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Insights from the 2015 Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors Editor’s note: The Bob Malkin Young Ambassador Program, offered through The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee, provides a highly subsidized two-week trip to Israel each summer for high school students. Seven local teens participated in the trip this past June, learning firsthand about Israel’s history, culture, geography and advocacy. Selected students were required to participate in a leadership training program for six months prior to trip departure, and will be involved in post-mission training, volunteerism and leadership activities throughout the coming year. Here are some memorable photos and thoughts captured by the 2015 Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors: Adam Caldwell, Alli Fuchs, Nathanial Serebro, Elinor Sevy, Amelia Stern, Becky Weinstein and Jessica Zelitt. Not just any wall By Alli Fuchs y experience in Israel was exciting, eye-opening, unique, fast-paced and spiritual. I first felt the connection to Israel and being Jewish when we visited the Kotel or Western Wall. We went there twice. The first time was at the beginning of the trip, on Shabbat. Our group split into girls and boys, and we approached the wall to pray. All I could think was, “There must be something wrong with me, I don’t feel anything.” To me, the city didn’t mean much yet. I didn’t know too much about it. This was just a historical landmark as far as I was concerned. As the trip progressed, we learned about Zionism, the history of the Jewish people, the current-day struggles we face as Jews, and much more. On the second to last day of our amazing journey, we were exploring the old city of Jerusalem when Boaz, our tour guide, asked if we wanted to go to the

Kotel one last time. I said yes, even surprising myself! This time my experience was different. This wasn’t just some wall to me anymore. This was the last standing wall from the Second Temple. This was the wall the Romans didn’t destroy. This was the wall that an entire people have put their heart and soul into. This wall reconnected me to Israel and to my Judaism. I am grateful to The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee for giving me this incredible opportunity.

are all a part of one family. Before I went to Israel, I understood the country was the only democratic nation in the Middle East but not much more. Once I experienced Israel up close, it became much more than that. I also saw it as a sanctuary and home. This experience has greatly affected my understanding of what Israel means to Jews around the world.

Coexisting in harmony By Becky Weinstein aving the opportunity to travel to Israel has made a massive Sanctuary and home impact on my life and helped me attain my goal of learning about By Amelia Stern Israeli culture. The diversity of people isiting Israel gave me an enin Israel is amazing and something I tirely different insight into can relate to. In the United States, peowhat defines me as a Jew and ple come from many different backwhat defines Israel as a nation. It was grounds, and Israel is quite the same. not until I was surrounded by thouAbout 70 percent of Israel’s population sands praying at the Western Wall, or is made up of Jews from all over the exiting Yad Vashem (the Holocaust world. I witnessed this diversity in the museum in Israel), that I discovered small group I traveled with. Our tour the humane identity of Israel. guide was Israeli-born, our medic was Nothing prepared me for the feelborn in the Ukraine, and our bus driver ing of togetherness I felt when surwas from Argentina. Yet, their ability rounded by Jewish people in their own to coexist was clear. land. When I lit candles for Shabbat People from many other religions with my host family, I realized that no also live in Israel. During my trip I matter how one observes Judaism, we learned about Christianity, Islam, Baha’i, Druze and other religions, as well. It was beautiful to see how well people from different backgrounds, traditions and religions are able to live together in harmony. At first, I thought this trip was going to be all about Judaism. Although I witnessed At Shonim B’yachad: Young Ambassadors Nathanial Serebro, businesses closing to Alli Fuchs, Becky Weinstein, Elinor Sevy, Jeremy Caldwell, observe Shabbat and Amelia Stern, Jessica Zelitt with Andrea Eiffert and Jeremy Dictor

small children walking to temple with their parents, I also observed the strong sense of nationalism among Israelis, regardless of how religious or secular they are. In Israeli culture, Zionism is a big deal. I was surprised at how proud the Jewish people were to call Israel their home, even if they were not born there. My time in Israel has made me think a little differently about the world. I am very thankful to have been chosen to travel to Israel and to have the ability to have great memories that will last a lifetime. I can’t wait to travel to Israel again!

Taking the leap By Elinor Sevy une 22 was a difficult, tiring, scary and fun day in Israel. I knew we were going to rappel down a cave after we hiked Nachal Kziv, but I had

Elinor Sevy rappelling in Keshet Cave

no idea what that meant, and I wasn’t the only one scared and anxious about it. Once there, we put on our harnesses and helmets, but no knee pads or arm pads. It looked dangerous. I was scared just watching the other people going down. I didn’t want to do it, and I wasn’t forced to, but I still put on my harness, knowing I could change my mind at the last moment. We all got in a single line and waited for our turn to

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Ambassadors...continued from previous page dents say that they are reluctant to do their military service because of the bonds they’ve made with their Arab school friends. Overall, visiting Israel showed me that Israelis are able to go on living their normal lives even while living in a very unstable area of the world. I came back to the United States with a completely different view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Cuisine connection! By Nathanial Serebro uring my trip to Israel, I connected with the Holy Land in many ways, including going on vigorous hikes, praying at the Western Wall, and enjoying Israel’s magnificent scenery. But one of my favorite things was experiencing the diverse

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tastes of Israel. The cuisine teased my taste buds with an explosion of flavors and textures. Everything tasted fresh and delicious, and it was neat that almost all of the restaurants were kosher – even McDonald’s! I enjoyed visiting the local markets with their overflowing bags of spices and herbs, and ample opportunities to taste new foods. Many foods in the market were prepared in front of us, making the experience even more tangible. I loved going to Israel and discovering so many new sights, sounds – and tastes!

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Jewish religion and history, but I believe that Israeli Jews are invested in their survival in a way that American Jews are not. The first thing I noticed about Israelis was how fast they moved and how tough they seemed. The people I met on the trip were connected to their history in a way that impressed me. When I asked kids my age how they felt about joining the military, they all told me how honored they were to serve their country. It was remarkable to me that they felt so positive about military service. I can only conclude that the Israelis I met feel connected to a common cause of national defense and pride. I am grateful to The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee for giving me this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It was a trip I’ll never forget. A fresh insight By Jessica Zelitt hen I told my friends and family that I was traveling to Israel this summer, they were concerned about my safety. Some said: “Your parents are actually letting you go there?” and others said something along the lines of, “Don’t get shot!” These comments worried me. This was my first trip to Israel and the stigma around the situation in the Middle East made me uneasy, but I chose not to let this hold me back. When I got to Israel, everything was calm. It did not feel like I was in a place that had been involved in a fullblown war just a year ago. This held true throughout the entire trip. There was never a time in which I felt unsafe. One of the most inspiring experiences from this trip was when we visited the Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem, where Jews and Arab students learn together in peace. The school also puts on community events to bring together Jewish and Arab families. We spoke to some of the students and it was interesting to hear the Jewish stu-

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rappel. I was in the back of the line, hthinking I can’t do this, but I faced my fear and took the leap. Yes, I rappelled for the first time! It was thrilling. r Until I got to the bottom of the cave, I didn’t know that we had to hike gall the way back up to where we starteed, as it was the only way out. Everyrone was scared, including me, since the .cave was very narrow on the side. Deespite my fear, I kept calm and tried to help others, telling them where to place their feet on the rocks so they wouldn’t fall. t I’ve since learned that when facling a difficult or terrifying situation, to never panic and never give up. By helping others, I realized I can be a leader. I’m happy and proud of myself for not giving up and for staying positive. y eSharing common bonds eBy Jeremy Caldwell d y trip to Israel was my first time outside the United States. I had never been exposed to people from different cultures, so it was fascinating to see how people live on the other side of the world. The people of Israel have much in common with American Jews. We share common bonds, including our

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Federation launches new radio program: “Milk & Honey” By Federation Staff e invite you to join us for an exciting new venture for The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. Every Sunday at 10:00 a.m., starting October 4, on WSRQ 98.9FM in Sarasota, tune in to our weekly radio show, “Milk and Honey.” “Milk & Honey’s” mission is to inform the public on the Jewish perspective and to rally the support of our friends. It exemplifies the morals and values of our Jewish leaders while encouraging dialog and understanding on modern topics that impact the world.

The program’s host, Jessi Sheslow, Director of Community Relations for the Federation, says that “Milk & Honey” will focus on three topics: Israel, anti-Semitism and Jewish culture. “Each of these topics offers a vast array of Jessi Sheslow ways to connect to our donors and the community,” she says, adding that each show will be available as a podcast for those who can’t listen at the time it airs.

Sheslow, a former television producer and Federation staff member who helps facilitate the Heller Israel Advocacy Initiative and the newly formed FAST (Fighting Anti-Semitism Today) initiative, will interview guests who have “a discerning voice for the Jewish people.”

“Now, more than ever, the topics of Israel, anti-Semitism and Jewish culture are in need of being lifted up,” she says. “Day after day they are being dragged through the mud in the international media. We intend to go on educating, raising awareness and opening meaningful dialog. We hope you will join us!”

Why the FAST initiative is important to me By Iris Nahemow, FAST co-chair

t was my mother on the phone. “Young lady, I want to talk to you. When are you coming over?” It was 1988, I had just accepted the job as regional director for JNF. My Russian immigrant mother’s tone in the message was her usual tone for serious issues. “Iris, you have had important jobs in the past, but I want you to understand why your new job is the most important responsibility you have ever undertaken. During World War II, we could do nothing for the Jews of Europe. All we could do when no country would accept the ship St. Louis, carrying refugees from the Nazis, was stand on the shore and wave in support. You are now working for Israel. Jews must never again be so helpless.” A few years earlier, my then 17-year-old daughter returned home from dinner with a classmate’s family and came to me in tears. “Mom, there was a professor there from Pitt who is

Syrian. When he heard that I was Jewish he jumped all over me about Israel. He said we didn’t belong in Israel. I didn’t know what to say to him.” This scene was repeated just three years ago when her own daughter found herself in a similar situation on her college campus. I recount these stories here as the answer to why I am passionate about the problems our college students are facing on campus today. This is why I am co-chairing the FAST (Fighting Anti-Semitism Today) task force. One very active group of students supporting Palestinian liberation (and advocating the end to a Jewish state altogether), euphemistically named “Students for Justice in Palestine,” is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood. They are presenting one-sided propaganda, working for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel and Israeli goods, and attacking Jewish students with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic

rhetoric and actions. Our kids need us! Our Jewish students, like my daughter years ago, and my granddaughter today, don’t know what to say to them. They need us to help level the playing field. They need us to support them. They need help in knowing what to say. They are all our kids, and they need the organized Jewish community with them. This is a challenge I must accept. The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee must be a key player. Others organization include Hillel, AIPAC, AJC, etc., who are all working in different ways to address this problem. Specifically, this year our task force is working with Hillel and Rabbi Ed Rosenthal at USF in Tampa to financially support several tested programs selected and carried out by the students. And, this is just a start.

I can still hear my mother’s voice making sure I know how much the Jews need Israel. Are you with us? We will keep you posted! For more information or to learn how to help combat anti-Semitism in our region, contact Jessi Sheslow, director of community relations at The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, at jsheslow@jfedsrq.org.

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defended Fordo facility where, with the ask this question: Would you sign flip of a switch, these centrifuges can an international agreement with be activated and made ready for use. a country whose leader defames your country and attacks the very Iran is allowed to continue to build and existence of your closest friend and test advanced centrifuges which can most active supporter in the world? I be used in the development of nuclear weapons. Sanctions on wouldn’t sign such an agreeIran’s conventional ment, but the P5+1 group negotiating with Iran for ever weapons trade will be so long, including the United lifted within five years, and on ballistic misStates, has done just this. In siles, the most effecthe face of Iran’s Ayatollah tive way to deliver a Ali Khamenei’s denunciation of the United States and denuclear weapon, within eight years. mand for the obliteration of Sanctions now the State of Israel, President enforced against Iran Obama has stated: “This deal offers an opportunity to move will end and billions of Rabbi Howard A. Simon dollars will become available for Tehin a new direction. We should seize it.” ran to continue to support the oppresWhat is the world about to “seize?” sive Syrian government and President Tehran’s nuclear program will be Assad, and terrorist groups such as capped for a decade or more in exchange for the lifting of sanctions Hamas and Hezbollah. Shiite Muslims the world over cheered this deal while against Iran. That sounds like a fair Israel and Sunni-dominated countries deal until one looks at the realities of such as Saudi Arabia have called it “a that deal. Iran is allowed to maintain hundreds of centrifuges in its heavily bad deal for the entire world.”

The fact is Iran will, eventually, become a nuclear nation and a threat to the United States, to Europe and the entire Middle East. Republican House Speaker John Boehner assessed the agreement with these words: “If, in fact, it’s as bad as I think it is at this moment, we will do everything to stop it.” This is the world’s best hope. In 60 days will the Congress of the United States put a stop to this agreement? That is the question of questions. It is anyone’s guess what the answer will be, but these deliberations by the Senate and the House of Representatives represent the most important, most critical and most necessary action they have ever taken. Hopefully, for the sake of the entire world, every senator and every representative realizes this fact and will act accordingly. For more information about the Heller IAI, visit www.sarasotalovesisrael.com or contact Jessi Sheslow at jsheslow@ jfedsrq.org or 941.343.2109.

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n its ongoing commitment to promote Holocaust awareness, The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee is a proud media partner with Venice Theatre in its September production of I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti. Venice Theatre’s executive/artistic director, Murray Chase, directs this stunning drama that shows us joy in the most horrific conditions. A Holocaust survivor from Terezin tells the

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March of the Living: Sorrow and joy By Jessie Greenberg

t was 30 degrees Farenheit, and a freezing, chilling wind whipped at my face. My feet were numb with cold as I walked through the Auschwitz death camp. A chill ran up my spine. I could hear Joe’s voice in the speaker in my ear. He was an elderly, hunched-over Holocaust survivor; his voice heavy with sorrow, age and loss, as he recounted the horrors that he and millions of other victims endured. He spoke of his memories of himself and his fellow Jewish comrades being tormented, humiliated and slaughtered on the very grounds I was walking on. It was hard to picture weather colder than the freezing temperatures we were experiencing, yet Joe spoke about his bare, icy feet on the cold, rough gravel, while he was a prisoner at the concentration camp. I began to weep with sorrow. I could feel the eerie presence of the many innocent people who died, in a state of terror, on these very grounds before it was their time to go. As I stood in the “shower room” and heard about the lies the prisoners were told, I felt a tight knot welling in my throat. How could people stand by and watch men, women and children murdered? These victims arrived at the camps in boxcars, which looked as though their purpose was to transport livestock, yet hundreds of victims were cramped inside in unsanitary conditions. Since many died in these unbearable conditions, many felt lucky to have made it thus far. They were weak and numb with terror. As the prisoners lined up to “take a hot shower,” they had no idea that they would never feel the relief of cleansing water on their skin again. The prisoners were oblivious to the fact that their deaths were so close, as the “showers” were actually murderous gas chambers. Their last breaths were not with their loved ones

and were not in comfort. As I looked around the gas chambers I could see the claw marks on the walls, and I could picture the prisoners desperately trying to break free. I learned that even through crisis we can see the love that still survived among the prisoners. Many corpses were found holding children on top, trying to preserve their life before their own. The adults did everything in their power to save the youth, but in the end no one would survive. While walking through these camps my stomach began to growl. We had only been served hard bread and moldy food in Poland. However, I had the luxury of resorting to my snacks and Clif Bars to keep me sustained. The prisoners of the camps were lucky to receive a small bowl of soup in the course of a day. The grass was stripped from the earth because that’s what the prisoners desperately turned to for food. I could not imagine what it would be like to have no other option except eating grass to survive. I also realized that I had never in my life experienced extreme hunger for any amount of time. I felt so blessed that I am always given the opportunity to eat, even if I am only a little hungry. To march through these death camps and experience a smidgen of the cold and hunger the people went through really gave me some perspective, and helped me realize how blessed my life really is. The death camps were emanating a feeling that was bitter cold with the lack of color, and stark terror filled with murder. As I walked through the beautiful forest I could not believe that I was on my way to see another death camp. I felt guilty for admiring the beauty that surrounded us. However, as soon as we arrived at the thousands of stones, I could feel the death that had taken place there. I listened to our leader’s

explanation of what these stones represented and I learned that over 17,000 stones were present. Each stone commemorates a Jewish village and community, all of which were destroyed during the Holocaust. I found a stone and sat against it as I read the letter my Grandma had written to me. This was the most emotional part for me during my experience in Poland. I had always known my grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, whose life was saved by a British family that took her in, with help from the Kindertransport. I read about her best friend who was killed in a camp, and the times they shared together every day after school. I pictured my own best friend growing up, and could not imagine losing her in such tragic circumstances. It seemed so unfair that the people she knew growing up, as well as some of her closest friends and relatives, were suddenly killed. It is one thing to look at the death in numbers, but it is another thing to picture each life that was lost, and how much better the world could have been if this atrocity did not take place. It makes me so sad to think about the talent that was lost: inventors, musicians, painters, writers and poets who were slaughtered. As each day came to a close, our hearts were heavy with the

sorrow we learned about, but through prayer and song we did our best to come together to realize that we are not alone, and we are all here for each other. earning about Poland opened my eyes to the evil in the world, but Israel opened my eyes and my heart to the love that still remains. When I returned to Israel, I began to feel that I returned home again. This is such a beautiful place where I can really feel connected to my roots, my ancestors and the Jewish people. As I looked around at the Orthodox and secular Jews dancing at the Western Wall, I knew that I belonged. Suddenly, a hand connected with mine and threw me into the circle of song and dance. My heart swelled with joy as I began to sing with my brothers and sisters. It was a nice change to be able to sing from a place of joy instead of a place of sorrow. We sang beautiful songs throughout our time in Israel. We sang about giving thanks and building a beautiful city. However, I did not forget about the sorrow I had experienced in Poland. I felt that the sadness from that part of the trip helped me to appreciate a place of joy even more. The mood in Israel was somber on Yom HaZikaron, Israel Memorial Day.

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It was very powerful when everyone in the entire land was completely silent for hone minute to honor the military who ohad died. During this ceremony, a siren ewent off and echoed throughout Israel. hEveryone stopped what they were doing and gave a moment of silence for dour fallen soldiers. I knew that this was a very rare event and would never hapdpen in America. Going to Israel helped me to learn . more about the conflicts and the issues sthat these civilians put up with on a daily basis. I couldn’t imagine the fear

go to Poland and see the camps is because my grandmother’s generation – the people who went through this horrific nightmare – won’t be with us much longer. We must continue to bear witness to what happened and ensure it doesn’t happen again. I met a ton of friends I will never forget. We went through hard and joyful times together and created close bonds. I will never forget the orange bus and the fun times we shared. I can proudly call this group my family, and I know that I will see many of these friends again in the future. Thousands of Jewish teens from around the world share a once-in-a-lifetime experience when they march three kilometers from Auschwitz o to Birkenau, the largest concentration complex built by the Nazis. The march commemorates Yom HaShoah, e Holocaust Remembrance Day, by retracing the steps r of the March of Death – the actual route hundreds of . Jessie Greenberg (center) with friends in Israel thousands of people were forced to take on their way to the gas tthat people living in Israel must face chambers. Participants experience a ewalking onto a bus, walking down the street, and even in their own neighbormemorial service in Birkenau, which hood. The threat of terrorist attacks is concludes with the singing of “Hatikconstant, and we learned about loved vah.” From Poland, they travel to Israel to celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel .ones who died in such attacks. Even though I felt that this was Independence Day. This April 12-26, mostly a sad trip, I also felt that it was The Jewish Federation of Sarasotaextremely life-changing and worthManatee sponsored ﬁve teens from this while. I learned a lot about my heritage area to experience this life-changing and myself, and discovered the incredtrip. To learn more, please contact ible strength of the Jewish people. I reOrna Nissan at onissan@jfedsrq.org alized that the reason it’s so important or 941.552.6305. for people of my generation to actually

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n the summer of 2008, I was awarded a S.K.I.P. (Send a Kid to Israel Program) scholarship to travel to Israel as part of the United Synagogue Youth’s Poland/Israel Pilgrimage. I had such an incredible experience that I was determined to go back to Israel for my junior year abroad. I made that dream a reality in the spring of 2012 when I attended Hebrew University in Jerusalem – again with the help of The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. Both of these opportunities were incredibly life-changing and have provided me with unforgettable experiences. After high school, I

Marisa Briefman (right) on her 2008 trip to Israel

attended Indiana University in Bloomington where I graduated with a BS in non-profit management and minors in Jewish studies and public finance. Additionally, I was awarded the Leonore and Louis Piser Prize in Jewish Studies, a prize that honors the most outstanding graduating student who plans to pursue a career related to Jewish studies. I now live in Chicago where I serve as the development associate at The ARK, a Jewish, not-for-profit, community-funded health and human services agency that works with individuals and families in distress to create a personalized and comprehensive care plan. Our primary goals are to stabilize our clients’ situations and assist them in achieving the highest degree of selfreliance possible. I run our Legacy Program (planned giving) and work with the executive director to steward current donors, cultivate new Marisa today donors and plan events.

he Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee is beginning a new monthly column in The Jewish News, featuring articles about what has become of the hundreds of students who have been recipients of scholarships, grants and Federationsponsored programs through the years. Inquiring minds want to know! The Federation and its supporters want to know about your Jewish life and all the things that you are doing now as adults. Did your trip to Israel at age 16 inspire you to make Aliyah? Did learning about tikkun olam in Communiteen lead you to become a healthcare professional or non-profit worker? Are you now a lawyer or lobbyist because you loved attending Panim el Panim in Washington, D.C.? Tell us about it! Send your article (200-250 words) along with the following details to Andrea Eiffert at aeiffert@jfedsrq.org:  What Federation-sponsored program/scholarship were you a par-

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The Ravensbrück Archive: Witnesses of the Holocaust By Marinna Okawa, Mimi and Joseph J. Edlin Journalism Intern

diaries, poems and photographs, are rchives from the Ravensbrück all part of the Ravensbrück Archive. women’s concentration camp The block books that have the names in Germany were unveiled at of those who were held at the camp are The Jewish Federation of Sarasotaalso part of the exhibit. rManatee’s Bea Friedman Theater on Resnick said the goals of the exJune 30. The Ravensbrück Archive was hibit are to: presented by Lund  Have family members of those University board who were in the camp contact members Richard Lund University to learn more Ohlsson and Robabout their relatives ert Resnick, along  Have the archives available for with Lund UniHolocaust research worldwide versity professor f  Continued diligence to ensure that Håkan Håkansson. these atrocities can never occur The trio discussed Marinna Okawa again the history behind “Once these women and children -the Ravensbrück camp and the archives have been given their voices back, tthat were created from the thousands of they must be heard around the world,” .handwritten notes from survivors. This Resnick said. is the second revealing of the RavensHåkansson discussed how the projbrück Archive in the United States, ect played a key role in preserving both with the presentations serving as a funthe archive and a major part of history. draiser for Lund University’s Preserve “Whether we are aware of it or not, we the Archive campaign. are living in the shadow of the Holo“We are here tonight to honor the caust and we must keep its memory women and children of Ravensbrück alive,” he said. and let their voices be heard after 70 During the presentation, Håkansyears of silence,” said Ohlsson. son discussed the history of the RaRavensbrück, situated approxivensbrück camp and the creation of the mately 55 miles north of Berlin, was archive. Resnick said he visited the site a concentration camp primarily for of Ravensbrück in May. women and children. Between 1939 – “It was nothing short of eerie to when the first women were transferred walk on the same wood floor that the to the camp – and 1945, over 130,000 Nazi commandants had walked on prisoners passed through Ravensbrück when they were planning these atrociand its satellite camps. In Lund, Sweties,” Resnick said. “It was eye-opening den, where Ohlsson was born, the and it brought my underSwedish Red Cross White standing of the human exBus operation assisted perience of Ravensbrück thousands of camp survito a new level.” vors by transporting them Also on hand was to Sweden for healthcare. Ravensbrück survivor Zygmunt LakocinIwanna “Jean” Holowaty, ski was one of the Swedwho now lives in Venice, ish volunteers serving as Florida. Holowaty heard an interpreter for Polishabout the Ravensbrück speaking survivors during World War II. Lakocin- Ravensbrück survivor Iwanna Archive presentation only ski, a professor of Pol- “Jean” Holowaty with Richard a few days prior through Ohlsson of Lund University an article published in ish language at Lund, the local newspaper. Holowaty was documented approximately 500 inter17 years old when she and her family, views, totaling more than 5,000 pages including her mother, cousin and her of handwritten notes from survivors. cousin’s 18 month-old child, were arThese interviews, along with notes,

rested as political prisoners in January 1943 and brought to Germany from the Ukraine. “I was a survivor. I was young and strong, but the memory of Ravensbrück always stayed with me,” she said. Following the presentations, a portion of the Ravensbrück Archive was presented for viewing by the more than 200 people in attendance. The archive included some of the handwritten interviews, drawings, photographs, books and a journal with the cover made from a piece of a camp uniform. In addition, the artifact presented that Håkansson described as the “most heartbreaking” was a small mirror inside of a folded piece of cardboard-like material and inscribed with a poem. Fundraising is an important piece to preserving the Ravensbrück Archive for generations to come. Resnick and Håkansson said the fundraising goal is $500,000, with about $300,000 raised so far. “This has been a transformational journey for me. To do something to heal such deep wounds in the world – and in a little way – to make right what the world knows went so wrong,” Resnick said. Throughout the presentation, the

true meaning behind archives was emphasized – to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive in the hopes that it is never repeated. Audience members were affected by the discussion and the essential message. “I appreciate people bringing this to our attention. It’s something that shouldn’t be buried,” said attendee Margo Cook. The one-day Ravensbrück Archive event was proudly supported by The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. Lund University’s efforts to preserve the archive were formally recognized by the California legislature and in the U.S. Congressional Record during a similar event held in Los Angeles on June 29. Funds raised from the Ravensbrück Archive project will go towards translating the interviews from Polish to English; indexing the interviews in English; digitizing and publishing the interviews, transport records and artifacts; and creating a traveling exhibition. For more information about the Lund University Foundation’s Ravensbrück Archive project, visit http://lund universityfoundation.org/ravensbruckarchive-fundraising-project/.

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By Marden Paru, Dean, Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva can’t remember a day going by in the last few years without “Israel” being in the news. Errant guided missiles fall near Negev communities almost every day; the IDF then goes into retaliation mode. Iran’s threat of annihilating the Jewish state is a regular phenomenon. The intifada continues in East Jerusalem with innocent Israelis being stabbed or intentionally hit by angry Palestinian drivers. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements impact the White House and Congress. We note it on cable TV, network broadcasts and in the many online journals and blogs that cover these occurrences. It’s true that I am an “Israel news junkie” so maybe I view and hear too much. Like many of you, however, I find it all very discomfiting. But not all the news is negative. We shep nachas (take great pride) when a new high-tech innovation is announced, when a medical breakthrough is reported, or a non-invasive diagnostic tool comes on the market – all developed by creative and talented Israeli scientists and researchers. More “democracy” is at play in Israel than in most other parts of the world. Just look at (and try to understand) its political system. International studies show that Israelis are ranked in the top tier of the “happiest” people on earth. These are among many paradoxes we ponder. More alarming than ever is the increase in “anti-Israel” expression and BDS activity in sectors ranging from

university campuses to major Protestant-denomination conventions – from the seats of foreign governments to the various bodies of the United Nations. Even Pope Francis has entered the fray. I contend that this is the same old virulent anti-Semitism – never too far from the surface – now masquerading around in the form of “anti-Israelism.” After all, being anti-Israel is seen today as merely “political” whereas overt anti-Semitism – since the Holocaust – has generally been regarded as verboten. Who is behind all of this? Is there an international cabal at play? Is it being funded and by whom? Is the Jewish community here and abroad being threatened? Are we becoming more squeamish and feeling less secure as a Jewish people when we read the daily headlines and listen to the news commentators of our day? What issues are on your mind regarding Israel? Beginning Tuesday, October 13 (10:30 to 11:45 a.m.), the Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva is offering a new eightweek seminar called “Israel 2015.” The tuition is $50 and includes all materials. (Scholarships are available.) Classes are held on the Federation Campus, 580 McIntosh Rd., Sarasota. To register or for more information, please contact me at 941.379.5655 or marden.paru@gmail.com. The Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva is partially funded through a grant from The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. The seminar is open to everyone.

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JFCS volunteer Cynthia Folit helps when needed By Jamie M. Smith, MBA, Director of Marketing

f FCS volunteer Cynthia Folit was Most appreciatively, when Cyne introduced to JFCS about a year thia lost her main source of transporf ago by friends Bob Ferber, Marge tation that limited her ability to get to Martin, Hannah Honeyman, of blessed and from JFCS offices, she subscribed memory, and Lee Levine. “All spoke to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune so she nhighly of JFCS, and support JFCS in could continue her volunteer work .one way or another,” she says. Cynthia from home and get a head start to the wanted to get involved and volunteer week’s work. to help in any way she could and she While Cynthia is eager to be a volcertainly has fulfilled her offer. unteer and loves the JFCS staff, she is n Since volunteering, Cynthia has most proud of her three children, six -helped numerous departments and grandchildren and two great-grandchilprograms with various projects. She dren. Her face lights up and you can’t help but smile while listening to her has wrapped gifts for Adopt-a-Family, eput together care packages for our Vetmost recent trip to visit them. eerans Stand Down, gathered and put To learn more about our volunteer etogether pajamas and books for The opportunities, including from your home, contact please Sheri Weiss at Pajama Game, completed volunteer 941.366.2224 or sweiss@JFCS-Cares. packages, and performed various other supportive administrative functions. org. Her main volunteer task is to help me, JFCS Director of Marketing, with finding mentions of JFCS news of interest. Each week she reviews dozens of periodicals, including The Jewish News, Sarasota HeraldTribune, The Observer, and SCENE magazine. I am very grateful to have Cynthia as a volunteer and look forward to seeing her each week. We chat about current events and good articles, and I get to bounce ideas off her to get JFCS Volunteer Cynthia Folit (photo by Jamie M. Smith) a first impression.

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unday, February 21, 2016 will have helping hands volunteering all over our two-county area. The Synagogue Council of Sarasota-Manatee is coordinating this new event. The inspiration for it came as an outcome of the successful board leadership workshop that was held last March. From that, a committee of thirty people from nine area congregations was formed to plan future collaborative efforts. Under the guidance of volunteer facilitator Norm Olshansky, a non-profit professional, the group

embraced the idea of a day of good deeds. “It is an opportunity for a large number of Jewish people in our community to work together and make a positive impact,” said Laurie Lachowitzer, Synagogue Council President. Projects are currently being assembled. Non-profit organizations, agencies, clubs or groups that have a project for that Sunday should contact Laurie at 941.927.3636 or lauriesrq@ verizon.net. All ideas for all ages will be appreciated and considered.

Call for volunteers for A Taste of Chanukah community-wide event Planning is well underway for the 2015 edition of A Taste of Chanukah, Sarasota-Manatee’s preeminent community Chanukah celebration! This community-wide event will be held at the Sarasota Fairgrounds on Sunday, December 6 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., and will again feature delectable gourmet kosher food prepared and served by some of the region’s top restaurants, spectacular entertainment, and attractions for the whole family. Highlighting this year’s event is the Moshav Band, an Israeli-American rock band. A large number of volunteers are urgently needed to assist with event operations, including set-up, decorating, traffic/parking assistance and more. If you wish to volunteer, please contact Chabad of Sarasota at 941.925.0770 or info@chabadofsarasota.com, or visit www.ATasteOfChanukah.com.

“Meet and Greet” opens Sarasota Jewish Chorale’s 16th season By Marcia Polevoi

s the Sarasota Jewish Chorale enters its 16th season, it continues to bring Jewish culture, through its music, to events all around Sarasota and Manatee counties and nearby communities. The SJC has been a valuable asset to the area’s music scene, appearing at interfaith events, synagogues, schools, churches, local civic organizations and retirement facilities. It has sung at folk festivals, club lunches, Sabbath services, fundraisers, and for annual events at the Epiphany Cathedral in Venice and The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. It continues to be in demand for performances all around the area. The SJC enters this upcoming season with members who share their enthusiasm and love of singing and who take pleasure in imparting their passion to others. Its members come from varied backgrounds, different religions, and from permanent Florida residents to “snowbirds.” The first rehearsal will be Thursday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m. on the Federation Campus. This will be a “Meet and Greet” night for both members and newcomers. Singers of all faiths are welcome. The only prerequisite is a desire to sing and to be part of an active, vibrant chorus. Being able to read music is also helpful. The group, under the direction of Linda Stewart Tucker, will be challenged to learn new music for the coming season. Rehearsals are held most Thursday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. from September to April at the Hecht School (580 McIntosh Rd., Sarasota) courtesy of The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. Anyone interested in attending this “Meet and Greet” rehearsal is asked to contact Susan Skovronek at 941.355.8011 for further information. The SJC is currently taking bookings for the forthcoming winter season –

January through April. Please contact Phyllis Lipshutz at 941.924.6717 for available dates. For more information about the SJC, please visit www.sara sotajewishchorale.org. You can find us on Facebook, too.

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Last summer, no one was expecting Operation Protective Edge. But when rockets started flying, Magen David Adom paramedics were ready to rescue injured Israelis every day thanks to donors like you. As we welcome the new year with reports of continued sporadic rocket fire, we don’t know when the next major attack will come, but we do know now is the time to prepare. Help provide MDA with medical supplies for the next emergency and make a gift today. Thank you and shanah tovah. AFMDA Southeast Region 3300 PGA Blvd., Suite 970 Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 561.835.0510 • southeast@afmda.org www.afmda.org

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Temple Emanu-El members enjoy amazing trip to Israel

ver 50 members of Temple Emanu-El spent 10 incredible days traveling throughout the land of Israel. The sold-out trip – which was held June 10 through June 20 and led by Rabbi Brenner Glickman – took participants of all ages from the northernmost Golan Heights to the desert fortress of Masada and the Dead Sea in the south. Among the amazing highlights of the trip was a morning in the Golan Heights. It began with a trip to Har Bental atop the Golan, which overlooks Syria and still contains pre-1967 Syrian bunkers, and a talk about the Syrian civil war and its impact on Israel, from a security and a humanitarian perspective. Participants explored the lushness of the Golan, picking delicious cherries at Moshav Odem, touring a winery, and making truffles at a Golan chocolate factory. The day concluded with a wonderful tour of mystical Safed, including a stop in the HaAri

Synagogue, and an opportunity for interfaith participants to visit Capernaum and the synagogue of Jesus. Another special day began with an early-morning departure to Masada, where Temple Emanu-El members had the privilege of witnessing Rebecca

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member living in their household. Diapers and wipes are always needed, and opened packages that your child has outgrown or were left by your guests are welcome. MHM was established in 1990 and continues to expand its resources to provide basic necessities and baby items to families in need. Cash donations are also appreciated. One-hundred percent of your cash donation is used for the clients. Everyone who works at MHM is a volunteer, including the director. Temple Sinai members are proud to support this High Holy Day mitzvah. If you would like to become an MHM volunteer, contact Kay Winsauer, MHM volunteer coordinator, at kwinsaurer@comcast.net, or Marilyn Block, Women of Sinai Mitzvah VP, at bloch5897@veriszon.net.

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Kleinberg celebrate her Bat Mitzvah. During the service, Rebecca’s father, Dr. Bruce Kleinberg, a former Israel Defense Forces paratrooper, presented his daughter with the beret he had been given upon completing his training. He spoke movingly about what his time in the IDF had meant Temple Emanu-El’s Israel trip participants enjoyed wine and challah atop Mount Scopus upon arriving in Jerusalem to him, and how Rebecca’s Bat Mitzvah helped fulfill the magical days in Jerusalem and in the imperative: Masada will not fall again. Old City. Temple Emanu-El members also For more information about future spent time in Tel Aviv, Haifa, along Temple Emanu-El trips to Israel, please Lake Kinneret and, of course, enjoyed call 941.371.2788.

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JFCS Bereavement Support Group offers warm and supportive atmosphere

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he death of a loved one is perhaps the deepest loss human beings experience. By participating in a support group, a mourner can move through the stages of grief and loss in a warm, supportive atmosphere. Jewish Family & Children’s Service is offering a six-week Bereavement Support Group, beginning Thursday,

October 8 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The cost is $36 for all six sessions. The support group is open to men and women, and provides opportunities to hear how others deal with grief, share experiences, receive support, and discover ways to cope. Grief is a universal and natural response to loss that is often accompanied by feelings of anger, confusion,

with all my heart.” The Bereavement Support Group is part of the JFCS Jewish Healing Program, which is sponsored in part by The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. Pre-registration is required. For information and to register, contact me at 941.366.2224 x166 or jsinger@JFCSCares.org.

fear and loneliness. The JFCS support group creates a safe place for healing. “This has been an extremely helpful group and has given me a safe place to shed my tears and communicate with others who are grieving. The staff leaders have been outstanding,” said one recent participant. Another commented, “JFCS has helped me to cope in many different ways. Thank you

Congregation for Humanistic Judaism welcomes new president, Alice D’Souza

f you want something done, ask a Alice trained in all the labs and became busy person.” Alice D’Souza has certified. Talk about determination! always been that busy Again, seeking “On the Go” person. Raised greater challenges, Alin Chicago, she completed her ice joined the Peace B.S. and M.S. at the UniverCorps and went to sity of Illinois. India. She lived and worked in five villages While attending college and graduate school, Alice teaching health, sanitamet a director at the Illinois tion and family planMasonic Hospital. She conning for the next three vinced Alice to observe the years. While in India, work being done at the heAlice met and married Alice D’Souza matology and chemistry labs. her husband.

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JWV of Sarasota-Manatee Post 172 update

ewish War Veterans, Sarasota Post 172, will hold its season-opening “Lox and Bagel” brunch meeting on Sunday, October 18 at 9:45 a.m. We meet at Temple Beth Sholom, 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota. Our meetings are scheduled the third Sunday of the month from October through April. The Jewish War Veterans (JWV) of the United States of America was founded in 1896 and is the oldest active veterans’ organization in America. Post 172 is chartered to represent the JWV in the Sarasota-Manatee area. In

addition to the brunch, a speaker of interest is featured, along with a short business meeting. Post 172 is open to any serviceman/woman who has been honorably discharged from any branch of the Armed Forces. Guests and prospective members are always welcome, as are spouses and significant others. For more information, or for directions to Temple Beth Sholom, please contact Stan Levinson, Commander, at 941.907.6720 or stanlevinson172@ gmail.com.

They returned to Chicago to live and raise a son and daughter. They were married for 28 years before his untimely death. “Not only did I marry him,” she says, “but I married his whole family and we remain very, very close.” While raising a family, Alice taught Special Education in the Chicago School System – another job she loved. After 20 years of teaching, Alice went to work for United Airlines as an instructor in the International Training

Department. Alice met Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of Humanistic Judaism, on two occasions, and she “loved him and the concept of Humanistic Judaism. His thought process was unique and yet he was able to embrace all people with his ideas.” Still that same “On the Go” busy person, Alice recently became President of The Congregation for Humanistic Judaism. CHJ is looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

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Rabbi Barbara Aiello to present program about Italian Jews and their heritage By Sandy Chase

ehillah of Lakewood Ranch, a Conservative synagogue in Manatee County, invites you to its Friday, October 23 services, led by guest Rabbi Barbara Aiello, who will share her experiences as the only female rabbi in Italy. In what promises to be a spiritual, informative and entertaining evening, Rabbi Aiello will also serenade worshippers with several Sephardic songs during the oneg catered by Safta’s Sweets. Dividing her time between Sarasota and Italy, Rabbi Aiello is the resident rabbi for Jewish seniors at Kobernick House and Anchin Pavilion, and rabbinical advisor to Bradenton’s Congregation Ner Tamid. In Italy she’s the rabbi of Ner Tamid del Sud, The Eternal Light of the South, the first active synagogue in Calabria since the Inquisition in the 15th century. Ner Tamid del Sud welcomes Jews of all backgrounds – especially the b’nei anusim – whose ancestors were forced to convert to Christianity centuries ago.

In Italy the Rabbi is also the Director of the Italian Jewish Cultural Center of Calabria, where she helps Italians, Italian-Americans and ItalianCanadians discover and embrace their Jewish roots. For many of those with Italian heritage, the urge to connect with Judaism is strong. Through the surname research program at the Italian center, Rabbi Aiello has assisted dozens of Italians discover their Jewish roots and has helped many of these “hidden” Jews to “come home.” Historians note that before the Inquisition, more than 50 percent of the population of Southern Italy – including the region of Calabria, the island of Sicily, and the Aeolian Island chain – was Jewish. In fact, in hundreds of tiny villages along Calabria’s coast and throughout the Calabrian mountains, vestiges of what were once thriving Jewish communities abound. Long hidden and lost rituals and practices have come to light as a result of Rabbi Aiello’s investigations and discoveries, fascinating stories that she has shared

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with audiences worldwide. Rabbi Aiello’s career includes hosting the Radio Rabbi show on Sunday mornings on WLSS AM 930 in Sarasota. The program features Jewish tradition, culture and music. Before joining the rabbinate, she founded and directed “The Kids on the Block,” a worldwide puppet program, promoting tolerance and diversity. She’s also the award-winning author of a children’s book series based on the “kids.” Rabbi Aiello has received several awards, among them Washingtonian of the Year, Parents magazine’s “Good Parent to Know,” and the Surgeon

General’s Medallion for Excellence in Public Health. In 2015 the Hadassa Word Press published Rabbi Barbara’s book on her work in Italy, The Cat That Ate the Cannoli: Tales of the Hidden Jews of Southern Italy. Israeli film producer, Carl Perkal, produced The Secret Jews of Calabria, a documentary that features the rabbi’s work. Please join the Kehillah on Friday, October 23 at 6:30 p.m. for a memorable evening at the Windsor, 8220 Natures Way, Lakewood Ranch. To RSVP or for more information, call 941.281.2587 or 941.349.8604.

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Hate mail challenges a complacent Jewish community K Book review by Philip K. Jason, Special to The Jewish News R A Strength to Stand, by Sheyna Galyan. Yotzeret Publishing. 306 pages. Trade paperback $14.95.

his is the second of Galyan’s Rabbi David Cohen suspense novels. Set in Minneapolis, it provides a rabbi’s-eye view of life in a diverse North American Jewish community. Though Rabbi Cohen is central, the other major characters have truly major roles. Several of them are rabbis and spouses of rabbis. These characters face significant crises, at least one of which affects the entire community. Phil Jason As much as Rabbi Cohen is fulfilled by his Beth Israel pulpit and community activities, he is paying a tremendous price in the accumulated stress of the demands made upon him and what he expects of himself. It is hard to put family first, though he tries. His wife, Sara, has a diminished sense of her own identity and importance as the rabbi’s attention is always compromised by his calling. Their eight-year-old son, Ben, is plagued by being defined as “the rabbi’s son,” while the young twins are not yet ready to feel so burdened. Sara’s solution, for herself and for the relationship, is to move beyond being the rabbi’s almost invisible wife. She is drawn to the idea of the quasiofficial role of rebbetzin, an active

“first lady” of her husband’s congregalife. Like most congregations, tion – a spiritual counselor to, and leadthe one led by Rabbi Cohen er of the women. But she is not fully is family oriented, and sinprepared for important aspects of the gles almost always feel out role, and husband David is far from enof place. thusiastic. Her well-meant initiative is Batya calls David about bringing more strife rather than bringher hate mail even before ing them more closely together. she tells her husband. She While this issue creates an imporis reluctant to tell Arik, or tant plot line in the novel, the overridto make a “big deal” out of ing one is the series of threats that have it, because she fears he will come to Rabbi Cohen’s good friend, go overboard in attackBatya Zahav, the female Reform Rabing this problem. Soon, Batya’s bi of Temple Shalom. The verbal asproblem is David’s, and he is drawn saults, which come by letter, by phone away from his routine to assist her in message, and by email, are extremely thinking matters through. More and frightening. As they become more and more, the frightening messages paint more intense, local law enforcement her as someone evil who needs to be has a reason to investigate and protect destroyed. Is it because she is a Jew? Rabbi Zahav. A Jewish woman? A Jewish woman She is, as one might expect, a rabbi? Is it simple anti-Semitism or woman who needs to feel in control. It something else? is not like her to request or accept proInterfaith relations goals bring tection. Yet more and more David to speak at a she is forced into that posiLutheran church. He tion. The danger is real, and presents himself as a she has the mixed blessing “religious Jew” sur– in this situation – of being rounded, at this time of married to Israel-born police the year (Chanukah), sergeant Arik Zahav. with the gift-giving Author Galyan skillfulrituals of Christmas ly balances attention to her and the smiling “Merdifferent plot lines, along ry Christmas” that he the way providing a detailed finds so upsetting. He portrait of Rabbi Cohen’s explains, using the Sheyna Galyan daily work. A continuing Chanukah story, why issue threaded through this tapestry this is such an uneasy time for most is an unmarried congregant’s request Jews – a challenge to their identity for some fairly significant changes to and values. He describes the enormous make single members more welcome pressure to distort Chanukah into a and more engaged in congregational Christmas wannabe.

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He makes a plea for continued dialogue so that the various neighboring religious communities can learn the “intentions, motivations and aspirations” of the others. David’s talk goes fairly well, though he does receive some rude responses. The issue of majority insensitivity is reinforced when, as they do every year, Sara’s Christian paternal grandparents send Christmas cards. Galyan leaves it for the reader to link (or not) David’s experience in the church and the hate mail that Batya has been receiving. Soon, she is “gifted” a dead mouse and then a doll that looks like Batya with a bullet hole in its head. Such harassment and intimidation bring more aggressive police action. The author introduces a third rabbi. The Cohens’ friends, Rabbi Eli and his wife, Bev, visit during Chanukah. Eli was David’s rabbinical school classmate and they have remained close ever since – though David’s pulpit is in Washington state. Eli joins the team effort to comfort and aid Rabbi Zahav and her husband. He also serves most usefully as confidant and exemplary counselor for David. Eli temporarily fills the bill of the local “rabbi’s rabbi” that he insists David – and every rabbi – should seek. Sara’s friend and confidant is Talia Friedman, the wife of a rabbi who teaches at several local universities. She tells Sara about the network of rebbetzins and how they help each other to develop the attitudes and skills to succeed. Halfway through the novel, Chanukah begins. The following chapters intensify Galyan’s portrait of Jewish family and community life. We appreciate the Cohens’ hosting efforts, learn from their visitors how to be good guests and not pests, and savor the special character of a Shabbat meal. We see David interact with a potential convert, hear him give a sermon, and respect his adroit way of working with synagogue staff and occasionally troublesome lay leaders. The police investigation of Batya’s fearful dilemma takes a surprising turn (involving yet another rabbi), and as it moves toward a resolution, so do the novel’s other concerns: Sara’s need to define herself, David’s need to find balance in his life, and the Jewish community’s need to enhance its relationships with other religious groups. Sheyna Galyan offers a sophisticated blend of insight and entertainment; suitably complex, flawed, and yet commendable characters; welldeveloped action and suspense; and an authoritative rendering of synagoguecentered Jewish life. This is a very fine book-group selection and teaching text. Philip K. Jason is Professor Emeritus of English from the United States Naval Academy. He reviews regularly for Florida Weekly, Jewish Book World, Southern Literary Review, and other publications. Please visit Phil’s website at www.philjason.wordpress.com.

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osh Hashanah, the first holiday of the autumn season, conjures a mood of contemplation and self-examination. For not only does it announce the shift in seasons, as the summer comes to an end and fall enters, it also ushers two major holidays, Yom Kippur and Succoth. It is now that the trees change colors, shedding their leaves, and the days are getting shorter, deDr. Rachel Dulin claring that the hot days of summer are coming to an end. The birds start their migrations chirping along as if reminding the human “snowbirds” to start packing. There is a feeling in the air that the pace is shifting and, like the natural cyclical rhythm moving from summer to fall, so are we swaying with time leaving one year and entering another. This natural rhythm has an enormous effect on our lives. Rainy, snowy or sunny seasons, cold or hot days, the length of light and dark days, all touch us in a profound way. These changes dictate not only the economy of a place or a region, but they also affect the belief system in different locales, shape customs and ways of life. These changes affect the shaping of communities, the politics of taxation, of elections and coronations. The need to mark the changes and count the time in accordance with the cycle of the sun and the moon brought cultures around the globe to create calendars to fit rituals and mark the passage of time and celebratory events within it. The Jewish calendar has a fascinating history and a complex character. It is based both on nature’s cyclical rhythm and on the adjustments made to mark the passage of time and its imprint on our history and culture. This is not the place to examine its complexity. Suffice it to say that the Bible already reflects an uncertainty concerning the counting of time. How else can we explain that the month of Nissan, the month of spring, was considered the first month of the year (Ex 12:2), but Succoth, the holiday of autumn, was counted as the last month (Ex 23:16: 34:22)? It would seem that there were two biblical systems by which time was counted. Moreover, the name Rosh Hashanah is mentioned in the Bible only once (Ez 40:1) and not in terms of a new calendar year celebration. It is difficult to ascertain at what period of time the first day of the seventh month in biblical time was shifted to mark the first day of the year in the Jewish calendar. The fact is that only in the time of the Mishnah, during the first and second century CE, we find references to Rosh Hashanah. It is here, after the destruction of the Temple, that changes were made in the Jewish calendar. Accordingly, Nissan, the month of spring, was placed as the marker of the yearly festivals and Tishray, the month of autumn, marked the civil Jewish year by which years are counted and the sabbatical and jubilee years are measured (Rosh Ha-Shannah 1:1). The new calendar reflected a change in focus, no longer based on the farmers’ needs and the Temple ritual. Rather, urbanization, which created a new economy and a new reality, affected religious and daily practices. And so it happened, many rituals were developed through time to usher the new Jewish year. Only a few are reminiscent of the agricultural foundation of the season. The biblical holiday

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of Yom T’ruah, literally “Day of blowing the horn” (Num 29:1), the antecedent to Rosh Hashanah, received a new meaning. In biblical time it was a prelude to Succoth, the time of the farmers’ Thanksgiving celebration. Now, it gave way to a holiday detached from the land and focused on a personal, spiritual voyage, a period of prayer and supplication. Moreover, in post biblical time, special mahzorim, or “Holiday Cyclical Prayer Books,” were developed that only slightly echoed the “oldtime religion” centered on the seasons. Now, new content filled the pages with prayers of repentance, calling for forgiveness and hope. To be inscribed in Sefer Ha-Chayim, or “The Book of Life,” became the central motif of the holiday prayers (Avot 2:1). And, even though the shofar is still heard as in the days of the Bible, now it carries the sound of hope that the gates of heaven will open to accept the voices of T’shu-vah, voices of renewed spirit and spiritual healing through the power of forgiveness. And so it becomes clear that Rosh Hashanah is a holiday which mirrors change. Even though it is rooted in the foundation of old, it carries the energy of a new world calendar for which it was designed. Through the years, customs were developed reflecting the new focus of personal spiritual renewal during this time. For example, wearing white clothing as a symbol of cheer and confidence dates back to the Talmudic era (Yerushalmi, Rosh Ha-Shannah 1:3). In Europe of the 14th century, the custom of tashlich, literally “the casting away,” was mentioned, where symbolically one cast away the sins of the past year into a running stream to be cleansed. Last but not least, we will mention the custom of eating an apple dipped in honey, which originated in the late medieval Ashkenazi community. It has become universally accepted for Jews to eat the sweet fruit and wish one another Shannah Tovah u-Me-tu-ka, literally “a good and sweet year.” I will end with the traditional wish, Le Shannah Tovah Ti-ka-te-vu, literally “may you be inscribed to a good year.” May the new year bring on its wings joy, health and shalom al Israel, “peace upon Israel.” Shannah Tovah! Dr. Rachel Zohar Dulin is a professor of biblical literature at Spertus College in Chicago and an adjunct professor of Hebrew and Bible at New College in Sarasota.

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Theodore Bikel: A Jewish man for all seasons The Tony Award-winning actor famous for playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof dies at 91. By Marnie Winston-Macauley

Editor’s note: The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee had the pleasure of hosting Theodore Bikel in Sarasota for its Jewish Film Festival this past March. His opening night reception mesmerized the attendees with his charm, wit and musical style. t’s been said that when someone dies, it affects us all. When a famous person dies, it’s felt more deeply. When a famous person you’ve met or interviewed dies, you take it personally. I had the pleasure of interviewing Theodore Bikel, who died on Tuesday, July 21, for my book, Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth about the Jewish Mother. The first thing we talked about was dear to my heart – the song “Edelweiss,” which he sang in the Broadway production Marnie Winston-Macauley of The Sound of Music as Baron von Trapp, the role he originated in 1959. The simple song reminded me of sitting on my zayde’s knee as he sang and played the balalaika. Mr. Bikel explained how Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the song specifically for him at the last minute during previews. As we moved on, I found him to be no-nonsense, funny and outspoken. The man known for his ability to play any man, anywhere, didn’t disappoint. “I believe in the continuity of the Jewish existence.” On his mother, Miriam Bikel: “I could do no wrong. According to her I was a genius!” Though she was supportive of his performing, saying, “I sang before I could talk,” the truth is, her expectation of perfection was

wrong…we all do wrong. “[My mother] was a mixture of lovable, but she devoted herself to being overly protective. When she was in an old-age home and asked how I was, not a single time could I fall asleep again.” Yet he deeply respected the Jewish mother who “also had to survive in hostile environments.” And indeed, the family not only survived, but throughout his diversified career, he was ardently Jewish, in his art, in his life. Theodor Meir Bikel was born in Vienna on May 2, 1924, to Josef Bikel and the former Miriam Riegler. He was named for Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism, who, 64 years prior, was born on the same date. In his early teens, after the Anschluss, Bikel (called Theo) saw Hitler parade into Vienna. The family quickly moved to British-occupied Palestine, where Theo settled in Kibbutz Kfar Hamaccabi. It was here he knew he was destined to be an actor and apprenticed for three years at the Habima theater in Tel Aviv beginning in 1943. He also was a co-founder of the Israeli Chamber Theatre (the “Cameri”). He moved on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Already a master of many languages, he was that rare performer who reveled in playing a diversity of roles. He also took an earnest interest in the guitar and folk music. His career was kickstarted by Sir Laurence Olivier who offered him a role in his production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In addition to originating the role of Baron von Trapp, Mr. Bikel is universally associated with Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. While he didn’t create the role, he played it over 2,000 times from 1967 to 2010, more than

any other performer. The master of languages (seven) and dialects, he appeared in over 30 films and numerous television shows, including The Deﬁant Ones” (1958) (Academy Award nominee), The African Queen (1951), My Fair Lady (1964), I Want to Live (1958), The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1965), Crisis in the Kremlin (1992), Beneﬁt of the Doubt (1992), and Shadow Conspiracy (1996). His flexibility and range are virtually unparalleled, from playing a sinister Chinese crook, to a Czech officer, a Hindu doctor, a Jewish refugee, a Hungarian linguist, a blind Portuguese cobbler, a South African Boer and, yes, a Greek peanut vendor, to name a few. He claimed his favorite characters were Zorba the Greek and Tevye. Age never slowed him down. Not only was he the consummate Tevye, at age 84 he portrayed Tevye’s creator in his oneman show Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears. Known equally for his folk music, he was a founder in 1961 of the Newport Folk Festival. He recorded over 20 albums, many with Jewish themes, singing in 21 languages, including Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, medieval Spanish and even Zulu. From early works, such as “Israeli Folk Songs” (1955) to “A Taste of Passover” (1998) and “A Taste of Hanukkah” (2000), he continued to concertize virtually to the end of his life. On his 90th birthday celebration, referring to his CD Theodore Bikel Sings More Jewish Folk Songs, he quipped: “A friend said it should’ve been called Theodore Bikel Sings More Jewish Folk Songs Than Anybody.” An outspoken activist for Jewish rights, he was at one time, Senior Vice President of the American Jewish Congress. In 1986, he was arrested while protesting the plight of Soviet Jews in front of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C.

At the end of our interview, when talking about the future of Judaism, he said: “I believe in the continuity of the Jewish existence.” More than virtually any other performer, he was passionate about the rebirth and continuation of Jewish culture. He succeeded. Rhino Records has released classic Bikel albums in iTunes. Said one executive: “His music was loved throughout the 20th century. We’re going to make sure people love it throughout the 21st century.” The Jewish man for all seasons will become a Jewish cultural lion – for all time. Mr. Bikel is survived by his wife, Aimee Ginsburg, sons Rob and Danny, stepsons Zeev and Noam, and three grandchildren. This article ﬁrst appeared in www. Jewlarious.com, a division of Aish.com on July 26, 2015. Quirky, funny, no-nonsense, Marnie Winston-Macauley, editor, author, lecturer, clinician and administrator, is a straight shooter who has a distinctive voice and takes on the world in her columns, features and books. Her advice column was syndicated through Tribune Media Services, and it currently appears in Singular magazine as Singular Solutions. Marnie has written over 20 books/calendars, including the series “A Little Joy, A Little Oy.” Her books include Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth about the Jewish Mother and A Little Joy, A Little Oy (pub. AndrewsMcMeel). She is also an awardwinning “calendar queen” having written over 20. She has been nominated for both an Emmy and Writers Guild award. Thefullwiki.org has listed her on their list of top Jewish-American writers, dead or living. (She’s still deciding which.) She was also chosen as a Distinguished Woman in Las Vegas in March 2014. For more about Marnie, visit www.marniemacauley.com or email her at asksadie@aol.com.

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Protecting blood and honor By Paul R. Bartrop, PhD

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People, requiring all those wishing to marry to submit to a medical examination, after which a “Certificate of Fitness to Marry” would be issued if they were found to be disease free. Without this certificate, a marriage license would not be issued. Of course, this did not apply to German Jews, as the state did not make any allowance for their marriage to be legitimized in any case. After the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935, a dozen supplementary Nazi decrees were issued which eventually outlawed the Jews completely, depriving them of their entitlements as human beings and citizens, lowering them to the position of “subjects” with fewer rights, no obligations, and a second-class status in the new Germany. And who, in this new Germany, was a Jew? The Nuremberg Laws made a legal attempt to clarify this, as well as who was not a Jew and who fell in between, in line with the Nazi obsession with “racial purity.” The initial step was one of definition. Thus, those with four Jewish grandparents were “full Jews;” those with three Jewish grandparents were “three-quarter Jews.” Persons with two Jewish grandparents were considered Mischlinge (that is, “hybrid,” but understood in the Nazi context to mean something like “mongrel,” “halfbreed” or “mixed breed”) of the First Degree, provided they were not identified with the Jewish religion and not married to Jewish spouses; and persons with only one Jewish grandparent were Mischlinge of the Second Degree. One of the authors of this division was a lawyer named Wilhelm Stuckart, who worked in the Ministry of Interior with responsibility for constitutional law, citizenship and racial legislation. Like many Nazis, he was a young man during the 1930s – when the Nurem-

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berg Laws were passed, he was not yet 33 years old. Given the task of co-writing the new laws, he attacked his brief with professional care and imagination. Although an anti-Semite, he wanted to ensure that his legal drafting was as precise and constitutional as possible. After World War II, Stuckart was arrested and tried by the Allies for his role in formulating and carrying out these laws. He spent four years behind bars until being released for lack of further evidence in April 1949. Upon his release, he worked as a

city treasurer and state employee. In 1951 he was tried in a denazification court, classified as a “fellow traveler,” and fined five hundred marks. He died in a car crash on November 15, 1953, one day before his 51st birthday. Someone’s honor, somewhere, was indeed protected – though alas, in those dark years, all too many lost it. Dr. Paul Bartrop is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. He can be reached at pbartrop@fgcu.edu.

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By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jewish parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are also identified as Jewish. A Short Emmys List The Emmys, hosted by ANDY SAMBERG, will be presented on Sunday, September 20 (Fox, 8:00 p.m.). Here are the Jewish acting nominees: Lead actor, comedy series: JEFFREY TAMBOR, Transparent; Lead actor, drama series: LIEV SCHREIBER, Ray Donovan; Lead actress, comedy series: LISA KUDROW, The Comeback; AMY SCHUMER, Inside Amy Schumer; Lead actress, limited series/ movie: MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, The Honorable Woman; Lead actor, limited series/movie: ADRIEN BRODY, Houdini (about HARRY HOUDINI); Supporting actress, comedy: MAYIM BIALIK, Big Bang Theory. Here are TV series nominated as “best” in their genre that have a Jewish creator or co-creator: Comedy series: Modern Family (STEVE LEVITAN); Transparent (JILL SOLOWAY); Comedy, Variety or Talk Show: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (STEWART); The Colbert Report (BEN KARLIN and Stewart); Sketch comedy series: Drunk History (JEREMY KONNER); Inside Amy Schumer (Schumer); Portlandia (CARRIE BROWNSTEIN); Saturday Night Live (LORNE MICHAELS); Drama series: Homeland (HOWARD GORDON); Game of Thrones (DAVID BENIOFF/D.B. WEISS); Mad Men (MATTHEW WEINER); Orange is the New Black (JENJI KOHAN). Buzz About Buzz It’s the 25th anniversary of the publication of Friday Night Lights, written by journalist HARRY “Buzz” BISS-

INGER, now 60. His cousin, actor/ director PETER BERG, 51, turned it into a hit movie and long-running TV series. Bissinger and his family moved to Odessa, Texas, in 1988 and spent a year there so he could follow, for a full season, the lives of the players on a high school football team in a football-mad town. The anniversary edition of the book, just out, includes a post-script as to what happened to people prominent in his book. In a recent NPR interview, Bissinger vehemently defended his reportage – pointing out it was sympathetic in many parts – but people knew he was a journalist and if they didn’t want him to report, for example, that many used the “n” word, they shouldn’t have used that word while talking to him. In the same interview, he confesses to a very expensive shopping addiction – mostly for tight leather clothes a woman would wear – and candidly admits his taste in clothes has a sexual element. Although long married to a woman and the father of two, he says that he has a certain amount of gender confusion and that probably made him the perfect person to write the July 2015 Vanity Fair cover story profile on Caitlyn Jenner. (That’s the story with the ANNIE LEIBOVITZ cover photo of Jenner in a revealing dress that every media outlet re-posted or re-printed.) Blonde Israeli Bombshells E! Online, not an unimpeachable source, reports that Israeli supermodel BAR REFAELI, 30, and Israeli businessman ADI EZRA, 40, will be married this month, right after the High

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money. Her divorced parents are poor Russian immigrants and she grew up in a run-down suburb of Tel Aviv. Her mother, who works as a seamstress and masseuse, slept in the living room, and Sofia and her two younger siblings slept in the one bedroom. Then an Israeli modeling agent discovered Sofia and paid for a trip to France where, as he hoped, a major fashion house signed her. Sofia, who is tall and blonde and looks like a young Kate Moss, does fit the international modeling standard. It doesn’t seem to matter what country you come from – as long as you are tall and blonde. Sure, every now and again there is an exception. But don’t hold your breath waiting for a stunning “Semitic-looking” beauty to be signed by Dior.

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everal years ago when I attended the Zamir Choral Festival in the Catskills, a song came to my attention that I wanted to bring to the Sarasota Jewish Chorale. Entitled “Yachad Na’amod,” the song impressed me with its catchy tune and inspirational title, which means “Together We Stand.” A runner-up in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991, the song was presented by Israel as its offering in the competition. Its message, “Together we shall stand; all for one Arlene Stolnitz and one for all until the world is changed,” resonated with listeners around the world. It’s been almost sixty years since the first Eurovision Contest took place in Switzerland in 1956. The contest started as war-torn Europe was rebuilding itself after the devastation of WWII. The idea was to provide a means, through a cultural activity, that would unify European nations after the horror of the war years. Eventually, nearly every country would participate, including Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, the U.K., Spain, Netherlands, France, Ireland, Sweden, Monaco and many others including Israel. Inspired by the Italian Sanremo Festival in 1955, the idea to organize a pan-European competition for light music was born at a meeting of the European Broadcasting Union in Monaco. The first Eurovision Song

Contest was hosted the following year in the Swiss resort of Lugano. The contest was primarily a radio show, although some cameras were taping the contest for the few Europeans who had television sets at that time. Lohengrin Filipello hosted the program which lasted one hour and 40 minutes. The seven participating countries were represented with two songs each. The songs of the contest were not to exceed three and a half minutes, and the performers were accompanied by an orchestra of 24 musicians, led by Fernando Paggi. Switzerland won the competition that year. And the tradition has continued ever since with countries from all over Europe and elsewhere participating. Some sixty years later, the competition continues with this year’s contest having taken place in Vienna, Austria. The winner was “Heroes,” Sweden’s entry. Israel has been an active participant each year and is one of only two nations that has won for two consecutive years in a row. Israel’s first Eurovision win was in 1978 for the song “A-Ba-Ni-Bi” by Izhar Cohen and sung by the group Alphabeta. Written by the late Ehud Manor with lyrics by Nurit Hirsh, the song is an upbeat disco number dealing with the way children deal with love using Bet Language, a children’s language game in which each syllable is replaced with a “bet” replacing the consonant. Thus the Hebrew “a-ni ohev o-tach” (I love you) becomes “aba-ni-bi o-bo-he-be-v o-bo-ta-ba-ch.” The song, sung by Izhar Cohen, who is known as the “Israeli Michael Jackson,” was disputed as winner by Jordan

media, which refused to acknowledge that Israel had won. During the contest they cut the broadcast and showed pictures of flowers. Later, they announced the winner was Belgium, which had actually come in second. However, Israel prevailed as winner that year. According to custom, the contest is held in the country of the prior year’s winner. The following year, the contest was held in Jerusalem and again was won by Israel. Gali Atari and Milk and Honey performed K. Oshrat and S. Orr’s “Hallelujah,” well known to audiences and made popular by the late Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence. The song is included in the repertoire of the Sarasota Jewish Chorale, who sing it regularly in performances. A popular number, it is always well received by audiences. I am looking forward to the Chorale’s singing of “Yachad Na’amod” in the near future. Its powerful message is an inspiration in today’s world. The Eurovision Song Contest is an interesting cultural activity still going strong today, however not without the political ramifications seen in prior contests. All of these songs can be heard on YouTube, for those who may be interested. Arlene Stolnitz, founder of the Sarasota Jewish Chorale, has sung in choral groups for over 25 years. A retired educator from Rochester, New York, and a member of Venice’s Exsultate!, she is a graduate of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s Leadership Institute. Her interest in choral music has led to this series of articles on Jewish Folk Music in the Diaspora.

Discovering the hexagram in the Star of David By Karen Alfaro

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower…” – William Blake hese well-known words take on a different meaning when your professor says: “It is not so much how you draw, but how you see.” Boom! That grain of sand in Blake’s poem comes to mind. How to see a world in it? Or make it “say” something different? That is the challenge in applied arts – applying prinKaren Alfaro ciples learned in fine arts to the day-to-day of the design world. As a graphic designer for The JewChabad of Venice & North Port ish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, 2169 Tamiami Trail S Venice, FL 34293 constantly to look for I am challenged new ways of presenting visuals. With no time to reinvent the wheel, I must ask: Is there something I haven’t seen in that wheel? How about, for instance, in the Star of David? Quite the challenge! Then one day I did see something: A hexagram inside the star!

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Captions for images in the order of where they appear in the article: Mark Podwal From the Portfolio All this Has Come Upon Us… Psalm Number 1 of 42 Based on: Psalm 44:18 All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You, or been false to Your covenant For centuries, Jews would read verses from the Book of Psalms both in times of great joy and of great suffering.

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Krakow and New York, the documentary includes interviews with leading personalities discussing Podwal’s art. Podwal is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Israel Museum, and Library of Congress, among many others. The exhibition’s Members’ Opening will take place the evening of Tuesday, November 10, with the artist providing the keynote address. The opening date has been scheduled to follow the community-wide commemoration of Kristallnacht, at the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach on Monday, November 9. Exhibition sponsors include The Robert Arthur Segall Foundation, Dr. Paul Drucker and Burton Young (as of 7/31/2015). About JMOF-FIU: The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU is the only museum dedicated to telling the story of 250 years of Florida Jewish heritage, arts and culture. The museum is housed

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12 impossible ideas that Israelis turned into reality No mission is impossible for inventive Israelis who read “impossible” as “I’m possible” and don’t regard probable failure as a reason not to try. By Abigail Klein Leichman, ISRAEL21c, www.israel21c.org, July 27, 2015

ell an Israeli his or her invention idea is preposterous, and you’ve just given that inventor a reason to see it through. Whether it was planting crops in the desert or building a crowdsourced navigation app, most groundbreaking Israeli innovations were initially dismissed as impossible – until bold action turned them into reality. “When you try to break new frontiers, sometimes what you do doesn’t seem to make sense,” says Avi Hasson, chief scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Economy. “The issue is not about the idea but the action. You need to go out there and figure it out.”

Israelis love solving problems, Hasson tells ISRAEL21c. An educational culture that encourages questioning and independent thinking, and innovating on the fly in the military, leads Israelis to read the word “impossible” as “I’m possible.” “Commanders in the field are not supposed to rely on the generals to solve their problems; they’re expected to take responsibility to solve things by themselves, understanding that failure is an option,” Hasson explains. “And in the technological units, on a daily basis you’re expected to do the impossible with few resources in a short time,” adds the chief scientist,

whose office supports and encourages industrial research and development while sharing the risk inherent in such projects. “In our office, we see thousands of risky endeavors each year, scientifically or on the business side,” says Hasson. “We get excited about such projects because we want to be an active partner in helping people take technological, financial and business development risks.” Ultimately, he adds, Israelis are brilliant at outside-the-box thinking “because we have no choice. We’re a small country, far away from the market. We have to do things that are too tough and too scary for others.” Here, ISRAEL21c takes a look at just a few of the amazing inventions once thought impossible. 1. Iron Dome The Israeli defense establishment thought Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold had lost his mind in 2005 when he broached the idea for the mobile, all-weather missile-defense system that came to be known as Iron Dome. Yet Gold forged ahead in blatant disregard of a Defense Ministry directive, quietly putting all the pieces

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in place to build the system over the course of the two years it took to wrest official approval. In 2012, this former “Don Quixote” won the Israel Defense Prize for spearheading the Iron Dome project, which saved untold numbers of Israeli lives by successfully deflecting Hamas missiles fired from Gaza in 2012 and 2014.

“I saw what was going on and I said to myself, with all the technology that exists in Israel, we must use it to protect human life. We will find a way,” he told ISRAEL21c. “It always takes the political and military echelons a long time to think about what they want to do, and in the meantime we started to create a solution.” 2. Growing crops in the desert In 1959, Shai Ben Eliyahu and Hagai Porat had the ridiculous notion of founding an agricultural venture at Ein Yahav, a dusty army base in Israel’s Arava Desert. “They were considered meshugenners, crazy people,” relates Aylon Gadiel, one of Ein Yahav’s 550 farmers and the former director of

Bounty in the Arava (photo by Eyal Izhar)

Arava R&D. “You couldn’t live in the Arava, let alone grow vegetables there. The Jewish Agency told them ‘no.’ So every Friday they went to the Tel Aviv headquarters of Mapai [Labor Party] and sat there until eventually David Ben-Gurion wrote them a letter.” The founders dug a well to water a small vegetable garden, believing that the climate was perfect for veggies despite the arid soil. “It was proven that it is possible, and one reason is the development of drip irrigation in the beginning of the 1960s,” says Gadiel. By 1967, the government was helping to build infrastructure, and in 1986 the Jewish Agency launched Arava R&D to develop cutting-edge agriculture and aquaculture technologies. And so this once-deserted 112mile strip of land from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea grew to supply more

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12 impossible ideas...continued from previous page than 60 percent of total Israeli exports of fresh vegetables and about 10% of ornamentals, including ornamental fish and novel varieties of produce. Although this year the Arava’s large Russian export market has collapsed due to the fall of the ruble, Gadiel says that just means “it’s time to recalculate for the changing global market.” Nothing is impossible. 3. ReWalk Robotics “The day I stood up, I knew I was about to cross the threshold from impossible to possible,” disabled U.S. Army veteran Gene Laureano said in January 2013 when he strapped on the Israeli ReWalk robotic exoskeleton that enables people with lower-limb disabilities to walk. Laureano’s “impossible” was also inventor Amit Goffer’s “impossible.” Larger and better-funded companies in other countries had long been trying to develop a similar device when Goffer made headlines in 2008 for inventing the world’s first commercially available upright walking technology. ReWalk has since become the most widely used and studied robotic exoskeleton, and the first available for personal ownership. Last year it enjoyed a $58 million IPO on Wall Street. Goffer and colleagues worked on the groundbreaking invention for years

Rehab patients at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York using the ReWalk

before hitting the successful formula. He has said that in early meetings with potential marketing partners, “Many listeners did not believe me.” But ever since he was paralyzed in a 1997 accident, failure was never an option. “I know how it feels to sit in a wheelchair,” said Goffer of his determination to make the impossible possible. e4. MUV Interactive Four years ago, investors rejected Rami Parham’s concept of a wearable device for interacting with one’s digi-

“All of them said it was great, but nobody was willing to fire the first shot – to ‘cut the cables’ in favor of wireless,” Poliakine told ISRAEL21c. Eventually, a deal with Procter & Gamble (which owns Duracell) led to a series of wireless charging solutions for iPhones and other smartphones. Then came partnerships with AT&T, Best Buy, Starbucks, McDonald’s, General Motors and other major companies. “We understood that for this revolution to take hold, we would have to create an entire ecosystem. We have to surround consumers 360 degrees, based on where they spend their time away from home, such as airports, train stations, concert halls, universities and restaurants,” Poliakine told ISRAEL21c. 6. An insulin pill For the past century, scientists tried in vain to devise a pill instead of an injection to control blood glucose in diabetics. And then, 25 years of dogged trial and error by Hadassah University Medical Center researcher Miriam Kidron resulted in a revolutionary way to deliver large-molecule polypeptides, such as insulin and vaccines, by mouth. Oramed Pharmaceuticals, the company her son Nadav established to commercialize this invention, currently is in advanced FDA clinical trials for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The company’s proprietary technology potentially can be used to orally administer other protein-based therapies now available only via injection. “When they initiated this project almost 30 years ago at Hadassah, trying to get insulin delivered orally looked almost impossible,” Kidron told ISRAEL21c. “Today it’s just a matter of time till it’s on the market.” 7. SoftWheel Many others tried without success to put suspension into wheelchair and bicycle wheels. An Israeli team was the first to make it happen by scrapping the traditional mode of attaching shock absorbers to the wheel. SoftWheel engineers instead incorporated the suspension system inside a spoke-less wheel in order to disperse energy in a whole new way.

The company’s patented Selective Symmetric Suspension System detects obstacles and shifts the wheel’s hub to give a cushioning effect that dramatically absorbs and lessens the impact transferred to the rider. Recently, the Tel Aviv-based company revealed that several electric vehicle companies are interested in SoftWheel technology, which could also improve airplane wheels. “Why didn’t anybody do this before? Because it’s not as easy as it looks,” CEO Daniel Barel told ISRAEL21c. “Everybody else tried to fine-tune current technology into a wheel. We literally had to reinvent the wheel and a brand-new technology for suspension. And we discovered it is not only suitable for wheelchairs but as a platform for anything that has wheels.” 8. PillCam In 2001, when Gabriel Meron introduced the world’s first video pill to image the digestive system, everyone from consumers to doctors to technologists was astonished. It seemed that

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Meron and his company, Given Imaging, had brought to life the sci-fi flick Fantastic Voyage, using a tiny ingestible camera and transmitter instead of Raquel Welch. The invention was even featured on Ripley’s Believe It or Not. “But as impossible as creating a successful video pill seemed to Meron and everyone but inventor Gabi Iddan, the ability to pull off all the other aspects of bringing the product to all the world’s major markets, with regulatory approval, in just three years may have seemed even more daunting,” notes Daniel Isenberg in his 2013 book Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value. Given Imaging aced even that

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12 impossible ideas...continued from previous page seemingly incredible feat, and today PillCam products are used in a quarter of a million medical imaging procedures annually in more than 70 countries. It’s become the gold standard for “capsule endoscopy,” a category that did not exist before Meron and Iddan created the impossible. 9. Cardboard bike Three highly-respected engineers told serial inventor Izhar Gafni that there was no way to actualize his concept of building bicycles out of sturdy cardboard. The durable and inexpensive bike is nevertheless rolling closer to reality. “After I was told it’s impossible, I sat down and looked at everything and said, ‘Okay, we can do it.’ We’ve done impossible things with agriculture, military, high-tech and science. I just thought, if they could do it, I can do it too,” Gafni told ISRAEL21c in a video about his company, Cardboard Technologies. “If we had $10 for every time we heard ‘impossible,’ probably we wouldn’t need any fundraising for our company,” said Cardboard Technologies CEO Nimrod Elmish at the Beyond 2015 conference in New York. Elmish revealed that their products from various scrap materials will be on the market within a few years and could be distributed free in disadvantaged countries through corporate or governmental sponsors. 10. Erasable computer memory At the beginning of the 1970s, Israeli electrical engineer Dov Frohman achieved the impossible when he invented the EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory), a chip that could also retain its data when the power supply was switched off – a critical advance for personal computing. This first-ever erasable and reprogrammable chip won an Israel Prize for Frohman, who was among the found-

ers of Intel, and it was responsible for Intel’s decision to establish a branch of the multinational company in Israel. Since then, many other pioneering products have come out of Intel R&D labs in Israel, including the 8088, Pentium, Centrino, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Thunderbolt core processor technologies and the tiny Edison computer. Today, Intel has four development centers and two manufacturing plants in Israel. 11. Waze When the visionary founders of Waze proposed changing the paradigm of direction assistance for drivers, nobody thought it would ever take off – and certainly nobody thought that in a few short years Waze would be the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app. The “crazy” idea that launched the crowdsourced app was to create a map from real-time users rather than basing directions on an existing static map. Not only did this revolutionize the way people reach their destinations, but the app was even used by the U.S. government to steer drivers to open gas stations following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Google bought Waze in 2013 for $1.03 billion, cementing the Israeli company as a successful leader of a tech trend that has spawned about a dozen copycats. 12. Brainsway Deep TMS depression treatment The quest to learn more about the human brain is a top priority in Israel, where out-of-the-box thinkers are not only investigating the mysteries of the brain but also devising novel treatments for otherwise incurable brain diseases. Brainsway’s noninvasive, drugfree, zero side effect Deep TMS (magnetic transcranial stimulation) system is CE cleared in Europe for autism,

Alzheimer’s, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, major depressive disorder, Parkinson’s, schizophrenia, smoking cessation, post-traumatic stress disorder, multiple sclerosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder and stroke rehabilitation. Following more than 60 clinical trials worldwide, Brainsway received U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval for the treatment of drug-resistant depression. Other Israeli brain science companies are making strides also thought

impossible, such as ElMindA a pioneering, noninvasive brain-function analysis system; and Novocure’s noninvasive Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) to treat cancers that have spread to the brain. Abigail Klein Leichman is a writer and associate editor at ISRAEL21c. Prior to moving to Israel in 2007, she was a specialty writer and copy editor at a daily newspaper in New Jersey and has freelanced for a variety of newspapers and periodicals since 1984.

BRIEFS NETANYAHU: I OPPOSE IRAN DEAL BECAUSE I WANT TO PREVENT WAR, AND THIS DEAL WILL BRING WAR

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed The Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in a webcast on Tuesday, August 4. Here are some highlights:  The nuclear deal with Iran doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb. It actually gives Iran two paths to the bomb. Iran can get to the bomb by keeping the deal or Iran could get to the bomb by violating the deal.  Keeping the deal allows Iran to maintain and eventually expand a vast and increasingly sophisticated nuclear infrastructure. This infrastructure is unnecessary for civilian nuclear energy, but it’s entirely necessary for nuclear weapons. Astonishingly, the deal gives Iran’s illicit nuclear program full international legitimacy and makes it far easier for Iran to build dozens, even hundreds of nuclear weapons

in a little over a decade.  Iran has a second path to the bomb, one that would give it a nuclear weapon in far less time. Iran could violate the deal. Now, people argue that Iran will be prevented from cheating because we’ll have good intelligence and unprecedented inspections. But honestly, for years none of us discovered the massive underground nuclear facilities Iran was building at Fordo and at Natanz, or that the Syrians were building a nuclear reactor for plutonium production. So it’s very precarious to bet the deal’s success on intelligence. Neither intelligence nor inspections prevented North Korea from building atomic bombs despite assurances that they wouldn’t be able to do so.  The deal also gives Iran a massive infusion of cash, and Iran will use this cash to fund its aggression in the region and its terrorism around the world. As a result of this deal, there’ll be more terrorism. There will be more attacks. And more people will die.  Here in Israel, Isaac Herzog, the

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leader of the Labor opposition, the man who ran against me in this year’s election, has said that there is no daylight between us when it comes to the deal with Iran. This d is simply not a partisan issue in Israel. A huge majority of Israelis d oppose the deal. r  The deal’s supporters claim that those who oppose this deal want a war. That’s utterly false. We in Israel don’t want war because it’s we s who are on the front lines. We face Iran’s terror on three borders. We face tens of thousands of Iranian rockets aimed at all our cities. We face Iran, whose regime repeatedly calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, whose terrorist proxies , try to kill Jews every day, and who r is also the leading state sponsor of d anti-Semitism.  Israelis are going to be the ones d who pay the highest price if there’s e war and if Iran gets the bomb. The claim that we oppose this deal be, cause we want war is outrageous. e Israel wants to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and Israel wants o peace. This deal will advance neither goal. I oppose this deal ber cause I want to prevent war, and y this deal will bring war. (Prime Minister’s Office) d THE ENGLISH JEW SAVING c ySYRIA’S CHRISTIANS Christianity, whose presence in the eMiddle East predates Islam’s by 600 eyears, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Most endangered are the Christians of Syria. Four years ago they , enumbered about 1.1 million. By now 700,000 have fled, as the larger Christian world looks on passively. Three weeks ago, 150 Syrian e Christians were airlifted to refuge and esafety in Poland by the Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund. The objective is to rescue 2,000 families. The person behind all this is Lord George Weidenfeld, 95. In 1938, still a teenager, he was brought from Vienna to London where the Plymouth Brethren took him in and provided for him. He is trying to return the kindness, he explains, to repay the good that Christians did for him 77 years ago. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post)

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Affirmative action policies for Israeli Arabs initiated under Ehud Olmert were accelerated during the Netanyahu administration. These included allocating funds for joint industrial parks in Arab and Jewish towns, subsidies that helped firms hire Arab labor, and expanded transportation infrastructure which allowed Arabs to reach employment sites. In addition, the Israeli government developed a five-year plan for improving Arab education and established a special unit in the prime minister’s office to promote economic development in the Arab community. Despite the opposition of Palestinian nationalists, more and more Arab communities began to cooperate with government agencies. At the same time, educational and occupational initiatives began to improve the possibilities for Arab women. Labor participation rates for women 30-39 increased from 24% in 2005 to 34% in 2010. These transformations also occurred in east Jerusalem, with investments in infrastructure and trans-

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TOURISM TO THE HOLY LAND TRIPLES IN A DECADE

Tourist arrivals in Israel over the past 10 years have tripled to 3.3 million. Christians accounted for 56% of last year’s tourist arrivals, up from 33% a decade ago. (Nicolas Parasie, Wall Street Journal)

TECH INVESTMENTS IN ISRAEL HIT NEW HIGH

Israeli high-tech firms set a new record for financing in the second quarter of 2015, the Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Center reported recently. 179 Israeli high-tech firms raised a total of $1.12 billion during Q2/2015 – beating the $1.11 billion raised in Q4/2014. Much of the Q2 investment money came from foreign private equity investors from Asia. (David Shamah, Times of Israel)

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A new beginning in Venice A pure heart From the Bimah Rabbi Harold F. Caminker Jewish Congregation of Venice

udaism is a way of life, influencing all phases of our daily existence. Likewise, the sacred partnership between volunteer and professional leadership can affect every aspect of the life of the synagogue. The foundation for this sacred partnership is the Torah’s teaching that we are created b’tzelem Elohim – in the image of God. The term b’tzelem Elohim is a great leveler. Because we are created in God’s image, we are all equal stakeholders in the life of our congregation, even though we have different skills, talents and abilities. Each member of the board, clergy and professional staff, as well as each congregant, has something of value to contribute. Each must be treated with the respect that comes with the recognition of the sacredness of each person. A brit, a holy covenant, is different from a contract. A contract describes an agreement that protects both parties in the relationship. A brit represents a commitment to join together on a deeper level. We are ever mindful of the knowledge that each partner comes to the relationship with visions and aspirations. Both partners, rabbi and congregation, must be open to each other, but each also needs to make space for the other to flourish in the relationship. A covenant and a contract are similar. We sign contracts all the time. We sign contracts with mortgage lenders, cell phone service providers, and

human resource managers. In a contractual relationship, if one party does something wrong, the other party can be expected to take recourse and seek compensation. By contrast, two parties enter into a covenant not to protect themselves, but rather to better themselves and each other. It was in a spirit of cooperation and mutual respect that the following paragraph was included as a preamble to my covenant and sacred partnership with the Jewish Congregation of Venice: When we are in a covenant relationship, our destinies are joined; our successes and disappointments are not ours alone, but are shared with a lifelong partner. As in marriage (another covenant relationship), we make decisions not only for ourselves, but we take into account the impact of our actions on our partners. Therefore, we only establish a covenant with a partner whom we already trust. In a covenant relationship, we must believe that our partners are acting out of good will, even when they make mistakes or when we disagree with their actions. In a congregation, mistakes will certainly bear consequences, but the parties must avoid punishing one another through gossip, power plays and other undermining behaviors. Help me, God, in this new year 5776, as I begin my service to this wonderful JCV kehillah kedoshah – this holy community of fellowship and faith. God, let me succeed. Teach me to believe that I can rise to this sacred occasion. Remind me that it is not a matter of life and death, but merely a challenge – a challenge that I have the capacity to meet head-on. Help me, God, to view this test as an opportunity to stretch and learn and grow. Be with me, God; free me so that I can shine. Kein yehi ratzon. May this be Your will. L’shana Tova Tikateivu!

From the Bimah Rabbi Mendy Bukiet Chabad of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch

ave you ever gone to the doctor for your annual checkup, fearful of the results? You promised your doctor you would lose the weight, be careful with your sugar, and exercise at least a few times a week. You wanted to, you really did, but life got in the way. So the day before your appointment, you starve and exercise yourself to a frenzy, hoping to lose some weight and that the results show on your tests. You also come equipped with a list of excuses to the doctor (and to yourself) for slacking off. As we approach the Jewish New Year, we can have a tendency to play catchup. We may wonder what happened to all the good resolutions negotiated with ourselves and G-d. We may worry. How can we stand before G-d, praying for a good year, committing to new resolutions when we have not yet implemented those we’ve made in the past? How do we face G-d? A student of the first Chasidic master, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, was given the task of blowing the Shofar. Being of spiritual and responsible nature, he dedicated his time to learn all the Kabbalistic meanings of the sounds

of the Shofar. He even prepared a cheat sheet to use at the Shofar blowing to help him remember these deep, spiritual meditations. When the time for Shofar blowing arrived, he realized with utter panic that he lost his cheat sheet! He forgot all the Kabbalistic meanings of the Shofar. He was devastated and blew the Shofar with great tears and a broken heart, but without any of the great Kabbalistic intentions he had prepared. After services, the Baal Shem Tov thanked the student profusely, exclaiming that he had not heard such a beautiful Shofar blowing in many years. The student wondered aloud how this was possible since he was missing all the great intentions. The Baal Shem Tov responded that in heaven there are many doors. The doors have many keys, each key opens a different door. But, there is a master key that opens all the doors. The intentions are keys. Each specific intention unlocks a door and accesses another chamber in heaven. There is one key, however, which unlocks all doors and which can open the innermost chambers of the Divine palace. That master key is a pure heart. G-d is looking for something pure from the heart from each one of us. This year when we sit in services, let us not be disheartened by our lack of follow through in the past. Let us not worry if G-d- will accept our prayers or not. When we make a resolution, let us do so straight from our hearts. Let’s keep it simple and pure, because a simple and pure heart opens all doors. Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year.

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Is the future of Israel important to you? Speak out against the Iran deal now!

t o -By Nina Gail Levitt

hy should we care about Israel and, if we care about c Israel, why should we be tconcerned about the Iran deal? e If you believe a Jewish homeland (that perpetuates Judaism) is impor-tant, then Israel is important to you. tIf you believe that cancer and other .cutting-edge medical research, envivronmental engineering, computer sci-ence, nanotechnology and countless -other scientific advances have value to .humankind, then Israel should be imsportant to you. And, if you believe that Israel is the only nation in the Middle mEast that is a beacon of light that promotes egalitarian ideals, then Israel yshould be important to you. The majority of Israelis, including lleaders on the left and the right, believe that the Iran deal not only threatens their security, it threatens the existence -of Israel. As an example, after the deal .was announced, Iran refused a request -by Germany to halt its rhetoric about edestroying Israel and, instead, reiter-ated its dedication to the destruction of Israel. The consequences of the Iran deal will be suffered by Israel more than any other country. As Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, ksaid, “This deal does not block Iran’s tpath to a nuclear bomb; it paves it.” s The President, Vice President and tSecretary of State of the United States

may have good intentions, but they are human, and humans are fallible. All three have said this is the best possible deal and that they hope when the agreement expires in a decade Iran will be less hostile to Israel and the United States. If you believe that the Iranian nuclear infrastructure is beyond reach, and that nuclear weapons are a foregone conclusion, why should the United States endorse Iran becoming a legally recognized nuclear power? Why should the United States agree to lift the arms and ballistic missile embargo in just a few years – in addition to lifting all the economic sanctions immediately giving Iran $150 billion to support its global terror network? As a Washington Post editorial (July 14, 2015) states: “If the transformation of Iranian behavior the President hopes for does not occur, the deal on its nuclear program may ultimately prove to be a poor one – a temporary curb that, when it lapses, will enable a dangerous threshold nuclear state that poses a major threat to the United States and its allies.” Israel and many U.S. experts have proposed keeping the sanctions in place and, in fact, strengthening them. In a Wall Street Journal article (July 13, 2015), Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner, states that serious sanctions were only

Letter to the Editor

ongboat Key Rabbi Jonathan Katz’s recent comments in your paper are disappointing and sad. His personal statement advocating voluntarily limiting the use and blessings of Jesus’s name are anti-Christian. Rabbi Katz’s intense desire for American secularism is restricting people of faith their freedom to publicly practice their Christianity and Judaism. What could be offensive hearing a Christian or Jew end their prayer in the name of Jesus or Hashem? Everyone respects and agrees America is a pluralistic society where references to any God are banned in and on government property. Everyplace else, the overwhelming majority of Americans desire to pray, give thanks and praise the lord’s name. If Rabbi Katz finds Jesus’s name personally offensive, he should skip

the public event, and stop trying to subtly limit his fellow citizens’ rights. Recently, we witnessed in Charleston the nine murdered victims’ families, all Christians, not blacks nor whites, practicing the essence of Christianity, forgiveness. Should this profound Christian event, watched by the entire nation, been prohibited, or references to Jesus been omitted because it occurred in a public venue? America needs Jesus and Hashem more than ever in our personal and professional lives. Sincerely, Airman Patricia Daniels, AF Deployed-Ramstien AFB, Germany General Delivery, Holmes Beach, FL The 6th Air Mobility Wing Air Mobility Command, Eighteenth Air Force MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL

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imposed in November 2011 and that they were effective. He further notes that “they cut the country’s oil exports by half, shut off its banking system from the rest of the world, sent the Iranian rial into free fall and caused inflation to soar.” In addition, Eric Edelman (John Hopkins School of Advanced Studies) and Ray Takeyh (Council on Foreign Relations) in a Washington Post opinion piece (July 17, 2015), stated that the Iran deal “concedes an enrichment capacity that is too large, sunset clauses that are too short, a verification regime that is too leaky and enforcement mechanisms that are too suspect.” They further state that “no agreement is perfect but at times the scale of imperfection is so great that the judicious course is to reject it and renegotiate a more stringent one.” Israel cannot afford to take the chance that the radical and ruthless Islamic Republic will not develop nuclear weapons as soon as the agreement runs out. A decade is a heartbeat away considering the history of humankind. Consider that the last-minute concessions made to allow Iran to import arms and ballistic missiles would enable Iran, once it obtains nuclear weapons, to fire a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile at Israel. It would take only 12 minutes to get to Israel and there isn’t any realistic defense against that.

Supporters of Israel need to speak out. It took courage for the bipartisan AIPAC and The Jewish Federations of North America to denounce the Iran deal. This isn’t a partisan issue as the Israeli political leaders have demonstrated in their public statements; this is about the survival of Israel. The only sure way to protect Israel is for each and every person who believes in Israel to weigh in with their members of Congress against the Iran deal. Speak out NOW before it’s too late. Nina Gail Levitt, Ed.D., recently moved to Sarasota from the Washington, D.C., area where she was a lobbyist for 20 years for the American Psychological Association, representing over 900 doctoral and post-doctoral programs at universities and hospitals nationwide. Prior to that, she worked in the U.S. Senate on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the 1980s. Dr. Levitt lived in Israel in the 1970s, working at the Hadassah Wizo Research Institute while working on a doctorate in psychology, which she completed at George Washington University. She is married to an attorney and has a son who is a urologist. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not imply endorsement by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.

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Ten ways Israel is treated differently By David Harris, Executive Director, AJC, June 14, 2015

t’s appalling to see how Israel is treated by a totally different standard than other countries in the international system. Of course, Israel deserves scrutiny, as does every other nation. But it also merits equal treatment – nothing more, nothing less. First, Israel is the only UN member state whose very right to exist is under constant challenge. Notwithstanding the fact that Israel embodies an age-old connection with the Jewish people as repeatedly cited in the most widely read book in the world, the Bible, that it was created based on the 1947 recommendation of the UN, and that it has been a member of the world body since 1949, there’s a relentless chorus of nations, institutions and individuals denying Israel’s very political legitimacy. No one would dare question the right to exist of many other countries whose basis for legitimacy is infinitely more questionable than Israel’s, including those that were created by brute force, occupation or distant mapmakers. Just look around at how many nations fit those categories, including, by the way, quite a few Arab countries. Why, then, is it open hunting season only on Israel? Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that it’s the only Jewish-majority country in the world?

Second, Israel is the only UN member state that’s been targeted for annihilation by another UN member state. Think about it. The leadership of Iran, together with Iran-funded proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, has repeatedly called for wiping Israel off the map. Is there any other country facing the threat of genocidal destruction? Third, Israel is the only nation whose capital city, Jerusalem, is not recognized by other nations. Imagine the absurdity of this. Foreign diplomats live in Tel Aviv while conducting virtually all their business in Jerusalem. Though no Western nation questions Israel’s presence in the city’s western half, where the prime minister’s office, Knesset (Parliament) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs are located, there are no embassies there. In fact, look at listings of world cities, including places of birth in passports, and you’ll see something striking – Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan; Pretoria, South Africa; Lima, Peru; and Jerusalem, sans country – orphaned, if you will. Fourth, the UN has two agencies dealing with refugees. One, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), focuses on all the world’s refugee pop-

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ulations, save one. The other, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA), handles only the Palestinians. But the difference goes beyond two structures and two bureaucracies. In fact, they have two different mandates. UNHCR seeks to resettle refugees; UNRWA does not. When, in 1951, John Blanford, UNRWA’s then-director, proposed resettling up to 250,000 refugees in nearby Arab countries, those countries were enraged and refused, leading to his departure. The message got through. No UN official since has pushed for resettlement. Moreover, the UNRWA and UNHCR definitions of a refugee differ markedly. Whereas the UNHCR targets only those who’ve actually fled their homelands, the UNRWA definition covers “the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948,” without any generational limitations. Fifth, Israel is the only country that has won all its major wars for survival and self-defense, yet is confronted by defeated adversaries who have insisted on dictating the terms of peace. In doing so, ironically, they’ve found support from many countries who, victorious in war themselves, demanded – and, yes, got – border adjustments. Sixth, Israel is the only country in the world with a separate – and permanent – agenda item, #7, at the Genevabased UN Human Rights Council. No other member state, including serial human-rights violators like North Korea, Syria, Iran and Sudan, gets its own agenda item. Only the sole liberal democracy in the Middle East is treated in this blatantly biased manner because that’s the way it works – the bad guys circle the wagons to protect one another, and, at the same time, gang up on Israel, creating an automatic majority against it. Seventh, Israel is the only country condemned by name this year at the World Health Organization annual as-

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sembly as a “violator” of health rights. This canard takes place despite the fact that Israel provides world-class medical assistance to Syrians wounded in the country’s civil war and Palestinians living in Hamas-ruled Gaza; has achieved one of the world’s highest life expectancy rates for all its citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish alike; is among the very first medical responders to humanitarian crises wherever they may occur, from Haiti to Nepal; and is daily advancing the frontiers of medicine for everyone, something that can’t be said for too many other nations. Eighth, Israel is the only country that’s the daily target of three UN bodies established and staffed solely for the purpose of advancing the Palestinian cause and bashing Israel – the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People; the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People; and the Division for Palestinian Rights in the UN’s Department of Political Affairs. Ninth, Israel is the only country annually targeted by up to 20 UN General Assembly resolutions and countless measures in other UN bodies, such as the Human Rights Council. Indeed, astonishingly, each year, Israel is on the receiving end of more such efforts than the other 192 UN member states combined. No one can seriously argue that this is remotely warranted, but it’s a reality because in every UN body, except the Security Council where each of the five permanent members has a veto, it’s all about majority voting. When close to two-thirds of the world’s nations today belong to the Non-Aligned Movement, and when they elect a country like Iran as its chair, with Venezuela on deck, that just about says it all. And tenth, Israel is the only country targeted by the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement. Has anyone seen any significant campus activity that takes aim at true human rights offenders, including some in Israel’s neighborhood, who behead, forcibly convert and expel Christians; drop chemically-laced barrel bombs on civilians; deny Palestinians full rights; and use capital punishment, including for minors, with abandon? Has any student group tried to prevent undergraduates from traveling to any country other than Israel, as was the case with a recent “pledge” circulated at UCLA? Has anyone seen any flotillas or flytillas organized by European far-left groups that don’t involve an anti-Israel angle? Has anyone seen movements for companies to pull out of any country other than Israel? Turkey, as but one example, has brazenly and unjustifiably occupied one-third of the island nation of Cyprus for 41 years, deployed an estimated 40,000 Turkish troops there, and transferred countless settlers from Anatolia, yet there’s not a peep against Ankara from those who purport to act in the name of “justice” and against “occupation.” Given political realities, tackling any of these instances of egregious double standards and blatant hypocrisy can be a daunting challenge. And, still worse, this list is not complete. The old advertisement proclaimed that you don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s Jewish rye bread. Well, surely, you don’t have to be a pro-Israel activist to be troubled by the grotesquely unjust treatment of Israel. All it takes is a capacity for moral outrage that things like this are happening today. For more information, visit www.ajc. org.

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Prominent Arab writer Walid Abimerchid, in his latest newspaper column, described a “growing fatigue with the whole Palestine issue.” For the first time in decades, Palestine has been shut out of the news in favor of Syria, ISIS, sectarian wars and the growing aggressiveness of Iran. As Jordanian businessman Abu Furas noted: “Today, no Arab feels safe in his country. Ironically, the sole exceptions are Palestinians in the West Bank because they know Israel will defend them if ISIS attacks. Even in Gaza, most people secretly believe that Israel is their ultimate protection against ISIS fighters trying to strike roots in the Sinai.” Eyad Abuchaqra, a prominent Lebanese commentator and TV personality, citing reasons for dwindling interest in the Palestinian issue, says, “Arabs realize that there are many other issues that affect their lives, indeed their existence.” (Amir Taheri, New York Post)

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Palestinians will not sign a real and meaningful peace agreement with Israel in the foreseeable future because of a total lack of education for peace, as well as the absence of a leader who is authorized to embark on such a mission. Americans and Europeans who keep talking about the need to revive the stalled peace process in the Middle East continue to ignore these two factors. Indeed, the Palestinian leadership has long been inciting its people against Israel to a point where it has become almost impossible to talk about any form of compromise with the Israelis. If you want to make peace with Israel, you do not tell your people that the Western Wall has no religious significance to Jews and is, in fact, holy Muslim property. You cannot make peace with Israel if you continue to deny Jewish history or links to the land. Any Palestinian who dares to talk about concessions to Israel is quickly denounced as a traitor. (Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute)

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-The Vienna deal has been signed and slikely will soon be ratified, which raistes the question: Will any government ,intervene militarily to stop the nearly ginevitable Iranian nuclear buildup? Obviously it will not be the American or Russian governments or any of ythe other four signatories. Practically rspeaking, the question comes down to dIsrael, where a consensus holds that the Vienna deal makes an Israeli at-tack more likely. But no one outside the Israeli security apparatus, includying myself, knows its intentions. That -ignorance leaves me free to speculate eas follows. Three scenarios of attack seem possible: n Airplanes. Airplanes crossed international boundaries and dropped g bombs in the 1981 Israeli attack on n an Iraqi nuclear installation and in the f2007 attack on a Syrian one, making this the default assumption for Iran. yStudies show this to be difficult but -attainable. Special ops. These are already underway: computer virus attacks on h Iranian systems unconnected to the In,ternet that should be immune, assassienations of top-ranking Iranian nuclear Nscientists, and explosions at nuclear ninstallations. Presumably, Israelis had ya hand in at least some of these attacks nand, presumably, they could increase ytheir size and scope, possibly disrupt-ing the entire nuclear program. Unlike tthe dispatch of planes across several countries, special operations have the eadvantage of reaching places like Foredow, far from Israel, and of leaving nlittle or no signature. Nuclear weapons. This doomsday s weapon, which tends to be little dist cussed, would probably be launched -from submarines. It hugely raises the stakes and so would only be resorted to, in the spirit of “Never Again,” if the tIsraelis were desperate. Of these alternatives, I predict the e Netanyahu government will most likee ly opt for the second, which is also the , ;most challenging to pull off (especially now that the great powers promised to ;help the Iranians protect their nuclear ginfrastructure). Were this unsuccessful, it will turn to planes, with nuclear -weapons as a last resort. (Daniel Pipes, owww.danielpipes.org, July 16, 2015)

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Back-to-School Bash A Back-to-School Bash to welcome students to Temple Beth Sholom Schools and the Paver Religious School will be held at 10:00 a.m. at the Siesta Key Pavilion, 948 Beach Road, Sarasota. Anyone interested in youth groups for grades 3-12 is also welcome. Please call 941.955.8121 for more information or to register.

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Temple Emanu-El “Lunch with the Rabbi” Are you looking for a great lunch date? Join Rabbi Brenner Glickman and nice, friendly, interesting companions for lunch, socializing, and discussion of current events and subjects of Jewish interest. All are invited to this popular, stimulating and enjoyable program at noon at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. Attendees are asked to bring a brown-bag lunch and are also welcome to bring a newspaper article for discussion. Homemade dessert and terriﬁc company are provided! For more information, call the temple ofﬁce at 941.371.2788.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Falafel with Yoav Come and enjoy a terriﬁc kosher falafel lunch at noon at The Chabad House, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton. All you can eat falafel for $5. For more information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 x3 or info@chabadofbradenton.com.

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Rosh HaShonah Film Festival A good year starts with a good frame of mind. Start this New Year with ﬁlms that inspire and inform the entire family. Learn how to share this special time of year with your family – both old and young – and how to reap the happiness that is Divinely intended for us during this Holy Season. This week will be spent exploring and reveling in Rosh HaShonah through ﬁlms, discussions and edible creations! Have fun with us. Join us at 5:30 p.m. at the Al Katz Center, 5910 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $7 per adult; $3 per student; healthy kosher refreshments and discussion materials included. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

Sarasota Jewish Singles The Sarasota Jewish Singles is an outreach program of Temple Beth Israel to give all Jewish singles in the area the opportunity to meet other men and women who are alone. The group meets once a month for dinner, laughter and a time to turn acquaintances into lifelong friends. Join us at 6:00 p.m. at Columbia Restaurant, 411 St. Armands Circle, Sarasota. For more information or to make a reservation, call or text Rosalyn Fleischer at 941.915.6631 or rozﬂeischer@gmail.com.

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College Preparation and Lecture Series Debra Landesberg, M.S., founder of My College Resource, will present insider tips to the college admissions process. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the Federation Campus, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. Registration is required at http://jfedsrq. org/community-calendar/college-lecture-series-1433944608. For more information, contact Debra Landesberg at DL@MyCollegeResource.net or 941.704.5553.

“Tashlich Around the World” The freeing ritual of Tashlich – called “Jewish medicine” – is seen in videos from across the world. Celebrate this wonderful tradition with Jews in Europe, Israel, throughout the United States, and other continents and countries. Celebrate this ritual cleansing of sin in running waters at the beach and in parks! It will refresh your soul to begin this New Year anew by learning the richness of the psychology of Tashlich and how it helps to transform our souls. Join us at 5:30 p.m. at the Al Katz Center, 5910 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $7 per adult; $3 per student; healthy kosher refreshments and discussion materials included. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

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SaBra Chapter of Hadassah meeting Learn what’s new and exciting at Hadassah and what’s coming up in the next year at the Almost 5776 - Chapter Meeting. In addition, Rabbi Howard Simon, will speak on “The Middle East Chaos.” A light lunch will be served. The meeting begins at 11:30 a.m. in the Zell Room on the Federation Campus, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. Suggested donation: $5. Members, Associates and guests all are welcome to attend. RSVP to Nancy Mizrahi at 941.923.1790 by Monday, September 7. For more information, contact Lee at 941.924.1338 or lruggles.sabra@gmail.com.

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Sarasota Jewish Chorale “Meet and Greet” This open rehearsal kicks off the 16th season for the Sarasota Jewish Chorale from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Hecht School on the Federation Campus, 580 McIntosh Rd. Sarasota. The chorus performs widely throughout the area in synagogues, schools, churches and other venues. We welcome people of all faiths who love the joy of singing, to come to this rehearsal to learn about our Chorale. The SJC meets regularly on Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., except for Jewish holidays and Federation closings. For more information or to attend a rehearsal, please call Susan Skovronek at 941.355.8011. For bookings, call Phyllis Lipshutz at 941.924.6717.

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RSVP required: www.jfedsrq.org or Jeremy Lisitza at 941.343.2113 or jlisitza@jfedsrq.org The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Klingenstein Jewish Center 580 McIntosh Rd, Sarasota, FL 34232

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Includes a talk-back with the cast and director following the show. Recommended for grades four and up.

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JEWISH HAPPENINGS

September 2015

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Chabad Kaplan Preschool Rosh Hashanah Celebration Making honey bowls and a round chocolate chip challah, along with stories, songs, movement and parachute time, will enchant your preschoolage child and give meaning to the forthcoming Rosh Hashanah holiday. To instill holiday joy, families with preschool-age children are welcome to join the Chabad Kaplan Preschool at 9:00 a.m. at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. For more information or to RSVP, contact Sara Steinmetz at 941.925.0770 or sara@chabadofsarasota.com.

The Gan Tot Shabbat and Dinner Join us at 5:30 p.m. at Temple Sinai (4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota) for a Shabbat service designed speciﬁcally for young kids, with song, story and a Torah march. Followed by dinner and entertainment. Cost for dinner: $9 per adult; $3 per child. For more information, call the temple ofﬁce at 941.924.1802.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Temple Emanu-El adult Hebrew classes begin

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Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva PRESENTS FOR THE FALL SEMESTER

THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH

Fridays 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Starting October 2, 2015 (Eight weeks)

Jeremiah began to prophesy in a period of religious reforms when the people were turning back to God. There was a shift in power as the rise of the Babylonian empire came to a head. Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem and was victorious. The people of Judaea were carried off to captivity. Never before had empires shifted so powerfully! Never before had the Temple been destroyed! Jewish destiny changed from a people in a Promised Land to a people away from their homeland. In spite of the times, what sets Jeremiah apart was not when he lived but rather how he lived. This text-based course requires a Tanach/Bible. Instructor: Marden Paru; Fee $50.

ISRAEL 2015 Tuesdays 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Starting October 13 (Eight weeks) This new class will address the pressing issues and concerns that are the most discomfiting —given the massive amount of anti-Israelism that is reported in the media. Love of Israel is not enough going forward. We need to study and become more knowledgeable about all aspects of Israel and Israeli life—the negatives as well as the positives—so we can engage in conversation with accuracy and from strength. We are often called upon to defend the Jewish homeland as its representatives abroad. Keeping up with knowing Israel of 2015 is intended to help participants feel more secure and better equipped to discern fact from propaganda in the fast-moving conditions Israel faces. Your questions will be addressed in this seminar. Instructor: Marden Paru; Fee $50.

SEX IN THE TALMUD Mondays 4:15 PM - 5:30 AM Starting October 26 (Eight weeks) This new course covers sexual issues debated and clarified in the Talmud. Drawing upon well-written narratives of the discussions reported in such tractates of the Babylonian Talmud as Yevamot, Ketubot and Nidah, a frank and open dialogue will attempt to answer so many questions adults have about Jewish attitudes, ethics and traditions of the “facts of life.” It will become immediately apparent to students that no aspect of sex was taboo or omitted from deliberations by the sages of the Talmud. The covered topics provide a pathway for better understanding of the Judaic perspective on sex, love, marriage in the fulfillment of the Bible’s first mitzvah (command) to mankind: “Be fruitful and multiply.” (Genesis 1:28). This is a course for mature, inquisitive adults who are not familiar with the time-honored wisdom literature of Judaism. No prior background is required. This course will attempt to include everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask your parents or your rabbi. Marden Paru, Instructor. Fee $50.

Inquire about multi-course discounts. Scholarships are also available. Classes are held on the Campus of the Jewish Federation, 580 McIntosh Rd. in Sarasota. To register or seek more information, please contact Marden Paru, Dean and Rosh Yeshiva at 941.379.5655 or marden.paru@gmail.com. Please make checks payable to the Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva and mail to Marden Paru, 2729 Goodwood Court, Sarasota, FL 34235. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS: The Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs. The Sarasota Liberal Yeshiva is a 501(c)3 non-profit agency. It is funded, in part, by a grant from The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.

Celebrate the ﬁrst night of Rosh Hashanah with family and friends at 7:30 p.m. at the Rosh Hashanah Tasting Buffet and Community Reception at Fete Catering and Ballroom at The Polo Grill, Main Street, Lakewood Ranch. The buffet will take place immediately after services and will feature delicious foods customarily eaten on Rosh Hashanah. The suggested donation is $18. RSVP by September 8 to Chabad of Bradenton at 941.752.3030.

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Temple Emanu-El’s Adult Education Committee is delighted to hold adult Hebrew classes for advanced-beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Read, speak and love the holy language of our people in a friendly, supportive and wonderful environment. Classes begin at 9:45 a.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. To register and for tuition information, contact Dan Barwick at dan@barwick.us.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Tashlich at Turtle Beach Pavilion Join Temple Sinai at 5:30 p.m. by the body of water (8862 Midnight Pass Rd., Sarasota) to recite special prayers and to symbolically cast our sins away by throwing breadcrumbs into the water and begin afresh. Bring a picnic supper, your own beverage, paper products, and extra to share. For more information, call the temple ofﬁce at 941.924.1802.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Temple Emanu-El beginning Hebrew & liturgy classes Temple Emanu-El’s Adult Education Committee is delighted to kick off its Wednesday afternoon learning series! Classes for beginning adult Hebrew students as well as classes in the words and meaning of our prayers will be held Wednesday afternoons at 5:30 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. This is a special opportunity to learn and explore the language and liturgy of our people in a friendly, supportive and enjoyable environment. To register and for tuition information, contact Dan Barwick at dan@barwick.us.

Weinstein Religious School orientation & party This year, Chabad’s Weinstein Religious School will be introducing culinary arts with a Jewish twist, which will add fun, hands-on approach that will combine discovery, creativity and education. This orientation is entitled “Get the Scoop on the Fun,” and will feature an ice cream party and some “cool” get-acquainted games. The event begins at 4:30 p.m. at Chabad of Sarasota, 7700 Beneva Road. For more information or to RSVP, call Sara Steinmetz at 941.925.0770.

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JEWISH HAPPENINGS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

September 2015 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Yom Kippur Film Festival Watch a compelling documentary ﬁlm on the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel’s existence hung on the precipice of doom and then swung to the heights of victorious life. This program will blend the holy meaning of the Day of Atonement through ﬁlms and the reality of living as a Jew in the Jewish state and around the world. It will give us all a renewed sense of the importance of fully observing Yom Kippur. Join us at 5:30 p.m. at the Al Katz Center, 5910 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $7 per adult; $3 per student; healthy kosher refreshments and discussion materials included. To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Youth Groups Open House Visit Temple Beth Sholom (1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota) at 12:30 p.m. to learn about our Youth Groups: Chaluzim (grades 3-5), Kadima (grades 6-8) and USY (grades 9-12). TBS affiliation not necessary. We strive to provide meaningful and fun activities for all young people in the local Jewish community. Many different activities and field trips are planned throughout the school year. For more information, please call the temple office 941.955.8121 or email jbabin@templebethsholomfl.org.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Yom Kippur workshop with Rabbi Ari Shapiro Rabbi Ari Shapiro will facilitate a discussion on Duality vs. Non-Duality – A Concept of God and Prayer. This free workshop begins at 1:30 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota. For more information, call the temple ofﬁce at 941.924.1802.

Break the Fast Join Chabad of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch for a delicious Break the Fast buffet consisting of coffee, tea, lox, bagels, cream cheese, baked goods, fruits and more. This free event begins at 8:00 p.m. at Fete Catering and Ballroom at The Polo Grill, Main Street, Lakewood Ranch. For more information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 x3 or info@ chabadofbradenton.com.

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Join us for a gathering of mommies and babies to sing Jewish and/or Israeli children’s songs and bond with other moms! This free event begins at 11:00 a.m. in the Hecht Building on the Federation Campus, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. To RSVP (required) or for more information, contact Jessi Sheslow at jsheslow@jfedsrq.org 941.343.2109.

Sukkot sampler The foods, artifacts and picturesque images of the joyous Jewish festival of Sukkot are simply superb! Do you love fresh and dried fruits and vegetables such as apples, pears, sweet potatoes, squash, grape leaves, pumpkin and more? Watch Sukkot ﬁlms and listen to happy Jewish music. Sukkot is the ﬁnal festival of the Jewish holy season, which we should complete with fullness of heart and spiritual strength to accompany us all through the New Year! Join us at noon at the Al Katz Center, 5910 Cortez Road West, Bradenton. Cost: $7 per adult; $3 per student; healthy kosher refreshments To RSVP, call Beverly Newman at 1941.313.9239. Yomincluded. Kippur_SarasotaJwNews_5x5 8/7/15 7:03 PM Page CALL

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Save the Date November 21, 2015

Champions for Children Gala

Lee Wetherington Boys & Girls Club • 3100 Fruitville Rd.

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CLUBFED Lecture Series

ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF THE BIBLE Presented by Dr. Steven Derfler

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10–11:30AM – CREATION

“In the beginning…” The first part of the Hebrew Bible is considered ‘primeval history’, the start of everything. Was there a Garden of Eden, and if so, where was it? How do we reconcile biblical narrative with archaeology?

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016

10–11:30AM – EXODUS

How accurate are the accounts of Joseph and his amazing technicolor dreamcoat? Were there one or two Egyptian Pharaohs involved in the Exodus tradition? Do we know what happened at Sinai, and where was its location?

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

10–11:30AM – KING SOLOMON

Was the monarchy of Israel as strong, impressive and powerful as the biblical narrative implies? Or was King Solomon the consolidator of a small kingdom that was relatively insignificant outside of the Hebrew text?

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Queen Esther

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016

10–11:30AM – QUEEN ESTHER

As the Jewish world spread its wings following the Exile of 587 BCE, it finds itself as a minority of strangers in strange lands. Even though the ability to roll with the punches allows for survival, being at odds with the majority still rules. But the influence of one of the most powerful women in the biblical world reshapes the Persian world.

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JEWISH HAPPENINGS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 Ckids Shabbat Birthday Club Children’s Hebrew birthdays will be celebrated monthly during CKids Shabbat Birthday Club. Students will enjoy a cupcake birthday party and participate in the Jewish customs surrounding birthdays. Ckids Shabbat Birthday Club includes prayer, games and songs, followed by a Kiddush luncheon. The event takes place from 11:00 a.m. to noon at The Chabad House, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton. Please let us know in advance if you want to celebrate your child’s birthday during Shabbat Birthday Club. Free; sponsor a birthday party for $50. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 x3 or info@ chabadofbradenton.com.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Sukkah construction at Temple Beth Sholom Everyone is invited to join the Men’s Club of Temple Beth Sholom at 9:00 a.m. in raising the sukkah for 5776! No experience necessary to participate in this commandment. Teens can earn community service hours or scholar dollars for their help in construction and decorating. Temple Beth Sholom is located at 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota. For more information, please call the temple ofﬁce 941.955.8121.

Kehillah of Lakewood Ranch Sukkot Celebrate Sukkot, the Festival of Tabernacles, with the Kehillah of Lakewood Ranch at 1:30 p.m. Wine, cheese and dessert, catered by Safta’s Sweets, will be served in a sukkah. Come join us, celebrate Sukkot and meet new and old friends. To RSVP and for directions, call 941.281.2587.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 BBQ Under the Sukkah Chabad of Sarasota’s Men’s Club “Club 770” presents BBQ Under the Sukkah at 5:30 pm in Chabad’s sukkah at 7700 Beneva Road. The event will feature a delicious BBQ prepared by Adam Portnow and Jim Haberman, and fulﬁlling the mitzvah of eating in the sukkah and reciting the blessing on the lulav and etrog. There will also be crafts for children. Cost: $10 for Men’s Club members; $12 for nonmembers; $8 for children 5-10; free for Weinstein Religious School families. Advance reservations required at 941.925.0770.

Soups & Salads in the Sukkah Join Chabad of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch for an exciting Soups & Salads in the Sukkah celebration featuring a fabulous soups and salads buffet, game truck, music and prizes. Shake the lulav and etrog! The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at The Chabad House, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton. Free; donations appreciated; sponsor the event for $250. For more information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 x3 or info@ chabadofbradenton.com.

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September 2015

“Insider Tips for College Admissions” – a free series for students and families By Federation Staff

here’s some exciting news for students navigating the college admission process! The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and My College Resource have joined forces to present “Insider Tips for College Admissions,” an initiative designed for 8th to 12th grade students and their families to receive valuable information and tips about the college admissions process. The series of seven lectures, which begins on Wednesday, September 9, will be presented by Debra Landesberg, M.S., the founder and president of MyCollegeResource.net, a company that specializes in guiding high school students on the journey to college. The series is free to students and their families, and is held on the Federation Campus, 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. Participants can register online at www.jfedsrq.org. Just one of a variety of new offerings through The Federation’s “Shapiro Teen Engagement Program” (STEP), this exciting partnership serves to address a principal interest for teens in our community. Debra Landesberg is an independent educational consultant specializing in guiding the journey through high school to college admission. Her focus is on cus-

tomization of the college application process to match the student’s wish list and strengths. Through ongoing professional development, membership in selective professional associations, and global collegiate networks, she is connected to current trends in college admissions. Debra currently serves on the board of directors and oversees Standards and Ethics for the Higher

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Education Consultants Association (HECA). As a caring and experienced educational consultant, her college guidance extends throughout Florida and the nation. “Helping young people reach their educational goals is paramount to our mission,” says Howard Tevlowitz, Federation Executive Director. “We are delighted to partner with My College Resource to offer this out-

Intern opportunity for computer-savvy teen! By Andrea Eiffert

ooking for some community service hours you can earn from your own computer at your convenience? The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee is seeking a high school teen who is detail-oriented, organized, computer-savvy and reliable to oversee a new community calendar initiative. The purpose of the calendar is to house all local Jewish events, programs and happenings in one easy-toaccess location for the beneﬁt of all

area Jewish teens. Everything from youth group conventions and social events to scholarship application deadlines and community service projects can be submitted to the student intern who will then add them to the calendar. Teens will be able to access the calendar and then easily import events to their personal calendar ensuring they never miss another important date! For more information, or to apply, please contact me at 941.552.6308 or aeiffert@jfedsrq.org.

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standing series.” The series schedule is as follows. All sessions are 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.  September 9, 2015: Insider Tips To College Admissions  October 14, 2015: Tips For Writing the College Essay  November 11, 2015: Test Prep Strategies – Be Ready  January 13, 2016: Where’s The Money? FAFSA, Scholarships and More!  February 10, 2016: Surf’s Up! What Are You Doing This Summer?  March 9, 2016: Specialty Topics – Visual/Performing Arts/ Athletics  April 13, 2016: Beat the Curve In College Admissions For more information on this series, please contact Debra Landesberg at 941.704.5553 or DL@MyCollege Resource.net. For more information on The Federation’s Shapiro Teen Engagement Program, contact Andrea Eiffert at 941.552.6308 or aeiffert@ jfedsrq.org.

Helpful Hints!

 The SAT is under revision and a new SAT will debut in March 2016. If you are part of the class of 2017, the widely held suggestion is to stick with the ACT for spring 2016 testing.  Once enrolled in the first high school credit class, it is time to set a plan in preparation for college admission.  Class of 2016: Apply early in the season! Catch the first application deadlines for Early Action, Rolling or Regular decisions. Follow up closely on your application to assure all components are received by the colleges.  Participate in activities that tug at your interests. Do not participate in activities solely because they “look good” on your college application. Involve yourself in areas that are fun, interesting, and that strike a passion in finding your identity.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2015 7:00PM – 8:30PM

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE THE ZELL ROOM • 580 MCINTOSH RD • SARASOTA, FL 34232

Learn about: Jewish youth groups, teen travel opportunities, events, community service opportunities and enrichment programs for high school students who live in Sarasota or Manatee counties! Teens and their Youth Advisors from BBYO, SAFETY, Temple Emanu-El youth groups and Temple Beth Sholom youth groups will tell you the ins and outs of their respective programs, provide membership information, and answer questions. Also, find out how The Jewish Federation is “stepping” up the Shapiro Teen Engagement Program (STEP) and all the scholarship opportunities available for teens from Sarasota and Manatee!

EV E RYO N E IS W E L C O M E TO ATT E N D ! Please RSVP: jfedsrq.org For more information, contact: Andrea Eiffert at 941.552.6308 or aeiffert@jfedsrq.org

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RELIGIOUS SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP

PJ Parents Workshop Series Thanks to a generous grant from the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA, The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, PJ Library, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, and Chabad of Sarasota are partnering to bring PJ Library mothers a very special event:

Shabbat Project Sarasota: Women’s Challah Bake THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 • 7:30 – 9:30 PM RSVP by October 15 • Chabad of Sarasota • 7700 Beneva Road Learn the secrets of great tasting challah and beauty of tradition as women from all denomiinations of Judaism create scratch loaves of challah in this hands-on workshop. Bake a loaf to share and some to bring home to your family! Kosher wines, savory dips and delectable desserts provided.

FREE to PJ Library Subscribers!

QUESTIONS? Contact Chabad of Sarasota at 941.925.0770 The Jewish Federation is offering need-based scholarship assistance for religious school students in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Deadline to apply is September 2, 2015 at 5:00 pm.

Get complete details: jfedsrq.org Questions? Contact Andrea Eiffert, 941.552.6308 or aeiffert@jfedsrq.org

THE STRENGTH OF A PEOPLE. THE POWER OF COMMUNITY.

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SAVE THE DATES FOR UPCOMING PJ PARENTS WORKSHOPS November 14, 2015 – Shine a Light on Chanukah Temple Sinai & Community Foundation of Sarasota

December 15, 2015 – Turning Bedtime Battles into Bedtime Blessings Temple Beth Sholom & Community Foundation of Sarasota

January 24, 2016 – Raising a Mensch

Goldie Feldman Academy, Temple Emanu-El & Community Foundation of Sarasota

To register, go to: jfedsrq.org

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September 2015

GFA launches Google Chromebook program in innovative new space

eginning this fall, middle school students at Goldie Feldman Academy will embrace new technology in an innovative, comfortable new learning space. Modeled after the teen center at the Gulf Gate Library, the new Middle School HUB at GFA will provide students in grades 5-8 a comfortable, ﬂexible learning lounge tailor-made for innovative 21st century project-based, hands-on learning.

The Middle School HUB is one of many exciting new initiatives already underway for the new academic year at GFA. Over the course of this year, students in grades 2-8 will learn coding and Robotics while all middle school students will beneﬁt from a new one-to-one Google Chromebook program to support Google Apps for Education. Chromebooks are easy to maintain and secure, and provide students with powerful administrative tools, making them a perfect ﬁt for middle school students. These programs are the foundation of a comprehensive digital literacy and 21st century learning program that will prepare students to use technology to research information, communicate, create and collaborate as part of the school’s rigorous This school year, middle school students will have a new learning lounge and engaging projectWe are Goldie Feldman Academy. A preschool through middle school where small class sizes, project-based learning and Jewish values mean big opportunities for your family.

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based learning curriculum. Community partnership is a hallmark of GFA, and this year the school will expand to provide even more opportunities for students of all ages. Cross-curricular programming with local organizations like Florida Studio Theatre and the Sarasota YMCA continue to grow, while a newly announced international partnership with Something 3D will allow students to partner virtually with the design team from an Israel-based leader in cutting edge 3D printing technology. For more information about Goldie Feldman Academy, please call 941.552.2770 or visit tbsschools.org.

A musical small performance and practice area, “Panther Commons,” was created within the lunchroom this summer

MASA ISRAEL TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP The Federation will offer scholarships to applicants who have been accepted to a MASA program! Scholarships are first come, first serve. (Up to $2,000 to cover travel to and from Israel only.) Visit jfedsrq.org

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When and how to start preparing for college College admissions and what counts Different types of colleges The college application: parts and prep Standardized testing requirements What to know about the college essay Ways to highlight extracurricular, service, and enrichment activities Financial aid overview

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All presentations designed for 8-12TH grade students and families. Applicable points will be emphasized for each grade.

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 OCTOBER 14, 2015 NOVEMBER 11, 2015 JANUARY 13, 2016 FEBRUARY 10, 2016 MARCH 9, 2016 APRIL 13, 2016

Insider Tips to College Admissions Tips for Writing the College Essay Test Prep Strategies – Be Ready Where’s the Money? FAFSA, Scholarships, and more! Surf’s Up! What Are You Doing This Summer? Specialty Topics – Visual/Performing Arts/Athletics Beat the Curve in College Admissions

ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED AT JFEDSRQ.ORG

For additional information about this series, please contact Debra Landesberg, M.S. at DL@MyCollegeResource.net or 941-704-5553

Klingenstein Jewish Center 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota, FL 34232

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THE HELLER ISRAEL ADVOCACY INITIATIVE: • Report an anti-Semitic incident • Find Israeli news sources & pro-Israel contacts • Find local media contacts • Learn to properly write a letter-to-the-editor • Find political contact information • Learn to properly advocate to elected officials

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September 2015

Twelve new campers discover Coleman magic By Sue Huntting, Temple Sinai Religious School Director

’m not sure who was more excited, me or them. I arrived just in time for Shabbat services and began to pick out our temple kids, one by one. By the time we all regrouped in the chadar ochel (dining hall) for a rau-

cous Shabbat song session, we had all found each other – me and the temple’s 13 second-session campers. I was at URJ Camp Coleman to attend a Youth Summit. Over Shabbat, sixty rabbis, educators and youth

Sue Huntting (top right) with the Temple Sinai Second Session contingent at Camp Coleman

Temple Emanu-El preschoolers enjoy summer of science

cience was sizzling this summer at Temple Emanu-El Preschool’s summer camp! Jason Sharrock, a science teacher at Sarasota Middle School, volunteered for the second year in a row to facilitate four “Science Spectacular” weeks. “It is a very rewarding experience to bring science to the students at such an early age,” Mr. Sharrock stated. The science program focused on a different area each week. During Chemistry and Measurement Week, the students practiced measuring mass by making and using simple balances, and volume by using water displacement to measure how much space their hands took up. They watched as Mr. Sharrock made hydrogen in a balloon, which he then exploded, and trapped carbon dioxide by putting dry ice in a bubble solution. The highlight of Earth/Space Week was simulating the making of moon craters by throwing different sized spheres into sand. During Zoology/Microbiology Week, preschoolers found camouflaged paper butterflies around the classroom and looked at everyday objects under a digital microscope. They explored sound waves with tuning forks and static electricity with balloons, and built structures from toothpicks and marshmallows during Physics and Engineering Week. Mr. Sharrock has high hopes for the scientific futures of Temple Emanu-El’s preschoolers. “By bringing fun, hands-on scientific experiences to

Temple Emanu-El Early Learning Center students Bella and Yandel worked in the preschool’s vegetable garden during the “Science Spectacular” summer camp

these children, I hope that I have helped to shape the way that they think about science for the rest of their lives. I look forward to seeing the scientists that they become,” Mr. Sharrock stated. Temple Emanu-El Early Learning Center is enrolling for the 2015-2016 school year. For more information, please call 941.377.8074.