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Chicago Jewish News - April 3-9, 2015
Meet Eric Greitens, Jew and Navy SEAL
By Gabe Friedman
JTA
It would be unfair to say that
few Jews have résumés as impressive as that of Eric Greitens – because there are few people in the
world who have a comparable
track record.
Greitens, 40, is a former
Navy SEAL, the recipient of
seven military awards (including
a bronze star and a purple heart),
a former Rhodes Scholar and the
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Life,” is a collection of inspirational letters to a fellow Navy
SEAL struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. (His first
book, “Strength and Compassion,” is a collection of essays and
photographs.)
Greitens, who was raised in
the Maryland Heights suburb of
St. Louis and attended the city’s
B’nai El synagogue, which is Reform, talked about his Jewish upbringing, and his new book.
There probably aren’t many
Jews in the Navy SEALs. Is
that true?
There was one other Jewish
Navy SEAL that I knew when I
was going through BUD/S, or
Basic Underwater Demolition
SEAL training. The guy was actually in my class of all things. I
actually don’t know the exact
statistics, but I suspect that there
is Jewish representation in the
military consistent with our representation in the American
population. Part of the reason I
joined the military was because
of the Jewish education I received.
What’s beautiful about the
military is that it’s probably the
most well integrated institution
on the planet. You have Jews and
Christians and Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims who are all
serving the U.S. Army, from
every corner of the United
States, and they all come together and serve.
You had several positive
Jewish role models growing up?
Yeah I did. One guy, my
teacher at B’nai El Sunday
school, was named Bruce Carl.
When I was 16 years old, he
asked me to come down to a
homeless shelter to do some
work. I had done a number of different community service projects before, so I thought “OK
fine.” But Bruce said “We’re also
going to spend the night.” For a
16-year-old kid from the suburbs
of St. Louis, the prospect of
spending a night in a homeless
shelter in downtown St. Louis
was a little bit scary. But Bruce
said one, you need to know how
all of your neighbors are living
and two, it’s important to understand that you can make a difference now in the lives of people
around you.
At B’nai El I was also influenced by a number of Holocaust
survivors who were brought in to
talk with the [religious school]
class. So when I was in college,
ethnic cleansing was happening
in Bosnia. In 1994, I was 20 years
old, I went to Bosnia and lived in
refugee camps and worked there
with unaccompanied children.
These were kids who were separated from their parents or whose
parents had died during the war.
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Chicago Jewish News - April 3-9, 2015
Jewish refugees safe from war, but facing economic crisis in Kiev
By Ben Sales
JTA
KIEV – In a crowded room
of the Tolkachov family’s tiny
apartment here, a couch and
twin bed sit kitty-corner from
each other, sandwiching a small
crib. In another corner, a wooden
table is cluttered with a computer and some toys.
Since October, three generations of the Tolkachov family –
grandmother, parents and 22month-old baby – have all slept
in this one room. To keep clean
what little space they have,
everyone takes off their shoes
when they come in.
The Tolkachovs weren’t always poor. Ilya, 26, worked for an
import-export business in Lugansk,
the war-torn city in eastern
Ukraine. His wife, Luba, 28, was an
administrator at the local university. Ilya’s mother, Maria, lived
nearby with her husband, a retired
Ukrainian army officer. In his spare
time, Ilya gave photography lessons at the local branch of Hesed,
a Jewish senior citizens center.
Last summer, the family
began hearing explosions near
their home in Lugansk. Ilya
claims they saw Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fall out of the sky
in July after being shot down
over Torez, Luba’s hometown.
After the crash, the family
packed some clothes and went to
visit Luba’s family in Kiev, intending to stay no longer than a
few weeks. They have yet to return home.
“Everything that we have,
we needed to leave in Lugansk,”
Ilya said. “Our flat, all of our belongings, our memories, we have
to leave in Lugansk. This is just
one more step to a better life.”
So far, that better life has remained elusive. Ilya managed to
find a job in his field, but due to
the economic crisis that hit
Ukraine because of the war, they
make rent only with aid from
Jewish organizations. His father
remains in Lugansk, scared that
he could be forced to re-enlist if
he moves.
The Tolkachovs’ story is common among Jewish refugees in
Kiev who fled their homes in the
embattled eastern Ukraine, where
pro-Russian separatist forces have
been fighting the Ukrainian army
since last spring. Safe from bombs
and gunfire, in the capital they
face different hardships.
The Ukrainian hryvnia has
lost more than half its value
against the dollar just since January, shattering the economy and
making even staple foods expensive. Refugees say it’s hard to find
work or places to live in Kiev,
where many locals view them as
hostile elements – culturally Russian imports from a separatist region who have brought crisis
upon themselves. According to
the United Nations, nearly 1 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced as of February.
“There’s a stereotype that
people don’t want to give those
people apartments for rent or give
people a job,” said Anna Bondar,
public relations manager for the
American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, in the
Kiev region. “They think in the
beginning that these refugees
were not against the situation,
and many of them are pro-Russian, and that’s why they’re blaming them.”
Nina Tverye, who left the
eastern city of Donetsk with her
grandson in July, said “it makes it
feel better” to spend time with
other refugees. Tverye said
refugees spend all their time talking about the war.
“From this we start the day,
and with this we finish the day,”
Tverye said. “We are always discussing what is happening.”
Children from the Russianspeaking east face the added
challenge of integrating into
Ukrainian-speaking schools. At
Or Avner, a Chabad-run elementary and middle school in
Kiev, 15 refugees have been absorbed into a student body of
160, and the school provides tutors to help with the language
difficulty as well as clothes and
daily hot meals to take home.
But though a psychologist
visits the school weekly to meet
with refugees, the school has
treaded lightly in explaining the
war to its students. Teachers are
afraid of wading into a controversial subject, so they stick instead to biblical tales on the
importance of welcoming guests.
“Children are very sensitive,
so when the parents are tense –
they lost their job, the future is
in question – we receive frightened, nervous, foreign children,”
said Elka Ina Markovitch, the
school’s founder. “When a child
comes from a stable family, they
still react in as calm a way as possible. An unstable family reacts
unstably.”
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Contents
Jewish News
■ The family of the Israeli killed in the crash of Germanwings
flight 4U 9525 accused the airline of failing to monitor its staff.
The family of Eyal Baum, who died in the crash, leveled the accusation in interviews to Israeli media. “We want to know how
come the airline failed to screen and check the co-pilot,” Ronny
Baum, Baum’s brother, told Israeli media. The family’s attorney
said that the family “has enormous anger at the airline.”
■ A Polish court changed the date of death of the martyred
Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak to reflect he was
killed in the Treblinka concentration camp. The Lublin District
Court confirmed that Korczak died on Aug. 7, 1942, not May 9,
1946, as a postwar court had ruled. The date of death was changed
at the request of the Modern Poland Foundation in a case that has
been ongoing since 2012. Janusz Korczak, the pseudonym of Henryk Goldszmit, was a doctor, teacher, writer and humanitarian.
During the Holocaust he ran an orphanage for Jewish children in
the Warsaw Ghetto. Though he was offered sanctuary by the Polish underground, he chose to go with his more than 190 orphaned
children when they were transported to Treblinka. He was killed
together with the children when they arrived at the Nazi camp on
Aug. 7, 1942. Postwar Polish courts set the dates of those who
died during the war, but whose deaths were not officially documented, as one year after the end of the war.
■ Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of
sexually assaulting a young woman in a Manhattan movie theater. New York police questioned Weinstein, 63, after a 22-yearold Italian woman said he had touched her breasts and genitals
during a Friday night screening at the Tribeca Film Center, the
New York Daily News reported. Weinstein is co-founder of Miramax. He recently urged Jews in the fight against anti-Semitism
to “stand up and kick these guys in the ass.” Weinstein has produced a litany of hit films, including the Holocaust action movie
“Inglorious Basterds” and “Pulp Fiction.”
■ Many high-profile Jewish leaders called on New York’s attorney general to go easy on William Rapfogel, the former chief
of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, who stole
$9 million from the charity, according to a new report. The Rapfogel backers included 19 rabbis, several politicians, and some of
the most prominent Jewish leaders in New York City and the
country. Rapfogel was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison for
his role in the two-decades-long insurance kickback scheme and
ordered to pay $3 million in restitution, the amount he personally
stole to “fund a lavish lifestyle,” the attorney general said at the
time of the sentencing. The Met Council, which provides services
to the poor and elderly in the New York City area and receives
funding from state and city government as well as from private
sources, has been struggling in the aftermath of the scandal.
Among the letter writers in support of Rapfogel, were national
leaders such as Julius Berman, the chair of the Conference of
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany; Rabbi Menachem
Genack, CEO of the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division; Shmuel
Lefkowitz, the chief lobbyist for Agudath Israel of America;
Howard Friedman, the president of AIPAC; Richard Stone, exchair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations; Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of
the Presidents Conference; and Steven Weil, senior managing director of the Orthodox Union.
■ A 32-year-old woman was arrested for alleged sex crimes at
a bar mitzvah in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lindsey Ann Radomski reportedly exposed her breasts to several guests at the party before engaging in oral sex with a 15-year-old boy, Azcentral.com reported.
Radomski, who was charged with sexual abuse and sexual conduct with a minor, told authorities that she was intoxicated and
did not remember the encounter with the teen. Police said that
after the 80 to 100 guests had left the party at a private home,
Radomski invited several boys into a private room and let them
fondle her breasts. After the other boys left the room, she performed oral sex on the 15-year-old. She had previously exposed
herself to adults and children at a backyard pool, police said.
Radomski is a yoga instructor and had recently undergone breast
augmentation surgery.
■ Lena Dunham’s New Yorker piece titled “Dog or Jewish
Boyfriend? A Quiz” was “tasteless” and “offensive,” the AntiDefamation League said. In a list of 35 statements, the actress and
writer of the popular HBO show “Girls” begins by asking, “Do the
following statements refer to (a) my dog or (b) my Jewish
boyfriend?”
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Ruth Porat, Google’s new CFO
complete his education, even
taking correspondence courses
while he served in the British
army during World War II.
While Porat may bring a
wealth of experience from Wall
Street to one of the world’s rich-
est companies, her father has expressed the hope that his children will never be motivated by
money alone.
“One of the dangers of our
times is materialism that leaves
the soul empty and creates an il-
lusion whereby higher consumption is equated with a better life,”
Dan Porat, now 91, wrote in his
memoir. “I hope my children and
their children will not fall prey to
this way of thinking.”
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To the business press, the
symbolism of Ruth Porat’s move
from her position as chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley to
her newly announced perch as
Google’s CFO of the future
couldn’t be more obvious – it
represents a shift in power from
Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
And there’s no question that it’s
a big deal when one of the most
powerful women in finance decides that the grass – or at least
the money – is greener on the
other side of the country.
But Porat’s career leap to the
Mountain View, Calif., tech
giant, also means that she is
moving back home to the Bay
Area, where she grew up. And a
brief look at her family history reveals that the forces that led
them to end up in northern California were nothing less than
the defining events of 20th century Jewish history: the Holocaust and the founding of the
state of Israel.
Porat’s father, Dan, was born
in 1922 in what is now Ukraine,
and he later moved with his family to a shtetl in the Carpathian
Mountains and then to Vienna,
which is where they lived when
the Anschluss of 1938 brought
the Nazis to power. In a memoir,
Dan Porat recalls going to watch
Hitler ride triumphantly into the
Austrian capital. Thanks to his
strong grasp of Hebrew learned at
cheder, he was able to escape to a
kibbutz in British Mandate Palestine; the rest of his family was
killed in the Holocaust. Dan
Porat volunteered to fight in the
British army.
Meanwhile, Ruth Porat’s
mother, Frieda, was born during
her family’s voyage to Palestine
and grew up there. She and Dan
married in 1946, and he fought
in Israel’s War of Independence.
In 1954 they moved to England,
where Ruth was born, so Dan
could pursue his graduate studies
in physics. Unwilling to live in
England as a non-citizen, and
fearing that Israel was too dangerous for his family, Dan obtained a joint appointment at
Harvard and MIT and moved
the family to Boston when Ruth
was 2.
However, the climate did
not agree with Frieda.
“Frieda wanted to move
back to Israel because she could
not physically tolerate the New
England climate,” Dan Porat
wrote in his memoir. “I saw her
suffer in the cold she was not
used to and promised to bring her
to a climate close to that of Israel.”
In 1962, the Porats moved
to Portola Valley, Calif., and Dan
Porat went to work for the
physics design team at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Frieda, in turn, pursued a career
as a psychologist and organizational consultant, founding the
Center for Creativity and
Growth and writing several
books, including “Creative Procrastination,” “Creative Life
Management” and “Creative Retirement.” She died in 2012.
Ruth Porat attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, as did her two siblings, and
currently serves as the vice-chair
of the university’s board of
trustees. She has worked at Morgan Stanley since 1987, with one
interruption, and during the
1990s she was co-head of the
firm’s technology investment
banking group. A major Democratic donor, she was considered
a potential candidate for deputy
Treasury secretary in 2013, but
she withdrew her name from
consideration.
In 2014, Porat and her husband, Anthony Paduano, established a post-doctoral fellowship
in her father’s name for the study
of physics at Stanford, honoring
his dogged and ultimately successful efforts over the years to
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with joy, peace and prosperity for all.
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8825 East Prairie Road, Skokie
for our Annual Yom HaShoah Memorial Service
to pay tribute to our Six Million Kedoshim
and to commemorate the 70th anniversary of
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former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, left, and former House Financial
Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank at a panel discussion at
the Brookings Institution in Washington. (JTA)
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By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
Guest Torah Columnist
First Days Pesach
The Passover seder we have
just celebrated is an evening dedicated first and foremost to the
relationship between the generations, to parents communicating to their children the agony
and the ecstasy of Egyptian enslavement and exodus – that
seminal biblical drama that most
profoundly forged our Israeli
identity and traditions. Indeed,
the masterful booklet that tells
the tale and structures (“seder”
means order) of the entire
evening is called the Haggadah
(literally, telling), from the biblical verse “And you shall tell your
children (vehigadeta) on that
day” (Exodus 13:3).
But what if your children – or
one of your children – is not interested in hearing? What if he or
she is willing to participate in the
meal, but is totally tuned out of
and turned off to the ritual that
surrounds and informs the meal?
How are we, the parents, teachers
and communicators, supposed to
respond in such a case? The Haggadah is not only a text of the
Egyptian experience; it is also a
masterful guide to the art of effectively parenting – communicating
the message of our mesora (tradition). By its very place as the centerpiece of a much-anticipated
evening dedicated to the performance of many commandments – commandments that
parents are to experience together
with their children – we learn
that we can only successfully impart a value that we ourselves believe in and act out; children will
learn not by what we say, but by
how we perform.
Moreover, our children-students must feel that they are the
prime focus of the evening, and
not mere adjuncts to an adult
happening; and the message
must be molded in such a way as
to respond to their questions and
concerns (Maggid begins with
the “Four Questions”). Each individual must be given the opportunity to ask his/her questions
and to receive answers appropriate to both question and questioner (note the “four children”
of the seder). Finally, the atmosphere around the table must be
more experiential than cerebral,
punctuated by familial stories
and the fun of games (hide-the-
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
afikoman), and warmed by wine,
food and love. Such is the Haggadah’s formula for effective
communication between parents
and children – not just one
evening a year, but every single
day of every year.
But what of the apathetic,
uninterested child? One of the
four prototypical children of the
seder is the “wicked child,”
whom the author of the Haggadah designates as such because
of the biblical question ascribed
to him: “What is this service
(avoda) to you?” (Exodus 12:26)
Why does the Haggadah assume
a negative attitude on the part of
this child, who is merely seeking
a relevant explanation for a ritual he doesn’t understand?
The Haggadah’s answer to
this child also seems unduly
harsh. “‘What is this service to
you’ – and not to him. And because he took himself out of the
historic Jewish community, he
denied the basic principle. And
so you must set his teeth on edge
(hak’heh), and tell him, ‘It is because of this (ritual) that G-d did
for me (so many wonders) in taking me out of Egypt.’ (Exodus
13:8) ‘G-d did for me’ and not for
him! Had he been there, he
would not have been redeemed.”
The seemingly abrasive response of the Haggadah seems to
be the very opposite of everything we’ve been positing: Set
his teeth on edge! Does this
mean (G-d forbid) rap him in the
mouth? And why switch from
second person to third person in
the middle of the dialogue? First
the Haggadah reads, “And you
tell him,” and then concludes –
as if you aren’t even speaking to
him – “Had he been there, he
would not have been redeemed.”
Has he been closed out of
the family seder? I believe that
the most fundamental message of
the seder – indeed, of family dynamics, of classroom management and of national policy as
well – is to be inclusive and not
exclusive, to make everyone feel
wanted and accepted rather than
rejected or merely tolerated.
Indeed, it is in the context
of the response to the wicked
child that the Haggadah teaches
that the most basic principle of
our faith is to include oneself – as
well as everyone who can possibly be included – within the historical community of Israel, to be
part of the eternal chain of Jewish being, to be a member of the
family. Therefore, the problem
with this child’s question is not
his search for relevance; that is to
be applauded and deserves a
proper response. The problem is
that he has excluded himself
from the familial-national celebration; he sees it as applying to
“you” and not to “him.”
Tell him, says the author of
the Haggadah, that although we
are living thousands of years after
the fact, G-d took me – and
him/her as my child – out of
Egypt, because we are all one historic family, united by our family
celebrations and traditions. Tell
him that the most important
principle of our tradition is to
feel oneself an integral part of a
family that was once enslaved
and is now free – and to relive
this message of the evils of slavery and the glories of freedom,
because if they happened to our
forebears, it is as if they happened to us. Since we were
formed by them, we are them
and they are us. And so is he/she.
And don’t tell it to him matter-of-factly by rote or harshly
with animus. Tell it to him with
the flame and passion of fire that
blunts sharp iron, with the
warmth and love of a family that
is claiming and welcoming its
own as one who belongs – no
matter what. Encourage the
child to take part in and feel a
part of the familial- national celebration. Then, but only then,
will the child feel redeemed.
And why the switch from
second person to third person?
Perhaps the child asked this
question, and left the table. He
spoke and ran, leaving you no
choice but to address him as a
third person no longer in your
presence. What do you do then?
I would suggest that when
we open the door for Elijah, it is
not in order to let the prophet in.
After all, anyone who can visit
every Jewish seder more or less simultaneously will not be obstructed by a closed door. I
believe that we open the door –
in the spirit of the herald of redemption who will restore the
hearts of the children to the parents and the parents to the children – in order for us to go out,
to find the “wicked child” and
lovingly restore him to the family
seder table. This is the greatest
challenge of the seder night.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is the
chief rabbi of Efrat, Israel.
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Passover Food
Have an egg-stravaganza
Pesach stuff they’re selling). I use
a balsamic vinaigrette. It’s just
equal amounts of balsamic vinegar and olive oil mixed together.
By Eileen Goltz
Food Editor
Many of us use so many eggs
during Pesach that I thought I
should address the big questions
about how many we should actually consume. Eggs have seriously
gotten a bad rap in years past in
terms of how many or how few
should be included in a weekly
diet. I’ve done quite a bit of research and it (egg pun here) boils
down to moderation in all
things. One to two eggs a day is
fine but no more than six to
eight per week seems to be the
best numbers I’ve come up with.
The medical evidence that egg
yolks add significantly to a rise in
cholesterol in healthy individuals just isn’t substantiated. So for
Pesach, don’t avoid, just don’t
over-indulge.
I always have a dozen or so
extra eggs and a bunch of leftover hard-cooked eggs so I have
acquired quite a few fun recipes
to use them up. I know that mustard is usually a staple of the deviled egg recipe but since mustard
isn’t kosher for Pesach I’ve come
up with a great substitute (besides the “fake” kosher-for-
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh
herbs, such as basil, tarragon,
chives, plus more for garnish
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 hot chilies, thinly sliced
Lox and Egg Stuffed Avocado
(Parve)
A really unusual breakfast
treat.
4 avocados, halved, pit removed
(they should be large)
6 ounces lox
8 small eggs
Salt
Pepper
1/2 cup minced red bell pepper
Fresh parsley, minced
Preheat oven to 425°. Scoop
out a few tablespoons of the center of the whole avocado so that
you can have the egg and lox fit
in the whole. Save the scoopedout avocado to use in another
dish or in a salad. Place the avocado halves on a cookie sheet
and place a few pieces of lox in
the bottom and up the sides of
the hole in the avocado half.
Gently crack the eggs into a cup
and then gently pour them into
the avocados. Sprinkle the top
with salt and pepper and bake
15-20 minutes or just until the
egg is set. To serve, place on a
plate and sprinkle the top with
the minced red pepper and
chopped parsley and serve immediately Serves 8. This recipe can
be doubled or tripled.
Beet Red Deviled Eggs
(Parve)
1 cup apple cider vinegar plus 3
tablespoons, divided
1 tablespoon sugar plus a pinch,
divided
2 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt plus a
pinch, divided
1 small red beet, peeled and
halved
12 hard-boiled eggs, peeled
1/2 cup mayonnaise
In a medium pot, mix 1 cup
apple cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon
sugar, 2 teaspoons salt and 3 cups
water. Add the beet and bring to
a boil, then remove from heat
and let cool slightly. Pour into a
large heat-safe jar or bowl (including beet). Add eggs, stir, and
refrigerate at least 3 hours, stirring occasionally, or overnight
for a darker shade of pink.
Remove eggs from liquid.
Halve eggs (reserving the whites)
and gently transfer the yolks to a
bowl. Add 1 tablespoon vinegar,
the mayonnaise and herbs to the
yolks. Season with 1/4 teaspoon
each salt and pepper, then spoon
or pipe the filling into the egg
whites.
Place the chilies, the remaining 2 tablespoons vinegar
and the remaining pinch each of
sugar and salt in a bowl and let
stand 15 minutes. Drain the
chilies, then sprinkle over the
deviled eggs. Sprinkle with additional herbs, if desired. Serve.
Makes 24.
Modified from yummly.com
Creamy Horseradish-Stuffed
Eggs (Dairy or Parve)
12 large eggs, cooked and peeled
and cut in half lengthwise
6 tablespoons sour cream, plain
yogurt or mayonnaise
3 tablespoons (or more) prepared
white horseradish
2 tablespoons sweet pickle juice
from jar of sweet pickles
1 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons minced parsley
Place the yolks in a bowl.
Add the sour cream, horseradish,
pickle juice, pepper and salt and
mix until smooth. (You can add
more horseradish if you like it
with a bit more kick.) Spoon the
yolk mixture into the white
shells. Decorate the top with
minced parsley. Makes 24.
Modified from epicurious.com
One Big Deviled Egg Platter
(Parve)
12 hard cooked eggs, yolks and
whites separated
¾ to 1 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon mustard substitute
Salt and pepper
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Arts & Entertainment
The wild blue Israeli yonder
Documentary
tells of American
pilots’ exploits
By Pauline Dubkin Yearwood
Managing Editor
It was a story that Nancy
Spielberg didn’t know. Neither
did most Americans, even American Jews.
But, says Spielberg, “it
sounded just crazy enough to be
true” – how a group of (mostly)
Jewish American pilots smuggled
planes out of the United States,
trained behind the Iron Curtain
in Czechoslovakia and flew for
Israel in its 1948 War of Independence. This “band of brothers” is credited with turning the
tide of the war.
A
new
documentary,
“Above and Beyond,” produced
by Spielberg and directed by
Roberta Grossman (“Hava Nagila: The Movie”) tells their story.
It continues at Landmark’s
Renaissance Cinema in Highland Park.
Spielberg, an actor, producer, philanthropist and yes, sister of Steven, who worked on
Nancy Spielberg
some of his early films with him,
had just finished executive-pro-
ducing the PBS documentary
“Elusive Justice: The Search for
Nazi War Criminals” and was
looking around for a new project,
she said in a recent phone interview from her New York home,
where her tale of seeing a coyote
in her yard staring down her dog
had just made the New York
Post.
“Somebody sent me an article; it was an obituary of this man
who was described as the father
of the Israeli Air Force,” she says.
“He was described as an American – how was he credited as the
founder of the Israeli Air Force?”
The man, who died in 2011,
was Al Schwimmer, an American engineer who used his World
War II experience and contacts
to smuggle surplus war planes
into Israel as the new country
was voted into statehood and
then attacked by surrounding
countries.
“Israel had some light planes
but no air force at all, no means
to defend itself,” Spielberg says.
“Schwimmer and his buddies
started to buy up surplus planes
and put together a whole underground to smuggle those planes
out of the United States.”
After he returned to the
United States in 1950, Schwimmer was convicted of violating
the U.S. Neutrality Act for
smuggling planes into Israel, was
stripped of his voting rights and
veteran benefits and fined
$10,000. In 2000, he was pardoned by President Bill Clinton,
although he had refused to ask
for a pardon because he believed
that his actions were moral and a
form of civil disobedience in the
service of justice.
“He went from being a man
who flew transport in World War
II to being a criminal hunted by
the FBI. He was indicted, but in
the process, he did something to
help save Israel,” Spielberg says.
By the time she had learned
something about Schwimmer
and the other American pilots
and crew members he recruited –
many of whom became the nucleus of the Israeli Air Force –
she had decided she had to make
a film about them.
“People don’t know about
this. I didn’t know it,” Spielberg
says. “The story hooked me. I
said, I’m going to do this. I
started researching, raised
money, hired a team. It so
hooked me, I haven’t come come
out from under its grip.”
After she made a brief sample reel, Spielberg began raising
money in a number of cities, the
first and most important of which,
she says, was Chicago, where a
small cocktail fund-raiser garnered thousands of dollars and,
even more importantly, personal
memories and albums that had
never been shared before.
In the end, Spielberg interviewed six of the American airmen (average age 92) plus former
Israeli President Shimon Peres,
who was friends with Al
Schwimmer and helped recruit
him to Israel.
“There were volunteers from
all over the world, but I focused
on the American pilots,” Spielberg says. “There are just a handful left, and they are salty
characters. Their stories involved
a lot of skirt-chasing – they were
top guns.”
What attracted these World
War II heroes to a dangerous assignment in a country many of
them hardly knew? There were
several factors, Spielberg says, including the fact that “they came
back from World War II as celebrated heroes but commercial
airlines wouldn’t hire Jews. They
couldn’t get jobs. They grew up
with a lot of anti-Semitism and
it affected their whole psyches.”
In addition, she says, “these
flyboys missed the action, their
‘band of brothers.’ It was hard to
go from heroes to being ordinary
joes. They missed their glory
days. Many of them helped liberate the camps and saw what was
being set up as another potential
slaughter” at the hands of the
Egyptian Air Force, which was
huge and well equipped with
British-supplied planes.
“My first thing (in making
the film) was to honor these
guys, give them their chance to
be recognized,” she says. “They
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were sort of pushed to the side
and in their final days they
should be recognized. That’s
number one. Plus, this is a critical piece of history that should
be recorded.”
Spielberg had another motive.
“I want people to stop slandering Israel,” she says. “What’s
happening today is the line between being anti-Semitic and
anti-Israel is completely blurred.
That is frightening to my core.”
She notes that some of Hollywood
biggest names, including actor
Michael Douglas and studio executive Harvey Weinstein, are beginning to speak out on the issue.
“The PR that’s out there is so
skewed in the wrong direction,”
she says. “I want people to look
back to what could have been.
In 1947 there was a partition plan
for a Jewish state and an Arab
state. The Jews accepted it but
the Arabs rejected it and vowed
to fight, to push the Jews into the
sea. It can’t help but make you
think what today would be like if
in 1947 the Arabs had accepted
the partition plan.”
Today, she says, she believes
Jews don’t speak up enough for
themselves. “We ignore it and
think maybe it will go away. But
Paris Time by Steven Peterson
April 12, 2015 7:00 PM
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until the occurence of an anti-semitic incident at
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Volunteer pilots, 1948.
when we stay silent, the louder
voices are heard,” she says.
Meanwhile, Spielberg has
been on the road promoting the
fim, which has been in some 70
festivals and won awards in many.
“We sell out every screening,” she says. “There is a very
emotional response. The Christian evangelical community, the
aviation community, they’re also
loving it.” The movie will soon
be released on iTunes.
“A lot of Hollywood is Jewish,” Spielberg says. “Maybe this
will sort of be a wake-up call in
some ways. I wish I could get the
anti-Israel people to look at Israel
with fresh eyes. I want people to
see an example of people who go
to help others in need. That’s the
American spirit.”
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Will Rahm Emanuel be Chicago’s
last Jewish mayor?
By Pauline Dubkin Yearwood
Managing Editor
Four years ago, Rahm
Emanuel made history by becoming Chicago’s first Jewish
mayor.
Now he is facing another
unprecedented situation: an
April 7 runoff election against
Cook County Commissioner
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
Emanuel needed a vote of
50 percent plus one to avoid a
runoff. He received just 46 percent of the vote, apparently having angered some Chicagoans
with his push to close more than
50 public schools, his perceived
antipathy toward unions, including the Chicago Teachers Union,
which went on strike for the first
time in 25 years and, perhaps
most important of all, his abrasive personal style.
A week before the runoff,
the Chicago Tribune reported
that Emanuel has opened a “substantial lead” over Garcia, with
58 percent of voters compared
with 30 percent for Garcia, according to the paper’s latest poll.
The mayor’s TV attack ads
“(drove) up negative perceptions
of Garcia,” according to the
story. Garcia is a former Illinois
state senator and Chicago alderman.
In his ads, Emanuel has accused Garcia of lacking specifics
on how he would address the
city’s thorny financial problems.
Garcia has said he would favor
an expanded state sales tax on
services and a graduated state income tax that would charge
higher-income earners more.
Both remedies are considered politically difficult, according to
the newspaper.
The story also noted that
the city’s first mayoral runoff is
“uncharted territory for Chicago”
and that the election falls during
spring break for Chicago Public
Schools, which might affect
voter turnout.
Paul Green, Roosevelt University professor of Policy Studies and director of the Institute
for Politics there, said he, like
many, was surprised that the vote
ended in a runoff.
As for Emanuel’s chances,
he said, “I had predicted there
would not be a runoff. Given
that performance, I am not predicting anyone to win.”
“The reason there is a runoff
is that (Emanuel) underestimated Garcia’s support in areas
that Rahm did well in the first
time,” he said.
Second reason, according to
Green: “The lack of a real
ground game” on the part of
Emanuel’s campaign that would
have included “getting out the
vote for early voting and on election day.”
This time around, he said,
“they are making changes, putting up yard signs, not just having 30-second commercials.
Turnout is the magic word.”
The Emanuel campaign,
Green said, “underestimated
Garcia. The turnout in (formerly) strong areas wasn’t very
good. Their ground game, getting
people to the polls, they were
slack on that.”
In terms of job performance
during his first term, “it’s a tale of
two persons,” Green said. “Policy-wise he did a remarkable job
in attacking the issues – schools
that weren’t performing, working
with city colleges. He talked
straight on the pension issue and
was good on recruiting new business to come to Chicago and attracting young people. He’s
doing that.”
On the other hand, Green
said, “something he can’t change
is his personality. He needs to
lighten up. I don’t know why he
doesn’t want to use his family (in
ads), show himself as a family
man. (Former Chicago mayor)
Rich Daley went to the bank on
that. People want to see someone
who reminds them of themselves. Rahm is his own worst
enemy when he gets overly
brusque.”
In fact, a recent New York
Times story on Emanuel and the
runoff noted that, after many
Chicagoans soured on the mayor
because of his “hardball tactics
toward unions, his decision to
close dozens of public schools
and, for some people, his personality,” Emanuel may be trying to
smooth out some of his sharp
edges.
“He recorded a campaign ad
in which he wore a V-neck
sweater, sat in what appeared to
be a living room and acknowledged his faults,” Times reporter
Julie Bosman wrote after repeating a well-known anecdote about
Emanuel’s legendary temper and
use of profanity.
“ … a former boss, President
Obama, once joked that the loss
of part of a middle finger after a
meat-slicer accident when Mr.
Emanuel was a teenager ‘rendered him practically mute,’” she
wrote.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel lights Chanukah candles at the Jewish Federation building.
“They say your greatest
strength is also your greatest
weakness,” Emanuel says in the
TV ad, looking into the camera,
the Times recounts. “I’m living
proof of that. I can rub people
the wrong way, or talk when I
should listen.”
In an interview with the
Times, he said that during his
first term, “I should have been
doing the listening, not the talking.”
Green said that Chicago
Jews are as affected by the two
sides of Emanuel’s personality as
any other group.
“They admire him for his
brains and his ability to tackle a
tough job, but some of his personality traits are kind of a
turnoff,” he said. “I think that is
really costing him. He has to be
who he is, and he is not Mr.
Rogers. He can’t be warm and
cuddly, but he should lead with
his policy strength and not the
attitude and use of profanity.
None of that is politically smart.
He does control it but it’s still
there.”
In general, Green said,
Emanuel’s being Jewish was not
a strong factor one way or the
other in the election outcome.
“In some areas there is still some
lingering anti-Semitism, and he’s
very smart in not overemphasizing his Jewishness,” he said. “But
there are not that many Jewish
voters. He’s not running for
mayor of Highland Park.”
Dick Simpson, political science professor at the University
of Illinois at Chicago and a former Chicago alderman, said he,
too, was surprised at the runoff.
“The low turnout – around
30 percent turnout – would usually be to the advantage of the
incumbent,” he said during a recent telephone conversation.
“Anyone would have predicted
he could avoid a runoff.”
The election “was a referendum against Rahm. A lot of people don’t like him – (his stance
on) schools, crime, his arrogance.
There are a lot of different reasons people cast the votes they
did,” he said.
Simpson said he won’t prognosticate on the results of Tues-
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day’s election, in which many
Chicagoans have already made
their choice through early voting.
“I’m not certain” of the outcome. “It’s too close to call,” he
said. “It depends on who turns
out. People are raising issues
about Garcia’s ability to govern
the city. Rahm is doing a good
job with the media now but not
in the precincts.”
As mayor, “he did make
some tough decisions and did
some things that were quite positive,” Simpson, 44th Ward alderman from 1971 to 1979, said.
“But he didn’t manage to involve
other people in making choices
and then carrying them out.
That was his big flaw that put
him in this position.”
Simpson said that while he
hasn’t seen any polls – probably
none exist – about how Emanuel
is viewed by the Jewish community, “he’s the first Jewish mayor
and it’s very interesting that he
has not made much of that outside of the Jewish community
and I’m not sure within the Jewish community,” he said.
“People knew Harold Washington was the first black mayor
and Chuy Garcia would be the
first Latino mayor,” he said, but
Emanuel’s Judaism “hasn’t played
a significant role in defining
Rahm. That is probably a good
thing. The Jewish community is
more liberal generally – maybe a
60-40 split, but not 100 percent.”
Whoever becomes mayor,
he noted, will face a somewhat
different City Council than during the last term because more
progressives won seats during the
last aldermanic election.
“The City Council will be
more progressive – not hugely
but more significantly than last
time,” he said. “Whoever is
mayor will be dealing with a different City Council. With more
progressives there will be a lot
more budget cuts, more tug of
war,” he said.
Ron Grossman, a Chicago
Tribune reporter who specializes
in covering the Jewish community and Chicago Jewish history,
said that aside from the question
of who would be the best administrator of the city, “something
resonates with me” and, he believes, with other voters: “Chuy
(Garcia’s) campaign that the
mayor is for the one percent.”
In particular, Grossman said,
he decries “the cockamamie proposal of (Emanuel’s) to put the
Lucas shmatte museum on the
lakeshore.”
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, with a flying saucerlike design, has been proposed for
a spot on Chicago’s lakefront. Its
future in Chicago is in question
since a federal judge ruled that a
lawsuit to stop the museum filed
by Friends of the Parks could go
forward.
Grossman said he and probably other voters find the project
“outlandish. It is a project of the
old boy network. I think that de-
serves consideration when people make their vote,” he said. “It
does reflect a wider split between
the haves and the have-lesses,
and increasingly neither (candidate) represents the latter
group.”
In the runoff, he said,
Emanuel may benefit from a
mindset among voters that may
have had reservations about him
but now feel “he got his ears
pinned back. Now let’s vote for
him.”
Alan Gitelson, a political
science professor at Loyola University in Chicago, said that
“everyone was both surprised and
not surprised” about the runoff.
Emanuel “had significant resources, a significant organization behind him in terms of
promoting his election and he
lost on the first round.”
Among the reasons, he said,
“there were five candidates in
the race and turnout was very
low. That probably hurt Rahm.
There was considerable opportunity for people to choose a variety of different candidates. Chuy
(Garcia) put up a strong fight.”
Besides Emanuel and Garcia,
others on the ballot were
Chicago Alderman Robert
Fioretti, community activist
William “Dock” Walls and medical supply company executive
Willie Wilson.
Enhancing Garcia’s chances,
Gitelson said, were strong support from the Chicago Teachers
Union and “a reasonably large
number of volunteers and the
ability to mobilize individuals. It
was not a certainty that there
would be a runoff but it was
likely. The media was surprised
but they are frequently surprised
by a lot of things.”
He too noted that the latest
polls show that Emanuel is
pulling ahead. “He has had a significant TV blitz. He opened his
second campaign with an ad in
which he took blame for at times
being arrogant, at times not listening,” Gitelson said. “That has
probably been useful and helped
him gain support. (Emanuel) has
a considerable war chest and is
certainly outspending Garcia in
terms of TV ads. That is critical
because it will mobilize people
for turnout.”
Garcia has also been fundraising with the idea of putting
together an effective media campaign, Gitelson said, and has his
own TV ads “but not equal to
Rahm’s. Ads do have a significant impact on trying to get out
individuals to vote for the second
time if not the first time,” he
said.
While many individuals in
the Jewish community do support Emanuel, he said, and probably more will support him on
this second try “his success will
not be based on the Jewish vote.
It will be based on his ability to
get African American and
Latino voters. He has support
from a lot of Latino leaders and
African American leadership.
Mayor Emanuel speaks at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center annual dinner.
The question will be whether he
will be able to mobilize those
constituencies. He is working
harder this time to win those
constituencies.”
Jewish votes, he said, “are as
important as any other votes but
are not the key to winning.”
Emanuel does not have to be
concerned about raising additional funds, but rather about
turning out as many voters as
possible, he said.
“Jewish people tend to vote
in large numbers relative to the
population, so there will be high
turnout,” Gitelson said. “The
Jewish vote will be heavily for
Rahm but it certainly doesn’t
guarantee his success, and there
will be some Jewish individuals
who are likely voting for Chuy.”
Neil Steinberg, a Chicago
Sun-Times columnist who often
covers city politics, said he, too,
was surprised by the runoff.
“Rahm had this air of invincibility,” he said. “He didn’t play
a game that wasn’t already rigged
to win. I just figured of course he
is going to win. He’s the buzz
saw.”
The runoff “might just be a
hiccup,” he said. Emanuel’s closing of 50 schools “was the central
thing against him,” Steinberg
said. “But nobody pointed out
the harm in that.” Dire predictions, such as danger to students
from closed schools going to
their new schools, failed to materialize, he said.
“It’s more a matter of style,
(Emanuel) being pushy and aggressive,” he said. “That’s sort of
the calumny against Jews. People
don’t like them. I don’t like
Rahm either. I see him more as a
guy who has to win everything.
He can’t really process ambiguity
too well.”
Emanuel, he said, probably
chafes at some aspects of the job.
“The idea that he is the leader of
the city of Chicago and has to
waste his time at meetings with a
bunch of mopes, I’m sure that’s
offensive to him,” Steinberg,
who interviewed Emanuel for a
piece in Esquire magazine last
year, said.
There are significant differences in style between Emanuel
and former Mayor Richard M.
Daley, although “Rahm is not a
teddy bear but neither was Daley.
Rahm is Daley with a circumcision but that’s a key difference.
The Daley myth was that he always showed up at your wake.
The Rahm myth is that he’s skiing in New Hampshire,” he said.
He said he sees Emanuel as
“more of a J Street Jew. He’s not
an AIPAC kind of guy.”
“Chuy is like someone
plopped off a shelf,” he said. “He
didn’t think of running until
(former Chicago Teachers Union
president) Karen Lewis told him
to.”
Lewis was planning a run
against Emanuel but had to step
down when she was diagnosed
with a brain tumor.
“To me, austerity is really
hard for Americans to get their
heads around,” Steinberg said,
referring to the city’s financial
woes. “I see Rahm as a guy who is
really trying to get us out of this
hole, trying to get jobs, not having time for niceties and that’s
what has bitten him in the ass.
He is a sort of guy who is a vigorous skilled macher trying to fix
things.”
Garcia, he said, “is going to
be in the exact same position” if
he wins. “From my point of view
it’s a win-win,” Steinberg said. “If
we get Chuy the circus comes to
town; we can sit back and watch
him do the sort of black swan
event we all live for,” he said, referring to Garcia’s relative inexperience at running a large,
problem-beset city.
But it was Emanuel’s arrogance, he said, that probably hurt
him the most. “He is arrogant,
you can’t get away from that,” he
said. “He was never in the realm
of human beings. He was like a
shark right out from the womb.
He is really bad at people.”
One person who believes
that Emanuel is the right man for
the job is David Axelrod, the former Chicago reporter and political operative who helped put
Barack Obama in the White
House and worked closely with
Emanuel beginning in 1984,
when both men worked on Paul
Simon’s Senate campaign.
Axelrod, in a recent interview with the Chicago Reader,
said the city could face grave
consequences if it doesn’t reelect
Emanuel, and asked, “Who is
best equipped with the energy
and ideas and experience to deal
with some really big problems?”
The answer, he believes, is
Emanuel, who he helped make
the decision, in 2010, to leave
his job as White House chief of
staff and run for Chicago mayor.
“When we worked together
in the White House, we clashed
from time to time on tactics,” he
told the Reader. “But the White
House wouldn’t have gotten half
of what we got done without
him. That same drive has been
employed to relentlessly pursue
other public policy advances.”
Noting that he also knows
and likes Garcia, Axelrod told
the newspaper that the runoff “is
not a congeniality contest. It’s a
decision about who can handle
what’s coming down the pike,
and how to keep both the neighborhoods and downtown strong.
Cities are dynamic and they’re
fragile, and mayors do make a difference.”
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British colonel finally granted wish:
burial in Israel near soldiers he led
By Hillel Kuttler
JTA
WHAT HAPPENED,
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MOSHAV AVICHAIL, Israel (JTA) – On a crisp morning
in this community near the
Mediterranean Sea, the sound of
Israel’s flag whipping in the wind
likely pleased the soul of John
Henry Patterson, whose ashes
were buried a few yards away.
Patterson was a lieutenant
colonel in the British military,
and during World War I he commanded the Zion Mule Corps
and the Jewish Legion – the first
Jewish military units in two millennia.
Although he was Christian,
Patterson had expressed an interest in being buried in Israel alongside the men, many from prestate
Israel, he had commanded. Patterson had been reared on the
Bible and a love for the Jewish
people and their land. But his
family could not afford to transport the body to Israel when he
died 67 years ago in Los Angeles.
Now his wishes were finally
honored: his remains and those
of his wife, Frances, were moved
to the cemetery at Avichail, a
moshav founded by many of his
soldiers.
The ceremony marking the
transfer of the remains culminated several years of effort by a
diverse cast of characters, among
them Jerry Klinger, a history en-
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The Sixth Annual Man’s Search for Meaning,
The Next Generation: A Dialogue
After viewing a clip from Kristallnacht Remembered, a highly-acclaimed documentary film
narrated by WBBM Newsradio 780’s Regine Schlesinger, Steven H. Hanus, M.D., will chair
a panel discussion on Dr. Victor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning. This panel will
especially focus on the recent wave of Anti-Semitism/Anti-Zionism in the US & worldwide.
Panel members include Chicago Rabbinical Council Av Beth Din Rabbi Yona Reiss, J.D.,
Chicago Tribune journalist, author & filmmaker Howard Reich, Renee Birnberg Silberman,
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John Henry and Frances Patterson's new gravesite in Israel. The inscription reads "As I speak of him, I will remember him." (JTA)
thusiast from Washington, D.C.;
Myrna Strapp, a civil litigator in
Los Angeles recruited last year
after several lawyers declined requests to handle the filings required to facilitate the transfer;
Karen Washington, an AfricanAmerican woman who worked at
the Los Angeles cemetery where
Patterson’s remains were interred
originally; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who
spoke at the gravesite and has
personal ties to Patterson.
The reburial occurred just
shy of the centennial of the
British War Office’s appointing
Patterson to lead the Zion Mule
Corps, which would fight in Gallipoli, Turkey. The corps was disbanded in 1916, but later
reconstituted as the Jewish Legion (also called the 38th Royal
Fusiliers), with Patterson in command through 1918.
“The whole issue of the Jewish Legion is something that’s not
so well known,” Yossi Ahimeir,
director-general of the Jabotinsky
Institute, said in an interview in
his Tel Aviv office. “This is the
year that we should connect Patterson and the Jewish Legion –
and should [educate Israelis] that
not all non-Jews were against Israel. There were Brits who helped
the Jewish nation, and Patterson
stood out the most.”
The path leading to the ceremony proved rocky.
Strapp, representing Patterson’s grandson, Alan, had to
overcome a local law that permits only the child of the deceased to authorize moving the
remains. A judge ruled against
her, but Strapp won on appeal
last summer. She, Klinger and
Chizki Sivak, a lawyer residing
at Avichail who is married to the
granddaughter of a Zion Mule
Corps officer, also needed approvals from such agencies as the
Los Angeles Department of Public Health and the Netanya-area
rabbinate in Israel.
Klinger, Strapp and Sivak,
along with Israeli consular officials and a Netanyahu aide, col-
lected the urns at the AngelusRosedale Cemetery mausoleum.
A shroud was placed over the
urns. Psalm 23 was recited.
With that, “the colonel was
under the protection of the Israeli
government,” Klinger said.
Strapp, who took the case as
her final one before retiring, couldn’t be in Israel for the reinterment
because she was preparing to make
aliyah later that month. But she
watched the broadcast transmission of the ceremony, which included Netanyahu noting that his
late father, Ben-Zion, worked in
England and in the United States
with the Zionist leader Vladimir
Jabotinsky and Patterson to advocate for a Jewish army to fight the
Nazis.
When Benjamin Netanyahu’s
elder brother was born in 1946,
Ben-Zion bestowed upon Patterson the honor of sandak, or godfather. The boy, Jonathan, was
named for Patterson and for
Jonathan’s grandfather, Nathan
Mileikowsky. Jonathan “Yoni” Netanyahu would become a lieutenant colonel like his namesake,
and was killed leading the Entebbe
rescue operation in 1976.
Patterson “can be called the
godfather of the Israeli army,” the
prime minister told the assembled
as he stood before a screen that
read in English, “LieutenantColonel Patterson: We Salute
You.”
“In doing what we are doing
today, we are repaying a great
historical debt and a personal
debt to a great friend of our people, a great champion of Zionism,
and a great believer in the Jewish state and the Jewish people,”
Netanyahu said.
In October, Strapp and her
husband plan to welcome Washington, the Los Angeles cemetery
official, who will be visiting Israel
with her church group. As it turns
out, the Strapps’ central Jerusalem
apartment stands just two miles
from Patterson Street, named for
the man who first brought Christians and Jews together in 1915
and is doing so still.
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Community Calendar
Saturday
April 4
Temple Beth Israel presents
annual “Share-A-Seder.”
Bring hard-boiled, peeled
eggs and kosher for
Passover matzah, wine
and/or grape juice for your
family. 6-9 p.m., 3601 W.
Dempster, Skokie. $32
adults, $10 ages 2-12. Reservations, tbiskokie.org or
(847) 675-0951.
Temple Judea Mizpah hosts
Congregational Community Seder. 6-9 p.m. 8610
Niles Center Road, Skokie.
$40 members, $44 nonmembers, $20 ages 8-12.
Reservations required, [email protected] or (847)
676-1566.
Beth Hillel Congregation
Bnai Emunah holds CommUNITY Second Night
Passover Seder led by
Rabbi Anne Tucker and
Cantor Pavel Roytman. 7:30
p.m., 3220 Big Tree Lane,
Wilmette. $55 adults, $45
children, (free for ages 12
and under.) Reservations required, (847) 256-1213.
Friday
April 10
Congregation Beth Judea
hosts Passover Shabbat
dinner and service. 6 p.m.,
Route 83 and Hilltop Road,
Long Grove. $28 adult, $15
ages 6-12, $6 age 5 and
under. For non-members
add $3 to price. RSVP required, bethjudea.org or
(847) 634-0777.
Saturday
April 11
Temple Beth Israel Sisterhood presents Trivia Night
competition and dinner for
adults. 6-10 p.m., 3601
Dempster, Skokie. $20.
(Baby-sitting available, $10
includes movie, pizza and
snack for ages 12 and
under.) Reservations required, tbiskokie.org or
(847) 675-0951.
Sunday
April 12
Congregation Beth Shalom
hosts LifeSource Community Blood Drive for ages
17 and older; must weigh
110 pounds or more. 8
a.m.-1 p.m., 3433 Walters
Ave., Northbrook. Appointments, swelisco@edarch.
com or (847) 498-4100.
National Council of Jewish
Women Chicago North
Shore Section holds collection drive to assist women
and children leaving domestic violence shelters.
Needed are new sheets, new
towels, non-garment bag
luggage, small toiletries,
backpacks, purses, children’s
books and new stuffed animals. 10 a.m.-noon, Extra
Space Storage, 1620 Old
Deerfield Road, Highland
Park. (847) 853-8889.
Reform Cantors of Chicago
present “Singing for
S’mores” fund-raiser for
OSRUI and URJ Camp scholarships, with raffle for 2week sessions at OSRUI.
4:15 p.m., Beth Emet Synagogue, 1224 Dempster,
Evanston. $18 adults, $10
ages 7-17. Raffle tickets
$10. singingforsmores2015.
eventbrite.com.
Continuum Theater presents staged reading of
“Paris Time,” Steven Peterson’s story of interfaith couple faced with anti-Semitism in the workplace,
followed by discussion and
refreshments. 7 p.m., Congregation Solel, 1301
Clavey Road, Highland
Park. $10. continuumtheater.org or (800) 838-3006
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Thursday
Saturday
April 16
Israel Cancer Research Fund
Young Leadership presents
Revolving Tables, mentoring and networking event
for young professionals.
5:30-9 p.m., Ivy Room, 12 E.
Ohio, Chicago. $118. [email protected] or
(847) 914-9120.
Spertus Institute for Jewish
Learning and Leadership
hosts author Martin Goldsmith discussing his book,
“Alex’s Wake.” 7 p.m. 610
S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
$18; $10 Spertus members;
$8 students and Spertus
alumni. spertus.edu or (312)
322-1773.
Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation A.G. Beth Israel
presents panel discussion,
“The Sixth Annual Man’s
Search for Meaning, The
Next Generation: A Dialogue” following film clip
from “Kristallnacht Remembered.” 7 p.m., 7117 N.
Crawford, Lincolnwood.
RSVP, [email protected] or (847) 676-0491.
April 18
West Suburban Temple Har
Zion presents Anne Hills
and Michael Smith in concert, “Stars in the Sky.” 9
p.m., 1040 N. Harlem, River
Forest. $25. wsthz.org or
(708) 296-5465.
Sunday
April 19
Temple Beth Israel Brotherhood presents author Ken
Green speaking about his
book “I’m From Division
Street” after lox and bagel
breakfast. 9 a.m., 3601 W.
Dempster, Skokie. $5 suggested donation. tbiskokie.
org or (847) 675-0951.
Jewish Child and Family
Services presents workshop
for parents of 3rd-8th
graders on “Helping our
Girls Feel Good about
Being Female.” 9:45-10:45
a.m., Temple Sholom of
Chicago, 3480 N. Lake
Shore Drive, Chicago. RSVP,
[email protected] or (847)
745-5411.
Sheerit Hapleitah of Metropolitan Chicago sponsors
70th annual Holocaust
memorial service featuring
Roey Gilad, Midwest consul
general of Israel and Skokie
Mayor George Van Dusen.
1:30 p.m., Skokie Valley
Agudath Jacob Synagogue,
8825 East Prairie Road,
Skokie. (773) 764-6350.
Congregation Solel hosts
Yom Hashoah Commemoration. 7 p.m., 1301 Clavey
Road, Highland Park.
[email protected]
or(847) 433-3555.
Monday
April 20
National Louis University
presents author Ken Green
speaking about his book
“I’m From Division Street”
at Lunch and Learn program (bring your own
lunch). 11:30 a.m.-12:45
p.m., 5202 Old Orchard
Road, Room 464, Skokie.
[email protected] or (224)
233-2366.
Max and Benny’s Restaurant presents Chicago author Lisa Barr speaking on
her book “Fugitive Colors.” 7 p.m., 461 Waukegan
Road, Northbrook. RSVP,
[email protected]
or (847) 272-9490.
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being reconciled to the uncontrollable. We now think of the
prayer “G-d grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, courage to change the
things I can and wisdom to know
the difference.” That idea is right
there in this Jewish scholars’
writing. It was his idea.
Another one of the role
models I read about when I was
in Sunday school was Hannah
Senesh. She emigrated from
Hungary to Palestine, and these
were her words: “One needs
something to believe in, something for which you can have
whole-hearted
enthusiasm.”
Now what she did later was volunteer to parachute into a war
zone to sneak behind Nazi lines
and rescue Hungarian Jews. I
write about her in the chapter on
happiness, in which I talk about
how happiness is very much tied
to having a purpose that is worthy.
There’s also a passage I
quote from “Gates of Prayer” [the
Reform movement’s standard
prayer book from 1975 to 2007].
In the chapter about mastering
pain, I mention that people who
are suffering often turn to prayer.
Some people feel weird or guilty
because they pray more when
things are hard, and they feel
ashamed of this. Now I find myself praying more when things
are harder, but I also find myself
drinking water more when I’m
thirsty. I’ve finally begun to understand that praying more when
I’m troubled is just as natural.
The quotation from “Gates of
Prayer” is “Prayer cannot bring
water to poached fields or mend
a broken bridge or rebuild a ruined city, but prayer can water an
arid soul and mend a broken
heart and rebuild a weakened
will.”
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veterans with PTSD?
Too often the response to
people that have post-traumatic
stress disorder is to give them
drugs. There may be a place for
medication in some lives, but
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Asparagus Stuffed Eggs
(Parve or Dairy)
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Paprika for dusting
4 green onions, sliced thin
Crackers
Place the yolks in one bowl
and whites in another. Chop the
whites into bite-sized pieces and
place them back in the bowl.
Add the mayonnaise, mustard,
salt and pepper to the yolks and
mash until combined and there
are no lumps. On a platter
mound the yolk mixture in the
center, surround it with the egg
white chunks, and sprinkle the
top with paprika and sliced green
onions. Serve with crackers.
Serves 6.
Submitted by Kari Rae Branston, Chicago
Avocado and Pepper White
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6 hard cooked eggs, cut in half
1 medium avocado, diced
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 teaspoons freshly squeezed
lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Salt to taste
1/4 pound peppered white fish,
flaked
Place the yolks in a bowl
and add the avocado, mayonnaise, lemon juice, garlic powder,
pepper, and salt to taste. Mash to
combine so there are no lumps.
You can use a spoon or pastry bag
to fill the egg shells. Place the
filled eggs on a platter and top
with chopped parsley and paprika. Top with some flaked
white fish and serve. Makes 12.
Note: don’t make these too early
as the avocado tends to brown
quickly.
6 large hard cooked eggs, peeled
4 medium asparagus spears
2 teaspoons very finely minced
shallot, scallion or chives, plus a
pinch extra for garnish
3 tablespoons mayonnaise, whipping cream, sour cream and/or
soft butter
1/2 teaspoon mustard substitute
Few gratings fresh lemon zest
(optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
Cook asparagus spears in
salted simmering water until full
tender, about 4 to 5 minutes.
Drain and plunge in cold water.
Drain and dry out as much as
possible. Cut ½ inch off the tips
of each spear and cut these tips
lengthwise (they’ll be your garnish). Puree remaining asparagus
in a food processor. Remove the
excess water from the puree by
spreading it on paper towels.
To slice your eggs dip your
knife in water before cutting
each in half lengthwise. Cut a
small piece off the bottom of
each half so it will sit still on the
plate. Remove the yolks to a
small bowl and mash them. Add
the asparagus puree, shallot or
chives, mayonnaise or cream,
mustard substitute or lemon zest
(if using). Mix to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Spoon the mixture into each egg
half (you can use a piping bag
with a star tip if you prefer). Decorate each stuffed egg with the
saved asparagus tips. Cover and
refrigerate until ready to serve.
Makes 12. This recipe can be
doubled or tripled.
Adapted from “Julia Child’s
Kitchen” (Knopf, 1975).
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compare Obama to Haman then you know nothing about Jewish history and even less about the Jewish present.
But Riskin did just that. And to top it off, he actually compared
Bibi to Mordechai, the hero of the Purim story, the man who saved
the Jewish people and one of the greatest Jews of all time. Bibi as
Mordechai? I don’t know what Riskin is smoking but it’s eaten away
all of his Jewish sechel.
And then we have another rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, who took
out a full page ad in the New York Times accusing Obama of appeasement, just like British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did
with Adolf Hitler.
So Riskin says Obama is Haman and Boteach says Obama is
Chamberlain. That’s how badly Iran Derangement Syndrome is affecting Jews, causing them to hallucinate insane thoughts.
Obama wants to curb and control Iran’s nuclear program by arriving at a negotiated agreement. Nothing could be further from
Haman’s genocidal plan to annihilate all the world’s Jews and Chamberlain’s blind ignorance of the Nazi threat.
And then we have David Horovitz, editor of the Times of Israel,
who wrote one of the most spectacularly boneheaded columns I have
read in a long time. Headlined, “Obama’s peace for our time,” evoking yes, Chamberlain’s claim after signing the Munich agreement with
Hitler, and asking “Mr. President, are you absolutely sure you’ve got
this right?”
Horovitz, whose English accent makes him seem way smarter than
he truly is, begins by writing “Doesn’t it trouble you, just a touch, Mr.
President, that you might have this all wrong?... Do you not have the
slightest fear that, when history comes to judge you, it will bracket you
alongside Neville Chamberlain? Do you not hear a grim historical echo,
and ask yourself whether you are not...emboldening another ruthless
would-be superpower, motivated by another hideous ideology?...
“I fear you have surrounded yourself with people who dare not
question you with sufficient intellectual vigor. I fear that you are willfully blinding yourself to the tragedy you are about to inflict upon us
all…It is the certainty with which you are pursuing what seems
an unfathomable course of appeasement… it is that certainty of yours
that worries me most of all.”
So, according to Dave, Obama is Chamberlain and the Iranians
are the Nazis and all this is a replay of the Holocaust. Showing a truly
stunning ignorance of history and the vast differences between then
and now, Iran and Hitler.
But I’ll tell you what really got to me about his column, which is
that Dave seems totally unaware that what he is saying about Obama
is exactly the problem with Bibi.
Bibi, are you absolutely sure you’ve got this right? Doesn’t it trouble you, just a touch, Bibi, that you might have this all wrong? I fear
you have surrounded yourself with people who dare not question you
with sufficient intellectual vigor. I fear that you are willfully blinding
yourself to the tragedy you are about to inflict upon us all…It is the
certainty with which you are pursuing what seems an unfathomable
course of appeasement… it is that certainty of yours that worries me
most of all.
Bingo. That is precisely the problem with Bibi. Thanks to the
overwhelming influence of his father, who taught him the world has
always hated Jews and will always hate Jews, Bibi decided 20 years ago
that Iran was thisclose to a nuke, and since then, he has done nothing but insist on that, made it out to be an existential threat, never
listening to those who had other views such as his head of the Mossad,
never questioning whether he is right, never reevaluating or readjusting in the light of new facts and new realities, never trusting that
others know things too, tenaciously clinging to a stubborn certainty
that he is right. And so he calls it a bad deal before he even knows
what the deal is, talks endlessly about the threat as if he is the only person in the world smart enough to see it, insults the president, the secretary of state and the leaders of China, Russia, Germany, France and
Britain, all of whom are parties to the agreement, which he arrogantly
insists is lousy simply because it doesn’t include his totally unrealistic
demands. No, Bibi is right and that’s all there is to it, and everybody
must believe as he does and do as he says.
I hear Riskin and Boteach call Obama dastardly names, I read
Horovitz question Obama’s “certainty” about his course. But there
seem to be no Jews calling on Bibi to open his mind, not be so sure
he is so right, consider other courses of action, better ways to handle
this, more realistic ways to look at this.
Since there are so many Jewish doctors in the world, one can only
hope that one day soon one will come up with a cure for Iran Derangement Syndrome and help Shlomo and Shmuley with their crazy
assertions and Horovitz with his hypocritical certitude.
The Jews need help before it’s too late and we are all acting like
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Jews crack me up.
I was actually going to start out by saying that Jews make me sick,
but I’m trying to be a kinder, gentler Joe.
Which is not easy considering the circus of panic and idiocy that
is engulfing the Jewish world about the Iran nuclear issue.
Everything bad about today’s Jews is in full vivid display with this
one, our neuroticism, our paranoia, our needing to feel under siege, our
exaggerating things, our inability to see how much has changed for
Jews and how much for the better.
All of those outdated destructive feelings being fueled and encouraged by the moral and mental midgets we call our leaders, starting with Prime Minister Bibi, but including prominent rabbis, prominent Jews who are famous but famously ignorant of Jewish issues such
as Sheldon Adelson and Alan Dershowitz, and professional chicken
littles like Abe Foxman who, thank G-d, will soon not be head of the
ADL, and Malcolm Hoenlein, head of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations, who plans to hold that job
until death, and perhaps beyond.
They all know the best way to get Jews’ attention, to get Jews to
donate, to get Jews to fall in line is to scare them, terrorize them, make
them think either that a second Holocaust is very close or has already
started. To make Jews believe anti-Semitism is rampant, worse than
ever, just like 1939 all over again, to make them think Israel is on the
verge of destruction, to make them feel the media is out to get them,
Obama hates them, the whole world is aiming right for them.
Deluding ourselves that things are horrible when the reality is that
things are great, is not only sick, but it wastes so much Jewish energy
that should be focused on making the best of the good times in which
we live.
But we seem to find one bogeyman after another to keep our fear
alive. For a while, it was Farrakhan, then some politician in Austria
who was supposedly the next Hitler, then David Duke, then
Ahmedinejad. All of whom are today totally irrelevant and harmless
but who, when they were in the Jewish spotlight, were made out to
be major threats to the Jewish people even though the reality is they
never were.
Today’s bogeyman, of course, is Iran, which we have made out,
in Bibi’s absurd words, to be an “existential threat” to Israel. Even
though it is not. So says the current head of the Mossad, the two previous heads of the Mossad, the current and former chiefs of staff of the
Israeli army, and hundreds of top Israeli military and security experts.
But Bibi knows Iran as bogeyman is good for him, gets him
elected, gets him political support in Congress and so, for more than
20 years now, he has been telling us Iran is one year away from having a bomb.
I actually compiled a list of 10 arguments to rebut Bibi’s lunacy,
but I think I’ll share that with you some other time. For this time, I’d
like to look at how insane this whole Iran thing is making us.
Three examples. The first comes from former American Rabbi
Shlomo Riskin, now chief rabbi of the settlement of Efrat, otherwise
known as the Scarsdale of Israel. In talking about Iran, Riskin compared President Obama to Haman.
Yes, Haman, the greatest villain in all of Jewish history, a man
who set out to wipe every Jew off the face of the earth, a man so dastardly that to this very day, many centuries later, once a year Jews go
to synagogue and boo and shake noisemakers at the mere mention of
Haman’s name.
And yet the imbecilic Riskin actually had the gall to compare
President Obama to Haman. That is how nuts Jews have gotten.
Look, you don’t agree with Obama’s trying to negotiate a deal with
Iran. Okay, that’s your right, though I would ask you what you would
do that would be better. And if you say bomb Iran, please tell me why
big mouth Bibi has not done that. And tell me, do you really think we’d
be better off if Obama was not trying to bring Iran back into the family of nations, work out an agreement that will rein it in, whereas no
agreement would simply allow Iran to proceed full speed ahead?
Okay you can disagree with Obama on that, be angry that he’s a
human being and so yes has been offended by Bibi’s insulting, ungrateful behavior toward him. But if you think there is any basis to
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