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Beth Abraham Synagogue President Scott Liberman announced to members on March 18 that Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer of Montréal will begin his role as the congregation’s rabbi in August. Glazer most recently served as senior rabbi of Congregation Shaare Zion in Montréal and has served as senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco and the JCC of Harrison, N.Y. A prolific author and educator who specializes in Jewish mysticism, thought, and philosophy, the rabbi received his ordination from Jewish Theo-

‘GI Jews’ focus of Ryterband talk Deborah Dash Moore, professor of history and former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, will present the lecture, GI Jews: How World War II Transformed American Jews, for the 42nd Ryterband Symposium in Judaic Studies, 7 p.m., Thursday, March 31 Deborah Dash at Wright State Moore University. Moore is the author of GI Jews: How World War II Transformed a Generation and served as senior historical advisor for the PBS documentary, GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II. The Ryterband Symposium is co-sponsored by the University of Dayton, United Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. The symposium is free and open to the public and will be held at the Student Union, 163 A-B. Free parking is available in Lot 2 across from the Student Union. The lecture will also be livesteamed at wright.edu/ streaming.

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logical Seminary and Glazer will move his Ph.D. in religious here with his wife, studies from the Uniartist and art teacher versity of Toronto. Elyssa Wortzman, His publications and their teenage include Mystidaughter, Tal. cal Vertigo, Tangle Co-chairs of the of Matter & Ghost: rabbinic search comLeonard Cohen’s Postmittee were Debbie Secular Songbook of Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer Feldman and Norm Mysticism(s) JewLewis. Beth Abraish & Beyond, and God Knows ham’s interim rabbi, Melissa Everything is Broken: Bob Dylan’s Crespy, continues in her role Gnostic Mystical Songbook. until the end of June.

Yom Hashoah Remembrance The Greater Dayton Yom Hashoah Remembrance will be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 24 at Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. With the theme Children of the Holocaust, this year’s program will feature second-generation survivor Judy Rosenthal of Frankfurt, Germany. Rosenthal works as a translator for Holocaust-related institutions and memorials in Germany and has researched her own family history extensively. It was that research that led her to find her cousin Bev Farnbacher in Dayton and to make the film she will show at the event. Winners of the annual Max May and Lydia May Memorial

Holocaust Art and Writing Contest will also be honored during the program. Works from the contests will be on display beginning at 3 p.m. The observance is sponsored by the Yom Hashoah Committee, a project of the Jewish Federation’s Judy Rosenthal Jewish Community Relations Council and the Holocaust Committee. The program will also be livestreamed. To register, go to jewishdayton.org/events.

Hadassah takes in virtual Barbra Streisand exhibit

In conjunction with the Jewish Museum of Florida, Dayton Hadassah will present a Zoom tour at 10 a.m., Sunday, April 3 of the museum’s exhibit, Hello Gorgeous, celebrating the life of Barbra Streisand. Hello Gorgeous features costumes, photos, videos, record jackets and objects connected to the iconic singer, actor, director and producer. The cost is $15. For reservations and the Zoom link, contact Vicki Kemmerer at Barbra Streisand 937-751-9589.

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Chabad of Greater Dayton will host its Passover Seder dinner at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 15. Also available from Chabad are at-home Seder kits, full Passover meals for home, and handmade shmura matzah. Chabad is located at 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. For prices, reservations, and orders, go to chabaddayton.com/seder or call 937-643-0770, ext. 1. Arts & Culture.......................33 Calendar.............................21 Family Education.................32

Temple Beth Or hybrid 2nd Seder Temple Beth Or will hold its Second Seder in person and virtually at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, April 16. Those watching from home may order boxed Seder dinners for pick-up. All are invited to watch the virtual Seder. For meal prices and reservations, go to templebethor.com or call 937-435-3400. Obituaries.......................34 O p i n i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 6 Religion..........................23

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Israeli actress, producer, Zionist activist, author Noa Tishby to keynote Presidents Dinner at Dayton Arcade By Robert Sarner, Times of Israel Shortly after being interviewed on The View, Noa Tishby received a text message from a friend. The message had her seething later that morning. In her on-air chat with then co-host Meghan McCain, the Israeli American actor and producer discussed her new book, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth. Tishby said that given it’s been endorsed by both liberal political commentator Bill Maher and conservative counterpart Ben Shapiro, the book is balanced. She also said anti-Zionism is a politically correct version of antisemitism. Her friend was having none of it. “It’s just horrific what he wrote me,” says Tishby, before reading the text message aloud. “We all have decisions to make in our life,” Tishby reads from her phone. “Ben, Bill and Meghan are three of the most disgustingly Islamophobic people in public view. Noa, you’ve played a deeply important role in my life and I’ll forever be grateful to you, but if you continue saying things like ‘anti-Zionism is antisemitism,’ there’ll be no room for people like me in your life. I will continue to stand with people of conscience around the world in demanding full liberation for the Palestinians.” As she finishes reciting the text, she’s clearly upset. “And to think this comes from one of my most progressive friends,” says Tishby, 44, who lives in Los Angeles, after spending the first half of

her life in Israel. “I’m like, this guy’s Jewish and his family perished in the Holocaust. To say Bill Maher is Islamophobic is absurd. This lack of nuanced conversation on the left is exactly the problem. “Various voices that want to dismantle Israel are using people like my friend and this lack of facts to push their agenda,” she says. It’s also symptomatic of what motivated Tishby to write a book that addresses ignorance and prejudice involving Israel. As a successful figure in Hollywood, tackling such a contentious subject in book form was anything but a career imperative. It’s also not a novelty project, as she’s often spoken publicly and written op-eds in defense of Israel over the past 10 years. “As an Israeli and a Jew, I’ve always been asked to voice my opinion about Israel and it can be complicated,” says Tishby, in her near-impeccable English. “To respond, I’d sometimes find myself looking for a date or particular fact to explain something about Israel. People would ask me if there’s a book they could read and I’d tell them there are all these historical books but they often wanted it in a quicker, more relatable, fun way to read and I couldn’t find that book. So, I thought I should write it.” Tishby will keynote the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton’s Presidents Dinner in the rotunda of the newly opened Dayton Arcade, May 15.

Jewish Federation’s Presidents Dinner 2022 with Noa Tishby, 5 p.m., Sunday, May 15 at The Dayton Arcade, 35 W. Fourth St. Tickets are $100 each, $50 per young adult (ages 35 and under). Kashrut will be observed. Participants will be asked to make their pledges to the 2022 Jewish Federation Annual Campaign. R.S.V.P. by May 1 to jewishdayton/events.

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From the editor’s desk If anyone wonders whether there is really evil on this earth, all one has to do is look at Vladimir Putin. And now, Ukraine is Hell on earth. Each year at our Passover Seders, we read Marshall from our Haggadahs, “This is the Weiss bread of affliction which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come and eat; let all who are needy come and celebrate Passover.” We pray for the end to the affliction of the people of Ukraine, who with inspiration from their modern-day Maccabee president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, fight so fiercely and courageously to hold off the Russian army. We pray that Ukrainians will soon be able to eat bread in their own free land and that until then, all who wish to flee will be able to do so safely. “Now we are slaves, next year may we be free.” Please keep the Ukrainian people in your hearts as we enter the Season of our Freedom.

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assover is an important holiday for members of the Jewish community. After two challenging years, we will gather with our extended families around the table for this cherished festival. We’ll recall memories of Seders past with our dearly departed. As he reflects on his work for the past several years, Robert Goldenberg says the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton continues to be a passion priority project and a proper way to respect his parents and those who came before him. “This fundraising drive is so important to me. The main reason I donate my time, energy, and money to the cemetery campaign is to provide the funding to maintain our three cemeteries in perpetuity. I want to guarantee that everyone can rest assured that their ancestors will be honored and taken care of in a Jewish way.”

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model on billboards for national ad campaigns. She then moved to Los Angeles where, in addition to acting in movies erage of her homeland, about which she often tweeted, she founded Act for and TV shows, she made a name for herself as a producer. Tishby sold the Israel in 2011. In her book, she defirst Israeli TV series — B’Tipul — to scribes it as “the first online advocacy and rapid response organization dedi- an American network and co-produced the U.S. version, In Treatment, cated to truth spreading and pre-bots which became a hit and helped pave troll fighting.” A few sentences later, the way for Israeli entertainment conshe adds: “This was when my advocacy became not just this thing I did at tent in the U.S. market. Tishby’s stature in the entertaindinner parties but a true calling.” In the ensuing years, while pursuing ment industry has helped her book her TV and film career, Tishby worked receive the kind of media coverage most other first-time authors can only with pro-Israel organizations and NGOs. In 2014, she co-founded Reality dream of. Articulate, well-informed Israel, a series of leadership trips to Is- and passionate about the book’s rael for working professionals — Jews subject matter, Tishby doesn’t beat around the bush in interviews. and non-Jews — from different fields. As she never tires of saying: “If In her speaking engagements — including at the United Nations in New you believe in democracy, freedom of speech, human rights, women’s York in 2016 and 2018 — and online rights, LGBTQ rights, and especially if activity, she debunked falsehoods you’re a liberal and a progressive, and about Israel. A natural extension of her advocacy, you’re not supporting Israel within Israel: A Simple Guide also has a strong the context of the Middle East, you’re autobiographical narrative. It effective- an idiot.” ly integrates her personal and multiSimple but not generational family story, sometimes simplistic guide quite candidly, with the history and Packed with facts, opinion and attidevelopment of Israel. tude, along with seven pages of maps “That wasn’t my intention when I at the start of the book, Israel: A Simple began writing the book,” says Tishby, Guide isn’t simplistic. Tishby takes the who visits Israel often. “I planned reader on a journey of to write a modern discovery, both of her explainer about family’s story and the Israel and at first, it country’s rich, conwas around 90-percent flict-ridden history. A history and 10-percent natural raconteur, she personal. But both my covers a lot of ground agent and publisher from biblical times to pushed me to include current-day Israel in a more personal stospirited, informative ries.” approach. The book is replete In the opening with humor, irreverpages, she makes it ence, and self-depreclear the reader’s in cation. It’s part of her for an unconventional goal to attract younger history lesson, with readers, giving them a Tishby’s portrait of Israel isn’t blemish-free little pretense of oblivelier, more relatable jectivity but grounded in facts. alternative to dry history tomes. The second chapter focuses on Is“From the outset, my plan was to rael’s deep historical roots. Referring make the book conversational, fun, to the ancient town of Caesarea on and easy to read and understand,” says Tishby, the mother of a 6-year-old the Mediterranean coast having been conquered by Herod the Great, she son to whom she dedicates the book on the opening page. “I set out to write describes him as: “… a locally born Edomite slash Jewish hustler, who a modern take on Israel, explaining it climbed the political ladder faster to the new generation, and to the old than an acrobat in Cirque du Soleil.” generation that want to reacquaint On the next page, she adds, “Israel themselves with certain information and have fun in the process. The topic sits on so much freaking history and archaeology, it’s unfathomable. When is heavy enough. We can lighten it up you dig in Jerusalem, for example, a bit.” you’re bound to find something old Born in Tel Aviv into a politically and priceless buried underneath. well-connected family, Tishby is wellWhich makes renovations a bitch.” known in Israel, dating back to the Tishby deftly chronicles Israel’s 1990s when she starred in one of the evolution, providing critical context country’s highest-rated prime time to its struggles and the successive disTV dramas, Ramat Aviv Gimmel, and putes that have plagued the region, recorded a top-selling album of songs while also telling her family’s story in English. For many years, she was where pertinent. ubiquitous, appearing in numerous “Reconnecting to my ancestry was TV shows, films, and theatre producContinued on Page Six tions, on magazine covers, and as a

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Rabbinic Intern Caitlyn Brazner will lead Temple Anshe Emeth’s Community Taste of Judaism program for Earth Day with a focus on Judaism’s shmita year, at 1 p.m., Sat., April 30. Shmita is a yearlong farming hiatus for Jews who live in Israel, as commanded in the Torah, to be observed Rabbinic Intern every seventh Caitlyn Brazner year. This Jewish calendar year, 5782, is a shmita year in Israel. Anshe Emeth is located at 320 Caldwell St., Piqua. A Zoom option will also be available. Register for the in-person or virtual program at ansheemeth@gmail.com.

Past Federation president Irvin Zipperstein dies at 96 Attorney Irvin Zipperstein, who served as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton in 1977-78, died March 5 at age 96. He chaired the Federation’s United Jewish Appeal and its Israel Emergency Fund drive, and served as chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council Irvin Zipperstein and State of Israel Bonds. Zipperstein was also a past president of Beth Abraham Synagogue, B’nai B’rith’s Selwyn D. Ruslander Lodge, and the Dayton Plaintiff’s Lawyers Association.

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Continued from Page Four the thing that moved me the most in writing the book,” says Tishby, whose Eastern European ancestors moved to pre-state Israel, where they played active roles in the country’s early years. “I felt so honored and thrilled that I was able to bring especially the stories of my grandparents and greatgrandparents to the rest of the world.” While Tishby makes no bones about where her sympathies lie, her portrait of Israel isn’t blemish-free. Referring to the 1948 War of Independence and certain Israeli actions, Tishby writes: “Were offensive atrocities committed in a defensive war? Yes. Was it right? No. Is this systematic ethnic cleansing? Give me a break. If this was the definition of ethnic cleansing, then every country that has ever gone to war (or been forced into war) would be guilty of it.” In recounting a visit to the West Bank city of Hebron during her army service, she writes: “Hebron is a big deal for the Jews. It’s also a big deal for Muslims. And since it’s in a highly disputed location, it’s a shit show.” Later, she wades into attitudes among Israel’s majority population. “Racism is one of humanity’s least favorable qualities, and lo and behold,

it exists even among the Jews themselves,” she writes. “So, yeah, we’re going to touch upon racism within Israeli Jewish society, and for those of you who are about to get offended, go clutch some pearls, will ya?” In one of her stronger, more polemic chapters, Tishby takes aim at the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. “On its website, BDS speaks of Israeli atrocities, murder, apartheid, genocide and systematic ethnic cleansing,” she writes. “The only problem is that it’s a giant pile of crap — misinformation, disinformation, manipulation, elimination of history and flatout lies. And don’t even get me started on the BDS double standard toward the only consistent democracy in the Middle East (Israel) versus every single other country in the region… BDS is a movement where way too often the ones with bad faith prey on the ones with bad knowledge.” Predictably, BDS proponents have responded vehemently, demonizing Tishby, her book, and Israel online. “I’m getting a lot of hate from all the pro-Palestinian people, which is ridiculous considering I’m pro-Israeli, I’m a Zionist, and I’m also pro-Palestinian,” says Tishby. “And not only are these things not mutually exclusive, in every document of Zionism, from the originating days, until now, it’s very much

clearly said. So to think that you have to be only pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli is a reductive kind of notion, which isn’t surprising but sad.” Tishby, who refers to herself in the book in different places as a “leftie,” a “liberal” and a “centrist/leftie,” laments her adversaries don’t seek dialogue but rather vitriol. She wishes they would be open to respectful discussion instead of blocking her out. On multiple occasions, she’s said she would welcome the opportunity to publicly debate harsh critics of Israel, such as Roger Waters. When Tishby first conceived of the book, she thought she’d require a ghostwriter to have it reach fruition. In the end, she wrote it on her own over a 16-month period, in a clear, unpretentious, energetic voice, consistent with how she speaks. For all her other achievements, this endeavor — from the research and the writing to the PR and media blitz — has proven particularly gratifying for Tishby. “I’ve done a lot of things in the entertainment industry, but this is the most personal and meaningful project in my life so far,” Tishby says. “And since it came out, it’s allowed me to engage in thoughtful discussions with people on a daily basis and to spark a conversation that’s extremely important, not just to Israel but also Western society.”

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By Marshall Weiss The Observer A social media post by a Centerville High School student on Feb. 18 helped administrators identify a student who had vandalized with hate symbols a Jewish Student Union poster in the school back in November. And at Watts Middle School — one of three middle schools in the Centerville City School District — three incidents involving students and Nazi imagery occurred between Jan. 28 and Feb. 10, when eighth graders were first beginning to learn about the Holocaust in classes.

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On Feb. 18, someone anonymously posted to an Instagram account called CHSPics_ a photo of a Centerville High School Jewish Student Union poster to promote a November event; the poster had been vandalized with a swastika and the word Jews. The Instagram account, not connected with Centerville High School, had been used by the high school’s students to anonymously post items about the school. Jewish students at Centerville High School started the Jewish Student Union in November. The flyer, emblazoned with two Israeli flags, encouraged “any Jewish students interested in getting to know other Jewish students, learning about important Jewish history, or having a safe space to talk” to attend. John Carroll, Centerville High School coordinating principal, said he investigated the incident when the Jewish Student Union poster was vandalized in November. “At the time, the poster was torn down, gratefully by students who disagreed with it,” he told The Observer. “They reported it to us, but I was unable to really see on camera anybody actually doing it.” He said that students are always reposting images on social media, “which is both helpful and problematic.” “But when they reposted it, a name was tagged to it and that helped us work with the students to figure out who did it, and the kid actually did

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admit it and was disciplined severely. It took a while, which unfortunately sometimes it does, to actually get to the bottom of it, but I was glad that we were able to do that.” Carroll added that he wasn’t able to determine who posted the image to the Instagram site on Feb. 18 and that the site has since been taken down. The principal sent an email to all Centerville High School students about the social media posts “containing racial and antisemitic hate speech.” “The social media posts negatively impacted students and created a disruption to our school environment,” he wrote. “Hate speech harassment carries the most severe school consequences.”

Watts Middle School

During study hall at Watts Middle School on Jan. 28, a student “printer bombed” all of the school’s printers that were accessible to students; each of the printers continuously printed paper with a swastika on each sheet until the technology department shut them down, Watts Middle School Principal Brian Miller told The Observer. Miller said the technology department identified the student who did it. “We did find out that the student really did not have a deep understanding of the hatred behind that, the true meaning behind the symbol, and he was reading The Diary of Anne Frank,” Miller said. “But the parents were very saddened. They were very cooperative. The consequence is punishment, but we also believe that education and counseling have to go with that. Because

if we don’t do that, they’re not learning that what he did was egregious and hateful.” Miller said that when the student came back to school, he came to his office with tears in his eyes and said, “Had I known more about that, I would never have tried to print or even looked it up.” The principal said he addressed the student body over the PA system during advisory on the next school day after the incident. “I address every student in the building about harassment, about words. And I talked about each one: religion, race, gender. I told them that is never acceptable. And I said, ‘Here are the consequences for that behavior.’ And even in our grade-level meetings at the start of the school year, we address this. They know that it is not acceptable. We’re always talking to students about being kind and respectful to all students.” Messages on posters about being kind and respectful line the halls of Watts Middle School, some created by faculty, others by students. But on the same day that Miller made his address to the students, Jan. 31, students reported finding swastikas in the stall of a girls room. “There were two swastikas in one stall. We immediately, within 10 minutes, painted that over,” Miller said. “And so we never found out who that was. That was the first time in 17 years (at Watts) that I’ve ever had that. And so now I have an office aide who just goes and checks the stalls every day and there’s been nothing else. Teachers in advisory have talked to students about this issue.” The third incident at Watts occurred Feb. 10 when a student found sheets of paper, each printed out with an image of Adolph Hitler, stuffed into a girls room toilet. “We found the student and tried to find out, ‘Why would you do that? ’ And again, the parents were horrified that their child would print or look up something like that. And again, I think some of this coincides with what they were talking about and what they were reading about in their classes. Continued on Page 12

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Zambilovici, who has lived stepfather shelter in the baseBy Marshall Weiss in the United States for six ment of their house in Sumy The Observer years and now serves as the and shelter Braginsky’s 11-yearAs soon as Centerville resiold niece there, too. dent Lidia Zambilovici received Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton’s development director, Braginsky’s brothers both depush notifications that Russia fend Ukraine from the invasion. invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, she says it took almost 12 hours for them to flee to Moldova, cover- Her younger brother, Vlad, an called her brother in Israel. ing a distance of less than 100 officer in the Ukrainian army, “And he’s not picking up. miles on the jammed roads. is stationed at Mykolaiv, near I’m calling my parents in Odessa. Her older Kishinev, Moldova, brother, Igor, fights and nobody’s picking with Ukraine’s territoup,” says Zambilovici, rial defense to protect who was born and Sumy, the family’s raised in Moldova. hometown. When she finally Braginsky has been woke her brother up in the United States for from his sleep and he nearly a decade. She answered, she told met her husband, Mihim, “You need to do chael, here. His family something because is also from Ukraine. there is a war in Jewish Federation Together, they have six Ukraine, and you have Development Dir. children between the a baby there.” Lidia Zambilovici Maryna and Michael Braginsky ages of 3 and 18. The baby she was Bombings had already She says she is barely holdreferring to is her brother’s son, started in Odessa and in nearby ing up through the invasion. age 6, who lives in Odessa with Mariupol when they were leav“The situation is getting his mother, now divorced from ing on day one of the invasion. worse because mom’s city is Zambilovici’s brother. “The last mile, at some point, surrounded and they do not “So he arranged for my ex they went out from the car, let any humanitarian aid in,” sister-in-law and the baby, and they walked toward the Braginsky says. “They deliberalong with her friend and her border,” she says. “They got to ately destroy all the trucks that baby — two girls, two babies the border at night. They were try to deliver food to the city. — to be driven to the border of brought to my parents’ house, And last night, the bombing Moldova,” she says. “And from was for six hours straight.” the Moldovan side, he arranged and they are safe with my parHer mother says she’s terria friend of ours to pick them up ents in Moldova.” Two weeks later, Zambilovici fied of the night. The house is and bring them to our parents’ says, her ex sister-in-law’s only 500 feet from an airport home.” mother arrived from Odessa to runway. She keeps a pitchfork stay with Zambilovici’s parents inside her back door in case she as well. needs it. Zambilovici says she was “For three weeks, despite hysterical at first. heavy bombings, still the Rus“Not because I’m hysterisian army couldn’t invade the cal by nature, just sometimes city, so they don’t control it,” it’s difficult to process things, Braginsky says of Sumy. “So because you don’t believe it is that makes them more, not possible to happen.” more hopeful, but more sure Maryna Braginsky, who also that they maybe will win the L I B R A RY’S lives in Centerville, says her war.” immediate family in Ukraine Braginsky talks of “the remains there. Her mother and inhumane terror” of the Rus-

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Maryna Braginsky’s younger brother, Vlad, is a Ukrainian army officer stationed at Mykolaiv, near Odessa

Maryna Braginsky’s older brother, Igor, fights with Ukraine’s territorial defense in Sumy, the family’s hometown

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DAYTON sian army. “They deliberately bomb civilian quarters, they deliberately bomb hospitals, and they deliberately bomb people who try to escape,” she says. “My niece is with my mom, yes. They tried to evacuate her, but they were too afraid that something would happen, so they decided now it’s safer in mom’s basement than to travel on open roads. “My mom cannot escape and will not do so because she has sons fighting there. But people try at least to take little kids out of cities under heavy bombings. And Russians just shoot. They don’t let them leave. It’s terrifying for civilians.” With a heavy sigh, Braginsky says she tries to contact her brothers every four hours. “It is very stressful because sometimes they turn off their phones because their commanding officers tell Maryna Braginsky’s niece Polina in her grandthem to turn off the phones because of mother’s basement during an airstrike on Sumy geolocation and signals when they go to do something. And that is probably cine? Does she still have electric power the scariest time, when I cannot reach or water? them.” “But she is tired. And I am very tired. She says she talks to her older brother It’s very hard to focus on everyday life. more often. And I think my kids start to feel, it’s not “His unit captures Russian soldiers a neglect. It’s I don’t have any energy to lot. They do destroy their tanks. They do do everyday tasks. It’s just stress.” destroy their gasoline carriers. And he On March 22, Braginsky’s husband, says that people are willing to fight and Michael, tells The Observer they have stand for their land. It is terrifying but decided to try and get their niece Polina we will defend our land. The only thing out of Ukraine to live with them for they cannot control is airstrikes.” now. At first, her younger brother was “She will be brought to the border, stuck in Harkiv, surrounded by Russians God willing, by her mother, who has and under bomb attacks. to return to take care of her elderly “He was helping the territorial deparents,” he says, though there is no fense guys, they were clearing rubble, evacuation route out of Sumy right now. trying to get people from under the “I have cousins in Europe who will take bombed houses,” she says. care of the girl initially, since getting her “Once, the bomb detonated very close to safety is clearly the first priority.” to him. He said he lost hearing in one The next step, he says, would be to ear. But he survived. No other damage bring Polina here, since they are her to him.” closest relatives outside of Ukraine. Braginsky says she is terrified that she “And that step proves to be very will miss bad news. difficult, because there is no way to get “The phone is always with me, and an entry visa or temporary permission we try to get in touch every four hours. to enter for her. The U.S. government, Sometimes my mom answers with only in its infinite wisdom, doesn’t consider one word, like, ‘Still alive,’ because I nieces as close relatives. There are no guess she doesn’t have the strength to exceptions whatsoever for emergencies. keep a conversation. Sometimes we At the moment, we are writing to both speak and I can get a better picture of Ohio senators, and entertaining plans, what’s going on there: Does she still for instance, to fly the girl to Mexico and have food? Does she still have medishow up at the border.”

Federation raises $50,000 for Ukraine relief

As of press time, Dayton’s Jewish community has contributed more than $50,000 toward the Jewish Federations of North America’s Ukraine relief campaign. Jewish Federations have raised $25 million to assist the estimated 200,000 Jews affected by the Russian invasion. That money has been allocated to efforts undertaken by The Jewish Agency for Israel, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, World ORT, United Hatzalah, Hillel International, Nefesh B’Nefesh, HIAS, Israel Trauma Coalition, Hadassah Medical Organiza-

tion, Chabad, and Shma Yisrael. Immediate and short-term needs include: to help people make Aliyah to Israel, secure the local community and its institutions, maintain critical welfare services, assist internally displaced people in multiple locations, launch an emergency hotline, secure temporary housing for people in transit, purchase satellite phones to maintain communications across the region, secure five Jewish schools, and train staff to manage crisis needs. To make your contribution, go to jewishdayton.org.

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Centerville schools antisemitic incidents Continued from Page Eight Weiss said. “This is why it is so important that districts These students that I’ve just dealt with aren’t hateful. encourage and train their teachers so they can have the They’re naïve. It’s ignorance. If you asked me who pedagogy and methodology to effectively teach the do you think might have done that, Holocaust.” I would not have picked these two. Weiss noted there is always a risk ‘This is why it is Because there’s others who post some that exposing students to learning mean stuff on social media, not about so important that about the Holocaust and antisemitism antisemitism, but post really mean reinforce stereotypes. districts encourage can“We things. I would have picked someone always tell teachers to apand train their else over these students.” proach the topic by starting with a Sarah L. Weiss, executive director/ teachers so they discussion of the rich diversity of CEO of the Wolf Holocaust & HumanJewish life in Europe prior to the war. ity Center in Cincinnati, said she’s seen can have the To look at Jews as they really were several cases involving students using pedagogy and and are. To not start by viewing Jews swastikas out of ignorance, students through the lens of the perpetramethodology to who don’t necessarily grasp the hate tors, as that can lead to perpetuating they perpetuate. stereotypes. effectively teach “However, for students who are “We always welcome the opportargeted or impacted by this, these are the Holocaust.’ tunity to use our museum to educate still extremely hurtful,” she said. and partner with districts regularly “Also, there can be a fascination with the Nazis, to help work through incidents such as this. In some so it is best to begin talking about the Holocaust by cases, administrators have required students involved making personal connections to the individuals who in these incidents visit our museum, and we’ve had were directly affected by Nazi ideology and policy,” very positive results from this intervention.”

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Continued from Page 15 and not money was what they needed,” she said. “They couldn’t get them otherwise.” The group visited with organizations in the field that have been working with the UJA- Federation, the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel to provide aid to refugees. They group also met with Jewish community leaders in Poland, including Rabbi Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland; Jonathan Ornstein, the executive director of the JCC Krakow, and Tzvi Sperber, the director of JRoots, which organizes trips for young Jews to visit places of Jewish heritage, including many in Eastern Europe. Though the cohort witnessed firsthand the suffering experienced by refugees at the border, many of the rabbis returned stateside with messages of hope. “It is impossible to describe the look on the faces of bewildered women and children crossing a border with almost next to nothing,” wrote Shaul Robinson, the senior rabbi at Lincoln Square Synagogue, in a message to his congregation. “But I can also say it is impossible to describe the look on their faces when they realize that there are people waiting for them.” “Despite it all, that’s a message of Judaism: We always hold out,” said Ain. We always remember the sadness; we break the glass at a wedding, we boo at Haman’s name, we leave unpainted corners of new houses recognizing that not everything is fixed in the world.” “But we do under the context that tomorrow can be better than today,” she added. “And in the meantime, we need to be partners, with God and with each other, in making a better world.” Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side also remarked on how meaningful it felt to witness so much Jewish aid during a European refugee crisis. “One of the most powerful moments was greeting a group of 40 Ukrainians who were about to get on a bus to the airport, and on their way to Israel,” he said. “It was a reminder that unlike 80 years ago, Jewish refugees always have a home. It was inspiring to see how the global Jewish family is there for them.” On her social media, Timoner took photos of Israel’s Rescuers Without Borders tent, which she described as being the first tent refugees see when they enter Poland at the Medyka border. “When asked whether they serve only Jews, they said, ‘Selection is what they did 80 years ago here. We do not do selection. We serve all people,’” she wrote. “When there is great evil in the world, sometimes it brings out great goodness,” Timoner said. “We didn’t just witness evil and the effects of evil, we witnessed the beauty of what human beings are capable of in their generosity and in their caring, and that was inspiring.”

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Numbers become names

After my darling wife, Gertrude, family Traub, who impacted my early passed away, I had time to think about life and that of my sister Irene, as well initiating the process for obtaining per“A person is only forgotten when his or her as hundreds of other young Jewish mission to memorialize six people in my children. While conducting a kindername is forgotten.” — The Talmud birth city of Mannheim, Germany who garten, they loved me, while teaching At the end of World War II, the world were victims of the Shoah. me to love every other human being as I discussed this with my grandand Jews everywhere were stunned God commanded us Jews to live by the when the realization set in that the mur- daughter, Emily Rapoport, who agreed Ten Commandments. The photographs with me and was a tremendous help in der of approximately six million Jews at of the plaques show their deportation obtaining approval for the six plaques, the hands of the Nazi German criminals and eventual fate. My granddaughter which were recently installed in the side- Emily has started the process of obtainwas not a fabrication, but a gruesome walk at the addresses where these two fact. Research over the years by hising approval for additional plaques in families had lived. Due to my advanced different cities of Europe to memorialize torians has not altered that figure. Dr. age, I was unable to travel to the dediWilhelm Hoetti, an Austrian official of an additional 18 of my relatives who also cations and installation of the Third Reich, a respected became victims of the Shoah. these plaques. However, I historian, and a high-ranking It is in this fashion that the plaques was represented by a good member of the SS, testified at will memorialize my loved ones and friend of mine who lives the Nuremberg Trials under show them as extraordinary individuals near Mannheim, who read oath of a conversation he who were murdered just because they the memorial speeches and had with Adolf Eichmann. were Jews. Because I survived their fate, prayers I had written for Eichmann was responsible I made an oath that I would devote my each family. for giving orders for the Jewlife to sharing with the world how and Two of the plaques are ish genocide and shared with what happened during the Shoah. I’m in memory of Selma and Hoetti that four million Jews still doing so today and urge others to Sophie Weil, lovely sisters had died in extermination memorialize their loved ones by joinwho had no family, as their camps and an additional two ing the Stolpersteine project and in this parents had passed away. million had been shot by Einmanner honor and pay tribute to those They never married, lived satzgruppen (mobile killing individuals who are typically rememand dressed modestly, and squads), or died of disease, bered only as part of the six million. Let Robert Kahn had very little social life. malnutrition or torture. this number become individual names of They were brought up with Yad Vashem, Israel’s main those who perished. Jewish values and aspirations. Selma research center for the Holocaust, has confirmed these same estimates. Respect- was employed at my father’s business as Robert Kahn, 98, was forced by the Nazis a bookkeeper. Sophie had clients of her ed historians have also confirmed these as a boy to play the violin on Kristallnacht numbers as the Nazi German bureaucra- own for whom she worked as a tailor. while they beat his father with clubs, They were almost a part of Joseph and cy recorded specific details, everything ransacked the family’s apartment, and Martha Kahn’s family (my parents). The burned their possessions. He is the from deportations to the gas chambers. plaques attest to the torturous paths to Jews and others who lost loved ones author of The Hard Road of Dreams: their murder. during the Holocaust are keeping their Remembering Not To Forget. He lives in The other four plaques were for the memories alive in many ways and are Kettering. remembering them as individuals instead of just one of the six million. Jews miss their loved ones and friends but are unable to memorialize these victims by name and sharing with the world the inhumane details of their deportations and finally their murder. There are no graves, no dates for yahrzeits. They are just one of a huge number. In 1992, a German sculptor, Gunter Demnig, had the idea of memorializing all victims of the Nazi regime by creating brass plaques with the individuals’ name, birth date, address where they lived, date of deportation, and place of death. The plaques were to be cemented into the pavement at the address of the victims’ last residence. He named these plaques Stolpersteine, stumbling stones. In this way, we are reminded of individual human beings and not just a part of a number who were brutally persecuted, deported, and finally murdered. More than 75,000 handmade plaques have been by latest count, installed in 20 countries and in 24 languages. This unique Newly installed Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Mannheim, Germany in front of the last project has become the world’s largest home of the Traub family, who perished in the Holocaust. The Traubs had an impact on Robert Kahn’s early life. decentralized Holocaust memorial. By Robert Kahn

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JCC’s ALLIANCE PROGRAMS Join JCCs around the country for these fun and informative virtual programs. Live Chopin Concert Wednesday, April 13 from 4 to 5PM (virtual tickets $12.50 before Monday, April 11; $15.00 after) Explore Fiddler on the Roof Thursday, April 28 from 4 to 6PM (virtual tickets $12.50 before Tuesday, April 26; $15.00 after) Contact Helen Jones at hjones@jfgd.net or 937-401-1553 or visit jewishdayton.org for more information and registration.

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SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES! MEET ME IN THE LOBBY! Come out and join the JCC for Lobby Games and Gatherings at the CJCE every day from 10AM to noon starting April 25. The JCC will provide the cards and game boards unless noted. (Masks are OPTIONAL)

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In Jewish teaching, compassion, one of the highest virtues, is extended to animals as well as to humans. Tz’ar ba’alei chayim, kindness to animals, is a mitzvah! Meet up with PJ Our Way at the Humane Society of Greater Dayton for an afternoon volunteering with the dogs and cats! Fill Kongs, make dog toys, socialize with the dogs, and take a tour of the shelter. No cost to attend! Ages 8+ (younger siblings welcome). RSVP Required.

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ANNUAL CAMPAIGN IN MEMORY OF › Rabbi Bernard Barsky’s sister Marni Flagel A SPEEDY RECOVERY TO › Cathy Gardner Donna and Marshall Weiss IN HONOR OF THE BIRTH OF › Twin granddaughters of Marla and Steve Harlan Judy Lipton IN MEMORY OF › Sis Office Loretta Weber Peggy Kreisman Jay Hesdorffer IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert Judy and Howard Abromowitz Matthew Burton Ann and Scott Liberman Jason Gilbert

IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert, in tribute to a great man. May his memory be forever a blessing The Nobles, Krochmals, Blumenthals, Bermans, Leffaks and Ginsbergs CAROL J. PAVLOFSKY LEADERSHIP FUND IN MEMORY OF › Joe Bettman › Dottie Engelhardt Marlene and David Miller

JFGD BOARD DISCRETIONARY FUND IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert Masha Kisel and Sam Dorf JCC

CAROLE RABINOWITZ CAMP FUND IN MEMORY OF › Dee Scarpelli RESILIENCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND › Dennis Konkel IN HONOR OF › Dottie Engelhardt › Caryl and Don Weckstein › Ron Gilbert Doris and Louis Ullman Bernard Rabinowitz HOLOCAUST PROGRAMMING FUND IN MEMORY OF IN HONOR OF › Ron Gilbert › Renate Frydman being chosen as a YWCA Julie Liss-Katz and Woman of Influence Marc Katz Bella Freeman Judith Bernstein JOE BETTMAN MEMORIAL TZADIK JOAN AND PETER WELLS AND AWARD REBECCA LINVILLE FAMILY, IN MEMORY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER › Joe Bettman IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert DAYTON ENDOWMENT FUND › Pat Bloom › Evelyn Ostreicher IN MEMORY OF › Delores Miller Judy Schwartzman and Mike Jaff e › Ron Gilbert IN MEMORY OF A SPEEDY RECOVERY TO Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harlan › Richard Lieberman › Lou Levin Donna and Marshall Weiss Jean and Todd Bettman Joan and Peter Wells Michelle and Steve Rothenberg Elaine Bettman Louise and Irv Levin EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND IN MEMORY OF Harriet and Don Klass IN MEMORY OF › Joe Bettman Sara Horwitz Joan Isaacson › Joe Bettman Cheryl Horwitz Judy and Howard Abromowitz Pat Jones Stephanie Weber and Andrew Blazer

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FILM FESTIVAL IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert Jane and Gary Hochstein JANE HOCHSTEIN JCC PROGRAMMING FUND IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert Paula Gessiness BEN AND DOROTHY HARLAN CHILDREN’S FUND IN MEMORY OF › Richard Lieberman Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Harlan JFS

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert Myrnie and Alan Moscowitz IN MEMORY OF › Dottie Engelhardt Jane and Gary Hochstein IN MEMORY OF › Sis Office › Evelyn Ostreicher Joan Isaacson JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES DISCRETIONARY FUND IN MEMORY OF › Ron Gilbert Lois and Sydney Gross

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Beth Jacob Classes: Sundays, 2 p.m.: Conversions w. Rabbi Agar. Tuesdays, 7 p.m.: Weekly Parsha w. Rabbi Agar. Thursdays, 7 p.m.: Jewish Law w. Rabbi Agar. 7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. 937274-2149. Temple Beth Or Adult Education Chai Mitzvah Virtual Class: Thurs., April 7, 7 p.m. Free. Register at templebethor.com/chai-mitzvah. Temple Israel Classes: Tuesdays, noon: Virtual & In-Person Talmud Study. Saturdays, 9:15 a.m.: Virtual Torah Study. Register at 937496-0050.

Discussions

Temple Israel Ryterband Lecture Series: Sun., April 3, 9:45 a.m. Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo, Sacred Monsters. $7 includes light breakfast. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 937-4960050.

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Chabad Women’s Circle: Rivka Slonim, My Unorthodox

Orthodox Life: Ruminations from the field by a Chasidic Feminist. Sun., April 3, 10 a.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. Register at chabaddayton.com/ CWC.

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PJ Our Way Mitzvah Paws: Volunteering at the Humane Society of Greater Dayton. Sun., April 3, 3-5 p.m. 1661 Nicholas Rd., Dayton. R.S.V.P. at jewishdayton.org/events. Temple Israel Prayer & Play Post-Passover Pizza & Picnic: Sat., April 23, 4 p.m. Temple Israel. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. R.S.V.P. to 937-4960050.

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42nd Ryterband Symposium: W. Deborah Dash Moore, GI Jews: How World War II Transformed American Jews. Thurs., March 31, 7 p.m. Student Union, 163 A-B, Wright State Univ., 3640 Col. Glenn Hwy., Fairborn. Also livestreaming at wright.edu/ streaming. JCRC Racial Justice Alliance

Virtual Town Hall, Period Poverty - Working Toward Menstrual Justice: Thurs., March 31, 7 p.m. Free. Register at jewishdayton.org/events.

May Memorial Holocaust Art and Writing Contest on display beginning at 3 p.m. Register for livestream at jewishdayton.org/ events.

Dayton Hadassah Virtual Tour of Hello Gorgeous: Sun., April 3, 10 a.m. $15. For reservations and Zoom link, call Vicki Kemmerer, 937-751-9589.

JCC Lobby Games: 10 a.m.-noon, beginning Mon., April 25. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. Bridge Mondays, Canasta Tuesdays, Mah Jongg Wednesdays (bring own set & cards), Scrabble/Backgammon Thursdays, Needlework Fridays. 937-610-5513.

Temple Israel Open House Celebration: Sun., April 10, 1-3 p.m.130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 937-496-0050. JCC Alliance Virtual Programs: Wed., April 13, 4 p.m.: Live Chopin Concert. $12.50 until April 11. $15 April 12 and after. Thurs., April 28, 4 p.m.: Explore Fiddler on the Roof. $12.50 until April 26. $15 April 27 and after. Register at jewishdayton.org/events or contact Helen Jones at hjones@jfgd.net. Greater Dayton Yom Hashoah Remembrance: Sun., April 24, 4 p.m. Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. Judy Rosenthal, speaker. Works from the Max May & Lydia

Temple Anshe Emeth Earth Day Taste of Judaism: Sat., April 30, 1 p.m. W. Rabbinic Intern Caitlyn Brazner. 320 Caldwell St., Piqua. In person & via Zoom. Register for both at ansheemeth@gmail.com.

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Beth Jacob Passover Prep Class: Sun., April 3, 10 a.m. Refreshments. Free. 7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. 937274-2149. Chabad Passover Seder: Fri., April 15, 7:30 p.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. For

prices & reservations go to chabaddayton.com/seder or call 937-643-0770, ext. 1. Temple Israel Online Second Seder: Sat., April 16, 6 p.m. Tidayton.org. Temple Beth Or In Person & Virtual Seder: Sat., April 16, 6:30 p.m. Boxed Seder dinners available for purchase and pick-up. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. For meal prices & reservations, go to templebethor.com or call 937435-3400. Temple Israel Passover Pizza Party: Fri., April 22 after 6 p.m. Shabbat Service. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 937-496-0050. Chabad Meal of the Moshiach: Sat., April 23, 7:30 p.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. Chabaddayton.com. Beth Abraham’s Tikun Olam - Making the World A Better Place for Today & Tomorrow: Sun., April 24, 9:45 a.m. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. Free. R.S.V.P. by April 19 to 937-293-9520.

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The Dayton connection continues on for the U.S. Central Consortium of Partnership2Gether, with former Daytonian Bracha (Beth) Zuriel’s retirement as its director and the announcement of Marcy Paul as her successor. Bracha, who lives in Ma’ale Adumim in the West Bank, is the daughter of the late Helen

Bark Mitzvah Boy and Charles Abramovitz. She has also served as the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton’s representative in Israel. For the past two years, Marcy has served as director of the Jewish Federation’s Jewish Community Relations Council. Prior to her arrival in Dayton, Marcy was an active volunteer with P2G in Fort Worth, Texas, where she was an assistant professor with the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Until the Federation hires a new JCRC director, Marcy will remain on contract a few hours a week. A project of the Jewish Agency for Israel, P2G builds people-to-people relationships among residents of Israel’s Western Galilee

region, Budapest, Hungary, and more than a dozen cities across the central United States. P2G’s Dayton chair is Dave London.

AJC works to combat antisemitism, promote intergroup relations, and advocate for Israel in southwest Ohio. Before joining AJC, Kirschner was a After 27 years at Dayton deputy director with Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati’s Jewish Bloom Family Eye Community Relations Surgeons has moved to Justin Kirschner Council. He was also 1020 Woodman Dr. an associate and facilitator at the Global Leadership Center Benny Caruso received the at Ohio University, where Dayton LaSertoma Club Award he received his bachelor’s representing Oakwood High degree in political science and School for his community master’s degree in public and service, leadership, and nonprofit administration. A academic excellence. Benny’s Cincinnati native, Kirschner coparents are Patty and Michael founded the Greater Cincinnati Caruso. Voter Collaborative and the Common Good Alliance. The American Jewish Committee has named Justin Send your Mazel Tov! & Kirschner director of its lifecycle announcements to Cincinnati regional office. jewishobserver@jfgd.net. Eve Naomi Rosenberg Mazel Tov to Lauren and Jonah Rosenberg on the birth of daughter Eve Naomi, born Dec. 2. She is surrounded in love by big sister Maya, grandparents Charlotte and Bret Golden, Joan and Jim Jacobson, and Rachel and Chuck Rosenberg. Eve is also blessed with greatgrandparents Renate Frydman, Alice and Elliott Rosenberg, Malka Gluck, and Ted and Marguerite Gluck, plus many aunts, uncles, and sweet cousins.

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CONGREGATIONS Beth Abraham Synagogue Conservative Interim Rabbi Melissa Crespy Cantor/Dir. of Ed. & Programming Andrea Raizen Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. 305 Sugar Camp Circle, Oakwood. 937-293-9520. BethAbrahamDayton.org Beth Jacob Congregation Traditional Rabbi Leibel Agar Sundays & Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. 7020 N. Main St., Dayton. 937-274-2149. BethJacobCong. org Temple Anshe Emeth Reform 320 Caldwell St., Piqua. Rabbinic Intern Caitlin Brazner Sat., April 30, 10 a.m. Contact Steve Shuchat, 937-7262116, AnsheEmeth@gmail.com. ansheemeth.org Temple Beth Or Reform Rabbi Judy Chessin Asst. Rabbi/Educator Ben Azriel 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 937-435-3400. templebethor.com Temple Beth Sholom Reform Rabbi Haviva Horvitz 610 Gladys Dr., Middletown. 513-422-8313. templebethsholom.net Temple Israel Reform Senior Rabbi Karen BodneyHalasz. Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo Fridays, April 1 & 22, 6 p.m. Fridays, April 8 & 29, 6:30 p.m. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 937-496-0050. tidayton.org Temple Sholom Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg 2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield. 937-399-1231. templesholomoh.com

ADDITIONAL SERVICES Chabad of Greater Dayton Rabbi Nochum Mangel Associate Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Youth & Prog. Dir. Rabbi Levi Simon, Teen & Young Adult Prog. Dir. Rabbi Elchonon Chaikin. Beginner educational service Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave. 937-643-0770. chabaddayton.com Yellow Springs Havurah Independent Antioch College Rockford Chapel. Contact Len Kramer, 937-5724840 or len2654@gmail.com.

Acknowledging antisemitism at our time of redemption By Rabbi Melissa Crespy Beth Abraham Synagogue The Pesach Seder is a cherished moment on our calendar. Just about everyone looks forward to it. It’s full of intriguing symbolism, funny ironies, favorite songs, and of course, delicious foods. I’d like to take a look at one passage in the Haggadah — a short but troubling paragraph. It’s a paragraph that I never gave much thought to up until fairly recently. But a few years ago at this time, I had an argument with a dear friend of mine

Perspectives over this paragraph. He stated: “That passage will never be said in my house,” and he refused to rise and recite it when we read it at our communal Seder. He forced me to think about and defend why I disagreed with him. Here is the troubling passage, known as Sh’foch Hamatcha: Pour out Your wrath upon the nations who do not know You And upon the governments which do not call upon Your name. For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation. (Psalms 79:6-7) Pour out Your fury upon them, And let the fierceness of Your anger overtake them. (Psalms 69:25) Pursue them in indignation and destroy them from under Your heavens (Lamentations 3:66). For us, living in America, which has given so many opportunities to Jews, this is clearly a difficult thing to say. It seems to go against the sentiments of openness, acceptance, and liberality which we have experienced in the United States. We live and interact with non-Jews every day. How can we justify reciting such a statement at our Passover Seder? And why do we choose to recite it in the midst of our story of freedom and redemption? Let me illustrate my answer instead of just stating it. I vividly remember exactly

of maniacal tyrants. The Jewish where I was standing when I people has lived through more learned that the Iraqis had bethan its fair share of tyrannigun bombing Israel in January cal persecution. If I were a Jew 1991. It was Thursday evening, in the Second Temple Period, and I was in the liquor store on Broadway, in New York buying I would feel no hesitancy in targeting the Romans while I wine for Shabbat. It was about recited this passage 8 p.m. and the TV in — for their destructhe liquor store was tion of the holiest on, and the place site of my people. If was buzzing with I were a Jew living the news. Even the in a German state in elderly Hispanic the Middle Ages, I man in front of me would feel no hesiin line was upset by tancy in pronouncit. I started talking to ing this statement him. against the murder“I have friends in ous Crusaders. If I Tel Aviv,” I said. “I Rabbi Melissa Crespy were a Jew living in was just there this Spain of the 1300s summer; I know the streets there. I know where that or 1400s, I would not hesitate to ask God to pour out God’s bus station in Tel Aviv is; I’ve wrath on the perpetrators of been in it so many times.” I couldn't believe I was talking to the Inquisition. And a Jew living in World a complete stranger about this, War II Europe probably had no but that was the atmosphere problem at all reciting Sh’foch of that evening. I was terribly Hamatcha — if she even had a frightened. I was stunned. I could not believe that the Iraqis crust of matzah with which to make a Seder. had bombed Israel — a counWe recite this passage, try which had done absolutely we ask for God’s righteous nothing to provoke this attack. But my overriding emotion was fury because we are a people which remembers history, and not fear — it was anger. How understands that history can dare they attack Israel?! What and does repeat itself. We recite gives them the right?! Who this passage, too, because we do they think they are? are a people that believes in How dare they attack my people, my friends! justice, and in a just God. If we do not believe in a God who I don't know for becomes enraged at injustice, sure, but I can well then what kind of God do we imagine that I was not believe in? We recite this pasthe only American sage at the very moment when to feel this way, and we invite to our table Elijah, the certainly not the only prophet who will herald our Jew. And to me, Sh’foch future redemption. We recite Hamatcha expresses just it then because we realize that that anger, that righteous redemption will not occur, the anger against the sensemessianic age will never blosless murder and persesom while there are still macution of my people at niacal tyrants persecuting our that moment and many others people. We are a people which to come. To me, “the nations longs for redemption but which who do not know You” doesn’t understands reality. refer to God-fearing and moral So this year at your Seder, Christians or Muslims. It refers to those maniacal, power-covet- have no hesitation about reciting Sh’foch Hamatcha. ing tyrants and their followers who are blinded to any sense of Know that by reciting it you are expressing righteous anger God, and who do not hesitate to destroy property and lives in about the persecutions of our people, past and present. Know the most ruthless fashion. that by reciting it you are callThose are the people “who ing on God to become enraged do not know” God. Those are at injustice. And know that by the “governments which do reciting it during our feast of not call upon” God’s name. It redemption you are expressing is upon them that I plead with the hope that we will soon see God to “pour out Your fury.” messianic times, free of murAnd we are not the first genderous tyrants. eration to feel the oppression

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April

Adar II/Nisan

Candle Lightings Shabbat, April 1: 7:43 p.m. Shabbat, April 8: 7:50 p.m. Shabbat, Erev Pesach April 15: 7:57 p.m. 1st Eve Pesach, April 16 8:58 p.m. 7th Eve Pesach, April 21 8:03 p.m. Shabbat, 8th Eve Pesach April 22: 8:04 p.m. Shabbat, April 29: 8:11 p.m.

Torah Portions April 2: Tazria (Lev. 12:1-13:59; Num. 28:9-15; Ex. 12:1-20) April 9: Metzora (Lev. 14:1-15:33) April 30: Achare (Lev. 16:1-18:30)

Pesach

Passover April 16-23 • 15-22 Nisan Eight-day festival celebrating the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Leavened bread products are not eaten.

Yom Hashoah

Holocaust Remembrance Day April 28 • 27 Nisan Marked by memorials for those who perished in the Holocaust.

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Growing up in Iran, I thought the whole country celebrated Passover Foreground, the author as a child in Iran. Background, a traditional haft-seen table marking Nowruz.

By Aylin Sedighi-Gabbaizadeh, JTA Growing up in Iran, I never truly appreciated the difference between spring cleaning, New Year’s, and getting ready for Passover. The Jewish holiday takes place almost simultaneously with the Persian New Year, known as Nowruz, when the whole country engages in a frenzy of preparations. Nowruz (A New Day), which marks the beginning of spring, is Iran’s most festive and colorful holiday. Persians, Jews, Muslims, Zoroastrians, and even Bahais all purchase new clothes, make traditional cookies, and engage in 12 days of celebrations. These celebrations include setting a special table, known as a haft-seen, that consists of various items signifying renewal, luck, and blessings. The seven Ss, as they are known, would take their

ceremonial places on the same number of plates: sabzeh (a green plate of grown wheat), seeb (red apples), samanoo (a wheat-based dish), senjed (a fruit of the lotus tree), seer (garlic), serkeh (vinegar), and sekkeh (coins laid in water). No table would be complete without swimming goldfish, an elaborate mirror to reflect joy to the viewer, hand-painted eggs, and a holy book. Where our Muslim neighbors placed a Quran on their haft-seen table, we placed a Torah or a Siddur. Where our Muslim neighbors sprouted wheat, we grew lentils, given the proximity of the secular holiday to Passover, when we removed wheat from our homes. For years I believed Passover to be the beginning of the Jewish calendar because it was synonymous with Continued on Page 26

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Passover in Iran Continued from Page 25 all things new and a promise of starting afresh. Given the mild climate of the country, by the time the holiday came around, cherry blossoms were in bloom and the aroma of jasmine flowers filled our noses. Just as the entire country went into full springcleaning mode for the national holiday, Jews scoured their homes of forbidden chametz, or leavened products. In our home, all the closets would be emptied and reorganized. All the rugs would be taken into the yard and washed in hot, soapy water in order to rid even the tiniest morsel of chametz. I knew Passover was close when my grandmother dug out her larger-than-life-size iron pot and started the process of kashering every item in her kitchen in boiling water. My grandmother told me stories of stuffing her mattress and blankets with clean cotton — something I was thankful we no longer had to do. Nonetheless, the tasks were still endless, and everyone in the family was involved in the process. Given that there were no kosher-for-Passover shops (or even kosher shops), every cake and cookie had to be made from scratch, a task that entailed the washing, drying, and blending of all the needed nuts. The week before the holiday, the aroma of roasted nuts would fill the house, and the sweet smell of homemade cookies couldn’t summon the holiday fast enough. Given the lack of kosher products, we hardly consumed any dairy for the eight days, our diets

consisting of eggs, meats and, according to Iranian Jewish custom, rice. Our Muslim neighbors, too, were busy cleaning, readying themselves for the coming of spring. A Muslim family with whom we were particularly friendly would come over each Passover for a taste of matzah, saying how they looked forward to it all year. My father’s co-workers knew it was an auspicious time of the year for him and wished him especially well as he took a holiday for the Seders. In the market and in the streets, though, we kept quiet about our Passover preparations. We did not discuss details with strangers and those with whom we did not feel a connection. The Seder itself brought its own associations and customs. At the end of each ritual meal, as we bid farewell to yet another holiday and sang “Next Year in Jerusalem,” the words had a deep significance for us. Our Seder table became quieter with each passing year, with so many family and friends already gone to other promised lands. We each wondered out loud when our turn would come to leave a country that treated us like second-class citizens, when we would find security and peace in other lands. Over time, our entire extended family fled to Israel and the United States. My immediate family was the last of our clan to finally pick up and leave, in September 1990. The story of Iran’s ancient Jewish community unfolds over more than 2,700 years, back to when the Jews were first exiled from Jerusalem through to today, after most members of the community

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RELIGION have relocated throughout the world. Today there are fewer than 10,000 Jews left in Iran, the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside of Israel. My Passover experience here is vastly different than the one I grew up with. Every year as I put away one set of dishes and bring out my Passover ware, I feel a pang of guilt at how easy it is to get ready for the holiday compared with what my mother and grandmother had to do in Iran. The shelves of the supermarkets here are filled

with kosher-for-Passover cookies, cakes, chocolates, sweets, and dairy products. One could almost forget that we are experiencing a holiday that celebrates the Jews’ escape from slavery. But I am forever grateful for the freedoms that I have been granted here, and to celebrate this most auspicious holiday alongside so many of our people.

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Ukrainian Stuffed Cabbage Rolls as a show of solidarity this Pesach By Chanie Apfelbaum, The Nosher There’s nothing like Passover to remind us where we come from. Stuffed cabbage is popular in Ukraine and is known as holubtsi, which literally translates as little pigeons. Make some in solidarity with the Jews in harm’s way, forced to hide, flee or to defend Ukraine during Russia’s invasion. 1 head of green cabbage 1 lb. ground beef 1 heaping cup leftover mashed potatoes 1 small onion, grated 1 egg salt and pepper, to taste and discard. Peel the remaining large leaves, taking care not to tear the cabbage as you go. Set the whole leaves aside and chop up the remaining cabbage for later. 3. In a bowl, combine the ground beef, potatoes, onion, egg, salt and pepper. Set aside. 4. Set up a stuffing station with your whole cabbage leaves and ground beef mixture. With a paring knife, trim the thick part of the stem off the base of the leaves, taking care not to cut through the rest of the leaf. Place the leaves upright so that they are curling upward like a bowl. 5. Place a small handful of filling toward the

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base of each leaf and fold over the leaf from the left side. Roll the cabbage leaf up and using your finger, stuff the loose end of the leaf inward, pushing it into the center. Rolling the cabbage this way ensures that they hold together nicely during cooking. 6. Continue with remaining leaves. If you have any leftover filling, simply roll them into meatballs to place in the pot alongside the cabbage rolls. 7. Place the stuffed cabbage rolls in a large pot and cover with sauce ingredi-

ents. If you had any leftover cabbage or meatballs, add them to the pot as well. 8. Bring the sauce to a gentle boil over medium heat and reduce to a simmer. Cover the pot, leaving it slightly open so that the steam does not force the cabbage rolls to open. Cook for approximately two to two-and-a-half hours, until cabbage is tender and sauce has thickened. Variation: for unstuffed cabbage soup, shred the cabbage and roll the meat into balls. Place everything into a pot and continue as above.

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These Passover Pancake Noodles are better than matzah balls By Liz Susman Karp and Natalie Gorlin, The Nosher Last April, as the pandemic raged in my area, I opened my front door to my dear friend Natalie, who threw at me from a distance a plastic sandwich bag containing her family’s cherished Passover tradition: flädla. Less commonly known than the universally beloved matzah ball, these Passover egg noodles are made from a thin crêpe that’s coiled and cut into strips, over which steaming broth is Flädla, Passover Pancake Noodles poured. Natalie’s family recipe was handed down from her began boiling dough in water mother’s Tante (aunt) Ilse, who rather than baking or frying it. émigrated from Germany in Holocaust survivor Cecile 1939 after Kristallnacht. Gruer, 86, is known as her famAsk around about flädla ily’s chef. She movingly recalls and, like the history of any eating flädla in 1946 at the first good noodle, you’ll discover Passover she celebrated with the topic covers a lot of her family in an Austrian ground. Flädla, also displaced persons spelled flädle, camp after they didn’t start off as were reunited. a Passover food Then a teen, she but evolved into watched her a dish that reflects mother prepare the ingenuity the noodle as and frugality of her mother had Jewish Eastern done in Hungary. European cooks, Gruer makes flädla who repurposed leftyear-round, using over dough or pancakes potato starch, matzah into noodles. meal, or quinoa or almond flour Noodles were a significant for gluten-free relatives. part of the Ashkenazi diet. In Sometimes she’ll just mix medieval times, Europeans egg and water, essentially an

omelette. Gruer suggests adding any herb, such as dill or cilantro, to heighten the soup’s flavor. She continues these traditions because, she says, “You do not want to break the chain.” 4 eggs, separated ¾ tsp. salt ¼-½ cup (to taste) chopped chives 4 Tbsp. potato starch ¼ cup of chicken broth oil 1. Separate the eggs and add the salt to the yolks. 2. Mix chives and potato starch in with the egg yolks. Add as much chicken broth as is necessary for the mixture to be the consistency of pancake batter. 3. Beat egg whites until stiff and add to yolk mixture (mix occasionally while cooking batches to avoid separation). 4. Heat a small amount of oil in a frying pan and add enough batter to cover the bottom of the pan. Fry like a crépe, and remove from pan. Lay flädla on paper towels to absorb any excess oil. 5. Let cool, then roll each crêpe and cut into thin strips. Flädla can be made a few days in advance and refrigerated. 6. Serve in hot soup and enjoy.

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42nd Annual Ryterband Symposium in Judaic Studies with Professor Deborah Dash Moore Thurs., March 31, 7 p.m. Wright State University Student Union 163 A-B

The author of GI Jews: How World War II Transformed a Generation and senior historical advisor to the PBS documentary, GI Jews: Jewish Americans in WWII, Deborah Dash Moore will discuss the experiences of Jews who served in the American military during World War II. Dr. Moore is the Frederick G. L. Heutwell Professor of History and former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Pareve Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies for Pesach By Shannon Sarna The Nosher I love it when people taste my pareve desserts and say, “Wow — this is pareve!?” It’s the same rule with Passover dishes and desserts. Which is why I am on a never-ending search for the perfect Passover desserts that are good enough to eat all year and just happen to also be Passover-friendly. In one of my searches, I came across this recipe for Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies which I realized could easily be made Passover-friendly just by swapping out the peanut butter for almond butter. I adjusted a few ingredients and the result is a super tasty, chewy cookie that is good enough to enjoy all year. Pareve Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies for Passover Your guests are sure to ask incredulously, “Are you sure these are kosher for Passover?” Truly the ultimate compliment. 1 cup almond butter 1 egg 1 cup packed brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup chocolate chips 1/2 cup chopped walnuts thick sea salt (optional) 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Mix together almond butter, egg, brown sugar and vanilla. 3. Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts. 4. Spoon out tablespoonsized mounds onto ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with pinch of thick sea salt on top if desired. 5. Bake for 11 minutes and then allow to cool for five minutes while cookies remain on the baking sheet. Transfer to baking rack to cool completely.

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Diamonds in the rough The Power of Stories Series One of the greatest Mishnaic sages, Rabbi Meir was widely admired for his exceptional scholarship, deep wisdom, and warm humanity. He lived by the value of tolerance for the views of others with whom he disagreed. Most notably he

Candace R. Kwiatek continued to confer with his teacher, Elisha ben Avuyah, an extraordinary Jewish sage who became a heretic called Acher, “the other,” by his contemporaries. Rabbi Meir’s colleagues reproached him, believing any involvement with Acher was disgraceful. However, in a dream-dialogue with Elijah the prophet, Rabba bar Sheila famously challenged their stance: “‘Why should he be judged unfavorably for that? Rabbi Meir found a pomegranate and ate its contents while throwing away its peel.’ (Elijah) said to Rabba bar

Sheila: ‘Indeed, your defense has been heard above.’” How could an anecdote about a pomegranate influence the heavens? Smooth and leathery on the outside but overflowing inside with jewellike seeds, the pomegranate is a biblical symbol of blessing. The short tale implies that Rabbi Meir discovered many blessings in Asher and turned his attention to them while ignoring Asher’s outward heresies, a position with which heaven seems to have agreed. “Look not at the flask but what is therein,” Rabbi Meir taught. Three scholars explain the wisdom behind Rabbi Meir’s stance. Created in the image of God, every human is a “timeless connection to the holy, to the creative spark,” Jewish educator Josh Troderman writes. As a consequence, “each person is endowed with three intrinsic dignities,” according to Rabbi Irving Greenberg, “infinite value, equality, and uniqueness.” Therefore, Rabbi David Teutsch concludes, “no human being should be treated merely

as an object, and we should alOne rabbi shouted in dismay, ways attempt to see the human- “What’s going on? You’re doing ity in those we encounter.” one of the most disgusting jobs In Judaism, this multifaceted possible, and you’re wrapped virtue is known as kavod habin one of the holiest objects a riyot, the honor of the created Jew can put on! There are rules beings or human dignity. about wearing tefillin. What’s “The Hebrew word for wrong with you?” The simple honor, kavod, is related to the Jew was ashamed and embarword for weight, as in gravitas, rassed. “You’re right, rabbi. I’m or giving weight to the presso sorry!” ence of another human being,” The other rabbi suddenly explains Dr. Ronit Ziv-Kreger. shouted with joy. “Master of Truly weighty, kavod habriyot the Universe, look at this holy overshadows Rabbi Akiva’s Jew! See how devoted he is! great Torah principle, “You Even when greasing the wheels shall love your neighbor as of his wagon, he wants to be yourself.” By wrapped in your honoring and presence. That’s respecting the how much he divine dignity loves you!” of fellow human Mistaken beings created Identity. A in the image of well-known God, one honors Jerusalem rabbi God the Creator We are all equally thought he saw as well. the illustrious deserving of How can one rosh yeshiva being treated acknowledge (seminary head) another’s digRav Velvel Sowith dignity. nity? Grant evloveitchik in the ery person basic distance, coming decency. Refrain from denigratoward his building. He quickly tion and insults. Enhance the set the table and, while his wife prestige of the others around finished preparations for an you. Look for the image of God impromptu meal, the rabbi ran in every person, as illustrated to greet the renowned sage. in the following stories. As he drew closer, however, Roadside Tefillin. Walkit became clear that the elderly ing along a country lane, two man on the path only resemrabbis came upon a farmer bled Rav Soloveitchik from a greasing the wheels of his distance. wagon while wearing tefillin. The rabbi paused. He could pretend he had been running for some other reason and no one would know. However, he decided that if a nice meal had been prepared for the rav, it was also fitting for other company. So he invited the old man to his home where they dined

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Literature to share Not a Partnership: Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong & How We Can Get It Right by Tod Jacobs and Dr. Peter Lynn. Combining ancient wisdom from Jewish tradition and Kabalah with insights from psychology research and clinical experience, the authors offer practical advice about ways of thinking and acting that contribute to a real-world flourishing marriage. Do you know what a successful marriage looks like? Isn’t a good marriage a 50-50 partnership? How can it be that love isn’t one of the four essential pillars of a flourishing marriage? Thoughtful, funny, and provocative, this slim volume is a wonderful read and a perfect engagement or wedding gift. 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the M.S. St. Louis 1939 by Barbara Krasner. Neither diary nor poetry but with elements of both, this freeform first-person Holocaust narrative recounts the story of the St. Louis through the youthful eyes of Ruthie Aarons. True events — false Cuban visas, America’s dismissive responses, the captain’s reluctant return to Europe — are incorporated into this historical fiction account. Targeted to middle grades, this muted introduction to a difficult topic is a recommended read.

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Carl Reiner/courtesy of Film Forum Benny once hosted a gala ball at the automat, handing every celebrity a roll of nickels as they walked into the establishment in their formalwear. Hurwitz self-financed and shot the film over a decade, which accounts for the many interviewees who appear posthumously — not just Reiner and Ginsburg, but culture of Horn & Hardart, the company former Secretary of State (and Yiddish-speaking son of the behind the restaurants in Manhattan and Philadelphia that promised, under a Bronx) Colin Powell and, somewhat dated slogan, “Less Work For significantly, John W. Romas, the former vice president of Mother.” The food was served through engineering for Horn & Hardsmall, coin-operated glass doors. art. Romas describes how he The chain’s low prices and unique Mel Brooks at the Automat in New York in the 1950s helped design and build the service model helped it thrive during the Great Depression and into the 1960s, coin-operated contraptions that brought film, that coffee would prove to be Horn & Hardart’s downfall, as the company forth the bargain delicacies. attracting scores of downtown lunchlost money on every cup yet refused Also appearing is the Jewish chairgoers. to raise its prices for years. Faced with man and former CEO of Starbucks, Hurwitz, a former talent booker for competition from savvier cheap-coffee Howard Schultz, who notes that his Seattle’s Jewish Community Center, purveyors like Chock Full o’ Nuts, a chain took a lot of inspiration from the calls in a cavalry of New York Jews to mass exodus of customers to the subrestaurants. “I always had the automat reminisce about the joys of waiter-less urbs, and a growing perception that its in my mind’s eye,” he explains. “How dining. establishments were becoming gatherdo you create that level of theatre, Brooks and his late friend and coming spots for homeless people and drug edy partner Carl Reiner both sheepishly excitement, surprise and delight?” (Schultz, whose employees are engaged addicts, the automat withered throughadmit that their go-to order was the out the ’70s and ’80s until closing its last in a growing unionization effort, is abham-and-cheese sandwich. Ruth Bader sent during the segment of the film that remaining store in 1991. Ginsburg says she believes that the eatToday, signs of the restaurant’s infludiscusses a failed union drive by Horn ery attracted a unique and democratic ence are cropping up once again in & Hardart employees.) cross section of America because it did modern establishments, from self-pour But the highlight of the film is unnot require anyone to speak English in taprooms to a new automated dumpling questionably Brooks and his song, order to eat. Jewish actor Elliott Gould shop in Manhattan. Perhaps the automat celebrating a time when you could get also waxes nostalgic. and its silver dolphin spout could make great coffee poured out of a spigot for a Archival footage recalls how the famously frugal Jewish entertainer Jack nickel. Ironically, according to Hurwitz’s a comeback.

Mel Brooks sings ode to the automat in a new doc about famed Philly/New York eatery By Andrew Lapin New York Jewish Week If you never experienced a meal at an automat — an innovative “automated restaurant” that was once a fixture of mid-century New York City and Philadelphia — then allow iconic Jewish comedian Mel Brooks to explain: “There was nothing like the coffee at the automat Its aroma and its flavor were supreme From a silver dolphin spout The coffee poured right out Not to mention, at the end, a little spurt of cream.” At the Automat, Brooks’ original song celebrating the joys of this unique type of restaurant — particularly its five-cent coffee — plays over the end credits of The Automat, a new film that the funnyman describes as a “meshuginah documentary” about the eateries. The playful, nostalgic film by director Lisa Hurwitz charts the history and The Automat opens Friday, April 1 at The Neon, 130 E. Fifth St., Dayton. For movie times, go to neonmovies.com.

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OBITUARIES Marilyn Ann Abrams, age 89 formerly of Dayton, passed away March 11 in Phoenix. Marilyn was a music and theatre lover and a devoted wife to George. She held a strong belief that the retail customer is ALWAYS right. She was preceded in death by her husband, George Abrams; mother, Geneva Seale; brothers, Gerald and Bobby Howard; and son-in-law, Joe Cantrell. Marilyn is survived by her children, Mark (Jeri) Wilson, Patrick Wilson (Jane Marie Boone), Michael (Debbie) Wilson, LuAnn Cantrell and George Abrams; grandchildren, Nathan (Crystal) Bath, Joel (Molly) Wilson, Joshua (Madison) Wilson, Jonathan (Sarah) Wilson, Justin Wilson

(Chelsea Buckborough); great grandchildren, Tyler, Ashton and Aiden Bath, Brennan, Kylan, Molly, Benjamin and Ryan Wilson; brother, Paul Howard; sister, Carol Shepherd; numerous nieces and nephews. Interment was at Riverview Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Temple Israel, Dayton Live, or the charity of your choice. Janice L. Alpert, age 56 of Dayton, passed away March 8. Janice was a lifetime member of Temple Israel and actively participated in activities through Greene Inc. and Toward Independence. She volunteered with 4 Paws for Ability, The Xenia Food Bank, and other organizations

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through Goodwill Easterseals Miami Valley. She enjoyed participating in The Voices of Greene County. She was preceded in death by her father, Murray Alpert, and her mother, Sarah Alpert. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Maryann and Paul Prichard; nephews, Joseph Murray (Alicia) Prichard, Jacob Edward (Jaymee) Prichard, Jarred John (Abigail) Prichard, Jordan Eugene Leonard Prichard; nieces, Rose Marie (Larry) Kimbell, Jenna Sue (Chris) Moran; five great-nephews, four great-nieces, cousins, and many friends. Her contagious smile is remembered by all that met her. Interment was at Riverview Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to 4 Paws for Ability, Toward Independence or the charity of your choice.

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OBITUARIES Beatrice “Bea” G. Burke, age 96 of Dayton, passed away Feb. 22. Bea moved to Dayton after marrying Jack Burke in 1969. Bea was a very active member of Beth Abraham Synagogue and Hadassah. Bea served as a president and officer for the sisterhood for several terms and was in charge of the gift shop for many years. Bea believed exercise and a good diet were the keys to good health and her 96 years of almost perfect health were a testament to her lifestyle. Bea was preceded in death by her first husband, Harold Kurlan, whose two years in Stalag 17 during World War II compromised his health. Her second husband, Jack Burke, and her sisters, Harriet and Estelle, also preceded her in death. Bea’s love of exercise was only exceeded by her love of family. Bea is survived by her daughters, Susan Haaz of Calif., Melissa (Russ) Rathweg of Ga.; sons, Daniel D. (Susan) Burke of Va., Aaron R. (Anne) Burke of Vandalia, Samuel H. Burke of Wash.; sister, Edith Freeman of Calif.; brother, Bernie Lisker of Fla.; 13 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, and many other relatives and friends. Bea’s last wish was to dance with her grandson Scott at his wedding on Oct. 1, 2021, which she accomplished beautifully! Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to Beth Abraham Synagogue or the charity of your choice in Bea’s memory.

terribly. Interment was in California. Her family asks that you make a donation to the Yiddish Book Center in her memory: yiddishbookcenter. org/join-support.

Claire Lee Lieberman, age 90, died peacefully on March 13. She was preceded in death by her father, Morris, and mother, Sadie Lieberman, and adoring brother, Bert Lieberman. She is survived by Bert’s wife, Jean Lieberman; niece, Marilyn Lieberman Klaben and husband Larry and their children Max (wife Jenny and daughters Mia and Sofia), Sara (husband Amit and son Idan) and Jeremy (wife Miriam and son Oren), nephew, Michael Lieberman and wife Randi Abramson and daughter Eve (husband Ian, son Benny and daughter Zoey), Hannah (and wife Molly Bernard), and Yonah (and girlfriend Maya Matalon), and niece, Diane Lieberman Slovin and sons Aaron (wife Rachel and daughter Olivia), Matt, and Joey. Claire was the always positive, steady, supportive, beloved aunt, great-aunt, and great-great aunt. Claire Lee Lieberman was born in Dayton on May 21, 1931. After graduating from Roosevelt High School, Claire Lee worked for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, earning commendations as a film archivist. She later joined her brother Bert and Naomi Kleinfeld Lerner, father Morris in the family a woman of valor and furniture store, Morris Furniture principles, devoted, loving, and Co., where her eye for detail beloved mother, wife, sister, and design led to great success daughter, grandmother, greatas the accessories buyer. She grandmother, and friend, has enjoyed traveling the world, moved on. From the Bronx to often in the company of her Broadway, she danced with mother. She was remarkably laughter and love across the independent for a woman of her United States, finally settling generation. She loved her family in California. Curious, fun, and and was a primary caregiver for sharp-witted, Naomi rooted for her elderly parents, modeling the underdog, penned poems that behavior for her nieces and to mark special occasions, and nephew and their children. She found something to admire in prided herself on connecting almost every person, animal, and reconnecting with relatives and thing. Nothing got past across the country. She loved to her. As “Red,” Naomi stole socialize with her many close Hobbie’s heart at a tender age. friends, solving puzzles and As Aunt Naomi and Safta, she playing mah jongg. She was entertained and comforted a longtime member of Beth generations of children. As Jacob Congregation and a life Mrs. Lerner, she earned the member of Hadassah. Interment respect and adoration of staff was at Beth Jacob Cemetery. and students alike. She believed Contributions may be made sincerely in your beauty and to Brunner Literacy Center, brilliance, even when you brunnerliteracy.org or the didn’t. Raise a glass of wine in Southern Poverty Law Center, her honor. She will be missed splcenter.org.

Irvin J. Zipperstein. Born in Cincinnati in 1925, Irv Zipperstein was the youngest child of Jacob and Sarah Zipperstein. He was predeceased by his parents and brothers (Maurice, Abe, and Sam) and survived by his sister Mary Schneider. A graduate of Hughes High School, Mr. Zipperstein’s college career at the University of Cincinnati was interrupted by World War II. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a radar technician and attained the rank of sergeant. Following the war, he re-enrolled in college, earning two degrees — a bachelor’s and a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati Law School. Upon his graduation and after passing the bar exam, Irv married — what was to be — his lifelong sweetheart, Sandra Berman, in 1950. And they were happily married for over 71 years. They relocated to Dayton, where Irv briefly worked for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as legal counsel. Soon after, he opened his own private practice. He served a wide variety of clients in Dayton for over 50 years. A consummate professional and a true “lawyer’s lawyer,” Irv took great pride in his craft and genuinely cared for his clients. Outside of his profession, Mr. Zipperstein was very active in civic affairs, the local Jewish community, and an avid supporter of Israel. He had leadership roles at Beth Abraham Synagogue as well as many other organizations. Irv is survived by his beloved wife, Sandy; their three children, Debi (Shmuel) Lahav, Jon (Ellen) Zipperstein, and Margie (Bob) Stayton; nine grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Irv will be remembered by those who loved him for his integrity, humor, musicality, and optimism. He was a family man through and through and will be missed dearly.

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