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I honor his legacy every day through my work at Griswold Home Care. JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISH EXPONENT APRIL 15, 2021 3 H eadlines Terrorism Prevention Program Launched L OCAL SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF ONE OF THE first projects for Jennifer Arbittier Williams in her new role as acting United States attorney for Philadelphia and surrounding counties is the creation of the Threat Intervention and Prevention Network — a program designed to stop acts of terror before they happen. “Even though I am a prose- cutor, my goal is to prevent crime from happening, and it would be the best result if no prosecutions arise from it whatsoever,” said Williams, who was appointed in January. “The goal is to stop people before they reach the point where they commit violence through whatever support or redirection we can provide. And we’ll do that through relationships within law enforcement and relationships within the community.” Williams was raised Jewish, and her father, Steven Arbittier, was president of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park in the 1990s. When she was 15, her great- uncle, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed by Palestine Liberation Organization hijackers aboard the cruise ship Achille Lauro. The loss of her uncle made the threat of terrorism feel personal and urgent. “It was devastating to the family, but the fact that Leon Klinghoffer was Jewish, and it was the PLO that committed the act of terrorism, made my family and I believe the Jewish community feels extra vulnerable to acts of terror, even if they’re just civilians living in the United States. So that definitely impacted my desire to go into national security prosecution,” she said. She was working at a New York City law firm when she saw the second plane hit the Twin Towers on 9/11. Shortly after that, she had her first interview to be a federal prosecutor and moved back to Philadelphia to work in the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She became a prosecutor for terrorism cases and eventually chief of its national security unit. gets hurt. Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia has joined the Community Team. “It’s a win-win situation, not only for Jewish Federation, but also for the law enforce- ment community folks that we would be working with,” said Frank Riehl, director of security for Jewish Federation. He said there had been an increase in anonymous threats over the past year and many of Jewish Federation’s partner organizations have experienced Zoom bombings — virtual Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams Courtesy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office The goal is to stop people before they reach the point where they commit violence through whatever support or redirection we can provide. And we’ll do that through relationships within law enforcement and relationships within the community.” JENNIFER ARBITTIER WILLIAMS Exclusive Women’s Apparel Boutique Made in USA Custom designs, color options and free alterations available Evening Gowns Suits/Separates Cocktail Dresses 61 Buck Road Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 www.elanaboutique.com (215)953-8820 Consult with the designer to explore your style options 4 APRIL 15, 2021 Her newly-created TIP Network consists of two branches, the Core Team and the Community Team, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office website. The former is composed of threat assessment experts from more than a dozen law enforce- ment agencies, and the latter is made up of organizations throughout the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, including businesses, nonprofits, educa- tional and medical institutions, community and religious groups and others. The Core Team trains the Community Team to respond to potential threats. During the program’s upcoming meeting on May 25, Williams said the Core Team will explain factors that can be predictive of violence and provide a case study of mass violence to analyze. The goal is to help communities recognize when individuals are seriously contemplating or planning violence and arrange intervention before someone JEWISH EXPONENT services and meetings being hijacked by anti-Semitic actors who use graphic or threatening images and audio to intimidate participants. He said law enforcement agencies like the FBI have already helped him assess the credibility of various threats and offered advice for enhancing security. “Not only do they become aware of it, but they also assist me in identifying whether or not it’s a legitimate threat, or if it’s just some knuckle- head acting tough behind his internet presence,” Riehl said. Williams acknowledged that some communities may feel wary about partnering with law enforcement out of fear that providing informa- tion could lead to surveillance and prosecution. “We have talked to members of the Core Team in detail about how important things like vocabulary are, because we want to make sure we are very clear about our mission and about our approach so that we don’t trigger distrust, which I imagine would be natural among some people, so it will be a process,” she said. This year has already seen a spate of domestic terrorist incidents, from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to mass shoot- ings in Georgia and Colorado. Williams said the uptick in violence, which could possibly stem from the pandemic exacer- bating mental health issues and fear, is encouraging her department to roll out the new program as soon as possible, and that many of their commu- nity partners feel the same way. “People are eager to speak with us and meet with us and consult with us because every- body is feeling like they need to be very aware of potential threats right now, because any threat could turn into violence if people aren’t paying atten- tion,” she said. l spanzer@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0729 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H eadlines NEWSBRIEFS Accused Monsey Stabber Again Found Unfit to Stand Trial THE MAN ACCUSED of stabbing five people and killing one at a 2019 Chanukah party at a rabbi’s house in Monsey, New York, was again deemed unfit to stand trial, JTA reported. Grafton Thomas, 38, has been declared unfit to stand trial several times. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsey Keenan came to the same conclusion this week, the New York Daily News reported. “There currently is not a substantial probability that in the foreseeable future the defendant will attain the capacity to permit the proceedings to go forward,” she wrote in a court filing. During the 2019 incident, Thomas allegedly stabbed five people with a machete, including Josef Neumann, who died from his wounds following months in a coma. Biden Administration Says UNRWA Committed to ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Anti-Semitism The Biden administration said it has the commitment of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to “zero tolerance” for anti-Semitism, racism or discrimination, JTA reported. “UNRWA has made clear their rock-solid commitments to the United States on the issues of transparency, accountability and neutrality in all its operations,” a senior U.S. official said. “And what neutrality means in the context of the United Nations is zero tolerance for racism, discrimination and anti-Semitism.” The official said resuming aid was consistent with a Biden administration policy of favoring a two-state solution. UNRWA has been controversial in recent years, plagued by reports of mismanagement and of anti-Semitic content in the textbooks used by the agency in the school it administers. President Donald Trump ended assistance to UNRWA in 2018, with administration officials saying the agency’s precept — treating millions of Palestinians as refugees — perpetuated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on Religious Gatherings The Supreme Court extended a string of decisions overturning pandemic restrictions on religious gatherings, ruling April 9 that California’s restrictions on at-home gatherings unfairly limited religious freedom, JTA reported. The 5-4 ruling lifted rules limiting at-home gatherings in much of the state to three households. Those rules, imposed during a recent surge of COVID-19 cases in California, were set to expire April 15. The decision follows a trend in which the 5-4 conservative majority has overturned COVID restrictions on religious gatherings. In November, the court blocked New York’s restrictions on houses of worship after Orthodox Jewish advocacy group Agudath Israel and the Brooklyn Catholic Diocese, sued the state. Early Evidence of Kosher Diet Found in UK Archaeologists in the United Kingdom discovered findings from a medieval Jewish community of Oxford that they said were the earliest evidence of a religious diet, JTA reported. The findings, locked inside pottery fragments excavated in Oxford, date to the 12th and 13th centuries following William the Conqueror’s invitation to Jews in Northern France to settle in England. “A remarkable animal bone assemblage was unearthed in this latrine, dominated by domestic fowl (mainly goose), and with a complete absence of pig bones, hinting at a kosher diet,” the researchers wrote. l — Compiled by Andy Gotlieb Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD), The Most Common Dementia Under Age 60 The essentials of symptoms, care, and support Featuring Guest Speakers: Sharon Denny, MA Senior Director of Programs Esther Kane, BSN, RN-CDP ppp Support & Education Director Tuesday, April 20, 2021 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm During this webinar, Sharon Denny and Esther Kane will discuss: • What is FTD? • How does FTD differ from Alzheimer’s disease? • Understanding the symptoms of FTD • Approaches to care and the role of residential care • Barriers to diagnosis and why • Options for treatment- targeted care is needed • FTD’s impact on the family • Resources for families and professionals Register in advance for this Zoom webinar by visiting the LINK below: https://tinyurl.com/7dxfbd8t Questions can be directed to VirtualSeminars@arden-courts.org arden-courts.org 13985_Warminster-Yardley_5.5x11.indd 1 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISH EXPONENT 3/4/21 1:22 PM APRIL 15, 2021 5 H eadlines Holocaust History in North Africa Explored L OCA L SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF AOMAR BOUM AND Sarah Abrevaya Stein knew the wartime experiences of North African Jews are often overlooked in Holocaust history, so they decided to write a book about it. “Opening up these stories about North African experi- ences of the second World War and, in some cases, the Holocaust, can not only teach us about this region, but really change what we know about Holocaust history and Jewish history as a whole, and that is a really profound invest- ment and yield for students, for readers and for academic research,” said Stein, chair of Sephardic studies and director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA. The National Museum of American Jewish History hosted a webinar about the book, “The Holocaust in North Africa,” on April 9. Josh Perelman, NMAJH’s chief curator, interviewed the two scholars about pre-war Jewish life in North Africa, the impact of colonialism and fascism on the region and the research they conducted for the project. Boum, associate professor of anthropology at UCLA, said most North African countries were under the colonial rule of European powers on the eve of WWII. France controlled Algeria, Tunisia and northern Morocco, Italy controlled Libya and Spain controlled southern Morocco. He estimated between 480,000 and 500,000 Jews lived in these countries. Stein said these Jews were a diverse population Clockwise from left: Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Josh Perelman that migrated from different regions, spoke different languages, came from different classes of society Screenshot by Sophie Panzer and participated in different others lived more traditionally. political movements. Some Since the North African Jews in urban centers adopted countries had Muslim majority European lifestyles, while populations, as well as settler EN J OY Carefree Living Anthology Senior Living of King of Prussia is a place where life is enriched by a luxurious, carefree lifestyle and ample amenities. Enjoy a rooftop terrace, bar, and indoor pool. Discover a dynamic community that encourages you to live your best life. Last opportunity for pre-open pricing! Schedule your tour today. ANTHOLOGY OF KING OF PRUSSIA 484-392-5011 350 Guthrie Road / King of Prussia, PA APRIL 15, 2021 E N! AnthologySeniorLiving.com/King-of-Prussia INDEPENDENT LIVING / PERSONAL CARE / MEMORY CARE 6 NOW OP JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H eadlines colonialists from Europe, Jews had varying relationships with their neighbors. Some lived among Muslims and Christians, others stayed in mostly Jewish communities. Perelman asked the speakers about North African Jews’ rights and how European politics impacted their standing. Stein said their legal status was determined by colonial ruling countries. “North Africa is unique in the context of second World War Holocaust stories in that it is...a place where fascism and colonialism are not only inter- secting, but reverberating off of each other in interesting ways,” Stein said. applied because administra- tors from the Vichy regime, France’s fascist government, realized that preventing Jews from continuing their occupa- tions as peddlers, merchants and artisans would destroy the region’s economy. As a result, many Jews moved from countries like Algeria to Morocco, where they would have more opportunities. Stein said that North African Jews were part of the Nazi’s calculus of global Jewry to exterminate, and some were deported to Europe and killed in concentration camps. However, while many North African Jews had their rights stripped away like their Ever since there’s been an IDF protecting Israel, there’s been an MDA ensuring their health. North Africa is unique in the context of second World War Holocaust stories.” SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN Since Tunisia and Morocco were protectorates of France, neither Muslims nor Jews were offered citizenship. This was also true for colonial subjects in Libya. Since Algeria was consid- ered a department of France, Jews were offered citizenship, but Muslims were not. This meant that when fascist governments began issuing anti-Semitic laws stripping Jews of their rights, Jews in North Africa felt the impact differently. In some countries, Boum said, Jews were ordered to move back to the tradition- ally Jewish neighborhoods where they previously were forced to live, known as mellah in Morocco and hara in Tunisia. Some countries also confiscated property owned by Jews and restricted them from employment in educa- tional institutions and other industries. In southern Morocco, where Boum conducted many of his interviews, he found that several laws were not JEWISHEXPONENT.COM European counterparts, there was no centralized effort to exterminate them. Instead, the Vichy regime sent them to labor camps, along with Muslims deemed enemies of the state for their political affiliations, Spanish Civil War soldiers who fought against fascism, French Foreign Legion soldiers and European refugees. In Tunisia, Jewish men and boys were interned and forced to work on infra- structure projects. During his research, Boum discovered he had a personal connection to the camps: When he visited the site of a mining camp located near his home village in Morocco, he learned that his father and other locals had worked there. “I’ve always thought about it as something that connects me indirectly to the history of these European refugees, Jewish or non-Jewish,” he said. l Magen David Adom has been saving lives since 1930, some 18 years before Israel became a state. We take immense pride in being Israel’s national emergency medical service and in supplying the blood and medical care for the soldiers who have ensured Israel’s existence. Join us in celebrating Israel’s independence on Yom HaAtzma’ut. Save a life in Israel. 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Tovah Feldshuh Photos courtesy of Tovah Feldshuh “Anything can be healed,” added the “Law & Order,” “The Walking Dead” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” actor. The titular Lily was born on a dining room table in the Bronx to Russian and British “Lilyville” Jewish immigrant parents in 1911. After marrying Sidney Feldshuh, she becomes a quint- essential housewife in Scarsdale, New York, completely dedicated to her family and embracing American culture. Feldshuh writes that while her mother provided her children with a stable upbringing and shepherded them to their school events and social activities, she was not an affectionate parent. She preferred to show her love by trying to “improve” her daughter through criticism. “Maybe if she said ‘I love you’ a million times I wouldn’t have gone into the theater,” Feldshuh said. “I wouldn’t have had to create an artificial universe where I would be the beginning, middle and end of a story.” When young Tovah decides to pursue an acting career, her desire to stand out confounds her mother’s desire to fit in. Their generational tension comes to a head when the author decides to change her first name from the hyper-American one her mother chose, Terri Sue, to Tovah, the name she used in Hebrew school. This decision isn’t intended to be a rejection of her mother — it’s inspired by a love interest who tells her Tovah is a better fit for her than Terri Sue — but it will change her destiny and attract Jewish roles that help build her career. She finally gets her big break on Broadway in “Yentl,” a play about a woman in an Orthodox shtetl who disguises herself as a man in order to study in a yeshiva. As Tovah matures, she and Lily begin to strengthen their bond. They plan Tovah’s wedding to attorney Andy Levy in a six-week time crunch and rejoice in welcoming her children into the world. Although Lily remains critical of some of her daughter’s roles and decisions, she’s still in the FOREST HILLS / SHALOM MEMORIAL PARK Do You Have a Plan for the Future? Why Pre-Plan Today ? • Make sure your family knows your fi nal wishes • Relieve your loved ones from having to make tough decisions and from any unexpected fi nancial burdens • Give real peace of mind for you and your family NEW MASADA V MAUSOLEUM Call us today to speak with a Family Service Professional and receive your FREE Personal Planning Guide. 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The commu- nity of alumni and parents are just very supportive and diverse, and this just feels like a great situation to step into.” Greenberg is the grandson of a pulpit rabbi, and has tried his hand at congregational life himself — five years at Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans — but has spent the majority of his professional life in Hillel. Prior to his time in New Orleans, Greenberg was the senior Jewish educator at the Hillel of University of California, Berkeley, and has been at Penn Hillel since 2019. He was originally brought on as the director of the Jewish Renaissance Project and Rabbinic Innovation Fellow. “Gabe has demonstrated strong leadership skills and brings a passion for educating and engaging all students around traditional and unique expressions of Judaism,” Hillel International President and CEO Adam Lehman said in a press release. “We look forward to supporting his efforts to sustain and grow the Penn Hillel community and build on its rich tradition of inspiring young Jewish leaders.” The Newton, Massachusetts, native studied history at Wesleyan University, later traveling to Israel with the Pardes Institute and Yeshivat Hamivtar. Greenberg was ordained at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in the Bronx, New York. In the Big Easy, he served on the boards of the Federation of Greater New Orleans, the Jewish Community Day School of New Orleans and the Rabbinic Council of New Orleans. Today, Greenberg lives in West Philadelphia with his wife, Abby Streusand, and their three children. Though the majority of his time in Philadelphia has been spent in quarantine, he’s found working with the students at Penn Hillel to be a fruitful, energizing experience. “Penn students are incred- ibly driven, incredibly motivated, eager, passionate to learn, to grow, to build and to be successful,” he said. “And it truly feels, in a non-exagger- ating way, that at Penn Hillel, every day, we are helping grow and support the next generation of American-Jewish leadership.” Greenberg replaces Rabbi Mike Uram, a nationally recognized leader in Jewish education who left Penn Hillel after 17 years in December to become the chief vision and education officer of Pardes North America. Greenberg said he didn’t know he would replace Uram when he assumed the interim role, but that he’s grateful to have been selected. “Our rigorous, comprehen- sive search process confirmed that Rabbi Gabe is the perfect person to continue Penn Hillel’s strong legacy and to lead the organization’s next exciting chapter,” Leora Zabusky, chair of the executive director search, said in a statement. In terms of his vision for Penn Hillel, Greenberg is Rabbi Gabe Greenberg Photo by Dina Ley As someone who is passionate about the Jewish future and about Jewish education, Penn Hillel is the place to do those things.” RABBI GABE GREENBERG AKILADELPHIA CREATIVE CONTRACING, LLC CUSTOM BUILDING GENERAL CONTRACTING LICENSED & INSURED 212.589.5404// AKILADELPHIA.COM RESIDENTIAL KITCHEN & BATH SPECIALISTS A PORTION OF TOTAL CONTRACT PRICE WILL BENEFIT JEWISH CHARITY OF CLIENT’S CHOICE still working out what the post-Uram world will look like. He’s diplomatic on the subject. “I look forward to building upon the legacy that Mike Uram and Jeremy Brochin before him and other fantastic Penn Hillel directors before them have built, and doubling down on our commitment to serving and supporting every Jewish student at Penn regardless of their background, affiliation or knowl- edge base,” Greenberg said. Penn Hillel, according to Greenberg, is “one of, if not the, preeminent Hillels in the world,” and he has big shoes to fill. l jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 10 APRIL 15, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H eadlines Soon-to-be 98-year-old Hits the Books L OCA L ANDY GOTLIEB | JE MANAGING EDITOR IDA ROTHENBERG didn’t have time to read when she was raising her two daughters, volunteering and working at Saks Fifth Avenue. But the soon-to-be 98-year- old Wynnewood woman is making up for lost time during the pandemic, reading about 90 books in the last 13 months. “It’s like a drug. I’ll only read two chapters, look up and it’s lunch,” she said. “I read all day. I never gave it a second thought. It’s just what I did.” Her reading prowess first garnered some recognition when daughter Karen Seltzer posted to a Facebook book group a picture of her mother standing by a pile of books she had read. Group members and a few authors began sending books her way, feeding the habit. “She was never a get-in-bed- and-relax type of person, but now she props herself up in bed and has a stack of books with her,” Seltzer said. Rothenberg isn’t picky about what she reads — “whichever one is on top of the pile” — but is a fan of, among others, Mary Higgins Clark, John Jakes, David Baldacci, Harlan Coben and Lisa Scottoline. At the moment, she’s reading an autographed copy of the latter’s new offering, “Eternal.” “I can’t put it down,” she said. “It’s different than anything she’s done before.” Rothenberg can’t cite a favorite pandemic book, but she did praise Rabbi Lynnda Targan’s “Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Rabbi: A Memoir of Unorthodox Transformation,” which Targan sent her. “I thought that was a fantastic life she had and was having,” Rothenberg said. A native of Philadelphia, Rothenberg grew up in Northern Liberties, graduating from now-de- funct William Penn High School. After marrying at 18, she followed her husband, Mickey Sobelman, during World War II to military bases in North Carolina and Texas. At Laredo Army Airfield, she visited the motor pool and ended up getting a job driving a transport bus with a tricky clutch. After the war, the couple moved back to West Philadelphia and raised a family. Rothenberg worked at Saks for 25 years and volunteered extensively at Deborah Heart and Lung Center. Mickey Sobelman’s mother, Sonia, was active in Deborah’s early days at a sanatorium for tuber- culosis patients, and Rothenberg formed and was the first president of a Deborah chapter in the 1950s, Seltzer said. Other family members have been active with Deborah over the years. The couple moved to Florida in 1982, and Sobelman died in 1993. Rothenberg remar- ried, returning to Philadelphia a decade ago after her second husband, Harold, died. Over time, Rothenberg has gotten more and more into reading. And with the end of the pandemic in sight, Rothenberg, who is vaccinated, looks forward to resuming another of her favorite pastimes — mahjong. “I hope I remember how to play,” she said. In the meantime, she’ll keep reading, with another book sent to her — Richard Plinke’s “COVID-19 House Arrest” — next on her list. “I’m just overwhelmed and happy people are thinking of me,” she said. l agotlieb@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0797 Ida Rothenberg and about 50 of the books she’s read during the pandemic Photo by Karen Seltzer EXPECT EXCEPTIONAL LIVING. As a resident at The Landing of Towamencin, you won’t need to worry about things like housekeeping, yard work, or transportation. You can focus on what’s really important: you. Rediscover a past hobby or uncover a new passion in a comfortable yet active environment tailored to you. It’s fi ve-star fun, with fi ve-star service. Discover exceptional living. Call for your personal tour! 900 Towamencin Ave • Lansdale, PA • (215) 395-6862 TheLandingOfTowamencin.com JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISH EXPONENT A Whole Lotta Heart APRIL 15, 2021 11 H eadlines Link Kosher Yom HaShoah has always been, not surprisingly, the busiest time of year for HAMEC, and this year was no different. HAMEC was part of programming for the entire week, hosting and sponsoring events with partners in Philadelphia and beyond. Its largest public program, held in conjunc- tion with the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish commu- nity of Wilkes-Barre, featured testimony from well-known Holocaust survivor Danny Goldsmith. Prior to the pandemic, Quinn said, he’d have been at the public program and relied on volun- teers and HAMEC’s one other staff member to ensure that things were running smoothly elsewhere. Because everything was moved to Zoom, Quinn was able to toggle between several different events at once from home, overseeing multiple programs. What he heard from speakers, Quinn said, was certainly molded by the pandemic — survivors and educators, speaking safely from home, more fluent in Zoom than they were a year ago — but it did not seem to figure in to the content Camden County, where they coordinated food distribution every Tuesday. Now, they provide meals to more than 450 families, or approximately 2,000 children. Although the food is kosher, the food pantry is available to all, and serves families from various religious backgrounds. Many kosher foods also meet the dietary requirements for Muslim families who eat halal. “We serve everyone equally,” said Rabbi Yosef Notis, program coordinator and dean of Bnos Devorah School in Lakewood, New Jersey. He added that in the begin- ning of the program, when demand for meals outstripped supply, some parents said they should be prioritized because their children were enrolled in the school where the meals were served, but the volunteers insisted on keeping it open to all. Yares, a doctoral student at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a father of five, has previous experience working to combat food insecurity. His first job out of college was working for a food pantry run by Jewish Family and Children’s Service during the height of the Great Recession in 2008. The diverse backgrounds of the visitors surprised him. “You had Ph.D.s, you had others who you wouldn’t think would need to use a food pantry,” he said. Yares said there was a point when his own family had to rely on food stamps, and he knows how hard it can be to ask for help. He also knows how many hoops that people enrolled in food supplement programs have to jump through to access relief. To lessen the stigma around receiving food assistance, Yares designed the meals program to be accessible to any family with children ages 1 to 18, regard- less of income. Parents are only Continued from Page 1 12 APRIL 15, 2021 Continued from Page 1 Daniel Goldsmith delivers his Holocaust testimony at a HAMEC event for Yom HaShoah. Screenshot by Jesse Bernstein of their speeches. If anything, Quinn said, speaking out against recent violence toward Asian Americans was a more consistent theme. Similar dynamics were at play at other local and statewide events. Marc Zucker, chair of the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, was the introductory speaker for the 37th annual Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust on April 8. Gov. Tom Wolf, state Rep. Bryan Cutler — Pennsylvania’s Speaker of the House — and state Rep. Joanna McClinton all spoke at the event. Zucker’s focus was exclusively on Yom HaShoah and not any perceived link to the pandemic. “I don’t really think of them together in any meaningful way,” Zucker said. That doesn’t mean it went unmentioned. More than 25,000 Pennsylvanians have died of the virus since the pandemic began, and “to not mention that would make no sense,” Zucker said. But that’s more or less where the overlap ends, he believes. “I mentioned it also because so many of our attendees are state legislators, who have worked tirelessly to try and address the many implications of the pandemic,” Zucker said. “But really, the Holocaust is a singular, horrific event in world history involving a systematic and coordinated genocide. So, there’s really no link that I could see between a devas- tating pandemic, devastating as it is, and an unimaginable tragedy, like the Holocaust genocide.” Sarita Gocial, the daughter of survivors who is married to another child of survivors, feels similarly. Gocial has been involved the with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s Holocaust commemoration efforts for years, and looks forward to presenting her family’s story annually. Like Zucker and Quinn, Gocial knows that the shapes of the 2020 and 2021 Yom HaShoah JEWISH EXPONENT commemorations were deter- mined by the pandemic, but did not see that as a reason to dwell on it. “We do touch on the anti-Semitism growing in this country once again, and those types of things, but really, COVID was not a big focus of the program,” Gocial said. Congregation Beth Am Israel’s programming, delivered virtually, was an approximation of its pre-pandemic traditions. Working with other local synagogues, cantors joined with singers, participants lit yellow candles at home and testimony was delivered from survivors and their children. Even with all of those Zoom-specific element under- lining the omnipresence of the pandemic, the content itself was largely devoid of its inf luence, Rabbi David Ackerman said. “I wouldn’t say it came up especially strongly in this year’s presentations,” he said. If there was a thematic linkage that came through, he said, it was the sense of isolation referred to by many survivors. “We’ve actually all come to know a little bit of what it feels like to be completely separated from people you know, and love and care about,” Ackerman said. “That’s as far as it got.” l jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H EADLINES required to complete a regis- tration form to participate. “So oft en people say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to take from people who are in need,’ and I say, ‘Th is is for everyone,’” Yares said. “We are all in need right now. We all have kids at home, and they’re not supposed to be home, and they eat a lot.” Th e U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that more than 5 million children experi- enced food insecurity in 2019. Th at number jumped to more than 13.9 million children in 2020 as a result of the economic crisis that accompa- nied the pandemic, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institute. Yares said the scope of the current hunger crisis means federal and state govern- ments have tossed many of the normal eligibility regulations for food assistance programs in an eff ort to meet skyrocketing demand as quickly as possible. Yares was inspired to design the program aft er he learned about a similar project for Jewish students in Passaic run by Teach NJ, an advocacy group for the state’s nonpublic schools. He got funding through the Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program, which reimburses program operators that provide food for low-in- come kids when school is not in session. Th e volunteers started by providing bagged lunches but quickly moved to boxes when they realized the scope of the demand. Each box contains seven breakfasts and seven lunches, with healthy snacks as well as regular and choco- late milk. On Passover, food boxes contained matzah and macaroons along with other kosher for Passover items. “In a typical week, you’ll have some turkey in there, some cheese, falafel, rolls, blintzes, some fi sh,” Notis said. “It’s really a very nice selection.” Left overs, especially dairy, are donated to other local food pantries. Yares said that since dairy allergies are common within the Jewish commu- nity, the program has donated thousands of gallons of milk to the Cherry Hill Food Pantry. Volunteer Samuel Gluck uses his experience from working in a warehouse many years ago to help organize other volunteers and make sure the food pickup lines run smoothly. “Th e actual fl ow of traffi c is important,” he said. “We don’t want to block off a road. We want to make sure we get as many cars out as quickly as possible to make sure there’s no wait time as well.” Gluck said each pickup site Families line up to receive meals. has 15 to 20 volunteers, with two or three additional people directing traffi c. “People really want to get involved and help out families. It’s great,” he said. Yares plans to continue providing kosher meals until at least Dec. 30. Aft er that, much will depend on demand and government funding, but Photo by Ilana Yares he thinks the success of the program will make it easier to keep it going. “I didn’t know that this would become one of my greatest accomplishments of my life,” he said. “I just wanted to help and do no harm.” ● Virtual Memory Café: Drama spanzer@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0729 Engaging Activities for Every Alzheimer’s Stage Presented by Loretta Veney, CPP When Loretta’s mom, Doris, was diagnosed with dementia, she began learning everything she could about the disease in hopes of sharing that information so others could be more prepared for this devastating diagnosis than she had been. Loretta has learned that keeping your loved one engaged is important throughout all stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Join us as she shares a variety of activities that will engage and delight. You will find her recommended activities easy to purchase or make without breaking your budget. 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ROSENSAFT NOT LONG AFTER the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famously observed in 1949 that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric — “nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch.” Less well known but equally insightful was Adorno’s subse- quent conclusion, expressed in a 1966 radio address in Germany, that Auschwitz itself constituted nothing less than a “relapse into barbarism.” Adorno understood that the Shoah’s calculated, system- atic savagery was an absolute deviation from the fundamental norms of civilization and civilized behavior. To be valid, anything written or said about the Holocaust, whether in poetry or prose, must first and foremost encapsulate and reflect its barbaric essence. Aesthetic sensitivities and considerations must yield to the undeniable absolute evil that sparked and perpetrated the genocide of European Jewry, requiring us to absorb and try to come to terms with the unprecedented, the unfathomable and, above all, the inexplicable. Perhaps the most cogent context for this inexorable immersion into the unknown was given by my late teacher and mentor Elie Wiesel, who explained in his essay “A Plea for the Dead” that “Auschwitz signifies not only the failure of two thousand years of Christian civilization, but also the defeat of the intellect that wants to find a Meaning — with a capital M — in history. What Auschwitz embodied had none.” And yet, despite all these flashing yellow lights, I, the son of two survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen who was born three years after the end of World War II in the displaced persons camp of Bergen-Belsen, long ago turned to expressing myself in poetry. Over the decades I have tried to give voice to the dead in my poems, to comfort ghosts, and to provide a memorial to the millions who have none. For me, conceptualizing my poems is often simultaneously a refuge and an escape. An escape from the realm of conventional human experience into a parallel internal reality. We need poems, songs and parables. We need a Kafkaesque, morbid language of dreams and nightmares to be able to penetrate the nocturnal universe of Auschwitz and Birkenau, of Treblinka, Majdanek and Bergen-Belsen, of Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor and Terezin, of the Warsaw Ghetto, Transnistria and Babyn Yar. A sparse inscription on a Birkenau barrack wall forces us to identify with its author without knowing anything else about him: ​“Andreas Rapaport — lived sixteen years.” Aware that he was about to die, a Jewish teenager tried to leave a sign, a memory of his existence on earth. Without pathos, without self-pity, Andreas Rapaport was the author of his own eulogy, his own Kaddish: Andreas Rapaport — lived sixteen years. Andreas Rapaport — abandoned, alone, afraid. Andreas Rapaport — hungry, in pain. Andreas Rapaport — gas-filled lungs. Andreas Rapaport — incinerated, black smoke, ashes. In “Under Your White stars,” Avraham Sutzkever, the Yiddish poet of the Vilna Ghetto, wrote, “stretch out to me Your white hand. My words are tears that want to rest in Your hand.” It is the beginning of a monologue addressed to God that never turns into a dialogue because there is no response. Against a “murderous calm” that perme- ated the precarious existence of the ghetto’s inhabitants, the narrator writes: “I run higher, over rooftops, and I search: Where are You? Where?” The poems written by Sutzkever and other poets in the ghettos and even in the Nazi death and concen- tration camps were their way of refusing to become dehumanized, of defying their oppressors and remaining sane in a world gone mad. Upon arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau on the night of Aug. 3-4, 1943, a little boy named Benjamin was separated from his mother and sent directly into a gas chamber with his father and grandparents. Benjamin was my half-brother. Even though my mother rarely spoke about him, I know that she thought of him every day of her life. Since her death in 1997, Benjamin has continued to exist within me. I see his face in my mind, try to imagine his voice, his fear as the gas chamber doors slammed shut, his final tears. If I were to forget him, he would disappear. And I write about him so that my grandchildren, and their children and grandchil- dren in turn, will remember Benjamin as well. My poems are my legacy to them. l Menachem Z. Rosensaft is associate executive vice president and general counsel of the World Jewish Congress and teaches about the law of genocide at the law schools of Columbia and Cornell universities. Calling Any Jewish Woman a ‘JAP’ is Offensive — But Not for the Reason You Think BY IVY HUMBARGER THE TERM “Jewish American Princess” has been debated within Jewish communities for as long as it has existed. Many bemoan it for perpetuating 14 APRIL 15, 2021 sexism and negative stereo- types of Jewish women, while others have argued that despite these origins, there’s a power in embracing the moniker. But as a Jew of Japanese descent, I’m here to say the much larger problem comes from the acronym used in its place: JAP. There needs to be a conversation about the dangerous and violent history of the racist slur “jap,” and why Jewish people should not want to co-opt this word. For those unaware, “jap” is a racial slur used against Japanese people. World War II-era America best showcases the dangers of this hateful word. As we all know, the war brought much suffering to many groups of people. And while America claims to be the hero that saved the world, the asser- tion often ignores or justifies its treatment of the Japanese. In Japan, America dropped devastating bombs on civilian cities that resulted in 225,000 deaths, which is likely an under- estimated count, according to UCLA. Stateside, the U.S. government deported Japanese Americans — fellow citizens — to Japan, as bargaining chips to trade for American prisoners. In 1942, the U.S. government forcibly relocated JEWISH EXPONENT and incarcerated some 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were natural-born citizens. These people were ripped from their homes by the govern- ment and placed in makeshift internment camps in the desert on the West Coast. They had no trials and nobody to save them. In 1942, Gen. John DeWitt, commander of the Western Defense Command, said, “A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference whether the Jap is a citizen or not.” That same year, Col. Karl Bendetsen of the Wartime Civil Control Administration said, “I am determined that if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must go to camp.” The homes and businesses of Japanese Americans were destroyed, looted and vandal- ized. The word “japs” was everywhere. Spray-painted on homes, on the front page of newspapers, on signs and posters. People protested the presence of Japanese people in America in the streets and from the comfort of their homes. Businesses put up signs banning Japanese from entering the premises, saying “No japs allowed.” These were innocent citizens, many of whom came here for the “American dream.” Like many JEWISHEXPONENT.COM O pinion Jewish immigrants who came to the U.S. at the turn of the century, the Japanese came for opportunity, for the chance at greatness, yet America did what America always does. This history is America, and it is the history of my heritage in this country. This is not a history that you can ask Japanese people to forget. Jap is not just a word; it’s a searing symbol of hate. Growing up with a Japanese relative in metro Detroit, I was very familiar with the use of jap. It’s been hurled at me, and I’ve felt the pain that the term evokes. My grandfather was born in Okinawa, Japan, sometime in January 1953, with the name Susumi Kise. As a baby he was put up for adoption at the Yonabaru orphanage in Naha, Okinawa. There is no documen- tation of his parents, whether they were alive or dead when he was brought to the orphanage. He was adopted as a young child by an American family stationed on the island and spent three years waiting to immigrate to the United States under the Refugee Relief Act. Upon his arrival in the U.S., he became the youngest-ever naturalized citizen in Detroit and the first person for whom the Michigan city ever waived the oral oath. Despite how incredible of a headliner this situation was the novelty of the story quickly wore off. My grandfather was brought overseas to a racist America that hated him and saw him as a traitor while still seeing themselves as his savior. He was brought to an America that less than 10 years before bombed his country and locked up his people in the desert. He faced endless racism throughout his life — was bullied as a child in school, experienced discrimina- tion from employers, endured harsh xenophobia from my white grandmother’s family when they announced their relationship and intention to have children, or as they said, “interbreed.” When people use the slur jap, they’re using it against my grandpa, against his people and against everything they have ever been through. And that causes me immense pain. The first time I ever saw the term JAP used to signify Jewish American Princess was from a Jewish person on Twitter. Initially I thought I had stumbled across another Jew of Japanese descent. I mean, who else would use this slur so lightly? Upon reading their profile I realized they weren’t Japanese at all, and I became very concerned and confused. I had to resort to googling “Jewish JAP” to find the meaning. I was shocked and disappointed to see that Jews online were lightly using a slur as an acronym. This experience was so isolating and hurtful as I began to feel unsafe in the online Jewish community. I have desperately tried to gain the attention of Jews online to warn them of this slur, and to beg them to stop using it, but it has always been to no avail. No matter how many times I see it used as Jewish American Princess, I cannot separate it from the hate word used to vandalize Japanese-American homes. Jewish people understand all too well pain and suffering, being othered and singled out, and we should never subject others to that feeling. It is especially important as a diverse people who span the world that we as Jews work hard to be as inclusive as possible. Jewish women want to reclaim Jewish American Princess? I support that. But please take the extra five seconds and spell out the phrase. As Jews, it’s the least we can do. l Ivy Humbarger is a Jewish food worker of Ashkenazi and Japanese descent studying forensic A Shooter Terrorized My Favorite Grocery Store. This Simple Jewish Prayer for Dew is Helping Me Mourn BY LISA TRANK THE DAY WAS COLD, but not too cold — typical March weather for the Rocky Mountains. I was heading to Boulder to pick up one of our daughters from the University of Colorado. COVID had canceled their regular spring break, but she needed some time away from campus, so off I went. Her twin sister had opted to stay on campus. I stopped at the King Soopers in South Longmont, a town 12 miles northeast of Boulder. We’ve shopped at this store for the 21 years we’ve lived in this town. Many of the employees have been there the whole time, from the days when I’d push the bright red car cart with JEWISHEXPONENT.COM three kids to now, shopping for my husband and myself. This morning, I was picking up a few of our daughter’s favorite items — blueberries, Yerba Mate, fresh basil for the pesto I was planning on making for dinner that night. I arrived at her dorm and texted her. She scrambled in and we turned back toward home. She had an essay due and lots of studying for calculus and chemistry. She was excited to see our dog and sleep in her own bed. As we pulled off the Diagonal Highway, the thin stretch of road that connects Longmont to Boulder, my daughter said, “I got an alert. There’s an active shooter at the South Boulder King Soopers.” I drove the two or three miles home with a nervous pit growing in my stomach. I turned on my computer and proceeded to watch in horror. I called our other daughter. She was safe and very anxious. I began to make plans to head back to pick her up when a second area of Boulder was being investigated and shut down. I realized I couldn’t get to her. I told her to stay in her room. A few hours later, the extent of the tragedy was made public: Ten people, including three store employees and a Boulder police officer, were dead. Ten people killed in less than one hour. While shopping and working at a grocery store. Friends on Facebook who live in Boulder marked themselves “safe.” I received texts and calls asking if we were OK. I marked myself and my family “safe.” That was 10 days ago. My husband and I lived in Boulder for six years before moving to Longmont, and have shopped at that very King Soopers store many, many times. Our family has enjoyed celebratory brunches at a cafe located in the same shopping center, and we have friends who live in that area. One of our daughters worked at a grocery store last summer. Two days after the shooting, my husband and I brought our daughter back to campus. We arrived in Boulder at sunset, pink and orange clouds converging over the Flatirons. For the first time since the shooting, I cried. Brief, hot tears jutted down my cheeks. We took both girls to get JEWISH EXPONENT something to eat, dropped them back at school and drove back to Longmont in silence. In the days that followed, I went through the motions and prepared for Passover. In the entry of our King Soopers were three simple flower arrangements on a folding table with a handwritten sign: “in their honor.” I bought daffodils, tulips and yahrzeit candles along with whatever was on my list. I went home, cooked soup and kugel, and set the seder table. The next morning, I received an email message titled “A Prayer for Dew.” I opened the email and read the prayer. I knew we prayed for rain on Sukkot, but dew on Passover? “Dew, precious dew, unto Your land forlorn ...” When faced with such a huge sense of loss, especially for a quiet and connected community like Boulder, Sandy Hook, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and every place in our country hit by gun violence, we often turn to prayer for comfort and answers, as well as to honor those lost. I tried to pray, but the vastness of the grief caused by unmitigated gun violence is overwhelming. I had no idea where to start. Perhaps I could simply pray for a drop of dew. This morning, I woke up to snow dusting on grass that is trying hard to turn green and tulips pushing themselves out of the hard, cold earth. It’s not dew, but that will come. Spring is short in the Rocky Mountains. “Dew, precious dew to make the mountains sweet ...” l Lisa Trank is a writer of Jewish children’s literature, personal essays and lifestyle articles. She lives in Longmont, Colorado. STATEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER We are a diverse community. The views expressed in the signed opinion columns and letters to the editor published in the Jewish Exponent are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the officers and boards of the Jewish Publishing Group, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia or the Jewish Exponent. Send letters to letters@jewishexponent.com or fax to 215-569-3389. Letters should be a maximum of 200 words and may be edited for clarity and brevity. Unsigned let- ters will not be published. APRIL 15, 2021 15 L ifestyle /C ulture Vegetarian Dinners: Skip the Meat, Keep the Flavor INTERNET SENSATION PASTA F OOD KERI WHITE | JE FOOD COLUMNIST THESE DAYS, there is a lot of momentum around vegetarian eating. Whether you are going fully plant based/vegan or just popping a “meatless Monday” into the calendar every so often, the options for vegeta- ble-centric menus are growing stronger every day. I also find in the wake of Passover, with its delicious array of hearty dishes like matzah ball soup, brisket, lamb, roast chicken and matzah brei, a few vegetarian meals are kind of what the doctor ordered to level us back out. These two dishes are short on effort and long on flavor — my favorite type of recipe! Some of you may recall a few months back when the baked feta and tomato sauce pasta recipe practically caused a feta shortage when it blasted around the world via TikTok. At the time, I sneered at the source, but couldn’t shake the notion that the recipe sounded pretty darned delicious, not to mention low maintenance. I decided to give it a whirl and was very glad I did. The second recipe was an attempt to use surplus roasted butternut squash left over from a previous dinner. Its sweet- ness delivered a wonderful contrast with the spice of the salsa, but really, any cooked vegetable would work here — greens, sweet potatoes, carrots, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, beans, zucchini, eggplant — or a blend thereof. SHOP THE HOUSE FROM YOUR HOME. Shop your groceries, meat, fish, and fresh takeout online and we'll deliver your order to your door. HOUSEOFKOSHER.COM STORE HOURS Shop online at Houseofkosher.com or download our FREE HOUSE OF KOSHER APP Strictly Kosher 215.677.8100 9806 BUSTLETON AVE. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19115 16 APRIL 15, 2021 Serves 4 Make this when you find cherry or grape tomatoes on special at the store, or slightly past their prime in your kitchen. 2 pints cherry or grape tomatoes ½ cup olive oil, divided 2 generous pinches kosher salt Sprinkle of red pepper flakes, to taste 1 8-ounce block of feta, patted dry 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 pound pasta — I used spaghetti, but any shape is fine 1 small handful basil leaves, coarsely chopped Heat your oven to 400 degrees F. Place the tomatoes in a baking dish with the salt, pepper flakes and ⅓ cup olive oil. Toss well. Place the feta in the center of the tomatoes and drizzle them with the remaining oil. Bake for about 40 minutes, until the tomatoes are starting to char and burst, and the feta is brown at the edges. When the tomato mixture is almost done, cook the pasta in generously salted water for 1 minute less than the package directs for al dente. While the pasta cooks, remove the pan from the oven, add the garlic and stir. Reserve ½ cup of the cooking water, and drain the pasta thoroughly. Pour the pasta into a baking dish with the sauce and toss well. Add the basil leaves, continue tossing and, if needed to move the sauce around and loosen it, add small amounts of pasta water until the desired texture is achieved. Serve immediately. MEXICAN LASAGNA WITH BUTTERNUT SQUASH Serves 4 This can be made days ahead JEWISH EXPONENT Internet sensation pasta Photos by Keri White Mexican lasagna with butternut squash and stored in the fridge or frozen for several months. You can use any type of salsa you like — I opted for a spicy salsa roja, which I mixed with canned diced tomatoes both to stretch the quantity and to reduce some of the heat. Green tomatillo salsa would be wonderful with this. Serve the casserole with sliced avocados spritzed with lime juice. 1 package corn tortillas 1½ cups salsa 2 cups grated cheddar or Monterey jack cheese 3 cups cooked butternut squash, mashed or cut in small pieces 1 small bunch cilantro, coarsely chopped, for garnish Heat your oven to 350 degrees F. In a 2-quart casserole dish or Pyrex, spoon a thin layer of salsa on the bottom and spread to coat. Place a single layer of corn tortillas in the pan; tear them to fit, as needed. Spoon a layer of butternut squash, a layer of salsa and a layer of cheese, then another layer of corn tortillas into the dish. Press lightly. Repeat this process until all ingredients are used up. Finish with a layer of corn torti- llas sprinkled with salsa and cheese. Bake the dish in the oven for about 30 minutes until the casserole is heated through and the edges are starting to crisp. Top with chopped cilantro and serve. l JEWISHEXPONENT.COM L IFESTYLE /C ULTURE Broza Slated for Two Local Performances M USIC JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF DAVID BROZA, the trilingual Israeli singer-songwriter who has performed all over the world, will come to the Sellersville Th eater for a benefi t concert on April 17, his fi rst live show since February 2020. Th e following day, Broza will of an audience, as back in the day.” Broza, 65, sings in Hebrew, English and Spanish, and counts singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne and Otis Redding among his chief infl u- ences. He’s been recording since 1977, and his peace-pro- motion hit “Yihye Tov” was a staple of peace rallies in Israel for years. Today, Broza remains serve as a model for positive Arab-Israeli relations. Since the start of the pandemic, he’s played music for audiences from home, strumming and singing for Zoom shows quite frequently. It kept him busy, and he said he’s fortunate that no one in his life has taken seriously ill over the last year-plus. He’s looking forward to getting back on a stage. “My ability and my need to perform, or my love for performing, is as strong as it was before,” Broza said. On April 18, Broza will be back to Zoom performance, appearing alongside some locally known Jewish performers for a Yom Ha’atzmaut show. Virtual admission is free. “Philly Hearts Israel is going to be a joyous, all-ages concert celebrating Israel, and the strong relation- ship between Israel and the American-Jewish commu- nity,” said Addie Lewis Klein, director of community engage- ment for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. ● jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 BUSINESS DIRECTORY NEED A NEW BANK? CALL SEGAL FINANCIAL TO GUIDE YOU. David Broza will perform at the Sellersville Theater on April 17 and via Zoom for “Philly Hearts Israel: An All-Star Concert” the next day. Photo by Gil Lavy perform via Zoom for “Philly Hearts Israel: An All-Star Concert,” a Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut, on a bill that includes Rick Recht, Nefesh Mountain, Rabbi Josh Warshawsky, Rabbi Lisa Silverstein, Josh Nelson, Chava Mirel, Shimon Smith and Laurie Aker. “Th is is the time to get together,” Broza told the Exponent. The 325-seat Sellersville Th eater will take 100 concert- goers for Broza’s show, with virtual links available for a request-heavy show. Broza plans to donate his proceeds from the performance to the COVID-19 relief eff orts at Grand View Hospital, based in Sellersville. “I’m not thinking about it as a fi nancial event, something with a very big earning,” Broza said. “I would rather do something that is meaningful, and have the experience of being one-on-one, me in front JEWISHEXPONENT.COM a visible activist for peace. 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Roth couldn’t be said to have been a pig-headed patriot, nor a refl exive critic of the country where he lived. But the man that emerges from his collected work — 31 books, some good, some bad, some sublime — is one that Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company seems like he could’ve only come from here. Blake Bailey’s new biography of Roth — “Th e Biography,” as it’s subtitled — tells the story of Roth’s life and career in a way that he deserves. Bailey, who was given total access to Roth and his papers, is obviously a partisan for Roth in some fi ghts, including one key battle, but recounts every scandal and airs every grievance, fi nancial, literary, fi lial, romantic or other- wise. Roth may have Bailey in his corner, but Bailey sends him back to the ring for every round. Having previously written biographies of titanically gift ed and personally fl awed writers like John Cheever and Richard Yates, Bailey must have smiled when Roth gave him his charge, the one that’s used as the epigraph of this book: “I don’t want you to rehabilitate me. Just make me interesting.” Th at’s all Bailey’s ever done for men like Roth. Granted, it would be diffi - cult to make one of the most decorated writers in American history uninteresting. He was also one of the most famous writers in the country at a time when a novelist could be a bona fi de celebrity and, on top of that, he had a tendency toward bed-hopping, courting the ire of his co-religionists and dispar- aging just about anyone and anything on the record. What other novelist could claim the B O O KS JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF ANOTHER MONTH, another slew of exciting new Jewish books. We wish we could review them all, but the space available is fi nite, and there’s a whole lot of other stuff going on. As a consolation prize, we’re highlighting fi ve new releases coming out this month that we think you’ll enjoy. Happy reading! Courtesy of Paul Dry Books B OOKS An April Shower (of Books) “Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption and the Way of Israel” (April 6) Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum Courtesy of Knopf Review: “Philip Roth: The Biography” Kass, a conservative bioethi- cist, has written a few of these close-reading volumes that deal with Tanach texts. Th is newest iteration, written with his granddaughter Hannah Mandelbaum, explores the Book of Ruth. Th e pair found a rich vein in which to both blast See Roth, Page 26 and chisel, and their reading is, if not particularly novel, at least a clearly rendered introduction to the text and the traditional questions that surround it. 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It’s on the smaller side, just 179 pages, with almost nothing in the way of pre- or postscript, and a spare cover. “Antiquities” takes the form of a sort of dramatic monologue from Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, an elderly man who once served as the trustee of a long-defunct synagogue, now preparing his memoirs. “Antiquities” is best encountered knowing that and no more; its quiet subtlety demands it. “The Passenger” (April 13) Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; translated by Philip Boehm Th e text of “Th e Passenger” is translated into English for the fi rst time, and we’re lucky to have it. Written in haste in 1938, the book follows Otto Silbermann, a Jewish businessman in Germany who See Books, Page 26 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM COMMUNITY NEWS The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia mobilizes financial and volunteer resources to address the communities’ most critical priorities locally, in Israel and around the world. Giving Others a Turn: Local Jewish Leader to Auction Off Private Vintage Game Collection BUD NEWMAN IS WIDELY KNOWN as a pillar in the Jewish community. A member of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s board of directors and board of trustees, Newman has previously served as the board chair and held a number of positions on other committees. But outside his leadership and philanthropic works, members of the commu- nity may not know that Newman holds one of the country’s largest private collections of games. After spending the last 45 years traveling throughout the United States collecting antique games from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Newman is ready to say goodbye to the massive collection. He and his wife, Judy, will auction off more than 1,000 vintage American board games and jigsaw puzzles, as well as antiques and folk art, later this month. Recognizing it is time to fold on his collection, Newman is excited that other historical game buffs will be able to learn from games that reflect the period of time in which they were made and sold. “I consider myself lucky to offer the collection to others who have the same passion for the history of games and understand their importance in the political and historical landscape of our culture,” Newman said. For example, the game “Billy Possum,” which is included in the collection, was used to advance President Howard Taft’s popularity, similar to how the “Teddy Bear” was used to promote President Theodore Roosevelt. “Others will now have the opportunity to purchase, display and learn from these games while sharing them,” Newman said. Having grown up in the paper industry, Newman has maintained a lifelong appreciation for how games are designed and constructed. “What drew me in part to start collecting board games and puzzles was the way they exemplified the unique printing methods of the times,” said Newman, president of Newman and Co. “The quality of work, the colors used and their ability to survive through the decades is outstanding.” A family business, Newman and Co. has manufactured paperboard for more than 100 years. Used for the production of notebooks, cosmetics packaging and countless other everyday items, the 100% recycled material is also the main ingredient for the manufacturing of board games and jigsaw puzzles. Over the past year, as families purchased many more games and jigsaw puzzles to entertain themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic, Newman has seen a significant increase in demand for the paperboard his business produces. “The fact our business is doing so well right now, partly because board games and jigsaw puzzles are gaining popularity once again, shows the ability for these forms of entertainment to survive across generations,” he said. Newman’s collection has something for everyone in the family and for all JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Bud Newman holds a 1902 edition of the classic McLoughlin Bros. “Punch & Judy Ten Pins” game that will be up for auction. Bud Newman shows one of his auction items, a painted gaming wheel from 1900. Photos courtesy of Debbie Rose interest types. The collection spans games of many topical areas, including sports, geography, morality, finance, military and more. There are also kid-friendly games that aim to teach children good behavior, dexterity and how to recognize shapes, colors and patterns. Thanks to the care the Newmans provided over the years, the collection is in pristine condition. Taking pride in their finds, the Newmans have framed and displayed a number of games in their home, preserving their integrity and showing off the box covers, which are works of art in themselves. A few years ago, the Mercer Museum in Doylestown even included pieces from the Newman collection in its ToyTime exhibition, which showcased some of the most popular action folk toys and games from around the world. “It’ll be interesting to see how the market responds to this enormous and amazing collection,” said Noel Barrett, game and toy expert at the Pook & Pook auction house and past appraiser on hit television show “Antiques Roadshow.” “It could create a renaissance in game collecting.” Newman’s collection goes up for auction on April 23 with items available online. Visit jewishphilly.org/antiques or Bidsquare.com to learn more about his collection. JEWISH EXPONENT APRIL 15, 2021 19 T orah P ortion The Unbearable Lightness of Tazria-Metzora BY RABBI GLENN ETTMAN Parshat Tazria-Metzora I HAVE TAZRIA! Great! I am the rabbi that gets to write about the diseases of the Bible. Even though, in a year like this one, we can connect even deeper with the idea of infec- tious diseases, Tazria-Metzora, the double Torah portion for this week, is challenging. Someone with tzaraat (this disease) has to be banished from the commu- nity, to quarantine and to stay safe in order to protect the sanctity of the larger community. This idea sounds familiar, doesn’t it? For a whole year, we have dealt with the challenges of quarantine. But also, for a whole year we have begun to see some of the beautiful elements of slowing down, looking around and embracing elements of newness in our lives. Tazria-Metzora gives us an opportunity to see things a little differently. In the beginning of the parsha, we read about what happens when someone has tzaraat and the causes to be put outside of the community. Many of us know all too well the anxiety of being away, not allowed to be with a group and isolated from what is comfort- able, known and familiar. Maybe there is a reason in being outside other than quarantining the illnesses of the community. Maimonides explains that tzaraat is not a natural phenomenon but a sign to warn the people of Israel not to say evil things about each other. The time outside of the community was a time for the person to think about what s/he has said or done. When we find ourselves outside our world of comfort or regular life, we are not lost; rather, we are in something called liminal space. The concept of liminal space was most famously posited by the cultural anthropologist, Victor Turner, who writes extensively about the need for humans to strive to find a commu- nity of like mindedness and togetherness. Vacillating on the idea of liminality, or the feeling of being in-between and lost, and the need for communitas, the deep sense of what a community provides, Turner shows that humans are programmed to strive to find togetherness. When we find ourselves in this liminal space, however, we are more open to realize the beauty and newness of what is around us. Tazria is liminal space. Perhaps Maimonides is onto something that being outside our camp of comfort is the time we are forced to stop and think, to take stock of what is going on and pause the frantic rhythms of our lives. It is kind of like the Israelites, wandering in the desert. They are neither here nor there, but they are somewhere. Sure, they kvetch about missing the fish and cucumbers of oppression and they yearn for the savory milk and honey of freedom and complain that they feel like they are nowhere, but they are not. They are actually somewhere. And that somewhere is a wondrous place. They are in a desert of possibility — both literal and metaphoric. A place of reds and yellows and oranges reflecting off of the horizon. A cool breeze bringing on the evening crispness. The blossoming of something new. A white flower blooming on the coarse cactus which reveals the possibilities if you look at it right. The liminal space, and the darkness of feeling nowhere in the desert, can really be the illumination of being somewhere. I used to think about this a lot in the airport. People come and people go; people are never really there. They are always moving from one place to the next — going home. Coming back from vacation. Stuck in the seemingly non-space of a sterile terminal. Anxiously awaiting the next leg of your journey. CAN DL E L IGHTIN G April 16 April 23 But while you are not physi- cally at home or actually at your final destination, you are not nowhere. You are somewhere. Looking at the numbers at the gate allows you to take time from your frantic running and important emails. Marveling at the beauty of what is beyond the windows gives us a chance to think and realize. The “non-space” of transit, this liminal moment is really only in our minds. The perceived non-space is the actualized somewhere of great possibility. Where so much can happen. The Israelites are in the desert which, while it can be liminal space, is the place of revelation, inspiration and realization. God did not reveal Torah to the people in Egypt or in the Promised Land. It was in the desert, this liminal space, that we received the Torah! This Torah portion reminds us that it is OK to enter into the non-space and encounter the liminal moments in our lives in order to have these revelations. While the laws concerning quarantining skin disease, in the Bible, and in our personal recent experience, can seem like a sentence of separation, we need to realize that value of what Maimonides has taught us because it forces us to stop, and think, and evaluate. Tazria-Metzora comes at the 7:22 p.m. 7:30 p.m. right time for each of us as we now are beginning to see new hope on the horizon with vaccines, but we must never lose sight of what we have learned and what we can use in our future. It is about perspective. Being outside our respective camps of comfort of everyday life has helped many people see greater beauty and have a greater connection to others. These are the lessons that we must continue to take with us as live our lives boldly in the coming weeks. Ask yourself, how are you going to handle the “outside”? How are you going to cope with the difficult and the liminal? Are you ready for the new to be revealed? The darkness of an encroaching ending is really the illumination of a new begin- ning. It is all in how you look at it. I have Tazria! Great! l Rabbi Glenn Ettman is the senior rabbi at Congregation Or Ami in Lafayette Hill. The Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia is proud to provide diverse perspectives on Torah commentary for the Jewish Exponent. The opinions expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of the Board of Rabbis. Be heard. Email your letters to the editor. letters@jewishexponent.com 20 APRIL 15, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM C ommunity / mazel tovs B I RTHS ANNIVERSARY CHASE ETHAN CLAVER MARKS Marilyn and Mel Claver of Wynnewood announce the birth of their great-grandson Chase Ethan Claver on Dec. 9. Alyssa and Joshua Claver of Chicago are the parents. Sharing in the happiness are Chase’s grandparents Alan and Maurine Claver, Don Antram, Jamie Antram and David Evans; great-grandparents Fred and Sue Weller and John and Carol Evans; and aunt Melissa Claver Elizabeth and Edward Marks of Philadelphia celebrated their 75th anniversary on April 13. Their three children and spouses, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren rejoice in their remarkable achievement and simcha. Photo by Joshua Claver BARAK TZVI AND LAVI SHALOM NAUSS Miryam (née Kornfeld) and Guy Nauss are the parents of identical twin boys, Barak Tzvi Nauss and Lavi Shalom Nauss born on March 26 in Astoria, New York. Maternal grandparents are Tom and Sara (née Caine) Kornfeld of Denver. Paternal grandparents are Moshe and Carmela Nauss of Givat Shmuel, Israel. Maternal great-grandparents are Burton and Shulamith Caine of Cynwyd, and Donna Kornfeld and Edwin Kornfeld z”l of Denver. Paternal great-grandmother is Sara Cohen of Bnei Brak, Israel. Photo by Miri Kornfeld Nauss Photo by Bonnie-Kay Marks COMMUNITYBRIEFS Gratz College Combines Three Programs as Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights GRATZ COLLEGE announced that it established a Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights to combine three of its fastest-growing academic programs under one roof. Under the direction of Ruth Sandberg, the center will house three programs with overlap- ping curricula: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights and Interfaith Leadership. By grouping the programs, the center “promises to enhance learning opportunities, stream- line programming and encourage collaboration with academic organizations at other colleges and universities,” Gratz said in a news release. “All three of these individual programs address human problems that are universal: hatred, intolerance, inequality and violence,” Sandberg said. “In this new center, we can really JEWISHEXPONENT.COM focus on educating people so we have less misunderstanding and less ignorance, and, therefore, less hatred and less violence in the world.” The center will allow students enrolled in any of the three programs the flexibility to design their own curriculum and cross-register for courses that fit their individual needs. It also will provide support for existing resources and programming, such as the biennial Arnold and Esther Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-in and the Holocaust Oral History Archive. Sinakin, who has the Star of David emblazoned on his trunks, was profiled in 2018 by the Jewish Exponent. Before every fight, Sinakin’s team circles up, putting their arms around one another. Sinakin and his father, Lincoln, recite the Shema — in Hebrew and English — before the boxer breaks out into the personal prayer he composed: “Please give me the strength of Samson; please give me the courage of King David; and please give me the wisdom of King Solomon. Amen.” ‘The Jewish Bulldog’ Suffers First Professional Loss Boxer Benny Sinakin, whose nickname is The Jewish Bulldog, suffered his first professional loss on April 3 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, falling to Bronx, New York-based Nigerian Afunwa King. Sinakin, 23, fell to 6-1, with three knockouts, as two judges ruled 58-56 for King, while the third judge ruled it even at 57-57. Real Estate Agent Rita Roy Dies at 98 Rita Roy, 98, who became a real estate agent in her 50s and remained active into her early 90s, died April 2 at her Center City home. Olney native Roy and her late husband, Charles, a wedding and portrait photographer, opened LeRoy School of Photography after World War II, where Temple University sent students for credits in photography, son JEWISH EXPONENT Phillip Roger Roy said. In 1950, they opened a fashion photog- raphy studio in New York City’s garment district. Later, Rita Roy managed the Blue Bird Bridal Shoppe on South Street, owned by her mother- in-law, and briefly worked for her son at his Grendel’s Lair Cabaret Theater on South Street while she studied for the real estate exam. She worked at Jackson- Cross Co. and at Prudential Fox & Roach, where her ads dubbed her “The Mother of All Realtors.” l — Compiled by Andy Gotlieb APRIL 15, 2021 21 C ommunity / deaths DEATH NOTICES BRENNER Gregory Brenner, April 6, 2021 of Langhorne, PA. Beloved husband of Eleanor (nee Fur- man); loving father of Adam (Olga) Brenner and Nancy (Alex) Chanin; adoring grandfath- er of Michelle, Andrew, and David Chanin; de- voted brother of Moishe (Emma) Brenner. Services and interment were private. Be- cause Gregory was a Holocaust survivor, the family requests that, in lieu of flowers, contri- butions in his memory be made to the Jew- ish National Fund www.jnf.org JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS www.levinefuneral.com BRINKMANN Klaus Brinkmann, April 3, 2021 of Gladwyne, PA. Beloved husband of Alice Saligman- Brinkmann. Devoted father of Stephen (Alis- on) Brinkmann and Ardys Persson. Cher- ished brother of Karin Brown. Loving grand- father of Nicholas and Rhena Brinkmann, Kyra and Sean Persson. Services and Inter- ment were private. JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS www.levinefuneral.com DEATH NOTICES EMERSON Ronald L. Emerson, April 8, 2021, of Burling- ton, NJ, formerly of Bucks County and Lake Wallenpaupack, PA. Husband of Lee Emer- son. Father of Marilyn Emerson, Larry (Tracey) Emerson and Martha (Jeff) Saper- stein. Brother of Sandra (Warren) Kurzrock. Also survived by 7 grandchildren. Contribu- tions may be made to B’nai Harim, P.O. Box 757, Pocono Pines, PA 18350. PLATT MEMORIAL CHAPELS, Inc. Cherry Hill, NJ FEIGENBAUM Sharon Beth Feigenbaum (nee Rabinowitz). April 7, 2021 of Bala Cynwyd, Pa. Devoted wife of the late Paul. Loving mother of Marc (L e a h ) F e ig e n ba u m a n d Ho pe (L e e ) Kirschner. Cherished sister Joan Isaacson and the late Carol Rosengard.Proud grand- mother of Joel Feigenbaum (Danielle Gel- fand), Bryan Kirschner (Danielle Assour),and Brittany Kirschner (Blake Rosen). Donations in Sharon’s memory may be made to The Alzheimer’s Association-Delaware Valley Chapter, Abramson Senior Care or the char- ity of the donor's choice. JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS www.levinefuneral.com FELDMAN Marc Feldman, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away quietly in his sleep on March 26, 2021 at the age of 69. He is survived by his wife, Barbara (née Horwitz). He is also survived by his loving mother, Norma (the late Ralph) Feldman. He was a loving father to Scott (Linda) and Stephanie and a dear brother to Rand and Lisa (Ron) Krader. A private ser- vice was held on March 30, 2021. Contribu- tions in Marc's memory may be made to the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. DAVIS 7 Deadly Mistakes That Will Cost You Thousands When You Sell Your Home Philadelphia - A new report has just been released which reveals 7 costly mistakes that most homeowners make when selling their home, and a 9 Step System that can help you sell your home fast and for the most amount of money. 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This report is courtesy of Larry Levin, Realtor, Realtymark Associates. Not intended to solicit buyers or sellers currently under contract. Copyright © 2021 22 APRIL 15, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT Doreen Sue Davis (1954-2021), passed away on April 7, 2021 after a courageous and steadfast twenty-one year battle with meta- static breast cancer. She fought the disease with the same determination and tenacity that fueled her rise from a childhood of extreme poverty to the top of the legal profession. Doreen had no childhood interaction with the legal profession to serve as a role model in her hometown of Harvey’s Lake, a small town near Wilkes-Barre. Every achievement was her own. Doreen held leadership roles in top Philadelphia and New York law firms, ulti- mately being named among the top labor lawyers in the country. At the time illness forced her to retire, she was lead counsel in the largest litigation ever before the National Labor Relations Board. Doreen believed that her greatest accomplishment was her daugh- ter, Samantha Simmons. When Samantha was in elementary school, Doreen was elec- ted to be chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the first working mother and only the second woman to serve. Doreen was equally proud of Samantha’s choice to become an attorney and of her loving mar- riage to Jason Besecker. Doreen also is sur- vived by her husband of nearly thirty-two years, Robert Simmons, as well as numer- ous siblings, nieces, nephews and their pro- geny. She enjoyed the company of her many close friends and legal colleagues, who, along with her medical caregivers, provided support throughout her course of treatment. A live celebration will be held at a later date when safety will permit us to laugh and cry together. In the interim, raise a toast to her life with a glass of her favored white bur- gundy. Those who wish to remember her with a donation may do so to a charity of their own choosing or in her name to Wo- men Against Abuse or The Breast Cancer Co- alition. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com www.JewishExponent.com FISHMAN Alan Fishman, on April 1, 2021. Beloved husband of Fern (nee Peaceman). Dear brother of Carole Silver and the late JoAnn Miller. Dear brother-in-law of Marline Peace- man and the late Jack Peaceman. Loving uncle of Tami Mysliwiec, Eve-Lynn Miller, Shari Hughes, Sharon Lyons, Tara Silver, Jay Peaceman, Pam Peaceman, and the late Bri- an Peaceman, and their families. He will also be missed by his cat Toby. Graveside ser- vices were private. Contributions in his memory may be made to the American Can- cer Society www.cancer.org. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com FREEDMAN Willard (Bill) Freedman, age 94, born in Phil- adelphia, PA, died on April 4th, 2021 in Broward County, FL. Bill was a WWII veteran of the Army Air Corps and the retired owner of Barlen Associates Advertising Agency. Loving husband of Arlene (deceased), father of Ellen Brooks (Lee), Barton Freedman (El- len) and Lauren Freedman (deceased). Grandfather of Deborah, Michael (Jessica) and Rebecca Brooks, Jennifer (Ben) Comfort and Scott Freedman. Great-grandfather of Maxwell Brooks. Graveside services were held on April 9th at the Star of David Memori- al Gardens in North Lauderdale, FL A Community Remembers Monthly archives of Jewish Exponent Death Notices are available online. www.JewishExponent.com TO PLACE A MEMORIAL AD CALL 215.832.0749 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM C ommunity / deaths DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES LISSY GOLDBERG Daniel M. Goldberg, DDS, April 1, 2021 of Philadelphia and Scottsdale, Arizona; be- loved husband of Beverly (nee Fassler) son of the late Bertha and Max Goldberg. Devoted and proud father of Randolph Goldberg, esq., Jonathan Goldberg, and Dr. Theodore (Shar- on) Goldberg; cherished grandfather of Alex, Olivia, Evan and Justin; brother of Renee Goldberg Saul (Dr. Richard Saul), the late Dr Herbert (Jeanne) Goldberg, the late Lana (Dr. Wayne) Braverman and his late sister-in-law, Dr. Valerie Fassler Levitan. Contributions in Dr. Daniel Goldberg’s memory may be made to American Association for Cancer Re- search, 615 Chestnut St., 17th. Floor, Phila., PA 19106 (www.aacr.org) or Temple Beth Zion Beth Israel or a charity of the donor’s choice. JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS www.levinefuneral.com HILDEBRAND Ricki Lou Hildebrand, April 2, 2021. Mother to Aliza (Richard) Schmidt, Dalia (Shawn) Stephenson, and David (Josh Gaddy) Hildebrand. Sister to James (Sally) Hammer- man and Christina (Michael Schlanger) Atkin. Grandmother to Blaze, Power, Danica, Zachary and Audrey. She had a life-long love for Philadelphia and was actively involved in her community, such as the Rittenhouse Flower Market, Center City Town Watch, art shows at Head House, Greenfield PTA, and the BZBI Sisterhood, among others. She was gentle, selfless, and unconditionally kind. Graveside services were private. Donations in her memory may be made to the Jewish Na- tional Fund, 78 Randall Avenue Rockville Centre, New York 11570 www.jnf.org. GOLDSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com A Community Remembers Monthly archives of Jewish Exponent Death Notices are available online. www.JewishExponent.com Alan Lissy, Dedham, Massachusetts , formerly of Philadelphia, Monroe Township, NJ, and Boynton Beach, Florida, passed away peacefully on April 4th, 2021. He was prede- ceased by his wife of 48 years, Judith Gomberg Lissy and his parents Anna and Joseph Lissy. Alan is survived by David and Suzanne Lissy of Needham MA and Jackie and Michael Brustein of Wayside, NJ. And five grandchildren, who were the light of his life, Julia, Sarah and Dylan Lissy and Jonah and Eve Brustein. Arrangements are under the direction of Rubin Funeral Home, Boyn- ton Beach. Memorial donations may be made in Alan’s memory to the Good Sports Found- ation, www.goodsports.org or the Founda- tion for Jewish Camp, www.jewishcamp.org MITCHELL Marsha L. Mitchell (nee Podolsky), April 4, 2021, of Atlantic City, NJ. Beloved wife of 42 years to Alan Mitchell. Loving mother of Ju- lie (Lonnie) Factor and Lance Mitchell. De- voted sister of Jay Podolsky. Proud mom mom of Leila Mitchell. Best friend to Yogi. Marsha was a retired elementary school teacher. She taught in Philadelphia, PA. After retirement she took her love for cooking to the next level and became a culinary wizard. She was an avid reader and won numerous contests and awards for her accomplish- ments. But her first love was for her family. She was a gentle, non-confrontational gem. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Contributions in her memory may be made to the American Heart Association 1617 JFK Blvd, Suite 700, Philadelphia, PA 19103 or phil.health.fair@heart.org. ROTH-GOLDSTEINS' MEMORIAL CHAPEL www.rothgoldsteins.com REDNER Salomon (Alex) Redner of East Norriton, PA, passed away on April 4 th , 2021 peacefully in his sleep. Alex was born on July 9, 1929 in Lwow, Poland. He survived the Holocaust in hiding with his parents, Marek and Bron- islawa Redner, and sister Emilia Redner Po- lakiewicz, all deceased. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Lily Lustig Redner, four daughters (Isabel Alcoff, Sylvia [Stuart] Greenstein, Barbara [Jeffrey] Hoffman, and Francine [Tim] Wilson), nine grandchildren (Celia Brown, Benjamin Alcoff, Brian Lied- man, Samual Greenstein, Leah Grumet, Joshua Hoffman, Rachel Hoffman, Talia Greenstein, Isaac Wilson), and eleven great- grandchildren. Alex was a brilliant, success- ful mechanical engineer and founder/CEO of Strainoptics, Inc. in North Wales, PA. The family wishes to express appreciation to the staff at Brightview Senior Living in East Nor- riton. Funeral arrangements by Boyd Horrox Givnish Funeral Home, East Norriton. The family suggests donations in Salomon Red- ner’s memory to The U.S. Holocaust Memori- al Museum. BOYD-HORROX GIVNISH FUNERAL HOME TO PLACE A MEMORIAL AD CALL 215.832.0749 DEATH NOTICES SHER Harry Joseph Sher, Esq. April 3, 2021. Be- loved husband of Diane (nee Bernoff). Lov- ing and devoted father of Elizabeth and Jonathan Sher. Brother of Michael Sher. Mr. Sher graduated from Central High School (Class 221), Temple University, and Uni- versity of Michigan Law School. He practiced law in Philadelphia for 47 years. Funeral ser- vices were private. Contributions in his memory may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com DEATH NOTICES WINOKUR Norman Winokur on April 6, 2021. Beloved husband of the late Roberta (nee Frieman). Adored father of Jeffrey (Lisa) Winokur and Rhonda (Jeff) Penecale. Brother of Naomi Finkel. Cherished grandfather of Matthew, Clayton, Carly (Josh) and Paige. Norm had a great sense of humor and a love of life. Private graveside services will be held Sunday, April 11, 2021. Contributions in his memory may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice. GODSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com Chai. News for people who know we don’t mean spiced tea. Every Thursday in the JEWISH EXPONENT and all the time online @jewishexponent.com @jewishexponent.com. For home delivery, call 215.832.0710. 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Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to CHARLES A. HALPIN, III, ADMINISTRATOR, The Land Title Bldg., 100 S. Broad St., Ste. 1830, Philadelphia, PA 19110, Or to his Attorney: CHARLES A. J. HALPIN, III The Land Title Bldg. 100 S. Broad St., Ste. 1830 Philadelphia, PA 19110 ESTATE NOTICES ESTATE of ARTHUR L. DAVIS, Deceased Late of Lower Providence Town- ship in Montgomery County, PA and previously Philadelphia in Phil- adelphia County, PA LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same, and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to Elliott Davis, Executor 1919 Chest- nut Street #1913 Philadelphia, PA 19103. ESTATE of BETTY J. LANCIT- WALKER, Deceased LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the Estate of the decedent to make known the same, and all persons indebted to the decedents to make payment without delay to Lynn Tucker-King, Executrix c/o her attorney Vincent Carosella, Jr., Es- quire Carosella & Associates, P.C. 882 South Matlack St., Suite 101 West Chester, PA 19382 or to their attorney: Carosella & Associates, P.C. Vincent Carosella, Jr. Esquire 882 South Matlack St. Suite 101 West Chester, PA 19382 ESTATE OF BRENDA J. DERRICK- SON, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to WANDA A. RAGINS and REGINALD DERRICKSON, ADMIN- ISTRATORS, c/o Charles A. Jones, Jr., Esq., P.O. Box 922, Glenside, PA 19038, Or to their Attorney: CHARLES A. JONES, JR. P.O. 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VENTNOR ESTATE NOTICES ESTATE NOTICES ESTATE NOTICES STATEWIDE ADS ESTATE of Juan Padilla; Padilla, Juan, Deceased Late of Philadelphia, PA LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same, and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay, to: Elizabeth Padilla, David W. Crosson, Esq., Crosson Richetti & Daigle, LLC, 609 W. Hamilton St., Suite 210, Allentown, PA 18101, Administratrix. Crosson Richetti & Daigle, LLC 609 W. Hamilton St. Suite 210 Allentown, PA 18101 ESTATE OF MARY FRANCES HART a/k/a MARY F. HART, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to GLYNIS PRITCHARD, EXECUTRIX, 412 Sedgefield Dr., Greenville, NC 27834 NONPROFIT CORPORATION - No- tice is hereby given that Articles of Inc. were filed with the PA Dept. of State to incorporate JEPP – Jewish Emergency Preparedness Project under the provisions of the PA Nonprofit Corp. Law of 1988, as amended. The corp. is formed ex- clusively for charitable, scientific, and education purposes, all within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. In particular, the corp. shall educate and train Jewish communities to react effect- ively in the event of an emergency. 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Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to ANTOINE SIMS, ADMINIS- TRATOR, c/o Danielle M. Yacono, Esq., 2202 Delancey Place, Phil- adelphia, PA 19103, Or to his Attorney: DANIELLE M. YACONO THE LAW OFFICES OF PETER L. KLENK & ASSOCIATES 2202 Delancey Place Philadelphia, PA 19103 ESTATE OF ROBERT M. BRAD- FORD, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to DANIEL BRADFORD, EXECUTOR, 3500 SE Morningside Blvd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34952 ESTATE OF RODNEY CRAWFORD, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to EVETTE BRADLEY, AD- MINISTRATRIX, 6716 Limekiln Pike, Philadelphia, PA 19138, Or to her Attorney: DAVID V. BOGDAN 100 S. Broad St., Ste. 1520 Philadelphia, PA 19110 FICTITIOUS NAME Fictitious Name Registration Notice is hereby given that an Ap- plication for Registration of Ficti- tious Name was filed in the Depart- ment of State of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania on Decem- ber 02, 2020 for Michy’s Kitchen at 7742 Wagner Way Elkins Park, PA 19027. The names and address of each individual interested in the business are Abel Calero and Gladys Calero both located at 7742 Wagner Way Elkins Park, PA 19027. This was filed in accord- ance with 54 PaC.S. 311. 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Roth was 26 when he published his first novel, “Goodbye, Columbus,” and given the heavy overlap between Roth’s personal and artistic life — a theme that Bailey returns to frequently — it’s a fool’s errand to speak of Roth’s life, career and fi ction as cleanly distinct from one another. Roth tried in vain to make that distinction even as he wrote book aft er book about philan- dering Jewish writers from Newark, occasionally named Philip Roth. He never made a convincing case; from “Th e Ghost Writer” to “Portnoy’s Complaint” to “I Married A Communist,” plot points and characters are clearly taken from his personal life, and his protagonists’ insights are imbued with unmistak- able Roth-ness in content and articulation. Books Continued from Page 18 ADVERTISE YOUR LEGAL NOTICES AND LEGAL SERVICES WE GUARANTEE THE BEST RATES! WE CIRCULATE THROUGHOUT THE TRI-STATE AREA (PA, NJ, DE) CALL THE CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FOR DETAILS 215-832-0749 or 215-832-0750 classifi ed@jewishexponent.com FAX: 215-832-0785 26 APRIL 15, 2021 fi nds his country shunning him at every turn. Determined to fi nd answers, he begins boarding train aft er train, crisscrossing the place he once thought of as home. Th us, the story has some eerie insight into the centrality of the train in what was to come. Th e sometimes-frantic prose is a testament to the period of its composition — the weeks aft er Kristallnacht — but there are fully formed ideas, characters and stories here. “The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art” (April 20) Written by Cynthia Levinson; illustrated by Evan Turk JEWISH EXPONENT And so when he publishes “Goodbye, Columbus,” and becomes Philip Roth, novelist, the distinction between writer and person that was easier to make about a Ph.D. student evaporates. When the book was lambasted by the ADL, the Rabbinical Council of America and countless letter writers, accusing of him of having sullied the name of American Jews in the name of self-ha- tred, enrichment or some other nefarious reason, he reacted as if he was personally insulted, because he had been. When foes at Th e New York Times passed down negative reviews of his novellas without passing judgment on him personally, he also reacted as if he’d been personally insulted. Roth as Misogynist, a label that dogged him as a person and a writer for his entire career, is given an extensive hearing, and for good reason: He did a lot of hateful things toward women, and the women in his novels could be broadly drawn sex objects, nags or shrews. His relationship with Claire Bloom, chronicled in her explo- sive 1996 memoir, accused him of emotional abuse and manipulation, among other off enses. Roth worried that her book would be the fi nal word on the subject of his relation- ship toward women, and given Bailey’s partisanship in this arena, this book can occasion- ally read like Roth’s personal riposte to Bloom and all women, as when Bailey calls the journal of Roth’s fi rst wife “a pretty insipid piece of writing.” Th ere’s so much more to be said on all of these subjects. Every U.S. literary magazine and newspaper with a books section has written about this book in the past few weeks, but no single review has widened the lens enough to capture the fullness of Roth’s life and work. Th ere is too much to be said about his qualities as a writer, as a Jew, as a man, as a celebrity. Luckily, there was one guy with the space to say it, so this really is a book worthy of being called “Th e Biography.” ● Th is is a sweet, beautifully illus- trated book. Turk takes Shahn’s art as a clear inspiration without mimicking the source material too closely, and Levinson’s story of a growing political and artistic conscience seems pretty acces- sible to young readers. For the budding Ben Shahn in your life. A mysterious message from a stranger throws it all into fl ux. ● “At The End of the World, Turn Left” (April 20) Zhanna Slor I came into this book knowing nothing about the writer or her work and came out wanting to know a lot more about both. Slor’s novel is about a pair of Jewish sisters born in the USSR but still trying to fi nd their place in the world. One of them thinks it’s Israel, and the other one has no idea what it might be, except that it isn’t her hometown of Milwaukee. jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 Courtesy of Agora Books Roth Courtesy of Abrams Books for Young Readers WANTED TO BUY JEWISHEXPONENT.COM C ommunity COMMUNITYCALENDAR SATURDAY, APRIL 17 Trivia Night Join jkidphilly’s 10th birthday celebration with a Zoom trivia night for adults. Play on your own or one team per screen. Event starts at 8:30 p.m. and cost is $36. Contact jkidphilly@jewishlearningventure.org for more information. SUNDAY, APRIL 18 Fling into Spring Congregation Beth Or’s Sisterhood hosts its premiere Outdoor Spring Fling from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come for shopping, snacks, summer camp information and a raffle. Located at 239 Welsh Road, Maple Glen. Free parking available. For more information, call Sherry Spector at 215-378-1454. 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