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Chicago Jewish News - March 20-26, 2015
Talking to Asian-Jewish researcher couple Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt
By Julie Wiener
JTA
Helen Kim and her husband, Noah Leavitt – Whitman
College professors who met as
grad students in the social sciences department at University
of Chicago – are the leading, and
virtually only, experts on AsianJewish intermarriage in the
United States.
The two – she’s KoreanAmerican, he’s Jewish – recently
spoke by phone from Walla
Walla, Wash., where they live
with their 6-year-old son Ari and
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You’ve published two studies on Asian-Jewish families:
the first focusing on couples,
the second on grown children of
Asian-Jewish parents. What do
you see as the most significant
findings?
Kim: The most significant
thing about both talking with
the couples as well as the kids is
that these families are definitely
creating Jewish homes and raising their kids as Jews … The
concern always raised with intermarriage is about Judaism disappearing. That’s definitely not
happening for the couples and
the adult kids that we’ve talked
to.
But isn’t that because couples and individuals with
stronger Jewish ties are more
likely to volunteer for a study
about Jewish-Asian families?
Leavitt: When we selected
couples, we tried to select from as
wide a diversity of feelings about
Judaism as possible. We made
some choices to look for people
who may have had weak attachments. We weren’t looking for
particular kinds of Judaism or
levels of attachment to Judaism.
Any idea how many Jewish-Asian households there currently are in the United States,
or what percentage of Jews who
intermarry marry Asians?
Kim: We don’t. The U.S.
Census is barred from collecting
religious identification information, and among Jewish researchers, the collection of racial
demographics is just beginning.
In five years we might have that
information, because the Cohen
Center at Brandeis is starting to
collect that.
To what extent do your findings reflect your own experiences
as an Asian-Jewish couple?
Kim: There were definitely
some similarities. One of the
things our interviewees talked
about was feeling like they didn’t
really know how to transmit a
sense of Asian ethnicity.
Whereas the Jewish piece, regardless of what their atta
chment or experiences with Judaism were like in the past, they
always talked about feeling like
there was a synagogue or JCC or
Hebrew school they could go to.
Those issues certainly play
out in terms of our family. I
haven’t converted, but I’m totally on board [with giving the
children a Jewish upbringing],
like a lot of the people we interviewed. I know a lot about Judaism, it’s a cultural milieu I feel
comfortable in, in part because I
grew up with a lot of Jews. Doing
the Jewish piece is perhaps easier
because there is a Jewish community even in a place like Walla
Walla. We have a Reform synagogue. We have Sunday school
every month. We do a lot of Jewish practices in the home. Not so
much for the Korean piece or the
Asian piece. It’s harder, because
often there isn’t the same type of
community with a critical mass
or organizational structure.
Was your marriage a source
of conflict within your extended
families?
Kim: No, and in terms of the
couples that we interviewed,
there was very little conflict. The
way couples explained that [lack
of conflict] was their perceived
cultural similarities [such as a
shared emphasis on family, education and achievement].
Leavitt: In addition, there
was an absence of traditional
stressors. We really didn’t have in
the couples people who had a
strong religious identity that was
a significant alternative option
or challenge to Judaism …
When we interviewed adult
kids, they reported very few instances where parents had conflicts over religion, they didn’t
describe debates about which
things the family should do.
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Hillel again taking heat over limiting Israel debate
By Anthony Weiss
JTA
Hillel President Eric Fingerhut’s decision to withdraw from
the upcoming J Street conference has again drawn Hillel into
conflict over the boundaries of
acceptable criticism of Israel.
Some two years after the
Open Hillel movement emerged
to challenge Hillel International’s guidelines for Israel activities, which prohibit campus
chapters from hosting speakers
that support divestment from Israel or deny its right to exist, the
organization is under fire again
for toeing a line on Israel that
some see as alienating to liberal
Jewish students.
J Street blasted Fingerhut’s
decision to back out, with Sarah
Turbow, the director of the liberal lobby’s campus arm, claiming the Hillel leader had chosen
to please his donors instead of
engaging thousands of students.
But even within Hillel, several current and former directors
said that Fingerhut’s decision
is part of the organization’s general rightward drift on Israel and
its growing deference to the demands of major supporters.
“I think that as the American Jewish community turns further and further to the right,
Hillel has simply kept pace with
it,” said Rabbi James Ponet, who
became director of the Yale Hillel in 1981 and served as university chaplain prior to starting a
sabbatical in 2014. “When I entered Hillel, its fundraising was
quite minimal. It’s become a
major fundraising organization.”
Ponet said that as a university-focused organization, Hillel’s
mission should not be to police
the boundaries of acceptable criticism of Israel but to expose students to a wide variety of views.
Refusing to speak to J Street,
Ponet said, is not in keeping with
that mission.
“Hillel in that sense, to my
sadness, has abdicated or abandoned an understanding – if it
ever had it – of higher education,” Ponet said.
The latest fracas began
when Fingerhut announced that
he would not appear at the J
Street conference because of
“concerns regarding my participation amongst other speakers
who have made highly inflammatory statements against the
Jewish state.” Asked which
speakers Fingerhut had in mind,
Hillel’s chief administrative officer, David Eden, named Saeb
Erekat, the longtime chief Palestinian negotiator who had recently compared Israel to the
Islamic State, or ISIS.
The explanation raised eyebrows in many quarters. While
Erekat indeed has a history of
making inflammatory state-
ments, both Israel and the U.S.
State Department have long
dealt with him in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And according to J Street, Erekat’s presence
at the conference was made public three days before Fingerhut
accepted an invitation to address
members of J Street U there.
Hillel officials denied that
Fingerhut knew about Erekat’s
plans to attend, but the organization subsequently appeared to
walk back its original explanation.
“I don’t want to pin it down
on one specific issue,” a Hillel
spokesman said when asked if
Erekat’s presence was the impetus for Fingerhut’s withdrawal.
Asked if the organization had
bowed to donor pressure, the
spokesman said the decision had
been made in consultation with
the “full range” of Hillel stake-
holders and did not foreclose the
possibility that Fingerhut might
engage with J Street in the future.
“Eric sought counsel from
across the full breadth of the political spectrum of Hillel leadership and there was broad, broad
consensus that now was not the
time,” the spokesman said.
Jeremy Brochin, who served
as Hillel director at the University of Pennsylvania for 23 years
before his retirement in 2010 and
publicly criticized Fingerhut in a
Facebook post last week, said
that he had spoken to several
current and former Hillel directors who were uncomfortable
with the decision.
“Our role is to engage students and to help students in
their Jewish growth and on their
Jewish journey,” Brochin said.
“That conversation would be
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Jewish News
■ The bat mitzvah whose celebration in Copenhagen ended
abruptly after the shooting death of a volunteer synagogue guard
was feted in Israel. Hannah Bentow, 13, in Jerusalem had a ceremony and a dance party for girls and women with a DJ. The celebration of Bentow’s bat mitzvah at the central Copenhagen shul,
or Krystalgade Synagogue, had been put off a year due to the year
of mourning for her grandmother. The teen reportedly had said to
her mother after the shooting attack by an Islamist fanatic that
killed guard Dan Uzan, “I wish I didn’t have a bat mitzvah, and
then Dan would still be alive.”
■ The Israeli army’s chief education officer recommended that
rabbis no longer be allowed to speak at swearing-in ceremonies for
recruits. The recommendation by Brig. Gen. Avner Paz-Tzuk was
revealed when a screenshot of an undated letter that Paz-Tzuk
sent to Maj. Gen. Hagai Topolansky, who heads the Israel Defense Forces’ Manpower Directorate, appeared on the internet.
The letter comes amid a polarizing debate within Israeli society
about the role of religion in the public sphere in general and especially in the IDF, which has traditionally been regarded as the
country’s melting pot. Recent walkouts by troops who, for religious reasons, refused to attend ceremonies featuring women’s
singing have been decried by secular Jews as evidence of radicalization. “I believe it is flawed that the central figures in the ceremony, alongside the unit commander, are the corps rabbi and the
unit rabbi. The ceremony is not religious and there is no reason
for it to appear religious,” Paz-Tzuk wrote. Paz-Tzuk recommended canceling all public functions for rabbis at swearing-ins,
proposing that one of the recruits’ commanders, instead of the
rabbi, reads from the Bible. “The rabbinate does not have exclusivity over the Bible,” he wrote. “There is no reason for a rabbi,
of all people, to speak at a swearing-in ceremony for the IDF and
the state,” he added.
■ A former leader of Russian Jews said he would like to hang
prominent Ukrainian Jews “until they stop breathing.” Yevgeny
Satanovsky, who served as a president of the Russian Jewish Congress in the years 2004 and 2005, made the assertion about Joseph
Zissels, leader of the Vaad Association of Jewish Communities
and Organizations of Ukraine, and Igor Kolomoisky, a Jewish billionaire who is the governor of the district of Dnepropetrovsk in
eastern Ukraine. During a radio interview for the Govorit Moskva
station, Satanovsky, who currently heads the Institute of Middle
Eastern Studies in Moscow, said he would like to kill both men
because he said they maintain that Stephan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist who during World War II collaborated with the
Nazis and later fought against them, is not responsible for the
death of Jews murdered by men under his command. “A significant number of Ukrainian officials, he said, “out of cowardice,
stupidity, or from general meanness says that ‘Bandera didn’t kill
any Jews.’ On this, allow me to reiterate: When and if there’s way
to do this, then I will hang Kolomoisky and Joseph Zissels at least
in Dnepropetrovsk in front of the Golden Rose Synagogue until
they stop breathing.”
■ The jury has been seated in the trial of a Syracuse, N.Y.,
physician accused of murdering his wife. Dr. Robert Neulander,
63, has been charged with second-degree murder and tampering
with physical evidence. His wife, Leslie, was found dead in the
shower of the family’s home in 2012, but the death initially was
ruled an accident. Neulander, who was released on $100,000 cash
bail following his indictment in June, has denied the charges.
Both Neulanders were active in the local Jewish community. In
questioning potential jurors, defense lawyer Edward Menkin emphasized that Neulander had no motive to kill his wife. Jurors
were also questioned about their ability to view graphic photos,
presumably of the victim, and whether such images might affect
their neutrality. The Neulanders chaired the Jewish Federation
of Central New York’s annual campaign in 2012. Leslie chaired
fundraising events at the Syracuse Hebrew Day School in DeWitt
and Robert played a key role in the expansion of the local Jewish
community center. Their four children attended the Syracuse Hebrew Day School.
■ Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat did not die of poisoning, a
French prosecutor said. The prosecutor told the French news
agency AFP that French experts found that Arafat was not poisoned, despite rumors to the contrary. Arafat’s widow, Suha, had
filed legal action in July 2012 asking French authorities in the
western Paris suburb of Nanterre to look into claims that her husband was poisoned.
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For Vail’s Chabad rabbi, inspiration comes on ski slopes
By Uriel Heilman
JTA
VAIL, Colo. – When Dovid
Mintz was growing up around the
corner from the Lubavitcher
rebbe in Brooklyn, he never
imagined he’d find inspiration
for Jewish outreach work on a
black-diamond ski slope.
But after one of his nine siblings took up the post of Chabad
emissary in Aspen, Colo., Mintz
began making the trek to the
Rockies to help out on holidays.
He soon found himself drawn to
the mountains of western Colorado – not, like so many others,
for the skiing, but for the potential for Jewish outreach.
Located midway between
Denver and Aspen, and home to
the second-largest ski resort in
the United States, Vail was
chock-full of vacationers, retirees
and ski bums – many of them
Jews ripe for outreach. At the
time, the only synagogue in
town, B’nai Vail, did not hold
regular Shabbat services.
Nearly a decade since he
moved to Vail in 2006 (following
another older brother who
opened a Chabad center in s
Denver suburb in 2004), Mintz
says skiing gives him the emotional fuel for his Jewish outreach work. He’s on the snow
about once a week, often with
his kids and sometimes with his
wife, Doba, who wears a skirt
over her ski pants.
“Skiing with your family is
one of the most powerful experiences in all of life,” Mintz, 33,
said. “You’re in your own domain, nothing can get in your
way. You’re with your kids on the
top of the world. Wow. We did it.
What are we doing next? What
are we going to fulfill?”
Many of the challenges
Mintz faces are familiar to
Chabad emissaries, or shluchim,
the world over. He’s both rabbi
and fundraiser, program director
and spiritual leader, sexton and
caterer. It’s tough getting a minyan – the quorum of 10 men required for Orthodox prayer. He
struggles to instill in his kids a
strong Hasidic Orthodox identity
while balancing their need for a
healthy social outlet in a place
with practically no other religiously observant Jews.
But Mintz has come up with
some unique responses to these
challenges.
A techie working with
Mintz created an automated
“minyan maker” program that allows visitors to sign up for potential weekday services on Chabad
of Vail’s website and receive automatic notification if 10 men or
more commit to coming. Mintz
has shared the technology with a
handful of other Chabad centers.
Morning minyans are held at
Chabad’s rented space at Vail
Run Resort. Afternoon minyans
usually meet near a Starbucks
shop, and worshippers come in
their ski boots.
Vail doesn’t have a kosher
restaurant, so Mintz employs a
full-time chef to cook meals vis-
itors can order for delivery to
their hotel or condo. The service, which provides doublewrapped entrees so consumers
can warm up their food without
fear of non-kosher contamination, generates a modest profit.
And then there’s the skiing.
The eldest of Mintz’s three kids,
6-year-old Isaac, spends several
hours a day studying in an online
school for the children of
Chabad emissaries. But he gets
in-person socialization by ice
skating and at ski school, where
he takes lessons twice a week.
Hanging out with non-Jewish
peers has also taught the boy a
valuable skill, Mintz says: The
ability to stick to his Jewish commitments even when tested with,
say, the offer of non-kosher pizza
at a friend’s birthday party.
“It doesn’t even bother him
that he can’t have the pizza,”
Mintz said. “That discipline you
give them, they become masters
of themselves. He’s capable of
overcoming this.”
Plus, Mintz noted, the other
kids’ families by now are familiar
with their dietary restrictions
and are respectful of them; they
always make sure to have kosher
snacks on hand.
Some of the Jews who end
up at the Chabad seek it out, but
many discover it by accident
when they spot Mintz on the
mountain. Though he hardly
stands out in his ski gear, the tzitzit ritual fringes that hang over
Mintz’s snow pants are a dead
giveaway.
Mintz says that being a
Dovid Mintz, the Chabad rabbi in Vail, Colo., works the phone trying to
corral a minyan on a powdery morning at one of North America's
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shaliach in Vail is like a dream
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“We’re pumped to be here.
We have that excitement, energy
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be here, fulfilling the rebbe’s
shlichus,” or mission, he said.
“This is who we are, this is what
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the skiing, and that’s a bonus.”
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Leviticus 1:1-5:26
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say to them: when any
person brings an offering unto the
Lord … ” (Leviticus 1:2)
Rabbi Pinchas Peli tells a
story about three brothers. Each
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their father: the first a pair of
binoculars that could see around
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carpet that flew anywhere in seconds, and the third an apple that,
when eaten, allowed one wish.
One day the first brother
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Lawrence F. Layfer
and acts of kindness, for in
Proverbs (21:3) it is taught:
“Charity and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifices.” The buildings may have
changed, but the sense of personal commitment remains.
According to Rabbi Simon
Shkop, the definition of holiness,
a major focus of the book of
Leviticus, is to give to others, and
in doing so emulate G-d who
does everything for the benefit of
His creatures. He states: “Included in G-d’s commandment
‘you shall be Holy’ is that all our
work and toil should benefit the
community, in imitation of G-d,
for all gifts and blessings are
given by G-d to the individual as
a custodian who is duty-bound to
share these gifts.”
Sacrifice is an act of love.
Rabbi Sacks, in his book on
Vayikra, states: “The entire biblical understanding of sacrifice is
that it is an answer to the fundamental existential question of
humanity in the face of the infinite we offer something in our
possession, our power, our will,
our self-sufficiency, we engage in
a symbolic act of renunciation.”
He considers the sacrifice of
giving some of what we have received a primal act of love.
Therefore the solution to Rabbi
Peli’s riddle is that neither the
brother with the binoculars nor
the brother with the magic carpet sacrificed anything of their
selves, as, despite their participation they still retained in full
measure their father’s gift to
them. Only the third brother,
who gave his one wish away to
help another, represents the underlying meaning of the sacrifice
G-d expects of us.
It is customary to start the
learning of young children on
this Torah portion. Honey is
placed on the first letter, in order
that Torah should always taste
sweet in their mouths. Instead,
we will start our newest additions
with a different kind of “sweet”
letter, written many years ago
and stored away for in hopes for a
time such as this.
It reads: “Dear Grandsons:
Your father’s bar mitzvah portion
was Vayikra, the first in the book
of Leviticus. The story concerns
the sacrifices brought to the
Temple, sacrifices man offered to
G-d. Although it is difficult for
us these days to understand animal sacrifices, there may be another way to understand this
practice of the ancients of the
Jewish faith. The Talmud describes that there are places
where Heaven and Earth touch,
and paints the picture of these
places as windows. Through
these windows people offer their
sacrifices to Heaven, and
Heaven responded by blessing
the offering.
“These are special places,
and the Temple in Jerusalem was
one of them. But where do we
find these places in today’s
world? The answer is that we create them. For your grandmother
and I, we created one when we
offered our best in raising your father, and your aunts, placing our
efforts in the window of Heaven,
and receiving as a blessing on our
offering the chance to see you
both here today. But you will
both need to eventually take
some responsibility for yourselves. You will need to begin to
look for these windows, these
connections between Heaven
and Earth, and find your own
sacrifices to offer. If you do this
well, spend your life looking to
help others, and share with them
how beautiful a life of giving can
be, then you too may see Heaven
accept your sacrifice, and like
this Torah portion suggests,
Heaven may return that offering
to you with a blessing for a sweet
and fulfilling life. And that will
make us all, your family, very
blessed to have had a part in it.”
Lawrence F. Layfer M.D. is
vice chairman of medicine at North
Shore University Health System,
Skokie Hospital.
The definition of holiness, a major
focus of the book of Leviticus, is to give
to others, and in doing so emulate G-d
who does everything for the benefit of
His creatures.
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And your great-grandfather
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Passover Food
Adding elegance to seder meals – and it’s easy
By Shannon Sarna
JTA
I am not one of those people
who looks forward to Passover
each year. I dread it. I love my
carbs and I absolutely loathe the
constant cooking and dishwashing that somehow always accompanies the holiday.
Since my husband and I
started hosting our own seder
each year for my family and our
close friends, we have worked on
an array of Passover-friendly
dishes that are so good, we eat
them all year. This has greatly
improved the quality of our hol-
iday. Now if only I could find
someone to wash my dishes all
week.
These recipes are easy, elegant and a little different from
the delicious but humdrum
chicken soup, brisket and kugel.
And with two nights of seders,
sometimes you need something a
little different to keep the seder
menu interesting.
switching out gefilte fish for bitesized croquettes topped with
salmon roe. Not a fan of caviar?
Use smoked salmon instead. You
can make these during the year
and substitute panko bread
crumbs for the matzah meal. You
can also serve these for a dairy
meal and add some sour cream,
Greek yogurt or crème fraiche on
the side.
Dill Horseradish Potato
Croquettes With Salmon Roe
Ingredients:
4 large Yukon gold potatoes
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 tablespoon horseradish
1 to 2 teaspoons dried dill
1/2 cup vegetable broth
Gefilte fish is one of those
dishes that is truly an acquired
taste. For some people, the taste
is simply never acquired. It’s hard
to change traditions, but try
1/2 cup olive oil
2 eggs
Matzah meal
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Preparation:
Peel potatoes and place in a
large pot of salted water. Bring to
a boil and cook until fork tender,
approximately 15 minutes. Drain
water and immediately place potatoes into a ricer or food mill.
Add oil, vegetable broth, dried
dill, horseradish, salt and pepper
to potatoes and mix until smooth
and seasoning is even throughout. Add 1 egg and mix again.
Begin forming patties by packing
potatoes lightly into balls and
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then flattening them with palms
of hand. Place on a platter and
put in the refrigerator for a few
hours or up to 24 hours. After
patties have finished chilling,
beat the other egg with 1 teaspoon water in a small bowl.
Place matzah meal in another
bowl and add 1 teaspoon salt and
1/2 teaspoon pepper. Mix. Dip
each potato patty into egg, then
matzah meal. Heat vegetable oil
in a large skillet over mediumhigh heat. Fry croquettes 3-4
minutes on each side until
golden brown. Allow the croquettes to cool slightly before
topping with salmon roe and
fresh dill if desired. Makes 2
dozen.
Braised Lamb Shanks With
Dates and Raisins
Ingredients:
4 lamb shanks
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 heaping teaspoon sumac
1 heaping teaspoon cumin
1 heaping teaspoon sweet paprika
Olive oil
1 large onion
3 garlic cloves
1 teaspoon fennel seed
2 cloves
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 1/2 cups vegetable broth or
water
1 1/2 cups red wine
1/2 cup golden raisins, soaked in
warm water 30 minutes
1/2 cup dates
Fresh parsley and cilantro (optional)
Preparation:
Combine the salt, pepper,
sumac, cumin and paprika in a
small bowl. Cover lamb shanks
in dry spice rub and place on a
platter covered in plastic wrap.
Chill for 1 hour or up to 4 hours.
Place raisins in a bowl of warm
water. Heat a few tablespoons
olive oil in a large oven-safe pot
or Dutch oven over mediumhigh heat. Sear shanks on all
sides until brown. Remove from
pan. Add onion and garlic and
sauté, scraping the “good bits”
from the bottom of the pan. You
can deglaze with a little bit of the
broth. Cook for 7-8 minutes,
until onion is translucent. Add
tomato paste, clove, fennel seed
and cinnamon; continue cooking
for another few minutes. Add
stock, wine, dates and drained
raisins (discard water) and bring
to a boil. Put the lamb shanks
back in the pot and reduce heat
to low, or place into a 275° oven.
Braise for 2 1/2 hours. Serve with
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fresh cilantro and parsley, if desired. Serves 4-6.
Kale, Apple and Roasted Beet
Salad
gar or salad dressing of your
choosing. Sprinkle with salt and
pepper to taste. Serves 4-6.
Chocolate Raspberry Torte
With Pecan Crust
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
3 cups chopped fresh kale, stems
removed
2 medium beets
1/2 apple, diced
1/4 cup chopped candied walnuts
1/4 cup dried cherries or cranberries
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Salt and pepper
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 400 °.
Wash and dry the beets. Place in
tinfoil and roast in oven for 4560 minutes, or until soft. Allow
to cool. Remove the outer peel of
beets using hands or a vegetable
peeler. Cut beets into bite-sized
pieces. Place chopped kale in a
large salad bowl. Add beets,
apple, candied walnuts and dried
cherries or cranberries. Drizzle
with olive oil and balsamic vine-
For the crust
1/4 cup margarine or butter
1/2 cup pecans
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
For the filling
8 ounces dark or semi-sweet
chocolate chips
1/2 cup margarine or butter (1
stick)
1 teaspoon instant espresso
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup strawberry or raspberry
jam
Powdered sugar for dusting (optional)
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 375°. To
make the crust: Melt the 1/4 cup
margarine or butter in the mi-
crowave at 20-second intervals.
Place the pecans, salt and sugar
in a food processor fitted with
blade attachment and pulse until
you have coarse- looking crumbs.
Add melted margarine/butter and
pulse 1-2 more times. Press mixture into an 8- or 9-inch springform pan. Bake 7-8 minutes. The
crust may look a little funny, bubbly or like it is ruined. But this is
totally
fine.
Set
aside.
To make the filling: Place the
chocolate chips and margarine in
medium saucepan over low heat
until smooth. Whisk in cocoa and
espresso. Cool 10 minutes. Using
electric mixer, beat eggs and sugar
in large bowl on high speed until
thick, about 6 minutes. Fold in
chocolate mixture slowly. Then
fold in raspberry jam, but don’t
mix too much. Pour batter into
prepared crust. Bake torte until
dry and cracked on top and tester
inserted into center comes out
with some moist batter attached,
about 35-40 minutes. Cool in pan
on rack 1 hour (center will fall).
Using an offset spatula or butter
knife, carefully separate torte from
sides of pan. Remove outer ring of
springform pan. Dust with powdered sugar if desired.
For Passover, a clergy couple’s
vegetarian seder menu
Vegetarian food brought
Cantor Jenna Greenberg and
Rabbi Josh Ginsberg together.
The two met as students at the
Jewish Theological Seminary in
New York, when a classmate organized a singles dinner at a
kosher vegetarian restaurant in
Chinatown. Greenberg had become a vegetarian in her teens,
Ginsberg in his 20s. Now married, they offer a kosher-forPassover seder menu that suits
their fast-paced, vegetarian
lifestyle – and keeps their children happy.
Instructions:
Peel, boil and mash potatoes. Add remaining ingredients to create the gnocchi
dough, adding additional potato starch in case the dough is
too sticky. Fill a 4-6 quart pot
with cold water and bring water
to a boil. While the water is
heating, form small patties out
of the gnocchi and then carefully slide them one at a time
into the boiling water. When
the gnocchi rise to the top of
the pot, they are ready – use a
slotted spoon to remove them
from the pot and place them in
an oiled baking dish. Sprinkle
with the Parmesan cheese and
bake at 375° for 10-15 minutes
to melt the cheese.
Potato Spinach Gnocchi
Tomato Sauce for Gnocchi
This delicious dish, created
by the couple’s friend Susan Finston (author of “Dining in the
Garden of Eden”) is a creative
pasta alternative for Pesach.
Ingredients:
2 - 3 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil or other cooking oil
1/2 cup chopped onion
1-2 cloves garlic, finely
chopped
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
1 bay leaf
2 cans crushed or stewed
tomatoes
1 small can tomato paste
By Marshall Weiss
The Dayton Jewish Observer
Ingredients:
2 pounds potatoes
1 1/2 cups potato starch
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons salt
1 pound cooked, finely
chopped spinach (frozen or
fresh)
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Optional: 1 cup ricotta cheese
for richer gnocchi
Reserve: 1/4 cup grated
Parmesan cheese
Instructions:
Heat oil in sauté pan, add
onion and garlic and cook on
low heat until translucent. Add
parsley, bay leaf, tomatoes and
tomato paste. Bring to a low
boil and then turn heat down
and simmer for 20 - 30 minutes.
Eggplant Parmesan
This is a favorite dish yearround, even with matzah meal as
the breading!
Ingredients:
2 large eggplants, sliced
lengthwise into 1/2-inch-thick
pieces
Salt, for sweating eggplants
4 eggs, beaten with a fork
3 cups matzah meal
4 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil
2 jars pasta sauce (any variety)
1 cup shredded mozzarella
cheese
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan
cheese
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°.
Sweat eggplant slices, sprinkling salt on them and allowing
time for the moisture to come
out; rinse and wipe the eggplant slices. Coat eggplant
slices with beaten egg, then
bread with matzah meal. Sauté
coated eggplant slices in oil
until lightly brown on both
sides. In a 9-inch by 11-inch
ovenproof dish, layer pasta
sauce, then eggplant and top
with cheeses. Repeat, finishing
with cheese. Bake until the
cheese melts and turns golden
in spots, about 30 minutes.
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GETTING PAST POLLARD
As David Cohen becomes CIA’s No. 2, Jews appear
to have smoother sailing at security agencies
By Ron Kampeas
JTA
WASHINGTON – David
Cohen’s path to second in command at the Central Intelligence
Agency is, in many respects, a
typical one in Washington.
A seasoned Ivy League
lawyer who began his career defending the right of religious
groups to display menorahs on
government property, Cohen was
the Obama administration’s top
Iran sanctions official as the
Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial
intelligence.
But in other respects, the
51-year-old Cohen’s ascent to
deputy director is less typical.
A number of Jews have long
alleged that they hit speed bumps
in the American security services, their careers in some cases
temporarily obstructed over security clearance questions. For
others, accusations of espionage
based on ties to Israel, however
remote, have driven them
from their jobs following home
raids and round-the-clock surveillance.
Two federal employees –
Adam Ciralsky, a CIA lawyer
who was investigated in 1999,
and David Tenenbaum, a civilian
army engineer whose home was
raided by the FBI in 1997 – uncovered evidence that they were
targeted because they were Jewish.
Ciralsky learned that his distant relationship to Israel’s first
and long dead president, Chaim
Weizmann, and the fact that his
father had purchased Israel
Bonds were held against him.
Tenenbaum was deemed suspicious in part because he spoke
Hebrew even though it was helpful in performing his official duties as a liaison to Israeli
counterparts.
Ciralsky and Tenenbaum
each filed suit against their respective agencies, both of which
ultimately admitted that the men
were victims of religious discrimination. Ciralsky quietly dropped
his case in 2012. Tenenbaum’s
case is ongoing.
Jewish leaders said those incidents, along with the most notorious case of a Jewish
government career run aground
– the Navy intelligence analyst
Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in
1987 for passing on state secrets
to Israel – are now fading from
David Cohen
memory. In their wake, they said,
the outlook for Jews at the highest levels of the American security apparatus are improving.
Abraham Foxman, the national director of the AntiDefamation League, said that
complaints to his organization of
bias against Jews in government
have diminished nearly to zero in
recent years.
“The problem related to Pollard and the stereotype of dual
loyalty,” said Foxman, whose
group until two years ago provided diversity training to the
CIA. “I would say we have
mostly overcome the residual
issue of trust of Jews in intelligence issues.”
Jewish-Americans
have
been working in American intelligence since the days of the
CIA’s predecessor, the World
War II-era Office of Strategic
Services. Their skills were in demand in part because so many
were recent immigrants, or were
the children of immigrants, and
were familiar with European languages and customs.
Some Jewish agents enjoyed
long careers in U.S. security
agencies with nary a hiccup. A
smaller number have risen to its
upper echelons. John Deutsch
served as CIA director for 17
months in 1995-96, the second
Jew to hold that position. James
Schlesinger, who was born Jewish but converted to Christianity
as an adult, served as CIA director for several months in 1973.
Another David Cohen was the
agency’s deputy director of operations in the 1990s.
The number of Jewish security personnel who have hit roadblocks is not clear. Lawyers who
represent security personnel denied the clearance necessary for
advancement say they have
fielded dozens of complaints from
Jews.
Mark Zaid, a Washington
attorney who specializes in government and intelligence matters, said the security issue his
clients most often face has to do
with relatives overseas, which
prompts worry from federal authorities about their susceptibility to pressures from foreign
governments. Israel presents a
special challenge, he said, because of the closeness of its alliance with the United States
and the country’s reputation for
“aggressive” espionage stemming
in part from the Pollard case.
“You suspect the Russians of
wanting your wallet, so you stay a
foot away,” Zaid said. “The Israelis, you hug, but you don’t
know if they’re picking your
pocket.”
Sheldon Cohen, another
lawyer who handles security
clearance cases, said he has won
every Jewish case he has taken.
Like Zaid, he said he was likelier
to hit a brick wall representing
clients from Muslim countries.
Sheldon Cohen said he has lost
a number of those cases.
“More scrutiny is given to
countries that are not on the best
relations with the United States
than countries that are on good
relations with the United
States,” said Sheldon Cohen,
who has been working on security clearances since 1964.
One reason David Cohen
may have avoided such pitfalls is
that he rose up through the
Treasury, a relative latecomer to
the intelligence game, but which
has become one of the busiest intelligence hubs in the government. The department that
Cohen headed there, the Office
of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, has existed only since
2004. His immediate predecessor,
Stuart Levey, also was Jewish.
Mark Dubowitz, the director
of the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies, a think tank that
has worked closely with Treasury
on Iran sanctions, said Cohen
represents a new brand of intelligence professional who uses the
international financial system to
track and punish America’s enemies.
“There’s a real lineage of
these Treasury professionals who
took Treasury from an institution
that was a minor player on national security to what is now
being described as President
Obama’s favorite noncombatant
command,” Dubowitz said.
The CIA did not consent to
an interview with Cohen, but
noted its director’s statement
welcoming him to the agency.
“David brings a wealth of
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Buzzed by planes, sporting toupees:
The ups and downs for Jews
in the security services
By Ron Kampeas
JTA
WASHINGTON – David
Cohen, who was recently
named deputy director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, is
not the first Jewish-American
to reach the agency’s upper
ranks. John Deutch headed the
agency for a short period in the
mid-1990s.
But Jewish community
professionals familiar with the
American security community
say his ascension is a sign that
the past scrutiny of Jewish intelligence staffers is abating.
The best-known case is
that of Jonathan Pollard, the
former Navy analyst who was
sentenced to life in 1987 for
spying for Israel. But other
lesser known cases show how
the American government has
been overzealous at times in its
scrutiny of Jewish staffers.
Adam Ciralsky, a CIA
lawyer who had his security
clearance revoked in 1999,
sued the agency. In depositions,
Ciralsky discovered that he was
under suspicion in part because
his father had purchased Israel
Bonds and because of a distant
relation to Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, who
by then had been dead for
decades.
In documents first reported
in 2012 by the Daily Beast, it
was revealed that a polygraph
test administrator had referred
to Ciralsky as a “little Jew bastard.” In other documents he
was referred to as a “rich Jewish
employee with a wealthy
daddy.” Ciralsky dropped the
case in 2012.
Now a journalist who
writes and produces films about
the military and the Middle
East, Ciralsky would not comment for this article. But Neal
Sher, a lawyer and former director of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee who
represented Ciralsky at the outset of his case, said the CIA’s attitude betrayed a fundamental
misconception of how American Jews relate to Israel, with
some investigators seeing routine pro-Israel acts like buying
bonds as inherently suspect.
“It exposed in certain
Adam Ciralsky
quarters in the intelligence
community and in law enforcement [that] there is this deeply
seated mistrust of American
Jews,” Sher said.
In some cases, the very
skills attracting the government to a staffer were later used
against him.
In 2008, the Pentagon inspector general found that
David Tenenbaum, a Jewishly
observant engineer whose Hebrew led the army to assign him
to work with Israeli counterparts on protecting armored vehicles, was the target of an
investigation sparked by suspicions based on his faith and
ethnic background.
Tenenbaum told the Washington Post then that the very
trips to Israel he undertook for
the U.S. Army led to the suspicions.
“The same reason they
hired me, they suspected me,”
he said.
Tenenbaum, who is writing a book about his case, declined an interview, but his
website describes the 1997 FBI
raid on his home.
“The investigation began
with a raid of the Tenenbaums’
home during Shabbat and resulted in the confiscation of the
children’s music and coloring
books,” it says. “The entire
Tenenbaum family was placed
under 24-hour surveillance,
and Dr. David Tenenbaum
made the headlines of the local
newspapers where he was labeled a spy.”
Mark Mallah, a former FBI
special agent, became an outspoken opponent of polygraphs
after an anomaly on a test in
1995 led to accusations, never
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experience on many of the issues
that we focus on as an agency
and I look forward to his insights,
expertise, and energy as we address the growing number and diversity of national security
challenges facing America
today,” John Brennan said.
Cohen is from Boston and
in high school became friends
with Jamin Dershowitz, the son
of Harvard professor and well-
known Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz.
“He practically lived in my
house,” said Alan Dershowitz,
who recalled having Cohen’s
family over for Passover seders.
Cohen and the younger Dershowitz, who is general counsel
to the WNBA, are still close.
Alan Dershowitz recommended Cohen to his alma
mater, Yale Law School, and
then for his first job working for
the prominent Washington attorney Nathan Lewin, where he
battled civil liberties groups who
challenged the display of meno-
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borne out, that he had unauthorized contact with foreign officials. That triggered an FBI raid
of his home and agents interviewing his friends and family.
“Following the search and
for about two months afterward,
I was under surveillance twenty
four hours a day, seven days a
week,” he wrote for an anti-polygraph website. “For at least a
week during that time, a small
airplane circled above our home
every morning, then buzzed
above me wherever I went.”
Mallah quit the bureau in
1996 after being cleared. No one
ever told him which foreign officials he was suspected of contacting.
In an email interview, Mallah said he believes the main
driver of the investigation was
the FBI’s refusal at the time to acknowledge the flaws in polygraph
tests. But he believes there was a
Jewish dimension as well.
“My being Jewish provided
additional impetus and focus to
the investigation,” Mallah said.
“I believe that in the wake of the
Pollard situation, they probably
believed, or at least suspected,
that there were other Pollards
out there and they did not want
to get burned twice. So better to
trample on any notions of due
process, fairness, even objectivity
in running the investigation
than to risk being burned again
by another Jew with perhaps
questionable loyalties.”
Shamai Leibowitz, a contract linguist for the FBI, was
sentenced in 2010 to 20 months
in prison for sharing classified
documents with a blogger.
The judge in the case said
the material was sensitive
enough that even he was not
privy to exactly what Leibowitz,
a grandson of the Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz, had
disclosed.
Richard Silverstein, who
publishes the Tikkun Olam blog
and is sharply critical of Israeli
policies, told The New York
Times in 2011 that he was the recipient of the documents and
that the leaks had to do with
U.S. eavesdropping on the Israeli
Shamai Leibowitz
Embassy. The tapped conversations included talks with pro-Israel activists, diplomats and at
least one member of Congress.
Silverstein said Leibowitz leaked
because he thought the embassy’s
bid to influence the Iran debate
in the United States was improper.
Leibowitz, who now works
at a suburban Maryland synagogue, vehemently denies Silverstein’s account. His disclosure,
Leibowitz said in a June 2013
blog post, was prompted by concerns “that the FBI was abusing
the rights of U.S. citizens.”
“The FBI were illegally violating people’s privacy and to my
understanding they were breaking the law,” Leibowitz said.
“What I revealed about the FBI
was similar to what Edward
Snowden revealed about the
NSA. For obvious reasons, I cannot get into details. I revealed
this information only because I
could not in good conscience
keep silent, and I thought the
public had a right to know.”
Noah Cohen for decades
was active in Washington’s Orthodox community, volunteering
with the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Orthodox
Union, the National Council for
Synagogue Youth and the Hebrew Academy day school.
He also worked for the CIA,
and to this day his son, Abba
Cohen, the Washington director
of Agudath Israel of America,
does not know in what capacity.
“There was no work talk at
dinner and I didn’t know any of
his work friends,” Abba Cohen
said.
Noah Cohen was proud of
his work with the agency, which
started during World War II
rahs on public property.
“He is very consciously Jewish,” Lewin said of Cohen.
Alan Dershowitz said Cohen
is adept at bringing people together on an issue, calling him a
forceful advocate for the Iran nuclear talks favored by the Obama
administration but which many
in the pro-Israel community treat
with skepticism.
“He combines likability with
smarts and tough-mindedness,”
Dershowitz said. “The kid from
Boston became the No. 2 man at
the CIA.”
when he was hired by its predecessor, the Office of Strategic
Services, because of his fluency
in German. He also spoke Hebrew and Arabic.
“He looked like he belonged
in the library,” the younger
Cohen said. “He was scholarly,
thoughtful and analytical, and
extremely interesting. Just not
the athletic, suave, martinidrinking type you see on TV.”
Cohen said his father was
proud of his employer.
“He was a big supporter of
the CIA and its work,” especially
during the 1960s when there was
heightened criticism of American involvement in overseas
conflicts. “He was a big defender
of the things they needed to do.
He was convinced if everyone
knew what they did, they would
feel as he did.”
His father observed Shabbat
and holidays and never complained of any discrimination,
Cohen said. He would use vacation time for Jewish holidays, a
common practice before the government grew more accommodating of religious practice. He
decided not to take an overseas
tour, perhaps stymieing his career, because he and his wife
wanted to guarantee their children a Jewish education.
Occasionally a tidbit would
come out. One trip overseas was
canceled, Cohen recalled, because of a rash of kidnappings of
diplomats. Another time the
elder Cohen told the family that
he found a way to attend services
on Shabbat in whatever country
he was in. He would read the papers and occasionally complain
that what had crossed his desk on
Tuesday labeled as top secret
would appear in the newspaper
on Wednesday.
Noah Cohen retired in 1971
at 54 and subsequently revealed
a few more details, like the time
he returned early from Central
America because his cover was
blown. Or the midnight call to
quickly get to a safe house in
Washington. He also showed the
family pictures taken overseas
when he was in disguise, including a toupee, false mustache and
false mole. He also had a sense of
mischief.
“My mother told us he once
came home in disguise,” Abba
Cohen said.
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CHANGE OF
CALENDAR…
■ Last June, when Skokie
School District 219, which includes Niles North and West
high schools, published its new
school calendar, a group of Orthodox Jewish parents noticed
something that concerned
them.
Graduation was being held
during the Jewish holiday of
Shavuot, on Sunday, May 24,
and prom on the preceding Friday night, May 22. Orthodox
Jews would not be able to attend either.
As soon as they discovered
the fact, they contacted school
officials to see if they could
change the dates, according to
Rachel Blumenthal, one of
three mother/daughter pairs
who have met several times
with district officials. Graduation was held on a weekday in
past years, she said.
“We contacted the head of
diversity and the principal,”
Blumenthal said. “We got a
message from the principal saying they would look into it. We
never heard from the diversity
lady.”
Blumenthal and her daughter, Miriam, were among the
parents and students who attended a school board meeting,
then met with District Superin-
tendent Nanciann Gatta again
in January.
“We felt extremely disrespected and ignored,” Blumenthal said of the meetings. “Their
answer is they will host another
graduation for our kids on Tuesday. That is separate but not
equal. I don’t understand what
the refusal of changing it is.”
She estimates four to six
students will not be able to
graduate with their classmates
nor attend their prom.
Miriam Blumenthal, 17,
said her friends can’t believe
she’s not going to prom and will
have to attend a separate graduation ceremony.
“I would rather graduate
with my entire class,” she said.
“The alternative doesn’t sound
like nearly as much fun as it
could be.”
Jim Szczepaniak, community relations director for District 219, told Chicago Jewish
News that district officials were
aware of Shavuot but “when the
question came up, we did ask a
number of members of the Jewish faith and several people said
it was a minor holiday.”
Graduation was previously
held on a Tuesday, which was a
hardship for many working families, he said.
“By the time the calendar
got published over the summer,
700 parents at Niles West and
600 at Niles North had put on
their calendars that graduation
was going to be Memorial Day
weekend. They had notified
families and people from out of
town,” he said.
Another contentious issue
for some parents involved an
earlier-than-usual starting date
for the two high schools – the
second week in August.
“High school students that
attend (Jewish) camps like
(Camp) Ramah, (JCC Camp)
Chi or (B’nai B’rith) Beber
(Camp) will miss the first week
of school,” a parent said. She
did not want her name used because she is involved in other
issues with the school board,
she said.
Szczepaniak said the earlier
starting date meant that students could take their first semester finals before winter
break, and that all classes would
receive more instructional time.
But the earlier starting date
“has created a logistical nightmare for families with children
of different ages” because
Skokie elementary schools don’t
start until two weeks after the
high schools, the Skokie woman
said.
She said she emailed board
members five times about these
issues and didn’t get any response. One board member told
her members had never been
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taught how to access their
emails, she said.
“I understand Skokie is not
predominantly Jewish any more
but I feel no young Jewish families will want to live here. It is
not an attractive place for a
young upwardly mobile Jewish
family to be. We didn’t even get
a public apology” from school
board members, she said.
At a recent meeting with
district officials, “not a lot happened,” Blumenthal said. “We
aired our grievances, but clearly
they are not going to change
graduation. With prom, they
were not aware that Friday
night was an issue,” she said.
She said officials told her
that in future years they will
schedule prom for Saturday
night, not Friday.
Although Blumenthal said
“the fight was not for nothing
because of (the change) in future years, we did not get an answer as to why they felt it was
impossible to change graduation
a year ago. They don’t understand the whole concept of
Shabbos. We told them our
children felt completely disrespected.”
Ariel Shoffet is one student who feels that way. She
said she is not Orthodox but all
her closest friends are. She will
go to the regular Sunday graduation, but won’t go to prom because none of her friends will be
able to go.
She was among the students who met with district officials earlier. “They seemed
sympathetic but I don’t think
they understand how it affected
us. We didn’t get an apology
JEWS IN THE NEWS…
■ Generations executive director Rabbi Yosef Cohen received the Kesher Shem Tov
Award from Yeshiva Ohr
Boruch -The Veitzener
Cheder. Generations assists
Jewish public school students
and their families make the
transition from public schools
to Jewish day schools.
■ Colin Silverman, a senior
at Stevenson High School, was
elected as Grand Aleph Godol
(International President) of
the International Order of
BBYO. In this role, he will be
a part of a ten-member teen
board that will help chart the
organization’s vision for the
coming year and provide leadership and support to teen
leaders in local communities
throughout the BBYO system.
■ Gabriella Cooperman was
5 years old when she witnessed
the difference that therapeutic
horseback riding made for
Danielle, her younger sister
with special developmental
needs.
“I saw how wonderful and
magical horseback riding therapy could be,” said Cooperman, now 14. “So when I
heard that there were kids who
needed the therapy but
couldn’t afford it, I knew I
wanted to help.”
With her mother’s assistance, the 5-year-old decided
to set up a lemonade stand at
an intersection near her Highland Park home to raise the
$500 necessary to send a young
girl to a one-week therapeutic
riding camp at Equestrian
Connection, the riding center
and stable where Cooperman’s
sister also received her therapy.
But Cooperman quickly
realized that just selling lemonade might not be enough to
Colin Silverman
meet her goal, so she decided
to include some homemade
cookies, too.
Nine years later, Cookies
for Charity is a yearly, weekend-long fundraising event
that has raised more than
$47,000 for Equestrian Connection.
“Every year I’ve doubled
my fundraising goal and it’s become an annual tradition in
the neighborhood,” Cooperman said. “People come to socialize, and even our mayor
comes out as well.”
from them,” she said.
Not going to prom “is upsetting,” Shoffet said. “It’s something a girl dreams about her
whole life and comes senior year
and you don’t want to go because none of your friends will
be there with you.”
Szczepaniak, meanwhile,
the district official, noted that
district schools are closed on
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as well as on Good Friday
and the Muslim holiday of Eid.
“We very much value the
cultural diversity of our families,” he said. “We continue to
make an effort by observing religious holidays in our school calendar. Our board is determined
to send a message that we respect and cherish religious and
cultural diversity.”
Pauline Dubkin Yearwood
Typically scheduled for the
weekend after school starts,
she recruits about 30 of her
friends to help sell lemonade,
water bottles and two kinds of
homemade cookies: a nut-free
sugar cookie and a signature
Heath Bar Crunch chocolate
chip cookie. At last August’s
Cookies for Charity event,
Cooperman said they stopped
counting after selling 6,000
cookies and 1,000 glasses of
lemonade.
Cooperman, a freshman at
Highland Park High School,
said she will continue to plan a
Cookies for Charity event
every year through the remainder of her high school years.
After she graduates, she hopes
to pass on the fundraiser to
someone else to run.
“The biggest lessons that I
have learned from Cookies for
Charity is that working hard is
the greatest award ever and it’s
a great feeling to help others,”
Cooperman said. “I hope that I
am inspiring other youth to
support the idea of tikkun
olam and making another person’s life better.”
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Death Notices
‘Hebrew Hammer’ Al Rosen, Cleveland Indians
all-star and ‘53 MVP
(JTA) – Al Rosen, the slugging Cleveland Indians third
baseman who was the American
League’s MVP in 1953, has died.
Rosen, a four-time all-star
who was known as the “Hebrew
Hammer,” was 91.
He played for the Indians
from 1947 through 1956, including for the ‘48 World Series
champions – the last time Cleveland won the title. No Indians
player has been named Most
Valuable Player since Rosen,
who retired after the 1956 season, at 32, suffering from a back
injury from a car accident a year
earlier.
Rosen was given his nickname because he was a former
amateur boxer, a sport he reportedly picked up after being beaten
up in his neighborhood, where
he was one of the few Jewish
boys. His boyhood idol was Detroit Tigers’ first baseman Hank
Al Rosen
Greenberg, who famously refused
to play on Yom Kippur.
“We lost a cherished member of the Indians family,” said
Larry Dolan, the father of Indians owner Paul Dolan, in a statement from the team. “Watching
Al play was a true joy and something Indians fans of our generation still cherish.”
The team’s president, Mark
Shapiro, added, “He was an inspiration to us all and had a special presence, strength and
intellect. His fierce competitive
nature and toughness was legendary.”
Following his on-field career,
Rosen worked in the front offices
of the Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants and the New York
Yankees. As president and general manager of the Giants, he
won the Sporting News Executive of the Year in 1987 and thus
made baseball history – the only
person to win MVP and Executive
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Asian
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2
Sunday
ish parent what advice they’d
offer for Asian-Jewish couples
with children. What did they
say?
Leavitt: They over and over
said that they would encourage
parents to provide as much as
possible of everything. They
weren’t worried about the conflicting or contrasting strands of
their background, and they said,
“Make sure you’re giving kids as
many options to understand
what they’re about, because
they’ll be more confident.”
Sometimes there’s parental anxiety about confusing kids, but the
people we interviewed said,
“Give it all to us, because we can
sort it out.”
Your latest study is called
“Funny – You Don’t Look Jewish.” Did the people you interviewed hear this a lot?
Kim: A number of the kids
look [racially and ethnically] ambiguous to a casual observer. A
woman we interviewed talked
about how people can always tell
she is “somewhat Asian or something ethnic” and that they are
always “shocked” when they find
out she is Jewish, something that
feels weird to her because she
feels more strongly about her
Jewish identity than her Asian
identity … A lot of people felt
their Jewish identity was called
into question because they didn’t
look like what people think Jews
in this culture look like. The
couples were very attentive to
the racial presentation of their
kids, especially when they had
more than one kid and they presented differently and were
treated differently based on that.
One of the things that happened
was the kids responded to not
being guessed for who they are to
developing a conscious cultural
identity about being Jewish.
Your research is based on
interviews with very small, selfselected samples – 22 people for
the latest study, 37 couples for
the earlier one. To what extent
can we generalize from your
findings, and if we can’t, what
contribution do they make to
the field?
Kim: No qualitative researcher would ever make the
claim with such a small sample
size that one could generalize the
findings to the whole population.
The beauty is getting a lot of the
details and seeing patterns in
enough individuals to say, “Well
a lot of people tend to talk about
X, Y and Z.” The vast majority of
Jewish demographic studies looking at intermarriage are quantitative, but these in-depth, rich
kinds of data – what do these
marriages look like? – that kind
of quantitative research has a
harder time getting at.
Monday
March 22
Congregation B’nai Tikvah
presents Emory University
Professor Deborah Lipstadt
speaking at its annual JUF
event. 10:30 a.m., 1558
Wilmot Road, Deerfield.
(847) 945-0470.
Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Center presents staged reading of “In
Their Voices” by actors
from Writers Theatre. 1:303 p.m., 9603 Woods Drive,
Skokie. Free for museum
members and with museum
admission. Reservations required, ilholocaustmuseum.
org/events.
Temple Beth Israel Sisterhood hosts Women’s Seder.
2-5 p.m., 3601 W. Dempster,
Skokie. $5 suggested donation. RSVP, tbiskokie.org or
(847) 675-0951.
Congregation Beth Judea
presents 9th annual
Passover Wine Tasting with
opportunity to order wine
at discount. 3-5 p.m., Route
83 and Hilltop Road, Long
Grove. $10. lneiman@beth
judea.org or (847) 6340777.
StandWithUs Chicago presents “Orchestra of Exiles”
followed by Q&A with director Josh Aronson. 4 p.m.,
Northbrook Court AMC,
1525 Lake Cook Road,
Northbrook. $15 advance;
$20 door. PeggyS@standwithus.com.
Ezra-Habonim, the Niles
Township Jewish Congregation presents Amy Stoken,
Chicago regional director
of the American Jewish
Committee, speaking on
“The Rising Tide of AntiSemitism.” 6:30 p.m., 4500
W. Dempster, Skokie. Reservations, (847) 675-4141.
Continuum Theater hosts
2015 Midwest Jewish Play
Writing Contest with actors
reading from three new
plays and audience voting
for their favorite. 7 p.m.,
Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, Chicago. $10. continuumtheater.org or (800)
838-3006 ext. 1.
March 23
Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook presents pre-Passover
seminar, “Discover the
Night of Freedom,”
through the lens of Jewish
mysticism. 8-9 p.m., 2095
Landwehr Road, Northbrook. RSVP, info@chabadnorthbrook.com or (847)
564-8770.
Congregation Beth Judea
presents Lonnie Nasatir, regional director of the AntiDefamation League,
speaking on current state
of anti-Semitism. 8 p.m.,
Route 83 and Hilltop Road,
Long Grove. bethjudea.org
or (847) 634-0777.
Wednesday
March 25
Congregation Beth Judea
presents Rhonda Wehner of
Midwest Palliative and Hospice Care Center speaking
on Jewish perspectives of
hospice and palliative care.
8 p.m., Route 83 and Hilltop Road, Long Grove.
lneiman@bethjudea.org or
(847) 634-0777.
Thursday
March 26
Meyer Kaplan JCC hosts
Emergent Theatre Company’s production of Neil
Simon’s “Last of the Red
Hot Lovers.” 7:30 p.m., also
Fridays and Saturdays,
March 27-April 17 and 2
p.m. Sundays. 5050 Church
St., Skokie. $20 adults, $10
seniors and students with
ID. Tickets, emergenttheatre.org or (773) 729-7924.
Congregation Beth Shalom
presents Jeremy Bash
speaking on “The War on
Terrorism: Insights from 4
Years at the CIA and the
Pentagon.” 8 p.m., 3433
Walters, Northbrook. (847)
498-4100.
Friday
March 27
Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook hosts pre-Passover
community Shabbat dinner
featuring Rabbi Shmuel
Klatzkin speaking on his
journey “From Reform Sem-
inary to Chabad Emissary.”
6:15 p.m., 2095 Landwehr
Road, Northbrook. $22, $9
child. RSVP required,
chabadnorthbrook.com or
(847) 564-8770.
Smithsonian Channel airs
one-hour television special
“Siege of Masada.” 8 p.m.,
also 9 p.m. Sunday, March
29, and 7 and 10 p.m. Monday, March 30. smithsonianchannel.com.
Saturday
March 28
Beit Yichud hosts Shir Share
Shabbat: A Pilgrimage of
Consciousness. 10 a.m.,
6932 N. Glenwood Ave.,
Chicago. info@beityichud.
org.
Debbie Sue Goodman and
friends present an Evening
of Comedy and Spoken
Word. 7:30-9 p.m., Let
Them Eat Chocolate, 5306
N. Damen, Chicago. (773)
334-2626.
Sunday
March 29
Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Center
shows film “Defiance” followed by discussion with
Laurie Hasten, whose
grandmother was saved by
Bielski brothers. 12:30-3:30
p.m., 9603 Woods Drive,
Skokie. $15, $10 museum
members. Reservations required, ilholocaustmuseum.org/events.
Jewish Genealogical Society
of Illinois presents Ava
Cohen speaking on “Cluedin: The Stories are in the
Details.” 2 p.m., Temple
Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road,
Northbrook. (Meeting facility opens at 12:30 p.m. for
research and questions.)
jgsi.org or (312) 666-0100.
JCC Chicago presents “Bring
Passover to Life!” with nutfree charoset bar, music,
crafts, relay races and a
swim in the “Nile River.” 24 p.m., Bernard Weinger
JCC, 300 Revere Drive,
Northbrook. $25 family.
ljlevine@gojcc.org or (847)
763-3603.
Continuum Theater presents staged reading of
Jonathan Gillis’ “Close to
Home,” personal struggle
of an Israeli soldier, followed by discussion and refreshments. 7 p.m., B’nai
Yehuda Beth Sholom, 1424
W. 183rd St., Homewood.
$10. continuumtheater.org
or (800) 838-3006 Ext. 1.
Wednesday
April 1
Beit Yichud presents
“Counting the Omer: Meditation Workshop.” 7:309:30 p.m., 6932 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago. $5
suggested donation.
info@beityichud.org.
Saturday
April 4
Temple Beth Israel presents
annual “Share-A-Seder.”
Bring hard-boiled, peeled
eggs and kosher for
Passover matzah, wine
and/or grape juice for your
family. 6-9 p.m., 3601 W.
Dempster, Skokie. $32
adults, $10 ages 2-12. Reservations, tbiskokie.org or
(847) 675-0951.
Temple Judea Mizpah hosts
Congregational Community
Seder. 6-9 p.m. 8610 Niles
Center Road, Skokie. $40
members, $44 non-members, $20 ages 8-12. Reservations required,
templejm@aol.com or (847)
676-1566.
Beth Hillel Congregation
Bnai Emunah holds CommUNITY Second Night
Passover Seder led by
Rabbi Anne Tucker and
Cantor Pavel Roytman. 7:30
p.m., 3220 Big Tree Lane,
Wilmette. $55 adults, $45
children, (free for ages 12
and under.) Reservations required, (847) 256-1213.
Friday
April 10
Congregation Beth Judea
hosts Passover Shabbat dinner and service. 6 p.m.,
Route 83 and Hilltop Road,
Long Grove. $28 adult, $15
ages 6-12, $6 age 5 and
under. For non-members
add $3 to price. RSVP required, bethjudea.org or
(847) 634-0777.
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self. When I was up there seven
or eight years ago, my mom’s last
living first cousin was still alive,
and she said “Would you like to
see the shul?”
Now I just happened to
have a yarmulke in my pocket. I
put it on and she goes: “You’re
such a good boy.” I’ll never forget
that. We went in and they had a
number of Torahs, and there was
a small one that my great-grandfather had done.
You spent so much time on
the road with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Was there
anything religious or spiritual
going on while you were on the
road all those years?
I didn’t really discover my
Jewish identity in a concrete way
until my wife converted about a
decade or so ago. Were there
spiritual things? Sure, because
many people of my generation
were questioning things in a way.
And interestingly enough, think
about how many Jewish guys
were blues guitar players –
whether they were electric guys
like Mike Bloomfield, or guys
who did everything like Dave
Bromberg? There were so many
of us who were of Jewish heritage
who fell into that type of music.
When my wife converted,
the rabbi suggested that even
though I had a bris when I was a
kid that I was never really exposed to any of this stuff, largely
because, I realize now, of my
grandmother’s vocal antipathy.
So I went through the whole
[conversion] process with my
wife. We studied biblical Hebrew
and all that kind of stuff. As a result I’ve become very involved in
our community, which is organized around what happens in the
school [Ohio University].
Interestingly enough, 70
miles away in Huntington, W.
Va, there is a large synagogue. So
as a result of my wife getting involved in this, I did too, and one
time we were invited to come
down by Margot Leverett, the
great klezmer artist, and my
friend Barry Mitterhoff, who
plays mandolin with me. We
went down and I remember we
went to the synagogue – and I’m
sure this isn’t the only time it’s
happened, but it’s the only time
it’s happened to me – this guy
came out with a cowboy hat on
and boots, and he looked at me,
put his hand down and said
“Shalom, y’all.” That’s how they
do it in West Virginia sometimes.
So with Jefferson Airplane
approaching its 50th, are you
guys on good terms?
Yeah, we are. Obviously with
a big thing like a 50th anniversary, people wonder whether
some of the guys would like to
put the band back together again.
Grace [Slick] doesn’t sing anymore, so that means that’s really
out of the question. We’d like to
do something. We don’t know
what that is, whether it’s just
wandering around and yakking
on talk shows or something like
that. Maybe having some
acoustic guitars and playing some
songs and talking.
How has your relationship
to Judaism changed since your
wife converted?
When I was finding my Jewish roots when my wife was converting, and when I spoke to the
rabbi, one of the things that always came up for me, even when
I didn’t think about it, was that I
felt very comfortable in the context of a Jewish milieu. I don’t
live in a Jewish context most of
the time because that’s not how
my world works, but whenever it
happens, I feel like I’ve come
home.
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enough, even as Carson’s show accounted for 20 percent of NBC’s
profits. And then there was Henry Bushkin, his lawyer, who he totally
trusted to handle his business affairs for decades, until he discovered
that Bushkin was enriching himself at Johnny’s expense (see what I
mean about lawyers?) And finally, and worst of all, was Joan Rivers.
Johnny gave Rivers her big break, promoted her career and even appointed her the first permanent guest host of the “Tonight Show.” Her
thanks for all that? She jumped to Fox to compete against Johnny and
didn’t even have the decency to let him know about it before it was
publicly announced.
Silverman, Bushkin and Rivers. Jews all. The show, of course, did
not even once mention their Judaism, but I was very well aware of it
and very ashamed by their behavior. It always makes me so sad to see
Jews, especially prominent ones, behave in such unJewish ways.
Then there was something that made me very happy. I don’t
know if you watched President Obama’s speech in Selma on the
50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, but if you haven’t seen it, I
strongly urge you to do so. It was beyond eloquent, was stirringly beautiful and very much reminded me of why I was so inspired by him in
2008 and why I have been so disappointed that he hasn’t employed
his gift for soaring rhetoric more often during his administration.
The speech not only reminded me why I like him so much but
reminded me of how good he has always been, how sensitive he has
always been to the Jewish people. One line in his speech really
jumped out at me.
In listing some of the incredible people who have made America such an incredible country, he said this: “We’re the immigrants who
stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses
yearning to breathe free – Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the
Lost Boys of Sudan.” Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors. Jews. It
made my spine tingle with pride that in his uplifting speech he made
a point of mentioning these special Jews who have meant so much to
this special country. Thank you, Mr. President.
And then there was something that really amazed me, something
that got totally lost in all the news about Israel’s election, Hillary’s
email account, the Iranian nuclear negotiations and the bizarre murder confession of Robert Durst on HBO. By the way, you know Durst
is Jewish, right? Yet more shanda for the Jews.
In any case, the story that amazed me and that I wish had gotten
more attention was the fact that Israel opened its first embassy in
Lithuania.
Yes, Lithuania. The country that was once known as the
Jerusalem of Europe, the country that was home to a large Jewish population and to some of Judaism’s greatest yeshivas and rabbis, most notably the sainted Vilna Gaon, one of the greatest Jewish scholars ever.
A country that turned on its Jews with a viciousness virtually unmatched during the Holocaust, murdering almost all of its Jews, destroying virtually everything Jewish about the country.
I visited the capital of Vilnius about 20 years ago, went to the
famed Jewish quarter which was totally devoid of any trace of Judaism,
except for the indentations in many doorposts where mezuzahs used
to hang.
If in 1945 anyone would have said there would soon be a Jewish
state and that one day that Jewish state would have an embassy in
Lithuania, they would have thought you were insane.
But that is exactly what has happened. Israel now has an embassy
and an ambassador in Lithuania. “Flying a flag here in Vilnius carries
a special significance. This is a country which is a cornerstone in Jewish heritage, where some of the great Jewish thinkers came from,” Dan
Ushpizin, a senior Israeli diplomat said during the ceremony marking
the opening of the embassy.
Jews today like to whine and moan about how bad things are,
when in so many ways in so many places, Jews have it better than ever,
Jews are more accepted and protected than ever. Even in places that
were such dark places for Jews not so very long ago. 70 years ago,
Lithuania wiped out its Jewish community. Today there is an Israeli
embassy in Vilna, the city where the Vilna Gaon once lived.
We need to not lose sight of these miracles, this great news that
we are seeing with our very eyes these very days.
Finally, please permit me a personal note. I am bursting with joy
because of the upcoming wedding of my one and only niece Ilana (I
also have nine nephews). Ilana is a very special young woman, kind,
smart, giving, gracious, caring, very devoted to the Jewish people, very
committed to living a Jewish life and to helping others. She is simply
a beautiful neshama. And so I want to wish her my sincerest blessings
on her wedding, and wish a hearty mazel tov to my brother Maury,
who I love very much and who has been there for me in such important ways so many times, and to my sister in law Ora. May Maury and
Ora have much nachas from Ilana and her new husband, and may
Ilana and her new husband, Chanani, live a long and happy life together, always lovingly being there for each other and joyfully building a Jewish home together. Mazel tov!
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Well, it looks like I will have Bibi to kick around for a few more
years. Good for me, not good for the state of Israel or the Jewish people.
There’s a lot I could say about the nauseating election campaign
Israel just went through, which truly brought out the absolute worst
in the candidates, and a lot I could say about the tactics Bibi used to
appeal to the worst instincts in people, to scare people, his racist rant
on election day designed to get Jews to get out and vote because so
many Arabs were doing so, his paranoid allegations that foreign
money and foreign governments were conspiring to bring him down,
but I’ll let it go for now. We all have earned and could use a Bibi break.
Just one quick comment before we move on. You can tell Israel
is a Jewish country because of something Bibi did in the last days of
the campaign that you would never see an American politician do.
As the campaign wound down, it appeared Bibi’s party was not
going to do as well as it needed to, in some measure because voters
were gravitating to other right wing parties. Which is where Bibi employed that old Jewish standard, namely guilt. In American politics,
the theory is that people like to vote for a winner. And so no matter
how you are doing, you always say things are looking great and you’re
heading for victory.
Bibi instead went on a TV blitz to say it looked like he was going to lose, that he wouldn’t have the votes he needed. It ain’t looking good, he said, and so if you want him to win, you better act accordingly. He didn’t assume the pose of a winner, as would every
American politician, but rather of a potential loser – thus guilt tripping people to vote for him.
As it turned out, it was a brilliant move and resulted in Bibi’s party
getting several more seats than all the polls had projected. Jewish guilt
working in the Jewish state. Who’d have thunk it?
Anyway, as I say, let’s take a Bibi breather and look at some other
things.
First, something that made me very sad. I am very selective in
what I watch on TV, not because I’m one of those fake elitists who
snort at anyone who watches TV, and not because I’m so religious as
to be afraid of TV or think not watching it somehow makes me holy,
but rather because I like to watch things that I enjoy, that give me a
sense of escape.
I used to, for example, love to watch “The Good Wife.” But no
more. Now I can’t bear to watch it. Why? Because it’s about a law firm,
about lawyers and about politicians, and shows how craven, unfeeling, uncaring, manipulative, lying and twisting most of them behave
most of the time. I find watching it very disillusioning because I believe it to be so accurate. You see all these smooth talking politicians
with all their spin and game playing, and you see all these welldressed attorneys doing anything to win, their penchant for hurting
people, all so they can get their big fees.
Truth is I’ve dealt with many lawyers in many capacities during
my life and career, and with the exception of but one, I have indeed
found them to be uncaring, unfeeling manipulators willing to twist
words, do anything as long as it benefits themselves. I know I’ve just
offended all the lawyers out there, but I’d be happy to cite chapter and
verse and name names of all those sadly Jewish lawyers I’ve known
who prove the points “The Good Wife” makes. All, as I say, except
for the one I found to be kind, caring and honorable.
Sorry, I guess I veered off into a bit of a tangent there. My point
was that I am very selective in the TV shows I watch, but one I almost
always like is “American Masters” on PBS which takes in depth looks
into the lives of artists and entertainers. I was surfing YouTube, which
somehow manages to find shows it thinks I will like without me asking, which I must admit I find intrusive and weird. But the fact is most
of the time the shows YouTube picks for me I do like.
Recently it offered me an “American Masters,” biography of
Johnny Carson. It was absolutely fascinating. How he went from Nebraska to one of the biggest stars in TV was mesmerizing, and especially fascinating was how his mother never ever had one good or kind
word to say to him. He spent his whole life trying to win her approval
and never did.
Anyway, since I always notice the Jewish angle of everything, I
was very aware that in his career, Johnny was betrayed by three people – all Jews. When Fred Silverman took over as chairman of NBC,
one of the first things he did was berate Johnny for not working hard
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