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Published by the Jewish Federation of Collier County serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities

Federation Star

National Council of Jewish Women luncheon

Jewish community Yom HaShoah Observance

18 Israeli inventions that could save your life

Celebrating Jewish Life in Collier County, Israel and the World

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 3 Women’s Cultural Alliance 4 Men’s Cultural Alliance 5 Community Focus 8 Jewish Interest 14 Business Directory 16 Israel & the Jewish World 21 Tributes 22 Commentary 23 Rabbinical Reflections 24 Focus on Youth 26 Synagogues 27 Organizations 30 Community Calendar 31 Community Directory

Rising young star: Adam Roth

PRESENTS

Evy Lipp People of the BookCultural Event

SAVE THE DATEWednesday, February 25, 2015

“Blooming Into Spring”Federation Women’s Division Luncheon “Thank You” from Nancy Greenberg and Carolyn Roth, Event co-Chairs

We want to thank everyone who sponsored and atten-ded the Jewish Federation

Women’s Division Luncheon at Grey Oaks Country Club in April. We had a wonderful turnout of 152 guests, a fabulous speaker in Julie Shifman, a delicious lunch, and entertaining music played by Michael Mendelsohn.

A huge thank you goes to Adria Starkey and FineMark National Bank & Trust for generously underwriting our event. In addition, we would like to thank Bigham Jewelers for donating a beautiful bracelet and earrings ensemble for our raffle, as well as Mitchell Dan-nenberg, who donated a decadent Nor-man Love “Chocolate Lovers” Basket

that was also raffled off to a lucky winner.

Thank you to our local florists who graciously donated centerpieces that dazzled our room: Garden District, Cathy’s Herbs & Botanicals, Eastfork Orchids, Gene’s 5th Ave Florist, and Marcy’s Florals; with contributions from Marcy Aizenshtat-Bigel, Jane Purdy Berger, Stacy Braverman, Stepha-nie Heuer, Dana Jaffe, Phyllis Maizlish and Terri Nies.

Our wonderful goodie bag was filled with surprises donated by Cathy’s Herbs & Botanicals, Driftwood Garden Center, LTCi Marketplace, Marissa Col-lections, Ooh La La Jewels Du Jour and W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Thank you to Gwen Greenglass, who photographed the luncheon for all to remember.

And finally, the biggest “thank you” to our incredibly dedicated committee: Marcy Aizenshtat-Bigel, Jane Purdy Berger, Estelle Price, Linda Hyde and Phyllis Seaman; and of course…David Willens, Iris Doenias, Deborah Vacca and Jill Saravis from the Jewish Federa-tion office.

We hope to see you all next year and hope that you find the Jewish Federa-tion’s Women’s Division Luncheon the place to be each spring.

“Blooming Into Spring” AT THE

Women’s Division Luncheon MADE POSSIBLE BY THE

GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE FOLLOWING:

BIGHAM JEWELERS

Centerpieces donated by Naples leading Florists

GARDEN DISTRICT CATHY’S HERBS & BOTANICALS

EASTFORK ORCHIDS GENE’S 5TH AVE FLORIST

MARCY’S FLORALS

And contributions from the following MARCY AIZENSHTAT-BIGEL

JANE PURDY BERGER STACY BRAVERMAN STEPHANIE HEUER

DANA JAFFE PHYLLIS MAIZLISH

TERRI NIES CAROLYN ROTH

Favors CATHY’S HERBS & BOTANICALS DRIFTWOOD GARDEN CENTER

LTCi MARKETPLACE MARISSA COLLECTIONS

OOH LA LA JEWELS DU JOUR W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY GWEN GREENGLASS

MUSIC BY MICHAEL MENDELSOHN

Photos (clockwise from top left):Carolyn Roth and Nancy GreenbergMarcy Aizenshtat-Bigel and Heather AizenshtatJulie Shifman, Nancy Greenberg, Lois CohenGrey Oaks ballroomKaren Ezrine and Helene GordonJulie Shifman, Sally Aaron, Janis SiegelPhotos by Gwen Greenglass

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The Anti-Defamation League’s results of an unprecedented worldwide survey

of anti-Semitic attitudes. See page 15.

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You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

Alvin Becker

Federation President

The Council of Presidents of our synagogues and Jewish organi-zations met in early May to plan

the Jewish Community Calendar for the 2014-15 year…and if you thought this past season was full of wonderful activities and programs…you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

The Jewish Federation of Collier County is planning the following lineup of events for next season: a Community Chanukah Celebration on December 18 at the Mercato in Naples; and with our assistance on Marco Island on Decem-ber 21; the Annual FED CUP Golf Out-ing has been rescheduled for December 21. In January we will host our annual Klezmer Band Concert in celebration of Florida Jewish History Month. We are planning a Major Gifts Event; our An-nual Community Celebration Event is scheduled for January 31 at Wyndemere; a fundraiser/friend-raiser on Marco Island; and a Women’s Division event.

Federation members, please hold the date of Wednesday, February 25,

2015, for our annual Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural event. A very unique speaker is being planned.

These are just some of the “major” events in store for you when you return next season. There are also plans on the drawing board for events by our Israel Advocacy Committee, the Kristallnacht Convocation from the Catholic/Jewish Dialogue of Collier County, and so many more wonderful events that will be presented through, or by all the local synagogues and Jewish organizations.

Our 2014 Federation Campaign is strong. We have recorded many new gifts and increased giving so far this year, which broadens our donor base and involves more people in our many community-building and humanitarian endeavors. Todah Rabah – our thanks go out to all of our generous donors. If you have not made your gift to the 2014 Federation Campaign, there is a clip-and-mail form on page 29 of this issue for you to make your pledge of support. Otherwise, we will start wrap-ping up our campaign at the Jewish New Year and close by the end of December.

So while you are away or just loaf-ing here in town, we’ll be busy planning all our events and activities to please you this coming season. Have a great summer and rest up. We’ll see you in the fall.

You’ve probably seen it. A less-than-two-minute video produced by Andrea Gardner

showing a blind and homeless man sitting by the side of a building hoping for some spare change from passersby. His hand-lettered sign reads, “I am blind. Please help.” Few people seem to notice or care and only a few coins are put in his tin cup. Then a smartly-dressed young woman walks by, stops, kneels down and writes something on the sign and leaves. Suddenly, the home-less man’s fortunes change and he is almost overwhelmed by the generosity of people passing him. His cup, literally, overflows.

When the woman returns, the man, who” recognizes” her from her shoes that he had touched earlier, asks her

what she had done to his sign. She tells him that she didn’t do anything to his sign but simply used different words. As she walks away, we see that the sign now reads, “It’s a beautiful day and I can’t see it.”

The power of words. When we tell people that we make our home in the Naples area (not simply that we “live” here), we convey the thought that we are firmly a part of a larger community that we care about; that we recognize that while our community has many assets and virtues, it also has problems and challenges and, to the extent that we can, we want to respond to them – because it is our home. And because we know that we can’t have a good home in a bad community.

Your Jewish Federation of Collier County provides support – financial and non-financial – to organizations and programs that seek to meet the humanitarian, educational, cultural and social service needs of the Jewish com-munity, all with an objective of making Collier County the best home it can be for all of us.

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A golf event for all skills and ages

to benefit young Jewish children and teens

to experience Jewish Summer Camp

and travel to Israel.

For more information about the event and hole sponsorships

contact Kevin Aizenshtat at [email protected].

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WCA’s branches continue to bloom!WOMEN’S CULTURAL ALLIANCE www.WomensCulturalAlliance.com / 215-820-6697

By Susan Pittelman, WCA Publicity Director

Membership: $60 for the year includes all programming and Federation membership.

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Your membership check is your permission for Women’s Cultural Alliance to take and use photographs/videos for appropriate purposes in accordance with WCA’s mission.

The WCA branches provide a way for members of the Women’s Cultural Alliance to “take WCA

home” after the season ends. Through our local branches, women can continue the fun and the friendships that began in Naples.

Some of the leadership of the branches has changed, so it is very im-portant to send your branch leader your contact information (including your email address). This will ensure that you receive information about upcom-ing gatherings and programs – and that you don’t miss out on any of the fun!

There are WCA branches growing in eight geographic areas throughout North America:

The Metro Boston Branch serves women from throughout New England. Branch Leader Rolly Jacob reported that in March, members went to Fenway South to watch a spring training game. (WCA and MCA members were invited to join them, under the condition that they cheer for the Red Sox!) Special thanks to Arlene Sobol for organizing this event. The branch has a fantastic afternoon planned at Neiman Marcus on Monday, June 16 that includes lunch, makeovers and wine! Rolly encouraged everyone to sign up and commented, “In the past the branch has had cocktail parties, museum outings and lunches – whatever else is being planned is sure to be terrific!”

The Connecticut Branch has been meeting for two and a half years and has approximately 25 members. The branch had several delightful lunches, hosted by members in both Naples and Connecti-cut. Last summer the branch organized a private docent tour at the new Yale Art Gallery and viewed the Herb and Dorothy Vogel art collection, followed by a lovely lunch. This winter, Chet Rivel invited branch members to her home, where she showed a foreign film, followed by a lively discussion and cof-fee and dessert. Branch Leader Linda Hofbauer said, “We are currently plan-ning our summer get-together where we

will welcome our new members.”The Illinois Branch encompasses

Chicago proper and the surrounding northern and western suburbs. An “Art Encounter” tour of art galleries (or private homes) that will include lunch is being planned for a July weekday in Chicago. Branch Leader Roberta Ury commented, “This will be an exciting adventure for the WCA Illinois Branch. I anticipate a great turnout.”

“The Michigan Branch is a loosely formed group,” explained new Branch Leader Ruth Anne Lippitt.” The branch held a successful luncheon last year with the help of former branch co-leaders Judy Hocher and Rosalie Gold. The women had fun and enjoyed getting to know each other. Ruth Anne is planning a lunch for the members of the Michigan branch – but said that she needs your email addresses to be able to invite you.

WCA New York City/New Jersey new Branch Leaders Judy Isserlis and Carole Weinberg are in the process of re-organizing the branch, building on the strong foundation that had been created by former branch leader Marvelle Col-by. They are looking forward to hearing from the women from Metro New York and New Jersey. Judy declared, “Let’s plan a great program of culture, fun and friendship in the other “seasons” of the year. Carole added, “The Big Apple is our oyster – let’s crack it together! The branch is off to a great start, with mem-ber Gail Nizin planning an art tour in Chelsea for Wednesday, June 11. This very special outing will begin with coffee at the new High Line Hotel and conclude after lunch.

What was once known as the Toronto Branch is now Oh Canada because the branch warmly welcomes women from other parts of Canada. A walk on the berm, a visit to the Holo-caust Museum, a tour of historic Palm Cottage, teas and lunches – these are just some of the exciting activities ex-perienced by the enthusiastic Canadian contingent in fabulous Naples. About

30 women participate in the activities of the “Oh Canada” branch of WCA. They span Canada from Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Windsor with most from Montreal or Toronto. Branch leader Leslie Springman said, “You just have to be friendly and enjoy hav-ing fun to join outings organized by our group!” The branch hopes to meet in Toronto in June at Spadina House, a historic and beautiful home, for a tour and tea. Stay tuned for future events!

The Ohio Branch thanks Lourene Rapport for her help in organizing the Ohio members and welcomes Marcia Schonberg of Columbus as the new branch leader. Marcia looks forward to the summer events that are being orga-nized to attract WCAers throughout the state. She explained, “I hope to facilitate activities for members who cluster in major localities as well as plan a central gathering to accommodate all of us. I’m eager to research various possibilities and to hear from participants to build our database and get fresh ideas.”

The Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia Branch includes women from the Maryland and Virginia sub-urbs of Washington as well as from the Baltimore area. Deedee Remenick has assumed the leadership of this group from Jeani Haven. (Thank you, Jeani, for helping to create the branch two years ago!) Branch members are touring the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on Friday, May 30. Deedee is planning a tour of the Philip Ratner Museum in Bethesda and is also looking into a visit to The Mansion on O Street,

a unique bed and breakfast where every-thing in the house is for sale! The group is also talking about hosting a luncheon at “an interesting place.” It sounds like a very exciting summer! The branch has about 25 members, and new members are welcome.

If you live in one of these areas, take the fun and joy of being part of WCA back home with you! Get in touch with your branch leader(s) today:

¡ Connecticut: Linda Hofbauer - [email protected]

¡ Illinois: Roberta Ury - [email protected]

¡ Metro Boston: Rolly Jacob - [email protected]

¡ Michigan: Ruth Anne Lippitt - [email protected]

¡ NYC Metro/NJ: Judy Isserlis and Carole Weinberg - [email protected]

¡ Oh Canada: Leslie Springman - [email protected]

¡ Ohio: Marcia Schonberg - [email protected]

¡ Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia: Deedee Remenick - [email protected] Is there a WCA Branch for your

area? If there is, contact the Branch Leader(s) to get your name on the list; if not, consider starting one so that you too can enjoy the benefits of WCA year round! If you are not a member of WCA – this is one more reason to join! Com-plete the WCA membership application below today. For more information, visit www.womensculturalliance.org.

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By Jeff Margolis

Sun Power author to address MCA luncheon

Most of you are already at your summer residences or travels and I want to wish all of you

a wonderful summer!I also want to remind you that while

you’re away there is a lot of planning and work going on here in Naples.

The needs of our people continue to exist here, nationally, in Israel and in over 60 countries around the world. I’d love to see a day when we didn’t have to help anyone and could close up shop.

With that said, all of you know that the news out of Ukraine grows worse daily. Last month, our Federation al-located $2,500 through The Jewish Federations of North America to go di-rectly to the JFNA Emergency Fund for Ukraine Assistance. I have tried to reach out to my wonderful guide Julia, from my JFNA mission to Odessa and Israel two years ago. Hopefully, I will hear back soon and will be able to keep our community involved. Each day brings more news of the rise in anti-Semitism both here in America and abroad. We can’t keep our heads in the sand and ignore what is happening. We have to not only help our people, but also be involved in our community and educate.

Our Federation is already doing just that. We are very involved in our secular community in Naples and elsewhere as much as in our Jewish community. Here are some of our commitments of funds

this past year: ¡ Greater Naples YMCA after the fire ¡ Jewish Community Relations

Council (JCRC) conducts outreach through education, information and programing

¡ The Catholic/Jewish Dialogue, whose mission is to advance mutual understanding and appreciation of both faith communities

¡ Human Needs Award to deserving community-based social service organizations

¡ “Stand Up For Justice” Educator Grant to foster projects that teach respect in our public schools

¡ The Holocaust Museum & Educa-tion Center of Southwest FloridaAs you can see, we try hard to fulfill

“tikkun olam” – to repair the world.I hope I have added some more

reasons that might encourage you to consider a commitment to our Annual Federation Campaign or an additional or increased gift. You really didn’t think I would let you get away for two months without asking for money, did you?

As you know, the needs are great and we are doing some pretty amazing things for a small city Federation. I’m very proud of our community and to be a part of it, and so should you. Even if you’re only here seasonally, you are a part of the big picture.

If you have already made a gift or pledge for 2014 – Thank You! If not, please consider your gift NOW. We are trying extremely hard to reach our $1.5 million goal. The more we raise, the more we can allocate.

Please be a part of our success story.No Gift Touches More Lives!

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Noted solar power advocate Neville Williams is slated to address the December season

opening MCA Luncheon. Williams’ recently published book, Sun Power (c.2014 Macmillan Pub. Co.), deals with the current energy revolution and how the use of solar power will play into America and the world’s future energy needs.

The luncheon is scheduled for Thursday, December 11 at the Cypress Woods Country Club. Williams’ presen-tation is just the first of many scheduled informative luncheon events that will surely pique the interest of MCA mem-bers. The planning committee has also tentatively obtained Jerry Bond for the Thursday, January 8 meeting. Bond is a decorated World War II veteran who fought both on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge. The committee members have been busy lining up other speakers and luncheon venues in expectation of

a banner 2014-2015 season.MCA committee members have also

been developing new activity groups for next season. These included bocce at Vineyards Community Park, Tai Chi, a writing workshop, and a private docent-led tour of the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida. We are also looking to schedule a visit to the newly reopened Collier Car Col-lection and a tour of the Collier County 911 Emergency Center.

Members are always encouraged to recommend new activities and groups, and the club is always looking for those who agree to facilitate these new programs.

Members are also encouraged to renew their membership so as not to miss out on a great season. A 2014-2015 Membership Renewal Form can be found below. Please tell your friends about MCA and invite them to join our growing and vibrant organization.

The board and staff of the Jewish Federa-tion of Collier County would like to take this opportunity to thank the volunteers who helped us at the Federation offices welcome visitors, answer phones, take reservations for events, and assist with special projects as needed.

It is our pleasure to thank them pub-licly for their interest and commitment to the Jewish Federation of Collier County.

We are truly grateful for their assis-tance in our ever growing organization.

Essie BargDiane Block

Harvey BrennerMaxine Brenner

Judie KleinMarciadee NewmanHarold Rappaport

Arlene Sobol

The Federation Thanks Our Office Volunteers For 2013-2014

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Naples, Florida 34109-0613Phone: (239) 263-4205Fax: (239) 263-3813

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Federation is the central Jewish community-building organization for Collier County, providing a social service network that helps Jewish people in Collier County, in Israel and around the world. As the central fundraising organization for Jewish communal life in our area, strength is drawn from organized committees of dedicated volunteers.Programs include: • Annual Campaign & Endowment fund• Community Relations Committee• Educational & cultural programs• Long Range Planning for expected community growth • Publication of the Federation Star, our monthly newspaper; Connections, our annual resource guide; and Community Directory• Women’s Cultural Alliance• Women’s Division• YAD – Young Adult Division• Youth Activities Committee – sponsoring youth education and scholarships for Jewish Summer Camp and the Israel Experience

OfficersPresident: Alvin Becker

Vice President: Kevin Aizenshtat Vice President: Phyllis Seaman

Vice President: Berton ThompsonSecretary: Wallie LenchnerTreasurer: Jerry Sobelman

Immed. Past President: Judge Norman Krivosha

Board of TrusteesJoshua Bialek

Harvey BrennerStephen Coleman

Amanda DorioMichael Feldman

Alan GordonNeil HeuerBen Peltz

Joel PittelmanDr. Tracey Roth

Jane SchiffArlene Sobol

Michael SobolDr. Daniel Wasserman

Beth WolffBarry Zvibleman

Past PresidentsGerald Flagel, Dr. William Ettinger,

Ann Jacobson, Sheldon Starman, Bobbie Katz, Rosalee Bogo

Board Members EmeritusHans Levy

Shirley Levy

Synagogue RepresentativesCantor Donna Azu

Roger BlauRosalee Bogo

Rabbi Ammos ChornyStuart Kaye

Rabbi Edward MalineRabbi Adam Miller

Suzanne Paley Rabbi James Perman

Dr. Arthur SeigelNeil Shnider

Rabbi Sylvin WolfRabbi Fishel Zaklos

Executive DirectorDavid Willens

StaffJill Saravis, Community Program Coord.

Iris Doenias, Administrative AssistantDeborah Vacca, Bookkeeper

The work of the Jewish Federation of Collier County represents both our commu-

nity and our community’s most generous tradition –

to give to others even in the most difficult times.

JFCS updateDr. Jaclynn Faffer

JFCS President/CEO

Although Passover is long behind us, this year the Jewish Fam-ily & Community Services

of Southwest Florida (JFCS) annual “Seder-in-a-Box” program provided boxes of Passover necessities such as matzo and gefilte fish, as well as goodies such as cookies and candy, to 80 Jewish individuals.

Once again, in partnership with Beth Tikvah Congregation, the Jew-ish Congregation of Marco Island, and Temple Shalom, JFCS raised funds to enable those Jewish individuals who use the JFCS Food Pantry to celebrate a “sweet” Passover. Each Passover

“box” also included a $25 Publix gift card to allow for the purchase of fruit, vegetables and meat.

JFCS also provided Easter din-ners, through our “Easter in a Basket” program, to 55 individuals. It is always heartwarming to know that through the generous support of our community, JFCS can help those who are strug-gling with food insecurity to enjoy the holidays.

And speaking of food…with our snowbird supporters enjoying the cooler weather up north, summer is often the time that the JFCS Food Pantry runs low on food. In fact, last summer was the first time in my knowledge that we actually had to shop to fill the shelves in the pantry. Please keep us in mind as you shop and come across those great BOGO deals!

Happily, this year we are partners of the Harry Chapin Food Bank. Our part-nership not only enables us to get food

from the food bank on a donated basis, but if we really run low we can “shop” there at much reduced prices. And, did you know that if you make a donation to the food bank you can designate it to JFCS? This designation comes to us as a “credit” for when we are in the position of purchasing food.

Our programs continue to grow, and we have just started a support group for men with early to mid-stage dementia. If you are interested in participating in this program, please contact our case manager, Donna Levy, RN, at 239.325.4444 or [email protected] for more information.

The Senior Center is now open three days a week and weekly luncheons are averaging 100 participants every Wednesday. And our pre-teen and teen outreach programs are reaching out into the community.

As always, thank you for your sup-port!

Faffer awarded Harvard scholarshipJewish Family & Community Ser-

vices of Southwest Florida (JFCS) has been notified that President/

CEO Dr. Jaclynn I. Faffer has been awarded a scholarship to attend a sum-mer program of the Harvard Business School. The week-long program, to be held in July, is entitled “Strategic Per-spectives in Non-Profit Management.” The $5,000 scholarship is provided by the Harvard Club of Naples and will cover the full cost of the program plus

room and board.Dr. Faffer has been in her current

position with JFCS since the summer of 2011. During that time, Faffer has been responsible for the transition of JFCS to an independent agency and for the tripling of the agency’s annual budget. Under Faffer’s leadership, JFCS has opened the first Senior Center in Col-lier County. In addition, she has been responsible for expanding the agency’s clinical programs.

JFCS is a non-sectarian, human ser-vices agency serving children, families and older adults in Collier and southern Lee counties. JFCS receives annual funding from the Jewish Federation of Collier County as well as a variety of other sources. JFCS is as member of the Association of Jewish Family and Chil-dren’s Agencies, and the Community Foundation of Collier County.

Naples Jewish Caring Support Group now at JFCS officesThe Naples Jewish Caring Support

Group has been meeting for over five years at Temple Shalom. The

group was founded by Florette Kahn when she and her friends watched illness attack their loved ones. Feeling isolated by the job of caregiving, they sought a safe place where they could discuss their distress and find ways to handle diffi-cult situations. The confidential group environment provided support, comfort

and encouragement.We are honored that the founders

of the Naples Jewish Caring Support Group have asked Jewish Family & Community Services to facilitate the group that has helped so many. The Na-ples Jewish Caring Support Group will move to the JFCS offices at 5025 Cas-tello Drive, where it will be facilitated by Donna Levy, RN, the JFCS geriatric case manager. Ms. Levy is a psychiatric

nurse with extensive experience in help-ing individuals and groups cope with the struggles of caregiving and loss.

Group meetings will begin on June 9 and be offered the second and fourth Mondays of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The group is offered free of charge.

Please contact Donna Levy at 239.325.4444 or [email protected] for more information.

By Jeff Margolis

Jewish community commemorates Yom HaShoah

It is called Yom HaShoah. It is a day set aside each year to honor the memories of those men, women

and children who perished during the Holocaust. It is also a time to honor the liberators and those righteous gentiles who rescued the remnants of European Jewry.

This year, the Yom HaShoah pro-gram of Collier County was held at Beth Tikvah synagogue. Organized by Rabbi Ammos Chorny, spiritual leader of Beth Tikvah, the program included traditional liturgical prayers to honor and commemorate the six million Jew-ish souls obliterated by the Nazi regime.

The program also featured the showing of the film Tak for Alt, which chronicles the story of Judy Meisel, whose experiences during the Holo-caust in a ghetto and then a work camp inspired her to become a teacher and an advocate for civil rights. Tak for Alt, which is Danish for “Thanks for Every-thing,” is a documentary that portrays both hope and despair. The film also pays tribute to the people of Denmark, who risked their own lives to smuggle its Jewish community to neutral Sweden during World War II.

The Yom HaShoah commemora-tion was co-sponsored by the following organizations: Beth Tikvah of Naples, Naples Jewish Congregation, Temple Shalom of Naples, Chabad of Naples, The Catholic/Jewish Dialogue of Col-lier County, GenShoah of Southwest

Florida, the Jewish Con-gregation of Marco Island, the Jewish Federation of Collier County, and the Holocaust Museum & Edu-cation Center of Southwest Florida. Also participating this year were students from St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic School.

“We shall teach our children to preserve for-ever that uprooted Jewish spirit which could not be destroyed.”

GenShoah members and Rabbi Ammos Chorny light memorial candles during the community Yom HaShoah Observance

at Beth Tikvah (photo by Jeff Margolis)

6 June 2014Federation Star COMMUNITY FOCUS

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Amy Snyder

Executive Director

Recently, I have been reflecting on the stories of our survivors and liberators, and the message that

they impart to our young people through their testimonies. I’d like to share some of their thoughts.

From Abe Price: I am speaking and writing about the Holocaust in order for people to know the truth and what the Nazis and their collaborators did to

innocent civilians during World War II.Abe was always faithful to the story

and dedicated to truth. Although many today believe that truth is relative and situational, we know in our hearts that there is an ultimate standard of behavior, and that persecution and destruction of the innocent violates that standard. The intention and actions of the Nazi Regime continues to be an affront to human dignity as we see it reflected in other totalitarian regimes around the world. In honor of the Holocaust survivors we know, it is our duty to stand up for truth when we are able.

From Rob Nossen: Sharing my story puts a personal face on the Holo-caust, which both students and adults

seem to relate to. There are basic factors that seem to contribute to [genocides], namely, lack of tolerance for minori-ties and anyone who is different. For students, this is often exhibited in the form of bullying and racial/ethnic slurs.

Meeting someone who lived the Holocaust makes it real for our students and allows them to visualize themselves in the story. This is how we can create empathy that leads to real change. The personal connection is central to mak-ing history meaningful and we are so thankful for the survivors and liberators who are willing to share their lives with students.

From Rosette Gerbosi: First – cherish your family; second – value the

freedoms we have in this country; third – respect your differences, we are all dif-ferent – color, religion, gender – but we are one race and that is the human race.

The reminder seems simple, but how often we forget! It is not until we have lost something that we realize how precious it is – a family member, a friend, a belief, freedom. All of these are gifts and all need nurturing.

The stories of the Holocaust contin-ue to be relevant in our lives in so many ways. We are grateful to the Southwest Florida community for its support of the Holocaust Museum, giving us the ability to make sure these stories are heard and remembered.

By Ida Margolis

Why is GenShoah Southwest Florida different from other GenShoahs?

A short time before Passover, the steering committee of Gen-Shoah Southwest Florida began

planning programs for next season. As we were discussing what programs would be most appropriate for our group, I was thinking about the unique-ness of our group.

Last fall I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the first “Genera-tions of the Shoah International (GSI) Conference” and “25th Annual World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants” joint gathering. One of the workshops I attended was titled “What works and what doesn’t work in our local groups?” The main thing that I came away with

from that workshop was that throughout the country, local GenShoah groups are very different, so that what works for one group does not necessarily work for another group for many reasons.

Some groups are located in areas where there are still many survivors as well as many second- and third-generation individuals. Other commu-nities have a small number of second generation but their numbers remain consistent throughout the year. Some groups allow only second generation to come to meetings while others allow anyone who has been impacted by the Holocaust. A few groups are associated with a local Holocaust Museum or Ho-locaust Resource Center, while others

are independent groups.There are a variety of reasons why

GenShoah Southwest Florida is unique. During season there is an increase in the number of children and grandchildren of survivors in our region. In an area that does not have a large Jewish popula-tion, we have an incredible resource, the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida. The number of visitors to this little gem attests to the fact that there in an interest in the history of the Holocaust in this area.

In the past, when GenShoah South-west Florida presented programs, many individuals who were not children (2g) or grandchildren (3g) of survivors have asked to attend, and the steering com-mittee agreed that not only should they be permitted to attend, they should be welcomed.

On the GSI website, this group of 2g and 3g of survivors is described as “a worldwide network of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, linked together with the common goals of preserving and honoring our legacy, sharing resources and programming ideas, providing emotional support to

our members, and tackling issues of mutual interest.”

GenShoah Southwest Florida, tak-ing into account the uniqueness of our area and the interest expressed by visi-tors and snowbirds, describes itself as “a group for children of Holocaust survi-vors and others interested in promotion of Holocaust education, preservation of memories of the Holocaust, connection of second generation with one another, and support of the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida.”

If you are a person who has any of the above interests, please consider yourself invited to become a member of GenShoah Southwest Florida. There are no dues and no forms to fill out. Simply email me at [email protected] and ask to be put on the GenShoah Southwest Florida email list. You will receive information about all meetings, events and activities. Also, be sure to read this newspaper about upcoming events, including films presented by program chair Steve Brazina, as well as outstanding speakers and discussion groups.

Interested in your family’s history?

Do you have a similar photo in your home? Who are these people? Are they related to you? Do you know where your forebears came from? How do you find out? Do your grandchildren know who these people are? Researching your family genealogy can help you find the answers to all these questions. And the answers to questions you don’t even know to ask yet.Want to find out how to get started? Come to the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Shared Interest Group) at the Jewish Federation of Collier County offices (2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples) on Tuesday, June 10 at 10:00 a.m.

Seating is limited. RSVP to [email protected]. You will receive an acknowledgement that you have a reservation.

Bring a notebook and pen with you to the meeting.

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Dr. Matusitz on “How Culture Shapes Terrorism”By Gene Sipe, VP Southwest Florida Chapter ZOA

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) of Southwest Florida in conjunction with

Sam and Judith Friedland are proud to cosponsor Dr. Jonathan Matusitz, uni-versity professor, author and lecturer, on Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the Chabad Jewish Center of Naples, 1789 Mandarin Road.

Dr. Matusitz’s presentation will be on the topic “How Culture Shapes Terrorism.” His most recent book, Ter-rorism & Communication: A Critical Introduction, was published in 2012 by SAGE. He currently is a tenured associ-ate professor in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University

of Central Florida (UCF). He has over 100 academic publications and over 100 conference presentations to his credit, and he taught at a NATO-affiliated mili-tary base in Belgium in 2010. In 2012, he was honored with a prestigious teach-ing award by the College of Sciences at UCF. He has also been reproached by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for the content of this presentation.

The program is open to the public and tickets are $10. RSVP to the ZOA Southwest Florida Chapter by email to [email protected] or by mail to Jerry Sobel, 4003 Upolo Lane, Naples, FL 34119.

2014 hurricane season –Be prepared…have a planBy David Willens, Federation Executive Director

This is a friendly and important reminder, that as we enter the 2014 hurricane season, there are

several things you need to do to protect yourself and your property from an impending storm.

The most important action you can take is to “have a plan.” This means to plan for what to do, should you decide to hunker down or to evacuate. In the past, I’ve reminded you of several things – and I will remind you again to:

X Have plenty of fresh water available X Have an ample supply of prescrip-

tion medicines that you take. X Keep your cell phones charged

(get a car charger should you lose

electricity) X Fill up your car with gas and your

propane tanks as well X Have some cash available X Organize and secure important

documents, especially your home-owner’s insurance policy, and have them ready to take with you should you decide to evacuate

X Secure your valuables. Move your furnishings away from windows and doors. And don’t forget to se-cure family photos and memorabilia – they cannot be replaced.

X Include your pets in your plan. If you evacuate, have a list of lodging facilities that take in pets.

Beth Tikvah

JEWISH PRISONER OUTREACH (not affiliated with Beth Tikvah Conservative Synagogue)

Jewish Prisoner Outreach in our area has been conducted for about 30 years (before

2002 it was under the umbrella of B’nai B’rith and Jewish Prisoner Services International). In order to continue this initiative, support is needed in providing anonymous responses to mail from lonely and forgotten men and women. Work can be done from your own computer.

Jewish Prisoner Outreach provides a wide assortment of Judaica to those lacking the funds to make their own purchases. We welcome donations of dormant Judaica (used tefillin, Chumashim, Tanakhim, Hebrew readers, Siddurim, tallaisim, etc.) from individuals and congregations. Through directed giving, we provide kosher edibles at holiday times.

We also provide pre-entry and post-release support and counseling for Jewish offenders and their loved ones who request it. Much of our time and energy is devoted to combating rampant anti-Semitism in Florida’s prison system.

We seek a volunteer director to assist in day-to-day outreach programs. For more information, call 239-566-7702 or email [email protected].

Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan returns to Fort Myers. This will be the Scouts’ third appearance in Fort Myers. The Scouts

put on an energetic performance. They sing and dance on stage and with their audience.

The teenagers who participate in Caravan come from all throughout Israel. They go through an extensive selection process and are chosen based on their maturity and the fluency of their English, as well as their abil-ity to sing and dance.

Each caravan is comprised of ten 16 and 17 year olds, entering their senior year of high school, plus two advisors who are post-army service.

The program in Fort Myers is sponsored jointly by Temple Judea,

Temple Beth El and the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte

Counties.

Temple Judea 11486 A & W Bulb Road

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For a continuously updated community calendar, visit www.jewishnaples.org.

8 June 2014Federation Star JEWISH INTEREST

In 1966, Israeli historian Jacob Robinson observed that “the usual course of any particular community

is even and uneventful; ordinarily, little of historical significance takes place,” except in “those rare times when a peak of military, political, intellectual

and moral activity is reached.”

The era of Nazi oppression, however, was quite different. Robinson notes that then, “in the span of only twelve years, every single Jew-

ish community in Europe perforce was faced with the greatest crisis possible to a group – the crisis of existence.” Given that, he concluded that the history of the Holocaust was “as eventful and rich as that of a thousand years.”

The month of June 1944 was most definitely one such month. While this short piece cannot chronicle every event that took place during the Holocaust, some are worthy of general note.

In June 1944, the Holocaust in Hun-gary continued. Jewish communal lead-er Rudolf Kasztner had begged Adolf Eichmann that some of the Hungarian Jews remain in Budapest, but on June 3 Eichmann informed Kasztner that “I have to clean up the provincial towns of the Jewish garbage. I must take this Jewish muck out of the provinces. I cannot play the role of the savior of the Jews.” That same day, at Auschwitz, a train arrived from Lyon, France. The world was to learn later from a survi-vor, Freda Silberberg, that she was ar-rested by French authorities, not the Germans. At Birkenau, the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele selected Freda for his experiment pool.

On June 4, U.S. forces successful-ly entered the Italian capital, Rome. By this stage Italy was effectively out of the war, but the German army in Italy continued to fight right up until the Nazis’ final capitulation in May 1945.

June 6 was one of the most mo-mentous days of World War II. Op-eration Overlord, the code name for the Battle of Normandy, saw the start of the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe. This was D-Day: a 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault across the English Channel, in which thou-sands of vessels ferried nearly 160,000 American, British and Canadian troops onto the French coastline. By the end of August, more than three million Allied troops were in France, and the long fight to destroy Nazism was now starting its final phase.

On that same day, June 6, 1944, the Germans rounded up 1,795 Jews in Corfu, Greece. Some fifteen hundred of them were gassed at Birkenau.

The month of June also saw the capture of a young Jewish resistance leader, Hannah Szenes (Senesh). In 1943, in Palestine, she had joined the British Army and volunteered to be parachuted into Europe in order to help the Allies make contact with local re-sistance groups. Sent to Yugoslavia in March, on June 7, 1944, at the height of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, she crossed into Hungary. On June 9, she was arrested by Hungarian police,

tortured repeatedly over the next sever-al months, and this martyr for the Jew-ish people was ultimately executed by a firing squad on November 7. At her death, she was only 23 years old.

On June 12, the Nazi Reich Min-ister for the Occupied Eastern Territo-ries, Alfred Rosenberg, ordered what became known as the “Heuaktion,” or “Hay Action,” in which approximately 40,000 Polish children, aged between ten and fourteen, were kidnapped for slave labor in Germany. These were not Jewish children. Their kidnapping led to enormous hardship (sometimes death), the loss of identity, and was a further attempt at destroying a Polish future – even though the war in the east was by this stage clearly lost.

Reinforcing the idea that Jews were by this stage not wanted even as slave labor, on June 16 a call was made in the Lodz Ghetto for volunteers who were prepared to perform labor outside the ghetto. Those who reported were, instead, destined for the death camp at Chelmno.

At this time, with Germany’s war effort in tatters, the Holocaust was still very much in evidence. On June 17, SS General Edmund Veesenmayer notified Berlin that 340,000 Hungarian Jews had been deported to their deaths since April 29. On June 19, a further 500 Jews were transferred from Birkenau to Dachau (with another thousand on June 22), and on June 23 wholesale de-portations of the Jews of Lodz began. On average, 3,000 Jews were deported from Lodz to Chelmno each week in an operation that did not come to an end until July 14.

At Birkenau, on June 24, a young Jewish woman named Mala Zimet-baum escaped from the camp through an airlock in the gas chamber waiting room. She had already spent nearly two years at the camp, where she had been working as an interpreter and courier. She and the man she had come to love, a Polish prisoner named Ed-ward “Edek” Galiński, were soon re-captured, and returned to Auschwitz, where they were tortured prior to their execution. Sentenced to be hanged in public, Mala produced a razor blade and slashed at the veins on her upper arms. While she did not die immedi-ately, by the time she was dead, aged just 22, her defiance was already leg-endary among prisoners, and has since become an inspiration for young Jews everywhere.

The month ended with a further trainload of Jews sent to Birkenau from Corfu on June 30. Nearly all were mur-dered.

The month of June 1944 was one which was, as Jacob Robinson would remind us, “as eventful and rich as that of a thousand years.” It is instructive, perhaps, to note that this was repeated, over and over again, with variations as to scale and intensity, across the 149 months of the Third Reich, a period which only included 58 months of total war.Dr. Paul Bartrop is Professor of His-tory and the Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Stud-ies at Florida Gulf Coast University. He can be reached at [email protected].

By Paul R. Bartrop, PhDA lot of history

By David Benkof, [email protected] Solution on page 20

Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle

Across1. Prepare at the last minute for Israel’s bagrut exam5. “Heritage: Civilization and the Jews” narrator9. Entrepreneur and House member Polis (D-Colo.)14. Steak sauce certified by the Orthodox Union as kosher15. ___ Mare (ancestral home of Satmar Hasidim)16. Kind of oil used to light the Temple’s Menorah17. Famous Biblical convert18. “With its lone floors where reverent feet once ___” (line from an Emma Lazarus poem about The Touro Synagogue)19. Place name for Jerusalem that can be an abbreviation for the city20. City founded in 1950 whose name means “House of the Sun”23. “Chanukah” only has one, but “Hannukah” has two24. Bar Refaeli, by some men’s evaluations25. First king27. LA’s Skirball Museum is a good place to see some30. ___ kanfot (“four-cornered” garment to which tzitzit are attached)32. Composer Shemer and author Wolf36. Rend one’s garment, e.g.38. Died like Lenny Bruce40. Old Jewish ___ (kind of role played by Walter Matthau)41. Islamic caliphate under which Jews mostly flourished44. Oskar Schindler actor in “Schindler’s List”45. Comedian Blumenfeld of MTV’s “Pranked”46. “I’d like to order ___ pastrami sandwich...”47. Memoirist Eve (“In the Body of the World”)49. “Ken” in shiluach haken (mitzvah of sending way a mother bird)51. Tel Aviv-Mecca dir.52. Jai ___ (sport many Florida Jews enjoy)54. “Curly” player of Abe Saperstein’s Harlem Globetrotters56. Coll. for quarterback Aaron Murray59. He said Holocaust denial was a major achievement of his presidency64. Mubarak predecessor66. Kind of transportation used by participants of “Burning Bush Adventures” trips in Maine67. How jelly might come out of a Chanukah donut68. Egypt status69. “Every,” in Yiddish70. It’s used to affix a mezuzah

71. Harold who directed “National Lampoon’s Vacation”72. Rebecca Rubin, part of the “American Girl” collection73. Part of a dreidel game

Down1. One of many to be concerned about for dieters eating challah2. Shylock, perhaps3. ___-Defamation League4. Conductor Zubin5. A whole megillah6. Pianist Daniel7. Scientist Lise Meitner helped discover how to split one8. Kind of Modigliani painting9. He “fit” the Battle of Jericho10. “___ recherche du temps perdu” (Proust work)11. Nudge12. ___ Ha’ezer (part of the Shulchan Aruch)13. Sens. Brian Schatz and Ron Wyden21. Some parts of the former Soviet Union22. Koufax who famously wouldn’t pitch game one of the 1965 World Series26. Part of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union27. “You can’t shoot ___ in the tail like a quail” (“Annie Get Your Gun” lyric)28. He played “Jakob the Liar”29. James Levine might conduct them31. Part of a recipe in “Passover Made Easy”33. Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Mendelssohn34. Bissels35. Jule of “Gypsy”37. Famous Israeli prison site39. Former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania42. Abraham’s wife43. Second word of the “Dayenu” verse about the Torah48. Brings nachas to50. Jerusalem outreach professional Jeff53. It might be said on Tisha B’av55. Helmsley about whom Newsweek devoted the headline “Rhymes with Rich”56. Birthplace for Mila Kunis57. Type of fundraiser for a Jewish school58. An apple was named after him60. It’s used to answer the phone by some Israelis61. Rivers of comedy62. “I hope I don’t get ___ on my bar mitzvah...”63. Order from a Jerusalem Post editor65. Israeli singer Toledano

Dr. Paul Bartrop

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Stars of DavidBy Nate Bloom, Contributing ColumnistEditor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jew-ish parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are also identified as Jewish.

Interested in Your Family’s History?

Ten years of doing a Jewish celebrities column has turned Nate Bloom (see column at left) into something of an expert on finding basic family history records and articles mentioning a “searched-for” person.During these 10 years, he has put together a small team of “mavens” who aid his research. Most professional family history experts charge at least $1,000 for a full family tree. However, many people just want to get “started” by tracing one particular family branch.

So here’s the deal: Email Nate at [email protected],

tell him you saw this ad in the Federation Star, and include your phone number (area code, too).

Nate will then contact you about doing a “limited” family history for you at a modest cost

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A Real Cinderella StoryCalifornia Chrome, the winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby (held on May 3), is a for-real Cinderella story, as are his owners and trainer. The horse is owned and was bred by Perry Martin and Steve Coburn, who live, respec-tively, in a small city in far Northern California and in a small Nevada town near Lake Tahoe. Neither earns much money as an engineer and press op-erator, respectively, but they took a chance and bred two horses, worth $10,500 together, and got a foal (Cali-fornia Chrome) that showed early promise.

When Chrome was two years old, they told ALAN SHERMAN, 45, a trainer based part-time in the San Fran-cisco area, about the horse. He talked to his father and boss, trainer ART SHERMAN, 77, and they agreed to train him. Coburn told a Sacramento newspaper that he chose Art Sher-man because, “He’s a regular guy. He doesn’t have a huge barn. He can spend quality time with every horse. You can tell Chrome likes him, and he really loves this horse.”

Like Chrome, Art Sherman had modest beginnings. He was born in Brooklyn, where his father, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, scraped out a living in construction. Sherman told me, in a recent telephone inter-view, that his father’s brothers were do-ing a bit better in Los Angeles so they moved there when he was 7 (1945). His father opened a small Los Angeles barber shop.

The family wasn’t religious, Sher-

man said, but they sent him to Hebrew School for a while. He left when a rab-bi/teacher hit him and never returned. Meanwhile, Art was only 5’2” when he was 15, so a barber shop customer encouraged him to become a jockey. Nobody he knew rode horses, but he found his way to a track and found out he could learn what he needed by working at a nearby ranch that trained jockeys.

Art only had modest success as a jockey. In 1980, he became a full-time, licensed trainer and gradually became pretty successful. But until Chrome, he never had a really big-time thorough-bred. Chrome won five big races in a row before the Derby and entered the race a heavy favorite.

Pundits say that he has a good chance of being the first horse since 1978 to win the Triple Crown – the title accorded to a horse that wins the Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes (NBC, Saturday June 7, 4:30 p.m.). (NOTE: This item was written just before the Preakness Stakes was run on Saturday, May 17.)

Art Sherman was loath to pre-dict about the Triple Crown. He said he is just enjoying the attention that is going to the oldest trainer, ever, of a Kentucky Derby winner. “I have been photographed more times in the last few days than in my whole life. People on planes are asking for my au-tograph,” said Sherman. Meanwhile, Art’s other son, STEVE SHERMAN, 47, is having a banner year as a trainer at a Northern California race track.

No, Art Sherman didn’t become a

religious Jew with age. His wife of 53 years, Faye, isn’t Jewish. Still he’s a “pretty Jewish guy” – mentioning how much he loves eating lox and eggs with one of the several Jews who own hors-es he trains. He also fondly recalled that he, his wife and his nieces loved their trip to Israel two years ago. Dorfman Lookin’The new season of The Bachelorette, on ABC, began on Monday, May 19. ANDI DORFMAN, 27, who publicly rejected the titular star of last season’s The Bachelor program, is the first Jewish woman to be the star of The Bachelorette. Dorfman is usually de-scribed as beautiful and very smart. She is an assistant district attorney in the county that includes Atlanta.Fields About to Head FordOn May 1, Ford Motor Company confirmed that MARK FIELDS, 53, currently the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ford, would replace Alan Mulally, 58, as Ford’s Chief Executive

Officer (CEO). The transfer of power is scheduled for July 1. Fields will be the first Jew to hold the top corporate position at one of the ‘big three’ Ameri-can car companies (Ford, Chrysler, GM).

There is some irony that Ford Motor is first. The company’s founder, Henry Ford, was a notorious and vocal anti-Semite who bankrolled hate-filled publications. However, his grandson and successor, Henry Ford II, spent a lot of his time and money pursuing sincere efforts to make amends to the Jewish community for his grandfa-ther’s sins.

Fields earned the CEO position via his outstanding performance as head of, successively, Ford Argentina, Mazda Motor, Ford’s luxury car group, and its North American business unit. In 2012 he was named COO. Fields was born in Brooklyn, and was raised in Paramus, New Jersey. His family belonged to a Conservative synagogue and he had a bar mitzvah.

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By Philip K. Jason, Special to the Federation Star

A contemporary legal thriller set against a Holocaust background of betrayal and denial

Once We Were Brothers, by Ronald H. Balson. St. Martins Griffin.

378 pages. Trade paperback. $15.99.

This dazzling debut by a Chicago trial attorney takes chances and manages to survive them. Told

largely in the words of an 83-year-old Holocaust survi-vor who has led a quiet life in Chi-cago, it follows Ben Solomon’s pursuit of justice. Convinced that he has discovered his boyhood friend, a man who became a Nazi soldier,

Ben confronts powerful tycoon and respected philanthropist Elliot Rosenz-weig and insists on bringing him to jus-tice for crimes in Poland during WWII.

At a posh event at the Civic Op-era House, Ben approaches the man he believes to be Otto Piatek, who was raised in the Solomon home for many years. Rosenzweig bares his concentration camp tattoo and insists that Ben is confused and that he, El-liot, is actually a Holocaust survivor. Ben, who holds an empty Luger pistol to Elliot’s head, is arrested but soon released.

Ben convinces a reluctant lawyer to explore his case. She wants to know what hard evidence he has, but Ben in-sists that she must hear the long, wind-ing story of his growing up in Poland, the relationship between the Solomon and Piatek families, the effects on their lives of the Nazi rise to power, Otto’s return to his mother and father,

and his re-emergence as an SS officer. The lawyer, Catherine Lockhart, once a fast-track attorney but now rebuild-ing her damaged career, is a hard sell. Eventually, she succumbs to Ben’s story, his dedication to his mission, and his personality.

Although taking this case leads Catherine to lose her job, it also makes her come alive. She is doing something that she believes in and that can make a difference.

One of the many chances the au-thor takes is to present so much in one voice within a third-person narration. The dialogue would seem to over-whelm other story-telling devices, the action held inside of Ben’s narration. Mr. Balson’s skill allows him to get away with this decision. He finds the right breaks in the story – breaks that the reader needs (often formal chapter divisions) and breaks occasioned by Catherine’s need to get other things done that she has let slide.

More importantly, the strength of Ben’s story is so compelling that those of us vicariously listening as Ben speaks to Cath-erine can barely let our-selves put the book down.

Balson has fleshed out the Poland in which his imaginary personalities lived dur-ing the rise of Hitler and the near-de-mise of the Nazi regime’s scapegoat population. Within the carefully re-searched and magnificently rendered historical setting, he has built a group of credible and highly individualized characters whose destiny is intrinsi-cally linked to time and place.

We admire the sympathetic, caring nature of Ben’s parents, the glow of Ben’s growing love for Hannah as both of them cross from childhood to adulthood, the sturdy moral nature of Hannah’s father, the generous and coura-geous risk-taking of many indi-viduals who make the survival of Ben and others possible.

We struggle to understand the strange transition of Otto from a boy who calls the Solomons his true family to a Nazi instrument of cruel dehuman-ization and devastation.

The story of the two boys is a mi-crocosm for the broader story of all those times and places when and where people of different persuasions and tra-ditions lived in harmony...until some-thing corrupted their shared world.

Balson’s book is divided into three sections: “The Confrontation,” “Ben

Solomon’s Story,” and “The Lawsuit.” In the final sec-tion, Liam, Catherine’s long-time good friend, turns into a major player as the legal battleground becomes one in which he and Cath-erine are pitted against the enormous clout of the law firm representing Otto/El-liot. As Catherine’s primary investigator on this case,

Liam risks losing the big-firm clients he has attracted. However, he too is

compelled by Ben’s story. Liam’s love for Catherine, slow-ly acknowledged and returned, becomes an even greater driving force in his decision.

In the closing section, Ronald H. Balson’s legal exper-tise is put to excellent

use. The author develops a fully engag-ing, meticulous picture of how the case against the celebrity philanthropist is constructed. He gives almost as much detail to the schemes and threats of Rosenzweig’s minions.

Throughout the novel, the possibil-ity of failure is kept dangling. Perhaps Ben is deluded and has identified the wrong man. If he is on target, perhaps his team will fail. How Balson bal-ances these possibilities against the sympathetic reader’s hopes and the progress of the intricate case is a cause for admiration.

Also to be admired is Balson’s portrait of today’s Chicago. But this review must end!Philip K. Jason is Professor Emeritus of English from the United States Na-val Academy. He reviews regularly for Florida Weekly, Jewish Book World, Southern Literary Review, and other publications. Please visit Phil’s web-site at www.philjason.wordpress.com.

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Interview with The DenierBy Marina Berkovich with the assistance of Carole J. Greene and Alexander Goldstein

In response to “What is the Holo-caust,” a Google search returns 43,700,000 results in .51 seconds.

We live in the instant information era. The first page of Google answers starts with this paid item from The Holocaust Center: “The Holocaust was the system-atic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored per-secution and murder of approximately six million Jews including 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe by the Nazi regime and its collaborators that took place between 1933-1945.”

It is highly unlikely that an average Google searcher will proceed to page 2. Total page 1 results include organic holocaustcenter.org, history.com, Wiki-pedia.org, ask.com and others, with at-a-glance key words like “Shoah” and “Six Million.” These entries make the reader understand the reliability of this well-vetted information. However, there is very little likelihood that an average American or European will scroll to the very bottom of Google page 1 to read this from the ADL: “Holocaust Denial is an anti-Semitic propaganda movement active in the United States, Canada and Western Europe that seeks to deny the reality of the Nazi regime’s systematic mass murder of six million Jews dur-ing World War II. It generally depicts historical accounts of this genocide as propaganda, generated by a Jewish, or ‘Zionist,’ conspiracy.”

As an American Jew, I know what is true and false about the Holocaust. As a Jew who was born and raised in the USSR, a country of denial, and Kiev, the city of denial, I carry the entire Ho-locaust event on my conscious mind. Always measuring up to “What if it happened to me?” and “What would I have done?” I never had to scroll to the bottom of page 1 to seek the definition of “Holocaust Denial.” Until the afternoon

of April 9, 2014.My husband and I were munching

on our cookies at the Hilton during the Honor the Free Press Day at about 12:30 p.m., when we received an urgent assignment. We were directed to make arrangements for a six-hour drive on April 10 to interview a person of inter-est following a BBC sensational on-air reveal that same evening. A prime Russian network was interested in the sensational spin of this story, and we are the go-to Russian correspondents in Florida.

Quickly kissing the event honoree Peter Thomas, a WWII Purple Heart veteran and Nordhausen Concentration Camp liberator, on both cheeks and thanking him for a beautiful speech, we drove away pondering on the workings of life – to receive a call like that while at an event like this – how do these two parallels meet?!

On Wednesday, April 9, BBC aired a reality TV segment claiming Eva Braun’s DNA results prove she was Jewish. The man we were being sent to interview was said to own Hitler’s locks. Russians were interested in Eva Braun’s roots, but we were not. We thought that providence, if not of the Divine, then of the Universal kind, was presenting us with an opportunity to expand the inter-view as much as the interview subject would let us squeeze out of him. Fasci-nation with Hitler is not our usual area of exploration, and had this interviewee been a ransom collector or a weirdo, we would not have even bothered to think beyond the scope of our assignment. But this was no ordinary collector.

During the six-hour ride of unprec-edented contemplative intensity, Alex was conversing with our producers in Moscow, and I was busy wrapping my mind around the unfathomable

conversation I was about to become a party to. We are professionals and we have interviewed many people whose opinions we did not share and whose ideas we’d never subscribe to. At times, controversial topics are raised during the interviews and we deal with the outcome as it happens. This, however, was a situ-ation of an entirely different kind, which would top all of my vast prior exposures to anti-Semitism.

If you use the word “famous” or “notable” to Google search for Holo-caust deniers, this man’s name always appears on the list. In fact, he made his career gathering, organizing and disseminating information about Adolf Hitler, whose birthday he celebrates annually with blogs to his followers, and whose staff members and many comrades and their families, The Denier knew and loved. Now we were climbing his staircase, not really knowing what to anticipate.

The disheveled large individual who came to the door was polite and non-aggressive, though very

anxious to get right to it. He tried to tidy up as he moved. For the last several years he has been given use of a tiny apartment in an old wooden home of a Floridian descended from a probable WWII Russian Nazi sympathizer. The two rooms The Denier occupied were dirty. Unmade bed, broken glass swept into the corner of a dirty kitchen floor, a couch, which I had to quickly declut-ter so that The Denier could sit down to be wired. As this was happening, we talked continuously and I had a few minutes to take in the surroundings. All shelving and floor space were occupied by stacked boxes of his books, allowing only for narrow, crooked walkways. His desk and countertops had piles of strewn

papers, including sales invoices of items listed by title at $35 each, which I had no trouble perusing while I was clearing his couch.

He told us that he had just returned after an intense two-month-long book and lecture tour of the United States, and complained about the hardships he had to endure daily, loading and unloading heavy boxes of books onto a rented truck and driving coast to coast alone. He was looking for sympathy and was, as most loners, happy to receive rare visitors. Even if they were Jews. We never said we were and we did not have to. The Denier is a practicing Jew-identifier and we are discernibly Jewish.

To start with, he showed us print-outs of a cottage he’d purchased in Scotland, where he can continue his work in peace. So what, exactly, is his work? When asked whether he identifies himself as historian or historical writer, The Denier answered “writer” in Rus-sian – very “cute” since the Russians told us he does not speak Russian or had ever visited Russia.

“Did you ever visit Russia?” I asked.

“Yes, I was there three times. The first in 1977, when Colonel… let me into the KGB archives for a book I was researching. You know, Russians have many of his things. They were the ones to find him. This is an item I was recent-ly offered.” He leaned over to his desk and pulled out another printout. It was a copy of an archival slide with Russian lettering and two samples tagged “Braun (vertebra)” and “A.H. (rib).”

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The Denier does not have with him any originals of anything he owns, but he gave the impression that he is ready to produce them for the right amount. He showed us copies and downloaded several files onto our flash drive. Writing about the Nazis and dealing Nazi “merchandize” seems to be his full-time occupation, and his reach is notorious.

The Denier is not merely fascinated with Hitler; he worships him, maybe the way Hitler was worshiped during his reign. A persona non grata in sev-eral countries, The Denier confided to us, during an hour-long interview, that this may very well be his last visit to the United States. He went through the details of his visa problems and recent deportation from a transit point in Canada.

I silently wondered if this is how it happened during the Nazi regime – a Jew sitting across from a Jew-hater, almost like a rabbit in front of a snake, prey in front of predator without a way to escape. Except I was not his prey and I was determined to make him mine. All my life, when confronted with anti-Semitism, I failed to exhibit strength and control of the situation by becoming overly sensitive, emotional and, thusly, losing from the get-go. This time, this Denier was mine to use, mine to expose, mine to dominate, if not for myself and my family, for others, helpless and pow-erless then and now. And so I became his predator by staring and nodding, by encouraging him to continue and allow-ing him to just be himself.

About 20 minutes into our on-camera conversation, The Denier felt quite at ease and started gesturing in my direction every time the word “Jew” or “Jewish” came up. And it came up a lot. “Was Eva Braun Jewish?” I asked,

taking the initiative to introduce the “Jewish” word. He did not seem to care, even after I informed him that the DNA results positively identified this. “Was Hitler Jewish?” however, evoked an ab-solute, immediate and fierce denial. The Denier previously was in possession of a strand of hair he purchased from one of Hitler’s barbers. He later sold this strand for a large sum. However, now, on camera, he stumbled inside the story of its origin and ownership. It was beginning to be evident to me that only The Denier’s stories were true, and

everyone else’s were concocted out of desperation to be closer to Hitler.

Later, Alex told me he felt exactly the same. Through this interview, Alex and I had no opportunity to speak to each other. The Denier ignored Alex completely, so Alex just stood behind the camera, silently signaling for me to keep at it. Alex later summarized The Denier’s on-camera behavior as “wanting very much to come across as a really nice guy.”

And then the moment I dreaded since I arrived there happened. “Hitler did not hate the Jews,”

The Denier said matter-of-factly. “I can give many instances when he saved Jews. He saved his mother’s doctor and his chauffer. It was Himmler, and the party was split because of the two dif-ferent roads they took. Hitler was only interested in military warfare; Himmler, in the purification of the race.”

“What about the Gypsies?”“I even have the letter Hitler signed

not to kill the Gypsies. Here, you see. He gave it to Himmler after a meeting...But it was somewhat late.”

We talked at length about Hitler’s absolute innocence and naïveté. “He was so easily deceived,” The Denier said, commiserating with the misunder-stood Führer.

I noted, but only to myself, that this father of five, sitting in front of me, is about my mother’s age. My mother is a gullible one; she grew up under

Stalin, even cried when he died. So did millions he destroyed. And now in Russia, Stalin once again is being admired by some, just as The De-nier sitting across from me and intellectually enjoying this interview, reveres and will con-

tinue to revere Hitler, no matter what. People who never lived under

Stalin or Hitler are now stepping up to replace the deniers – a new generation of Hitler’s fans is in training to step up in the ranks. “Was my subject grooming someone to step in when he’s gone?” I wondered, as he continued to substanti-ate and validate this point by sidestep-ping into “The Boys from Brazil” thesis, assuring me, and the viewers, that he is very much afraid that some power-hungry person will attempt to use the Hitler hair strand for cloning, like in the film. “That,” he says, “would be tragic.”

“What about the Holocaust?” I asked to return him on track. “You are a known denier, isn’t it so?”

He does not like the word “Ho-locaust.” He acknowledges that Jews did indeed die, but in smaller quanti-ties, somewhere around 1.5 million. He asserts they partly contributed to this extermination themselves, always

putting themselves out as “the chosen” and striving to succeed and gain promi-nence.

As the interview progressed, and The Denier’s palm would unfold in a very courteous manner toward me as “The Jew,” I was overwhelmed by my atypical calmness. It was as if I was there to ask for those who could not – how can a human being do this to others and think himself still a member of humanity?! But I knew that con-frontational questions would remain unanswered and – worse – he’d throw us out, as he is known to do.

So I sat there calmly, asking ques-tions that revealed, little by little, the essence of him and, through him, those he worships.

The sincerity with which he de-scribes Hitler’s final day, as told to him by Hitler’s adjutant and his four secre-taries, was not faked – he was moved to the verge of tears. The reverence with which he complimented Eva’s ascent from lower-class nobody to the status of First Lady of The Third Reich was that of a Beatlemania-era teen girl. It also brought up an Evita association in me. Is he an Eva Peron fan, too? I wondered.

He has a Jewish publisher. The Denier’s daughter used a Nazi spoon in front of his Jewish publisher to eat her cereal. His wife no longer lives with him, and I read in the Wikipedia article that his brother dates The Denier’s pro-Nazi sentiments to the abandonment by their father during WWII, when the young Denier loved to scream “Heil Hitler” and pretend he was a Nazi. I thought that maybe a good Jewish ana-lyst is what was missing in his journey. Perhaps as a child, he was wishing he could be a Nazi, so that his father could be punished for abandoning them. And then he grew up to become one of the most famous Holocaust Deniers. Was

I silently wondered if this is how it happened during the Nazi regime – a Jew sitting across from a Jew-hater, almost like a rabbit in front of a snake, prey in front of predator without a way to escape. Except I was not his prey and I was determined to make him mine.


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On his websites, a visitor may pur-chase any of his books and explore other information, which The Denier keeps hidden or semi-hidden, as he is fearful of many “cyber attackers.” We live in the era of instant destruction – an entire website may be destroyed by a stroke of the hot key, and The Denier, who is in a constant state of being hunted, knows that his websites are going to be shut down very soon, just as he is almost certain that the U.S. will not grant him a visa next time. But he will still be in the U.S. for most of this summer.

He wanted to take us to a nearby beach for a lovely moment, but I thanked him for his time, really ap-preciating that he did not attempt to

shake hands. I then helped him carry his Internet orders down a steep set of slippery outdoor steps. He is, after all, old enough to be my father, and I was brought up to respect my elders and all humans.

In August or September, The Denier will be taking a group of his fol-lowers on a tour of concentration

camps, as he usually does in the sum-mers. It will very likely be a lovely day in Poland. Blue sky, barracks, ashes, crematorium… In his summer capac-ity of paid tour guide, a sideline The Denier established to supplement his income, he may point out that there was no “Arbeit Macht Frei” at the gate of Majdanek, but the gas chambers are well preserved and are in an excellent state, even 70 years after the war. He will glorify German engineering, Nazi

organization and efficiency.I remember visiting Majdanek as a

girl of 15, who was raised in the coun-try and city of Holocaust denial and revisionism, and learning that mostly children were murdered there. A total of 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust, accord-ing to official counts. Who really ever knows how many were not counted? I remembered Father Patrick Desbois’ visit to our community a couple of years ago and his efforts to uncover the uncounted graves amid the hostility of modern day Ukraine.

The Denier is not admitting to re-writing history, only to writing his ver-sion of it, with “vulnerable and human” Hitler at the helm of his Third Reich and as successful a leader as Alexander the Great, who annihilated some of the nations he conquered.

“I’d love to visit Naples,” The De-nier says as we part. “How do you plan to go there? I always take 75 to 29 and then cut through Everglades City to Old 41. I enjoy nature.”

It was a sunny Florida afternoon and we drove the six hours back in almost complete silence, overpowered by the reality of the task we’d just ac-complished. We took 41 all the way. Everything around us was beautiful, and we were admiring nature through the eyes of the six million of our people who died during the Nazis’ deliberate efforts to eradicate all Jews.

The Russians aired the segment we shot the next day. The Denier did not

get as much airtime as Hitler’s long lost son. The story’s focus – Eva’s Jewish roots – morphed into the similarities of father-son Hitler. Several days later, The Denier, in a BBC interview, promised to file a lawsuit to recover the strand of Hitler’s hair, which he alleges he only lent to the show.

The morning after our interview, as I drove to a large gathering of Jewish women, I decided to make this informa-tion public. There are people all around us, who will step up as the old or even new phalange of the same old anti-Se-mitic persecution, from which I escaped to the land of the free, representing Kiev Jews who did not make it out of Babi Yar. The very desire to eliminate all Jewish people on the basis of just being Jewish is how I define a Nazi. I wish people would stop misusing this word and diluting its designation.

On camera, The Denier did not confirm Nazi party membership.

A Google search I conducted on April 20, 2014, while working on this article, returned the following world-wide estimated population – 14 million Jews and 7 million Gypsies. Marina Berkovich was born and raised in Kiev, USSR, and arrived in the U.S. as a refugee. She is a non-practicing CPA with twenty years of public and private experience. Formerly, Dean of Administration at Bramson ORT College. Marina is a published author and award-winning documentarian. Her most recent film is Naples, Florida REDEFINING PARADISE.

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ADL poll of over 100 countries finds more than one-quarter of those surveyed infected with anti-Semitic attitudesNew York, NY, May 13, 2014 …

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today released the re-

sults of an unprecedented worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes. The ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism surveyed 53,100 adults in 102 countries and territories in an effort to establish, for the first time, a com-prehensive data-based research survey of the level and intensity of anti-Jewish sentiment across the world.

The survey found that anti-Semitic attitudes are persistent and pervasive around the world. More than one-in-four adults, 26 percent of those surveyed, are deeply infected with anti-Semitic attitudes, representing an estimated 1.09 billion people around the world.

The overall ADL Global 100 In-dex score represents the percentage of respondents who answered “probably true” to six or more of 11 negative stereotypes about Jews. An 11-ques-tion index has been used by ADL as a key metric in measuring anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States for the last 50 years.

“For the first time we have a real sense of how pervasive and persistent

anti-Semitism is today around the world,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “The data from the Global 100 Index enables us to look beyond anti-Semitic incidents and rhetoric and quantify the prevalence of anti-Semitic attitudes across the globe. We can now identify hotspots, as well as countries and regions of the world where hatred of Jews is essentially non-existent.”

Made possible by a generous grant from the New York philanthropist Leon-ard Stern, the ADL Global 100 Index constitutes the most comprehensive as-sessment ever of anti-Semitic attitudes globally, encompassing 102 countries and territories in seven major regions of the world and accounting for about 88 percent of the world’s total adult population.

Available through an interactive website at http://global100.adl.org, the survey will give researchers, students, governments and members of the public direct access to a treasure trove of cur-rent data about anti-Semitic attitudes globally and how they vary widely along religious, ethnic, national and regional lines. The survey also ranks

countries and territories in numerical order from the least anti-Semitic (Laos, at 0.2 percent of the adult population) to the most (West Bank and Gaza, where anti-Semitic attitudes, at 93 percent, are pervasive throughout society).

“The level of anti-Semitism in some countries and regions, even those where there are no Jews, is in many instances shocking,” said Barry Curtiss-Lusher, ADL National Chair. “We hope this un-precedented effort to measure and gauge anti-Semitic attitudes globally will serve as a wake-up call to governments, to in-ternational institutions and to people of

conscience that anti-Semitism is not just a relic of history, but a current event.”

At the same time, there are highly encouraging notes in the ADL survey.

In majority English-speaking coun-tries, the percentage of those with anti-Semitic attitudes is 13 percent, far lower than the overall average. Prot-estant majority countries in general have the lowest ratings of anti-Semitic attitudes, as compared to any other ma-jority religious country. And 28 percent of respondents around the world do not believe that any of the 11 anti-Semitic stereotypes tested are “probably true.”

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18 Israeli inventions that could save your life

By ISRAEL21c Staff, www.israel21c.org, May 1, 2014

As Israel marks its 66th year of statehood, ISRAEL21c takes a look at 18 lifesaving innovations from the startup nation.

Every day, ISRAEL21c reports on Israeli innovations that are making life easier and better

across the globe, from medical and agricultural advances to social-action initiatives and high-tech wonders.

To celebrate the 66th Israel Inde-pendence Day on May 6, we bring you 18 innovations from Israel specifically designed to save lives – some already on the market and some coming soon. In Hebrew, the number 18 corresponds to the word “chai” (“life”). We’re sure you will share our pride in Israeli in-genuity benefiting humankind every-where.

1. The First Care Emergency Bandage (also known as the “Israeli bandage”), invented by an Israeli mili-tary medic, is used to stop bleeding from hemorrhagic wounds in trauma situations. Credited for saving the life of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Gif-fords in a 2011 shooting, the bandage is widely used by military medics and civilian first-responders the world over.

2. A fatal car crash can happen in a split second. That’s why Jerusalem-based Mobileye technology for identi-

fying and alerting to driving hazards is being built into virtually every new ve-hicle in the world. Mobileye is the larg-

est private high-tech company in Israel and the world’s largest R&D center for artificial vision.

3. SensAheart, a product made by Israeli diagnostic technology company Novamed, can be used at home and in the hospital to detect a heart attack coming on.

4. Tel Aviv’s Cheetah Medical in-vented the NICOM non-invasive car-diac output monitor to prevent sepsis, a life-threatening blood infection that

causes one in four hospital deaths and is one of the top 10 causes of death in the United States. Using a patented technology, the NICOM monitors he-modynamics – the movement of blood from the heart to the body’s organs – via four sensors and enables medical professionals to better diagnose and treat the patient.

5. The adjustable, disposable Lubo Airway Collar by Inovytec is a novel airway management and cervical col-lar device for cases of severe trauma to the neck and spine. It is the first-ever non-invasive device that can open an airway by imitating a jaw-thrust ma-neuver while protecting the cervical spine en route to the hospital.

6. The Agilite Instant Harness, the world’s smallest Class II rappelling

harness, saved the lives of South Af-rican miners trapped underground in 2013. The same Israeli company also makes the Injured Personnel Carrier, a novel hands-free device that allows one rescuer to carry an incapacitated person like a “human backpack.”

7. The Babysense breathing mon-itor by HiSense alerts parents of respi-ratory cessation (apnea) in babies. The

Israeli breakthrough technology has helped protect more than 600,000 ba-bies from crib death around the world, and has been copied by numerous other manufacturers.

8. XSight Systems’ award-winning FODetect advanced runway sen-sors keep runways around the world safe from foreign object debris (FOD), birds and wildlife with a unique hybrid optical-radar remote-sensing technol-ogy. Direct damage to aircraft caused by FOD is estimated to cost the avia-tion industry some $4 billion each year. FOD-related damage caused the supersonic jetliner Concorde to crash in 2000, killing 113 people.

9. Hyginex makes a smart bracelet to be worn by every staff member in a hospital to make sure that all person-nel wash their hands after contact with

patients. Clean hands can practically eliminate most hospital-borne infec-tions. Nurses, doctors and even candy-stripers know it, but Hyginex enforces it.

10. When the iMayDay iPhone app senses that your car has been in a collision, it sets off an alarm and emails five pre-determined addresses (or generates up to 50 SMS messages) to inform emergency workers and/or loved ones about the accident. It works anywhere in the world.

11. PerSys Medical’s Blizzard Survival line of products, including blankets and jackets, leads the mar-ket in hypothermia care. The Bliz-zard Jacket was pivotal last March in the rescue of a mother and son by the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team in Wales. The lifesaving wraps withstand temperatures as low as -4 F/-20 C.

12. Micromedic Technologies specializes in developing and commer-cializing novel and innovative cancer diagnostic kits enabling early interven-tion. The company’s portfolio spans cancer and cancer-related indications including colorectal cancer, breast can-cer, cervical cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, and diagnostic tools for personalized treatment.

13. It started out as a rescue “spi-der” in 2005, and today the Israeli-made Skysaver is deployed to help evacuate skyscrapers in emergency situations. The device is worn like a backpack and includes a fire-resistant cord that can rappel rescued people to safety.

14. The NowForce smartphone

app uses GPS crowd-sourcing tech to rally first-response teams quickly. NowForce was developed jointly with United Hatzalah, a Jerusalem-based non-profit that trains thousands of neighborhood volunteers to respond to emergencies on foot or ambucycle before ambulances arrive. United Hat-zalah teaches its model of community-powered call centers throughout the world.

15. Wearable devices are becom-ing the rage for doing everything from counting calories to counting reps at the gym. The Oxitone watch is a wear-able device that could save your life by measuring blood oxygen levels and alerting to a potential heart attack well before it happens. It’s expected on the market within a year.

16. Autotalks – maker of the world’s first automotive-grade chipset for series-production for vehicle-to-

vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication – aims to keep drivers and passengers safer by allowing cars to exchange data. The technology ana-lyzes data transmitted by the on-board processing units of nearby vehicles and warns drivers of any imminent danger. The Israeli company expects all car manufacturers will integrate its sys-tems by 2015.

17. BiondVax has completed tri-als of its universal flu vaccine first de-veloped at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Pending commercial agree-ments with governments around the world to continue development, the vaccine could be in the market within two years. Influenza can be deadly. Be-tween 1976 and 2006, flu-associated deaths in the United States alone were estimated to be in the thousands, pos-sibly as many as 49,000. The 1918 flu pandemic killed three to five percent of the world’s population at the time.

18. Wherever disaster strikes in the world – be it natural or manmade – Israel is always among the first to send medical and search-and-rescue teams and supplies, even when it lacks diplomatic relations with the country in crisis.

Governmental and non-govern-mental agencies (including Israel Fly-ing Aid, IsraAID, Israeli Humanitarian Aid-Latet, Israel Trauma Coalition, ZAKA, Magen David Adom, Tevel B’Tzedek and many others) have been among those on the scene saving lives after disasters including:

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Israel also set up a field hospital on its border to treat victims of the Syr-ian civil war, and continues to provide – without charge – lifesaving treatment of wounded Syrian civilians at its northern hospitals.

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ON ITS 66TH BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL’S POPULATION NEARS 8.2 MILLIONIsrael’s Central Bureau of Statistics released a report on May 1, estimating the country’s population at 8.18 mil-lion.

There are 6.135 million Jewish residents – 75% of the total popula-tion – and the Arab Israeli population stands at 1.694 million, or 20.7%. Ap-proximately 345,000 people (4.2%) are non-Arab Christians or people of other religions or no religious affiliation.

178,000 babies were born this past year and 24,000 new immigrants and returning residents arrived. Four-teen cities have populations of more than 100,000 and six have more than 200,000. (Lidar Grave-Laz, Jerusalem Post)

HIGH ISRAELI BIRTHRATE UNIQUE IN DEVELOPED WORLDIn the 1990s, Israeli Jewish women were having on average a little over 2.5 children. Today, when other advanced populations in the Mediterranean area have seen fertility rates plummet, the average Israeli Jewish woman has a little over three children. By interna-tional comparison, this is astonishing. It is twice the level of Greece and more than twice the level of Italy, Germany or Spain. In no developed country be-sides Israel does the level approach three.

Meanwhile, the family sizes of Israel’s neighbors have started to fall, rapidly. Egyptian fertility rates are now about the same as those of Israel and falling. Today, Iranian women have more than one child fewer than Israeli Jewish women. In the 1960s, Israeli Muslim women were still having nine children. Today, Muslim Israeli women have around three and a half children.

Arab Christian and Druze women have a fertility rate of a little above two. (Paul Morland, Jewish Chronicle-UK)

CHINA HELPING TO BUILD RAILROAD THROUGH ISRAEL LINKING RED SEA WITH MEDITERRANEANIsrael and China are forging ahead with a new freight rail link through Israel that could provide an alternative to the Suez Canal. The project would connect the 300-plus kilometers between Eilat on the Red Sea and Ashdod Port on the Mediterranean. The Israeli cabinet recently decided to fast-track the Red-Med project. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “It’s the first time we’d be able to assist the countries in Europe and Asia to make sure they always have an open connection.”

Ilan Maor, a former Israeli consul to Shanghai, says China’s involve-ment in the project “shows the Chinese government [and] Chinese companies believe that Israel holds a significant potential for business cooperation.” The EU is China’s number-one trading partner, so easy access to the continent is very important.

According to the Center for Strate-gic and International Studies, Egypt’s political uncertainty has left the Sinai Peninsula a “lawless zone for jihadists and Bedouin militias,” highlighting a rocket-propelled-grenade attack last August on a Chinese-owned container ship in the Suez Canal. Lloyd’s insur-ance market has even recommended that ships take the 6,000-mile route around South Africa instead. (Deutsche Welle-Germany)

CHINA-ISRAEL TOURISM UP 30 PERCENT IN 2013 The number of Chinese tourists to Is-rael rose 30% in 2013 to 30,000 and they spent more than travelers from

other countries, Israeli Tourism Min-istry director general Amir Halevi told Xinhua.

“We are preparing to receive more Chinese visitors, providing special tour services and recruiting more Chinese guides,” he said. (Xinhua-China)

UKRAINIAN JEWS IMMIGRATE TO ISRAEL AMID GROWING UNREST Nineteen Ukrainian Jews immigrated to Israel on Sunday, May 4. According to the Jewish Agency for Israel, almost 800 people arrived from Ukraine in January-April 2014, and over 200 have signed up for May. (Times of Israel)

RECORD NUMBER OF BIRTHRIGHT PARTICIPANTS COMING TO ISRAEL THIS SUMMER32,000 young Jews from 42 coun-tries are expected to participate in free ten-day trips to Israel through Taglit-Birthright Israel this summer, organiz-ers announced on May 7. (Sam Sokol, Jerusalem Post)

LUTHERAN NUNS END JERUSALEM MISSION TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORSBeit Avraham (House of Abraham), run by the sisters of the Evangelical Sister-hood of Mary in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood, is closing down. Since 1961 it has served as a guesthouse for Holocaust survivors. But with so few survivors still alive, the nuns have de-cided their work has come to an end.

The sisters had originally come to Israel in 1957 to work as nurses in Israeli hospitals as a way of doing practical repentance for not only what the Nazis had perpetrated, but also for “the 2,000 years of Jews’ suffering be-cause of Christianity,” as Sister Gratia puts it. “We as Christians had to do something in Israel. We couldn’t con-tinue as though nothing happened.”

Sister Gratia, 71, who arrived in 1975 from Austria and became an Is-raeli citizen two years ago, has no plans to leave the Holy Land. (Renee Ghert-Zand, Times of Israel)

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THE ROCK AND ROLL BOYCOTT OF ISRAELFor the last ten years there has been an ongoing attempt to promote a cultural boycott of Israel. While this campaign has achieved very few actual victories, it has received widespread attention and media coverage disproportionate to its success. Once one scratches the surface of any given concert cancella-tion, one quickly concludes that ideol-ogy, conscience, and support for the Palestinian cause have very little to do with it. The true factors leading to a cancellation are usually online bully-ing, threats of damaging an artist’s rep-utation and sales, disrupting concerts, sabotage letters, deceit and explicit death threats.

More often than not, the so-called “success” the boycott movement has enjoyed never happened. Just because a pro-boycott site claims that an artist or band has boycotted Israel, doesn’t nec-essarily mean that this is true. Overall, the cultural boycott of Israel appears to be losing ground. The biggest names in the world of music continue to fre-quent Israel. As Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones recently said: “We’ve been slammed and smacked and twit-tered a lot by the anti-Israeli side; all I can say is: anything worth doing is worth overdoing. So we decided to add a concert.” (Adam Shay, Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Cen-ter for Public Affairs)

INTEL TO INVEST $6 BILLION TO UPGRADE ISRAELI FACILITYIntel Corp. will invest $5-6 billion in upgrading its Kiryat Gat computer chip production facility.

Intel Israel currently has four de-velopment centers and two production plants in Israel with 9,855 employees.

Intel VP and Intel Israel CEO Max-ine Fassberg said, “In 40 years, Intel has exported goods worth $35 billion, mostly from its production centers in Kiryat Gat and Jerusalem.” (Adrian Filut, Globes)

ISRAELI MACHINE MAKES DRINKING WATER FROM THIN AIRThe Israeli company Water-Gen has developed an Atmospheric Water-Generation Unit using a heat exchanger to chill air and condense water vapor to produce drinking water from thin air.

“Air conditioning is extracting water from air. But the issue is to do it very efficiently, to produce as much water as you can per kilowatt of power consumed,” said co-CEO Arye Kohavi.

The system produces 250-800 liters of potable water a day, depending on temperature and humidity conditions, and uses two cents’ worth of electricity to produce one liter of water.

Developed primarily for the IDF,

Water-Gen has already sold units to militaries in seven countries.

For India, Kohavi says Water-Gen’s units can produce a liter of water for 1.5 rupees, as opposed to 15 rupees for a liter of bottled water.

Water-Gen has also developed a portable, battery-operated, water puri-fication system that fits into a backpack and filters what was undrinkable water into potable water. (Giovanna Rajao and Michael Schwartz, CNN)

IDF SOLDIERS WITH AUTISM APPLY SPECIAL SKILLS IN INTELLIGENCE UNIT Within the IDF’s Special intelligence Unit 9900 are a group of highly-quali-fied autistic soldiers who have remark-able visual and analytic capabilities which they use to interpret aerial and satellite photographs.

They can detect even the smallest details, undetectable to most people.

Col. J, the commander of Unit 9900, said the success of the project exceeded the expectations of its initia-tors. (Israel Defense Forces)

INTELLIGENT “WRAPPING PAPER” HEALS BROKEN BONES IN HALF THE TIMEThe time it takes to heal a broken bone may soon be cut in half thanks to an in-telligent “wrapping paper” from Israeli company Regenecure. The “wrapping paper,” technically called a membrane implant, enables bones to heal faster and more evenly by attracting healing stem cells and fluids while keeping soft tissues from growing around the broken bone.

The membrane looks and feels like plastic wrap, it can be cut with a pair of scissors to fit any bone in the body, and is naturally absorbed into the body after 10 months. The material has already been used in dental procedures to re-place bone grafts. (David Miller, Yahoo)

ISRAELI COMPANY DEVELOPS BELT THAT PROTECTS AGAINST NUCLEAR RADIATION The Israeli company Stemrad has devel-oped a belt designed to block harmful gamma radiation.

“StemRad’s tested...technology protects hematopoietic stem cells from the toxic effects of gamma radiation, providing affected individuals with an increased chance of survival in the event of inadvertent exposure...from a nuclear catastrophe such as an explosion or reac-tor leak,” the company said.

StemRad has received orders from Israel, Japan and Russia. (World Tri-bune)

ABOARD AN ISRAEL NAVY PATROL BOAT PROTECTING ISRAEL’S GAS RIGS

¡ The Israel Navy’s high speed patrol boats are tasked with helping to protect Israel’s natural gas infra-structure in the Mediterranean. Two huge platforms rise from the sea,

the Mari B rig and the Tamar plat-form. The Navy must also deal with hundreds of vessels offshore from Gaza, mostly fishing boats, under the cover of which terrorists gather intelligence for planning attacks.

¡ In recent weeks, Lt. Col. A. was on a patrol boat that disrupted arms smuggling from Sinai. “We saw two Gazan boats enter Egyptian waters and reach a beach in Sinai. Later, loaded with equipment, they headed back to Gaza camouflaged as fishing boats. A few hundred meters from the Gaza coast, we opened accurate fire at them. When so much muni-tions explode, you can see it from kilometers away. I saw two fireballs that lasted until the dawn.”

¡ The Navy’s central command sys-tem has the “ability to indicate the precise location of every vessel in Israeli waters at any given moment, mark threatening vessels in red, unidentified vessels in purple, and identified and unthreatening vessels in green. It has many other features that help the Navy control Israel’s waters, which is double the size of the country’s land area.”

¡ Even a waterskier a few hundred meters from shore is marked on the system’s screens, and will be closely monitored. “At any given moment, there are between 300 and 1,300 vessels in our waters. We identify all of them, and if necessary, we check them.” (Yuval Azulai, Globes)

AN IDF SOLDIER FACES ANTI-ISRAEL HATRED IN THE U.S.When I served as a soldier in the West Bank, I got used to having ugly things said to me, but nothing prepared me for the misinformation, demonization of Israel, and the gut-wrenching, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic hostility expressed by many students, professors, church members and even high school students in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.

At a BDS event in Portland, a pro-fessor from a Seattle university told the crowd that the Jews of Israel have no national rights and should be forced out

of the country. When I asked, “Where do you want them to go?” she calmly answered, “I don’t care. I don’t care if they don’t have any place else to go. They should not be there.” I responded that she was calling for ethnic cleansing.

My experiences in America have changed me. I never expected to en-counter such hatred and lies. I never believed that such anti-Semitism still existed, especially in the U.S. (Hen Mazzig, Campus Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest chapter of Stand-WithUs, Times of Israel)

ISRAELI TECH TURNS JELLYFISH INTO PAPER TOWELSCine’al Ltd., an Israeli nanotechnology start-up, is developing technology to turn jellyfish into “super-absorbers,” suitable for use in diapers, tampons, medical sponges, even paper towels. During spring and early summer, mil-lions of jellyfish appear near Israeli beaches, making swimming next to impossible.

“One-third of disposable waste in dumps consists of diapers,” said Ofer Du-Nour, president of Cine’al. Highly-absorbent products are made of syn-thetic materials. The challenge was to find a bio-degradable material that was at least as absorbent. TAU researchers found the solution in jellyfish.

Using nano-materials, jellyfish are converted into Hydromash, which absorbs high volumes of water and blood in seconds. The process also adds nano-particles which allow for the addition of anti-bacterial and tissue-healing attributes, flexibility, colors, scents and more. The result is a product that absorbs several times its volume, bio-degrades in less than 30 days, and can compete with synthetics on price. (David Shamah, Times of Israel)

THE MYTH OF THE THIRSTY PALESTINIANThe President of the European Parlia-ment caused a minor scandal when he accused Israel of denying water supplies to the Palestinian population.

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However, when one examines the relevant data, it becomes clear that, under Israeli rule, the Palestinian water supply has become larger, more techno-logically sophisticated, of higher qual-ity, and much easier to access, almost entirely due to Israeli efforts.

At the end of Jordanian rule in 1967, the West Bank Palestinians received 65 million cubic meters of water per year. Five years after the Israeli takeover, the water supply grew by 50%.

By the time the Oslo Accords were signed in 1995, the Palestinian water supply reached 120 million cubic meters per year. By 2010, water consumption had reached 190 million cubic meters per year.

Some 97% of the Palestinian popu-lation is now connected to the territory’s water system, for the most part, directly to their own homes.

According to the Accords, Israel is required to supply 31 million cubic meters per year to the Palestinians. In 2012, Israel provided 53 million cubic meters to the Palestinian water supply. (Akiva Bigman, The Tower)

TOURISM TO ISRAEL BREAKS RECORDSAccording to the Central Bureau of Statistics, a record-breaking 385,000 visitor entries were recorded in Israel in April 2014, 9% more than April 2013.

In January-April 2014, 1.16 million visitors arrived in Israel. (Israel Ministry of Tourism-IMRA)

A PALESTINIAN STUDENT DEFENDS HER VISIT TO AUSCHWITZIn March, I was one of 27 Palestinian students who visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps with Professor

Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi. When we returned from Poland, the condemnation of our trip was deafening. Extreme Pal-estinian nationalists accused Professor Dajani of “selling out” to the Jews.

It is impossible for me to make be-lieve that there was no human tragedy perpetrated against millions of Jews and non-Jews during the Second World War. The Holocaust is a fact, and we all have a sacred responsibility to ensure that it never happens again to Jews or any other group.

Many Palestinians link what hap-pened to the Jews during World War II with the Nakba, the term Palestinians use to describe the events of 1948. Those who argue that the injustice Pal-estinians currently face is of the same magnitude as what happened to Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe are wrong. It pales in comparison to the dehuman-izing horror, depravity and evil con-ceived and implemented by Nazis and their collaborators. (Zeina M. Barakat, doctoral candidate at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, Atlantic)

PM ADVISER’S BOOK ON JERUSALEM UNITY PUBLISHED IN CHINA The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Is-lam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City, Netanyahu adviser Dore Gold’s best-selling book about Israel’s historical links and legal rights to a uni-fied Jerusalem, has been translated into Chinese and will soon hit the shelves in Beijing. The book passed through the rigorous review of the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s publishing house, the World Affairs Press, without being changed or edited. The foreword to the Chinese edition was written by Ma Xiaolin, a member of the Communist Party central committee’s research institute.

“The timing of the book’s release is especially important with the growing interest from China in the Middle East and its future role in the region,” Gold

said. “This book can help contribute to the effort to get closer with one of the most important powers in the world.” (Shlomo Cesana, Israel Hayom)

JEWISH ARCHIVE FROM BAGHDAD TO STAY IN U.S. – FOR NOWIn the flooded basement of Iraqi intel-ligence headquarters in Baghdad in 2003, American troops discovered a trove of Jewish documents. Saddam’s mukhabarat agents had amassed Jewish religious artifacts including five-centu-ry-old Hebrew Bibles. After a wave of anti-Semitic laws in Iraq, most of the country’s 130,000 Jews fled after 1948.

The Jewish books and papers filled 27 large metal trunks, which were stored inside an Iraqi freezer truck to arrest the growth of mold on the damp parchment. In August 2003 Iraq allowed the artifacts to be sent to the U.S. to be restored on condition they were returned when the project was complete.

Earlier this year the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution calling on the Obama administration to renego-tiate the agreement with the Iraqis. The senators argue that the archive belongs first and foremost to the descendants of the exiled Iraqi Jews, the vast majority of whom now live in Israel. “Under no circumstances should these artifacts be handed back to Iraq,” said Sen. Chuck

Schumer (D-NY). On May 14, Luk-man Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., announced that the archive will stay in the U.S. for now. (Raf Sanchez, Telegraph-UK)

WINEMAKING RETURNS TO JUDEAN HILLS AFTER 2,500 YEARSIn his latest wine guide, Israel’s top wine critic, Daniel Rogov, has six top picks from the Judean Hills. Yatir Winery took the No. 1 spot this year with grapes grown in the Judean Mountains near Mount Hebron.

Yatir’s vineyards are situated nearly 3,000 feet above sea level in the Yatir Forest, Israel’s largest planted forest, a project of the Jewish National Fund begun in 1964.

JNF regional forest director Amir Mazor said excavators in the area had uncovered ancient wine presses and storage vessels dated to 2,500 years ago.

“When the wine-making history of the area was uncovered and linked to biblical times, it made sense that wine-makers were going back to their roots and producing wine again,” Mazor said. (Kate Shuttleworth, USA Today)

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Give Ukraine a chanceBy David Harris, Executive Director, AJC, April 24, 2014

The Ukraine crisis continues. At this stage, no one can safely predict where the country will

be a month from now, let alone a year down the road.

Nonetheless, a few things appear crystal-clear.

First, history will record this as a high-stakes, even defining, crisis. What happens in Ukraine matters – first and foremost, of course, to the Ukraini-an people – but it doesn’t stop there. The reverberations can already be felt across the region and beyond.

No, 2014 is not 1938, and Russia today is not Germany then. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t echoes of the past in the present – Crimea as Sude-tenland? Ukraine as Czechoslovakia? Other Russian-speaking areas, such as Transnistria, to follow, based on as-sertions they are being persecuted by “neo-Nazi” regimes wielding power in capitals from Kiev to Chisinau to who knows where, and whose residents allegedly clamor for salvation from Moscow?

Second, this is a test of America’s global leadership. From what I learned on my visit to Kiev earlier this week, which overlapped with the arrival of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and a Congressional delegation, it is abun-dantly clear that Ukraine is looking to Washington for significant help.

This includes direct assistance to bolster the country’s perilous eco-nomic condition, reduce its vulnerabil-ity to Russian energy dependence, and strengthen its security capabilities.

And it means standing up unflinch-

ingly to Russia, something that only the U.S. has the capacity to do.

Third, this is a critical test for the European Union.

The EU may not have America’s hard power, but it has no shortage of soft power that, in its political, eco-nomic and moral weight, is not incon-sequential.

Ukraine borders on four EU coun-tries – Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania – which together effectively constitute the regional bloc’s eastern border. Moreover, the Maidan protests, lasting months and costing the lives of over 100 Ukrainians, were triggered by popular anger at the policy u-turn of President Yanukovych, who, at the last minute, spurned an historic deal with the EU that his own government had pursued, and turned instead to Mos-cow. Will the EU stand by those Ukrai-nians who aspire to a pro-European future for their nation?

The fourth key point has to do with Ukraine itself.

Here is the chance for the country to prove it can pull itself together, even in the midst of the crises in its south-ern and eastern districts, and create a “new” Ukraine – anchored in demo-cratic values, tackling endemic cor-ruption and the need for administrative reform, affording equal opportunity and protection to all its citizens within its multi-ethnic society, and winning the battle against the lingering demons of anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

To be sure, Ukraine has a pain-ful history of anti-Semitism that dates back centuries.

Another Gaza-type government in Judea and Samaria

But, and this is a big but, since the rebirth of Ukrainian independence in 1991, many have struggled to create a receptive new environment for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Jews – and there’s much to show for the effort up the present day.

Anti-Semitism hasn’t totally disap-peared, especially among ultra-nation-alist, far-right groups (and also, it must be said, among those outside the coun-try who currently seek to destabilize it by cynically playing the anti-Semitism “card”).

At the same time, Jewish life in Ukraine has been revitalized, Jewish groups abound, relations with Israel are excellent and, currently, a Deputy Prime Minister is Jewish, one of the 450 members of Parliament wears a kippah, and a few governors and may-ors are also Jewish.

Many Jews outside Ukraine may find it difficult to acknowledge these changes. Their views of Ukraine are es-sentially frozen in time, based on their own, or their families’, tragic experi-ences. While entirely understandable, it would nonetheless be a mistake to fail to recognize the changes that have occurred, the opportunities that have been created, and the potential that ex-ists for still more progress.

Indeed, there are certain similari-ties here to the positive evolution, or perhaps even revolution, in the rela-tions of Jews with Germany, Poland, the Baltic states and the Catholic Church.

A few in the Jewish world, includ-ing AJC, saw the opportunities early

on and pursued them relentlessly; others opposed their every move; and still others were, shall we say, asleep at the wheel.

More broadly, there are those who argue that Ukraine isn’t worth a con-frontation with Russia. It’s too risky. It’s the wrong time. It’s much ado about very little.

I beg to differ.While no one should seek diplo-

matic confrontation for its own sake, and Russia remains an absolutely key country in many important respects, if we don’t stand up now we almost in-evitably risk having to do so later – and at a still higher price. No, it’s never the right time, but such moments are rarely of our choosing. And no, it’s not about very little, but actually about quite a lot.

Like other countries, Ukraine and its people should have the right to choose their own destiny as a sover-eign, democratic nation. Their borders should not be violated, their land an-nexed, and their government intimidat-ed by a saber-rattling neighbor. That’s not the kind of 21st-century world we want to live in, and Moscow needs to understand that it will pay an escalat-ing diplomatic, political and economic cost if it insists on playing by its own rules.

We either make that point now, con-vincingly, or take our chances. Here’s hoping we make the right choice.For more information, visit www.ajc.org.

By Gene Sipe, VP Southwest Chapter ZOA

The Arab-Israeli conflict con-tinues to perplex Westerners, frustrate Israelis and impoverish

Israel’s Arab populous. From Western perspectives the U.S. peace initiative should have worked. After all, the U.S. was willing to throw in unimaginable amounts of funding and hand over huge bits of Israel’s real estate. Knowing full well that this was a futile exercise, Is-rael’s leadership was, for the sake of a possible peace accord, willing to acqui-esce to what many deemed unreasonable demands.

Why not, once the war was over the British coexisted with the American revolutionaries, the Mexicans coexisted with the Texans, the Europeans and the Germans now comprise the EU, etc. From a Western perspective, let’s get it done and move forward. The Middle Eastern perspective is nowhere nearly as easy to comprehend. Israel exists as a Jewish homeland and intends to continue to do so. This is completely unacceptable to its Arab population.

Since the 1940s, these people have

been told only what they wanted to hear by their leadership and are unable to understand that their self-serving, cor-rupt and/or unqualified leaders are com-pletely responsible for their condition. Their leadership refused statehood when it was offered by the League of Nations. In the last half of the 20th century, every offer of statehood was outright rejected by Yasser Arafat. In the first decade of the 21st century, they rejected a state at the 2007 Annapolis Accord, and in 2009 during President Obama’s first term. Un-able to self-determine, gangland-style wars ensued between the Fatah and Hamas organizations.

Despite huge amounts of funding from both the surrounding Arab nations, the UN and the sympathetic West, the Palestinian infrastructure continues to deteriorate, the populous lives in substandard conditions, they are un-able to make payroll or even pay their electric bill (which Israel continues to underwrite). Somehow though, fund-ing exists for small arms and rockets, and senior leadership’s private bank

accounts swell. Once again their leader-

ship has failed to acknowledge their own incompetence and self-interest. Mahmoud Abbas has publicly acknowledged that his Fatah party is unable to maintain a stable govern-ment and would lose control if elections were allowed. Rather than demonstrating true leadership and work toward statehood through diplomatic means and not appear to ca-pitulate to the West or Israel, he opted to flout Israeli and U.S. efforts with evermore unreasonable demands and attempts to circumvent the negotiations by taking his de-mands directly to the UN. He then went further and entered into a reunification agreement with Hamas.

The Fatah and Hamas

agreement appears to fall into the cat-egory of the Middle Eastern tactic of temporarily joining forces against a common enemy. The primary common-ality of the two organizations’ charters is the call to destroy Israel. Within a week of the termination of the peace initiative, both parties commenced a huge propaganda campaign at a festival honoring the Sbarro suicide bombers by calling for armed strikes on Tel Aviv and revenge against Israel. This was intended to demonstrate a united family, however, according to senior Hamas official and co-founder Mah-moud Al-Zahar, Abbas is a weak leader and will lose an election when the Unity

government forces elections.It appears that the Unity agreement

served Fatah by preventing them from committing to anything that might be construed as peaceful overtures, and Hamas in setting them in prime posi-tion to reenact the 2005 elections in Gaza. Israel’s leadership knows that it is untenable to have another Gaza-type government in Judea and Samaria. What they need now is full-on support and encouragement from American Zionists to encourage Washington to block UN interference in their policies and support measures they must take to defend their very existence.

Just a figment of our imaginationBy Stephen M. Brazina, co-Chair Israel Advocacy Committee

As co-chair of the Israel Advo-cacy Committee of the Jewish Federation of Collier County,

I feel compelled to respond to a small, but misleading article entitled “Don’t buy the Israel boycott hype” on page 22 of the April 2014 edition of the Federa-tion Star.

Apparently, this is a summary of a longer article written by David Rosen-berg in the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Rosenberg assures us that the boycott campaign against Israel is nothing to be greatly concerned about, as the Israeli economy keeps chugging along and the BDS ( Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) group is getting nowhere with its efforts to isolate Israel.

Admittedly, this is very comfort-ing reassurance from Mr. Rosenberg. However, I seem to remember similar comforting assurances in the past from Jewish and world leaders regarding dangers faced by our people, which led to complacency and resulted in unimag-inably tragic consequences.

Of greatest concern is that Mr. Rosenberg totally ignores the perva-sive hostile attitude towards Israel on

our college campuses and in many of our mainstream church and academic groups. According to Rosenberg, “the boycott is nothing more than a creature of the media’s imagination.” Try telling that to pro-Israel students on our college campuses!

Let’s make no mistake about it, the purpose of the BDS movement is clearly the delegitimization and demonizing of the Jewish state. Let’s also be clear that the survival of Israel requires a positive relationship with the United States and that the BDS movement is focused on influencing this relationship by brain-washing our future leaders on college campuses.

David Rosenberg may take comfort that the BDS movement has not adverse-ly affected the economy of Israel to this point, but I say “Don’t buy Rosenberg’s misleading hype,” and resolve to fight this growing BDS threat to the future security of Israel and the Jewish people to the best of our ability by exposing their lies and true agenda.

The Israel Advocacy Committee welcomes your comments at Israel [email protected].

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The Sinaitic moment and its impact upon humanity

Being Jewish has no boundaries

Opinions and letters printed in the Federation Star do not necessarily reflect those of the Jewish Federation of Collier County, its Board of Directors or staff, or its advertisers.

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Edward M. Maline, D.D.

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Adam F. Miller

Chances are that if you have been to Israel you did not go to Mt. Sinai. Why? Because we really

don’t know where it is. It could be in the Sinai Desert but it also could be in Saudi Arabia or Jordan. Sinai is not the loftiest of mountains compared with Mt. Herzl, Masada, Mt. Scopus and Mt. Moriah, which have geographical certainty.

Our rabbis actually believed that

Sinai, as a place, was less important than Sinai as a moment in time when revela-tion took place – when new knowledge and new insights were transmitted, and new discoveries were made.

There is discussion today about the possibility that Israel might develop a vaccine to prevent cancer. If such a cure is discovered in a laboratory at the Weizmann Institute or at Hadassah Hospital or at the Jerusalem Institute for Technology, that place will be the moment of SINAI – a breakthrough in medical science.

Sinai is, therefore, an ever-recurring moment in human history when revela-tions of new truth lead to progress in the world.

The greatest Sinaitic moment in Hebrew history was the moment of rev-elation of Torah; a Corpus of Law differ-ent from the laws of ancient civilizations that antedated the Hebrews – laws that made ethical advance over prior laws among the ancients.

Hebrew law had distinguishing features and principles. One such prin-ciple was Dina d’malchuta dina – the law of the land is the law. This is to be contrasted with the attempt today on the part of radical Islam to impose Sharia law on Muslims living in other lands.

Another principle in criminal law is that three eyewitnesses are required to convict someone of a capital crime and to impose the death penalty.

Jewish law is evolving with the Responsa Literature – answers to new questions that could not have been con-ceived in the Biblical Rabbinic periods. A vast compendium of law has emerged and continues to the present day as rab-bis who are experts in the field of law give answers to perplexing questions that arise in modern society. Examples are autopsy, organ transplants, terrorism, the non-affiliated and their rights, rights of criminals, etc. The concept of justice – it is better to acquit the guilty than to convict the innocent – was recently mentioned in an American court of law.

The Torah – Jewish Law – was God’s gift to the Jews, but also a con-tribution to humanity.

When we talk about prayer, it usually conjures up images of time spent in the sanctuary

or perhaps blessings being said at home over candles and wine on a Friday night. Our ancestors prayed through sacrificial offerings, while today we rely primar-ily on the words of our lips and hearts. Some pray through forms of meditation or physical movement. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel described marching in the Civil Rights movement as, “Praying with my feet.”

This month I will be heading to Camp Coleman, the regional camp of the Union for Reform Judaism, to spend two weeks on faculty. Last time I was there, I witnessed a unique form

of prayer beyond even that of Heschel – prayer through sand. In addition to having the lake, pool, ropes course, sports and creative arts one expects at a camp, Coleman campers also participate in prayer. One morning, my assigned unit of 3rd and 4th graders traveled to the lakeside beach. Each bunk was assigned one prayer, and instructed to express the meaning of the prayer in question by way of building sand castles. I watched in wonder as each group set about its task. Some went with obvious themes – the Shema castle was a single solitary structure representing the oneness of God, while others were more abstract, representing the Yotzer prayer for Creation with the six days of Creation arranged in the form of a Star of David, and symbols of Shabbat at the center.

Praying through sand castles may not be a regular form of prayer, but I have no doubt that the campers who participated in that program gained new insight into those prayers. That experi-ence reinforced the positive message of

Jewish summer camps – that Judaism and Jewish experiences are an acces-sible and meaningful part of one’s life as a Jew.

Located in the hills north of At-lanta, Coleman provides campers with a unique environment in which they are able to develop, explore and express their Jewish identities. For campers, it is the one place, other than Israel, where being Jewish means being part of the majority. We are blessed that the Jewish Federation of Collier County recognizes the important role of Jewish camping, and provides scholarships for children in the community to attend Coleman, as well as other Jewish camps.

Jewish children today primarily learn about Judaism in their homes and at their synagogues. But Jewish identity transcends those locations. Our Judaism is a part of who we are, wherever we may be. Camps like Coleman enable children to nurture their Jewish identi-ties, and to recognize the importance of Jewish values in their everyday

activities – from how they interact with peers and parents, to their sense of responsibility for the world around them. Jewish values and lessons are woven throughout the fabric of the camp experience from the core values through unit programming. Older campers at-tend electives such as: “What Does it Mean to Honor One’s Parents?” and “Does God Have a Facebook Page?” Israel education also plays a significant role in camp life. Israeli staff members take it upon themselves to share their love of Israel.

Sitting on that beach building sand castles, those campers were doing more than experiencing prayer or playing with their friends. Those children were etch-ing into their minds the understanding that Jewish experiences and values are all around us – in the places we expect like synagogues and homes, as well as on the playing fields, beaches and everyday activities. Camp teaches that being Jewish does not depend on where we are, it is simply who we are.

PITY THE PALESTINIANS? COUNT ME OUTEveryone is so busy weeping over the allegedly incomparable sufferings of the Palestinians that hardly a tear is left for the tribulations of other peoples. This picture of the Palestinian plight is nothing short of grotesquely dispro-portionate.

In Syria, untold thousands of fel-low Arabs are starving, while in South Sudan, 3.7 million people, amounting to one-third of the population, are now facing imminent death by starvation. And the Palestinians? True, when they wish to go from the West Bank into Israel proper, they are forced to stop at checkpoints and subjected to searches for suicide vests or other weapons in the terrorist arsenal. But no Palestinians in the West Bank are dying of starvation. Nor is anyone facing the same fate in Gaza today.

Three times in the past 15 years the Palestinians have refused offers of a state on most of the territory taken by Israel in 1967 and with Jerusalem as its capital. What they truly want is not a state of their own living side by side with Israel, but a state that replaces Israel altogether. (Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995, Wall Street Journal)

MOVING BEYOND THE “PEACE PROCESS”In 1948 there was no Palestine problem; there was an Israel problem, in that the Arab League wouldn’t tolerate a Jewish state in its midst. Nor was the 1967 war

about Palestine. Egypt’s Nasser, who started it, said the objective was “throw-ing the Jews into the sea.” At no point was creating a Palestinian state even considered. Nasser failed, and the new status quo favored Israel by widening its security perimeter – with territories taken from Egypt, Jordan and Syria, not from Palestine.

The demand for a return to pre-1967 borders is bizarre, to say the least. In 1967 there were no borders, just cease-fire lines drawn in 1948 – lines that sym-bolized an unstable status quo that led to two wars. Going back to them means returning to a situation that breeds war, not peace.

The “peace process” also ignores a fact well established in human his-tory: Every war ends with a winner and a loser; the winner dictates the new status quo and the loser grudgingly ac-cepts. Israel is perhaps the only winner to be prevented from even thinking about cashing its chips. Each time it won a war, the UN and other outsiders intervened to put the whole thing on a different trajectory.

All that the various “peace initia-tives” have done is to raise Palestinian expectations beyond what any Israeli government could accept. (Amir Taheri, New York Post)

WHY IT IS HYPOCRITICAL TO BOYCOTT ISRAELLater this month, I am planning to travel to Israel to appear in the Jerusa-lem literary festival. As surely as night follows day, I have received an “open

letter” from a group of 71 activists calling themselves the British Writers in Support of Palestine (BWIP), who “respectfully encouraged” me to boycott the event. But I am honored to have been invited to Israel, and will be proud to attend. Here’s why:

¡ It is my strong belief that Israel is, relatively speaking, a force for good in the world. Every country that abides by the democratic process, enshrines in law the rights of women and minorities, and conducts itself with compassion both in war and in peace – or at least aspires to do so – deserves our support and respect.

¡ What about Israel’s flouting of international law, I hear you ask? Very well: Britain intentionally bombed civilian targets during the Second World War, which was the last time we were under existential threat. If we were at war again, against an enemy that was able to strike at the heart of our civilian population centers, how would we behave?

¡ The Jewish state is roughly the size of Wales, with a ridge of high ground running along the middle of the West Bank. If Britain were surrounded by hostile neighbors at such close proximity, some of which contained terror groups bent on the destruction of the country, would we be doing any better? It is significant that a man who knows war, Col. Richard Kemp – the for-mer commander of Britain’s armed forces in Afghanistan – testified to the UN Human Rights Council that the Israeli military does “more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.”

¡ From a historical point of view, Israel has been attacked repeatedly by an enemy bent on its destruction (when the Arab world attempted to liquidate the Jewish state in 1967, the settlements had not yet been built). The country has suffered terror attack after terror attack, trag-edy after tragedy. Clearly, whatever the boycott activists may say, to draw a parallel with pre-1994 South Africa is ludicrous.

¡ And given that according to a YouGov poll, 3/4 of Britons “see no reason why British performers should not travel to Israel” – and fewer than one in five Britons be-lieves that Israeli artists should be barred from the UK – I travel in the knowledge that I have public opinion on my side. (Jake Wallis Simons, Telegraph-UK)


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Preschool of the Arts updateBy Ettie Zaklos, Preschool Director

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four years) and The Majors (children ages five to eleven). Your child will be a part of a warm and nurturing envi-ronment under the professional care of experienced, well-trained and qualified teachers. The goal of Summer of the Arts is to expose children to the world around them through a fun-filled pro-gram where they get to experience the arts, music, culture, food, games, crafts, activities, yoga, sports, My Gym, and water activities. While The Minors will stay on campus throughout the program, The Majors will also get to participate in exciting field trips.

To register for our incredible Sum-mer of the Arts program, which runs from June 9 through July 18, please call 239.263.2620. You can enroll your child for the entire six-week program or week by week.2014-2015 registrationRegistration is in full swing for the 2013-2014 preschool year and our classes are filling up faster than ex-

pected! Preschool of the Arts, a state-of-the-art education center with modern classrooms and playground – and the only Eco-Healthy Child Care Center in Collier County – is committed to help-ing children explore our Jewish and American heritages through a diverse arts program. Our curriculum includes a visual arts program, a performing arts program (music and ballet), a culinary arts program (Little Chefs and vegetable garden), yoga, My Gym and educational (and fun!) field trips.

To learn more about our preschool, Winner of the 2012 and 2013 Preschool Champion Choice Awards, visit www.naplespreschoolofthearts.com. For a private tour, please call 239.263.2620.A time to reflectIt’s important to take a few moments to reflect on the preschool year that is com-ing to an end. And it is truly wonderful and extremely fulfilling for me and my teaching team to look back and see how all the pieces of this year’s Preschool of the Arts “puzzle” have come together this past year.

When you open a new puzzle, the puzzle pieces are mixed up in the box – some facing up, some facing down – waiting to be assembled into the bigger picture. This past school year, each of our preschool children has arrived with his or her personal “puzzle” and, during

the school year, all of the “pieces” of each child – from the inherent curiosity to the desire to learn – have come to-gether. The children, with careful guid-ance and instruction, have each had the opportunity to assemble their personal “puzzles.” For the younger children, the puzzle may have been small (perhaps six “pieces”); for the older children, the puzzle may have been larger (perhaps 24 “pieces”). And because of this, the so-called bigger picture has been different for each child. Some were learning how to socialize outside their homes and how to share with their new friends, while others who had already mastered these smaller “puzzles,” were assembling their “pieces” to include new math, reading and writing skills.

And that is our goal at Preschool of the Arts: For our teachers to provide the guidance and structure (the perimeter straight-edged pieces of the puzzle) and then to follow the lead of the children in assembling the inside pieces of each of their puzzles. And, just like you can’t force two pieces of a puzzle together if they’re not meant to fit, so, too, can you not force a child to do something when he or she is not quite ready to make the leap. Encouragement, support and a framework are extremely important. It is these things that allow the child to thrive, secure in the knowledge that he

or she is safe and loved, and that he or she has the potential to do great things, while being respectful of others.

I wish to thank all of you who have been involved with Preschool of the Arts for the 2013-2014 school year. It has been a year of learning, personal growth and success for each of our children who have taken risks and been courageous in assembling their personal “puzzles.” My teachers and I wish you a safe summer filled with cherished memories.

* * *It’s time to say goodbye to our grad-

uating students of our Pre-K Picasso Class. Many of these graduates started with us three years ago, when Preschool of the Arts first opened its doors.

They have blossomed into the most compassionate and loving little human beings with surely the brightest of futures ahead. There is a Yiddish ex-pression, “Az dos harts iz ful, gai’en di oigeniber,” meaning, “When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.” At the gradu-ation ceremony, this expression says it all. Our pride and love for these children was clearly evident on everyone’s face. We wish for them only the very, very best on their journey to kindergarten and beyond, and know that we have prepared them well for the challenges ahead.

The founders of BBYO, Sam Beber and Anita Perlman, had a vision to create a worldwide

fraternity and sorority for Jewish young adults that would shape lives, inspire commitment, and influence the world. Open to every Jew, regardless of denomination or education, they sought to establish a pluralistic platform from which young Jews could celebrate tradi-tion, embrace moderni-ty, and empower future generations of Jewish leaders. Ultimately, their vision had one long-term goal: connect Jewish young people today to ensure a thriving Jewish community tomorrow.

Strengthened by visionaries like Charles and Lynn Schusterman, es-teemed communal leaders from across the Jewish spectrum, professional and volunteer staff around the world and led by more than 400,000 teen leaders for nearly ninety years, BBYO builds on the impact that teen leaders make all over the world. AZA and BBG are a gift – one that instills pride, passion and purpose in each individual member

as well as a promise that the future of the Jewish world will be well tended to.

Every day, teens have the honor of perpetuating the founders’ vision and stewarding a fraternity and sisterhood as they elevate the nearly century-old movement. AZA and BBG’s Founders’ Days provides a time to rally members around the world, and across gen-

erations, to celebrate all that AZA and BBG has achieved and declare all that AZA and BBG will accomplish in the

future. These annual events provides the chance to champion chapters, councils, regions and countries – as well as thank those that gave the gift of AZA and BBG, and extend the gift of AZA and BBG to new Alephs and BBGs.

In Naples, teens celebrated Founders’ Day within their chapters of Negev AZA and Sababa BBG. Upcom-ing spring events are an end of the year pool party and elections of the Fall Term board members. For more information about BBYO, contact Lory Conte at [email protected] or 407.621.4032.

Gabby Van Slyke, Rachel Waltzer and Saige Feldman represent Naples’ Sababa BBG

at Spring Regional Convention

Taylor Bollt, Jason Randall and Brandon Schwartz at BBYO North Florida Region’s

Spring Regional Convention

Tikkun Olam

COMMENTARY BRIEFSTHE REAL PROBLEM WITH KERRY’S “APARTHEID” MYTHIt’s not just the incendiary use of “apartheid” that’s the problem, but the well-worn canard about Israel that Kerry rests his position on. The theory goes like this: Arab birthrates in Israel and the Palestinian territories will continue to be higher than those of the Jews. And at some point, Arabs will become the majority in all the areas that Israel governs and then Jews will be impelled to act like a bunch of Afrikaner Brown-shirts to survive.

There are two key problems with this theory: 1. The demography apoca-lypse isn’t happening. 2. Even if it was, it would have absolutely nothing to do

continued from previous pagewith today’s peace negotiations or the status of the territories administered by Israel.

For decades Israelis have been hear-ing how they will be outnumbered, yet the population trends haven’t changed much. The demographic time bomb is a dud.

Kerry suggests that a change of Israeli or Palestinian leadership might offer better conditions for an agreement on the future Palestinian state. This is an interesting assertion considering Fatah has been the only entity to negotiate for Palestinians, while Israel has engaged in peace talks with the Labor party, Likud party and Kadima party, and it has made absolutely no difference in the outcome. (David Harsanyi, Federalist)

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25 June 2014Federation Star 25June 2014 Federation StarFOCUS ON YOUTH

By Jean L. AmodeaRising young star: Adam Roth

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Temple Shalom Preschool updateBy Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director

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Adam, a junior at Barron Collier High School, is described by his mother, Carolyn Roth, as

“a kid exploring who he is.”A young man with demonstrated

leadership, he is active in several social and religious clubs.

As a board member of the National Honor Society charged with document-ing activities and organizing events, Adam is also on the board and a member of the Spanish Honor society, having studied the language from eighth grade to his sophomore year.

With the Key Club, also as a board member, his position as editor includes

recruiting new members and keeping the membership informed about current events through social media.

In preparation for college applica-tions, Adam also founded an initiative, The Giving Foundation, whose mission is to collect items for donation to the Salvation Army, an endeavor he said is fun and relatively easy to accomplish with the help of fellow junior class-mates. The foundation currently has 10 to 15 active members.

Favoring history as his best academ-ic subject, this summer, Adam will have the unique opportunity to study Israel’s history as a participant in a program

whereby he will attend Alexander Muss High School in Israel for six weeks.

“I will be traveling alone and will meet up with other kids nationwide and be able to study Jewish history and learn about my Jewish roots. We will then have the opportunity to visit the actual historical sites. I am excited about the trip,” Adam said.

Serious about the importance of Judaism and its traditions in his life, Adam attends High Holy Day services with his family at Temple Shalom, and says that someday, he would definitely like to meet a Jewish girl, marry and raise a family in the faith.

“That is something that my mother and father have stressed and something that I will honor. I like being connected with other Jewish people and feel that sense of connection especially through participation in BBYO meetings and activities.”

Having attended a Jewish summer camp for nine years in Ocala, Florida, Adam said he has made friends world-wide and has a best friend who lives in Costa Rica.

With his goal set to attend an in-state college – either the University of Central Florida, Florida State University

or the University of Florida – Adam said that while it is too early for him to settle on a major, when he gets to college he will seek out a Jewish fraternity.

Even though school is the most important part of his life so far, in his leisure time, he plays roller hockey, a high school club sport, in addition to street football and basketball.

Citing his father, cardiologist Tracey Roth, M.D., as his inspiration, Adam said that he values his success and ethical behavior.

As far as his words of wisdom for his peers, Adam said, “Stay connected with other kids in your religion and in-teract with them and discover the things you have in common.”

Adam resides with his parents and sisters Lindsay, a senior, age 18, and Samantha, a seventh grader, age 12. Jean Amodea, a former school principal from New Jersey is a freelance writer for the Naples Daily News and its com-munity publications as well as director of Peter Duchin Music of Naples/En-tertainment Direct. She also performs with her husband Ron’s dance band, jazz ensemble and Caribbean quartet. Reach Jean at [email protected].

The Roth family: Adam, Carolyn, Dr. Tracey, Samantha, Lindsay

We will say farewell to our four-year-olds on May 23 with great pride and a bit of

sadness as so many of them have been with us for three years. We are pleased that the children are so well prepared to move on to kindergarten.

They have been taught phonics and sight word basics, preparing them for a solid reading foundation. Writing jour-nals have been used as a tool to expand the creative process using imaginative thinking and phonetic sound-out words. A basis for math, emphasizing simple addition and subtraction skills, has been taught through the use of manipulative and sorting instruments. In science, these children have learned measuring, sink and float concepts, and participated in experiments using basic chemistry. Art, cultural studies, geography, cur-rent events and other higher order level teaching have provided our students with knowledge of the world around them. We are proud to say that a major-ity of our Pre-K students are reading or

surpassing beginning reading, writing and math skills.

Our little ones have grown so big and capable of many things from when they began their preschool journey. This reminds us that time moves very quickly. Each stage of our child’s growth brings wonderful new changes, but we should try to slow down and appreciate what is happening now. Our Temple Shalom Preschool Family is so blessed to have the children and appre-ciate every moment we are able to be a part of their lives.

So don’t wish away those sleepless nights. Be amazed at the stages your child goes through, and enjoy them all. Sit on the floor and play with them, read them a book at night, know that before long they will be able to read to you. Listen to your child tell you about their first day in school. All too soon you will hear about their first day in high school or college. Cherish and love every min-ute that you have with these little angels.

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Registration is currently open for Camp Shalom, a day camp adventure for children 2-5 years of age, and Camp Einstein, a fun and fascinating academi-cally focused journey for children 6-8 years old. Summer activities for our little ones include water play, dance, arts and crafts, foreign language, music and performing arts, with lots of special surprise visitors! Our older children will explore the wonderful world of science in our incredible laboratory, along with numerous other learning adventures. Camps begin on Monday, June 9. For more information, please call Seyla Cohen at 239.455.3227.

* * *The Congregation of Temple Sha-

lom cordially invites you to attend a service of Confirmation for the Year 5774 when our tenth-grade children will confirm their commitment to the faith and heritage of the Jewish people. Join us on Sunday morning, June 1 at 10:00 a.m. All are welcome. For more information, please call the temple of-fice at 239.455.3030.

Temple Shalom Religious School Intergenerational Model Seder

Chabad of Naples has partnered with the well-known Aroma Kosher Market and Catering of Cooper City, Florida, to bring kosher food to you. Please call the Chabad office at 239.262.4474 for an order form and instructions. Aroma Market delivers orders to the Chabad of Naples, 1789 Mandarin Road, once a week.

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ShavuotOn Wednesday, June 4 we will celebrate Shavuot, the holiday which marks the receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, 3,322 years ago. The Midrash tells us that before G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people, He demanded guarantors who would indeed keep the Torah. The Jews made a number of suggestions, which were all rejected by G-d. Finally, they suggested, “Our children will be our guarantors that we will cherish and observe the Torah.” G-d immediately accepted and agreed to give them the Torah.

So let us make sure to bring all our “guarantors” along to the synagogue on the first day of Shavuot so they can hear the Ten Commandments and receive the Torah once again.

At the shul we’ll be reading the Ten Commandments at 5:00 p.m. The service will be followed by awesome, traditional dairy treats.Partner ProjectA joyous crowd of over 200 Partners at-tended our annual Partner Appreciation Evening on May 15. This was the much

anticipated opportunity for Chabad Partners to celebrate together the con-tinuing growth of Chabad of Naples and to learn what is being planned for the future.

A Chabad Partner decides the amount of his or her own level of giving. Donations can be made in one payment, quarterly, monthly or whatever is best for the Partner. It is the commitment that Partners make to Chabad that is most important.

We cherish our Partners and try to make them feel as special as they are by honoring them annually with a warm social event. Chabad of Naples could not exist without its Partners.

Our Partner Project has grown to over 300 members since its inception. For more information or to receive your Partner Package, call 239.262.4474 or visit www.chabadnaples.com.Jewish Women’s CircleOur 2013-2014 Women’s Circle was devoted to the theme of “Women’s Health and Well-Being.” The final speaker was Betsy Opyt, a registered di-etitian who spoke on “Allowing Healthy

Concepts into Your Life.” The Women’s Circle will resume

in the fall. If anyone would like to assist with the planning for the 2014-2015 Women’s Circle, please contact Ettie at [email protected] or 239.263.2620. Flying ChallahsHere is your chance to bring a smile to someone’s face. If you know people who need a visit or just a little caring attention, your suggestion via a phone call will bring a freshly-baked challah flying to their doorstep.Weekly services and children’s programJoin us every Shabbat at 10:00 a.m. for weekly uplifting services, and bring the kids to the incredible children’s program at the same time. A kiddush and social gathering for the family follow services.First mikvah in NaplesBe a part of a stunning, elegant, state-of-the-art women’s mikvah, often seen as the cornerstone of Jewish life and the continuity of a community. Please visit Chabad Naples’ mikvah mini-site. Con-tact us for more information, private

tours to see our magnificent new addi-tion, and take advantage of opportunities for dedications and memorials that are being offered. Hebrew School Graduation is May 21, following a hugely successful year at Hebrew School with monthly workshops touch-ing on topics from a Matzah Bakery to a Shofar Factory to learning how to write a Torah to a Havdalah workshop – it just doesn’t end! Now is the time to sign up for Hebrew School for next year.

Introduce your children to their heritage and ensure their meaningful participation. Varied stimulating pro-grams include projects, activities and discussions, providing insights into contemporary Jewish life that make it come alive. Jewish story time takes place every month with large-screen programs followed by a practical les-son and activity. Hebrew School held is on Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Registration starts now!

Often, we use our June column to recap the concluding mem-bership year. Coming off the

high of hosting the community’s Yom HaShoah Observance, we are psyched. Though this is hardly an event to gen-erate smiles, it can nonetheless gener-ate positive feelings. And it did. One hundred and eighty people filled our sanctuary space for a moving, informa-tive, and well-balanced program with participation and representation of many groups. Once again, Rabbi Chorny created a highly effective program.

Looking further back, we can sum-marize the highlights of the past year. We began with a cluster of three films in the fall, including one in partnership with the Holocaust Museum & Educa-tion Center of Southwest Florida. De-cember brought our support and hosting effort for the JFCS Hanukkah luncheon for seniors and our own Latke Dinner and, of course, our ever-popular NY-Style Kosher Deli and Game Night on the eve of December 24.

January offered a program innova-tion which we hope to repeat: the de-

lightful Yiddishkeit Night of Comedy, Klezmer and fine desserts. The month also featured an afternoon tea with Rabbi Charles Savenor, Director of Ke-hilla Enrichment for United Synagogue. Also, our lecture series commenced and over the three winter months brought sterling presentations by Dr. June So-chen, Joyce Schrager, Gerald Zieden-berg and guest author Dr. Ellen Rodman. We also hosted and co-sponsored with the Israel Advocacy Committee well-attended talks by Ofer Bavly, formerly Consul General of Israel’s Miami office, and AIPAC’s Brad Gordon.

The centerpiece of winter pro-gramming was our Shabbaton with Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi/Doctor/Professor David Golinkin, president of the Schechter Institute. All who participated came away with a new understanding of, and respect for how Jewish Law is created.

We also provided a Purim talent show and a theater trip to All My Sons.

The biggest initiative, of course, was the overwhelmingly successful launch of the Naples Jewish Film Festival.

The season concluded with Israel Night and the high-spirited Lag B’Omer Picnic. All along the way, there were book discussion group meetings and Rabbi Chorny’s courses.Adult educationRabbi Chorny offers two Tuesday courses. Jewish Perspectives, which explores contemporary issues through the lens of Jewish teachings, meets at 12:15 p.m. Liturgical Hebrew, designed to make people comfortable with the siddur, resumes in the fall. Call to con-firm the schedule.

Rabbi Chorny’s Conservative Juda-ism course is keyed to chapters in The Observant Life, an amazing compen-dium of information and insight valu-able to Jews of all stripes. The course usually meets at 8:00 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, less often in the summer. Coming on June 4: “Between Grandparents and Grandchildren,” beginning on page 709.Book GroupOn Monday, June 30 at 7:30 p.m., join in our discussion of Gary Shteyngart’s memoir, Little Failure. “Shteyngart

traces his family history from the atroci-ties suffered in Stalinist Russia, through his difficulties assimilating as the ‘Red Nerd’ of schoolboy America, through the asthma and panic attacks, alcoholism and psychoanalysis that preceded his lit-erary breakthrough.” (Kirkus Reviews)ShavuotServices will take place on Tuesday, June 3 at 6:15 p.m., combined with an end-of-school program, and Wednesday, June 4 at 9:30 a.m. with Yizkor. Havdalah on the beachJoin us on Saturday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m. at Lowdermilk Park.Religious services schedule Friday services begin at 6:15 p.m.; Saturday services begin 9:30 a.m. with a Kiddush Luncheon. Yahrzeit min-yanim convened upon request. Please join us at any service. Our participa-tory worship services and other events are held at 1459 Pine Ridge Road, just west of Mission Square Plaza. For more information, call 239.434.1818, email [email protected] or visit www.bethtikvahnaples.org. Rabbi Chorny’s direct line is 239.537.5257.

The “season” has finally ended and our island has returned to a calmer, albeit much warmer

condition. We love the snowbirds and everything they contribute to our island’s economy including valuable jobs for people. But it’s always a relief

to be able to get a table at your favorite restaurant and find a parking space when you shop.

Those of us who live here year round experience a rhythm to our lives. We find comfort in the less crowded “off season.” But we’re relieved as the incessant heat recedes when the snow-birds return.

We experience a seasonal rhythm at JCMI also. During the summer our volunteers get a break from the many labor intensive events held at JCMI dur-ing season. But, we simultaneously face new challenges as we recruit volunteers

to deliver the D’var Torah at our weekly Friday evening Shabbat services dur-ing Rabbi Maline’s summer sabbatical which lasts until September 10.

JCMI adopts a more intimate, less formal atmosphere during the summer. And we take great joy and pride in our members’ participation which allows us to continue holding inspiring Shabbat worship services along with tasty Oneg Shabbat delicacies.

JCMI would not be able to manage the rhythm of our seasonal changes if not for the wonderful gift that our volunteers provide to us during the “off season.”

So, we offer our enthusiastic “thank you” to our volunteers who make the transition from season to “off season” so transparent. We couldn’t possibly do it without you.

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Why Hadassah? Let me tell you why! As a Hadassah member or Associate (male

affiliate of Hadassah) you are part of a 330,000+ member charitable organiza-tion that is now 102 years old and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Hadassah promotes youth activi-ties, education and scholarships. Ha-dassah Youth Aliyah Villages in Israel provide a safe haven for underprivileged children-at-risk. Young Judaea, Hadas-sah’s youth movement, helps ensure Jewish continuity and builds leadership skills in young adults through local youth groups, summer camps, Israel trips and Israel programs. Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem pre-pares adults for lifelong careers.

Hadassah has many U.S. initia-tives. “Every Beat Counts: Hadassah’s Heart Health Program” educates women in the U.S. about the risk factors for heart disease in women and how to reduce them, and “Sister to Sister,” an online personal assessment of risk fac-tors for heart disease. Hadassah provides

opportunities to study Judaism, Zion-ism, Jewish history, Hebrew, literature and culture through study groups, speak-ers, online programs and Hadassah’s E-Mail Action Network. Hadassah has Leadership Programs in the U.S. includ-ing “Hadassah Leadership Fellows,” a select group that participates in a two-year program designed to inspire and cultivate future leaders. The “CHECK IT OUT” health awareness educational program trains Hadassah volunteers to help local teenagers and adult women learn how to do breast self-exams.

Hadassah encourages women to advocate on issues that impact us as Americans and supporters of Israel on a state, local or personal level. Hadassah advocates for issues such as women’s and men’s health, pay equal-ity, domestic violence prevention, Israel security, a strong U.S.-Israel relation-ship and more. We also have programs for Hadassah women and men to go to their state legislature or Washington, D.C., to speak with their Senators and Representatives about issues Hadassah supports.

Hadassah works with its partners Jewish National Fund and Israel Bonds. For decades, Hadassah has been the largest organizational supporter of Jewish National Fund (JNF). Currently, Hadassah is committed to planting the “Hadassah Forest” in the new Be’er Sheva River Park in the Negev in Israel.

We have also had a strong relationship with Israel Bonds over the years and we encourage you to buy Israel Bonds in the name of Hadassah for donations such as Keepers of the Gate pledges as well as for bar or bat mitzvah, wedding and birthday gifts.

Hadassah provides state-of-the-art medical and health care. Hadassah Hospital takes pride in the high level of medical care in all of its departments including cardiology, internal medicine, ob/gyn, oncology, rehab medicine, pe-diatrics, surgery and trauma. Hadassah has finished building the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at Ein Kerem in Jerusalem with patient rooms and operating rooms. Now we need to equip and furnish it.

Hadassah also responds to world-wide crisis situations and is a global leader in caring. Medical and law enforcement personnel from around the world come to Hadassah Medical Organization to learn about trauma care and treating victims of mass casualty events. Hadassah Medical Organization personnel have been “first responders” to catastrophic world events from the Asian tsunami and the earthquake in Haiti to the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

So in a nutshell, that’s “Why Hadassah!” For more information on membership, please contact Donna Goldblatt at [email protected].

As I just mentioned, the Sarah

Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower has been built and we now need to equip and furnish it. We welcome all donations to the Tower. As a special incentive, we are now offering the “Open Heart Pen-dant Necklace.” Open your heart with a $100 donation and receive a beautiful sterling silver open heart pendant and 18-inch chain. To make a donation or for more information, call 800.928.0685 or email donor services at donorservices@ hadassah.org. Your Tower donation will be credited to our Chapter’s Tower Goal.

It’s not too late to register for Ha-dassah’s National Convention from July 21-23 in Las Vegas at the Palazzo Resort Hotel. Registration is now $625 and includes the banquet, two lunches, one light breakfast as well as all materi-als and sessions. There is also a special “duo” package of $1,150 for two people who register at the same time and must include one of the following: Intergen-erational: Mom/Daughter, Aunt/Niece, Member/Associate, etc; Member and a First-Time Convention Delegate; Two First-Time Delegates. Hotels rates are $164 plus tax (single/double occu-pancy). There are specific activities for Associates, too! Please let me know if you plan to attend and be a Convention Delegate from our Chapter. For more information, visit www.hadassah.org/convention2014 or call Suzie Burstein at 212.303.8239.

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National Council of Jewish Women updateBy Linda Wainick, co-President

Our concluding luncheon of the season was held at the Vine-yards on Tuesday, April 22. We

honored Naples Printing and Envelope Company, Jewish Family & Commu-nity Services, and Redlands Christian Migrant Association.

We honored our life members for their ongoing support of NCJW. Life members who were present – Iris Abel, Cynthia Bercowetz, Marcy Cotton, Sandy Gershman, Muriel Hurwich, Bobbie Katz, Judy Kaufman, Carol Klein, Wendy Riedel, Pearl Thall and Linda Wainick – were recognized and presented with plants. Their commit-ment to NCJW is greatly appreciated.

We especially acknowledged and

thanked Jeff and Hannya of Naples Envelope and Printing Company. Their work with our newsletter is outstand-ing. As Carolyn Greenberg, our bulletin editor says, they always make us look great in print!

Dr. Jaclynn Faffer, President/CEO of Jewish Family & Community Ser-vices, was presented with a check in support of JFCS children’s services. JFCS continues to provide mental health counseling, food pantry, sup-port for community and teen groups, PJ library, and services to the elderly. Its Senior Center is open and is serv-ing lunch on Wednesdays (recently 98 people were served). Other programs include computer classes, art classes,

cards and mah jongg. Friendships are forming among the attendees. There is a wonderful group of volunteers, however more are needed. Call the JFCS office at 239.325.4444 for more information.

Gloria Padilla, Area Coordina-tor for Redlands Christian Migrant Association, was presented with a check in support of RCMA early child-hood programs. Ellie Ramirez, works for FND (Family Network Disabilities), a program funded by the Department of Education. Ellie is Director of PEP (Parents Educating Parents). This pro-gram offers free services to families of children with disabilities from infants on up, in Hendry, Glades and Lee coun-ties. She works with parents to make

sure they are getting their needs met within the school system, assists with doing paperwork (which is often an obstacle), and teaching them to become advocates for their families. Ellie grew up attending RCMA, from infancy on, and received support all through school. Now she is one class away from earning a college degree. She is based in Im-mokalee, and loves being able to give back to her home community. Her fam-ily members continue to migrate north in spring/summer, picking watermelon and tomatoes, and return in the fall. It was wonderful to hear Ellie’s story and we thank her for sharing.

We wish everyone a pleasant sum-mer. See you in October!

Bobbie Katz, Dr. Jaclynn Faffer, Linda WainickLinda Wainick, Bobbie Katz, Jeff Silverman, Hannya Silverman Bobbie Katz, Ellie Ramirez, Gloria Padilla, Linda Wainick

Naples Jewish Congregation updateBy Suzanne L. Paley, President

NAPLES JEWISH CONGREGATION www.naplesjewishcongregation.org / 239-234-6366

Naples Jewish Congregation has started its “summer schedule” in regards to Shabbat services.

We only gather on the last Friday of each month for May, June, July and August.

We will round out our events with a Pot Luck Supper, called Blintz Blast,

on Friday, May 30 in honor of Shavuot. We will have a dairy supper, complete with blintzes prepared in a variety of ways, to remind us of how precious is the “land of milk and honey” not only to generations past and present, but to so many in this day and age of tumult

in the world.If you are interested in finding out

more about our congregation, please call Rabbi Sylvin Wolf at 239.234.6366, Membership Chair Peter Weissman at 239.352.4395 or me at 239.776.7559. You are invited to join us for services

where you will meet many of our friend-ly members.

While our Board of Directors, Pro-fessional Staff and Committee Chairs are busy planning the coming year, we wish you a healthy, happy and comfort-able summer.

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ORT AMERICA – GULF BEACHES CHAPTER www.ort.org / 239-649-4000

By Helene Dorfman Fuchs Profile of Midge Rauch: Small-town girl discovers ORT

ORT America (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training)Did you know that:

¡ ORT supports 300,000 students annually in 56 countries by providing technical education that emphasizes employable skills?

¡ ORT’s most famous (and least publicized) mission was to educate Holocaust victims in DP camps so they were able to move on with their lives?

¡ ORT America has four college campuses in the U.S., including two in New York, one in Chicago and one in Los Angeles, that serve the most vulnerable communities?

¡ ORT America is active in Southwest Florida? Please attend Gulf Beaches Chapter events and support ORT’s educational mission.Help ORT raise funds to save lives through education.To join/renew/transfer, please contact ORT America Gulf Beaches Chapter

President Marina Berkovich at 239.566.1771, or Membership Chair Marebe Crouse at 239.263.4959.

Please visit www.ortamerica.org for a virtual ORT experience.

The life cycle rituals of Humanistic JewsHUMANISTIC JEWISH HAVURAH www.humanisticjewishhavurahswfl.org / 239-398-3935

Paula Creed

President

There are times for celebrating significant moments in the cycle of personal life: birth, puberty,

marriage and death. These passages are universal events of the human condition, but we employ Jewish identity to enrich their message.

This month I will discuss Humanis-tic Jewish approaches to rituals at birth and at puberty, saving the topics of mar-riage and death for a later publication.BirthHumanistic Jews have created signifi-cant and meaningful ways to celebrate the birth of a child of either sex through child-welcoming and baby-naming ceremonies that are philosophically consistent with Humanistic Judaism. We recognize several underlying as-sumptions: 1) male and female children ought to be treated equally; 2) children of all intermarried couples should have

equal status, regardless of whether the mother or father is Jewish; 3) medical or moral decisions about circumcision should be considered separately from decisions about baby-naming celebra-tions; 4) the birth celebration should affirm the family’s connection to the Jewish people and to the human com-munity in a philosophically consistent, meaningful way.

A Humanistic birth celebration has two functions: to name and welcome. Naming a child in English, Hebrew and/or Yiddish can provide an important link to the community and to the child’s ancestral heritage. In the welcoming portion of the ceremony, grandparents, parents, siblings and other relatives, and the community publicly acknowledge the event, symbolizing their commit-ment to the child’s welfare.Bar/Bat Mitzvah and ConfirmationThe “mitzvah” marks the advent not of adulthood but of adolescence – a period of searching for one’s identity and life path. Thirteen-year-olds can demon-strate greater independence and depth of thought, competence and commitment than when they were younger children. The bar or bat mitzvah provides public

encouragement and recognition of the development of these capacities on the road to maturity. It signifies a younger person’s desire to become more respon-sible for his or her own decisions and actions, and to identify with the many previous generations of Jewish people who have done so.

This rite of passage may be marked by the young person choosing a Torah portion (not necessarily the prescribed weekly portion) to read, along with an original interpretative address. Another option, keeping both with humanistic principles and with the meaning of the occasion, is for the child to undertake a study of the life of a humanist or Jewish hero, or another appropriate topic. An adult tutor, sometimes the student’s par-ent or parents, supervises the research and the presentation of a paper and a speech summing up the results.

Each of my three sons chose the latter option. My oldest, who was in-terested in music and played piano and trombone, wrote about George Gersh-win. At the conclusion of his presenta-tion we played the recording of a piano roll made by Gershwin playing Rhap-sody in Blue, and it was as if Michael’s

hero was there in person. My second son, a science fiction

buff, chose Isaac Asimov, sending this famous scientist, author and humanist a copy of his speech. Lo and behold, Mr. Asimov sent a reply saying how flattered he was to be Dan’s bar mitzvah hero, having never had a bar mitzvah himself.

My youngest son, a hockey player and violinist at that age, decided upon Pinchas Zukerman, preparing a beauti-ful paper about his life and accomplish-ments. After sending the musician his paper, Steven also received a heart-warming response.

Each child, in preparing for his humanistic bar mitzvah, experienced an opportunity to grow intellectually, emo-tionally and spiritually; to develop skills and self-confidence; and to experience a meaningful connection to the Jewish people and to humankind.

Midge Rauch discovered ORT when she and her husband Lloyd moved to Oradell,

New Jersey, in 1958, a few years after their marriage. She had barely unpacked when her neighbor knocked on the door. After the usual pleasantries the neighbor asked, “You’re going to join ORT, aren’t you?” Midge asked, “What’s ORT?”

Midge, born and raised in Dick-inson, North Dakota (population then about 8,000), knew nothing about ORT, but she soon learned. At a new member’s tea she saw a film called The Mellah. Midge recalls her emotions at the time. “I defy anyone who saw that film to NOT join ORT. We all cried and we all joined ORT.”

The film portrayed Jews in Mo-rocco living in filth and poverty, hungry, barefoot and desperate. Then it showed ORT helping these victims with food

and clothes, but also with the promise of a new life. “An ORT education helps build self-esteem and puts people on a path to success,” Midge says.

When Midge lived in Oradell, ORT was a huge presence in the New York-New Jersey area. She became an active member, serving as chair of the annual bazaar, a hugely successful fun-draiser that sold only new goods – from children’s clothes to jewelry to rolls of contact paper. Held at a local synagogue, it brought in a $6,000 profit – no small feat in the early ’60s. (Lloyd, whom Midge met at Purdue when she was a freshman and he was working on an engineering degree after receiving a degree in physics at Indiana following World War II service, helped in this endeavor by asking suppliers to provide saleable goods.)

Midge also was president and re-mained a loyal member for 54 years. After moving to Naples part-time in 1992, she became a board member of Gulf Beaches, serving as co-president for four years. A longtime Golden Circle member, she currently is tribute chair.

Midge apparently inherited the “community service” gene from her parents. Her father, Herbert Mackoff, graduated from the University of North

Dakota Law School. A respected trial lawyer, he was elected the first Jew-ish president of the North Dakota Bar. Midge remembers him traveling to Washington, D.C., on behalf of the REA to negotiate loans for North Dakota farmers.

Both parents were civic minded, Midge recalls. Her mother, Gertrude, was instrumental in founding a lecture series that brought dignitaries to Dick-inson. She remembers seeing Dag Ham-marskjold, second Secretary General of the U.N., standing in their living room about to give a speech to an enthralled audience.

In a town with only three Jewish families and no synagogue within 100 miles, Midge’s upbringing was mainly secular. But her parents always empha-

sized that they were Jewish. Still, they were shocked when she chose to attend Camp Herzl in Minnesota, an Orthodox camp where she learned to read Hebrew.

Midge spent her last two years of high school at Milwaukee Downer Seminary after she was accepted be-cause their “Jewish quota was not yet filled.” (Jewish quotas were ubiquitous in those years, both at the prep school and college levels.)

One reason Midge appreciates ORT is that it has no “quotas.” It’s an orga-nization that does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity or age. She says, “ORT works for people at all ages and stages. For example, ORT takes a man with a wife, two kids and no job and teaches him skills so he can become a productive citizen.”

Lloyd and Midge Rauch at a January 2014 ORT event

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TEMPLE SHALOM OF NAPLES (Reform)

4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples, FL 34119Phone: 455-3030 Fax: 455-4361

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Rabbi Adam MillerCantor Donna Azu

James H. Perman, D.D., Rabbi Emeritus

Neil Shnider, PresidentCaren Plotkin, Religious School Dir.

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Shabbat Services: Shabbat Eve - Friday 7:30 p.m.Shabbat - Saturday 10:00 a.m.

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BETH TIKVAH(Conservative)

1459 Pine Ridge RoadNaples, FL 34109

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JEWISH CONGREGATIONOF MARCO ISLAND 991 Winterberry DriveMarco Island, FL 34145

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CHABAD NAPLES JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

serving Naples and Marco Island 1789 Mandarin Road, Naples, FL 34102

Phone: 262-4474Email: [email protected]

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Ettie Zaklos, Education Director

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American Technion Society• Chapter Dir: Jennifer Singer, 941-378-1500

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Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida• President: Joshua Bialek, 263-9200

Humanistic Jewish Havurah of Southwest Florida

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Israel Bonds• Reva Pearlstein, 800-622-8017

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Jewish National Fund• West/Central FL Office, 800-211-1502

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Jewish War Veterans Post 202,- Collier Co. Chapter

• Commander, Gil Block, 304-5953• Senior Vice Commander,

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Men’s Cultural Alliance• President: Steve Brazina, 325-8694

Naples Friends of American Magen David Adom (MDA)

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National Council of Jewish Women• Co-President: Bobbie Katz, 353-5963

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