and access to basements full of beakers — or spaces reminiscent of “Breaking Bad” — were three Jewish brewers, a neighbor who joined our adventure and one amiable dog. Over a four-hour span we walked 1.3 miles and ingested two types of grain resembling grape nuts, handfuls of salted circular pretzels and 15 varieties of homemade beverages. We brewed a batch of Caribou Slobber, listened to Bootsy Collins and effortlessly observed chemistry and camaraderie combine.

After arriving at the home of our first brewer, Geoff Camp, we descended to a lab-like basement and entered a single-car garage. Surrounded by transparent plastic hoses, two 10-gallon orange containers, a steel pot and a few billion cells of yeast, Camp explained with scientific precision the relationship between water quality and good beer (acidity, alkalinity and hardness all alter taste), introduced us to the praiseworthy moment of flocculation (when yeast clumps in the beer-making process and drops to the bottom of the fermenter) and lionized fermentation.

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p Justin Braver, left, Dan Gelman and Geoff Camp pose after an evening of brewing and fun.

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hose hungering for a satisfyingly artificial cheesy snack are in luck, as the once popular but discontinued Planters Cheez Balls and Cheez Curls are returning to market after a 12-year hiatus.

Beginning in July, the neon orange bite size treats are available nationwide, according to a statement from the Kraft Heinz Company.

“We heard many impassioned pleas for us to bring Cheez Balls and Cheez Curls back over the years and we wanted to give our fans a chance to reunite with their mostmissed cheesy snack,” said Planters Head of

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Brand Building Melanie Huet in a statement.

“We made sure our Cheez Balls and Cheez Curls still have the same delicious taste, airy texture and fluorescent color you know and love, so our fans can enjoy a nostalgic trip down memory lane with every canister.”

Praise for the revival has been spreading faster than melted gouda in the summer sun.

“I used to love them,” said Eric Greenfield, of Squirrel Hill, who recalled eating the orange-hued morsels at his grandparents’ house — an experience that often culminated with his grandmother admonishing eaters for placing

their bright-colored fingers on a couch.

“I am always excited when new (or old) kosher food hits the market and look forward to tasting some,” exclaimed Oren Levy, a former New Jersey resident.

“Right now as a kosher consumer my only option for cheese-flavored corn-based snacks is Utz Cheese Balls. I’m excited that there is a variety in the marketplace,” echoed David Chudnow, of Pittsburgh.

While the return of Planters Cheez Balls and Cheez Curls is a mouthwatering event for some snackers, other eaters are less amused.

“I spent a lot of time in Israel growing up.

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Adam Poznanski, of Squirrel Hill.

“I still await the day when Cheetos will be kosher,” added Levy.

Lynne Galia, an official with the Kraft Heinz Company, confirmed that “Planters Cheez Balls and Cheez Curls are kosher certified by [the Orthodox Union] as kosher dairy.”

Even so, restoring this nosh to its rightful place — in and around the mouths of eaters — may signal a moment for great unity, joked Matt Faigen, of Cleveland, Ohio.

“Jews and professional sports have never seemed to fully fuse. It’s nice to finally see one ball serve the Jewish community,” he said. PJC Adam Reinherz can be reached at areinherz @pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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rigorous teaching style, St. Clair occupied a somewhat unique position at the day school and in the community at large: a non-Jewish staff member who wholeheartedly embraced Jewish culture, prayer and education. Unlike many of his fellow non-Jewish colleagues, St. Clair always donned a kippah at school and was often the sole teacher in attendance at students’ bar and bat mitzvahs, keeping a watchful eye on at-times restive students.

“He really embraced being part of the Jewish community,” Bails noted. “He knew all of the words to morning tefillah and has a deep love for Jewish culture and affinity for Israel.”

Bill Walter, who taught social studies at CDS, praised St. Clair as a “good person” and said he wished him the best in the wake of the storm.

“His concern wasn’t whether somebody got an ‘A’ or a ‘B’ or a ‘C’ in middle school. He didn’t think that was important,” Walter said. “He thought that what was important was, ‘did you learn anything’ and ‘are you a better person?’”

The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh contributed $2,000 to the campaign. Federation President and CEO Jeff Finkelstein took the money out of a pool called the President’s Fund, according to

Adam Hertzman, director of marketing and communications at the Federation.

“He has touched so many lives in the Jewish community, in the broader community,” Hertzman said. “I think as a much loved and much recognized contributor to the Pittsburgh community and the Pittsburgh Jewish community, we thought it was important to help.”

St. Clair also expressed gratitude to local residents and businesses for their efforts.

“The borough has been real good about cleanup, getting dumpsters down on the street and cleaning up all of the trash that people are dragging out of their house,” he said. “Many of the businesses have been donating cleanup supplies, a couple of the restaurants donating food, and people coming down the street, literally passing out hamburgers or water or whatever.”

St. Clair, whose tenure at CDS ended last year, also coached cross country, track, baseball and softball at the school, in addition to serving as a chaperone on the school’s annual 8th grade trip to Israel on multiple occasions.

“It’s a wonderful feeling,” he said of the money he has received. “So that’s clearly a bright spot in all of this disaster.” PJC Jonah Berger can be reached at jberger@ pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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“We are pleased to team up again this year with the Jewish Federation because they have been providing services for more than a century to Pittsburgh’s immigrant and diverse communities,” Harrington said in a written statement. “In addition, this is our sixth cycle of funding grants to community groups, so this partnership allows us to expand our resources and engagement.”

Innovative ideas, as well as “quirky solutions,” are encouraged according to the grant website. “Applicants may focus their language access proposals on a specific community, constituency, language, or demographic group, or focus on a broader cross-section of constituencies. … Collaborations with technology firms or STEM organizations are encouraged.”

The partnership between the Urban Affairs Foundation and Vibrant Pittsburgh highlights “the Jewish Federation’s support for healthy, diverse communities and our conviction that they contribute to the vitality of the region as a whole,” Cindy Goodman-Leib, chair of the CRC, said in a written statement. “We see awarding mini grants as a means of building

the region in the way the foundation’s mission statement specifies: ‘to foster amicable relationships among ethnic, racial, national, religious and other groups in our community.’”

Funding through the initiative will be available to non-profit applicants selected through a proposal process. Organizations can partner with other nonprofits, academic institutions,

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religious organizations, community groups, businesses and employee resource groups to propose one-year long projects. The typical range of a grant award is $500-$7,500.

Past mini grants have funded health and human services, housing, education, mentoring, professional networking, social support, welcoming initiatives, and job-connection

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programs for refugees and immigrants.

“The Jewish Community Relations Council has partnered with Vibrant Pittsburgh for the last six years to help make Southwestern Pennsylvania a more diverse and inclusive place,” said Sayles.

“We do this primarily by contributing 50 percent of a $50,000 fund each year to provide seed money to diverse communities and organizations to launch critical community projects they wouldn’t be able to afford on their own.”

All applications will be screened by staff from Vibrant Pittsburgh and the Federation.

Selected proposals will be reviewed by the Mini Grant Review Committee comprised of representatives from Vibrant Pittsburgh and the Federation’s Community Relations Council. Successful applications will receive funding by the end of November 2018 Grant application materials are available at www.vibrantpittsburgh.org/resourcecategory/mini-grants and at www.jfedpgh. org/grants. Completed grant applications are due by 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 31, and should be sent electronically to ebernstein@ jfedpgh.org. PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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then allocated it, and then that’s it. Today more than ever, private giving leverages corporate, foundation and government dollars so we raise a little over $13 million in the campaign, but give out more than double that,” said Hertzman. “That’s the really most compelling reason to give to the Jewish Federation.”

Those locally affected by the allocation decisions include the umbrella organization’s nine beneficiary agencies: The Edward and Rose Berman Hillel Jewish University

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well,” she added.

Many of the globes, which each weigh more than a ton, are from the original 2007 Chicago installation, with others coming from the various cities on the exhibit’s tour, including three created by local artists.

“The new globes that were done by the Pittsburgh artists I thought were extraordinary,” said Abrams. “One, by Lindsay Wright that is in Market Square is a tribute to Rachel Carson, with a quote, and talks about the connection between organic farming, eating organic foods, and how that has an impact on sustainability.”

The globe created by local sculptor Ashley

Center; Community Day School; Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh; Jewish Association on Aging; Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh; Jewish Family and Community Services; Jewish Residential Services; Riverview Towers and Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh.

“Though most of the Federation’s beneficiary agencies will receive a 2 percent cut, organizations that address health and human services will not lose any funding,” according to a statement from the Federation.

Regarding the Jewish day schools, they “are going to see a small decrease in funding from the community campaign, but they are going to get more money than they ever

have before this year,” because of “record fundraising” as part of Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program, said Hertzman. The EITC initiative provides “tax credits to eligible businesses contributing to a scholarship organization, an educational improvement organization, and/or a pre-kindergarten scholarship organization.”

In 2016, EITC enabled 515 children to receive K-12 scholarships at the Jewish day schools and another 234 children to receive preschool scholarships.

Similarly, said Hertzman, while EITC has benefitted the day schools immensely, “you have to ask yourself, are there sources

of government money that we haven’t gone after in the past that have the potential to fund priorities that we previously haven’t been able to fund?”

“As the needs in the community change year to year, so do giving trends,” echoed Meryl Ainsman, chair of the Federation’s board of directors, in a statement. “By leveraging corporate, foundation and government dollars, the Jewish Federation is able to keep up with those changing needs and help here in Pittsburgh, in Israel and in communities around the world.” PJC

Kyber and her students speaks to the impact of people working together as a community to foster change, Abrams noted, and the globe by Katy Dement — a mosaic with fragments of mirror — indicates the power of self-reflection to find solutions to climate change.

Abrams reached out to the City of Pittsburgh last year to inquire about bringing the globes here, although Pittsburgh was not initially on her radar.

She started thinking about Pittsburgh when, last year, “President Trump said, ‘I don’t represent Paris, I represent Pittsburgh,’ and the mayor of Pittsburgh responded by saying, ‘FYI, we’re not just a coal town and a steel town, we’re all about renewables and we are about innovation and technology,’” she recalled. “That really struck me. I didn’t

think about Pittsburgh as a renewable energy town or an innovation town.

“I thought, ‘we have to bring the exhibit to Pittsburgh,’” she continued. “The purpose of doing the exhibit is to brag about the good things that are happening locally, and I just think that Pittsburgh has a lot to brag about.”

A friend put her in touch with the PNC Foundation and the Heinz Endowments, which were eager to support the project, and within one day of reaching out to Mayor William Peduto’s office, Abrams had the green light to bring the globes to the Steel City.

“Of all the cities I’ve been working with around the world, they were so warm and friendly and helpful which was such a joy,” she said.

“Cool Globes offers a message of hope and resiliency that is what Pittsburgh is

all about,” Peduto said in a statement. “I encourage everyone to visit the globes and learn more about what you can do to help combat climate change.”

Creating Cool Globes is part of Abrams’ commitment to “tikkun olam,” said the mother of four, who sees the issue of climate change as something “personal.”

“This is my children’s inheritance,” she said. “Their world is going to be compromised, it’s just a matter of to what degree.

And that makes me so angry, especially because — although I don’t know how to cure cancer — I know how to solve climate change. And we’re not. And there is a ticking clock attached to this problem.” PJC

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only dumped one.

“It was a coffee stout. It was bitter and tannic,” said Camp, whose meticulousness was evidenced by a sincere apology when during our 11th beer, a drop from his keg tap dripped on a drinker’s fingers.

The punctiliousness and proficiency with which Camp works — typically a Sunday morning activity in which grains require four to six hours of activity and extracts three hours of work — was admired by his fellow practitioners.

“He’s the Picasso to our paint by numbers,” said Gelman, who along with brewing buddy Justin Braver, also of Squirrel Hill, exhibited a more relaxed approach.

“We’re proof that anyone can brew,” echoed Braver.

Friends of Camp’s, the two Jewish Pittsburghers shared similar stories of being exposed to the craft in the ’90s, “retiring” from it while focusing on family and career, and then resuming the trade roughly six years ago.

“I was pretty into beer in high school,” said Braver.

“He was 21 in high school,” Gelman dead-panned.

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migrated north on Beechwood Boulevard.

Having ambled from one side of Squirrel Hill to the other, a journey lasting 12 parched minutes, we required another drink.

Gelman, a most gracious host, gifted us “a few-week-old chocolate milk stout” he and Braver had made. Before following it with a black IPA and bourbon barrel porter, we were joined by Gelman’s neighbor, Mark Davidson, who was dressed in a green “Star and Shamrock” t-shirt — the garb, which hailed from the Washington, D.C., Irish pub and Jewish deli owned by Davidson’s friend, thematically paired with a beverage Gelman described as inspired by Jameson — and Shilo, Gelman’s genial dog who took interest

in one Chronicle staffer.

As the night drew on and Gelman and Braver recounted their brewing habits, we were invited to participate by pouring hops into a steel pot. As a propane flame blasted beneath the silvery can, we were privy to a recounting of the ills afforded when attempting to create your craft and drink it too; yet, such conversation was quickly terminated by Gelman, who said, “We have no debate,” in reference to whether homebrewers should drink while working.

He was followed by Braver, who asked, “The argument is what?”

After blissfully admiring Gelman’s grasp of a steaming voile and Braver’s aversion to spurts of 212-degree Fahrenheit water, we

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ventured off the outdoor deck, down several stairs and into the basement, where a conical fermenter was affixed to the wall.

As Gelman hoisted a heated container almost six feet and then opened a latch to let the liquid flow into the hanging plastic jug, Camp marveled at the process.

“Beer is a living creature,” he said.

Until fermentation occurs, there is really no alcohol, explained Gelman. What exists now is wort, something “slightly sweet and slightly bitter.”

Prior to Braver measuring its gravity — the amount of dissolved sugars — we confirmed Gelman’s assessment by drinking the wort. It was gross. But offsetting whatever taste there was in this pre-beer was a palpable feeling of fellowship between the brewers. Over the course of four hours, Camp, Gelman and Braver exhibited varying approaches to the discipline, yet in the end a single stream of mutual affinity emerged.

There is a “camaraderie component” to this, said Camp.

Braver agreed. “I brew because it’s a fun thing to share with friends and family, and bring to Thanksgiving,” he said.

Yes, an element of sociability certainly exists, but there is also something else.

Added Gelman: “I do it because I enjoy drinking beer.” PJC Lauren Rosenblatt contributed to this story.

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Let’s start with the loud. We need to rewind a bit to the end of last week’s Torah portion in which Pinchas, the zealous priest, grandson of Aaron and great-nephew of Moses, witnessed Zimri, a Jewish leader, and Cozbi, a Midianite princess, engage in a public display of immorality and idolatry. Frustrated by Moses’ hesitation in responding to what Pinchas believed would destroy the Israelite people, Pinchas took matters into his own hands, grabbed a spear ‌ and impaled the two of them.

This week we pick up the story with God establishing a covenant of peace and a covenant of everlasting priesthood. While we understand that Pinchas was rightly distressed by Zimri and Cozbi’s overt and chutzpadik display of idolatry, it is important to note Jewish commentators have long been troubled by Pinchas’ actions, as well as the suggestion that he seems to be rewarded

by God for his zealousness. Many have suggested that God’s offer of a “pact of peace� (brit shalom) should not be regarded so much as Pinchas’ reward, but rather as a covenant that will require responsibility and moderation on the part of this future Israelite leader.

One of the most powerful commentaries on Pinchas’ act is written into the very fabric of Torah itself. The Masoretes — the 8th and 9th century rabbinic sages who codified the written Torah into the version we know today — instructed that the word shalom in the term brit shalom should be written with a broken letter vav. As a result, every Torah scroll now bears this inner message: Peace achieved through zealotry and violence is an incomplete peace, a “broken peace,� as it were.

The soft voice is God’s. In the Haftarah portion, a desperate Elijah runs for his life from the murderous designs of Queen Jezebel and seeks to find the presence of God. Here’s the beautiful and moving passage that describes Elijah’s encounter with God: “Then the word of the Lord came to him: ‘Why are you here, Elijah?’ He replied, ‘I am

moved by the zeal for the Lord, God of Hosts.’ The Lord said to him, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire.

But the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire — kol d’mamah dakah — a still, small voice� (I Kings 19:9-12).

In poignant contrast to the episode in Numbers involving Pinchas, the Haftarah teaches that truth doesn’t need to be shouted.

Kol d’mamah dakah: truth and justice, and God, can often be found in quiet and stillness, and in small voices.

Finally, we arrive at the “just right� voice of the daughters of Zelophehad, five women who step forward, state their case and ultimately change Israelite law.

As the tribes are being counted — their strength and size enumerated so that parcels of the Promised Land can be apportioned accordingly — we are told in Numbers, Chapter 27: “The daughters of Zelophehad, of the tribe of Manasheh ‌ came forward. The names of the daughters were Machlah, Noa, Choglah, Milcah and Tirtzah. They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the chieftains and the whole assembly at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and they said, ‘Our father died in the wilderness. He was not one of the faction, Korach’s faction, which banded together against God, but rather he died for his own sin; and he has left no sons. Let not our father’s name be lost to his clan just because he had no son. Give us a holding among our father’s kinsmen.’â€?

When Moses brings their case before God, God responds: “The plea of Zelophehad’s daughters is just. You should give them a hereditary holding among their father’s kinsmen.�

There will always be noise in the system.

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Obituaries CALIG: Anita Sally Calig, age 89, of Pittsburgh, passed on Thursday, June 28 with her son and daughter by her side. Born in Bridgeton, N.J., Sally née Serata was the beloved daughter of Benjamin and Molly Serata. She shared a deep bond with her dear brother Isaac “Buddy” Serata, his wife Lorraine and aunt, Becky Blumenfield. As a young woman, Sally was married to Leonard Schrank and became mother of Victor, Amy and Ira. Sally was married for many years to Harold Calig, with whom she enjoyed many trips and shared wonderful friends. Late in life Sally found special companionships with Edward Sable and Jerry Ostrow. Sally, an independent woman, was kind, caring and generous to all.

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RUBIN: Marilyn Whitman Rubin, on June 28, 2018, after 57 years of marriage to Jack Henry Rubin and a long battle with cancer.

Beloved mother of Leslye (Michael) Markovitz of Carmel, Ind., and Barry (Kimberly) Rubin of South Park, Pa. Beloved Nama of Andrew Markovitz of Carmel, Ind., and Eric Markovitz of Louisville, Ky., and Sari Lin Rubin; step-grandma of Alexis Hostovich.

Numerous sisters and brothers-in-law and nieces and nephews. Arrangements made by D’Allessandro Funeral Home & Crematory Ltd., Lawrenceville. Contributions may be made to Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute Office of Fund Development, 4818 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15224. dalessandroltd.com

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American Army officer who was seeking English speakers. He signed on with the Army, at age 14, to be a translator — but ended up translating for the U.S. Navy in Japan after the war.

“I have to go home and get some clothes and tell my parents,” Shapiro recalled telling the Army officer at the time. But his parents didn’t mind.

“They were in such a state of shock about the end of the war and occupation,” he said. “They were very tolerant of my deviant behavior.”

A Marine officer and his wife took in Shapiro and, in 1946, with the encouragement of his parents, moved with him to Hawaii and acted as his guardians. Shapiro attended high school there, then went on to college and law school at Columbia University, and a long career at the law firms of Milbank Tweed and Skadden Arps.

In 1952, he served in the Korean War, sweeping for mines and interrogating Koreans in Japanese. In the late 1970s, he and his wife got to live in Japan during peacetime, helping establish Milbank Tweed’s Tokyo office.

“There were lots of Americans by that time,” Shapiro said of Tokyo. “It was completely different. When we went down to Hiroshima, it was unrecognizable.” PJC

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avoided pork, and on Passover they imported matzah from Harbin.

“We knew what was happening to the Jews in Germany and we wanted Germany to lose the war,” Shapiro said. “We were very quiet about it and didn’t want the Japanese to think we were against them. Privately, we were hopeful that Japan would lose the war.”

The war came home in 1944, when the Japanese military evacuated the coastline and sent his family to live in Tokyo, where they endured heavy American bombing.

Shapiro’s family had to run frequently to air raid shelters and pump water by themselves to put out fires. A Russian immigrant friend of his was killed in a bombing.

“It was frightening because Tokyo was burning,” Shapiro said. “The bombs fell all around us.”

By 1945, it was clear that Japan was losing the war, even though the nation’s censored newspaper downplayed the military defeats as temporary setbacks. When the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, Shapiro recalls it being covered as a small item in the paper so as not to scare readers.

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WEITZMAN: Leonard Weitzman, born on May 4, 1923, and died on June 24, 2018. During World War II, Lieutenant Leonard Weitzman lay in an army field hospital in Naples, Italy, waiting for a doctor to amputate his infected leg. A visiting surgeon walked past, picked up his medical chart and said, “I think I can save this man’s leg.” And he did. After undergoing a radically new but successful operation, the young soldier spent months in U.S. military rehabilitation centers, where he realized that no one spoke to soldiers with disabilities about how they would one day find employment. When the U.S. Army gave him a medical retirement, he returned home to Pittsburgh and pursued a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Pittsburgh. He also pursued Harriet Reich, a coed from Warsaw, Indiana, and the couple wed in August 1947 at the Urban Room in the William Penn Hotel. In 1947, Mr. Weitzman started his career as a placement counselor at the United Vocational and Employment Service, a Downtown social service agency founded in 1927 by the National Council of Jewish Women. The agency helped people with

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2,500 people a year. Clients came from 20 counties in Western Pennsylvania. The two-story, red brick structure covered a city block. It had medical and dental exam rooms and a 34-bed dormitory. The agency began offering night classes in assembling, offset printing, mechanics and woodcutting. Mr. Weitzman raised more than $2 million to add two more floors in the mid-1970s. In 2004,the agency changed its name to Life’sWork of Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Weitzman served as president of the National Association of Sheltered Workshops and Homebound Programs as well as the National Association of Rehabilitation Facilities. He also was allied with Cornell University and its training of vocational rehabilitation professionals. For nearly 20 years, he was a delegate to the World Vocational Commission of Rehabilitation International. His peers elected him to serve as the organization’s president for six years. In that role, he traveled frequently, visiting Fiji, Israel, Hawaii, Japan and Europe. In Japan, he and his wife had a memorable half-hour audience with the crown prince of Japan, now that country’s emperor. The two men learned they shared a love for tennis.

Mr. Weitzman was a consultant to the Social Security Administration’s disability determination program. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare asked him to assist rehabilitation programs in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. At the request of the U.S. government, he traveled to East Germany, Israel and

Pakistan. Mr. Weitzman served as president of the board of trustees for Rodef Shalom Congregation. From 1972 through 1974, he served as president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. He was an enthusiastic golfer and tennis player. Mr. Weitzman was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of European immigrant parents, Joseph and Irene Weitzman. He was a child when his family moved to Pittsburgh and grew up in the Hill District and Squirrel Hill. He graduated from Schenley High School and enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh.

After graduating as a ROTC cadet in 1943, he was commissioned and saw duty training troops in Florida and then active duty in Italy.

He is survived by three sons and two daughters, Richard of Plum, Mark of Mt. Lebanon, Steve of Braddock Hills, Barbara Kelley of Kirtland, Ohio, and Nancy Weitzman of Shadyside; longtime companion Miriam Schaffel of Boston, Mass.; daughters-in-law Judy Weitzman and Marylynne Pitz; grandchildren Ari, Linda, and Daniel Weitzman, Aaron Weitzman, and Eric and Hannah Kelly; niece Mindy Kart, grandnephew Jordan Kart, and nephew Ira Katz. His wife of 61 years, Harriet, died in 2008. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. Interment West View Cemetery of Rodef Shalom Congregation. Memorial contributions may be made to Life’s Work of Western Pennsylvania, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, or the Alzheimer’s Association. schugar.com PJC

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Community Fun at Camp Hillel

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p Campers Shmuel Kanal and Noam Kohanbash are joined by science teacher Don Garwood while holding animal skins. As a special lesson, campers elected to learn about animal cultures and habitats.

p First formal installation of president for the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery was held June 24 at Atria’s in Fox Chapel. Posing for a photo are: back row, Barbara Scheinberg (incoming president), Paul Herman. Front row, left to right: Jan Mankin, Gail Schmitt, retiring President Renee Abrams, Stuart Neft, Alan Sable and Marty Elikan

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Attorney Bryan S. Neft officially became the 110th president of the 6,000-member Allegheny County Bar Association on Sunday, July 1. His one-year term will end on June 30, 2019. Neft practices commercial, toxic tort litigation at Spilman Thomas & Battle. He hopes to facilitate ways Pittsburgh-area attorneys can engage in pro bono work and to continue to make the ACBA a greater resource for attorneys throughout Allegheny County, not only those working at downtown firms, by bringing bar association programing into the suburbs.

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p Chana Cohen, Rosi Ufberg, Aderet Brown, Ayelet Chazan and Tali Goldwasser enjoy a hike through Fall Run Park.

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