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A sculpture in the shape of a heart was recently installed in the courtyard at Congregation B’nai Israel in St. Petersburg to honor the memory of the Weiss family, who perished in an air-plane crash while on vacation in Costa Rica on Dec. 31, 2017.
The family, Dr. Mitchell Weiss and Dr. Leslie Weiss – both respected physicians at Mor-ton Plant Hospital in Clearwater – and their daughter, Han-nah, 19, and son Ari, 16, were all involved in the Jewish com-munity.
Not long after their deaths, a sculpture was commissioned to be a lasting mem-ory of the family. St. Petersburg sculptor Donald Gialanella, known for using repurposed mixed media, created the work.
By RON KAMPEASJTA news service
WASHINGTON � In an apparent move to shift focus from a government shutdown that polls show many blame on the Trump administration, Republicans are calling out Senate Democrats for failure to pass a bill regarding Israel.
The bill, known as S.1. was slotted by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, as the irst senate bill of the new con-gress � a mini-omnibus package on Middle East policy. It includes two measures popu-
lar with the centrist and right-wing pro-Is-rael communities: One codiies $38 billion in defense assistance for Israel for the next 10 years, the other protects states that pass bills targeting Israel boycotters from being sued.
Senate Democrats countered with a ili-buster to block the Israel-related bill, say-ing they want to focus on reopening the government before Congress considers other business.
Republicans on Tuesday, Jan. 8, could not muster the 60 votes necessary to break
Republicans trying to make shutdown an Israel issue?
JOSEFIN DOLSTENJTA news service
Ben, a Jewish federal employee based in the great-er Washington, D.C., area, is worried about how he will pay for his day-to-day expenses.
A inancial specialist at the Transportation Secu-rity Administration, he hasn�t been working since Dec. 22, when the government shut down.
Ben worries about �even the most basic things,� he told JTA on Thursday, Jan. 10, 20 days into the shutdown.
Where you�re gonna get money to pay for food, to pay for your bills, things that most people would never think of how to even pay for, medicine you need?� he wondered.
He is among some 800,000 federal employees af-fected by the government closure that started after
President Donald Trump said he would not sign a budget deal unless it included his request for $5.7 billion to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ben, who asked not to have his last name used in this article, has been furloughed since the closure began. Some other federal staffers are working with-out pay.
�I�ve just been taking it day by day,� said Ben, who is single. �I think it�s just a matter of being able to plan because the way things are going, I don�t an-ticipate that we�re going to be back open anytime soon. It�s kind of like one of your greater fears com-ing true in a sense.�
He hopes that some of his fears will be allayed soon. Ben has been approved for a loan by the He-brew Free Loan Association of Greater Washington
Jewish groups aid federal employees missing paycheck
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Senate Democrats pushed back against claims on Twitter by
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, that many of
them support the anti-Israel Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement.
SHUTDOWN continued on PAGE 2
(JTA) � New England Patriots owner Rob-ert Kraft is the winner of the $1 million Gen-esis Prize, the so-called Jewish Nobel.
Kraft, 77, will be giving the money “to ini-tiatives combatting anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice as well as attempts to de-legitimize the state of Israel,� according to a statement.
Genesis Prize chairman and co-founder
Stan Polovets in the announcement called the Jewish-American NFL owner and business-man �one of the world�s most generous phi-lanthropists whose charitable giving relects the Jewish value of tikkun olam � repairing the world.�
The award honors individuals who serve �as an inspiration to the next generation of
By BEN SALESJTA news service
Israeli police want him to be indicted in three separate corruption cases.
He�s embattled from left and right for his attacks on Gaza and his policy in the West Bank. He�s made a point of cozying up to con-troversial right-wing nationalist leaders from Brazil�s Jair Bolsonaro to Hungary�s Viktor Orban � and especially to President Donald Trump. Many American Jewish leaders say his policies are driving away Diaspora Jews.
And if the upcoming Israeli election were to be held today, Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu would almost deinitely win for the fourth time in a row. Probably in a landslide.
Why? In a sentence, it�s because enough Is-raelis trust him with their security. To his vot-ers, everything else is commentary.
�They think that if he may have received bribes or played with Israel�s telecom market to have personal gain, this has nothing to do with the way he confronts Iran or the way he handles things in Syria,� said Israeli political journalist Tal Schneider, referring to some of the corruption allegations against Netanyahu.
�I think in Israel, you win elections on se-curity issues only,� she said. �It�s very easy to speak to people�s fears because in Israel, fears are real. It�s in people�s lives on a daily basis.�
the ilibuster and allow a vote on the bills that had languished in the last Congress.
Democrats in both chambers say the business of reopening government must take priority and are resisting any other parliamentary business until that happens. Trump won�t allow spending bills to ad-vance until he gets more than $5 billion in funding for a wall he wants to build along
Union workers demonstrate in Washington, D.C. against the shutdown on Jan. 10.
Can anyone beat Israel PM Netanyahu?
Patriots owner Robert Kraft wins$1 million ‘Jewish Nobel’ prize
Robert Kraft, left, brought a group of NFL Hall of Famers including former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana, right, to Israel in 2017.KRAFT continued on PAGE 11
Miami Jewish teen dies in fall from 9th-floor condo balcony
A day before his 16th birthday, a student at the Hebrew Academy of Miami died in a fall from the ninth story of his high-rise condominium building.
Samuel Farkas of Miami Beach was locked out of his family’s ninth-loor condo on Tuesday evening, Jan. 8, and was trying to climb down the balcony from the loor above when he lost his grip and fell to his death, police told the local media.
Farkas was a sophomore at the Hebrew Academy, a Modern Orthodox school in Miami Beach.
�Our hearts are broken over the tragic loss of Sammy Farkas, a bright, joyous high school student who was loved and appreciated by everyone he encountered,� read the beginning of a post on the school�s Facebook page.
Police Chaplain Rabbi Mark Rosenberg told Local 10 News the teen�s kippah was found in the pocket of his shorts. Rabbi Rosenberg said it is likely he put it there so it would not fall during his balcony-to-balcony climb.
The teen�s father posted an article about the accident on Facebook and wrote in part in the post: �A part of me is gone and will never be back. The anguish and suffering I feel is beyond words. He was a special kid with tremendous love and happiness and I will miss him every second of the rest of my life.�
The family traveled to Israel to bury the teen.
A quarter of all Holocaust victims killed in just 3 months in 1942, study claims
Nearly 1.5 million Jews, or about a quarter of all those murdered during the Holocaust, were murdered in just three months in 1942, a new study found.
The expedited murder rate was part of Nazi Ger-many�s Operation Reinhard for annihilating the Jews of Poland, according to the study published by biomath-ematician Lewi Stone of Tel Aviv University and RMIT University. It was published by Science Advances magazine.
During that time, there was �an intense, 100-day (about three months) surge� of killing in August, Septem-ber and October of 1942, the scholars wrote in the study titled �Quantifying the Holocaust: Hyperintense kill rates during the Nazi genocide.� In August and September, around half a million victims were killed each month.
The majority of the murders were done in three large death camps in western Poland, either by gassing vic-tims or shooting them.
An estimated 5.4 million to 5.8 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust during World War II, ac-cording to the study, though scholars have struggled to estimate exact numbers as oficials attempted to destroy much of the documentation and evidence.
According to Yad Vashem, Israel�s main state mu-seum for the genocide, at least 6 million people died in the Holocaust.
The new study used railway transportation records to identify more accurate numbers of those killed, the authors said. Stone attempted to identify not only how many victims were killed, but also at �the rate in which the genocide proceeded,� he wrote in the study.
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�It�s a good feeling. Certainly it helps ease the stress,� he said.
Last week, the association ap-proved an emergency program to provide loans of up to $2,000 per household to affected Jews living in the Greater Washington area. It has allocated some $30,000 to the program and is reaching out to local synagogues and Jewish organiza-tions to help in case the demand extends beyond that threshold.
Ben said hearing about the pro-gram made him �feel really proud to be a Jew.�
“I thought it’s a good relection of our community as a whole, and the fact that Jews have been always
willing to stand out at the forefront ... and have been willing to help each other out,� he said.
David Farber, the president of the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Greater Washington, told JTA on Wednesday, Jan. 9, that his organization �was happy to step up and respond to what we see as an emerging need and hopefully one that will end soon to ill the gap.”
Founded in 1909, the agency provides interest-free loans to members of the Jewish community to help with needs such as medical and emergency bills, credit card debts and student loans.
Hebrew Free Loan organizations in San Francisco and Austin, Texas, also are providing loans to those affected by the shutdown, the For-ward and J. weekly reported.
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Republicans on Tuesday, Jan. 8, could not muster the 60 votes neces-sary to break the ilibuster and allow a vote on the bills that had languished in the last Congress.
Democrats in both chambers say the business of reopening govern-ment must take priority and are re-sisting any other parliamentary busi-ness until that happens. Trump won�t allow spending bills to advance until he gets more than $5 billion in fund-ing for a wall he wants to build along the border with Mexico in order to limit immigration.
But some Republicans are using the Israel angle as a wedge issue. McConnell�s spokesman, Don Stew-art, took direct aim at the pro-Israel cred of Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, the minority leader who pushed his caucus to block the Middle East bill through filibuster. �It would be a stunning reversal for Senator Schumer to suddenly block security assistance to Israel simply because he can�t work out his differences with President Trump on an unrelated matter,� Stewart told The Washing-ton Post.
Schumer, who is Jewish, routinely tells pro-Israel audiences that he regards himself as a �guardian of Is-rael,� a play on the Hebrew root of his name, shomer, which means guard.
�It�s unfortunate Leader McCon-nell and others have decided to use Israel to play politics,� Schumer�s spokesman Angelo Roefaro told JTA in an email prior to the ilibuster.
The Republican Jewish Coalition joined in blaming Democrats.
�We knew going into 2019 that the Democrats would continue their reckless obstruction and grand-standing,� the group said in an action alert to its members. �Sure enough, Senators Schumer and (Richard) Durbin are leading the Democrats� charge to block a bill
that is vital to Israel and Middle East security.�
The author of S.1, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, alleged on Twitter that Senate Democrats feared bringing the bill to the loor be-cause it would expose how many of them support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions move-ment targeting Israel, which the measure seeks to limit. (Rubio did not offer any evidence to validate his claims, although JTA asked him twice to do so on Twitter.)
On the other side of the aisle, Halie Soifer, the director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, charged that McCon-nell�s gambit is a transparent one. In an interview, she noted that the four components of S.1 � the bill also expands sanctions on Syria�s Assad regime and strengthens the U.S.-Jordan alliance � were under consideration in the previ-ous Congress, when Republicans controlled the Senate, the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives. (Democrats now control the House.)
�If it was so important for Senator McConnell to pass this legislation in the 115th Congress, he could have done so at any time,� Soifer said, referring to the almost limitless power of the majority leader to advance legislation. �He has clearly made a political cal-culation.�
Matt Brooks, the CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, said the GOP leadership thought it worthwhile to pass noncontrover-sial legislation while the border wall issue remains unresolved.
�We might as well use the time to pass something that has unani-mous support in the pro-Israel community,� he said, paraphras-ing the thinking of the leaders. Brooks said it was the Democrats who were �playing politics.�
The American Israel Public Af-fairs Committee declined to com-ment on the matter.
If McConnell is playing the Israel card against the opposite party, it�s a calculation that Demo-crats have been known to exploit in the past.
Democrats used Israel as a cud-gel against Republicans in 1996 and 2013, when GOP lawmakers shut down the government, and again in 2005, when President George W. Bush, facing a crisis after Hurricane Katrina, reneged on promised additional funding to help resettle Israelis pulled out of the Gaza Strip.
While a number of Democratic senators took Rubio to task on Twitter for saying they support the Israel boycott movement, there are Democrats who oppose the anti-BDS legislation because of concerns that it shuts down free speech. The American Civil Lib-erties Union has made a priority of killing anti-BDS laws on the state and federal levels. Liberal pro-Israel groups, like Americans for Peace Now and J Street, have joined the ACLU in opposing the anti-BDS component of Rubio�s bill.
Still, the lead Democrat cham-pioning anti-BDS legislation, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-MD, said on Twit-ter that the boycotts were not the issue at hand right now.
�I�ve worked closely with you on BDS, @MarcoRubio, and disagree with you here,� said Cardin, who in the last Congress authored a bill that would set federal fines for commercial entities that comply with BDS. �The government #shutdown is a crisis, impacting millions of Americans and our economy. We can�t simply proceed with business as usual. Reopening the govt must be our irst priority. #EndTheTrumpShutdown.�
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After serving 13 years as host of the �Sunday Simcha� show � the only Jewish program on the radio in the Tampa Bay area � Steve Schwersky is ready to step down and is urging someone in the lo-cal Jewish community to ill his shoes.
Community radio station WMNF (88.5-FM) has aired the weekly show for 37 years and it is Schwersky�s hope that the show will go on, but he says �it is time to pass the torch.�
Just who, if anyone, will take that torch and run with it, is not known, but anyone interested in keeping the show on the air and serving as host needs to apply quickly to WMNF Program Di-rector Randy Wynne.
Hosting is a volunteer position at the station, which is supported totally by listener donations.
�It has been a pleasure and hon-or to serve community over the last 13 years and it is a little bit-tersweet to give it up,� Schwersky said. He joined the show as co-host with Kevin Frye, leader of the Mike Eisenstadt band, but as Frye became ill and eventually died, Schwersky kept the show going.
The radio station�s website of-fers this description of the show: �The Sunday Simcha runs the gamut in Jewish entertainment and information: music, local an-nouncements, weekly Dvar Torah, interviews, and the occasional political rant. The audience has grown over the years and includes many non-Jews as well. The mu-sic is an eclectic mix, including Klezmer, Chassidic, Israeli, Yid-dish, Ladino, Mizrachi, and con-temporary.�
For years the show had a two-hour time slot on Sundays but last
year was cut back to one hour.For the past few years, after
Schwersky�s daughter Jordyn re-turned from a trip to Israel, she began co-hosting the show, but Schwersky said Jordyn has no in-terest in doing the show solo, so she will leave when he does.
Program director Wynne could not be reached for comment, but Schwersky said every two years around the end of the year Wynne evaluates all the station�s programming and decides which shows will get the ax. All hosts have to re-apply. If there are any programming changes, they are phased in around March.
Schwersky said he is willing to keep serving as host until March, but stressed anyone who wants to take over needs to contact Wynne quickly. To begin the applica-tion process contact him through WMNF at (813) 238-8001 or email him at [email protected].
Schwersky says the job of host � or co-host if more than one person seeks the job – should be illed by someone who can be personable on the radio, somewhat outgoing and who can learn to run the con-trol board. Any applicant for host will have to learn that.
A decent knowledge of Jewish, Israeli and klezmer music is need-ed and the host should know what is going on in Israel and be ready to advocate for the Jewish state now and then, said Schwersky.
When Schwersky does inter-views in advance of the show that need editing, it can add hours to the time he devotes to the show. Otherwise, Schwersky says doing the show usually involves about three hours of travel, preparation and on-air time each week. He also said those considering host-ing might want to ind an off-air or on-air assistant.
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PARIS � Four years ago, a heartbroken Bernard-Henri Levy found some solace in how more than a million Frenchmen marched through this city to pro-test extremism.
The Republican March, as it is known, took place on Jan. 11, 2015, amid national mourning after Islamists gunned down 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satiri-cal magazine and, two days later, four people at a HyperCacher ko-sher store. The silent protesters held signs reading �I am Charlie,� �I am police� and �I am Jewish.�
That march was �something we have never seen before in France and perhaps anywhere,� Levy, a Jewish philosopher and celebrated author, said at the time. �It�s a kind of miracle, this national unity, this feeling of fraternity, this willing-ness by Parisians to go down to the street.�
Four years on, he had hoped it would be a watershed moment for French society, he told JTA.
Change �alas did not come� and the march�s �spirit and promise have been betrayed� by another wave of street protesters, he said: the Yellow Vests movement. What started out in the fall as a series of protests against a hike on fuel pric-es has been mired since in count-less instances of violence against police and a substantial amount of anti-Semitic hate speech.
�Instead of a million people in the street, today we have thousands of homophobes, xenophobes who are anti-republican, anti-journalist and sometimes anti-Semitic. For these demonstrators, it�s as if the bloodbaths never happened,� said Levy, who is scheduled to speak on Feb. 13 at the 92Y Jewish com-munity center in New York about these and other issues.
Anti-Semitic incidents dur-ing protests by Yellow Vests � named for the relective safety vests they wear � have included signs and slogans describing French President Emmanuel Ma-cron as a �whore of the Jews� and their �puppet.�
There have been many cases of protesters performing the qua-si-Nazi quenelle salute, which was created by the French com-ic Dieudonne M�bala M�bala. Dieudonne, a Holocaust denier who has been convicted of hate speech against Jews and others, now delivers his weekly hate ser-mons online on video platforms while wearing a yellow vest.
These cases, as well as anti-Semitic grafiti and chants, are on the �margins� of the Yellow Vests movement, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance
Against Anti-Semitism. But none-theless they have been a feature of that movement since its incep-tion, the bureau�s founder, Sammy Ghozlan, told JTA.
�According to all the indicators at our disposal, the prevalence of anti-Semitism in French society has only gotten worse since 2015,� said Roger Cukierman, a former president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communi-ties.
If that�s true, then the Yellow Vests should neither be singled out as responsible for this situa-tion nor as a consequence of it, ac-cording to Delphine Horvilleur, a Reform rabbi from Paris.
�There have been anti-Semitic expressions,� she said this week on France Inter radio, �but that doesn�t mean the movement has an anti-Semitism problem.�
Violence against police, mean-while, seems to have become a hallmark of Yellow Vests protests � even if only a minority of par-ticipants engage in it. Hundreds of police oficers have been wound-ed in confrontations with Yellow Vests. Attacks on police are par-ticularly troubling to many French Jews, who for the past 15 years have depended on security forces for the protection of their schools, neighborhoods and synagogues.
But the emergence of anti-Semitism as a characteristic of the protests is more terrifying, Lolita Semama, who lives opposite the HyperCacher market, told JTA at the fourth annual commemora-tion of the killings there. About 300 people attended the Jan. 10 ceremony, most of them Jewish. Candles were lit for the victims of the kosher store attack, as well as others � including the Oct. 27 slaying of 11 Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
The oficial part of the ceremo-ny ended with the singing of �La Marseillaise,� the French national anthem. Then, in a move that seemed to feature an air of dei-ance, rank-and-ile participants began signing Israel�s anthem, �Hatikvah.�
�We�re used to anti-Semitism showing itself in discussion and protests about Israel,� Semama said. �But this Yellow Vests busi-ness shouldn�t have anything to do with Jews. It shows that anti-Semitism is just below the sur-face, ready to spill out at any dis-turbance, to blame the Jews.�
More broadly, Levy said, the protests have exposed the po-larization in French society that manifested itself also in the 2017 presidential elections won by Ma-cron. The independent centrist defeated establishment candidates from the Republican and Socialist
parties.A self-professed globalist run-
ning on a platform of economic reform � code name for austerity measures � Macron�s popularity galvanized opponents on the far right and the far left. Marine Le Pen of the anti-immigrant National Front party progressed to the sec-ond round, winning a record 33.9 percent. Jean-Luc Melenchon. an anti-Israel lawmaker from the far-left Unbowed France, won 19.5 percent in the irst round.
It marked the irst time in post-World War II French history that roughly half of the electorate or more voted for far-left or far-right candidates. Many French celebrat-ed Macron�s election as a major triumph over extremism.
�But did you think the extrem-ists would give up?� Levy asked. �No, they were plotting their revenge. And the Yellow Vests movement is it. This is why there is such xenophobia, racism and also anti-Semitism in its midst, because it�s a collection of ex-tremists.�
French Jews overwhelmingly voted for Macron in the inal round. They credit him with keep-ing in place and at times beeing up security placed around poten-tial Jewish targets, a policy begun under his Socialist predecessor, Francois Hollande. Macron also is the irst French president to de-clare anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism, provoking protests by the far right and the far left.
�The government provides se-curity and encouragement for the Jewish community, but the gov-ernment and police can only do so much,� said Frank Semama, Lolita�s husband. �They can�t be everywhere. Sadly, our problem is with parts of French society, not its government.�
There is ample evidence of the presence of far-right agitators in the Yellow Vests movement, including the neo-Nazi activist Herve Ryssen, who was spotted at such a rally as early as Nov. 17. Remarkably, they protest shoulder to shoulder with far-left support-ers in a movement that can ac-commodate both because it has no coherent political strategy or plat-form. Yellow Vests rallies feature calls to reduce taxes, bring down the government and even stage a revolution.
Despite the undeniable preva-lence of extremism in its ranks, the movement still has the back-ing of some centrists, including Marianne Esquit, a middle-aged Catholic supporter of the small Solidarity and Progress party.
�I abhor the violence and rac-ism, but globalization has ravaged the countryside,� Esquit said. �I understand this rejection of the heartless corporate agenda of Macron. It comes from a place of great pain.�
Anti-Semitism among Yellow Vest protesters demoralizes France’s Jews
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Congregation SCHAARAI ZEDEK — 3303 W. Swann Ave., Tampa 33609 詐 Rabbi Joel Simon, Rabbi Nathan Farb 詐 Cantor Deborrah Cannizzaro 詐 Services: Friday, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Torah study, 9 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 876-2377 詐 Website: www.zedek.org. 詐 Livestreaming services 詐 Aぢliated with Union for Reform Judaism
ConservativeCongregation KOL AMI — 3919 Moran Road, Tampa 33618 詐 Rabbi
Howard Siegel 詐 Services: Friday 6:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9:15 a.m.; Monday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m. 詐 Torah study every Saturday, 8:30 - 9:25 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 962-6338 詐 website: www. kolami. org. 詐 Livestreaming services 詐 Aぢliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
Congregation MEKOR SHALOM — 14005A N. Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa, 33618 詐 Hazzan Jodi Sered-Lever, Spiritual Leader 詐 Services: Friday 6:30 p.m., Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Telephone: (813) 963-1818 詐 Website: www.mekorshalom.org. 詐 Unaぢliated
Congregation RODEPH SHOLOM — 2713 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa 33629 詐 Rabbi Josh Hearshen 詐 Cantor Andres Kornworcel 詐 Services: Friday. 6 p.m.; Saturday service, 9:30 a.m.; Mon. – Fri. 7:15 a.m., Sunday, 9:15 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 837-1911 詐 Website: www.rsholom.org. 詐 Aぢliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
OrthodoxBAIS (TEMPLE) DAVID CHABAD — 2001 W. Swann Ave., Tampa 33606
詐 Rabbi Lazer Rivkin 詐 Shabbat Services and meal: Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 9:45 a.m., 7:30 p.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 966-8770 詐 Website: www.chabadofcentrallorida.com. 詐 Email: [email protected]
CHABAD LUBAVITCH of TAMPA BAY — 14908 Peninngton Road, Tampa
33624 詐 Rabbi Yossie Dubrowski, executive director 詐 Telephone: (813) 963-2317 詐 Website: www.chabadoftampabay.com
CHABAD of BRANDON / JEWISH DISCOVERY CENTER — 1578 Bloomingdale Ave., Valrico, 33596 詐 Rabbi Mendel Rubashkin 詐 Services: Saturday, 10 a.m. 詐 Call for location, Telephone: (813) 571-8100 詐 Website: chabadbrandon.org.
CHABAD CHAI of SOUTH TAMPA — 2511 W. Swann Ave. #201, Tampa, FL 33606 詐 Rabbi Mendy Dubrowski 詐 Services: 1st and 3rd Saturday of month, 10 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 922-1723 詐 Website: www.ChabadSouthTampa.com
BAIS MENACHEM CHABAD — 1319 North B. St., Tampa, 33606 詐 Rabbi Levi Rivkin 詐 Shabbat dinner, 8 p.m. 詐 Shacharit service: Mon. & Thurs., 8:15 a.m., Weinberg Village. Mincha service: Mon.—Thurs., 7 p.m., 詐 Telephone: (813) 375-9799, (813) 504-4432 詐 Website: www. bmchabad.com
Congregation BAIS TEFILLAH — 14908 Pennington Road, Tampa, 33624 詐 Rabbi Yossie Dubrowski 詐 Shabbat Services: Friday, 8 p.m. , Saturday 10 a.m. 詐 Sunday Shachrit, 9 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 963-2317 詐 Website: www. chabadoftampaybay.com
YOUNG ISRAEL of TAMPA - 13207 N. 52nd St., Tampa, 33617 詐 Rabbi Uriel Rivkin 詐 Services: Monday - Friday 7 a.m., Friday, 7 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. 詐 Sunday, 9:00 a.m. 詐 Evening services every night at sunset 詐 (813) 832-3018 詐 Website: www. youngisraeloftampa.org
MERKOS CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — 613 S. Melville Ave. Tampa, 33606 詐 Director: Rabbi Lazer Rivkin 詐 Telepone: (813) 966-8770 詐 Website: www.ChabadOfCentralFlorida.com
CampusCHABAD HOUSE JEWISH STUDENT CENTER at USF — 13287 Arbor Point
Circle unit 102, Tampa, 33617, Mailing address: USF Marshall CTR. Box 310, Tampa, 33620. 詐 Rabbi Levi Rivkin 詐 Shabbat Services and meal: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. 詐 Housing Available 詐 Telephone: (813) 504-4432 詐 Website: www.chabadhouseusf.org 詐 Email: [email protected]
CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER at UT – 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Box P., Tampa 33606 詐 Rabbi Levi Rivkin 詐 Telephone: (813) 504-4432 詐 Website: www.chabadut.org
HILLELS OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST— 13101 Sycamore Drive, Tampa, 33620 詐 Rabbi Ed Rosenthal 詐 Shabbat Services: (during academic year) Friday 6:30 p.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 899-2788 詐 Website: www.suncoasthillels.org.
USF CHABAD on CAMPUS — 4506 Sweetwater Lake Drive, Tampa, 33620 詐 Rabbi Pinny Backman 詐 Website: www.USFChabad.com 詐 Telephone: (813) 978-8723
Jewish RenewalCongregation OR AHAVAH — Rabbi Debrah Shenefelt, spiritual leader 詐
Monthly gathering – see website for more information 詐 Telephone: 813-968-7850; email: [email protected]. 詐 Website: www.Orahavah.org 詐 Aぢliated with Aleph.
CITRUS COUNTYConservative
Congregation BETH SHOLOM — 102 Civic Circle, Beverly Hills 詐 Mailing address: Beverly Hills Jewish Center, P. O. Box 640024, Beverly Hills, FL 34464-0024 詐 Shabbat services: Friday, 6 p.m., Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Telephone (352) 746-6258 詐 Website: www.bethsholomcitrus.org
PASCO COUNTYOrthodox
CHABAD JEWISH CENTRE at WIREGRASS — 2124 Ashley Oaks Circle, Wesley Chapel, 33544 詐 Rabbi Mendy Yarmush 詐 Services: Saturday, 10:30 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (813) 642-3244 詐 Website: www.ChabadatWiregrass.com.
UnafiliatedCongregation BETH CHAVARIM – Shabbat services: third Friday at a mem-
ber’s home. Telephone: (813) 957-1269 詐 Email [email protected]
NORTH PINELLAS COUNTYReform
Temple AHAVAT SHALOM — 1575 Curlew Rd., Palm Harbor, 34683 詐 Rabbi Gary Klein 詐 Cantorial soloist, Allison Rosoだ 詐 Services: First Friday: 6:00 p.m., All other Fridays: 7:30 p.m., call for Saturday service time 詐 Telephone: (727) 785-8811 詐 Website: www. ahavatshalom.org. 詐 Aぢliated with Union for Reform Judaism
POLK COUNTYReform
Temple BETH SHALOM — 1029 Bradbury Road, 詐 P.O.B. 313 Winter Haven, 33882-0313 詐 Rabbi Garson Herzfeld 詐 Shabbat evening services: (usually 2nd and 4th Shabbat of the month at 7:30 p.m.) Torah study-Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (863) 292-0722. 詐 Website: www.templebethshalompolk.org. 詐 Aぢliated with Union for Reform Judaism
ConservativeTemple EMANUEL — 600 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland, 33803 詐
Rabbi David Goldstein 詐 Shabbat Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m. Telephone: (863) 682-8616. 詐 Website: TempleEmanuelLakeland.com. 詐 Aぢliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
OrthodoxCHABAD JEWISH CENTER — 2270 Griぢn Road, Lakeland, 33810 詐 Rabbi
Moshe Lazaros 詐 Shabbat Services: Saturday 10 a.m. 詐 Telephone: (863) 937-5565 詐 Website: www.chabadlakeland.org.
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Rabbi Philip M. Aronson, 76, who was ordained nearly 50 years ago and served Congregation Beth Israel of Sun City Center for more than a decade before retirement, died on Dec. 26.
Rabbi Aronson was born on Aug. 14, 1942, in New Haven, CT, and developed an early love of music and involvement in his temple youth group, said Rabbi Carla Freedman, who succeeded Rabbi Aronson at Beth Israel in 2013 and delivered an eulogy at Rabbi Aronson�s funeral at Beth Israel.
�He liked classical music, he liked Tin Pan Alley, he liked some jazz, and he liked rock and roll. Country and western music, not so much,� Rabbi Freedman said. �He told me that some of his happiest moments have been when he was playing music, either on the piano or the guitar.�
As a congregational rabbi, Rabbi Aronson enjoyed interfaith work, and in every com-munity, he served, he was instrumental in creating an interfaith Thanksgiving service.
Rabbi Aronson went to Columbia Univer-sity, and then to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, at the Manhattan campus and was ordained in 1969. He served as an assistant rabbi in Pennsylvania, then as rabbi in Huntington, WV, where he met and married his wife Jean in 1975. From 1975 to 1992, he served a congregation in Elmira, NY, where their two daughters, Shayna and Stacey, were born. The family then went to Peabody, MA.
In 1996, he moved to Florida, working in Jupiter until he semi-retired. �At that point, he began to commute to Sun City Center twice a month, to conduct Shabbat services here, and ultimately, he and Jean moved to Apollo Beach, where they lived until he fully retired in 2013,� Rabbi Freedman said.
Rabbi Aronson served as a volunteer at Hospice in Sun City, both while he served Beth Israel and later. After his irst 25 years in the rabbinate, Rabbi Aronson received an honorary doctorate from Hebrew Union College.
Rabbi Aronson is survived by his wife, two daughters and sons-in-law and three grandchildren.
The family requests donations to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson�s Research or to Beth Israel.
Rabbi Aronson, former Sun City Center congregation spiritual leader, dies
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Cong. Beth Shalom Brandon
Annual fundraiser: The congregation will hold a Red Carpet Gala on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 5:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge of Brandon, 800 Centennial Lodge Drive, Brandon, for its annual fundraiser. The event will be in partnership with the Special Operations War-rior Foundation, which cares for the families of wounded or fallen Special Ops soldiers. Both the foundation and congregation will share in the proceeds. This year�s gala, titled, �Hollywood Salute to Our Heroes,� features a cinema-themed tribute to the military. The evening will feature movie trivia games, door prizes, complimentary red carpet photos, dancing, a buffet dinner and silent auction. The highlight of the evening will be a live art auction that will feature museum/gallery quality art as well as military and movie memorabilia.
Tickets are $40 for adults; $10 for chil-dren aged 7-13; and free for children 6 and younger. Tickets may be purchased by phone at (813) 681-6547 or online, at: http://www.bethshalom-brandon.org/.
Judaism�s 10 Best Ideas: What does Judaism have to say about joy? How can we cultivate more joy in our own life? Explore these questions with Rabbi Bryan
Mann in a monthly adult education session. The next class is Sunday, Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. Afterward the group will go to an area res-taurant for dinner.
Book talk: The synagogue�s Page Turners book club will meet on Monday, Jan. 21 at 6 p.m. to discuss the novel Be-neath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark Sullivan. The book is based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Pino, a young man who helps Jews es-cape over the Alps, falls for Anna, a beauti-ful widow six years his senior, and winds up as a spy inside the German High Command.
Bible and bagels: On the third Sat-urday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon, come to the temple to study the weekly To-rah portion and engage in the words of To-rah over a nosh and coffee. All are welcome.
Cong. Kol AmiLearn about Israel: Guest speaker
Shari Roberts, an Israel tour educator, will speak on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25 and 26 on the topic, �Israel Today: A Tour Guide�s Insight into the Modern State of Israel.� At the Friday talk, at 6:30 p.m., Roberts will speak on changes experienced in Israeli society over the past several de-
cades. On Shabbat on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 9:30 a.m. she will speak on �The 11th Com-mandment: Thou Shalt Walk the Streets of Jerusalem.� Later, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. she will speak on �Poetry and Songs of Israel�s Early Years and How They Relect Israel-Diaspora Relations. The session will con-clude with Havdalah.
L�Chaim: A Sharing Life�s Lessons ses-sion is held on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon. There is a different topic, readings and different leader for each weekly session.
Study with the rabbi: Each Wednes-day from 11 a.m. to noon, Rabbi Howard
Siegel leads a study session on a different topic of Torah using articles written by con-temporary rabbis and Bible scholars.
On Thursdays from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., go swimming in the sea of Talmud with Rabbi Siegel. Jewish law confronts everything from capital punishment to how to make rain. This is open to everyone from begin-ners through experts. Texts are provided.
Judaism 101: Learn everything you wanted to know about Judaism from birth to death, celebration to celebration, Egypt to Is-rael and more with Rabbi Siegel on Tuesdays, Jan. 22 and 29 at 8 p.m. The text for this class is Living Judaism by Rabbi Wayne Dosick.
Cong. Rodeph SholomMovie Night with Andres: Join
Cantor Andreas Kornworcel for a showing of the movie The Women�s Balcony on Mon-day, Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem. This is a rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriar-chal power. There will be snacks during the movie and a brief discussion following the movie. To view trailer go to www.rsholom.org. Everybody is welcome.
Embracing Judaism: Rabbi Josh
Hearshen leads a free class on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. for those interested in learning more about their heritage or in becoming Jewish. Rabbi Hearshen provides a background in everything �Jewish.�
Jammies and jeans Shabbat: Throw on your jeans and get your kids in their jammies for a fun and casual Shabbat celebration on select Fridays at 5:30 p.m. in the chapel. These events are open to the community and invitations of friends are welcomed. The next event will be on Feb. 1 with a Muppet Babies theme.
Rodeph�s got talent: The congrega-tion will hold its talent show on Sunday, Feb.
24 at 3 p.m. with competition for groups or solos in these categories: vocal, dancing, gymnastics, musician, comedian, juggler or magician. This is open to kids or adults from the entire community. For more information go to www.rsholom.org.
Cong. Schaarai ZedekInterfaith MLK Service: Schaarai
Zedek has been invited to worship with mem-bers of the Allen Temple AME Church, 2101 Lowe St., Tampa, to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. Rabbi Joel Simon will speak from the pulpit during the service and the Schaarai Zedek Koleinu choir will also participate in the service.
Grandparents Shabbat: All grand-parents are invited to the temple�s annual Grandparents Family Shabbat Service on Friday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. During the ser-vice, grandparents and their grandchildren will be blessed and the youngest students will be welcomed into the religious school and consecrated.
Vinik to speak: The Brotherhood invites all to attend the annual Steve Marx Speaker Series on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. with guest speaker Jeff Vinik, owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning and a business-man engaged in a massive redevelopment of the Water Street/Channelside area of downtown Tampa. Vinik will share his vision for Tampa�s future and its business growth. There will be an open question and answer session following his presentation and a des-sert reception. There is no charge to attend. RSVP at www.zedek.org/brotherhood or call the temple at (813) 876-2377
Romeo lunch: The Romeo (Retired Old Men Eating Out) lunch bunch, led by Rabbi emeritus Richard Birnholz, will meet for lunch at Shula�s Steak House, 4860
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Politics & pinot: Here is a chance to �talk politics� and learn about wine in the same evening with Rabbi Birnholz and Dr. Ste-
ven Specter on Thursday, Jan. 31 from 7-8:30 p.m. Rabbi Birnholz will discuss the political maneuver-ing of our ancestors in the Bible. Then Specter will share his knowl-edge of wine as you enjoy sampling pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, and merlot. RSVP online www.zedek.org/RSVP or call the temple.
A good it: The clergy staff has begun a �Shabbat for the Body, Mind, Soul, & Stomach� program to offer a new way to make Shabbat morning a part of your week. Feel free to join in any or all parts of the morning. Congregants gather Sat-urday, Feb. 2 at 8 a.m. on Bayshore Boulevard at Bay to Bay Boulevard as a clergy member leads brief morning prayers or shares a word of Torah. Then walk, run or bike along Bayshore. At 9:15 a.m. there will be a discussion of the week�s Torah portion. At 10:30 a.m. a casual, �come as you are� Shabbat morning service is planned. Bagels will be provided, and people are welcome to eat during the ser-vice. This is for all ages � singles, couples and families. RSVP online www.zedek.org/RSVP or call the temple at (813) 876-2377.
Sisterhood Book Club: The club will review �The Address� by Fiona Davis at its next meeting on Monday, Feb. 18 at noon. For more information, call the temple.
Cong. Beth Israel Sun City Center
Domestic abuse discus-sion: Author Sheri Rosedale will speak on abusive relationships at
the syna-gogue on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. This even t i s presented by Sister-hood and the public is invited. Rosedale,
born in Cincinnati but a longtime Miami area resident, was in an abu-sive relationship when she decided to write about it as a release from the swirling emotional turmoil of living with secrets. After sharing some pages of what she had written with a doctor, she was encouraged to share her story and to use it as a tool for other women who ind themselves in toxic relationships. The result was her novel, Sym-phony of Her Heart, based on her own life experiences. Rosedale will have copies of her book for sale (cash or checks only). Refresh-ments will be served.
Chabad Chai of South Tampa
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quence: Chabad Chai of South Tampa will offer a new six-session course by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), Crime and Conse-quence, exploring 3,000 years of Jewish perspective on conviction, sentencing, and criminal rehabilita-tion. Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m., the course will challenge participants� thinking, ponder the
implications of Talmudic wisdom for complex modern cases, and get to the heart of the most press-ing injustices facing our criminal justice system today. The cost for the course is $70 with a 10 percent discount for reservations by Jan. 22. A couples discount is available. Visit www.chabadchai-center.com/JLI for registration and information.
Cong. Beth AmCafe Shabbat: Join this
monthly get together including food and time set aside for prayer. The next Café Shabbat is sched-uled Saturday, Feb. 2 at 9 a.m., sponsored by the Sisterhood. Email
Julie Linick at [email protected] or Victoria at [email protected] for more information.
Talmud study: On Thurs-days, Jan. 24 and 31 at 9:30 a.m., Rabbi Jason Rosenberg leads Talmud study at the temple.
Adult Hebrew class: Ready to up your Hebrew game? Oren
Shahar will help take your abili-ties to the next level. Come learn the basics, no prior knowledge necessary, at a new Introductory Hebrew course on Mondays, at 7 p.m., beginning on Jan. 28. All you need is a copy of the book �Aleph Isn�t Tough.� Classes are free. For more information contact Victoria at [email protected]
Tot Shabbat: A special Tot Shabbat is held on the third Fri-day of each month at 6:30 p.m. as
children from infants up to age 5 and their families welcome Shab-bat with music, prayer and a story, followed by an oneg.
Cong. Mekor ShalomTeddy Bear Shabbat: Take
in an early service with Teddy Bear Shabbat on Friday, Jan 18 at 6 p.m. Come to celebrate Shabbat in a �beary� joyful way. Kaddish will be recited sometime after 6:30 p.m. There will be an oneg Shab-bat right after the service with ted-dy bear friendly snacks.
Bais David ChabadJewish mysticism: A class
covering Chassidic and Kabbal-istic teachings meets Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at Bais David Chabad�s Alon Yedvab Jewish Center. Rab-
bi Lazer Rivkin, regional director of Chabad of Central Florida, will discuss these teachings in context of past and current events in this world and the world to come.
Cong. Bais Menacham Chabad
Torah class: Join a weekly To-rah class on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Tampa. The class explores contemporary issues through a Torah perspec-tive. For more information, con-tact Rabbi Levi Rivkin at (813) 504- 4432 or email [email protected].
Practical kabbalah: Enrich the soul and mind with a touch of kabbalah. Learn practical spiritu-ality for everyday life. Classes are held on Wednesdays, 6:15 - 7 p.m.
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Along with the panel discussion at 11 a.m., there will be a docent tour at 2 p.m. This is a free tour of the show given by experienced docents with information and insight into the artists and their work. Meet at the main entrance to the social hall for the tour.
On both Sunday and Monday the festival features an �Avenue of the Shops� which is a two-day sale of inexpensive art, jewelry and crafts in the temple courtyard. A Boutique Gallery will offer ine art and ine craft at moderate prices.
Soble noted that with all the offerings, there are a variety of price points so folks could spend anywhere from $25 to $5,000. For some of the higher priced art, she said, there are patrons who come every year who plan on making their art purchases at the festival.
Keeping it fresh
Only artists who are invited to show their works can do so. Temple committee members travel to other shows and galleries to ind artists worthy of an invite. There is also a website where artists can show works to the committee in hopes of being selected. Once they are selected, artists can come to the festival, but do not have to be here, as the committee takes care of displaying and selling their works.
Even artists who are popular at the show do not get a free pass to keep coming back. Soble said each year about a third of the artists are new to the festival, keeping it fresh. Art fest favorites get invites to return after a hiatus.
A yearly tradition will continue, as Art Festival Beth-El showcases selected works by talented artists from Pinellas County�s 17 public and private high schools. The festival will award scholarship money to the schools of the winning students.
Art Festival Beth-El continues to grow in popularity and now attracts more than 8,000 people from Tampa Bay and the surrounding areas. Call the temple at (727) 347-6136 for more information.
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The 46th an-nual Art Festi-val Beth-El in St. Petersburg will once again f e a t u r e t he high quality art that has helped the event gain a reputation as one of the pre-mier art shows in the South-east, but this year there will be a new feature � a panel discussion on the business of art.
Since its inception in 1973, when it featured only 20 artists and just one gallery, the festival has grown in size and stature. This year it will showcase more than 170 national and international award-winning artists including a fair number who are new to the festival. The six galleries set up throughout the temple � indoors and outdoors � will feature original paintings, mixed-media, wood, sculpture, ceramics, glass, metal, photogra-phy and jewelry. There will also be signed, limited-edition prints offered by the Syd-Entel Galleries of Safety Harbor.
This year�s event will run from Saturday, Jan. 26 through Monday, Jan. 28 at Temple Beth El, 400 Pasadena Ave. S., St. Petersburg.
Business of Art
There will be a panel discussion on �The Business of Art� by Kevin Lane, self-described �social entrepre-neur� involved in local theater, restaurant and brewery operations, as well as in the Jewish community. The discussion, covering the challenges, successes, evolu-tion and economics of art, will be held in the sanctuary on Monday, Jan. 28 at 11 a.m. Lane will interview local art professionals Bob Devin Jones, Barbara Mazer Gross, Chad Mize, and art festival exhibiting artist, Daryl Thetford. The informal chat will last about 45 minutes with a question and answer session to follow. Ann Soble, festival co-chair, says one point of discussion will be on how the internet has affected the art business.
Also new to the festival this year will be this year�s judge, Bernice Chu, director of the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, a new addition to the downtown St. Petersburg museum scene. Chu will award more than $8,000 in prize money.
The art festival opens with an elegant preview ses-sion on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. with admission of $35. This includes a gourmet cocktail reception provided by the Boyz in the Hood.
On Sunday, Jan. 27 and Monday, Jan. 28, the festival is free and open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Light lunches and snacks will be available for pur-chase from the temple youth group�s café on Sunday.
On Monday at 12:30 p.m. a gourmet luncheon is offered for $20, with reservations required by Jan. 24. Contact the temple to make reservations.
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Polls ahead of the April 9 elec-
tion have Netanyahu�s Likud party
holding a wide lead over a grow-
ing group of competitors in the
opposition. Likud is slated to win
around 30 seats in Israel�s 120-seat
parliament, the Knesset, putting
Netanyahu in the best position to
form a ruling coalition. His clos-
est opponents would get half that
number.
It’s the security, stupidNetanyahu�s international crit-
ics � the United Nations, the Eu-
ropean Union, the former Obama
administration, liberal American
Jewish groups, leading liberal
newspapers � have portrayed him
as too aggressive in Gaza, too
cavalier with the lives of Pales-
tinian civilians and unwilling to
make peace with the Palestinian
Authority. That�s not to mention
the protests over his policies on
African asylum seekers, religious
pluralism in Israel or the status of
Arab Israelis.
But in Israel, polls show that
most Jews think Netanyahu is not
aggressive enough in Gaza. In No-
vember, his defense minister re-
signed, complaining that Netanya-
hu was too risk-averse in deploy-
ing the military. When it comes to
the army, his centrist rivals have
only tried to talk tougher than the
prime minister.
In 2014, following a war in
Gaza that saw Israel pilloried
in international forums, a left-
leaning group of former generals
praised Netanyahu for his �level-
headed leadership.� Jewish Is-
raelis tend to see their ighting in Gaza as a necessary response, not
a war of choice.
On the diplomatic front, both
Israelis and Palestinians have de-
spaired of any hope for a peace
accord anytime soon. The other
topics � from minority rights to
religious policy � generally don�t
even register as election issues in
Israel.
�Security is pretty much always
the number-one issue for Israeli
voters, and it comes before the
diplomatic front when Israelis
rank their priorities in polls,� La-
hav Harkov, a senior contribut-
ing editor for The Jerusalem Post,
wrote to JTA. �He keeps the focus
on security and his credentials as
an expert on that front, as much as
possible.�
It�s true that two former Israeli
generals, both chiefs of staff, have
founded new parties this year spe-
ciically aiming to oppose Netan-
yahu. But so far, neither is attack-
ing Netanyahu directly on security
issues.
Moshe Yaalon, one of Netan-
yahu�s former defense ministers,
said his party would represent
�the good, values-based, clean-
handed land of Israel.� Benny
Gantz, a former general, has only
begun to open up about his plat-
form. In a television interview,
he said he would leave several
West Bank settlement blocs in
place but that an agreement with
the Palestinians would bolster Is-
rael�s security.
�We need established, ongoing
efforts, in light of any challenge,
to reach a diplomatic accord, with
the understanding that this is part
of our resilience, this is part of
our security,� Gantz told Israel�s
Channel 16. �There needs to be a
real diplomatic effort, without be-
ing suckers and without being ir-
responsible.�
A fragmented oppositionA chorus of other candidates
has also failed to match him at the
polls. Yair Lapid, a one-time news
anchor and inance minister who leads the centrist Yesh Atid party,
has a strong base but hasn�t been
able to broaden his appeal. The
once-robust Labor Party, headed
by former telecom executive Avi
Gabbay, is mired in the single
digits.
If anything, the multiplicity of
new parties may only help Ne-
tanyahu by fragmenting his oppo-
nents. The past few elections have
seen several new parties spring up,
all competing for the same bloc of
voters. Meanwhile, the right has
remained relatively united around
Netanyahu�s leadership.
Netanyahu�s opponents say the
only way to beat him is by join-
ing together. Ehud Barak, Israel�s
most recent left-wing prime min-
ister, said Netanyahu would be
defeated only �if, in the center-left
camp, a bloc comes together.� He
called for Yaalon, Gantz and sev-
eral other opposition parties to
unite. But only the opposite has
happened: A center-left alliance,
the Zionist Union, split in dramat-
ic fashion this week.
�The center-right is competing
to lead the state, while the center-
left is competing in an internal
primary to see who has the most
power within its camp,� Ovad
Yehezkel, a former centrist Is-
raeli government oficial, wrote on the Israeli news site Ynet. �In
that sense, the fragmentation of
parties helps the center-right win
elections. And paradoxically, the
center-left rolls out the red carpet
to the Prime Minister’s ofice for its rivals.�
Corruption fatigueNetanyahu�s main problems
of late have been the potential
indictments against him and a
growing aura of corruption. For-
mer Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
(he ended up going to prison)
resigned even before police rec-
ommended that he be indicted.
But that has already happened
for Netanyahu and he shows no
signs of backing down. He has
vowed to remain prime minister
even if he is formally charged
with a crime.
Will that cost him the election?
Probably not, Harkov said. Netan-
yahu frequently demonizes the Is-
raeli press (and, like Trump, often
claims that negative articles are
�fake news�). At this point, Har-
kov said, Israelis are just tired of
the back-and-forth. Netanyahu�s
opponents, as well as government
watchdogs, have called his deci-
sions dangerous to Israel�s de-
mocracy. But if Israelis are feeling
squeamish, it isn�t showing in the
polls.
�There�s so much news about
Netanyahu�s investigations that
they don�t take it seriously any-
more,� Harkov wrote. �Yes, there
are corrupt politicians who go to
prison, but enough people seem to
be willing to shrug the latest things
off as just champagne and cigars
or point to the incessant leaks to
the media as a sign of bias by both
the press and the police.�
Netanyahu�s last election cam-
paign, in 2015, also was plagued
with scandal � though he was not
indicted. Leading up to Election
Day, it appeared he could lose.
But he pulled off a comeback vic-
tory, emerging in a stronger posi-
tion than before. And the longer
he stays in power, Schneider said,
the more inevitable his victories
seem. In Israel, there are no term
limits.
�The people of Israel don�t see
anyone else in Israel who can do
it,� she said. �With the time pass-
ing, he�s getting stronger and
stronger because when you sit in
that chair, you�re the incumbent.
You can use all the facilities to
keep promoting yourself.�
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Holocaust survivors often ex-
hibit mistrust and suspicion of
caregivers. Without specialized
training, caregivers whether
professional caregivers or fam-
ily members � can unintentionally
trigger traumatic experiences from
their past.
Now Gulf Coast Jewish Fam-
ily & Community Services and
Empath Health are teaming up to
provide specialized �trauma in-
formed� training to assist family
members, as well as caregivers, in
understanding how early trauma
affects Holocaust survivors as they
age.
The training session is sched-
uled on Thursday, Jan. 31 from 9
a.m. to noon at Gulf Coast�s head-
quarters, 14041 Icot
Blvd., Clearwater.
This is an extension
of a training program
Gulf Coast�s Holo-
caust Survivor pro-
gram staff created for
homecare aides to pro-
vide trauma-informed
care to Holocaust
survivors as part of a
grant from the Jew-
ish Federations of North America.
Based on the positive feedback
from the home-care aides, and
requests from other support orga-
nizations, the training is being ex-
panded to the survivors� families.
Providing Holocaust survivors�
family and caregivers with such
training allows them to have the
tools that they need to provide the
survivor with a feeling of safety,
trustworthiness and collaboration
as well as empower the survivor
to recognize that theses caregivers
are the experts in their lives. As a
result, interactions are more in-
tentional and driven by mutuality
rather than the traditional model of
decision making by the caregiver
without the input of the patient or
in this case Holocaust survivor.
The trauma-informed care
course has been given to more than
100 homecare aides, case manag-
ers, and agency administrators.
The knowledge gained provided
the caregivers with additional em-
pathy and understanding not only
for the unique traumas that the sur-
vivors endured, but a better under-
standing of trauma-informed care
and how to apply these principles
in a practical way.
�Support intended to help survi-
vors may actually trigger memo-
ries of Holocaust horrors. A simple
thing like cleaning the refrigerator
and throwing away moldy food,
may cause a bad reaction. People
often assume that over time, trau-
ma fades away. Survivors actually
tend to be more easily triggered
as they age, especially with an in-
creasing lack of control over their
bodies and their lives,� said Alison
Solomon, LCSW. Solomon devel-
oped the educational material and
will co-present at the upcoming
training session along with Em-
path Health�s Kelly Siegel.
Empath Health will add its ex-
pertise in family caregiving and the
importance of self-care. �Self-care
is so important for the caregiver as
there are startling statistics about
their own health declining signii-
cantly, if neglected,� said Siegel,
community partnership specialist
with Empath Health.
The program will feature strate-
gies to ward off caregiver burnout
and allow the caregiver to continue
to support their loved ones. It will
include dealing with strong emo-
tions such as anticipatory grief and
resentment, while providing good
care to family members.
Cindy Minetti, Senior Director,
Jewish Family and Counseling
Services at Gulf Coast JFCS, said
that the agency currently provides
homecare support for 145 Holo-
caust survivors in the Tampa Bay
area. �In conversations with their
family members, we have had re-
quests for this type of training,�
she said.
Reservations are required for
the training session and network-
ing opportunity and a continental
breakfast is included. To RSVP or
for more information, contact Ker-
ri Brennan, kerri.brennan@gcjfcs.
org or (727) 479-1811.
Free training offered to better care for aging Holocaust survivors
(L-R) co-presenters Kelly Siegel and Alison Solomon
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Organizations
Norman Jewish LibraryGenealogy lecture se-
ries: A series of lectures on Jew-
ish genealogy aims to provide
guidance and a wealth of infor-
mation for anyone interested in
expanding their family tree and
preserving their family heritage.
Avraham Groll, director of Jew-
ishGen, a premier resource for
Jewish Genealogy, will speak
on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. at a
special Tu B�Shevat Seder at the
Norman Jewish Library,13207 N.
52nd St., Temple Terrace. He will
speak on �Common Challenges in
Jewish Genealogy and How Jew-
ishGen Can Help.” The non-proit JewishGen is afiliated with New York�s Museum of Jewish Heri-
tage � A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust.
The lecture series concludes
on Monday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. at
the library in conjunction with its
monthly Festival Meal Rosh Ch-
odesh. William E. (Bill) Israel, a
founder and past president of the
Jewish Genealogical Society of
Tampa Bay, will present �Finding
Your Jewish Roots: An Introduc-
tion to Jewish Genealogy.�
There is a $10 fee for each lec-
ture, but no charge for students.
For more information and to
RSVP (required), contact Walter
Schlomann at (917) 439- 5888 or
email youngisraeltampa@hotmail.
com.
Genealogical SocietyFind new relatives: Guest
speaker Avraham Groll, director
of JewishGen, will speak at the
Jewish Genealogical Society of
Tampa Bay on Sunday, Jan. 20 at
2 p.m. to provide an overview of
the non-proit organization’s web-
site, a no-cost tool for researching
Jewish family history and heri-
tage. The society will meet at Gulf
Coast Jewish Family & Commu-
nity Services; 14041 Icot Blvd.,
Clearwater. A pre-session social
with refreshments and library ac-
cess begins at 1:30 p.m. Jewish-
Gen�s resources are provided at no
charge as a public service.
For information about the orga-
nization or directions to the meet-ing, call Bruce Hadburg at (727)
796-7981.
Active AdultsAll programs listed are either
at the Maureen & Douglas Cohn
Jewish Community Campus,
13009 Community Campus Drive,
or at the Bryan Glazer Fam-
ily JCC, 522 N. Howard Ave. To
RSVP or for more information on
programs at either center, contact
Pnina Levermore at (813) 291-
2253 or pnina.levermore@Jew-
ishTampa.com. All registrations
should be completed before events
begin.
JetSetters: The Phyllis
Borell JetSetters group meets at
the Cohn campus for an entertain-
ing program on Thursday, Jan. 24
from 11 a.m. to noon. Frank Sina-
tra impersonator Don Juceam of
Florida will perform Sinatra and
Rat Pack favorite tunes. There
is no charge, but a $5 donation
is suggested to cover the cost of
lunch. This is a social group for
people of all ages.
Yiddish nostalgia: Join
Ruth Weston and her faithful
group of Yiddish enthusiasts as
they gather at the Cohn campus to
chat and share favorite expressions
and reminisce on Thursday, Jan.
24 from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Wednesday movie mati-nee: The active adults classic
ilm series will continue with a showing of Menashe on Wednes-
day, Feb. 6 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
at the Cohn campus. The event is
free and includes a beverage and
popcorn.
Chess lessons: Learn how to
play chess on Mondays from 1:30-
3 p.m. at the Cohn campus.
Canasta: Meet in the senior
lounge at the Cohn campus ev-
ery Friday from 3-4:30 p.m. for
friendly games of canasta.
Classical music concert: Seniors are invited to take a trip
to the Mahaffey Theater in St. Pe-
tersburg on Thursday, Feb. 7 from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a Florida Or-
chestra coffee concert.
Conductor Michael Francis
will lead a morning of Bohemian
classics, including Dvorak�s Sym-
phony No. 7, Brahms� Hungarian
Dance No. 10 and Smetana�s Sark.
Join for the music and a coffee
and doughnut pre-concert discus-
sion of music and what composers
are thinking when writing music.
Transportation from the Glazer JCC and the Cohn Campus is
available.
Mah jongg: Folks can play
at both JCCs. At the Glazer JCC, drop-in sessions are offered on
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs-
days from 1-3 p.m. This is free for
all members. All levels of players
are welcome. There will also be a
series of lessons offered on Sun-
days and Wednesdays, March 17
through April 7 at various times at
a cost of $65 for members and $70
for guests.
For more information, contact
Pnina Levermore at (813) 291-
2253.
At the Cohn campus, there are
free open play sessions every
Tuesday and Thursday from 1:30-
3:30 p.m.
News talk: This discussion
group, meeting at both JCCs, is led
by Pat Renfroe and explores �hot
button� issues of the day. Sessions
at the Glazer JCC are Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m.; at the Cohn
campus, the second and fourth Fri-
day from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The
topics of discussion at the Cohn
campus are Administrative Musi-
cal Chairs on Jan. 25 and South of
the Border on Feb. 8. The topics at
the Glazer JCC are: South of the Border on Jan. 22, South of the
Border Continued on Jan. 29 and
Educating Floridians on Feb. 5.
Osher classes: The Os-
her Lifelong Learning Institute, a
program through the University
of South Florida, will offer a pro-
gram on �Meditative and Expres-
sive Hand Drawing� with instruc-
tor Mariam Zimms at the Cohn
campus on Tuesdays from Jan. 22
through Feb. 19 from 1-2:30 p.m.
A class on Dying in America,
taught by John Dormois, will be
held at the Glazer JCC on Thurs-
days, Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28 from
1-3 p.m.
For more information on either
Osher class, call (813) 974-8036
or contact Pnina Levermore at
(813) 291-2253.
Men�s Club: This group will
meet on Tuesday, Jan. 22 from
5-6:30 p.m. at the Glazer JCC for card games, ping-pong and
billiards. The group also take oc-
casional outings such as a Rays
games, chartered ishing trips, tours of the Florida Holocaust Mu-
seum, community volunteering
and brunch get-togethers.
Travel lovers: Join in en-
gaging travel discussions as local
travel professionals take you on
�journeys� to wonderful destina-
tions. The next session will be
on Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 5-6
p.m. at the Glazer JCC. The topic is Countries, Cities and Rivers of
Central Europe. There will also
be a session on Wednesday, Feb.
20 from 5-6 p.m. on the British
Isles.
Bridge lessons: A new six-
session class on Bridge, for those
who play at any level, will be of-
fered at the Glazer JCC on Fridays from Feb. 15 through March 22
from 1-2:30 p.m. The cost is $50
for members and $60 for guests,
with pro-rating options available.
JWVVolunteers needed: The
Jewish War Veterans Post 373 is
seeking veterans and non-veter-
ans, male and female, who would
like to help permanent live-in dis-
abled veterans at the Tampa VA
Hospital. For details regarding the
Post and the latest post activities,
visit www.jwvtampa.org.
Contact Commander Larry
Jasper at (813) 404-5616 or email
Job-LinksMonday Morning Links:
Free sessions of Monday Morning
Links are offered at the Jack Roth
Center for Career Development
at TampaBay-Job-Links, 4100 W.
Kennedy Blvd., Suite 206, Tampa,
from 10:30 � noon. The Jan. 28
topic is �Eight Practices that Ac-
celerate your Job Search.�
Job-search aids: The topic
for the Success Workshop to aid
with job-search skills on Thurs-
day, Jan. 24 from 1-4 p.m. is �Five
Steps to Successfully Negotiate a
Job Offer.� On Jan. 31 from 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. the topic is �Prepar-
ing for Your Interview.� The work-
shops are free for Job-Links pro-
gram participants; $15 for guests.
Reservations required.
To RSVP, contact Job-Links,
(813) 344-0200, email RSVP@
TBJL.org.
Support groupsAlzheimer�s caregivers:
Menorah Manor offers a support
group meeting in the Samson
Nursing Center at Menorah Man-
or, 255 59th St. N., St. Petersburg,
on the irst Thursday of the month from 3:30-5 p.m.
For more information, call
Gwen Kaldenberg at (727) 302-
3750.
Zusha Baruch Fishman, son of Leigh Fishman of Tampa, was called to the Torah as a Bar Mitz-vah on Saturday, Dec. 19 at Congregation Ro-deph Sholom in Tampa.
A seventh-grade student at Impact Academy, Zusha is active in horseback riding and equestri-an Special Olympics. He enjoys baseball, amuse-ment parks, roller coasters, going to the beach and music.
Leigh Fishman and grandparents Larry and Phyllis Fishman hosted a dinner party at Congregation Rodeph Sholom on Saturday, Dec. 29.
Special guests included great-grandfather Sol Fishman along with other family and friends from Boston, Chicago, New York and Florida.
Zusha Baruch Fishman
Shayla Miriam Gordon, daughter of Michelle and Richard Gordon of Dunedin, became a Bat Mitzvah in December at the Kotel in Jerusalem and on Saturday, Jan. 19, she will participate in a Havdalah service at Temple Ahavat Shalom in Palm Harbor.
A seventh-grade honors student at Dunedin Highland Middle School�s Center for Gifted Studies, Shayla was invited to participate in the Pinellas County Schools’ Talent Identiication Program. She attended Hillel Academy of Tampa from kindergarten through ifth grade. An avid horseback rider, she participates in the Interscholastic Equestrian Association, winning multiple ribbons and qualifying for regionals. Shayla also plays the piano and clarinet. She has been a summer camper at Camp Ramah Darom in Georgia.
The Gordon family will host a party on Saturday evening, Jan. 19, at Innisbrook Resort.
Special guests will include family and friends from Toronto, North Carolina, California and Las Vegas.
Shayla Miriam Gordon
B’nai Mitzvah
The Tampa Jewish Community Centers & Federation will begin registration on Monday, Feb. 4, for its Club J after-school enrichment program for the fall.
Club J is a licensed after-school enrichment program that pro-vides children from kindergarten through ifth grade an opportu-nity to have fun, learn new skills and grow and develop in positive ways.
The club provides a safe, nur-turing environment where pro-fessional and experienced staff respect and value a diverse enroll-ment of children, Federation ofi-cials say. �In our program children can express themselves through their choice of activity and receive support to accomplish their goals. We offer excellent staff-to-child ratios, and all staff members must clear a full background check,� states a prepared statement from the Federation.
Upon arrival, children will re-ceive a healthy snack, and are then escorted to and from the classes they are registered for during pro-gram hours. In addition, time may
be spent in a supervised home-work room.
After-school program hours are between 12:45-6 p.m. on Mon-days, and 1:45-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. It is also open during most Hillsborough County school days off.
Club J offers several enrichment classes each week. Classes may include: dance, football, art, super sports, yoga, and chess, among others.
Club J currently provides trans-portation from the following ele-mentary schools: Westchase, Mary Bryant, Hammond, Essrig, McK-itrick, Lowry and Citrus Park. A minimum registration of four chil-dren is required per school.
This year an early bird discount will be offered. Sign up for Club J by Feb. 11 and receive half off of the Club J registration fee. As an added bonus, the registration fee will be waived for each additional child. This discount excludes en-richment supply fees.
For more information, contact Pam Cotner at [email protected] or (813) 769-4748.
Registration begins Feb. 4 for after-school Club J program
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DR. MELVIN “MEL” FADER, 86, of Sun City Center, previously of Youngstown, OH, died Jan. 7. Born in Cleveland, he completed his undergradu-ate degree at Case Western Reserve University, continued his studies at Ohio State University Col-lege of Dentistry and inished his residency in oral surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He practiced for 42 years in Youngstown. Elected the head of the Medical-Dental Bureau, named chairman of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Special Committee, and president of the Ohio Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, he was a Diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, installed as the president of Corydon Palmer Dental Society, member of the Youngstown Hospital Association and President of Liberty School Board. After retiring and moving to Sun City Center, he pursued a second career as a realtor for Century 21 Beggins Enterprises. Survi-vors include his wife of 61 years Marsha; daughter and son-in-law Pamela and Eric Greene; two sons and daughter-in-law, Jerome and Charlotte Fader and Barry Fader; brother and sister-in-law Alfred and Harriet Fader; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family suggests memori-als to Mofitt Cancer Center or Beth Israel/Jewish Congregation of Sun City Center, or LifePath Hospice House of Sun City Center. (Segal Funeral Home, Beth David Chapel)
PHYLLIS DOREE ROSLOW, 81, died Jan. 2. Born in Chicago, she lived in New York for 41 years and in St. Petersburg for 40 years. She was a public school teacher, personnel director for the Pulse, Inc., employed by the Junior League and UPS Store, and owner of Air Checks. Survivors include her children; Bonnie and David Zelin, Jef-frey Roslow, and Nancy and Richard Chad; brother and sister-in-law Norman and Lorraine Rosenblatt; and eight grandchildren. (Toale Brothers Funeral Home)
AMY GROSS SHIMBERG, 94, of Tampa, died Dec. 31. Born and raised in New York City, she earned her bachelor’s degree from New York University and her master’s in education from Columbia University. She taught school in New York and Florida. She and her late husband Jim moved to Tampa in 1958. A community volunteer for many organizations, public education was one of her passions and she served as PTA president of all the schools her children attended, continuing
her involvement with the PTA at Chamberlain High School after her youngest graduated. She served on the Citizens Advisory Board to the Hillsborough County School Board and the Board of the Hillsbor-ough Education Foundation for many years. She began serving Meals on Wheels to the homebound in the late 1970s and continued weekly until the last few weeks. She was on the Meals on Wheels Board for more than 25 years, twice as president. Instrumental in raising funds for Meals on Wheels, she was currently the honorary chairperson of the capital campaign to build a new facility. She was recognized by many for her work including receiv-ing the Community Hero Award from the Tampa Bay Lightning Foundation in 2014. She co-chaired a fund-raising campaign with former Governor Bob Martinez to keep Nature’s Classroom going for future generations of sixth graders. She and her late husband Jim were honored in 2003 as Philan-thropists of the Year by the Tampa Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Through the James and Amy Shimberg Charitable Trust and now the James and Amy Shimberg Foundation, the couple made a positive impact on the community. Survivors include her children and their spouses; James, Jr. (Elizabeth); Nancy Paikoff (Edward); Robert (Michelle); Richard (Dena); Janet Knust (Andrew); brother Sydney Gross; and 15 grand-children. The family suggests memorials to Meals on Wheels of Tampa. (Segal Funeral Home, Beth David Chapel)
MARSHA WOLF, 76, of Tampa, formerly of Farmington Hills, MI, died Jan. 3. Survivors include her children Steve Wolf and Shelli Meyerson; broth-ers and sisters-in-law, Edwin and Loretta Adelman, and Sheldon and Ann Adelman; sister-in-law of Billy and Georgann Wolf, Marilyn Wolf, Verna Wolf; and four grandchildren. (Ira Kaufman Chapel)
Marcy Oster
JTA news service
A former medical resident at the Cleveland
Clinic has apologized for scores of anti-
Semitic social media posts including one in
which she threatened to give Jewish patients
the wrong medication.
�Those words do not represent who I am
and the principles I stand for today,� Lara
Kollab said in a statement, adding,�I wish
sincerely and unequivocally to apologize for
the offensive and hurtful language contained
in those posts.�
She said she visited Israel and the
Palestinian territories every year as an
adolescent and �became incensed at the
suffering of the Palestinians under the
Israeli occupation.�
She said the anti-Semitic posts she wrote
from 2011 to 2017 came because she had
“dificulty constructively expressing my intense feelings about what I witnessed in
my ancestral land.�
The posts resurfaced recently after be-
ing publicized by the controversial website
Canary Mission, that hosts dossiers on pro-
Palestinian student activists, professors and
organizations, focusing primarily on North
American universities. Kollab had disabled
all her social media accounts, but many
of the posts and tweets were preserved in
screenshot.
Among the posts that got the most atten-
tion was a tweet from 2012, when she was a
medical student, which said: �hahha ewww..
ill purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the
wrong meds�.�
Kollab attended medical school at the
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in
New York, which calls itself �the largest
private university in the U.S. with Jewish
roots.� She worked at the Cleveland Clinic
as a irst-year resident from July 2018 to September 2018.
The Clinic initially said that Kollab no
longer worked for the medical center but
declined to offer a reason. It later revised
the statement to note that Kollab was ired because of the social media post that threat-
ened Jewish patients.
�When we learned of the social media
post, we took immediate action, conducted
an internal review and placed her on admin-
istrative leave. Her departure was related
to those posts and she has not worked at
Cleveland Clinic since September,� the
statement said.
It added that: “For irst-year residents, multiple safeguards and direct supervision
are required for patient care and prescribing
medicine. In addition, there have been no
reports of any patient harm related to her
work during the time she was here.�
Kollab said in her apology that �I ma-
tured into a young adult during the years I
attended college and medical school, and
adopted strong values of inclusion, tolerance,
and humanity. I take my profession and the
Hippocratic Oath seriously and would never
intentionally cause harm to any patient seek-
ing medical care.� She added that �I pray that
the Jewish community will understand and
forgive me.�
In a tweet, Touro College said that it is
�shocked that one of our graduates would
voice statements that are antithetical to
Touro and to the physicians� Hippocratic
Oath.�
Former Cleveland Clinic medical resident apologizes for anti-Semitic social media posts
JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA A PAGE 11JANUARY 11 - 24, 2019
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Be enamored by five juried student short films from the Tisch School of Film at Tel Aviv University
and then hear about the creative process. Enjoy Titos Vodka & Whiskey� shots as well as indulging
in heavy hors d�oeuvres and movie concessions all evening!
Tickets to the Gasparilla International Film Festival, featuring the Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival,
will be on sale to guests attending Shorts & Shots. Public ticket sales will open the following day.
Keynote speaker: Tel Aviv University representative Zaq Harrison.
sponsored by Sara and David Scher
Shorts &
BOSTON (JTA) � A California irm paid $10,000 for a pair of Ju-lian Edelman’s game shoes to ben-eit families of the victims of the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue.
The New England Patriots’ wide receiver wore the cleats – stamped with the words “The Tree of Life” in Hebrew and an Israeli lag – during the Dec. 16 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in solidar-ity with the victims of the Oct. 27 shooting.
Golden West Food Group made the donation to the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, whose initials were also stamped on the shoes.
Edelman, whose father is Jew-ish, wore the cleats, part of the NFL’s #MyCauseMyCleats cam-paign. Designed by acclaimed sneaker artist Dan Gamache, the cleats also bear the names of the 11 shooting victims. The right cleat features the #StrongerThan-Hate hashtag and a Star of David.
The donation from the sale will go to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to beneit the victims’ families and to help strengthen the city’s Jewish com-munity, according to the Boston Jewish group.
Sale of cleats yields $10k donation for Pittsburgh victims
KRAFT• Continued from FRONT PAGEJews through their outstanding professional achievement along with their commitment to Jewish values and the Jewish people.”
Over decades, the Kraft family has given more than half a billion dollars to causes including health care, education, the Jewish com-munity, Christian organizations and local needs. He also has pro-moted American football in Israel.
With a net worth of $6.6 billion, Kraft is the 79th richest Ameri-can, according to Forbes. Kraft, who grew up in an Orthodox Jew-ish family in Brookline, MA, is the chairman and CEO of Kraft Group, a holding company with assets in sports, manufacturing and real estate development.
“This award ampliies my ability to raise both awareness and addi-tional funds to ight anti-Semitism, attempts to de-legitimize Israel and other forms of prejudices,” he said in the statement.
Kraft will receive the award at a gala in June in Jerusalem.
He joins artist Anish Kapoor, violinist Itzhak Perlman, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor-director Mi-chael Douglas as previous win-ners. The foundation has some-times been criticized for giving the prize to millionaires, but says the goal is to leverage the recipients’ inluence and example to improve the world.
Last year, the foundation rec-ognized Natalie Portman but can-celed the ceremony after the ac-tress said she would not travel to Israel to receive the award in pro-test of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies.
The prize, started in 2013, is i-nanced through an endowment of $100 million established by The Genesis Prize Foundation.
New England Patriot’s Julian Edelman’s shoes worn as part of the NFL’s #MyCauseMyCleats campaign.
Art historian and Jewish art ex-pert Philip Eliasoph will present a sweeping overview of art and the Jewish experience when he lec-tures at the University of Tampa on Thursday evening, Feb. 7.
His talk will encompass topics from pagan idolatry to the abstract works of Mark Rothko and the �mystery of the Jews� in modern art.
The lecture, �From Idol Smash-ers to Icon Makers: �Artless� Jews � Myth and Reality,� is free and open to the public, with a reception at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture at 7:30 p.m. The program will be held on the ninth loor of the Vaughn Center on the UT Campus, 200 UT Poe Parkway, Tampa.
Eliasoph, a professor of art his-tory and visual culture at Fairield University, will discuss a millennia of Jewish art � a story not often told � in a lecture designed to appeal both to art lovers and those seeking a deeper understanding of Jewish culture.
The talk will be a take off from one of his undergraduate courses, �Jewish Art: From Moses to Modi-gliani,� which he teaches to primar-ily Catholic students at the Jesuit institution in Connecticut.
In an interview in the Jewish Ledger in Connecticut, he de-scribed those students as eager to understand how the Jewish soul is relected through the visual arts.”
Eliasoph spoke in the interview about how he inherited the �art gene� from his grandmother, Paula Eliasoph, a prominent painter in New York in the ’20s and ’30s.
“Because my field is 20th-century art, one of my most popular
classes is �Art and Propaganda.� I use the monuments of public art in Bolshevik Russia of 1917, Fascist Italy in the ’20s and ’30s, and Nazi Germany, analyzing and demon-strating and critiquing for my stu-dents how totalitarian regimes have seized upon the control of the visual arts for their nefarious agendas,� he told the Ledger.
Among other achievements, Elia-soph is known for reviving interest in artists who were acclaimed in their day, but �fell into the shad-ows.� Among them are Robert H. Bizinsky, Paul Cadmus, Robert Vickrey, and Colleen Browning.
He is an elected member of the Association Internationale des Cri-tiques d’ Art, UNESCO’s art critics organization based in Paris. He has taught at Fairfield University, a Jesuit college in Connecticut, since 1975.
The lecture is sponsored by the UT College of Arts and Letters. For questions, call (813) 257-6100; email [email protected] or visit UT.edu/CAL.
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Original artwork by over 170 award-winning artists including paintings, ceramics, glass, wood, jewelry,
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Dr. Susannah Heschel, scholar,
author and daughter of Rabbi Abra-
ham Joshua Heschel, will deliver
two speeches in St. Petersburg, both
free and open to the community, on
the Civil Rights Movement and the role her fa-
ther played
w i t h h i s
friend and
conf idant ,
Dr. Martin
Luther King
Jr.
On Thurs-
day, Jan. 31
at 6 p.m. He-
schel will speak on “Faith, Courage and the Civil Rights Movement” in Ballroom 1 at the USF St. Pe-
tersburg Student Center, 200 Sixth Ave. S., St. Petersburg. Following
the lecture, time will be set aside
for audience interaction/discussion with Heschel. This program is being
brought to the community as a joint
project of USF St. Petersburg and
the Florida Holocaust Museum.
On Saturday, Feb. 2, Heschel will speak at Congregation B’nai Israel, 300 58th St. N., St. Petersburg, on
Shabbat morning services, begin-
ning at 9 a.m., on �The Prophetic
Spirit and the Civil Rights Move-
ment,� as part of the synagogue�s
annual Law Shabbat. That speech
is expected to dwell more heavily
on Jewish law, but will include in-
formation as well on Rabbi Heschel
and King and their Civil Rights work.
Heschel is a professor of Jewish
Studies at Dartmouth College and chair of Dartmouth�s Department
of Religion, author of eight books,
recipient of numerous scholarly
awards and publisher of scores of
papers. Her scholarship focuses
on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical
scholarship, and the history of anti-
Semitism.
Heschel�s lecture at the USF St.
Pete campus will bring to light the
steadfast friendship between her
fatherf and King, one not everyone
knows about, and the intense in-
volvement of the Jewish community
in the Civil Rights Movement.A refugee from Poland, Rabbi
Heschel was a leading 20th Century theologian and philosopher who
helped bring King�s message to a
wide Jewish audience, often lectur-
ing with the Civil Rights leader in their quest for �saving the soul of
America.�
The two men met at a conference
on race and religion in 1963 and
immediately bonded. In an article
about that meeting, Susannah He-
schel wrote: �[Rabbi] Heschel�s
passionate speech electriied the audience� (He) declared, �You
cannot worship God and at the same
time look at man as if he were a
horse.� Religion cannot coexist with
racism: it is a grave violation of the
fundamental religious principle not
to murder. Racism is public humili-
ation, which is condemned in the
Talmud as tantamount to murder:
‘One should rather commit suicide than offend a person publicly.��
From that time on they often were
together, including in a famous
photo when they are arm-in-arm on
the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,
AL, in 1965. Rabbi Heschel died in
1972, four years after King’s assas-
sination.
Daughter of Jewish Civil Rights leader to speak at USF in St. Pete
Dr. Susannah Heschel
Art historian Philip Eliasoph’s Twitter portrait. He will speak at University of Tampa.
Professor’s Feb. 7 lecture to focus on art and the Jewish experience
