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Ronald Lauder, in rare criticism, rebukes Netanyahu over settlements and Orthodox hegemony WASHINGTON (JTA)—Ronald Lauder, the president of the

Middle East peace,” Lauder said. “Contrary to news media

World Jewish Congress, said Israeli government policies threaten

reports, senior Palestinian leaders are, they have personally told

the country’s democratic character and even its existence.

me, ready to begin direct negotiations immediately.”

Openly breaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Lauder also objected to the control that the Orthodox in Israel

in an op-ed published Monday, March 19 in the New York Times,

have over a range of issues including marriage and organized

Lauder also pressed hard for a two-state solution—a significant

prayer at the Western Wall.

stance because the cosmetics billionaire has the ear of President

“By submitting to the pressures exerted by a minority in

Donald Trump, who is about to unveil a Middle East peace

Israel, the Jewish state is alienating a large segment of the Jewish

proposal.

people,” he said. “The crisis is especially pronounced among the

Trump has said he is agnostic about whether two states is the preferred outcome for Israel and the Palestinians, and Netanyahu over the past year has retreated from endorsing two states.

younger generation, which is predominantly secular.”

Lauder was close to Netanyahu for decades, backing him during his first run for prime minister in 1996 and defending him

Much of the column was an excoriation of Netanyahu’s

in Diaspora arenas. Over the past several years, there have been

policy in terms more commonly heard on the pro-Israel left,

signs that they have grown apart, stemming from Lauder’s refusal

including the argument that Israel cannot be both a Jewish state

seven years ago to block a report unflattering to Netanyahu and

and a democracy unless it relinquises control of the lives of the

his wife, Sara, that was broadcast on an Israeli television channel

Palestinians living in the West Bank.

in which Lauder had a part ownership stake.

“The Jewish democratic state faces two grave threats that I believe could endanger its very existence,” Lauder wrote.

“The first threat is the possible demise of the two-state solu-

Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder cosmetic

Trump in the Jewish community. The two have been friends since the 1980s, when they both emerged as influential moguls on the

people live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

New York political and social scenes.

In 2001, Lauder, then chairman of the Conference of

Lauder alluded to his closeness to Trump and to Palestinian

Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the foreign

Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and implicitly chided

policy umbrella for the Jewish community, drew sharp criticism

Netanyahu for his repeated claims that the only thing obstructing

from the body’s constituent groups when he appeared at a rally

peace is Palestinian recalcitrance.

in Israel against the then government’s proposed peace plan and its concessions to the Palestinians.

Contents Up Front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Briefs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Torah Thought. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Women’s March and Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Kosher Food in Ghent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Call for Israel stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Israel and Netanyahu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Passover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Passover wine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Five Haggadahs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Matzah in the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Choosing to lead at AIPAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Ohef Sholom recognizes Soup Kitchen partner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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briefs Jewish woman hides Mexican mom from immigration officers in California A Jewish woman is among several people reportedly running a safe house in California for a Mexican woman who is illegally in the United States.

The Jewish woman initiated the illegal apartment after hearing in her synagogue of a Mexican family’s plight, according to a CNN report. A Baptist minister and a Catholic Latino family are helping in the effort to hide the woman, who does not have staying permits, and her two teenage daughters living with her. The woman was not named to prevent authorities from going after her, the report said.

The Jewish woman signed the lease for the apartment, which is located in a suburban middle-class neighborhood.

She came to harbor the family after hearing at her synagogue about an interfaith network helping undocumented immigrants. A fellow congregant approached her about “a service opportunity.”

The network, LA Voice, was launched following the election of President Donald Trump, who has ordered stricter enforcement action on undocumented immigrants. It is headed by the Rev. Zachary Hoover and includes several Los Angeles synagogues.

The father of the family staying in the Jewish woman’s apartment was deported in 2017. His relatives told CNN he voluntarily came to immigration authorities in a bid to regulate his status but was sent back. His daughters were born in the U.S., but their mother is an illegal alien.

The Jewish woman who signed the lease for the safe house wears a gold Star of David pendant and earrings inscribed in Hebrew. One reads “I am nothing but ashes.” The other says “The whole world was made for me.”

“The earrings remind me to take up the right amount of space in this world,” the woman told CNN. “Not too much, but not too little.”

For the woman, the link from the present to the history of World War II is strong, she told CNN. “I grew up in the time where the Holocaust was not so far behind me.

There was always that awareness as a

Jew that it’s possible to be kicked out of a country where people thought they were home. And many of those people didn’t make it.”

In a statement, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said, “Knowingly harboring an alien is a federal crime.”

ICE spokeswoman Sarah Rodriguez continued: “ICE does not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States.” (JTA)

David Friedman rips PA for not condemning deadly attacks on 3 Israelis. Abbas calls the ambassador ‘son of a dog.’

The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, criticized the Palestinian Authority for not condemning two terror attacks that left three Israelis dead.

Later, at the opening of a Palestinian leadership meeting, P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas called Friedman a “son of a dog” and a “settler” after noting that the ambassador views settlements as legitimate and supported them as a private citizen, the Times of Israel reported.

“Son of a dog” is a mild pejorative in Arabic, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Friedman responded while at an anti-Semitism conference in Jerusalem using the term “son of a bitch,” the Jerusalem Post reported. He added: “AntiSemitism or political discourse? I leave this up to you.”

Friedman had posted his original remarks on Twitter.

“Tragedy in Israel. 2 young soldiers, Netanel Kahalani and Ziv Daos, murdered in the North, and father of 4, Adiel Kolman, murdered in Jerusalem, by Palestinian terrorists. Such brutality and no condemnation from the PA! I pray for the families and the wounded—so much sadness,” he wrote.

Kolman was stabbed by a Palestinian assailant from the West Bank. Hundreds attended his funeral in the West Bank settlement of Kochav HaShachar.

Kahalani and Daos were killed in a

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car-ramming attack in the West Bank in which two other soldiers were seriously injured.

Last month, Friedman in a tweet accused unnamed Palestinian leaders of praising a terror attack that left a West Bank rabbi dead. A spokesman for Hamas had praised the murder of Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal; no members of the Palestinian Authority praised the attack. (JTA)

ADL leader tweets support for fired FBI Deputy Director The head of the Anti-Defamation League expressed his support for fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, calling him a “patriot.”

“The country owes him our deepest gratitude and the dignity of his earnings after two decades of selfless public service,” CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a tweet.

U.S Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on Friday, March 16, two days before he was set to retire after more than 20 years at the FBI. McCabe reportedly had accumulated enough leave time to be able to step down in January, but retire this month.

His firing two days before his official retirement date could jeopardize his full pension as a 21-year veteran of the FBI, according to reports.

McCabe said his firing was an attempt by the Trump administration to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, in which McCabe is a potential witness.

Sessions said that McCabe, who was among the first at the FBI to scrutinize possible Trump campaign ties to Russia, had shown a lack of candor under oath on multiple occasions, a fireable offense.

On Saturday, March 17, Greenblatt reposted a tweet from Dec. 23 in which he said: “When the Jewish community faced an unprecedented wave of bomb threats earlier this year, Andrew McCabe was an ally who worked closely with us in a time of need and labored to solve the case. We are indebted to him for his patriotism, professionalism and public service.” (JTA)

Fashion guru Iris Apfel, 96, immortalized as Barbie doll The American toy company that created the Barbie doll announced a new doll honoring Iris Apfel, the 96-year-old Jewish fashion guru.

The Apfel doll wears the same green Gucci suit and jewels that the real-life Apfel wears on the cover of her book, Accidental Icon, the New York Post reported.

“Her long-spanning career makes her the perfect subject of a one-of-a-kind doll, the highest honor Barbie bestows,” a Mattel representative told the Post. The Apfel Barbie will not be available for sale.

Apfel, a New York-born fashion journalist and illustrator turned designer, won the Women Together Special Award in 2016. In 2005, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York premiered an exhibition about Apfel’s style titled “Rara Avis.”

Since 2014, she has been the subject of two internationally distributed documentaries: Iris by Albert Maysles and If You’re Not In the Obit, Eat Breakfast.

Earlier this month, to celebrate International Women’s Day, Mattel released a “Sheroes” collection featuring more than 15 one-of-a-kind doll versions of inspiring women, including Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim, ballerina Misty Copeland and artist Frida Kahlo. (JTA) Israeli firm Orbotech purchased for $3.4 billion A California-based company is acquiring the tech firm Orbotech for $3.4 billion in what is reported to be one of the largest buyouts of an Israeli company.

KLA-Tencor Corp., a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, and Orbotech announced the deal on Monday, March 19.

Orbotech, based in the central Israel city of Yavne, develops technologies used in the manufacture of advanced electronic products such as flat panel displays, printed circuit boards, and semiconductors. It will continue to operate under its name and remain based in Israel, its CEO, Asher Levy, said in a statement.

The board of directors of each company approved the sale, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018. (JTA)

Torah Thought

Passover, Yom Hashoah, and Yom Ha’atzmaut

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he Biblical account of the celebrated Exodus from Egypt became the leitmotif of rabbinic theology, perceiving in the Israelites’ redemption from a House of Bondage, God’s greatness, guidance, and goodness. Thus the Shalosh Regalim—the three Pilgrim festivals of Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot revolving around the common theme of the Exodus—point at the divine gifts of both freedom and responsibility as essential requirements for fulfilling both the Jewish and human potential.

The awesome and complex journey—physically, spiritually, and psychologically—from servitude to an oppressor to service of the Most High, became a model of liberation for the entire human family, culminating in the Messianic vision of a world transformed.

We have chosen to convert the bitter herbs of our exile into the sweet charoset of homecoming for all. It is the symbolic hovering presence at the Seder table of the prophet Elijah for whom we open the door and set aside a special cup of wine that provides the eternal hope of universal shalom.

Passover’s promise by a compassionate and passionate heritage is ultimately rooted in its revolutionary view of the infinite worth of each of the Creator’s children, recalling that God silenced the heavenly angels when jubilant at the drowning of Pharaoh’s troops. When we preserve our adversary’s humanity, difficult as it is, we maintain our own essential human stature, even as we are commanded to rise up against evil.

Passover’s spirit of renewal of a people, as

well as of an individual, also applies to the springtime’s return with the beauty of the earth’s budding and recovery that we are pledged to forever secure.

How revealing of our people’s healthy spirit and the Rabbinic-balanced mindset that the Festival of Freedom is designated for reading the sensual Song of Songs. Yet, the puritanical opposition to its inclusion in our Biblical cannon was overcome when Rabbi Akiva argued and won with his creative interpretation that the scroll was really about the binding love between God and Israel.

Today’s troubled Middle East, home of the inspiring Exodus, is in dire need of replacing degradation with dignity and unremitting terrorism with humane teachings, ever mindful of the unabated Syrian tragedy. The State of Israel remains an enlightened Western island of progressive values, retaining its democratic essence in a wide sea of barbarism and backwardness begrudging the survival of the world’s only Jewish state.

At this awesome season, so curiously close to Passover’s twin themes of bitter enslavement and sweet redemption, we are poised between Yom HaShoah’s monumental burden of sorrow, and Yom Ha’atzmaut’s uplifting joy of Israel’s 70th anniversary celebration—between the Holocaust’s helplessness and Hatikvah’s hopefulness. We recall that in the midst of the Tabernacle’s zenith of celebratory dedication, two of the four sons of Aaron the High Priest, Nadav and Avihu, who were just all anointed as Kohanim, were tragically consumed by fire. Devastated, Aaron’s response was one of silence, which perhaps was the best option as he was personally and professionally challenged, threatening to undo his very being. At the risk of lifting a verse of a sensitive text of theological quagmire, the following resonates with shocking relevance to Yom HaShoah: “And your brethren the entire household of Israel will bemoan the burning fire.”

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Thus, with linguistic aid, skin ailments turn into a violation of one human being against another. To diminish one’s reputation became tantamount to no less than shedding one’s blood, given that a good name, Shem Tov, was deemed to be a person’s crowning glory. The sinfully genocidal Nazi ideology insisted on dehumanizing as a means for a person’s

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and our people’s total destruction in spirit and body. Yom Ha’atzmaut restores the Jewish people’s human dignity and proud standing in the comity of nations, affirming the divinity within all God’s children.

Our covenantal call, “You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy,” is our guiding light.

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Women’s March renounces Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism, but supports a leader who embraced him Debra Nussbaum Cohen

NEW YORK (JTA)—Organizers of the Women’s March renounced the anti-Semitic views of Louis Farrakhan, but they stood behind one of its co-presidents who attended a speech last month by the Nation of Islam leader and seemed unperturbed by his attacks on Jews.

Tamika Mallory, co-president of the Women’s March, sparked an outcry when she posted a photo of herself and Farrakhan on Instagram following his Saviours’ Day speech in Chicago on Feb. 25.

In that speech, Farrakhan declared that “powerful Jews are my enemy” and that he had “pulled the cover off the eyes of the Satanic Jew.” Farrakhan, as he has done repeatedly in the past, also

issued Monday, March 5, more than a week after Mallory first posted about being “super-excited” to hear Farrakhan’s message. “Women’s March is holding conversations with queer, trans, Jewish and Black members of both our team and larger movement to create space for understanding and healing.”

The statement goes on to say, “We love and value our sister and co-President Tamika Mallory, who has played a key role in shaping these conversations.

Neither we nor she shy away from the fact that intersectional movement building is difficult and often painful.”

They went on to explain their delay while social media exploded in protests against Mallory’s support for Farrakhan.

“Our external silence has been because

accused Jews of controlling the FBI and Hollywood, and plotting to synthesize marijuana in order to “feminize” black men.

Mallory subsequently deleted her post, but not before critics demanded to know why the leader of a broad-based civil rights movement would boast of her connections to Farrakhan.

In its statement, Women’s March leaders attempted to strike a balance between distancing themselves from Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism and supporting Mallory.

“Minister Farrakhan’s statements about Jewish, queer, and trans people are not aligned with the Women’s March Unity Principles, which were created by women of color leaders and are grounded in Kingian Nonviolence,” read the statement

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we are holding these conversations and are trying to intentionally break the cycles that pit our communities against each other,” the organizers wrote.

For her part, Mallory tweeted a statement that addressed the criticism without mentioning Farrakhan.

“It seems I am not being clear,” she wrote. “I am and always have been against all forms of racism. I am committed to ending anti-black racism, antisemitism, homophobia and transphobia. This is why I helped create an intersectional movement to bring groups together.”

CNN anchor Jake Tapper was among the first to point out Mallory’s support of Farrakhan’s speech. She was then vociferously criticized by Women’s March participants and others for not condemning Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic, anti-gay and transphobic statements, which he has repeated for decades. Some critics called for her to step down as Women’s March co-chair.

Rabbi Sharon Brous, who spoke on the dais at the January 2017 Women’s March, was critical of Mallory’s support for Farrakhan.

“There is no room in a multi-faith, multi-ethnic coalitional movement for anti-Semitism, homophobia or transphobia. Full stop,” Brous, rabbi of Ikar in Los Angeles, wrote on Facebook. “You can’t fight racism but excuse anti-Semitism, just as you cannot fight anti-Semitism while excusing and justifying racism or Islamophobia.”

Brous says that she wished that both the Women’s March leadership and Mallory had responded more quickly and pointedly.

“I wish Tamika had walked out of Farrakhan’s speech when he started saying those things or immediately posted ‘I made a mistake, he is deeply flawed in his anti-Semitism and homophobia,’” the rabbi says.

Brous also says of the Women’s March statement, “I would have liked if they had said ‘there’s no place in this movement

Nation for statements attacking Jews or queers.’

I would have liked stronger language of condemnation. However I believe they’re trying to make an effort to learn from this.

They’re legitimately trying to learn from this and hold together a coalition that doesn’t always naturally fit.”

The Women’s March brought 500,000 protesters to Washington, D.C., the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, with millions more gathering at sister marches around the world.

Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American and frequent critic of Israel, is another of the Women’s March organizers and co-chairs. She also defended Mallory in a tweet.

“Don’t hold people to standards you refuse to hold yourself to,” she wrote.

Women’s March organizers did not respond to requests for an interview.

Neither did its communications director, Sophie Ellman-Golan, who is the daughter of a rabbi. She did tweet, “to my queer, trans and Jewish siblings: I love you. I see you. I am so sorry. We deserve more than this.”

Many say Mallory’s support for Farrakhan was of a piece with other progressive movements that have downplayed or tolerated anti-Semitism or harsh anti-Israel rhetoric among their allies.

“Despite all the talk about intersectionality, many of these people think it’s perfectly acceptable to leave out Judaism, often for reasons that have nothing to do with faith itself or the reasons why Jews have been brutalized for centuries,” wrote Lily Herman, a Jewish columnist for the young women’s website Refinery29.

Brous says, “It is absolutely true that the left has an anti-Semitism problem and has to reckon with that. I feel that this moment is an opportunity, this intersectional coalitional moment and feminist moment is an opportunity to put forward a different type of leadership. We don’t have to hold our breath when elder statespeople [like Farrakhan] say noxious things. Instead we need to really cleanse that language of hate out of the leadership.”

Brous says she will not step away from her relationship with Sarsour and other

Women’s March organizers.

“It’s essential that we stay in dialogue,” she says. “When you’re getting screamed at and insulted on social media, it doesn’t open the heart to want to engage more deeply in the Jewish people’s suffering.

It’s only the people willing to still be in conversation and say ‘it hurt me’ that this changes. There’s a steep learning curve here.”

Rebecca Einstein Schorr, a Reform rabbi and writer in Pennsylvania, is a Women’s March supporter who says she feels increasingly alienated by anti-Semitism.

She loved participating in the January 2017 Women’s March and was proud to hold a sign identifying herself as a rabbi.

But now, she wrote under the Brous Facebook post, “How do we support a movement that continues to be led by those who support an anti-Semite? I feel really marginalized and that there is no place for me at the Women’s March.”

There is no room in a multi-faith, multi-ethnic coalitional movement for anti-Semitism, homophobia or transphobia.

Full stop.

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After the march organizers issued their statement, Einstein Schorr says, “I’m really happy they at least addressed it. It’s a great first step. It is necessary for them to acknowledge the pain we’re feeling by a member of their leadership being aligned with such a complicated personality.”

But, says Einstein Schorr, she is hoping for more because even she is beginning to feel sidelined within the progressive feminist community represented by the Women’s March.

“Whenever the Jewish community tries to be a part of these movements, we end up getting shunted aside,” she says.

Einstein Schorr says she hopes that Mallory will sit down with leaders of the Jewish community.

“It’s important for us to hear why is it that Farrakhan and others like him continue to be so appealing, and for her to understand why we feel so vulnerable,” she says. “And why we feel we have no place at the table.”

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Kosher food in Ghent

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abbi Sholom Mostofsky of the Vaad HaKashrus of Tidewater has been in touch with the corporate offices of Harris Teeter, which recently acquired Farm Fresh on 21st Street in Ghent. The Farm Fresh store has been one of the main sources of kosher food in Norfolk.

Harris Teeter officials were clear that they are most likely to respond to the needs of the kosher consumer if they hear directly from them. As such, in order to maintain kosher options in Ghent, it is important to take a moment to call or write to Harris Teeter to emphasize the need for a larger selection of kosher food in the Ghent locations.

This approach has been effective in other locations.

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s you’ve probably heard by now, Israel turns 70 years old in April.

To commemorate this milestone, the April 9 issue of Jewish News will feature all things Israel, including articles about the tiny nation’s beginning, it’s technological, medical, agricultural, and art achievements and contributions to the world, as well as Tidewater’s role throughout it’s relatively young life.

Many of these articles we have or can source from the Hal Sacks Jewish News Archives. What we need from you, our readers, are your personal stories, memories, anecdotes, and photographs. Do you remember your or your family’s reaction to the declaration of Israel’s statehood? When was your first visit? What about any trip that was particularly impactful, inspiring, or just plain fun? What did you do, here, in Tidewater to help promote and preserve Israel, maybe during one of its difficult wars?

If you are willing to share, please email or mail your story (100–200 words) or photograph to: tdenison@ujft.org or Jewish News, 5000 Corporate Woods Drive, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462 by Wednesday, March 28.

We will use as many stories as possible, and if the paper runs out of room, we’ll include some on our website.

Thank you in advance for sharing!

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Israel OP-ED

Netanyahu’s tenure as leader begins to experience downward slope Shalom Lipner

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israelis tend toward hyperbole. It’s symptomatic of their manic-depressive reality, where a hair’s breadth separates them from tenuous peace and full-scale war with their neighbors.

Depending on whom you ask here, the situation is always “never better” or “never worse.” With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mired in scandal and Israel still teetering on the brink of elections, the pessimists now have the edge. The optimists need to seize back the initiative.

I worked for over a quarter-century in the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, where I pledged to serve a cause larger than myself. Every minute in the building was an honor. I was a professional adviser to elected masters of different political allegiances. That experience inspires me now to sound the alarm.

Netanyahu stands accused of rife corruption. His erstwhile associates have turned state’s witness. Since he has pleaded innocence, a crippling crisis of political legitimacy is unfolding. The upheaval is paralyzing government decision-making.

This is a truly demoralizing moment.

Israel’s inception heralded the return of an ancient nation to its ancestral homeland. After the horrors of the Holocaust, it was virtually unimaginable that the Jewish people could ever regroup, much less under its own sovereign flag. Ethical abuses, even if not criminal, are an abomination to this legacy.

Ironically, Netanyahu’s legal troubles come when Israel’s prestige is at its zenith.

The country rounded out the Top 10—just ahead of the U.S.—on Bloomberg’s 2018 ranking of the world’s most innovative economies. The perils of a nuclear Iran have induced rare convergence of interest between the Jewish state and the region’s Sunni monarchs. And Netanyahu himself has been warmly received on every continent save Antarctica. Undeniably, he has done many things right.

This paradox presents an agonizing dilemma for Israelis. Netanyahu’s

supporters continue to overlook his apparent indiscretions, clamoring to retain an arguably adept prime minister.

With hostilities raging on Israel’s borders, they assert, this is the wrong time to replace Netanyahu with an amateur.

Cabinet members are resisting calls to hasten his resignation.

But what of Israel’s core values? The challenge of survival in a dangerous area commands Israelis to put security imperatives first, yet that must never be the sole parameter for leadership. Morality and good citizenship are no less vital to Israel’s health. With former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just released from jail and Netanyahu facing a possible indictment, the implications for Israel’s future are menacing.

Similar dynamics impact the United States, where polarized politics have corroded the public square. Inexcusable behavior by senior administration officials goes unchecked by partisan allies of the White House. The message sent to our children when misconduct is condoned and civic institutions are disrespected is devastating. Their faith in liberal democracy is being destroyed.

Israel is spiraling toward the polls.

Netanyahu’s haredi Orthodox associates, exploiting his vulnerability, nearly brought down his government this month.

Palpable mistrust within its ranks all but guarantees continued strain and impending elections.

But this coalition crisis is fortuitous.

Israelis should consider it an invitation for sweeping reform.

It’s time to dismantle the party list scheme, in which voters cast ballots only for parties, not individuals. An attempt to produce stable governance in the 1990s by directly electing the prime minister was scrapped five years later, but it was the experiment’s limited scope that preordained its failure. All candidates for parliament should answer to the unfiltered scrutiny of constituents. They need to know that their jobs depend on

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delivering for the people next door.

It’s also time for term limits. The hubris, entitlement and control accumulating to elected officials who become fixtures of power are sources of rot.

Opponents will argue that Israel cannot afford to give the keys to minor leaguers, but the pool of retired generals and mayors is constantly replenishing. New blood is needed to revive the body politic and flush out the infection.

Checks and balances are not something that sitting representatives volunteer to impose upon themselves. But an absurd reality where an overburdened premier, with no designated alternate, can hoard multiple portfolios – or vet the solicitor who determines whether he gets indicted – cries for overhaul. Such repairs will facilitate more responsible management of public affairs and coffers.

Our freedoms become worthless when those who mock them are not held accountable. Simply voting, as sacred and essential as that is, does not guarantee

democracy. Voters deserve a process that promotes principled governance. And they are entitled to expect scrupulous behavior from their leaders. It’s intolerable that competence and virtue should be mutually exclusive. Israelis should clean their political homes for Passover, too.

If Netanyahu is indicted and eventually lands in prison, it will be a sad day for all Israelis. But this ordeal will be repeated unless all hands left and right, conservative and liberal—unite to restore the integrity of law and ethics. A broken system needs to be fixed.

Shalom Lipner [@ShalomLipner] is nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. From 1990 to 2016, he served seven consecutive premiers at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

Mayim Bialik meets Israeli president in Jerusalem

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JERUSALEM ( JTA)—Israel’s president welcomed American actress Mayim Bialik to his residence in Jerusalem.

On Sunday, March 18, Reuven Rivlin told Bialik that he had heard so much from his grandchildren about her, her work as an actress and her strong support for Israel. The star of the hit television series The Big Bang Theory, was in Israel to participate in the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem.

“My family came to live in Israel when I was born, and they lived in a few places around the country, so I grew up with a strong Zionist identity,” she told Rivlin.

Bialik, 41, has a doctorate in neuroscience and plays neuroscientist Amy Fowler-Farrah on her show. A divorced mother of two sons, she was raised Reform and now practices Modern Orthodoxy. In many interviews she has described herself as a Zionist and has family living in Israel.

Earlier this month, Bialik asked her followers on Facebook to nominate her to

Mayim Bialik, April 14, 2015

light the torch reserved for a representative of Diaspora Jewry during the opening Israel Independence Day ceremony on Mount Herzl.

At the Global Forum, she was scheduled to speak about her experiences as a Jewish and Zionist actress, and about the difficulties caused by a climate of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

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“I am thrilled to partner with Whole Foods Market to feature some of my favorite recipes for Passover,” says Nathan. “Each

dish highlights the diversity of Jewish cuisine, and will be a delicious addition to any Seder table.”

The recipes featured in the Passover meal for eight include: Double-Lemon Roast Chicken, Sicilian Eggplant Caponata Jewish-Style, Fried Artichokes Jewish-Style, Tunisian Carrot Salad with Cumin, Coriander and Caraway, Spinach with Pine Nuts and Currants and Brazilian Haroset with Apples, Dates and Cashews. Dishes will be available for in-store pick-up from March 28 through April 7.

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hy on this night do we drink not one, but four cups of wine? I don’t know, but I like it!

And I have found the perfect Passover wine. I just don’t know if I can limit myself to four cups.

The Psagot Cabernet Sauvignon Single Vineyard 2013 has an ideal balance of fruit, light tannins, and a toasty acidity. An impressively sophisticated wine with a lighter body, it manages to be more flavorful than some macho Steve Budman. full bodied and pricey California cabs I’ve tasted.

A hint of cocoa, a pleasing bite of alcohol, a pinch of dry herbs, and mild spiciness all contribute to the complexity of this winning wine. I tasted streams of plum, blackberry, pomegranate, and an undercurrent of smooth mellowness that some have described as vanilla, though I would not have chosen that flavor as a descriptor. Suffice it to say that the Psagot SV cab is not only worth its $60 a bottle price tag, it is indeed a bargain.

Full disclosure: We tasted the 2013, which is no longer available from the the winery, though they offer the 2014 at the same price.

What with the very stable environmental conditions in the Jerusalem mountains, and the careful winemaking craft at Psagot, including aging in ancient caves, I would not expect a significant difference between vintages.

According to this mountain winery, the grapes are “harvested from a unique plot planter at 900+ meters above sea level, where this cabernet sauvignon has the ability to reach full ripeness without becoming heavy.”

The wine is barrel aged 14 months, and it is mevushal, which I wonder might contribute to my impression that it has been carefully aged even longer.

The Psagot Cabernet Sauvignon Single Vineyard is not only the best mevushal wine I have ever tasted, it is one of my favorite Cabernets, dayenu.

Chag Sameach, Happy Matzah, and Happy Sipping!

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Passover Five Haggadahs and other Passover supplements to modernize your seder this year Gabe Friedman

NEW YORK (JTA)—Although Jews have celebrated Passover by reading from the Haggadah in one form or another for 2,000 years, Jewish organizations and publishers strive each year to connect the holiday to modern times with fresh Haggadahs, as well as supplements.

If you’re looking to give your seder a distinct 2018 flavor, consider these options—they bring up topics ranging from Donald Trump to Ethiopian chickpea matzah.

It’s free to order online and comes with several goodies, including a recipe book with traditional Passover recipes from around the world. Then there’s the four “Community Cards,” each highlighting an international Jewish community that the JDC has helped in the past:

from Ethiopia, the Soviet Union, Morocco, and Sarajevo (in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Each card has a story from someone in that community, a ritual Passover food and a traditional toast. The details are as delightful as they are continued on page 14

Virginia Beach Jewish News JDC Entwine toolkit Topic: Jewish diversity 10.0" x 5.375" The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was Due: sendingFeb. aid to 23, Jews 2018 in need decades before gluten-free matzah was a thing. But one of its newer initiatives, Entwine, has produced a hip and fun “global Passover toolkit” it’s dubbing “ReOrdered” (a reference to the word seder, which means “order” in Hebrew).

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educational: Did you know Ethiopian Jews make matzah out of chickpeas, or that Bosnian Jews turn eggs black by boiling them with coffee grounds?

The guide also includes a sheet meant to help the seder leader incorporate it all into the ritual meal, coasters, and even a matzah box centerpiece with cards for the Four Questions meant to represent the supplies the JDC has sent around the world since World War I. It’s basically a historical, multicultural seder in a box—just add Haggadah and food.

The Trump Passover Haggadah: “People All The Time They Come Up To Me And Tell Me This Is The Best Haggadah They’ve Ever Read, They Do, Believe Me” Topic: The 45th president of the United States The Amazon description, like the title, will tell you this Haggadah isn’t for diehard fans of President Donald Trump: “The book guides Seder participants through a re-living of the Jewish people’s suffering under the Egyptians and celebrates their freedom from a vain, capricious, thin-skinned, small-handed, megalomaniacal, temperamentally unfit President—er, Pharaoh. If you’re an afflicted liberal Jew, with an unconservative sense of humor, and you find traditional Seders as dry as matzah, try these radically irreverent political parody Haggadahs this Passover.”

There isn’t much more information on the Amazon page, except that the Haggadah is an online best-seller. Judging from author Dave Cowen’s bylines in McSweeney’s and The New Yorker, it’s probably pretty funny, too.

HIAS Haggadah supplement Topic: International refugees Formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, HIAS was founded in 1881 to help Russian Jewish immigrants settle into the U.S., but these days it lends a hand to all kinds of populations around the world. Its 11-page guide offers a blueprint for weaving refugee references and stories into almost every aspect of your seder,

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from an Ethiopian saga meant for one of the blessings over wine to a Rohingya mention in the seder plate discussion. It becomes explicitly political at the end and offers tips on how to take realworld action to help refugees.

“In the face of unprecedented efforts to limit refugees’ ability to seek safety in the United States—even as more people are displaced by violence and persecution than ever before—these powerful symbols of both the unimaginable suffering and the boundless resilience and hope of refugees feel particularly poignant,” a statement on the HIAS website reads.

Repair the World/Be’chol Lashon Haggadah insert and trivia cards Topic: Jewish diversity “How do we connect the ancient story of Exodus to modern struggles for freedom as individuals and as a multiracial, multiethnic Jewish community?”

That’s the thinking behind this Haggadah insert and set of trivia cards from the nonprofits Repair the World and Be’chol Lashon, which help connect Jews with volunteer work and promote awareness of Jewish diversity, respectively. The insert asks seder participants to discuss the Exodus theme, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and what freedom means. The cards contain trivia about international communities, such as the Abayudaya Jews in Uganda or the Jews of Gibraltar.

A landing page for the materials claims that 20 percent of American Jews identify as African-American, Latino, Asian, mixed race, Sephardi and Mizrahi.

Haggadahs in French, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, and Spanish Topic: Cultural and linguistic diversity Have a non-English or non-Hebrew speaker coming to your seder? Want to brush up on the foreign language skills you haven’t practiced since college? In those cases, for example, you might be interested in a Haggadah in a different language.

These offerings from the Kehot Publication Society, an arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, aren’t brand new, but cultural diversity is of the moment. They are all 114 pages and inexpensive.

Post card from the USO for the service men to write home.

Matzah labels to raise money in the 1940s.

Courtesy Joe Weintrob.

Passover How matzah became a household item for non-Jews in the Netherlands Cnaan Liphshiz

ENSCHEDE, Netherlands ( JTA)— For most matzah bakeries, Passover is their lifeline and only claim to financial viability.

After the weeklong holiday, during which Jews are commanded to consume matzah to commemorate their ancestors’ hurried flight out of Egypt, demand for the famously tasteless cracker drops sharply.

Except, that is, in the Netherlands.

A centuries-old and proud Jewish community here has made matzah a household product that is sold in supermarkets and consumed year-round by millions of non-Jews who swear by it as their breakfast bread of choice.

That’s one reason why Pieter Heijs, a co-owner of Hollandia Matzes in this eastern city, is probably the only matzah maker in the world who braces for losses, not earnings, during Passover.

Almost all the profits of his matzah bakery—the only one in Holland—comes from sales to non-Jews of a product that lacks the “kosher for Passover” certification. However, for four weeks ahead of Passover, Hollandia also produces kosherfor-Passover matzah, which “costs more to make than what we get for it,” Heijs says.

The factory, which produces about 40 million matzah crackers annually, also makes small amounts of shmurah matzah—a specialty variant that is even costlier because of its stringent adherence to the kosher rules. To prevent even the hint of leavening, the wheat and flour never come into contact with moisture from the time of the harvesting until the dough is kneaded and the sheets are baked.

Still, Heijs remains committed to making matzah that is kosher for Passover.

“It’s a matter of tradition, and it means a great deal to me,” says Heijs, who is not Jewish. “Even if it comes at the expense of our profit margins, we will continue to produce Passover kosher matzah for as long as we can.”

The losses, however, are dwarfed by

the boom in Hollandia’s sales during Easter, which often coincides with Passover. On the Christian holiday, millions of Dutch buy and eat matzah as part of a nationwide tradition that testifies to centuries of Jewish influence on the general population.

A liberal nation that was home to one of Europe’s most illustrious Jewish communities before its near annihilation by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust, the Netherlands has other examples of interfaith borrowings (take the oliebol, a deep-fried winter snack in Holland that many trace back to the Hanukkah doughnut called sufganiyah).

Such carryovers were perhaps possible in the Netherlands partly because many Protestant Christians here emphasize the Hebrew Bible over the New Testament.

But Heijs says “it’s because Dutch Jews were so integrated into the fabric of society.”

The matzah became a year-round household food in recent decades as supermarkets replaced smaller grocery stores, according to Jonah Freud. He published a book in 2012 about the Dutch Jewish cuisine based on her research for the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam.

“I think it may be connected to how matzah is perceived as healthy,” Freud says.

Heijs concurs.

Many of our clients want matzah because it’s such a pure product,” he says.

“No additives, no conservatives, highly nutritious. What more can you ask of a health food?”

In an overture to the health-food crowd, one of the first moves by Heijs and his business partner, Udo Karsemeijer, who also is not Jewish, after they bought Hollandia in 2004 was to add an organic matzah product to the lineup. It includes matzahs in two sizes, a whole wheat variety and one with spice herbs.

Hollandia now exports products to Scandinavia, Germany and even France, where several matzah bakeries compete for a market with 500,000 Jews.

Heijs and Karsemeijer bought the

Hollandia factory from a Jewish family named Woudstra. The founding family built the factory in Enschede because it had a large Jewish community, and because of the arrival to the eastern Netherlands of thousands of Jews who fled the Nazis in nearby Germany.

When the Nazis invaded in 1940, the Woudstras went into hiding and the Nazis closed down Hollandia.

Before the invasion, the Netherlands had several matzah bakeries, according to the Dutch Bakers’ Museum. Among the best known and oldest was the De Haan bakery in the picturesque fishing village of Marken, north of Amsterdam.

It operated only ahead of Passover, and after the baking of the last matzah each year, De Haan employees would march to music through the village dressed in white sheets and ceremoniously extinguish the ovens.

One of the production line machines inside Hollandia, a state-of-the-art factory with 18 employees who work year-round inside a three-story building, dates back to 1924. Inside the room where it now operates, the local Jewish community briefly ran a Jewish school for the children who were expelled from the general education system under the Nazis.

The factory reopened after World War II, during which the Germans killed 75 percent of the prewar Dutch Jewish population of 100,000. The community never replenished its numbers.

By then, however, matzahs had developed a non-Jewish following.

The eye-catching and instantly recognizable packaging of Hollandia matzah boxes—an orange-colored octagonal cardboard box with a nifty camera-aperture opening—was a marketing coup ooked up by the Woudstras, Heijs says.

The matzah became even better known to the Dutch immediately after the war because the Hollandia factory received generous subsidies under the Marshall Plan for financial aid to rebuild war-torn Europe, according to Heijs.

He says the funding was meant also as a gesture acknowledging Jewish suffering

during the Holocaust.

“But it was also a practical decision: Matzah requires no eggs, no salt, no sugar—all commodities that were in very short supply immediately after the war,” Heijs says. Whatever the reason, he adds, the reality was that Hollandia was “one of the first bakeries that were restored” after the war, thus entrenching its status as a household brand.

Heijs, 55, remembers enjoying Holandia matzah as a boy ahead of and also directly after Easter.

“I understand that matzah is not considered a delicacy exactly among Jews, who substitute bread for matzah for [eight days] each year,” he says. “But for us, who had it in addition to everything else, it was a treat that went very well with chocolate and butter.”

Karina Ahles-Frijters, who lives in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, wrote in 2016 on her parenting blog Trotsemoeders that her three children like to experiment with matzah toppings (her eldest prefers whole wheat matzah with butter and sugar-coated anise seeds, she wrote). One day a year, the Hollandia factory is open to anyone interested in making their own matzahs.

But not everyone is a fan of the matzah.

“Frankly I couldn’t tell you why so many Dutchmen like matzah—I don’t think it’s tasty at all,” says Roger van Oordt, the director of the Netherlandsbased Christians for Israel group, which organizes matzah-baking activities in solidarity with Israel and the Jews. “If I have to think about eating nothing but matzah for two weeks, it makes being Christian look easy.”

Although he is not Jewish, Heijs regards matzah as much more than a commodity.

“After 14 years of making matzahs, of course I developed friendships and bonds with many Jewish people,” says Heijs, who on Passover eve this year will attend his first seder dinner with his wife at the invitation of a Dutch Jewish community in northern Holland. “But matzah is part of the Dutch story regardless.”

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Nation First Person

Choosing to lead at AIPAC Policy Conference 2018 Melissa Eichelbaum

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arlier this month I attended my sixth American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference.

Once again, the conference exceeded my expectations, bringing community and student activists from all 50 states together to learn about and advocate for issues important to the pro-Israel community. Sitting with 18,000 fellow pro-Israel activists from all walks of life, listening to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice

President Mike Pence, and other elected officials from Israel and the United States, Middle East experts, and so many more, was inspiring and motivational.

This year’s conference theme, “Choose to Lead” was exemplified in a breakout session I was lucky enough to attend with my own Congressman, Scott Taylor (VA‑2).

A former Navy SEAL, Congressman Taylor was joined on a panel by three other Veterans who also serve in the House of Representatives. The congressmen spoke about their unique perspective of the importance of American

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Congressman Scott Taylor meeting with constituents on Lobby Day.

leadership around the world, especially in the Middle East. The bipartisan group of Congressmen gave me hope by sharing stories of working together to complete a mission, and how they feel they can channel that in Congress to effectively legislate.

AIPAC also gave me the opportunity to go on Capitol Hill and lobby our members of Congress about issues that affect me personally as both an American and a Zionist.

The experience is always gratifying, and this year was no exception. This year, our lobbying efforts focused on supporting security assistance to Israel, opposing Iran’s regional aggression and nuclear ambitions, and opposing boycotts against Israel and protecting U.S. companies.

Consider attending next year’s conference, as I’m sure it will be more incredible than this year’s.

Congressman Scott Taylor (VA-2), Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-6), Congressman Mike Gallagher (WI-8), Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-4), and moderator Elizabeth Robbins, AIPAC national director of communications.

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For more information about AIPAC and its mission of strengthening, protecting, and promoting the US-Israel relationship, contact Melissa Eichelbaum at meichelbaum@ujft. org.

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Ohef Sholom Temple recognizes and thanks Soup Kitchen community partner F

or more than eight years, Ohef Sholom Temple has opened its doors on the last Monday of every month for its Soup Kitchen, regularly serving approximately 75 guests. Dorianne Villani and her cadre of congregant and community volunteers prepare and serve a hot, nutritious lunch.

In addition, her committee and fellow congregants collect, donate, and distribute such necessities to their guests as clothing, blankets, shoes, new underwear, toiletries, and much more. They also provide brown bag meals to each guest as they leave the Soup Kitchen.

A hot meal, shelter from the elements, and care packages, however, are not the only options on Ohef Sholom’s monthly Soup Kitchen menu. In July 2016, a new feature was added. That’s when Josh Lewis, a hairstylist at Gary Allen Salon in Virginia Beach, began offering free haircuts for those entering for some nourishment.

“Josh is my hair stylist, and I’d sit in his chair and we would talk about the Soup Kitchen. I would share with him what we’re doing and what the needs are of our guests,” says Villani. “Josh and I concocted the idea of him coming to our Soup Kitchen to offer free haircuts, not knowing how it would be received by the guests. That’s how it began.”

Now, says Villani, there’s a line every month for guests who appreciate the opportunity to get a free haircut, which is a luxury for many. Josh provides haircuts for a minimum of 15 guests each month, and never turns anyone away. He maintains the high standards that he has set for himself for each and every guest.

Gary Allen donated a stylist chair and Lewis brings the scissors, combs, and all of the supplies that he needs.

“Josh always brings personal items to donate to our clothes pantry, too. He told me that giving back to his community was a reflection of how he was raised in his very large family of nine siblings. He feels that God has led him to reach out to those in need in this way. He has such a giving

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and humble spirit,” says Villani.

And, it was that same giving spirit that prompted Villani, along with a couple of other Ohef Sholom congregants, to show up at Gary Allen Salon one afternoon earlier this month to surprise Lewis with a certificate of appreciation and a cake to celebrate and honor his efforts. Gary Riffe, the salon’s owner, was in on the surprise, telling the staff there was going to be an announcement at 2 pm. No one knew what it would be.

“Josh has given up his Mondays once a month to make a difference for so many people,” Villani told the salon, sharing specific stories such as one about a man whose head was covered with sores because he had been using Nair to make his hair fall out, so he wouldn’t need a haircut, which he couldn’t afford. Josh put an end to that. No more Nair for that gentleman – instead, a handsome cut that has given him back his dignity and feeling of pride.

“This is a meaningful, new way that our Soup Kitchen can serve our community and reach out to our needy neighbors, many of whom sleep right outside our

As philanthropists and volunteers, this Virginia Beach couple supported important causes in Hampton Roads.

Although Bob Goodman passed away in 2006 and Augusta Goodman in 2017, they help others today because of the charitable bequest they entrusted to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. Today, their four children carry on Bob and Augusta’s legacy through donor-advised funds that let them recommend grants to help nonprofits do their best work.

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Love of Jewish camping, synagogue life, Israel and Tikkun Olam inspire the Karotkins in creating their Jewish Legacy Barb Gelb

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f I were the Jewish Czar, I would legislate that all Jewish kids have to attend three years of Jewish overnight camp,” declares Betsy Karotkin, president of Congregation Beth El. She describes Jewish camp as something that cannot be duplicated. “The people at camp become part of your family, they are your people.

You bond the way you bond with cousins.

You learn in a relaxed atmosphere without other responsibilities, and Judaism permeates everything you do in a wonderful environment.”

Betsy and Ed Karotkin have known each other since elementary school, traveling on the same school bus and living about two city blocks apart in West Hartford, Connecticut. In her senior year of high school, Betsy invited Ed to the senior prom because they were friends and she wasn’t dating anyone else at the time. They have been together since.

Ed currently serves as chair of the Life and Legacy program. Betsy says he was the perfect person to lead Life and Legacy because he is the most optimistic person she knows, adding, “Who else buys a new pair of ski boots in their 70s?”

The couple’s commitment to Congregation Beth El is deep. Betsy says that the Life and Legacy program is important because it is essential to keep the synagogues strong. “I want to keep that institution strong for all of our

children and grandchildren.”

For Betsy, Judaism is about the way you live, “We’re supposed to be like Abraham and have an open tent. If you’re fortunate enough, you want to share it with others.” Betsy laughs as she recalls that her children used to swear she just picked people off the street and brought them into their house for the Passover Seder. “People learn from seeing people they respect be inclusive and helping others that have not been so fortunate.” Ed agrees, adding, “The concept of Tikkun Olam really appealed to me. That you have an obligation to make the world better.”

Betsy remembers taking her son to the synagogue on Shabbat when he was young. “They lit the Shabbat candles, and he started singing Happy Birthday. I realized it was time to do something about his Jewish education.”

In addition to their synagogue education, Jewish camp played a central role in the upbringing of all her children. “All of our kids went to Jewish camp, and our son Jesse and daughter-in-law Randi were sweethearts of (URJ) Jacobs Camp and are married now with three beautiful children. Their oldest daughter, Micah, is now a camper at Jacobs, so we have two generations there.”

Israel has also played an important role in the Karotkin’s Jewish life. Ed distinctly remembers his first trip to Israel, which happened when his daughter,

Betsy and Ed Karotkin.

who was studying abroad, called around Thanksgiving and asked them to meet her in Israel. “We said, ‘Are you kidding?’ It was almost impossible, but we arranged to go visit her in Israel and it was a terrific experience. How many times does your daughter ask you to go to Israel? But you land, feel like you’re home, it’s emotional.”

Betsy believes that the Jewish way of life is a good way of life and she wants to pass that feeling on to her children as it was

passed on from her parents and grandparents. “It’s not that it’s better, but it’s mine. I treasure it, if you follow it, it’s good.”

Ed is hopeful that Tidewater’s Jewish community will continue to be strong.

“We have so many people that are really committed. If we had a Life and Legacy program 20 to 30 years ago, we would not have to worry about the financial stability of our agencies and synagogues right now.”

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sk anyone who has ever been—there’s nothing like summer camp.

A Girl Scout, I went to Camp Apasus on Granby Street

(adjacent to Forest Lawn Cemetery—go figure). In spite of its unusual location, it was a great day camp experience. We raised

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and lowered the flag each day, made sit-upons and generally had a wonderful time. For my overnight camping adventures, I travelled all the way to Suffolk to sleep under mosquito nets at Camp Matoka. There, I took horseback riding lessons, learned to make all sorts of meals over campfires, sailed on the lake, and performed in the musicals.

When it was camp time for my daughters, they had many more options. Their youngest summers were spent at JCC’s traditional day camp on Newport Ave. where they learned to swim, did arts and crafts, frolicked outside on the playground, and sang a lot of songs. As they grew older, they signed up for specialty camps where focuses were as diverse as a popcorn business, journalism, tennis, gardens, and bicycle riding. At overnight camp, they, too rode horses, played sports, swam, sailed, hiked, made camp fires and wrote a few (very few!) letters home, which at first included lines such as, “Sorry if this letter is wet, I’m just crying so much.” At pick up time, of course, they were always happy and didn’t want to leave.

Today’s camp age kids have even more alternatives. Just consider the variety within these pages. Without leaving town (and writing those delightful letters home about being homesick!), campers in Tidewater can learn to surf, feed goats, put on a show, learn to surf, sail, and kayak, go on fieldtrips, fine tune their robotic skills, and on and on. They can expand their minds or have fun learning a new sport. And, in most instances, they can register one week at a time.

If you’re deciding now where to send a child to camp, this section offers some of the best options in Tidewater. And, if you’ve been to camp and want to reminisce, these pages have a couple of articles that might stir up some memories, for better or worse!

Whether you’re packing and shipping duffels or backpacks and lunches for your camper, it’s the memories that are packed in with each session of summer camp that cause people to say, “There’s nothing like summer camp!”

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n a warm summer day at a Jewish day camp east of Cleveland, an Israeli counselor instructs his charges in Hebrew to get their water bottles.

The kids, none of them fluent Hebrew speakers, strain to comprehend. One of them, misunderstanding the instruction entirely, returns with a container of sunscreen.

Using exaggerated pantomimes, the counselor makes a face as he pretends to slake his thirst with the lotion. It’s a bizarre performance, but it does the trick. Without a word of English spoken, the child turns around to fetch his water bottle.

So it goes at Kayitz Kef, a program in Hebrew language immersion running at 10 Jewish day camps across America that its backers hope will grow to 48 camps in the next decade. For six hours a day, a staff of mostly Israeli counselors speaks only Hebrew to the campers as they participate in the routine activities of summer camp.

English isn’t used unless there’s a safety concern.

“Camp is a place so rich in language opportunity,” says Rabbi Ami Hersh, director of Ramah Day Camp in Nyack, New York, the first summer camp to pilot the program in 2013 with 17 kids participating. This year, the camp is expecting nearly 100.

“Kids at camp learn language in a very natural way,” he says. “This is not sitting in a classroom learning. This is learning language naturally as if you were a baby learning a language for the very first time.”

As with parents teaching children to speak, Kayitz Kef relies on repetition, hand gestures, playacting and other visual cues to build Hebrew vocabulary among campers who sometimes have zero background in the language. The one thing counselors never do is translate a word into English.

If a camper needs to go to the bathroom, she will be prompted to ask if she can visit the “sherutim.”

When campers are heading to the pool, counselors will tell them they are going to the “breichah.” If ice

cream is on the lunch menu, campers need to ask for “glidah” if they want to be served.

Campers learn not just the Hebrew words but also to incorporate them into full phrases and sentences.

“The kids want ice cream,” Hersh says, “so they’re able to respond pretty quickly to that.”

The approach can be challenging, particularly at the beginning. The program currently caters to campers entering kindergarten through the fifth grade, and the immersion in Hebrew begins on day one, from the moment they arrive.

Camp directors often caution parents to be prepared if their child doesn’t love the program at first and encourage them to stick it out. Data from a study commissioned by the program’s backers show that kids and parents quickly experience the program as fun and engaging, resulting in high retention rates at each camp.

“In all the three years we’ve done this, we’ve only had one kid really leave the program,” says Meryl Rindsberg, director of day camps at the Marcus JCC in Atlanta, whose Hebrew program has roughly tripled in participation in three years.

“We’re very upfront with parents,” Rindsberg says.

“We tell them: The first day is sometimes very difficult for the kids. Don’t be surprised if your kid comes home in tears.”

The Kayitz Kef approach is rooted in a language acquisition methodology known as the proficiency approach, which was developed in the 1950s by the U.S. government for its own purposes, then expanded to academic settings in the 1980s. It was adapted for Hebrew language instruction in the early ‘90s by a team at Brandeis University and implemented under the leadership of Vardit Ringvald, then director of the Hebrew language program at the Boston-area school.

“The proficiency approach is really about asking the question: What can learners do with the language in terms of functioning in all language tiers?”

Ringvald says. “It’s not a question of what they learn.

“The kids want

ice cream, so they’re

able to respond pretty quickly to that.”

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It’s a question of what they can do with the language in real-life settings.”

In an academic environment, the approach needs to be simulated, with instructors prompting learners to respond to imagined real-life scenarios and then hoping they can bring that knowledge with them into the real world. In summer camp, those scenarios emerge all the time, affording learners opportunities to hone their skills in real life.

“Camp is really the ideal setting for this,” Ringvald says. “People need stuff, they need to eat, they need to go from one place to another, they need to react and connect. It’s actually the essence of what proficiency is all about. In a classroom, you need to artificially create this setting.

In camp it’s natural.”

Ringvald initially helped implement the proficiency approach at Hebrew Public, a nationwide network of Hebrew

language charter schools, before adapting the method for summer camps with the creation of Kayitz Kef in 2013. The camp staff receives training before and during the summer in using the proficiency approach. Last summer, over 300 campers were enrolled in 10 camps, and three more camps will be added this summer.

Sponsors hope to expand the program to overnight camps, too.

Kayitz Kef is a project of The Areivim Philanthropic Group, a consortium of seven Jewish philanthropies, in partnership with the Foundation for Jewish Camp. To its backers, the program offers a potent means of Jewish engagement to a North American Jewish community that is predominantly secular.

“We believe that Hebrew language facility gives American Jews a new focus for Jewish identity that is content rich but theologically neutral,” says Rabbi David Gedzelman, president and CEO of The

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“Giving kids real, modern Israeli Hebrew proficiency gives them a deep connection to Israeli culture and life.”

Bill Magaliff, Areivim’s national director of the Kayitz Kef program, says, “The appeal extends well beyond Areivim, as local funders partner with us to make Kayitz Kef possible at camps in their communities.”

The camp directors who have adopted the program say the benefits are obvious. In Atlanta, the program has created a mini-community of Hebrew speakers within the larger camp community, according to Rindsberg. At Nyack, Kayitz Kef has piqued interest among U.S.-born staff in enhancing their Hebrew proficiency.

“We have American staff members whose Hebrew is good but not great who have worked hard in a number of cases to increase their

Hebrew level enough so they can work in this program,” Hersh says. “It’s had a beautiful ripple effect to carry over into camp in general.”

At some camps, Kayitz Kef has impacted the regular camp experience, too. Abbey Phillips, who directs the Anisfield Day Camp outside Cleveland where the counselor pretended to drink the sunscreen, said she initially was skeptical of the entire idea.

But after three seasons, she has become a believer. Eschewing English has forced her Kayitz Kef counselors to up their game.

“The staff are so high energy,” Phillips says.

“They are one of our most spirited groups at camp because they are always singing and dancing and acting out the language.”

(This article was sponsored by and produced in partnership with the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life. This article was produced by JTA’s native content team.)

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camp Summer camps offer kids an immersion in Israel’s tech prowess Ellen Braunstein

CHICAGO (JTA) -- Sam Rosen, a 10-yearold Minecraft player, builds virtual castles at his computer and protects himself from monsters. His mother, Carrie, a

high school math teacher, knows the game teaches tech skills and engineering – valuable skills he can build on in school.

So when JCC Chicago announced plans to roll out a tech day camp for the first time this summer, Carrie signed up

Sam, understanding that he would learn programming or, as she calls it, “the back end of games.”

The new specialty camp, offering different tech workshops for second- to ninth-graders, is one of the first North American partnerships for BIG IDEA in Israel. BIG IDEA, a 10-year-old tech sleepaway camp located on the outskirts of Zichron Yaakov, is where 1,000 elementary to high school-aged children from around the world get a taste of Israel’s culture of innovation every summer. It also runs travel trips and a gap year program.

“This is pretty new and exciting for us,” says Dotan Tamir, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of BIG IDEA Educational Projects, of the Chicago spinoff. “It’s part

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A second BIG IDEA day camp is starting this summer at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington in Rockville, Maryland. And this summer will mark the third year for a BIG IDEA program at the Kaplan JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, New Jersey. In its first two years in New Jersey, an all-Hebrew track drew day campers from an Israeli-American community already familiar with the BIG IDEA brand.

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The U.S. camps offer two-week workshops in 3-D modeling, coding and computer programming, web design, DJ mixing, digital photography, robotics, jewelry design, graphic design, video production, animation and virtual reality.

Campers can enroll in one or more for multiple sessions. No experience with the technology is necessary.

At the end of the two weeks, campers present a final project. All the software links are sent home for campers to keep working on projects.

Omer Kariv, 19, is typical of the Israeli shlichim, or emissaries, who teach the workshops. He spent one summer in Tenafly after being released from the Israeli army’s Intelligence Corps. A counselor at BIG IDEA in Israel, Kariv came to New Jersey knowing the latest technologies it offered back home. He is studying mechanical engineering and competes

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The specialized workshops of no more than eight kids are combined with unplugged time for swimming, arts and sports.

Jewish summer camps have been adding specialty camps at a fast clip in recent years, in everything from tech to targeted sports training, the arts, sciences and filmmaking. The Foundation for Jewish Camp, which runs an incubator for specialty camps, said the options are necessary for attracting youth who are bombarded with competing programs and responsibilities.

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NEW YORK (JTA)—Long before Wet Hot American Summer, the Jewish summer camp has fired the literary imagination.

A summer away at camp provides escape, romance, nature, slapstick, self-realization, and a varied cast of characters thrown together in a hothouse atmosphere—all grist for a fiction writer.

Camps also kept pace with the generations of writers who spent their summers there. The first wave of camps offered inner-city kids fresh air and a break from their often overcrowded homes. The next wave offered Jewish education and acculturation—from left-wing, politically conscious Workmen’s Circle camps to Zionist camps like Habonim Dror’s Camp Naaleh to denominational camps like the Reform movement’s Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Modern camps come with more bells and whistles, but at their core are factories for Jewish memories.

Here are seven works that capture the summer camp experience, for better and for worse.

City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder

by Herman Wouk (1948) The author of The Caine Mutiny looks back on the pains and pleasures of growing up in the Bronx in the summer of 1928. Chubby, awkward Herbie Bookbinder connives to spend the summer at Camp Manitou in the Berkshire Mountains, which is run by by his school principal, in hopes of wooing the red-haired girl of his dreams.

The plot revolves around Herbie’s attempt to construct a crowd-pleasing attraction for the camp’s annual Mardi Gras carnival.

Key quote: “Herbie’s vision of Camp Manitou had been woven of rainbows. He had dreamed of smooth, grassy playing fields freshly marked in white, luxurious cottages, a wide, gleaming lake with a sandy beach, and sundry other charms compiled from books of English school life and movies laid in summer resorts. The

reality was a mud puddle after the rain.”

The Break-up of Our Camp

by Paul Goodman (1949) Goodman was a leading Jewish New York intellectual who in the 1960s became a guru of the anti-Establishment. He is less well known for his fiction, which includes this collection of autobiographical stories set at a soon-to-go-broke Jewish summer camp on Lake Champlain. There the children are taught Yiddish and Zionism, and the young narrator, Matthew, struggles with the demands of Jewish practice and belief. Instead he is drawn to a FrenchCanadian canoeist and outdoorsman who kindles his homosexual desires.

Key quote: “I feel at home, as if I had been staying here all summer, though everything is strange and new; I seem to recognize everyone, rather than to be seeing them for the first time.”

The Horse is Dead

by Robert Klane (1968) Klane is best known for the blacker-thanblack humor of his 1970 novel Where’s Poppa? and the George Segal film it inspired. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1989 movie comedy Weekend at Bernie’s. His debut novel—long out of print but still vouched for by loyal readers as one of the funniest novels ever written—was a sex romp featuring the dyspeptic Nemiroff, the only Jewish counselor at the rundown Camp Winituck. The book gets its title from the “gentle” horse used at the camp riding school (it’s actually dead).

Key quote: “Ever since the first day of camp, Mr. Hartley had been unable to locate the group that had been assigned to him. Rumors had it that the entire group had defected to another nearby day camp, where they were busy plotting a coup to take over Camp Winituck with the intention of killing Mr. Hartley the minute they were in command. It was supposed to be a mercy killing. A few of the parents had started to complain about Mr. Hartley’s losing their children, but none of them

camp insisted on an investigation right away.

They did not want to risk finding their kids until the summer was over.”

Nemesis

by Philip Roth (2012) Roth’s slim novel looks back on a polio epidemic that falls hard on the storied Jewish community of Newark, New Jersey, in 1944. Although largely set on the streets and playgrounds of Roth’s old Weequahic neighborhood, the novel’s action shifts to a summer camp, Indian Hill, in eastern Pennsylvania. Protagonist Bucky Cantor has joined his girlfriend Marcia to escape the disease, but even when alone with Marcia or leading kids in athletic contests, he can’t shake off the guilt he feels about surviving an epidemic that has struck down others.

Key quote: “As for God, it was easy to think kindly of Him in a paradise like Indian Hill. It was something else in Newark—or Europe or the Pacific—in the summer of 1944.”

The Path of Names

by Ari Goelman (2013) The debut young adult novel by an award-winning Canadian author takes place at Camp Arava, a Jewish sleepaway camp where the supernatural has a way of breaking into the everyday. Thirteenyear-old Dahlia encounters two girls who are dressed in vintage clothing—they may or may not be ghosts—and sets out to unravel their identities on the basis of Jewish folklore, kabbalah, and old-fashioned campfire tales. Summer camp is a “great setting for a coming-of-age story because for lots of kids, summer camp is the first time in their lives that they are really free to define themselves outside of the umbrella of their family,” Goelman told an interviewer.

Key quote: “Her father maneuvered their minivan around the periphery of the central sports field, pulling up in front of

a double cabin next to the bathrooms. He turned off the engine and said, ‘Here we are: Tzrif Grofeet. Tzrif means “bunk.”

You’re going to learn a lot of Hebrew without even knowing it.’” “‘And you say magic camp is useless,’ Dahlia said.”

On Blackberry Hill

by Rachel Mann (2016) Mann self-published this novel, which went on to win the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Reena, 14, is a reluctant newbie at Camp Tova, where her parents met 20 years before. Reena’s summer away is an opportunity to learn more about her late mother, whose story is also told in an

alternating narrative.

Key quote: “Behind the photo was a box of yellowing letters and ancient glossy photographs. She picked out a letter addressed to Mara, and put it back, feeling she probably shouldn’t go through her aunt’s personal things. But she was curious, so she flipped through some of the photos. There was one of Aunt Mara and her mother in one-piece bathing suits, with a lake behind them. And there was one of Mara laughing with a guy with shoulder-length straight hair. It took her a moment to realize it was her dad.”

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by Paul Auster (2017) Auster’s latest novel offers four alternative takes on the life of a Jewish man, Archie Ferguson, born, like Auster, in Newark in 1947. In one of the four versions of Archie’s life, the boy returns to Camp Paradise for another summer, where he reads Mad magazine and J.D. Salinger,

writes letters to his best friend back home and learns about sex from older bunk mates. The chapter concludes with an incident Auster says came straight from his own summer-camp days: At the age of 14, while hiking in the rain with other campers, he saw a boy killed by lightning.

Key quote: “Ferguson was happy at camp. He had always been happy there, and it was good to be reunited with his New York summer friends, the half dozen city boys who kept going back year after year as he did. He took pleasure in the eternal sarcasm and humor of their fast-talking, high-spirited selves, which often reminded him of the way American soldiers spoke to one another in movies about World War II….”

This article was made possible with funding by the Foundation for Jewish Camp. The story was produced independently and at the sole discretion of JTA’s editorial team.

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camp There’s a podcast about Jewish summer camp Ben Sales

( JTA)—Many Jews attend overnight camp. But growing up, Micah Hart was so Jewish that he attended two every summer.

Hart was the son of the director of Jacobs Camp, a Reform Jewish camp in western Mississippi. He went there every year, but to give him some independence, his parents sent him for half the summer to another Reform camp, Goldman Union Camp Institute in Indiana.

Hart did the same things every Jewish camper did. He played dodge ball and tetherball, wore white on Friday night and learned Israeli dances. But like many others, his favorite part of camp was what happened outside the structured time, when he was chilling and messing around

with friends.

Nearly two decades after his last camp summer, finding time to catch up with his camp friends was becoming more and more difficult. So he made a podcast about it.

All we do is reminisce about fun times from back in the day, and I wish I had more of an opportunity to do that,” Hart says. “Camp’s hilarious. We did things that were so ridiculous without context, and we found ourselves and grew up there and did things that were really embarrassing and amazing.”

Campfires and Color Wars, Hart’s podcast, has been airing every two weeks or so since the summer of 2016, and is now on its 41st episode. The podcast is, basically, Hart shooting the breeze with people who went to camp, most of them

Jewish. The conversations cover anything from camp food to the lake to awkward sexual encounters.

A recent episode featured David Wain, the director and co-writer of the film Wet Hot American Summer, the cult classic about a Jewish camp. Hart recalls the time his counselors woke campers in the middle of the night and told them it was the morning, but the sky was dark because there had been a solar eclipse.

From there they talk about Wain—who attended Camp Modin in Maine and Camp Wise in Ohio—sneaking around the lake to the girls’ cabins, a comedy skit where Hart and his friends all dressed up as Adam Sandler, how Wain wore a Jimi Hendrix shirt every day…. You get the idea.

Wain also reveals that a classic Wet Hot

scene—Victor crashing a camp van into a tree on the way to hook up with a girl— actually happened to him in real life.

He was 16, newly licensed and had just driven campers to a mountain excursion.

He was supposed to return to camp the next morning, but started driving back late at night so he could see a girl he’d just made out with. It didn’t end well.

“I was singing to keep myself awake, as was Victor in the movie, and I was driving through the windy Baxter State Park roads and smashed into a tree,” Wain says.

“I had no idea what to do ’cause it was pitch black. I had no clue where I was.

There was nobody around…. I honestly was like, ‘Maybe I’ll get eaten by a bear tonight.’ I just didn’t know.”

But of course, Wain eventually returned to camp—and unlike Victor, he

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(Lest you think camp is only about hijinks and hookups, Wain once told an interviewer that camp “was easily my most positive and lasting Jewish experience.”)

Other episodes depart a little from the Jewish camping world. Hart talks in one with Sara and Sam Richardson, two former Christian campers making a video series in which they visit and work at Christian camps across the country.

Unlike Jewish camp, which can stretch to two months, Christian camp is usually only a week long.

Hart also acknowledges that camp has changed since the dozen summers he spent as a camper and counselor in the 1980s and 1990s. Safety regulations are much tighter, and there are those little things called cellphones. Hart knows he’ll encounter all of that when he sends his own kids to camp in a few years. So for him, the podcast is as much about

nostalgia for a bygone era as it is about remembering his summers.

“I was fortunate enough to go before technology was really a thing,” he says.

“With social media, I feel like that has changed so much [in terms of] the ability to escape the outside world.”

The podcast is a labor of love for Hart, who works in digital marketing by day.

And while he thinks camp stories have value for everyone, he knows the quirky anecdotes are only really relatable to those who went to a camp. Or in his case, two.

“The things you do when you’re bored to make you not be bored is something I’ll always associate with camp,” he says. “If you didn’t go to camp, I don’t know what would interest you about it. You had to be there to understand it.”

At Jewish overnight camp, kids discover who they are—and who they want to become—while having the time of their lives. They sing under the stars, share jokes and meals and clothes, and build traditions. And they do it with an amazing crew of friends and counselors.

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This article was made possible with funding by the Foundation for Jewish Camp. The story was produced independently and at the sole discretion of JTA’s editorial team.

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camp Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Leaders Assembly draws record attendance BALTIMORE—More than 750 Jewish summer camp professionals, educators, philanthropists, and communal leaders gathered March 18–20 for Foundation for Jewish Camp’s (FJC) seventh biennial Leaders Assembly. Attendees from across the Jewish denominational spectrum in North America and beyond convened to discuss a wide range of pressing issues affecting the Jewish camp field and broader community today.

The gathering addressed topics including the changing landscape of Jewish and family life, teen engagement and empowerment, year-round engagement, child safety, disability inclusion, and Israel. The conference also featured training and field announcements surrounding the #MeToo movement and tackled the challenges and changing needs facing Jewish camps

by showcasing insights from local and national experts.

“The dizzying pace of change we live in is actually accelerating. All around us, in every field, the communal landscape is changing in unprecedented ways.

Jewish camp is an antidote, an island of stability where children can be themselves, be removed from technology, forge long-lasting relationships and develop strong self-esteem and independence,” says Jeremy J. Fingerman, CEO of FJC. Breakout sessions focused on key issue areas that directly impact the field of Jewish camp, including three plenaries that offered participants new ideas and data for improving outreach and impact: • Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston, Harvard Divinity School’s co-authors of How We Gather, and Something More shared

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how Jewish camps can apply the lessons of community building and personal/social transformation modeled by new-economy outfits like Cross-Fit and Soul Cycle; • Jean M. Twenge, professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, discussed the challenges of reaching “iGen,” the rising generation of teens and young adults born after 1995, who have spent their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone; and • Dr. Deborah Gilboa, a family physician and expert of parenting and youth development, addressed ways to satisfy the needs, desires, and expectations of camp parents.

During the program, the Assembly honored the memory of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and FJC facilitated discussions on teen empowerment and respect.

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emple Emanuel of Virginia Beach held its sixth annual Community Red Cross blood drive on February 25, 2018.

Almost 40 pints of blood were donated by the synagogue community. Many of the volunteers were regular donors, but many were also first time donors. Giving Blood is truly the “Gift of Life” as these

donations will be used in various hospitals throughout the region for those with life threatening medical conditions.

The blood drive was enhanced by eight fraternity brothers from the Tau Pi chapter of AEPi fraternity at William & Mary as part of their philanthropic ideals.

Nefesh Mountain leads services with Rabbi Rosalin Mandelberg and Cantor Jennifer Rueben at Ohef Sholom Temple earlier this month.

AEPI fraternity brothers from William & Mary participated in the blood drive.

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Tidewater Learning Connection Appreciation Thank you to all of our generous supporters and volunteers for making our first year of TLC a success. You make all the difference for our students and families. We could not do it without you.

GOLD SPONSOR Randi and Steven Gordon SILVER SPONSOR Babbi and Brad Bangel Beazley Foundation Inc. The Konikoff Family The Leon Families BRONZE SPONSOR Bonnie and David Brand Charles Barker Automotive Dozoretz Family Foundation Hercules Fence and The Klebanoff Family Southern Bank The Spindel Agency/ Frieden Wealth Management United Jewish Federation of Tidewater PATRON SPONSOR Cape Henry Collegiate Laura and Jerry Miller and Family Deb and Peter Segaloff TowneBank FRIENDS AND ADVERTISERS Anonymous (2) Rachel and Marc Abrams Alan and Esther Fleder Foundation Leslie and Andrew Auerbach Ilana and Nathan Benson Elyse and David Cardon Eastern Virginia Orthodontics ESI Electronic Systems FACTS Alicia and Robert Friedman Wendy Goldberg Conrad Hall Zena Herod Joan and Eric Joffe Melissa and Aaron Kass Heather and Doug Moore Optima Health Payday Payroll RK Suburu Rollingwood Academy Patti and Paul Seeman Sera-Brynn, LLC S. L. Nusbaum Insurance Agency, Inc. Lori and Jordan Slone Robin and Burle Stromberg TechArk Tidewater Jewish Foundation Wilbanks, Smith, & Thomas Asset Management, LLC VOLUNTEERS Rachel Abrams Babbi Bangel Bonnie Brand Elyse Cardon Leora Drory Wendy Goldberg Randi Gordon Zena Herod Erica Kaplan Jodi Klebanoff David Leon Laura Miller Burle Stromberg Neil Waranch SPECIAL THANKS Cardo Café Chef by Design Mark Robbins Photography UJFT Campus Marketing Team— Sallie Williams, Melissa Decker, and Jenny Heath

it’s a wrap New York Times best selling author, Julie Lythcott-Haims inspires at first Tidewater Learning Connection Carin Simon

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tress and anxiety. It’s everywhere.

Parents see it in their kids. Kids see it in their parents. From before they are even born, parents worry about their kids walking, talking, reading, taking the right classes, getting into the right classes…it never ends.

“Not only does overparenting hurt our children; it harms us, too. Parents today are scared, not to mention exhausted, anxious, and depressed,” says Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.

Last month, Hebrew Academy of Tidewater Konikoff Center of Learning kicked off an initiative called Tidewater Learning Connection. TLC’s goal is to offer thoughtful and inspiring parenting and educational programming and provide parents, school administrators, and teachers from area public and private schools with tools to motivate diverse student populations.

Nearly 300 parents and teachers representing more than 25 area public and independent schools and universities, including Hebrew Academy and the Strelitz

Early Childhood Education Center, attended the premiere TLC events over a two-day period. The program provided valuable parenting education and a professional development opportunity that offered teachers four hours of continuing education credits.

Babbi Bangel, HAT board president, credits TLC’s sponsors, friends, and advertisers for making it possible to host a top tier community learning event. “TLC is Julie Lythcott-Haims presents the TLC Key Note address. a new fundraiser for HAT, and we cannot all students and are an investment in the thank our donors enough for coming out education of our future leaders.” and supporting our school. We have been With the objective of bringing nationsuccessful in our first year of TLC. The ally recognized authors, speakers, and proceeds from the event will help make a expert educators to Tidewater, TLC Hebrew Academy education accessible for

Participants enjoying the pre-event cocktail hour: Renee Strelitz, Leora Drory, Joan Joffe, Melissa Foglia, Rebecca Dorfman, and Jodi Klebanoff.

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Deb Segaloff, Betty Berklee, and Lisa Roesen.

Megan Zuckerman, Lisa Leon, Rachel Abrams, and Carin Simon.

secured Julie Lythcott-Haims as the keynote speaker on Thursday, February 15 at the TCC Roper Performing Arts Center.

“We started a book club to promote her book and get parents excited about attending the event, says Patti Seeman, HAT development director. “Not only did the book club get parents excited, but it also served as a ‘parenting therapy’ session where we realized just how worried and stressed out parents can become while trying to get it all ‘right.’”

As Stanford University’s dean of freshmen, Lythcott-Haims noticed a startling rise in parental involvement in students’ lives. She saw an increasing number of students who, as a result of hyper-attentive parenting, lacked a strong sense of self and were poorly equipped to handle the demands of adult life. In How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims draws on research with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother, to highlight ways in which over-parenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large.

Many parents today are worried that they’re not doing enough for their kids,

not providing enough opportunities, and not putting enough pressure on them to succeed. It’s the perfect storm for student mental health issues. With humor, Lythcott-Haims told her story about how she, too, was a “helicopter parent” before she realized she was turning her own children into the same stressed out kids she had seen as a dean at Stanford University.

What’s Lythcott-Haims’ advice for parents? “Support your kids and let them follow their passions. Don’t force them to do what you think that they should be doing. If they love art, let them pursue art.

Let your kids take ownership in making their own decisions, with parental guidance of course.”

Most importantly, she says, give kids chores. Kids need to learn how to pitch in and help. According to Lythcott-Haims, this is the best indicator of success.

The TLC program continued with workshops the next morning, Friday, February 16, on the Sandler Family Campus. Building on the theme of ‘raising adults,’ two presenters conducted sessions focused on helping children overcome stress to build resiliency. Erin Walsh of Minneapolis-based Mind Positive

Elizabeth and Jim Shumadine and Sandra and Miles Leon.

Parenting, addressed the brain and how executive function is affected by stress.

Michele Tryon, Childrens Hospital of The King’s Daughters’ parent educator and community outreach coordinator, spoke about recognizing stress, both positive and negative, and managing stress in the classroom and at home. After the workshops, many parents and teachers enjoyed lunch together.

“Overall, our inaugural TLC events exceeded our expectations,” says Heather Moore, HAT and Strelitz head of school.

“The feedback was wonderful, and parents are already asking what we are planning

for next year. The topics of stress and resiliency really resonated with all participants. We were excited to bring such a beneficial program to Tidewater and look forward to making TLC an annual event.”

TLC is committed to producing impactful programs that add value to conversations around education, student advocacy, and parental challenges. For more information, contact Patti Seeman, HAT director of development, at 757-424-4327, or email pseeman@hebrewacademy.net.

Hebrew Academy is a constituent agency of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater.

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Children enjoying the creations of Ryan the Balloon Guy.

The Twins from France.

Chabad’s Purim at the Circus draws festive crowd

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t was a spectacular experience at the Wyndham Garden in downtown Norfolk as an overflow crowd of 200 children and adults hosted by Chabad of Tidewater enjoyed Purim at the Circus featuring The Twins from France.

The charming Brooklyn-based twins, Yisrael and Yacov Gourion, bedazzled the festive Purim revelers with an incredible performance of acrobatics, juggling, slapstick comedy, and pure Purim joy.

Adults, alongside children, were glued to their seats through the high-energy show, including numerous heart-lurching

moments and an amazing display of fearless talent and skill. Children were thrilled with the opportunity to watch and participate in the show, as well as experience the magic of a fun filled evening.

“This year, the Twins really took the Purim spirit to the next level,” says Rabbi Levi Brashevitzky, co-director of Chabad and event organizer. “It was wonderful to see everyone enjoying themselves.”

While enjoying delicious food and a fine bar for adults, guests had the opportunity to observe the four Mitzvot of Purim, including a Megillah reading,

Megillah Reading at Westminster Canterbury.

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Stanley and Nancy Peck.

Rabbis Aaron and Zalman Margolin, and Avraham Ashkenazi.

giving gifts of food to friends and charity to the poor, and enjoying a festive meal.

The previous evening, a Megillah reading and cocktail party served as a Grand Opening for Chabad at the Oceanfront. “It was a wonderful privilege to be here and meet so many Jewish people living near the beach,” says Bracha Margolin.

As in previous years, Chabad also

arranged a number of public Megillah readings throughout Tidewater, including at the Chabad House in Ghent, the Simon Family JCC, Westminster-Canterbury, and in local prisons.

For more information about Chabad, contact rabbilevi@chabadoftidewater.com.

Ilana Benson, Susan Becker, Bonnie Brand, and Farideh Goldin.

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his year the Young Adult Division of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater switched up their traditional Purim costume party for a ‘door to door’ or ‘bar to bar’ event at the Waterside District, letting the drinks flow for a progressive party. n Saturday, February 24, more than 50 YAD members could be seen dressed in multicolored beads at four Waterside pubs, competing in challenges while they ‘Poured through Purim.’

“The Progressive Party was a way to bring Jewish people together and have fun,” says Jennifer Groves, a Purim committee and Cabinet member, who along with Jessica Ruthenberg planned the event.

“People were able to socialize, meet new people, and celebrate an important holiday.”

The group started at PBR bar where they were divided into teams and given tasks, including riding the bull and a strong-arm David and Alexandra Calliott, Shikma and Danny Rubin. competition. When the whistle blew, the party shifted to Blue Moon. All of Waterside watched the YAD party! YAD has never done anything like this and they did such train pass through. At Blue Moon, partygoers played golf and a great job switching it up this year.” tried whipped cream. At the sound of the whistle, the party moved to Stripers. The last spot of the night was Rocky Mount, For more YAD information, follow YAD on facebook at www.facebook. where everyone’s ski ball skills were put to the test. com.

Shikma Rubin, YAD Cabinet member, says, “It was such a fun

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what’s happening Kurt Rosenbach to receive lifetime achievement award

Leon Family Gallery Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus

14th Annual Grieving Children’s Art Show March

Thursday, April 19, 5:30 pm Norfolk Waterside Marriott

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ewish Family Service counseling staff, through the Dozoretz Center for Healing and Jessica Glasser Therapeutic Pavilion, specializes in helping individuals of all ages cope with loss and grieving. One component of this program is a free support group for children, teens, and their families who have experienced the death of a loved one: Peace by Piece. This program is operated by Edmarc Hospice for Children, in collaboration with JFS. JFS and Edmarc co-sponsor an annual art show that displays the creative drawings and words of local grieving children and teens. This is an opportunity for children and teens to share their feelings with others and to see that they are not alone. The art show is open to any school-aged youth in Tidewater who has experienced the death of a loved one. More than 350 pictures have been submitted over the last 13 years.

For more information on the exhibit, program, or services offered by JFS, contact Debbie Mayer, LCSW, at 757-459-4640 or DMayer@jfshamptonroads.org.

ALUT—Courageous Expressions In observance of Autism Awareness Month April

Kurt Rosenbach.

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Rosenbach has served the community by being active in more than 20 different civic groups. In addition to serving as president of Ohef Sholom Temple, he has served on the boards of directors of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Tidewater Jewish Foundation, and the Jewish Community Center. He has also served as chairman of the United Way of South Hampton Roads, as founding president of the Downtown Norfolk Development Corporation (now the

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ourageous Expressions is a mixed media, group exhibition based on a variety of works created by untrained artists from the Israeli Society for Autistic Children (the ALUT Institute), a leading care provider for individuals with autism in Israel.

The exhibition’s body of work is both uniquely beautiful and interestingly abstract, while individual works are supremely complex in depicting the expressive voice behind each piece. Often the artist’s only or more comprehensive voice, each exhibited piece warrants a narrative depth far beyond what meets the eye.

ALUT’s Courageous Expressions exhibition seeks to inspire ongoing creativity and authenticity, honor the courage of all artistic expression, and stimulate unbridled acceptance. The exhibition emphasizes autism on a global scale as well as provides a platform for Israeli art that differs from mainstream narratives too often found amongst current events of the region.

In recognition of Autism Awareness Month, a national movement to bring awareness and acceptance in schools and communities that result in the appreciation of the unique aspects of all people where those with Autism are truly valued for their unique talents and gifts, Courageous Expressions will be on display in the Leon Family Gallery.

All pieces are for sale and can be purchased at the Simon Family JCC front desk.

Proceeds from the sales of the Courageous Expressions exhibit will go towards additional art classes in the ALUT employment centers for young adults with severe autism in Israel, as an additional means of therapy and rehabilitation.

For more information about this exhibit or future exhibits, contact Melissa Eichelbaum, program department associate at MEichelbaum@ujft.org or 321-2304.

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o l u n t e e r H a m p t o n Roads will honor Kurt Rosenbach with the Lenora Mathews Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership in community

Downtown Norfolk Council), vice chairman of WHRO, as well as on the boards of directors of the Norfolk Foundation, Greater Norfolk Corporation, Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, and Virginia Opera.

Rosenbach is the former senior vice president of Haynes Furniture and former chairman of Rices Nachmans Department Stores.

Volunteer Hampton Roads will also honor Ramon W. Breeden Jr., president and CEO of The Breeden Company, with the Corporate Excellence Award. The Hampton Roads Volunteer Achievement Awards also recognizes individuals and groups that have dedicated their time and talents to the nonprofit organizations of Hampton Roads.

Tickets are $60 per person. RSVP at www.volunteerhr.org/hrvaatickets or call 757-624-2400.

Calling all student artists for Umbrella Project Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 30

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n celebration of Israel’s 70th anniversary, the Simon Family JCC will be adorned with a sky full of umbrellas to resemble a similar installation in the streets of Jerusalem and other cities around the world. In fact, the Community Relations Council of United Jewish Federation of Tidewater has already

distributed hundreds of umbrellas to be painted for the Tidewater Umbrella Project.

The umbrellas will be displayed in the JCC’s Cardo, just in time for Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, and the community celebration of Israel Fest on Sunday, April 22.

Students from the Tidewater Jewish community are asked to depict their vision of Israel onto a plain, white umbrella, with the simple prompt, “What does Israel look like to you?” All materials are provided with the generous support from the Helen G. Gifford Foundation.

To participate, e-mail WWeissman@ujft. org or AAbramov@ujft.org or call 9656107. Submissions are due no later than Friday, March 30.

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what’s happening A spectacular birthday celebration for Leonard Bernstein

Photo by Al Ravenna, 1955, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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he Virginia Arts Festival will open its 2018 spring season with a stunning birthday party for Leonard Bernstein. The Festival is joining arts organizations on six continents in a worldwide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cultural giant.

In two performances, the Virginia Arts Festival will fill the stage with a notto-be-missed celebration featuring the Virginia Symphony Orchestra led by JoAnn Falletta—who studied with Bernstein as a young conducting student at Juilliard.

Joining the orchestra, Bernstein’s daughter Jamie, will host and narrate the concert, sharing stories and insights from her father’s career; along with artists including violinist Robert McDuffie, clarinetist Jon Manasse, Todd Rosenlieb Dance, the Virginia Chorale, and a soloist from the Virginia Children’s Chorus.

The Virginia Chorale and the child soloist will be featured in Chichester Psalms, one of Bernstein’s most gloriously, overtly

Jewish works. Filled with joy and bold glory, Chichester Psalms takes its text from Psalms 23, 100, 108, 131 and 133, and is sung entirely in Hebrew. The most famous of the text, of course, is Psalm 23, the Psalm of David, with its hallowed and familiar words: “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want....”

At the time of the work’s creation in the early 1960s, Bernstein was keenly aware of the dangers confronting Israel, which makes Chichester Psalms’ closing lines glow with a prayer of hope: From Psalm 131, “Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and forever” and from Psalm 133, “Behold how good, and how pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity.” Like most of Bernstein’s music, Chichester Psalms resonates today as it did then.

The concerts also feature Bernstein’s sparkling Candide Overture; the electrifying Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; the jazzy Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; and his violin concerto, Serenade—along with some surprises.

Tickets for the Virginia Arts Festival Bernstein at 100 concerts are available at vafest.org, along with more information and a video about Leonard Bernstein.

Israel Fest A community-wide Celebration Israel’s 70th Independence Day

Sunday, April 22, 11AM - 4pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus 5000 Corporate Woods Drive, Virginia Beach

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what’s happening 2018 Holocaust Commemoration to feature new exhibit, author

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iming is everything. The number of remaining Holocaust survivors is rapidly decreasing. Thirty live in Tidewater.

Several were children in Eastern and Western Europe, but many are Russians or Ukrainians who were young children during WWII. Now they are in their 80s and 90s.

Twenty-six of these survivors are represented in a powerful series of portraits by Richmond photographer Dean Whitbeck.

The photographs will be exhibited for the first time at Yom Hashoah at Congregation Beth El on April 11. Each has a unique story.

The idea was born when Vivian Margulies, co-chair of the cultural arts committee of UJFT’s Holocaust Commission, became aware of similar projects in Buffalo, N.Y., and Richmond, Va. While the What We Carry program memorializes five local survivors, a liberator and a rescuer, she and her committee wanted to do something to honor the current remaining survivors.

Margulies had seen the deeply moving

Holocaust Survivors Photo Project by Whitbeck, in Richmond, which was tied to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. Whitbeck was soon commissioned to create intimate photos of Tidewater’s small community of Holocaust survivors.

This show honors and celebrates these survivors and their incredible stories. The portraits are a strong reminder of the unimaginable affects that can result from hate, and the intense and indomitable power of the human spirit.

After the opening at Yom Hashoah, Faces of Survival will be displayed at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond and at the Slover Library in Norfolk. Each survivor will receive a print of their portrait, and the originals will eventually be installed in the Simon Family JCC on the Sandler Family Campus.

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The position requires a team-oriented individual who works efficiently, ensuring high satisfaction in the preparation and service of food; operates the Cafe cash register, assist with set-up and food preparation for catering events, and maintain efficiency in the Cafe such as cleaning and sanitizing all kitchen and work areas. Other duties as assigned.

Requires a High School Diploma, with a minimum of two years food handling, Fast Food restaurant experience and a Food Service Certification, preferred.

Position salary range; based on experience.

Submit resume and salary requirements to: resumes@ujft.orgcafe.

The United Jewish Federation of Tidewater/ Marilyn and Marvin Simon Family Jewish Community Center is firmly committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying disability or veteran status.

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he Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s annual Holocaust Day of Remembrance, Yom Hashoah, will take place this year at Congregation Beth El. The free event includes a guest speaker, a poignant candle lighting ceremony, and prayers from area clergy and leadership.

Additionally, student winners of the Holocaust Commission’s annual Elie Wiesel competitions and recipients of the Commission’s Excellence in Education awards will be honored and recognized.

This year, the Commission will also honor the Virginian Pilot and two of its reporters who have provided consistent news coverage for the Commission and its many events throughout the year.

Also at this year’s Yom Hashoah program the Commission will premier its newest project, Faces of Survival (See adjacent article), an exhibit of intimate portraits of many current local survivors that also shares a bit of their life journeys with the observer.

Dr. Mark Wygoda is this year’s guest speaker. Wygoda is part of a new generation of Holocaust speakers who share the life stories from their parents’ first hand experiences.

Wygoda is the son of Hermann Wygoda, a German-born Polish Jew who lost his mother, brother, and son to the invading Nazis early in the war.

He then lived a covert life both in Poland, where he was a smuggler to the Warsaw Ghetto, and in Germany, where he had been a foreman, translator, and armed courier for a German business.

Hermann Wygoda was also known as “Comandante Enrico” to the 2,500 partisan troops he commanded as a Division

Dr. Mark Wygoda.

Commander in the Italian Liberation Army, 1944–45. In this role, the senior Wygoda planned war actions, negotiated prisoner exchanges with the local German commander, and ultimately helped liberate the city of Savona, Italy. For this and many other heroic acts, he is widely heralded in northern Italy, where his “military” actions helped win the war. He was also awarded the Bronze Star by the US Army.

Upon his father’s death, Dr. Wygoda, a biology professor at McNeese State University, transformed his father’s war journals into a memoir, In the Shadow of the Swastika. Wygoda will share his father’s amazing story including with more than 1,000 students, during his visit to Tidewater.

For more information, visit www.HolocaustCommission.org, email info@holocaustcommission.org, or call 757-965-6100.

what’s happening Mishy Harman returns to Tidewater to launch latest Israel Story tour Mixtape: The Stories Behind Israel’s Ultimate Playlist Sunday, April 15, 7:30 pm, Harbor Club at Waterside Terri Denison

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first met Mishy Harman a year ago at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was there to speak to my daughter’s group of Nachshon Fellows and I sat in on the session. Sitting in one of the classroom chair/ desks like the rest of us, Harman captivated the college students (and this parent) with his story of the genesis of Israel Story. One of Harman’s many charismatic traits is that he is quickly ‘Mishy’ to everyone. For a big time-celebrity, he’s a big-time kind, engaging, enthusiastic guy.

Next month, Harman and his Israel Story or Sipur Israeli—an award-winning radio show and podcast filled with everyday stories told by “regular Israelis”—will perform Mixtape—The Stories Behind Israel’s Ultimate Playlist at Norfolk’s Waterside. The event is presented by Virginia Arts Festival and United Jewish Federation of Tidewater.

While on a recent road trip between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Harman called to talk about his upcoming show and Israel Story.

Israel Story—five years of successes.

Originally a creative way for friends to spend time together, in Israel Story’s five short years, it has, in founder and host’s Harman’s words, “had an impact beyond our imagination.” Compared to American Public Radio’s This American Life, Israel Story reaches audiences in Australia, South Africa, Europe, the United States, and, of course, Israel. The once spark of an idea now employs 15 people—including musicians, producers, and editors.

“We never expected it to become a radio show, then we never expected it to become a national radio show, then after starting an English show, never expected it to be a podcast along side such notables as those so well-produced from NPR, among others. We never imagined we’d be able to make a living from Israel Story. And, yet, here we are!” Harman says.

Harman notes that Israel Story doesn’t really tour in Israel, because of the nation’s tiny size, “No matter where we go, we can

always sleep in our own bed.” It does perform, however.

For one live show, for example, it was particularly easy for Harman to sleep in his own bed as Israel Story took place on his apartment’s balcony. “It was a return to the kind of story-telling events occurring here 60 to 70 years ago when people gathered to hear stories,” he says.

Mixtape: music, stories, and art The show planned for Tidewater, however, certainly would not fit on his balcony. Mixtape: The Stories Behind Israel’s Ultimate Playlist is a multimedia event. It “has the largest band (five people) we’ve ever assembled for a tour.

And, we’re working with an amazing visual artist, which is a dream come true.

“Israeli music offers such fertile ground for stories. The challenge has been to bring it down to one and a half hours,” says Harman.

Even through his car’s road noise and 6,000 miles, Harman’s smile and excitement is infectious as he talks about preparing for this show. “We got to spend time with and talk to Israel’s most iconic musicians.”

An example he cites is sitting in the living room of Shuly Nathan whose heartfelt rendition of Yerushalayim, Shel Zahav, Jerusalem of Gold in 1967 is legendary.

She sang the famed song right there in her apartment for the crew of Israel Story.

Mixtape launches in Tidewater.

“We usually start our U.S. tours at the Manhattan JCC, but this time we thought it would be great to do something different,” says Harman.

“I came to Virginia Beach last February.

Then, I spoke to the community, visited schools, and such. Robin (Mancoll, UJFT’s CRC director) came to a live show at AJC’s Global Forum in Washington, DC and wanted me to bring one to Tidewater. And, so, we’re doing it.

“It (Tidewater) is an exciting place to start and we’re looking forward to kicking off the tour at Norfolk’s Waterside.”

The tour includes stops in Toronto, Seattle, New York, Amherst and others. “We’re zigzagging around the county,” he laughs.

What’s next for Israel Story?

In addition to starting work on the next season, Harman says the Israel Story crew continuously tries to “up our own game,” pointing out that now 95 percent of the music for each episode is original—composed specifically for each segment.

“We are constantly thinking of new ideas and new ways of doing things,” says Harman, mentioning two recent episodes where the main characters were not humans: an electric car in one and a place in another. “We like challenges,” he says.

Plus, Harman notes, “We’re hoping

to get to new audiences and new communities.”

For more information, contact Melissa Eichelbaum at MEichelbaum@ujft.org or 757-321-2304.

For tickets visit VAFest.org.

Tickets are: Adults, $35; Seniors and Military., $31.50; and students under 25, $26.25.

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Visiting Israeli chef and DJ will bring authentic food and music to community Israel Fest Judaism Through the Arts

Thursday, April 19, Congregation Beth El

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creenwriting professor by day, Tel Aviv DJ by night, Eyal Rob is a Tel Aviv guy, a native of that highly cosmopolitan metropolis of 440,000 people (the same size as Virginia Beach) on the Mediterranean.

Tel Aviv is the financial and technological center of the country. “It’s also a fun town,” says Rob, who has built a career as a musician, actor, and teacher with a big following in his native country.

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Rob will be in Tidewater entertaining a variety of audiences with his wit, wisdom, and insights on the music scene and life in Israel.

Spinning tunes on Thursday, April 19 at 6:30 pm at Congregation Beth El in Norfolk for the Simon Family JCC, CRC, and community partners’ Israel Today series, along with Congregation Beth El’s Judaism Through the Arts, he’ll help the community celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s 70th Independence Day, the same day Israelis are, with a free event.

Attendees of Israel Festival will have the opportunity to listen, dance, and learn with Rob, co-founder of Israel’s first music television channel, Israeli journalist and culture critic as he shares tunes from Israel’s past 70 years, on the main stage of Israel Fest on Sunday April 22.

Israeli Chef, Guy Alfandari will be in Tidewater, too.

A popular caterer in New York, the Tel Aviv born Guy is an expert in international cuisine. Bites by Guy features Israeli cuisine along with other traditional dishes served across Israel from Yemen and Morocco, Poland and Russia, and Egypt. “My grandfather was a chef, and my dream my entire life was to cook and bake like him,”

she says. “I started making sweet desserts, and then clients began asking for more foods. So now I do it all.”

At Israel Fest, prepare to feast on authentic Israeli Street Food, including: • P ierogi, a central European dumpling filled with sweet onions • Spicy Moroccan fish, served with challah • Bahsh, Bukharin green rice with meat • J ahnun, a JewishYemenite pastr y, served with boiled egg and fresh tomato sauce • A raies, an Egyptian flavored mix of beef and lamb meat in pita bread So bring dancing shoes, an appetite, and of course Chef Guy at the Shuk family and friends for a creation of the community’s largest ever, musical and gastronomic experience of Israeli flag. a lifetime, and activities for the entire family. And remember, at 2:30 pm, make sure to be on the JCC’s back field for the

Seniors celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut with music Wednesday, April 18, 12:30 pm, Simon Family JCC

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eniors are celebrating Yom HaAtzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, with DJ Eyal Rob of Tel Aviv. Israel has been through radical social transformations in its short 70 years. The changes in Israeli culture will be explored.as manifested in anthemic songs. Following Israel’s timeline from 1948 until the present, Rob will examine 10 milestones songs that reflect the young Jewish nation through wars, peace, struggle, and hope.

This event is open to the entire senior community. Lunch is $6. RSVP (required) by April 13 at JCC Front Desk. For more information, contact Naty Horev, senior program director, at NHorev@simonfamilyjcc.org or 757-452-3186.

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what’s happening Norman Soroko to be presented lifetime achievement award

Seventh Annual Pink Tea Sunday May 6, 2–4 pm Temple Emanuel at Baltic and 25th St.

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emple Emanuel’s annual Pink Tea to raise money and awareness for cancer screenings will take place in May. All proceeds go to the Beach Health Clinic for cancer screenings. $12.50 per person. Become a “Pink Angel” for $25.

Call 757-428-2591 or 757-467-6677 for more information. Limited space. RSVP by Monday, April 30.

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Friday, April 13, 7 pm

idewater Chavurah’s second Friday of the month Shabbat service will take place at the home of Hal and Elaine in the Great Neck Meadows area of Virginia Beach.

A “congregation without walls,” events are held in members’ homes or at other locations. Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill leads the service and an Oneg follows.

New people are always welcome.

For event information and location address, email carita@verizon.net or dlqt@cox.net or call 499-3660 or 468-2675. Visit www.tidewaterchavurah.org or Tidewater Chavurah Face book page for upcoming events.

Seniors decorate umbrellas for Yom HaAtzmaut Tuesday, March 27, 12:30 pm • Sandler Family Campus

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ased on an installation of 1,000 umbrellas adorning Yoel Moshe Solomon Street in Jerusalem during the summer of 2015, UJFT’s Community Relations Council is launching a similar installation in the Simon Family JCC’s Cardo to delight attendees of Israel Fest, Tidewater’s Jewish community celebration of Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Join the seniors at the Simon

Family JCC to decorate an umbrella to be included in the installation. Coffee and desserts from Custom Cake will be served. RSVP (required) by March 26 at JCC Front Desk.

For more information, contact Naty Horev, senior program director, at NHorev@ simonfamilyjcc.org or 757-452-3186.

Eyal Rob for Israel Today Thursday, April 19, 6:30 pm, Congregation Beth El

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elebrate Yom HaAtzmaut with a free and open to the community event. From Holy Land to Club Land: The Evolution of Israel through Music, Rob will bring the Tel Aviv music scene to Tidewater, reflecting the young Jewish nation’s songs through war, peace, struggle, and hope for an interactive celebration for all ages.

As part of Congregation Beth El’s Celebrating Judaism Through the Arts series, the evening includes dinner, PJ Library activities, arts and crafts for all ages, wine tasting (minimal charge) a silent auction, and more.

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orman Soroko is being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Seaboard Region, Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs, at it’s annual recognition breakfast.

Soroko became involved in Men’s Club in the late 1980s at B’nai Israel Congregation where he was president of the club for four years. After joining Congregation Beth El with his parents in November 1988, he immediately became involved with the Men’s Club and became president in 1990, holding the office for a total of 18 years.

Soroko was selected Blue Yarmulke man of the year in 1994. In June of 1999, he became the first person from Tidewater to become president of the Seaboard Region of Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs. He held that office for two years and then was

asked to fill in as president for a few more years. In July 13, 2011, he received the Ma’asim Tovim Award for doing outstanding deeds in the community and region.

Involved in community and religious affairs, Soroko served on the board of directors at Beth El for 12 years and serves on the board of directors of the Men’s Club. He volunteers for Relay for Life to help find the cure for cancer and has single handedly raised $200,000. He also serves as chairman of the Shomrim Committee, a committee that sits with departed members. Soroko is also vice president of the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center in Portsmouth. Retired from banking, he substitute teaches in Norfolk Public Schools, teaches Sunday School at Beth El and works for Graham Funeral Home.

Splash & Dash Sunday, May 20, 1–4 pm, ages 7–15

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he Simon Family JCC is the local regional host for the USA Triathlon Youth Aquathlon Splash & Dash for kids ages 7–15.

This sports event combines swimming and running. Ages 7-10 have a 100-meter swim and 1-mile run, and ages 11-15 have a 200-meter swim and 2-mile run, all to be held on the JCC campus.

This is a fantastic combination event for all skill levels that promotes fitness and fun. Registration includes an event shirt, finisher medal, and USAT youth one-year membership. Live music and vendors will be waiting at the finish line.

Register via the online link.Go to www.

SimonFamilyJCC.org/Splash-and-Dash for details and registration.

Reserve Now! Women & Mothers Day April 23 issue To advertise, call 757.965.6100 or email news@ujft.org

For more information or to RSVP (required) call 321-2304 or visit JewishVA.org/Eyal-Rob.

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Calendar April 11, Wednesday Yom Hashoah, presented by the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater. 6:45 pm. Congregation Beth El. www.HolocaustCommission.org or call 757965-6100. See page 38.

April 14, Saturday Virginia Arts Festival presents Leonard Bernstein at 100. Chrysler Hall. See page 37.

APRIL 15, SUNDAY United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and Virginia Arts Festival present Israel Story, the award winning radio show and podcast. Kicking off a brand new live multimedia event celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary, Israel Story will be at The Gallery at Waterside, Norfolk.

7:30 pm. Tickets $35. VAFest.org. For more information, contact Melissa Eichelbaum at 757-321-2304 or MEichelbaum@ujft.org. See page 39.

APRIL 19, THURSDAY From Holy Land to Club Land: The Evolution of Israel through Music. Simon Family JCC, CRC, and community partners present Israel Today with screenwriting professor by day and Tel Aviv DJ by night, Eyal Rob. Bringing the Tel Aviv music scene to Tidewater, reflecting Israel’s songs through wars, peace, struggle, and hope for an interactive Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration for all ages. Congregation Beth El. 6:30 pm. For more information or to RSVP, visit JewishVA.org/IsraelToday, or contact Melissa Eichelbaum at 757-321-2304 or MEichelbaum@ujft.org.

APRIL 22, SUNDAY The Simon Family JCC’s annual Israel Fest welcomes the community to celebrate Israel’s 70th birthday with Israeli music, food, games, and more at the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus. 11 am–4 pm. For more information or to RSVP, contact Melissa Eichelbaum at 757-321-2304 or MEichelbaum@ujft.org. See page 40.

Ohef Sholom Temple’s Men’s Club’s Kaufman Award honors Sharon Nusbaum.

10:30 am brunch; 11 am presentation. $10. 757-625-4295.

May 6, Sunday Seventh Annual Pink Tea at Temple Emanuel. 2–4 pm. 757-428-2591. See page 41.

May 20, Sunday Splash & Dash. The Simon Family JCC is the local regional host for the USA Triathlon Youth Aquathlon Splash & Dash for kids. Ages 7–15. See page 41.

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Israeli pop duo Static & Ben-El signs $5 million deal with Capitol Records JERUSALEM (JTA)—The popular Israeli music duo Static and Ben-El has signed a recording contract with Capitol Records reportedly worth $5 million.

The Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban facilitated the seven-album, 10-year contract for the duo, whose real names are Liraz Russo, 27, and Ben-El Tavori, 26. Saban Capital Group brought the singers and Capitol Records together.

Saban first heard about Static & Ben-El from his nephew Gil Saban, the owner and CEO of Saban Brands Israel, Haaretz reported. It is his first major investment in Israeli singers.

“I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world,” Saban said in a statement.

“Together with their professional staff, we at Saban Capital Group are happy to support them in developing this next stage in their unique and successful career.”

While the duo sings in Hebrew in Israel, the contract will see them making English-language music.

Since November 2015, Static & Ben El have released eight singles, all accompanied by music videos that have received tens of millions of views on YouTube,

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where they first became famous. Their most recent hit is Namaste, which includes Jamaican and Indian elements.

Last summer, their hit song Tudo Bom, or Everything is Good in Portuguese, which tells the story of an Israeli guy flirting with a Brazilian girl in both Hebrew and Portuguese, led the Brazilian ambassador to Israel to publicly thank them for bringing a bit of Brazil to Israel.

The duo has served as judges on the last two seasons of Israel’s reality singing show The Next Star. Their producer, Yarden “Jordi” Peleg, is currently a judge on the first season of Israel’s Got Talent.

Haaretz reported that the duo plan to keep Israel as their “main focus of activity.”

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obituaries Daniel Goldman Norfolk—Daniel Goldman, 68, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 17, 2018 after a courageous battle with cancer.

He was the chief buyer for Spartan Nash Finch, Military Distributors of Virginia. He was born in France, the son of the late Esther Wondolowicz Goldman and Charles Goldman.

Daniel was a graduate of Granby High School, Class of 1967. Following his graduation, he joined the U. S. Air Force and served during the Viet Nam War. He was also a member of Temple Israel and was an avid hockey fan and big supporter of the Admirals Hockey Team.

Left to cherish his memory is his beloved wife, Susan P. Goldman; a daughter, Shannon Nicole Goldman; a son, Aaron Jacob Goldman all of Norfolk; a cherished grandson, Jordan Alexander Goldman; a brother, Raymond Goldman and wife, Judy of Atlanta, Ga.; two nieces, Lauren Barkan and husband, Alex and Tova Tritt and husband, Dr. Shawn Tritt, M.D.; a nephew, Todd Goldman and wife, Stacey; and many beloved extended family in France, the U.K., Israel, Canada, and California.

A graveside funeral service, with military honors, was conducted in Forest Lawn Cemetery with Rabbi Michael Panitz officiating. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Disabled American Veterans (www.dav.org) or to Temple Israel, 7255 Granby St., Norfolk, VA 23505. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel.

Online condolences may be sent to the family through hdoliver.com.

Shirley Grossman Richmond, Va.—Shirley Laskoe Grossman, 87, was born and raised in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom and passed away on March 18, 2018.

She graduated from John Marshall, and spent most of her working life in the St. Mary’s Hospital business office, then proudly served as a Friday volunteer there

for many years. She loved Mahjongg, knitting, the beach, and made the best cheesecake ever.

She was predeceased by her parents, Rose and Nat Laskoe; and her husband of over 60 years, David Grossman.

Shirley is survived by her children, Michael Grossman (Sharon), Karen Molzhon (William Reber) and Richard (“Rick”) Grossman (Tresa); grandchildren, Nikki Thornton (Tim) and Andrea Molzhon; a great-grandson, Benjamin Thornton; her brother, Alan Laskoe (Helene); and nieces, nephews and cousins.

A graveside service was held at Oakwood Hebrew Cemetery. Donations to Beth Sholom Gardens, 2001 Lauderdale Dr., Richmond, Va. 23238.

Ionel Kahn Richmond, Va.—Ionel A. Kahn, age 89-ish, of Richmond, passed away Sunday, March 4, 2018, while surrounded by his loving family.

He was preceded in death by his daughter-in-law, Melinda Kahn.

He is survived by his loving wife of 67 years, Bernice Kahn; five children, Michael Kahn (Jacqueline), Alene Kaufman (Ron), William Kahn, Joseph Kahn, Elliot Kahn; eight grandchildren, Jason Kaufman (Jessica), Adam Kaufman, Pinina Morgan (Jacob), Theodore Kahn (Lila Santos), Eitan Kahn, Robert Kahn, Christopher Kahn, Noach Kahn; three great-granddaughters, Maya, Lillian, Aria; and other extended family.

Ionel dedicated his life of service to others through his involvement with temple and education in both New Jersey and Virginia. Another passion of his, in Virginia, was the Tuckahoe Volunteer Rescue Squad.

A funeral ceremony took place at Bliley’s-Central Chapel. Interment took place in Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Memorial contributions may be made to Temple Beth Ahabah, Beth Sholom

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Lewis A. Stern Virginia Beach—Lewis Arthur Stern of St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., passed March 14, 2018 in Beth Sholom Village. He was 83 and suffered from Parkinson’s disease.

Lou was a wonderful husband to Marie-Louise Burnett; father of Isobel Stern Bartel of Chesapeake, Gillian Stern, Emily Stern and Tom Stern; grandfather of Jacob, Ben, Sam, Madeline, Jack, Sally Jane, Lucien, Niall and Delia; father-inlaw of Bill, Scott and Genie; brother of Margery; brother-in-law of Sandy and Audrey; uncle of Andrew, Gary, Phil, Lynique, Gianni, Lynaud Jr. and Anaise; and stepfather of Quentin and Brian Ertel.

He was born in Alliquippa, Pa., April 28, 1934, the eldest child of John and Belle Stern. He received bachelor and law degrees from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., and clerked for Chief Judge Charles Clark on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Lou moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where with his first wife and law school classmate, Jane, raised their family.

During Lou’s legal career of nearly four decades at Fried, Frank LLP in New York, he was a corporate law partner and also did pro bono civil rights work. After retiring, he moved to St Thomas, as CFO of Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. He married Marie-Louise and fully retired in 2002.

A competitive runner in high school and college, he returned to the sport in his 40s as a member of the Prospect Park Track Club, winning many awards on the Masters Circuit. His taste was eclectic in art and culture. As a board member of the non-profit Arts Alive at Tillet Garden in St. Thomas, he promoted the joy of visual and performing arts. The Caribbean was a happy place for Lou. An avid reader of history and politics, he often took his reading to Magen’s Bay Beach with visiting grandchildren who chuckled when he sang and told corny jokes. He loved to

sail, and until his illness was a member of the St Thomas Yacht Club, where he challenged others to an “old man tennis game.” His philanthropic activity with St. Thomas Rotary II Club included operating a soup kitchen and fundraising for the Salvation Army. He was an active member of the Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas.

His spirit and intellect will be missed by his family and friends. His family gives special thanks those who provided support and loving care for Lou in his final months. They include Carol Riddlehoover and her team of helpers, and the staffs of Beth Sholom Village and Freda H. Gordon Hospice & Palliative Care.

A graveside service was held in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Contributions in Lou’s honor to Community Foundation of VI (CFVI), PO BOX 11790, St. Thomas VI, 00801. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments.

Jerome Yavner Virginia Beach—Jerome Yavner, 93, died on Sat., March 10, 2018 in a local convalescent center.

A native of Norfolk, he was the son of the late Bessie Glasser Yavner and Robert Simon Yavner. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy having served in World War II. He had worked as a Ship Fitter in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for 10 years.

He then devoted his time and efforts to his true love of carpentry and started a career as a master cabinet maker. He was a former member of Temple Israel.

Survivors include his wife, Sonya Lee Yavner; a daughter, Margaret Goff; a son, Robert S. Yavner (Anita); and three grandchildren, Hannah Ross (Michael), Aaron Goff, and Jessica Ellis.

A graveside funeral service was held in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. H. D. Oliver Funeral Apts. Online condolences may be offered at www. hdoliver.com.

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Stephen Hawking was admired by Israeli physicists for his insights and his humanity Barak Kol

JERUSALEM ( JTA)—Dr. Stephen Hawking was a rare and inspirational man whose deep insights into the mysteries of the physical universe were matched only by his courage in the face of a cruel, debilitating illness, which he met with good spirit and a unique sense of humor.

In the wake of his passing, those who have commented on his legacy have focused not only on his work as a scientist and a communicator of science, but also on his display of human spirit.

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Racah Institute of Physics, our interactions with Dr. Hawking were marked by our shared love of the discovery of the physical universe and our aspiration for creating a better world.

Dr. Hawking’s most famous theoretical argument, that matter can escape black holes, was intimately related to the ideas of the late Professor Jacob Bekenstein from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

A black hole is the most compact form of matter, as implied by Einstein’s theory of gravity. Surrounded by a seemingly one-way horizon, it is one of the most mysterious objects in nature. In 1972, Bekenstein (1947-2015), then a doctoral student at Princeton University, suggested that black holes might have properties of heat (more precisely entropy, known today as Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy).

Dr. Hawking was among the scientists who were skeptical. He believed that black holes absorb everything, yet nothing can escape them and therefore their temperatures would have to be absolute zero. But in 1974, he was led to the theoretical argument that once the effect of quantum physics are taken into account, black holes are not truly black.

Dr. Hawking theorized that some radiation does escape from a black hole, and that this radiation represents (non-zero) temperature, just like a heated metal bar would glow in the dark.

At first he resisted this conclusion

because it conformed to Bekenstein’s idea.

However, he ultimately realized that both are correct and that a new and consistent understanding of black holes had emerged. This radiation is called Hawking radiation, and it remains Dr. Hawking’s single most important contribution to the field of theoretical physics.

So it was Hawking, building off and confirming Bekenstein’s work, who established the theoretical foundation for black hole thermodynamics, a deep connection between gravity and quantum physics that is a cornerstone of our contemporary understanding of these phenomena.

Since his passing, some have commented on Dr. Hawking’s relationship with the State of Israel. Over his long career he visited Israel multiple times, accepting the prestigious Wolf Prize in physics in 1988 and, most recently, as an honored guest of the Israel Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Unfortunately, in 2013 he was represented to have made a decision with which we obviously disagree—to contribute to an academic boycott campaign against Israel. After initially agreeing to attend a conference led by then-President Shimon Peres, Dr. Hawking later canceled his participation. While misguided, I believe this decision was made not out of animosity, but rather with the intention of trying to foster a solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

I was part of a group of Israel theoretical physicists who sent a message to Dr. Hawking to formally protest his decision.

We wrote, in part, “We believe in the goal of a peaceful and prosperous coexistence of Israelis, Palestinians and other peoples. We moreover believe that the freedom of thought, expression and a free sharing of information are some of the core values of science as well as of democracy. A boycott, on the other hand by its very nature, suppresses dialogue and the free exchange of ideas for all parties involved, and we do not consider it helpful for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.”

Putting aside this disagreement, it was both an honor and a pleasure to have met Dr. Hawking on several occasions, and I will always remember his wit and how he faced his challenges with a smile, his typical defying grin. His science will be studied by generations to come and his spirit will continue to inspire millions around the world.

Dr. Barak Kol is a professor of physics working on theories of fundamental laws of nature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he serves as head of physics studies. His research has contributed to Einstein’s theory of gravity and to Quantum Field Theory.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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The Shenkman Jewish Center at William & Mary: A Jewish center after 325 Years

Taylor Reveley, William & Mary president; Mark and Rosalind Shenkman; Eric Fingerhut, president, Hillel International; and Rabbi Gershon Litt.

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or more than 300 years, Jewish students at the College of William & Mary have had to dream about having a Jewish

home on campus. Jewish students have had to fight to book rooms for Shabbos and holidays. Kosher food was virtually

impossible to get and having to reserve a different, small space for programs was the norm. This is all coming to an end.

Thanks to the generosity of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman, and the extended Shenkman family, a Jewish center will be built at William & Mary. The groundbreaking for the Shenkman Jewish Center on February 7 was well attended by students, university leaders, and others, all eager to take part in this historic occasion.

Rabbi Gershon Litt, director of William & Mary Hillel, speaking at the event said, “The time is now to create a lasting, strong, and permanent Jewish presence at William & Mary.” He went on to quote Thomas Jefferson, alum 1762, who said, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Litt continued to make the point that while William & Mary sports an

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Alexina Haefner, Hillel student president, says that with the building of the Shenkman Jewish Center students will have a place to rest, do homework, eat kosher food, pray, get together, hang out, and meet fellow Jewish students. In thanking the Shenkman family, she notes that this place will give future Jewish students a true home away from home.

Hillel International CEO, Eric Fingerhut, who also attended the event, says that the time and situation is perfect to launch this project. “This partnership between Rabbi Litt, the Shenkman family and William & Mary could not be a better combination.

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“Over the past few years, Hillel’s program has become stronger and stronger. Now, with the announcement of the Shenkman

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