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FEDERATION NEWS

August 2012 - Av/Elul 5772 Volume 42, Number 8

Celebrating Jewish Life in Sarasota and Manatee Counties, Israel and the World

Serving our community for over 40 years!

Published by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

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The impact of teen travel to IsraelBy Len Steinberg

By Howard Tevlowitz

Why Federation invests in teen trips

Students and Kobernick residents complete

joint project

A children’s village,

an adult dream

March of the Living – a

life-altering experience

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 5A Community Focus 11A Jewish Interest 15A Commentary 20A Focus on Youth 23A Life Cycle 1B Jewish Happenings 7B Israel & the Jewish World 10B Recent Events

Photos of local summer camp

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Seven years ago, The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee set out on a mission to send Jewish area teens to the State of Israel

every year. What came out of this idea was a program our community is now familiar with, The Bob Mal-kin Young Ambassador Teen Leadership Mission to Israel – a highly subsidized 15-day trip to Israel for Jewish teenagers entering their junior or senior year in high school that has sent over 150 local teenagers to Israel.

Many people wait until college for the “Birth-right” experience, thinking they will gain more at an older age. However, seeing the impact this Young Ambassadors trip has had on these high-school students will change your outlook. Most Jewish identities have already been shaped by the time students begin college. In comparison, high-school students are continuously developing their views and feelings toward Judaism. This is the time to show them the beautiful State of Israel.

When you introduce the State of Israel to some-one who has yet to experience life without the imme-diate guidance of their parents, you’re more likely to find an open-minded approach to viewing the world and what the future has to offer. The students who recently traveled with me to Israel were some of the brightest, most gifted minds I have come across – truly taking home every bit of information given to them and blowing me away by the emotional impact this had on their lives. To watch these 15 teens ma-ture during the few months of pre-mission trainings is just the tip of the iceberg. Seeing it all come to-gether during our stay in Israel is a remarkable trea-sure. To sum it all up in one line, Michael Broadfoot says, “That’s it, I’m moving here!”

These teenagers who are given the opportu-nity to travel to Israel before college come back to the States and start looking at where they want to

attend college. And although academics are always a top priority, a new factor has been brought to the table: the Jewish factor. These students seek univer-sities with larger Jewish populations and thriving Hillels and Chabads. Parents are generally shocked when their son or daughter returns and asks them if they can start lighting the candles every Friday night, something that seems too simple but has such a tre-mendous impact on a person.

The reason that our Federation chooses to focus on the teen population is simple. Teenagers already have the mental capacity to understand the impor-tance of visiting Israel and learning about our his-tory and culture. They tend to have more of a sense of urgency when they return home to get involved with Jewish life and strengthen their Jewish identity. These are the students who not only join organiza-tions such as BBYO, USY or NFTY, they are the ones who become presidents of these organizations, achieve spectacular accomplishments and become a voice in our community.

To learn more about the Bob Malkin Young Ambassador Teen Leadership Mission to Israel, contact Amber Ikeman at aikeman@jfedsrq.org or 941.371.4546 x105.

Look out for future issues of The Jewish News for firsthand accounts of our 2012 Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors’ experiences in Israel this summer.

2012 Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv

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For members of the Jewish community, visit-ing Israel is more than touring a fascinating country and enjoying amazing sights and great

food. Jewish travelers strengthen their Jewish identi-ty, Jewish connections and Jewish involvement while in Israel. In essence, Jewish tourists are basically visiting their homeland. Israel is the eternal birth-right of our Jewish people, linking us to our past and to Jews around the world today.

Sociologist Professor Steve Cohen recently released new data claiming that YOUNG AMERI-CAN JEWS are becoming MORE ATTACHED to Israel, probably as a result of the many orga-nized educational experiences that the Jewish world offers.

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March of the Living – a transformational experienceBy Leah Genn

Rare is the experience that com-pletely tears you down emotion-ally in seven days and builds

you right back up the following week. March of the Living is such an experi-ence.

As part of the Southern Region, I joined one hundred and twenty high school peers, chaperones, Holocaust survivors and adult leaders on a journey to understand the Jewish people, our people.

During our week in Poland, text-book pages and testimony became real. We all stood and prayed, cramped and united, in an original cattle car that had transported Polish Jews to their deaths at various concentration camps. We said the Mourner’s Kaddish in the Auschwitz Crematorium, enclosed by the desperate scratches on the walls around us. Six and a half decades have seemed to dull the horrific nature of the Holocaust, as demonstrated by the museum atmosphere at Auschwitz, the fast food restaurants standing where the prisoners were first sorted, and the hotel across the street.

At Birkenau, we gathered around a manmade retention pond that contained fish swimming around disintegrated hu-man bone. In the Lupochowa Forest, we witnessed three mass graves containing the bodies of three thousand Tikocin Jews. Majdanek was exactly what I pic-tured Hell to look like, with the objects of torture still laying around the barracks and an immense pile of Jewish ashes as-saulting your whole being. Such sights overwhelm you, as your brain attempts unsuccessfully to comprehend how hu-man beings can be so cruel and sadistic to men and women who shared more in common with them than differences.

What kept our faith in humanity in-tact during this first part of the trip were the instances of beauty and courage we found. We heard the story of a rabbi risking his life in Birkenau to pray with

young boys before they were sent to the gas chambers. Throughout the actual March from Auschwitz to Birkenau, an incredible spirit of hope and survival clung to each and every participant. During the ceremony at Birkenau, Rab-bi Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and a Holocaust survivor, was informed of the birth of his granddaughter, a testa-ment to the vitality of the Jewish people after such destruction was forced upon them. In the Lupochowa Forest, such life existed with hundreds of birds chirping right above the tall green trees. I won-dered if somehow the lives that were taken so horrifically have transformed into these beautiful beings, vocal with passion, freedom and life. They deserve to be memorialized in such a fashion.

A week in Israel exemplified the bright future that can be cre-ated from the depths of loss and

devastation. We were astonished at the exquisiteness in the magnificent blue of the Mediterranean surrounding Cae-sarea and the grottos of Rosh Hanikra. We witnessed a country honor its fallen soldiers during Yom HaZikaron in Kiryat Yam. The names of each and every man and woman from our Sis-ter City who was killed in battle since the War of Independence in 1948 were called. The solemnity of the day ended as Israel transitioned into Yom HaAtz-maut, the most joyous day of the year. We all enjoyed an incredible night on Ben Yehuda Street, celebrating the in-dependence of the State of Israel with Israelis, fellow Marchers and other tourists.

March of the Living fully transforms your emotions and previously-held be-liefs about the horrors of the Holocaust and the hope-filled creation of the Jew-ish State of Israel. I will forever hold with me the images I witnessed, the friends I made, and the dreams that continue to exist for the future of our people.

To learn more about March of the Living, contact Orna Nissan at onissan @jfedsrq.org or 941.371.4546 x104.

March of the Living – a life-altering tripBy Julianne SimsonEditor’s note: Below is the speech Julianne Simson gave at her recent graduation ceremony at Booker High School. The Federation and its leader-ship are so proud that she chose to focus her remarks on her experiences on the March of the Living Mission.

For the past eighteen years, we have been a part of a system. We have all gone through the K-12 educa-

tion, whether we wanted to or not. We had to abide by dress codes and show up to class on time. We had to listen to our parents, or deal with the wrath of not listening to them. We have made it to our third graduation. We all are cookie cutters of the thousands of others, also a part of Generation Z...until today. Once we walk out of this room, our true indi-viduality begins. For most of us, we are now eighteen and legal – able to make our own decisions. Many of us will go to college, many of us will not. Many of us will start a family one day, many of us will not. We all truly finally have a chance to lead our own path, and for this we should be excited.

We are all entering the real world after high school and will be faced with so many different issues. Which are worth it to get caught up in? A few weeks ago, I returned from a life-alter-ing trip, where I visited the evidence of the Holocaust in Poland. Before going, I was really nervous and almost pre-dicted what I would see and feel. How-ever, I learned a lot about myself on this trip. For starters, I realize that I can be extremely introverted – which is shock-ing for those of you who know me and wonder when I will ever stop talking. I learned so much about the atrocity to which I now find a personal connec-tion, but there is a lot more that I have gained than just knowledge, facts and emotion.

My outlook on life has totally gone for a curveball. During my trip, we vis-ited the extermination camp Auschwitz and I have never spent a day more silent than this. After a while one of the girls

turned to me and asked if I was okay be-cause I hadn’t said anything. I wasn’t. I told the girls that I was upset because I overheard people complaining about their first-world problems when we just left Auschwitz and were still on its prop-erty where millions died tragically. That day made me realize that some things just aren’t a big deal. Overall, we have a lot more blessings than tragedies in our life, and we should reevaluate all that we have before we start complaining.

While I learned more and more about the stories of the Holocaust, I re-alized that it was all so personal. Every person had a name, a family, aspirations. When I saw the Holocaust survivors and the numbers of those killed, I could only think that they had no opportunity for the future. We do. Each of us can excitedly live each day to its fullest. As you leave this school of great diversity, remember to accept, not just merely tolerate, others for who they ARE, not who they AREN’T.

I challenge each of you to keep these newfound lessons in mind as you start becoming your own person and lead your own life. I want us all to take a moment to find one lesson you gained here at Booker High School. Be open minded and open to change. Remember this lesson and take it with you, then instill it in a future generation. Look around the room and take a mental pic-ture of the faces around you. These are the faces of not just today, but the future. You are all going to change the world, whether in little steps or big steps. Our generation only has one shot and it is up to each of us to try our best, to do our best. Hold on to this moment because it won’t come back again. This milestone in your life known as high school gradu-ation is just a part of a process, an open door with many paths to choose.

But the best part is that YOU get to choose it. Walk out the doors today proud to be you, a Booker High School grad of the fantastic and best class of 2012!

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The Jewish News welcomes Roy Schneider as new Joseph J. Edlin Journalism internStaff Report

The staff and leadership of The Jewish News are proud to wel-come Roy Schneider as this

year’s Joseph J. Edlin Journalism In-tern. This paid internship program, generously funded by Sarasota resi-dent Miriam “Mimi” Edlin and her family through the Joseph J. Edlin Endow-ment Summer Journalism Internship Fund, provides an opportunity for an area student, age 16-22, to get real-world experience with a professional publication, as well as learn about the Jewish nonprofit world. The endowment fund is administered by the Jew-ish Federation of St. Louis; the St. Louis Jewish Light publication is also a beneficiary of the fund.

Roy is a very busy young man, having recently graduated first in his class from Sarasota Virtual School. He took advantage of this correspondence program as an opportunity to pursue a dance career at the San Francisco Ballet School as well as to enhance his online and computer skills. Due to an injury and evolving interests, he decided to return home from the program in Feb-ruary to finish high school and expand

his “real-world” experience, which included working as a server at Fresh Start Cafe and also assisting businesses in using social media.

Roy recently answered a few ques-tions about himself and his desire to

work with The Jewish News.Why did you decide to apply for the Joseph J. Edlin Journalism In-ternship program?It is a great opportunity to expand my writing skills to a professional level as well as under-stand how the newspa-per publishing process works on a local level.

Journalism gives the writer a certain structure to adhere to with the ability to be creative with many of the media in a certain written work. It was also a great opportunity to get involved with our Federation.How has your upbringing helped you develop your interest and skills?I am fortunate to have notably support-ive parents who did not hold me back from any programs that weren’t conven-tional or mainstream. They recognized my inclination to create and motivat-ed me to enroll in dance, writing and

other arts-related programs and activi-ties throughout my primary school years as they saw them make me smile. My family’s move to very arts-driven Sara-sota from Israel at the age of seven was also a crucial step. What are your plans after gradua-tion?My plan is to start at the State College of Florida in the fall to complete my basic course requirements before transferring to a university, which will be chosen once a specific major is finalized.What do you like to do in your free time?I like to fill up my free time with differ-ent art/design projects, writing, reading,

traveling and enjoying beach-related activities. Additionally, I can never go wrong with a quality movie or TV show that delivers comedic satisfaction! Lastly, what are you reading now?I am currently reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and current articles of The New Yorker.

For more information about the Joseph J. Edlin Journalism Internship Program, please contact Kim Mullins at 941.371.4546 x103 or kmullins@jfedsrq.org.

Be sure to look out for Roy’s first article in the September issue of The Jewish News.

A note from Mimi Edlin:To choose one winner from an as-tounding group of accomplished students is a formidable task. With the invaluable help of Kim Mullins [Federation Communications Direc-tor], I was able to make a choice. Ten outstanding young students vied for a journalism internship which I fund annually through The Jewish News of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. These candidates are the cream of the crop – eager, smart, in-volved in an array of school activities,

savvy participants in Jewish youth organizations, excellent writers, think- ers and planners. They are people who have assumed leadership roles in their schools and communities. I am so proud of our local Jewish youth. I underwrite a similar internship in St. Louis, where I lived for many years, and I’m bowled over by their past achievements, their present projects and commitments, and their future aspirations. I wish Roy the best of luck!

Roy Schneider

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Rabbi Howard A. Simon

Syria – Separating fact from fictionBy Rabbi Howard A. Simon, Chair of The Robert and Esther Heller Israel Advocacy Initiative

By the time you read this article, the death toll in Syria, perpe-trated by the military under the

direction of President Bashar al-Assad, will have risen to more than 15,000 poor, defense-less citizens in the sixteen months that have passed since nonviolent protes-tors began calling for As-sad’s departure and a new government. The world, including the United States government, stands by shaking their heads, deplor-ing what is taking place in Syria, but doing nothing to counteract the reality that is Syria today. It leads us to ask what is fact and what is fiction in this ever so deadly part of the world?

The facts are that gunmen, repre-

senting the Assad regime, continue to kill innocent people, focusing their at-tacks on women and children who are defenseless. The fact is UN special en-

voy Kofi Annan continues to make visit after visit to Syria preaching his peace plan, a plan President Assad says is excellent, but one he will not imple-ment, for it is totally op-posed to his primary goal of staying in power.

The fact is that at a recent NATO summit meeting in Chicago, those in attendance showed no

support whatsoever for an American and NATO-led air strike against Syria. Assad counts on this inaction to allow him to continue to wage war against any group that opposes him. The fact

is a dozen nations have expelled Syr-ian diplomats from their countries as a protest against the horror that is Syria today. This makes for interesting press, but means nothing to Assad and his followers who could care less about dip-lomats residing in foreign countries. All he cares about is that the world contin-ues to turn its back on the Syrian people who are systematically being destroyed town by town, village by village.

And what about the fictions that exist in this part of the world? First is President Assad’s blaming “armed ter-rorists” for the continued rise in deaths in his land. The killers are Assad’s men, backed by him and urged to continue the massacre on a daily basis. The next fiction is that the UN, Kofi Annan and the world really care about what is hap-pening in Syria. The issues are talked to death, but nothing is done to end the

Assad regime or relieve the sorrow that afflicts the Syrian people.

The result is death, destruction, mayhem and one man clinging to power with the support of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, who do not wish to see a democracy or any other form of government arise in Syria. The reality that is Syria today is a shanda, an embarrassment for the free world, a situation that will go from bad to worse. The longer the world waits to react to this nightmare the worse it will become, especially for the children – the poor, neglected, slaughtered children.To learn about how you can get involved with the Heller IAI, please visit www.helleriai.org or contact Kim Mullins at kmullins@jfedsrq.org or 941.371.4546 x103.

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the Bob Malkin Young Ambassadors program, the Schiff SKIP (Send a Kid to Israel) program, March of the Liv-ing, Birthright Israel and MASA grants. From partial scholarships to fully sub-sidized leadership trips, your Jewish Federation is committed to providing area teens with opportunities for Israel travel. The results of these trips are as-tounding. Teens return home with a more vivid picture of Israel. They frequently acquire or strengthen friendships with other participants, and sometimes with Israelis as well; most are more willing and able to advocate Israel’s cause in organized and informal settings; some become more involved in their local youth group or synagogue; some be-come more religiously observant; and many become interested in returning to Israel, with a few even making aliyah! For many, these changes are both en-during and dramatic.

Furthermore, trips such as these provide amazing growth opportuni-ties for our teens. They are challenged emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, socially and physically while in Israel. For many, the trip provides a genuine feeling of independence that many teens have never previously experienced.

Whether it is immersing themselves in the intense Jewish society of Israel, hik-ing for several days in a row, confront-ing a foreign culture, being totally away from family, or making new friends quickly, these students must learn to cope with new intellectual, physical and social challenges; and most do so, to their own immense satisfaction.

Over the past decade, more than 200 teens and college-aged students were able to visit Israel through the direct financial support our Jewish Fed-eration. These teens have and will con-tinue to grow more attached to Israel. Just by being Jewish college students, these teens may find themselves expect-ed to respond to the assault on Israel’s legitimacy, and their visit to Israel will play a key factor in their ability to ad-dress these accusations.

Israel is an imperative part of our Jewish Federation mission, and that connection to Israel and with her people is an essential part of our educational and engagement role and responsibil-ity.

For more information about the programs listed above, please contact Amber Ikeman at aikeman@jfedsrq.org or 941.371.4546 x105.

5A August 2012 5AAugust 2012COMMUNITY FOCUS

PRESIDENT Nelle Miller

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Howard Tevlowitz

ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Marty Haberer

COMMUNICATIONS CO-CHAIRS David Gruber, Linda Lipson

MANAGING EDITOR Ted Epstein

CREATIVE MANAGER Christopher Alexander

ADVERTISING SALES Robin Leonardi

PROOFREADERS Adeline Silverman, Stacey Edelman

JOSEPH J. EDLIN JOURNALISM INTERN Roy Schneider

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Become a JFCS volunteer and change a child’s life!By James Blundell & Clay Muench, JFCS AmeriCorps VISTAs

Jewish Family & Children’s Service volunteers offer mentor and tutor services for at-risk youth referred

to our school-based programs at Emma E. Booker Elementary and Booker and McIntosh Middle Schools. The impact volunteers have on these youth can be life altering for both the adult and the child.

Serving as positive adult role mod-els, volunteers provide social, emotion-al and academic support to help youth foster positive life skills and increase educational achievement. “The JFCS mentor program provides a one-to-one relationship for a child to have with an adult to talk about life and help trans-late those experiences into something positive,” stated Suki Sellinger, JFCS Mentor Volunteer.

The goal of the JFCS mentor pro-

gram is to improve academic achieve-ment, self-esteem, social competence, and avoid further problem/high-risk behavior. By initiating a caring rela-tionship between a trained adult and an at-risk youth, our volunteers help children achieve their potential.

The JFCS one-on-one approach to tutoring is unique since we are person-ally committed to seeing each of our students excel both in the classroom, and in life. JFCS volunteer tutors pro-mote independent learning and thinking to enhance student confidence and en-sure academic success.

Please contact Caroline Zucker, Coordinator of Volunteer Resources, at 941.366.2224 or czucker@jfcs-cares.org to get started. School begins on Monday, August 20 and volunteers will be needed this fall to mentor and tutor

youth. Serving as a JFCS mentor or tu-tor you can make a difference in the life of a child…and your life will change too!

JFCS volunteer Stephen Greene visits one of his students at Emma E. Booker Elementary School

By Andria Keil Bilan, JFCS VP of Development

JFCS offers Bereavement Support Group

The Bereavement Support Group is offered through the Jewish Family & Children’s Service

Jewish Healing Program, funded in part by The Jewish Federation of Saraso-ta-Manatee. Thanks to the support of the Federation, the Bereavement Groups are offered at no charge as a community service by JFCS.

Based on a Jewish approach to mourning and healing the soul, the Be-reavement Support Group is scheduled for six consecutive weeks throughout the year. Each hour-and-a-half session has its own topic such as the normal process of grief, a roadmap for healing, the role of prayer, how to keep memo-ries alive, and healing.

“It’s important that people expe-riencing grief can turn to someone for support,” Susan Finkelstein, RN, MAS,

tells participants of her Bereavement Support Group. “Many mourners feel lost and confused when they first come into the group. I tell them this is normal and you are not alone. That gives them the foundation to build the healing pro-cess. We provide information as well as a trusting environment that is conducive to sharing and supporting each other.”

The next Bereavement Support Group will meet on Thursdays, August 9 - September 13 from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. at JFCS, 2688 Fruitville Road, Saraso-ta. For more information or to register for the group, contact Susan Finkelstein at 941.366.2224 x166 or sfinkelstein@jfcs-cares.org.

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Sylvia Haft Firschein, who passed away in May 2011, was the librar-ian at Temple Beth Sholom for

many years. She was also active in the wider Jewish community as a volunteer with the Anchin Pavilion, Jewish Family & Children’s Service, the Brandeis Uni-versity Alumni Association, and many other institutions in her chosen role as a pre-server and communicator of Jewish culture.

Now, her daughter Merry has re-ceived a posthumous award – the “Fan-ny Goldstein Merit Award” – honoring Sylvia on behalf of her work and con-tributions to the Association of Jewish

Libraries and to Jewish librarianship. The AJL is an international institution that was dear to Sylvia’s heart. She

founded the local chap-ter, which now bears her name, and attended many AJL conventions. Shortly before she died, Sylvia was preparing to attend the 2011 AJL Convention in Montreal.

Sylvia Firschein was a mentor, educator and be-loved friend to many in

the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish commu-nity. We can be proud that she has been honored and, at the same time, sad that she did not live to receive the award herself.

Sylvia Firschein

Plans for the Sarasota Jewish Cho-rale’s 14th continuous season have been finalized by Bookings Chair

Susan Gleeksman.Highlights of 2012 include perfor-

mances at the Federation’s November 8 Kristallnacht Service, Temple Eman-uel’s December 7 Chanukah Service, and Sarasota Folk Club’s December 17 holiday program.

Confirmed dates for 2013 include January 13 for the Temple Beth El of Northport Sisterhood, and March 15 for Temple Beth Israel’s Shabbat service. Details to follow.

The Sarasota Jewish Chorale in-vites experienced choral singers to join the group. Call Martha Kesler at 941.955.1021 or Arlene Stolnitz at 941.492.6944 for more information.

Sarasota Jewish Chorale announces 2012-13 performance dates

Local support instrumental in rededication of Camp Coleman Hillman Chapel

On a recent Friday night at URJ Camp Coleman in Cleveland, Georgia, Shabbat was wel-

comed with the singing and praying typical of any Jewish summer camp. However, the experience this summer at Coleman is enhanced because of the recent renovation and rededication of the camp’s Hillman Chapel, thanks in large part to a generous donation to the project by Rabbi Geoff and Sue Hunt-ting and their children.

The rededication service featured camper readings, blessings led by song leaders and rabbis, words from the camp director and several speeches, includ-ing one by Sue Huntting, who was in-vited especially for the occasion. Jacob Carnes, a fifth-grade student at Temple Sinai and a second-year camper, shared with the camp what makes Shabbat at

camp holy. “When we dress in white, we do this to show holiness and respect for Shabbat. The Shabbat song session is one of my favorite times because

it makes me feel alive and full of en-ergy.”

Sue, whose children attended Cole-man as campers and staff, and who her-self served on the faculty for eight years, spoke about how camp had shaped her life and the life of her family. She ended her remarks with a charge to the camp-ers. “If you’ve had a good summer, thank your parents. And thank your rab-bi. And thank your grandparents or your temple’s scholarship committee or your Federation or whomever else made it possible for you to come to camp this summer. They have given you a gift – the gift of camp.”The bimah area of the renovated Hillman Chapel

Sue Huntting (far right) with campers and staff from Temple Sinai

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AIPAC – AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEEJacki Waksman, North & Central Florida Area Director, 954.653.9053 or jwaksman@aipac.org; www.aipac.org

AJC (AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE), West Coast Florida ChapterBrian Lipton, Regional Director, 941.365.4955 or liptonb@ajc.org; www.ajc.org

AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY, Gulf Coast ChapterJennifer Singer, Chapter Director, 941.378.1500 or jennifer@ats.org; www.ats.org

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE561.988.2900 or florida@adl.org; www.adl.org

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL JEWISH ARTISTSKim Sheintal, 941.921.1433 or klapshein@aol.com

BBYO NORTH FLORIDA REGIONMarissa Feinman, Program Director, 407.645.5933 x292 or mfeinman@bbyo.org;www.northfloridabbyo.org

B’NAI B’RITH INTERNATIONALProgramming/membership, 941.302.4500

BRANDEIS NATIONAL COMMITTEE Rookie Shifrin, President, 941.907.0985 or rookies@me.com

HADASSAH, SaBra ChapterLee Ruggles, Organization VP, 941.924.1338 or lruggles.sabra@gmail.com

THE JEWISH CLUB AT LAKEWOOD RANCHLenny Drexler, thejewishclubatlwr@gmail.com

JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICERose Chapman, LCSW, President/CEO, 941.366.2224 or info@jfcs-cares.org; www.jfcs-cares.org

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDAKim Sheintal, President, 941.921.1433 or klapshein@aol.com; www.jgsswf.org

JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF SARASOTA COUNTY POST 172Stuart Krupkin, Commander, 941.342.3413 or skkrup@yahoo.com

JEWISH NATIONAL FUNDUri Smajovits, Regional Director, 727.536.5263 or usmajovits@jnf.org; www.jnf.org

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW), Sarasota-Manatee SectionNCJW’s 24-hour answering service, 941.342.1855; www.ncjw.org

ORT AMERICAAndrew Polin, Associate Director, Florida Gulf Coast Region, 541.501.2090 or apolin@ortamerica.orgAnn Baum, GulfsidePalm co-President, 941.355.7200 Barbara Berliner, GulfsidePalm co-President, 941.907.0317 or melberliner@aol.comKim Sheintal, GulfsidePalm co-President, 941.921.1433 or klapshein@aol.comJanet Glazer, SaraMana co-President, 941.893.5015 or janetpglazer@gmail.comAndrea Kas, SaraMana co-President, 941.756.7542 or andreakas@ymail.comLarry Mandel, Men’s co-Coordinator, 941.751.4849 or larryofliberty@verizon.netSydney Weinstein, Men’s co-Coordinator, 941.739.2244 or judithwein@aol.com

RAFI (Relatives and Friends of Israelis)Harriet Joy Epstein, 941.342.1818 or hjesarasota@yahoo.com

SARASOTA JEWISH CHORALESusan Skovronek, 941.355.8011; Arlene Stolnitz, 941.492.6944; www.sarasotajewishchorale.org

SARASOTA LIBERAL YESHIVAMarden David Paru, Dean, 941.379.5655 or mardenparu@comcast.net

SARASOTA-MANATEE RABBINIC ASSOCIATIONRabbi Jonathan Katz, President, jrkatz1@aol.com

SARASOTA SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION Betty Greenspan, City Director for Tel Mond Israel, 941-706-3239 or CD_Israel@SisterCities.org; www.sarasotasistercities.org/Tel_mond.html

STATE OF ISRAEL BONDS, Florida West CoastReva Azneer Pearlstein, Assistant Director, 727.539.6445 or reva.pearlstein@israelbonds.com; www.israelbonds.com

SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL OF SARASOTA-MANATEE COUNTIES, INC.Laurie Lachowitzer, President; 941.927.3636 or laurietemple@verizon.net

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA, Sarasota/Manatee chapterDr. Brent Rubin, President, info@ZOAsarasota.org; www.ZOAsarasota.org

CHABAD OF BRADENTON & LAKEWOOD RANCH5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton, FL 34211

Telephone:• 941.752.3030 Fax: 941.752.3838E-Mail:• info@chabadofbradenton.com Website: www.chabadofbradenton.comRabbi Mendy Bukiet•

CHABAD OF SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES7700 Beneva Road, Sarasota, FL 34238

Telephone:• 941.925.0770 E-Mail:• info@chabadofsarasota.com Website: www.chabadofsarasota.comRabbi Chaim Steinmetz•

CHABAD OF VENICE & NORTH PORT2169 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice, FL 34293

Telephone:• 941.493.2770E-Mail:• info@chabadofvenice.com Website: www.chabadofvenice.comRabbi Sholom Schmerling•

CONGREGATION FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISMUnity Hall, 3023 Proctor Road, Sarasota, FL 34231

Telephone:• 941.929.7771Website:• www.chj-sarasota.orgMadrikhim: Martin Kotch, Betty Pelletz•

CONGREGATION KOL HaNESHAMA (Reconstructionist)Services held at South Gate Comm. Ctr., 3145 Southgate Cir., Sarasota, FL 34239

Telephone• : 941.244.2042Email• : info@congkh.org Website: www.congkh.orgSpiritual Leaders Reb Jennifer Singer and Cantor Neil Newman•

CONGREGATION NER TAMID (Unaffiliated)The Lodge, 4802 B 26th St. W. , Bradenton, FL 34207 Mailing Address: P. O. Box 10261, Bradenton, FL 34282

Telephone:• 941.755.1231E-Mail:• shalom@nertamidflorida.org Website: www.nertamidflorida.orgRabbinic Advisor: Rabbi Barbara Aiello•Service Leader: Rena Morano•

JEWISH CENTER OF VENICE (Independent)600 N. Auburn Road, Venice, FL 34292

Telephone:• 941.484.2022E-Mail:• jcvenice@verizon.net Website: www.jewishcenterofvenice.orgRabbi Daniel Krimsky•Cantor Marci Vitkus•

TEMPLE BETH EL BRADENTON (Reform)4200 32nd Street West, Bradenton, FL 34205

Telephone:• 941.755.4900 Fax: 941.755.2023E-Mail:• tbebradentonfl@yahoo.com Website: www.templebethelbradenton.comRabbi Harold F. Caminker, D.D.•Cantor Alan Cohn•

TEMPLE BETH EL - NORTH PORT JEWISH CENTER (Conservative)3840 S. Biscayne Drive, North Port, FL 34287

Telephone• : 941.423.0300Email• : president@templebethel-np.org Website: www.templebethel-np.orgReligious Leader: Cantor Lyle Rockler•

TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL (Reform)567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 34228

Telephone:• 941.383.3428 Fax: 941.383.9164E-Mail:• info@tbi-lbk.org Website: www.tbi-lbk.orgRabbi Jonathan R. Katz•

TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM (Conservative)1050 South Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota, FL 34237•Telephone:941.955.8121 Fax: 941.365.4099•E-mail:info@templebethsholomfl.org Website: www.templebethsholomfl.org•RabbiJoelMishkin•HazzanJeffreyWeber

TEMPLE EMANU-EL (Reform)151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota, FL 34232

Telephone:• 941.371.2788 Fax: 941.371.1130 Email:• info@sarasotatemple.org Website: www.sarasotatemple.orgRabbi Brenner J. Glickman•

TEMPLE SINAI (Reform)4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota, FL 34231

Telephone:• 941.924.1802 Fax: 941.925.2455Email:• office@templesinai-sarasota.org Website: www.templesinai-sarasota.orgRabbiGeoffreyHuntting•HazzanCliffAbramson•

OrganizationsTemples

Directory of Local Temples and Organizations

This directory is updated each year in the August issue of The Jewish News as well as in the annual Connections magazine.

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Sarasota-Manatee Synagogue Council announces Annual Community-Wide Synagogue Open HouseBy Laurie Lachowitzer, Synagogue Council PresidentFind your Jewish family

The Annual Community-Wide Synagogue Open House will take place on Sunday, August

26 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Ten of the area’s congregations – from Bradenton to North Port – will be welcoming pro-spective members.

This is a wonderful opportunity to tour their facilities and meet the clergy, staff and lay leadership of these syna-gogues. Representatives will be on hand to showcase the various offerings, aux-iliaries and programs that each temple offers. It is a great way to get a taste of what each congregation is all about. There is no cost to attend, no reserva-tions are required and most, if not all, will offer refreshments.

The ten participating congregations comprise the membership of the Syna-gogue Council of Sarasota-Manatee and represent various denominations and sizes. They will be looking for-

ward to seeing you at (in alphabetical order) Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Congregation Kol HaNesh-ama, Congregation Ner Tamid, Jewish Congregation of Venice, Temple Beth El (Bradenton), Temple Beth El (North Port), Temple Beth Israel, Temple Beth Sholom, Temple Emanu-El and Temple Sinai. Addresses and phone numbers can be found in the Event Fact Sheet at right.

While it will be the dead of summer, the timing is planned so that interested people are able to commit to a temple family prior to the High Holidays and the start of religious school classes. Most congregations are sensitive to the economic times and will make financial arrangements to accommodate a per-son’s ability to pay. Don’t let monetary concerns keep you from visiting.

Our Sarasota-Manatee community is unique in the way that our congrega-

tions work with a spirit of cooperation to coordinate this event. This simultane-ous Open House is not something that

occurs often in other cities and it says a lot about the collaboration and goodwill that exists in this part of the world.

The ten congregations listed below (in alphabetical order) will be hosting in-dividual Open Houses for prospective members. Cong. for Humanistic Judaism (Humanistic)Unity, 3023 Proctor Rd., Sarasota941.929.7771Congregation Kol HaNeshama (Reconstructionist)3145 Southgate Circle, Sarasota941.244.2042Cong. Ner Tamid (Non-affiliated)The Lodge, 4802 B 26th St., Bradenton941.755.1231Jewish Congregation of Venice (Non-affiliated)600 Auburn Road, Venice941.484.2022

Temple Beth El, Bradenton (Reform)4200 32nd Street West, Bradenton941.755.4900Temple Beth El, North Port (Conservative)3840 S. Biscayne Dr., North Port941.423.0300Temple Beth Israel (Reform)567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key941.383.3428Temple Beth Sholom (Conservative)1050 S. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota941.955.8121Temple Emanu-El (Reform)151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota941.371.2788Temple Sinai (Reform)4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota941.924.1802

Event Fact Sheet:Community-Wide Synagogue Open House

Sunday, August 26, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Myrna HermanPatricia* and Richard HershorinMartin RossLois Stulberg

IN MEMORY OFWendy HowardBryna and Howard TevlowitzPatti and David WertheimerLois StulbergPatricia HershorinIrene and Marty RossBernice SternPatti and David Wertheimer Bryna and Howard TevlowitzDoris IdelsonPatricia* and Richard HershorinMarge SharffPatricia* and Richard HershorinHerbert C. LeePatricia* and Richard HershorinNorma SprinzPatricia* and Richard HershorinJoel Fedder’s brotherSusan and Lenny LandauEllen VanDernootLois Stulberg

MAZEL TOVBert RapowitzPatricia* and Richard HershorinDavid Spevac – 100th birthdayPatricia* and Richard HershorinJay and Bobbie Saphier – 60th anniversaryPatricia* and Richard HershorinStanley and Cynthia WrightIrene and Marty RossFlorence Katz - birthdayHoward and Betty Isermann

ANNUAL CAMPAIGN IN MEMORY OFWendy HowardLawrence PressSandra and Frank KaplanJerry and Beverly EnerfeldLola HoenigPatricia HershorinSam and Sally Shapiro

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GET WELLMartin RossJudy Weinstein

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Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Housing Council appoints new board membersThere are a few new faces on the

Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Hous-ing Council Board of Trustees.

At the organization’s annual meeting, Board President Ken Stock announced the appointments of Joseph Paul Born-stein, Eugene A. Schiller, Louis Siegel and Alan G. Silverglat.

The four bring vast experience from the worlds of corporate finance, law, human resources, risk management and medicine.

Joseph Paul Bornstein received his JD degree from the George Wash-ington School of Law. Currently the executive director of the KBR Foun-

dation, he also has been director of

the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the Jewish Club of Lakewood Ranch. Bornstein also was managing partner at the public accounting firm of Bornstein, Harab, Redler, Lipton, Freedman and Fig, LLC and the law firm Bornstein and Marin, LLC, concurrently.

Eugene A. Schiller received his master’s degree in public administration

from the University of Hartford. Most recently he was the Deputy Execu-tive Director of the Southwest Water Management Dis-trict. Other financial

positions include first financial man-agement director for Sarasota County, director of finance and management for the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, and first

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Louis Siegel, MD is a retired phy-sician who moved to Lakewood Ranch

in 2005. He received his MD with distinc-tion from the Uni-versity of Rochester School of Medicine and also holds a BS in electrical engi-neering from Johns

Hopkins. In addition to a career in pri-vate practice, Siegel was the medical director of the Beechwood Nursing Home in Rochester, New York from 1988-1992.

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Hearing Loop System amplifies accessibility at Temple Emanu-ElBy David Abolafia

As part of its ongoing effort to improve accessibility for members and guests, Temple

Emanu-El has installed a Hearing Loop System in both its sanctuary and so-cial hall. The new system was designed to allow those with hearing loss to more fully enjoy religious services, speakers and other functions.

The Hearing Loop is the only system that sends clear su-perior sound from a microphone directly into a hearing aid or cochlear implant without interference. Unlike traditional sound amplification systems, a Hearing Loop is not dependent upon sound coming through loudspeakers.

In order to access the Hearing Loop System, visitors to Temple Emanu-El must wear a device that has a built-in Telecoil (T-coil). However, the temple does offer portable loop receivers for people whose hearing aids/implants are

not outfitted with T-coils.According to the Hearing Loss

Association of Sarasota (HLAS), ap-proximately 110,000 people in Sarasota and Manatee counties – 16.1 percent of

the local population – are living with hearing loss. This is the highest incidence in the nation.

Hearing Loop Systems have already been installed in many of the theaters in the area, includ-ing the Van Wezel, The Players and Sarasota Orchestra. On its

website, HLAS indicates that Sarasota, Bradenton and Venice are the first cities in the U.S. to have the majority of their theaters “looped.”

Half the funding for Temple Emanu-El’s Hearing Loop System (materials and installation) came from a grant pro-vided by the Anonymous Foundation and the Sarasota Hearing Loss Associa-tion. The other half came from indivi-dual donations.

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New president brings change to Suncoast HillelsBy Linda Wolf, Assistant Director

Hillels of the Florida Suncoast is pleased to announce that long-time Tampa Jewish com-

munity member, Debbie Doliner, has been elected to a two-year term as pres-ident of Hillels of the Florida Suncoast (HFS). Doliner’s leader-ship brings a number of strategic changes to the HFS organization.

As Doliner describes, much of the change tak-ing place at HFS is due to the shift in focus initially introduced by Rabbi Ed Rosenthal, the organiza-tion’s executive director. “Three years ago, HFS hired Rabbi Rosenthal as our executive director. He created a vision that grew USF Hillel from a single dimension nonprofit at the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida to a five campus regional structure, adding Hillel student orga-nizations at the University of Tampa, Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, and New College of Florida and Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota. We have five very different campus cul-tures, each of which needs to be sup-ported and developed to reach its unique and full potential,” says Doliner.

“Student and community leaders from all five campus communities will

Debbie Doliner (photo: Rob Harris Productions, Inc.)

be important additions to the new Sun-coast Hillels governance structure and strategic planning,” Doliner notes. A new governance model has been imple-mented, with a small, 10-12 member Board of Directors responsible for gov-

ernance, financial over-sight, policy development, fundraising and marketing. A Strategic Leadership Council, made up of 20-30 community members and campus student lead-ers from all five campuses, will support the Board of Directors in forward-plan-ning strategies, public re-lations and fundraising.

Doliner’s primary focus will include imple-

menting increased marketing communi-cations efforts to raise the visibility and understanding of HFS in the donor, par-ent and business communities through-out the Florida Suncoast and beyond, as well as exploring new development strategies with the USF Foundation’s support and increasing the organiza-tion’s emphasis on grant writing.

“It is our perception that the Sun-coast Jewish communities do not yet understand our HFS makeup or mis-sion,” Doliner says. “Our Hillels cur-rently connect with more than 1,000 Jewish students a year, not to mention

the education and understanding we provide for our students’ non-Jewish friends. Rabbi Ed refers to Hillel as doing ‘holy work.’ College is the first time in the lives of these young adults when they are truly making decisions for themselves that can affect their Jew-ish identity for the rest of their lives. What we do at Suncoast Hillels is not only meaningful for the future of these students and their families, but we are also impacting the future of the Sun-coast Jewish community and the Jewish people globally.”

Through her dedicated volunteer efforts, Doliner has made a significant impact on the local Tampa Jewish com-munity and Tampa Bay area commu-nity-at-large. Most recently, she just completed a two-year term as President of Tampa Jewish Family Services. In addition to being a director at HFS, she has also served on the boards of the Hil-lel Academy, the Museum of Science & Industry, the Bay Ballet Theatre and the Tampa Ballet. She is also the co-Chair

of the Tampa Jewish Community Cen-ter’s annual Jewish Book Festival.

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Spidy Goes For Matzo BallsThe three Spider-Man films starring Tobey Maguire, were huge hits. Now comes The Amazing Spider-Man, which is labeled a “re-boot” rather than a sequel. It opened on July 3 to good re-views and is racking up incredible box office numbers.

It stars ANDREW GARFIELD, 28, in the title role, with Emma Stone, 23, as Spider-Man’s love interest. Gar-field and Stone both began pro acting careers in their early teens and they became a real-life romantic couple not long after the “re-boot” began filming in late 2010. Garfield’s film breakthrough role came in The Social Network, in which he played EDUARDO SAVER-IN, a (real-life) Brazilian Jewish guy who aided MARK ZUCKERBERG in the creation of Facebook. Stone’s big hits include Zombieland, Easy A and The Help.

Garfield was born in Los Angeles and raised in England. His father’s fa-ther, SAMUEL GARFINKEL, grew up in London, the son of Polish-born Jews. He wed Andrew’s Jewish grand-mother in a UK synagogue in 1933. They moved to the States around 1945 and Samuel changed his last name sometime after coming to America. An-drew’s father, RICHARD, was born in the United States in 1950.

Andrew was three years old when his parents moved to England, where they opened a small design business.

Andrew’s mother, Linda, was born in England. It isn’t clear whether she is Jewish or not. The actor has called him-self Jewish in interviews, but hasn’t mentioned anything about religious education. In a recent interview, he did say that he eats matzo ball soup every day he’s in New York (where he lives with Stone).

Embetz Davidtz, 46, plays Spider-Man’s mother, Mary Parker. Davidtz is best known for her bravura performance as HELEN HIRSCH, a (real-life) Jew-ish woman who worked as a maid in the home of the concentration camp commander in Schindler’s List. I know most people erroneously assumed that Davidtz was Jewish in real life when Schindler’s List came out. In 2002, she married Jewish attorney JERRY SLOANE in what brief press reports described as a Jewish wedding. She and Sloane are still married and have two children. (It’s possible that Davidtz converted to Judaism. But, I don’t know more than I just wrote).

By the way, late in 2010, Brit DAN-IEL RADCLIFFE, 24, best known as the star of the Harry Potter movies, said when he learned that Garfield had been cast as Spider-Man, “He’s fantastic and Jewish apparently, and I’m Jewish. A Jewish Spider-Man – that’s progress.”

Radcliffe is the son of an English Jewish mother and an Irish Protestant father. While entirely secular, he (obvi-ously) identifies as Jewish.

Like Garfield, there was an Angli-cization of a Jewish family name within Radcliffe’s family within the last couple of generations. His maternal grandfa-ther’s original name was “Gershon,” which this grandfather changed to “Gresham” (which was Daniel’s moth-er’s maiden name).On Nora EphronIt’s hard for me to add much to the many tribute articles about NORA EPHRON, the famous essayist, novelist, film direc-tor and screenwriter who died on June 26 at age 71. For those looking for the best “Jewish angle” journalism on Ephron, I direct you to the Forward newspaper articles about Ephron, written by author ABIGAIL POGREBIN, 47. Pogrebin knew Ephron for decades, and inter-viewed her several times. Pogrebin’s June 26 piece for the Forward, “Warm

and ‘Utterly Jewish’ Ephron Left Us Much Too Soon,” summarizes these interviews and there are links on the same web page to prior Pogrebin pieces about Ephron. (Log on to Forward.com and simply enter “Ephron” in the search box.)

Ephron was known for frank speak-ing and she was very candid when she talked to Pogrebin about her Jewish background. Pogrebin writes:” I spent my first extended time with Nora one-on-one in 2003 when I interviewed her for my first book, Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jew-ish, for which I interviewed 62 promi-nent American Jews about their Jewish identity, or lack of it. Nora mainly had a lack of it. She said she thought of

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12A August 2012 JEWISH INTEREST

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ous about the degree of Jewish identity that attached to the author upon her dis-covery, late in her life, that both of her

parents came from Jewish families.

Yes, the 64th U. S. Secretary of State (and the first woman to hold that position) was born a Jew, but she didn’t know it. Many of her rela-tives, including

three of her grandparents, died in the Holocaust, but she didn’t know it. She has no meaningful Jewish identity, but that in itself hints at a story of Jewish families in Nazi-infected Europe that perhaps can never be told.

The story Albright does tell has three dimensions: it’s a WWII narra-tive with a Central European focus; more precisely, it’s a Czech-eye view of

WWII and its aftermath. More narrowly (and richly) yet, it’s a perspective that hinges on the part her father, Josef Kör-bel, played in the Czech foreign minis-try as press attaché and ambassador to Yugoslavia, as scribe and mouthpiece for the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile (in London) after his country fell to the Nazis, and as effective sub-ordinate to the major Czech leaders, Edvard Beneš and Jan Masaryk, even through his country’s second fall, to the Soviet Union, after a very brief hope of renewed democratic independence.

Readers will be frustrated once they realize that Albright was barely a toddler when the historical timeline she fleshes out began. She is rarely writing from memory, as she was much too young to have experience-based in-sights on the events that she relates. In addition, Albright spent very few of her early years living in Prague, and more of them living in either Belgrade or London.

His own future insecure after the Soviet regime took hold, Josef Körbel was able to gain political asylum from

the U. S., bringing his family here in 1948 and building a significant ca-reer as an international studies professor at the University of Denver. Albright’s positions in the U. S. government and her father’s place in Czechoslovakia’s government gave her access to materials that she fashioned industriously and intelligently. She explores, with clar-ity and dramatic pointing, the political

twists and turns by which the democratic Czechoslo-vakia that came to life in the aftermath of WWI be-came a victim of Nazi ag-gression and then a pawn in the east-west game fol-lowing Germany’s defeat. The Czechs had the bad luck to be liberated by the Soviets.

Madeleine Albright’s narrative of how a small European na-tion caught in the crossfire fared during the stormy years leading up to and fol-lowing WWII is bolstered by an abun-dance of sources, an array of captivating photographs, a cast list of principal char-acters, a detailed timeline, and a boun-tiful index. Fortunately, this apparatus does not interfere with accessibility. On many occasions, Albright’s personal (as distinguished from professional) voice adds charm and wit to the presentation of unfortunate occurrences.

The story of Madeleine Albright’s response to the discovery of her Jewish ancestry is a leitmotif running through the analysis of Czechoslovakia’s fate.

Once their Jewish parentage became known, she and her younger siblings explored family papers, government records and various archives to piece together a good bit of their parents’ Jewish past. There was no one from whom Albright could receive the an-swer to this question: What led her parents to convert to Roman Catholicism when Madeleine

was still very young and never reveal the truth about their Jewish origins?

Knowing the character of her par-ents, the author surmises that their deci-sion was meant to be protective. It’s not clear whether or not Josef’s assignment to work with the Czech government-in-exile was intended as an escape from his family’s likely discovery and prob-able extermination as Jews. Albright suggests in various ways that the young Körbel couple had worn their Juda-ism lightly, making it relatively easy to leave it behind. Prague Winter re-veals no information about Albright’s grandparents having relationships with Czechoslovakia’s Jewish communities.

The questions that linger include these: (1) Did Josef Körbel attempt to get his parents and in-laws out of dan-ger? (2) As the Nazis rose to power, how many other Jewish individuals or families disowned their Jewish selves to save (or try to save) their lives? (3) How many succeeded?Philip K. Jason is Professor Emeritus of English from the United States Naval Academy. He reviews regularly for the Naples edition of Florida Weekly and for Fort Myers Magazine. Visit Phil’s website at www.philjason.wordpress.com.

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herself ‘as a Jew, but not Jewish.’ She wasn’t in denial about her Jewish iden-tity, just indifferent to it. ‘At this point [Ephron said] it doesn’t make the Top 5 of what I would say about myself. And it probably never did.’ She bristled at being pegged as a Jewish director, just as she cringed at being described as a woman director: ‘It seems like a narrow way of looking at what I do.’”

Over time, I came to admire Ephron’s honesty. I’m sure that many other Jewish celebrities have the same “indifferent” view, but put on a dif-ferent face when they talk to a Jewish media outlet. Also, Pogrebin notes that Ephron’s “persona” contrasted with her statements about being Jewish. Pogrebin writes: “For all her Jewish disconnection, she felt utterly Jewish to me.” In other words, Ephron’s “Jewish-ness” was “existential” and is apparent in the “Jewish sensibility” she brought to so much of her work.

One case in point, that Pogrebin doesn’t mention, but other writers have. WOODY ALLEN (via Annie Hall) and Nora Ephron (via When Harry Met Sally), can be co-credited as the cre-ators of the “Jewish romantic comedy.” Yes, there were hundreds of American romantic comedy films, many written by Jews, before these films. But the dominant plot line of these prior films

was “external” rather than “internal.” The couple came together, and then outside forces – family, events, etc. – drove them apart. Almost always they overcame these “forces” and re-united. In Annie Hall and Harry, the couples were driven apart by their own internal personality issues or flaws.

In Harry, the couple found a way to work through their “own mishegoss” and re-unite. In Annie Hall, they didn’t re-unite, but still managed to work through their feelings, remain friends, and look back fondly on their romance. This “inward looking” style of roman-tic comedy seemed, to many writers, to be “very Jewish” and it certainly was a fresh and realistic re-invention of the whole romantic comedy genre. It’s no accident that these two films remain the most remembered and best loved ro-mantic comedies of all-time. Sport ShortThe Jewish Sports Review magazine, the best source on Jews in sport, says that at least 13 Jewish players were drafted by a major league team in June. SEAN BIERMAN, a pitcher, was drafted in the 10th round by Tampa. The most promising draftee is pitcher MAX FRIED, a first-round draft pick of the San Diego Padres. Fried was the 7th player to be picked by any team in the draft.

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German officers concluding whether or not to exterminate the “Jewish race.”

This appalling meeting took 85 minutes to plan the mass murder of eleven million European citi-zens, six million being Jews. This conference took place in January 1942.

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Having such a vault of information gives members of the Sarasota Jewish community a source of vital historical information. When people gain knowl-edge about serious subjects such as the Holocaust, it is expected that they will hold a responsibility of carrying on the stories they have been told. As we all learn from Mr. Marburg’s eyewitness accounts, we should remember the lessons from his stories and pass their messages on to the next generation. Mr. Marburg is a strong believer in edu-cating our children so that the outcome of the Wannsee Conference does not reoccur.

Kurt Marburg was born on August 17, 1924, in Berlin, to a conservative Jewish family. His father was the man-aging director of the Berlin branch of an international real estate company. This financial obligation created a strong affiliation between the Marburg fam-ily and the Arnold family. The Arnold family lived on the border of Berlin and Wannsee in an upscale neighborhood. As connections between the two fami-lies grew stronger, Mr. Marburg found himself visiting the Arnolds’ mansion on a regular basis for social events.

Mr. Marburg, guided by his mother at the age of ten, found himself looking into a conference room with a large ma-hogany table staring at him. Mrs. Mar-burg quickly jerked a young Kurt back and guided him toward the living quar-ters. The mahogany table that stared into the eyes of such a young innocent boy was the same conference table used to conduct the Wannsee Conference.

The Arnold family was a crucial component in Kurt Marburg’s early discovery of the Wannsee Conference’s meeting table. The Arnolds were high-ranking members of German finance and were stripped of their earnings just as millions of other European Jews

were. Mr. Marburg has not heard from this financial powerhouse since leaving Germany, but has speculations about their disappearance. The mansion was never returned to the rightful owners and is still standing today.

During Mr. Marburg’s post-war vis-it to Wannsee, he saw this table refur-bished and memorialized in a museum. This sight brought back memories and influenced him to never stop preaching the message of “Never Again.”

When the Marburg family left Ger-many, the horror of the Holocaust was just beginning, but Mr. Marburg would see more than his quota as a combat in-fantryman in the U.S. Army. Mr. Mar-burg and his family immigrated to the United States in the fall of 1938. Upon arriving in the U.S., Mr. Marburg earned his high school diploma and enlisted in the United States Armed Forces. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and

was one of the few who witnessed the horror of the Buchenwald concentra-tion camp just after liberation. When the war ended, he learned that six of his family members were deported to con-centration camps including Auschwitz, Terezin and Riga. He never heard from these family members since his immi-gration to the U.S.

While interviewing Mr. Marburg, I thought deeply about the responsibility this honorable man holds on his shoul-ders. So many Holocaust survivors hold this weight, but Mr. Marburg holds a unique obligation to the future of the Jewish people. The Wannsee Confer-ence is an event that is unfamiliar to the Jewish community. Events such as Kristallnacht are spoken about fre-quently, but many forget about the im-portance of the Wannsee Conference.

I believe that we can all learn from Mr. Marburg’s wise words. Bringing an end to hate and injustice in the world before it takes hold of the people it en-capsulates is vital for the future of the accused. Mr. Marburg, and all Holocaust survivors, are commended for their ef-fort to educate the next generation. Their determination is the true meaning of tikkun olam. Mr. Marburg’s harsh, but meaningful words are the reason students like me will continue to light the flame that empowers the world to strive for a genocide-free community.

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Holocaust studies at Eckerd CollegeBy Elyse Warren

A little over a year ago I had the great honor of participating in the 2011 March of the Living.

Thanks to the generous contribution of Dr. and Mrs. Barry Stein, I was able to represent The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee along with five other girls for an experience of a life-

time. I had never witnessed any event so moving and inspiring.

While I had always been interest-ed in the study of the Shoah, this trip evoked such passion within me that I knew it was a study I wanted to pursue further. When deciding what college I wanted to attend, I knew I had to take into consideration what study-abroad programs and courses the school of-fered that would advance my interest in Holocaust studies. I decided to at-tend Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. It not only fulfilled my desire to attend a small school but also offered wonderful study-abroad programs and the chance to take a course taught by Professor Elie Wiesel every January.

Recently, I had the privilege of hearing Professor Wiesel speak at a luncheon for Jewish life at Eckerd. In person he is very soft spoken, yet his lecture was filled with passion, and ev-ery word he spoke was delivered with

distinct clarity and purpose. After hear-ing him speak you want to join him in his cause to educate and rid the world of ignorance and hate.

I also wanted to be involved with the growing Jewish life on campus. With the help of Rabbi Ed Rosenthal, Director of the Suncoast Hillels and Eckerd College Campus Rabbi, we have Shabbat dinners, a Jewish envi-ronmental program called “Scubi Jew” for scuba divers, and have successfully petitioned the college to change its pol-icy to allow students to study in Israel at Hebrew University or University of Haifa for credit. These have been amaz-ing milestones for the campus, and I am so excited to be a part of its flourishing Jewish community. It also provided me the opportunity to intern at the Holo-caust Museum in St. Petersburg, and I feel very fortunate that I will be allowed to intern there again this upcoming year. Eckerd College was my mother’s alma

mater and since it is within easy driving distance to home in Sarasota, my par-ents, as you can imagine, were thrilled I would be so close!

Along with the growth of Jewish student life on campus, an opportunity presented itself to study abroad in Po-land and Germany with Professor Jared Stark in a literature course called “Ho-locaust Memory, Berlin/Poland.” After an application process and interview, I was accepted along with fourteen other students to travel abroad for the three-week course. Having just returned less than two weeks ago, I can say that it was another life-changing experience. Dur-ing our course studies we analyzed testimonies from both Nazis and survi-vors, and studied the ways in which we memorialize these atrocities throughout the world. We traveled to Berlin and then to several cities in Poland. We had the opportunity to meet and speak with the directors of multiple museums and sites such as the Schindler Factory Mu-seum, Galicja Jewish Museum of Kra-kow, and the Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Our class also visited multiple Nazi extermination and concentration camps in Germany and Poland that included Sachsen-hausen, Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec and Auschwitz-Birkenau. We also had the incredible opportunity to meet and speak with Pani Stefania, recognized as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving a Jewish family in Poland. Her testimony inspired the class and taught us how we must have faith and do what is right no matter what the consequences.

The March of the Living trip may have ignited my interest in studying the Shoah, but my recent trip overseas with Prof. Stark sealed it. I am more deter-mined now than ever to pursue a career in education and the study of the Shoah. I hope to combine my love of education and museum studies so that I can help educate others about these atrocities and inspire them to be advocates against hate and ignorance. I intend to share the stories I have heard from witnesses and survivors with others and future gen-erations to ensure that the Shoah never fades into the abyss of history.

In the words of Primo Levi: “It hap-pened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say.”

Through my studies at Eckerd Col-lege I am looking forward to continuing my studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and eventually returning to Poland to complete my senior thesis on the Shoah. As many of the directors had mentioned to our class, while the inter-est is there to some, they need educa-tors and curators to uphold and secure the studies of the Holocaust for future generations.

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Any one of age remembers ex-actly where they were eleven years ago when the planes

struck New York’s World Trade Center towers. Just say the word 9/11 (nine-eleven), and everyone knows exactly what you are talking about. But of all the powerful experiences of that day – both the tragic ones as well as the noble acts of courage – the one that perhaps endures the most is the utter incompre-hensibility of the attacks.

Today, just as then – despite more than a decade having passed, and all the intelligence (if you can call it that), wars fought, and technologies developed – we are no closer to making sense and understanding the events of 9/11: Why were we attacked? What did Bin-Lad-en and Al Qaeda want to achieve with these aggressive acts?

The only thing we know for certain after 9/11 is that we have entered an age of uncertainty. Before that date America was riding high, brimming with confidence, everything was pos-sible. We saw violence and terrorism centered in the Middle East, mostly focused on Israel. We were immune, or so we thought, from the ills plaguing

that primitive region.Now, more than a decade later, with

the wisdom of retrospect, we can say that 9/11 – in the wee dawn hours of the 21st century – ushered in a new age: an age of uncertainty.

We must acknowledge the fact that since 9/11 there has been no attack on America. We did something right. But the shadow of that fateful day still hangs low and heavily over us. The doubts and uncertainty it has sowed remain very real and threatening.

Now for the good news.Fundamental to Torah psychology

is the confidence that every challenge is preceded by its solution, as every illness is preceded by its cure. This gives us the strength to face any challenge knowing that it can always be conquered.

A second and equally important principle is that every negative can be turned into a positive. Even loss and de-struction – including what happened on 9/11 – can and ought to be channeled and transformed into a force for good. This does not justify or minimize the loss; it only tells us that after the fact even a liability can become an asset.

The Torah takes this a step further: Every new breakthrough is preceded by the meltdown of the status quo, like a new building that can only be built after the old one has been razed. Because as long as we are stuck in an old state, we cannot expect to assume a new state. To allow for a new layer of skin, the previ-ous one has to be shed.

Here is where we can distinguish between “the men and the boys.” Sucked into the vortex of the whirlpool it is very difficult to see outside of our

own selves. Mired in self-interest and in the challenges of the moment, our vi-sion is heavily clouded. To recognize the forest from the trees requires step-ping back, climbing up, and taking in the scene from a bird’s-eye view. When we are able to transcend immediate cir-cumstances, it becomes quite evident that we are in a period of transition from one age into the next.

Periods like this are inevitable. Like a healthy immune system, every few years our systems have to go through a reality check and a market correction, to realign us and help achieve balance.

The boys will only see the here and now. They can thus be overcome by fear and indecision based on the un-predictability of world affairs. The men will realize that we are in the process of growth, and we must see it through, patiently, humbly and filled with hope and courage.

So what does the future hold?Our Torah sages discuss in various

places the present “clash of civiliza-tions.” One particular Midrash states: The King of Paras (Persia) will bring destruction to the entire world, and all the nations will be outraged and con-fused…and Jews will be outraged and confused and say where shall we come and go, where shall we come and go? G-d will answer them: My children, do not be afraid. Everything I have done, I have done for you. Why are you afraid, do not fear, the time of your Redemp-tion has arrived…

9/11 will always be remembered. But it is up to us to determine how it will be remembered. Will it be remem-bered as a day of death and destruction, or a day that began a new world order?

Let us have the strength to turn Sep-tember 11 into a day that helped usher in redemption to the world.

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How will Iranians respond to an Israeli strike against their nuclear infrastructure? This

prediction matters greatly, affecting not just Jerusalem’s decision but also how much other states work to impede an Israeli strike.

Analysts generally offer up best-case predictions for policies of deterrence and containment (some commentators even go so far as to welcome an Iranian nuclear capability) while forecasting worst-case results from a strike. They foresee Tehran doing everything pos-sible to retaliate, such as kidnapping, terrorism, missile attacks, naval com-bat, and closing the Strait of Hormuz. This, despite two facts: neither of Is-rael’s prior strikes against enemy states building nuclear weapons, Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007, prompted retaliation; and a review of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s history since 1979 points to “a more measured and less apocalyptic – if

still sobering – assessment of the likely aftermath of a preventive strike.”

Those are the words of Michael Eisenstadt and Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, who provide an excellent guide to possible scenarios in “Beyond Worst-Case Analysis: Iran’s Likely Responses to an Israeli Preventive Strike.” Their survey of Iranian behavior over the past three decades leads them to anticipate that three main principles would likely shape and limit Tehran’s response to an Israeli strike: an insistence on reciproc-ity, a caution not to gratuitously make enemies, and a wish to deter further Israeli (or American) strikes.

The mullahs, in other words, face serious limits on their ability to retali-ate, including military weakness and a pressing need not to make yet more external enemies. These guidelines in place, Eisenstadt and Knights consider eight possible Iranian actions, which

must be assessed while keeping in mind the alternative – namely, apocalyptic Islamists controlling nuclear weapons:

Terrorist attacks on Israeli, Jew-ish and U.S. targets: Likely, but lim-ited destruction.

Kidnapping U.S. citizens, espe-cially in Iraq: Likely, useful but limited in impact, as in the 1980s in Lebanon.

Attacks on Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan: Very likely, especially via proxies, but limited destruction.

Missile strikes on Israel: Likely: a few missiles from Iran get through Israeli defenses, leading to casualties likely in the low hundreds; missiles from Hezbollah limited in number due to domestic Lebanese considerations. Unlikely: Hamas getting involved, hav-ing distanced itself from Tehran; the Syrian government, which is battling for its life against an ever-stronger op-position army and possibly the Turkish armed forces. Overall, missile attacks

are unlikely to do devastating damage. Attacks on neighboring states:

Likely: terrorism, because deniable. Unlikely: missile strikes, for Tehran does not want to make more enemies.

Clashes with the U.S. Navy: Like-ly: but, given the balance of power, does limited damage.

Covertly mining the Strait of Hormuz: Likely, causing a run-up in energy prices.

Attempted closing the Strait of Hormuz: Unlikely: difficult to achieve and potentially too damaging to Irani-an interests, for the country needs that same strait for commerce.

The authors also consider three po-tential side effects of an Israeli strike. Yes, Iranians might rally to their govern-ment in the aftermath of a strike, but in the longer term Tehran “could be criti-cized for handling the nuclear dossier in a way that led to military confrontation.” The so-called Arab street is perpetually predicted to rise up in response to out-side military attack, but it never does; likely unrest among the Shi’a of the Persian Gulf would be counterbalanced by the many Arabs quietly cheering the Israelis. As for leaving the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and starting a crash nuclear weapons program, while “a very real possibility,” the more the Iranians retaliate, the harder they will find it to obtain the parts for such a program.

In all, these dangers are unpleas-ant but not cataclysmic, manageable not devastating. Eisenstadt and Knights expect a short phase of high-intensity Iranian response, to be followed by a “protracted low intensity conflict that could last for months or even years” – much as already exists between Iran and Israel. An Israeli preventive strike, they conclude, while a “high-risk endeavor carrying a potential for escalation in the Levant or the Gulf … would not be the apocalyptic event some foresee.”

This convincing analysis confirms that the danger of nuclear weapons in Iranian hands far exceeds the danger of eliminating those weapons before they come into existence.Mr. Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is president of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford Uni-versity. © 2012 by Daniel Pipes.

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Iran, Israel, and the BombBy David Harris, Executive Director, AJC, July 1, 2012

When I first saw the headline in the current issue (July/Au-gust 2012) of Foreign Affairs

– “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb” – I thought there was a typo. Surely it was meant to read “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb – Not!”

But then I remembered that this bimonthly journal is not known for its typos – nor, for that matter, irony.

On the contrary, this is arguably the world’s most influential and straight-shooting publication on foreign policy.

The author of this particular essay, Kenneth Waltz, is no slouch, either. He is a prominent scholar and a founder of the neorealism school in international relations theory.

So I turned to the piece, eager to see if my own longstanding concern about an Iranian bomb was perhaps misplaced.

I was dumbfounded by what I read. Here are a few choice snippets: “Most U.S., European and Israeli

commentators and policymakers warn that a nuclear-armed Iran would be the worst possible outcome of the current standoff. In fact, it would probably be the best possible result: the one most likely to restore stability to the Middle East.”

“Another oft-touted worry is that if Iran obtains the bomb, other states in the region will follow suit, leading to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Should Iran become the second Middle Eastern nuclear power since 1945, it would hardly signal the start of a land-slide...No other country in the region will have an incentive to acquire its own nuclear capability, and the current crisis will finally dissipate, leading to a Middle East that is more stable than it is today.”

“Diplomacy between Iran and the

major powers should continue...But the current sanctions on Iran can be dropped: they primarily harm ordinary Iranians, with little purpose.”

And then there’s Waltz’s closing line: “When it comes to nuclear weap-ons, now as ever, more may be better.”

In essence, Waltz constructs his argument on two pillars.

First, he asserts the core problem in the Middle East is Israel’s nuclear ar-senal, which needs to be balanced by another power, in this case Iran.

And second, he believes such a bal-ance of power inherently stabilizes the situation, thereby reducing, not increas-ing, the risk of conflict.

He could not be more wrong on Iran.

Iran does not fit the theoretical template, drawn from his research, that he seeks to impose on it, and the con-sequences of this misreading could be profound.

First, Waltz declares that Iran’s leaders are rational, hence no need for concern about a nuclear bomb in their hands.

Really? Just because Waltz deems them to be

dependable actors who, he asserts, will behave like others moderated by their possession of a nuclear bomb (does that include North Korea’s strongmen?), are we all now to go home and get a good night’s sleep?

Is their Shiite eschatology, focused on hastening the coming of the Hidden Imam, not to be taken into account, as if there were no place for state ideology in the discussion?

Apropos, is it just possible that their vision of the “end of days” could be ac-celerated by a world without Israel? After all, the former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, famously

declared “[T]he use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel would destroy ev-erything.”

Could that kind of thinking not prompt Iranian leaders, living in a self-imposed cocoon, to conclude that the risk might be worth the reward?

Was their recruitment of young Iran-ian boys as would-be bomb sappers in the eight-year war with Iraq, and armed only with plastic keys to enter “heaven” and the awaiting 72 virgins, the behav-ior of a “rational” government?

Was the plot to blow up a Wash-ington restaurant and kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. the thinking of a predictable regime?

Second, Waltz’s confidence that there would be no “landslide” of prolif-eration in the Middle East if Iran goes nuclear is belied by the facts.

He totally ignores the regional

context. There is no mention of the crit-ically important Shiite-Sunni rivalry. He inexplicably fails to note the panic in neighboring Arab countries, docu-mented in Wikileaks and elsewhere, about the prospect of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Is it conceivable that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and, for that matter, Turkey would sit idly by and watch neighboring Iran become a nucle-ar power without following suit – and with all the attendant consequences?

The prospect of such a neighbor-hood hegemon sends shivers up the spines of everyone in the region, save Iran’s few friends, such as Bashar al-Assad’s Syria, and those already too “Finlandized” by Iran’s growing asser-tiveness to speak up.

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And, speaking of proliferation, Waltz unconvincingly dismisses the possibility of Iran passing along its nu-clear technology to terrorist groups, and entirely ignores the prospect of Tehran sharing nuclear tidbits with state actors such as Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.

Third, Israel’s nuclear arsenal, be-lieved to have been developed over 50 years ago, has not created the strategic imbalance that Waltz suggests needs recalibrating.

Indeed, that reported arsenal neither stopped Egypt and Syria from provok-ing war in 1967, nor launching a sur-prise attack against Israel in 1973.

Nor did it halt the PLO from wag-ing its terrorism campaign.

Nor did it dissuade Hamas and Is-lamic Jihad from firing thousands of missiles and rockets at Israel.

Nor did it block Hezbollah from triggering a war with Israel from its redoubt in Lebanon.

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Walker’s parents were impover-ished sharecroppers. Calling Israel “worse” than the Jim Crow South in which they lived cheapens their history and the histories of millions of African Americans who for years couldn’t vote (a right extended to all in Israel) and who couldn’t even to sit on buses and in restaurants with white people.

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truck, playground fun, and socializing in the shade are on the menu for Temple Emanu-El’s sixth annual Family Picnic and Havdalah. This popular event will be held Saturday, August 25 at 6:00 p.m. at Summerfield Park, 6402 Lake-wood Ranch Blvd. between University Parkway and SR-70. A beautiful, musi-cal Havdalah service will conclude the evening as the sun sets over the park.

Although all ages attend the Fam-ily Picnic and Havdalah, the event is designed especially for young families

to get into the back-to-school spirit with old and new friends in a relaxed, wel-coming environment. The event also serves as an outreach to Jewish and interfaith families in East County, en-abling Lakewood Ranch and Bradenton families to meet one another as well as other young families from Sarasota.

Families are invited to bring a pic-nic dinner to enjoy at the event; fresh pizza will also be available for $1/slice. There is no additional charge. The Fam-ily Picnic and Havdalah is funded by an Incubator Grant awarded by the Union of Reform Judaism to Temple Emanu-El to expand the synagogue’s Shabbat programming for young families in Sarasota-Manatee.

The Family Picnic and Havdalah is chaired by Rabbi Elaine Rose Glick-man. Event committee members include Jackie Apatow; Adam Gersh; Joe Kop-per; Jodie, Julia and Marylyn Meyers; Steven Meyers; Phyllis Troy; and Kim Sheintal. Rabbi Brenner and Leo Glick-man will make the balloon animals. For more information, call 941.379.1997 or email Elaine-glickman@comcast.net.

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What started as a germ of an idea last summer was real-ized this past spring when

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Last fall the students met and ex-plored their ideas and feelings about aging and the elderly. Though they certainly associated aging with gray hair and physical infirmities, they also

recognized the joy grandparents take in their grandchildren and the freedom that being retired can afford. When the two groups first met they shared pictures and stories of their families and imag-ined creating some sort of timeline of their lives. Over the next two sessions they divided into groups by decades and researched personal events as well as current events, Jewish events, pop culture, music and fashion from each time period. The finished product is a four-panel collage timeline spanning the years from 1930 to 2012.

The panels are being presented to Temple Sinai from the two groups in honor of the temple’s 21st anniversary. A video chronicling the project is also being finished and will be posted on the temple’s website.

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Alice Walker’s daughter, Rebecca Walker, offers some insight with a sear-ing description of her unusual child-hood.

For starters, Rebecca was fathered by Mel Leventhal, a Jewish lawyer and the son of Holocaust survivors. A mixture of guilt and disdain may have played some role here.

Yet more – ideology was always more important to Alice than people, and she espoused the radical view that childhood enslaved women. Walker ig-nored and neglected Rebecca for years. Resentful of the chain of motherhood, she essentially left Rebecca to fend for herself from age 13.

Ultimately, Alice took the radi-cal step of severing their relationship: “saying that our relationship had been inconsequential for years and that she was no longer interested in being my mother.” (London Daily Mail: “How My Mother’s Fanatical Views Tore Us Apart”)

With Walker’s latest salvo against Israel, her family’s personal tragedy has lately become a tragedy for the

entire Jewish community as well. Alice Walker has turned her naive, one-di-mensional view of the world away from the crucible of her family and onto the world stage, bringing the same warped view to bear.The Oldest HatredAnti-Semitism has been called the world’s oldest hatred. Through the years, it has provided people with an easy scapegoat for the world’s suffer-ing: if only there weren’t Jews, every-thing would be great.

In modern times, this hatred is often redirected to Israel, painting the country and its citizens as uniquely evil and sin-ister on the world stage.

Sadly, Walker isn’t the only famous person to tarnish her reputation and leg-acy by spurious attacks on the Jewish state.

In recent years, Nobel Prize-win-ning Archbishop Desmond Tutu has be-come known less for his struggle against South African Apartheid, and more and more for his obsession with Israel and Jews – saying it’s time to forgive Hitler; talking about sinister Jewish lobbies; and repeating other bizarre anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tropes.

Plenty others allow their legacy to rot into anti-Israel rhetoric. Mairead Corrigan Maguire won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for her work to end vio-lence between Protestants and Catho-lics in Northern Ireland, but lately she’s been squandering her moral capital bashing Israel obsessively, comparing

Israel to Nazi Germany and embrac-ing radical anti-Israel campaigns. José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Litera-ture, was better known in the last years for lurid statements comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. Tom Paulin was once known as one of Britain’s greatest liv-ing poets – an Oxford professor and frequent fixture on British television and radio programs. Until lately, that is, when he’s compromised his consider-able legacy by questioning Israel’s very right to exist and calling on some Israe-lis to be “shot dead.”

In all these cases hostility toward Israel begins to spill over into hostility toward Jews. Alice Walker’s opposition to people reading her books in Hebrew is a move against the language of the entire Jewish people. To target the lan-guage in this way is to move vilification out of the political realm and make it personal.

What can we do in the face of such anti-Israel mania, especially on the part of well-respected cultural figures?

On one hand, we can and must

educate ourselves to counter factual inaccuracies. There is no shortage of pro-Israel websites; the Jewish Virtual Library contains a treasure trove of in-formation.

On a deeper level, perhaps the most effective way to counter anti-Israeli hatred is to recognize it for what it often is, a poisonous world view that hurts its host as much as its object. It appeals to those looking for a simplistic answer to complex questions; to those to whom the world is either black or white, good or evil; to people who lack the will to explore more complex understandings.

Sadly, Alice Walker’s extreme views on Israel indicate a pervasive problem with fanaticism that, according to her daughter, has distorted her entire life. The danger for the rest of us is that her statements create an atmosphere in which ever more virulent rhetoric about Israel becomes the norm.Yvette Alt Miller Ph.D lives in the Chi-cago area. She is author of Angels at the Table: A Practical Guide to Celebrating Shabbat.

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Kol HaNeshama interactive Torah study Tuvia Natkin will facilitate an ongoing interaction with the Chumash on Wednesday mornings (August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29) from 10:00 a.m. – noon at Waterside Retirement Estates, 4540 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota. The purpose of this free class is to bring Torah in all of its potential meaning to people’s lives today – to explore, study, examine and determine its place in their lives. Any interpretation is welcome and open to discussion. Tuvia Natkin grew up in New York and Connecticut and moved to Israel in 1975 to study Torah. His recent translations include the works of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and classic Chassidic texts. This course will go all year and dynamics will determine class size (or perhaps a second class). Various sources and interpretations will be suggested for reading with each section. Tuvia will set these in PDF format to be downloaded. For more information and to RSVP, contact Scott Barde at 941.922.9353 or scottjudyb@comcast.net.

Temple Beth Sholom Interesting Lives Series Join us at 1:15 p.m. at 1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota, to hear Ron Klein, an inventor, entrepreneur, athlete, and inspirational speaker. He is an ordinary man who has accomplished extraordinary things. Ron is the inventor of the Credit Card Validity Checking System as well as the developer of computerized systems for Real Estate Multiple Listing Services, and Bond Quotation and Trade Information for the New York Stock Exchange. Ron has a positive “can do” attitude and characterizes himself as the “Grandfather of Possibilities.” The program is open to the public and free of charge. Refreshments will be served. For information, contact Judy Lebowich at 941.371.4686 or lebowich.judy@comcast.net.

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Third Annual JCV Film Festival – Sixty-Six Join us at 2:30 p.m. at 600 N. Auburn Rd., Venice, for the Jewish-themed film Sixty-Six, which will be followed

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Temple Emanu-El Summer Film Series Temple Emanu-El’s Olympic-themed Summer Film Series concludes with a screening of Watermarks on the Temple’s state-of-the-art film projection system. Watch the compelling story of Jewish female athletes who defied Nazi stereotypes at the Olympic Games. The screening begins at 2:00 p.m. at 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. Cost: $5. Lemonade will be served. All are invited to this stimulating and enjoyable afternoon sponsored by the Adult Education Committee. Contact Peter Wells at 941.359.8235 for more information.

Mindy Simmons in concert Temple Beth El Bradenton has the pleasure of showcasing Mindy Simmons, along with Ellen Bukstel, who will present “Peace and Politics – a heartfelt concert promoting peace and justice!” Ms. Simmons is the Music Director/Choir Director for the Unity Church of Sarasota and in January of this year was honored as the recipient of the Duisberg Annual Peace Award. She has performed extensively across Florida. The event begins at 3:30 p.m. at Temple Beth El, located on the Unity Church of Bradenton campus, 4200 32nd Street West. Cost is $10 per person. Seating is limited so reserve early by calling Temple Beth El, Tuesday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. - noon at 941.755.4900.“Six weeks ago I was diagnosed with a rare lung disease. Following my

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JFCS Transitions Support Group The death of a spouse, significant other or life partner is perhaps the most difficult experience that one can

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Israel Study with Rabbi Geoffrey Huntting This is the second in a series of eight opportunities to discuss the history and establishment of the modern State of Israel. Each session will be built around a book. This month it’s The Settler by Meyer Levin. This free event is open to the public and begins at 10:30 a.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota. You need not have read the book to attend. Visit www.templesinai-sarasota.org for a list of upcoming dates and books. For more information, call 941.924.1802 or email office@templesinai-sarasota.org.

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Third Annual JCV Film Festival – Left LuggageJoin us at 2:30 p.m. at 600 N. Auburn Rd., Venice, for the Jewish-themed film Left Luggage, which will be fol-

lowed by a lively discussion with moderator Jordan Shifrin. Then it’s out for dinner at Angelo’s Italian Restaurant. Costs: movie – $5 for members, $7 for nonmembers; dinner – $17 for members, $19 for nonmembers. For more information, call Beata at 941.484-2022, email jcvenice2@gmail.com or visit www.jewishcongregationofvenice.org.

Celebrity Bartending & KaraokeRaise your glass and your voice for ORT America. The Gulf Coast Region of ORT America is hosting Celebrity Bartending & Karaoke from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the Broadway Bar, 1001 Cocoanut Ave., Sarasota. It will be open mic to all Sarasota Idol aspirants. The cost is a $7 donation at the door. The Broadway Bar is providing light fare. Guests are responsible for paying for food not donated and drinks with tip money going to tuition assistance for ORT students in the United States. To RSVP or for more information, contact Andrew Polin, associate director of the Gulf Coast Region of ORT America, at 941.312.7720 or apolin@ortamerica.org.

AJC 2012 Summer Lunch & LearnAJC (American Jewish Committee) West Coast Florida proudly presents Dina Siegel Vann, Director of its Latino and Latin American Institute, as the Keynote Speaker at its Lunch & Learn at 11:00 a.m. at Michael’s On East, 1212 East Avenue South, Sarasota. Ms. Siegel Vann will discuss “Iran’s Impact on Latin America and its Jewish Communities.” She will explore Iran’s close relationship with Latin America and the Palestinian presence there, and how the Jewish communities in Latin American countries are affected. This is the third program of the series, generously sponsored by the law firm of Williams Parker. The cost of $25 includes lunch. To RSVP, contact Monica Caldwell at 941.365.4955 or sarasota@ajc.org.

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Ner Tamid honors area college students “Let your house be a gathering place for the wise,” says Pirkei Avot. At 10:00 a.m., Congregation Ner Tamid will honor all new and continuing college students. Special guests include Vajra Morano, Jake Durshimer and Jaclyn Jacobson. Ner Tamid invites all Manatee-Sarasota area college students to join us for Shabbat, followed by a special Kiddush. Free and open to the public. Ner Tamid is located at The Lodge, 4802 B 26th St. W., Bradenton. RSVP to 941.755.1231 or shalom@nertamidflorida.org.

La La La Havdalah Back by popular demand, it’s an evening of camaraderie, dessert, socializing, Havdalah – and song! Join old and new friends for the fun and welcoming La La La Havdalah. The event’s centerpiece will be a sing-a-long featuring American folk classics and fantastic guitar accompaniment. The community is warmly welcome at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota. No cost. The La La La Havdalah is ably chaired by Helena Ozer and Dr. Eleanor Wachs, and sponsored by Temple Emanu-El’s Membership Committee. For more information, contact Kim Sheintal at klapshein@aol.com or 941.921.1433.

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Art Robbins Men’s Club annual picnic Temple Beth El’s Art Robbins Men’s Club will host its annual Coquina Beach picnic from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Come and enjoy a barbeque, beach games (for the young and not so young) and swimming. The Men’s Club has reserved the last pavilion (same as in former years) for shade and tables, but please bring your own beach chairs for the beach area. Cost is $7 per person for members and $15 for member families (2 adults and children under 13); $10 per person for nonmembers and $20 for nonmember families (2 adults and children under 13). Reservations and pre-payment required by Friday, August 10.For more information and reservations, please call Temple Beth El, Tuesday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. - noon at 941.755.4900.

monDAY, AuguST 20

Temple Emanu-El Preschool beginsTemple Emanu-El Preschool (151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota) opens its doors for another wonderful year of learning and growing in a loving Jewish environment. Children ages 18 months through five years thrive at this nationally-accredited and Gold Seal-certified preschool, which offers traditional preschool hours as well as extended care. VPK is also offered. Outstanding secular learning is enhanced by weekly Shabbat celebrations, joyful Jewish holiday activities, and the acclaimed “Six-Pointed Stars” Judaic enrichment curriculum. Call Elaine Sharrock, Temple Emanu-El Preschool Director, at 941.377.8074 for schedule and tuition.

The Gan at Temple Sinai opening dayThe Gan at Temple Sinai welcomes back students ages 18 months to pre-K. Spots may still be available in our NAC accredited school that provides authentic Jewish educational experiences. The Gan, located at 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota, offers early care, after care, as well as enrichment activities and family programming. For more information, visit www.thegansarasota.org or call Laura Freedman, MS Ed, Director of Early Childhood Education, at 941.926.9462.

Chabad’s Kaplan Preschool opening dayAugust 20 is opening day for Chabad’s Kaplan Preschool’s 15th year of operation. For the 2012-13 school year, the Kaplan Preschool will once again be offering the free VPK program. The Kaplan Preschool (7700 Beneva Road, Sarasota) provides a top-quality learning environment for children ages 2.5 - 5. Our goals are to provide an education that reinforces Jewish values and holidays, while meeting each child’s individual learning priorities. To schedule a tour of the school, and receive more information, please call the office at 941.925.0770.

TuESDAY, AuguST 21

Monthly Mania has returned! Join SaBra Hadassah for Mah Jongg from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at The Tea House at Asian Arts, 5473 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota. Call the Tea House at 941.343.9727 to save your spot. $10 for games and lunch plus a $10 donation to SaBra Hadassah at the door. Questions? Call Cathy Reinitz at 941.306.5785.

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Temple Sinai’s Annual Augustfest Join us at 5:30 p.m. at 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota, for a BBQ dinner, music and fun for all ages. For more information, please call 941.924.1802 or visit www.templesinai-sarasota.org.

Congregation Ner Tamid’s 8th birthday party It’s a Birthday Potluck Dinner and Havdalah, too. Just turn the number 8 on its side, and you’ll see the symbol for infinity: ∞. In Chinese culture, “eight” is identified with prosperity – both so appropriate for Ner Tamid’s special eight-year celebration. Ner Tamid means the eternal light, which is exactly what this congregation is dedicated to – keeping the flame of Torah and Yiddishkeit alive in the world. We’ve had an amazing eight years, and we’re celebrating with music, entertainment, a pot luck supper and, of course, birthday cake! The event begins at 6:00 p.m. at The Lodge, 4802 B 26th St. W., Bradenton. To RSVP, call Elaine at 941.755.1231 or email shalom@nertamidflorida.org.

SunDAY, AuguST 26

Chabad Hebrew School Open House and OrientationThis year, Chabad Hebrew School of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch will be traveling “Back to the Future” in the CHS time machine. Come travel in time at Chabad’s Open House and Orientation and see for yourself everything that CHS has to offer. The event, which runs from 11:00 a.m. to noon at 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton, will have activities, art, fun, refreshments and prizes. Meet the CHS teachers and fellow classmates. For more information, call 941.752.3030.

High Holiday workshopRabbi Geoffrey Huntting and Chazzan Cliff Abramson will explore the liturgy, music and traditions of the High Holidays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota. Chazzan will be playing samples of the music to enhance the learning experience. Bagel nosh will be served. Free, but please RSVP to 941.924.1802 or office@templesinai-sarasota.org.

JCV Religious School Parent-Student Bagel BrunchProspective parents and students are invited to visit the Jewish Congrega-tion of Venice Religious School at 9:30 a.m. at 600 N. Auburn Rd., Venice. Meet Rabbi Dan Krimsky, Cantor Marci Vitkus, professional teaching staff, and current parents and students. Enjoy brunch, learn about the cur-riculum and Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation. Discover Jewish Congregation of Venice, a place of Jewish diversity and belonging. Interfaith families welcome. Scholarships available. No charge, but reservations are required. Call Beata, at 941.484.2022 for more information and to RSVP.

Community-Wide Synagogue Open HouseThe 10 congregations of the Synagogue Council of Sarasota-Manatee are hosting their annual Open House from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. It’s an opportunity to tour the facilities, meet the clergy, staff and lay leadership, and see what they have to offer you. They will be looking forward to seeing you at (in alphabetical order) Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Congregation Kol HaNeshama, Congregation Ner Tamid, Jewish Congregation of Venice, Temple Beth El (Bradenton), Temple Beth El (North Port), Temple Beth Israel, Temple Beth Sholom, Temple Emanu-El and Temple Sinai. Addresses can be found in the ad on page 3A and the article on page 8A. This event is free and refreshments will be served.

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ZOA mourns loss of Jewish giant: Israeli PM Yitzhak ShamirBy Morton A. Klein, ZOA President, July 2, 2012

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) mourns the loss of a giant in Jewish and Israeli

history, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. PM Shamir was 96. Mr. Shamir served as Prime Minister of Israel in 1983-84 and 1986-92. Only David Ben-Gurion has served longer as the leader of the Jewish state. In 1973, Shamir was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Likud. He was Speaker in 1977 and Foreign Minister in 1980. He served in the Mossad from 1955-1965. Prime Minister Shamir was both a member of the Irgun and a commander of the Lehi group, which many give credit for being critical to the founding of the Jewish state.

I am honored and proud to say that Yitzhak Shamir was a personal friend of mine. We first met when we were the two speakers at a pro-Israel rally at Shaare Shamayin Synagogue in Phila-delphia in 1994. Later that year my wife and I visited with Prime Minister Shamir and his wife at their small apart-ment in Tel Aviv. I remember telling my wife how surprised I was that a Prime Minister lived in such a small residence. Shamir’s extraordinary humility was always part of his life.

The Prime Minister was the Key-note Speaker at our annual Brandeis Award Dinner in 1995 that honored Carl

and Sylvia Freyer. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer was the other speaker. (The Prime Minister said he noticed we had Benjamin Netanyahu as Keynote the year before, and quipped, why didn’t we invite him before Netanyahu.) He also addressed ZOA delegates at ZOA Israel missions.

Shamir’s remarks at the Award Din-ner included:

“I am happy to be speaking to the ZOA, who proudly tells the truth about the Oslo accords, the Palestinian’s re-fusal to fulfill any of its obligations, and the danger to Israel Oslo represents.”

“The problem we face is so grave that my conscience does not permit me to be silent.”

“The peace will not be a real peace. It is not built on a readiness of these Ar-abs for a peace with us, but rather on an Arab plan to destroy Israel in stages.” He said that the PLO already is look-ing at the areas of Jericho and Gaza and plans to set up its capital in Jerusalem. He said the PLO plans to resettle as many as a million Arabs in Israeli territory.

“This is the Arafat plan that will be fleshed out and could, God forbid, become reality. The contradictions be-tween the promises of [Israeli Prime Minister] Yitzhak Rabin to the Israeli people and the promises of [Yasser] Arafat to the Arabs will eventually be

revealed and will cause the collapse of this ‘peace in our time.’” The irony, Mr. Shamir said, is that before the peace agreement, the PLO had “no chance to even approach their goals of destruc-tion,” much less achieve success.

“Had we only been patient, we could have witnessed before long the collapse of our most extreme enemies.”

“Israel settlers are the real defend-ers of the sacred covenant between the people of Israel and the land of Israel...they deserve all the support and solidar-ity of Jews everywhere.”

I remember that when I asked Prime Minister Shamir to speak at our dinner, he asked for a normal speaking fee ap-propriate for a former Prime Minister. When I balked and strongly complained that ZOA was not in good financial shape (in 1995), he immediately said, “OK, OK, don’t worry, you don’t have to pay me a fee.”

We must always remember that it was Shamir who worked fervently with the United States to insure that the U.S. not issue refugee certificates to Soviet

Jews, so they would be directed to re-locate to Israel. He oversaw the absorp-tion of one million Soviet Jews. Shamir was also responsible for tens of thou-sands of Ethiopian Jews immigrating to Israel.

In 1991, he refused to participate in the Madrid Conference between Arabs and Israelis unless the U.S. guaranteed there was no PLO participation, no dis-cussion of Land for Peace or ceding the Golan Heights to Syria.

Prime Minister Shamir was a proud and courageous Jew who stood up like a rock to the enemies of the Jew-ish people. He devoted his life to our people with a strength seldom seen. As Congressman Ted Poe of Texas said, “He was the sturdiest statesmen in the Middle East.”

Shamir was not blinded by fanta-sies but by reality. He lived by Winston Churchill’s dictum, “You must look at the facts, for the facts are looking at you.” Yitzhak Shamir was a great Jew-ish patriot. We will miss him dearly. May his memory be for a blessing.

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A children’s village, an adult dreamBy Susan SalzmanThe place in the Middle East where seriously ill children can just be kids

The clowns who greeted us upon our arrival to Jordan River Vil-lage in Israel were colorful, fun

and entirely appropriate. This facility is designed with children in mind. The central lawn sculpture is of kites flying in the wind. All buildings and equip-ment, including the swimming pool and theater, are bright, colorful, and designed so children can participate in activities regardless of their physical abilities.

The Jordan River Village in the Lower Galilee seeks to enrich the lives of regional Jewish, Muslim and Chris-tian children (ages 9-18) suffering from serious illnesses and life-threatening conditions by creating free, fun-filled, memorable and medically safe camp-ing experiences. It exists because of the love, vision and dedication of two re-markable people, Marilyn and Murray Grant, whom I have been privileged to call friends.

The camp was the brainchild of

the Grants, who worked for over a de-cade to secure significant funding and the government cooperation needed to make the dream a reality. The camp has met the standards of the Serious Fun (formerly Hole in the Wall) network of camps, Paul Newman’s humanitar-ian project. When Murray and Marilyn were applying for certification as a Se-rious Fun camp, they were advised that to meet organization requirements, they would need to have a certain number of sessions every year open to non-Israeli families. Their response was that all sessions would be open. Serious illness knows no racial or ethnic boundaries. Each camp session is devoted to chil-dren with the same illness, allowing them to focus more on the way they are the same, rather than on the things that could divide them.

Though the camp had been in op-eration for several months, June 10 was its official opening. Among an audience

of hundreds in the din-ing room cum audito-rium were friends and family who had trav-eled from the U.S. and across Israel to share in the tribute. I was one of five representatives from the Grants’ Sara-sota congregation (Kol HaNeshama), along with Murray Brochin, Toby Deutsch, and John and Kayla Niles.

The ceremonies opened with an of-ficial ribbon cutting, and Murray Grant wielded the scissors in his and Mari-lyn’s names. The children’s choir of the Haifa Symphony provided entertain-ment. Among the many speakers were numerous children who had already gone through the program. They spoke of attending camp as their first experi-ence living away from their homes, as a way to make contact with children like themselves, and as an opportunity to overcome fears and try new things. Many expressed a wish to serve as a volunteer at the camp in the future.

A parent spoke about the way a child with a serious illness shapes the life of the whole family, and the value to

the family of getting a break from their routines. Others spoke of the logistics necessary to finance, build, equip and operate the camp. There is no charge to families whose children attend, though the actual cost for a child to attend is $2,000 for a week’s stay.

Sadly, Murray Grant passed away peacefully on his flight home from Isra-el a few days after the Jordan River Vil-lage ceremonies. Murray was movingly and lovingly eulogized at his funeral by three generations. He was a remark-able man. I think the tenacity of spirit that made it possible for him to turn the dream of the Jordan River Village into reality held him together until the work was finally finished.

Multi-colored flags wave over Jordan River Village in Israel. The flags symbolize the camp’s mission to help free the spirits

of children with severe illnesses or disabilities.

Some of the Grants’ friends and neighbors who traveled to Israel for the official opening of Jordan River Village: (standing) Fradle & Barry Freidenreich, Susan Salzman, Toby Deutsch, Kayla & John

Niles, Jan Joseph, Beila Ungar, Tony Joseph, (in front) Murray Grant, Marilyn Grant, Erika Fox

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ISRAELI ATHLETES HAVE HIGH HOPES FOR OLYMPIC MEDALSIsrael’s delegation to the London 2012 Olympic Games currently consists of 38 athletes in 10 different fields of com-petition.

The athletes, who have already proven themselves at the highest level of international competition, will com-pete in windsurfing, gymnastics, swim-ming and judo. (Times of Israel)

NEW JERUSALEM TOURISM WEBSITE The Jerusalem Development Author-ity has launched a new website – www.itraveljerusalem.com – that includes Google Street View maps of all the sites in the city, a calendar of events, ad-vice on trips to sites across Israel, and restaurant and accommodation reviews, in addition to an array of HD videos of the Capital. (Jerusalem Development Authority)

FOURTH CENTURY SYNAGOGUE DISCOVERED IN GALILEEA monumental synagogue building dat-ing to the Late Roman period (ca. 4th-5th centuries CE) has been discovered in archaeological excavations at the an-cient Jewish village of Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. Excavations have revealed por-

tions of a stunning mosaic floor with a scene depicting Samson placing torches between the tails of foxes (see Judges 15). In another scene, two human faces flank a circular medallion with a He-brew inscription.

“Only a small number of ancient synagogue buildings are decorated with mosaics showing biblical scenes, and only two others have scenes with Sam-son,” said Prof. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

THE WORLD IS DANCING TO ISRAELI CLUB MUSICThey may look like two average guys in a Tel Aviv park, but they’re actually the hottest band in Israel today: The Young Professionals (TYP). The group is put-ting Israeli club music on the world’s dance floor.

Says TVP’s Ivri Lider: “The Israelis are this crazy mixture of East and West; that’s what we’re trying to be. We’re not trying to be, ‘Okay, we’re from Israel but we’ve put aside everything Israeli and Middle Eastern because we want to be a part of Europe.’ On the contrary,

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and freedom of speech and commerce. But in the community of democratic states, Israel is more often regarded with suspicion. Unwarranted hostility is one of the forces it routinely faces while pursuing survival.

Its sworn enemies are routine-ly treated with more sympathy. The universities of North America have become comfortable homes for a pro-Palestinian movement that is genially tolerated despite its outrageous rhetoric and mobster tactics. The UN is so pro-foundly prejudiced against Israel that most people no longer notice its behav-ior; those who believe UN reports must also believe Israel commits more crimes against human rights than all other na-tions combined.

In 1947 the UN approved a two-state partition of Palestine, which the Jews accepted but the Arabs did not. In May 1967, the Arab states again de-cided they could not tolerate Israel’s ex-istence. They gathered their armies and moved toward its borders. “The Arab people want to fight,” said president Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt.

The Arab states, whose aggressive misjudgment and incompetence caused the West Bank of the Jordan River to fall into Israeli hands, now blame Israel for the sin of acquiring it. Israel has tried to trade back this territory in various land-for-peace schemes, to no avail. (Robert Fulford in National Post - Canada)

BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCTS? NOT IN THE PADespite a Palestinian campaign that calls for the boycott of Israeli products, Palestinian consumers “love and buy Israeli products,” says one Bethlehem minimarket owner. “Lots of people prefer to buy Tnuva products simply because there is tighter supervision and they want to feel safe in what they buy. It has nothing to do with politics. When we buy a product from you (Israelis) we know it is under supervision and only

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RAFI (Relatives and Friends of Israelis) is a social group that is the bridge between loved ones in Israel and the U.S. RAFI is non-political nor a fund-raising group. Members enjoy sharing news about loved ones in Israel and have fun interesting meetings. Try them out and connect with people who have the same interests. For more information, contact Harriet Joy Epstein at hjesarasota@yahoo.com or 941.342.1818.

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made with fresh ingredients.”Imad Naama, who owns a cleaning

and hygiene product warehouse, ex-plains that there is no comparison be-tween the quality of Israeli products and other brands. “If my clients see that the product has Hebrew letters on it or if it says the product is from Israel, they are sure it is better,” he notes. (Ynet News)

THOUSANDS FLOCK TO ISRAEL’S AGRITECH 2012This year’s two-day AgriTech show in Tel Aviv featured over 250 exhibitors. “Some 5,000 visitors from abroad came from South America, nearly all of the Far East (including sizable delegations from China and India), and just about every country in sub-Saharan Africa,” said event chairman Dani Meiri. There were even unofficial delegations from Arab countries. Altogether, there were 80 official delegations from foreign countries. India sent 2,000 farmers to the show, with over 1,200 from the In-dian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.

One significant Israeli agricultural accomplishment is technology to en-hance milk production. “Israeli cows are the world’s most productive, with cows able to yield up to 12,000 liters of milk annually,” said Meiri. “Farmers come from all over the world to learn how we do it, and we export that technology as well. Right now we have a huge proj-ect in Vietnam, where we are working to improve production of 32,000 cows.” (Times of Israel)

WHAT ISRAEL CAN TEACH CHINATwenty students and I recently traveled to Israel for six days to study what makes Israel “a start-up nation.” If China is the world’s sweatshop, then Israel is the world’s laboratory. The Technion’s Wa-ter Research Institute is building a new “water-wise” building which aims to meet 80% of its water needs by harvest-ing rainwater on its roof, and recycling “gray” water from showers and sinks. These are technologies that, once de-veloped, can be profitably exported to countries with severe water shortages.

What makes Israel so innovative? Israel’s answer is simple: Ask questions. When we visited a public high school in Tel Aviv, we saw teachers interrupt the principal, and learned that Israelis consider “shyness” a learning disabil-ity. To ask questions is difficult enough for many a Chinese student. It entails a radical re-ordering of how you relate to yourself, and to the world around you. It requires a willingness to overturn the world if need be. That’s what makes Is-rael such an innovative culture. (Jiang Xueq in The Diplomat - Japan)

TECHNION IMPROVES MICROSCOPE RESOLUTION TEN-FOLD Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has registered a patent for a new technique that improves tenfold the performance of any type of sophis-ticated microscope and imaging system without making hardware changes.

The discovery, published in the Nature Materials journal, has aroused great interest in the scientific world and is being described as a “breakthrough.” (Jerusalem Post)

10B August 2012 RECENT EVENTS

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Recent event photos from the area’s temples, schools & organizations

A group of women who live in Kobernick Anchin’s independent retirement community meet weekly to knit for others. Some group members made their first presentation of a lap robe to Hilda Corman

(center), a longtime KA resident who now lives in the skilled nursing center on campus.

The movers and shakers of N’shei Chabad Women gathered for a planning meeting: Sheila Fox, Chirle Glinski, Gerry Nussbaum, Nechama Whalen and Jodi Bloom

The new Temple Emanu-El Board of Directors gives a thumbs-up after being formally installed and blessed during Shabbat services June 1.

Deborah Solomon and Norty & Louise Bick celebrated Shavuot at Temple Emanu-El’s Tikkun Leil Shavuot. Participants enjoyed

study sessions and delicious dairy desserts.

Outgoing Temple Beth Sholom Men’s Club President Joel Servetz introduces Gerald Ronkin as his successor

at the installation ceremony

Etta and Howie Raiken sponsored a Welcome Reception at Temple Sinai in honor of their 50th anniversary. Rabbi Geoffrey Huntting blessed them during the service.

Zvi and Judy Rogovin enjoy the first 4th Friday of the Summer Shabbat Supper at Temple Sinai

At Temple Beth El Bradenton’s New Member Shabbat: Marla Ryder, Joy Yelin, Jay Berman and Simone Shaw (membership chair)

At Temple Beth El Bradenton’s “Art Robbins” Men’s Club Shabbat are Arnold Klein, Bill Oser, Neil Clark, Ralph Shaw (President), Ron Shapiro, Cantor Alan Cohn and Jonas Ellis

Temple Beth El Bradenton members and guests enjoy the Social Activities Dinner/Cruise at Regatta Pointe Marina

Augie and Barbara Hoch served 100 people at Shabbat Supper at Temple Sinai

Judy Bronstein, Past President of Temple Beth Sholom, and Gerald Ronkin at the

installation ceremony

11B August 2012 11BAugust 2012RECENT EVENTS

Levi & Mushka Schmerling and Emma Mcgill enjoy Zumba at Camp Gan Israel of Venice

On their recent visit to Israel, Kol HaNeshma members Susan Salzman and Toby Deutsch

participated in an Israel Religious Action Center civil rights freedom ride encouraging women

to sit in the front of the bus.

On June 10, Murray and Marilyn Grant, two of Kol HaNeshama’s founders, saw the fulfillment of

their long-held dream with the official opening of the Jordan River Village in Israel, where seriously ill or disabled

Jewish, Muslim and Christian children can attend camp. See the related story on page 6B.

Woody Bryant and Leo Glickman found some shade at Temple Emanu-El’s “Splash Shabbat.” Young families ate

breakfast and enjoyed sprinklers, a wading pool, Popsicles, and an age-appropriate Shabbat service.

Camp Gan Israel of Venice campers and counselors enjoy a Slurpee break

Barbara Gail from the Rhythm Inlet (center) teaches Camp Gan Israel of Venice kids how to place the drums

Junior Counselor Erica Brown has fun with campers at Camp Gan Israel of Sarasota

Campers at Camp Gan Israel of Sarasota enjoy dance

Camp Gan Israel of Sarasota campers and counselors at MOSI

A camper models the “buggy” hat she created during the Creatures Featured-themed Summer Experience Camp

at the Justin Lee Wiesner Preschool

Two campers create a water paint and shaving cream masterpiece at the Summer Experience Camp

at the Justin Lee Wiesner Preschool

Goldie Feldman Academy campers at the Summer at the Academy’s gardening-themed camp

prepare the soil to plant herbs

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