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ownership team (more on the
other half later). Again, useless,
Brooklyn was too exciting.

Budow described the enor-
mity of Brooklyn’s victory to
the students. The event seemed
bigger than the Super Bowl, he
said. Her victory was like the
Abrams’ basketball team beat-
ing the 76ers.

“I said, ‘Susan, you don’t have
a chance to win,’” he recalled.

Meanwhile, his wife, Susan
Fuchs, Brooklyn’s other owner
and her primary trainer,
stood off to the back, keeping
Brooklyn as quiet as she could.

After one growl, Budow raised
his eyebrows to the assembly.

“She’s telling you to be
quiet,” he said.

Fuchs, chair of the depart-
ment of psychiatry at St. Francis
Medical Center in Trenton for
more than 20 years, now runs
her own private practice. She
always looked for new ways to
treat patients, she said, and as she
started to learn more about ani-
mal-assisted therapy (especially
regarding dogs), she became
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more interested. She ended up
getting her master’s degree at the
University of Denver relating to
the subject a few years ago.

When she found Brooklyn
at a breeder in Calgary,
Canada, she knew almost
immediately that Brooklyn
was a good candidate to be a
future therapy dog; Brook, for
short, ran right up to her.

“I said, ‘You know what, I
think she’s good with people,’”
Fuchs recalled.

Now, she’s an active therapy
dog, registration and all, train-
ing up with extra classes a few
times a month, helping Fuchs
give the children she works
with confidence and comfort
during their sessions.

Her victory was unbeliev-
able, Budow told the students.

As Fuchs later said, the politics
involved in tailoring a dog’s
performance and grooming to
specific judges, not to mention
the long hours and resources
that need to be poured into
training, are often prohibitive
to those who don’t spend their
lives doing such a thing. The
people of Westminster, well …
“It’s a very snobby group
of people,” he said. “These
Westminster people have a dif-
ferent view of the world.”
Nevertheless, he focused
on the positives. He showed
her ribbon off to the crowd,
even as he groused that it
came with no cash prize.

He recalled the story of
Brooklyn’s inability to relieve
herself on pavement, so accli-
mated she’s become to the roll-
ing green in Bucks County;
consequently, Brook lyn
was ferried to Central Park,
where she did her business
in dignity.

Budow noted that he was
approached by another com-
petitor who told him how
happy she was to see him and
his wife — the first visibly
Orthodox Jews she had ever
seen at Westminster in her 25
years of attendance.

“This is such a great lesson
for your people,” he told the
children. “You can dream the
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Brooklyn at Westminster
Photo provided
Students sit as still as they can for the presentation.

Jesse Bernstein
impossible dream!” Im tirtzu …
Indeed, it was an improba-
ble victory.

“I was absolutely shocked,”
Fuchs said. “It was so totally
unexpected.” A lot of dogs, Fuchs said,
are sent away to handlers for
years at a time, only rarely see-
ing their actual owners. Fuchs,
meanwhile, did the majority
of the training for Brooklyn.

Additionally, the gung-ho mem-
bers of the dog show world are
out every weekend, establishing
a rapport with the judges. Some
even go so far as to do Academy
Awards season-style campaigns
for their pups, taking out ads in
the industry magazines.

Fuchs introduced a short
video compiled of Brooklyn’s
victory to the students, show-
ing as she was trotted around
a small ring by a gray-haired
woman in heels and a red pant-
suit. There was also a clip of
Brooklyn’s award presentation,
as she panted happily.

The floor was opened for ques-
tions, as well as comments asked
in the form of a question. “I’ve
never seen a dog with so much
fur,” one student asked. “I’m from
Brooklyn,” another inquired.

“How old is Brooklyn?” She’s
4, was the answer. “What is
Brooklyn’s lifespan?” Probably
another decade. “Can she do a
backflip?” That’s a negative. One
student stood up, raised his hand,
was called upon, and with the
eyes of the room upon him, got
too bashful and sat back down.

Speaking of sitting: The
conclusion of the Q&A led into
a display of Brooklyn’s talents.

She rolled over on the ground,
she spun around on her hind
legs, and yes, she sat.

“That’s better than my class at
sitting,” one teacher called out.

“You don’t have to go to
the circus, come to Abrams,”
Budow told the students.

After the presentation ended,
students were invited to pet
Brooklyn on their way to class.

Though Fuchs thought it might be
a bit overwhelming for Brooklyn,
she seemed to enjoy the attention. l
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went through because I want them
to feel something,” said Barrack,
who wore a red sweatshirt with
“#DouglasStrong” emblazoned
across the front. “I want them to
be touched by something so they
know what it’s like.”
Spea kers
i ncluded
10th-grader Zoe Freedman,
who introduced Barrack;
10th-grader Sydnee Ostroff,
who shared statistics of gun
violence; and freshman Rep.

Madeleine Dean (D-District
4), who gave an overview of
the gun control legislation she
introduced to Congress on Jan.

30. A group of students also
sang at the event.

Barrack shared her experi-
ence of the shooting and how
students at her school have
since struggled with trauma
and depression.

That day began nor-
mally for her. She was read-
ing The Catcher in the Rye in
her fourth-period class when
gunshots rang out, and she
dropped her book.

The students knew what
to do because of the school’s
active shooter drills. She and
her classmates crowded behind
the teacher’s desk in the corner.

She heard gunshots “like pots
and pans banging against each
other,” screams from students
in other classrooms and shouts
of “Put your hands up!”
Those shouts were from offi-
cers who had arrived at the
scene. But Barrack thought
they were a group of shooters
in the building.

When those officers broke
down her classroom door, she
thought she was about to die.

The officers escorted the stu-
dents out and instructed them
to keep their eyes forward.

Students looked down anyway,
and Barrack glimpsed bodies
and bullets on the ground. The
air was full of smoke.

“That was it for some peo-
ple,” Barrack said. “That was it
for a lot of my friends. I knew
seven of the victims.”
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She is surrounded at school
by daily reminders of the trag-
edy. Students and teachers
sometimes break out into sobs.

In one of her classes, she sits
next to a student who was shot.

“It was an accomplishment to
even go back to school,” Barrack
said. “A lot of people transferred
schools because the environment
of the school was so different.

Not even just the environment,
the people changed. My friend-
ships changed. I’m not friends
with my best friends anymore,
and I’d rather be friends with
freshmen because they’re not
depressed and they’re not on
antidepressants.” Later in the event, Dean spoke
about her bill, the Undetectable
Firearms Modernization Act,
which would prohibit the pos-
session of a firearm that is
undetectable by airport-level
detection devices.

According to the Gun
Violence Archive, close to
16,000 people were killed and
more than 28,000 were injured
by firearms in 2018.

“What’s awful is we’re no
longer surprised,” Dean said.

“Think about it. This week, we
marked the anniversary of the
Parkland horrific tragedy and
massacre, and then on Friday,
the day after the Parkland anni-
versary, we watched another
horrific mass shooting unfold
at a company in Aurora, Ill.

Six dead, including the shooter,
and at least seven wounded.

Just another day in America.”
Rachel Eisenman,
an 11th-grader and co-president of
KIFTY, said the group of teens
organized the gun control preven-
tion event in about two weeks.

“Me and my friends, we
really did that. We pulled that
off,” Eisenman said. “We were
really proud of ourselves and
all the work we had done.”
In mid-January, Rabbi Stacy
Eskovitz Rigler, director of reli-
gious education, took the syna-
gogue’s confirmation class on
its annual trip to Washington,
D.C., as part of the Religious
Action Center for Reform
Judaism’s L’Taken Seminar.

There the students chose to
lobby their representatives for
gun violence prevention, and
one student, Freedman, shared
her version of events from the
Parkland shooting.

It was a story Freedman
shared again at the event on
Feb. 19, when she introduced
her camp friend, Barrack. On
Feb. 14, 2018, when Freedman
heard about the shooting, she
had texted Barrack, wanting to
see if she was OK.

“Three hours,” Freedman
said. “Three hours I sat, staring
at my phone, waiting, waiting
for that one notification telling
me she was alive.”
At a KIFTY meeting in early
February, Rigler suggested to
the students that they should
organize an event honoring
Parkland. The students got to work
organizing the event, with
guidance from Rigler and
others. Freedman reached
out to Barrack about speak-
ing at the event, while Ostroff
wrote to Dean’s office. Shayna
Saltzburg, KIFTY’s member-
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Zoe Freedman introduces her camp friend and Parkland survivor,
Samara Barrack.

ship vice president, set up the
RSVP form. The KIFTY teens
contacted local youth group
advisers, Jewish educational
directors and CeaseFirePA,
which tabled at the event. They
made their own flyers and
press releases.

“I want my teens, who are
post-B’nai Mitzvah, to know
that their responsibilities
and opportunities as Jews
in America begin at age 13,”
Rigler said. “For them, they
were able to truly live out what
it means to be a modern Jewish
teenager. They were able to
speak out for justice, they were
able to give voice to suffer-
ing and they were able to take
action to save a life or save
many lives, and they did that
all in a Jewish context.” l
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