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Zohar—and it has been exhibited around NEW YORK ( JTA)—Senate Minority the country.

Leader Charles Schumer exhorted the State Schumer is among a group of U.S. lawDepartment not to send back to Iraq a trove makers who have joined Jewish groups in of artifacts that belonged to its now exiled It’s disheartening that lobbying to keep the archive in a location Jewish community. parchments of a Torah accessible to Iraqi Jews and their descenIn a letter shared with JTA, the New dants, who today live outside Iraq after York Democrat urged Secretary of State Rex scroll and prayer books being driven out amid intense persecuTillerson to work with Jewish groups and were discovered in such tion. Iraq and proponents of returning the the Iraqi Jewish community in the United poor condition inside archive say it can serve as an educational States and abroad to find a place for the tool for Iraqis about the history of Jews Iraqi Jewish Archive. a flooded Baghdad there and that it is part of the country’s “These items belong to the people who Intelligence Center. patrimony. were forced to leave them behind when the “It’s disheartening that parchments of Iraqi government chose to exile them from a Torah scroll and prayer books were distheir homes. Since the exile of Jews from covered in such poor condition inside a Iraq virtually no Jewish life remains in the flooded Baghdad Intelligence Center. After the United States country—this treasured collection belongs to the Jewish commupreserved this ancient collection, it makes no sense to return nity and should be made available to them,” the Jewish lawmaker the items to the Iraqi government, where they will no longer be said in the letter. accessible to the Jewish community,” Schumer said in a statement Last month, the State Department told JTA that the archive released along with the letter. will be returned to Iraq in September 2018, according to an agreeEarlier this month, Rodriguez said the United States “will ment reached with the Iraqi government. urge the Iraqi government to take the proper steps necessary to “Maintaining the archive outside of Iraq is possible,” State preserve the archive, and to make it available to members of the Department spokesman Pablo Rodriguez told JTA, “but would public to enjoy.” require a new agreement between the Government of Iraq and a Major Jewish groups have remained largely silent on the issue temporary host institution or government.” following the announcement of the 2018 return date. The Zionist Discovered in the flooded basement of the Iraqi secret serOrganization of America released a statement last month urging vice headquarters by U.S. troops in 2003, the items, many of the State Department not to send back the archive, and Israeli which were looted, include religious materials, books, personal lawmaker Anat Berko told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu documents and photographs. The U.S. government spent over to pressure the U.S. to not send back the artifacts. $3 million to restore and digitalize the archive—which include The archive is set to be exhibited at the Jewish Museum of a Hebrew Bible with commentaries from 1568, a Babylonian Maryland from Oct. 15 to Jan. 15.

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Contents Up Front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Briefs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Columbus or Frobisher?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Jewish groups call for tougher gun control laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Israeli trauma expert predicted Las Vegas attack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Jewish help in Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Puerto Rico’s Jews and Hurricane Maria. . . .11 Beth Sholom’s campaign passes $2 million mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Home Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Book Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Briefs Israel-Russia trade leaps by 25% Trade between Russia and Israel has grown this year by 25 percent, officials from both countries revealed, amid complications with other Russian trading partners.

The first six months of 2017 saw increased trade between the nations of about $380 million over the corresponding period last year.

Zeev Elkin, the Israeli Cabinet minister responsible for environmental protection and issues connected with Jerusalem, announced the figures at a conference in Moscow about Russian-Israel relations.

“There is still great potential for increase in trade and there is much work ahead of us,” Elkin said in reference to ongoing talks since 2013 on signing a free trade agreement with Russia.

Temur Ben Yehuda, chairman of the Israeli Russian Business Council that co-sponsored the Moscow conference, cited primarily the attractiveness of Israeli businesses to Russian counterparts and vice versa in explaining the increase in trade between Russia and Israel.

“We are not only conducting dialogue on increasing trade, we are also signing major agreements between Israel and Russian firms, including Watergen, Assuta and many others,” he said.

The increase comes amid tightening cooperation between Israel and Russia on security issues connected with Syria, where the Russian government is engaged in propping up the beleaguered regime of the country’s president, Bashar Assad.

Its involvement in Syria has complicated Russia’s relations with Turkey, which has aided some forces fighting Assad in Syria’s civil war dating to 2011, and soured trade between those nations.

Separately, Russia’s trade with the European Union and the United States has also suffered due to sanctions imposed by the West over its invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and annexation of land.

During that period, Russia’s relations with Israel, which have remained neutral both on the Syrian issue and Ukraine, have noticeably improved, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveling to Moscow at least five times in the space of one year. (JTA)

18 Jewish House members press Netanyahu on pluralism Eighteen Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing disappointment in his rollback of religious pluralism reforms.

“We write to express our profound concerns about recent decisions that seem to call into question the legitimacy and equal status of non-Orthodox Jews,” said the letter sent last month.

Among the decisions they cited were the June decision by Netanyahu’s Cabinet to put a hold on a 2016 agreement to expand an egalitarian prayer plaza at the Western Wall and a pending Knesset bill that would consolidate power over conversions performed in Israel under the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate.

“Like our Jewish constituents we believe are and must remain am echad, one people united by history and faith,” said the letter, signed by all but three of the 21 Jewish Democrats in the House.

There are also two Jewish Republicans in the body.

The letter echoes a similar plea from seven Jewish U.S. senators sent earlier this month to Netanyahu.

It is rare for U.S. lawmakers to comment on internal Israeli politics, especially unrelated to national security or military affairs. (JTA) Brandeis neuroscientist, the son of a cantor, wins Nobel Prize for Medicine Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University, whose parents fled Nazi Germany and the son of a cantor, was one of three American scientists to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

The prize awarded to Rosbash, 74, and the others announced Monday, October 2, was for their discoveries about molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s daily rhythm. Jeffrey Hall of the University of Maine and Michael Young of Rockefeller University in New York joined Rosbash in receiving the prize.

They used fruit flies to isolate a gene that controls the rhythm of a living organism’s daily life. The biological inner clocks regulate functions such as sleep, behavior,

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hormone levels, and body temperature.

Rosbash, 74, came to Brandeis in 1974 and is the Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and professor of biology at the Jewish-founded nonsectarian school.

“This morning’s unexpected announcement certainly affected my circadian rhythms,” Rosbach said in a statement from Brandeis. “I am thrilled to join Jeffrey and Michael in this recognition. I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries, while also engaging students in the process of discovery. This is a very special—perhaps unique—university,” His parents were immigrants who fled Germany in 1938. His father was a cantor at Temple Ohabei Shalom, a Reform synagogue in Brookline, Massachusetts, not far from the Brandeis campus.

Rosbash and Hall started at Brandeis together in 1974; Hall is a professor emeritus there. (JTA)

Israeli balloon helped protect Pope Francis on South America visit Pope Francis’ security detail used an Israelimade observation balloon to protect the pontiff during his visit to South America.

The balloon proved to be more reliable than the unmanned air vehicles typically used and cost only a fraction of the price to operate, Ynet reported. Two of the three Masses led by the pope in Colombia last month were accompanied by the device, which is made by the Israeli company RT Aerostats Systems.

“We have recently added a few upgrades to the balloon that secured the pope,” an RT official told the Israeli news website. “In addition to advanced day and night cameras, the balloon can automatically identify suspicious movements, better zoom in on targets we want to follow, and maintain an overview of the entire area even while focusing on a specific target.”

The balloon, which is regularly used by the Israeli military and police, also helped secure the pope’s past trips to Africa and Israel. Police in Bogota and Medellin leased the device and transmitted its video footage directly to their headquarters. It

helped scan the large crowds, the rooftops in the area and other spots that cannot be seen from the ground. (JTA)

Scientist who fled Nazis among Nobel Prize in Physics winners Three American scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, including one who fled the Nazis with his parents and another whose grandparents were Polish immigrants.

Rainer Weiss, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, both of the California Institute of Technology, were awarded the prize for the discovery gravitational waves, which were predicted

by Albert Einstein a century ago.

Gravitational waves are ripples in space and time that help scientists explore objects in space.

Weiss won half of the $1.1 million prize, with Barish and Thorne sharing the other half.

The Nobel winners and the late Ron Dreyer, also of Caltech, founded the international collaboration of physicists and astronomers known as LIGO, the Laser Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory. In February 2016, they announced that they had recorded gravitational waves emanating from the collision of a pair of black holes a billion light years away.

Drever died this year; the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously.

Weiss, 85, was born in Berlin to a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father.

The family fled Berlin for Prague when Weiss was a baby because his father was Jewish and a member of the Communist Party. After the Munich agreement in 1938, the family left Prague for the United States. Weiss earned his doctorate from MIT and in 1964 joined its faculty.

Barish, 81, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up in Los Angeles, the son of Lee and Harold Barish, the children of Polish immigrants to the United States.

He earned his doctorate in 1962 from the University of California, Berkeley, and joined Caltech in 1963.

Thorne, 77, received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1965 and joined Caltech in 1967. (JTA)

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A klug zu Columbus!

Happy Frobisher Day!

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hen, in their Lower East Side tenements and chained to their sweatshop sewing machines, our immigrant grandmothers were fed up with the arduous task of making ends meet, they would offer the following mild curse: A klug zu Columbus—A pox on Columbus (for having discovered America)!

It’s perilous, in the poisonous atmosphere of our American culture wars, to lobby for the demotion of one of our nation’s traditional heroes. With so much hatred swirling around the debate over the statues of Confederate generals, is it a good time to suggest dethroning Christopher Columbus? Nonetheless, I believe the time is right, and I even have a suggested substitute for the holiday on the second Monday in October: In the circles I moved in as a child—American Jewish children and grandchildren of immigrants from Eastern Europe—we needed Jews who were great Americans. One of the favorite pastimes of our Jewish community back then, when we were far less sure of our American status than today, was to claim great Americans for our people. We didn’t have Babe Ruth, but we had Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg, and even better, our boy Sandy Koufax, who first observed Yom Kippur instead of pitching in the first game of the World Series of 1965, and then came back to win it all.

In this game of “contributions to America,” Nobel prize winners, great doctors, the inventors of the Polio vaccine, humanitarian lawyers, wise Supreme Court Justices, Medal of Honor winners, and leading actors were well and good. We put on skits honoring Haim Salomon—a leading financier of the American Revolution—and Emma Lazarus—the poet who gave us the words engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty. We set these dramas to the music of Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, Jewish boys from New York who helped create the sound track of American culture.

But the grand prize was to have Jews present at the very creation of what

would eventually become America. We all learned that Columbus’ flotilla set sail just when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella’s expulsion edict against the hundreds of thousands of Jews of Aragon and Castile was taking effect. Which of his crewmembers were Jews desperate enough to escape the dreaded Spanish Inquisition that they would sign on as crew for a mission beyond the boundaries of the known world, into the realms where the cartographers wrote, “here lie monsters?”

Was a Jew Columbus’ interpreter, perhaps? Columbus’ navigator? Or, if not the navigator, then at least the author of the astronomical tables used by the navigator?

We were happy to learn that Abraham Zacuto, the celebrated 15th century Jewish mathematician, was the author of the almanac that Columbus used. We thrilled to the story that Columbus saved his life by scaring the superstitious natives with his accurate prediction of a solar eclipse, knowledge he garnered from Zacuto’s book.

The grand prize was, of course, Christopher Columbus himself. We even speculated that maybe The Admiral of the Ocean Sea himself was a secret Jew…or at least, that he had Jewish ancestry?

All that was half a century ago. In more recent decades, you don’t hear many Jews seeking to claim Columbus as a Member of the Tribe. After all, who wants a man whom we now know to have been a notorious international slave trader, an architect of genocide?

The time has come to dethrone Christopher Columbus. Yes, he was the first…in a manner of speaking…if we ignore Leif Eriksson, the Viking who probably beat him by half a millennium!

But he didn’t really get to North America.

Hispaniola, Cuba, Virgin Islands…very nice, but with all the negatives attached to C.C., let’s look elsewhere.

I nominate Martin Frobisher!

Why Frobisher? He has lots of plusses in his ledger: • He discovered Frobisher Bay in

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Canada. It’s not the USA, but at least its part of our mainland!

• On the strength of that discovery, our neighbors to the North actually honor him at the time of Columbus Day. • In terms of religion, Frobisher beat out the Pilgrims by a full generation.

He celebrated the first Thanksgiving on North American soil, expressing gratitude for his safe landing in Newfoundland.

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English fleet. His ship, the Triumph, was often the focal point of the Spanish attack, but he acquitted himself well throughout the running sea battle. Seeing that the goal of the Spanish was to dethrone Queen Elizabeth and resume the persecution of Protestants. I, as a descendant of fellow victims of the Spanish Inquisition, have to root for the English, and for Frobisher in particular!

And so, I wish you Happy Frobisher’s Day! And, in the spirit of my Yiddishspeaking ancestors, A klug zu Columbus!

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ewish groups responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by condemning the violence and calling for gun control legislation.

At least 59 people are dead and more than 500 wounded in the attack at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Strip late Sunday, October 1. It is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

The Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith International, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Reform movement were among the groups that called for tougher gun control laws in the attack’s aftermath.

“While we are still learning details and do not know the impetus for the killings, one thing is clear: the threat of mass violence against innocent civilians in America has not abated. This threat must be taken seriously,” Anti-Defamation League National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. He called for the enactment of “tough, effective gun violence prevention measures.”

Greenblatt says its Center on Extremism is investigating the background and activity of shooter Stephen Paddock and whether he may have ties to extremists or was motivated by any extremist ideology.

B’nai B’rith International said it is “well past time for meaningful, bipartisan gun violence legislation in this country.”

It also said: “Though information about the shooter and his arsenal is still being uncovered, we have long held there is no acceptable, reasonable need for civilians to have access to large rounds of ammunition.”

“B’nai B’rith stands in solidarity with the Las Vegas community and with all those impacted by gun violence around the nation,” the statement also said.

National Council of Jewish Women CEO Nancy Kaufman in a statement called for Congress to act to “stem the tide of this senseless violence before yesterday’s tragedy becomes just another record

to be broken.”

“Federal lawmakers must act now to restrict access to automatic weapons, reject the current bill before Congress that would make it easier to buy silencers, and instead focus on how to make our communities and our country safer. NCJW expects nothing less from our elected officials,” the statement also said.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said the mass shooting cannot be termed a random act of violence.

“Even before all the facts are known we know this: rather than revere gun rights our country must finally revere human life,” he said.

“We mourn those callously slaughtered in Las Vegas and pray for the wounded. But our prayers must be followed by action, long overdue limits to the easy access to fire arms.”

The Jewish Federations of North America in its statement called on people wherever they are to donate blood.

“These attacks are just the latest instances of senseless violence that terrorizes innocent people everywhere and must come to an end,” the group said.

Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, also called the attack “senseless.”

“On behalf of world Jewry, I condemn this horrific criminal act,” he said in a statement.

David Bernstein, president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, said that while authorities have not determined whether the shooting was an act of terror, “there is no question that it has terrorized and traumatized hundreds of innocent people.”

Cheryl Fishbein, the JCPA’s chair, added: “It is imperative that we come together to address the underlying causes in the days ahead.”

There are more than 70,000 Jews and at least 19 synagogues in Las Vegas, according to the JewishVegas.com website. (JTA)

Nation An Israeli trauma expert predicted a Las Vegas attack three years ago Ben Sales

(JTA)—When Dr. Avi Rivkind landed in Las Vegas three years ago to lecture as a trauma care expert, he saw something that troubled him.

The airport, McCarran International, felt too open, almost exposed.

He felt no less comfortable on the city’s Strip while watching crowds flow from hotels to casinos to shops to the street— with little security in sight.

“I felt there was a lack of presence, from the ease of getting around there, from the casinos, from how easy it is to enter all the malls,” he says. “I felt very

uncomfortable.”

Rivkind, who heads the Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, is a pioneer in treating victims of mass-casualty terror attacks.

He came to Las Vegas in the summer of 2014 to speak at a Hadassah conference. Before he left, Rivkind delivered a

warning to a local TV channel: Get ready for a potential terror attack.

“I don’t want to give anybody any ideas. However, you should be well prepared. In my mind, it’s a question of time.”

The doctor says he offered to advise local government officials on emergency preparedness but never heard back.

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In Mexico City, this Jewish NGO is the go-to agency for earthquake relief Alan Grabinsky

MEXICO CITY (JTA)—I was on the 11th floor of an office building here when the ground started moving. There had been a mock evacuation that same day in remembrance of the 1985 earthquake that killed more than 10,000 people, but this was no drill.

According to protocol, everyone ran toward the building’s columns—structurally the safest place to be in an earthquake.

I closed my eyes as the rumbling worsened, focusing on my breath and hugging the concrete structure as ceiling lamps came down, breaking the long wooden tables. Through the window, I saw clouds of dust billowing behind the skyline.

The 7.1 magnitude quake on Sept. 19 toppled 38 buildings in Mexico City and killed more than 300 people nationwide.

Two buildings collapsed next to my apartment in the Condesa neighborhood, and many more in Roma—both historical centers of Mexican-Jewish life. Although

most Mexico City Jews moved to the city’s outskirts following the aftermath of the ‘85 temblor, which destroyed both areas, the neighborhood is still home to five synagogues, a Jewish archival center, a kindergarten and a Holocaust museum.

I realized an hour later that my house was uninhabitable—windows busted, cracks across the walls, bathroom tiles scattered on the ground—and I joined an exodus of thousands of walkers (the highways needed to be cleared for emergency vehicles) as we made our way out of the disaster zone.

I stayed at my parents’ place, returning to the neighborhood two days later.

The roads had been blocked by the army and marines. The parks were turned into supply centers, with thousands of volunteers making human chains and trying to help out those stuck in the rubble.

Half a block from the Alianza Nidjel Israel synagogue on Acapulco Street, whose structure was severely affected by the quake, Cadena, a Mexican-Jewish

JDC responds to Mexican earthquake

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he American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is responding to the devastating 7.1 earthquake in Central Mexico, immediately supporting the search, rescue, and emergency aid efforts of CADENA, its Mexican Jewish humanitarian partner, in hard-hit Mexico City. To support JDC’s relief efforts in Mexico, visit: jdc.org/ mexicorelief.

“As Jews around the world gather(ed) to celebrate our New Year, we also mourn the loss of life to this terrible disaster, pray for a speedy recovery, and have deployed a swift response to overwhelming needs in Mexico City. In doing so we put into action our tradition’s call to save human lives, and restore human dignity, even at times of solemn observance.” said JDC CEO David Schizer.

With longstanding ties with the Jewish community of Mexico, as well as CADENA,

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JDC immediately reached out to assess needs and implement a response focusing on immediate rescue and relief including digging people out of the rubble, emergency psychology services, and medical aid. At the same time, JDC continues its response to Hurricane Irma, providing hygiene kits, safe drinking water, psychosocial support for children, access to safe educational facilities, as well as rehabilitating homes of hundreds of children throughout the Caribbean.

JDC’s disaster relief programs are funded by special appeals of the Jewish Federations of North America and tens of thousands of individual donors to JDC. JDC coordinates its relief activities with the U.S. Department of State, USAID, the Israeli government, Interaction, and the United Nations, as well as local and international partners.

NGO specializing in humanitarian aid, set up shop. A line of about 20 people was standing waiting to be registered as volunteers, and many more were running around fetching what was needed and loading it on trucks.

During its 12 years of existence, this small organization (only 10 people work full-time) has helped over half a million people in Mexico, Haiti, Turkey, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Belize, and Costa Rica. Through partnerships with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, IsraAID, local Jewish communities, and other humanitarian organizations, Cadena has been able to operate nimbly and at incredible speed, mobilizing the human resources of the Jewish world to get to the most impenetrable disasters zones in record time.

In Condesa, Cadena repurposed the parking lot of a residential building near the synagogue as a warehouse for donated goods essential to the rescue operations in Mexico City and beyond. When I got there, the donations had been meticulously categorized into types of aid (“medicine,” “axes,” etc.) and there was a constant influx of trucks and vans—including police and army vehicles—coming to stock up on supplies. Some supplies were destined for the nearby states of Morelos and Puebla.

Others, such as insulin packages, were sent via bicycle to help the victims of a building that had collapsed nearby.

By the time the latest earthquake struck, Cadena already was performing activities on the ground in the aftermath of a quake on Sept. 7—the strongest one in a century.

It had ravaged the south of Mexico, and Cadena was assisting those affected in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas.

On Sept. 19, the organization deployed its Go Team, which specializes in rescuing victims from toppled structures, in the nation’s capital. In coordination with the 70 Israeli soldiers who arrived to help in the relief efforts and the Mexican army, team members visited the devastated zones.

“We are the only organization with

AJC donation aids earthquake relief in Mexico

Disaster special equipment that detects heartbeats,” Benjamin Laniado, CEO of Cadena, explained to me over the phone. “Thanks to this device we managed to rescue 25 people from underneath the rubble.”

At the Condesa center, Miriam Kajomovitz, a fundraiser for the organization, had been working nonstop coordinating the delivery of the supplies even though she had been evacuated from her house after a building collapsed next to hers.

“We need hands,” she told me the day I visited as we approached the eve of Rosh Hashanah. “People are going to go home for their meals and leave us.”

The worry proved unfounded—many of the volunteers decided to forego the celebrations and continue to help out.

In a country where suspicion of government runs high, Cadena has positioned itself as an effective humanitarian alternative. Lately, the Mexican press has been running articles about the illicit use of relief funds for electioneering purposes

in the state of Oaxaca. Public intellectuals like the Jewish writer Sabina Berman lambasted government-run relief efforts as inefficient and overly centralized. In the town of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Cadena provided relief before any government help had arrived, according to the New York Times.

“We wanted to donate to a transparent, credible organization that was not affiliated with any political party,” says Raul Cardos, CEO of a communications firm that designed a mock Airbnb platform called Arriba México to raise funds for the victims. “When we tell people that the funds go to Cadena, they are more willing to help out.”

Clara Zabludovsky, a Mexican Jew who lives in London, found out about the destruction as her plane touched down in San Francisco. She has since raised over 17,000 British pounds ($23,000) toward a GoFundMe goal of 18,000 pounds, a lucky Jewish number—all of which will go to the NGO.

Cadena has now shut down its emergency supply center in Condesa. In its week of operation, the center managed to send out 347 shipments to cover the needs of rescue workers in Mexico.

It’s not enough. The NGO is now organizing an international campaign to build temporary housing for those who lost their homes in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Cadena will be setting up tents with kitchen utensils, hygiene kits, water filters, beds and portable, ecological kitchens.

“There are thousands of people living in the streets, and it’s raining and cold,” Laniado, who is traveling to the state, told me. “The government reconstruction program takes too long, and in the meantime, people have nowhere to sleep.”

As for my building, it has been severely damaged. Specialists say it will take at least five months for it to be safe enough to withstand the next earthquake. I’m not taking the risk. For an unforeseeable time, I will be staying in my childhood home.

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JC (American Jewish Committee) is supporting humanitarian relief efforts in Mexico. Less than 24 hours after the quake struck, AJC delivered, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a donation to Cadena, the Mexican Jewish disaster relief organization.

“We are moved as Jews, as human beings, to respond with heartfelt compassion to assist the victims of this disaster in Mexico,” says Dina Siegel Vann, director of the AJC Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs.

The earthquake struck Mexico a day after Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray addressed a luncheon at AJC headquarters in New York.

For decades, through AJC’s BILLA, AJC has maintained close relations with top Mexican political and civil society leaders, the Mexican Jewish community, and Mexican American communities in the U.S. Comité Central de Comunidades Judías de México is an international AJC partner.

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(JTA)—After he bribed three van drivers to load their vehicles with aid supplies and drive him and his crew from the San Juan airport, Eli Rowe felt his humanitarian mission was off to a good start.

Gas was scarce in Puerto Rico, but now all the food, medicine and hygienic supplies he had flown over from the mainland was making it into the Caribbean island’s capital.

Then he laid eyes on the city. It was devastated.

“We saw sheer destruction everywhere,” says Rowe, the CEO of Jet911, a service that arranges emergency medical flights.

Rowe’s crew of 12 paramedics and emergency medical technicians was one of a few Jewish aid missions trying to help Puerto Rico begin recovering from the impact of Hurricane Maria. The storm created what aid workers and residents describe as a post-apocalyptic scenario: Power is out for much of the island, cellphone service is hard to find, gas is even more scarce and food supplies are dwindling. Roads are crumbling. Hospitals are on the brink.

The island, a U.S. territory has 3.4 million residents.

Puerto Rico’s Jewish community of 1,500, living mostly in San Juan, has largely been spared the worst of the damage, says Diego Mendelbaum, community director at the San Juan Jewish Community Center, which shares space with a Conservative synagogue. The city is also home to a Reform synagogue and a Chabad.

The JCC’s fence and two of its gates were knocked down and its roof sustained damage, but it fared much better than synagogues in Houston, which were ruined by Harvey. Even so, the synagogue canceled services on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, when the storm hit.

Mendelbaum says the Jews’ homes—like those of their San Juan neighbors—avoided destruction because their buildings are built with concrete and other reinforced materials. But the

community is still suffering, he says, from the same lack of power, fuel, and infrastructure as the entire island.

With the Jewish community’s buildings intact and population healthy, its members have turned to helping more vulnerable neighbors. The JCC had collected supplies to help the Virgin Islands recover from the impact of Hurricane Irma earlier last month, then took the surplus it had stored and distributed it among shelters in San Juan.

Jewish volunteers distributed clothing, canned food and 2,000 gallons of water from the JCC’s cistern.

IsraAid, the Israeli disaster relief group, sent a team of five that is stationed in Haiti. The team focused on providing physical and psychological first aid and distributing filters that can purify contaminated water.

The workers are also distributing food and training local social work students to provide post-trauma care. But the filters, says team leader Natalie Revesz, might make the biggest difference, as they have a capacity of 400 gallons a day and can make public canal water drinkable.

“They were shocked that I was drinking dirty water from their buckets,” Revesz says.

Rowe and his team spent the first night gathering food and medical supplies, and obtained a large private plane, free of charge, from Ralph Nakash, a fashion mogul who also went on the aid mission with two of his sons.

The team dropped supplies at the San Juan Chabad, then drove around the city distributing to Sanjuaneros of all religions everything from pita bread to toothbrushes to Tylenol. At one point, Rowe went door to door giving out food and cases of water.

Though he is proud of the work his volunteers have done, he could see that difficult days remain ahead.

“For us to bring a ray of light was really humbling and a beautiful experience,” he says. “At the end of the day, we’re going back to our homes with a roof over our head, and these people could be for weeks or months without electricity or food.”

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Beth Sholom Kahbaid Campaign passes $2-million mark as extensive renovation gets underway workers who have knocked out rear walls to install bathrooms on each unit. No longer will residents have to go down a ou won’t see anything just yet by hall for a shower because all private and walking into the building off Auburn semi-private rooms will have a stall, sink, Drive, but there is a major renovation toilet, and vanity. underway at the Berger-Goldrich Home And there’s at Beth Sholom much more to come Village. as the renovation Some of the proceeds apace, rooms on the including new lightSholom Unit are ing, flooring, paint, vacant, with those or higher donors nurses’ stations, fire residents having will be recognized alarms, sprinklers, been shifted to with mezuzot and smoke detecother rooms on on door frames tors, as well as an the 200 Hall. The at the home expanded therapy residents were room and more. moved to make way Of the $5-million for construction Joel Rubin

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Beth Sholom is pushing out the back walls on all resident rooms and adding full bathrooms with showers. The upgrades to the Berger-Goodrich Home should be completed by next fall.

budgeted for the project, $2-million is coming from the Beth Sholom Village Endowment Fund. Nearly $2.2-million of the $3-million balance has been raised to date through the Honor or Kahbaid campaign from 103 donors, according to Steve Suskin, director of philanthropy.

“We want everyone who has had a relationship with Beth Sholom since we opened in 1980, or just appreciates the fact that we have a five star nursing facility, to consider a donation,” says Suskin, adding that anyone who gives at $1,000 or higher will be recognized as part of a separate effort to place mezuzot on each door frame. “With the help of all area rabbis, we will bless and install all the mezuzot on a single Sunday after construction. It’s going to be quite an event.”

E.T. Gresham is the general contractor of the renovation. Keeping a close eye on the contractor’s efforts on behalf of the Home, is Pete Lunde, BSV’s maintenance director, who is no stranger to nursing home construction. Before signing on with Beth Sholom in 2004, he oversaw the building of senior care facilities in Roanoke, Williamsburg, Windsor, Woodbridge, and Newport News and was managing renovations of others in Tennessee. “The travel was too much so I was happy to have one facility to take care of just a mile from where I live,” says the

Pete Lunde, the Village’s maintenance director, has wide experience overseeing construction and renovations at nursing homes and is working with general contractor E.T. Gresham to make sure the project stays on track.

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“The renovation of the Home is a good opportunity for me to put my contractor skills to work again,” says Lunde, who is balancing his regular job on the Village campus while reassuring Village management that the project stays on budget and meets all city and industry standards.

“It gives us great comfort to have such a take charge and experienced guy like Pete on our team,” says David Abraham, BSV CEO and executive vice president.

“I know what we want. Pete makes sure we get it.”

By next fall, “it” should be done.

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I say “think,” because in some cases, the available online data is misleading, outdated, or just plain wrong.

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Well, hang on.

The rate found on a website doesn’t always take into account the type of loan and its terms, as well as the buyer’s credit score, down payment, and debt-to-income ratio.

Realtors often face a similar challenge.

Homeowners like to go online and see what their home is worth, but real estate websites don’t always take into account specific factors such as the condition of the house.

The internet is a great resource, but it’s not perfect. That’s why, to determine the actual available rate, buyers should work with a licensed mortgage lender.

A mortgage professional has the tools to determine the exact rate for an individual home buyer. Keep in mind: rates are constantly changing—even several times in the same day—so it’s not possible to a trust the online numbers.

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Millennials, in particular, are experts at jumping on a website to track down what they need. A few clicks and off they go. Yet when it comes to mortgage rates, every home buyer should take the extra time to work one-on-one with a lender to understand their qualifications and individual rate.

In the mortgage world, the old school approach is the smart way to go.

Shikma Rubin is a loan officer at Tidewater Home Funding in Chesapeake. (NMLS #1114873). She can be reached at srubin@ tidewaterhomefunding.com or 757-490-4726.

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Building a “green” home An interview with Mike Simon of Eric Joffe Construction Corp Jewish News: What is “green” building?

Mike Simon: As we think about building a home, we have to also think of our global home—the planet. When building or renovating, it is important to consider the materials that are used in the construction process, as well as the construction process itself.

Have you ever walked into a new home and taken in that “new home” smell? That classic “new home” smell probably means that volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) have been used during construction. These often include formaldehyde, which can be dangerous to human health and bad for the environment. Alternatively, through “green” building, we use sustainable products to ensure a healthier way of living. These paints and other materials contain low to no VOC’s. They use organic chemicals and human made or naturally occurring chemical compounds which give off very little of the traditional chemicals used in new construction.

Building “green” also means saving energy. It is important to seal the entire building envelope, which includes the attic and crawl space. By doing that, the air conditioning and heating unit is not working overtime as air escapes from the ducts into the unsealed attic and crawl space. We use spray foam insulation and condition both the crawlspace and attic. The crawl space is an ideal area for mold growth. By sealing and conditioning this area, the mold has less chance to grow, and thus helps prevent outside allergens from getting into the home.

We encourage our customers to use sustainable products as another way to go “green.” Bamboo flooring and recycled glass countertops are not only better for the environment, but they are trendy and look great in a new home or renovation. LED light bulbs use less energy while giving the same amount of light as an incandescent bulb.

LED bulbs also reduce waste because they last significantly longer.

JN: Does building “green” cost more?

MS: The answer is yes and no. When building a “green” home, it can initially be more expensive. However, by value engineering the construction of the house, it will cost less in the long run. Over the years, for example, tax incentives have helped help to offset the cost associated with building “green.” Electric bills can be as much as 40% less when sealing the building envelope together with heating and air conditioning the crawl space and attic.

In renovations, certain retrofit items can be added to

existing homes such as increasing the amount of insulation in the attic, adding spray foam insulation between the roof rafters, and sealing the crawl space.

In new construction, selections should be made based on budget as certain components can only be installed during the original construction, while others can be easily added later. So if the “green” option is out of the budget, forgo the things for now that can be done down the road.

JN: Why is “green” building important to you?

MS: I’m a firm believer in the importance of reducing our carbon footprint as much as we can. I saw that there was a need, so I started looking for ways that our company could incorporate these values into our building. There are so many choices of great sustainable products that prevent trash from going into the landfill. When doing renovations, for example, while removing cabinets and other interior finishes, we always try to send them to be reused through organizations such as Habitat for Humanity. Nothing disappoints me more than seeing a dumpster full of usable construction materials that could be repurposed.

Additionally, as an allergy sufferer, I enjoy seeing the relief that our customers feel from having the building envelope sealed, which helps prevent pollen from entering the home.

There are so many benefits to building “green.” This is a great trend in home building and renovations that I’m proud to be able to offer to our customers.

Mike Simon of Eric Joffe Construction Corp, may be reached at 757-575-1882.

Recent homes built by Eric Joffe Contruction Corp using Green Building by: • Using sustainable products including fiber cement siding and trim, PVC trim and composite decking material. These are both green and non-rot products that reduce the maintenance on the exterior of the home.

• Sealing the building envelope using a combination of both spray foam and conventional batt insulation in the exterior walls and roofs.

• The crawlspaces are sealed and conditioned using the homes’ HVAC systems to reduce outside allergens as well as mold growth.

• The HVAC systems are high efficiency 16 seer or greater which assist in lowering the homes’ energy bills.

• The windows are high efficiency glass to limit the heat transfer into the home.

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Kitchens: The greatest rooms at home Terri Denison

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he proliferation of food and cooking shows, along with myriad websites, magazines, and newspaper sections that are also food-focused, are impacting today’s kitchen designs—as much as the recipes that are prepared. How can that be? The reason is simple: cooking is now viewed as a fun and rewarding culinary event, rather than a means to just secure nourishment.

“Years ago, we only had Julia Child on PBS. Now, there’s so much emphasis on food and cooking on TV, and that is encouraging people to stay home and cook,” says Marvin Daniel, president of KDW Home. That, he says, is only one reason kitchens are receiving more attention.

While originally a room intended solely for cooking and eating, kitchens are now “all about lifestyle,” says Daniel. “A kitchen is a living place, literally the center of the home—a place where homework is done, the family eats, and where entertaining occurs—and where we also happen to have appliances.”

Kitchens, Daniel notes, are no longer confined rooms with swinging doors. The walls are literally gone to create bigger, more inviting living spaces.

Before beginning a kitchen design, Daniel says that he asks a potential client to visit one of KDW’s showrooms— in Virginia Beach or Richmond—for the homeowner to decide if they “like what they see.”

If the response is positive, the interview process begins. “We are all about design at KDW. Everyone on our team has a design background. So, we start by asking our clients questions such as: Do you like to entertain?

(The reply helps with traffic flow planning) Do you use high heat for stir-frying? (This question is for planning ventilation.) Are you right handed? Left handed? (The reply helps with placement) Does the family like to cook together? (The response assists with space and placement

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planning) Do you want a kosher kitchen? (Double this, double that) In other words, we try to learn as much as possible about the client’s lifestyle,” says Daniel. This way, he says, each kitchen matches the client’s hopes and dreams for that particular room.

Back to those TV programs. Like the food shows, HGTV has also impacted design. For example, KDW has a 50-inch screen on which the designer projects a client’s plans for easy viewing. If the client wants to see another color or to move an island or an appliance to another location, it is easy and quick to accomplish. “It’s been very helpful,” says Daniel.

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Overall, Daniel says kitchen designs are trending more tailored, more contemporary, and more transitional in style. “We create beautiful functionality.” In fact, with design elements simpler than they used to be, in some kitchens, the appliances are not even obvious because they have been so integrated into the room.

“It’s all about how it works, how it cooks, not so much how it looks,” continues Daniel, who recommends

clean lines. “I tell clients to choose to do one thing that is the ‘star of the show.’ Maybe it is the lighting (that is so striking, that in the past it might have been a highlight in other rooms), or the knobs or pulls (that are now like jewelry for cabinets), or a gorgeous island (perhaps constructed from reclaimed woods such as chestnut or mahogany). The options are nearly endless.”

What’s hot now?

Cabinets

Daniel says that light-painted cabinetry is trending, and that stained wood is on its way back.

Countertops Granite is out when it comes to countertops, with marble and marble-look-a-likes taking over. Many countertops are now of man-made materials, which are non-porous, making them much easier to care for.

Fixtures Mixed metals and yellow metals, including authentic (not shiny) brass and bronze are back for faucets and other

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accents. These trends started around the Great Recession in an attempt to “warm up” rooms, notes Daniel.

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Whether in random or traditional widths or from reclaimed woods, floors are now about 80% hardwood.

Color Fabrics, lighting, and texture all add splashes of surprise or warmth.

Green People feel good about buying green products—from appliances to cabinets to repurposed materials for islands, floors, and countertops. And, during renovations, most everyone wants everything to be repurposed. “No one wants things going to the landfill,” says Daniel. “We send as much as possible to Habitat for Humanity, for example, or maybe find a use for old cabinets in a garage. We just don’t throw anything out!”

When it comes to advice, Daniel offers two pieces of wisdom: When building, start the kitchen design process early The best way for clients to get what they want is to bring the kitchen design team in at the beginning. “If, for instance, you want a 60-inch stove and there’s not enough space, there’s not a thing that can be done about it. If, however, the homeowner, designer, architect, and builder all sit together to plan, the project will ultimately look the best.”

When remodeling, be realistic “I tell people that a remodel is ‘elective surgery.’ When you’re living in a house and the kitchen is taken away, understand what it will be like to live without a kitchen,” he warns.

“I’m a big cook,” notes Daniel. “I cook every night, which helps me to understand kitchens beyond design. I just love what I do.”

He wants his clients to love their kitchens, too. Daniel believes they will, as long as “it cooks as good as it looks.”

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And it bears a verse from the Gospel of John about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

That’s right: It’s a Christian mezuzah.

Karen Goode calls her creation the Doorpost Blessing, and it looks nearly identical to the small, oblong case that has adorned the doorways of Jewish homes for millennia. Both Goode’s creations and traditional Jewish mezuzahs are based on the same scriptural passage in Deuteronomy that commands Jews to inscribe the words of the Torah “on the doorposts of your house.” Observant Jews recite the passage twice a day with the Shema.

Except, instead of placing parchment bearing two paragraphs of Torah verses inside the mezuzah, as Jews do, Goode engraves a verse on the outside of the Doorpost Blessing, either from the Old or New Testament. She also offers Doorpost Blessings bearing lines from Christian hymns. Altogether, Goode sells 25 varieties, in English and Spanish.

“I’m following what the Bible says,” Goode says. “I’m taking it to modern-day standards. I’m reminding us of our blessings. We all need something to hold onto.

God is much bigger than any of us.”

Goode, who lives in New York City’s Staten Island and works at a hospital, launched Doorpost Blessings as part of her interest in carpentry. She came upon the concept in 2014, and began making and selling Doorpost Blessings in their current form this year. She would not disclose sales figures, but said the most popular ones bear Old Testament verses both from the books of Jeremiah and Joshua.

“The inspiration was from God, but I was looking for something that would speak of my faith and also carpentry,” she says. Goode is Christian, but did not

elaborate on which denomination.

Goode isn’t the first person to market mezuzahs to Christians. In 2014, a financial adviser in New York, Henry Zabarsky, created the Christoozah, a hollow red cross containing scripture on a parchment meant to be affixed to a doorpost. But Zabarsky, who is Jewish, says that he is no longer involved with the Christoozah company.

Nor is Goode the only Christian to take on a Jewish practice in the name of fulfilling Old Testament dictates. Some evangelical Christians wear ritual fringes or kippahs, and some hold Passover seders—something Goode says she has done in the past. Several fringe evangelical denominations, including the Living Church of God, eschew mainstream Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter in favor of observing Old Testament festivals on the Jewish calendar.

But unlike Christoozah and the Living Church of God, Goode does not credit Jews—and specifically the practice of hanging mezuzahs—with inspiring the product she sells. There is no mention of Judaism or mezuzahs on the Doorpost Blessing website, though Goode says she finds the Jewish mezuzah “a beautiful item.”

“I’m not referring to a mezuzah,” she says of her creations. “I’m doing what the commandment says. I’m doing it from a Christian perspective, not a Jewish perspective. I would see similarity in that there’s a blessing hung around the door frame, but other than that I credit the Bible.”

Mendel Kugel, a Manhattan rabbi who runs MezuzahMe, a service for selling and examining mezuzahs, says Goode’s project is a testament to the mezuzah’s resonance as a ritual item. But he worries that the presence of Christian mezuzahs will make it easier to mistakenly purchase a non-kosher mezuzah.

“It just shows that it’s such an important thing that Christians also want it,” Kugel says.

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Home This Panoramic Sukkah re-creates Jerusalem in your backyard Marcy Oster

JERUSALEM (JTA)—When it comes to Sukkot, the weeklong festival in which Jews live and eat in temporary huts known as sukkahs, no place does it better than Jerusalem. City schools and plenty of workplaces close, and a festive spirit permeates the air.

Many Jews around the world make a tradition of visiting Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday, which is also known as the Feast of Booths. Can’t make it to the Holy City? Fear not. Your sukkah can now transport you and your loved ones here.

Well, sort of. The Panoramic Sukkah is a creation by Andy “Eliyahu” Alpern, a photographer specializing in 360-degree images. Thanks to his sukkahs, which consist of panoramic photos of famous places in Israel, celebrants can easily pretend that they are actually at notable Jerusalem sites such as the Western Wall at night or smack in the middle of Mahane Yehuda market.

Alpern, 50, is a native Chicagoan who now lives in the northern city of Safed, where he runs his own gallery. Five years ago he was wandering through Safed during the festival, listening to the voices of families who were celebrating in their sukkahs, when the idea for the Panoramic Sukkah hit him.

By providing an immersive, inside-Israel experience, the Panoramic Sukkah is “a way of sharing Eretz Yisrael with people all over the world who can’t be here,” he says, using the Hebrew term for the Land of Israel.

Alpern added that the point of Sukkot is to hearken back to life during biblical times—for example, wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt (hence the origin of the sukkah), thus one of his panoramic images is of the Negev Desert. Also, as Sukkot is one of the three pilgrimage festivals (the others being Passover and Shavuot), it was tradition for Jews to travel to the Temple in Jerusalem.

Launching Panoramic Sukkah as a business two years ago, Alpern had to find the material to print the walls on and a printer to transfer the images, taking into

consideration both quality and affordability for the consumer.

Alpern declined to say how many sukkahs he has sold to date, but said his goal is to sell 100 by the time next year’s festival begins. (And while it’s too late to purchase a Panoramic Sukkah for this year, it’s not too early to plan for next: Keep an eye out for a sale during the intermediary days of the holiday, when Jews have Sukkot on the brain.)

A variety of images and styles are available. The full Panoramic Sukkah kit (from $1,080) includes a frame, as well as four walls with a 360-degree image on semi-translucent fabric. Other options include walls only (from $800) or single-wall panels (from $210) if, as the website says, you’re “looking to bring Israel into your Sukkah, but not for quite so much Israel.”

Of course, Alpern can also create custom sukkahs. This year he created a

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wall panel for a customer depicting the Ushpizin, mystical special guests that are ritually welcomed each evening of the holiday. The panel included the images of the traditional “guests”—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and King David—and interspersed them with images of the customer’s family members and inspirational figures such as Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. If Alpern’s Panoramic Sukkahs can bring Jerusalem to anywhere in the world, then it’s probably no surprise that the reverse can also be true. Perhaps the greatest custom sukkah that Alpern has created was for himself: Wrigley Field.

A diehard Chicago Cubs fan since he worked as a vendor at the iconic ballpark in 1984, Alpern was disappointed that he could not make it back to his hometown last year for the World Series. So he took a panoramic photo of Wrigley that he had shot a few years back and turned it into a

Panoramic Sukkah of his own.

Last year, Alpern and his three sons slept in the sukkah, waking up in the middle of the night to watch the games broadcast over the internet. This year— with the Cubs on a hot streak and ready to defend their title—they planned to do the same: Major League Baseball’s postseason began Oct. 3, the night before Sukkot’s start.

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A story of connections weaves in pertinent historical detail On the Sickle’s Edge about Soviet Neville Frankel society and Dialogos, an imprint of Lavender Ink, 2016 offers penetrating insight into today’s ISBN: 978-1-944884-10-9 Russia. In particular, the political repres474 pages, $16.95, paperback sion, lack of free speech, and corruption under Stalin provide a deep understandtories based on family history are a ing of the seeds of Putin’s Russia, which strong current in Jewish literature. has become such a pervasive part of our It is by remembering and retelling that current political discourse. we honor our loved ones and perpetuate Frankel’s engaging narrative tackles their memory, while instilling resilience issues of displacement, identity, self-deand hope in the young. Neville Frankel’s termination, and family history amidst On the Sickle’s Edge is a fictionalized, but epochal historical events. The novel riveting account of his family’s complex chronicles the way global conflict causes history that inspired the writing of the family fragmentation and trauma, while book. This sweeping novel spans four demonstrating that love and tradition continents, many decades, and multiple persist even in the most dire situations. pivotal global events. It also delves deeply Ultimately, On the Sickle’s Edge is a novel into the inner lives of its characters and of hope and renewal. It underscores the their connections to Judaism. importance of our own family histories Frankel, a native of Johannesburg, as part of our legacy and as something to South Africa who immigrated to the pass down to our children’s children.

United States at the age of 14, uses the Neville Frankel is an Emmy award-winvoices of three compelling characters to ning writer of literary and historical tell the story of three generations of fiction. He is a gradone far-flung family. uate of Dartmouth There’s Lena, who Why Family Stories Matter College and did his was born in turn-ofSunday, November 19, 10:30 am doctoral work in the-century Latvia, Ohef Sholom Temple English Literature brought to South at the University of Africa, then forced eville Frankel will describe his Toronto. He is a 2013 to emigrate to the family’s roots and 2017 Jewish Soviet Union as part as inspiration for Book Council author of the post-World his latest novel, and a contributor to War I resettlement On the Sickle’s The Huffington Post Edge. This will be of Latvian Jews; the finale event of and The Good Men her granddaughter the 2017 Lee and Project. A nationally Darya, initially a Bernard Jaffe* recognized speaker, Soviet true believer Neville Frankel Family Jewish Book Festival presented Frankel has preunaware of her by the Simon Family JCC, in partnership sented at more than Jewish heritage, who with Ohef Sholom Temple.

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he Virginia Beach Police Department continued their commitment to “Never Again” with their Recruit Class 63 during a recent trip to the Virginia Holocaust Museum.

Organized by the Virginia Beach Law Enforcement Training Academy, Sergeant Bryan S. Marshall says that the experience “was extremely informative and many of the recruits, while aware, were not completely educated on the intricate atrocities of the past. The experience gave them the enhanced knowledge on the downfall of absolute power that goes unchecked, in hopes that this or anything similar never happens again.”

For the past five years, the Community Relations Council and the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater have supported the Virginia Beach Police Department in their Holocaust education training by providing lunch for the attendees while at the museum.

To learn more about the initiative or to support the effort, contact Wendy Weissman@ujft.org.

Virginia Beach Police Department Recruit Class 63 at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in August 2017.

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Israel Today

Essential Israel: Voices of the 21st Century, Dr. Rachel Fish Tuesday, November 14, 7:30 pm Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus

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hat is the Arab/ Israeli conflict and why hasn’t it been resolved?

What explains the failure of American diplomatic efforts to bring about peace Dr. Rachel Fish in the Middle East?

Can Israel be both a Jewish and a democratic state?

Dr. Rachel Fish, Ivy League educator, documentarian, and activist, will discuss her latest book, Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century, a compilation of essays from authors describing the cultural, political, and historical landscape of Israel. This unique collection of voices helps answer the questions that contemporary readers want to know as it relates to the complicated makeup of the country.

At 25, Fish was named as the Forward’s

50 most influential American Jewish leader.

Currently the associate director of the Schusterman Center at Brandeis University, Fish completed her doctoral degree in 2013 in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies department at Brandeis University. In 2015 she held the Rohr Visiting Professorship at Harvard University, where she lectured on modern Israel and received the Derek Bok Certificate of Teaching Excellence. She is co-editor, with Ilan Troen, of Essential Israel: Essays for the Twenty-First Century.

Fish will be in Tidewater as part of the 2017–2018 Israel Today series and the Simon Family JCC’s Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival.

To learn more about the Israel Today series or to RSVP to this free and open to the community event, visit JewishVA.org/ IsraelToday, or call 757-321-2304. *of blessed memory

KBH Yard Sale — Sunday, October 15, 9 am to 2 pm Kempsville Conservative Synagogue, Kehillat Bet Hamidrash, will sponsor a Yard Sale at 952 Indian Lakes Blvd in Virginia Beach.

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Mark Goldfeder, senior lecturer at Emory Law School and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory

Tuesday, October 17, 7:30 pm Sandler Family Campus

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o long as institutions like the United Nations continue to issue one-sided statements that ignore foundational concepts in international law, pressuring Israeli leadership to Dr. Mark Goldfeder concede more and more while ignoring their previous concessions and failing to hold Palestinian leadership accountable for their actions and statements, real peace cannot happen,” Dr. Mark Goldfeder wrote for an op-ed for CNN.com.

“These resolutions [taking place at the U.N.] are annoying and sad—they incentivize Palestinian leadership to try and play end games around Israel instead of engaging directly with their bargaining opponent, and they leave Israel less inclined to even try,” the piece continued.

Goldfeder will discuss how Israel’s relationship with the U.N. plays into public perception and as it relates to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, when he speaks to the Tidewater community.

This event is in partnership with United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Community Relations Council and Society of Professionals, together with the Norfolk Kollel.

For more information on this free event or to RSVP (required) visit JewishVA.org/ Goldfeder.

Three opportunities to learn with Dr. Mark Goldfeder Tuesday, October 17 Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus

Secular Law v. Halacha: A Comparative Approach 12–4 pm A three-credit Continuing Legal Education (CLE) class. $150 includes the class and lunch. Register online at norfolkkollel.com/cle.

Legal Aspects of Boycotts and De-legitimization 6–7 pm Discussion and networking with fellow Jewish professionals and Dr. Goldfeder. For UJFT’s Society of Professionals members as part of the Conversations Series. For more information or to RSVP, email SOP@UJFT. org; $10.

Israel and the United Nations 7:30 pm Dr. Goldfeder will offer remarks and take questions on Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, the perceived bias toward Israel, and how it relates to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Free and open to the community. For more information or to RSVP (required) visit JewishVA.org/Goldfeder.

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Up now and next in the Leon Family Gallery

Israel Today

Families: Get cameras and imaginations ready

Amit Shimoni November ith Hipstory, Amit Shimoni reimagines historic leaders from across the globe when modern-day hipster culture meets history.

In the series, for example, the Dalai Lama is dressed in a burgundy hoodie and wears a funky pair of glasses with his trademark smile, Nelson Mandela is outfitted with a helix piercing and a bright bomber jacket, and Golda Meir dons an asymmetrical haircut and a gauge earring in this unique and fun interpretation.

Tuesday, October 10, 5:30 pm Simon Family JCC

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rez Kaganovitz, photojournalist and creator of Humans of Tel Aviv, has an educational and fun event planned for families when he visits Tidewater as part of the Simon Family JCC, CRC, community partners’ Israel Today series.

Kaganovitz is on a mission with his photojournalism saying, “I believe that knowledge is a great power for change.

The first step towards multiculturalism and respect among different Humans is to get a better understanding about the unique culture and values that every different facet of humanity holds. By telling the life stories of different humans from different backgrounds, Humans of Tel Aviv is trying to change (even a little) the way we are all seeing one another.”

During his Tidewater visit, Kaganovitz will lead a Tikun Olam Family Workshop in the Sukkah focusing on the Social Fabric of Tel Aviv; taking a journey with children and their parents to discover the diversity and inclusivity of Tel Aviv. With components

Erin Dougherty

Erez Kaganovitz: Humans of Tel Aviv such as a story matching game, interactive discussions will allow kids to see that, as humans, people are all much more alike than different.

Participants will also be able to capture their own special moment around the Sandler Family Campus in the style of Humans of Tel Aviv with direction from the artist.

RSVP required as space is limited, Tickets— Child: $8/$6 JCC members, Adult: $11/$9 JCC members, Family: $32/$25 JCC members. This event takes place 5:30–6:30 pm, with dinner served beginning at 5 pm.

To RSVP, visit www.jewishva.org/ IsraelToday or contact Melissa Eichelbaum at 757-321-2304.

October he photojournalist behind Humans of Tel Aviv, Erez Kaganovitz has photographed thousands of Tel Aviv citizens, capturing their stories to share with the world. As Kaganovitz told Haaretz, “I’m not trying to bend reality; I am not trying to sugar coat the reality or ‘whitewash’ Israel.

What you see is what you get.”

Kaganovitz’s unique and beautiful photographs provide a platform for the people of Tel Aviv, to show that “Tel Aviv is not a bubble. It has everything—Hassidim, gays, rich, poor, refugees, homeless and hipsters.”

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For more information about the Leon Family Gallery, contact Erin Dougherty at Edougherty@simonfamilyJCC.org.

Touchdown, Israel with Bruce Smith Monday, October 30, 7:30 pm, Sandler Family Campus, free Melissa Eichelbaum

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ruce Smith is no stranger to the spotlight. The defensive end holds the NFL career record for quarterback sacks, with 200. Smith was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009, and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

In June, Smith was one of 18 Pro Football Hall of Famers, led by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who was put into the spotlight again when they were welcomed by nearly 1,000 cheering football fans at the dedication ceremony for the

Kraft Family Sports Complex in Jerusalem.

Smith, his wife Carmen, and the other players visited Israel’s Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem, the Western Wall, and were blessed in the Jordan River at Yardenit, the site where Jesus is believed to have been baptized by John the Baptist.

The group also met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders in the West Bank, as part of their mission to promote football in Israel. Smith told the Virginian Pilot when Netanyahu spoke with the group, “he understands the neighborhood in which they live and how they

have to be strong as a people to be able to survive and thrive.”

At the end of their eight-day trip to Israel, the players were all profoundly appreciative of Kraft and the experience he gave them.

Bruce Smith will share details of his experience at this free and open to the community event. RSVP required.

Contact Melissa Eichelbaum at meichelbaum@ujft.org for more information, or visit jewishva.org/touchdownisrael to RSVP.

Bruce Smith and his wife, Carmen, in Jerusalem.

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3rd Annual Great Big Challah Bake Thursday, October 26, 7 pm, Sandler Family Campus

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he 3rd Annual Great Big Challah Bake is slated to take place as a lead-up to the globally scheduled Shabbat Project, observed from sundown Friday, October 27 until sundown Saturday, October 28.

This year’s Challah Bake is co-chaired by Darcy Bloch and Mindy Stephanie Adler Calliott, Dana Adler Rosen, and Anne Adler Abraham Rubenstein.

The at Great Challah Bake 2016. bread-making event is one of thousands Last year, 150 women played a Jewish of similar events around the world, all part trivia game, heard speakers about the of The Shabbat Project, bringing Jews from meaning and power of challah, and enjoyed all walks of life and across the spectrum of the sisterhood and camaraderie that comes all religious affiliations to celebrate one full from baking bread with friends—both new Shabbat, together. The project’s goal is to and old. create an opportunity to rejuvenate family All of the ingredients, bowls, and reciand community life, and strengthen Jewish pes will be provided. Each participant will unity around the world. leave with two challahs ready to bake and The concept for this project, initiated enjoy for Shabbat dinner. four years ago, was the inspiration of South Africa’s Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein. The For more information and to register, visit grassroots project quickly escalated into an www.JewishVA.org/challah-bake or call: international phenomenon in 2014, involv757-321-2304. Women of all ages are ing roughly one million Jews from all over invited. Suggested $5 per person donation. the world, joining to celebrate not only pre-Shabbat Challah Bakes, but post-Shabbat Havdallah concerts.

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OCTOBER 10, TUESDAY Social Fabric of Tel Aviv: Life Stories Unraveled A Tikun Olam Family Workshop.

As the human behind Humans of Tel Aviv, Erez Kaganovitz goes beyond the media narrative, revealing a city openly embracing individuals of different faiths, skin colors, and lifestyles to Facebook users worldwide. During this interactive, family friendly workshop in the Sukkah, Erez Kaganovitz leads children and parents in a discussion to discover who makes up the social fabric of Tel Aviv and how to help repair the world through art. RSVP required. 5:30–6:30 pm; dinner served beginning at 5 pm. Simon Family JCC. To RSVP, visit www.jewishva.org/IsraelToday or contact Melissa Eichelbaum at 757-321-2304. See page 25.

October 15, Sunday Kempsville Conservative Synagogue, Kehillat Bet Hamidrash, will sponsor a Yard Sale at 952 Indian Lakes Blvd in Virginia Beach. Cost to rent a table is $15. Contact: Harriett Eluto at harrietteluto@yahoo.com or Ellen Cohen at ebcohen@juno.com for more information.

October 17, Tuesday Dr. Mark Goldfeder on Israel’s relationship with the United Nations. See page 24.

October 27, Friday – October 28, Saturday Tidewater Shabbat Project 2017. Begins with Friday night services at B’nai Israel at 5:55 pm and concludes with Carlebach Havdalah under the stars at 7:15 pm. For more information and to register for the Friday night dinner, go to tidewatershabbatproject.com.

October 30, Monday Bruce Smith, local football legend and NFL Hall of Famer, shares stories of his summer 2017 trip to Israel. Free. RSVP required. JewishVA.org/touchdownIsrael or contact Melissa Eichelbaum at 757-321-2304 or meichelbaum@ujft.org. 7:30 pm. See page 25.

NOVEMBER 1–20 The Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival. Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus. For more information, contact Erin Dougherty at 757-321-2341 or edougherty@simonfamilyjcc.org.

November 10, Friday Tidewater Jewish Foundation’s 8th Annual Veteran’s Day Service at the Sandler Family Campus. Join TJF for this community event to honor those who have served the USA, and continue to serve. Service and brunch to be held in the Fleder Multipurpose Room, 9:30 am. Free and open to the community. Honor a veteran with a paver in the Jewish War Monument. Contact Ann Swindell at aswindell@ujft.org or 757-965-6106 to RSVP or for more information on the Jewish War Monument.

November 12, Sunday Limmud, an international day of learning brings the community together to exchange ideas at the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus. 1–5 pm. For more information or to RSVP, visit simonfamilyjcc.org/limmud or contact Melissa Eichelbaum at 757-321-2304 or meichelbaum@ujft.org.

Tuesday, November 14 Israel Today featuring activist, ivy-league educator, and documentarian Rachel Fish. Fish sheds light on the nuance of Israel’s internal and external conflicts and encourages exploration of debates on key issues embedded in a richly evoked sociohistorical context. Free.

Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus. For more information, contact Melissa Eichelbaum at meichelbaum@ujft.org or 757-321-2304. See page 24.

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r. and Mrs. Alan Peltz on the engagement of their son, Harry Louis Peltz to Lauren Ann Foltz, daughter of Jeff and Marcee Foltz of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.

Harry is a graduate of Norfolk Collegiate Lauren Ann Foltz and Harry Louis Peltz.

High School and Syracuse University School of Architecture. He is a New York State licensed architect and an associate at SLCE Architects, Manhattan.

Lauren graduated from Wilmington Area High School and cum laude from Wheaton College, Illinois. She holds a Master of Arts in School Leadership from Concordia University Chicago. She is currently employed as a fourth grade teacher at Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy II. A November 4, 2017 wedding will take place in Brooklyn, New York.

Andy Fox part of fifth Frank Family Leadership Institute cohort New York, NY— The Jew ish Council for Public Affairs ( JCPA) recently announced the fifth cohort of the prestigious JCPA Frank Family Leadership Institute for Andy Fox Emerging Leaders.

The JCPA Fellowship is a mentoring opportunity for emerging leaders in the community relations field who want to be active in the areas of public policy, public affairs, and intergroup/interfaith relations at both the local and national levels.

Andrew Fox, a member of Ohef Sholom Temple and United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Community Relations Council, is one of the 13 fellows.

“Younger Jews can and must play a leadership role in Jewish advocacy and community relations,” says David Bernstein, JCPA president and CEO. “We believe that a strong community relations field means a strong and protected Jewish community. This Fellowship provides the training and hands-on experience needed to help those who are committing their time, and who believe Jewish involvement

in Tikkun Olam is where they want to focus their leadership,” says Lois Frank, a grantor of the Frank Family Leadership Institute for Emerging Leaders. A past chair of JCPA, Frank formed this Institute with her husband, Larry Frank, in 2014.

Twenty three Fellows have completed the program.

This year’s JCPA Frank Fellows: Ami Abramson, Charleston, N.C. Leslie Anderson, Atlanta, Ga. Andrew Fox, Tidewater, Va. Dori Gerber, Orlando, Fla. Margo Levin, Reading, Penn.

Eva Lippman, Silicon Valley, Calif.

Ashely Noell, Richmond, Va. Thorn Pozen, Washington, D.C. Dan Rapp, Cincinnati, Ohio Todd Resnick, Cleveland, Ohio Corey Shapiro, Louisville, Ky. Laura Sohinki, Pittsburgh, Pa. Brooke Weiner, Palm Beach County, Fla. The program includes a mission to Poland to visit Warsaw, Krakow, and Auschwitz/Birkenau; a Leadership Mission to Israel; attendance at JCPA2018 in New York; and educational trainings on issues of importance to the Jewish community relations field.

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obituaries Linda Epstein Belkov Norfolk—Linda Ellen Epstein Belkov, 74, of the 4000 block of Atlantic Ave., passed away peacefully at Beth Sholom Terrace on Friday September 22, 2017.

Born in Norfolk, she was the daughter of the late Dr. Harold Alan Epstein and Beatrice Batleman Epstein.

Mrs. Belkov was a past president of Congregation Beth El. She was a past chairman of the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, and past chairman of the Tidewater Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Survivors include her husband of more than 50 years, Dr. Calvin L. Belkov; her daughter, Lisa Belkov Snyder and her husband Dr. Jeffrey Alan Snyder; three grandchildren, Jordan Hope, Joshua and Samantha. She is also survived by a sister Ronnie-Jane Konikoff (Dr. Stephen Konikoff) of Virginia Beach, and a brother Joel Epstein of California.

A funeral service was conducted at Congregation Beth El in Norfolk by Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz, Cantor Jacob Tessler and Cantor Wendi Freidman. Burial was at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to Congregation Beth El 422 Shirley Ave. Norfolk, VA 23517, the Alzheimer’s Association, 6350 Center Drive Norfolk, Va. 23502 or to a charity of choice. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments.

Dr. Harold S. Blumenthal Norfolk—Dr. Harold S. Blumenthal died unexpectedly at his residence on Sunday September 24, 2017.

A lifelong Norfolk resident he was the son of the late Adolph and Ella Chapel Blumenthal. A graduate of Granby High school, Dr. Blumenthal maintained a medical practice with offices in Virginia Beach and on the Eastern Shore.

He was a kind, thoughtful and loving brother and friend. He was very well versed in medicine and Judaism and was a lifelong member of B’Nai Israel Congregation.

Surviving is his one devoted sister and brother-in-law, Edie B. and Louis R. Schlain, one adoring nephew, Adam Max Schlain, two aunts, Sarah B. Cedd and Mrs.

Shirley Blumenthal and many cousins.

A funeral service was held at H. D. Oliver Funeral Apts. conducted by Rabbi Sender Haber. Burial followed in the B’Nai Israel Cemetery.

Contributions to B’Nai Israel Congregation or Beth Sholom Home.

Online condolences may be made at www.hdoliver.com.

Gerald J. Friedman Norfolk—Gerald J. Friedman, 90, of Norfolk, passed away on Wednesday, September 20, 2017.

He was born on April 4, 1927 at Norfolk General Hospital to Louis and Minnie Friedman. He was a 1944 graduate of Newport News High School. A veteran of the US Navy, Gerald proudly served his country during the final months of World War II, and studied economics at The University of Virginia.

His interests in business had been fueled during his childhood while working in his family’s pawn shop on Jefferson Avenue in Newport News.

Gerald was predeceased by his son David Michael, brothers Robert and Stanley, and sister Helen. Left to cherish his memory are his sisters Selma Fink and Eleanor Forman (his twin), daughters Mona Smith and her children Eric, Mason, Shelley, and their father Michael Smith; Laura Goldstein (Keith) and their children Billy, Phillip, and, Lizzy; son Charles, former wife Nancy; and many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Gerald, a local real estate developer and pioneer, was an instrumental participant in creating many of the Northern Outer Banks communities. Gerald, also known by many as “Poppop,” loved playing and attending sporting events, including his grandchildren’s games, and attending the US Open with them. He was a lifelong sports enthusiast, becoming a part-owner of the Virginia Squires basketball team. Poppop also enjoyed dancing, making milkshakes, music, religious services, Friday night Shabbos dinners with family and friends, reading, and teaching his children and grandchildren lifelong lessons.

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He was an active member of Congregation Beth El and the greater Hampton Roads Jewish community, which he treasured with all his heart. He had a long-lasting devotion to the community and participated in expeditions to Israel in the 1960s and 70s, which focused on economic growth.

Gerald Friedman will be most remembered for his room-brightening smile, permeating warmth and old school ways. He connected with and touched us all through his endless love, sense of humor, thoughtfulness, and strong values.

A lesson which he empowered those near him can be summarized through the words of Mitch Albom, in his book Tuesdays with Morrie, “The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Memorial donations can be made to Beth Sholom Village, Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, or An Achievable Dream Foundation.

Services entrusted to the care of Altmeyer Funeral Home Southside Chapel. Friends may express online condolences at www.altmeyerfh.com.

Jaymi H. Goldberg Virginia Beach —Jaymi Howard Goldberg, 53, died unexpectedly Friday, September 22, 2017.

He was a native of North Potomac, Maryland and a resident of Hampton Roads since 2011. He is survived by his wife, Michele Goldberg, of Virginia Beach and his children; Alyssa Goldberg, Bradlee Goldberg and Cameron Goldberg.

He was the son of the late Ronald S. Goldberg and Sally Goldberg. He will also be greatly missed by his late brother, Bryan Goldberg and his sisters: Jodi Fields (David), Caren Shugarman (Todd) and Suzanne Berman (Laurent) and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

A graveside funeral service was held at King David Memorial Gardens in Falls Church, Va. by Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt.

Memorial donations may be made to B’nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland.

Hannah Liebowitz Lipman, Bethesda, MD – Hannah Lipman, beloved mother, wife, grandmother, sister, friend, activist, and community leader, died of a sudden heart attack on September 15, 2017 while doing what she loved: traveling the world with her husband Tim. Hannah was born on February 24, 1944 in Norfolk, Va., and graduated from Maury High School. She was predeceased by her parents, Harry and Sadie (Coplon) Liebowitz, and her brothers, Joe and Phillip (Buddy).

She was the best mother in the world. She was the heart of PANIM: The Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values. Her civic leadership in Hadassah, A Wider Circle, Manna, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Obama and Hillary campaigns, numerous PTAs, and as co-president of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, touched thousands of lives.

Hannah’s last month was full of family, friends, and adventure. She went horseback riding with her grandchildren Jonah and Mia in the Rocky Mountains. She hiked to waterfalls and glaciers. She saw the Northern Lights. Her life burned brightly, and too short. She will be sorely missed by all who knew her, but most of all by Tim, Ari, Scott, Joanna, Jonah, and Mia. Hannah’s funeral was held in Adat Shalom. Donations in her memory may be made to one of these organizations, which embody so much of what Hannah stood for: the Adat Shalom Endowment Fund; A Wider Circle; Manna Food Center; or the Obama Foundation. Y’hi zichra baruch— let her memory continue to be a blessing.

Jo Barbara Yulsman Abington, Penn.—Jo Barbara Yulsman (nee Cooper), age 82, of Abington, Pennsylvania, passed away on September 30, 2017.

She was the beloved wife of S. Alan Yulsman (deceased), devoted mother of Kimberly Anne Yulsman Brooks (Donald Brooks), Laurie Beth Yulsman Kazenoff (Robert Kazenoff) and Michael Benjamin Yulsman (Yoon Huh Yulsman). She leaves behind her three children, six grandsons, and one great granddaughter.

obituaries Jo Barbara was born and raised in Norfolk, being confirmed at Ohef Sholom Temple and graduated from Maury High School, for which she retained a lifelong affection. She spoke at her class’s 50th Reunion. She married her husband, Alan, a dashing Naval Officer stationed on a ship in Norfolk, and moved with him to spend the rest of her adult life in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Jo Barbara assisted her husband in his law and accounting practice until his death.

Alan and she were a formidable tennis duo and later dedicated golfers. Jo Barbara was known as a witty and hilarious speaker at public and family gatherings and will be missed by many.

A graveside service and memorial was held at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk.

Memorial contributions may be sent to a charity of choice. Online condolences may be sent to the family at hdoliver.com.

Joshua Haberman, Washington rabbi and champion of adult Jewish education

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abbi Joshua Haberman, rabbi emeritus of the Washington Hebrew Congregation and founder of the Foundation for Jewish Studies, has died.

Haberman, who represented the Jewish community during the memorial service for the victims of 9/11 held at the National Cathedral, died Sunday, September 24 at his home in Washington, D.C., at 98 and following a rabbinic career of 72 years.

Haberman “brought the light of Torah to countless followers not only as a rabbi,

but also as a brilliant visionary in the field of Jewish Adult Education,” Elaine Amir, president of The Foundation for Jewish Studies, said in a statement. “His leadership, kindness and humanity will be long remembered.”

Haberman, a Vienna native, was enrolled at the Vienna Jewish Theological Seminary when the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938. An invitation by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, enabled him to come to the United States, where he received ordination from HUC in 1945. Haberman earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati the same year and went on to earn two doctorates.

He served as clergy in several Reform synagogues before becoming senior rabbi at the Washington Hebrew Congregation in 1969. He retired in 1986, becoming rabbi emeritus, and remained active in the congregation as a teacher and spiritual leader until his death.

In 1983, he created the Foundation for Jewish Studies, a nonsectarian organization offering scholarly lecture series and tours for adult Jews, using startup money donated by an anonymous congregant.

Haberman also was active in interfaith dialogue with Christians and Muslims, and spoke at both the White House and in Congress.

He taught as an adjunct professor at Rutgers, American, George Washington and Georgetown universities, as well as at The Washington Theological Union (Catholic) and the Wesley Theological Seminary (Methodist). He was a past president of the National Association of

Retired Reform Rabbis, and served on the board of fellows of the Jewish Policy Center. He was the author of several books.

Accepting an award in 1987, Haberman lamented a “spiritual malaise” among American Jews.

“We Jews have an incredible advantage,” he said. “In the Western world we have learned important lessons and gained deep insights in world-saving truths from our historical experience of nearly 4,000 years. But a time such as this, when we could be a light unto the nation, most of our people, so brilliantly educated in all the secular branches of learning, are Jewishly illiterate. We are messengers who have forgotten the message.”

Haberman is survived by his wife of 73 years, Maxine Rudin Haberman, as well as four children, 15 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. (JTA)

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it’s a wrap Jane Gardner presents inspirational message of hope Amy Cobb

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ith a calmness and gentleness in her voice that defied the remarkable struggle she has faced, Jane Gardner told her story, “Live Each Day,” to a packed house at the Kaufman Theater at Chrysler Museum on Sunday, September 17.

The former television news anchor has fought cancer—not just once, but four times. Gardner was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, and then 10 years later, melanoma skin cancer. In May 2015, she learned she had ovarian cancer, followed by a diagnosis of lung cancer less than a year later.

As Gardner shared her remarkable story, she also told tales of the people in the community who have helped her along the way. She spoke of Terri Denison, editor of Jewish News, who helped her compose a Facebook announcement when words failed her. She told how Liz Simpson, a writer for the Virginian-Pilot, chronicled her fight along the way. She mentioned Steve Earley, a photographer for the Pilot, who captured many tough moments, including the shaving of her hair by her friend and stylist, Gary Riffe.

There were many other stories of co-workers, neighbors, and medical professionals who showed her compassion and caring as she faced chemotherapy and other treatments, losing her hair, and more.

Gardner said, “When I was a TV anchor, I was LIVE each day. Now, I’ve

learned to LIVE each day…to never take a day for granted.”

The event was presented as a partnership between Jewish Family Service of Tidewater, Chrysler Museum, the Brock Institute of Eastern Virginia Medical School, and WHRO Public Media, with additional support from Virginia Oncology Associates.

Video presented as a partnership with Jewish Family Service of Tidewater, WHRO Public Media, the Chrysler Museum, and the Brock Institute of Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Jane Gardner speaks at the Chrysler Museum.

Linda Kaufman, Jane Gardner, and Barbara Ciara.

Dr. Aaron and Etta Vinik with Jane Gardner.

A video of Jane Gardner’s presentation, produced by WHRO Media, will be shown free of charge on Sunday, November 19 at 2 pm at the Chrysler Museum.

The video captures her story of spirit, will, and community.

Call 757-664-6200 for more information.

Jan Jinright, RN, Virginia Oncology Associates with Jane Gardner.

Norfolk Mayor Kenny Alexander greets Jane Gardner.

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